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I did not see the site of Laura Gibbs for Croy's "A Primer of Biblical Greek" mentioned...the course was given in 2005, but designed for students to take online. Quizzes and some extra credit material no longer available, but lots of drilling practice, guidance through Croy's book, and audio are still ready and waiting for anyone that wants it. Looks ideal for self-study.
More to the point, it goes through Croy's book in 15 weeks, and looks to provide as thorough introduction as any. A good summer project:
Online Koine Course using Croy: http://www.mythfolklore.net/bibgreek/
I recently exchanged an email with the professor regarding this course--and where to continue once I've finished. She has recommended the Athenaze text, which I plan on combining with one of the more intensive textbooks (I've chosen Mastronarde over Hansen&Quinn). She recommended going through a Homeric Greek textbook shortly after the classical Greek textbooks, to help solidify what has come before as well as open up this branch of literature. Seems like sound advice!


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About Gateshead, Durham, England, War Honours Scrapbook, 1914-1920
This collection is a scrapbook of newspaper clippings of photos and names of soldiers from the Gateshead area in World War I. Most of the clippings are portrait photographs of individual soldiers with information about their unit, rank and condition, such as wounded, killed or missing. The scrapbook also includes articles about memorial and awards given and there are also a few group photos
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Commodity prices are showing mixed results in European trade as markets await US ISM manufacturing data, where consensus forecasts suggest factory-sector growth accelerated in March after a pullback in February snapped three consecutive months of improvement. The print carries heavy implications for global economic growth expectations at large as traders look for accelerating recovery in North America to offset a recession in the Eurozone and a related slowdown in China (data released over the weekend notwithstanding).
The risk of a downside surprise on the ISM reading seems significant however following uniformly disappointing results on leading activity surveys released last week. This sets the stage for selling pressure to emerge across the spectrum of risk-sensitive assets including copper and crude oil, where prices remain closely anchored to the MSCI World Stock Index (on 20-day percent change correlation studies). Such an outcome likewise opens the door for the US dollar (ticker: USDollar) to advance on the back of safe-haven flows, which bodes ill for gold and silver both in de-facto terms (considering both metals are benchmarked against the greenback) and with regard to reduced demand for an alternative to paper currencies.
Spot Gold (NY Close): $1,668.35 // +6.78 // +0.41%
Prices found support at 1,658.49, the 23.6% Fibonacci expansion level, and swung back above resistance at 1,690.04. The bulls now appear set to challenge the 38.2% Fib retracement at 1,690.04. Alternatively, a break back below 1,658.49 targets 1,634.62.
Spot Silver (NY Close): $32.27 // +0.25 // +0.08%
Prices continue to consolidate below resistance at 32.93, the former neckline of a Head and Shoulders (H&S) top carved out between late January and mid-March, and horizontal support at 31.04. A break blower exposes the first downside barrier at 29.79. The H&S setup broadly implies a measured downside target at 26.84.


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A perfect meeting is in our nature.
Close to Nature. Far from Ordinary. Stonewall Resort.
An easy drive for the majority of the east coast, Stonewall Resort is located within a few hours of the Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Charleston airports, and just 3 miles off I-79.
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SUMTER, S.C. – The seventh seeded King University men's tennis team took on second seed Limestone College in the first round of the Conference Carolinas Tournament on Saturday. Limestone came out and took control of the match early, en route to the 5-0 win.
The Saints (16-7) took all three doubles matches, starting with an 8-6 win at No. 1 doubles. Their No. 3 doubles team took an 8-5 win while the No. 2 doubles match turned into the best match of the day. Limestone's Lucas Guinski and Antoine Le Dore defeated Patrick Jones and Leo Brigato 9-8 to take a 3-0 lead going to singles.
Limestone continued their hot play in singles, winning 6-2, 6-3 at No. 5 singles and 6-2, 6-1 at No. 6 singles to sweep the match 5-0.
The Tornado end the season with an 11-10 and record, and Jones ends his King career with a singles record of 10-7 and doubles record of 8-9 in his final season.


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Department of Education and Educational Psychology
Dr. Gabriel Lomas is an assistant professor of counselor education in the School of Professional Studies. Prior to teaching at WestConn, Dr. Lomas taught at the University of Houston – Clear Lake and had a private clinical practice in Houston, TX. Dr. Lomas has research interests that include counseling, assessment, forensics, school counseling, and working with people who are Deaf and hard of hearing. Regarding publications, Lomas has authored a number of journal articles, editorials and book reviews. From 2007 through 2010, he served as the co-editor of the Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (JADARA). Additionally, Lomas has book contributions in the Encyclopedia of Counseling (American Counseling Association) and the Handbook of Special Education (Routledge). Regarding service, Dr. Lomas has served on a number of boards including the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association and the Texas Play Therapy Association. He holds a B.A. from the University of Texas at San Antonio, an M.A. from Gallaudet University, and a Ph.D. from Sam Houston State University. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his family.


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Best Place To Stock Your Backyard Henhouse
Under a new city ordinance, Sacramento residents are now allowed to keep up to three egg-laying hens in their backyard. Which raises the question: Where exactly do you buy egg-laying hens? Answer: BRADSHAW FEED & PET SUPPLY. Located on a dusty stretch of Bradshaw Road about 15 minutes outside town, this old-fashioned country store carries 35 to 40 chicken varieties, including standard breeds such as Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn and Ameraucana, and so-called "fancy" breeds like Golden Polish, Mottled Houdan and Sumatra. The baby chicks ($1.25 to $5 apiece) are housed by the dozens in deep, glass-fronted drawers. Once you make your selection, a staffer pops your chicks into a brown paper bag, gives you a care sheet and sells you everything you need to get started as an urban chicken keeper: heat lamp, pine shavings, chick waterer, food, etc. The payoff comes five or six months later, when your chickens start laying eggs. 7285 Bradshaw Road, Sacramento; (916) 369-8225
Best Modern Furniture
Interior designer Curtis Popp is not about to tell you what to think of his Soft Side Table, the first offering from his CPOPP WORKSHOP. He will say, however, that the 18-by-18-inch round wooden table with three brightly colored legs is "approachable but not stuffy." We definitely agree on both counts: The warm walnut or white oak tabletop, with green, blue, orange or yellow legs, illustrates that Popp knows how to put the fun in functional. He sells the tables exclusively through his website, though he's been approached by retailers wanting to carry the line. There's also been interest from renowned hotelier Ian Schrager, and the table was featured in the Sunset Idea House this fall. Next up for CPopp Workshop: a coffee table version of the Soft Side Table. (916) 207-9106; cpoppworkshop.com
Best New Florist
Philip Rice was still in high school when he started working for a florist in Colusa. After the shop closed in 2009, he decided it was time to move to "the big city." Yes, Sacramento—that big city. After purchasing EAST SAC FLORIST earlier this year, he considered changing the name to something "more designery," then thought better of it. "The name fits the neighborhood. It's casual but elegant," he says—a phrase that also nicely describes Rice's design style. Rice has worked for two governors and the Tournament of Roses parade, and he flies all over the country doing floral design and lighting for special events and destination weddings. Here in Sacramento, he's especially known for his unique plant combos, such as topiaries underplanted with succulents and decorated with manzanita limbs. "It's amazing what a dead branch will do," he quips. 5379 H St., Sacramento; (916) 457-2699; eastsacflorist.com
Best Home Décor
Can't spare the time (or the money) to fly to Paris for the famed Marché aux Puces
flea market? Then do the next best thing and drive to FLEURI in Carmichael. Owned and operated for the past 13 years by sisters Sonia Moreno and Sylvia Frazier, this charming shop overflows with gorgeous French antiques, linens, garden décor, pillows, vintage ribbon, china, candles and other things for the home too numerous to mention. Frazier goes to Paris on a shopping expedition once a year and brings back all manner of Francophilic treasures: farmhouse tables, chandeliers, iron beds, fireplace screens, hotel silver, antique postcards . . . the list goes on and on. We'll always have Paris as long as Fleuri is around. 7301 Fair Oaks Blvd., Carmichael; (916) 973-9848
Best Wine Design
Helwig Winery owners David and Nancy Helwig wanted their new Amador County winery to reflect the history of the area. When they met with SAGE ARCHITECTURE, they immediately knew they'd found the right people for the job. "They had a very creative, subtle approach in capturing the rustic charm we wanted without making it look dated," says Nancy. Through the use of metal roofing, board-and-batten wood siding and galvanized metal, Paul Almond and Pam Whitehead of Sage designed buildings that stand out from their surroundings yet blend in beautifully. With a nod to sustainability, the architects made use of oak and pine harvested during the clearing of the site in the tasting room and other areas of the property. 11555 Shenandoah Valley Road, Plymouth; (209) 245-5200; helwigwinery.com
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Best Way To Add Sizzle to Your Life
SIZZLING SIRENS, a sensuous all-woman dance troupe, has been bringing va va voom to Sacramento since 2008, performing everywhere from the Crocker Art Museum to Harlow's. Make a night of it and check out the The Siren Show at RESTAURANT THIR13EN, which features live jazz and blues from the Harley White Jr. Orchestra, themed cocktails and an optional themed dinner. Another option? Fishnet Friday, a burlesque-themed dance party that takes place every first Friday at Marilyn's on K. Want to get your own sizzle on? Take a class at Burlesque Academy. Private and group lessons are available. sizzlingsirensburlesque.com
Best Way To See Artistsin Their Natural Habitat
To the layperson, art making can be a mysterious process. CAPITOL ARTISTS' STUDIO TOUR gives Sacramentans a chance to see what an artist's life is like behind the scenes. Held every September by the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, the free, self-guided two-day event allows you to tour 150 working artists' studios and see for yourself how the magic happens. The art on display covers a wide spectrum, with textiles, furniture and sculpture among the offerings. "There's something for every style," says CCAS board member Cheryl Holben. The center encourages attendees to start their art collections by purchasing original works, many of which cost less than framed reproductions at major retailers. (916) 498-9811; ccasac.org
Best Alternative to the Multiplex
Sacramento isn't a top-tier city when it comes to attracting independent films. So Robert McKeown and his wife, DeeAnn Little, started MOVIES ON A BIG SCREEN to bring documentaries, indie flicks and the occasional cult classic to town. Screenings have been held at different venues over the past five years that MOBS has been in existence, but for now they're on Sunday nights at Oak Park's Guild Theater. Tickets to most films are just $5. McKeown cites positive audience feedback as a reason why MOBS endures. "Our tagline is 'We're 5 years old and it's all your fault,'" he says. The pair hope to add a second movie night. moviesonabigscreen.com
Best Band To Watch
When we first heard the name SISTER CRAYON, we thought we'd stumbled upon a children's band. But one listen to the band's ethereal, sometimes haunting
music and we were properly schooled. The band—Terra Lopez, Dani Fernandez and Jeffrey LaTour—put heart, soul and sometimes sweat into their live appearances. They have a solid fan base in Sac, and they love their fans back. Sister Crayon posted the following on its Facebook page after one Sacramento appearance this summer: "Thank you, thank you, thank you Sacramento. You never disappoint. Truly humbled and honored for your energy and support tonight. 916 got moves." The Sammie-award winning band is currently touring, so you might not catch it here until next year. In the meantime, check out Bellow, its first full-length album under the Manimal Vinyl Records label.
Best Splashy New Arts Center
Not too shabby for a theater that was conceived as a gathering ground for students to show off their performance skills. Since its opening in February with A Chorus Line, THREE STAGES AT FOLSOM LAKE COLLEGE has drawn the Joffrey Ballet, Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!, Gloria Steinem, Harlem Gospel Choir, Rosanne Cash and other top touring acts. The complex also is a venue for professional groups closer to home, such as the Sacramento Ballet and Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, and youthful productions such as those of El Dorado Musical Theatre and Northern California Dance Conservatory. With three performance spaces—847-seats, 207-seats and 95-seats—there's enough room to fulfill the original mission of showcasing college performances. This season, expect to see FLC's Afro-Cuban Funk Band's Jazz After Dark (Nov. 18), Monty Python's Spamalot (Nov. 17 to 19) and Folsom Symphony's A Joyful Celebration (Dec. 11) among other inspiring shows.
Best High School Touring Company
We're busting with pride that MIRA LOMA HIGH SCHOOL was invited to perform at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival this past August. It's not an easy gig to get: The school was one of 1,500 U.S. schools nominated and, following an arduous audition, one of only 50 nationwide selected to attend the fest. In Scotland, Mira Loma's thespians performed Almost, Maine by John Cariani, "a romantic comedy with magic realism," according to the school's theater instructor Nikki Schallig-Weil. "It's very American, which is why we decided to bring it."
Best Usable Art
Fans of TWO ACCORDIONS quilts should be grateful that founders Joe Gallegos and Ruth Hansen met. The duo creates handsome, streamlined designs with a retro, '60s mod feel, featuring abstract patterns in vivid colors. "Our goal is to keep our quilts simple and original," says Gallegos, who was inspired by a tattered quilt made years earlier by his grandmother. Once he and Hansen started dating, he shared with her his vision for crafting modern, usable quilts. And these quilts are most definitely usable: Yoga mats and picnic quilts are among the styles they offer. Gallegos performs what he calls the "construction process," which includes cutting and piecing the fabric, while Hansen sews the pieces together and adds their signature stitch design at the very end. The quilts can be found only at Scout Living on 18th Street while the quilting duo works on building up an inventory. twoaccordions.com
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Its a food lovers haven at klia2. Enjoy international and local delights from a latte to nasi lemak. There are dozens of popular restaurants and cafes to delight you. Flights arrive and depart at all hours, so some outlets are open throughout the day and night. At klia2, you will now have a more enjoyable experience from arrival to departure.


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Dave White
Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex
Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...Read full profile
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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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Metascore®Mixed or average reviewsbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Self-righteous and smug in its use of heartland stereotypes, the movie backfires by assuming that its intended liberal audience is just as intolerant and condescending as the conservative opposition insists it is.
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It's been a long time since a movie wasted this much talent.
The film grows increasingly mirthful as the characters come into focus, and the casting is the key: Ms. Garner, who also helped produce the film, has a gift for catty roles, and Ms. Wilde is so funny she should play hookers all the time.
See all Butter reviews at Metacritic.com
Pause for kids 16 & under
Quirky comedy pushes boundaries in the name of laughs.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Butter is an edgy comedy that pushes all sorts of boundaries. For the most part, it works, but for some viewers, the jokes may go too far into raunchy/offensive territory. Expect a steady stream of curse words (everything from "damn" to "s--t" and "f--k"), pot smoking by a teenager, drinking (mostly social), lots of references to sex, an older woman kissing a teenage girl, and some implied sex acts (complete with noises, if no actual nudity). Still, underneath the raunch is the heartfelt message that no matter how great the glory you're chasing, the rewards won't feel sweet unless you really love it and pursue it with good intentions and hard work.
Messages: Beneath the raunch is a message about nurturing your talents and not being afraid to excel. Also: Do something for the love of it, not because you think it will propel you to the top. True passion will outwit calculation any day.
Role models: Many characters act out of misery or fear, but almost all of them are transformed in the end.
Violence: A woman slams into another vehicle on purpose and out of anger, while there are still passengers in it. A man defaces a competitor's work of art.
Sex: A stripper is shown in the middle of her act -- which she performs scantily clad -- and, later, grinding on a man's thigh. In another scene, the same duo has sex in a minivan; viewers see them making out and hear lots of noises, but no genitals or sex acts are shown. An older woman hooks up with a teenage girl; they're seen kissing. References to many different sex acts.
Language: Frequent use of a range of strong words, including "f--k," "s--t," "p---y," "bitch," "c--t," "c--k," "damn," and more. Also terms like "crackers" (used to describe Caucasian people).
Consumerism: Brands/labels seen include Advil and Red Ribbon.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Adults drink in bars and at social events. A teenager smokes weed with an adult. A foster mom who's an addict is shown asking a child to get her a refill of prescription pills.
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In a new post to his blog Volker Dusch points out a new feature in a recent release of PHPUnit, the popular unit testing framework for PHP - textual code coverage details.
Three weeks ago PHPUnit 3.6 was released and it has a little new feature you might have missed until now. PHPUnit can now show you code coverage information on the command line.
Options for the report output include: colorizing, writing the output to a file, including a project summary, namespace separation and package (using the @package phpdoc tag) information. He includes a use case he's found for it - small projects where you can cover the whole codebase quickly (with a "watch" command example filtering based on a certain class).


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Buffalo Tom
Biography: When they released their first album in 1989, the Boston-based trio Buffalo Tom were written off as Dinosaur Jr. junior. Admittedly, their debut was in debt to J Mascis' thundering guitar and folk-tinged songs and it didn't help that Mascis produced the record, either. Over time, Buffalo Tom stripped away their grungier influences and developed into a straight-ahead rock group of the early '90s, capable of throttling rockers and beautiful ballads. Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Bill Janovitz, bassist/vocalist Chris Colbourn, and drummer Tom Maginnis, Buffalo Tom began to develop their own style with their second album, 1990's Birdbrain, which featured a noticeable improvement in songwriting. In 1992, Buffalo Tom released Let Me Come Over, a gritty set of driving rock and achingly melancholy ballads; several of its tracks became alternative radio staples, including the gorgeous ballad "Taillights Fade." Despite an increased amount of critical praise and some radio airplay, the album didn't sell. The follow-up, 1993's Big Red Letter Day, featured a more polished, radio-ready production, but the album received only a small push from radio and MTV. "Soda Jerk," the first single from the album, became a minor alternative radio and MTV hit. After a yearlong tour, the group returned in the summer of 1995 with Sleepy Eyed, a return to the more direct sound of Let Me Come Over. Smitten followed in 1998, and two years later a best-of, Asides from Buffalo Tom, arrived. Almost a decade of inactivity followed, but things weren't over for Buffalo Tom; they returned in 2007 with an appearance at SXSW and a new full-length album on the New West label, Three Easy Pieces. Skins, the band's eighth studio album, arrived in early 2011 through their own Scrawny Records label.
Quiet And Peace (Deluxe Edition)
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The Piano Staircase - What Happens When We Make Choices Fun?
The Fun Theory holds that "something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people's behavior for the better."
In this video, the fun theory is tested at an Odenplan subway station in Stockholm, Sweden, addressing one the question: "Can we get more people to choose the stairs by making it fun to do?" The video explains that by turning the staircase into an interactive keyboard, the fun theory is demonstrated as 66 percent more people than normal chose the stairs over the escalator.
Other examples include a bottle bank arcade machine, an invention that makes recycling more appealing and the world's deepest garbage bin, an effort to reduce litter.
The videos are part of a marketing initiative created by Volkswagen Sweden and ad agency DDB Stockholm. The campaign extends to a Fun Theory award, which will be presented to the idea or invention that best demonstrates the theory. Competition entrants are accepted until December 15, 2009.
The campaign asks, "What Happens When We Make Choices Fun?" and answers itself: "Fun can obviously change behavior for the better."


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Houston, Texas-based Enbridge Energy Partners, LP, (EEP), a master limited partnership (MLP), is engaged in the gathering, processing, and transmission of natural gas and crude oil. The partnership is best known for its ownership of the Lakehead system, one of the world's longest petroleum pipeline systems. This system is the U.S. portion of the main artery for delivery of crude oil supply from Western Canada to refining centers in the U.S. Upper Midwest and Ontario, Canada. The partnership structure involves two other publicly traded entities: Enbridge Energy Management, LLC, (EEQ), and Enbridge, Inc., (ENB). Enbridge Energy Management has an 18% limited partnership interest in EEP and manages the partnership's business on behalf of the general partner, ENB. Enbridge Inc. is a Canadian energy infrastructure company, which has an effective stake of roughly 13% in EEP, including its ownership interest in EEQ.
Enbridge Energy Partners divides its operations in three segments: Liquid Transportation (accounted for roughly 60% of the partnership's 2006 operating earnings), Natural Gas Transportation (43%), and Marketing (generated an operating loss last year). The Liquid Transportation segment includes the Lakehead system, the North Dakota system, and Mid-Continent system. Natural Gas Transportation primarily consists of the East Texas system, the Northeast Texas system, and the Anadarko system. In addition, the partnership has four FERC-regulated natural gas interstate pipeline systems, namely the KPC pipeline, the Midla pipeline, the AlaTenn pipeline, and the UTOS pipeline. The Marketing unit is engaged in natural gas purchases and sales to wholesale customers. Other assets in the partnership's current portfolio include 4,900 miles of crude oil gathering and transportation lines and 24.5 million barrels of crude oil storage and terminaling capacity, 11,000 miles of natural gas gathering and transportation lines, 9 natural gas treating and 17 natural gas processing units with an aggregate capacity of approximately 1,800 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d), and other facilities required for oil and gas transportation. During 2006, crude oil and natural gas volumes transported by the partnership's systems were 1.85 million barrels per day and 2,501 MMBtu per day, respectively.


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Through October 29 at Café Carlyle
Madison Avenue at 76th Street
Music charge $105 to $125 depending
on night
Dinner is required and will be served
from 6:30 p.m.
(212.744.1600; thecarlyle.com)
Photo by Denise Winters
Elaine Stritch, the woman who was told she would go nowhere, is singing this month and next at the Café Carlyle.
Keeping the room in Stritches
By Jerry Tallmer
I dont get many love songs, said Elaine Stritch from a high stool facing a preview audience in the Café Carlyle, where she was about to start a seven-week gig through October 29. Im not complaining, Im boasting, said the mistress of the tough, the bitter, the Sondheimian.
And then she proceeded to bring the house down with a love songThats Him, music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden Nashthat reminds her of John Day, the husband whom death snatched from her in 1982. And she did it again, later, when the amplification went outNo problem!during her powerhouse rendition of Fifty Percent, an exquisite number by Alan and Marilyn Bergman and Billy Goldenberg, as if from the lips of a woman who has unbelievably found a new love after the death of her husband a year and a half earlier.
This time the house rose to its feet amid shouts of Wow! and a general appreciative roar.
I had one great marriage in my life, said Stritchthe tart, funny, acerbic Stritchbut not before several out-of-town tryouts. She catalogues a few of those tryouts, including one chap on whose tombstone she would have carved: Here lies Gary Pudney
about everything and, at another time and place, a juvenile 17 years my junior
[who] was romancing me to further his fucking career.
Innocent Stritch pause.
I can say fucking. The fucking phones. The fucking traffic. I just cant say fucking when it really means fucking.
As her second encore, she closed out the hour and a half with breathtaking restraint (yes!) on a yet more beautiful love song, Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leighs Amazing.
But this woman, this Stritchin my 60th year in New Yorkis whats amazing. This perfectly marvelous girl, in this perfectly marvelous room (thank you, Kander & Ebb). She stands there in a long-sleeved white blouse, black jumper, back straight, fists clenching and unclenching, left hand on hip, right hand steering, fingers jabbing air when not pointing this way, that way, arms at climax thrown wide, and she delivers.
I dont know if the nuns back in Birmingham, Michigan, were drilling the posture into young Elaine the way Miss Fisher, my mothers once-upon-a-time governess, drilled it into my mother, pressing an umbrella against the small of the back from the crooks of both elbows, but those Michigan nuns sure got at least this part of the job done. As for the rest of it
She sings, Stritch does, and tells stories, old chestnuts, among them some old chestnuts that one has never heard before, including one involving a sort of TV talk-show beauty contest between two opera greats a bit along in years, Lily Pons and Mary Garden, that climaxes in the line: From now on its zzzee lemons.
Theres also one that is not quite that nice or funny, about Frank Sinatra and Sinatras long memory for anger. Fifteen years after Sinatra and Stritch had traded verbal jabs at a party chez Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh in Beverly Hills where Elaine had boozily proclaimed, You can say what you want, but the son of a bitch can sing, Sinatra coldly dismissed her at the Stork Club in New York.
I remember you, he said. Youre the girl whos going no place.
Well, that girl went to London to star in Noel Cowards Sail Away, and she also has a couple of stories about the Noel Coward who adored her and deplored herher excesses, that isand called her Stritchie. One of the moments pivots on the f-word, so well skip that, this time around. Another follows a party on a boat on the Thames during which shed got rather plastered. By the way, Stritchie, Coward advises her, throwing champagne glasses into the Thames went out in 29.
It might be noted that Elaine Stritch has been a bone-dry reformed alcoholic for many years now, and took the occasion to so inform another onetime big drinker during a Kennedy Center Honors visit to his White House.
Ive never done a cabaret act before and got paid for it, said theater and songdoms Elaine Stritch at this tense, crucial (for her) preview, where she was (and will hereafter be) most ably supported by her music director Rob Bowman at the piano, Lou Bruno on bass, Dave Gale on trumpet, brother Jack Gale on trombone, Paul Pizzuti on drums, and Les Scott on reeds.
You know what they say, she said. The circus is either in town or it isnt.
At the Café Carlyle these nights, it sure is.
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The brand new (not-terribly-exciting) four-cylinder engine forms the trusty basis of a whole new series of motorcycles, as previously demonstrated with the NC models. Thankfully though, the 649cc motor picks-up extremely smooth from very low revs, and fills a round and creamy torque curve.
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One hundred and one years after their first cow was milked, the Andrews University Farm and Dairy celebrated the grand opening of a new milking parlor and Visitor's Center on Friday, Sept. 26, 2008. Farm-fresh refreshments were served—including cheese made from the milk of Andrews University cows—to a standing-room-only crowd at the dedication ceremony. Visitors were also treated to behind-the-scenes tours of the new milking parlor and barns.
During the dedication ceremony in the new Visitor's Center, Katherine Koudele, professor of animal science, gave a historical overview of the farm and dairy with a look toward its future as well. "The visitor center that you see will serve as the education center for the community groups that request tours here," said Koudele.
Thomas Chittick, chair of the Department of Agriculture, thanked the many individuals who made the project possible. "It begins with administrators, people that support what we're doing here, and are happy to see farming and agriculture continue on this campus."
Niels-Erik Andreasen, president of Andrews University, acknowledged the importance of the farm and dairy not only to Andrews University, but to under-developed countries around the world. "This farm is the source of work and experience for our students in the past. It's a university farm and it's a good one, and it helps the university reach out around the world and support people in need."
The new milking parlor was made possible by a portion of an $8.5 million gift to Andrews University in March 2007. The now-deceased donor's generosity was recalled by David Faehner, vice president for University Advancement. "I asked him why he gave those amounts. He said, "I like that little school back in Michigan. It's a special place…The last time I talked to him again I asked, 'Why were you so generous to us?' He said, 'God has given me so much. How can I refuse to give back to others?'"
Kenneth Nobis, president of the board for Michigan Milk Producers Association Cooperative, congratulated Andrews University on their successful commercial operation, award-winning herd and service-oriented staff, faculty and students. "What you're doing here is training more and more people to have a concept of what agriculture is really all about and that is very commendable. Andrews University…you've done a great job. You've got a great facility here!"
Dave Nelson, who worked at the dairy as a college student in 1966, joined in the celebration. He remembers the day the first milking parlor was opened. Back then, says Nelson, "We could only milk a few cows at a time."
How times have changed. The new facility allows the simultaneous milking of 40 cows three times each day and reduces the time by two-thirds. The milking machines have automatic take-off devices that sense when the milk flow has dropped low enough to remove the machine and stop milking that cow. The milking parlor has two 6,500-gallon bulk milk tanks, one of which is filled at every milking. Three milkings a day, 356 days a year resulted in the shipping of more than 2.4 million gallons of milk in 2007. The milk produced at the dairy is marketed by the Michigan Milk Producers Association Cooperative (MMPA). Some of it is used, locally, to make cheese at Old Europe Cheese Inc. in Benton Harbor, Mich.
The Andrews University Farm and Dairy takes pride in its educational, research-focused facility offering students hands-on experience at a commercial operation. The herd, comprised of approximately 1,250 cows, is housed at both Andrews University and Indiana Academy in Cicero, Ind. Young heifers are sent to Indiana Academy at four months old and return to Andrews to join the milking herd at 22 months.
The Andrews University Farm and Dairy also provides hands-on opportunities for students studying in any of the five degrees offered by the Andrews University Department of Agriculture, including animal science and dairy herd management. A memorandum of understanding with the Zaoksky Adventist University (ZAU) in Russia is in development. It would allow agriculture students from ZAU to transfer to Andrews to complete their degree.
The department prides itself on preparing "agricultural specialists" for service in underdeveloped countries and technical support for specific projects, include providing support to grow vegetables and eggs for use at a center dedicated to assisting orphans in Swaziland.


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After winning the SEC Tournament over the weekend, the Florida Gators were virtually assured of earning a national seed in the 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament.
On Monday, the NCAA selection committee confirmed it, awarding the Gators with the second national seed.
In its NCAA Regional, top-seeded Florida (45-16) will play host to second-seeded Miami (36-21), third-seeded Jacksonville (36-22) and fourth-seeded Manhattan (34-7).
"There's so many good teams in Florida, we figured we'd get at least a couple Florida teams," Florida head coach Kevin O'Sullivan said. "I think we've got a very good field and I think it's wide open. We're going to obviously have to play as well as we can if we want to come out on the winning end of things."
Florida will open NCAA Regional play on Friday at 4 p.m. against Manhattan, while Miami meets Jacksonville in the opening game at noon. All games will be broadcast live on ESPNU.
Manhattan is the only team the Gators have not faced this season, and head coach Kevin O'Sullivan said they're very talented.
"They won their conference tournament," O'Sullivan said. "Anybody that wins their conference tournament is playing well this time of the year. They're certainly going to be a good club. Anybody that wins their conference tournament this time of year is a dangerous team."
The Jaspers, this year's Metro Atlantic conference champions, are playing in an NCAA Regional for just the second time in the past 54 years.
Their most recent trip came in 2006, when the program advanced to the regional final as the fourth seed. They lost 10-4 to second-seeded Miami.
"We're going to worry about Manhattan first, we're not going to look ahead to the second game or the third game," O'Sullivan said. "We're going to take it one game at a time like we've done all along."
Florida is a little more familiar with the other two teams in the Gainesville Regional, having played both during the regular season.
The Gators swept the Hurricanes in an early season series in March, winning 8-3, 1-0 and 5-3. Notably, Miami was without head coach Jim Morris for that series after he was hospitalized with surgery.
"Miami, I've followed them closely throughout the year," O'Sullivan said. "I think they've improved as the season's gone on. They've got really quality starting pitching. I think they've got a really good pen. They're aggressive offensively on the base paths, they've got some guys that can run."
This is the third-straight year that Miami has played in Gainesville in postseason play, having been eliminated by the Gators in the 2010 Gainesville Super Regional and having been eliminated during NCAA Regional play in Gainesville in 2009.
With the Hurricanes coming to town, sophomore right-handed pitcher Hudson Randall is hoping the rivalry will breathe some life into the Gainesville Regional.
"It's a big rivalry," Randall said. "Maybe fill the stands a little bit more, get this place a little more excited for the game. It should be a good series if we play them. Earlier in the season, we had a good series against them, so we feel pretty confident when we're playing them."
The other opponent the Gators could face in their NCAA Regional is Jacksonville, who beat Florida 11-2 less than two weeks ago.
"They put it to us pretty good here," O'Sullivan said. "I think they're very, very offensive. I think we saw their number one pitcher in that mid-week game, so they're very, very capable, as well."
The winner of the Florida-Manhattan game will play the winner of the Miami-Jacksonville game on Saturday at 4 p.m., with the losers meeting earlier that day at noon.
Florida has not yet decided on an opening-day pitcher, but O'Sullivan will likely announce a decision on Thursday.
"Probably when we set our rotation, it'll just be game one," he said. "We'll see what happens after game one, and then after that game we'll decide who's going to throw game two and just take it one game at a time. I think if you look too far ahead, you find yourself possibly getting in trouble."
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No. 3 Jacksonville (36-22)
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Weekly Web Series Review: Behind the Pen
Fans of the excellent satirical newspaper The Onion should be familiar with the name Stan Kelly. A fictional editorial cartoonist whose reactionary views on current events and the way things used to be in the "good old days" (he supposedly began working for the paper in 1957) are expressed with hacky, obvious writing and a crude, simplistic drawing style. I remember when I first saw his work in the pages of "America's Finest News Source" years ago, I totally fell for it, believing it to be a real strip The Onion had picked up to display ironically, like when they used to run Cathy Guisewite's "Cathy" in Spanish. Eventually, though, I realized how unlikely it was that any newspaper anywhere would seriously run strips celebrating the deaths of beloved celebrities like James Brown, for example, and that Kelly's political cartoons were a joke from the start.
The Onion recently confirmed this all over again with the new web series "Behind the Pen," in which "Kelly" describes his artistic process and explains the thought process behind his awful, out-of-touch jokes, as if anyone who can read would have trouble understanding his points. In the first episode, "How Marriage Works," he explains that he's doing it "to reach the youngsters" with his message. These hypothetical young people are illustrated by archive photographs of at-risk teens, and even one African child holding an assault rifle. He then proceeds to explain his cartoon, "Holy Matri-Money," complete with an absurdly unnecessary explication of his "last word," in which his self-portrait alter-ego delivers the punchline. This is a feature of all Kelly's cartoons, and each episode correspondingly features a "Last Word" segment.
The second episode, "Collective Wisdom," features another segment entitled "Tips for Young Artists," in which Kelly hilariously explains the subtlety of his technique: "If you wanna show somebody's in love with somebody, you put a little heart next to 'em." Each subsequent episode (there are five so far, uploaded within the last two months) is better than the last, with Kelly increasingly going into angry tirades about his own family, especially his darkly comic explanation of his cartoon "Nanny State, Ninny State," in which he skewers the Big Brother program by saying, "A kid's heart oughta be calloused, it oughta be weathered."
Kelly's voice is wonderfully grizzled and mean-spirited – not unlike another brilliant Onion creation, the politician Joad Cressbeckler, who now has his own segment on the Onion News Network television series on IFC – and "Behind the Pen" shows great promise in continuing to develop this fascinating character. The more unhinged and apoplectic he becomes, the funnier he is and the more his character is revealed, so hopefully the series will continue in this direction, as it already seems to be doing.
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Rewriting History: How Artist Samuel Stabler Finds Meaning from the Old Masters
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Georgia-born and based artist Samuel Stabler is known for his contemporary take on Old Master paintings. The artist recreates these masterworks in highly detailed pen-and-ink drawings, which he then obscures with streaks of neon yellow, adding a contemporary update to centuries-old masterpieces. Sourcing images from the internet, he also creates meticulous cut-outs, transforming once-familiar subjects into abstract webs of line and contour. "Old Masters used to paint the masters before them," he has said. "The Internet age has allowed me to have this huge access to information, so I'm appropriating it in the way that makes sense to me now."
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TOPEKA — On Jan. 26, Governor Sam Brownback submitted to the Kansas Legislature Executive Reorganization Order (ERO) 36 — which would transfer the Division of Travel and Tourism from the Department of Commerce to the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks (KDWP). An ERO becomes effective July 1 following its transmittal to the Legislature, unless within 60 calendar days either the Kansas Senate or the House adopts a resolution disapproving the ERO. Monday, March 28, marked the end of those 60 calendar days without any disapproving action from either legislative body, ensuring the merger on July 1.
Robin Jennison, Acting Secretary of Wildlife and Parks, noted that tourism plays a vital part in the state's economy, particularly as the state recovers from the recession.
"I am especially gratified that legislators recognized the valuable role of tourism in our state and allowed this action to move forward," Jennison said. "We are looking forward to the opportunities that will be created by merging the Division of Travel and Tourism team with this agency."
Becky Blake, Director of Travel and Tourism added, "More than 31 million visitors spend nearly $7.2 billion annually and support 125,000 jobs in our state. This reorganization will allow us to more closely align our tourism assets and grow the tourism economy in a more strategic manner."
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operations that you control through UI (except process version and camera profile selected) in ACR/LR do not operate on raw data
1) a raw converter hidden from you (almost, again - you can select the process version and dcp profile) that reads the data, does whatever normalization you need, does demosaick, does color transform and the pass the result to next component with which you actually interact, thinking that you work with raw data
2) a version of PS designed to work with images originating from that hidden raw converter - that is what exposed to you through UI, where you do "WB", "exposure compensation" and so on... but you do not do this with the raw data
the point is - all of your sliders in ACR/LR UI do not work operate on raw data...
I'm sorry, I don't understand that.
you can use dcraw to output .tiff with demosaicked data with color space = prophoto and linear gamma and no WB applied (you can set your own WB multipliers there)... is that a raw data ?
now what is the difference between the raw file opened in ACR and that .tiff opened in ACR for you working with ACR's UI ?
but sliders and curves are not working with raw data... no matter how you will change a WB or exposure in ACR it will not redo demosaick and it will not apply WB multipliers to raw data channels -
I think what Vladimirovich is saying is that once the 'raw data' is previewed on screen in a demosaiced form with a colour model applied to it it's no longer raw data and that any changes you make via the application UI aren't working on the actual undemosaiced, non-colour transformed (i.e., no ProPhoto working space with linear gamma, no calibration profile).
Further metaphysics discussions will begin momentarily if so desired.
So......I think what you guys are saying is, there's no way to balance color with R,G,B points.Right?
It would do you guys well to forget and ignore what you do in Photoshop VS ACR/LR. Why? Because in Photoshop you have already committed to a gamma encoded color space. In ACR/LR you are dealing with raw images in a linear gamma and in the camera's native, undefined color space. That's a really big friggin' difference in tool sets.You may wish you could use techniques you've found that may work in Photoshop, but you are spitting into the wind...it ain't gonna happen and your only option is to learn how to use ACR/LR...then do the stuff that can't be done there in Photoshop. The more you learn to do in ACR/LR, the better your images will be (and the less time you spend diddling images in Photoshop).
No it isn't. It's rendered (in this case) to a TIFF at some size at some resolution.
the same is with ACR/LR - in its processing workflow/path (codewise), raw data is demosaicked as soon as possible and color transformed into a regular colorspace (colorimetric - isn't that the word ?) just with linear gamma...
that happens before you see any rendered (from raw data by ACR) image on screen... and then, from that point on, it is not different from working with .TIFF opened in ACR/LR
the same is with ACR/LR - in its processing workflow/path (codewise), raw data is demosaicked as soon as possible and color transformed into a regular colorspace (colorimetric - isn't that the word ?) just with linear gamma... that happens before you see any rendered (from raw data by ACR) image on screen... and then, from that point on, it is not different from working with .TIFF opened in ACR/LR (or linear DNG for that matter), provided that .TIFF will generated the same way (w/ demosaicked data, prophoto coordinates, linear gamma)... data obtained at this stage is the data that will be used by ACR/LR code to generate previews, do all adjustments that you control through UI (including WB and exposure)... so to claim that you adjust raw data is quite incorrect here... you adjust the data that was already converted (by ACR/LR) and not raw data... that is unlike proper "raw converter" like dcraw (WB before demosaicking for example, so WB on raw data, per raw channel)... the only operation available to you in ACR/LR UI that actually works with the raw data is changing "process" version (= new demosaick) and camera profile change (= new color transform, even that does not require new demosaick)... so the codewise there is a point in ACR/LR code after which everything is the same for raw file, for linear DNG file converted from raw, for .TIFF... and that point in code, like it or not, lies before any preview is generated and before UI controlled code that does changes (except process/camera profile controls)...
Hold on, you are still not clear enough for me to understand. Are you saying that as soon as I import the image into LR (or open in ACR), the full resolution raw data is demosaiced?
I think this is not correct and where you're going off the rails a bit. A tiff or jpeg file, even when opened in ACR/LR has the pixels fully cooked.
White balance is established
YES, that is a core feature of Adobe's so called "DNG processing model", to get rid of the raw data as soon as possible and work with the data that is demosaicked and color transformed to a proper color space... the mere fact that gamma is 1 does not change much, you can have tiff w/ the data that is linear...
do you call linear DNG data fully cooked ?
But I find it hard to believe that instead of accessing the raw + instructions at rendering time, the Adobe engine builds a full rez, demosaiced document whether I edit the image or not.


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I'm now two months into my second year of Latin through a private adult learner school. I completed Wheelock's and felt pretty solid. Now, however, we're doing Latin Prose Composition using North & Hilliard and participles are wiping the floor with me.
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Gold fell for a third day, heading for the biggest quarterly loss in more than 40 years, as U.S. economic data beat estimates, backing the case for reduced stimulus from the Federal Reserve as the dollar strengthened.
Cash bullion declined as much as 0.3 percent to $1,273.76 an ounce, and traded at $1,275.46 at 8:43 a.m. in Singapore. The metal dropped to $1,269.46 on June 21, the cheapest since September 2010. It's lost 20.2 percent since the start of April, the biggest drop in quarterly data compiled by Bloomberg since 1968, when bullion traded at about $40.
U.S. durable goods orders rose more than forecast in May, while consumer confidence for June exceeded projections, data showed. Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said this month the central bank, which buys $85 billion of Treasury and mortgage debt a month, may trim purchases this year and end the program in 2014 should the economy continue to improve. This year, investors have sold goldfrom exchange-traded products at a record pace.
"Gold declined as the better-than-expected U.S. economic data added to speculation that the Federal Reserve will end the stimulus program," Lachlan Shaw, an analyst at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, wrote in an e-mail.
Gold has fallen 24 percent in 2013, dropping into a bear market in April, as the Bloomberg U.S. Dollar Index climbed 5.1 percent. The gauge, representing ten major currencies weighted by liquidity and trade flows, gained as much as 0.2 percent.
Goldman Forecasts
Gold for August delivery traded at $1,274.60 an ounce on the Comex, from $1,275.10 yesterday. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. expects the metal to end this year at $1,300, paring a previous estimate of $1,435, according to a June 23 report.
Assets in the SPDR Gold Trust, the largest bullion-backed ETP, fell to 969.5 metric tons yesterday, and are 28 percent lower this year. Total ETP holdings are heading for a sixth monthly contraction.
Cash silver was little changed at $19.6475 an ounce, 31 percent lower this quarter. Silver is the worst performer this year on the Standard & Poor GSCI Spot Index of raw materials.
Spot platinum was little changed at $1,350.05 an ounce, after tumbling to $1,326.55 yesterday, the lowest since November 2009. Palladium traded at $666.10 an ounce from $666 yesterday. Both metals are heading for quarterly declines.
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ravel (v.)
1580s, "to untangle, disentangle, unwind" (originally with out), also "to entangle, become tangled or confused," from Dutch ravelen "to tangle, fray," rafelen "to unweave," from rafel "frayed thread." The seemingly contradictory senses of this word (ravel and unravel are both synonyms and antonyms) are reconciled by its roots in weaving and sewing: as threads become unwoven, they get tangled.
ravel (n.)
1630s, "a tangle;" 1832, "a broken thread," from ravel (v.).


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Yes, yes, the production version of the 918 is very exciting indeed, but this is the Porsche I want from the Frankfurt Motor Show.
As you know, the 911 5o Years Edition is a Carrera S with the wider body of the 4S, massive Fuchs-inspired wheels and a lovely houndstooth carpet inside built to celebrate the 50 years of the 911. All of which makes it the most desirable 991 out there.
Pity they'll only make 1963, but if you're looking for a future classic, you just found it.
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Isobel loves to cook for friends, and her Brooklyn kitchen is well-suited for that. "It's really nice that the kitchen opens up to the living room," she tells Apartment Therapy in this recent House Tour. The rental kitchen did need a little creative love, though, so Isobel painted several walls, including the kitchen backsplash, in black chalkboard paint and hung a pot rack above her stove that her mom helped her build. It's made out of a curtain rod and S hooks, and while it cost only a few dollars to build, it has apparently lasted through many apartment moves!
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Photographer William Eggleston, as seen in Michael Almereydas film William Eggleston in the Real World.
The photo master
Documentary on the life and work of photographer William Eggleston
By Rania Richardson
You can love it and appreciate it but you cant really talk about it, muses William Eggleston, on art in general and his photography in particular, in the new documentary about his life and work.
Director Michael Almereyda created a portrait of the prolific yet reserved artist in his new film, William Eggleston in the Real World. With a 1976 one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art, Eggleston ushered in an era of modern color photography. The show included images such as a dog drinking from a puddle, an outdoor sofa, shoes under a bed, and a childs tricycle subjects so mundane that critics were divided on their status as art. Prior to that controversial show, color photography was considered vulgar and the province of advertising. Memphis-based Eggleston became an inspiration to many filmmakers including David Lynch, whose work similarly mines strangeness in a familiar world.
Almereyda put together a scrapbook of a film, 5 years in the making, using devices such as video footage of the photographer working wordlessly, a slide lecture, and still images with his own analytic narration. We see various facets of Egglestonthe gifted artist who plays keyboards and sketches, the gentile southern gentleman, the family man married to the same woman for over 40 years.
From his home in the East Village, Almereyda says, The movie started out of an impulse to make a casual portrait, the way you might make a drawing of someone on a napkin while sitting across from them, which is something I like to do. I thought itd be valuable to have a record of Bill at work. I didnt know if that would be enough to make up a feature film, but I wanted to see where it would lead.
Almereyda is an independent director brimming with talent, best known for fiction features such as the 1994 Nadja shot on Pixelvision, starring Peter Fonda as Dracula, and the 2000 critically acclaimed modern Hamlet with Ethan Hawke and Bill Murray. Though not a still photographer himself, he has always been informed by photography, and his critical eye is evident in the films narration. Egglestons work inspires a recharged awareness of the richness of the visual world, he says in the film.
Other filmmakers have hired Eggleston to shoot stills on their film sets. Eggleston developed a friendship with director Gus Van Sant when he was invited to photograph the making of his 1999 short, Easter. Almereydas film opens with the photographer on a more recent assignment, shooting in Van Sants home town of Mayfield, Kentucky.
In the most intriguing sequence, near the end of the rambling film, Almereyda tries to draw Eggleston out in a discussion of his work. Eggleston resists, saying that photographs and words dont have anything to do with each other.
That scene gets the biggest laugh at every screening, says Almereyda. Bill is being evasive in one way, and revealing in another. By defying the idea that words have anything to do with photography, he protects himself from over-analyzing what he does, but he also challenges people who get overly comfortable with theory. He stubbornly makes you admit how mysterious photography can be, and I respect him for that.
Eggleston picked up a video camera in the early 1970s and shot over 30 hours of black and white footage, chronicling family and friends, as well as a milieu of nightlife denizens. Almereyda excerpted a few minutes in his documentary, and had a hand in editing the film, Stranded in Canton, down to 80 minutes. That film, along with his documentary, will be featured in the upcoming Toronto Film Festival.
In addition to video, Eggleston shot black and white portraits during that period. The large-scale photographs of some of the faces seen in Stranded in Canton are currently on view for the first time. They capture the fashions and sensibilities of the era through musicians, bikers, truckers and party girls caught in the moment.
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The HVY Ripley is an airline pushback in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V.
Like most trucks, the Ripley's performance is defined by its average pickup, below average top speed and poor brakes, but it has a tight turning radius, due to its very short wheelbase. This truck can pack a powerful punch on cars, and can tip them over easily at relatively low speeds. Additionally, the Ripley's mid-to-rear-mounted engine configuration allows the vehicle to survive large numbers of head-on collisions; the openness of the cab, however, exposes the player to gunfire. Also, the large tires can easily be shot and blown out, making getaways from high-end police extremely difficult.
Seen only at Francis International Airport in GTA IV and Los Santos International Airport in GTA V, the Ripley may appear as a pedestrian vehicle and will cause the Airtug to spawn on the road, or be found parked on the tarmac or car parks of the airport. Like certain vehicles operating in the vicinity of the airport, the Ripley bears the FlyUS livery.
GTA IV (Rear quarter view).
GTA V (Rear quarter view).
- The Ripley's name is an homage to lead character Ellen Ripley of the Alien films (played by Sigourney Weaver) — the US Colonial Marines M577 Armored Personnel Carrier from Aliens was built using a decommissioned airliner tug as a base.
- Some Grand Theft Auto IV machinima creators recommend the Ripley for first-person driving views, as the interior of the cab lacks visual obstructions from a first-person perspective.
- In GTA IV, the default radio stations in the Ripley are Integrity 2.0, WKTT Radio, Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 and PLR.
- The Ripley shares the same handling traits and engine sound as the Brickade.
- Driving the Ripley around the Francis International Airport will cause Banshees to spawn in the parking lots in GTA IV. In The Ballad of Gay Tony, however, driving the Ripley around the Francis International Airport will causes Washingtons and Faggios to spawn in the parking lots.
- In perfect condition, the Ripley can be sold at S&M Auto Sales for $2,500 in GTA IV after completing Stevie's Car Thefts.
- The dashboard inside is shared from several industrial vehicles such as the Yankee and the Speedo, most being notable is the GPS-like screen mounted, however to accommodate the Ripley's wide width, the dashboard seems to be repeated


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You may have seen the photos posted up from a dessert pop up degustation that Ryan and I held for our friends in July. Well, I know it's been four months since but I've only just now gotten around to blogging about it. This was actually a second event that we hosted due to popular demand from our friends who missed out on the first DESSERTed Dinner Party that we held back in April with an Autumn theme. It was a big gamble holding our second one in July. I wanted to keep the momentum going but as it was an outdoor event (Ryan's parents backyard is the most perfect place for hosting parties) we knew we were battling with the cold weather. We decided to go ahead anyway and hired out an outdoor patio heater and pushed the time to a 4:00pm start to finish the night a bit early so our guests weren't left out in the cold for too long.
Invitations were emailed out and posted on our facebook pages and before we knew it, our friends had booked us out just four days after invitations went out. There was so much pressure on us to get everything right the second time due to the great outcome and response that we received the first time. We did make many mistakes though, I think we all were a bit complacent because we thought we had everything in the bag. It was like two steps forward and one step back. About an hour before our guests were due to arrive, we were still snowed under with prep and our restaurant had not even been set up yet - we were frantically running around, it really felt like we were competing on an episode of My Kitchen Rules. We're not professionals though and there was much to be learned from our second party so we will be much more diligent with the next one.
Of course the day before the event is filled with lots of action in the kitchen.
I reused most of the decorations that I had bought, it all formed a bit of a standard backdrop for our dessert party. I decided to also utilize all my cookbooks as part of the decorations too.
To keep with the theme of Winter, and to tap into the ingredients we were using, I used spices and oranges to decorate the tables. We put out water bottles but forgot to provide cups for our guests!
We set up a tea and coffee station for our waitresses to have easy access rather than constantly having to go into the house to the kitchen. I also set up a portable gas burner to keep a pot of hot chocolate hot.
Our 'Winter Warmer' menu. As before, we were serving up three courses of desserts with some savoury 'palate cleansers' in between. This time we thought we would match up our desserts with the T2 blend of 'Monk Pear' tea.
What's more perfect than cupping your hands around a hot drink on a cold day? As our amuse bouche, we served our guests some Chilli Hot Chocolate 'Espresso' as they arrived. A rich dark hot chocolate spiked with chilli and a hint of coffee. Check out the cute little paper coffee cups I found.
And we're ready for action!
First course: Home Made S'mores - DIY toasted home made chai marshmallows on
honey chocolate dipped wheat biscuits.
honey chocolate dipped wheat biscuits.
Ryan and I have never had s'mores. According to wiki: A s'more (sometimes spelled smore) is a traditional nighttime campfire treat popular in the United States and Canada, consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker. I only recently told him about the concept and we went out and bought a block of chocolate, a packet of wheat biscuits and some marshmallows. Even though what we had was not the authentic version which uses graham crackers (never had a graham cracker in my life), we thought the concept was quite fun. And the drawcard was the fact that we could let our guests toast the marshmallows themselves and let them get a bit interactive. We had big dreams of lighting up a bit of a bonfire in the backyard but it would have been a logistical nightmare so we went with tea light candles instead.
Of course I had to make my own marshmallows and biscuits. I made a chai spiced marshmallow and decided that I would dip my discuits in chocolate so that the chocolate would melt easily on impact with the hot marshmallows. I wanted to include some honey somewhere as I love the combination of honey and chai but forgot to put it in the biscuit mix. Plan b was to spread a thin layer on the biscuits before dipping them but then we forgot to do that too. As a last resort we put out mini honey pots on the tables and asked our guests to drizzle some honey over the biscuits - not sure how this worked out or if anyone remembered to it.
Our 'camp fire' which was a tea light candle in a holder didn't quite work out as well as we had hoped. When Ryan and I were experimenting, the candle worked fine but as I was mindful of wax dripping all over my table cloths I decided to put them into some small holders - Ryan said that he observed some people having difficulty toasting their marshmallows as the holder was a bit deep so the marshmallows potentially slid off the skewer as it melted. Overall though I think everyone enjoyed some interactive fun to start off with.
Palate cleanser: Beef Chilli Con Carne with mini Chilli and Coriander Cornbread Muffins.
I absolutely loved the chilli con carne that Ryan had previously made so asked if he could make it again as one of the savoury courses. We were tossing up between two choices and I can't quite remember what the other one was but we thought this would be great for a cold winter's night. Last time I also made mini cornbread muffins to go with Ryan's chilli so tweaked the recipe a little this time as they were a bit on the dry side last time. Having to pre make them and warming them up again meant that they were also slightly on the dry side this time but we were hoping that the chilli would give them a bit of moisture when eaten together.
We were going to kicik off the first savoury course with our French onion soup but Ryan wanted to swap the savoury items around as he thought oue guests would want something a bit more substantial in their stomachs after having the 'smores. I think we may have been a bit too generous with the serving size for our 'palate cleanser' as this impacted how the rest of the courses were received.
Second course: Warm Orange and Cinnamon Rice Pudding.
Last winter Ryan made this dessert as part of a Spanish Fiesta that we had with our girls Jess and Celine (the other half of the DESSERTed Dinner Party dream team). It was a very big hit with them and I suggested that Ryan make it again. Last time it was a little on the gluggy side so he thought he would cook it as close to serving time as possible and use a bit more milk than the recipe stated. Even letting it sit there for the shortest amount of time before serving meant that by the time it reached the table it was quite thick and dense as all the liquid had been absorbed into the rice.
We also went a bit (ok maybe ALOT) overboard again with serving size here and since our guests were still recovering from the chilli, we found that not many people were able to eat any of the rice pudding resulting in a lot of waste. It also may have been that not many people were fond of the flavouring? Ryan may have gone a bit overboard with the orange zest and cinnamon which may not have been to everone's liking. We absolutely loved it though and were sad that there were no leftovers - perhaps if we had halved the servings we would have been fine! We felt a bit discouraged that so much food was being returned to the kitchen, we were worried we were doing something wrong!
Palate cleanser: French Onion Soup 'Tea' with mini Gruyere Brioche Toasties.
Winter to me screams hot soup. I'm not sure which one of us came up with the idea of French onion soup but I thought we could make it a little bit more sophisticated and had a grand idea of turning it into a refined consomme and having the girls serve it out of tea pots. I decided the tea pot idea was a bit much (and we needed our pots for tea) so strained it and then served it as a hot soup shot in little chinese tea cups. I decided that instead of a regular cheese toastie made from a baguette which would then be placed on top of the soup I would make actual little loaves of brioche and make some miniature toasted cheese sandwiches to go with the soup. The presentation alone was a big hit as everyone absolutely adored how cute the cheese toasties were. Of course it tasted great too ;)
Third course: Warm Five Spice Chocolate Cake with Poached Pear.
This dessert was inspired by Phillipa Sibley's Poire Belle-
Hélène which is her version of the dessert made by Auguste Escoffier made from pears poached in sugar syrup and served with vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, and crystallized violets. The original cake is a 'biscuit' with a molten honey chocolate centre which I tweaked and made a chocolate fondant instead. The poached pair is filled with a vanilla ice cream. Both these elements were to be a surprise for our guests hence why we just wrote warm chocolate cake and poached pair on the menu. I also liked the idea of the contrasting hot and cold temperatures and also the textures.
In my trial run the fondants came out beautifully. I tripled or even quadrupled the recipe and thought that they would need a little extra time in the oven since the oven was running at max capacity. I was a little sidetracked outside with our guests that buy the time I raced back to the kitchen and pulled them out they had overcooked and were just warm cakes. That could also have been due to us letting them sit there for a little bit to cool and to give our guests a little resting time before their final course. I was so disappointed with myself for over cooking them and not being able to surprise our guests. Though they were delicious little warm chocolate cakes. Another mistake I made with these was that I forgot to mix in the five spice powder. Thinking creatively I mixed some five spice with cocoa and sprinkled this over the cakes. I was so disappointed though
Most people enjoyed the element of surprise when they cut open their pear, though a few of them were slightly under cooked. Next time I need to remember to check each one as each one is a slightly different size which would require adjusted cooking times.
And now for some action photos from the night. We gave one of our cameras to a friend and told him to get snap happy.
Look, someone taking a photo of his food with his phone *thumbs up* ;)
That's just a tiger print snuggie on him. We requested our guests to come dressed for comfort and warmth.
Instagram photos from babymooksy.
Instagram photos from babymooksy.
The DESSERTed Dinner Party Dream Team.
We could not have done it without our girls. Thank you so so much for agreeing to be part of the crazyness. Thank you again to Ryan for being the catalyst to my crazy ideas. And thank you so so much to the unofficial helpers too. There were many mistakes made and we should not have relied so much on our girls to get everything done without our guidance.We had spreadsheets galore in the kitchen but assumed that the girls would know exactly what to do for the dining area as everything seemed to have gone so smoothly last time. I guess that is what happens when you are under the pump with an hour to have everything ready. I will have to remember to make checklists for the table settings next time. We also need to seriously up our A game, we got way to complacent and let ourselves ride on the high from the success of our last event. Standards slipped which means I am putting pressure on myself to make the next dessert party an ever better one. I am a perfectionist after all. But the most important thing is that we have fun doing what we love and that we're able to share this love with our friends. We're just a bunch of home cooks who have a passion for good food.
Lastly, thank you so much to all of our friends for wanting to be a part of it all - without you there would be no DESSERTed Dinner Party. We look forward to spoiling you all again at the next one!
Lastly, thank you so much to all of our friends for wanting to be a part of it all - without you there would be no DESSERTed Dinner Party. We look forward to spoiling you all again at the next one!


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Fire Alarm System
Fire Alarm System Key Features
- Up to 30,600 devices through 30 control panels
- Each Analog detector in the system adapts to the surrounding environment.
- The sensitivity of each Analog detector is constant in spite of the contamination or background particle level.
- The self-diagnosis function detects every deviation from the accurate normal condition in the electronic circuits and in the detection chamber.
- A family of state of the art Analog detectors gives the system accurate and noise free information about the occurrence of smoke and temperature changes in the installation.
EBL512 G3 is an analog addressable fire alarm system but also conventional detectors can be used. EBL512 G3 fulfils the EN54 standards EN54 part 2 (Control and Indicating Equipment) and EN54 part 4 (Power supply). Each CIE can communicate with up to 1020 detectors, input and output units. Up to 512 of these units can be alarm points. Each CIE has four loops for connection of the analog detectors, manual call points, inputs and outputs units etc. Each unit on the loop uses one address. Each CIE can work standalone or be connected in a TLON (Echelon) network with up to 30 CIEs. The total number of detectors and other loop units in a full system is accordingly more than 30 600. Each CIE has access to all information from all the other CIEs in the same network-system. For more information on this product, please access the brochure through the 'Brochures' tab at the top of this page.
Fire alarm system overview/example
Panasonic fire alarm systems are designed to accommodate both stand alone and large system requirements using different control and indicating units (C.I.E.) called control panels. Growing up from a stand alone installation with the EBL512 G3 up to 30,600 devices can be connected through 30 control panels with 4 detector loops each.
A large variety of units can be connected to the four loops:
- Analog addressable detectors – also Intrinsically Safe detectors
- Conventional detectors
- Addressable manual call points
- Addressable short circuit isolators
- Addressable input and output units – supervised outputs
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Her inspiration, says Christian McEwen, was The Vagina Monologues, that revolutionary piece of interview theater that put a hitherto "unspeakable" subject into the public conversation. "What else," she wondered, "do women have these complicated, multi-layered, oh-so-private feelings about?" Of course, she realized, it was money.
"Except that money is even worse, even more contorted, more high-charged, more private, and more shameful. Because a woman will provide you with a detailed account of her childhood sexual abuse, her battles with alcohol or drug addiction, she will repeat, word for word, the precise dialogue of her private pillow talk, before she will tell you how much she earns, how much she's saved and how much, God help us, how much she still owes."
That brainstorm led to Legal Tender: Women and the Secret Life of Money, a true-life theater piece that premieres in Northampton this weekend and next. The other impetus for the play came with the financial crash of 2008 when McEwen was spending a lot of time listening to coverage of the crisis on National Public Radio. "And what I heard had almost nothing to do with women," she says. "The pronouns were almost all male. You really had to listen between the lines to know that women and children were still in the picture, still being affected by that greater tumult. And this in a country where, even now, women make 77 cents to every male dollar."
Legal Tender is the fruit of monetary conversations McEwen had with more than 50 women over a five-year period. They ranged in age from six to 93 and across all economic strata, from "women who'd inherited big money from their families [to] others who'd had to scrimp and save for every penny." Her questions probed each woman's relationship with money, from childhood memories to work experience to "What was the most satisfying purchase you ever made, and how much did it cost?"
"What struck me," McEwen says, "was that in many cases people were telling me stories they had never told before. There was anger, there was outrage, on more than one occasion there were tears." And linking many of the stories was "this tremendous undertow of anxiety. Several women mentioned the fear of being a bag-lady" because in old age, or after divorce, they worried they wouldn't be able to support themselves. (Not an entirely irrational fear, it turns out, even among the supposedly stable middle classes. McEwen quotes a chilling statistic: 80 percent of elderly women in the U.S. are living at or close to the poverty line.)
McEwen says she chose her title because "I liked the little pun," Legal Tender referring to money itself but with "a sly reference to tenderness, sweetness. Because women are supposed to be so kind and sweet and tender, right? What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and all things nice. Well, maybe. Wait until you've seen the play, and then you can decide about that."•
March 8 and 15, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., sliding scale $10-$20-plus (no one turned away for lack of funds), Quaker Meeting House, 43 Center St., Northampton. Tickets at Broadside Books.
Chris Rohmann is at email@example.com and his StageStruck blog is at valleyadvocate.com/blogs/stagestruck.


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With a financial catastrophe averted by the passage of Proposition 30, Los Angeles Unified officials said Wednesday they'll begin looking for ways to restore some of the personnel and programs lost during five years of budget cuts.
LAUSD would have had to cut $255 million from this year's budget, and upwards of $650 million next year if the state ballot measure had failed. To cope with the cuts, officials debated shrinking the school calendar by 15 days, canceling student transportation and consolidating or killing programs.
Those contingency plans won't be necessary with voter approval of Proposition 30, which will raise the sales tax a quarter-percent for the next four years and the tax rate on incomes of more than $250,000 for seven years.
The revenue will help repay education funding withheld during the recession and keep district budgets intact.
"Voters were very aware what the cuts would have meant to our schools," said Superintendent John Deasy. "They said, 'Enough is enough."'
The passage of Prop. 30 also means the district may be able to cancel some of the 10 unpaid furlough days facing teachers and other district employees, he said. Moving forward, some of the thousands of lost jobs may be restored.
LAUSD board members also looked forward to the chance to review the budget without a sense of trepidation.
"While the victory wasn't a landslide, the fact that voters approved a tax increase during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression is very significant," said Steve Zimmer, whose district stretches from the San Fernando Valley to Hollywood and the Westside.
"Funding from Prop. 30 won't turn everything around and is not a magic pill, but it is the beginning of the end of the decimation of our system," he continued. "It is now the responsibility of this board and our administration to have a strategic plan for reinvesting, re-resourcing and restabilizing our schools."
Board member Tamar Galatzan cautioned, however, that revenue will repay the state's debt, but it will not leave schools flush with cash.
"Now that we don't have a giant ax hanging over our head, we can get a real look at our budget for the remaining school year and know what we're looking at," said Galatzan, who represents the west San Fernando Valley. "This doesn't mean new money for the district. It means that the cuts we sustained are not going to get any worse."
Still, the board will be reviewing the district's financial plan with an eye toward restoring personnel and programs.
Proposition 30 had the support of of teachers and labor unions, which poured tens of millions of dollars into getting the measure passed.
Warren Fletcher, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, noted that Prop. 30 will restore constitutionally guaranteed funding levels to students for the first time since 2008.
"We recognize that Proposition 30 will not fix all our schools' fiscal problems, but it is a tremendous step that is expected to cancel teacher furlough days and bring back the 180-day school year for LAUSD," he said. "If voters had rejected Prop. 30, $6 billion in cuts to K-12 education would have kicked in statewide."
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