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"LONE COWBOY stars John Wayne in three of his early hour-length cowboy movies, plus a "modern" non-western about trouble on the tracks.
THE HURRICANE EXPRESS is a Tully Marshall 12 chapter serial that was whittled down to 80 minutes for television. The Duke as third banana is out to revenge the death of his railroading father. An intense search for "The Wrecker" is complicated by his foe's ability to disguise himself as almost anyone.
THE LAWLESS FRONTIER teams Wayne and 'Gabby' Hayes in a pursuit of Mexican outlaw Pandro Zanti, who both killed Duke's parents and wounded Gabby.
In THE STAR PACKER Sheriff John Travers (Wayne) battles "The Shadow" and his gang of terrorists.
THE TRAIL BEYOND has Rod Drew (Wayne) searching for a missing miner and his daughter. After Drew locates a map to a goldmine, he has a dangerous gang to deal with as well.
For more great old westerns, you can't beat the ULTIMATE JOHN WAYNE COLLECTION, from MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT. It features 24 movies and 3 serials, plus a 1971 TV documentary on John Ford, hosted by Duke.
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6.3) The Hurricane Express (1932) - Tully Marshall/Conway Tearle/John Wayne/Shirley Grey/Glenn Strange/Yakima Canutt
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James Gavin, author of Stormy Weather: the Life of Lena Horne
Drawing on a wealth of unmined material and hundreds of interviews one of them with Lena Horne herself critically acclaimed author James Gavin gives us a deftly researched (The Boston Globe) and authoritative portrait of the American icon. Horne broke down racial barriers in the entertainment industry in the 1940s and 50s even as she was limited mostly to guest singing appearances in splashy Hollywood musicals. Incorporating insights from the likes of Ruby Dee, Tony Bennett, Diahann Carroll, and Bobby Short, Stormy Weather reveals the many faces of this luminous, complex, strong-willed, passionate, even tragic woman a stunning talent who inspired such giants as Barbra Streisand, Eartha Kitt, and Aretha Franklin.# […] Continue reading »

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Greetings all, and a happy midwinter holiday season to you!
Just to prove I am still alive–yes, I still have big plans for this little blog, and they are coming, but sometimes things just have to move in their own time no matter how much it drives us impatient people crazy–here's a post about one of our favorite Christmas decorations here in the U.S., the beautiful poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima).
I was inspired by a link shared by Rosalee de la Foret about plant-based holiday rituals. I was a little disappointed, and this is no reflection on Rosalee, who by sharing this link gave me hours of entertainment, because there actually wasn't much info on plants. However, in the section about poinsettia, the post says:
"The Aztec name was said to mean 'mortal flower that perishes and withers like all that is pure.'"
I don't know the original source of that etymology, but it is all over the internet. I'm a language nerd, and if you are too you might find this interesting. I'm hoping that even the non-language-nerd plantophiles among you will enjoy this; but if not you can skip to the tl;dr version at the end. Ok, so, although I know next to nothing about Nahuatl (an indigenous language of Mexico spoken by the Aztecs), I thought that etymology up above sounded a little spurious. Then I thought, many plant names tell us something about how the plant works medicinally, I wonder if this could be one? And if so, what does its indigenous name actually mean?
So I did a little internet research.
I found that there are actually two versions of the Nahuatl name to be found on the interwebz: cuetlaxochitl and cuitlaxochitl. Now xochitl means flower, that's easy enough. It's the other part that's tricky. If the original form was indeed cuitla-, it is apparently derived from cuitltatl, which means excrement, giving us a name that basically means "poop-flower". Here's the dictionary entry from the online Nahuatl Dictionary (click to embiggen):
The dictionary also has an entry for cuitlaxochitl (none for cuetlaxochitl) which indeed translates it as poinsettia; however, they note that there was no text that contained the full word, only its component parts. They speculate the name derives from poinsettia's growth habit. (I hope this isn't ruining your enjoyment of the flower.)
Since there apparently is no text containing the word cuitlaxochitl, it must come from oral tradition. So it's not surprising the word would be transcribed in different ways, and there is a possibility that the correct form was indeed cuetlaxochitl, as reported in the post about plant-based holiday rituals and in many other places on the internet that don't cite their sources. There are so-called "Aztec herbals" (cool!) such as the Codex Cruz-Badianus (a.k.a. Codex Barberini) and Florentine Codex, but they don't have any recognizable illustrations of poinsettia.
Using the Nahuatl Dictionary, I found that cuetla- is a root in various verbs that describe a sort of floppy, back-and-forth wavering or wriggling motion. It can even describe shapes with a wavery outline, like a canyon winding through a landscape. Some examples involving cuetla- include the way a warrior shakes and thrusts a spear, the way a snake wriggles when caught, a person fainting, and the movement of leaping flames. It is also the root of a verb meaning to wither. So this is how we get to a translation that means a flower that withers, though the "mortal", "perishes", and "like all that is pure" parts seem to be complete nonsense as far as I can tell.
But which is it? Poop-flower or wavery-withering-flower?
Medicinal uses
The name question inspired me to dig deeper into poinsettia's medicinal uses, with which I was not familiar. The genus Euphorbia belongs to the Euphorbiaceae, or spurge, family. These often have irritating latex sap and some are poisonous. Poinsettia sap is only mildly irritating, but that seems to have garnered it an unearned reputation for toxicity.
I found next to no information on the ethnobotany of poinsettia. There is a reference to the sap being used as a galactagogue, although the author who mentions it claims it is not effective as such. All over the internet I find repeated the claim that the Aztecs used the sap to make a fever-reducing (antipyretic) medicine, but I can't find the original source so must remain skeptical for the time being. Other members of the spurge family, however, are used medicinally in India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Australia and elsewhere. Depending on species they may be used to treat skin diseases (including skin cancer), warts, cancerous tumors, "hair related problems", respiratory complaints, diarrhea, constipation, urinary tract infections, venomous bites, wounds, rheumatism and arthritis, diabetes, jaundice, vomiting, "viral fever", and as an antiseptic. But this is a diverse family including some quite toxic members (e.g., castor bean) so don't assume that medicinal qualities are the same across all members of the family. In other words:
"The worldwide distribution of the family exposes its members, to all sorts of habitats to which they must adapt, therefore inducing a large variety of chemicals (secondary substances) that are employed for survival/defense….medicinal properties of some [Euphorbiaceae] species may be due to stress factors that characterize most habitats of the family."
One recent study on E. pulcherrima found it to be very effective at inhibiting the growth of aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus mold (source); another found some indications that the leaves contain cytotoxic compounds that may be useful against cancerous tumors (source).
Tl;dr version
Poinsettia is native to Mexico, where its indigenous name probably translates to either "poop-flower" or "withering flower" (depending on whether the name is actually cuitlaxochitl or cuetlaxochitl). I looked for information on poinsettia's medicinal and other botanical properties to see if they were reflected in either or both of these names.
My research was hampered by the fact that I don't currently have any university affiliation and therefore can't access the full text of professional/academic journals. I could find very little specifically about the medicinal uses of poinsettia, but other members of the spurge family are used medicinally around the world, for a variety of complaints of which skin diseases and digestive disorders may be the most common.
A name translating to "poop-flower" might make sense given that many Euphorbiaceae species are used to treat diarrhea and as laxatives. All over the internet I keep finding the word for excrement, cuitlatl, translated as "residue" and then making the poetic (if uninformative) leap to "soil," making poinsettia the "flower that grows in soil", but can't find the original source, and the Nahuatl Dictionary is pretty firm that the word actually means feces. I cannot find any indication that poinsettia has any more of an affinity to dungheaps than any other plants do, so if this is the name of the plant I would speculate that the "poop" relates to its medicinal application.
Alternatively the plant's name might be more like "withering flower" or "wavering flower." The leaves do have a wavy sort of outline which might have been in accordance with the Aztec concept of the word root cueta-. Again though, this could have referred to a medicinal use–perhaps for fainting, another meaning of cueta-. Another possibility might be that it referred to a tendency for the plant to wilt. I would assume it wouldn't wilt any more than any other plant, in its native habitat, but I must admit that in spite of my ministrations, every poinsettia I have brought home has wilted in pretty short order.
Sorry I couldn't solve that little linguistic mystery, but I learned a lot in the effort. I hope it was interesting for you. If you have any experience using poinsettia medicinally, I'd love to hear about it!
Meanwhile, if you are interested in Aztec medicine, here is an article on the topic which you can actually read in its entirety online. Here is a book chapter looking at the pharmacological effect of Aztec medicinal herbs, also complete. Here is a page that even has a few recipes and images from the Codex Cruz-Badianus.


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2009 Nissan 370Z: Unintended Activation
October 07, 2009
What you see here is the Enter button on the steering wheel of our 2009 Nissan 370. This up-down rocker button scrolls through menus on the dash-mounted screen and, most importantly, in conjunction with that out-of-focus button slightly below and slightly behind the Enter button, controls my iPod.
Normally I have the screen (not pictured) at the ready for when I'm bored with the current song. This means I only have to tap that little switch to advance/repeat. It works great 99% of the time. Trouble is, the Enter button is not flush, or better yet, below the face of, the steering wheel. So what happens is almost every time I turn the wheel more than 10-degrees and no matter how I do it, my palm trips the button and my song is changed.
I've put thousands of miles on the 2009 370Z and this is one of those little issues that I just can't find a good workaround for. The only thing I've ever had so many unintended button presses with was the silly mouse-thing on the Lexus 250h
If it were my car I'd cut it down about 1/2 an inch and call it a day.
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DANIA — Since he moved to the city in 1978, John Vollmann Jr. has enjoyed a life that seemed white-picket-fence perfect.
Married, with two children, the cigar-smoking Vollmann serves on three city boards, contributes to local candidates at election time and is vice president of a company in Maine that sponsors a T-ball team for the Dania Optimist Club.
He has donated a boat, two machine guns and a pair of binoculars with a built-in camera to the city`s Police Department.
In his 12-page resume, Vollmann says he is a member of 42 organizations. His supervisor at the Southeast Florida Institute of Criminal Justice at Miami- Dade Community College, where Vollmann is a part-time instructor, said he had received outstanding evaluations from students.
But while known for his community involvement during the past eight years, Vollmann told few people about the previous two decades of his life.
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Art for Travellers Greece
The Essential Guide to Viewing Art in Greece
Over a century ago the Parthenon lost its marbles to Britain's Lord Elgin. Today, as the fumes of modern Athens work to complete the destruction, the ancient ruins remain the essential starting point for an art lover's tour of Greece. Towering above the city, the Parthenon is "a stark symbol of a glorious past," a past that the authors thoroughly and intimately embrace in their profuse and consummate guide to art in Greece.
Systematically, the Hannans lay out eight different trails: three in and around Athens; four more to Delphi, Corinth, Olympia, and Thebes; plus an eighth "trail" to the islands of Crete and Santorini. Collectively, the trails offer a range and depth of art that few travellers experience. Each trail takes two or three days—five for the islands. At least three weeks would be needed to do it all. The entrance ticket for Delphi alone is for two days, and the authors advise that a single visit to the National Archeological Museum in Athens does not do it justice.
Like the Hannans' earlier volume, Art for Travellers: France: The Essential Guide for Viewing Art in Paris and its Surrounds, this guidebook is earnest and exhaustive, taking the connoisseur on a room-by room, piece-by-piece, limb-by-missing-limb excursion. The extreme aficionado excepted, travellers will want to integrate the art tour with activities of a more general interest. With the view that it's impossible to isolate the art, the Hannans provide helpful digressions into other themes, such as history and literature. Homer's epics, for example, are said to have provided nineteenth-century archeologists with clues to the location of several ancient sites.
Inappropriate restoration is an issue the Hannans barely touch on. Knossos, the site of the ancient Minoan civilization on the island of Crete, was the object of a controversial reconstruction—rebuilt columns, repainted frescoes, a recreation of the way life might have been. The Hannans limit their criticism to a restrained observation that the restoration, done a century ago, would not be done today.
Exuding a special veneration for objects that survived for thousands of years buried in a few inches of dirt, the Hannans suggest that such prizes challenge the modern myopic notion of history. Whether taking the entire art lover's circuit, a trail or two, or merely "armchairing" it, one feels the influence of Greek art through the millennia—how Minoan culture permeated the Mycenaean world, how Classical culture shaped that of the Roman Empire, and how the legacy of the art of Greece permeates Western culture today.
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"If you are an existing developer of client apps, you can continue to serve your user base,"
"Twitter has to revoke literally hundreds of API tokens / apps a week as part of our trust and safety efforts, in order to protect the user experience on our platform. " Does this mean twitter is no longer granting request Tokens to Third Party Applications?....cause i keep getting a 401 when i try to get one... --Chidi On Mar 11, 9:18 pm, Ryan Sarver <rsar...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hey all, I'd like to give you an update about the state of the Twitter > Platform and hopefully provide some much requested guidance. > > Since this time last year, Twitter use has skyrocketed. We've grown from 48 > million to 140 million tweets a day and we're registering new accounts at an > all-time record. This massive base of users, publishers, and businesses is > a giant playground for developers to build their own businesses on, and this > means the opportunity has grown for everyone. > > With more people joining Twitter and accessing the service in multiple ways, > a consistent user experience is more crucial than ever. As we talked about > last April, this was our motivation for buying Tweetie and developing our > own official iPhone app. It is the reason why we have developed official > apps for the Mac, iPad, Android and Windows Phone, and worked with RIM on > their Twitter for Blackberry app. As a result, the top five ways that people > access Twitter are official Twitter apps. > > Still, our user research shows that consumers continue to be confused by the > different ways that a fractured landscape of third-party Twitter clients > display tweets and let users interact with core Twitter functions. For > example, people get confused by websites or clients that display tweets in a > way that doesn't follow our design guidelines, or when services put their > own verbs on tweets instead of the ones used on Twitter. Similarly, a > number of third-party consumer clients use their own versions of suggested > users, trends, and other data streams, confusing users in our network even > more. Users should be able to view, retweet, and reply to @nytimes' tweets > the same way; see the same profile information about @whitehouse; and be > able to join in the discussion around the same trending topics as everyone > else across Twitter. > > *A Consistent User Experience* > Twitter is a network, and its network effects are driven by users seeing and > contributing to the network's conversations. We need to ensure users can > interact with Twitter the same way everywhere. Specifically: > - *The mainstream consumer client experience*. Twitter will provide the > primary mainstream consumer client experience on phones, computers, and > other devices by which millions of people access Twitter content (tweets, > trends, profiles, etc.), and send tweets. If there are too many ways to use > Twitter that are inconsistent with one another, we risk diffusing the user > experience. In addition, a number of client applications have repeatedly > violated Twitter's Terms of Service, including our user privacy policy. > This demonstrates the risks associated with outsourcing the Twitter user > experience to third parties. Twitter has to revoke literally hundreds of > API tokens / apps a week as part of our trust and safety efforts, in order > to protect the user experience on our platform. > - *Display of tweets in 3rd-party services*. We need to ensure that tweets, > and tweet actions, are rendered in a consistent way so that people have the > same experience with tweets no matter where they are. For example, some > developers display "comment", "like", or other terms with tweets instead of > "follow, favorite, retweet, reply" - thus changing the core functions of a > tweet. > > With this in mind, we've updated our Terms of > Service:http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms. > > *The Opportunity for Developers* > Developers have told us that they'd like more guidance from us about the > best opportunities to build on Twitter. More specifically, developers ask > us if they should build client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream > Twitter consumer client experience. The answer is no. > > If you are an existing developer of client apps, you can continue to serve > your user base, but we will be holding you to high standards to ensure you > do not violate users' privacy, that you provide consistency in the user > experience, and that you rigorously adhere to all areas of our Terms of > Service. 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Every sport has its oddities. There are the football players who ran the wrong way, scoring a touchdown for the opposing team. There is the legend of Rosie Ruiz, the pseudo-marathon runner who tried to win the New York City Marathon by hopping a ride on the Subway, then attempted a similar trick in Boston. But baseball seems to wear the green jacket in the winner's circle (to shamelessly mix our sports metaphors) for generating an abundance of misconceptions and mythology.
The National Pastime is filled with reports of relief pitchers who won a game without ever actually throwing a pitch, or of three baserunners — one of whom just hit a triple — all holding up on third. Of course, some of the best stories are true: in 2008 second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera of the Cleveland Indians executed a rare unassisted triple play, then (really!) tossed the history-making ball into the stands. But often the tales are hatched and circulate for years, like the pre-1915 home run that only flew 65 feet before landing in an umpire's pile of baseballs, indistinguishable from the balls not in play, while batter Grover Land circled the bases. Neat story, but it never happened.
To set the record straight (and probably to settle some long-standing arguments) there is now a book called "Baseball Myths: Debating, Debunking and Disproving Tales From the Diamond." It was written by Bill Deane, author of six books, former senior research associate at the Baseball Hall of Fame and former managing editor of Total Baseball. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and is the recipient of several SABR awards. He lives in Cooperstown, where baseball wasn't invented. Indeed, Deane opens "Baseball Myths" by clearing away the misinformation about baseball originating in one small village on Otsego Lake and tells about the mistakes, egoism and general confusion that led to the Baseball Hall of Fame settling in Cooperstown, an honor the community has respected since 1939. The game of Base Ball evolved over several centuries and the reference library at the Hall of Fame is an excellent resource for tracing that evolution and the recent history of the game.
Having a feel for the folklore is as important as knowing where to start tracking down the truth. For instance, in "Baseball Myths" Deane takes on the claim that the 1927 New York Yankees team was so powerful that a World Series practice session at the Pittsburgh Pirates ballpark just psyched out the home team so badly that the Pirates never had a chance. In fact, Deane points out, although the Yankees won the Series the record shows they did so with just a one-run edge in two games. The great 1927 Yankees (and it was a great team) sparked by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, was the same squad that had lost the Series a year earler. The '27 Pirates were likely just fatigued. And then there's the report that Ted Williams almost lost out on finishing his 1941 season with the Boston Red Sox with a .400 batting average, risking a record that still stands by playing in the last game of the season. Deane's close scrutiny of the statistics — down to a potential .4004 had Williams struck out — proves that "there was no real gallantry or risk in what he did on the season's final day."
Babe Ruth receives an entire chapter, including an investigation into whether the Sultan of Swat really stepped up to the plate and pointed to the spot where, a few seconds later, he would smash another mighty home run. Deane consults both written accounts, still photography and motion picture footage and no fewer than twenty-five quotes to arrive at something of a conclusion.


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Monday, Sept. 12 — When 3-year-old Charlie Waller of East Lansing underwent radiation and chemotherapy in June for a brain stem tumor, his diagnosis was critical.
Doctors left him with an expected six to nine months to live, only a 0 to 1 percent chance of survival — not to mention the outrageous medical expenses.
Dora Ivkovich, a 7-year-old fifth grader from Kinawa Middle School in Okemos, was inspired to do something to help Charlie cherish his presumptive last days.
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Computer Repair Technicians - Their bad reputation
I don't know if this also happend in the rest of thw world but it's a problem I face everyday in Portugal... the reputation of computer technicians and computer repair services!
Let me explain my problem a little bit better!
If you read my profile you know I have a computer service company in my country. Every new client I get start the conversation with a phrase similar to this:
- Can I trust your company? The last guys which repaired/sold my computer just ripped me off...
This leaves me very frustrated and it makes me do some extra work to show the client that not every computer service company is like that!
Some of the stories I hear show me that there's definetly some guys out there that just shouldn't be working... but these is a little part of all the "spectrum" of companies that exists! There are great guys working in this business, really clever and who really want to help everyone!
So, Where's the problem?
This is the question I sometimes ask myself. Where can I find the root of this problem and can I fix it or at least help to fix it? Can we change people's mind on this matter?
With the major rule that computers play in our society nowadays, would't it be great to know that you leave it in good hand to be repaired?
I think that the problem relies in one of this matters:
- The society is misinformed and once the myth was instaured, there's no wayback... Should we call the mythbusters? :p
- The saying "you tell one person when you like a thing, but you tell 10 when you don't like something..." is really being applied in this particular case
- The Computer Services Companies are causing this on themselves...
I wrote this last item because I see that lots of Portuguese Companies don't try to show how good they are, which are their qualities, how they stand out from the rest of the market...
Instead they just keep saying bad things about the competition... It's the first thing they do: "where did you take this earlier? they really messed it up..."..
This is one thing I really try to avoid! I try to defend the other guys and just offer a good service to resolve the client's problem. Don't they understand that the market is big enough for everyone? That competition is healthy and it helps you improve you business by internaly comparing your service to theirs?
I think we can compare this "myth" with the car mechanics one...
How can we end this "myth", anyone can help me?
Does this happens in your town also? Do you trust your computer repair company/guy? Leave me your feedback or answer my poll please!
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Hi lbramos, I'd really like to complete your poll but I don't feel any of the responses available apply to me. So, let me explain:
I live in the UK and I have never really used the services of a PC Tech or computer repair center as I just feel they are inconvenient for one and my clients' data is on the hard drive and available to any tech who wants to have a look. We have had a number of high profile cases in the UK of this very thing happening and I don't want to make my hard earned data freely available to anyone. So, in that sense I guess I don't trust them.
I don't think the situation is as wide spread in the UK as it seems to be in Portugal from what you have said. Where I have used the services of PC techs I have overall been pleased with the results, but I then to shy away from them and much prefer to carry out my own repairs where I can - or get a new PC if necessary.
I hope this helps.
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Note: This equipment is for MCDB and collaborators. It is not a university-wide resource. See the Biomedical Core Facilities page for links to University core resources.
The shared molecular equipment rooms are accessed through the 3C LER (large equipment hallway on the north side of the building).
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StepOne™ Plus qPCR (Applied Biosystems)
This system uses a blue LED for excitation, filter wheel, and photodiode for detection. If connection with computer is lost, device functions independently. An error message will occur, but your data will be fine after saving. Software is designed to lead you through the entire PCR process.
7500 Fast RT™ qPCR (Applied Biosystems)
7500 Fast RT system uses a halogen light for excitation, a filter wheel, and a CCD for detection. The software offers more detail than previous versions, and is designed to lead you through the entire PCR process.
QuBit 2.0 Fluorometer
Will quantify DNA, RNA, and protein if using the correct kits. Qubit® Fluorometric Quantitation only measures the molecule of interest, so the number is almost always lower than the A260 reading. Requires only a few minutes. Use thin wall PCR tubes only, and 1-20uL of DNA sample. Double strand high sensitivity, double strand low sensitivity, and single strand DNA. Screen leads you through protocol.
Nanodrop Lite spectrophotometer
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Covaris M220 Focused Ultrasonicator
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GE Phosphorimager Storm 865
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Sutter Instruments device for flaming/brown pipet pulling.
Cryostat Leica CM3050 S
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Yes, this was better and notably more entertaining than last week's episode. Though I'm still not sold on this show I'm afraid…
Let's talk about the first "engagement" we saw Echo on this week. She was a… midwife? Someone paid a fortune to have Echo be a caring, skilled midwife? Really? They couldn't have hired, for far less money, an actual caring, skilled midwife? To reference Oz on Buffy, that is making the kind of sense that is not. And it again brings up just how secret and hard to find the Dollhouse could be when some of the things people hire them for are that mundane. Hmm, maybe they find some of their clients on Craig's List?
Thankfully, the assignment Echo had for the brunt of the episode made more sense, as far as Things You'd Want an Active For. She was hired to be a badass, unflappable thief, who could lead a crew with nary a problem. Which led to the episode's big twist, which was that in the midst of the mission, while locked in a vault, Echo was somehow wiped, reverting to the childlike state she exists in inside the Dollhouse.
Is anyone tired of hearing "Did I fall asleep?" yet? Just me? The "simple" personalities the characters have within the Dollhouse are wearing thin pretty quickly. At least though this episode made that personality crucial, as Echo in that state was useless, leaving her fellow thieves and those in the Dollhouse with a big dilemma.
Easily the coolest and most creative part of the episode was when the solution they came up was (though it ultimately failed to work…) was to imprint Sierra with the exact same identity, "Taffy", that Echo had when she was wiped – and have Taffy #2 coach Echo over the phone on what to do. It was a very fun use of the whole Dollhouse concept, as we saw how malleable the Actives can be, when you can just swap the same personality between them. It also gave Dichen Lachman some very fun material, as she basically got to do an Eliza Dushku impression, and did so very well.
The downside of this? It sort of helped point out how limited Dushku is coming off on this series. The Taffy personality was yet another variation of the bad girl persona Dushku can be great at, but that seems to be the go-to personality for her, as she rarely comes off as completely believable in other types of roles. It was funny to see Sierra take on the cooler than the room persona of Taffy, and say stuff like "Whatev", but also a bit notable that she could have almost as easily been doing a take on Buffy's Faith.
Looking at other positive moments, it was interesting to see Topher note that Echo, Sierra and Victor were "herding" and eating together more than once (a moment from the original Dollhouse pilot script). And Boyd got a cool moment when he took down the traitor in Taffy's gang, shooting the guy in the leg when he tried to flee. Meanwhile though, Ballard continued to bore, as does DeWitt – turns out she has a boss, who one hopes is more engaging a character than she is.
I find myself asking more and more questions about how this show's reality works. Many of Echo's engagements have been in the Los Angeles area, and in the past two episodes, she was a backup singer for a hugely popular singer, and then was seen by a crowd of people grabbing that singer and saving her from a bullet. Then this week, she was part of a major crime, spending considerable time with a security guard and accomplices who could easily describe her to authorities. How is this maintaining the kind of low profile the Dollhouse would need to survive? Echo's face – which doesn't change along with her personalities -- could potentially make her someone easily recognizable, even if she herself didn't know why she was recognized.
I realize a lot of fantasy or adventure shows require a lot of suspension of disbelief when it comes to their outlandish concepts – to use a major example, look at the fact that so few people can figure out Bruce Wayne is Batman, despite the many ways there would be evidence. The problem Dollhouse is running into though is that it lacks the strong characters and storylines that help make those kind of close inspections of the concept not really matter when you're being truly entertained. No one cares about how Bruce Wayne couldn't get away with being Batman when he's an awesome character and you're into the story being told about him. That's not the case with this show though, at least not yet – it hasn't delivered anything truly involving, and so I find my mind wandering to all the logic holes that are readily apparent, with far too little offered up to make them inconsequential.


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Price of Top-selling ebooks Continues to Rise.
It has been seven weeks since I last checked the prices of Amazon's 100 best-selling ebooks. Some trends seem to be continuing while others are faltering. Overall, the price of a best-selling ebook seems to be going up.
The trends that continue include a drop in the number of ebooks on the list selling at 99 cents. This time there were seven ebooks at 99 cents, compared to three last time which was massive drop from 34 in February.
The number at the ebook guru price of $2.99 continues to drop. This time there were 15, last time 22, which was down from 32 in February.
$3.99 has been confirmed as a hot price with seventeen ebooks at that price, compared to 13 last time and four in February. $4.99 might be a new hot price too, with eleven at that price this time.
Thirty-two ebooks were priced over $7 compared to 47 last time. But overall the price of the 100 best-selling ebooks is increasing. I think part of this increase is due to mainstream publishers publishing more ebooks and therefore making it harder for cheaper self-published ebooks to get on the list.
Ray Bradbury on Writing.
I recently read that Ray Bradbury recommends writing students write a lot of short stories. He said that if they write one a week, in a year they will have written 52 and "I defy you to write 52 bad ones. A story will come that's just wonderful."
A story a week! I would struggle coming up with the ideas for a story a week. And how long are these stories he suggests they write each week? As a writer I find it hard to keep any story under 5,000 words. As a reader, I find most stories under 5,000 words aren't large enough to wow me with fully developed characters and worlds, and that offer an original take on an idea, theme or plot.
The more short stories I read the less I am a fan of them. Only about one in five engage my imagination while I am reading it. One in fifty I might remember the next day because the story resonated with me. And usually that one in fifty will be a story over 10,000 words. And I am so sick of stories written around a twist: ha ha I tricked you. Well many times the writer hasn't because I have picked up the obvious twist well before it came along. How about exploring a theme or idea instead?
I know a lot of writer's choose the short story route as a way to improve their writing and build up a reputation. But I can't see the point bothering with a form of writing that generally fails to excite me. I much prefer to engage with a world and its characters over the extended period of a novel.
Ray also suggested budding writers read a short story, a poem and an essay every night. What about novels? When I read a short story at night, I usually then pick up a novel. I do read a lot of newspaper articles, blog posts and web articles on writing, so they would go some way to making up my essay quota.
As for poems, I find most say nothing to me. For a poem to resonate with me I think I have to be in a similar head space to its writer when they wrote it. As my headspace is very different to most people, finding a poem that speaks to me is much rarer than remembering the short story I read the previous night.
But I must read a Ray Bradbury short story collection to see what his stories are like.


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As far as you're concerned, no one measures up to your genius. However, your genius-self is also socially awkward and lacking in basic skills. You're the kind of person that needs strict habits and routines to make it through the day.
The drawback is that, when things don't go according to plan, you become distressed and make everyone miserable... which doesn't seem to bother you, since you don't have time to dwell on unimportant things like misery.


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Exclusive: Behind the scenes of 'The Walking Dead'
Now that "The Walking Dead" fans have gotten good looks at the Governor's town of Woodbury and the prison where Rick's crew is trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, I thought it might be fun to take you behind the scenes on these awesome locations and sets. I was fortunate enough to get to visit the Georgia set of the AMC series back in August. They already were filming for the second half of Season 3, so I can't really talk about who a handful of bloggers and I saw, but I can talk about what we saw. Using behind-the-scenes photos from AMC, here are a bunch of fun facts about how TWD's production team went about creating the prison and Woodbury. Enjoy. "The Walking Dead" airs new episodes at 8 p.m. CT Sundays on AMC. Curt Wagner, RedEye's Show Patrol Meet The Governor:David Morrissey Meet Michonne:Danai Gurira Photos:Cast gallery Want more? Discuss this article and others on Show Patrol's Facebook page.
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I'm a hard worker and always strive for success and to exceed expectations. I'm a quick learner and acquire new skills quickly. To achieve this I ask for assistance when necessary and do additional research and reading on the matter, even if I'm required to do it in my own time.
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When I started this venture I knew nothing about the industry or how to operate any of the machines. Today, 4 years later, I do my own drawings on a CAD program, I can do on-board programming for the CNC lathe, therefore I don't required the drawing to done on the CAD program which then generates the program for the CNC. This enables me to pick up mistakes easier in the cutting cycle. And today, I can operate all of the machines in the workshop.
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NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Reuters) - US auto parts manufacturer Chassix is exploring revisions to a US$320m leveraged loan backing a dividend to shareholders, following investors' lack of interest amid concerns over declining earnings, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Lead arranger JP Morgan is discussing reducing the size of the loan and the dividend payment and juicing pricing to lure buyers, who are wary of piling debt onto a company that has seen earnings drop since emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection two years ago.
Chassix's Ebitda, or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, dropped 4.7% in 2016 and is projected to fall a further 14.3% this year, two additional sources said. The company is still experiencing a run-off of business from its restructuring that will impact revenues, which are tethered to a cyclical end market.
"The company exited in 2015, and performance is still declining as some business rolls off," an investor said. "They seem to have a good book of business, but this can go away if car sales decline, plus price concessions to original equipment manufacturers are always present."
The deal marks Chassix's debut in the US$939bn leveraged loan market. It is the company's first trip to the capital markets since emerging in July 2015 from a four-month stint in bankruptcy court in part precipitated by capacity constraints at its manufacturing plant in Bristol, Indiana that drove losses.
The company, which supplies chassis and powertrain components to auto manufacturers including General Motors, Ford and FCA, emerged from bankruptcy protection owned by its former bondholders including Cerberus Capital Management and Oaktree Capital Management. Platinum Equity, the private equity firm that owned the company prior to the filing, transferred its equity to the funds as part of the restructuring process.
Chassix did not respond to requests for comment. JP Morgan and spokespersons for Cerberus and Oaktree declined to comment.
Proceeds from the seven-year term loan, as originally proposed, along with balance sheet cash, were earmarked to fund a US$260m cash distribution to the new owners, repay existing debt and cover fees and expenses. The financing includes a US$125m five-year asset-based revolving credit facility that will be undrawn at close. Investors were expected to commit to the original deal by November 2.
The company is considering downsizing the loan to US$200m-US$225m, and the dividend by a similar amount, the three sources said. It may also hike pricing to as much as 550bp over Libor, from the 475bp-500bp range at launch in mid-October, and further discount the offering price to 98, from 99, the sources added. There will likely be other structural changes.
The original deal would have put the company's debt-to Ebitda at 2.3 times, based on US$138m of projected 2017 adjusted Ebitda, compared to roughly 0.4 times currently, according to two of the sources. With a loan of around US$215m, debt-to-Ebitda would drop to 1.6 times.
Chassix was formed in 2013 through the merger of Diversified Machine Inc and SMW Automotive, LLC.
The company is rated B2/B by Moody's and Standard & Poor's, respectively, while the proposed loan is rated B3/B. (Reporting by Andrew Berlin; Editing By Michelle Sierra)


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|Betty White
Stories all over social networks are reporting that Betty White is dead. Just to let everyone know, Betty is fine at age 92 and continues to go strong. I just got off the phone with one of her trusted friends, and Betty is just fine and full of energy. The Golden Girl is still Golden. Her show Hot In Cleveland remains a top rated show and we can expect many more years from Betty White.


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Mars takes Jones' 'Islands'
$30 million project to get French outingCANNES -- Tommy Lee Jones' passion project "Islands In the Stream" will flow to French audiences via Mars Films, which has boarded for distribution here.
The deal with Mars was sealed by London-based international sales and finance house Intandem Films, the $30 million-budgeted title's exec producers.
The negotiations with Intandem were led by Valerie Garcia and Veronique Cuilhe for Mars.
William Morris Independent is handling domestic and working closely on the financing also.


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Despite political opposition in Europe, the Union and Canada finally signed a trade agreement this Sunday, according to which both sides will open their markets for more competition.
The trade agreement can be considered a great accomplishment, as it overcame the continuously growing concerns regarding the effectiveness of globalization.
In this case, the obstacle for the trade agreement was a French-speaking region of Belgium called Wallonia, which previously had suffered from deindustrialization, and was afraid of weaker bargaining power for their farmers. Wallonia used their veto power to block the trade deal earlier this month, but withdrew its veto this Friday, after the Belgian government took measures with promises to protect local farmers from potential unfair competition.
Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington weighed on the news saying, "In the end, people who favor free trade survived to fight another day… Now that we see the Canadian deal has made it over the finish line, the Atlantic trade deal still has a fighting chance… But it won't be easy. T.T.I.P. could similarly threaten traditional farming interests and arouse knee-jerk European suspicions about common trans-Atlantic health and environmental standards."


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Disney has given Star Wars fans a little treat with the release of an official Android app for the franchise. The app keeps you up to date on the latest Star Wars news, such as movie announcements and trailer releases, along with other fun features like an augmented reality mode, themed selfies, and more.
When you start up the app, you'll enter your age, and can sign in with an existing Disney account. You'll then be able to pick your desired theme for the app, from Droid, Light Side, and Dark Side. From the app's home screen, you'll have access to a wide variety of content. You can see what happened this day in the franchise's history, check out official videos, find GIFs, and more.
You can find all of this and more in the app, available now from the Google Play Store.


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The agency said its initial focus will be on Infogrames and the video-game software marketer's $35 million account that McCarthy Mambro won in April, but it plans to expand organically.
Video-game veterans
The West coast outpost is being run by two video-games veterans from Omnicom Group's TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles: John McGonigle, now general manager, and Ivan Wicksteed, director of strategic planning, a post he held at TBWA/Chiat/Day. Mr. McGonigle was a group account director on Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation at TBWA/Chiat/Day.
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MDC Communications Corp.-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, Miami, meanwhile, has been struggling with its Los Angeles office, although agency executives said they expect the shop to pick up some new accounts soon.
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Alice Z. Cuneo and Rich Thomaselli contributed to this report.


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On July 2nd, 2015, the Victoria Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) office at 3350 Douglas Street stopped providing front-counter services to tenants. Since July 2nd, tenants have been directed to use front-counter services at the new Service BC centre at 403 – 771 Vernon Avenue in the Gateway Village.
The Douglas Street RTB office was staffed by specifically trained government employees who were knowledgeable and experienced in tenancy issues. Tenants could go to the office and get information about tenancy law, as well as help filling out complex RTB forms related to the tenancy dispute process.
The officers at the new Service BC office are not specifically trained to inform tenants about RTB procedures or to help fill out dispute resolution hearing forms. Instead, tenants have to access RTB services over the telephone, by email, or by accessing the RTB website.
Since the closure of the RTB office, the tenant advocates at TAPS have heard from tenants who were not able to effectively access the telephone- or computer-based RTB services and who needed assistance with the forms. As a result of not being able to get the help they needed, these tenants ended up submitting forms that were incomplete and did not reflect their concerns.
The closure of front-counter services at the RTB office will disproportionately affect marginalized individuals, including those living in poverty, who often lack the resources or skills to successfully access services online or over the phone. In addition, the closure of services will disproportionately affect people with disabilities, who already experience a range of barriers and restrictions in their daily lives. These barriers to accessibility are exacerbated by the significant distance of the Service BC office from the downtown core, where many tenants in Victoria are located.
The closure of the RTB office is part of a broader policy shift by the provincial government to reframe service users as consumers of public resources, rather than as citizens with rights. This policy shift has effectively removed access to a range of government services, as people with disabilities, people living in poverty, and people who face a multitude of other forms of marginalization can no longer access the competent in-person services that they critically require.
As David Eby, BC NDP Spokesperson for Housing, has stated in a public letter issued in response to the closure of the Victoria RTB office, "the government has been systematically undermining key access to justice avenues for all British Columbians through underfunding and under-prioritizing essential services. The impact of these closures is felt most acutely…by those on the margins of society."
The outcome of the closure of the Victoria RTB office and other front-line government services by the BC government has worsened the ability of tenants, especially marginalized tenants, to access justice.
The closure of the RTB office also appears to have changed some of the procedures followed by RTB staff in the CRD. One change we have seen is that when a tenant makes an application for dispute resolution, the tenant will not receive a RTB hearing date at the time they file their dispute documents. Instead, tenants will typically receive a phone call informing them of their hearing date two to five business days after filing, and will typically be directed to pick up their documents from the Service BC office at this time. This creates a barrier for tenants who have mobility challenges or difficulty obtaining transportation to the Service BC office, as well as those who do not have phones.
Alternative Services for Tenants
TAPS' Tenancy Advocacy Project provides information and advice to tenants regarding all aspects of tenancy disputes and RTB procedures. TAPS also provides limited phone access to tenants.
The Service BC office at 771 Vernon Avenue offers tenants computers where they can access information on government websites, including the Residential Tenancy Branch website. In addition, tenants can use the phone to contact RTB offices.
Alternatively, tenants can access information about residential tenancies from home at http://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/housing-tenancy/residential-tenancies and contact RTB officers from home by dialing 250-387-1602.
In addition, the following offices provide telephone and computer services in the downtown area:
- REES Program, 465 Swift Street, Victoria – Open telephone and computer use, Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 3:30.
- Justice Access Centre, 850 Burdett Avenue – Computer use related to court processes and tenancy issues, Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 4:00.
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Envira Gallery Blog
Digital Photography Tips, Tutorials and Resources
Digital Photography Tips, Tutorials and Resources
by Syed Balkhi on Apr 14, 2016
Over the last two years, Envira has become the most powerful WordPress gallery plugin in the market. There are dozens of addons that allow you to do everything from watermarking, image proofing, to automatically creating galleries straight from Adobe Lightroom.
As we continue to grow and add more features which we know you want, we have been listening to your feedback on usability and flexibility.
We've spent countless hours working directly with customers, and we are thrilled to announce a significant improvement to the Envira Gallery workflow as a result.
In a nutshell: we redesigned the gallery creation process to make it easy for new users to get started while allowing our team to continue to add new features that we know you want.
It all starts with the first decision in the process. Do you want to create a Native Envira Gallery or create a dynamic gallery from third-party sources like Instagram.
In the future, this will allow us to add new gallery sources such as Flickr, 500px, and numerous others that many of you have asked for.
Next, we switched from horizontal tabs to vertical tabs. As we added more features and add-ons, it simply wasn't sustainable to keep the horizontal menu layout.
By using this new style, you can have all the add-ons activated without compromising the user experience.
We also added the ability to switch between grid and list view when creating new galleries. This is going to be extremely helpful when you have a lot of images in your gallery.
As we add more addons, it was becoming increasingly harder for new users to find what they were looking for.
In the new addons screen, you can now search for addons, filter them, and install / activate them all from the same screen.
Think of this as a mini-Envira app store. This is going to be extremely helpful as we will be adding at least a dozen new addons before the end of this year.
The new workflow is being rolled out for our Pro users. In the next 2 weeks, we will launch this new workflow on the Lite version as well.
We have 3 new addons that will be released in the near future including Featured Content Addon, Breadcrumbs Addon, the much requested Downloads addon, and a surprise addon that I know you will love.
If you want to see a specific feature added in Envira Gallery, then simply send us a message using our contact form.
Once again, I want to personally thank every single one of our valued customers for helping us get where we are today. I along with the entire Envira Gallery team look forward to helping you create beautiful responsive photo and video galleries.
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Envira Gallery needs to have the ability to move photos to another gallery like NextGen has.
Thanks for the suggestion – we'll be adding this to our next release.
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Mila Hermanovski booked her place in Project Runway's seventh season finale after beating fellow designer Jay Nicolas Sario in last week's challenge. The 40-year-old designer had chosen to show a black and white collection inspired by shadows at Bryant Park, and eventually finished in third place behind winner Seth Aaron Henderson and runner-up Emilio Sosa. Despite being beaten at the final hurdle, she vowed to continue designing and predicted "great opportunities" ahead. We caught up with Mila as she reflected on the experience.
Are you happy with your final collection?
"I'm really happy with what I did. If there is anything that was the biggest struggle with doing the ten looks, it was that you could only do ten looks. It sounds funny because you think 20 looks would be a lot more work, but in a way it's hard to edit down to ten looks and really have that represent you as a designer. That was it. In terms of the collection, am I at peace with what I did? Absolutely."
Were you worried that your collection wasn't too different to what you have done before?
"I honestly don't agree with that very much. I think it evolved appropriately and I think that collection is very representative of me as a designer and I was really proud of it. I don't necessarily agree with the comment Michael made that it was expected. If I could change one thing I would probably have made it a little more of a runway show and styled it and turned up the volume a little bit."
How did it feel during the judging?
"I thought the judges were really fair at judging the three of us. By the time we've gotten to the end, I think it's the best of the group and I think they were really impressed and they mostly highlighted the positive, and had just a few negatives to say. I thought everything was really fair."
How was it showing at Bryant Park?
"Completely breathtaking and nerve-wracking at the same time. That really is the Holy Grail. I felt so grateful to have that experience and to come that far. That's why, for me, getting the third finalist slot was so important. It wasn't even about winning at that point, it was about, 'Can I show my collection at Bryant Park?' Of course there were decoys showing, but just to know that three million viewers will see it as well."
You're known for your black and white designs. Do you feel you have to do that now?
"I'm standing behind that because it really does resonate with me. In the future my collections will be grounded in the black and white. I'm not afraid of color and will use color, but I enjoy it, it sells, people respond well to it and I'm going to continue to do that."
Seth Aaron called you a "big sister" recently. What was your relationship like with him?
"I think we relate to one another's work pretty well and I think that frankly most of the bonding that happened between us was when we were in the finale and shooting the finale. Just staying in the same hotel suite and everything. I think we found out through late-night chats and stuff a lot more about each other and I think that's when it mostly happened. I think there's always been a mutual respect for what we both do."
Project Runway airs on Lifetime
> Click here to read our interview with Seth
> Click here to read our interview with Emilio
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LONDON (Oct. 28)
Representatives of the Israel legation here and Barclay's Bank are holding talks on technical questions in connection with Israel's offer to release the blocked bank accounts of Arab refugees. Also taking part in the talks is John Reedman, of the U.N. Secretariat. The talks are expected to be prolonged since they deal with unprecedented legal and technical points.
Sir Arthur Salter, Minister of State for Economic Affairs, replying to a question submitted by Conservative M.P. Robert Boothby as to whether the British Government would give special credits to Israel for the purchase of herrings and mackerel "when these fish are in surplus supply," said: "I don't think that this would be justifiable in the present circumstances."


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My "Jaws" Moment In The Hot Tub
I just told this story on the air, so I thought I'd share the pictures with you. I bought this really cool little raft that holds drinks for the hot tub. We already had a couple of rubber turtles and a shark water thermometer floating around the hot tub. When they all came together, a funny thing happened.
Diane decided to put the two turtles into the little raft. A few minutes later,we put the jets on in the hot tub and I saw the shark thermometer cruising toward the raft, and when the raft turned, it looked like both of the turtles were looking into the water as if they had spotted the shark. Diane looked at me and said, "I think they're gonna need a bigger boat!"


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Taking the Interisland Ferry crossing from Wellington (North Island), brings us to the first point of the South Island, Picton. It was a passby for us but you may check the place out at http://www.picton.co.nz/.
A little about the ferry
There are 2 companies that runs the ferry across both island, Interisland ( http://www.interislander.co.nz/ )and Bluebridge ( http://www.bluebridge.co.nz/ ). It is about 3 hours ride, charged by per passenger (~NZD69 per person per trip) and per car (~NZD130 for a 8-seater car per trip). Each type of car is charge differently. You may want to ask your car rental company for a package deal if you're driving cross island.
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Irish author Colm Tóibín has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Testament of Mary.
The book tells the story of the Mother of God in her own words in a voice, described by the Man Booker committee, as both tender and filled with rage.
This is Mr Tóibín's third time to be shortlisted. His most recent nomination was in 2004 for The Master.
Another former nominee on this year's shortlist is British writer Jim Crace, while the four other authors on the list are female.
The youngest author, Eleanor Catton, is 27.
The shortlisted books are set in New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Calcutta, rural England, Japan and the Holy Land.
Chairman of the judging panel Robert McFarlane said the shortlisted novels were world spanning in their concerns and ambitious in their techniques.
Congratulating Mr Tóibín, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Jimmy Deenihan, said: "The shortlist is again eloquent in its testimony to the enduring strength and quality of Irish writing.
"Our writers continue to be pre-eminent globally in their field and universally popular. Indeed, in a changing world, quality Irish writing is a constant.
"I wish those on the shortlist every success in the final selection."
The winner will be announced on 15 October.
Man Booker Shortlist 2013
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo.
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Harvest by Jim Crace
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín


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You can find many difficult bass parts in Darius Milhaud's works, some of which come up occasionally at auditions. He was born in 1892 and died in 1974. He was a rather whimsical sort of man and devoted much of his life to composing what some might call odd pieces. He was a member of "Les Six". Around the '70's he was commissioned to write a piece by one of the leading Universities but when he delivered it they found it to be ridiculously short and wouldn't accept it.
If you know there is one of his pieces coming up on the programme it would be as well to take a good look at it, for he wrote some very difficult bass passages.
I have chosen two examples of his writing: The first is"Le Boeuf sur le toit" ( The bull on the roof) a humorous ballet for Jean Cocteau which was given in England as the "Nothing- doing bar". The second is his Suite Provençale starting at the animé after 20. It has many accidentals, doesn't go very high, but it's one of those little tongue twisters that if you've never seen it before can give you a lot of trouble. Put it in your scrap book!