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Application Server provides a variety of features and applications that can operate on IP-based network. Application Server can be categorized into Media Server and Feature Server.
A Media Server is classified from Feature Server separately because applications need specific processing for media content. It means a Media Server must be supported by digital signal processing hardware with high performance.
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a client/server protocol and software that enables remote access servers to communicate with a central server to authenticate dial-in users and authorize their access to the requested system or service. RADIUS allows a company to maintain user profiles in a central database that all remote servers can share.
It provides better security, allowing a company to set up a policy that can be applied at a single administered network point. Having a central service also means that it's easier to track usage for billing and for keeping network statistics. RADIUS is a de facto industry standard used by a number of network product companies and is a proposed IETF standard.
RADIUS primary use is for Internet Service Provider though it may as well be used on any network that needs a centralized authentication and/or accounting service for its workstations. The package includes an authentication and accounting server and some administrator tools.
1. Authentication Scheme
Radius supports a wide variety of authentication schemes. A user supplies his authentication data to the server either directly by answering the terminal server's login/password prompts, or using PAP or CHAP protocols. The server obtains the user's personal data from one of the following places:
2. Accounting Scheme
Radius has three built-in accounting schemes:
3. Interaction with SQL Servers
Radius is currently able to communicate with MySQL and PostgreSQL servers. Other DBMS are supported via ODBC interface. Radius imposes no restrictions on the structure of authentication and accounting tables. The queries it uses to store and retrieve records are supplied by the system administrator thus allowing complete freedom in creating and configuring the databases.
4. Extensibility
Radius is a fully extensible system. It supports two extension languages: the built-in Rewrite language and Scheme. Rewrite has a syntax reminiscent of C and is designed primarily for modifying ("rewriting") the contents of incoming requests. The two extension mechanisms can interoperate with each other: e.g. Scheme functions can call Rewrite functions.
5. SNMP Management
Radius allows for SNMP management of its activities. Its MIB tree contains MIBs proposed by RFC 2619 and 2621 as well as its private extensions.
6. Terminal Servers
Radius is compatible with any existing terminal server. It can even communicate with terminal servers that have some deviations from the RADIUS protocol. The built-in extension language allows the administrator to write his own rules for ad hoc parsing and restructuring of the packets coming from terminal servers.


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Last week when I posted my Mayflower quilt, I mentioned I created it as the base for a new set of tutorials I wrote for BERNINA's We All Sew blog. Today I'm happy to share the first with you, How to Pin Baste a Quilt.
If I'm being totally honest, I'm always a bit nervous to post technique tutorials. There are probably as many ways to baste as quilters, but I hope you enjoy seeing what works best for me. If you are new to quilting, it's a great way to start down your journey. If you are an experienced quilter, you may see something new to try!

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Free money for millennials in new UK government budget
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For the first time, Olds will offer a women-only version of its long-running Oldsmobile Scramble, billed as the world's largest amateur golf tournament. The carmaker also will include a cause marketing element in the Oldsmobile Women's Scramble while bumping up dealership incentives.
More than 100,000 amateur golfers, including women, annually participate in the Scramble, which was created in 1984. But with the addition of a separate tournament option for women only, Olds expects a total of 12,000 women to participate in 420 events taking place nationwide between June and September.
"More than 40% of new golfers are women, and they're critically important in buying and influencing the majority of car sales, so we wanted to make the tournament more inviting for them," said Bill Cutler, event marketing manager at Oldsmobile.
Women still will be eligible to enter the general Scramble, but Olds expects to see most female participants gravitate to their own version of the tournament, which upholds the event's mission to allow "average" golfers of all levels to compete in a large-scale, national competition.
"Our radar told us we weren't reaching as many women in this tournament as we could, and intermediate-level women might have been less inclined to get involved because it wasn't perceived as a great opportunity for them," Mr. Cutler said.
Now, parallel tournaments will take place through the summer. In each Scramble, teams of four tee off in local competitions. Winning teams of all local competitions advance to regional matches, with each team accompanied by its local course's PGA Professional, bringing the team's total number of players to five.
Eventually, two teams each from 40 regional competitions will advance to the finals Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 in Orlando; each winning team member can snare up to $500,000 in merchandise, while winning teams' local golf course PGA Professionals will compete for a total prize purse of $32,000.
Working closely with PGA Professionals at the nation's private and public golf courses, Oldsmobile is stepping up publicity and promotion efforts for women's golfing this year.
Olds also will donate $10 for each participant in the women's event to Concept: Cure, to raise money for breast cancer research. In addition, the carmaker will donate $44,000 to the cause on behalf of the winning team.
Continuing the tradition of the general tournament, the women's version of the Scramble has a specially designed handicap structure to ensure balanced teams, allowing players with diverse skills to compete.
"The idea is that average people can play and have a good shot at winning a national golfing competition, and they'll get treated like winners of pro tournaments except, of course, only the pros can win cash," Mr. Cutler said.
Other incentives include gift certificates of up to $50 offered to each tournament participant in exchange for test-driving an Oldsmobile; the certificates can be redeemed at participants' local golf course pro shops. Participants also get an automatic $500 purchase incentive discount on Oldsmobile cars.
Dealers are being provided with special signage and promotional materials to back the effort, and are encouraged to provide Oldsmobiles for display at local and regional tournaments.
"We have a partnership with PGA Professionals at neighborhood golf courses across the U.S., and those people in turn are working with dealers in order to create a very integrated, grassroots event," Mr. Cutler said.
Dealers who have participated in past years are enthusiastic about the new emphasis on women, Oldsmobile said.
Community Motors in Iowa City, Iowa, first got involved in 1995, when the local Scramble drew 60 participants; last year, the event attracted 160 golfers and included a dinner-dance, two hole-in-one competitions to win Oldsmobiles, and other prizes for all participants and their families.
"We've turned this event into a major relationship-building opportunity over the last few years and like seeing more women get involved, because winning them over is the real key to selling cars these days," said George Trovas, Community Motors' president.
The dealership will promote this year's tournament with local print and radio ads created in-house, plus invitations mailed to current and prospective customers.
Local dealerships can customize promotions surrounding the events; participants in both versions of the tournament are expected to pay their own entry fees of $50 per person for the local event and $100 per person for each regional and finals team entry, but dealers may also sponsor winning teams within PGA of America amateur tournament guidelines.
Overall sponsors of the Scramble competitions include Walt Disney World, Etonic, PGA of America, Pepsi-Cola Co., Spaulding Sports Worldwide, and Golf Digest for the general event and Golf Digest Woman for the women's competition.


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As a kid growing up I remember my parents speaking about Jim Londos in reverential tones. More than once I heard my Dad say that Londos was a heroic figure that Greeks should look up to with respect. In fact, many Greek-Ameicans looked to George Dilboy, the first Greek Medal of Honor winner and Jim Londos, during the Depression era as symbols of the Greek embodiment of valor and manhood. They saw them as evidence of Greek "exceptionalism" in a country where many were initially considered nothing more than cheap labor, kitchen help and pushcart vendors. By 1956, when my parents and I arrived in America, professional wrestling was well on its way to becoming entertainment rather than a sport, yet the Londos legend was still alive and well. The sport had transformed itself in the difficult years of the Depression in order to keep drawing crowds. I remember, watching on television, wrestlers like Haystack Calhoun, a 400 lb giant of a man who gobbled a dozen eggs for breakfast and pounded nails into wood with his bare hands. Needless to say little boys like me were impressed. Nowadays the sport has been totally debased resembling a circus act. It highlights gratuitous violence by scantily clad women and men who owe their physiques to the steroids they inject. Sadly, I never got to see Jim Londos who represented what real wrestling is all about. For a brief biography go here.
Although no definitive biography exists of Jim Londos, Steve Frangos wrote an excellent two part series on Londos. According to Frangos, Londos began his career as a "hooker, " someone who traveled around the country taking on all comers and was one of a number of ethnic wrestlers who traveled throughout rural and urban America:
"Although hookers inevitably won these matches, however, they couldn't finish off their local opponents too quickly. If a hooker whipped a local Golden Boy in a heartbeat, that would inevitably discourage others from paying their money and taking their chances in the ring. The whole point to these matches was to get local people to spend money on wrestling, either by paying to watch the match or taking part in side-betting. An old hooker, Sputnik Monroe, describes the inherent problem in these matches:
'That's the hardest kinda guy to wrestle – the guy doesn't know how to wrestle, because if you wristlock him or something, he does the exact opposite of what you've trained yourself and learned to do in your career. So there's a specialty in wrestling idiots. You always try and give him your head or your hand – you used "marks" for referees, so they won't count the homeboy out – you always had to make them submit.'
On the whole, these hookers had the ability to fight anyone and then let that person walk away befuddled, bent, and sore, but otherwise uninjured. These were not men to trifle with, however. A story is often told of George Tragos, another of the immigrant generation of Greek wrestlers, who was an especially deadly hooker. A particularly abusive young giant once entered the ring, loudly insulting Tragos. The Greek caught him in a wristlock; before the youth could surrender, Tragos had caused massive injuries to his opponent's ligaments, muscles, and tendons, and even separated the bone. The injury quickly became infected. Within two weeks, in an era before antibiotics, the young man had lost his arm.
These stories illustrate the types of contests in which Londos participated, and opponents that he met, daily. What is even more impressive about Londos's athletic ability, however, is that he was the most active champion ever to wear a heavyweight wrestling belt. He sometimes appeared in matches three to five days a week."
Jim Londos was also widely respected in his native Greece. The following is from a article by Dwight Chapin that appeared in the Los Angeles Times on January 27, 1969:
"There were 100,000 people in the Athens Olympic Stadium that night in 1934 when Jim Londos defended his world's heavyweight wrestling title against the Russian champion, and another 30,000 were turned away.
One who got in was a Greek named Theophelos, a former amateur wrestler himself. He was also Jim Londos' father.
"He never wanted me to become a professional," said Londos. "He always thought it was wrong. But he agreed to come to this match. After I won, a king's guard carried both of us out of the arena on their shoulders.
"Dad came up to me afterward, smiled, and said, 'Son, all is forgiven.'"
The brightness in Jim Londos' eyes couldn't be hidden as he wat there talking about it, 35 years later, in the room where the people had come to honor him.
Londos is about 75 years old now, although the years guard secrets well and this is one he prefers to keep hidden.
The body is not the superb thing it once was, the physique something that appeared to have been carved out of marble, but neither is it the body of a 75-year-old man.
"Condition," he says. "You must stay in condition. I learned that lesson from my father, and I haven't forgotten it."
That was the thing that everyone remembers best about Jim Londos.
"He worked harder at being an athlete," says George Parnassus, a friend of decades, "than any man I have ever known."
Another longtime friend, Sid Marks, recalls that Londos once invited him down to the beach for a morning workout.
"He walked two miles in the sand," said Marks. "Backwards! I couldn't believe it. I've seen thousands of wrestlers and I never knew a man who had more pride, or was a better-conditioned athlete."
It perhaps figures, then, that Londos should have been the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, almost uninterrupted from 1930 through 1946.
His career spanned two eras, the honest and the not-so-honest. This appears to be one of the few blind spots the man has. He refuses to admit that he ever went into a bout knowing who the winner was going to be.
But it is likely that could have beaten almost anyone, anyway.
He came to America from Greece at age 13, sometime in the early years of the century and migrated quickly to San Francisco. The living came hard. He worked as a water boy for a railroad gang, at 50 cents a day, and then as a busboy. But within two years, he was wrestling as an amateur and, in 1920 (sic), he turned professional.
Through the tiny gyms, the sleazy promotions, he worked and progressed and in 10 years he had been Dick Shikat for the championship.
"There were many good wrestlers around then," he says, "30 or 40 of almost equal ability. The difference was keeping yourself in better shape than the other man. Condition, and the proper mental attitude, are always the deciding factors." Londos was never a big man, as wrestlers are measured. At the start he weighed only 140 pounds and even as champion"There were many good wrestlers around then," he says, "30 or 40 of almost equal ability. The difference was keeping yourself in better shape than the other man. Condition, and the proper mental attitude, are always the deciding factors."
Londos was never a big man, as wrestlers are measured. At the start he weighed only 140 pounds and even as champion he never went over 204. His weight today is 185.
Londos ignores the fact that he soon will become an octogenarian by running 3-5 miles at least three times a week, walking long distances daily, climbing and doing calisthenics on a 10-foot stepladder, doing 25-35 pushups every other day and lying on his back and raising his legs in the air 150 times every morning.
His life has been notable. He has a wife and three daughters, and an avocado ranch in Escondido that is now being subdivided for homes and apartments ("The avocados," he said, "got old --like me"). He received the Cross of the Golden Phoenix, a rarely presented award, from King Paul of Greece, for his philanthropic work with orphans on Cyprus. He is a member of the San Diego Sports Hall of Fame.
"I have no complaints," Londos says. "I do well. My life is comfortable." There are few things he would change if he could. He smiles slightly and looks straight at you.
"One thing," he says. "When I was young, I never had much money. Never enough so that I could go on to school, and I would do that if I could. I like philosophy. I would study that. It is a wonderful thing to be able to express yourself precisely and to the point.
"It was Cicero who said that the reason man excels the other animals is that he can talk and think and express himself. I try to excel. You excel everyone and you're doing pretty well, huh?"
Those who know him would not question that he has excelled most of them. They came in large numbers to honor him here last week at the World Explorers-Sportsman's Club.
"I guess," said one of them, "that Jim Londos has more friends than anybody I know."
Londos, meanwhile, sat there in the smoke-filled, booze-heavy room and shunned the cigarettes and the liquor, as he always has. He was even oblivious to the hubbub around him as he spoke in a soft, almost inaudible voice. He was talking about the profession that left him with a cauliflowered left ear, five broken ribs, a torn ankle ligament and a separated shoulder or two -- but also with a healthy outlook on this life.
This time he quoted one of his own people, a Greek, a man named Socrates.
"Socrates said, 'Be right, and fear no man, alive or dead."


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SPS and Sigma Pi Sigma
SPS National Website
SPS Membership Form
Society of Physics Students (SPS)
The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional physics association explicitly designed for students. SPS is managed by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) as a service to students and the physics community. SPS membership is open to anyone interested in physics; for membership information, contact your local SPS Chapter Adviser.
SPS exists to promote educational activities for all students interested in physics. Current and past SPS projects initiated and managed by UNCW students. (The local SPS home page is currently not working).
Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
Our SEDS group started in Fall 2009 and has an active group of students. Students from all majors are welcome to participate.
- UNCW Students to Send Balloon to Space as part of SEDS. See the Flyer and the Brochure
Sigma Pi Sigma, Physics Honor Society
Sigma Pi Sigma, the national physics honor society, is the honorary branch of the SPS. Sigma Pi Sigma exists to honor outstanding scholarship in physics. New members are inducted into the UNCW Chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma each spring. Admission is by invitation only and based solely on academic achievement. SPS bylaws state that qualifying undergraduates:
Must have completed at least three semesters of full-time college work and at least three semester courses in physics that can be credited toward a physics major.
Shall rank no lower than the upper third of their class in general cumulative scholarship.


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Moms-and-Dads-to-be, as you get ready for your delivery date, do not forget to pack a suitcase or two for the hospital. When you arrive at Labor and Delivery or the birth center, you will receive with basic necessities (like a dressing gown and socks). Anything else you feel you want or need with you during labor you should pack in advance and keep handy either by your back door or in your car. This packing list can help you decide what is necessary and what you may find useful at the hospital.
Regardless of your officially estimated due date, your baby could make its grand entrance anytime after 8 months. 37 weeks is 'full term' and many doctors will not stop labor after this point so long as mom's and baby's health is stable. Therefore, do not wait to pack your hospital bag until just before your due date. Remember that this is an estimated date and your baby could come before (or after…) that date. It is a good idea to reduce stress when you go into labor by having your bags pre-packed.
If your hospital of choice allows you to pre-register for labor and delivery, it is a very good idea to get this done before you arrive with labor pains. If you are not already registered at the hospital, expect to receive a pile of paperwork.
Do not forget to arrange for transportation from the hospital after baby is born. If you are driving your own vehicle, you must install the infant carseat before the hospital will release the baby. Many parents choose to have the car seat officially inspected by an authorized company prior to use.
Note on car seats: once a car seat has been in a car wreck it is not deemed safe for use. Car seats also have "expiration" dates, typically on the warranty stickers on the seat. If you are purchasing a used car seat – be sure you either a) know and trust the word of the seller that the seat has not been in an accident and b) check the warranty date.
While packing your bags, think about how best to manage and cope with labor pains and pack accordingly. What makes you relax? There are many options, such as:
- Breathing Techniques: practice relaxed and controlled breathing at home with your partner. Have your partner tell you when a contraction is beginning and ending so that you can take cleansing breaths before and after each contraction. A balance ball, at least 65cm and anti-puncture, is also a great tool for supportive positions while breathing.
- Pressure Points and/or Massage: a great massage can come from three tennis balls placed inside a sock; rub the balls along the back to relax tense muscles.
- Fragrance: do not bring incense or candles to the hospital; use fragrance lotions or oils.
- Soothing Music: you will need headphones, music player and charger (though you may not be permitted to plug anything into an outlet in your room)
- Activities: reading and writing material, DVDs, cards, or games
- Application of Heat or Warm Water: though you may not be allowed an electric heating pad, you can have a hot water bottle, a sock filled with rice that can be heated in the microwave and applied to neck, shoulders and back, or many delivery rooms have access to bath tubs for taking a long hot soak. Partner should bring a bathing suit for the bath option.
- Changing Positions and/or Walking: different positions can help alleviate pain and pressure during labor, and walking can help progress labor. Practice positions ahead of time to learn what may feel good to you. But remember, just because you like a position before labor does not mean you will find that position comfortable during labor
- Meditation or Focal Points: focusing on something outside of yourself can help with labor pain. Bring a photograph or another object that you can look at and concentrate on during contractions.
- Visualization
I suggest you pack two small bags: one bag for the delivery room and the second to remain in the car until after the baby is born. Keep in mind that mom and dad or partner will need personal items while at the hospital. Plan on being there for 2-4 days depending on how your delivery goes. (If you will be giving birth by scheduled c-section, be sure and discuss with your doctor what items you may need to bring to the hospital).
Many first-time moms over pack for their first labor and delivery only to discover that they used less than half of the items they packed and maybe even felt frustrated during delivery by the clutter in the room. Some experienced moms just bring changes of clothes. You will not know what you want or need until you go through this experience for yourself. So, if in doubt about packing a certain item, just bring it and leave it in the car so you have it at-hand if you want it.
Mom's Delivery Room Bag
- Documentation: photo ID, insurance card, hospital paperwork, birth plan
- Baby Book: if you want baby's foot- and handprints recorded in the book after the nurse has recorded them on the birth certificate
- Toiletries: toothbrush & toothpaste, hairbrush and extra hair-ties, deodorant/ antiperspirant, and face wash
- Eyeglasses and/or contacts with solution and storage case
- Clothing: nursing bras and/or sports bras (2-3), panties, bathrobe, nightgown (1-2), socks & slippers. Hospitals will provide Mom with a gown and socks, but many moms find it more comfortable to have their own clothing, and layering options, during labor. Slippers and a robe are also handy if you intend to walk the halls during labor. You may sweat through your first nightgown, so a second pair is a good idea. Your nightgown should have straps or short sleeves to facilitate having your blood pressure taken and allow for any IVs to be placed.
- Coping Techniques (discussed above)
- Optional Items: water bottle, personal exercise ball, a handheld fan to help cool you off, lip balm for chapped lips from panting/breathing during prolonged labor, and fresh-breath spray. (It is not a good idea to chew gum or suck on mints while in labor, and you may not want to get up and go brush your teeth. There is nothing worse than spending hours breathing bad breath on your partner or smelling your partner's bad breath).
Partner's Delivery Room Bag
- Documentation: photo ID
- Money: to pay for parking, hospital bills, newborn photographs, and change for vending machines
- Toiletries: toothbrush & toothpaste, hairbrush and extra hair-ties, deodorant/antiperspirant, face wash
- Eyeglasses and/or contacts with solution and storage case
- Clothing: plan on spending 2-4 days at the hospital; pack a swimsuit so you are able to support your partner if she intends to bathe during labor
- Digital Camera and/or Video Camera: remember the batteries, charger and memory card (format your memory card ahead of time so you do not lose any photos or photo quality)
- Watch with Second-Hand so you can time and anticipate contractions. Help your partner prepare for contractions and ready her for taking that first, deep breath prior to the contraction
- Pillows: as you might be sleeping at the hospital or supporting your partner in different positions during labor, two or more pillows may be useful. Bring colored or patterned pillowcases (hospital pillow cases are white).
- Snacks (and change for the vending machine)
Post-Delivery Bag
- Toiletries: make-up, personal soap/shampoo, etc.
- Clothing: nursing bras, maternity panties (or you can use the mesh ones provided by the hospital)
- Going-home Clothing for Mom: remember, all that baby weight does not come off immediately after birth so pack clothes that you wore during your pregnancy
- Cell Phone and Charger
- List of Phone Numbers and people to call after delivery
- Snacks: though hospital food will be available, you may want to bring some special snacks like fruit, nuts, or granola.
- Going-home Clothing for Baby: pack that cute outfit that you plan on keeping forever, a little cap, socks and mittens. The outfit should have legs (with or without feet) so you can buckle the baby into the car seat.
- Receiving Blanket: you may want to swaddle your newborn before placing him/her into the infant car seat
Items for the Car
- Installed infant car seat
- Back seat mirror to keep an eye on baby
- Diaper bag
Other Items to Consider
- 'Pushing Gift' from Partner to Mom
- Reading and Writing Material (and/or Baby Book): if you've been reading up on newborn care, you may want to bring your book with you to the hospital. Write down your baby's feeding schedule and any fond (or not so fond) memories that you want to be sure to remember later. Copy down any instructions or suggestions from the nurses and doctors. Also, write down your own questions as they arise so that you don't forget to ask.
- For Siblings: if you have other children, bring their photographs with you to the hospital and it's a good idea to have a big-brother or big-sister gift ready.
Do Not Bring The Following Items to the Hospital
- Medications: unless you have discussed this with your doctor
- Jewelry, Expensive Clothing or Accessories
- Lots of Cash
- Diapers or Breast Pump


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- I used the Hello Love stamp from Unity Stamp Company. I used water coloring to paint her with my TH Distress inks.
- I rounded the top two corners on the painting and the black layer before assembling the card together.
- I added some sequins and then glued little pearls in the centers of them.
- The ribbon is behind the black layer and tied in a bow on the side.
- I used Diamond Stickles on the hearts and the words "Hello Love".
- I adhered this to an A2 size card front and rounded only the top two corners.
That's it for this card today. It was a fairly quick card to do. I hope you like it. Stay safe, warm, and healthy. Have a blessed weekend, too!
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15 thoughts on "Native American Information"
Lea says:
What do you say to the family when presenting them with the flag of their honored veteran after being flown during a ceremony
Not sure if u would or could but we're trying to get this out to as many pages& media sources as possible as support from GA for our family standing in ND. Anything u can do would be appreciated. Thanks
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This is a good tip particularly to those new to the blogosphere.
Short but very precise info… Many thanks for sharing this one.
A must read post!
My father's mother was Cherokee. Her name was Eva Ollie. My father's father was Blackfoot and Scottish. He was a Southerland. I know grandma Eva was from north Carolina and grandpa was from POwder SPrings in Tennessee. My mother is Cherokee, CHicksaw (did I spell that right?), Irish and Dutch. Quite a mix. My mother has mentioned the name Jenkins who was over 7 feet tall. That's about all I know. I wish I knew more about my heritage. How do I connect with my people, so I can know who I am?
I am looking for any information on the Gardner Green family. I would like to know what tribe he belonged to. I have found his lineage connected to my family on my mothers side and believe that he was called Chief Red Wolf and was Cherokee. Thank you for any info that might help me.


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Idaho Senator Mike Crapo voted Nov. 4 to stop a federal rule seizing control over water, known as the "Waters of the U.S." rule. Crapo voted with the majority as the Senate utilized the Congressional Review Act to pass a resolution stopping the water rule issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The effort needed just a simple majority and was passed on a vote of 53 to 44 That vote against the WOTUS rule came after a similar measure fell just short of the 60 votes needed to clear a procedural hurdle.
Crapo, a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee with jurisdiction over the EPA, invited Idahoans to testify on the bill last year. He said that despite today's vote, the fight against the federal rule will likely continue because the president can veto the resolution.
"There was bipartisan support today to reject this extreme example of federal overreach, because it removes state's rights over water and the private property rights of individuals," Crapo said. "For the federal government to try and manage every puddle and seasonal stream in Idaho clearly violates the constitutional rights of Idahoans. The Clean Water Act—and subsequent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court—make it clear that 'navigable' waters can be regulated. Temporary puddles, ditches and groundwater are not 'navigable" waters.
"The EPA is engaged in what I consider to be nothing short of a federal government power grab and seizure of water rights," Crapo added. "This rule, which will effectively give the federal government jurisdiction over and control of all water in the United States is against the will of Congress. The legislation under which it is being promulgated violates the time-honored principal that jurisdiction over the management, allocation, and use of water is a states rights' issue. We are hearing unprecedented opposition to this rule from 31 states, including Idaho, agriculture, business and individuals. This fight is far from over in Congress. Fortunately, two federal courts have issued a temporary injunction against this unjust rule."
Read more here: http://www.minicassia.com/opinion/columnists/article_cd822156-9304-11e5-b821-1f26e345f242.html


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Telangana Congress MPs continue fast
The indefinite hunger strike by Congress MPs from Telangana, demanding withdrawal of cases booked during protests for a separate Telangana state, entered the second day today.india Updated: Dec 28, 2010 13:35 IST
The indefinite hunger strike by Congress MPs from Telangana, demanding withdrawal of cases booked during protests for a separate Telangana state, entered the second day on Tuesday.
The Congress government in Andhra Pradesh continued its efforts to placate its own MPs to end the fast till late Monday night but without any success.
Nine MPs led by senior leader and Rajya Sabha member K Keshava Rao spent the night in the hunger strike camp at New MLA Quarters.
A team of doctors, which examined them, said all their health parameters were normal.
The government had Monday decided to withdraw 135 cases against 834 students but the MPs made it clear that they would not settle for anything less than withdrawal of all cases booked from November 2009 to September 2010.
Chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy again deputed three ministers from Telangana to the MPs last night to request them to call off the fast as it was proving an embarrassment for their own government. The MPs, however, stuck to their demand.
Worried over the fast by the MPs, the central leadership of the Congress was also in touch with the chief minister and party's state unit president D Srinivas to resolve the issue.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi's political advisor Ahmed Patel and party general secretary Veerappa Moily spoke to Reddy and Srinivas over phone, party sources said.
With state legislators from Telangana also planning to join the MPs in the fast Tuesday, the government is under pressure to immediately find a way out.
The government may announce withdrawal of the remaining 970 cases to save itself from further embarrassment as various Telangana groups continued to express solidarity with the MPs and were even urging them to continue the fast till the formation of separate state.
A total of 1,667 cases were filed against 8,047 people during pro and anti-Telangana protests in all three regions of Andhra Pradesh.
The government earlier this month announced in the state assembly withdrawal of 562 cases against 2,436 people but decided not to take back other cases, terming them of serious nature.
First Published: Dec 28, 2010 13:31 IST


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Possible virus? Need some help.
Hey everyone sorry if this is the wrong place to post this but, my BitDefender scan just finished and said it solved one issue, like anyone would do I clicked view to see what it was (thinking it was just cookies or something small like that) but it said it was a keylogger!
I'm very weary of if it actually is a keylogger or if BitDefender just mistook it for something and if it is how long it's been going ect. I'm very good with not downloading anything suspicious or any "key generators" ect. So what is this? Should I be concerned and needing to do something? Here's a picture of the details.
The full directory of where it was found is:
<System>=>c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\vbc.exe *32 [424] (memory dump)
Hope someone can help!
Edit: BitDefender runs automatic deep scans everyday at 4:00 A.M and hasn't found anything before.
Edit2: I scanned the same file/directory on my laptop which also runs Win 7 64bit with BitDefender and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and nothing showed up from either.
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Quite honestly, I believe Bit Defender scans too harshly, detecting things it shouldn't. It claims it is just a memory dump. System created. It could be a keylogger, but I doubt it.
Make sure all important updates are installed (Windows update). It was found in the .net framework which have security vulnerabilities without updates. If it is updated already, Then I am almost positive it is a... false positive
Shouldn't Defender ask you before it deletes something? Like disable it first and then prompt?
If you want to check for other viruses and you are doubting Bit Defender, you might scan with this tool: http://www.microsoft.com/security/sc...s/default.aspx, or you could install malwarebytes which should work fine next to any antivirus as an additional scanner: http://download.cnet.com/Malwarebyte...=dl&tag=button
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Thanks for the reply DustSailor, and vbc.exe is on my laptop that runs the same version of windows as this one I'm on now and I scanned it with BitDefender and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and nothing was detected. So would you think it's safe to resume using my computer normally or anything?
More in detail, when BitDefender finished scanning, it said that it was deleted so it's not on my computer anymore, not even in quarantine. Also BitDefender didn't ask me before it was deleted or not. My computer is updated fully as well, and I wasn't sure what you meant by "Then I'm almost positive it is a... false positive" are you meaning it is a keylogger or isn't? Sorry for the blocky-ness of the reply, I was just trying to answer your questions in the response.
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If Bit Defender deleted it, it is removed and your computer is safe to use. The keylogger wasn't anything to fret about. Even if you got infected, an antivirus should (and did) detect it and stop it. You're good.
If you worry it isn't finding all viruses, once again you can use the two tools i provided just to make sure, but I imagine you're fine just with Defender.
BUT that is taking my word against Bit Defender, and I have no way of actually knowing if it was a virus or not. Though the antivirus program scans agressively, I would still trust them as I have yet to find a reason not to. Most likely it was some form of low-end malware that has been removed. Hope this helps
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Sorry for all of these questions but the same vbc.exe file is in the x64 directory for microsoft.net framework;
"C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\vbc.exe". I scanned that file with both BitDefender and Malwarebytes but it came up clean and since I have BitDefender on my laptop and the same file on there was the same one on here then wouldn't it have shown up as a keylogger on my laptop too?
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That is why I told you the first one may be a false positive. Have you scanned your system with that other tool I've given you yet (MS Safety Scannner)? Malwarebytes is especially good at detecting that sort of thing. If nothing is detecting it, you are virus free my friend.
Run this tool to repair any broken system files: SFC /SCANNOW Command - System File Checker - created by Brink
^ Has nothing to do with cleaning out viruses, but it will fix your system files.
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Lucy Horton: Where Are You Now?
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- tut-tut said...
This is exactly the kind of cookbook I'd like to have in my collection. I've got a co-op one from the 1970s . . .
- September 1, 2008 at 6:53 AM
- Squirrel said...
Interesting Post!!!
There was another commune in Tennessee that had a great cookbook-- besides great recipes for turnips and other things people usually ignore, I used their bread and granola recipes all the time. but I lost the book ... and also lost the will to bake bread and granola from scratch.
- September 1, 2008 at 12:19 PM
- tut-tut said...
In fact, I ordered it from a used book source . . .
- September 1, 2008 at 6:10 PM
- Joanne said...
Ah, the mystery. Let us know if you ever track down Lucy! What was the copyright on the book? Late 60s, early 70s? Interesting how the commune's menu is popular now. They were ahead of their time.
- September 1, 2008 at 9:17 PM
- JGH said...
Squirrel and Tut, I'd be interested in knowing the titles of your other commune cookbooks. I enjoyed this one so much that I may start a collection, though I'll bet they're pretty hard to locate now!
Joanne, the cookbook was copyright 1972.
Tut, I think you're going to love the book. It's one of those that's almost more fun to read than cook from.
I also like to collect the "lost" church and PTA cookbooks.
- September 2, 2008 at 7:39 AM
- Daphne said...
That sounds like an interesting book. I've always been fascinated with communal living too. The cohousing movement I find more of a match to today's society than communes. Though maybe the idea of communes is to separate from society more than to integrate with it.
- September 2, 2008 at 9:48 AM
- bobschwalbach said...
I spent time with Lucy at Frog Run Farm in Vermont shortly after she'd completed her book. I peeled many an onion to go in her pot with a wooden match held between my teeth to keep away the tears. There was always a jug of maple syrup in the center of the great round table to slather on any food. And, oh! the potato volcano!
- September 12, 2008 at 9:41 PM
- JGH said...
Bob, thanks for sharing that! How cool that you knew her and got to cook with her. I'd love to hear more "cooking with Lucy" stories!
I remember the potato volcano story-- she said that after it was made everyone stood around admiring it at first, afraid to dig in. Then it was devoured in a frenzy!
- September 13, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Daniel Millstone said...
I knew Lucy Horton and her brother when they were in High School, have not seen either one in 45 years or so. I'd love to find them again. If you find her, please drop me a note: email@example.com
- October 30, 2008 at 8:08 PM
- Gershon Ferency said...
Hi, I just came across your blog while searching for Lucy.
I was a neighbor of sorts of Frog Run, and loved to spend time in the kitchen! Once, Lucy brought me something she'd made, a confectionary of sorts, made with dates. I was very attracted to her, but at that time I did not like dates!
I'd love to be in contact with her again.
- December 24, 2008 at 9:18 AM
- Daniel Millstone said...
I found Lucy Horton. I am told, by her brother Chris, she sells books on the internet from Allentown PA. where she's listed in the phone book. I will telephone, email etc. now.
- December 26, 2008 at 7:30 AM
- JGH said...
Gershon, thanks for stopping by and sharing that memory. According to Dan Millstone (see the next comment) she is alive and well and online in Allentown, PA!
Daniel, how great that you tracked down both Lucy and her brother! Please let us know her website if you can. I'd love to know if she's still writing...
- December 26, 2008 at 10:13 AM
This was my very first cookbook. I was in high school at the time and had become a vegetarian. I made the potato volcano many times and lots of the other recipes. Lucy gave me my start in cooking. Wherever you are Lucy "thank you". I still make the bagels and many other favorits
- November 7, 2010 at 8:16 PM
This was my very first cookbook. I was in high school at the time and had become a vegetarian. I made the potato volcano many times and lots of the other recipes. Lucy gave me my start in cooking. Wherever you are Lucy "thank you". I still make the bagels and many other favorites.
- November 7, 2010 at 8:17 PM
I am an old friend of Lucy's from Vermont commune days and can tell you that she is happily married and lives with her husband in Pennsylvania
- December 1, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- tut-tut said...
JGH: L was just reading this cookbook and I googled it and your post came up! Glad Lucy Horton is alive and well and living in Pennsylvania! Who's Anonymous, I wonder . . . Your seeds are clothes pinned to my seed area, awaiting the spring. Say hi to Squirrel, and I will see you in April
- January 12, 2011 at 6:32 PM
I lived on a commune in the 70's, Livewood outside Eugene, Oregon. Lucy, alas, never visited us, but we bought the book and thoroughly enjoyed it for the recipes, but especially for the vignettes of commune life, and we all fell in love with Lucy Horton and her picture. Lucy, where are you now? I'd love to thank you. Scott Hauser firstname.lastname@example.com
- May 28, 2016 at 9:31 PM
- Bill said...
When I was around 19 and my then older girlfriend (now wife) lived in a rent controlled apartment in the Berkeley hills. She made me pizza one night. i was primed and dug in. I spat it out almost immediately. I thought it was a pepperoni pizza but it had carrots on it! Turns out it was from Lucy's cookbook. I hated it.Ah memories. We still laugh about that pizza.
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Note: This game is in German. English rules can be found here.
In the game of Dicke Dämonen, the players are magicians trying to rule the world. Curiously the world is smaller than you might think because in the eyes of a magician the world consists only of magical power lines and power fields, specifically four power lines: earth, fire, air and water. Wherever these lines enfold the space, the power fields are created; wherever the lines cross each other, the corners of these fields materialize. (In game terms, four colored strings — each tied to a ring — are placed on the table overlapping one another at the start of the game.) The magicians summon ghosts and demons to rule the world — but at the start of it all nobody knows which type of creature will be the strongest:
- Ghosts – white creatures – appear in the center of a power field, and wherever they are summoned, everything freezes in terror. Neither ghosts nor demons may appear in a power field once a ghost has been summoned there.
- Demons – in the colors of the power lines – appear in the corners of the power fields adjacent to the lines of their color. No demon will enter a field where a ghost was summoned.
Each magician summons again and again one of the four creatures at a place of his choice, thus filling the world with ghosts and demons. (Ghosts and demons are wooden pawns drawn from a cloth bag.) As soon as no more creature can be summoned, the fate of the world is decided – and one of the colors will be the strongest. Only once during the game can each magician predict a color, whether one of the demon colors or ghostly white, and each magician must predict a different color. (A player predicts a color by placing a pawn of the color in front of him.) This look into the future costs a lot of energy, and as soon as someone predicts a color, he will be harassed by fate and the other magicians. Thus, which color to predict is an important decision as well as when to predict it.
The magician who predicted the color which is the the strongest in the end rules the world.


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Catalogue file for school financial management systems
It's easy to download a copy of our catalogue to add into your school's ordering or financial management system (FMS) – simply click on the link below.
These 3 easy steps are prepared for using Windows 10 and the latest IE Browser.
Step 1 - Prepare a Folder to save the file.
- Go to your PC's Start icon which is usually found in the bottom left of your desktop.
- Right click and select "File Explorer" in the menu.
- Navigate to the C: drive (Local Disk) on 'my computer'.
- Right click in the C: drive folder and you will be given a list of options.
- Hover the mouse over the line that says "New" and select the Folder Option to create a new folder
- Name the Folder - for example SIMS FMS or PS Financials
You can now close the Explorer Window and are now ready to go to Step 2 and download the required FMS file.
Step 2
Save the download below into the C:Drive destination folder you created.
- Once saved and unzipped (the destination should default select the folder you are already in)
- Press "Extract"
- You will now have a zipped and unzipped folder in this location.
Step 3 for Capita SIMS FMS
To update an electronic catalogue used within the Capita SIMS FMS (Accounting system for Windows) Module you should proceed as follows:
- Load FMS6, entering a valid username and password, the user must have the appropriate rights to import a catalogue file
- Expand the drop down menu entitled Focus
- Highlight Accounts Payable from the list and move the mouse across to select Supplier
- Choose TTS from the scrollable list of suppliers
- Move the mouse over the 3rd tab, of Supplier Details, called Catalogue, now select Import Catalogue
- The "Supplier Catalogue Import Window" will open, now click on the browse button on the right hand side of this window
- The "Select Catalogue Location" window will now open
- Browse to the folder you created (as shown in the above steps) and click "Select"
Step 3 for PS Financials FMS
Please refer to the PDF included with the downloaded file for full set up instructions.
Step 3 for RM Accounts FMS
Right-click the required catalogue from the Download section of this article and save the catalogue file to an accessible location on your network. Extract the contents of the zip file.
Prior to importing each supplier catalogue into RM Accounts, you must create a home for it. If you already have an earlier catalogue on RM Accounts for a particular supplier, you may have done this already.
Create a home:
- Click Module, CRM, Settings, Classification Types, Code: Main, Comment: Main Item List.
- Click Module, Sales Ledger, Settings, Item Classifications, New.
- In the Code field, type the details in the read me file related to catalogue.
- In the Name field, type the details in the read me file related to catalogue.
- In the Type field, type MAIN.
- In the Classification field, type MAIN.
- In the Colour field, type Black.
Note: It is important that the Code and Name fields are populated as detailed in the read me file associated with the catalogue, otherwise the import will fail.
Import the catalogue:
- Click Module > System > Routines > Imports.
- Click Manual > File Search > Browse and browse to the .txt file.
- Depending on the size of the file, it may take some time for the import to be completed.
Once you have completed the import, create a purchase order and test that some of the part numbers have imported. Please ensure the pricing reflects your agreement with the supplier.
Once you confirm this selection the catalogue will begin to import and you will see the thousands of product catalogue lines upload in your progress bar.
Remember now when you place your order you can use the standard method of order creation entering the product code you are given.
Please do not enter any numerical 3 digit prefix, just enter the product code beginning EY or PE etc.
Life is easier for you when you have the TTS catalogue uploaded! - Enjoy!


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BEAULY DISTRICT FISHERY BOARD SALMON & SEA TROUT CONSERVATION POLICY 2018 Category 3 Status.
The Beauly District Fishery Board has a statutory duty to to act for the protection and improvement of the fisheries and for the increase of salmon and sea trout within its District. With declining rates of marine survival, the conservation of stocks should be of prime importance to all anglers. This Conservation Policy represents a minimum requirement all anglers should adhere to.
Under The Conservation of Salmon (Annual Close Time and Catch and Release) (Scotland) Regulations 2014, it is an offence to retain any salmon caught before 1 April. By law, all fish must be released. Every effort should be made to ensure no harm is caused to fish prior to release.
1ST APRIL – 15th October
100% catch & release
To protect vulnerable spring salmon stocks, it is the Board's recommended policy that all salmon be released
Fishing should be by Fly only.
To facilitate the release of fish barbless or crimped hooks should be used. Treble hooks should not be
Under the provisions of The Conservation of Salmon (Prohibition of Sale) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 the sale of rod caught salmon or sea trout is illegal.
When releasing fish, try to keep them in water at all times and under no circumstances should fish be lifted clear of the water by their tails.
Guidance on catch & release best practice can be found on the Board's website this page
The use of 'knotless' mesh landing nets is a legal requirement and will help prevent the fish from being damaged.


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Market Economy, Ethics and the Meaning of Life
Market Economy, Ethics and the Meaning of LifeDownload iCal Event
Location: Heythrop College
This is a three-day intensive, interactive, interdisciplinary module designed to explore the themes of 'economy and the common good', 'goods, values, and the discourse of business ethics' and 'marketing and ethics' and 'moral imagination and character of the business professional'. Questions considered during the course include : Can it be meaningful to speak of the common good in relation to markets? Which goods are not for sale? What are the main strengths of, and challenges presented by, market economies at present in social and economic terms? What is the discourse of business ethics? Various case studies are introduced throughout the course in order to address these questions and discuss the possibilities of responsible business practice.
For more details and how to apply please see the Course page.


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This sort of thing used to happen all the time: are we now to expect a renewal of the Tablet's old anti-traditionalist hostility?
The Sisters of Maria Stella Matutina will be based in the parish of St Joseph's in Grayshott
Bishop Egan makes comments in weekly diocesan email bulletin
As controversy rages over Catholic blogs we ask five incisive writers what role blogging should really be playing in the Church's life
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Bishop of Portsmouth gives lecture at King's College in London
Bishop Egan hopes communal act the Sacred Heart will strengthen Christian identity
Bishop Egan calls on Portsmouth community to 'pull together'
The Bishop of Portsmouth on making converts, his teenage crisis of faith and his outspoken opposition to same-sex marriage
Bishop Philip Egan condemns Parliament's "Orwellian attempt to redefine marriage"


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The International Atomic Energy Agency says it has agreed with the United States and Britain about how to oversee the dismantling of Libya's nuclear program. U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said his agency will verify the dismantling of Libya's atomic program, while the United States and Britain will provide logistical support.
Mr. ElBaradei spoke after meeting with Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton and his British counterpart, William Ehrman.
IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said the talks set out a clear division of labor for work in Libya.
"It is clearly [desirable] to discuss the upcoming verification roles and who does what and how things are to be co-ordinated," she said. "It is extremely important that these kinds [of work], that one knows what the other is going to be doing."
Ms. Fleming said the agency is sending a multi-disciplinary team to Tripoli before the end of the month. American and British scientists are also visiting nuclear facilities in Libya and making their own reports.
Last month, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made a surprise announcement that Libya was renouncing efforts to build nuclear and chemical weapons. U.S. officials said they wanted to play a leading role in the verification of Colonel Gadhafi's pledge, but the IAEA refused to be sidelined. Mr. ElBaradei insisted that his agency should oversee the dismantling process.
Mr. ElBaradei will report on the progress of the agency's work in Libya and Iran to the IAEA board of governors by mid-February.


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Reminder: Dupont Circle south entrance to close Wednesday, Feb. 1
We've known it was coming…
From WMATA:
The south entrance of Dupont Circle station, located at 19th Street NW, will be closed through October, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 1, to allow for total replacement of three escalators with new, modern units.
The project is part of Metro's multi-year, $150-million plan to improve escalator and elevator reliability. Under the current plan, 94 escalators are scheduled for full replacement over the next seven years.
The existing escalators, each 188 feet long and rising 85 feet to street level, are among the least reliable and most difficult to maintain of Metro's 588 escalators. Originally installed in 1997, the current escalators are non-standard (they were custom built to fit in the narrow entrance that was originally designed for two units), and their manufacturer no longer makes escalators, making finding replacement parts near impossible.
During the project, the three existing escalator units will be demolished and removed from the site; the area beneath the units will be modified; and new, standard size, industrial-grade escalators will be installed. Due to the tight nature of the work zone, each escalator segment being removed and installed will travel on three separate cranes between the site and street level.
A full closure of the entrance is required to provide for customer safety while heavy lifting of escalator segments takes place in a narrow workspace. As a secondary benefit, closing the entrance will allow the work to proceed on a faster timeline than would otherwise be possible.
Crane operations at street level will necessitate occasional overnight closures of 19th Street NW.


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Trio of Barbara Morgenstern, Stefan Schneider, and Paul Wirkus creates electronic music that alternates improvisation with a more robust structure of composed melody and songcraft.
One night not long ago, lying in bed and listening to the September Collective's mesmerizing new album All the Birds Were Anarchists, the image of a snowglobe filled with swirling flecks of gold leaf flashed into my mind, at which point my mental camera slowly zoomed out to reveal the orb sitting on a shiny black grand piano, surrounded by velvet curtains even blacker than the lacquer on the Steinway. It was only one of a thousand such images I've enjoyed while listening to All the Birds over and over and over these past few months. Should you listen to the disc-- and I urge you to-- you will doubtlessly have wildly different visions, but I promise you that you will see something. It simply is that kind of record.
September Collective is the trio of Barbara Morgenstern, Stefan Schneider, and Paul Wirkus. If you know any of those names you'll have some idea of what to expect, as each artist's voice rings through true and clear. Morgenstern has recorded a number of releases, principally for Monika Enterprise and Leaf, featuring her pellucid voice and delicate arrangements of piano and synthesizer that convey a drifting pop sensibility, in the broadest possible sense. Stefan Schneider is best known as a member of To Rococo Rot and for his solo work as the ambient dub outfit Mapstation. And Paul Wirkus is an improvising laptop artist working with a library of chamber music samples and a small kit of analog synthesizers and effects. The group says that the project was born out of a shared 2002 tour in which each artist had solo billing. "After we played our sets we found it senseless to end up a concert just like this and we started to improvise in the end of our show," writes the group in its bio. "Although everyone of us works with loops and computers it worked out perfectly. So we continued after this tour and founded September Collective-- a project which is based on improvisation and trying out new things."
Their nonchalant, even naïve approach to group dynamics is all over All the Birds, but they're no dabblers: The album offers an engrossing and profoundly confident mélange of styles and timbres. Two levels predominate: one an improvisational scrim of shirred textures and intermittent sequining via brilliant sonic details, and the other a more robust structure of composed melody and songcraft. The two run parallel throughout the disc, swapping places and playing games, both within individual songs and throughout the album's entire arc.
The first track, "Out of Intention", opens with a whir of out-of-time loops: cardiac thuds, insect skitter, intermittent hi-hats, a dusky blue unfolding that might once have been a keyboard, or maybe a saxophone. A rudimentary bass line enters, shrugging its shoulders, and a delicate counterpoint blossoms in the piano's treble register. Far in the back, an unadorned drum machine keeps time-- with its MIDI cables apparently disconnected. (I love the way September Collective appropriates dance music's most basic tool to use pedestrian sounds in mercurial ways.) Against this nodding pulse, Morgenstern embroiders free, filigreed piano riffs that hang just this side of George Winston's property line before disappearing in the whir of Oval's hard drive. Beginning in the same shimmering approximation of key, "Das Meer" ("The Sea") muddles its loops into an arrhythmic whirlpool. An electronic sound like a bassoon, a higher muted reed line, and an almost imperceptible Rhodes fuse into an inseparable three-part structure that sounds uncannily like something from Talk Talk's Laughing Stock. Haphazardly brushed drums suggest that everything could fall apart at any second-- until that piano returns, almost certainly Morgenstern's, stitching everything lovingly back together. From chaos, pop-- and in a rush of hummingbird's wings and fingered stemware, it all dissolves back into ether again-- again, a whole lot like late period Talk Talk.
And that's just the record's first 10 minutes. "Natura", opening with looped and fizzed piano reverb, finds the players staking out their spaces in a three-cornered room, with what sounds like Morgenstern drifting into a melodic right-hand reverie, Schneider laying down dub-inspired sub-bass and melodica, and Wirkus doing his damnedest to untether his colleagues' steadfast mooring, letting a loop of close-miked piano clatter go flapping into the red. The same trick appears three tracks later, on "Pausenband", suggesting a box of ghosts hell-bent on breaking the locks, while the clacking percussion of "Our Cat" leads seamlessly into "Essentially Unchanged", where it plays out-- yes, essentially unchanged-- beneath limpid keyboards. Such recycled loops and recurring themes, far from suggesting meager hard-drive holdings, help not only to bind the record tightly together, but also to weave it into your very consciousness. I suspect that's one of the main reasons All the Birds has become one of my preferred bedtime listens of late. It's not simply that the record's palette is generally subdued and, well, mellow; but when the body is at rest and the brain slipping into hypnagogic drift, that's precisely when September Collective's quiet anarchy reassembles itself into such improbable, impossibly beautiful forms. Sometimes, it's better when music doesn't make sense, but like the iconography of dreams, simply runs free, making its own haphazard associations as it goes.


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This past weekend I completed a 21-mile run with my marathon training team. It was the longest distance I've run to date and, overall, it went pretty smoothly.
Long runs over 18 miles are pretty much a dress rehearsal for the marathon, where we try out energy gels, practice taking in water and put hard miles on the legs. They do tax the entire body, which is why we only do a couple of these long runs in the month or so before the marathon.
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My run went pretty smoothly except near the end, when I started to feel a bit strange. It was as if my mind was starting to drift away from my body, and not in some Dead Head drum circle way, but in a "hey, this might not be a good thing" way. What I now believe I was starting to experience is what runners call hitting the wall.
The wall is the point after about 20 miles where the body can start to shut down. It is feared and respected by every marathon runner. It's the perfect storm of mental, emotional and physical trouble.
The medical term for the wall is glycogen depletion onset. It's less sexy but gives a clear idea that it means business. Basically, when you hit the wall your body switches priorities from delivering oxygen and nutrients to your brain and directing them to your muscles. The brain also stops producing dopamine, which can bring on depression (bummer). Other possible side effects of the wall read like a legal disclaimer for a pharmaceutical product: dizziness, muscle fatigue, headaches, muscle cramps, blurred vision and even hallucinations. If it could insult your mother, I'm sure it would do that as well.
There are precautions one can take to avoid hitting the wall, like starting off slow, taking in nutrition and not running marathons. But in the end, the wall calls the shots, and if a runner does hit the wall, the best they can do is try to keep their mind clear and their legs moving. This is the period where all the training is out the window and it comes down to survival. I imagine that it is a character-building experience, where we become a better person for surviving the pain (why can't character just come easier, like out of a vending machine — but then that wouldn't be character, that would be Funyuns).
In the end, however, I think the wall can develop more than character. I think it can develop faith, because when it comes down to it, that's the only thing that can help us get through any walls we might face.


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Oval wood side table with metal frame and cement shelf.
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"Doubling the dose of the ALK inhibitor brigatinib (Alunbrig) improved outcomes in patients with crizotinib (Xalkori)-refractory non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a dose-comparison study showed.
"Patients who started treatment at 90 mg/day and titrated to 180 mg/day had improved response rate (54% versus 45%) and progression-free survival (PFS) as compared with those who received 90 mg throughout the treatment period. Response in brain metastases improved by 50% with the higher dose."
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A collection of vintage photography and "orphan" photographs showcasing the past.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Sepia Saturday #169 - Snapshots of Our Lives
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The collage is such a good idea. I like how the boy is standing on a rock just below the graduate also standing on a rock - obviously the same house. It's as if the family treated those rocks as a pedestal for the honoree.ReplyDelete
Some of those photos look like they would be interesting to see in a larger size--especially the one that appears to be a soldier seated next to a man reading.ReplyDelete
Yes, once you start looking, photographers are everywhere, snapping away and being caught on film too. I think I see a pair of binoculars in toine of those snapshots too.ReplyDelete
This is just perfect, what a great idea. My vote of favorite goes to the kissing little gent! What an adorable kiss!ReplyDelete
A wonderfully melodic hymn in praise of photography and the photographer. The collage is marvellous.ReplyDelete
I'm sure you'll be sharing these photos with us again, individually, in the future, but for now I really like the collage you have createdReplyDelete
I have a theory that family photographers chose a favorite location inside or outside the house for ALL their posed portraits. That is certainly the way in my family. There was always a choice spot to commemorate all the important events, and give a kind of measurement scale to see the children grow.ReplyDelete
I want to see the photo with the dog on its own. And just a thought but I don't have a camera phone!ReplyDelete
I love your collage. A what a great bunch of photos. I particularly like the kissing photo in the lower right corner. Perfect.ReplyDelete
Your collage proves the point that photography has a 'life'beyond the moment.Something creative happens as we respond to an image.& we compare & contrast a series.A lovely post Teresa.ReplyDelete
Two cameras, a pair of binocular, a stereo pickup and a dogReplyDelete
and plenty of hats to go around.
Nice collection!!


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So, Slash, do you think you and Axl Rose ever could be friends?
As he begins to talk, Slash - the guitar great who got his start in the turbulent rock band Guns N' Roses and is now a part of supergroup Velvet Revolver - loses his cell phone reception.
He's on a tour bus, rounding the country in support of his band's latest album, Libertad, and his cell phone has been cutting out like this every few minutes.
It's especially dramatic this time, considering the question, considering he and Axl don't get along at all.
Back on the phone, Slash good-naturedly responds, "We've spent too much time talking about that subject." Much as he has done in music, he'd rather move on from Guns N' Roses.
Many other subjects are covered during this chat with Slash (real name Saul Hudson, 42): The 20th anniversary of Appetite for Destruction; his autobiography, Slash (due Oct. 30); his spot on the cover of the upcoming Guitar Hero III video game (due Oct. 28); and how Velvet Revolver - a band made up of ex-Guns N' Roses and Stone Temple Pilots members - puts together a set list.
Many calls were dropped, too, making for these snippets of Slash.
On the band's current tour: "It's an awesome tour. It's very real. Alice in Chains is awesome; they deliver such an impactful gig. Our gig is really awesome as well. It's just one of the most real things going, where you can see real rock 'n' roll performed by people who are real rock musicians and love what they do."
On the progression of Velvet Revolver: "You can just tell the difference between the band since we've completed this record and started this tour and the band when we did our first tour. It's just something that happens with time.