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Friday, June 8, 2012
African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
"African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," a traveling exhibition opened April 1, 2003 at the New-York Historical Society in New York City. It featured 61 paintings, sculptures and photographs from the museum's collection.
Twentieth-century masters in the exhibition included Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, William H. Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks and Renée Stout, among others. The artists featured in this exhibition demonstrated their command of mainstream artistic traditions while exploring their dual cultural heritage.
"The Smithsonian American Art Museum was at the forefront of collecting, studying and preserving works by African American artists," said Elizabeth Broun, the museum's Margaret and Terry Stent Director. "We're proud to have such a rich collection that represents several hundred artists, and we're delighted to share a selection of the very finest artworks with communities across the United States."
No single style or approach can define African American art. The artists in "African American Masters" reveal a complex mingling of influences and experiences—including historical events, political issues, spirituality, music and folklore, as well as personal vision. The Smithsonian American Art Museum began acquiring work by African American artists in the 1960s, some in-depth such as William H. Johnson and Alma Thomas. This exhibition is a sampling of these works—not a comprehensive survey of them—selected from approximately 2,000 artworks by African Americans now in the museum's collection that give insight into the story of America in the 20th century.
Horace Pippin's "Old Black Joe" (1943) is an interpretation of plantation life and the lot of African American slaves. Pennsylvanian Pippin derived this image and its title from Stephen Foster's Civil War-era ballad of the same name, conveying the sense of loss that also haunts the ballad's lyrics. Primarily self-taught, Pippin's engaging narrative style led to national acclaim.
In 1930, Loïs Mailou Jones joined the fine arts faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. where she taught for 47 years. She painted
"Les Fétiches"" (1938) while on sabbatical in Paris in the 1930s, her first major painting to explore African themes. Jones' art developed throughout her long career, moving from landscapes and colorful street scenes to works that were influenced by her African American heritage.
American music inspired many artists in the exhibition. In Romare Bearden's "Empress of the Blues"" (1974), swaying musicians back up the mesmerizing soloist Bessie Smith. Shifting planes of colored paper and magazine cutouts create staccato patterns and rhythms, creating their own visual music. Bearden saw legendary singer and songwriter Smith, who earned the title "Empress of the Blues," perform in Harlem where he grew up. She was one of the biggest stars of the 1920s and was popular with both black and white audiences.
William H. Johnson, who studied in New York City and Paris, changed from impressionism to a flat, consciously naïve style in the late 1930s, when he began to focus on African American subjects. In "Cafe" (about 1939–1940), Johnson used modernist flat colorful forms in a humorous portrayal of a couple in a Harlem cafe. Below the table, human and wooden legs are tangled together, while above, the smartly dressed woman holds tightly to her date, who looks away.
Augusta Savage is one of many artists in this exhibition who came to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance. In her painted plaster bust "Gamin" (about 1929), Savage convincingly captures the rebellious nature of a young man, reputedly her teen-age nephew, Ellis Ford, who lived in Harlem. It is one of several surviving plasters of the life-size bronze that is among Savage's best-known works.
At a time when many artists were concerned with social commentary, William E. Artis sought to reveal the universal beauty of the human form. Artis usually worked in clay, so his marble bust "Untitled" (about 1946) is one of his few ventures into stone carving. The idealized head of a young woman is a lively play of geometric and abstract patterns, a cylinder for her neck, alternating triangles and ovals for her facial features. The large ovals of her eyes recall ancient African sculptures, while the polished marble evokes classical Greek sculpture.
In Jacob Lawrence's "The Library"" (1960), figures engrossed in reading are situated in his characteristically flattened space. Lawrence's library view evokes his childhood experiences when he frequently visited the 135th Street Public Library in Harlem.
Bob Thompson's "Descent from the Cross"" (1963) combines Christian religious imagery and fantasy in an expressive and highly personal painting. Accents of color punctuate the composition moving the eye across the painting's surface.
Sam Gilliam has advanced the innovations associated with the Washington Color School. During the late 1970s, he began cutting and rearranging geometric shapes from thickly painted canvases. The shifting irregular patterns in these randomly patterned canvases resemble those found in African American "crazy quilts." In ""Open Cylinder"" (1979), thrusting verticals covered with rectangles and arched forms suggest a pillar that has been shattered, its shards now resting side-by-side.
Portraits and documentary images have dominated the subject matter of modern black photographers, including James VanDerZee, Roy DeCarava, Gordon Parks and Robert McNeill. McNeill's 1938 photograph "New Car (South Richmond, Virginia)" from the project The Negro in Virginia, gives us a slice-of-life image. A native of Washington, D.C., McNeill created this photograph while working for the Works Progress Administration during the Depression. This lighthearted scene of young men admiring a new car emphasizes shared moments of rare success at a time when economic distress was common for most.
Allan Rohan Crite tapped into the social milieu of his community. "Sunlight and Shadow" (1941) is one of about two dozen paintings Crite created for the government's art projects during the Depression, in which he documented the people and architecture in his Roxbury, Mass. neighborhood. The scene reminds the viewer of the importance of extended families in African American communities.
Purvis Young's images are inspired by personal visions and the culturally rich environment of the Overtown neighborhood in Miami that is home to many Haitian and Cuban immigrants. In "Untitled" (about 1988), the spirited horses that dominate the composition seem capable of flight, one actually winged, while the figures are isolated and trapped in box-like cells, seemingly unaware that the horses and truck offer an escape from the maze. Young's message is powerful—a way out can exist in the midst of turmoil and struggle.
To accompany the exhibition, the Smithsonian American Art Museum co-published with Harry N. Abrams Inc. a lavishly illustrated souvenir book, "African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," written by Gwen Everett, adjunct professor of art history at Howard University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. The book features 52 color illustrations and brief discussions of the individual artworks in the exhibition.


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Weeks before one of them is tapped by voters as the next president, the stage is being set for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney to take the oath of office at the Capitol in January.
Architect of the Capitol Stephen Ayers announced on Thursday that construction will begin on the inaugural stand on the Capitol's West Front on Sept. 10, the day Congress returns from its August recess.
Fencing will be erected and "no entrance" signs will be installed that will stay in place for the next five months, Ayers said.
Inauguration Day will be Jan. 21—pushed back a day because the date normally set for the president's term to begin falls on a Sunday in 2012.
The inauguration also will be held for only the second time on the federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. The first was Bill Clinton's swearing-in for his second term in January 1997.


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If we know the probability $P$ that there exists an edge between two vertices of an undirected graph, let's say $P= 1/v$, where $v$ is the number of vertices in the graph, what is the probability that the graph has cycles?
I've twisted my brain with this. Can anyone help?


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Let's talk about MySpace.
I joined a while back, did a quickie profile (www.myspace.com/jakonrath), made some Friend Requests, and then basically treated it like email; something to periodically check.
Then, gradually, I spent more time there. I beefed up my page. I began searching for mystery readers to invite as Friends. And I came to realize that it had serious potential as a marketing tool.
My main marketing belief is: The more pieces of paper your name is on, the better.
Your name is on your books, naturally. But it can also be on ads, on short stories and articles, on blurbs, on business cards and coasters and bookmarks, on mailers, on reviews, etc.
Virtual paper (the Internet) works in a similar way. Like Rome, all roads can lead to your website through links and searches. A "hit" is the same as being on a piece of paper.
In the short time my MySpace page has been up, I've gotten over 4000 profile views, and have made about 700 Friends. A few of them probably read my books as a result of seeing the page.
But is it worth the time invested?
Blogs and websites draw visitors with content. Either a surfer is looking for you specifically, or looking for a topic that your site covers, and then they find you.
MySpace is different. The search criteria are more specific. So specific, in fact, that an author can seek out a demographic pretty easily. They can still find you. But you can also find them.
I put a lot of info on my website and blog and hope someone reads it, and likes it so much they buy my books. But with MySpace, I can look for the people who I think would like my books.
In other words, a website has roads leading in to it, but MySpace has roads leading out.
So how does a MySpacer find roads to travel?
The Dumb Way
MySpace is ridiculously easy to surf. You read one profile, and it links to 500 others. So you read one of those, then another, then another, and so on. While surfing, you can request to be Friends with anyone who looks interesting. This takes a long time, and you're not really narrowing down a specific demographic.
It's possible to use the Browse feature, but that only lets you list criteria such as location, appearance, and religion. If you're looking for 40 year old native American women who smoke and live within 50 miles of you and are bi-curious, this feature is for you. If you're looking for fans of Janet Evanovich, browsing won't help much.
A Smarter Way
Fortunately, MySpace also has a search feature. You can search for fans of Evanovich, and then ask these folks to be your Friends (this is only helpful if, like me, you share fans with Evanovich.)
This makes a lot of sense. The MySpacers who list Evanovich (or Grisham, or Patterson, or Child) care enough about those type of books to mention them in their profile. Without too much effort, you can find the names of thousands of readers who love authors similar to you. Many of these could become your MySpace Friends, and a fraction of them will read your books. This seems like a much better way to use MySpace.
The Even Smarter Way
Of course, why should you compile a cadre of readers when others have already done this for you? You can find authors similar to you on MySpace, and then directly contact all of their Friends from their MySpace pages.
A dozen authors can lead you to thousands of fans.
Unfortunately, it's still a pain in the ass to contact each individual MySpacer and send them Friend Requests.
The Smartest Way
As luck would have it, there's an even easier way to do this. MySpace began as a way for bands to recruit listeners and inform them of upcoming gigs. Bands quickly learned that the key to selling CDs and tickets on MySpace was to find people who like their kind of music and then invite them as Friends.
But most bands do drugs and drink too much, and they aren't up for spending countless hours adding potential fans one at a time. So some savvy programmers invented ways to invite a bunch of Friends at once.
Google "Myspace friend adder" and you'll get dozens of programs used to add Friends in bulk. They can do this randomly, or specifically.
In other words, I can go to www.myspace.com/jeffstrand and send each of his Friends a Friend Request by simply pushing a few buttons. I can also send them each a Message at the same time, perhaps saying "I was surfing MySpace and I saw you're friends with Jeff Strand. I always like to meet Jeff Strand fans."
Mr. Strand has been building his friends list for months, and I vacuumed it up in two days (MySpace administration won't let you make more than 400 friend requests per day.) Thanks, Jeff!
Pretty cool, huh?
But it gets better. When you have a big list of Friends, MySpace lets you send Bulletins to them. Your Friend Adder (I use Badder Adder) also lets you send bulk Messages and bulk Comments to your entire Friend List (or anyone else's Friend List.) You can pimp out the look of your page and add music, pictures, and video. You can add a blog. And even if you ignore your page for weeks at a time, people will still find and and request to be your Friend, which leads to more links, and more links, and more links.
Is MySpace a guaranteed path to success? Hardly. But it's one more weapon in your marketing arsenal, and it has the potential to reach a lot of people--even more than your website, your blog, and your newsletter combined.
Give it a shot. Spend a few days playing around. And be sure to build up your Friend List... I'll be by to steal it next month.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
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man ntfsundelete
Look for deleted files altered in the last two days
ntfsundelete /dev/hda1 -t 2d
I wonder what altering files/directories mean?
Does deleting some files/directories count as altering them?
For example, if I created a file more than two days ago, and didn't change it until yesterday when I deleted. Will the command be able to recover it?
- Does moving some files/directories from being under a directory to being under another directory count as altering them, even when the files/directories being moved have not been changed themselves?
I am hoping to find a way to specify and undelete the directories (with files inside) that I deleted at once last time.


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Philip Astley
From Circopedia
Circus Owner, Equestrian
By Dominique Jando
Two or three years later, the family moved to Lambeth, a borough of London, where Edward Astley opened shop near Westminster Bridge—an area that would become very familiar to young Philip, and where he will later return. For at age 17, Philip left home after one of many disputes with his father and enrolled in the 15th Light Dragoons, a cavalry regiment newly formed by Colonel Granville Elliott.
From The Military To Show Business
Six feet tall and endowed with a stentorian voice, Philip Astley was a giant for his time and didn't easily blend into crowds, even when in uniform. A gifted equestrian, he was put in charge of breaking new horses for his regiment. He was also noticed by the celebrated riding and fencing master, Domenico Angelo, who took him under his tutelage and taught him a new method aimed at improving the use of the cavalry broadsword in battle—an expertise Astley would later display in his shows.
In 1761, Astley and his regiment embarked for the Continent to fight alongside King Frederick II of Prussia in the Seven Years' War (1756-63), known as the French and Indian War in America. Corporal Astley fought gallantly: he captured an enemy standard in battle; rescued the Duke of Brunswick, who had fallen behind enemy lines; and returned to England with the rank of Sergeant Major. He obtained his discharge on June 21, 1766 at Derby, and Elliott, now General, presented him with a white charger named Gibraltar. Astley returned to Lambeth with a companion who would later become his wife (of whom little is known);in 1769, she presented him with a son, John Philip Conway Astley (1767-1821).
Trick-riding exhibitions were very popular in the second half of the eighteenth century. England had become a constitutional monarchy in 1688, and the spending power of the nobility had been curbed considerably. Private regiments were disappearing. Lavish equestrian court entertainments (such as carrousels) had ceased to be affordable. Private manèges staffed with riding instructors didn't fare much better. Still, riding masters, most of them coming from the military, could make a good living as trickAny specific exercise in a circus act.-riding performers (notably Jacob Bates, whose fame stretched from America to Russia). One of these trickAny specific exercise in a circus act. riders was Balp, a former cavalry Sergeant like Astley, who had opened a manege in Lambeth; Astley went on to work for him.
By 1768, Astley had secured a piece of land known as Glover's Halfpenny Hatch in Surrey County, south of London, between Blackfriars and Westminster bridges, where he had opened in the spring a riding school—a crude roofless enclosure where he taught horsemanship in the morning and performed in the afternoon during the summer season. He presented his "feats on horsemanship" on Gibraltar, and exhibited "The Little Military Horse"—a small horse he had trained to add and subtract numbers (or pretend to do so), feign death, fire a pistol, and perform "mind-reading" tricks. Like most trickAny specific exercise in a circus act. riders of his time, Astley performed in a circular arena: for the audience, it was easier to watch an equestrian circling in a well-defined area than to watch him dashing back and forth in a vast open space. For the riders, the centrifugal force generated by galloping in circles made it easier to stand on the back of their mounts. (Contrary to what is often said, however, Philip Astley did not "invent" the circus ring.)
The following year, in 1769, Astley secured a lease on a neighboring lot at the foot of Westminster Bridge, on the corner of Stangate Street and Westminster Bridge Road. Albeit roofless, the new Astley's Riding House was a more permanent wooden structure, and the audience at least was protected from the notorious London weather. The Riding House's arena (called either the "circle" or the "circus") had originally a diameter of 65 feet (about 19.5 meters). There, to the sound of fifes and drums, in good military fashion, Astley and some of his pupils offered afternoon performances of an exclusively equestrian nature. By the end of his first summer in the new location, Astley had reason to celebrate: His first two London seasons had been very successful. Yet he knew that if he wanted to establish a permanent place of performance that could attract London audiences over the long haul—especially the much-needed popular audience—he had to change the format of his show.
The Birth of the Circus
All of them, he discovered, relied on visual acts (performances by jugglers, ropedancers, "posturers," as acrobats were then called, et al.), which, in the legit houses, were interspersed between the various theatrical offerings. (In the eighteenth century, performing arts were not yet segregated; actors, musicians, dancers, acrobats, and even equestrians all belonged to the same community of entertainers.) Additionally, theater performances were usually capped with "after-pieces," in most cases pantomimes, which, in England, were farcical spectacles with stage tricks and special effects and were the realm of Clown and Harlequin, the pantomimeA circus play, not necessarily mute, with a dramatic story-line (a regular feature in 18th and 19th century circus performances).'s principal stock characters.
Therefore, the show Philip Astley offered at his Riding School for his 1770 London season was a mixture of equestrian and acrobatic acts, followed by a pantomimeA circus play, not necessarily mute, with a dramatic story-line (a regular feature in 18th and 19th century circus performances).. He had a crude stage erected in the ring for the visual acts and the pantomimeA circus play, not necessarily mute, with a dramatic story-line (a regular feature in 18th and 19th century circus performances)., and if the stage tricks were certainly limited, the farcical work of the clownGeneric term for all clowns and augustes. '''Specific:''' In Europe, the elegant, whiteface character who plays the role of the straight man to the Auguste in a clown team., originally a theatrical character, was a welcome addition to the performance. As Astley had expected, his new formula enjoyed immediate success. With that, a new form of entertainment had been created: the circus as we know it was born.
As in the theater, the extracurricular additions to Astley's show were just that, additions, and the performances at Astley's Riding School remained principally of an equestrian nature. But the great British actor and manager, David Garrick, who, as Astley was rising to fame, was at the eve of his brilliant theatrical career, had already planted the seeds of secession between the theater and other performing arts. To Garrick, whose work had been essential in bringing Shakespeare's plays back to the forefront of the British theatrical tradition, the exhibition of visual entertainers on a theater stage was a sacrilege: "nothing but downright starving would induce me to bring such defilement and abomination to the house of William Shakespeare." Eventually banned from the legit stage, visual entertainers would find in the circus a welcome and ideal refuge.
When not performing in London during the spring and summer seasons, Astley traveled. The success of his exhibitions led him to construct wooden amphitheaters all around the United Kingdom—which soon won him the nickname "Amphi-Philip." The first of these amphitheaters was erected in 1773 in Dublin, Ireland. The following year, Astley's son, John, had his first "benefitSpecial performance whose entire profit went to a performer; the number of benefits a performer was offered (usually one, but sometimes more for a star performer during a long engagement) was stipulated in his contract. Benefits disappeared in the early twentieth century." there as an equestrian—at age seven. (A "benefitSpecial performance whose entire profit went to a performer; the number of benefits a performer was offered (usually one, but sometimes more for a star performer during a long engagement) was stipulated in his contract. Benefits disappeared in the early twentieth century." was a gala performance whose entire profit was given to a performer; a benefitSpecial performance whose entire profit went to a performer; the number of benefits a performer was offered (usually one, but sometimes more for a star performer during a long engagement) was stipulated in his contract. Benefits disappeared in the early twentieth century. was often included in a star performer's contract)
Astley's Success
Inevitably, success brought competition. In 1772, one of Astley's former equestrians, the ambitious and talented Charles Hughes, opened his own Hughes' Riding School not far from Astley's, on Blackfriars Road. Hughes's show was practically a carbon copy of Astley's, and the competition became fierce, generating widespread interest and, consequently, good business. It also caught the attention of the Magistrates of Surrey County, who closed both shows in July 1773 because neither had secured the proper license to perform. Hughes then embarked on a long European tour, but Astley, who had just purchased his piece of land, secured a license for the next season and resumed his British tours. At the time, licensing issues constantly plagued theater entrepreneurs who lacked a Royal Patent–which was the vast majoruty of them. The patented theatres (Covent Garden, Drury Lane, and the Haymarket) made sure it remained so.
In 1774, Philip Astley performed his "feats of horsemanship" for the first time in Paris, at the Manège de Razade, rue des Vieilles Tuileries. The event is of some importance, since in the years to come Paris would become Astley's second home.
In the winter 1778-79, Astley added a roof to his amphitheatre, which allowed him to perform in the winter season and to give evening performances—to the annoyance of the London patentees, with whom he was now in direct competition. He reopened the house in January 1779 under a new name, Astley's Amphitheatre Riding House. The show offered the usual fare of equestrian and acrobatic acts, clowns and pantomimes, but Philip Astley didn't appear on the bill in his "feats of horsemanship." At age 38, he had retired from performing as a bareback rider, but remained with the show as its Equestrian Director, or, in modern terminology, its Ringmaster—a function he created for himself.
Astley vs. the Royal CircusCharles Hughes, returned to London after an eight-year tour of Europe. Hughes partnered with Charles Dibdin, a prolific songwriter and librettist. With the help of a syndicate of London backers, the two men began building a brand-new amphitheatre, this time in stone, on a piece of land located at the crossroads of the three thoroughfares leading to the three bridges serving London (Westminster, Blackfriars, and London Bridge). The place, known as St. George's Circus, had in its center an obelisk that was a well-known landmark. Again, Hughes had moved his operation into the vicinity of Astley's Amphitheatre.
The Royal Circus, Equestrian and Philharmonic Academy—as it was pompously named (it would later be known simply as "Hughes' Royal Circus")—opened November 4, 1782. The first modern amphitheatre to bear the title "circus," it was an elegant structure whose ornate house included a fully equipped theater stage and a circus ring 36'6" in diameter (about 11.15 meters). The idea, in the words of Dibdin, was that "the business of the ring and the stage might be united." The configuration provided a way to give a more prominent place to pantomimes (Dibdin's specialty), but with the addition of an equestrian element that would eventually lead to the development of circus "hippodramas." The stage and ring arrangement devised by Dibdin and Hughes became the standard for practically all circus buildings until the second half of the nineteenth century.
With the success of Hughes' Royal Circus, Astley lost his monopoly. Thereafter, he had to contend with serious competition. Luckily for him, neither Dibdin nor Hughes were fiscally competent, and the group formed by the two directors, the circus's shareholders, and their landowners—the West family—proved to be incredibly dysfunctional. Hughes died at the end of 1797. By then the West family had repossessed the Royal Circus and, in 1794, leased it to James Jones and George Jones, whose company had included for a while John Bill Ricketts, a talented pupil of Charles Hughes who was to open the first American circus. Between 1781 and 1794, the Royal Circus had been racked by ceaseless internal feuds (Dibdin was forced out in 1785), plagued by licensing problems and near-bankruptcies, and gradually fell into a state of disrepair. In 1804, a fire badly damaged the building. After extensive renovations, the Royal Circus focused mostly on theatrical offerings. In 1810, it was converted into a full-fledged theatre.
Astley Expands
Throughout this period, Astley had no difficulty retaining his supremacy in the nascent circus business. On July 5, 1782, he opened the Manège Anglois (the old French spelling for "anglais"), a roofless enclosure on the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. He left Paris at the end of August, having met with considerable success—thanks in large part to his son, John, who had become the true star of the show. Astley returned to the same location the following summer, and John Astley was commanded to perform at the court of Queen Marie-Antoinette at Versailles. The performance resulted in the issuance of a Royal Privilege enabling Philip Astley to open a permanent amphitheatre in Paris. He purchased the lot where he had performed for two summers and there built a wooden amphitheatre, with an address at 16 rue du Faubourg du Temple, practically at the corner of the Boulevard. The Amphithéâtre Anglais des Sieurs Astley, père et fils opened its doors on October 16, 1783.
Philip Astley was now running simultaneously, with the help of his son, two permanent amphitheatres in two different capitals—and he would soon obtain a Royal Patent for a third ampitheatre, this one in Dublin, Ireland, which he erected on Peter Street. It opened in 1789. That same year, the French Revolution forced him to vacate his Parisian amphitheatre, which he leased to various theater companies and, starting in 1791, to Antonio Franconi, the Italian "father" of the French circus. Despite the permanent performance spaces, Astley's circus company still regularly toured the United Kingdom, laying in temporary wooden structures, which sometimes became semi-permanent provincial bases.
Astley's New Amphitheatre of the Arts and the Olympic Pavilion
The Royal Grove was no more. Astley quickly obtained his discharge from the military and returned to London to rebuild it. This was done in record time: Astley's New Amphitheatre of the Arts was ready for the 1795 season, which commenced, as usual, on Easter Monday.
In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, Astley returned to Paris and regained possession of his amphitheatre on Rue du Faubourg du Temple. The following year, his new London amphitheatre was again consumed by a fire. This was unfortunately the fate of many theatres at the time. Mostly built of wood, with stage areas doubling as storage space for highly flammable wood-and-painted canvas scenery, props, and even fireworks, the buildings were lit by open flames. Perhaps it is more surprising that they survived at all than that they burned down so frequently.
The Amphitheatre was rebuilt again in 1803, this time following the now-classic model of Hughes's Royal Circus, with a house lavishly decorated by the famous Scottish scene painter John Henderson Grieve, and a full theatre stage, which was said to be the largest in London. That same year, Philip Astley, who had practically reached the status of living legend, was commissioned to design a fireworks display on the Thames for King George III's birthday.
Astley was now more than ever in royal favor. In 1805, he obtained a license to build yet another circus, this time in London proper, at the corner of Newcastle and Wych Streets, in the Strand. The Olympic Pavilion opened on September 18, 1806. It was a substantial building, equipped with an equestrian ring reportedly wider than those of Astley's or the Royal Circus, and a full theatre stage. But Astley's new circus never took off. It changed name, look, it became a theatre—nothing helped. Astley lost a considerable amount of money in this last venture. He sold the Pavilion in 1813.
Philip Astley died from stomach ailments in his Parisian home, Rue du Faubourg du Temple, on October 20, 1814. He was seventy-two years old. He was buried at the Mont-Louis Cemetery in Paris (today the Père Lachaise Cemetery, where his grave, unfortunately, is no longer visible). His will asked that all his Parisian properties be sold and for the proceeds to go to his son, John, who also inherited the amphitheatre at Stangate Street. John Philip Conway Astley survived his father by only seven years.
On November 1, 2015, a life-size statue of Philip Astley by the sculptor Andrew Edwards and the members of the Royal Doulton School of Sculpture was unveiled at the Newcastle-under-Lyme College's Performing Arts Centre in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Astley's birthplace—a long overdue tribut to a major figure in the history of Performing Arts.
Suggested Reading
- Jacob Decastro, The Memoirs of Jacob Decastro, Comedian (London, Sherwood, Jones & Co., 1824)
- Maurice Willson Disher, Greatest Show On Earth (London, G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1937)
- Mike Rendell, Astley's Circus — The story of an English Hussar (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014) — ISBN 978-1490496887


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At my home we're fighting clutter, which means taking a hard look at the stuff my wife and I have accumulated over our 40-plus years each and giving away what we no longer use. And that's quite a lot. There's something freeing about clearing out space and opening a room to feng shui it or you never knew. I also like the idea of passing something on that will be appreciated and used actively by others.
My collection of media is largely audio-related, but I'm lucky enough to have a dedicated room to house yards of records, compact discs and vintage and newer audio gear. The living room, however, is another matter. It's cozy and smallish, with enough room for a TV stand and side speakers at most. There's too much furniture and two dogs to make a 5.1 or bigger system feasible, so a virtual surround soundbar system is a good compromise. Such a setup offers an improved sound experience for movies, yet doesn't send webs of wires across the space.
Boston Acoustics latest soundbar offering is the TVee Model 20, a soundbar/wireless subwoofer pair that can deliver 100 watts without electronic sprawl. The soundbar's slim profile (3-3/4 by 31 by 4 inches) fits nicely with 32-inch TVs and larger. It can be placed in front of a TV or wall-mounted via a pair of keyhole brackets above or below a set, though no mounting hardware is included. A pair of 1-1/2 by 6-inch HHRT (Hyperbolic High Rigidity Transducer) drivers serve the soundbar.
The 6-inch down-firing subwoofer can be moved with ease, and its placement is limited only by the proximity of a power outlet. Boston Acoustics recommends keeping the sub within 15 feet of the soundbar, near a corner and on the same side of the room of the soundbar, which makes sense, particularly since the two speakers must work together to generate some simile of surround sound. The two make an easy-to-connect and use 2.1 system. Like so many home theater products, the Model 20 comes in black only.
The 20 offers quick setup, with just one pair of line-level inputs and a power cord. Boston supplies the RCA cables, which can be connected directly to a TV's line-level outputs. You can then use your TV's existing remote to control the Model 20, using the soundbar's Learning Function. In a couple steps, the soundbar integrates with the remote providing control over volume and muting. Once powered up, the soundbar and subwoofer automatically establish a wireless connection.
For perspective, it's important to remember that the Model 20 is not a surround unit; rather, think of it as an upgrade to an existing two-channel system – i.e., the crappy speakers built in to your existing TV set – with the added sonic boom of a subwoofer.
The Model 20 impressed me most playing back sports and movies with big soundtracks. 2010's NCAA men's basketball tournament was one for the ages, eventually pinning little-known Butler against perennial powerhouse Duke. That final game was just one piece of a remarkable puzzle, and I enjoyed the event even more as the sounds of collegiate hoops ran through my living room. The Model 20 brought out the bounce in the ball, the squeak of sneakers on wood and the between-play antics of numerous bands blasting horns and pounding drums to support their respective teams. The soundbar provides the sizzle while the sub gives it a beating heart. It's lively and immediate but falls short of re-creating the holographic-like sound images of a true surround setup. That's not a criticism, just an expected shortcoming of the design.
I try and reserve at least one day each spring to watch part of The Masters golf tournament. This year's event could have been overshadowed by the much-anticipated return of Tiger Woods; instead, fans were treated to spectacular golf and plenty of back-and-forth lead changes until near the end. As I watched the tournament, I realized how much I enjoyed not just watching golf but listening to golf, too. The sounds of the game are often subtle: a driver striking a ball off the tee, an iron shot clipping grass, a golfer pleading for a wayward shot to straighten or the sound of a ball dropping into the cup all tantalize the ears as the eyes try to follow. Then there are the sounds from the gallery, as collective cheers, gasps and groans spring up from hundreds of fans as shots fall in or fall apart. Those sounds all give golf a buzz unlike any other sport and make watching an admittedly slow-moving event even more captivating. The Model 20 brought me closer to the event, letting me share the highs and lows with the players and spectators with a sense of immediacy and being there.
Kevin Spacey portrays the life of singer/songwriter Bobby Darin in the 2004 musical drama Beyond The Sea. The film features Spacey singing Darin's parts with a style and delivery that sometimes goes beyond convincing and seems to conjure up the spirit and voice of Darin himself. The life of Darin, from teen star to Big Band vocalist to folk rocker, is spiced with a rich soundtrack that's particularly tasty during the Big Band segments. Crisp highs and mids from the soundbar work nicely with the bass thump of the sub to extend what could be a ho-hum two-channel experience into something much more realistic and exciting. In fact, some scenes brought such a musical swell that I had to turn the volume down. The soundbar plays louder than I would ever require in a smaller space, but the sweet spot doesn't really extend beyond its width.
The Model 20 has some downsides. With just one set of audio inputs – and no digital optical or digital coaxial inputs – you must connect to a TV with analog outputs. Also, the subwoofer works only with the supplied soundbar. Lastly, although you can connect a DVD or Blu-ray player to the Model 20 via the analog inputs, sound will be limited to two-channel audio regardless of the disc's surround formatting.
Final Thoughts
I came away impressed with the Model 20's easy-to-use design and platform and enjoyed the improved sonics. I recommend it as a low-cost solution for smaller living rooms, dens and even bedrooms. It will substantially improve the sound of your TV and movies, and you won't have to sacrifice a room or a day to install it. The Model 20 is available for purchase ($299.99) direct from Boston Acoustics' Web site, www.bostonacoustics.com. Along with Boston's 30-day in-home trial, the company covers shipping both ways should you choose to return for any reason.


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NME named Grimes the #1 Most Exciting New Band of 2012 — never mind that she's been making music since 2006, it seems Claire Boucher's time has finally come. Self-taught, the 23-year-old writes and produces all her own music, and her ethereal, somewhat creepy vocals create a sound that could be described as Mariah produced by Burial on PCP.
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You can judge an actor or musician's level of fame by how easy they are to access for a phone interview. If it's someone who's on their way up, you're often just given their phone number and told to call them at the appointed time. This is also the case when it is someone who is on the way down. Once I was supposed to interview Paul Reubens — the comedian best known as Pee-wee Herman — but before I could call him, he called me. A couple of times. I wrote down his number from the message he left me, and called him back later at home.
For a while after the interview, I kept the number on a pink Post-it note stuck to my computer: 'Paul', and then ten digits separated by three dashes. It made me smile when I was having a bad day. "Well, Kate," that pink Post-it seemed to say, "you've kind of made it — you do have Pee-wee Herman's phone number."
But no such thing will happen with Grimes. With the release of her third solo album, Visions, Boucher is the music industry's current crush. Though she is in San Francisco and I am in Philadelphia when we speak, the call is routed through Australia, the resulting bad connection serving as a sign that she is not an artist who is on the way up, but rather an artist who has arrived.
Boucher is handling the sudden spotlight with equal amounts self-assurance and wonder. "Sitting down and doing production is pretty standard for me," she says, "but this is the part that is unexpected: going places I never thought I would go, and playing in crazy locations. I went to Mexico last year to play a show; I did a lot of acid and went to the pyramids at Teotihuacan. There was nobody there, it was just me and my friends and we climbed to the top of these ancient pyramids, just totally ripped on acid." This isn't the kind of thing you normally hear in an interview that begins with a PR person reminding you that "you've got 15 minutes."
Boucher continues. "We're looking out on miles and miles of Mexican wilderness from this incredible ancient structure. I'm really, really, really afraid of heights, but just for that day only, I was not afraid. I just remember feeling really free about being so high — I mean, like, up in the air! Not on…" she trails off, laughing. "Like, high on a structure, and not feeling totally terrified. I was just, like, scaling the sides of pyramids and climbing. I don't know how high in the air I was, but it was so, so, so big. It was so cool."
Boucher grew up in Vancouver, a city that she describes as very segregated and weird, but also "kind of cool, because you can go to Chinatown and get a crucified lizard and tonnes of Pokémon cards." As a teenager she was what she describes as a "second-wave goth", meaning she dressed in black, listened to Marilyn Manson and The Smashing Pumpkins, and hung around being generally emo. "My high school was, like, suuuuuuper Sweet Valley High," she says, drawing her words out to emphasise them. "There were the cheerleaders and the jocks, and the goths and the smokers. Everyone had their clique. It felt like a movie. You had to identify strongly with one of the crews, so I became a goth."
She began making music on her bedroom floor while she was an art student at McGill University in Montreal, a school she was eventually kicked out of for skipping too many classes. "I pretty much worked on [music] in the middle of the night, because I was working and going to school also," she says. "I shared an apartment with a bunch of my friends. My roommate and I just had a curtain between us, and she hated me because I was always recording and she could hear everything. It was pretty basic. I didn't have any furniture, and just recorded with the mic on my computer."
Boucher's high-pitched vocals have the frequency of a hummingbird, soaring and darting above loops and beats that can occasionally sound like both industrial jungle and Top 40 pop. Visions has the same kind of beauty as an oil-slicked parking lot in the rain: shimmering rainbows that exist because — not in spite — of the underlying grime.
The album isn't easily categorised, which is exactly what Boucher wanted. "It is definitely an album that you could listen to alone when you're going to bed, but it is also an album that can be played at a party," she says. "It depends on what you want out of it, but that was kind of the goal: to make something that could go both ways. I think everything comes down to confidence. Anything delivered with confidence can be good. There is nothing that is bad. There is no genre of music that is inherently shitty. You can make something good if you approach it with enough gusto, and what I'm trying to do is combine the aesthetics of manufactured pop music, which obviously appeal to people super strongly — myself included — and make it more meaningful and more experimental."
Boucher's aesthetics are a strong part of Grimes. She illustrates her own album covers with ink drawings that take from heavy metal, skateboard graphics, aliens, drugs and everything else that influences your typical high-school hellion scrawling in the margins of her notebook. She has also talked of making a video for every song on Visions, and does much of her own choreography. "Grimes is really just everything that I do artistically," she says. "The visual art is part of it, but I feel like I'm just better at making music and can make more of a name for myself from it. But everything comes together to make it happen."
As for her distinct look — short, severe bangs that could be black, blonde, pink, or green; a penchant for unusual outfits; self-done tattoos; and paint smeared across her face — which has already made her a fashion-world favourite, she shrugs it off as a side note. "It's all just like decorations, it's not even that I think about it that much," she says. "It's just that I've always liked making clothes and trying to do something different with them."
A few years ago, the term 'pop' connoted saccharine princesses like Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears: blonde nymphs coached for fame from an early age. Then Britney shaved her head and the rest of the world fell apart too. Now the pop stage is ruled by stars like Lady Gaga and Rihanna, the former exhibiting a very scripted darkness and the latter a painfully real one. It's not impossible to imagine Grimes fitting in there somewhere between Björk and Katy Perry.
Boucher is already at work on her next album. "Every album I make will be different. The main thing of the project is to not be stagnant," she says. "[The next one] is definitely dance music and it's definitely pop, but I think it's a lot more aggressive than Visions, and way more hi-fi." (Visions was famously recorded in GarageBand.)
To me, everything about Grimes seems futuristic, as though Visions is just that: a taste of what's to come. I ask Boucher what she actually thinks the future holds. "There might be an internet backlash, where people start reading a lot. I would like to see something like that happen." She pauses. "I honestly feel like the future is just going to be really fucking bleak and everyone is going to die of cancer. If we don't change things very severely and very fast, it's just going to be totally, totally fucked up. That's my opinion on the matter. It's not the most optimistic of opinions." She sounds almost apologetic about this, and I am about to assure her that it's OK — but then that voice comes on the line to tell us that the interview is over.


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Finally "PEDRO" the quadruped robot has taken it's first steps outside of simulation... Admittedly it suffers from the shakes and falls over continually, but it is still a milestone.
I finished the Microsoft Robotics Studio control service to the point where it can send out regular servo position updates over the wifi link to the robot, taking direction from the quadruped differential drive service which implements the walking algorithm.
Here's a short video of the shaky movements;
Obviously there is a lot to improve upon. The balance and stability control aspects of the software, although they worked ok in the simulation environment, are obviously not working too well on the physical robot. I will definitely improve these, but I'm more worried at the moment about making the servo movements a lot more smooth than they are now.
I was initially sending servo position and speed updates (via a SYNC WRITE command on the dynamixel network to the AX-12 servos) at only 10Hz, and the first thing I tried was increasing the rate of updates. Even increasing the rate to 50Hz or even 100Hz didn't improve things much. I also removed the speed control code and used a AX-12 speed register setting of zero which represents maximum speed with not much effect. A quick look at the AX-12 data stream using the completely cool and now indispensable logic analyser showed the root cause of the problem - relatively large amounts of jitter in the timing of the AX-12 packets.
So next I'll be working on improving this aspect so the robot can have smooth movements. Although some people have managed to cram inverse kinematics and other trig type calculations into Atmel AVR micros similar to those on the PEDRO robot, I think I would rather keep the robot platform as independent from the control methodology as possible to allow for completely novel approaches to be implemented on desktop computers and quickly tested. So step one will be to use more accurate timing within the Microsoft Robotics Studio code. Rather than use the TimeoutPort mechanism provided which according to online sources can have 16-20ms jitter (apparently improved in MRDS 2.0) I will use change the code to use timing based on the multimedia timer which should give much more accurate results.
Mind you I expect this will only be step 1, because there are many sources of varying latency in my robot system - wifi, processing delays on board the robot, SPI comms between the main micro and the AVR handling the servo comms etc. So I am thinking I might put a queuing system onto the AVR which handles the servo comms, and rather than just passing data onto the servo bus as soon as it is received, I might actually decode the AX-12 packets and buffer them so I can resend them out at precise intervals. If the buffer holds only a few packets then the delay between the PC end and the actual robot movement won't be that great (maybe 100ms?). I will have to make the rate that the packets are taken from the buffer and sent out to the AX servo bus adjustable with a long term average, so that the micro can tolerate timing differences between the PC end and the micro. For example if the PC end is sending out packets on an average interval of 20.4ms and the micro expects packets at exactly 20ms and is taking packets out of the queue at that rate, then the queue will eventually empty. If the micro measures the average arrival timing of the incoming packets and adjusts its interrupt driven timer for precisely sending out packets accordingly, then the buffer will stay more or less at its intended size.


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Charity group Cancer Research UK has come under fire from angry consumers after its latest awareness campaign: 'Keep Calm and Regularly Check Your Prostate', was blasted as taking the popular 'Keep Calm and…' theme beyond its logical limits.
Activist and Consumer Action Group spokesman Howard Slead has accused Cancer Research UK of 'really taking the Mickey.' 'Over the last few years posters, T-shirts and albums have encouraged the British consumer to keep calm and chill out, have a cuppa, eat a muffin and so on ad-nauseum,' he said. 'Come on guys; I support the fight against prostate cancer as much as the next man, but you could at least do something original rather than cling to the same tired old meme as everyone else.'
The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' phenomenon first occurred in 2000 after the discovery of an original 1939 poster, designed to calm the population in the event of a Nazi occupation. Since then the slogan has been adapted for thousands of mainly 'humorous' uses. However, according to Slead, the public's appetite for such Blitz-spirit whimsy is on the wane. 'I can see how such a slogan can lift the spirits, be it in the face of economic disaster or the imminent threat of Jackbooted invaders,' he admitted, 'but it's been twelve years now and the novelty is really wearing thin – in fact there's a brand new zeitgeist for you right there: 'this is really wearing a bit thin'.'
Cultural historian Professor Nigel Faraday also believes the time is right for change. 'There are hundreds of other wartime-era posters that organisations, businesses and advertising agencies can bandwagon into annoyingly ubiquitous catchphrases. 'Dig for Victory' could be adopted by the Allotments Association; 'Is Your Journey Really Necessary?' might become a motto for Central Trains, while 'Loose lips Sink ships' could be adapted for Costa Cruises for example.'
With pressure groups calling for Cancer Research UK to rethink their publicity strategy and angry crowds gathering outside their London headquarters, the government has been forced to step in, with The Right Honourable Francis Maude MP calling for understanding and restraint. 'All this fuss over a catchphrase – there really are more important things to get indignant about you know? My advice is just to keep calm and – oh, I've just made things worse again haven't I?'


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This is the last year of Bears wide receiver Johnny Knox's rookie contract, but it isn't necessarily the end of his time with the Bears.
Knox hasn't been activated from the physically unable to perform list, and isn't expected to be by today's deadline, according to Brad Biggs of the Chicago Tribune. But a provision in the CBA allows teams to retain the rights to players who spend the entire year on PUP for the following season.
That's different from players who spend the year on injured reserve, whose contracts can expire and the can go look for work as free agents.
But the Bears have stuck by Knox, a fifth-round pick in 2009 with deep ball ability, through a long rehab from neck surgery. He suffered the initial injury last December against the Seahawks, and needed spinal fusion surgery. He said last month he still hadn't run full speed.
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Grumpy Cat, the Internet feline celebrity known for her disdainful expression, has a movie deal.
Broken Road Productions, the company behind the Kevin James vehicle "Paul Blart Mall Cop" and the Adam Sandler movie "Jack and Jill," has optioned the rights to make a film based on Grumpy Cat's persona.
Grumpy Cat will speak in the film, a la the 2004 live action Garfield movie.
A mixed breed owned by Arizona resident Tabatha Bundesen, Grumpy Cat's real name is Tardar Sauce (yes, that's how it's spelled). The dour-faced kitty first found acclaim after a family member posted a picture of her on Reddit last fall, prompting users to photoshop captions such as, "I am disappointed by your lack of sales" and "I hope all of your 2013 dreams end up shattering like glass on the rocks of reality."
Grumpy Cat's subsequent rise has been nothing short of meteoric. In March she appeared on "Good Morning America," on the Friskies game show, "Will Kitty Play With It?" and at the South by Southwest Interactive convention in Austin, Texas, where fans lined up to take a photo with the famous feline. She also has a forthcoming book, "Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book: Disgruntled Tips and Activities Designed to Put a Frown on Your Face," from Chronicle Books, a 2014 calendar and T-shirts for sale.
Grumpy Cat is not the only feline enjoying big-screen treatment of late -- "Lil Bub and Friendz," a documentary about a runt kitten born to a feral mother, premiered at the Tribeca Film festival in April, and "Santa Claws," a movie about kittens who deliver the Christmas presents when Santa has an allergy attack, was for sale at the Cannes Film Festival market this month.


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Standard ECMA-253
Private Integrated Services Network (PISN)
- Mapping Functions for the Employment of 64 kbit/s Circuit
Mode Connections with 16 kbit/s Sub-Multiplexing (Mapping/16)
2nd edition (September 2000)
This Standard defines the mapping functions in exchanges of Private
Integrated Services Networks (PISNs) required for the utilization
of scenarios in which 64 kbit/s circuit mode connections are sub-multiplexed
into 4 x 16 kbit/s channels for carrying inter-PINX signalling
and user information.
This Standard has been prepared to meet the specific needs of
an application for a particular user organisation. However, it
may also be applicable elsewhere. The requirements contained in
this Standard will be incorporated in any future standard specifying
a more generic approach to bearer conditioning.
In order to connect a Private Integrated Services Network Exchange
(PINX) to another PINX, mapping functions are required to adapt
the specific interfaces at the C reference point to the application
at the Q reference point. As such, mapping functions provide for
physical adaptation to the interface at the C reference point.
Mapping functions also provide for the mapping of user channels
and signalling information at the Q reference point to the appropriate
channels or timeslots at the C reference point.
The C and Q reference points are defined in ECMA-133.
The type of interface at the C reference point covered by this
Standard is the 64 kbit/s Unrestricted Digital Leased Line (D64U)
Terminal Equipment Interface, in accordance with ITU-T Rec. G.703.
At the Q reference point the mapping provides a 16 kbit/s service
for user channels to support the transfer of unrestricted digital
information and to support the transfer of speech, and a packet
mode service for the signalling channel. The applied mapping is
a static mapping, i.e. there is a fixed relationship between user
and signalling channels at the Q reference point and the interface
at the C reference point.
Management functions relating to failure management are outside
the scope of this Standard.
This Standard is applicable to PINXs that can be interconnected
to form a Private Integrated Services Network (PISN) and that
support signalling protocols at the Q reference point.
The following file can be freely downloaded:
This Ecma publication is also approved as ISO/IEC 17310.
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By Steve Freidell
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When you climb into your sleeper berth, tired from a long haul, do you reflect back on how hard your job is? Do you think about the miles you have traveled to ensure your customer's load made it safely to its destination on time? Do you think about all the bills you've got to pay?
Of course you do. But how often do you think about rewarding yourself for a job well done? Probably not all that often.
Most people pay their bills, their mortgage, their car/truck/trailer payments, fuel bills, and yet when the month is over, there is nothing left over to pay themselves. Why toil along the empty highways only to get shortchanged at the end of the month? Why haul endless load after endless load, only to see endless bills arrive in the mail? Why do people do this? Well, it's because they fail to pay themselves first.
You would never knowingly drive across country and not get paid, but many of you will knowingly pay every bill and leave nothing to pay yourself. You are the most important piece of your business. You are more important than any bill, any mortgage, truck, house, etc. It's important for you to understand that if you don't pay yourself first, you will always be working for your truck instead of your truck working for you.
We have discussed at length ways to create a budget, eliminate credit card bills, and reduce your mortgage, but all of these are wasted efforts if you spend every dime you bring home. Our society has conditioned us to buy now what we can't afford. Credit card companies bombard us daily with "priceless" moments of why we should spend money that we shouldn't. Advertising assaults our minds daily with reasons to buy now. Our country is in this mess because we all did too much spending.
Paying yourself first begins with every check or payment you receive for your services. Only you can decide on an amount that compensates you for your efforts. Most people wish that amount was 100 percent of their check; in reality, it's probably between 10 percent and 15 percent. Take the amount you decide and place that in a savings account requiring two signatures to get the money out.
Choose a person who is more dedicated than you toward savings and who can say no when you ask for some of that money. Perhaps it's your spouse, or maybe it's one of your parents. Whomever you choose, it's important that they understand that the money you are co-entrusting them with is for emergencies only. Decide in advance what those emergencies are and put them in writing.
Continue to accumulate these funds until you have totaled six months of take-home pay. Then find bank accounts that allow you to put some of the money into CDs or other safe, long-term investments. They will not allow daily liquidity, but will allow periodic access to the funds if needed. When you complete the first six months of savings, start on the second.
By this time you should have made a major dent, if not eliminated your credit card debt completely. You have a workable monthly budget and have provided your family with everything they need, but have eliminated the fluff in your daily shopping activities.
You will soon discover what enjoyable employment is all about. Each load you haul, each mile you drive results in a completely different feeling.
Gone will be the days of drudgery where you worry about that mortgage. Instead, your concern will be about building your business and your family. You will look forward more than ever to getting home and seeing your family, even if it means you take a few days off. You earned it, so reward yourself.
Look for additional ways to reward yourself. Treat your family to a nice weekend getaway. Put some excess money away for your children's education. Start paying down your mortgage early so you are no longer a slave to your mortgage company.
Never forget: You are your business's most valuable employee, and you should be treated as such. LL
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I've certainly made stuffed dates before - I've even featured them on my blog - but somehow I wasn't overly impressed. Then, a month or so ago, we had a little party after one of my yoga classes, and one of my students brought dates stuffed with almond butter and topped with cocoa nibs. It was a revelation! It was love at first bite!
Give me your stuffed date recipes! What are you favorite combos? Now that I am such a little nut for these things, I'm eager to experiment with more varieties. Plus, I've got two more weeks of this class and I'm gonna need lots of dates to get me through!


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All about: Andehist DM NR
Generic Name: carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine (kar bi NOX a meen/dex troe meh THOR fan/soo doe eh FEH drin)
Brand Names: Andehist DM NR, Carbaxef-DM, Carbofed DM Drops, Cordron-DM NR, Decahist-DM, Mintex DM, Pediatex-DM, PSE Allergy DM, PSE Carb DM Drops, PSE Carbinoxamine DM, Pseudo Carb DM
What is Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine)?
Carbinoxamine is an antihistamine that reduces the natural chemical histamine in the body. Histamine can produce symptoms of sneezing, itching, watery eyes, and runny nose.
Dextromethorphan is a cough suppressant. It suppresses an area in the brain that causes coughing.
Pseudoephedrine is a decongestant that shrinks blood vessels in the nasal passages. Dilated blood vessels can cause nasal congestion (stuffy nose).
The combination of carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine is used to treat sneezing, cough, runny or stuffy nose, itchy or watery eyes, hives, skin rash, itching, and other symptoms of allergies and the common cold.
Carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.
What is the most important information I should know about Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine)?Always ask a doctor before giving a cold or allergy medicine to a child, even if the medicine label provides dosing instructions for children. Death can occur from the misuse of cough and cold medicines in very young children. Do not use carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) within the past 14 days. Serious, life-threatening side effects can occur if you take carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine before the MAO inhibitor has cleared from your body. Carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be awake and alert. Avoid drinking alcohol. It can increase some of the side effects of this medication.
Call your doctor if you have a fever, or if your symptoms get worse or do not improve after taking this medicine for 7 days.
Do not take this product for cough caused by smoking, asthma, or emphysema. Do not take this medicine if your cough produces a lot of mucus, unless your doctor has told you to.
What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine)?Do not use carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) within the past 14 days. Serious, life-threatening side effects can occur if you take carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine before the MAO inhibitor has cleared from your body.
Before taking this medication, tell your doctor if you are allergic to carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, or pseudoephedrine, or if you have:
- kidney disease;
- liver disease;
heart disease or high blood pressure;
thyroid disease;
a stomach ulcer or a stomach obstruction,
emphysema or chronic bronchitis; or
an enlarged prostate or urination problems.
If you have any of these conditions, you may not be able to use carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine, or you may need a dosage adjustment or special tests during treatment.FDA pregnancy category C. This medication may be harmful to an unborn baby. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment. Carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine can pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. Do not use this medication without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby.
Artificially-sweetened liquid forms of cold medicine may contain phenylalanine. This would be important to know if you have phenylketonuria (PKU). Check the ingredients and warnings on the medication label if you are concerned about phenylalanine.
How should I take Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine)?
Take this medication exactly as it was prescribed for you. Do not take the medication in larger amounts, or take it for longer than recommended by your doctor. Follow the directions on your prescription label. Cold medicine is usually taken only for a short time until your symptoms clear up.Always ask a doctor before giving a cold or allergy medicine to a child, even if the medicine label provides dosing intructions for children. Death can occur from the misuse of cough and cold medicines in very young children.
Measure the liquid medicine with a special dose-measuring spoon or cup, not a regular table spoon. If you do not have a dose-measuring device, ask your pharmacist where you can get one.
Call your doctor if you have a fever, or if your symptoms get worse or do not improve after taking this medicine for 7 days.Store the medication at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
What happens if I miss a dose?
Since cough and cold medicine is usually taken only as needed, you may not be on a dosing schedule. If you are taking the medication regularly, take the missed dose as soon as you remember. If it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and take the medicine at your next regularly scheduled time. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
What happens if I overdose?Seek emergency medical attention if you think you have used too much of this medicine.
Symptoms of a carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine overdose may include extreme drowsiness, confusion, feeling restless or nervous, blurred vision, dry mouth, nausea, vomiting, restlessness, hallucinations, fainting, and seizure (convulsions).
What should I avoid while taking Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine)?This medication can cause side effects that may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be awake and alert. Avoid drinking alcohol. It can increase some of the side effects of this medication. Do not use any other over-the-counter cough, cold, allergy, or sleep medication without first asking your doctor or pharmacist. Antihistamines, decongestants, and cough suppressants are contained in many medicines available over the counter. If you take certain products together you may accidentally take too much of one or more types of medicine. Read the label of any other medicine you are using to see if it contains an antihistamine, decongestant, or cough suppressant.
Avoid using other medicines that make you sleepy (such as cold medicine, pain medication, muscle relaxers, and medicine for seizures, depression or anxiety). They can add to sleepiness caused by carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine.
Avoid taking diet pills, caffeine pills, or other stimulants (such as ADHD medications) without your doctor's advice. Taking a stimulant together with a decongestant can increase your risk of unpleasant side effects.
Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine) side effectsGet emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat. Stop using this medication and call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects:
feeling light-headed, fainting;
urinating less than usual or not at all;
wheezing, tightness in your chest;
severe dizziness, anxiety, restless feeling, or nervousness;
easy bruising or bleeding, unusual weakness, fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms; or
increased blood pressure (severe headache, blurred vision, trouble concentrating, chest pain, numbness, seizure).
Continue taking this medication and talk to your doctor if you have any of these less serious side effects:
drowsiness, dizziness;
lack of coordination;
upset stomach;
stuffy nose, chest congestion;
sleep problems (insomnia);
feeling restless or excited (especially in children);
dry mouth or nose; or
blurred vision.
Side effects other than those listed here may also occur. Talk to your doctor about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially bothersome.
What other drugs will affect Andehist DM NR (carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine)?
Before taking carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine, tell your doctor if you are using any of the following drugs:
a diuretic (water pill), or blood pressure medicine;
medication to treat irritable bowel syndrome;
bladder or urinary medications such as oxybutynin (Ditropan, Oxytrol) or tolterodine (Detrol);
aspirin or salicylates (such as Disalcid, Doan's Pills, Dolobid, Salflex, Tricosal, and others);
a beta-blocker such as atenolol (Tenormin), carteolol (Cartrol), metoprolol (Lopressor, Toprol), nadolol (Corgard), propranolol (Inderal), sotalol (Betapace), timolol (Blocadren), and others; or
antidepressants such as amitriptyline (Elavil), clomipramine (Anafranil), imipramine (Janimine, Tofranil), and others.
If you are using any of these drugs, you may not be able to use carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine, or you may need dosage adjustments or special tests during treatment.
There may be other drugs that can affect carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine. Tell your doctor about all the prescription and over-the-counter medications you use. This includes vitamins, minerals, herbal products, and drugs prescribed by other doctors. Do not start using a new medication without telling your doctor.
Where can I get more information?
- Your pharmacist has additional information about carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine written for health professionals that you may read.
What does my medication look like?
Carbinoxamine, dextromethorphan, and pseudoephedrine is available with a prescription under many different brand names. Generic formulations may also be available. Ask your pharmacist any questions you have about this medication, especially if it is new to you.
- Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.
- Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided by Cerner Multum, Inc. ('Multum') is accurate, up-to-date, and complete, but no guarantee is made to that effect. Drug information contained herein may be time sensitive. Multum information has been compiled for use by healthcare practitioners and consumers in the United States and therefore Multum does not warrant that uses outside of the United States are appropriate, unless specifically indicated otherwise. Multum's drug information does not endorse drugs, diagnose patients or recommend therapy. Multum's drug information is an informational resource designed to assist licensed healthcare practitioners in caring for their patients and/or to serve consumers viewing this service as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise, skill, knowledge and judgment of healthcare practitioners. The absence of a warning for a given drug or drug combination in no way should be construed to indicate that the drug or drug combination is safe, effective or appropriate for any given patient. Multum does not assume any responsibility for any aspect of healthcare administered with the aid of information Multum provides. The information contained herein is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, warnings, drug interactions, allergic reactions, or adverse effects. If you have questions about the drugs you are taking, check with your doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
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Today my Dad and I participated in our first-ever mud run.
Was it fun? Very. Was it muddy?
'Nuf said.
On the way there, I reviewed Ephesians 5:25-33 (I just started using this awesome Scripture memorization method), of which I'm going to post only the portion relevant to this article:
"So husbands ought also to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the Church, because we are members of His body. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh."
It wasn't until later on today that this verse really hit me.
A few days back, I went for a run in a different pair of shoes than I was accustomed to. Probably not the best idea a few days before a race, but I did it anyway. Sure enough, I earned myself a few colossal blisters. They were pretty impressive, and they weren't entirely gone by race day. Of course, I ran anyway, and, of course, the sandpapery effects of gritty mud seeping into my shoes and socks weren't exactly the most soothing balm imaginable for my poor feet.
Naturally, when I got home from the race I cleaned myself up- including my recently-blistered feet, which warranted extra attention. Now, if I were to go into the details of what that entailed, to lots of you it would probably seem- well, gross.
But was it gross to me? Even if it was, did I really care? No. And why? Because my feet are part of my body. I need them. I'm attached to them (in more ways than one). In a very real sense, I cherish my feet. They are precious to me. My life would be radically changed if I lost my feet; how much worse if I did so because of my own neglect to care for them.
So the unpleasant and painful tasks of cutting and peeling away dead skin, washing out dirt- these things were natural and easy for me to do because I knew that they needed to be done. I knew that my body would benefit from them. I care about my feet!
Was I, the whole time, begrudging my feet for the care that I was giving them? Was I grumbling about how gross the task was? Was I bemoaning what a wretched man that I was having been given feet in the first place? Did I think that, maybe, I would be better off if I just chopped my feet off and didn't have to put up with them anymore?
Of course not. That would be ridiculous.
But how often do we see this very thing done by husbands to their wives?
What is more ridiculous? To cut off a pair of feet, or to tear apart a human soul?
Will I look at my wife as an accessory to my life, to be treasured when I feel like it and discarded when no longer interesting?
Or will I see her as an integral part of myself, who I can toss aside as easily as I can toss aside my arms and legs?
When she needs to be washed in the water of the Word, will I see it as a gross task?
Will I clean her heart like I would clean a toilet?
Or will I clean her heart like I would clean a wound in my own body?
Will I say, "Oh God, if only I didn't have this woman to put up with"?
Or will I say, "Oh God, thank you for this woman; what a blessing she is; how much less of a man would I be without her! Please help me to address this issue in a way that will bring healing and sanctification to her heart quickly and gently!"?
Will I see her like I see my own body- as a blessing, an amazing gift from God, something which allows me to do so much more than I could without it, which needs to always be treated well and sometimes given extra care and attention- and even that is a joy?
Or will I see her like I see my lawnmower- something which I have to fix when it's broken and which is rarely of any use?
When was the last time you seriously considered amputation as an option when you had an injury? Yet how often and how easily is divorce seen as a valid option?
Why does it seem so ridiculous to cut off an irritating foot, but not ridiculous at all to get rid of an irritating wife? Where is the disconnect in our thinking?
When we think about our body, we assume the necessity of every part. We wouldn't want to part with any limb. Problems with our bodies aren't seen as something to blame the body for, but rather something to help the body out of. We know that we need our bodies; we appreciate them; we can't live without them; they are integral to our being. It's the disease or the injury that is the enemy- never our body. We assume that our body is a good thing going through difficult trials.
But when it comes to our spouse, do we do the same? Do we assume that she is precious, a good gift of God, a treasure, our right hand, our best friend and constant companion, the crown of our strength, the multiplication of our abilities? Or does she become the enemy, instead of the sins which she is dealing with?
It breaks my heart to see so many divorces happening even within the circles of people whom I know and love. I hope and pray that God will help us men to truly understand what this verse means, and to truly nourish and cherish our wives as our own bodies; to realize that she's not something we're stuck with, but someone we're blessed with. Oh God, please change our perspective of marriage from one of coexistence to one of camaraderie; from one of survival to one of victory; from one of endurance to one of exhilaration!
Oh God, if the time comes where I shall take on the title of husband, please help me to rejoice in the wife of my youth! Oh that this joy and exuberance and oneness and friendship would characterize the marriages in the Body of Christ, just as it characterizes the marriage between Christ and His Body!
Indeed, may that joy and exuberance characterize us all, always, and in all of our relationships! For even those of us who aren't married yet can be practicing many of the same things with those whom God has given us already.
I shall conclude with a retelling (and it's fictional; I'm not married yet!) of our original story with a little twist:
A few years ago, my wife and I got married. Over time, as we ran the race of life, we collected our share of dirt and grime in our souls, so sometimes when we would rest during the race I would clean myself up and also focus on addressing things that I saw in my wife which might warrant extra attention. Now, if I were to go into the details of what that entailed, to lots of you it would probably seem- well, pretty taxing.
But was it taxing to me? Even if it was, did I really care? No. And why? Because my wife is part of my being. I need her. I'm attached to her (in more ways than one). In a very real sense, I cherish my wife. She is precious to me. My life would be radically changed if I lost my wife; how much worse if I did so because of my own neglect to care for her!
So the unpleasant and painful tasks of cutting and peeling away godless worldviews, washing out sin by the water of the Word- these things were natural and easy for me to do because I knew that they needed to be done. I knew that my very flesh would benefit from them. I care about my wife!
Was I, the whole time, begrudging my bride for the care that I was giving her? Was I grumbling about how exhausting the task was? Was I bemoaning what a wretched man that I was having been given a wife in the first place? Did I think that, maybe, I would be better off if I just divorced my wife and didn't have to put up with her anymore?
Of course not.
That would be ridiculous.


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Miley Cyrus was just being Miley when she visited New Orleans on her Bangerz Tour earlier this week. She didn't just karaoke to Sir Mix-A-Lot's 'Baby Got Back' at Cat's Meow. She also hit up a strip joint and had some fun.
Based on the photos that have surfaced, Miley didn't make it rain at Babe's Cabaret in the French Quarter. She didn't simply enjoy the adult entertainment provided by this establishment, either. As if!
You didn't think the twerking queen would deny herself the opportunity to get down, dirty and do a little dancing, did you? She loves shaking that thing and this location provided her with the perfect opportunity to do just that.
Wearing the same cut off jeans shorts, black tights and black jacket she wore while karaoking, Cyrus got her exercise and had her way with the stripper pole.
The images are blurry but it's pretty obvious that Miss Miley was having a grand time. Girls will be girls and Miley will be Miley.


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Spotted! Dave Grohl at the Projects? Is he retiring from his career as a multi platinum musician to ride the wake instead? Rumor has it he has been spotted on several different occasions roaming the projects grounds near dark. "I didn't even realize it was him until he belted out the words 'there goes my hero, watch him as he goes' as Nate Perry slid past him on the 100 footer" – Said Projects resident Clay Fletcher. Rumor has it Dave will be spending the next couple of days in Bithlo before he hit's the road again.
Spencer Pratt goes wakeboarding? Wow Orlando is HOT right now! Two international celebs here on seperate wakations? According to sources in the Clermont region "The Hills" MTV star Spencer Pratt has yet to mention when he plans on returning home… Is his marriage to Heidi Montag on the rocks? Rumor has it she is ready for a child; Has this got Spencer running from the hills? Only time will tell as the reality television star remains in Clermont to pursue a career in wakeboarding.
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