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Musical preparation: Jaroslav Kyzlink
Stage director: Vladimír Morávek
Sets: Miroslav Huptych, Martin Ondruš
Costumes: Tomáš Kypta
Chorus master: Martin Buchta, Adolf Melichar
Motion cooperation: Leona Qaša Kvasnicová
Dramaturgy: Beno Blachut
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's final stage piece was intended for the common people visiting the Theater an der Wien, where it was premiered on 30 September 1791. The creators drew upon the tradition of the old Viennese magic opera, one of the types of singspiel, a popular genre combining sung and spoken passages in which alongside human characters appeared various supernatural beings and animals and stage machinery effects were employed. Die Zauberflöte has become the best-known example of this genre not only owing to the fairy-tale story in which by means of a magic flute and his comical companion, Papageno, Prince Tamino seeks the way to Princess Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, but also thanks to the references to Masonic symbolism and, naturally, Mozart's engrossing music. A year after its premiere in Vienna, the singspiel was presented in Prague at today's Estates Theatre on 25 October 1792. The new production, staged by the renowned Czech director Vladimír Morávek, is a spellbinding spectacle providing a remarkable artistic experience.
Sung in German, Czech and English surtitles.
Approximate running time, including intermission:
2 hours, 45 minutes, one 20-minute intermission.
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1. The Savoy was the first luxury hotel to have been built in Britain. It opened in 1889.2. The first artist to immortalise The Savoy was J.M. Whistler, who drew a picture of the scaffolding around The Savoy as it was being built between 1884 and 1889. He gave the sketch to his friend Richard D'Oyly Carte, saying that the hotel would never look so well again.3. The Savoy was the first hotel to be built of incombustible material throughout.4. First hotel to generate its own electricity supply, with the aid of steam generators. So much power was produced that The Savoy actually provided electricity for parts of the surrounding area around the Strand. The hotel was entirely lit by electricity, instead of the more dangerous gas.5. First hotel to provide the majority of its rooms with private, ensuite bathrooms. What's more, the facilities were lavishly appointed in marble.6. The Savoy was the first hotel to have its own artesian well, 420 ft deep.7. First hotel to install electric lifts, known in typical Savoy fashion as 'ascending rooms'.8. First hotel to provide constant hot and cold running water in each bedroom.9. First hotel to use special glazed brickwork designed to prevent London's smoke-laden air from spoiling the external walls.10. First hotel whose all-in tariff had no 'hidden extras'.11. The Savoy provided its clientele with the first 24 hour room service.12. First hotel to introduce room service facilitated by 'speaking tube' connected to the restaurant, which meant anything from a simple cup of tea to a fancy cocktail in the American Bar would be delivered 'in the twinkling of an Embankment lamp'.13. First hotel to provide after-theatre suppers.14. First hotel to use pink tablecloths. The rosy glow of soft lighting on the pink clothes was considered particularly flattering for ladies!15. The first famous General Manager of The Savoy was legendary hotelier César Ritz. He introduced the practice of putting 'reserved' cards on all the best tables in the restaurant. In doing so, Ritz could give prominent placement to particularly glamorous guests, which pleased them, as it made them the centre of attention, and pleased the less glamorous guests who could happily "star-spot" from the other tables around the room.16. The Duchesse de Clermont-Tonnerre, the first woman to smoke in public, chose The Savoy as her venue. On this infamous evening in 1896, the Duchesse smoked not one, but many cigarettes while lingering at the dinner table.17. First hotel to introduce the practice of dinner-dances. 18. Legendary Maitre-chef Auguste Escoffier was the first famous chef at The Savoy. His reign over the Restaurant kitchens saw the invention of culinary standards such as Melba Toast (originally created for Madame Ritz), and Peche Melba.19. Escoffier was the first to revolutionise British cooking methods at The Savoy. He improved the speed of service by creating an assembly line in his kitchen, requiring individual chefs to be responsible for preparing different stages of a dish. Each finished dish was checked by Escoffier before leaving the kitchen.20. The first serviced apartments in Britain were built at The Savoy in 1904. The apartments were essentially one- or two-bed private flats, but with full access to all the amenities of the hotel. Residents included the actress Sarah Bernhardt, and Sir Thomas Dewar who lived in his apartment for 40 years.21. First baby born at The Savoy was the classical musician, Peter Warlock, in 1894.22. Artist Claude Monet first came to The Savoy in 1899. He returned twice more in 1900 and 1901, staying each time for about two months, and working on his famous series of views of The Thames looking up- and down-stream.23. An American, Harry Rosenfeld, spent the first sovereign at The Savoy to pay for a bottle of Moet et Chandon champagne in 1889. The coin is still kept in the hotel safe.24. The first (and last) time The Savoy's central courtyard was deliberately flooded was for the famous "Gondola Party" of 1905. The courtyard floor was made watertight and flooded to a depth of 4 feet, scenery erected around the walls, gondolas built, costumes designed, so that the host, George Kessler, an American millionaire, could entertain his guests in a recreated Venice. The two dozen guests ate their dinner seated in an enormous gondola in the centre of the courtyard, while after-dinner entertainment was provided by Enrico Caruso. At the climax of the evening a baby elephant lumbered in with a 5 ft birthday cake.25. The first flight within the hotel took place on New Year's Eve, 1906. On the stroke of midnight, an aero-mobile (a hybrid motor-car and aeroplane) set off on rails fitted to the roof of the foyer, landed and ran between the diners as two ladies on board showered the party-goers with gifts.26. The first man to fly across the English Channel, Louis Bleriot, won a prize of £1000, which had been offered by the "Daily Mail". The cheque was presented to M. Bleriot at a lunch at The Savoy the day after his successful flight.27. The first socialite to cast her approval on dining out at The Savoy was society hostess Lady de Grey. She was encouraged by César Ritz to invite her friends to a banquet in the restaurant, thus establishing the hotel as a fashionable and respectable eaterie.28. The Duc D'Orléans, claimant to the French throne, was the first guest for whom The Savoy obligingly stamped the fleur-de-lis crest on the crockery and linen he used.29. The famous American Bar first entered the annals of Savoy history in 1893.30. Savoy Court, leading to the Strand entrance of The Savoy, is the first and only road in Britain down which traffic travels on the right-hand side.31. The Savoy was the first hotel to provide music while guests dined. The idea, said Ritz, was to 'cover the silence which hangs like a pall over an English dining table'.32. The first carpet to cover a ½ acre area was laid in The Savoy foyer and restaurant in 1925. Experts were brought in from Samarkand to wed together the 60 oriental rugs.33. The first hydraulically raised dance floor was installed at The Savoy in 1929.34. The first hotel rooms with artificial sunshine, installed in 1929. The effect was achieved by glazing windows with Vitaglass to produce ultraviolet rays.35. First hotel to install air-conditioning, steam-heating and soundproofed windows.36. First hotel to install telephones in every bathroom.37. Austrian opera singer Richard Tauber signed his first contract to sing in England on the back of a Savoy restaurant menu. 38. The two Savoy bands, the Savoy Havana Band and the Savoy Orpheans, were the first bands to broadcast regularly on BBC radio, beginning in 1923.39. Guglielmo Marconi made the first wireless broadcast to the United States from The Savoy in 1923. This simple exchange of messages with the United States was transmitted in the middle of a programme of dance music by the Savoy Orpheans, broadcast weekly to British audiences. British listeners were able to hear the messages for themselves.40. The first full-scale wireless transmission of a radio programme also took place at The Savoy in 1925 when the Savoy Orpheans broadcast two hours of dance music live to the East Coast of the USA from the ballroom at The Savoy.41. George Gershwin gave 'Rhapsody in Blue' its English premiere in 1925 at The Savoy. The performance was broadcast simultaneously by BBC radio.42. The first silver bathtub at The Savoy was installed by the Maharajah of Patalia who brought along 50 attendants for his visit to the hotel.43. The Savoy was the first hotel to print its own menus, setting up a small printing department for the purpose.44. First hotel to have custom-made sprung mattresses.45. The first "hotel" novel based on serious research of the industry was Arnold Bennett's novel 'Imperial Palace' (1930). Bennett stayed at The Savoy for about three months before beginning to write, and researched every department both back and front of house. Although the events in the novel were, of course, fictitious, thinly disguised pen portraits of seven of the managers were easily recognised by themselves and their colleagues. The hotel was delighted by the publicity, and by its own depiction, which remains a vivid snap-shot of the working life of a luxury hotel in the 1920s.46. The first meeting of the Other Club, a private dining club whose members have included almost every prime minister of the last and present century, took place at The Savoy in 1911. This Club has continued to meet regularly at The Savoy ever since.47. At a private dinner at The Savoy in the early 1920s the American Ambassador General Davies was the first person to break with the tradition which forbade pipes to be smoked after formal dinners.48. The first reigning monarch to dine in any hotel was George VI, who attended a private dinner at The Savoy in 1937.49. In 1937 The Savoy became the first hotel to offer its own special blend of coffee for sale by mail order. To keep the formula secret, the beans were roasted and ground on the hotel's premises. Savoy Coffee was even supplied to the Royal Household, and the Coffee Department held a Royal Warrant for many years.50. The first time that the then Princess Elizabeth was seen in public with her husband-to-be, Prince Philip of Greece, was at a wedding reception at The Savoy in 1946.51. This reception was also notable for being the first time the entire Royal Family had gathered together in public since before World War II, and the first time in a London hotel.52. The first time that the traditionally all-male Pilgrims dinner was attended by women was at The Savoy in 1948, when Eleanor Roosevelt was guest of honour after a ceremony to unveil a statue of her husband in Grosvenor Square earlier that day. For the first time members of this club could bring their wives and daughters. Among the other attendees were the then Princess Elizabeth and Duke of Edinburgh.53. This was also the first public engagement that Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip had undertaken, since their wedding in November 1947.54. The first hotelier to have a Royal title especially revived for him was Sir Hugh Wontner. After advising the Queen and Prince Philip on matters regarding the running of the Royal Household, he was given the title "Clerk of the Royal Kitchens" in 1953. The title had not been given to anyone for the previous 100 years.55. Elizabeth Taylor spent part of her honeymoon with first husband Nick Hilton in a suite at The Savoy.56. First power point for an electric toothbrush was installed for General Dwight Eisenhower.57. When the blackout ended in 1945, The Savoy was the first public building to switch on its lights.58. The first person to ride a horse into the Savoy ballroom was cowboy film star Tom Mix in 1925. Singing cowboy Gene Autrey and his famous steed Champion made a similar appearance in the ballroom in 1939.59. The first Savoy pageboy to take an all-expenses-paid trip to India did so at the behest of a maharajah who needed a small parcel personally delivered.60. Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh first laid eyes on each other at The Savoy.61. First hotel to publish its own book of cocktail recipes. The Savoy Hotel Cocktail Book was first published in 1930, and has remained in print ever since.62. First hotel with a silver-plate polishing machine.63. In 1933 Les Debutantes appeared at The Savoy, the first time that a cabaret act composed of society debutantes appeared in a London restaurant for a full week's engagement.64. Charleston Blues, a new dance in foxtrot tempo, was publicly demonstrated for the first time in England by Mr. and Mrs. Victor Silvester in the ballroom in 1933.65. Although The Savoy has always kept records of its guests' preferences, the first photographic record of toilet articles was made at The Savoy for Noel Coward, so hotel attendants could lay them out in the bathroom exactly as he liked to find them each morning.66. The Savoy was the first hotel to send a representative to New York to promote itself in the American market, and to help American travel agents to make bookings for their clients. The Savoy then invited other carefully chosen hotels to join in with this scheme, and eventually this one New York Office grew into the international organisation Leading Hotels of the World.67. The Savoy was the first of the great London hotels to post a staff of couriers at London Airport.68. First hotel to have its own laundry service – Postal Address, Unblemish, London.69. The Savoy was the first hotel whose roof was used by golfing guests for teeing-off.70. The first Managing Director of a hotel to be knighted for services to the industry was Sir George Reeves-Smith in 1938.71. The first fireproof eiderdown provided to an unsuspecting guest was for actor Lionel Barrymore, who had a habit of chain-smoking while reading in bed.72. The first Savoy Ball to feature Playboy Bunnies was in 1966, when a dozen girls from the Playboy Club were hired as hostesses, instead of the usual debutantes to give out programmes.73. First time The Savoy was used as a film location was 1921 for 'Kipps' from the novel by H. G. Wells. Wells appeared as an extra in one scene. 74. The first wild animal to be brought to a party at The Savoy was Billy Butlin's pet leopard who came for a cocktail party to celebrate Smart's Circus.75. First night party for Rogers and Hammerstein's 'South Pacific'.76. Launch Ball for the epic film 'Cleopatra' starring Elizabeth Taylor.77. First hotel to honour Hillary and Tensing, after their successful ascent of Mt Everest by flying champagne and caviar out to them in 1953.78. First hotel to honour Neil Armstrong the first man to walk on the moon. In 1969 Head Barman in the American Bar, Joe Gilmore devised "Moonwalk" to celebrate this achievement. A flask of the cocktail was sent together with a dozen glasses to Houston by The Savoy for the astronauts to try on their return to Earth.79. First hotel to serve frogs' legs to an unsuspecting public. At a dinner for the Prince of Wales, Auguste Escoffier produced a dish enticingly titled "Nymphes à l'Aurore". The Prince enjoyed the joke immensely.80. First hotel to have 150lb of a rare fish called Tilapia flown in from Africa in 1959 for a dinner given by the late Aga Khan.81. The first restaurant guests to order porridge and pea sandwiches were The Beatles, when they came to call on Bob Dylan in 1965.82. First hotel in Britain to run its own school to train hoteliers. Graduates of the Savoy Training Centre can be found throughout the world.83. In 1967, Lady Whitmore, the Swedish-born wife of British racing driver Sir John Whitmore, became the first woman to dine in The Savoy restaurant wearing trousers.84. Lena Horne made her British debut appearance in cabaret at The Savoy.85. The first hotel kitchen to be opened by the Queen Mother was in 1986 when she visited the Savoy Restaurant kitchens which had been completely redesigned by Maitre-chef Anton Edelmann and refitted at a cost of £2½m.86. The first British Maitre-chef at The Savoy was London-born Silvino Trompetto (1965-1980)87. First celebrity flood in the hotel happened when Elton John let his bath overflow.88. First Prime Ministers' reunion was held at The Savoy in 1973 when all PMs since 1900, or their heirs, attended a lunch to mark the publication of a limited edition of the complete works of Sir Winston Churchill.89. Managing Director of The Savoy, Sir Hugh Wontner was the first hotelier to become Lord Mayor of London, in 1973.90. The first car to be driven into The Savoy was the winning Bentley from the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1927. The car was shipped back to Britain and despite some damage managed to limp into the banqueting room where the celebratory party was being held. Bentley recreated this party (having again won Le Mans) in 2003.91. Premiere party for the first film of the one of the most successful children's books in the world – "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"92. The first luxury hotel in London to have its own "Writer in Residence Scheme". Previous writers in residence on the Savoy site have included Geoffrey Chaucer and Henry Fielding, but The Savoy's scheme has given residency to Fay Weldon, Kathy Lette, and later this year, Frank McCourt.93. The first time that Charlie Chaplin returned to Britain after many years in the United States, bringing his family on their first visit to his home country, he spent the entire time at The Savoy (the hotel was mobbed by adoring fans for the duration of his stay!).94. The Savoy was the first hotel to have its own poultry farm! This was set up by Sir Hugh Wontner to help provide a steady source of both chicken and eggs during WWII when supplies were scarce, and the price under the strict control of the Ministry of Food. The farm continued to supply The Savoy for some years after peace was declared.95. In 1943 the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands had lunch at The Savoy in the private dining room "Patience" together with the Belgian and Netherlands Ministers of Finance, and a few other people. This was the first beginnings of the economic union known as Benelux, which came into being a few years later.96. Marilyn Monroe gave her first press conference in Britain at The Savoy when she came over to film "The Prince and the Showgirl" (1957). She was photographed drinking tea, while wearing a dress with a transparent midriff, considered extremely daring for the time.97. When the post office received a letter addressed simply to "The Manager of the Greatest Hotel in London", the first place that sprang to mind was The Savoy. The letter was duly delivered, marked "Try Savoy Hotel, WC2".98. The first rose created for The Savoy was The Savoy Hotel Rose commemorating the hotel's centenary99. First hotel to have a centenary flag. Although The Savoy is not the oldest hotel in London, it IS the oldest luxury hotel.100. The Savoy is the first hotel in the United Kingdom to become a Fairmont Hotel
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WASHINGTON - Jordan Zimmermann was terrific in his second complete game of the season and the Washington Nationals limited the Cincinnati Reds to one hit for the second straight game in a 1-0 victory on Friday night.
Zimmermann (4-1) struck out four and walked one while improving to 3-0 with a 1.36 ERA in five career games against Cincinnati. The right-hander needed only 91 pitches to record his third career complete game.
It was the first time the Reds managed just one hit in consecutive games since July 5-6, 1900, against Brooklyn, according to research by the Elias Sports Bureau that the team provided. The Houston Astros from Sept. 14-15, 2008, were the last major league team with such a streak.
Xavier Paul led off the third with a single to centre for Cincinnati's only hit off Zimmermann.
Homer Bailey (1-2) allowed one run and six hits in seven innings for the Reds.
The Nationals' only run came in the third. Bryce Harper tripled to right and scored on Jayson Werth's single to right.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Carlos Beltran homered from both sides of the plate and drove in three runs to lead Lance Lynn and the Cardinals to the victory.
Lynn (4-0) struck out nine in seven innings, allowing one run and two hits. The right-hander improved to 9-0 with a 2.63 ERA in his last 10 regular-season appearances.
Matt Carpenter and Beltran started the game with home runs for the Cardinals, who have won four straight and five of six.
Pirates starter Jonathan Sanchez (0-3) was ejected in the first inning after he hit cleanup hitter Allen Craig with a pitch. When manager Clint Hurdle came out to argue, he also was ejected.
Pirates hitting coach Jay Bell was tossed in the fifth inning when he argued with plate umpire Tim Timmons after leadoff hitter Starling Marte was hit by Lynn for the second straight time.
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Kendrick pitched the best game of his career, throwing a three-hitter for Philadelphia and getting home-run help from Ryan Howard.
The Phillies ended their three-game skid and dropped the Mets under .500 for the first time this season.
Kendrick (2-1) scattered three singles and didn't permit a runner beyond second base.
Philadelphia broke a scoreless tie in the sixth inning when Michael Young hit an RBI single and Howard followed with a long three-run homer off Dillon Gee (1-4).
PHOENIX (AP) — Troy Tulowitzki hit a bases-loaded double with two out in the fifth inning, leading Colorado to the victory.
Michael Cuddyer had two-out, two-run single in the first, and Wilin Rosario added a solo homer in the sixth for the Rockies.
Juan Nicasio (3-0) pitched long enough to earn the win, going five innings and allowing three runs and four hits. Rafael Betancourt earned his eighth save with a scoreless ninth inning.
Brandon McCarthy pitched six innings for Arizona and was charged with six runs and nine hits. He struck out seven but dropped to 0-3 on the season with a 7.48 ERA.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Andrew Cashner pitched six effective innings and contributed a big hit at the plate, helping the San Diego to the win.
Cashner (1-1) allowed one run and five hits, struck out five and walked one. He retired the last 12 batters he faced, avenging a 2-0 loss to Tim Lincecum and the Giants last Saturday.
Cashner also picked up his second major league hit and scored San Diego's first run in its two-run third inning.
Lincecum (2-1) struck out nine and allowed six hits in seven innings. Huston Street worked the ninth for his fourth save.
MIAMI (AP) — Anthony Rizzo had two home runs and four RBIs to power the Cubs to back-to-back wins for the first time this season.
Rizzo's second career two-homer game gave him eight on the season, the most by a Cubs left-handed hitter in April. Billy Williams (1970) and Henry Rodriguez (2000) each hit seven.
Scott Feldman (1-3) allowed two runs in 6 2-3 innings, and Kevin Gregg recorded his second save. Darwin Barney had three hits for Chicago, which beat Miami 4-3 on Thursday and had been 0-6 following a win.
Wade LeBlanc (0-4) gave up four runs in six-plus innings and Joe Mahoney hit his first career homer for the Marlins.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adrian Gonzalez drove in the tying and go-ahead runs with a two-out double in the seventh inning, Carl Crawford homered and the Dodgers beat the Brewers.
Justin Sellers greeted reliever Burke Badenhop (0-2) with a leadoff single in the seventh and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Jerry Hairston Jr. Nick Punto drew a two-out walk from Michael Gonzalez, and Adrian Gonzalez followed with a drive off the glove of centre fielder Carlos Gomez as Sellers and Punto scored to give Los Angeles a 5-4 lead.
The Dodgers extended the margin to 7-4 in the eighth on a run-scoring groundout by Hairston and an RBI single by Crawford.
Ronald Belisario (2-2) got the victory. Brandon League gave up a run in the ninth, but earned his seventh save.


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Nine Inch Nails making comeback?
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Nine Inch Nails front-man Trent Reznor confirms the band are likely to record new music together
Trent Reznor has confirmed new Nine Inch Nails material is "in the works"
The band's front-man went on a 20th anniversary farewell tour with them in 2009, but now reveals they may release new songs in the future.
He told Rolling Stone magazine: "All signs point to yes... Yeah, there will be new music. There are some things in the works.
"Yeah, if it feels right, it's a possibility. I never said that that wasn't going to happen, just that it couldn't go on as it was.
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Meth definitely seems more like it to me.
You said you were just going to try it, but then that mind-bending spin sucked you in and you just can't go back to 'normal life.' You know it's going to hurt you, but you don't care, because the high you get when you're using it makes it so that nothing else matters.
Yes, it's ruined other parts of your life, but when you're pounding forehands from the baseline you don't care that you've lost your job (shot variety) and family (touch), you just want to keep ripping till your arm falls off.
So what if the stuff only lasts a couple hours and it's made out of battery acid. And no, it's not that expensive at first - it's only when you need it more and more that you realize the road you've gone down. But by the it's too late, your in some back storage room going Dirk Diggler on your stringer to get a fresh bed of Lux.
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Lol. I'm doing a hybrid of soft poly bighitter blue and syn gut 17 gauge and working wonders for my slices touch and arm friendliness !
Ah, that's what I got two packs of, Big Hitter Blue 16.
I had it in a Blue Hitter 17 gauge/ Gosen Micro hybrid in a pair of used racquets and it played well. A little overly sharp plastic feel, but has a nice amount of spin and power.
So I was hoping to try that in 16 full Blue Hitter Blue and get something like a softer Red Code feel. :) Ah, the string meth addiction continues! lol
Yes I can totally agree!
Went back to a full poly string job even though I've been suffering from pretty bad tendonitis in my shoulder for a few months now. The trick was to drop my tension down to 45lbs and force myself to get used to the more spring coming off the string bed. What also helped was going to a lighter-ish racquet with a 100sq. in. head size (Dunlop 200 Plus) that had a good amount of flex. My normal racquets tipped the scales at 12.8oz+. So far the rehab has been good but can't just ditch poly cold turkey lol :)
Yeah, I had been using 12.6 oz flexible Head Pro Tour 280s with hybrids instead. But now, I feel, I drop the tension to 53 lbs is acceptable in a more stiff Tecnifibre TFight 325 frame at 12.2 oz.
I use Solinco Tour Bite and Barb Wire in full currently.
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EPA: Mid-Atlantic air pollution down in 2011
Agency cleaner power plants contribute to drop
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says releases of toxic air pollutants were down in 2011 in the Mid-Atlantic.
And the federal agency says cleaner power plants are part of the reason.
The EPA says releases were down 13.8 percent in 2011 in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia compared to 2010. Nationwide, total toxic air releases dropped 8 percent from 2010.
The EPA says reasons for the drop include the installation of air pollution control technologies at coal-fired power plants and a shift to other fuels.
Electricity producers have been switching from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas, which has dropped in price as a result of advances in drilling techniques for gas in shale formations.


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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
no more cutting
Didn't really get to work till 1:30...then a big storm started heading this way out of the NW. I checked the Doppler radar and it was getting close. I packed up the tools, mixed a drink, sat on the porch and watched as the big dark storm evaporated into clear sky right above me. Break over - back to cutting.
Decided that I didn't want to have to write about more cutting for the next couple of days - so I plowed through it and finished at 8:30PM. The parts (624 total) for the next 3 trusses are ready to go - now just lots of welding.
14 comments:
- jandean said...
Done cuttin! That's gotta feel good.
Now it's time for rutuburi.
- September 16, 2009 at 10:14 PM
- denziel56 said...
hey jw ,
got that production schedule going on ?
- September 16, 2009 at 10:25 PM
- KE5MIL said...
Way to power through it John...lookin good!
- September 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Jay P said...
attaboy! less spellcheck and more of....well, whatever it was you mixed up....that's the ticket!
- September 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- John Wells said...
I really need to proof read these posts better....
- September 16, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- frann said...
Was nice to see you in the pic..you have a suntan going on!
- September 16, 2009 at 11:56 PM
- Allen Hare said...
That's a lot of little metal rods! You are going to be welding for quite some time. It'll be great to see all those trusses up in place.
- September 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM
IF anyone gives you trouble over your lack of editing just have em look at mine. ther aint know komparison. lol
nice job on finishing up the cuts anyone who works past 5:30 anymore in construction is A ok.
- September 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM
- TexasMan said...
Watz pruf red?
Keep it up and don't worry about the typing errors we can read around them. The important stuff is you have it. Desire to finish the job when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel. You are not working for some else on their time!
ATTABOY!! now to see the welding job ahead. I know you are glad you took the time to build that huge jig!
- September 17, 2009 at 7:22 AM
- Billy Bob said...
John, now ya done went and done it the easy way, what ya ain't sposed to do. With no more little rods to cut and nuttin but weld'n to do, ya gonna get bored. Then ya gonna be run'n off to The Grub Shack bother'n Betty three four times a day. But then again, welding is like play'n with "tinker toys". Ya just can't put them down.
Look'n good!!!
- September 17, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- Freth :-p said...
There's a video on Tinyhouseblog of Dick and Bonny Cain ... isn't that Bonita's owners? :-)
- September 17, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- The Goddam Doctor said...
I was just told the T1i leaves a lot to be desired in no flash settings for color over the plain T1.
- September 17, 2009 at 10:03 AM
- tffnguy said...
I'd like to know where you got the cutoff saw and blades. I'd have been through a dozen wheels and at least three saws to have done that much cutting!
- September 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- czardastx said...
I do have to say, if you ever get a chance to visit The Field Lab...do it. It was worth the trip from Ft. Davis to meet some of the people from the blog.
The Grub Shack is a cool place. I met some of the 'locals' there and they are really nice people. My first order was for a cup of coffee. Betty didn't charge me because it was my first ever cup of coffee. I would have gladly paid though because the coffee was delicious and hot. Later I had the ham and cheese sandwich and John had the BLT. His looked as delicious as mine tasted. When I get back out that way I'm eating there again.
Benita was much prettier in person than the pictures are able to convey. She's a one of a kind pet, much cooler than having a dog. Not many people have a longhorn for a house pet.
It's very impressive to see all of the things that John has done out there. I'm glad he got all the cutting done because I felt bad that I was there and he wasn't able to get work done. But I had a wonderful visit.
John, you fit in just fine for what my idea of a Texan should be. You made me feel at home and didn't treat me like a stranger. Sorry I couldn't convince any cute chicks to ride with me to The Field Lab. I gave up trying to convince them after they called 911. Perhaps when the Hooters opens across the street from the Wal Mart you'll have cute chicks in that part of the world.
Thanks for the visit. I enjoyed it, it was all I expected and it did live up to the hype.
- September 17, 2009 at 5:34 PM


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Great Meadow Productions. Drama at its best.
Room At The Top wins BAFTA mini-series award
Our two-part dramatisation of Room At The Top – John Braine's iconic novel about 1940's Britain – which screened on BBC4 in September 2012, won the best Mini Series award in the 2013 BAFTAs. It stars Matthew McNulty, Maxine Peake and Jenna Louise Coleman, is directed by Aisling Walsh, screenplay by Amanda Coe, produced by Paul Frift, executive producers Kate Triggs and Robert Cooper.
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Bradford Riots
Neil Biswas' powerful film Bradford Riots tells the story of the 2001 riots and their aftermath from the point of view of an Asian family. It stars Sacha Dhawan, Ace Bhatti and Victor Banerjee and was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2006.
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Our production of Nigel William's screenplay "Wodehouse In Exile" about Wodehouse's ill-fated wartime broadcasts from Germany was broadcast on BBC4 in 2013 and stars Tim Pigott-Smith in the title role and Zoe Wanamaker as his wife Ethel. With Paul Ritter, Flora Montgomery, Richard Dormer, Conor Mullen, Simon Coury, Niall Cusack, Ian McElhinney and Julian Rhind-Tutt. It is directed by Tim Fywell and produced by Kate Triggs.
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Our BBC2 film When Harvey Met Bob - Joe Dunlop's moving drama about the staging of Live Aid - has raised over £40,000 from foreign sales for The Band Aid Trust, helping to fight poverty and famine in East Africa.
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Bemidji State University's 14th Annual Student Scholarship and Creative Achievement Conference will showcase the varied works of nearly 200 students during presentations, performances, exhibits and poster sessions on Wednesday, April 10.
The conference begins with an 8 a.m. continental breakfast in room 100 of Memorial Hall, leading into an 8:30 a.m. opening ceremony featuring a keynote address by Bemidji State alum Jason Edens, founding director of the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance.
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Spawned at Bemidji State University, the Rural Renewable Energy Alliance is dedicated to making solar energy accessible to people of all income levels. Since 2000, the alliance has been delivering solar heat and solar electricity to the residential and commercial market. Unique among the nonprofit community, RREAL is a solar thermal manufacturer and a pioneer in the delivery of solar heat to low-income families on energy assistance as a lasting solution to fuel poverty.
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Following the address, student presentations and performances will be held from 10:30-11:50 a.m. and 1-2:20 p.m. in Bridgeman and Hagg-Sauer halls. These will see more than 80 students make more than 50 presentations on a vast array of topics, including a study on whether money correlates with happiness; a review of the methods used to estimate tiger populations; violence in youth hockey; how North Dakota's oil boom has affected the state's politics; and a study examining whether a minor-league baseball team's major-league affiliation has an impact on attendance.
Poster sessions, which give students the opportunity to explain their work in a display setting, will be held in Bridgeman Hall rooms 100 and 140 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Students will be at their posters from 11:55 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. A total of 128 poster presentations will represent the work of 286 students on a diversity of topics including the effect of Facebook on self esteem; minimizing traffic problems in the Twin Cities; green space and life expectancy in U.S. cities; pancreatic cancer; food insecurity and human papillomavirus.
The conference will also include a mock trial by the BSU Pre-Law Society from 12:30-2:30 p.m. in Hagg-Sauer 100. This year's mock trial features Andy Allen, as the surviving spouse of Lee Allen, vs Neptune Underwater Expeditions. Andy Allen will be suing Neptune Underwater Expeditions for recklessness in the operation of their business following the death of his wife, Lee, during a recreational dive to an underwater shipwreck.
All parts of the Student Scholarship and Creative Achievement Conference are open to the public at no charge.
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Lady Gaga does it, Kanye West does it. Now, Lady Antebellum is using technology to reach out to fans in a new way.
The Grammy winning "Need You Now" band is hooking up with San Francisco-based Gameloft to reach out to fans, letting them participate in contests and interact with other fans - the latest way big bands are trying to bridge the gap between themselves and their fans.
Sometimes, these outreaches go well; sometimes they come off kind of cheesy - the goal is to bring die-hard fans a little closer to the action than, say, a massively subscribed Facebook page.
This time, the action takes place in a game. It's called "The Oregon Trail: American Settler, and in it, players can interact with Lady Antebellum by performing "tasks" within the game. You can find the game both in the Apple App Store, and on Google Play. If you're heading over to play it now, let us know what you think.
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Wong surrounded by support after baserunning gaffe
ST. LOUIS -- A day after making dubious baseball history, Cardinals rookie Kolten Wong found himself engulfed by unconditional support inside the clubhouse on Monday at Busch Stadium.
Game 4 the night before was the first in World Series history to end on a pickoff, with Wong on the wrong end of Red Sox closer Koji Uehara's throw over to first base. It was a particularly painful end for the Cards because they trailed by two runs, and had the postseason-proven Carlos Beltran at the plate representing the tying run.
Afterward, Wong fought off tears.
"We've got a couple of guys, myself included, that have said some things to him," second baseman Matt Carpenter said Monday. "Certainly, the message most importantly being that that was not the reason we lost the game. That's how the game ended, but certainly it was not the reason we lost. There were a lot of other factors that were in play.
"Those things happen. We are human. We make mistakes, and let's not make it more than it is. We've got to regroup."
Cardinals manager Mike Matheny watched a series of his team's veterans check in with Wong throughout Monday afternoon, many of them sharing a particularly painful or embarrassing moment in their own careers.
"You can't forget how young these guys are, too," Matheny said. "I don't have any problem [with Wong showing emotion] because I appreciate that he cares so much."
In Matheny's view, "the moment just got the best of him."
"And, yeah, it affected him because he's human and he cares," Matheny said. "Fortunately, we have a good group of guys around here once again. We've talked about how they've helped these guys and prepared them, and they've also helped [younger players] through troubles because they've been there. Maybe not getting picked off to end a game in the World Series, but they've had their issues that we've all had, decisions that we've made that didn't necessarily work out. And you figure out how to get through it."
The pickoff marked the second straight night that ended in unprecedented fashion. In Game 3, the Cards won the first World Series game decided by obstruction, with Allen Craig hurdling Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks.
Three days before that, Game 1 featured a rare reversal of a judgment call by the umpires, who huddled to rule that Cardinals shortstop Pete Kozma had dropped a double-play feed at second base.
"It has been a strange couple of games," Carpenter said. "But that's what makes it exciting. This is what the postseason is all about. Baseball is a game that something you've never seen before can happen every day."


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New curtains are an inexpensive, easy way to update a room's décor. For extra shade and blackout qualities, line the curtains with heavyweight muslin. Hem the fabric and lining separately to ensure that the curtains will hang properly after washing and excessive use.
Notes: The materials listed are enough to make two 38"x56" lined curtains, which will fit a 66"x56" window from the tension rod to the sill. The featured tension rod is 7/16" diameter. Adjust the rod pocket width as needed to accommodate a larger or smaller rod. Use a scant 1/4" seam allowance.
Install the tension rod in the window at the desired curtain upper edge.
Decide on the desired curtain length. There are three standard curtain lengths: to the sill; below the sill; and to the floor. If curtains are to hang to the sill, they should finish 1/8" above the sill. If they are to hang below the sill, they should finish 2" below the sill. If they are to hang on the floor, they should finish to within 1/2" of the floor covering. Take these measurements into account when deciding on the desired curtain length. The featured curtains fall to the sill, and the following instructions assume the "to the sill" length.
Measure the inside window width and the length from the rod upper edge to the sill upper edge. Add 16" to the width measurement, and then divide the result by two; record. Add 2 3/8" to the length measurement; record. Remove the tension rod from the window.
From both the print fabric and the muslin, cut two rectangles to the recorded length and width measurements.
With one print rectangle and muslin rectangle right sides facing and edges aligned, stitch one short end; press open the seam. Repeat to stitch the second print rectangle to the remaining muslin rectangle.
Double-fold each long edge 3/4" toward the wrong side; press. Stitch close to the second fold.
Double-fold each short edge 1" toward the wrong side; press. Stitch close to the second fold.
Fold each curtain along the joined seamline with wrong sides together; press. Using a removable fabric marker, draw a line 1 1/2" from the seamline along one curtain width. Stitch along the marked line through all layers to create a rod pocket. Repeat to stitch a rod pocket on the remaining curtain.
Insert the tension rod through each curtain rod pocket. Install the rod in the window. Evenly distribute the curtain fullness along the rod.
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Love is the Honey
33 comments:
- Fashion, Art and other fancies said...
My life has love, heart, soul. xx
- May 23, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- Amanda said...
what a beautiful post and beautiful pictures!!! :)
- May 23, 2011 at 12:06 PM
- rebecca said...
beautiful soft pinks for a rainy crappy monday.
- May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM
- THE ALTERNATIVE WIFE said...
I wholeheartedly agree with you! And what a gorgeous post!
Hope your week is off to a great start :) xoxo
- May 23, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Annie said...
SO true Shawna! Thank you for the reminder :) Love your choice of images.. xo
- May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM
- Martina said...
Soooooo pretty! Adds some tenderness and romance to my day. Have a wonderful evening sweet friend!
- May 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM
- Erika @ ~TiptoeButterfly~ said...
that last skirt - WOW - IN LOVE - would LOVE to wear it with those legs too!
- May 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM
- Bubbles said...
Gorgeous, it makes me want to peel each layer back...
and to fit in one the theme... he loves me, he loves me not...
- May 23, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- amy b.s. said...
that first photo is especially stunning. and that skirt!
- May 23, 2011 at 1:20 PM
- this free bird said...
You are so right about this: life really isn't much without people who love you and you them. Great way to start the week.
- May 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- MapleandVine said...
love the photos....esp the last one of the skirt! so cool!!
- May 23, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- MapleandVine said...
love the photos....esp the last one of the skirt! so cool!!
- May 23, 2011 at 3:34 PM
- Castles Crowns and Cottages said...
Good evening beautiful one!
Yes, LOVE IS LIFE, LIFE IS LOVE. ACCEPT NO substitutes! What would we do without the love of family and FRIENDS...thank YOU for being such a kind and wonderful friend my dear and the next time I go "back home" to California, we can meet. I had the pleasure of meeting three blog pals last summer and it was MAGIC. One of them I correspond with daily for she has that magic that I need to keep my head above the waters of work's realities. YOUR PHOTOS ARE STUNNING! I cannot wait to see your post on PARIS and thank you for participating. Your name is in the pot for a chance of my artwork.....have a lovely evening. Anita
- May 23, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- I'maNolaGirl said...
What a stunning post. I love how soft and petal-like the fabric in those photos appears.
- May 23, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Tee, Passports and Postcards said...
What a beautiful post and I love all the pictures!
- May 23, 2011 at 7:35 PM
- StephieB said...
Lovely! I love the very first photo and I love all the pink too! Hugs, Stephie x
- May 23, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Kavery said...
Don't why but flowers look even better blown up to giant proportions like this one.
- May 23, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- Monique said...
Love those pale pink poppies...such dreamy images!
- May 23, 2011 at 11:12 PM
- tinajo said...
How gorgeous! Yes, I do love petals..! :-)
- May 23, 2011 at 11:50 PM
- Diana Mieczan said...
Beautiful quotes and such an amazing photos. Totally romantic! Have a great day, my dear
- May 24, 2011 at 5:29 AM
- classiq said...
- May 24, 2011 at 7:12 AM
- diana said...
Sending you my love!! <3
It is def a better world /life when you have love in it...
What stunning photos...love that interesting skirt in the last and the beautiful flowers in the 2nd!
Have a lovely day my friend!
- May 24, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Bela said...
Oh, I love these iamges, dear friend, all of them!!! So delicate and this color is magical!!!
It is all right around here. Fall is pleasant and our days have been nice. I am working a lot (as usual:o) and having little fun :o(
But, as I love sewing, that is ok!!
Love you!!
- May 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM
- Sweet Harvest Moon said...
- May 24, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Gloria said...
Impressive photographs! I really love that one with the droplets of water. Beautiful!!
I hope you have a very sweet week full of blooming petals!
- May 24, 2011 at 4:44 PM
- Krystal said...
these are such sweet quotes :)
- May 25, 2011 at 4:31 AM
- Miles Of Style said...
such a lovely, precious and delicate post...just like love and petals! :))
- May 25, 2011 at 4:45 AM
- Bad Taste Toast said...
Oh wow all these pictures are incredibly beautiful! I love these hues of soft pink, they really do represent love.
I hope your week has been filled with love too!
Thank you so much for the birthday wishes! :)
Happy Wednesday!
- May 25, 2011 at 10:32 AM
- Diana Mieczan said...
Ps: I'm hosting a great sportswear GIVEAWAY today! Perfect for morning yoga practice!
Kisses, sweetie
- May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- A Casa da Vá said...
This is a very powerful message my friend! I love how much beauty you spread to the world through your lovely blog... so thank you for reminding me that today it really is too precious...
Hugs & kisses from Rio!
- May 25, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- About Last Weekend said...
Not sure if I commented before but just noticed that ombre blue top in last picture. Amazing with that flower skirt!
- May 27, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- Miles Of Style said...
beautiful beautiful pics of Paris....ohhh how im longing to go back again...someday :)
- May 30, 2011 at 2:57 AM
Aw, Poppie Girl.... what a sweet post! Great qoutes, advice, and love the images!
You are so crative with your posts! The pic with the raindrops is stunning!
Oh I do love... L:Ove!!!!!
gi gi
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Michael Vartan and wife Lauren Skaar are divorcing after three years of marriage. People reports that according to legal documents, the two had been separated since April 5.
They have no children together.
The site says that Skaar was the one who filed the papers, citing "irreconcilable differences."
Vartan and Skaar reportedly met while shopping at a Whole Foods in L.A. in 2009. The couple later married in 2011 at the Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Beach, Calif. He told People in 2010 that he felt Skaar was "The One." "It's a thing that people always say: 'When you know, you'll know.' I never really understood what that meant, and I do now," he told the magazine.
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GFBB NOTE: Ever since Alex Smith, QB for the 49ers appeared at a news conference wearing a SF Giants cap, and then threw out the first pitch at the 2012 NLDS game at AT&T Park, there's been a real fondness between the SF Giants and the SF 49ers, especially since the NFL threatened to fine Smith if he kept wearing the Giants cap at NFL functions. It made Smith sort of a hero in my mind. The mutual admiration society continues as we learn today that yesterday's hero, back-up QB Colin Kaepernick, was also a standout pitcher in high school and had to choose between football and baseball scholarships for college. We might just have another Montana-Young combo in the works here folks. It will be interesting to see how this one plays out.
Our friends over at Pro Football Talk have a whole bunch of good stuff about Colin Kaepernick's impressive first NFL start for the 49ers last night, but there's also an interesting little baseball connection.
Back in 2009 when Kaepernick was in college at Nevada the Cubs drafted him in the 43rd round as a pitcher despite his not having played baseball since high school.
As a high school senior in California he threw two no-hitters and had a whole bunch of baseball scholarship offers, but Carrie Muskat of MLB.com has some quotes that made it clear Kaepernick never seriously considered going pro with the Cubs:
Not if football was going to work for me. Out of high school, if I got a football scholarship, that's what I was going to do. That was part of my scholarship deal with Nevada. I told them, "If I sign here, I won't enter…
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Since I could install new enough Ubuntu to easily install GNOME 3.8 and hence use Classic mode, I am now for the last month or so using GNOME shell at work. Now I just got a wonderful new computer with two screens that I just installed the same setup on. And I have to say that there were several things that drove me absolutely crazy yesterday.
- I can't tell a difference between focused window and unfocused window in the default theme. I kept typing into the wrong window leading to all sorts of bad things happening (sucks having what should go in a terminal being typed into your grant proposal, and then having to hunt it down, or perhaps typing something into your grant proposal and instead typing it into gmail with keybindings turned on and hence archiving a few unread emails that you have to hunt down without actually knowing what they are.) I found a different theme that does the only sane thing of making the title bar really blue when focused and really gray when unfocused, bad thing is, that such a usability issue is only in the tweaks, and that the theme is ugly. Good thing I value actually working over how nice the thing is.
- Printers! I can't add the printer. Instead of easily adding a printer I get presented with a dialog where I can't do anything, it lists some random printers usually in other people's offices. The "community printer" on this floor is not listed. Hmmm … what is the address … I go to the old computer (also with GNOME 3.8) look into printers and I can't find detailed info about the printer. After about 5 minutes of fussing around I remember to look into the cups text config file. Ahhh … now I have the address of the printer. OK, so how to add it. On the new computer, click "Add printer" and then where do I put in that address. Putting it into the search bar yields nothing useful, pressing enter adds someone's personal printer. OK fail … After further number of minutes I give up on the gnome printer thingie as totally and utterly useless. OK, but where is the good old (or bad old, but at least somewhat usable) printer setting application. Now my memory is still what it used to be: bad. So I can't remember it. It doesn't appear in the gnome-shell, typing "printers" into overview mode only brings up the totally useless gnome version. OK, have to google, after a few minutes I find it. I have to start "system-config-printer" from the command line. There although the interface is also bad, I can actually add the printer. Damnit, about a decade ago in GNOME I could do all this with just mouse clicking. With this new really simple-to-use GNOME I can't, I have to use command line. To add a printer! This went from bad UI to unusable UI. Not only that, I can't get to the usable UI from the UI even though it is installed.
- Multiple monitors: GNOME shell does something weird with multiple monitors. It treats the second monitor as sort of "scrap space" that you don't really use, so there are no multiple desktops, there is no bar on top … I know there is a setting in tweak (the fact that tweak exists is a failure of design to begin with), but the setting doesn't seem to work. All it does is to make the extra monitor slide around, but there is still just one desktop on the extra monitor. It feels like this was designed by somebody using the second monitor as a presentation display for a laptop or some such. It doesn't really make sense for a two display workstation.
- The status menu is now easy to miss and skip by mistake into the second monitor.
- The overview mode active corner is really damn annoying. I keep going into it when wanting to press the back button on the browser. Fitts law fail!
- No more categories in the shell overview. Good thing there is the menu on top in classic mode. I don't search! I click! Mostly because I can't remember what to search for. Looking through a list of ALL application sorted by alphabet is rediculous.
- evince keeps crashing, and the dbus interface seems to have changed again so my synctex script no longer works. This is really annoying when you have to get something done.
All in all, I am very unhappy so far, and getting unhappier and grumpier by the minute. I think XFCE, for all its suckiness will end up being my work desktop too.


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The new Ferrari showroom opens in Muscat
Yesterday, the new Ferrari showroom opened in Muscat, the capital of the Sultanate of Oman. During last night's gala event, his Highness, Al Sayaed Taimor Bin Asaad Al Said opened the 428 square metres Alfardan Motors showroom, of the official importers of the Maranello marque, in line with the corporate identity guidelines of the Prancing Horse.
The showroom can accommodate up to six cars, in the very exclusive atmosphere known as the Atelier, where customers can create and visualize, through a sophisticated configurator, their dream Ferrari, chosing the materials and colours just as though they were in the Ferrari factory.
We have many loyal owners and Ferrari fans in Oman and this new showroom will help them get even closer and help them even more," commented Giulio Zauner, the General Manager of Ferrari Middle East and Africa. "With their great experience in the luxury car market, Alfardan Motors is the most logical choice for our partnership in Oman and we are very happy to work alongside them."


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Lyrics:First verseUp in de sky dars a yaller moon abeamin', And froo de trees dars a lot of lights agleamin'; What's goin' on? What's goin' on? Swell coons are all turnin' out. Gay little gals wif dere pretty eyes arollin', Down froo de grove wif de darkies am a strollin; All hands dressed in their best, What's de rumpus all about? Dis am around dat de coons are celebratin', Down to cakewalk they're all a congregatin'; My, what style! See dem smile! Chuck full of fun and delight.Dis is de time ev'ry nigger is a dandy, feels just as sweet as a stick of yaller candy; Extra fine, Right in line, All a feelin' out of sight, O!ChorusSwing round and show yo' clothes my lady, Don't you take yo' peepers off dat cake, We'll make these other coons shady. Da is no mistake, Say gal, you is a red hot member! Goodness won't we make the people talk, Dat cake will make us bofe remember Eli Green's cakewalkSecond verseThere comes a coon wif a mighty reputation, Wins ev'ry cake dat he tackles in de nation; My don't talk! Watch him walk! Aint he a picture of grace. Some people say he is certainly a wonder, He's got a face dats as black as any thunder; But when he looks at me, He'll turn yaller in the face; He come around fo' to gobble up de prizes, But I'se a coon dat he very much despises; Dis swell knows right well He aint a marker to me. Dis am s chance fo' to gain a reputation, We'll be de talk of de colored population. Oh you Lize, Roll dem eyes, You's sa pretty as can be. O!
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As you may know Chanel has a huge impact on how we paint our nails every season, probably due to their very limited edition range that hits the market a few times a year and the hype around it is always insane, waiting lists, selling out as soon as they hit the counter for £16 and then can then be found on ebay from £60 and up. Even if you think they don't influence what you wear they probably do cause their trend colors get copied by any high street brand out there. Do you remember 2009's Jade color, Februar's Particuliere, June's Nouvelle Vague and the Khaki range a month ago.
Here's a sneak peak, the new color will most likely be Black Pearl. When Chanel presented their Spring Collection 2011 all the models nails were painted in a black pearly color with hints of green, being seen on the Spring show is a pretty good indicator on what's gonna be the next nail-mania. Personally I think it's a bit dark for spring but I'm sure it's gonna be a success as always, in fact I'm gonna look around for something similar and wear it now.


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The dip is great, but the garlic toasts were really the star in my workshop. I toast a sliced baguette them for 2 minutes under the broiler, then rub them with a raw clove of garlic. You won't believe how good.
Squash Dip
2 blocks of cream cheese, softened
4 ounces of goat cheese, softened
3 green onions, minced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 teaspoon of sea salt
1/2 teaspoon of cracked pepper
1 small hubbard squash
Cut a hubbard squash in half. Place both pieces of the squash on a baking sheet. Roast in the oven for 30 minutes at 400 degrees. Leave one half to use as bowl. Scoop out 1/2 cup of flesh from the other piece of cooked squash. Mash it with a fork. Set aside.
In a mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, combine cream cheese, goat cheese, green onions, garlic, sea salt, pepper and 1/2 cup of cooked, mashed squash. Mix until combined. Spoon mixture into the 'bowl' piece of the squash. Place it on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.


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Jerusalem: Israel's military says soldiers shot at Syrian fighters after gunfire from the Syrian civil war spilled over to the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.
A military spokesman said soldiers deployed artillery toward the source of fire late Saturday night.
Speaking on condition of anonymity according to protocol, the spokesman said it identified a hit. He did not know if they were Syrian rebels or forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.
Syrian shells have exploded inside the Golan Heights several times in recent weeks damaging apple orchards, sparking fires and spreading panic but causing no injuries. Israel is worried that if Assad is toppled, Syria could fall into the hands of Islamic extremists or descends into sectarian warfare.


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A British webmaster accused of supporting terrorism was arrested in his London home on Wednesday. Syed Talha Ahsan, 26, is accused by the US of aiding and abetting the Taliban and Islamic fighters via the creation of various fund raising and propaganda websites. He's also accused of illegally possessing classified US Navy troop movement plans and providing jihadists with temporary housing in London.
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Currency Convertibility and the Transformation of Centrally Planned Economies
- I Introduction
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[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Jamie Foxx[/lastfm] amazed the crowd during his Live on Letterman webcast tonight. On the very same day his album Best Day of My Life dropped, the superstar took the stage of the historic Ed Sullivan Theater to wow an intimate in house crowd and millions watching online.
The Live on Letterman webcast presented by AT&T was an epic night. Catch the concert for the very first time or relive the exciting night again!
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Foxx started off the night performing some of the biggest hits including to "Winner" and "Gold Digger." After joking around with the crowd, he busted out the Ray Charles impression that once garnered him an Oscar.
Foxx then segued into "Gold Digger." As the band jammed, Foxx dusted off his old comedy skills and broke into classic dances including the Running Man and signature MC Hammer grooves.
Foxx introduced his band the Killjoys, and gave a shout out to his daughter in the audience. After an extended lament about a lost love, Foxx went into his hit "Fall For Your Type" and followed it up with "Sleeping Pill" and "Do What It Do."
Later in the night, Fox broke out his megahit "Blame It." The audience and chatroom jammed along with their idol. Check out some of the best Tweets and Facebook updates during the show.
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[photogallerylink id=1391 align=left] The superstar ended the night with his latest hit "Best Night Of My Life" to a roaring crowd. He shared his hopes and dreams for the new year, tossed his sweat rag to a woman in the audience and triumphantly exited the stage. The in house crowd went wild while the folks in the chatroom were shocked. One member of the Twitter community said it best:
CymphonicInc no she did not just try to use her rag to wipe his face.
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I'm curious as to what the minimum internet speed is to allow access to Xbox Live.
What minimum speed does it require?
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I'm curious as to what the minimum internet speed is to allow access to Xbox Live.
What minimum speed does it require?
It's really difficult to say as it depends on so many other different factors as well. At first glance your download speed look acceptable, but upload speed is pretty low and your ping is fairly high as well which will both have an impact. There's also the issue of contention, which may see your broadband speeds rise\fall depending on how many other households are using the line at that particular time.
Then there's the type of game\service you want to use. Some games require more bandwidth than others, for example a first person shooter game will require a lot more than say, a turn based game like Uno. Streaming films also requires a lot, depending on the quality.
So taking into account these factors here's my recommendation:
Heavy bandwidth games (COD, Halo): Most likely have lag, and be hard to play online
Medium bandwidth games (Mortal Kombat, SFIV): Should be fine, may have some lag
Low bandwidth games (Uno, Texas Hold 'Em): Should be fine
Movies: May struggle with buffering and stutter
although don't take this as definitive, you can hook up to xbox live for free and you usually get a months free gold membership too so you can test out some online gaming before you commit to a paid membership, and I'd advise you ultimately to do this.
If your ping stays the same, fast-paced games like first-person shooters will be miserable. Ping is the response time (in milliseconds), so your ping stands at 0.879 seconds. Think about trying to shoot someone when you have a delay of almost a second before the bullet fires. About like driving when you are drunk. w69rdy covered pretty much everything else, just wanted to make sure you knew exactly how the ping related.
As far as I'm aware there isn't a minimum 'speed'.
Rather Xbox Live requires an MTU (maximum transmission upload) of 1364, most Ethernet routers should have this set to ~1500 so you shouldn't have to worry about this.
It is entirely possible to access the service through a 56k dial-up connection and there are several tutorials on the web demonstrating this. This is extremely useful in countries where broadband is either too expensive or just unavailable / unreliable.
However this will obviously create problems, you won't be able to play multi-player, at least not without ruining the experience for you and your fellow players. Getting a gold subscription wouldn't be worth it but if you just want to download games from XBL and use some of the non-bandwidth intensive parts of the service its fine.
As far as the minimum speed required to play consistently smooth, stream video and enjoy the 'full' xbox live experience, that is much more complicated and actually depends less on the 'speed' quoted by the provider and more on other things. I would say the most important factor here is how close you are to your local exchange and also how densely populated the area is and the time of day. If you live miles away in a densely populated area you will have a worse experience.
Multi-player will also depend a lot on your global location, for example if a game you play only has servers in Europe and you're an American you're not going to have the best experience, and vice-versa, this is an over simplification though.
As recommended your best bet is to simply get a free gold month and test it out for yourself, most multi-player games come with at least a few days trial. If it is poor then remember it may be because you've been connected to people half way across the world, try a few games, try a different time of day (if its a busy period like 6-10pm on a week day).


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Apple Inc may face a difficult task invalidating two HTC Corp (宏達電) patents for data transmission in wireless devices, a US trade judge said at a trial that could lead to import bans on the newest iPad and next version of the iPhone.
"Clear and convincing means something to me," US International Trade Commission Judge Thomas Pender said on Thursday in Washington, referring to the legal standard in determining that a patent should not have been issued.
"I have to be pretty darn certain a US patent is invalid," he said.
HTC accuses Apple of infringing two patents it owns for ways to reliably transmit a larger amount of data.
Taoyuan-based HTC said the patented methods are critical to the 4G technology known as LTE, or long-term evolution, that allows faster downloads.
A victory could let HTC seek an import ban on the latest iPad and even the newest iPhone, if it uses LTE when it is unveiled as early as next week. That could give the Taiwanese handset maker leverage to force a settlement with Apple, which has made its own patent infringement claims against HTC.
The newest iPad, which went on sale in the US in March, is the first from Apple that runs on LTE wireless networks. Apple is expected to introduce its newest iPhone on Wednesday, and HTC can argue that it should be subject to an import ban because it was in production during the pre-trial investigative portion of the case.
Apple and HTC have been embroiled in patent battles over features in smartphones since March 2010, when Apple filed its first infringement claim at the trade agency. The case at trial on Thursday, and an earlier case HTC lost at the commission, "were filed in retaliation against Apple," Apple lawyer Michael McKeon of Fish & Richardson in Washington said.
HTC lawyer Tom Jarvis of Finnegan Henderson said the company was the first to sell Android and 4G devices and one of the first with touch screens.
"HTC is an innovator," Jarvis told the judge. "It's no Johnny-come-lately."
However, in this case, HTC acquired the patents at issue in April last year, around the same time it began selling its first LTE phone, the Thunderbolt. The patents are part of a portfolio HTC bought for US$75 million from ADC Telecommunications Inc.
"I don't care if they bought these patents to sue you or not," Pender told McKeon. "They are a property right."
In a court filing, HTC said it bought the patents, which ADC said were being infringed by Apple, "to protect itself and its customers from these aggressive tactics and to preserve its ability to compete in the US."
The case on trial on Thursday, filed in August last year, initially included five patents that HTC obtained from Google Inc. Pender threw out that part of the case, saying HTC did not have adequate ownership control under the terms of its agreement with Google. The commission upheld that decision in July.
Pender said he probably would not side with Apple's argument that HTC did not have proper ownership rights of the two former ADC patents.
Separately, HTC won a court ruling dismissing a patent infringement case against it after a judge found the inventor made false declarations to patent officials.
US District Judge William Hart in Chicago on Thursday ruled that Daniel Henderson, the founder of Intellect Wireless, made false statements to the US Patent and Trademark Office to overcome prior art, or previous references, cited in opposition to elements of his patents.