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There's a restaurant in my New York City neighborhood called Isabella's that's always packed.
Downstairs, upstairs, at the sidewalk cafe, it's mobbed. And there are large crowds of happy yuppies out front, waiting 45 minutes for a table when they can clearly see other perfectly good restaurants right across the street which have plenty of tables.
It doesn't matter when you go there. For Sunday brunch, it's packed. Friday night? Packed, of course. But go on a quiet Wednesday night at 11:00 PM. You'll get a table fairly quickly, but the restaurant is still, basically, packed.
Is it the food? Nah. Ruth Reichl, restaurant reviewer extraordinaire from the New York Times, dismissed it thusly: "The food is not very good."
The prices? I doubt anyone cares. This is the neighborhood where Jerry Seinfeld bought Isaac Stern's apartment with views over two parks.
Lack of competition? What, are you serious? This is Manhattan!
Here's a clue as to why Isabella's works. In ten years living in this neighborhood, I still go back there. All the time. Because they've never given me a single reason not to.
That actually says a lot.
I never go to a certain fake-Italian art-themed restaurant, because once I ate there and the waiter, who had gone beyond rude well into the realm of actual cruelty, mocking our entree choices, literally chased us down the street complaining about the small tip we left him.
I stopped going to another hole-in-the-wall pizza-pasta-bistro because the owner would come sit down at our table while we ate and ask for computer help.
I really, really loved the food at a local curry restaurant with headache-inducing red banquettes and zebra-striped decor. The katori chat was to die for. I was even willing to overlook the noxious smell of ammonia wafting up from the subterranean bathrooms. But the food inevitably took an hour to arrive, even when the place was empty, so I just never went back.
But in ten years I can't think of a single bad thing that ever happened to me at Isabella's.
So that's why it's so packed. People keep coming back, again and again, because when you dine at Isabella's, nothing will ever go wrong.
Isabella's is thoroughly and completely debugged.
It takes you ten years to notice this, because most of the time when you eat at a restaurant, nothing goes wrong. It took a couple of years of going to the curry place before we realized they were always going to make us miss our movie, no matter how early we arrived, and we finally had to write them off.
And so, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, if you're a restaurant, and you want to thrive, you have to carefully debug everything.
You have to make sure that there's always someone waiting to greet guests. This person must learn never to leave the maitre d' desk to show someone to their table, because otherwise the next person will come in and there will be nobody there to greet them. Instead, someone else needs to show patrons to their tables. And give them their menus, right away. And take their coats and drink orders.
You have to figure out who your best customers are—the locals who come on weekday nights when the restaurant is relatively quiet—and give them tables quickly on Friday night, even if the out-of-towners have to wait a little longer.
You need a procedure so that every water glass is always full.
Every time somebody is unhappy, that's a bug. Write it down. Figure out what you're going to do about it. Add it to the training manual. Never make the same mistake twice.
Eventually, Isabella's became a fabulously profitable and successful restaurant, not because of its food, but because it was debugged. Just getting what we programmers call "the edge cases" right was sufficient to keep people coming back, and telling their friends, and that's enough to overcome a review where the New York Times calls your food "not very good."
Great products are great because they're deeply debugged. Restaurants, software, it's all the same.
Great software doesn't crash when you do weird, rare things, because everybody does something weird.
Microsoft developer Larry Osterman, working on DOS 4, once thought he had found a rare bug. "But if that were the case," he told DOS architect Gordon Letwin, "it'd take a one in a million chance for it to happen."
Letwin's reply? "In our business, one in a million is next Tuesday."
Great software helps you out when you misunderstand it. If you try to drag a file to a button in the taskbar, Windows pops up a message that says, essentially, "You can't do that!" but then it goes on to tell you how you can accomplish what you're obviously trying to do (try it!)
Great software pops up messages that show that the designers have thought about the problem you're working on, probably more than you have. In FogBugz, for example, if you try to reply to an email message but someone else tries to reply to that same email at the same time, you get a warning and your response is not sent until you can check out what's going on.
Great software works the way everybody expects it to. I'm probably one of the few people left who still closes windows by double clicking in the top left corner instead of clicking on the [x] button. I don't know why I do that, but it always works, with great software. Some software that I have is not so great. It doesn't close if you double click in the top left corner. That makes me a little bit frustrated. It probably made a lot of people frustrated, and a lot of those people probably complained, but I'll bet you that the software developers just didn't do bug tracking, because they have never fixed that bug and probably never will.
What great software has in common is being deeply debugged and the only way to get software that's deeply debugged is to keep track of your bugs.
A bug tracking database is not just a memory aid, or a scheduling tool. It doesn't make it easier to produce great software, it makes it possible to create great software.
With bug tracking, every idea gets into the system. Every flaw gets into the system. Every tester's possible misinterpretation of the user interface gets into the system. Every possible improvement that anybody thinks about gets into the system.
Bug tracking software captures the cosmic rays that cause the genetic mutations that make your software evolve into something superior.
And as you constantly evaluate, reprioritize, triage, punt, and assign these flaws, the software evolves. It gets better and better. It learns to deal with more and more weird situations, more and more misunderstanding users, and more and more scenarios.
That's when something magical happens, and your software becomes better than just the sum of its features. Suddenly it becomes reliable. Reliable, meaning, it never screws up. It never makes its users angry. It never makes its customers wish they had purchased something else.
And that magic is the key to success. In restaurants as in software.


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Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD thanks supporters and rejoices that Ireland has been brought into the 1950s tonight.
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD thanks supporters and rejoices that Ireland has been brought into the 1950s tonight.
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Onward and Forward.
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Eventually, the law might be up to the standards of the 21st century.
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It was an incredible night at the Dail.
But you know what was more incredible to me than the vote? The smiles, thumbs-up, and beeping (and bells on bicycles) that we got from passers-by. The people standing up on the top floors of buses to wave at us and tell us to give 'em (that'll be the antichoicers) hell and keep fighting the good fight. Whoever it was who left a bag of bottles of water for those of us standing out for hours.
I'm 30, and I remember when pro-choice activists would be spat at on the street. Only a year ago, I would never have imagined that people would stand up and come out publically as having travelled for abortions. Today? Today we get thumbs-up, and I just watched a friend talk on an international news station about her experience going to the UK for an abortion.
This legislation is flawed at best, and won't save every woman's life who could be saved. It wouldn't have saved Savita Halappanavar.
But Ireland? Ireland has changed.

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Just in time for the holidays, Radio Shack is cutting prices on the iPhone 4 by 50 bucks. That means the 16GB iPhone 4 is $150 and the 32GB iPhone 4 is $250 (for new or upgrade eligible customers). That's probably going to be the best deal you'll find this year. The offer is only available in brick and mortar Radio Shacks, so call your local one to see if they're offering it.
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01 Jun 2001 A Man of the (Tattered) Cloth, by Michael King
Reprints permitted provided source is credited.
Reverend Arthur Allen is the man at the center of a maelstrom.
Allen is pastor of a 150-member-strong church – The House of Prayer – in Northwest Atlanta. The church is the focus of an ongoing investigation that led Georgia state welfare authorities to remove nearly 50 children from parishioners' homes between late March and early May. The Fulton County Department of Family and Children's Services (DFACS) charges that members violently discipline their children, placing them at risk of harm.
It started when children came to school with noticeable bruises. Teachers notified DFACS, which investigated and found The House of Prayer and the Biblical teachings of Allen responsible.
The House of Prayer focuses strongly on the teachings of the Old Testament of the Bible. Allen teaches his flock to remove themselves from the "outside world," encouraging them to live close to the church in an impoverished area on Atlanta's northwest side. He teaches that no form of birth control is permitted under Biblical law and that promiscuity outside of wedlock is wrong. Under Allen's direction, girls as young as 14 travel 60 miles to the west – to Cleburne County, Alabama – where it is legal to marry that young. The girls are then wed to older men within the church in marriages arranged and approved by Allen.
Allen also insists that members' children be quizzed at the altar, in front of the congregation. If the child has been "bad," a punishment is administered at Allen's direction. Members hold the arms and legs of the child, and the parent is directed to beat the child until Allen determines that the punishment is sufficient. Bruises from these beatings prompted the DFACS investigation.
Initially, 41 children were removed from the homes of parishioners, and local Atlanta television caught the screams and wails as the kids were loaded into vans to taken into state custody. Those pictures made their way onto national newscasts as questions were asked of the parents and Allen.
Allen insists his way is the right way, and directed the parents not to allow attorneys to represent them in subsequent court hearings. Fulton County Juvenile Court Judge Sanford Jones told the parents they had to meet several conditions to get their children back during the ongoing investigation. First, others could not discipline their children. Second, spankings were only to be administered by hand – no belts or other items. Finally, young girls were not to be taken to Alabama to be wed.
Incredibly, the parents refused at Allen's urging. He proclaimed, "God's going to give back your children when he's ready." In response, Judge Jones called The House of Prayer a cult, and compared Allen to infamous People's Temple founder Jim Jones.
Allen is using every opportunity to get himself in the media during this controversy at the expense of his parishioners. He says families going along with the court are sinning and damned to Hell. He taunts the media with claims that DFACS has a vendetta against The House of Prayer in general and specifically against him.
Further proof of Allen's true motive is seen in his response when seven children were removed from the home of a House of Prayer member in early May. After Fulton Juvenile Judge George Blau ordered the family to surrender their children, the parents refused, saying officials would have to "come get them yourselves." Allen contacted the local media to ensure they were present, with cameras rolling. He also insisted on having two personal camcorders inside the home as the children were being removed. Two teenagers began to kick, hit, bite and scratch at DFACS officials, so police officers forcibly removed them and placed them under arrest. Allen personally made certain the footage was given to Atlanta television stations for immediate broadcast.
The footage, however, told a different story. The DFACS workers tried to reason with the teens, but the teens became violent. Officers handcuffed the pair and removed them from the house, with the parents crying and wailing in the background. The teens were charged with simple battery and obstruction of justice.
Reverend Allen doesn't seem to care about this. He just seems to want his 15 minutes of fame – just like other so-called "men of the cloth" who hide behind the Bible in order to further their own personal agenda. People like him do a disservice to the rich spiritual heritage of the African-American community. Don't be fooled by the demagoguery of men like Allen – they are not men to be admired. They are men to be despised by all spiritual and righteous people everywhere.
(Michael King is a member of the African-American leadership network Project 21 and an Internet and radio broadcaster in Atlanta, Georgia. He can be reached at [email protected] and http://www.geocities.com/mhking1/.)
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Are you a collector?
Do you find yourself drawn to certain things and ever wonder why that is?
Over the years I collected the typical things like dated Christmas ornaments, figurines, and dolls. But I've also collected things that wouldn't exactly be considered 'collectibles'. My first collection (I remember very well and was very fond of it too) was clothing tags that I placed on my bedroom wall. It wasn't only the tags I was interested in but the arrangement as well – maybe more so; I would spend a considerable amount of time moving them into pleasing compositions.
More recently, and for the past several years now, I've amassed quite a collection of fragments of various things, mostly vintage and usually favoring a certain color family (usually from the mid-century) as you can see from this photograph of my cabinet of curiosities. And the more broken, the better.
I wonder what Freud was have to say about that.
According to Wikipedia…
When people think of collecting, they may imagine expensive works of art or historical artifacts that are later sold to a museum or listed on eBay. The truth is, for many people who amass collections, the value of their collections are not monetary but emotional —and often, not for sale. Collections allow people to relive their childhoods, to connect themselves to a period in history or to a time they feel strongly about. Their collections may help them to ease insecurity and anxiety about losing a part of themselves, and to keep the past present [1] Some collect for the thrill of the hunt. Collecting is much like a quest, a lifelong pursuit which can never be complete.[2] Collecting may provide psychological security by filling a part of the self one feels is missing or is void of meaning.[3] When one collects, one experiments with arranging, organizing, and presenting a part of the world which may serve to provide a safety zone, a place of refuge where fears are calmed and insecurity is managed.[4] Motives are not mutually exclusive; rather, different motives combine in each collector for a multitude of reasons.
(Psychology of Collecting – Wikipedia)


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The Shale Gas Market is expected to Reach 17,201.6 Bcf Globally by 2019: Transparency Market Research
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Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2013 - 2019," shale gas production was 10,138.2 Bcf in 2012 and is expected to reach 17,201.6 Bcf by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 7.9% from 2013 to 2019.
The increasing demand for energy and regularly depleting reservoirs have forced the world to focus on unconventional source of energy. A major revolution in this sector started with shale gas production. The success of shale gas in North America has motivated other countries such as China to invest in it. The U.S. dominates the shale gas market in terms of production as well as revenue. However, cost of production and contamination of surface water are expected to hinder the market growth in the near future.
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Shale gas is used in various applications such as industrial, power generation, commercial, residential, and transportation in the same way as conventional natural gas. Hence increasing demand from these applications is expected to drive the production of shale gas; especially in the U.S. and Canada. Focus on decreasing dependability on conventional gas sources has been primarily driving the growth of shale gas. High investment by Asian companies in shale plays and collaboration with foreign players are factors propelling growth in this market. However, high production costs and excessive utilization of water are expected to hinder market growth.
Abundant availability of technically recoverable reserves and rapid exploration and development of shale gas, mainly in North America, is proving to be advantageous for petrochemical producers, as this brings down their raw material and energy costs reducing reliance on natural resources.
Unconventional gas accounted for 44% of the total technically recoverable gas until 2012 and shale gas represented two-third of the unconventional sources. Eastern Europe and Eurasia accounted for over 60% of conventional gas resources and nearly 16.5% of unconventional gas sources. A large part of the world's remaining technically recoverable unconventional gas lies in regions that are presently net gas importers such as China and the U.S. Technological advances like hydraulic fracturing and soaring gas prices led to the growth of unconventional gases in North America. Hence, the global energy supply is expected to shift in the near future. Europe has substantial amount of shale gas reserves but public opposition and regulatory regimes is expected to hamper the market growth. A few countries such as Algeria, Mexico, and Argentina also have large shale gas potential.
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Made to Thrill x Kings Island - Mystic Timbers Poster
Park Exclusive
This item may be available for purchase in the official Kings Island Online Shop or at the park.
Produced in collaboration with Kings Island this Made to Thrill original is a park exclusive.
- 13 in. x 19 in.
- Giclée print (archival inkjet)
- Heavy-weight archival matte paper
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High Elevation Rock outcrop Vegetation of the Southern Appalachian Mountains." Journal of Vegetation Science 7, no. 5 (1996): 703-722."
Predicting Treeline Elevation in the Southern Appalachians." Castanea 62, no. 3 (1997): 137-146."
High Elevation Outcrops and Barrens of the Southern Appalachian Mountains." In Savannas, Barrens, and Rock Outcrop Plant Communities of North America, edited by R. C. Anderson, J. S. Fralish and J. M. Baskin, 119-132. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999."


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Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Sleep mask tutorial
As I was digging through my travel stuff I remembered how much I hate those icky sleep masks you get on the plane. So I decided to make myself a pretty little one using my Birds on a Wire fabric. It only took about 30 minutes or so and now I'll have a cute little mask for my long, long flight. Here's a quick tutorial:
-Cotton fabric for front of mask: 5" x 8"
-Cotton fabric for covering elastic: 21" x 2"
-Flannel (or something soft) for lining and back: 2 pieces 5" x 8"
-16" of 1/4 elastic
1. Here is a link to the pattern.
2. Lay your fabrics down in this order and cut out your pattern.
Back flannel- facing up
Front cotton- facing down
Lining flannel- facing down
3. Take the strip for the elastic and sew using 1/8 seam along the long side. Right sides facing together. To turn the tube right side out, take a safety pin and pin one end. Feed the safety pin back through the tube. Work it through slowly. (It's sort of like putting on panty hose when it's hot and sticky outside...but just shimmy it through there gently and eventually it will pop out the other side.) Iron the tube flat.
4. Put a safety pin on both the ends of your elastic and feed it through the tube. Attach the pins at both ends so your elastic doesn't slip back through. To secure the elastic to the tube, sew a quick seam at each end. Take off your safety pins.
5. Now you are going to attach the tube to your mask. Pin the edges of your mask layers together. Now insert the covered elastic between the lining and the front. (See it all squished in the middle? It's like a little stuffed pie!) Make sure your ends are jutting straight out the sides when you are pinning everything together.
6. Sew 1/4 seam all the way around the mask. Go slow so your seams are straight. Leave an opening along the top so you can turn everything right side out. Make sure you reinforce your seams where the straps attach.
7. Clip your edges all the way around to keep it's shape when you turn it right side out. Make sure you don't accidentally clip your seam though!
8. Turn your mask inside out. Iron everything flat. Do a blind stitch to close. I was in a rush yesterday so I cheated and just stitched it closed on the machine...;)
9. Race to your couch and try it out! Since I couldn't self photograph this last step, Clara graciously offered to help.
8 comments:
- Karen L R said...
What a dear pooch you have! Stylin', too.
- August 20, 2009 at 5:58 AM
- yasmine said...
thank you for your nice comment dear. your prints are super cute!
- August 27, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Web Design Quote said...
Nice post and this is the detail post for the newbies to learn more and more comfortably. So keep adding some more ones in your list i will be come back soon to your blog and see some thing new.
- September 8, 2009 at 2:04 AM
- Galaxy6139 said...
haha you have very nice model here... the puppy ^^
- September 18, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Link to pattern did not seem to work fyi!
- January 9, 2010 at 10:02 PM
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Hey, it's my first post on Hardball Talk. Very exciting. I still cannot believe that Calcaterra and Gleeman didn't save the "Jeff Francoeur is in the best shape of his life" post for me.
Kevin Youkilis plays for the New York Yankees now. I'm not typing those words as a fact. I'm typing those words to remind myself -- kind of like that guy in Memento, who would tattoo integral facts on his body because he had no short term memory. Every few seconds, it seems, I forget all about Youkilis, and then some story or Tweet will cross my consciousness, and I'll think, "Wait, what, Kevin Youkilis plays for the Yenkees now?"
I'm not quite sure why the Youkilis thing throws me.* I feel like I've largely grown numb to the temperamental and capricious ways of sports free agency. It really didn't take me too long to get used to Peyton Manning in a Broncos uniform or Albert Pujols in an Angels uniform or even LeBron James in a Miami uniform. Josh Hamilton as an Angel? Got it down already.
*What Youkilis thing? Let me read back … wait, what, Kevin Youkilis plays for the Yankees now?
So this Youk as Yank thing shouldn't be that hard to get used to. If we all could get used to Michael Jordan in a Washington uniform and Jerry Rice in a Raiders uniform and Greg Maddux in a Dodgers uniform and, heck, Wade Boggs in a Yankees uniform, there seem no real boundaries left. But for some crazy reason, Youkilis in a Yankees uniform just doesn't quite compute for me. It isn't that I have any personal connection to Youkilis. It isn't that I could only see him in a Red Sox uniform -- heck, I didn't see any real incongruity when he played for the White Sox last year.
But for some reason Kevin Youkilis playing for the Yankees -- wait, what, Kevin Youkilis plays for the Yankees now? -- just triggers that cable TV "recording conflict" fiber in my brain.
It has me thinking about the most incongruous unharmonious players and uniforms in sports history. Here are 10 of them.
-- John Unitas playing for the San Diego Chargers. This is probably the most famous clash between player and uniform -- Unitas in 1973 played for the Chargers. He was 40 years old. He started four games completed 44.7% of his passes, threw seven interceptions against three touchdown passes. It was a sad ending, but in another way it wasn't. He went out on his own terms. Anyway, endings are supposed to be sad.
-- Wayne Gretzky playing for the St. Louis Blues. Gretzky playing for the New York Rangers was strange enough. But for 18 games, he played for the Blues and that's just weird.
-- Babe Ruth playing for the Boston Braves. He hit .181 in 28 games as a publicity stunt. He did hit six home runs in 92 at-bats -- so he was still on pace to hit hit 40 home runs over a full season. But he did not hit a double or triple, he was just an old ballplayer swinging for the fences and trying to give the fans one more thrill.
-- Rickey Henderson playing for the Seattle Mariners. I know Rickey played for nine different clubs in his astounding career -- and that doesn't even include the Independent League teams -- so it seems silly to say that you could not imagine Rickey in a certain uniform. But Rickey's brief Seattle sojourn completely skipped my memory.
-- Emmitt Smith with the Arizona Cardinals. He was there for two seasons, and a big deal was made about it, but I never really got used to it.
-- Tony Dorsett with the Denver Broncos. That was just strange … he wasn't bad for the Broncos. He ran for 703 yards in fairly limited play and scored five touchdowns. It was still strange.
-- Karl Malone with the Los Angeles Lakers. Remember that little experiment intended to get the Mailman his championship ring? He was 40, he played in 42 games, and he scored 13 or so a game. The Lakers reached the finals, but lost to Detroit in five.
-- Patrick Ewing with the Orlando Magic. Ugh.
-- Bill Russell with the San Diego Rockets. I was shocked to find out that … no, I'm kidding, this never happened.
-- Pete Rose with the Montreal Expos. He got his 4,000th hit with the Expos, so you can still see photographs of Rose in an Expos uniform. He will sign these photographs, if you like. It still doesn't look right.
-- Reggie Jackson with the Oakland A's. Like with Rickey, it's pretty easy to imagine Jackson in just about any uniform. But the Jackson-Oakland combination doesn't really make much sense to my mind. (Editor's note: I meant to say "Reggie Jackson with the Baltimore Orioles," here, but for some reason got Oakland stuck in my head. Regular readers know: I do that sometimes. I guess Reggie Jackson with Baltimore seems SO weird to me I couldn't even type the words).


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The early rise is well worth it as you experience the two major landmarks in Uluru–Kata Tjuta National Park. Start with an amazing sunrise at Talinguru Nyakunytaku, the Uluru (Ayers Rock) sunrise viewing area. Afterwards, on the 45 kms drive to Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) your Driver Guide will provide you with an historical overview of the National Park. The walk through the sheer walls of Walpa Gorge won't disappoint as you're led into a world of rare plant species and lush evergreen scrubs.
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Smartphone Shipments to Surpass One Billion for First Time
Smartphone shipments are expected to surpass one billion for the first time ever this year, fueling a broader rally in the mobile phone market.
After being stuck at 1.2% last year, mobile phone growth is expected to reach 7.3% in 2013 as demand for smartphones grows stronger in both developed and emerging markets, according to a new report by International Data Corp.
The analytics giant had previously forecast mobile phone growth of 5.8%.
Smartphones are expected to grow a faster-than-expected 40% year-over-year, lifting shipments above the one-billion mark by units for the first time in history.
A flurry of innovation in the sub-$200 smartphone segment will be behind a broader smartphone rally as device makers like Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung reach new consumers, including those in high-growth emerging markets. Steep subsidies in developed market should also help fuel sales of higher-priced items.
"Two years ago, the worldwide smartphone market flirted with shipping half a billion units for the first time – to double that in just two years highlights the ubiquity that smartphones have achieved," Ramon Llamas, research manager with IDC's mobile phone team, said in a statement.
By 2017, shipments for smartphones are expected to reach 1.7 billion, giving them virtually total share of the mobile phone market in many of the world's most developed economies, IDC said.
Meanwhile, the leading operating systems, Apple's iOS and Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, are on track to remain the top two operating systems in the foreseeable future.
Android's market share is expected to slump to 68.3% by 2017 from 75.3% currently, while Apple's share grows marginally to 17.9% from 16.9%.
IDC says it remains to be seen how Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone and BlackBerry's (NASDAQ:BBRY) future systems will play out, but it sees Microsoft inching ahead following a trend recorded in the first six months of this year.
Windows' market share is on track to nearly triple to 10.2% by 2017, according to IDC, making it the third-biggest device maker not far behind iOS.


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After prepping with Testimo Eye Bright Up Base, I applied a light beige shade from a Lunasol palette over the browbone area, at the inner corners. I used the sponge applicator to apply the shimmery teal blue shade from the inner corner to the middle of the lid and along the lower lashline, and the medium blue shade at the outer corners. Next, I used a brush to blend the purple shade from Flamboyant very lightly just above the outer crease and then finished with the HIP Color Chrome Eyeliner Showy Black and Clinique High Impact Mascara.
The pic above was taken at 8am while the pic below was taken at 7pm. There was some creasing at the inner corners but this usually happens whenever I use the Testimo primer. The rest of the eyeshadows lasted quite well.
The sponge applicator is hidden in the bottom compartment. It took a few tries to open the container until I figured out that the easiest way to open it was to use the fleshy part of the thumb to push the cap upwards.
The shimmery teal blue in Showy reminded me immediately of MAC's famous Parrot eyeshadow. Here's a side-by-side comparison. Overall, I found the shades in both Showy and Flamboyant had good colour payoff, applied true to how they look in the pan and were easy to blend. The Color Chrome Eyeliner was also well pigmented but ultimately, I still prefer my usual liquid eyeliner which is faster to apply and more precise without the need for sharpening.
For the rest of the look, I used Shiseido Refining Makeup Primer, Dior X4 Control Compact Foundation 012, RMK Super Basic Liquid Concealer EX01, Paul & Joe Face Color 07, Lipstick #18 and Loose Powder, and K-Palette Real Lasting Eyebrow 01.
The L'Oreal HIP Bright Shadow Duos are a good way to add some vibrant colours to your eyeshadow collection and experiment with various combinations. And at S$18.90 each, these won't break the bank.
You can read more posts about the L'Oreal HIP bloggers' party at Shine, Shimmer & Sparkle, Atelier Beauty and Luvverlyn Color-playground. Do also check out the L'Oreal Paris Singapore Facebook fan page!


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Mill of Stars
Photographed in the evening of the 13th to the 14th of August 2013, this photo shows a startrail of 2 hours and a Perseid meteor streak(in the center) over one of the entries of a former coal mine lost in the Serra da Boa Viagem, Figueira da Foz, Portugal.
In the Northern Hemisphere, the Perseid meteor shower is one of the most famous of the year, although it can also be seen in the Southern Hemisphere, but with less intensity.
Reaching values of 100 visible meteors per hour, this year, according to the IMO (International Meteor Organization), were recorded 120 per hour at its peak that occurred during the early morning of the day 11-12 and 12-13 August, 2013. (source: http://www.imo.net/live/perseids2013/)
Every year, from around July 17 to August 24, our planet intersects with the trail of dust left by the comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, the passage of this dust through the atmosphere burns up forming a trail light, which we call the shooting star.
The best time to observe this meteor shower is before dawn, although they may also be visible some meteors, but in smaller numbers, from the moment when night falls.
The constellation Perseus, which gives the name to this meteor shower (Perseids), is the region of the sky where you can see a greater influx of these meteors fall, at this point we call "Radiant". It is he who influence the name given to each meteor.
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The photo itself is a combination of 240 different photos, taken during two hours, between 1am and 3am of August 14, 2013.
Vanilla Sky
Nave de Santo António
Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
Hoya HD Cir-PL
LEE ND Hard 0.3
Stone House
Penhas Douradas, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
The true night of supermoon 2013
Super Moon June 2013 - University of Coimbra - UNESCO World Heritage
The Wonderful Colors of S. Lourenço
São Lourenço Wood, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
Winter on the banks of the Zêzere river
Covão D'Ametade, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
The Darkness Is Coming
Vale do Rossim, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
Ruthless Winter
A Little Help
Zêzere river, Covão D'Ametade, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
Peeking through the clouds
Mondego Fields
Mondego Fields, Coimbra, Portugal
Super Moondego
Super Moon June 2013, Coimbra, Portugal
Super Moon June 2013 - Coimbra, Portugal
Fire In The Hole
Situated near a little village called Casmilo (Condeixa, Portugal), the holes (Buracas) which gave the name to this place, The Buracas Valley, belong of a limestone massif called massif of Sicó. This one is a self portrait of me and my friend João Almeida (http://500px.com/joaoalmeida1904) who usually follow me in these night adventures! For this shot we had to use 2 candles to light the hole.
Autumnal Colors
Leandres Valley, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal
Hell Waters
Poço do Inferno, Serra da Estrela Natural Park, Portugal


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Anoka County Library's mission includes the provision of reliable and easily accessible information to the community. The Library collects a variety of materials to make such information available and affirms that useful and reliable information is available on the Internet. Anoka County Library provides access to the Internet at all library locations; the electronic resources found on the Internet augment traditional library collections.
Because of the transient nature of the Internet, the Library is unable to apply traditional selection criteria to resources and sites found on the Internet. The Library recognizes that not all Internet sites are suitable for all library users, and some sites may contain misleading, inaccurate, controversial, or offensive information or graphics.
Anoka County Library, in compliance with the federal Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), applies a technology protection measure, commonly referred to as a filter. CIPA was designed by Congress to enforce Internet safety by protecting against access to visual depictions of child pornography, obscenity, and material harmful to minors. No filter product is perfect, however, nor are they capable of keeping every harmful or offensive Internet site from computer screens. The library's use of filters does not change parental responsibility to monitor their children's Internet use. Adult users, defined here as age 17 or older, as required by the law, may request and receive non-filtered Internet access.
Disclaimer: The Library affirms the right of every individual to access constitutionally protected material on the Internet and supports library users' rights to privacy and confidentiality in accordance with the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act. Anoka County Library also complies with state laws and regulations including those governing obscenity, child pornography, and materials harmful to minors (including but not limited to Minnesota Statutes sections 134.50, 617.241, 617.245, 617.291, 617.292, and 617.293).
Anoka County Library is not liable for any direct, indirect, or consequential damages related to the use of online information transmitted or accessed through the Library's Internet connection.
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All library users should understand that unlawful conduct is not allowed at the Library. Unlawful conduct in relation to the Internet includes "hacking" and other unauthorized access to electronic resources, unauthorized disclosure, use and dissemination of personal information about minors, behaviors which endanger safety of self or others or the security of data, and actions which violate copyright laws.
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FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers for Aaron Hernandez are questioning the validity of a search warrant executed at the former New England Patriots player's home.
In court on Wednesday, the defense questioned a state trooper involved in the June 2013 search of Hernandez's North Attleborough home as part of the investigation into the killing of Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez, who is held without bail after pleading not guilty to murder, appeared in court but did not speak.
The defense said the affidavit filed in the application for the warrant mentions that police were looking for GPS evidence, but the actual search warrant does not mention GPS evidence.
The trooper said the affidavit and warrant were attached with a paper clip.
Defense attorneys are seeking to have some evidence dismissed.
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This universal wall mount, switching power supply has selectable regulated output voltage of 3.0, 4.5, 6.0, 7.5, 9.0, and 12.0 V DC. It comes with four interchangeable wall plugs for use around the globe making this the ideal travel power supply: American, Euro, British, and Australian style plugs. Six common output connectors are provided as well, each of which can be inserted two ways to determine the output polarity.
A simpler solution for a 5V system with a 2.1mm barrel jack is to connect this supply to the DCDC6-16-TO5 regulator board which has a USB output, then connect the TOL-08639 USB-to-Barrel adapter into that.
If your 5V system needs to source more current than this supply can provide, and you're using American-style plugs or have an adapter to use them, consider the TOL-11456 (1A) or WA-USB-2A power supply, each of which uses a USB cable delivery, so the TOL-08639 USB-to-Barrel adapter is handy if your system has a 2.1mm barrel jack.
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This unique longevity round 10 inch plate measures approximately 10"w. The longevity plate allows you to serve your cooking with style. The longevity pattern plate is dishwasher safe. It is not for microwave use. The longevity design features a beautiful Asian style pattern of red, yellow, and blue colors, along with the 4 Chinese symbols that means longevity. Melamine is very durable and lightweight. Melamine's long lasting and almost unbreakable plastic tableware makes it a popular choice for use in both home and restaurants alike. This item is NSF certified and is BPA free.
Be sure to check out the other Longevity to complete your dinnerware set. Made in China.


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**Release Day** This Love by Anna Bloom
*Contemporary Romance*New Adult*
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This Love Synopsis
Amber's always planned to leave her overbearing mother and their stifling small town behind as soon as she graduates. That is until her car breaks down outside Bale and Son's mechanics and she meets Freddy Bale. A boy who'd rather live in the moment than make a five-year-plan. Ignoring her friends' warnings, Amber puts all dreams for her perfect future on hold, and dives into the romance heart first. On their last day of school, however, Freddy decides to call off their relationship, and Amber does the only thing she can think of: Run away and never look back. Just like she'd always planned. Ten years pass before Amber sets foot in town again, only returning to look after her ailing mother. While Freddy wants to make amends, Amber is confronted with her own wrong choices from ten years ago. Choices that could change the lives of everyone she's ever loved. When first love is given a second chance and the secrets of the past come hurtling into the present, will Amber and Freddy be able to lay their mistakes to rest and make this love the strongest one of all?
My former home looked on the very edge of being derelict. The four wall shave never provided the warmth and comfort a childhood home should, butseeing it in a state of disrepair, littered with dirty china, lined with old newspapers and filmed in a greasy layer of dust made me doubt my choiceof leaving ten years ago more than ever, and my decision to come back.
I did the right thing. Didn't I?
You see, I'm the grown up now. Ten years ago I left home, my heart broken,and my ego bruised. With the hindsight of age, I realise my heart wasn 'treally that broken, I probably wasn't even really that in love. For the last tenyears I've only had room for Isaac in my heart. Isaac is mine.
Dragging my mind back from my sadly lacking welcome home yesterday, I keep my mind on the present and scan the shelves of the grocery storesearching for anything my mother might like to eat. The shop hasn't changed at all. The floor still has the same unique surface texture of sticky and slippery. The bread still has to be eaten today because tomorrow morning it will get a cloying smell that hits you in the face when you open the bag. Andthe shelves are all still precariously balanced with an unpredictable selectionof tins: spam next to peaches, tinned spaghetti next to sanitary towels and shoelaces next to the cheese.
The question is, what do women with early onset dementia like to eat? This morning she was cooking cat food. I didn't know she'd ever owned a cat. My shock at her deteriorated condition mingled in an unpleasant way withthe stench of hot Whiskers, my anxiety and guilt quickly transformed into frustration when she kept calling me Cynthia, which is her sister's name. "I'm Amber," I kept saying over and over again, my attempt to keep my voice lightseriously pushed to the border of shouting, but she just looked at me blankly with no flicker of recognition on her face.
I'm just grabbing another loaf of bread because I'm sure Isaac will want his standard half a loaf and marmite for breakfast, when the door of the shopchimes. Ignoring it, I continue to load my arms with pretty much anything I can see.
A packet of McVities Chocolate digestives wiggles it's way free from undermy armpit and rolls beneath a shelf just as I hear the shop assistant call tothe newcomer, "Morning, Mrs. Bale, what can I do for you?"
Mrs. Bale. I stop.
Mrs. Bale.
Last time I was here, Mrs Bale was dead. Interesting.
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I absolutely LOVE this time of year. It is getting cooler outside and the fall colors are upon us...which means...break out the sweaters and the boots!!!! Lets change our decor! Start nesting! Bring on the Fall Colors!
Love, Love, absolutely Love!
I mentioned earlier that I found a 10' harvest table. I just realized that I never posted pictures. Ugh! I have already had to turn it over once because everything sold....here is the second rendition.
The planks are raw and beautiful, the nail heads rusty and exposed, it is narrow and sits a little lower to the ground then a normal table. PERFECT for display. Perfect for a large room.
.... I could go on and on.
.... I could go on and on.
easily holds the double washtub


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February 27, 2013 — Nordic Naturals and Lipid Technologies have developed a partnership to ensure that practitioners have easy access to the Holman Omega-3 Blood Spot Test for their patients.
Thanks to advances in laboratory science, the Holman Omega-3 Blood Spot Test delivers a fast, easy and accurate measurement of a person's omega-3 levels, which can aid in making informed choices about diet and supplementation.
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Pagliari History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
From the historical and enchanting Italian region of the islands of Sicily emerged a multitude of noble families, including the distinguished Pagliari family. Although people were originally known only by a single name, it became necessary for people to adopt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they were characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Although the most common type of family name found in Sicily is the patronymic surname, which is derived from the father's given name, the nickname type of surname is also frequently found. Nickname surnames were derived from an eke-name, or added name. They usually reflected the physical characteristics or attributes of the first person that used the name. The surname Pagliari is a name for a person who frequently wore a straw hat or who had straw colored hair. The name Paglia is derived from the Italian word paglia, which means straw.
Early Origins of the Pagliari family
The surname Pagliari was first found in within early records of the Pagliara family, who were nobility in Salerno and were Lords of seven feudal territories.
Early History of the Pagliari family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Pagliari research. More information is included under the topic Early Pagliari History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Pagliari Spelling Variations
Surnames that originated in Italy are characterized by an enormous number of spelling variations. Some of these are derived from regional traditions and dialects. Northern names, for instance, often end in "o", while southern names tend to end in "i". Other variations come from the fact the medieval scribes tended to spell according to the sound of words, rather than any particular set of rules. The recorded variations of Pagliari include Paglia, Pagli, Paggia, Paglietta, Paietta, Paiola, Paiotta, Paglicci, Pagliocca, Pagliuca, Paglione, Pagliaini, Pagliarini, Pagliazzi, Pagliai, Pagliaro, Pagliari, Pagliara, Paggiaro, Paggiarin, Pagliarolo, Pagliaroli, Pagliarani, Pagliarulo, Paglieri, Paiero, Pairo, Paglianti, Paglionico and many more.
Early Notables of the Pagliari family (pre 1700)
Prominent among bearers of this surname in early times was the Paglia family in Giovinazzo, a town on the Adriatic sea on the southern tip of the peninsula. Gualtiere Pagliara was Chancellor of the Empire of Enrico VI in Sicily; also...
Investigation of immigration and passenger lists has revealed a number of people bearing the name Pagliari:
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Sony to end PlayStation game region-coding?
Come PS3, HDTV, we may, says exec
Sony PlayStation 3 games may ship without codes that fix releases to specific geographical territories.
According to Sony Computer Entertainment Australia chief Michael Ephraim, the company sees the emergence of a global HDTV standard as the basis for dropping region-coding, in an interview with Australian IT.
"If you look at the fact that [the PS3] will support high-definition TV, which will be a global standard, there's a good likelihood that it will be global region, as for example we've done with the PSP," he said.
PlayStation and PS2 games are currently fixed to specific regions, much like DVDs are. A game bought in, say, the US will not play in a machine purchased in Europe, a least not without controversial and potentially illegal modification work on the console. The legality of the action depends in which country the change is made. ®


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This post was not planned.
But… I have lost two close friends from both high school and college to suicide, and Heath Ledger's unexpected death, which shows all the signs of suicide, saddened me on a profound level. It just shouldn't happen.
To paraphrase Dan Sullivan: the problem isn't the problem. It's how you think about the problem that's the problem.
Here are three concepts that I and others have found useful for preventing the inevitable ups and downs from becoming self-destructive thinking and behavior:
1. Depression is just one phase of a natural biorhythm and thus both transient and needed…
Energy and interest are cyclical. Nothing can peak or sustain red-zone RPMs forever. Normal people exhibit alternating periods of high-output and low-output, the latter being recovery periods during which depleted neurotransmitters stores regenerate, fatigued neural networks recover, etc..
The symptoms of depression often just reflect a system undergoing routine maintenance.
Fixating on the symptoms as "depression" becomes self-fulfilling and can lead to a downward spiral. Don't jump to conclusions. Having recurring down cycles is natural. Thinking about them as unnatural, and the poor — sometimes devastating — decisions that follow, is what does the damage.
2. How you label determines how you feel.
Don't use the term "depression," which is loaded with negative and clinical connotations, without considering other labels that might be more appropriate. "Loneliness" or "isolation" are two common substitutes which are not just more precise but more actionable (the term "depression" doesn't suggest a solution).
In their fascinating study "Would you be happier if you were richer?", published in Science, Princeton professors Alan Krueger and Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for his work in behavioral economics, found that perhaps the best indicator of happiness was frequency of eating with friends and family.
If you have to chose one activity to produce an emotional upswing, start breaking bread more often with those who make you smile.
3. Gratitude training can be used pre- or mid-depressive symptoms to moderate the extremes and speed the transition.
It's frighteningly easy to develop pessimistic blinders and lose sight of the incredible blessings and achievements in our lives. This is common when a single identity — for example, job title and function — leads you to measure self-worth using one or two metrics (like income or promotions, usually in comparison to others) dependent on some variables outside of your control.
Recalibrate your perspective, and prevent over-investment of ego in one area of life, with scheduled gratitude training that takes a holistic inventory of the positive people and achievements in your life.
None of this is intended as medical advice. If you need help, there are people waiting for your call, both friends and professionals:
Hotlines in your state can be found on this page
Sorry for the somber topic, but lifestyle ain't much without life.
Statistically, out of the millions of people who visit this blog, a fair number will consider or attempt suicide. I want to know that I at least made an effort to prevent such terrible loss.
Be safe and be optimistic. There is a lot to be grateful for… and just as much to look forward to.
Pura vida.
[P.S. This is a serious post for me. I can take a good verbal jab, but not on this one. Please no poor humor or nonsense in the comments, or I will permanently blacklist you from this blog with no exceptions.]
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Baroque Flute Handbook/Care
Breaking In a Flute Edit
Baroque flutes are made of wood. When played, moisture condenses out of the breath to settle on the flute's inner bore. The wood inside the bore absorbs this moisture and expands. Wood on the exterior of the flute stays relatively dry and does not expand. That difference of expansion produces stress that (in the worst case) is relieved by cracks. Most at risk are new instruments and instruments that have dried out because of infrequent playing. (It can take as little as a week or two between playing sessions for a flute to return to its original dried-out condition.)
To make a new or unplayed flute's transition from dry to damp as stress-free as possible, the player must follow a break-in routine that gradually increases the amount of moisture absorbed (and retained) by the flute. The key idea is to minimize moisture by playing the flute for only a small amount of time at first, and then gradually increase that time, and thus also the amount of moisture absorbed by the wood, until the instrument reaches a point of equilibrium at which it can be played for extended periods (within reason). There are various schedules recommended for this process, but all follow the same pattern: a gradual increase of moisture to which the instrument is exposed. The following sections outline several representative schedules.[2]
Rod Cameron Edit
- Day 1: 10 min
- Day 2: 20 min
- Day 3: 30 min
- Day 4: 40 min
- Day 5: 50 min
- Day 6: 60 min
- Day 7: 80 min
- Day 8: 120 min
Dockendorff-Boland[3] Edit
- Day 1: 10 min
- Day 2: 15 min
- Day 3: 20 min
- Day 4: 25 min
- Day 5: 30 min
- Day 6: 35 min
- Day 7: 40 min
- Day 8: 45 min
- Day 9: 50 min
- Day 10+: 60 min
Folkers & Powell Edit
- Week 1–2: 10 min twice a day
- Week 3–4: 30 min/day
- Week 5 and after: 60 min/day
Oiling Edit
The inner bore of a flute must be oiled periodically. The thin layer of oil acts as a buffer. It allows some moisture to pass from the breath into the wood, but not too much or too quickly. Some authorities claim that oil alters the sound and playability of the flute for the better, but they provide few specifics as to either the mechanisms or the effects. Oil could make the interior more smooth by filling in between ridges left during the boring process. That could, plausibly, alter sound and playability. In the absence of solid, quantified research, suffice it to say that oil does provide a measure of protection for the instrument and it may even improve sound and playability. Even if the improvements were to be found largely placebo effects, they would be improvements nonetheless. In the final analysis, you should oil your flute. Certainly for the protection. Perhaps for sound and playability. And last, but not least, because it is a regular checkup that turns up unnoticed issues and shines your instruments back to their peak.
What oil to use? Edit
Two kinds of oils are used on wooden flutes: hardening and non-hardening.
- Hardening oils (also known as drying oils) dry to a finish and leave a semi-permanent layer on the wood. Linseed oil is a hardening oil.
- Non-hardening oils (also known as non-drying oils) do not dry.
Most vegetable oils (almond oil, olive oil, peanut oil, etc.) are said to be non-hardening, though in reality they simply are slower to harden. There are many reasons to select a particular oil, including whether or not the oil is prone to going rancid, or even preferences as to the taste of an oil.
When shopping for oils, it's important to know that they are not always sold under the same name commonly used in the traverso world. Linseed oil is often sold as flaxseed oil, while rapeseed oil has been renamed (for marketing reasons) canola oil.
Almond oil Edit
Almond oil is popular, but some people have problems with it going rancid. Mixing vitamin E with the oil is sometimes advised as a way to prevent this. About one capsule of vitamin E per 8 to 10 oz. is a recommended mix. It's still a good idea to store almond oil in a cool place. Even with the use of vitamin E, some people have reported problems with the oil applied to an instrument later becoming sticky and rancid. One theory (not confirmed to this author's knowledge) is that there are two grades of almond oil, food and pharmaceutical, and that pharmaceutical grade should be used to avoid problems.
Linseed oil Edit
Linseed oil (raw, unboiled) is a hardening oil. It's also a controversial oil. Some swear by it. Others reject its use entirely. It's not entirely clear why this is so. Perhaps it's because some early authors, especially Tromlitz,[4] discouraged its use, saying it left a crust inside the instrument that alters the bore. On the other hand, many players of that time believed almost superstitiously in the ability of oil to improve the playing characteristics of an instrument and were prone to use more than liberal quantities. Were linseed oil to be used in this way, it's not surprising that it might get a bad reputation. However, when used properly, it has much to recommend it because of its hardening qualities. One must simply not use it too often, in too large a quantity, or let the unabsorbed oil sit for too long unswabbed.[5]
Non-vegetable oils Edit
While not "historically authentic," some people do use non-vegetable oils containing petroleum distillates or other chemicals. These are the sorts of bore oils you are likely to find in music stores. Lacking evidence to the contrary, it seems the vegetable oils do just as good a job (and they won't make you sick or kill you if ingested).
Another opinion: vegetable oils all tend to rancidity (which is not good to consume even in very small doses) and become gummy (harden) and (as Tromlitz observed) build up on the surface of the wood after a time. The vegetable oils sold as tung oil and "boiled" linseed oil (which some flute makers do use) also often have additives that can be quite toxic. On the other hand, mineral oil which is intended to be taken internally as a laxative is sold in pharmacies: the small amounts one might ingest from playing a mineral-oiled flute are unlikely to have any effect at all on the ingestee. Mineral oil is chemically close to inert, and does not oxidize or harden, yet it soaks into the cells of wood and limits the amount of moisture that can be absorbed. In other words, mineral oil seems to provide all the benefits sought from oiling without the drawbacks of rancidity, hardening and surface buildup that are inherent with vegetable oils.
How often to oil? Edit
Opionions on this topic seem to depend on whether a hardening or non-hardening oil is being advocated, though about once a month is the median point for both camps. For non-hardening oils on instruments played frequently, it may be necessary to oil more often. For hardening oils on instruments played infrequently, oiling less often may be a good idea to minimize any problems with accumulation in the bore.
How to oil? Edit
Polishing Edit
Carnauba wax mixed half-and-half with Vaseline makes a good polish for the outside of the flute. It is also found in car polishes, but they don't say in what proportions. Carnauba wax can be purchased in hard-flake, pure form from wood finishing suppliers. After melting it with Vaseline, rub it on the wood and polish with a soft cloth especially good around the mouth-hole.
A simpler approach: rub some of the bore oil on the outside of the instrument, allow to soak in, then polish with a soft cloth or chamois.
Reaming and Reboring Edit
Reaming and reboring are the process of sending a flute back to its maker on occasion to have its inner profile restored what it was when it first left the shop and had not yet been altered through the ravages of moisture and playing. There are two schools of thought with regard to this process: most believe it is an essential part of wooden flute maintenance; a few find it to be a highly questionable practice.
this passage is not built on accurate information. it is exactly the opposite: most builders DO NOT suggest re-reaming flutes after playing in. I would like to see the clear evidence that the majority opinion is for re-reaming, since the top builders I know in the EU: Tutz, Tardino, Weemaels and Wenner are all against it - UNLESS there is an issue to be resolved. As far as I know, only Cameron and Folkers & Powell (who have stopped making flutes) are for re-reaming, and therefore the minority view.
Most flutemakers will not call it re-reaming, but, rather, bore polishing, which is a method of removing the micro-filaments of wood that have lifted inside the bore, end-grains, as it were.
Reaming and Reboring: The Majority Opinion Edit
Most makers hold that the inner bore of a traverso may need to be reamed back to its original profile on occasion. Wood changes shape, especially when it goes through the wet and dry cycles of playing. The inner bore may distort a bit. This can change the pitch of the instrument and the octave spacing between some notes. The distortion may be slight, but it can still alter the instrument's performance. To the player, it can feel like a stiffness or inflexibility in the instrument, either it cannot be pushed to play louder, or it may feel "wooden," with a somewhat coarse tone is difficult to play softly. Because the traverso allows for playing with great variations in pitch, one may not notice the small pitch shifts that have made the instrument inherently out of tune, but will instead find it simply uncomfortable to play. This can be hard to notice since the changes are usually gradual.
Instrument makers all have their own procedures to deal with this. It's usually a matter of re-reaming the instrument once the instrument has been broken in and played regularly for 3 to 6 months. After the re-reaming, the instrument must be broken in again as if it were new. This usually works, though some instruments may need more work, just with the passing of time, or because the wood out of which it was made was not adequately dried in the first place, or because the wood itself is persnickety (boxwood being the most notorious in this regard).
Reaming and Reboring: The Minority Opinion Edit
The minority opinion, as stated by flutemaker Simon Polak, makes a case against reboring that can't be dismissed out of hand. A full discussion may be found on his webpage.[1] He observes that his flutes improve as they are played in and as their players "play in" on them. In his experience, instruments that return to his workshop after a year play very much better than when they were new: "more open, easier all over (not just the upper octave) and warmer." He reasons that if the instrument is getting better on its own, there's no reason to go around making unnecessary changes.
As for the practice of standard reboring of the new flute after some period of time, he provides an amusing thought experiment in which he imagines the reaction of a famous player of an equally famous original 18th century traverso to the suggestion that his instrument be rebored with reamers that can be proved to be the originals for that instrument. It seems more likely than not that the famous player, having found a comfortable place with the flute on his own, will emphatically reject the proposed surgery. While few players own rare instruments such as this, it does provide a perspective that other flute players might want to consider when they are faced with the decision to ream or not to ream.
Polak's bottom line seems to be that one should rebore only if it seems unequivocably necessary and not as part of standard maintenance and that it should be very much the exception for most flutes. In this he quotes Rachel Brown from The Early Flute: "Many makers understandably want to rebore the instrument ... Obviously this is a very personal matter ... It is my humble opinion that the bore changes according to the way the instrument is played, and if it is working well it is preferable not to tamper with it."
Adjustments Edit
Adjusting the Cork Edit
Between the embouchure-hole and the closed end of the traverso is a cork which may be moved to adjust an instrument's intonation.[6] For those of an engineering bent, there are various rules for placing the cork based on parameters such as the diameter of the flute, for example, that the cork should be as far away from the There are several problems with rules such as these:
- The variations of bore, embouchure dimension, and finger-hole dimensions vary so much from one traverso to another that it is, for all practical purposes, impossible to devise a "one size fits all" rule.
- The bore of a traverso is conical, larger at the embouchure end than the open end, so there are a lot of diameters from which to choose. The rules never seem to state which is the correct choice.
- It's actually easier just to place the cork where things "sound right" (which we'll get to shortly) than it is to use measurements and such.
The basic idea behind cork placement is that you want to get octaves on the traverso in tune with themselves.[7]
- A (sort-of) mnemonic for which way to adjust the cork when you change middle sections:
Push the cork the same direction as the change in flute length. A longer section moves the end of the flute away from the head; the cork moves down the headjoint, towards the embouchure-hole. A shorter section moves the end of the flute toward the head; the cork moves up the headjoint, away from the embouchure-hole. The foot register moves in the same direction as the cork: big section, pull out; smaller section, push in.
- Fine tuning of the cork: Play G 1 and G 2 .
If they're too close ( G 1 sharp and G 2 flat), push the cork towards the mouth-hole. If they're too far apart ( G 1 flat and G 2 sharp), push the cork away from the mouth-hole. Do the same with A 1 and A 2 . Another (sort-of) mnemonic visualization: The two notes come out the end the flute. If they're too close, they need to be "expanded" by pushing the cork in towards the end, sort of like inflating a balloon. If they're too far apart, they need to be "collapsed" by pulling the cork away from the end, sort of like sucking the air out of a balloon.
- Everyone seems to blow a little differently.
Something, somewhere on the flute will be out of tune, the best thing to do is find the best compromise position with the least out of tune notes. Try and make sure at first with any instrument you are playing for the first time after a restoration or some repair, that the octave Gs, As, and Bs are somewhat in tune. The Ds are often unreliable, being frequently flat in the bottom end, the middle Ds being sharp, flat or in tune with the bottom one. Then try blowing with the mouth-hole covered or open to different degrees and with differing breath pressures to find where the instrument responds, tunes and sounds best. One rule of thumb that I had heard in the past was that the distance of the cork from the center of the embouchure-hole should be the same as the bore size. This does not seem to work on most of the flutes I encounter. Usually they need to be a good bit farther away than their head joint bore size.
- Most modern players don't push the cork in far enough because they uncover the embouchure-hole more than 18th century players did.
This makes the high register sharp and the low register flat. To compensate, they position the cork further out, which makes the high register speak less easily. They should push the cork in a bit more and cover more of the mouth-hole (or turn the headjoint in more to accomplish the same thing) in order to narrow the octaves and, at the same time, make the high register easier to play.
Adjusting the Foot Register Edit
- First make sure the cork is properly adjusted.
Play the D 3 first fingered -23 456 - and then -23 --- K . If the first is higher than the second, pull the register out. If lower, push the register in.
- Why it works: The first fingering uses the full length of the flute.
If it's too high, pulling the register out will make the flute longer and pull the pitch for that fingering down. And vice versa.
Adjusting the Bottom Joint Edit
On some flutes, especially the 3-joint Hotteterre, it can be difficult to adjust the bottom joint so that the key can be reached easily while not at the same time interfering with hole 6. This can happen if the little finger on the right hand is lying on and moving the key while flat, or starting curved and then going flat. If this occurs, the bottom joint may need to be rotated upward for the finger to operate the key, thus getting in the way of the 6 th hole. The solution is to curve the little finger, pressing the key with the tip. It is then possible to roll the bottom joint down out of the way of hole 6. Further, if the little finger remains curved while pressing the key, with the only motion occurring as a pivot of the joint where the finger meets the hand, fingerings that use the key will have less movement and be quicker.
- ^ It's possible that one should be more conservative when breaking in a traverso made of a less dense wood. Boxwood, for example, while popular, can be more prone to warping than denser woods.
- ^ Janice Dockendorff-Boland. Method for the One-Keyed Flute: Baroque and Classical. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998.
- ^ Johann George Tromlitz (translated by Ardal Powell). The Virtuoso Flute-Player. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- ^ Once a month, just enough to coat the inside of the instrument, left for 2 hours or so and then swabbed out are good guidelines for its use.
- ^ Intonation with itself, not with other instruments. Assuming the cork is placed correctly, you can pull the headjoint out a little to flatten a traverso that is sharp relative to other instruments in an ensemble. But you can't go too far because this alters the bore profile and the instrument will become increasingly difficult to play. If the instrument is flat, the only choices are to use the embouchure to play sharper, have everyone else tune themselves to you, or, if you're playing on a 4-joint traverso, replace the 2nd joint with one that is slightly shorter. The last is probably not as viable an option as it once was, since most traversos made today offer only a few choices for the 2nd joint (typically one or more of the following: A440, A430, A415, A410 or thereabouts, and A392).
- ^ Or, as much as possible. Like the natural horn (or natural "French horn" if you prefer), the traverso is an instrument that requires careful attention and adjustments by the performer if it is to be to played in tune. Furthermore, just as with the natural horn, being "in tune" can be just a little different for some notes than it would be if you were following the modern system of equal temperament. And also, as with the natural horn, many notes, especially those which might be considered most "out of tune" by modern standards, have unique personalities of their own. These variations of quality from one note to another and one key to another were among the reasons why the traverso and natural horns maintained their advocates even "improved" forms were devised. These provided consistency of tone quality and intonation across keys and across the instrument's range. At the same time, much of the individuality of each note and key was lost.