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ARLINGTON, VA; June 13, 2012 – HAVANA, HAVANA! is a music documentary that explores how changes in Cuba are inspiring a new generation of musicians. The program premieres July 27, 2012, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings) as part of the PBS ARTS SUMMER FESTIVAL, a multiplatform event anchored by seven films that highlight art, artists and performances from around the world.
Musicians Raul Paz, Descemer Bueno, Kelvis Ochoa and David Torrens each have their own unique stories to tell, but their lives share a common theme. Each of them chose to leave Cuba and make his musical career abroad, and each decided to return home with the goal of reinvigorating the musical life of the country they left behind. Today, they are making music in Cuba again (together and separately), bringing to their songs the sounds and rhythms of other cultures – jazz, electro, hip-hop, soul – and injecting a new spirit into the traditional Cuban music of their childhoods.
The storyline of HAVANA, HAVANA! builds to a much-anticipated concert featuring the country's "prodigal sons," brought together by Paz. The film shows Paz, Bueno, Ochoa and Torrens during rehearsal, sharing musical ideas and blending their distinctive styles. Throughout, the musicians' interviews are intercut with scenes of concert preparations and visits to places where they grew up and first learned to love music. Woven together, their stories create a fugue: each of the musicians was nourished by traditional Cuban music; each was fascinated by music from other cultures; and each left Cuba to find himself as an artist. The film captures the poignancy of their homecoming and the triumph of their concert in Havana, where they play together for the first time for the Cuban people.
"This is the story of great musicians most Americans don't know," says David Grubin, multiple Emmy® Award winner and the film's producer. "As grandchildren ofCuba's revolution, Paz, Bueno, Ochoa and Torrens faced unexpected bumps on their journeys, but ultimately prove the spirit of the Cuban people is alive and well."
HAVANA, HAVANA! is produced by David Grubin Productions and Coloma Productions.
The PBS Arts Summer Festival takes viewers on an exploration of nearly 20 cities around the globe, offering an in-depth look at music, theater, art, architecture and cultural history from some of the world's unique locations. In addition, PBS stations will be able to insert local content highlighting the arts scene in their region. Award-winning television, film and stage star Anna Deavere Smith ("Nurse Jackie," "The West Wing") serves as weekly host for the Summer Festival, which begins Friday, June 29, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. ET (check local listings).
The full PBS ARTS SUMMER FESTIVAL schedule follows:
· MARIACHI HIGH, June 29, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
· ISLAMIC ART: MIRROR OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, July 6, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
· JOHN LEGUIZAMO'S TALES FROM A GHETTO KLOWN, July 13, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
· HOMECOMING: THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY PRESENTS JOYCE DiDONATO, July 20, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
· HAVANA, HAVANA!, July 27, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
· THE BARNES COLLECTION, August 3, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
· GREAT PERFORMANCES "Tanglewood 75th Anniversary Celebration," August 10, 2012, at 9 p.m. ET
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
I have to go to work
Last week I gave a talk at a local Rotary meeting. The group of about fifteen all work in my city at various jobs: banking, real estate, small business, and consulting are the ones I know of. It's a breakfast meeting at 7 in the morning. It's a good thing I like this group.
I've talked to them before and they were receptive as usual to my topics: the writing process, the state of publishing as I experience it. They know that I also teach and work as an editor at a lab. One woman in particular always asks when my classes are since "some day" she wants to write a book.
Nothing unusual so far. Several people stayed around after my talk AND THEN, one by one they left, uttering some variation of "I wish I were a writer, but I have to go to work now."
Can you hear my growl?
I've heard this all my life. My father was a laborer, the kind who literally dug ditches to support us. A plum job for him was a gig at a construction site where he might have the pleasure of building a stairway, pouring concrete, or putting on a roof.
To my parents, who had six or seven years of school between them, anyone who dressed up before they left the house in the morning was not really working. I understood that—and I've always been able to see the difference between my father's kind of work and my kind of work.
But I don't expect to hear remarks like that from professionals. How can an educated person think it's not some measure of work to write two books a year, for example, or even a half a book a year?
The last woman out the door of the Rotary meeting said, "Once I don't have to work, I'm going to write a book, too."
"Good luck with that," I said.
Does anyone have a better answer that I can use the next time?
10 comments:
- Kathryn Lilley said...
Your answer is perfect, Camille! It beats mine, which is "Sorry to hear that." Which is true in so many ways!
- August 12, 2008 at 2:31 AM
Maybe you could try, "Oh, so you'll write for free?" See what they say then.
As an aspiring writer, I know how hard it is and the effort put into writing. It's work!
- August 12, 2008 at 9:46 AM
- Camille Minichino said...
I love yours Kathryn. Now I can't wait till next time!
- August 12, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- Betty Hechtman said...
My father was a writer, so I knew from the time I wrote my first story that it involved work and lots of rejection. I think most people fantasize the words tumbling off your fingers and going directly into print and making you mega bucks.
When my children's mystery Blue Schwartz and Nefertiti's Necklace came out all my friends at the gym thought that meant I was J.K. Rowlings. Like, right.
- August 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Maybe something like "I miss having a real job where I could do nothing and still get paid."
- August 12, 2008 at 3:28 PM
- Camille Minichino said...
Oh ... I like that one!
- August 12, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Is the babe with the beachball thinking of what her next book will be about? xoxoxo
- August 13, 2008 at 11:35 AM
- Camille Minichino said...
The babe on the beach is me, of course!
- August 13, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Eeesh. S
So many people think that writing is "effortless" (thus, not "real work"). All they need to do is think back to the work involved in writing that 20-pg school essay, and multiply that effort by 150!
- August 13, 2008 at 2:31 PM
- Monica Ferris said...
I like Ann's reply: remember that long, tough essay you wrote in high school? Multiply that by 150! I think they think it's not an effort for us. Not that it's not work, but that it's not hard work.
The one that gets me is, "I could write a book, too, if I had the time." What, they think authors are gifted with 28-hour days?
- August 13, 2008 at 2:57 PM

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WASHINGTON - To Mike Huckabee, Baptist minister, former governor, and GOP candidate for president, being a good Christian is about redemption and forgiveness and recognizing his own frailties so he can be more understanding of the shortcomings of others.
It's an attitude that drives much of Huckabee's political agenda, including the assertion - unusual for a conservative Republican - that prisons are full of people who would be better off in drug treatment than behind bars. But there is one man Huckabee believed deserved a second chance, convicted rapist Wayne Dumond, who continues to haunt Huckabee's burgeoning presidential campaign.
Huckabee, whose self-deprecating humor and easy candor have charmed many on the campaign trail, bristles when asked about the case, in which Dumond - now dead - was paroled from an Arkansas prison, with then- governor Huckabee's endorsement, only to sexually assault and kill a woman in Missouri.
"It was one of those things I just feel horrible about. You just ache all the way to the bone over what happened," the former Arkansas governor said in an interview. "But nobody could know that" Dumond would attack again, he said.
Dumond's case is notorious in Arkansas. In 1984, he raped a 17-year-old girl. While awaiting trial at his home, he was castrated by, he said, masked intruders. Later, after Dumond went to prison for life, some people in Arkansas saw the sentence as excessive, especially given his mutilation.
Huckabee was one, and, after becoming governor in 1996, he announced his desire to commute Dumond's sentence. Dumond's rape victim, Ashley Stevens, saw it differently.
Stevens, now 40 and living in the western United States, said she tried to persuade Huckabee not to shorten the sentence for Dumond.
"I told [Huckabee]: If you ever let him out, he's going to do it again," she said in an interview.
She was able to get a meeting with the governor - who, she said, had not spoken to her before announcing his intention to commute Dumond's sentence - but realized Huckabee had "made up his mind." So Stevens stood up, she said, walked over to Huckabee, who was seated on a sofa, squatted down and thrust her face inches from his.
"I said, 'This is how close I was to Dumond's face for an hour,' " Stevens recalled. " 'I'll never forget his face, and you'll never forget mine.' "
The parole board - following a closed meeting with Huckabee - decided to let Dumond go. The following year, Dumond committed the Missouri slaying. He died in prison in 2005.
If Huckabee, who is creeping upward in the polls, gains more momentum, the case is certain to become an issue. Stevens said she is prepared to campaign actively against him if he becomes a serious candidates for president or vice president.
Bloggers have already dubbed the matter "Huckabee's Willie Horton," referring to the case of a Massachusetts man who was paroled during Michael Dukakis's tenure as Massachusetts governor, and then raped a Maryland woman and terrorized her fiancé. The episode tainted the onetime Democratic presidential nominee's campaign even though Dukakis had not personally intervened on Horton's behalf.
And a surge in the Huckabee campaign - once seen as a quixotic mission by a man hoping to become the second governor from Hope, Ark., to make it to the White House - no longer seems unthinkable. Huckabee placed second in the GOP Iowa straw poll, in which Senator John McCain of Arizona and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani chose not to compete. Afterward, Huckabee pulled ahead of McCain there in a recent statewide poll, and he is edging up in other early primary states.
Huckabee wins over crowds by reciting his powerful personal story - he was the first male in his family to graduate from high school - and interjecting his signature humor. Dangerously overweight and diagnosed with Type II diabetes in 2003, Huckabee lost 110 pounds and used the experience to initiate state programs to counter childhood obesity and support preventive healthcare.
A guitarist who plays in a band called Capitol Offense, Huckabee last year pardoned Rolling Stones star Keith Richards for a 31-year-old driving violation. Asked by reporters if he'd do the same for the average citizen, Huckabee said no, but quipped, "If you can play guitar like Keith Richards, I'd do it for you."
Huckabee is also considered an attractive contender for vice president, because he is a Southerner and has strong credentials with Christian conservatives unhappy with the leading Republican candidates for president.
"Mine is the only campaign that hasn't had any backward motion," Huckabee said in the interview, scrolling down a message on his Blackberry that showed him inching up in polls in early primary states - even in Michigan, where Huckabee has yet to campaign.
On paper, Huckabee should be the darling of the religious conservatives. He serves as a Baptist minister and has not given up the title to run for office. He has a solid antiabortion record, approving several pieces of legislation in Arkansas to limit access to abortion, and supports a constitutional amendment banning abortion. He opposes using discarded embryos for stem cell research. He supports a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
But Christian conservatives have yet to rally around Huckabee, despite the fact that they have expressed public unhappiness with the leading contenders, Giuliani, McCain, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Their reticence has little to do with Huckabee's record and everything to do with the former governor's perceived ability to raise money and compete in a general election, according to both Huckabee campaign staff and religious community leaders.
"When we started putting the game plan together we started meeting with leaders of the evangelical community," said Huckabee's campaign manager, Chip Saltsman. "They all said, 'Governor, we really like you. We think you're great. But you can't win.' "
Richard Land, an old friend of Huckabee's who is a senior official with the Southern Baptist Convention, called Huckabee a "skillful candidate" who suffers from a perception that he is a long-shot contender. "So far, I don't think Governor Huckabee has been able to convince enough voters that he can beat" the Democratic nominee, Land said.
Huckabee is different from many politically active evangelicals. Faith, Huckabee said, does not merely influence his public policy; it drives it. He rejects the fire-and-brimstone warnings delivered by some fellow religious conservatives and instead frequently talks about the need for forgiveness and diplomacy.
"When I see people who are very confrontational, you know what they're against. You're not sure what they're for," Huckabee said. "I believe that there's a place for judgment and for justice - don't get me wrong. But I think sometimes people mask their own personal anger in the form of righteous indignation."
"Being a Christian does not make me think I'm better than somebody," Huckabee added. " It makes me realize that I personally fall short of God's standards. . . . If I can see my own frailties, then I ought to be able to recognize that everyone else has them too."
Rick Caldwell, Huckabee's college roommate at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark., said Huckabee's faith "causes him to have strong convictions, but it also causes him to have a lot of grace with other people, a lot of tolerance and understanding." Evangelicals, Caldwell said, will throw their support behind his friend as Huckabee improves in the polls.
Trailing in national polls, Huckabee has yet to draw the excruciating national scrutiny given to several of the leading candidates, and if the former governor continues to rise, he is likely to be quizzed anew about several conflicts he has had in Arkansas. Huckabee tussled with local Arkansas media about renovations of the governor's mansion and the destruction of computer hard drives from Huckabee's office before he left as governor.
He also has had a running feud with the Club for Growth - which he calls "the Club for Greed" - which ran ads attacking him for raising taxes to improve schools.
And the Dumond case is likely to reemerge, dredging up not only the gruesome details of the attacks but the complicated political connections. Stevens, the rape victim, is a distant cousin of Bill Clinton. When he was Arkansas governor, Clinton refused requests to reduce Dumond's sentence. But while Clinton was off campaigning for president in 1992, his lieutenant governor, Jim Guy Tucker, commuted Dumond's sentence to 39 1/2 years, making Dumond eligible for parole.


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Monitoring &Evaluation Manager-Uganda Jobs at NFT Kenya
International NGO
The position of M&E Manager will provide leadership and oversight of the program's M&E strategies, approaches, systems and tools in collaboration with other program staff, sub-recipients, and M&E units in the Ministries of Health. S/he will ensure alignment of the program's M&E approach with national health management information systems and tools, and will provide technical advisory services to strengthen national systems. The M&E Manager will be responsible for tracking achievement on indicators at the national level and advise on solutions for continuous improvement. S/he should have the ability to work sensitively and positively with program staff and promote a learning environment. The M&E Manager is expected to have a high level of self-initiative and use critical thinking skills to identify and fill gaps.
Monitoring &Evaluation Manager Job Responsibilities
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Ensure collection of high-quality reliable and timely data to monitor program activities and evaluate progress towards achievement of program objectives.
- Lead development of the program's M&E plans and procedures. Ensure plans are adhered to and in line with national M&E strategies, health information management systems, and tools.
- Develop and continually update a M&E operations manual to ensure all M&E-related documents and tools are organized, up-to-date, and accessible.
- Support the M&E team in strategically preparing and reviewing M&E calendars.
- Ensure that the program is in compliance with our client's MEAL Policies and Procedures and strategic initiatives.
- Coordinate regular data quality audits (DQAs) to ensure the integrity of project data.
- Conduct regular field monitoring and supervisory visits with program teams, SRs and government partners.
- Organize and undertake M&E capacity building activities such as trainings, workshops and other visits for learning for our client SR, Ministry of Health M&E staff.
- Coordinate the implementation of program evaluations, assessments, surveys, special studies and operations research as required.
- Collaborate with the Program Director to communicate assessment/survey findings to key stakeholders. Communications should be tailored to the needs of various audiences.
- Work with ICT4D staff to incorporate and maximize the value and utility of technologies for M&E.
- Support programming staff to engage key populations in monitoring and evaluating program's performance and to incorporate participatory methods into M&E systems.
- Orient program staff and partners on the basic principles and practices of beneficiary accountability.
- Lead the development and implementation of feedback and response channels to reflect the preferences of community members and beneficiaries.
- Ensure that beneficiary feedback is adequately documented, addressed, analyzed, and utilized by program teams.
Knowledge Management and Learning
- Ensure that M&E and program teams regularly review and accordingly adjust M&E plans and tools in the light of changes and needs in the field context based on monitoring data and reflection sessions.
- Support learning-to-action events and reflection sessions to systematically analyze data for programmatic use, and to document and incorporate lessons learned into program design and implementation.
- Support program staff in key activities including development of a learning agenda, organizing regular learning events, supporting operations research, and reflecting, documentation, and communication of learning initiatives.
- Facilitate the M&E Community of Practice to ease communication and information flow among our client, SR and government M&E staff.
- Develop and oversee knowledge management systems and practices to gather, document and share best practices with SRs, government and technical partners.
- Facilitate the identification of lessons learned and best practices and collaborate with M&E and program staff to develop learning briefs, project bulletins and other materials for dissemination.
- Promote adoption of the best practices in knowledge management by other SRs and government partners.
Management and Administration
- Coordinate with Program Director and Finance staff to maintain, track, and adjust M&E budget throughout the life of the project.
- Support elaboration of Program Update/Disbursement Requests (PU/DR) in collaboration with other program staff.
- Ensure staff compliance with all our client's and Global Fund administrative and operational procedures and policies, as well as applicable donor regulations.
- Liaise with technical counterparts in the Ministry of Health, other Principal Recipients, and other local and international stakeholders engaged in activities in Uganda.
- Represent our client's at relevant technical working groups, sectoral meetings and coordination forums.
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- Lead, manage and supervise a team of our client's staff to meet program objectives.
- Conduct periodic reviews of staff performance in keeping with our client's performance management system and mentor staff to ensure high levels of motivation, commitment, capacity, and teamwork.
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- Master's degree in a field related to Public Health, International Development, or Social Sciences.
- Minimum of 10 years' experience in monitoring and evaluating health programs and provision of technical assistance to government and non-government partners
- At least 5 years' experience in senior management position; preference for experience in the management of M&E systems and staff for health programs in an African country
- Knowledge of national health management information systems, strategies and tools in Uganda
- Demonstrated experience with collection/analysis of epidemiological data
- Understanding of principles and current approaches to M&E for health programming, including knowledge of both quantitative and qualitative methods
- Experience with participatory and community-based M&E systems
- Familiarity with beneficiary accountability mechanisms
- Proficiency in database development/management, and skills in analyzing, interpreting and communicating data and information to various stakeholders
- Experience using ICT4D for data collection
- Significant experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments and surveys
- Previous experience with leading and managing studies and consultants
- Experience with facilitation, capacity strengthening and partnership building, with the capacity to empower staff through opportunities for growth & development
- Ability to transfer knowledge through formal and informal training
- Knowledge of Global Fund strategies and regulations desired
- Proven leadership and inter-personal skills and ability to build and motivate diverse and talented teams
- Public relations skills and ability to work well both within a team and independently
- Strong representational skills and ability to interface with multiple stakeholders, representatives, and partners (including representatives of government agencies) in a professional manner on an ongoing basis
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritize competing demands
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- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Proficiency in database development/management and statistical software (SPSS, EPI-Info)
- Professional proficiency in English oral and written communication skills; strong demonstrated writing skills required (reports, evaluations)
- Willingness and ability to travel in-country (sometimes on short notice) up to 50% and out of the country up to 10%
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their applications including detailed CVS to Recruitment Manager on email [email protected] before 29th November 2016.


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INDIANAPOLIS – Taking up from where I left off three weeks ago, the numbers have increased as far as protests, protestors and now rowdy town hall meetings. Also increasing are vandalism, violence, insults, and threats. I watched a news story the other night of a crowd of adults in Chicago encouraging kids to beat the crap out of a piñata in the image of our president and rip its limbs off, after knocking it to the ground. Bizarre, disgusting and unbelievable!
To the far left, this hatred looks like a "movement" that is getting stronger. I believe that we are actually witnessing the beginning of the end of the Democrat Party on the national level as we have known it.
This demise has taken off at lightning speed since President Trump was inaugurated, because of a lack of leadership. While Democrats need new leadership with a new vision, they are paralyzed by the loss – I just heard of something ridiculous called post-election stress disorder – and because of the wave of anger masked as a "movement" taking place in pockets around the country.
When you have three out-of-work, really mad, former Democrat campaign staffers putting together a playbook to spread anger over the Internet, you don't have a movement. You have a lack a strategy, goals, or the ability to engage in meaningful dialogue.
So what is happening and why so rapidly?
First of all, the radical far left would have you believe that President Trump is not the legitimate winner because he didn't win the popular vote. They will never admit that if the race was determined by popular vote, we would have had a completely different campaign, with candidate Trump spending much more time and money in New York and California. While he would not have won those states, he would have ended up winning the popular vote in the nation by what he would have added in those and other more populous states that he did win like Texas and Florida. But this isn't the best way to conduct our national election and this is why we have the Electoral College.
Secondly, the far left has taken over the Democrat Party because a new type of leadership has not emerged. Democrats that may have filled the void are now paralyzed by the media coverage given to the far left. This phenomenon is getting so far out of hand so quickly that no reasonable member of the Democrat Party at the national level will be able to pull their party back to a relative middle ground.
Finally, 90% of the national media is also angry and assisting the misguided strategy of the far left. They would have the public believe that the anger from mostly recruited protestors yelling at their congressperson at town hall meetings is real news.
In the meantime, Trump loyalists and Republicans will stick with the president and more independents and moderate and blue-collar traditional Democrats will be driven further to the middle ground that President Trump also inhabits. The independents and Democrats will resent the angry left and reward a president who started doing what he said he would to create jobs even before day one.
The new voters, the Trump loyalists, are folks we met on the road, that I've talked and written about from all around the state, and they are everywhere throughout the country. These are folks like Jerrald Hawkins, who mowed the names TRUMP and PENCE into his lawn in Cicero. And Gene Huber, who caught President Trump's attention when being interviewed for being first in line for last Saturday's Florida rally. I loved seeing Mr. Huber invited up on stage by the president to thank him and give him a moment in the spotlight.
The media doesn't realize what these people mean, or that most Americans are able to see through their bias. When the media mistakes protection of our borders for discrimination, they only draw attention to the president's actions to protect us from attack, drugs and gangs. The more the media dwells on the tweets or the personality of the president while he is working hard on multiple fronts, the more people will recognize and applaud his results.
As the national media looks at every turn for controversy, the more Americans are reminded that this has been going on for two years now while this president continues to stand strong to make America great again. It would be different if he was starting slow from the gate, but Americans realize that he is working hard to bring about significant change at a pace Washington has never before witnessed.
When the Russian story came up again last week, the national media again piled on and Democrats on Capitol Hill started calling for impeachment. Their true colors showed through brightly to the American public, while we also saw a president directly take on the media bias while fixing problems and also rallying his supporters.
In short, the efforts of the angry 90% of the national media and the angry radical far left that are taking over the Democrat Party will all backfire over the next two and four years. It's already started. They are letting the wrong type of emotions lead them. Anger and hatred will lead only further into an abyss and to the demise of the Democrat Party as we have known it at the national level.
Samuel is president of Samuel Solutions and was vice chairman of the Trump Indiana campaign.


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I dunno why she does it, it's always at the same point too, it's like she does it deliberately
There are some total spoilers in this so be forewarned now
Lets take a look at some of them now shall we?
#5 - My Girl
Tomboy Vada is surrounded by death, her mother died during childbirth and her Dad, Dan Ackroyd operates a funeral home but it isn't until a young boy she befriends dies from an attack of the bees that she finally deals with death
He needs his glasses...oh god damn it mum stop preparing dinner
What was my mum preparing?
Sausage and onion hash with eggs
Preparation method
- Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the butter and skinned sausages and cook for a few minutes, stirring to ensure all the meat browns.
- Add the onion to the pan.
- Grate the potato including the skin and squeeze over the sink to remove any moisture.
- Add the potato to the pan.
- When the pan ingredients are cooked, crack the eggs into the pan. Serve.
#4 - The Notebook
Eventually we find out that the woman he has been telling the story is the girl in the story and now his wife.
She is in hospital with senile dementia and memory loss. He tells the story to her everyday but there are only small occasions where you see the spark in her eyes when she remembers who she is
What was my mum preparing?
Stuffed Portobello mushrooms with blue cheese
An easy starter for dinner parties or a simple meal for one served with some fresh crusty bread to mop up the juices.
- 2 portobello mushrooms, stalks removed and chopped
- 50g/1¾oz unsalted butter
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ½ onion, finely sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- ½ pepper chopped
- 50g/1¾oz mild vegetarian blue cheese
- 50g/1¾oz white breadcrumbs
- 50g/1¾oz fresh chives
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preparation method
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
- Put the portobello mushrooms on a baking tray. Divide the unsalted butter between each mushroom. Season with salt and pepper and put a sprig of fresh thyme in both the mushrooms. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Heat the olive oil in a frying pan, add the onion and garlic and fry until soft. Add the chopped mushroom stalks and pepper and cook until softened.
- Spoon the mixture into the baked mushrooms. Put the blue cheese on top and sprinkle breadcrumbs all over. Roast the mushrooms for a further 6 minutes, or until the top is golden and bubbling.
- Put the mushrooms on a serving plate, sprinkle over the chopped chives and serve.
#3 - The Lion King
It happens during I Just Can't Wait To Be King. Simba is so happy at this moment, but little does he know that his life is going to completely turn around
What was my mum preparing?
Potato latkes (Potato pancakes)
Latkes can be made with any variety of vegetable, but for most people, the potato will always be at the heart of things.
- 1kg/2lb 4oz old or baking potatoes, peeled, soaked in cold water until needed
- 1 onion, peeled
- 25g/1oz plain flour or fine matzoh meal
- 1 free-range egg, beaten
- salt and freshly ground white pepper
- olive or vegetable oil, for frying
- To serve
Preparation method
- For the latkes, finely grate the potatoes and onion and mix together.
- Place the grated potato and onion into a colander and squeeze out as much moisture as you can. Or roll up the potato and onion in a clean kitchen tea towel and wring well to extract the liquid.
- Mix the potato and onion with the flour, egg and salt and freshly ground white pepper.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan until moderately hot and then place heaped tablespoons of the mixture into the pan to shallow-fry. Lower the heat to medium, flatten each latke with the back of a spoon and fry for about five minutes on each side, turning over when the edges turn golden-brown. If the heat is too high, the latkes will become dark-brown on the outside before they are cooked inside.
- Remove the latkes from the pan and drain on brown paper bags (they absorb the oil, leave the latkes crisper and the latkes won't stick to the paper).
- Serve the latkes hot with soured cream and apple sauce.
#2 - The Butterfly Effect
Sadly he keeps getting it wrong, and making the situation much worse for himself and others, including his girlfriend. He decides it's best if he just didnt meet her in the first place
He rewrites history and my mum deciding to start preparing dinner just as one of my favourite Oasis songs starts playing
It's even worse in the alternate ending, he decides it's best if he didnt even live at all and works out he can travel back using photos and videos, so travels back when he is still in his mums womb and starts strangling himself
This would be bad enough as it is normally, but there is an extra special version on the dvd where in the normal version it's just some song I didnt really notice, but the alternate language version had The Beatles - Real Love play over it
For some reason the onions had a particularly strong zephyr that day
What was my mum preparing?
Sage and onion tear and share bread
Tear and share these delicious sage and onion bread rolls - a perfect accompaniment to a warming soup.
- 150ml/5fl oz whole milk, plus extra for glazing
- 400g/14oz strong white flour, plus extra for kneading
- 7g/¼oz sachet fast-action dried yeast
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 1 tsp fine sea salt
- 15g/½oz butter
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
- 1 large onion, peeled and chopped
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 15-20 sage leaves, chopped, plus extra for garnish
- freshly ground black pepper
Preparation method
- Heat 150ml/5fl oz water and the milk in a saucepan over a low heat until lukewarm.
- Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl and stir in the yeast, sugar and salt.
- Make a well in the centre and stir in the water and milk with a large wooden spoon. Gather into a ball then turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 10 minutes.
- Place the dough in an oiled bowl and cover loosely with oiled cling film. Leave to rise in a warm place for 45-60 minutes or until doubled in size.
- Meanwhile, melt the butter and oil in a large non-stick frying pan and fry the onion and garlic over a very low heat for 10 minutes, or until softened.
- Scatter the chopped sage over the onions and cook for a further 2-3 minutes. Remove from the heat, season with lots of freshly ground black pepper and set aside to cool.
- When the dough has doubled in size, tip it back onto a floured surface and flatten with the palms of your hands. Spoon the onion mixture on top and knead for a couple of minutes until evenly incorporated. Sprinkle with a little extra flour if it becomes sticky.
- Divide the dough into eight and shape into neat balls by pulling the dough from the outside of the ball and pushing into the centre. Turn over with the ends underneath. Place the rolls in a circle on a large baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, making sure the dough balls are touching. Cover loosely with oiled cling film and leave to prove in a warm place for 45 minutes, or until doubled in size.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/180C (fan)/Gas 6.
- Brush the top of each roll lightly with milk and place a small sage leaf on top. Brush with more milk and bake in the centre of the oven for 20 minutes, or until risen and golden-brown. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool a little before serving.
#1 - Guardians of The Galaxy
She is dying of cancer and reaches out to Peter, but he doesn't want to face what is happening and runs away. Unfortunately he is kidnapped by some space pirates who were sent by his father to pick him up from Earth
Some stuff happens, he befriends a talking tree and a raccoon, and at one moment is faced with the image of his mother again, as he and his friends have to face their fears and work together to bring down the big bad guy
After this he finally opens the present his mum gave him all those years ago, she had prepared him a new mixtape, to prepare him for her death
What plays just really hits home to him, and we find out where the nickname "Starlord" came from
Listen baby, ain't no mountain high,
Ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby
If you need me call me, no matter where you are,
No matter how far; don't worry baby
Just call my name; I'll be there in a hurry
You don't have to worry
Oh baby there ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you babe
What was my mum preparing?
I dunno, but she was asked to leave the cinema
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by Karen Helene Walker
I'm about to turn 68 next month, so I guess technically, I am a senior citizen. You'll have to read the anthology to hear how I and others feel about that. But I really didn't feel the issues I dealt with in writing and compiling the anthology were age-related.
The first challenge was getting enough submissions to make the project worthwhile taking to publication. I was absolutely sure that certain folks would jump on this opportunity - but they didn't. What I heard was: Nothing is coming to mind to write about, or I just can't seem to wrap my mind around this topic, or the topic is so vast, I can't seem to narrow it down. I think aging is a difficult topic and one most people don't even want to think about. Or there's denial about it, which I can totally relate to. So I was concerned from the get-go about whether this would come to fruition or not.
Then I faced the challenge of which pieces out of the submissions I did receive could I include. Was it a universal theme? Was it well-thought out and well-written? Did someone else cover the same topic? Actually, that was one of my main concerns, but it did not happen. 24 authors wrote about a different aspect of aging. It was awesome.
Some of the submissions were accepted with very minor editing needs. Others needed some work. That was the next challenge. I did the first pass on editing. Once I was comfortable with those changes, the essay was passed on to a professional editor. One author declined to work on edits at all. Another author felt she wanted to work directly with the editor and actually agreed to pay him herself to get her story where it needed to be (otherwise I paid all expenses for editing and publishing). I had to decline a story, even after several revisions went back and forth, because it still needed work and that writer just didn't have the time to deal with it. I was bummed, because it was a good story.
That was the hardest thing, telling those authors I couldn't include their essays. The last thing I want to do as a writer is hurt another writer's feelings. But I had to consider that the quality of the writing would reflect on all the participating writers, so I couldn't sacrifice any integrity on my part in choosing what to include.I was lucky. These 23 writers were a delight to work with. I couldn't have asked for a better group.
The final challenge is marketing and promotion, always a challenge for a writer. Even with my 33+ years of marketing, it's so difficult to promote myself. The anthology is a bit easier, because I'm not promoting me. I'm promoting 23 other writers as well. Hiring MC Book Tours was the smartest decision I made, besides hiring Mark David Gerson as editor and Kathleen Messmer as photographer for the cover.
Would I ever do another anthology? I've learned to never say never, but more than likely, I will never do another anthology. Mostly because of the humongous amount of time it takes. I am not sorry about this one, thought. I'm proud of it and so happy it's done!
Poignant...Humorous...Brutally Honest!
A collection of personal reflections guaranteed to keep you inspired and entertained on that journey we all travel together: The Journey of Aging.
With a blend of grace, dignity, warmth and humor, women and men from 60 to 90 and from all walks of life candidly share the blessings and pitfalls of aging – from keeping dreams alive and keeping sex lives active to dealing with retirement, loss of independence and a growing sense of mortality.
Add it on GoodReads.
Wendy Brown recently retired from a career in wildlife biology, where she studied sandhill cranes and whooping cranes as they migrated from Idaho to New Mexico. Wendy eventually found a permanent home in Albuquerque, where she and her husband enjoy the sounds of sandhill cranes from their deck.
Valerie Capps has bypassed the porch rocking chair to pursue her life-long passion for writing, thereby proving that in today's world, life can begin again at 65! Valerie lives in Nashville with her husband and their spoiled-rotten Welsh Corgi. www.amazon.com/Valerie-Capps/e/B016VD9V72
Mary W. Clark retired from her law practice in 2007 and transferred her observation and composition skills to travel writing. She is currently working on a book about her father's World War II experience flying "the Hump" from India to China over the Himalayas. Mary lives in Paris, Texas. www.maryclarktraveler.com
Fran Fischer: "I was born at a very young age and that happened 82 years ago, so I don't remember much about it. I've crammed as much living into my life as possible, and I'm not through yet. I've traveled extensively and I even flew in the same zero-gravity plane that the astronauts trained in. I live in California with my first (and only) husband, and we celebrated our 62nd anniversary this year."
Pat Garcia (Patricia Anne Pierce-Garcia Schaack) is an American expatriate living in Europe. An accomplished musician as well as a writer, she has been writing (and reading) since childhood.
Mark David Gerson is the author of more than a dozen books, including critically acclaimed titles for writers, award-winning fiction and compelling memoirs. Known as "The Birthing Your Book Guru," Mark David works with an international roster of clients as coach and consultant, helping them get their stories onto the page and into the world with ease. www.markdavidgerson.com
Holly Deuel Gilster plays "make believe" for a living. In other words, she is a professional actress and musician. Holly also loves painting with words as an accomplished poet, an award-winning short-story writer and a book-reviewer for The Or Echo.
Aaron Gordon is a retired social sciences community college professor. He and his wife, Ellie, have been married for 65 years and have three children and grandchildren.
Ellie Gordon is a retired public school teacher who spent the best 20 years of her life in the classroom. A Chicago native, she now lives in New Mexico.
Karla "Rosie" Harper recently retired from teaching elementary school, freeing her to return to her early love of dancing. Today, when not helping out with her grandchildren, Rosie is taking dance lessons, spinning on a dance floor or performing in senior centers and retirement communities with Albuquerque's Sugartime, as singer as well as dancer.
Linda Hoye is the author of Two Hearts: An Adoptee's Journey Through Grief to Gratitude, available through major online retailers. A native of Saskatchewan, Linda currently lives in British Columbia (by way of Washington State) with her husband and doted-upon Yorkshire Terrier. www.lindahoye.com
E.V. Legters hasn't so much retired as she has exchanged one life for another — from rewarding years with career and children (while pursuing the arts on the fly) to a life with the arts at its center. She is the author of Vanishing Point and Connected Underneath and is currently hard at work on her third novel. www.evlegters.com
LD Masterson lived on both coasts before becoming landlocked in Ohio. After twenty years managing computers for the American Red Cross, she now divides her time between writing, volunteer work and enjoying her grandchildren. Her short stories have been published in several magazines and anthologies, and she is currently working on a new novel. www.ldmasterson.com
Kathleen Messmer not only runs a film production company with offices in the UK and the US, she is an avid photographer and wildlife advocate. In the unlikely event that she ever retires, Kathleen plans to live on a ranch with draft horses and pygmy goats and vineyards and fruit orchards, somewhere near the water. Oh, and a cowboy...maybe. www.kathleenmessmer.com
Karen Norstad has worked as cashier/gift wrapper, secretary, boutique seamstress, administrative assistant, manager of employee stock options, executive assistant and budget analyst. Now retired, Karen's life revolves around lounging about, wearing PJs until four in the afternoon, obsessing over the news, reading, fusing and slumping glass, practicing piano, keeping a small balcony garden and cooking.
Matt Nyman's nonlinear career path has included working in the geological sciences, teaching high school, stay-at-home parenting and, currently, training tomorrow's teachers. Poetry equently resides near the surface of his existence, occasionally erupting onto paper.
Jill Plaman was born and began aging in Milwaukee, but she has lived and worked in Albuquerque since 1977. She holds a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MSW from the University of Minnesota. Her special interests are travel, international folk dancing, reading, hiking and spending time with family and friends.
Maureen Polikoff is a clinical social worker/ therapist who has always pursued many other creative endeavors, including painting, playing music and, now, writing. A Connecticut native, she lives in New Mexico with her husband, Michael.
MaryFrank Sanborn left Boston 33 years ago, to apprentice with photographer Walter Chappell in Santa Fe. Still in love with the beauty of the Southwest, MaryFrank photographs, writes, hikes, travels, teaches yoga and meditation, makes soups on Sundays, and dreams of the ocean and whales.
Patricia Stoltey is the author of four mystery novels. The most recent is Wishing Caswell Dead. She lives in Northern Colorado with Sassy Dog, Katie Cat and her husband, Bill. www.patriciastolteybooks.com
Susan Swiderski grew up in Dundalk, Maryland, where everybody calls everybody hon and eating steamed crabs is a sacrament. Although she's happy in her adopted Georgia, part of her heart still lingers on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, explaining the setting for her novel, Hot Flashes and Cold Lemonade. Susan is currently working on a trilogy, proof that this old gal is still a pathological optimist. www.susan-swiderski.blogspot.com
Jan Castle Walker is a retired teacher and an active artist. She lives in Davis, California with her husband, Mack. www.jancastlewalker.com
Karen Helene Walker is a novelist, memoirist and essayist and the author of The Wishing Steps and Following the Whispers. When not writing, Karen is tap dancing, folk dancing or performing with the musical group Sugartime at retirement communities. Karen is currently working on her second memoir. www.karenfollowingthewhispers.blogspot.com
You can follow Karen and the other authors along on their tour by checking out the schedule HERE.
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Acid Test
Test Procedure
We prepared a molar solution of cupric acid, into which we dipped four chips of a PVD copper silicon wafer for one minute each.
Sample A was a copper chip with no treatment.
Sample B had a liquid corrosion inhibitor coated on its surface.
Sample C had a Repellix coating.
Sample D had Repellix coating and a vapor corrosion inhibitor.
Repellix Sample
The sample coated with Repellix remained untarnished after a minute submersion into acid.
We observe in sample B that the liquid anti-corrosion layer will not survive immersion into the acid it is designed to prevent. It washes off in liquid, and the corrosion mechanism is similar to the uncoated
sample A.
In contrast, by repelling the acid from the copper surface, Repellix maintains the surface of the copper and prevents corrosion (C and D).
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Brother HL-2170W
This is a short tutorial on installing the Brother HL-2170W (and the HL-2140) printer with CUPS on Arch Linux. If you previously tried to install the printer in CUPS, remove it. This printer will work a few different ways: with Foomatic, with the HP PCL6 driver, or with cupswrapper. For further info on cupswrapper please see the Brother MFC-440CN guide.
Setup printer and CUPS
This printer has a web-based interface. To avoid some extra Google queries, the HL-2170w web interface default username is 'admin' and the default password is 'access'.
It is recommended that you configure the HL-2170W to have a static IP so that CUPS will always work with it (steps not detailed in this article).
The needed pdd/drivers are available from this device from the OpenPrinting Database. There is no need to directly browse to this page or download ppd files directly; it has been given for reference only.
- Install CUPS and Foomatic:
# pacman -S cups foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-nonfree foomatic-filters ghostscript
- Start the cups daemon:
# rc.d start cupsd
- Optionally edit your rc.conf to start cups on boot:
DAEMONS=(... @cupsd ...)
- Open a web browser to http://localhost:631/
- Click the Add Printer button on the Administration tab.
Continue to one of the following subsections:
Using IPP (recommended method)
- Select IPP from the list.
- In the 'Connection' field, type
- In the next form, give the printer a unique name (no spaces and the name be must unique from any identical printers), and select "Brother" from the printer make field.
- Select "Brother HL-2170W Foomatic/ljet4e (en)" from the list of drivers.
- Configure the default options on the next page to your liking.
Using the HP PCL6 driver (alternative method)
This driver is not ideal, but it works.
- Click the Add Printer Button (fill out the form) (click Continue)
- Select Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) from the drop down menu (click Continue)
- In the Device URI field add the following line:
http://printer:631/ipp/port1Where printer is the IP address or DNS name of your printer (click Continue)
- Select "HP" from the printer make field.
- Select "HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS (en)" from the list of drivers.
Some simple reminders
- Sometimes if you get simple errors like "spool not ready" or "ipp backend failed", there is a good chance you have to resume the printer by selecting the Maintenance drop down and selecting Resume Printer.


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The Torygraph has even embedded a soft-focus 90 second introduction to the 'hot favourite' Andy Burnham's political soundbites. In which he paints himself as a working-class guy with only the best interests of the working-class at heart. 'All those lives cut adrift', says Andy, visually caring soo much all that's missing is a trembling lip and tear-brimming eye-lids. 'Who could do that?', he continues, baffled, upset, bravely doing his duty shouldering the weight of cultural hope and expectation of the new working-class electorate that is now called 'the hard working people of this country'. And then, arriving at the most substantive and considered three word utterance Burnham is basing his entire leadership election's rhetorical strategy on: 'Cameron the conman'.
as these three words of banal political trash-talk left his lips,
looking at the professionally filmed intimate moment with the Warrington
Blairite, staring straight into the camera all doe eyed and yummy, i
thought, yeah, and you're not, hey pal?
middle-class leaders of New Labour have all but erased and made it a
shameful act to utter this proud epithet that, makes them, perhaps, the
middle class leaders, feel self-consciously awkward, culturally
embarrassed and socially uncomfortable. Being round us plebs. Because
the working-class need to be told, by our social superiors, who know
best, how to behave, think and speak. They prefer obsequious obedient
silence, patronizingly inform us, that because they care for us so much,
we simply must get with their programme, not ask questions of these
very busy and important leaders of the new 'hard working people of this
country'; and never, never, never, under any circumstance, state what we
so boldly and proudly are, and have always been, and have always been
known as, and always called ourselves before the simple (Old) Labour
electorate fell for what, at first was benign, but, after Iraq, is now
the ubiquitous Orwellian Double Speak and new normal language of the
governing class.
unacknowledged lies, subterfuge, the refusal to honestly engage, admit,
address, face up to and make efforts to redress the globally
catastrophic decade of self-inflicted instability caused by the hubris
of a few wealthy ass-holes and cowardly smug intellectually deluded men
that stole America. Created, in the calm Ivy League luxury of safe and
secure scholarly quads, their double-speak theoretical utopia. With the
American military-industrial complex merely an arm to seize corporate territories
and impose the will of their chief executive officers. The new top secret trade
agreements no-one is talking of. The 'development' (exploitation) of
each and every last acre and blade of grass, the founding tenet of the
deeply religious Capitalist faith with a handful of high-priests living
as gods among us.
belief in greed being a source for goodness to come; kindness a trait
to be mocked, ridiculed as a weakness and ruthlessly taken advantage of
by the world's most successful crooks, criminals, and contract killers
serving the empire's many mafias. Omerta. This thing of ours, final
solution to the ills of liberalism, fairness, democracy, and people
power. It was all killed at birth, all part of the corporate master plan
and Project for a New American Century.'
wantonly spread its global terror agenda, conspiracy, war crimes and
high treason against the American and British people. The common
blue-collar working-class majority, ninety-nine percent of us who are
not global criminals swanning round scot-free for the millions that die
as a consequence of greed and hubris, envy and desire, of a few weak
men, little boys' minds and psychologies dangerously trapped in adult's
bodies. Not so much as a ticking-off was administrated for their
deliberately manufactured false 'news' presented in a continual parade of lies and
disinformation, careful concealment and intentional omission.
misinformation masquerading as important points of principle the world
has to understand are worth murdering and killing innocent civilians
for. Debacles in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, all from the power of this clever
negative double dealing no good dirty low down speech a shower of cultural cnuts
and the world's most powerful geo-poltical pricks dream up and smugly weave for their own self-advancement int he material realm, into the smiling lupine lies with which we once were fooled before the onset of the online inversion. With a big hard on, salivating at the thought of all the plunder and riches one person can
openly steal and rob now the banks taught us their lesson. Fecked us
over good and proper. Made the People guarantee and pay, with interest,
the private gambling debts racked up by a handful of obscenely rich and
dangerous people (mostly men) with their own private global armies. Money is all they get, all they have, all
they want, and they will not stop until the last rock from the crack-pipe has vanished into their economically rotten, corrupt and addled
private bank accounts. Then they will sit smoking cigars in the ruins, congratulating themselves on how easy it all was. Blowing up the world and unleashing the global violence and unlocking by accident and madness, mass species die offs. Hurrah! As we are being dumped into mass graves at least we will know our carbon footprint was a millionth of those that enacted the final war on terror. Fighting terror with terror until there's a handful of people underground watching the countdown.
Federal Reserve will be there; this private cartel, so secret it is led by just a handful of people,
groomed at the very top tier by those chief execs of a business that was the biggest most exclusively important
recipient of the bail out and TARP cash. Rewarded for failure, for
cheating, for falsifying records and accounts, for pulling every stroke
in the 'fuk u ova' playbook, and for gaming the global financial system, they are slapped on the back and pensioned grotesquely off to the
Maldives and Bahamas. Their life sentences spent in ten star exclusive resorts with their friends, other billionaires, in a conspiracy of gombeen ass-holes.
in the most exclusive spots for a globally elite class. Whilst us, the
old working-class, are penalized for being faithful, honest, brave, true to
who we are and what we do. Our class. Normal average folk in families, created, made,
drawn from and sharing the one same spiritual source of human love. With
which the world is made to turn and that drives us on.
Now, brainwashed and stupefied, will we wake up and smell the roses before all is lost utterly.
Today aint gonna end if one Rockefeller billionaire, two Koch twins, a
couple of Geo-political American and British power couples don't get
elected or paid a million a day for fuking us ova. Tho they claim they're in it for us. Practically volunteers. Of
course. Hilary and Bill, Tony and Cherie. Pure working class peace-nicks doing it for love.
Who've been around long and with a baggage that's mighty.
(non-)communication condition of state invented by the creator of the
Nu Lab makeover, now clearly seen for what it was/is. Unable to escape
because the global political order's Terror and Fear agenda has been successfully implemented
by the very folk doing the bidding of a man that claimed he wanted to
do his duty by serving the best interests of his country then filled
with a new optimistic bright-eyed Blairite working-class. Now he is a
multi-millionaire cockroach despised wherever in the world he is by those he
cheated and lied to when he was all cervine and Bambi-like, a harmless looking
perma-smiling coquettish political actor we discovered was really a messianic ass-hole
capable of mass public and self-deception. All he wanted to be in life
was Bono. Inside the nice guy call me Tony front was a harmless guy with a dream
of being rock n roll. Unable to realize this one he chose to apply his
empathy and concern for world peace in the most disastrous and tragic
way possible.
The psychology
of our destruction as a species and race so shallow. His cod conversion to Catholicism, the guy fooling no one
that he was there to serve Christ. He just needed to convey a New message, look contrite,
be seen in public the earnest God fearing family dad serving some kind of noble working-class calling, once a week in an hour long event of faux Faith, that doesn't blow up the world. His Faith
Foundation charity and associated earnings, it is all so obvious now. A handful of
self-obsessed narcissistic criminal arseholes. That are just one man.
of them, the wannabe new king, sheriff, ass-kicker and moron that would
make us extinct. The one mad man Kennedy warned the world about in his impressive live tv address, 26 July 1963, on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, when he told the world the true danger of what was going on.
The destructive power to blow up humanity and the world. That could be launched by accident, design, by a madman.
Will billionaire Donald
Trump decide on the basis of his personal and corporate business life of full time lies and bullshit, that his are the last words we hear before the world ends in chaos and terror this clown and his circus mates will happily
spread. Life as a reality show, does it exist, if there's no one here
to record it, is it really happening?
Cruz, The Donald, Bush III, Palin, the terrifying clowns of the
Frankenstein US that have all been worked over by Fox, Murdoch, his wing
of the billionaire scot-free military-industrial complex mafia crime
lords that got us pacified to accept their constant diet of bullshit and
lies, bad news getting more and more scarier, reality created by the
conduit of their corporate news media war mongering binary black and
white model of keeping us stupid, dumb all over, and a little ugly on
the side. Theirs, not ours, this new normal of a continually fucked up
world in (please God no, i pray o Creator, make it not so) the last gasp
of humanity fucking up the world because we didn't shout stop, i want
to get off. Pacified sheep worried that people we don't know on the same
journey we are all on, will judge us, in silence, the new normal.
Nobody knows what to think anymore.
a lottery and now life a game show, that, when when it all blows up,
will you retreat into a bunker there with all their schemes and plans,
of greed and wealth, the privilege of princes, potentates and kings.
Founded on a short lived political gimmick. Man the ape we cannot
change. Dangerous and deluded, we do not need another spineless Blairite
Burnham. Fuck off ye plazzy Manc tossa.
Please forgive me, i
am getting homesick, so apologies in
advance. Slainte. Good luck. Goodbye. God bless. Grá agus síocháin.
May the powers of fate
and dán make all our poetry airborne. Pauline Swords, Her halo all
around us is the angelic source of our collective will to carry on. i
Her only son and beloved earthly servant, poem of the living flame, that
lit and writ this one to be, a devoted guardian spirit and the keeper
of Her memory; Kevin Desmond. i love you Mum. A chuisle no chroí.


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Abbott ABT is slated to report second-quarter 2018 results before the market opens on Jul 18. Last reported quarter, the company's earnings per share exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.7%. Moreover, Abbott delivered positive surprises in the trailing four quarters, the average beat being 1.99%.
Let's see how things are shaping up for this announcement.
Factors at Play
Over the past few quarters, Abbott has been riding high on a healthy growth within its Diabetes Care business. The company has been hogging the limelight for developments in the flagship, sensor-based continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system — FreeStyle Libre System. Per a recent data, the number of Libre users now has reached over 650,000 across the globe, representing an unprecedented level of patient adoption in the industry. This has firmly boosted the company's top line numbers in the recent quarters.
This momentum should continue through the second quarter too, producing impressive results in the period. The company expects to see significant growth contributions from a line of recently launched products across the portfolio. The Zacks Consensus Estimate of $ 460 million for Diabetes Care revenues indicates a surge of 36.9% from the year-ago quarter.
In sync with the prior quarter, Abbott is anticipated to gain from strong performance by the Established Pharmaceuticals Division ("EPD") business, which has been recording operational sales growth over the last few quarters. Management expects sales rise in high single-digit during the second quarter of 2018. Furthermore, the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $ 1.15 billion for EPD revenues shows 12.9% increase from the year-earlier period.
We are also upbeat about the consistently sturdy Diagnostics business, courtesy of solid contributions from all sub-segments, namely Core Laboratories Diagnostics, Molecular Diagnostics and Point of Care. Moreover, synergies drawn from the Alere buyout in the form of revenues from Rapid Diagnostics, have been benefiting the company.
Additionally, management estimates Rapid Diagnostics to contribute around $ 2 billion in 2018. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Core Laboratory Diagnostic revenues of $ 1.11 billion depicts an 8.8% gain from the comparable quarter last year.
We encouragingly note that Nutrition is Abbott's fastest-growing business owing to aging population, increasing rate of chronic diseases and the rise of the middle class in the emerging markets. Furthermore, Abbott's pediatric nutrition business continues to be robust in the United States. Thus, the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $ 1.84 billion for Nutrition revenues translates into a 6.6% improvement from the year-ago quarter's figure.
Favorable currency translation also had a positive impact of 4.2% on the company's top line in the first-quarter 2018. We are also optimistic about management's expectation from foreign exchange, which appears to aid results in the to-be-reported quarter, driving revenues by 3.5% in turn.
Overall, second-quarter total revenues are projected at $ 7.26 billion, up 14.5% from the prior-year period.
What the Model Suggests
Per the Zacks model, a company with a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) has good chances of beating estimates if it also has a positive Earnings ESP. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they're reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Abbott has a Zacks Rank #3, which increases the predictive power of ESP. However, its Earnings ESP of 0.00% makes surprise prediction difficult. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for earnings of 71 cents reflects 14.5% growth year over year.
Stocks Worth a Look
Here are a few medical stocks worth considering from the same space as these comprise the right combination of elements to beat on earnings this time around.
ResMed Inc. RMD has an Earnings ESP of +3.97% and is a #1 Ranked stock. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Stryker Corporation SYK has an Earnings ESP of +0.13% and a Zacks Rank #2.
McKesson Corporation MCK has an Earnings ESP of +3.95% and the stock is a Zacks #3 Ranked player.
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Car insurance for foreigner in USA?
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I am planning on traveling to America in January… I live in Europe and am a EU resident. How does a non-citizen get car insurance? I think I I'll be renting a car
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Will you be on a visa? You should be able to easily get insurance from the rental car company. Just ask them!
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The corset laced up the center-back to achieve the correct degree of tightness to fit the wearer's figure, thus the term tight lacing. There were hooks and eyes at the center front for easier removal. The corset was worn over a cotton chemise and not directly next to the skin.The elegance of Victorian fashions was mainly dependent on the corset.
Without the aid of the corset, no evening dress of the mid-1860s through the end of the century could be worn, unless the Victorian woman was willing to submit to the withering contempt of a merciless fashion conscious society.
Practical hints on corset wearing at the time were provided by the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: "… to facilitate that desirable object, a handsome figure. Ladies, when dressing for the afternoon walk or ride, or the evening display, when putting on their stays at first, should not lace them quite tight; in about a quarter of an hour they might again tighten them, and in the course of half-an-hour or so lace them to the requisite tightness. They may fancy in this way there is no sudden compression of the waist, and the figure gets more easily accustomed to tight-lacing."


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1. Explain the biogeochemical cycles which move materials between the lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water) and atmosphere (air).
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|2. Explain that Earth's capacity to absorb and recycle materials naturally (e.g., smoke, smog, sewage) can change the environmental quality depending on the length of time involved (e.g. global warming).
|3. Describe the water cycle and explain the transfer of energy between the atmosphere and hydrosphere.
|4. Analyze data on the availability of fresh water that is essential for life and for most industrial and agricultural processes. Describe how rivers, lakes and groundwater can be depleted or polluted becoming less hospitable to life and even becoming unavailable or unsuitable for life.
|5. Make simple weather predictions based on the changing cloud types associated with frontal systems.
|6. Determine how weather observations and measurements are combined to produce weather maps and that data for a specific location at one point in time can be displayed in a station model.
|7. Read a weather map to interpret local, regional and national weather.
|8. Describe how temperature and precipitation determine climatic zones (biomes) (e.g., desert, grasslands, forests, tundra, alpine).
|9. Describe the connection between the water cycle and weather-related phenomenon (e.g., tornadoes, floods, droughts, hurricanes).
|1. Investigate the great variety of body plans and internal structures found in multicellular organisms.
|2. Investigate how organisms or populations may interact with one another through symbiotic relationships and how some species have become so adapted to each other that neither could survive without the other (e.g., predator–prey, parasitism, mutualistism, commensalisms).
|3. Explain how the number of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on adequate biotic (living) resources (e.g., plants, animals) and biotic (nonliving) resources (e.g., light, water, soil).
|4. Investigate how overpopulation impacts an ecosystem.
|5. Explain that some environmental changes occur slowly while others occur rapidly (e.g., forest and pond succession, fires and decomposition).
|6. Summarize the ways that natural occurrences and human activity affect the transfer of energy in Earth's ecosystems (e.g., fire, hurricanes, roads, oil spills).
|7. Explain that photosynthetic cells convert solar energy into chemical energy that is used to carry on life functions or is transferred to consumers and used to carry on their life functions.
|8. Investigate the great diversity among organisms.
|1. Investigate how matter can change forms but the total amount of matter remains constant.
|2. Describe how an object can have potential energy due to its position or chemical composition and can have kinetic energy due to its motion.
|3. Identify different forms of energy (e.g., electrical, mechanical, chemical, thermal, nuclear, radiant and acoustic).
|4. Explain how energy can change forms but the total amount of energy remains constant.
|5. Trace energy transformation in a simple closed system (e.g., a flashlight).
|1. Explain how needs, attitudes and values influence the direction of technological development in various cultures.
|2. Describe how decisions to develop and use technologies often put environmental and economic concerns in direct competition with each other.
|3. Recognize that science can only answer some questions and technology can only solve some human problems.
|4. Design and build a product or create a solution to a problem given two constraints (e.g., limits of cost and time for design and production, supply of materials and environmental effects).
|1. Explain that variables and controls can affect the results of an investigation and that ideally one variable should be tested at a time; however it is not always possible to control all variables.
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|5. Analyze alternative scientific explanations and predictions and recognize that there may be more than one good way to interpret a given set of data.
|6. Identify faulty reasoning and statements that go beyond the evidence or misinterpret the evidence.
|7. Use graphs, tables and charts to study physical phenomena and infer mathematical relationships between variables (e.g., speed, density).
|1. Show that the reproducibility of results is essential to reduce bias in scientific investigations.
|2. Describe how repetition of an experiment may reduce bias.
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At Alwan Pharmacy, we understand the importance of educating our customers. For your convenience, we have 3 pharmacists on staff eager to answer any questions you may have. Since 1988 Alwan Pharmacy our commitment has stayed the same...taking care of your total wellness.
Mike Minesinger, RPh, JD, received his Pharmacy degree from the University of Illinois-Chicago and his law degree from the University of Illinois-Champaign. Mike has served 4 years as President of the Central Illinois Pharmacists Association and also served 10 years on the Board of Directors for Illinois Pharmacists, most recently as chairman of the board. While in school, Mike was awarded the Van Schaack Prize in Chemistry and the Ralph Marshall Henninger Award for Pharmaceutical Compounding. Each year Mike completes more than 100 hours of Continuing Education. Mike has brought much knowledge in the area of Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement and put his compounding skills to use for many customers. During his spare time, Mike roots for the Chicago Cubs and Chicago Bears and likes relaxing at home with his wife and daughter.
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Operating Lease is a type of contract, in which the owner of an asset, also known as lessor rents his/her asset to another person, also known as lesse for using the asset. However, this type of renting or leasing of asset is always for a shorter duration i.e. duration shorter than the lifetime value of the particular asset.
As the lessor has given his assets to the lesse on rent, the lesse has to give monthly payments to the lessor for using that asset. Generally, there are two types of Lease, Operating Lease and Permanent Lease
Advantages of Operating lease
• Once the asset is leased, it is not recorded as asset in the balance sheet, in fact it is accounted as a rental expense. And this is termed as 'off balance sheet financing'.
• Operating leases have tax benefit.
• It helps in improving the Cash Flow.
• It also helps in improving the financial ratios.
• It is helpful in a business wherein assets are to be replaced on a regular basis. For example, Automobiles.
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The Writing Vein: Mike Daisey 4p hour #allthehours:
"The flat black trajectory of what's come before threatens to crush you."
"...cocaine, magic, and blood - a visceral liquid bubbling up in me..."
"We always knew it - in that dark moment between remembering and forgetting."
Arriving in Disney World - the place which has stolen out imaginations because we let it. So much more. Pieces and parts as he reaches into everything that has come before and the real and other real and the not quite real. Or?
It has been a ride.
Several more boxes of doughnuts at the doors, passed up and down the aisles. A simple one - a plain one for me. Just a little burst of sugar to get to the end. No more caffeine. Not that I think it will keep me awake for very long, but my body said 'nuf. I have now been up for 30 hours.
The final hour approaches.
Would I do this again? Yes.


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What is meant by "mosaic evolution" and other mattersCategory: Evolution • Evolutionary BiologyA discussion of misconceptions in evolution ... about missing links, or great chains of being, or teleology (the idea that evolution is goal-directed) has got to be the most fun you can have with your pants on. Pursuant to this, let's sharpen and clarify our evolutionary theory mojo by considering the concept of "mosaic evolution" ... what is it, and what isn't it?
Posted on: January 3, 2011 12:10 PM, by Greg Laden
Of course, the concept of mosaic evolution, meant to clarify how evolution works, is often itself misunderstood. From Wikipedia:
"Mosaic Evolution is the concept that major evolutionary changes tend to take place in stages, not all at once." .. well, sort of, but that is not the main point and it is not well stated. Continuing, "...It is a pattern in evolution ..." "a" pattern? I wouldn't have said it that way. It is more like a general characteristic of macroevolution ... "... in which the rates of evolution in one functional system vary from those in other systems." .. like, different rates of mutation? of selection? No, no, that's not it, it's about timing, not rates "...For example, in hominid evolution, the dental system, locomotor system, and neurological system, evolved at markedly different rates." Almost. These differed systems have different histories. They do not co-evolve (see below). The word "rate" is ill advised in this context. I'll explain shortly.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Greg Laden: What is meant by "mosaic evolution" and other matters
Greg Laden has another wonderful post on his ScienceBlog page. Well worth reading the whole thing. Again, I am usually very concerned at how poorly the general public understands what the theory of evolution even states. Most of what people think is part of the theory isn't. As a matter of fact, most of what people think are part of the theory are just lies told by denialists. That is why it is incumbent upon education and individuals to fight for the truth as opposed to a rehash of lies and fables...
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Gingerette | 8
Surprisingly, Gusteau gave me better life advice than most of the people I looked up to as a kid.
JocelynKaulitz | 28
Too many negative votes, comment buried. Show the comment
Wouldn't compare! Ramen noodles aren't very good in my opinion.
karlcolt45 | 19
exactly! I really hate ramen
DrippingSarcasm | 20
But you see, they're not making ramen in Ratatouille.
OP lives in the UK, where there is no Walmart.
ThatPlankton | 15
There actually are Walmarts in the UK, they just never changed the name of the company they own there.
Zebediabolical | 36
And there's definitely still cheap ramen and sriracha.
bubblyhayley | 16
why is she thumbed down... ASDA is the uk version of walmart... but no way can you get 20p noodles from there...
RedPillSucks | 31
Well. Apples are more nutritious than ramin...
davidislost | 11
ASDA Smartprice :')! I once tried their 9p noodles - disgusting!
happyfingers | 15
I add spices and stuff to my ramen. Helps a lot. I make some awesome ramen. Except chicken. I still don't like chicken ramen. Beef or shrimp for me. But maybe it depends on the seasoning. *shrug*
straww_fml | 13
There are plenty of things cheaper and better than apples. Carrots, onions, water, spices and salt makes a soup that can keep you going for far longer than any apple, and at about the same price per portion if not less. Add some rice (or ramen, or cheese) and you've got several full meals.
... Or you can hunt for mice and small birds, as I do and stay as fit as an owl! Is that not a saying amongst you humans?
... Or you can hunt for mice and small birds, as I do and stay as fit as an owl! Is that not a saying amongst you humans?
iLike2Teabag | 27
So I guess the janitors are teaching the med school classes and the rats are profs in all the other subjects then? No doctors my ass...
EdenCrystal | 21
#24, well, an apple a day can keep anyone away if you throw it hard enough.
By askullnamedbilly | 33
Bit of your own fault, isn't it? I've no idea where in the UK you live, but I can nevertheless guarantee that your city has some kind of charitable organisation giving out food to people who cannot afford it otherwise.
Coeliacchic93 | 21
foodbanks are very helpful. not only do they give you about 3 days emergency food (that can last longer with the stuff they give you) they can give you advice on how to get up on your feet :-)
9, most halls of residence provide internet access as part of your rent, so it makes sense OP would have internet but no food.
snydeeli000 | 27
I'm wondering if OP has an eating disorder..?
snydeeli000 | 27
Oh sorry, I just reread it, oops.
B1ackthesun | 31
If they have food to cook to begin with maybe. Doubt op is a 'starving student' by choice.
SammyS2012 | 21
the downvotes are from people who's never watched Ratatouille, Im guessing?
By beckiebear | 15
I wasn't a starved student when I watched that movie, but it still made me hungry!
By Oppression_fml | 19
I don't understand why people impoverish themselves for a peice of paper that can only be used as toilet paper. Start am not easy job, climb your way up to the ladder like a champ, and and then you can consider going to college or university...
A lot of those jobs require a degree to get in to. Also, most field specific jobs won't look at you without a degree. Like medicine for example.
gracehi | 31
I don't know what it's like in the UK, but in the US a lot of people with degrees are either unemployed or under-employed and not working in the field in which they have their degree. My boyfriend and my sister both have degrees and I don't, but I make more money than both of them put together. But I joined the Navy and they have degrees in computer animation. But it seems to me that these days, unless you get a degree in something like engineering, you're better off going to a trade school or starting an entry level job at a restaurant or department store or some manual labor job and working your way up into management than going to a university.
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MS exec moots Windows for Washing Baskets
Bluetooth boxers, already?
Buried towards the bottom of the big dull pile of Microsoft 25th anniversary celebrations (the interesting bit, such as it was, seems to have been Steve Ballmer jumping out of a cake), we find something rather more promising. Microsoft would seem to have written a book. About itself.
Inside Out, Microsoft - In Our Own Words seems to be all about the Great Company in the words of its own staff, with a stack of new essays from Bill Gates and all of the other guys from the high command. All of the other guys who haven't left already, that is.
It'll be out in the US on September 20th, October 5th for the rest of the world and we're sure it'll be a rich seam to mine. We can't wait, but then we don't entirely have to.
Among the helpful excerpts Microsoft has published already we have one from Craig Mundie, senior VP consumer strategy and weird thought thinker in chief.
Craig says: "Today, most clothing has an itty-bitty label with washing instructions, which most people never look at. If the labels were smart, they could tell the washing machine to regulate the water temperature as well as the amount of soap."
There you have it, Windows for Washing Baskets, a Register exclusive, we think. But more of this stuff, please Craig. Say all your clothes have labels that have some processing power on board, and presumably a Bluetooth capability to allow them to communicate with the washing machine. Surely they could communicate with each other as well? Distributed Windows in your clothing? Wear do you want to go today? ®


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K�ln Cathedral
* Cologne, Germany *
Cologne Cathedral is a World Heritage Site and is one of the best known architectural monuments in Germany and Cologne's most famous. It is 144.5 metres long, 86.5 m wide and its two towers are 157 m tall. The Cathedral (German: K�lner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria) is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne, under the administration of the Roman Catholic Church and is renowned as a monument of Christianity, of Gothic architecture and of the faith and perseverance of the people of the city in which it stands. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is one of the world's largest churches and the largest Gothic Church in Northern Europe. It was the tallest structure in the world from 1880-1884 until the construction of the Washington Monument. It possessed the second-tallest church spires only surpassed by the single spire of Ulm Cathedral completed in 1890. It holds the position of the largest facade of any church in the world. The church construction began in 1248 and took over 600 years to construct when it was finalized in 1880. It was built atop a grain store that was succeeded by a Roman Temple built by Mercurius Augustus which was followed by 4th century Christian buildings including a square edifice that was commissioned by Maternus as the oldest cathedral at that time. In 1164 the Archbishop of Cologne, Rainald of Dassel acquired relics of the Three Kings which had been taken from Milan in Italy by the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa and were properly housed on this spot. The foundation stones laid on August 15, 1248. When construction stopped in the 1800's, it wasn't until 1842 that a civic effort raised two thirds of the enormous costs to resume work on the original design of the surviving medieval plans and drawings and the bells were installed in the 1870s. The completion in 1880 was celebrated as a national event, 632 years after construction began. The cathedral suffered fourteen hits by aerial bombs during World War II. It did not collapse, but stood tall in an otherwise flattened city. Believers said it was divine intervention. In June 1945, the cathedral was abused as a rifle range by American troops. The repairs to the building were completed in 1956. On August 25, 2007, the cathedral received a new stained glass in the south transept window. With 113 square metres of glass, the window was created by the German artist Gerhard Richter. In 1996, the cathedral was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List of culturally important sites. In 2004 it was placed on the "World Heritage in Danger" list due to nearby high-rise building and its visual impact upon the site, as the only Western site in danger. The cathedral was removed from the List of In Danger Sites in 2006, following the authorities' decision to limit the heights of buildings constructed near and around the cathedral. The cathedral is open every day from 6.00am to 7.30pm; admission is free except for tower ascent and the treasury. Visitors can climb 509 steps of the spiral staircase to a viewing platform about 98 metres above the ground. [abstracted from Wikipedia and the Cathedral's information pamphlets : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral]
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I have a lovely stamping mani today! The polish I used today is a Suede polish I got from Taiwan from the brand Xinling!
The polish is really easy to use, just a little thick. I don't remember how much I got it for, but I think it's not too expensive so it's really value for money!
For this mani, I stamped with Konad Plate m83 using Konad special black polish. I think it really look nice and elegant! Don't think it'll last very long without top coat though.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
DREAM THEATER: "Live At Luna Park" DVD (2 Disc Set)
Label: Eagle Vision 2013
Review by: Urban "Wally" Wallstrom
Oh lordie, lordie. It has been quite the Prog-Metal exercise to watch the entire 2 disc set DVD of, 'Live At Luna Park', including original live show, its documentary, behind the scenes, and bonus music material. Disc one: 229 minutes and Disc Two: 68 minutes (approx). It's clearly a wet dream to any Dream Theater fan as everything reek of class from the camerawork and lightning to the crisp metal sound. You have front row seats and a backstage pass as the band rocks Luna Park and Argentina.
As the chant goes up from the 8000 strong Buenos Aires crowd, you'll quickly notice why they decided to shoot the DVD in South America instead of America. They are truly loud and are flippin' out from the first note to the last one and it's very much about energy. The band on the other hand are tearing up their audience with complex and blistering passages and absolutely stunningly performances by all musicians involved. The video quality, editing and the overhead shots are truly high definition and breath-taking. There's a total of 23 songs excluding drum, piano and guitar solo. 'Bridges In The Sky' works perfectly as an opener as the very loud Argentina crowd sings along to the refrain. The acoustic set (The Silent Man, Beneath the Surface) brings another side to the songs inbetween all that aggressive prog. I should also point out that bonus songs found on disc two - more from the two night sold out concerts at Luna Park including 'These Walls', 'Wait For Sleep', 'Pull Me Under', plus three more.
Their lead vocalist James LaBrie may have sounded a bit jarring and strained on previous live occasion, however, in Argentina he has really gone back to basics and is more aware of his register and range. The rather awkward and fun inbetween stage banter works naturally even though some of the audience may not agree on everything. Crowd interaction is difficult at times. Women are supposed to cry and men are not? New drummer Mike Mangini is a monster behind the kit and his level of performance is awe inspiring. The 16 cameras and 360' work is smashing fun, but, the geezer sitting on the floor right behind Mangini (roadcrew member? drummer tech?) throughout the entire concert is annoying to say the least. It takes away a lot of fun with 360 actually.
The bonus material and its documentary goes through stuff such as Portnoy leaving and that none of them saw it coming. "It was like going 100 miles an hour into a cement wall", as their drummer decided to leave after 25 years. Mangini speaks about being brought up as the classical musician and having 7 tom-toms to work with, "What I do is I assign an entire octave to each three toms". Nerdy but fun information. Rudess speaks about his magical keyboard that rotates 360' and does the tilt. Simply because he thinks it's boring to just stand their on the spot. Jordan truly enjoy 'The Wizard' nick so much that he's got the hat and sort of the beard. He's no real wizard until it's Gandalf size beard though. The humble Myung on the other hand lets his bass do the talking.
There's also the sound-check, pre-show rituals and the quick dinner in Buenos Aires. What's on the plate? Hint: Argentina's and this particular town's most famous dish of course. The making of the DVD: more nerdy info, the two directors are taking you on a short and not too interesting trip to their video-truck and its control board. Final verdict: Essential stuff If you are a Theater fan, and the sweet crying girl must be pleased with her place in the spotlight. Do Cry For Me Argentina?
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