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Volume 29, Issue 6 - Dec 2014
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A Literature Review on the Mandoo in the Royal Palace of Joseon Dynasty
Oh, Soon-Duk ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 129~139
This article examines the different types of Mandoo as recorded in 15 royal palace studies from the Joseon dynasty (1392-1909). The types of Mandoo during the Joseon dynasty were Byeongsi (餠匙), Mandoo (饅頭), EMandoo (魚饅頭), Rukmandoo (肉饅頭), Yangmandoo (月羊饅頭), Saengchimandoo (生雉饅頭), Golmandoo (骨饅頭), Dongkwamandoo (冬果饅頭), Chaemandoo (菜饅頭), Chimchaemandoo (沈菜饅頭), and Saenghapmandoo (生蛤饅頭). The frequencies of the different Mandoo types during the Joseon dynasty were in the following order: Mandoo (29.8%), Emandoo (19.1%), Rukmandoo (14.9%), Byeongsi (12.8%), Yangmandoo (6.4%), Saengchimandoo (4.3%), Golmandoo (4.3%), Dongkwamandoo (2.1%), Chaemandoo (2.1%), Chimchaemandoo (2.1%), and Saenghapmandoo (2.1%). "Muja-Jinjakeuigwe (戊子進爵儀軌)" (1828년) gijumi (起酒米) is not used, suggesting that Koreans could see perched Mandoo. "Musin-Jinchaneuigwe (戊申進饌儀軌)" (1848) configurations of materials Mandoo, SoongChimchae (沈菜), Dupo (豆泡), Nokdujangum (綠豆長音). Now, we enjoy mandoo`s ingredients based documents materials. Further studies will be conducted on recipes and ingredients recorded in Euigwe in order to develop a standardized recipe for Mandoo.
Study on Localization of Korean Food in Paraguay through In-depth Interviews with Korean Restaurant Owners and Foodies in Asuncion, Paraguay
Chung, Hae Kyung ; Kim, Mi Hye ; Woo, Nariyah ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 140~150
The purpose of this study was to develop an efficient method for Korean food to make inroads into Paraguay. In-depth interviews with 15 Korean restaurant owners in Asuncion, Paraguay and foodies (food experts) who had experiences with Korean food were conducted. The results are as follows: Paraguay wants to establish economic ties with Korea currently, and economic development is ongoing in Paraguay. The food service industry for the middle class in Paraguay is now in the development stage. There are not many Korean restaurants (currently 15) in Asuncion. First and second generation Korean immigrants are operating these restaurants. It is necessary to provide support for a comprehensive food culture system by developing a menu composition system to meet local tastes, a strategy for improving distribution of Korean food materials, and a plan for sanitary management and operations.
Study on Awareness and Preferences in Adults regarding Consumption of Environmentally friendly Organic Food while eating-out according to Gender and Age - Focused on Adults in Su-seong Area in Daegu -
Kim, Mi Ja ; Park, Geum Soon ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 151~162
This study conducted a survey to analyze awareness, preferences, and the current state of consuming environmentally friendly organic food while eating-out in 435 adults aged 20 and above in Daegu, Korea. Most subjects (95%) showed awareness of environmentally friendly organic food, and 88.5% of subjects answered environmentally friendly organic food is `needed`. The percentage of eating out for families was 58.9%, and 49.0% of subjects said they eat out one to three times per month on average. In addition, subjects preferred a price range between 10,000 and 20,000 won per person when eating out, and they mostly favored Korean restaurants when ordering environmentally friendly organic food. Analysis of awareness of environmentally friendly organic food showed that among `health` factors, `environmental` factors, `social` factors, and `dietary essential` factors, `health` factors showed the highest percentage for awareness. A survey on preferred foods by gender showed that both genders preferred vegetables the most. The results show that subjects in their 20s and 30s favored vegetables and fruits while subjects in their 40s preferred vegetables and grain animal products. Analysis of preferred types of environmentally friendly organic foods showed that men preferred polished rice while women preferred brown rice. Subjects in their 20s and 30s preferred strawberries, whereas those in their 40s preferred cherry tomatoes and those in their 50s and above favored tomatoes (p<0.001). Among root and tuber crops (63.4%), sweet potato was the most preferred. Among fruits, subjects preferred apples while among special crops, they most preferred oyster mushrooms; both genders preferred Korean beef. The most preferred livestock product of subjects in their 20s was pork, whereas subjects in their 30s preferred Korean beef. Subjects in their 40s preferred Korean beef and pork in the same proportions, whereas subjects in their 50s and above favored eggs the most.
A Qualitative Study on Needs of Convenience Meal from the Low-income Female Elderly
Jang, Ji-Eun ; Kim, Ji-Na ; Park, Soojin ; Shin, Weon-Sun ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 163~177
This study aimed to investigate the perception, consumption, and acceptability of convenience mealsin low-income female elderly attending a lunch program at a community well fare center. Using in-depth interviews, qualitative data were collected 11 elderly females (
) living in Seoul. Participants tried to eat various foods in small-portionsat home, although they ate out what they were offered. Elderly females preferred lunch box-type meals containing a bowl of rice served with toppings, gruel, or Bibimbop due to the growing unavailability of cooking or preparing a meal. Side-dish type convenience mealswere also preferred among elderly females since boiled rice can be easily prepared according to individual preferences. In addition, participants preferred healthy foods. Convenience meal planning and production, appropriate kinds of foods, cooking methods, menus, and packaging should be selected based on the elderly`s functional atrophy in chewing, swallowing, digestion, and metabolic diseases. Furthermore, food preferences and comfort foods among the elderlyneed to be identified and characterized. Therefore, more information, including bite size, cutting size, and food texture, should be provided to understand and develop convenience meals for the elderly.
Study on Culinary Educational Usefulness of Korean Style Jang-based Seasoning, Spices and Herb Mix Classification
Lee, Dug-Young ; Kim, Tae-Hyun ; Kim, Tae-Hee ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 178~186
This study sought to prove the validity of Hansik Yangnyomjang classification Korean culinary education. survey was conducted among Korean Cuisine professionals, culinary instructors, culinary professionals and potential students from various backgrounds. ata were collected by self-administered questionnaires and analyzed by reliability analysis, frequency analysis and t-test. any differences in terms of the validity of Hansik Yangnyomjang classification between groups based on their majors, teaching experiences, and knowledge of sauce classification. First, the result showed that fermented Jang is core element Korean cuisine. Second, Hansik Yangnyomjang classification needs to be organized around Balhyojang. Third, Hansik Yangnyomjang classification for beginners and foreigners who want to learn Korean Cuisine relatively easily. Finally, the term `sauce` is not suitable for replacing Yangnyomjang.
Quality Properties of Barley Kochujang Added wih Germinated Barley Powder
Seo, Jae-Sil ; Park, In-Duck ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 187~194
The physicochemical and sensory properties of barley Kochujang added with germinated barley powder were periodically examined during storage at 20 for 40 days. The pH of barley Kochujang added with germinated barley powder increased gradually according to the level of added germinated barley powder, whereas it decreased gradually during storage. On the other hand, acidity showed the opposite relationship with addition level. Salinity of the samples decreased gradually according to the amount of added germinated barley powder. Amino nitrogen content of barley Kochujang increased gradually according to the amount of added germinated barley powder, whereas it increased gradually during storage. L-, a-, and b-values of samples increased gradually according to the amount of added germinated barley powder, whereas they decreased gradually during storage. As a result of the sensory evaluation, barley Kochujang added with 5% germinated barley powder was found to be superior in taste, viscosity, and overall preference. Sensory evaluation revealed that addition of 5% germinated barley powder was optimum for improving Kochujang quality.
Effects of Helianthus tuberosus Powder on the Quality Characteristics and Antioxidant Activity of Rice Sponge Cakes
Kim, Mee-Kyoung ; Lee, Eun-Ju ; Kim, Kyung-Hee ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 195~204
This study was conducted to evaluate the quality characteristics and antioxidant activities of rice flour sponge cakes containing 0, 20, 30, 40, and 50% Helianthus tuberosus powder (HTP). As HTP content of sponge cake increased, the pH of sponge cake batter significantly decreased, whereas specific gravity significantly increased (p<0.05). Meanwhile, volume and symmetry indices of sponge cake were inversely proportional to HTP amount. Further, with higher HTP content in sponge cake, L and b values of crumbs significantly decreased (p<0.05), whereas a value significantly increased (p<0.05). L, a, and b values of crust significantly increased with higher HTP content. For texture characteristics, hardness, cohesiveness, gumminess, and chewiness of sponge cake significantly increased (p<0.05),whereas cohesiveness did not significantly change. In the sensory evaluation test, rice sponge cake prepared with 10% HTP showed the highest sensory scores in terms of color, flavor, taste, softness properties, and overall preference. The levels of total polyphenol compounds and DPPH radical scavenging activities of rice sponge cakes significantly increased with higher HTP contents (p<0.05). The results of this study suggest that rice sponge cake containing 10% HTP is the most appropriate for quality characteristics and sensory evaluation. This study also provides a way to increase the quality, texture characteristics, and organoleptic properties of sponge cake while reducing HTP content to less than 10% in order to satisfy consumer tastes.
Quality Characteristics of Dried Noodles Added with Ligularia fischeri Powder
Park, Bock Hee ; Joo, Ha Mi ; Cho, Hee Sook ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 205~211
This study investigated the quality of noodles containing different amounts of Ligularia fischeri powder (LFP). Noodles were prepared at ratios of 0, 1, 3, 5, and 7% LFP based on flour weight. Cooking quality, mechanical texture properties, and viscosity were measured, and a sensory evaluation was performed with the prepared noodles. Gelatinization points of the composite LFP-wheat flours increased. As measured via amylography, viscosity at
, viscosity at
after 15 minutes, and maximum viscosity values of samples decreased, as the LFP content increased. As increasing amounts of LFP were added, the L, a, and b values decreased while color values, weight, and volume of cooked noodles increased, as did the turbidity of the soup. With regard to textural characteristics, LFP additive increased hardness, cohesiveness, and springiness, while decreasing adhesiveness. Sensory evaluation showed that high quality cooked noodles could be produced by inclusion of 3% LFP.
Effects of Dietary Education on Low-sodium Diet Adaptation
Kim, Hae Young ; Kim, Juhyeon ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 212~221
Korean style DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) and a dietary education program for sodium reduction were developed. Reduced sodium diets (15 and 30% reductions) were developed from general diets for 3 consecutive weeks from Monday through Saturday. Subjects (19 total) were classified into two groups according to dietary education. Experimental period was from June 24 to July 23, 2012. Total sum of adaptation scores for low sodium diets significantly increased in the group that underwent dietary education compared to that without (p<0.05). After the experiment, both groups showed significantly increased values in terms of food group balance, sodium-related nutrition knowledge, attitude, and practice by paired t-test. Especially, group that underwent dietary education showed significantly higher values for attitudes by ANCOVA pre-test as a variation (p<0.01). For the results of the nutrient intake survey, group that underwent dietary education showed significantly increased values for dietary fiber (p<0.01), vitamin A (p<0.001), vitamin K (p<0.001), vitamin C (p<0.01), Folic acid (p<0.001), vitamin B12 (p<0.01), calcium (p<0.01), iron (p<0.05), and zinc (p<0.05) and significantly decreased values for sodium (p<0.05) and chloride (p<0.005). Subjects adapted to reduced sodium diets showed apparent improvements in sodium-related knowledge, attitude, practice and intake of nutrient, and these improvements were even higher in the group that underwent dietary education compared to that without. Thus, adaptation to low sodium diet combined with dietary education can improve dietary habits.
Effects of Dietary Education on Elementary Children in After-school Program in Seoul
Kim, Kyung-Hee ;
Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture, volume 29, issue 2, 2014, Pages 222~230
This study was conducted to investigate the effects of 10-week dietary education on elementary students in an after-school program in Seoul. Participants were 20 1-2 grade students and 283-6 grade students, and the dietary program consisted of dietary education and activities focused on children`s levels of understanding. The results were as follows: Total participant`s food habit scores and nutrition knowledge significantly increased (p<0.05) after dietary education. Food habit and nutrition knowledge scores of lower grade participants (grade) increased desirably (p<0.05). Meanwhile higher grade participants` (grade) food habit scores also changed (p<0.05), but their nutrition knowledge scores were changed. Boy`s food habit scores significantly changed (p<0.05), whereas girl`s food habit scores did not change significantly. Further, female participants` nutrition knowledge scores did not changesignificantly after education. Participants` obesity knowledge scores significantly changed after the education (p<0.05), but their attitudes on obesity increased insignificantly. Lower grade participants` attitudes on obesity significantly and desirably changed (p<0.05), whereas higher grade participants` attitudes on obesity changed insignificantly. Girl`s knowledge and attitudes on obesity significantly and desirably changed (p<0.05-0.01). This study revealed the correlation between food habit scores and attitudes on obesity (p<0.01), demonstrating that participants with high food habit scores have advisable attitudes on obesity. The result of this study shows that lower grade participants` food habit scores, nutrition knowledge, and attitudes on obesity changed desirably after dietary education. Therefore, this study promote the development of adequate nutrition education and materials focused on lower grade students and the need for systematic and continuous dietary education programs based on elementary school.
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Adding feeds
A web feed is also known as RSS Feed. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and provides people with frequently updated content from websites. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it. Typically, feeds provide people with a summary of any recently added information or content such as a news headlines or blog entries to a website.
Most often there are several sites that we want to subscribe to and there are tools that allow us to subscribe to these websites and have those feeds come into one place. Such a tool or software is known as a feed reader or aggregator.
Many companies including news-related sites, blog sites, and many government and corporate sites distribute their content as web feeds. To know if a website is enabled for feed subscriptions, look for the feeds icon. The examples below can be placed anywhere on the website, however, typically we will see them placed somewhere on the first page.
Often we can select what we want to subscribe to—for example, if it is a blog website, then we may be able to subscribe to the content or the comments that people make; on the other hand, if it is a news website, then we can select if we want content on sports or business. When we enable our subscription, we select how often we want to be updated and how long we want to keep the information. We will look into this in more detail further on in the article.
Feeds sidebar panel
Feeds can be accessed and managed from within the Lotus Notes sidebar(Details about sidebar is out of the scope of this article).The following is a screenshot of the Lotus Notes client with the Feeds sidebar expanded:
If we can't see the Feeds sidebar panel, select View | Right Sidebar Panel and select Feeds. The Feeds panel can be collapsed by clicking click on Feeds in the sidebar. If we click on another panel in the sidebar such as the Day-At-A-Glance, then Feeds will close and we will see Day-At-A-Glance panel expanded in the sidebar. If we want to display our feeds separately, we can select Open in New Window when we right-click the Feeds option in the panel.
Indentifying feed-enabled websites
First, we need to identify if the website we are visiting has enabled syndication of its content (the fancy way of saying you can subscribe to it). We can tell if a website or blog syndicates its content by the feed icons displayed on the site, usually on the front page.
We may also see the feed icon in the navigation toolbar of our browser. The following is an example of a web blog by Ed Brill, who is the Director of Product Management at IBM Lotus Software:
The following is an example of a news website, USA Today:
Both of these websites allow us to subscribe using feeds.
Alternatively, on the USA Today website, we also see an area at the bottom of the front page that gives choices for subscriptions—the RSS option is circled in red.
Once we have identified a website that is RSS enabled, there are a number of ways to add it to our Lotus Notes feed reader.
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Let's use the USA Today website as an example. There are a three different ways we can add feeds to Lotus Notes.
- Click on the RSS icon which, in the case of USA Today, is available on the first page of their website.
- Add the feed using any of the following techniques:
- Drag the RSS icon to the area where feeds are listed in our Feeds sidebar panel (make sure you hold your left mouse button down). This will open the Add New Subscription dialog box in Lotus Notes.
- Rather than dragging the RSS icon, this time click on it. This will take us to another web page. Select the URL on that web page and copy it to the clip board. Then go to Lotus Notes and select the Subscribe to Feed button in the Feeds sidebar panel. The Add New Subscription dialog box will now appear. Paste the URL into the space provided and then click the Go button.
- Drag the RSS icon to the area where feeds are listed in our Feeds sidebar panel (make sure you hold your left mouse button down). This will open the Add New Subscription dialog box in Lotus Notes.
- We can select our preferred options from within the Add New Subscription dialog box such as:
- Which feeds we want to subscribe to if it's a multiple feed name—for example, the selected feed name in the following screenshot is Top Headlines, which I would change to USA Today Top Headlines.
- How often to check for updates.
- How long to keep entries.
- Once we have selected all our choices, click the OK button. This will close the Add New Subscription dialog box and add that feed to the Feeds sidebar panel.
Once we have added a subscription, we are given a choice as to how often we want the feeds to be updated and how long to keep entries for.
The choices available in the Check for Updates drop-down list are:
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- Every day
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- Manual (only check for updates manually)
The choices for Keep entries for are:
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To read our feeds, we need to follow these instructions:
- Make sure the feeds sidebar panel is open; if it is not, click on Feeds in the sidebar panel to expand.
- Beside each feed name, we will see a + (plus) icon. Click on the + icon to expand and see the headlines. We will also see a number within brackets, representing the number of unread feeds. In the following screenshot, I have read all the Lotus Notes 8.x Tips and hence the number within brackets is 0.
- Click on a headline that we would like to read; in the following screenshot, I have selected Swiss voters projected to ban new mosque minarets from the USA Today Top Headlines feeds.
- Once we click on the headline, a dialog box will appear with a short summary of the headline, with an Open button that we can click to open the headline on the website where it was derived.
Managing feeds
Once we have subscribed to some feeds, we may want to edit the feed subscription or we may want to unsubscribe. This can be achieved by right-clicking on the feed name or the headline and selecting one of the displayed options.
We can also select how the feeds should be displayed in the Feeds sidebar panel
- Click on the Settings button in the feeds sidebar panel.
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The Manage Feeds option allows us to select a particular feed and choose whether to unsubscribe, edit the subscription, refresh the feed which will show any new feeds that are available, delete offline content (if there is any), and copy as link, which creates a URL of the feed or headline that we can paste into an e-mail or a browser.
In this article, we gained an understanding of the usefulness and the value of feeds. When we do e-mail subscriptions, we obviously have to give our e-mail address. The benefit of subscribing to web feeds is that we can avoid giving our e-mail address or any other private details. Additionally, we can subscribe to numerous websites and have all the feeds come into the sidebar Feeds panel rather than into our inboxes.
We saw how easy it is to set up feeds in the Feeds sidebar panel, how to organize them, and most importantly, read them! In managing feeds we can determine how long we want to keep feeds. This means we don't have to worry about deleting them as they will delete automatically according to the timeframe we have set.
So now, rather than visiting all the different websites to remain updated, all the latest information on that website comes to us. Additionally, we can read and manage these feeds from the same client that we are accessing our mail, calendar, contacts, and applications form.
Further resources on this subject:
- Enterprise Instant Messaging in IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 [Article]
- Domino 7 Lotus Notes Application Development [Book]
- Tips and Tricks: Report Page in IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio [Article]
- Use of macros in IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio [Article]


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This opinion piece first appeared in the December 21, 2014 edition of the Financial Times.
For a long time I kept my views on US policy towards Cuba a secret from my family.
My parents were both born on the island, and I grew up hearing tales of how their families had escaped the newly entrenched regime of Fidel Castro in 1959.
Throughout my childhood — I was born in Florida two decades after Mr Castro assumed power — I especially loved the stories of the underground network run by my maternal grandfather to help his capitalist friends flee to the US in the early 1960s, stories occasionally told to me directly by those same friends. On my father's side two uncles were Operación Pedro Pan kids, sent to the US on flights with other orphaned children, later to be reunited with their parents and elder siblings.
I am not unusual. The first generation of Cuban-Americans born in the US to that particular class of Cuban émigrés spent its youth inundated with such stories — many true, some doubtless inflated by time and myth. With them also came our anti-Castro indoctrination, which started before we could speak.
When I reached late adolescence, and started shedding my parents' and grandparents' beliefs to develop some of my own, I had a hunch that I would find their views all wrong.
But my hunch was wrong because their views were half right. That the Castro regime deserves unqualified condemnation is not a belief that must be exclusively rooted in the emotional trauma of the exile experience. Objective facts point to the same conclusion.
The facts show that Cuba, more than 50 years after La Revolución, has an appalling human rights record, pays its citizens the equivalent of barely more than $20 a month, rations food, restricts property rights severely and threatens political dissidents with jail.
Unabashed leftwing apologists for the Cuban statist model are harder to find now than in the decades immediately following Mr Castro's assent, though they still exist, most reliably in Hollywood. For example in 2008 the actor Sean Penn interviewed Raúl Castro, Fidel's younger brother and successor as president, for The Nation magazine – and mixed ignorance with obsequiousness into a pungent stew pot of journalistic incompetence.
Pundits and politicians are subtler but often still misguided. Acknowledging Cuba's poverty, they nonetheless point to its gains in healthcare while failing to note the chronic medicinal shortages and defecting doctors. Or they talk about the country's high literacy rate, ignoring the repression of a free media and the censorship of internet usage and controversial books. They blame the US embargo and travel restrictions for cutting off Cubans from the world and thus preventing contact with democratic ideas, forgetting the millions of Canadians and Europeans that visit the island each year.
And that is just the left in America — don't ask me about the dopey hordes wearing Che Guevara T-shirts in the capitals of Europe.
But at least the left, despite its infuriating instinct to romanticise a tragedy, displays a usefully cosmopolitan bent and ultimately arrives at the correct solution for how the US should deal with Cuba: allow travel and trade, hope for the best, but expect nothing and move on. After all, relative to Cuba, how much attention does the US give to the domestic politics of, say, the Dominican Republic?
The right has the reverse problem: accurately depicting a hateful regime but stubbornly clinging to a policy whose inefficacy — either in weakening the same regime or improving the average Cuban's lot — is beyond doubt.
Where I part ways with the right and with my family's earlier generations — hey, I said they were only half right — is in my opposition to the embargo and the general isolation of Cuba. I have less to say about the right's obstinacy than about the left's inanities, but only because a more obvious rebuttal needs fewer words.
If surveys are right, many Cuban-Americans of my generation find themselves in my same position: no love for the Castros or the leftwing view that romanticises them; no love for isolationist policy and the rightwing view that embraces it; but lots of love for a colourful family that I never wanted to upset at the dinner table by revealing my anti-embargo apostasy.
For all my immense familial pride, I simply find it strange that Cuba remains a focal point of American foreign policy. During a week in which the Russian rouble collapsed and North Korean hackers stared down the American film industry, the dominant headlines were about US dealings with an impoverished, non-threatening country of 11m people.
A good enough reason to normalise diplomacy is that the issue should cease to matter. And selfishly I would like one less topic to awkwardly avoid when I visit family in the holidays.


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On the eve of the first May bank holiday weekend, Which? Car visited 51 sites across the UK from Folkestone to Stirling and found bottles of water on sale at four times the price they would cost in a local supermarket.
Diesel cost 13p a litre more than at a non-motorway fuel station.
There are 113 motorway service stations around Britain, most operated by Moto, Welcome Break or RoadChef.
Which? Car visited 51 sites over two days in February 2009, noting the cost of petrol and diesel and whether there was a working air pump.
Researchers also shopped for a selection of snacks that cost £5.48 at Sainsbury's.
Six motorway fuel station shops charged more than £10 for the five items. The most expensive was Moto Reading on the M4, charging £10.31.
Bottled water had the biggest mark-up, costing £1.89 in the main service area at Moto Southwaite on the M6 - the supermarket price for a 500ml bottle of Buxton or Evian water was just 43p.
Filling up at a motorway service station cost £7.15 extra in one case.
At BP/Moto Hilton Park services on the M6 it cost £61.55 to fill a tank with diesel compared with £54.40 at the cheapest alternative.


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This was the first 7 day cruise that myself, my husband and four other guests experienced and our expectations were set high on the notion of Princess Cruises being one of the Premiere cruise lines in the world and the fact that Princess Cruises promotes Courtesy, Respect , and Unfailing in Service Excellence. This was a birthday cruise celebration for my husband, sister and aunt; all who�s birthdays took place during the week of the cruise. So as you can imagine we all were truly excited to be celebrating this time in our life with Princess Cruises.
When making the reservation on the phone with Princess cruise agent, the Balcony suite was given to another family member instead of my husband and when he addressed this with the agent she told him that the change could be completed on board with no problem. Wrong ! We were giving a dining time without knowledge. Why ?
When we get on board the drama unfolds, we explain the cabin mix up to the Purser's and was given the run around and was told to come back later. Couple hours later we went back to the desk and was given a TEMPORARY CABIN KEY and was told to come back the next day for a permanent key. (CRAZY) The temporary key didn't work, so we go back to the Purser�s office. The next morning we go back once again to the Purser's desk to pick up the permanent keys only to find my name is then mispelled on the key . In order to get that changed they need to see my passport. So back up to the room to get the passport to get it changed.
The dining plan was set for 6:00 pm by the agent which was way to early and so we tried to get that changed to 8:00pm with the head chef or Matre D who told us the only thing available was the Anytime dining. They promoted it as being the best plan on board you can eat anywhere at anytime. But we later found out that dining plan has limitations� you cannot eat at the Palm Restaurant onboard the Caribbean Princess. Therefore making us feel like we missed out on everything Princess had to offer like we were short changed. How is that the best plan if you cannot eat at all of the restaurants?
No Courtesy!
Getting back to our room, we still had the wrong luggage. So I asked the cabin attendant could he take this luggage to the right room because we initially had the wrong room. He told me no he would not Just Disrespectful.
My sister and aunt get to their room and their view is obstructed and all they can see out the window is a boat that they paid an upgraded fee for. They go down to the Purser�s office only to be rudely told by the lady manager on board that there was nothing that could be done. No apology, no I am sorry for your inconvenience, let me check and see what can be done, let us move you to a different room, upgrade you, downgrade you, refund your upgrade , give you a ships credit for shopping, spa treatments, dinner, pictures .. NOTHING!!!!. They even asked to be upgraded to a balcony suite and was denied to even pay the difference. I was shocked and appalled that this being , so we thought, one of the best of the best in the industry and simple elementary managerial skills were not even exercised!. We were all so disgusted at this point that we all were ready to get off the ship and we hadn�t even left the port yet. So my husband I went back to the Purser�s office again to speak to the manager who still did not make it right. The only thing she told us was that she would call us in the morning when something came available in which she did not. We never heard from that manager again throughout the whole entire seven days. Failing in Service Excellence!
As far as, the birthdays go nothing extra special was done for the three guests in our party.
On the last day of the cruise, we went to pick up our luggage on the Port in San Juan and a box that my brother had packed was busted and broken into. Souvenirs from all of the 6 ports that we had just visited were broken and cracked. It took forever for the Princess port agents to resolve the matter. We are still waiting for compensation for sentimental souvenirs that were inscribed. It was so embarrassing to have to experience this in front of everyone as we were leaving the port.
Overall, my expectations and image of Princess Cruises has changed. I thought we would come on board and be treated like royalty, or at least like a Princess/Prince. I thought we had chosen the best cruise in the industry. For this to have been our first family cruise together it was a horror show! I felt like I was being punked! I felt disrespected, humiliated and taken advantage of. I thought we would have the time of our life and leave talking highly of Princess and not be able to wait until the next cruise on Princess. All we heard from other guests at the ports were how happy they were with Royal Caribbean and how they loved it and wouldn�t dare try another cruise line because they were so happy with their cruise. I wish I could say the same. On my Princess cruise,� Princess Cruise Lines failed in all aspects of Courtesy, Respect, Understanding, Service Excellence
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Funny, frustrating sportscasters run the gamut
Marty Schroeder | Tuesday, October 3, 2006
The quips of John Madden, the antics of Lee Corso and the wisdom of Tony Kornheiser make us laugh, make us cry and sometimes make us turn away in disgust. But who can deny that every one of those guys up there knows exactly what he is doing (except maybe Brent Musburger)?
The diversification of football anchors ranges from the goofy looking but eloquent (Kornheiser) to the guy we think knows nothing at all but sometimes surprises us with a little gem of self-deprication (Davie) to that crazy guy who grunts when he's trying to sing fight songs (could it be anyone but Corso?).
Attitude differences aside, one of the more notable methods implemented by networks to make sure not every sportscaster sounds exactly the same, and that the games aren't being called by Stephen Hawking (no offense to the man, but we're not watching physics contests), is to bring in retired players and coaches.
Now, so the logic goes – who knows the game better than those who have played and coached? Well, the logic contains a few issues that ESPN and others don't seem to be addressing. One, not every player has been trained in the fine art of eloquence. Now, Madden got lucky and turned his painfully apparent statements into a shtick that's brought him video game contracts and a nice little job in the broadcast booth.
However, Sunday ESPN commentator and former Cowboys wide receiver Michael Irvin remains misunderstood with a phonograph horn and the volume set at 50. He may have been fine at catching receptions (and getting into to trouble), but when it comes to sports announcing, he just doesn't have what it takes.
He's a former pro-bowler who played for "America's team," so he gets a spot, but when stacked up against a guy who's been in the business for over 20 years (Chris Berman or Mark May, take your pick), the glaring differences become apparent.
Coaches, it seems, have some trouble adjusting from calling the plays on the field to describing the plays in the press box. I'm sorry, Bob Davie, the press box is not the same as the field or your living room.
This former Irish coach offers up nuggets like, "Looking at Charlie really makes me want to get back into coaching, but when I look at John L. Smith I think twice…ha ha ha," in reference to the end of this year's Michigan State-Notre Dame game.
While I may not quote accurately, the point is that this guy may have known how to run a defense, but when it comes to running commentary, his abnormally deep voice just doesn't cut it. He knows football, but doesn't know how to discuss it on TV.
With Davie in the middle of where I think most sports analysts are, neither horrible nor very good, we see the two ends of the spectrum – Kornheiser and Corso. The former is an award winning sports journalist while the other came out of coaching. The differences speak for themselves. Kornheiser may look goofy and may be balding, but when he opens his mouth, solid analysis is what you get and antics are not.
Well, that's boring, right? Wrong! Who doesn't love ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption?" Here's a show that encourages Kornheiser, along with fine co-host Michael Wilbon. Intelligent antics are a valid part of "Pardon the Interruption."
On the other side is Corso, with his hats, his yelling and his changing of sides – and none of it ever makes much sense. Etched into my brain is the image of Corso wearing an Irish Guardsman hat before the Georgia Tech game, attempting to sing our fight song.
And this isn't just a personal matter. Corso does it every Saturday, yelling crazily while Kirk Herbstreit tries to say something about the upcoming game that makes some semblance of sense.
So in the end, I suggest that they bring in more journalists that know what they're talking about, while keeping a smattering of former stars and coaches. Sports TV is turning into a retirement plan where old players and coaches are put to pasture. They need some new blood that can be both funny and informative. And sure, some off the wall shtick is fine, but Corso – stop being a moron.
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The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.


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While they was still driving,tigress sighed as she looked a po who was so curious he wanted to know who was tigress's sister,was she really evil? if so..what made her become evil?
"Tigress come on i really wanna know,what was your sister like?"
"po.."as tigress wines she didn't feel like telling
"please!"as po begs
"Okay you wanna know so much about my sister?"while she was driving she looked at po then back at the road
Po keeps nodding
"well,she was the most sweetest,kindest sister i could ever wanted..."as tigress looked up picturing the times she and her sister had when they was little,then she stopped smiling and looked back down
"until...after our mom died she cried for a day,and her mind started to change"as she kept talking,while po felt sad that tigress lost her parents,he never knew his parents
"what happened to her?"as po wanted to hear more
"she gone insane,she killed 5 innocent lives and she had to live in a asylum for 2 years and she was only 6 at the time"as tigress trys not to cry
"when she came back,our father died from doing suicide.."as one tear comes rolling down her cheek
"my sister started to get mad,and thought it was me..the reason why our father killed himself"as she started to have a flashback
8 year old sira and 6 year old tigress looked at eachother as sira growls at her
"LOOK WHAT YOU MADE FATHER DO!"as young sira long claws extend planing on killing her little sister
"sister,please i swear i did nothing,he couldn't take no more,losing everything he loved"as young tigress backed away to the window as it was raining and storming outside
"they always said you was the good one...,but it looks like they was wrong,I SHOULD BE THE GOOD ONE!, ME ALL ME!"as she yells
then a dark purple flaming meteor fell from the sky as sira looked up and gasp and everything went white for her
"SIRA!"as young tigress was running to her,but the house started to catch into flames,so young tigress only had chance of escape so she jumped out the window
then as young tigress looked up she didn't see her sister jumping out the window too,knowing she must be gone as she looks down then there was a glow as a yellow flaming meteor was coming at her,so she went on all fours and ran fast as she could but the meteor was coming to close
"AHHHHHHHH!"as it crashed into her and everything went white
a figure comes walking along then he sees tigress, while the meteor was gone a yellow aura was glowing around her body then it went away,while young tigress was on the ground unconscious and badly injured,then she slowly opened her eyes looking at the figure
"p-please don't hurt me"as she couldn't move
"it's okay dear one i wont hurt you,let me help you"he was a Giant Turtle as he slowly picks up the wounded tigress and slowly walks away with her back to the HQ
while back at the flaming house was a shadow figure standing there in the fire as it clenched it's fist
"after General Oogway took me in,12 years later my sister came back for revenge and she had a army.."as tigress stop having the flash back
"a army of what?"said po
"a army of powerful warriors she made by harvesting this power she had"as tigress was still driving,they was almost at the HQ
"but my old team,the furious five..we used a powerful weapon that sealed up her army and defeated her"tigress then steer the car to the right as they went up to a gate
"she was then locked up for 30 years,now shes back and i don't think she will end this war until me or her is dead"as tigress stops the car and sighed getting out,and po got out too
"tigress you wont die i will make sure of that"as he smiled at her and went to give her a bear hug
"thank you po,but it's me.. my sister wants even if it means to the death for us"as they walked in
"tigress that will never happen,you will live a long life"as po didn't want tigress think she was gonna die
"PO IF IT MEANS TO SACRIFICE MY LIFE TO SAVE INNOCENT LIVES THEN I WILL DO THAT"as tigress growls
"okay tigress,i-i just don't want you to die"as po started to have a worried face,he really didn't want her to die,he loved her and he wanted to be with her forever
"im sorry po,im sorry i made you think this..i promise i wont die"as she ask for a hand shake
"deal?"as po eyes narrowed
tigress rolled her eyes"deal"then they both shake paws
as they was in the HQ everyone bow respectively at tigress and po,then po and tigress reached to the room where General Shifu waited
"Commander you called us?!"as tigress solutes
"yes,last night i sent luna and tio on a mission to help a near by village..but they never came back..this is the last thing i herd on luna's recorder"as he presses the button
"take her to the robot graveyard,and take that white tiger there too"as the recording shows on the computer,then it shuts off saying'no signal'
"i need you two to go to the robot graveyard get luna and tio"said shifu giving them a command
"yes sir"they both solute
"and...tigress"said shifu as tigress turns around
"yes sir?"
"..kill your sister,we can't have anymore problems with her she must be stopped for good"as shifu gives her a mean glare,while tigress's eyes widen when he said that
"but sir i can't kill my sister,shes all i have,i don't care if shes evil..shes my sister!"tigress couldn't believe her general said that,kill her sister?but she needed to protect innocent lives
"tigress...i know shes your sister,but she is far too powerful she must be stopped at any cost!"as shifu yells at tigress,so tigress didn't have a choice so she walked out the door
"May your journey Begin.."said shifu,giving the best of luck,but tigress only growled at him
"i guess this is where it will end sister.."she said in her thoughts while thinking about her sister
way out was a volcano as sira stood at the top as her eyes closed then snickers as she slowly opens them
"oh this will be the end sister...for you"as she laughs evilly,she could hear her sisters thoughts
she kept laughing as lava started to rise up


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The garden is planted!!! Tim has been so excited getting our ground prepped and ready for planting. Gardening is certainly one of his favorite hobbies these days. Tim took Kate to the garden center to buy all our supplies and it has been so fun to see the two of them out working hard in the back yard. This year we planted tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, peas, carrots, pumpkins, and eggplant. Kate really wanted to plant carrots and when we let her pick out her one plant she chose an eggplant?!
I fondly remember how much fun Kate had picking tomatoes last year... it has been fun to have her that much more involved this year!


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Outlook mailbox size, by default, maxes out at 1.933GB, after which you may be unable to send and receive email. This is a good amount of space, but if you send and receive a lot of large file attachments in the course of corresponding with customers and employees, you may reach this limit rather quickly. You should first attempt to decrease the amount of content in you mailbox by deleting unneeded items, going through your Sent folder and auto-archiving old messages, but if you've already attempted this and still need more space, you may raise your limit by modifying the registry.
1. Log in to the computer with an administrator account.
2. Click the Windows "Start" button and type "regedit" (without quotation marks) in the Search field.
3. Press "Enter."
4. Click "File" and select "Export" to create a backup of your registry.
5. Choose a location and filename for your backup REG file.
6. Click "Save."
7. Double-click "Computer," "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" and "Software."
8. Double-click "Policies," "Microsoft" and "Office."
9. Double-click "14.0" and "Outlook." If the "PST" key exists, skip to Step 14.
10. Click "Edit," in the menu bar, hover over "New" and click "Key." Type "PST" and press "Enter."
11. Click "Edit," hover over "New" and select "DWORD value."
12. Type "MaxFileSize" and press "Enter" twice.
13. Use the example in Step 11 to create the following three DWORD values: "WarnFileSize," "MaxLargeFileSize" and "WarnLargeFileSize."
14. Click the "PST" key, and right-click "MaxFileSize" on the right.
15. Click "Modify." The number you type here will reflect your new maximum mailbox size, and must be entered in bytes. As a starting point, 2,075,149,312 bytes is equal to the 1.933GB default limit in Outlook 2010.
16. Type the new maximum size limit in the Value data box. You may wish to double the figure given in Step 15.
17. Click "OK."
18. Right-click "WarnFileSize" and click "Modify." This figure, also entered in bytes, determines the amount of data the mailbox may store. MaxFileSize refers to the mailbox size overall, including internal processes that may increase its size. Choose a figure roughly 90 percent of the value you chose for MaxFileSize.
19. Click "OK."
20. Right-click "MaxLargeFileSize" and click "Modify."
21. Type "51,200" in the box and click "OK."
22. Right-click "WarnLargeFileSize" and click "Modify."
23. Type "48,640" in the field and click "OK."
- If you don't feel comfortable modifying the registry, an easier work-around is to create another PST file and move messages into it. Messages in PST files do not count toward your mailbox size quota.
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A rounder and fatter fish than most exotics, Groupers are an underrated fish, found in most tropical waters but usually imported from the Red Sea, the Seychelles, West coasts of Africa and Australia. Australians call them Coral Trout and Rock Cod, and line caught fish are very highly prized, but they are part of the same Serranidae family, and should be marketed in the UK as Groupers. Commercially ranging in size from 500g to 3kg, and available year round, Groupers are found with a range of different colourings, the most attractive being the Red Grouper - often called Strawberry Grouper. However attractive the skin, it is tough and best not eaten, unlike the firm textured, sweet, pinkish flesh which tastes great - similar to Snapper, and can be cooked in the same way.


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Buckeye Transfer, located in Columbiana, is a top finalist for the Ohio Chamber of Commerce's Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award. The facility serves as warehouse for frack sand until it can be delivered to a site.
In January, the company received its first delivery of the highly specialized sand with five cars containing 100 tons of sand a piece. Now it's up to 22,000 ton. In the process, the company has added 20 new jobs, and more are on the way. New rail tracks are also in the works.
"Those rail cars that we saw have about 100 tons of sand a piece in them, and one of those tankers, the pneumatic tankers, they usually carry between 20 to 23 tons," said Buckeye Transfer Realty CCO Lisa Wallace.
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Humans were humans, even the most loyal person will betray you. You wouldn't amount to anything unless you had the power to make even the wisest man bend and break. Long ago, she had taken everything human about her and discarded it, left it all behind like a rotting carcass waiting for vultures.
She sat alone on her makeshift throne, watching the carnage she caused unfold. Watching as her plans finally rolled into action, as people were betrayed and betraying, hurt and hurting. Always alone, she didn't trust someone enough to create a devoting partnership. Not even when the cardigan girl first caught her eyes. Not even then.
An enemy of my enemy.
But as time passed, the tables turned. Fear approached her throne like a silent assassin. She didn't notice at first, she never noticed it, eyes cast aside, always locked on the pawns. She didn't notice her facade cracking, warping, until it was too late. The other girl did, however. She saw everything. Saw that all the mousey girl needed was one more push.
And then it happened, it all came tumbling down like a terrible storm, like waves crashing against a fragile seaside village, engulfing everything.
Some loyal idiot just had to enter her life. Someone had to love her. Had to stare at her with those stupid puppy eyes, even while she beat her. Had to make her feel things.
All the pointless Hell the hooded girl put her through, all the worry and pain. Just to prove that she had lost contact with her 'human' side. Just to prove she was Nezumi. Powerful, deceitful, friendless Nezumi.
And suddenly, the girl with the plans didn't have a plan. Suddenly she gave in to the arms that had been waiting for so long. She gave in to the fear.
She never realized how much she wanted it. Wanted someone to hold her like this, strong arms surrounding her now powerless body as the two collapsed to the floor, bodies wracking with sobs. She never wanted to be alone, and she didn't want to be alone ever again. So it was at that moment when the other girl moved to leave her that she had to choke back her feelings once again. Had to fight the urge to call to her, call for her to stay, to lay with her on the floor and to forget about the stupid war between the schools. To forget everything.
She watched as the girl left from her spot on the floor, her distant image growing blurry as fresh tears rolled down Nezumi's porcelain face. She didn't want to be alone again.


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Fractional Calculus (FC for short) is a modern and expanding domain of mathematical analysis. The notion of fractional differentiation, or more appropriately the differentiation of arbitrary real order, means an operation analogous to standard differentiation which will take into account, memory effects if the independent variable is time, or nonlocal effects in the case of spatial independent variables. The order of the derivative may also be variable, distributed or complex.
Basically, FC includes more information in the model then offered by the classical integer order calculus. Besides an essential mathematical interest, its overall goal is general improvement of the physical world models for the purpose of computer simulation, analysis, design and control in practical applications. In the last four decades FC became an acceptable tool for a large number of diverse scientific communities due to more adequate modeling in various fields of mechanics, electricity, chemistry, biology, medicine, economics, control theory, as well as signal and image processing. This list can be extended since Fractional Community is still rapidly growing as can be seen at the websites of previous FDA events.
Embedded in both science and industrial applications, as a part of problem posing and problem solving procedures, FC became an efficient tool for description, analysis, modeling, design and decision making within complex dynamical processes. Its patterns are recognized in the following major topics: Acoustics, Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering, Brownian Motion, Chemical Physics, Continuous Time Random Walk, Continuum Mechanics, Control Theory of Dynamical Systems, Diffusion Processes, Ductile Regions and Seismic Base Isolation, Dynamical Optimization, Dynamical Processes in Self-Similar and Porous Structures, Electrochemistry of Corrosion, Electrical Networks, Filters, Fluid Flow, Geophysics, Heat Conduction, History Dependant Processes, Impact, Nonlocal Phenomena, Numerical Analysis, Modeling and Identification, Optics, Probability and Statistics, Rheology and Biorheology, Riesz Potential, Signal and Image Processing, Soft Matter Mechanics, System Dynamics, Theories of Differential, Integral, and Integro-differential Equations as well as Special Functions of Mathematical Physics, Theory of Rigid Bodies with Viscoelastic Layers, Variational Principles, Vibration, Viscoelasticity, Wave Propagation, and so on.
Following tradition of the previous FDA events the Organizing Committee of the ICFDA16 would like to invite you to participate in this event. Its objectives are to review and discuss some of the latest trends in various fields of theoretical and applied FC. By bringing together the experts and young researchers it aims to promote exchange of ideas in topics of mutual interests, to establish links between scientific communities with complementary activities and to encourage them for collaboration in times to come.
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FOOTHILLS TRAIL: A great opportunity for Pierce County
Re: "Foothills Trail designated a national recreation trail" (TNT, 5-31).
This is great recognition for a dream that began in the heart of one of the last house-call physicians in East Pierce County, Dr. Douglas A. Tait of Buckley. He envisioned people being able to walk between his hometown and South Prairie, Wilkeson, Carbonado, Orting and Puyallup along the same route formerly traveled by the Northern Pacific Railroad.
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ABC News is rushing to determine just what its upcoming Good Morning America spinoff — GMA In the Afternoon — will look like. Lara Spencer and Josh Elliott, who regularly appear on GMA doing the hard news and celebrity news segments, and have secondary roles alongside, GMA co-anchors Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos are considered the frontrunners to host the Summer series, that replaces The Revolution, which was canned this past week. As previously announced, the GMA afternoon edition will air at 2 p.m. in the Eastern time zone and at 1 p.m. in most other areas of the country.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, "One other possible difference between the regular morning GMA and GMA In The Afternoon: is that the afternoon edition might call upon ABC News personnel who are not regulars on GMA. That is especially likely to be true if there is major breaking news and the network does extra programming or goes live during the afternoon period. it was leaders at the ABC Television Network who came to ABC News and then to GMA with the idea of doing the afternoon version for about nine weeks."
THR also indicated that ABC morning show's producers were happy to accommodate the idea as a way to extend their franchise. "This is a great opportunity to give more exposure to the show and attract new viewers," said the ABC spokesperson.
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Even if I don't play in public (or private) much any more, I'm still a pianist. It's sort of like being a Texan. It doesn't matter how long since you've left the place; born there, you're it, period and forever always. Ergo, I'm a Texan. Ergo, I'm a pianist.
As part of preparing for a session on Chopin for my class "The Early Romantics" at San Francisco's Fromm Institute, I put together a comparison of a number of pianists playing the first two phrases of Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2. It's a familiar piece, possibly a bit hackneyed by now, but nevertheless a gorgeously well-written bit of aria-like witchcraft for the piano. In listening to newer pianists and older pianists, I was struck anew by how much we have lost by generations of beady-eyed piano teachers cudgelling their students away from certain "bad habits" that, to my ear, are anything but bad.
Item: "breaking" the hands, or playing the melody note (typically in the RH) just a fraction of a beat after the accompaniment. It's generally condemned by piano teachers—sometimes for good reason if it's merely the result of inattentiveness—but actually it's quite an effective way of getting around the piano's inherent percussiveness. It's also a time-honored practice, not only on the piano, but on the harpsichord as a method of bringing out a melodic line.
Item: right-hand (melody) dragging behind the left (accompaniment). Stock in trade for pop singers everywhere, it's a classic method of keeping a melody from becoming too square and too resolutely attached to the underlying beat. Just a bit of lingering behind the beat can work wonders. Listen to Ella Fitzgerald. Listen to Frank Sinatra. Listen to just about everybody. And then listen to masters like Rachmaninoff do more or less the same thing.
Item: arpeggiating left-hand chords. We're dealing with that pianistic percussiveness again, and rolling a left-hand chord ever so slightly can work wonders to ameliorate the piano's fundamental brutality. Instead of three notes going BANG all at once, spread them out a bit. It's like spackle over a hole in the drywall. Some later piano composers such as Scriabin wrote in deliberate polyrhythms as a way of filling in all those gaping holes left by the piano's inability to sustain in any way other than descrescendo.
Item: taking as much time as you want for melodic ornamentation. At some point during the 20th century pianists changed their overall focus from the melodic line to the underlying beat. They started spouting zero-sum crap along the lines of: if you slow down somewhere, you have speed up somewhere else to make it up. What utter tommyrot. It's not accounting, you know, and the rhythmic books don't have to balance. There are no rhythmic books. If Chopin writes a 22-note ornament over three beats, for heaven's sake don't get all weird and try to play a perfect 22:3 polyrhythm to an unruffled steady tempo. When Chopin writes something like that, he's telling you to indulge yourself. Just play it however you want—and if that means adding extra beats, or extra beats plus some unfathomable extra portion of another beat, then you just go right ahead. Let those 22 notes sing out as you will, and to hell with the beat.
Item: bending and changing notated rhythms to suit yourself. Boy, is this one a hot tamale. But many of our great pianists of the past did precisely that without the slightest worry. Again I offer the example of great pop singers. The rhythm is more or less there, but they're not rigid automata about getting everything spit-spot to the notated score. It's a melodic line, not a dictation exercise, in other words.
Item: juicing things up with a few extra bass notes here or there. Well and why not? Even if the piano had been outfitted with 88 keys from the very beginning (absolutely not the case), I see no reason why not to indulge in a little highlighting here or there, if you really think it will help. Hell, even if you're just feeling expansive at the moment.
Item: "swing" à la Viennese waltz lilt (giving just a bit of English to the 2nd beat of 3/4) or à la Polish hesitation style (that same English applied to the 3rd beat instead). Once so common as to be almost ubiquitous, it has almost disappeared from today's performances. I'll allow that the "Polish" rhythm can become a dreadful mannerism, in which 3/4 almost becomes 4/4 due to the lengthening of the 3rd beat. But then again, here's where taste and careful listening come into play. Do it for musical effectiveness, and don't let it become an unconscious mannerism.
Item: "preluding" a bit before short pieces. Just a tiddly bit of improv to establish the key, and then you're off. Josef Hofmann was partial to it even late in his career. How did it happen that pianists—who were once composers as well—became so averse to even the slightest hint of personal creativity? Stop making it up!! I heard from various teachers. Well, why the hell not? Somebody made that piece up originally, after all. I believe the term public domain might have some relevance here.
Now then. Sergei Rachmaninoff is often cited as being a pianist who planned everything out, played precisely, and all that. And yet: just listen to his recording of the Chopin E-flat Nocturne, and be prepared to be shocked if you're expecting the last word in musical probity and conservatism. Hell, he rolls chords and breaks hands and drags RH behind LH and fiddles with the rhythm and takes his sweet time with the ornaments. And it works, man does it work. Listen to Moriz Rosenthal to hear constant breaking of hands (effective), or Josef Hofmann to hear the nocturne played with a clear Viennese waltz lilt, the second beat just a bit longer than the first or third.
And listen to Alfred Cortot play it—either from the 1920s or 1940s; he was pretty consistent. His performance could be cited as a litany of everything piano teachers inveigh against—breaking of hands, arpeggiating, re-writing RH rhythms, taking time for ornamentation, juicing things up here or there. But it works, and it works gorgeously. I'll take that any day over certain more modern performances that seem to consist mainly of projecting the RH melody out to the rafters, almost as though shouting to the audience, mostly in perfect time throughout with just the slightest hint of a tapering off at a cadential point, all with brittle but well-projected sound.
No. Play it as though you wrote it, I used to hear from certain piano teachers who weren't aware of the irony of the statement they were making: i.e., play it as if you wrote it and you'll kill anybody who modifies so much as a millisecond of it.
Here's a gloss on that statement: play it as though you're writing it, right now, here in this moment that will never come again.


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The goal of this paper is to describe a systemaidedperformance and composition tool that aims toexpand guitarist capacities by providing innovativeways in which the user can interact with the system.In order to achieve that, we decided to use an agentbasedapproach, independently modeling the activeelements involved in a guitar performance asautonomous agents - named Left-Hand, Right-Hand,and Speaker (the guitar itself). These agents are ableto communicate to each other in order to make somemusical decisions, specially related to the chord'sshape choice. The musical elements (harmony andrhythm) are independently defined respectively bythe Left-Hand and Right-Hand agents. The mostrelevant aspects of this work, however, are thealgorithms and strategies to process both harmonicand rhythmic data. Finally, we perform anevaluation of the system and discuss the results of theimplemented techniques.
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AP: Dixie flag back up in Mo.
The Confederate battle flag flew below the Missouri state flag and the U.S. flag at the Confederate Memorial Historic Site near Higginsville, Mo., in 1997. Republican Gov. Matt Blunt has ordered the flag, which was ordered taken down in 2003 by Democratic Gov. Bob Holden's administration, to fly Sunday, June 5, 2005, at the historic site, where a graveside service is planned to mark Confederate Memorial Day, and the order has outraged Mary Ratliff, president of the Missouri State Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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$5.95 ages 3 to adult, 2 and under free. Free parking. Stroller accessible. Restrooms available, with changing tables. Concessions available on-site.
We first visited the A Maze'n Farmyard two years ago and have made it an annual trek since then, and each year there's more fun. When we first visited, the animals in the barn and outdoors, plus the permanent maze, were the main attractions. Last year, mini-golf and a giant slide had been added, and this year there were barrel train rides and carnival games. More new things are in the works for next year.
We've been to the farmyard in spring and fall, on busy days and quiet, and always have a good time. We start out in the barn, where our oldest loves to hold the kittens and puppies, and those children brave enough will feed the goats. Outside, you can see llamas and camels and go through the huts of chickens, birds, and other animals. The namesake of the place is the maze, made of wooden lattice walls. If you're lucky enough to find your way through, you can have a card punched at each of five stations within the maze. If you get too lost, there are emergency exits. And if you're not up for the big maze, there's a kiddie maze where you can get a taste of it.
If you want to try the giant slide, grab a burlap sack and climb up the stairs. (This mom didn't try the slide, although a dad and a grandma were happy to go down with the kids.) Afterward, let the kids go on a pony ride or play carnival games in the upper level of the barn.
When the kids need to let off some steam, let them jump in one of the inflated jumpers, play on the modern playground or in the sandbox, or play a round of mini golf. Pose for a picture at a photo spot or catch a ride behind a tractor or on a barrel train. There are two covered picnic shelters as well as a snack bar and nice gift shop in the main building.
This is a place that's spread out nicely, so even if the parking lot is crowded, you still have plenty of space to wander around. Let the kids lead you to what they want to do–there's such a variety that it's hard to guess what they'll want to do next.
The farmyard is on a hill, so on cooler windy days it can feel cold; on the other hand, the wind is nonexistent in the center of the maze so it's sweltering in midsummer heat (although a well-placed vending machine can help cool you down). Being aware of the weather can help you dress appropriately for your trip.
This is one of the few places our kids ask for year after year, and they each have their favorite part. The staff are helpful and the entire place is very family-friendly. It's a definite thumbs-up from this mom.
The Amaze'n Farmyard was amazing! It had two mazes, one big, one little. My most favorite was the big one because we got to punch holes in our cards. I liked the park and also I liked the jumping things.
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Three Columbia County high school students were sent to alternative school last week for drug possession.
Including these incidents, 11 students since Sept. 20 were caught with drugs at county public high schools.
The students were sent to the county alternative school in Grovetown following sessions before the school system hearing officer on Oct. 6.
Two of the students attended Greenbrier High and another was at Evans High.
A Lakeside High student supposedly was caught with marijuana, but the hearing officer remanded the student's case back to the school last week due to "insufficient evidence."
Also last week, a pupil at Stallings Island Middle School was sent to the alternative school for disorderly conduct.


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Onward, onward, men of heavenAuthor: L. H. Sigourney
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1 Onward, onward, men of heaven;
Bear the gospel banner high;
Rest not till its light is given--
Star of every pagan sky:
Send it where the pilgrim stranger
Faints beneath the torrid ray;
Bid the hardy forest-ranger
Hail it, ere he fades away.
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Where the tropics fiercely glow,
Broadly spread its page of wonders,
Brightly bid its radiance flow:
India marks its lustre stealing,
Shivering Greenland loves its rays;
Afric, 'mid her deserts kneeling,
Lifts the untaught strain of praise.
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Dark in spirit, though they be,
Show that light to every creature--
Prince or vassal, bond or free:
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The hotel is 4 miles away to/from BWI Airport.
They provide a 24/7 free airport shuttle bus service to/from the hotel.
Their drivers were helpful especially in assisting their guest in loading/unloading bags in the luggage trunk.
The shuttle bus is clean. No smoke nor mold odor.
The hotel as located in the suburb, aren't many shops nor restaurants except for a Dunkin Donut Coffee Shop, the Checkers Burger (an outdoor) Fast food, a Chinese restaurant, and a small convenient store.
The Metro Light Rail Station is a five-minute walking distance away to/from the hotel.
The hotel building itself looks new.
The lobby is clean, spacious, inviting, and there are colorful sofas to seat on.
Check in counter is narrow and small. Only two guests can register at a time, so we had to wait for a few before our turn. Not a major issue.
The full open dining hall has plenty of tables and chairs. I didn't see anyone without a table during breakfast.
They offer both hot and cold brekky. Scrambled eggs, sausage patties, waffles, and biscuits & gravy are the few selections for hot food items. For cold meals are cereals, yogurt, pastries, muffins, and fruits.
They also have a popcorn popper in the lobby, and everyone is welcome to grab a bag or two of the freshly popped snacks.
Those who are coffee drinkers can take advantage of the 24-hour hot coffee in the hallway. Although, a coffee maker in the guest's room is also ready for use.
Although, a bit tight on space for two queen beds; the room is clean. We requested for a roller bed with an extra charge of $15.00.
Assigned to us is a room on the 5th floor, but the elevator is fast and easy to use.
Beds are comfy and firm. No bedbugs!
Carpets don't have any stain.
There's an ironing board, a flat iron, a few clothes hangers, a luggage rest inside the tall black closet.
Hair dryer works just well.
The shower tub and toilet are both clean. However, the sink area is small for a party of four. Toiletries goodies are up for a grab. Towels are fluffy and pearly white.
The reception staff are very friendly and were accommodating. One girl gave a thorough instruction in how we could go to the inner harbor.
I don't have any major issue that could have affect our stay.
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