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Resonance Modes was inspired by a completely imaginary and impractical preparation of the piano, one that I never actually intended to use, but seemed like an interesting starting point for the piece. I imagined hundreds of small liquid mercury droplets being poured into the piano and dancing on the sounding board and strings in beautiful and interesting ways. Although impossible for several obvious reasons (principally, the health and safety of the performer, the audience, and the piano!), this idea came from mercury's relatively unique properties, namely the high density and surface tension which cause it to resonate at different frequencies in beautifully different ways. One droplet of mercury can be transformed into thousands of different shapes when vibrating at various frequencies, and certain frequencies take on particularly interesting characteristics because of the resonance modes. Rather than explain resonance modes in detail, you can see mercury's resonance modes in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7SIeD-8-o, which I think will illustrate the relationship to the piece more vividly. In the piece, I dwell on a small set of pitches and timbres which are slowly transformed primarily through rhythmic processes as a way of exploring these imaginary resonance modes over time.
Biographical Sketch
Composer David Biedenbender has written music for the concert stage as well as for dance and multimedia collaborations, and his work is often influenced by his diverse musical experiences in rock and jazz bands as an electric bassist, in wind, jazz, and New Orleans-style brass bands as a euphonium, bass trombone, and tuba player, and by study of Indian Carnatic Music. His present creative interests include working with everyone from classically trained musicians to improvisers, acoustic chamber music to large ensembles, and interactive electronic interfaces to live brain data. He has had the privilege of collaborating with and being commissioned by many talented performers and ensembles, including Alarm Will Sound, PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Stenhammar String Quartet, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble, Music from Copland House, U.S. Navy Band, Philharmonie Baden-Baden (Germany), VocalEssence, and Eastman Wind Ensemble, among many others. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Boise State University and holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan and Central Michigan University. He has also studied at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Aspen Music Festival, and in Mysore, India where he studied carnatic music. For more information, visit: www.davidbiedenbender.com.
Performer Biographical Sketch
Jeannette Fang is an imaginative and expressive pianist whose dynamic performances have attracted the attention of both professionals as well as the concert going public. She has been featured at such prestigious venues as Alice Tully Hall, John F. Kennedy Center, Zankel Hall, Hill Auditorium, Peter J. Sharp Theater, Weill Recital Hall, and Steinway Hall, as well as appearing on stages in Europe and Asia.
Her most recent awards include the Gold Medal at the 2013 Seattle International Piano Competition, where she also received the President's Award and Audience Favorite Prize. She has earned top prizes in the Dallas Chamber Symphony International Piano Competition and the MTNA Young Artist National Competition. She is the recipient of the Elizabeth J. Parisot award from Yale School of Music, the winner of the Karlfried Nordman Scholarship Piano Competition at Juilliard, and was a National Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2003.
She has soloed with numerous orchestras including the University of Michigan's Symphony Band, New Jersey Philharmonic, Battleground Symphony, and St. Mary's Chamber Orchestra, where she was Artist-in-Residence. She has performed as a guest artist at such places as Boston Conservatory, Jacob's Pillow Festival, and the Steinway Society Musicale.
Ms. Fang is passionate about working with composers, and has enjoyed active collaborations with prominent composers such as David Lang, Shulamit Ran, Sydney Hodkinson, Aaron Jay Kernis, Philippe Hersant, Lera Auerbach, William Horne, and Stephan Cox. In the past she was involved with New Music New Haven at Yale, and is currently an active member of the Contemporary Directions Ensemble at University of Michigan.
Ms. Fang is also an experienced chamber musician. She was a young artist at the Taos Music Festival in the summer of 2012, and has spent three summers at YellowBarn Festival in Vermont. She has performed with faculty and various new music groups in such venues as Bargemusic, Chamberfest at Juilliard, and Le Poisson Rouge.
An avid writer, Jeannette has published many articles on music. Her most recent work has been for the Amalfi Coast Music and Arts Festival, for which she was employed as a Michigan Fellow. In the past she has written for the Juilliard Journal.
Ms. Fang holds degrees from the Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. Her principal teachers have included Peter Frankl, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Robert McDonald, Julian Martin, and Logan Skelton. Her first piano teacher was her mother, Dr. Julia Lam.


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The nurses (men and women) have to get register with the practice and they are evaluated based on their assessment, diagnosis and the necessary knowledge to take correct steps towardspreventing and treating most psychiatric disorders and related mental health enigmas. These professionals are trained to work in multiple settings, hospitals, nursing homes and assisting in private practices with registered psychiatrists (practicing experimental or established psychiatric procedures).
Since psychiatric nursing emerged as a viable career option, most of the interested candidates rush to understand exactly how to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner- the requisite steps and eligibility criteria. It is important to understand the basics of the profession and keep the outcome of the training in mind before you take the necessary steps towards acquiring a registered practice. In addition, it is important to start the relevant procedure including the applications to registered organizations, completing the graduate degree course (preferably a Bachelor's of science in Nursing), and registering for the licensing exam. Interested candidates can opt for:
- A two-year program to obtain an associate's degree (nursing)
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After a stint in any of these courses, the candidates can move to apply for the Registered Nurse licensing examination. Registered nurses should also consider a master's (or doctoral) degree specializing in psychiatric health practice or mental health related fields.
Technology has aided the progress of online programs for most of the driven professional training courses in the market nowadays. Online psychiatric nurse practitioner programs have a lot to offer (in comparison to traditional institute courses). More importantly, with the increasing demand of ambitious students and limited regular seats in professional institutes, online training programs have increased in intensity as well as quality. There are some basic advantages to an online professional training in psychiatric nurse practice, such as:
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Online psychiatric nurse practitioner programs have a slightly different format than most other online professional training programs. For psychiatric nurse practitioner training, some of the online programs require candidates to put in hours for orientation sessions directly on campus.
There is a clear schedule of clinical, practice and residency hours, which every candidate has to log in before qualifying for the licensing examinations. As with any online program, candidates have a choice between part time courses as well as full time courses (the difference is in the duration of the total course).
A distinct difference marks the software interface (software interface like Blackboard or Haiku) that the individual schools might prefer for their training programs. The software will be the vantage point for discussion forums, libraries, and access to study materials and course videos. Candidates must have access to a high-speed broadband or Wi-Fi internet connection to have a faultless network access to the interface (especially during classes).

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These are my 2 inspiration boquets, and I'm having a really hard time deciding between the two. My colors are lime green and turquoise so I love the idea of the green orchids!
I'm going for a mixture of white roses and green orchids with some other stuff kinda thrown in. I'll have a turquoise ribbon to wrap around the stems. I'm thinking something like these but I guess it will depend on what the resort can provide since I'm going to order fresh ones from the WC when I get there.


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In her long career, which stretched over forty years and included the publication of more than forty books, Edith Wharton (1862-1937) portrayed a fascinating segment of the American experience. She was a born storyteller, whose novels are justly celebrated for their vivid settings, satiric wit, ironic style, and moral seriousness. Her characters, such as Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence, Ethan Fromme, and the charming but ineffectual Lily Bart in The House of Mirth, are some of the most memorable in American literature. Often portrayed as tragic victims of cruel social conventions, they are trapped in bad relationships or confining circumstances. Her own life stands as an example of the obstacles that a woman of her time and place had to overcome to find self-realization.
Edith Wharton's writing career was launched one hundred years ago, with the publication of her first book, The Decoration of Houses, written with her architect friend, Ogden Codman. The two tastemakers denounced Victorian decorating practices--rooms heavily curtained and crammed with overstuffed furniture, "lambrequins, jardinières of artificial plants, wobbly velvet-covered tables littered with gewgaws, and festoons of lace on mantelpieces and dressing tables." Instead, they proposed creating rooms based on simple, classical design principles, stressing symmetry, proportion, and balance in the architecture. The Decoration of Houses was an immediate success, and encouraged the emergence of professional decorators in the new style, such as Elsie de Wolfe.
Edith's parents, George Frederic and Lucretia Jones, were descendants of English and Dutch colonists who had made fortunes in shipping, banking, and real estate. Edith Jones belonged to the small, most fashionable society of New York which lived on inherited wealth and were interrelated. After a six-year sojourn of traveling and living in Europe with her family, she returned at age ten to live on Twenty-third Street, near Fifth Avenue, in Manhattan. She did not go to school, but educated herself by reading in her father's "gentleman's library," and was given lessons by a governess. In 1885, when she was twenty-three, she married Edward ("Teddy") Robbins Wharton. He was attractive and kindly, a man of leisure from a similar social background and a good sportsman. However, he had none of her artistic or intellectual interests and their marriage was very unhappy.
Edith Wharton was in an ideal position to view the social ambitions of the newly rich of the Gilded Age (the post-Civil War period of American expansion in business, foreign affairs, and the arts). Her world of old money looked down on the newcomers and their ostentatious display of wealth. Wharton was both a participant of fashionable society and an observer of its kaleidoscopic changes in New York, in Newport (where she had summered in her childhood and had her own house after her marriage) and later in Lenox, Massachusetts, where she built her own country house, The Mount, in 1902.
In her fiction, especially in The House of Mirth (1905), Wharton depicted the contemporary world of the very rich and its materialism. The personalities were Wharton's fictional models--such as Mrs. William Astor, the famous social leader, or Cornelius Vanderbilt, the owner of The Breakers, one of Newport's palatial "cottages."
Edith Wharton herself was not content to be merely a society matron and hostess. From childhood, she showed that she was exceptionally bright and creative: even before she could read, she made up stories, and as an adolescent, wrote poetry and fiction, a novella titled Fast and Loose, precocious for a writer of fifteen. As an adult she found writing difficult and did not publish her first book of fiction until she was thirty-six. The conflict she felt between the accepted role of a society matron and that of a professional writer caused her much anxiety, no doubt contributed to the depression for which she was treated in the 1890s. A tonic for her depression was her yearly escape to France and Italy which inspired her to write about art, architecture, and gardens. The Americans she met abroad provided the raw material for her fiction on the international theme, as in Madame de Treymes, The Custom of the Country, and The Reef.
Wharton eventually settled permanently in France--first in Paris, in the historic Faubourg Saint-Germain, where she had begun spending winters in 1907--and later in its outskirts. She loved Paris: "the tranquil majesty of the architectural lines, the wonderful blurred winter lights, the long lines of lamps garlanding the quays--je l'ai dans mon sang [it is in my blood!]." In Paris in 1908 she began an affair with Morton Fullerton, a journalist on the London Times and a friend of Henry James's. Wharton's diary reveals her joy in their passionate lovemaking and in the intellectual communion she felt with him, all of which had been so painfully missing in her marriage. (She divorced Teddy Wharton in 1913.) In Paris she found intellectual companionship in circles where artists and writers mingled with the rich and well-born, and where women played a major role. She met such French writers and artists as Paul Bourget, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Anna de Noailles, André Gide, and Jean Cocteau. In Paris she also enjoyed the company of visiting Americans, such as Henry Adams, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as art patrons Alice Garrett and Mrs. Potter Palmer and expatriate artists Walter Gay and Ralph Curtis.
During World War I she became fiercely dedicated to the Allied cause. She led the committee to aid refugees from northeastern France and Belgium, and created hostels and schools for them. She helped establish workrooms to employ women who had no means of support and raised funds for these projects. Traveling to the front lines to observe the fighting, Wharton wrote reports for publication in America and urged the United States to join the war effort.
Her last years were spent in two beautiful houses in France, the summers at Pavillon Colombe, in a small village just north of Paris, and the winters at Château Sainte-Claire at Hyères, that was perched overlooking the Mediterranean. In these years she enjoyed the extended stays of friends such as Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark. She continued her daily writing schedule; since 1902 she had produced about a volume a year. She continued to travel and became increasingly attached to her gardens, which she designed herself. These last years brought great rewards, as Wharton was the grande dame of American letters, visited by many. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for The Age of Innocence, and an honorary degree from Yale in 1923. She crossed the ocean for the last time to receive it. Wharton died in France in 1937. The social and material world in which she lived, and which she depicted in her fiction, has all but vanished, but numerous art objects and literary artifacts have survived. More than one hundred of these have been assembled in the exhibition to bring to life her remarkable personality and the milieu of her cosmopolitan society. The portraits of people and places evoke her world, recovering for us a civilization that even then was passing away, and commemorate Edith Wharton's lasting achievements.
Support for this exhibition has been provided by The Citibank Private Bank, Charlotte Throne Bordeaux, Dr. Thomas H. Maren, and the Smithsonian Institution Special Exhibition Fund. In-kind support was provided by Schumacher and House Beautiful magazine.
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Ed Wesley, Unlucky in Playing His Senior Season at TCU/Getting Drafted.
Another NFL supplemental draft has come and gone, and with it Ed Wesley's immediate chances of playing at the next level. Ex-Baylor WR Josh, "I don't always run for the border, but when I do I fall asleep in the drive thru line" Gordon was the only player selected after Cleveland wasted a future second rounder on him because they were tired of Cincy grabbing all the negative off-field football headlines in the state. It's not all bad news for Wesley, though, as he now becomes a free agent thus having a better shot at maximizing his potential with the right team. We'll miss 34 in the backfield next year but wish him luck as he continues on this strange journey called life here on spaceship Earth.
Posted by Sir Wesley Willis at Thursday, July 12, 2012
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- Lyle Lanley said...
"You could say we're all crew members here on Spaceship Earth"
"When can we say that?"
"Anytime. Dinner...literally, any time"
Not a big deal for Ed to not get picked today- teams are usually pretty reticent to use a pick in the supplemental draft unless they have a huge need. He'll get scooped up as a FA very soon, methinks.
- July 12, 2012 at 3:51 PM
- LOLfolding said...
He'll be in a camp somewhere and probably compete to be a special teams guy or RB3. Kind of hurts him in that he doesn't appear to catch the ball very well.
His size and speed makes him a tough fit. Guys 20-30 pounds bigger than him run just as fast or faster and guys his size are lots faster. If he busts his ass, I can see him being something like Justin Forsett.
- July 12, 2012 at 4:05 PM
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I'm so happy to be writing the cozy culinary Maine Clambake Mystery series because I can sing the praises of my adopted second-home town, Boothbay Harbor, Maine (lightly disguised in the series as Busman's Harbor).
But what to do about the recipes? A Maine clambake (sometimes called a lobster bake) is basically one meal—chowder, steamed clams, lobster and corn, often supplemented by potato, onion, and so on. How was I going to come up with enough recipes for a series?
Of course, the book does include recipes for the clam chowder and the blueberry grunt my fictional Snowden family serves on their private island. But I've also collected recipes from around my fictional town. This one, for clam hash, is from local curmudgeon and restaurateur Gus Farnharm.
Here's what my main character Julia Snowden says about Gus's hash.
"Ayup. Hash?" Gus asked.
Among the cognoscenti, which is to say the locals, Gus's clam hash was famous. Like any hash, it's made with lots of onions and potatoes, but he uses clams instead of beef or corned beef. The fresh, diced clams give the hash a salty-sweet taste that cannot be beat. And if you ask for it, he will top the hash with one or two perfectly poached eggs.
"Yes, please." I answered. "With one egg."
"Because one egg is un oeuf." Gus repeated the oldest joke in the world.
Gus doesn't let anyone into his restaurant unless he knows them, or someone he does know vouches for them. That means you may never be able to taste Gus's delicious clam hash. But if you follow this recipe, you'll get very, very close!
2 large Maine potatoes
1 large yellow onion
2 cans minced clams (Gus uses 1 cup of freshly minced clams, but if you buy a good brand of canned, it will be almost as good.)
2 Tablespoons heavy cream
2 strips bacon
1 Tablespoon butter
Prick the potatoes with a fork and microwave on high for 5 minutes or until they can be easily pierced with a fork.
Cut onion in eighths, then put in a food processor and pulse 10 times.
Peel the cooled potatoes and chop them into large cubes.
Put the cubed potatoes in the food processor with the onions and pulse to combine. Add salt and pepper.
Add the drained clams and cream. Pulse to combine.
In a frying pan, cook the bacon until crispy, then remove and set aside.
Add the butter to the bacon fat in the frying pan.
Add the hash from the food processor and press down into the frying pan. Cook for 5–6 minutes on medium heat until the bottom begins to brown.
Turn and cook the other side.
Keep flipping to add more crust as desired.
Top with crumbled bacon.
Barbara Ross is the author of Clammed Up, first in a series of Maine Clambake Mysteries. Barbara and her husband own the former Seafarer Inn in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. From her perch on the Seafarer's wide front porch, Barbara's had a chance to observe the quirks of life in a small resort town, along with the stunning harbor views. Barbara and Bill longer run the inn as a Bed & Breakfast. Barbara is notoriously not a morning person. They considered a Bed-and-Get-Your-Own-Damn-Breakfast, but there didn't seem to be much of a market. You can read more about Barbara and the book at www.maineclambakemysteries.com.


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Real Madrid midfielder Angel Di Maria is a transfer target of host of European clubs but reportedly, coach Carlo Ancelotti is not willing to let him go.
Spanish sports daily Marca has claimed today that: ""Don't go Ángel" is the general reaction within the Real Madrid dressing room. Not just from Ancelotti who has always backed his player to the hilt, but also from some of the heavyweights within the team including Cristiano Ronaldo, who in no way wants his preferred midfield partner to leave Los Blancos."
Angel Di Maria had one of his best seasons in Real Madrid jersey this year and understandably, many other top clubs are ready to lure him away. The likes of PSG, Monaco, Arsenal, Man City, Manchester United and Juventus are vying for his services. Reportedly, Madrid have also received few offers for the player.
Di Maria is a key player for Argentina and expected to play a majore role for his side, along with Messi. He is expected to join the Argentia squad next week and wants to get his future resolved prior to that.
However, Di Maria is very happy with his current profile at Real Madrid. He said yesterday: "You work to keep growing and improving to be one of the best. There are lots of players who are doing a superb job, but I think I've had a great season – my best at Real Madrid, what with winning the Champions League and being the best player in the final. And I've had a good year with the national side as well. I hope everything goes well for me now."
Coach Carlo Ancelotti had also claimed recently that the player is going nowhere and considering the financial might of Real Madrid, other clubs have almost no chances of signing him now. As a reward for his excellent performances last season, the club is reportedly considering a pay rise for him for the next season.
Another reason for Di Maria to stay at Real Madrid next season is his excellent relationship with Carlo Ancelotti and chance to win Ballon D'ore here. "Luckily at Real I had a coach who stood up for me when things were rough," Di Maria said to Marca. "Sometimes it's hard to understand not being nominated when you've had an excellent season and you're playing at a big club… The big players here are the ones who have won it. I haven't won it and I haven't even been among the nominees for the best 10 or 50 players, but that's the way it goes. You have to keep working at it."
Now, considering the players' growing stature at Santiago Bernabeu and his popularity with the coaching staff, it will be a big surprise if he signs for another club this season.


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Friday, March 22, 2013
Ding Dong, Is The Witch Dead? How Brooks Will Confront Scathing Audit
In hindsight, the shadow of Ruby's audit could be seen in the last week by some comments made by Reid and Brooks. During a Community and Economic Development Committee, Mar. 12, chaired by Reid, he called out Ruby to conduct an audit in the Oakland Army Base deal and its master developer. Reid may have been foreshadowing Thursday report when he said, "If she wants to do the city some justice, she should take on those two areas and come back with a finding and maybe she'll prove me wrong. If she asks the right questions, she'll prove me right." According to Reid's response in the report, he already knew of audit's findings as early as Mar. 6.
Last Tuesday, Brooks was in rare form, even for someone quite infamous from her rude and tirelessly uncooperative demeanor with colleagues and staff. As reported, Brooks tore into City Administrator Deanna Santana, City Attorney Barbara Parker, Mayor Jean Quan, Council President Pat Kernighan, Police Chief Howard Jordan and Deputy City Administrator Arturo Sanchez during discussion of private security expenditures at the First Friday street fair. Brooks' specific ire for Santana has been obvious since last year when the seeds of Ruby's audit, the allegation Brooks improperly funded a pet project in her district, was first publicized by Santana. But, Brooks' diatribes this week now show she is not going to down without a fight. During numerous exchanges Tuesday, it was clear Brooks was attempting to pin Santana with her own ethics scandal by asserting the authorization of general funds dollars for private security at First Friday exceeded her powers. While Brooks may have presented some salient points, the theatrics give us a clue of how the possible public discussion and talk of censure for Brooks and Reid will play out in the next few months.
In terms of the amount of difficulty Brooks is known to dole out to her colleagues, other East Bay officials and constituents, she is without peer, at least, since former Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi was termed out of office last year. In fact, Hayashi's downfall from likely state senate candidate to political nobody following a shoplifting charge is a guide to how Brooks reacts to these allegations and the spectacular dimension of her possible flameout. Both are widely known tyrants whose mean streaks are as much apparent in public as they are in private. Few public officials have anything good to say about them and anybody willing to work them is seen as desperate.
On a positive side, both are very strong women, but also two people born with copious amounts of hubris. Hayashi didn't change when she ran for Alameda County supervisor last year and Brooks will not sit at the council dais and take these charges and accusations without first challenging everyone to a knife fight. Unfortunately for Brooks, she and Hayashi's sowed their fate long ago by the sheer amount of their poor interpersonal skills. Whereas, Reid is slick and willing to publicly express love for his "brothers and sisters," he will undoubtedly attract others to stand in support with him. Brooks, however, is a pariah; a woman on her own island of anger and retribution. Both Brooks and Reid have had time to draw up a game plan to combat these charges. From their recent comments, Reid will try to massage his way out of it and Brooks will not be satisfied until she takes everyone down with her.
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- AnonymousMarch 23, 2013 at 7:27 PM
Surprised to see Brooks has a law degree, she seems to have no regard for the law as a CM in OaklandReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 24, 2013 at 7:35 AM
By MW:ReplyDelete
In regard to the comment of 7:27PM, actually there is is no creature on earth with more contempt for the law than the typical lawyer.
More specifically, to become a lawyer a person first spends three years in law school, and which generally includes:
one, listening to a lot of lies and garbage from and being "educated" by law school professors, and many of whom are alcoholics and/or drug addicts (one of the dirty little secrets of the legal profession is that lawyers have far and away the highest rates of alcoholism and drug addiction of any major profession, and of course most law school professors are themselves lawyers);
two, the student himself or herself often becoming an alcoholic and/or a drug addict while still in law school;
three, becoming infected with extreme delusions of grandeur and the idea that lawyers are such "superior" and "logical" creatures, that therefore any lies and garbage that comes out of his (or her) mouth becomes true simply because it was uttered by a scumbag and professional pathological liar who is a law school graduate;
and four, learning that when the lawyer's position is ridiculous, that the crook, con man, parasite, and scumbag who pretends to be a legitimate practitioner of the law can then often be successful in intimidating opponents by the lawyer engaging in a lot of yelling and screaming and vicious and sadistic maniacal carrying on.
So anytime you find yourself in a debate with one of those of those purveyors of lies, garbage, and fraud with a law license who pretends to be a legitimate practitioner of the law, just mention that you are well aware that lawyers have far and away the highest rates of alcoholism and drug addition of any major profession, and then ask him (or her) if he, and like many lawyers, is an alcoholic and/or a drug addict, since it is obvious that only someone who is on drugs could have come up with something that stupid and totally ridiculous.
- AnonymousMarch 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM
Brooks is a crook. She wants her boyfriend to get all of the contracts without regards to the law. Nothing new from her here. She is a crook.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 27, 2013 at 5:49 PM
ummm....is everyone here missing the obvious point? Hello?... it's east oakland voters...ReplyDelete


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The backyard was a different story. It was compiled of a green patch of grass, along with a huge tree. This tree was perfect for climbing, if there was a ladder going to the first branch. A rope hung from a branch farther up, holding a tire swing. Further back in the yard a forest began and looked to go on for miles and miles.
The house itself was made of wood and the shutters were a chocolate brown color all the way up to the third floor. Flowerbeds hung from ever window sill on the first floor of the house. A deck stuck out from the backdoor of the house with stairs leading all the way to the second and third floor back doors and to the top of the house where someone could lay and gaze at the stars.
Inside the house there were dozens of rooms and different halls connecting all the rooms. Gigantic stairs led up to the second floor and then spiraled up to the third floor of the house. The walls were the same as the outside; wood. Pictures and special objects hang from the walls. Every inch of the house was clean down to the corners hidden behind dressers.
In the midst of this house is a girl. The thudding of her feet hitting the wooden floors echoed throughout the whole house making it impossible to tell her location. She stopped and scanned every single room, as her eyes shifted from one place to another. She continued running down the hall stopping at each room to check inside.
Eventually she had reached the third floor. Her legs were about to give out when she let out a satisfied gasp. She was looking in a room and found what she was looking for after 10 minutes. She went over to the wardrobe in the room, then walked over to the bed, and then she walked over to the dresser and looked at the wall beside it and knocked on it, the sound that came from it wasn't hollow, but it wasn't what a wall should sound like if it were to be knocked on. She whispered "fugitive" and a section of the wall disappeared revealing a small room. She climbed in and whispered "in hiding" and the wall reappeared leaving her in the pitch black room. She couldn't light the room up because she didn't have a wand yet, this was one of the things she was looking forward to when she could finally go to school at Hogwarts. She settled herself on the carpet in what she thought was the middle of the room.
Suddenly there were footsteps outside the wall. She controlled her breathing as the adrenaline increased her pulse. How much she wished that she could light up the room, it was beginning to scare her being in total darkness. The footsteps continued outside along with banging of the wardrobe doors and frustrated grunts.
"Ah ha!" Yelled a boy's voice and she heard the footsteps leave the room in a hurry.
"Phew!" She thought and she made herself relax. "Only a little longer." She told herself as she lay on the plush carpet.
She shot up from her position as she heard the footsteps once again, except they didn't sound like they were coming from the other room. "Oh no!" She thought in panic and she quickly made her way over to the closest corner, feeling with her hands. All went quite again, but she refused to let herself relax again. "He's in here, I know it!" She thought as she tried to listen hard to the room before her.
"This is quite the game of hide-and-seek." She thought, giggling to herself. She's always been better then him. She could find him in less then five minutes despite the ten minute wait to let him hide. What the girl didn't understand was how he could be in this room, she thought the only entrance and exit was the one she just closed.
She heard the footsteps again and some rustling and shushed her thoughts. She began to focus on the thoughts when she realized they were coming closer. "Just stay quite, and maybe he won't find you!" She told herself.
She soon noticed that the boy was standing right in front of her because he took another step. "He's not gonna fin…" But she was cut off when two big hands came down on her shoulders.
Panic set in as she realized this was not the eleven year old boy she was playing hide-and-seek with. One of the man's hands left her shoulder, but before she had time to react he grabbed both of her arms with that hand. The other hand left her shoulders and she started to scream.
"Silencio!" The man whispered. She screamed with all her might at the sound of the voice, but no sound came out. A higher sense of panic sent adrenaline though her body causing her to shake. The man picked her up by her arms with one hand, but set her on the ground again.
"Lumos!" The man whispered again. The girl blinked her eyes several times before looking up at the man who had grabbed her arms.
She gasped in horror as she saw a man twice as tall as her wearing a black shirt and black pants. His hair contrasted horribly and his silver-blue eyes were staring at her with an emotion she could not pinpoint. She sensed a familiar feeling wash over her and she immediately thought she had gone crazy.
The adrenaline raced more through her body making her shake violently. The man picked her up and threw her over his shoulder. Her stomach instantly started aching because of the impact of the man's shoulder. The girl felt the man's head turn towards the entrance as the door began to open. "Over here!" The girl attempted to yell, before remembering she couldn't talk. She shook in terror as she realized the man started to run toward the wall. She heard him whisper something and the wall disappeared showing outside. He jumped out the opening before it shut. She braced herself for the fall…
Hermione woke up with a gasp and heavy breathing. Her body was covered in sweat and her pajamas were sticking to her skin. She looked around at her bed and saw that all the pillows and covers were thrown on the floor. Hermione then looked around at her room. She almost forgot that she was back home and the fact that she had graduated from Hogwarts only a couple of weeks ago. She took a deep breath as she remembered the horror of the past years at Hogwarts. Hermione decided that even though she won't see Harry and Ron as much, she was glad that she was done with school. With this thought she let her head fall back onto the bed and thought about the dream that formed itself into a nightmare.
"That was a really weird dream…" Hermione thought to herself. She's had dreams like that before, but this dream's ending was different. The first person that came to her mind when she thought of the man in the dream was Draco. "It can't be him though," she concluded, "he would have been a little kid like me… And why would he be in my dream!?!" Hermione was now aggravated that Draco, the prat that had been torturing her and her friends, was now in her dreams. She soon calmed when she realized with a mischievous smile that he was in the nightmare part of her dream.
Hermione pushed the nightmare out of her mind and started to get ready for the day. Today was big for Hermione. This would be the day that she left her parents home to go work for the Daily Prophet. Not the job some people would think she'd want. Harry and Ron certainly thought that she was going to be an Auror, but writing articles just called to her, and of course Ron didn't understand. Plus she wants to show the world that there are honest reporters out there, unlike Rita Skeeter.
She got off of her bed and made it before heading to the shower. "How lovely it's going to be living on my own!" The thought made Hermoine excited to start the day. She had rented her own flat and everything. In a year or two, if she decided to stay, the flat would be hers to keep. It was a very nice home as well, it suites her needs.
"Oh I forgot my clothes!" Hermione thought out loud, and then went into the bathroom after quickly grabbing her attire. She jumped into the shower and quickly washed her hair and body. She got out of the shower and wrapped the towel around her and quickly brushed her teeth. Then she used a drying spell on her hair and a couple of other spells to put it in a loose bun with a couple of strands hanging in her face. Hermione only put the bare minimum for make up on, and threw on her clothes. Today she was wearing a pair of jeans with a cute tee.
Hermione grabbed all her toiletries and walked out the bathroom door, as she was putting them in her suitcase she was startled by a voice from behind.
"My, my, don't you look dashing this morning!" said the intruder.
Hermoine turned around and let out a sigh of relief, but frustration immediately took its place. Fred stood by the bed with all of his height. He was way taller than Hermione. He had red hair that was short, but long enough to be gelled forward. Rather good looking Hermione would say.
"You scared me half to death Fred! And what are you doing here? You know how iffy my parents are about guys apparating right into my room!"
"I'm sorry Mione; I just wanted to help you with your luggage…" Fred said while putting on an innocent face.
"Hm… I don't need any help, Fred." She looked around the room at all of her luggage and furniture. "Uh… I guess I do need a little bit of help." She admitted with a smile.
Fred immediately enclosed her in a tight hug and kissed the top of her head.
"Not that kind of help!" She said with a mischievous and knowing smile.
"Awh, well alright then! Let's start shrinking this stuff!" Fred exclaimed while bringing out his wand. Hermoine quickly put her hand on his hand that was holding the wand.
"Um… My parents aren't too keen to magic anymore; they barely allow me to use magic to fix up my hair." She quickly said and started to bite her lip.
"Oh, well bloody hell! How else are we supposed to move all this stuff?" Fred said with an incredulous look on his face.
"Well we can't really start now, I have to go downstairs and tell my parents I'm going now, and you have to enter through the front door!" Hermoine reminded him, "Remember what happened last time when you came down stairs with me one morning after apparating here?"
"Jeez, you don't have to remind me 'Mione!" He said with a beaming smile on his face, as he disappeared only to hear the door bell ring moments later.
"Hermoine, dear! Fred is here to help you move your luggage!" Her mom yelled up the stairs.
"Ugh!" Hermoine was sick of not using magic whenever she wanted! She was old enough now. And that's exactly why it's time to move out.
Hermoine flew down the steps and hugged Fred and kissed him on the cheek. She grabbed his hand started to pull him upstairs, but he wouldn't budge.
"Um… Mr. and Mrs. Granger, may I have your permission to use magic to make it easier for Hermoine to move?" Fred asked with the politest tone he could muster.
The Grangers looked at one another, obviously were unprepared for this question, but quickly answered.
"Uh… Of course! We wouldn't want you two breaking your backs, or ours, carrying everything. Right, honey?" Mrs. Granger stuttered.
"Um, yea… Go right ahead." Mr. Granger weakly assured permission. Fred gave them both beaming smiles while Hermione looked flabbergasted.
"Thank you!" They both chimed. As Fred quickly pulled Hermione up the stairs and into her room.
"I can't believe you asked them!" Hermoine yelled, still in shock.
"Why not? I made it easier didn't I?" Fred said, still beaming.
"Yea you did, but…" She was quickly cut off by Fred's lips coming down on hers. Hermoine tried to get out of his hold and resist his kiss but she was tightly bound with her arms by her sides because of the way Fred was hugging her now. She didn't let that break her urge to not let him kiss her by burying her face in his chest. But her efforts were in vain when he picked her off the ground and set her on the bed as he kneeled in front of her so she couldn't hide her face.
Hermione finally gave up when she realized he wasn't going to let go and kissed him back. The pleasure in the kiss caused shivers to roll down her back. She guessed that he felt this because he deepened the kiss. Hermoine felt like she was flying and kissed him back even deeper.
Fred got onto the bed and they both laid down, and Fred pulled Hermoine on top of him and they continued to kiss. Fred then flipped Hermoine over under him and laid on top of her, and started to kiss her neck. The weight of his body on top of hers drove her crazy, it made her feel secure as much as it made her want to kiss him back with everything she had. She kissed his cheek while she was still kissing her neck and he immediately returned to her mouth.
After a while they just laid there, Fred on top of Hermoine. Fred didn't mind and he knew Hermoine didn't mind either. He then took his arms and wrapped it around her back. This felt so right for him, and hoped that Hermoine was feeling the same way.
"Maybe we should start shrinking your furniture and luggage." Fred suggested in a whisper that made Hermoine shiver again.
"Why?" Hermoine whined.
"Well, as much as I'd like to keep holding you, your mum and dad are gonna start wondering what we are doing up here… And you know parents." Fred said a little bit louder. Hermoine tried to sit up, but Fred's weight was too much. She tried to push him off, but he refused to let go of his hold.
"I thought you said we should pack?" Hermoine questioned again while trying once again to squeeze out of his hold. "It will only take a second, with magic and all."
"I just wanted to hold you for a bit longer." He defended himself, throwing another mischievous smile as he let go of her so she could get up from the bed. Fred got up and stood next to her and put an arm around her shoulders. "Shall we get to work my love?" He asked.
"Hm… Of course! I'm dying to move out!" She exclaimed as she started to cast spells on the closest pieces of furniture.
Fred, seeing that she started, begun to do the same thing. After everything was in one single backpack, they started to make their way downstairs to finally say goodbye to her parents.
"We'll miss you honey! Don't forget to write, we'll love to hear about your new job and your new apartment!" Mrs. Granger said between sobs.
"Goodbye, little girl." Mr. Granger said while giving her a hug. He then turned to Fred. "I'm expecting you to watch over our little girl and keep her out of trouble."
"Of course sir! No harm shall come to your daughter." Fred said in the same polite voice.
"Bye mum! Bye dad! Don't worry I'll tell you all about my work in my letter. I'll send you some newspapers too, so you can see my work!" Hermoine promised as tears made their way onto her cheeks.
She kissed her parents on the cheeks and hugged them, then she took Fred's hand and they made their way to the door. Fred was about to shut the door when Mr. Granger came out with an odd look on his face.
"What about your luggage honey?" He asked, still with the odd look on his face.
"It's all in this backpack, dad, we shrunk all of it." She said quickly. While Mr. Granger gave the backpack an incredulous look.
"Oh, that's convenient. Goodbye, honey! See you, Fred." Mr. Granger said. Fred nodded at him and Hermione gave him another hug.
Fred and Hermione walked down the street away from the Granger household, so Hermione's parents won't see them apparate.
"To your flat I believe?" Fred asked with a charming smile.
"We can't… I don't know where it is in the complex yet!" She said with a disappointed look.
"Well, let's apparate to Diagon Alley then, we'll find it from there!" Fred said with new a look of confidence because of his idea.
"Mm… Alright." She finally agreed and took Fred's hand as they walked into an alley and apparated.
"Would you like to get something to eat?" Hermione asked after hearing Fred's stomach rumble. They were at her flat, and it was what Hermione always wanted. It was a two bedroom flat, which means that she would have a guest room. The living room was gigantic along with the kitchen. There was one bathroom settled between the two rooms. It had a stand up shower and a separate tub. She would decorate everything according to her likings eventually.
"Hm… How about a black and red kind of base? Oh! Maybe a brown and light blue! What do you think Fred?" Hermione had asked.
Fred could see that she was excited about her own home and he certainly was too. It was kind of difficult keeping himself from just apparating into her room at night when she lived with her parents. Hermione tends to scream when she is surprised. Fred smiled at the thought, and realized that Hermione thought the smile was for the conversation he just zoned out of.
"Um… I would definitely go with the black and red, it seems classier." Fred chimed in as he continued to smile at Hermione.
"I think so too! It's going to be so great! I mean I'm planning on…" Hermione was interrupted by Fred's stomach letting out a growl of hunger.
"I would love to go get something to eat love." Fred answered.
Hermione took his hands in both of her hands and stood on her tippy toes to kiss him on the lips. Fred saw this and met hers with his lips. He picked her up and held her as they kissed again.
"Then let's go." She said finally, giving Fred a smirk, and they immediately apparated to Diagon Alley.
A/N~ Hey! Thanks for the reads!!! I really appreciate it!! This is my first story on HPFF so it would be amazing if everyone could leave a review giving me advice or something along those lines!! Thank You!!! I always send another chapter to be validated the day the previous chapter is up for viewing!!! ^_^
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If you work in IT it's pretty normal in these days to have a computer with at least 4GB of RAM and if you have bought it in the last year probably it has 8GB, this is fantastic to run modern applications that usually require much more RAM than in the past, but this make the use of Virtual Machine on personal computer much more easy and doable.
This open some interesting options in the development cycle of any application or service as now it's possible to have a development/test machine on every personal computer, as system administrator I'd like that these VM should be as much similar as possible to the production environment, so what's a good way to manage and distribute Virtual Machines to the developers ?
For what I've found around the best answer at the moment it's: Vagrant.
In this first part I'll cover the theorical aspect of Vagrant and in the next one I'll show you some basic command to setup a running environment with it.
Vagrant is free and open-source software for creating and configuring virtual development environments it provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team.
To achieve its magic, Vagrant stands on the shoulders of giants. Machines are provisioned on top of VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, or any other provider. Then, industry-standard provisioning tools such as shell scripts, Chef, or Puppet, can be used to automatically install and configure software on the machine.
There are 2 ways to install Vagrant on your computer:
– As Package
– As Ruby gem
As I'm not so skilled in ruby i prefer the package approach, and if you use a modern distribution probably you'll find it in your repository, as Vagrant has a fast deploy cycle you can also decide to download the .deb or .rpm directly from the website to have the latest version available (1.3.5 at the moment of writing this article).
I've used the package available on my repository (1.0.3), a bit old but good enough for this introduction.
Basic concepts of Vagrant
These are some elements that you must know to work with Vagrant:
Il Vagrantfile è un file Ruby utilizzato per configurare Vagrant in base al progetto. La funzione principale del Vagrantfile è quello di descrivere le macchine virtuali necessarie per un progetto e come configurare e fornire queste macchine. Sebbene il contenuto di un Vagrantfile sia in Ruby, la conoscenza di Ruby non è necessaria per apportare modifiche al file perché è principalmente una semplice assegnazione variabili.
I Vagrantfiles sono destinati ad essere caricati direttamente nel vostro sistema di controllo di versione e si comportano in modo identico su qualsiasi sistema che gestisca Vagrant. L'idea è che quando uno sviluppatore estrae del codice dal sistema di controllo di versione che ha un Vagrantfile, lo sviluppatore può semplicemente dare un
Vagrant up per ottenere un ambiente virtuale completo per sviluppare tale prodotto .
Launching a blank virtual machine is not very useful, so Vagrant supports provisioning virtual machines through the use of provisioners. There are a handful of provisioners for the most common choices supported out of the box with Vagrant, but it is also possible to add your own very easily as long as you know a little Ruby.
Provisioners allow you to easily setup your virtual machine with everything it needs to run your software. So at the end of their operations you will have a virtual machine with all the software stack that interests you to have in that specific environment.
The available provisioners that come standard with Vagrant are:
- Chef Solo
- Chef Server
- Puppet Standalone
- Puppet Server
- Shell
A "box" is the base image used to create a virtual environment with Vagrant. It is meant to be a portable file which can be used by others on any platform that Vagrant runs in order to bring up a running virtual environment. The
vagrant box utility provides all the power for managing boxes, and
vagrant package is used to create boxes.
Boxes provide only the base image for Vagrant. The moment you run
vagrant up, the box is copied so that it can be modified for that virtual machine. Therefore, it is safe to remove or update the box after a virtual machine has been created.
While Vagrant ships out of the box with support for VirtualBox, Vagrant has the ability to manage other types of machines as well. This is done by using otherproviders with Vagrant.
Alternate providers can offer different features that make more sense in your use case. For example, if you're using Vagrant for any real work, VMware providers are recommended since they're well supported and generally more stable and performant than VirtualBox.
Before you can use another provider, you must install it. Vagrant only ships with VirtualBox support. Installation of other providers is done via the Vagrant plugin system.
Sometimes, you want to change the way Vagrant does something or add additional functionality to Vagrant. This can be done via Vagrant plugins.
Plugins are powerful, first-class citizens that extend Vagrant using a well-documented, stable API that can withstand major version upgrades.
In fact, most of the core of Vagrant is implemented using plugins.
Synced Folders
This is the last concept that I want to show you and it's very useful when working on boxes.
Synced folders enable Vagrant to sync a folder on the host machine to the guest machine, allowing you to continue working on your project's files on your host machine, but use the resources in the guest machine to compile or run your project.
By default, Vagrant will share your project directory (the directory with the Vagrantfile) to /vagrant.
Probably like me while reading all these feature and characteristics you are thinking at how to start to make some box for your colleagues and customize them, to move the personal computer most of the development machines that you have to manage, don't worry in the next article we'll go for some practice work.
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Il Vagrantfile è un file Ruby utilizzato per configurare Vagrant in base al progetto. La funzione principale del Vagrantfile è quello di descrivere le macchine virtuali necessarie per un progetto e come configurare e fornire queste macchine.


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Government lifts ban on import of Chinese toysMarch 3rd, 2009 - 10:12 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, March 3 (ANI): The Government on Monday lifted the ban on import of Chinese toys, prior to previously announced six month period starting January 23, on condition that they would conform to international safety norms.
The Chinese toys were had banned for six months on grounds of public health and safety this year in January.
According to a public notice by the Commerce Ministry, the import of toys from China will be allowed if they conform to the standards prescribed in "ASTM F963″ or "ISO 8124 (parts I - III) or IS 9873 (parts I - III)".
These regulations primarily deal with safety and health hazards.
The government through the public notice also stated that the imports from China would have to be accompanied by a requisite certificate from laboratories accredited to the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation.
Following the restrictions on toys, the Chinese media had reported that Beijing was contemplating dragging India to the WTO challenging the ban.
However, Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath had said the ban was WTO-compatible.
The toys market in India is estimated at Rs 2,500 crore while the volume-driven, price-competitive Chinese toys are estimated to control 70 per cent of the global toys market. (ANI)
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HEBRON ESTATES – The number of confirmed cases of Pertussis — better known as whooping cough — in children at Freedom Elementary rose to six last week, according to the Bullitt County Health Department.
Andrea Renfrow, department preparedness planner, said that no more cases had been confirmed as of Friday.
"We have worked closely with the schools and the schools have sent letters home," Renfrow said. "Additional letters have been sent home to those who were in close contact with the cases."
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