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Highest-Paid Musicians in 2012: Britney Spears, Justin Bieber, Dr. Dre Top Forbes List
Britney Spears, Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber are among the 10 highest-paid artists in music according to Forbes, but they're still far behind several veteran rock singers and 47-year-old rapper Dr. Dre, who tops the annual celebrity income list.
Dre's $110 million fortune came mostly from his Beats line of headphones. He far outdistanced Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, who placed second with $88 million. Spears is the highest-earning artist younger than 40, placing 7th overall with an income of $58 million. That total doesn't include the $15 million she's making as a judge on 'X Factor,' since the Forbes list was compiled based on earnings from May 2011 to May 2012.
Swift and Bieber rank 8th and 10th with $57 and $55 million, respectively. Both young stars had a variety of income streams, from album sales to touring to endorsement deals. In fact, many of the top earners made the majority of their income from endorsements, clothing lines and other business dealings. Rihanna and Lady Gaga both exceeded $50 million, thanks in part to sales of their fragrances.
Others in Forbes' Top 25 list include Diddy, Katy Perry, Adele, Coldplay and Kanye West. Both Jay-Z and Beyonce make the list, but Bey is the breadwinner in the household. Her $40 million haul edges out her hubby's total of $38k.
Forbes Highest-Paid Musicians List:
1. Dr. Dre, $110 million
2. Roger Walters (Pink Floyd), $88 million
3. Elton John, $80 million
4. U2, $78 million
5. Take That, $69 million
6. Bon Jovi, $60 million
7. Britney Spears, $58 million
8. Paul McCartney, $57 million (tie)
9. Taylor Swift, $57 million (tie)
10. Justin Bieber, $55 million (tie)
11. Toby Keith, 55 million (tie)
12. Rihanna, $53 million
13. Lady Gaga, $52 million
14. Foo Fighters, $47 million
15. Diddy, $45 million (tie)
14. Katy Perry, $45 million (tie)
17. Kenny Chesney, $44 million
18. Beyonce, $40 million
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers, $39 million
20. Jay-Z, $38 million
21. Coldplay, $37 million
22. Adele, $35 million (tie)
23. Kanye West, $35 million (tie)
24. Michael Buble, $34 million
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The Laredo Phil will perform a concert of Disney music dubbed "Magical Music of Disney" at the Laredo Energy Arena (LEA) on Aug. 23, 2014, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale at the LEA and Ticketmaster.
Music from early classics to recent releases will take audiences on a musical journey to far off places where the stories, tales and myths of many cultures have originated. The program incorporates musical performances from Disney's animated films including The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, Tarzan and six other timeless classics.
Disney Music Publishing, which has licensed the music to orchestras worldwide since 1992, provides this concert of symphonic arrangements from The Walt Disney Studio archives.
"The rich and exciting musical scores that are an integral part of each movie has always been a major part of the magic of all Disney films over the years," said Brendan Townsend, Laredo Phil music director.
"Magical Music of Disney" is a concert for the whole family. Audiences will enjoy a unique experience with timeless animated images synchronized with music, transporting them to their favorite Disney musical moment.
Over the past three years, some 38 orchestras in 25 States and nine countries have performed this concert of symphonic arrangements to over 70,000 people.
The synchronized images feature classic moments from Rescuers Down Under, Aladdin, Mulan and others, all projected on a large movie screen behind the orchestra, bringing the music to life in a unique manner.
"The focus is on the timeless music of the films, but the images bring the film to life," Townsend observed.
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U.S. health regulators are asking for advice on whether, and when, heart safety studies should be required for new obesity drugs, possibly adding a new hurdle on their path to approval.
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An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will discuss this week whether regulators should mandate such trials before the drugs can be marketed in the United States.
Ahead of the two-day meeting that begins on Wednesday, FDA staff reviewers said the panel must weigh the potential benefits to heart health gained by helping people lose weight, versus a history of heart problems that have cropped up in longer-term clinical studies of slimming drugs.
"Obesity affects millions of people in the United States and increases the risk of premature death and cardiovascular disease," FDA staff said in documents released online on Monday.
"Thus, the cardiovascular assessment of drugs developed for the treatment of obesity is an important public health issue."
The discussion comes as a new crop of obesity drugs await a decision on marketing approval from the FDA. They are the first such treatments that may reach the market in over a decade, and many expect their manufacturers will be required to carry out follow-up studies on heart risks.
The agency is set to decide in mid-April on Vivus Inc's Qnexa. Outside advisers are due to review Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc's lorcaserin in May, while Contrave by Orexigen Therapeutics Inc has several more years of trials ahead.
Obesity has become an epidemic in the United States, leading to a huge increase in diabetes and a host of related health problems, including heart disease. But many potential weight-loss drugs have either failed or been abandoned due to safety issues.
In public health studies, weight loss has generally been tied to positive effects on the heart, including lower blood pressure, FDA reviewers said.
But a few trials of the long-term heart safety of obesity drugs have shown they actually increase heart risks, or have no effect on heart health, the FDA staff said.
The infamous diet drug "fen-phen" was pulled from the market in 1997 after reports of sometimes fatal heart-valve problems.
And Abbott Laboratories pulled its weight-loss drug Meridia from the U.S. market in 2010 after a study showed it increased the risk of heart attacks and stroke in some patients.
The FDA already requires makers of pills for Type 2 diabetes to prove their drugs do not increase the risk of heart attacks or other heart problems, and to test patients who may be at higher risk for heart disease, such as the elderly.
The panel will vote on Thursday on whether obesity pills that have no heart safety signals in clinical trials should still have to prove they do not increase heart risks before they are approved, and how to design the heart studies.
Cory Kasimov, analyst at JP Morgan, said it may take the FDA another year or more to issue final guidance on heart trials for obesity drugs.
"With this timeline in mind, and the pressure on the FDA to address the obesity issue, we don't see a significant delay for Qnexa as likely," Kasimov said in a research note.
The panel's vote this week is also unlikely to have an impact on development of Orexigen's Contrave, as the company is already testing heart safety after an initial rejection from the FDA.
And with Arena Pharmaceuticals' lorcaserin, U.S. drugs regulators were more concerned about cancerous tumors found in rats.
Vivus shares were down 0.3 percent at $21.25 on Nasdaq on Monday afternoon and Orexigen shares were unchanged at $4.89.
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In The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama criticized President Bush for being a partisan and running a permanent political campaign following his re-election in 2004:
Maybe peace would have broken out with a different kind of White House, one less committed to waging a perpetual campaign–a White House that would see a 51-48 victory as a call to humility and compromise rather than an irrefutable mandate.
The ironies are thick. Obama, too, was re-elected by a 51-48 margin, but certainly hasn't seen that fact as a "call to humility and compromise," nor has the Democratic Party. Moreover, Bush genuinely sought bipartisanship, and it is Obama who knows no higher calling than extreme partisanship. So if you thought the campaign was over, you've got another think coming.
Today I received this email from MoveOn.org:
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Dear MoveOn member,
We won!
We worked hard, and it wasn't easy, but we all pulled together and President Obama won re-election, and Elizabeth Warren will be in the Senate.
They'll take it from here, and we can go shopping and enjoy the holidays.
Wait! What??? Didn't we learn anything last time!!!!
Progressives have all the momentum after last week's election—and the President's leading the charge to put an end to the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% and to protect the middle class and poor from cuts.
Note how seamlessly the far-left activist base has picked up on Obama's shift from 1% to 2%.
But to win we're going to have to stay totally mobilized—online, on the ground, and in the media—to train our fire on Republicans for being intransigent on keeping tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires AND to organize Democrats to stand up against benefit cuts to the programs that built the middle class.
"Train their fire on Republicans"? Isn't that an incitement to violence? I'm confused…
Also, I was under the impression that good-paying jobs in the private economy built the middle class, not government programs.
That's why we've come up with a plan to win this Fiscal Showdown. It starts with immediately redeploying the grassroots army we built for the election. But to do it, we'll need to raise $350,000 right now. Can you pitch in?
Can you contribute $5 to make it happen?
So what are they going to do with the money? They don't really say:
Here's what we have planned:
1. Hold Republicans accountable for taking the American people hostage while they push an extreme agenda—continued tax breaks for their friends: millionaires, billionaires, and corporate CEOs.
2. Fight to make sure the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire on time. After years of waiting for the rich to pay their fair share, we'll demand it happens on January 1—no excuses, no delays.
Actually, the top 2% pay around double their fair share currently. No one outside the top 10% pays his or her fair share, if you believe that income should be taxed equally, regardless of who earns it.
3. Run an all-hands-on-deck campaign to make sure every Member of Congress knows any deal that extends the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% or cuts benefits under Medicaid, Medicare, or Social Security is a non-starter.
Can you contribute $5 to fund this Fiscal Showdown?
These next six weeks are going to be a defining moment for the next four years. If we can keep the momentum from last week's election going and break through the Republican intransigence, there's no telling how much change we'll be able to make going forward.
Thanks for all you do.
So, fasten your seat belt. The Democrats' appetite for political combat has only been whetted.
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I meant to post this bonfire night-themed newspaper article from 1900 yesterday, but I was in bed with tonsilitis (woe is me, etc), so here it is a day late instead. Following on from those Mischievous Lads, here is another example of delinquent Clarendon Park youth, from the Leicester Chronicle Saturday, October 13th, 1900 p6.
Leonard Stanton (12), schoolboy, St. Leonard's Road, and Herbert Wales (15), shoehand, Clarendon Park Road, were summoned for letting off Chinese crackers in Howard-road, on September 26th. They were fined 2s. 6d.
Leonard Stanton lived at 103 St Leonards Road – and I bet he got a fair amount of stick for it! Funnily enough I know the people who live there now and they are the nicest, least delinquent folk imaginable. Leonard's father was already dead in 1900 and his mother had four children to take care of. Between October 1900 and April 1901, he left school and started work as a grocer's errand boy. By 1911 he was a grocers assistant, working for and living with Frank Claxton in Newark, Nottinghamshire. I hope that by then he had grown out of his firecracker habit! Unfortunately I haven't been able to find anything out about his partner in crime, Herbert Wales. Let's hope he didn't blow himself up! Regards, Elizabeth.


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The most probably first and last time that an Airbus A380 landed on the airport in Bremen. The runway is way to short for this type of aircraft under operational conditions. Reason was a big festival of 100 years Airport Bremen, where 130000 visitors gathered to see the A380.
Eine riesige Menschenmasse ist zum Flughafen Bremen gekommen um den A380 zu sehen, der hier das erste und wohl auch das letzte mal hier gelandet ist. Das interaktive 360 Grad Panorama zeigt die Menschenmasse welche vom Veranstalter mit 130000 angegeben wurde
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The 1,200 year old "Free Hanseatic City of Bremen" and its North Sea port sister of Bremerhaven make up a two-city state, which is the smallest of Germany's sixteen states. The cities are separated by a mere 60 kilometers along the river Weser. Bremen is a center of technology, renowned for its leadership in aircraft construction and space station assembly as well as space propulsion systems. The city-state earned the distinction of being named the "City of Science" in 2005 as demonstrated by the science center "Universum Bremen" and the "EADS Astrium".


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Liverpool agreeing a new deal with Luis Suarez is possibly the best bit of transfer business they could have dine this summer.
There had been a lot of speculation over the Uruguayan international's future this summer and a number thought he could well be one of many to leave Anfield after a disastrous league campaign last season.
New Reds boss Brendan Rodgers' appointment gained a mixed response when announced, with his lack of pedigree at a big club leading to some worrying about whether he could attract big names to the red half of Merseyside.
While Rodgers' comments over the future of Manchester City target point towards a possible exit, Liverpool have got their priorities right in securing the future of probably the most talented member of their squad.
Suarez is a dividing character and has drawn much criticism, not to mention suspensions, since his time in England, but he is most definitely an excellent football player and will be central to any success Liverpool may have next season.
The 25-year-old has also shown a level of loyalty that most players in modern days would not be expected to when he signed the deal, he also gave the club a boost in their transfer dealings this summer.
It has not come cheap for the Anfield club and Suarez is reported to have trebled his wages, which is only going to help convince someone to stay loyal to a club.
It is an important step, however, as making him one of the highest paid players at the club reflects his status as one of the most important members of the squad.
Juventus were being mentioned as possible buyers for Suarez but the new deal puts paid to any possibility of a move to Serie A this summer, though this may not be the case next year.
Suarez's extension does have the feel of a Luka Modric and Spurs deal about it and another poor season for Liverpool next year may see many of the stars who are currently being convinced to stay, finally move on.
Rodgers is a likeable character and obviously a talented coach, so a number of neutrals are hoping he does well in his first shot at a genuinely big club, but his job becomes much harder if he does not have the players to instigate his plans.
Suarez's agreement to stay will be looked at enviously from north London, where Robin van Persie looks likely to be departing Arsenal and Emirates Stadium, possibly to go further north and rivals Manchester United.
The two situations may not be that similar, but Suarez has definitely shown more faith in his club than the Dutchman. Van Persie was last season's top goalscorer and carried Arsene Wenger's side for most of the year, but the seasons before were constantly interrupted due to the fragile state of his fitness.
Arsenal stuck by him through that and a troubled beginning at the club, but he has seemingly opted to do the opposite just as Wenger's rebuilding project really gets into swing.
While there should be no surprise at a professional footballer choosing to take the course that is better and more profitable as an individual, one can have sympathy with the section of Arsenal fans who feel bitter that Van Persie has decided to leave not long after the time invested in him finally started to pay off.
Suarez signing could have something to do with the club standing by him during the distasteful Patrice Evra episode earlier this year.
However badly it was handled and whether it was the correct thing to do or not, Liverpool did support their man.
It could be the same here; staying at Anfield might not be the wisest course of action, but Suarez is going to stay loyal through what may come.


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With steel and glass skyscrapers dominating the skyline, mega shopping malls and six-lane motorways, Kuala Lumpur is like stepping into the future. That said, the Malaysian capital isn't all sleek and modern; it also has decorative Mughal-style mosques and bustling traditional night markets.
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A Tibetan Buddhist monk leads the way as a man carries a young girl after she was lifted from the rubble of an earthquake as she is rescued after being buried for more than two-days in Yushu county, west China's Qinghai province, Friday, April 16, 2010. Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies Friday at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu (Tib:Kyegudo) in western China and left at least 1000 people dead.
Tibetans broke with local burial traditions and began cremating the victims of an earthquake that struck western China more than 72 hours ago as police stepped up security Saturday to avoid looting of relief materials.
The central government has poured in troops and equipment to this remote western region in a bid to find any remaining survivors, with officials saying the death toll had climbed to 1,144.
There has been tension and some distrust over the government relief effort, which have been slowed by heavy traffic on the single main road from the Qinghai provincial capital, 12 hours away.
The quakes struck an ethnic Tibetan area, and Tibetans traditionally perform sky burials, which involve chopping a body into pieces and leaving it on a platform to be devoured by vultures. But Genqiu, who like many Tibetans goes by one name, said that would be impossible now.
"The vultures can't eat them all," he said at Jiegu monastery, where bodies were carefully wrapped in colorful blankets and piled three or four deep on a platform.
The government has set up a place to cremate bodies, said Geng Yang, the head of the provincial Civil Affairs Department.
"We have cremated 33 bodies so far," Geng said.
Police said they had increased security at areas were relief supplies were being handed out.
"We will severely attack the looting of disaster relief materials and the stealing of victims' property," provincial Deputy Police Chief Liu Tianhui told a news conference held in a tent in Jiegu on Saturday morning.
Liu said there were cases of looting right after the quake Wednesday, but that the situation had improved and "is stable now."
He said the biggest challenge was still getting enough clean drinking water and food for estimated 100,000 people affected by earthquake.
Though the government was reaching out, many residents turned instead to the monks and their traditions, rather than a central authority dominated by the majority Han Chinese. The groups are divided by language — the government has had to mobilize hundreds of Tibetan speakers to communicate with victims — as well as culture and religion.
Cultural differences might have contributed to Friday's sharp rise in the death toll. In a telephone call with The Associated Press on Friday, rescue officials seemed surprised to hear that hundreds of bodies were at the Jiegu monastery, taken there by Buddhist families. The new official death toll was announced hours later.
Residents of the largely Tibetan town pointed out repeatedly that after the series of earthquakes Wednesday, the monks were the first to come to their aid — pulling people from the rubble and passing out their own limited supplies.
Yushu county, the area impacted by the quakes, is overwhelmingly Tibetan — 93 percent by official statistics, though that does not include Han migrants who have moved in temporarily to open restaurants, take construction jobs or work in mines.
The area largely escaped the unrest that swept the Tibetan plateau in 2008. But authorities have periodically sealed off the area to foreign media and tourists.
There was no word Saturday if anymore survivors had been found. China Central Television reported that a 13-year-old girl was pulled from a toppled two-story hotel on Friday after a sniffer dog alerted rescuers.
State media said more equipment to check for signs of life was on the way, along with 40,000 tents — enough to accommodate all the survivors.
Associated Press writer Chi-Chi Zhang in Beijing contributed to this report.
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Auyuittuq means 'Land that Never Melts'. It is a unique arctic wilderness of ice caps, mountain peaks, deep valleys and spectacular vistas on Baffin Island. This special wilderness has been protected as one of Canada's most northerly national parks. At the heart of the park is the massive Penny Ice Cap, whose radiating valley glaciers are still actively shaping the land. The glaciers flow down into the surrounding treeless valleys, where they melt into swift rivers that rush over the rock and tundra valley floors to the ocean. Above soar some of the worlds most picturesque mountains. This powerful landscape reflects the Inuit belief that time is infinite and unending. The harsh variable climate, only briefly moderated during the long days of summer, sustains a very limited number of plant and animal species.
The Auyuittuq Getaway is a perfect chance for a taste of true Arctic and best option for the beginner hiker. It is a 10 day circuit in the Weasel River Valley of Auyuittuq Park. From the Inuit town of Pangnirtung you take a boat to Overlord warden station, the southern entrance to the pass. Along the route you will follow the Inukshuks which indicate safe routes across moraines and rivers. By crossing the river on a suspension bridge you reach Windy Lake, Schwarzenbach Falls and you can even hike right to the base of a glacier. The turnaround point will be at the base of Thor peak which soars 1500 metres up out of the valley floor. It has the longest uninterrupted cliff face in the world. With much lighter packs you'll hike back to Overlord to meet the boat shuttle. Beautiful scenery, a lighter pack and some layover days make this trip the perfect choice for the novice trekker.
The two week Auyuittuq Classic hike explores the famous Pangnirtung pass. You'll travel a short distance by sea from the Inuit community of Pangnirtung to Overlord warden station, the southern entrance to the pass. The circuit route will take you up the Weasel River Valley to Summit Lake which marks the height of land in the pass and back to Overlord. Just before you reach the Windy Lake warden station you cross the Arctic Circle - an imaginary line at the latitude of 66° 33 1/2' North. You'll pose for pictures by the Inukshuk, a human shaped cairn of rock which marks the Circle. You will follow Inukshuks to the base of Thor peak which soars 1500 metres up out of the valley floor continue on to the top of the pass at Summit Lake. If time and weather allow for a day hike you may see Mount Asgard, the famous flat top peak before you return to the sea. This trip is a great adventure for an average hiker.
The Auyuittuq Traverse is a 14 day backpacking expedition from Broughton Island across Akshayuk Pass to Pangnirtung. A boat takes the group from Qikiqtarjuaq (Broughton Island) to the mainland. Have your camera ready, you may see a seal, whale, narwhal or walrus. You hike up the Owl River Valley across moraines and fording several creeks. High in the pass is an awesome view of Mount Asgard thrusting through the surrounding glaciers like a scene out of Norse mythology. The flat top of its two cylindrical towers has been the goal of climbing expeditions from around the world. Beyond is Summit Lake where you begin oyor descent of the Weasel River Valley. You reach Thor peak soaring 1500 metres up out of the valley floor, with the longest uninterrupted cliff in the world. Further down you pass the Windy Lake and cross the Arctic Circle. With much lighter packs you reach Overlord, the end of the trail. This trip includes challenging river crossings, walking on uneven terrain, some steep grades, difficult footing and full packs for two weeks. This adventure is a great holiday for the experienced hiker who enjoys the challenge and likes to share this beautiful land with the other group members.


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from the glad-we've-got-that-covered deptAs we've discussed a few times, we seem to get threatened with a lawsuit approximately once a month or so (though they tend to come in bunches after extended quiet periods). The threats usually fall under one of two categories: someone upset about something we wrote about them, or someone upset about something someone in the comments said about them. When it's cases where people are upset about something that we have said, often the person is angry that we didn't call them to get their side of the story, as if that were some sort of legal requirement. We've seen such claims very recently, in fact.
However, in a recent court case in California that looked at exactly that question, a judge made it pretty damn clear that journalists have absolutely no legal requirement to reach out to the people they are writing about. The story is a fairly crazy one. The Associated Press wrote a story about a court granting Sheryl Crow a three years restraining order against a guy named Philip Sparks, who had admitted to threatening to shoot both Crow and famed movie exec Harvey Weinstein. The AP reported that Sparks had accused both Crow and Weinstein of "stealing $7.5 million from him, videotaping and following him without permission and leaving him homeless." It also reported that a forensic psychiatrist had testified that "Mr. Sparks is unambiguously delusional."
In response, Sparks sued the Associated Press, arguing that the article was defamatory. Since it was filed in California and California has a good anti-SLAPP law, the AP filed an anti-SLAPP motion. Sparks tried to argue against the First Amendment: "There needs to be a boundary between the Media and the First Amendment, otherwise the Media can hide behind the First Amendment and publish anything that they want regardless if the statements are false, or violate one's civil rights." Of course, that's not true. Defamation laws still apply to the press, but the key issue here seemed to really be about whether or not the AP needed to report on Sparks' version of the story.
Thankfully, the judge pointed out that this was simply untrue. The "tentative order" from LA Superior Court judge Rolf Treu has some useful quotes. As an aside, the website for the LA Superior Court is horrifically bad and nearly impossible to navigate. The fact that it says: "This site is best viewed using Internet Explorer 5 or higher." should tell you something... After a fair bit of poking and prodding, I finally found the ruling, which I've published here and embedded below. But the key point is that there is no requirement to get his side of the story:
To the extent Plaintiff takes issue with Defendant's failure to report facts that Plaintiff raised during the hearing (see Pl.'s Response filed 1/11/13 p. 12-13 (concerning a security expert who pretended to be Plaintiff's lawyer and challenges to Dr. Glaser's diagnosis)), Defendant is not required to present Plaintiff's side of his story or his key factsThe court also pointed out that the AP had no requirement to report on the fact that the doctor who declared him delusional had been sanctioned by the Medical Board of California, noting that "there is no such requirement." The judge makes the key point: as long as the AP reported accurately, they were not required to cover the story the way Sparks wanted them to cover it:
To the average reader, the substance of judicial proceeding was the issuance of the restraining orders, which was accurately described by Defendant's article.While this just confirms that which was already known, it seemed useful to remind people of this basic fact. Just because someone doesn't contact you or report things the way you want them to, it doesn't mean it's against the law.
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Author Notes: These ice pops use the same base as the mango sherbet I posted previously. I wanted to try two different freezing methods for the same base. I actually think these ice pops have a slightly smoother, creamer texture than the sherbet. —Cristina Sciarra
Food52 Review: These mango ice pops were a hit! They are the perfect balance of fruit with just the right amount of creaminess to make them a great dessert all summer long. Refreshing but satisfying. I suggest using a very ripe mango so that all the good juice stored around the fibrous pit gets incorporated into your ice pops. —meganvt01
Makes: 9 ice pops
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the juice of 1/2 a lime
a pinch of sea salt
1/3 cup agave nectar
1.5 cups cold, whole milk
2 tablespoons heavy cream
- Peel the mango. Then, using a knife, peel the flesh (and falling juice) directly into a blender or food processor. Juice the 1/2 lime, and add it to the blender, along with the sea salt. Turn the blender to stir, and mix until the mango is nearly pureed.
- Open the top of the blender as the mango is being pureed; pour in the agave. (I used 1/3 cup because my mango was not overly ripe or sweet. The resulting sherbert was not overly sweet. Feel free to adjust deepening on your mango/preferences.)
- With the blades still whirring, pour in the milk, and then the cream. Let the blender go just long enough for everything to mix together.
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My report on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Thursday night concert begins with a brief encounter at a supermarket several years ago. When it was time to pay, I noticed that the cashier's name tag said "Anitra." "Anitra," I said, "I've only seen that name once before: 'Anitra's Dance' by Grieg." Smiling warmly, she replied, "That's right. My mother used to play that record for me all the time."
"Anitra's Dance," along with "Morning Mood," "The Death of Ase," and "In the Hall of the Mountain King" comprise one of the most familiar works in classical music, Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite No. 1. The familiar can get tiresome, but that was decidedly not the case Thursday night, as music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphians in a nuanced and pleasurable performance of this work. I could point to some details—such as the rounded crescendo on the third note in each triplet in "The Death of Ase" or the perfect tempo acceleration in the "Mountain King"—but the overall impression was more important. This work is an audience favorite for a reason.
Some composers finish a work and, reasonably satisfied with the results, move on to the next project. Others have trouble completing a work. They return for revisions, sometimes more than once, before declaring the latest version the one that should be performed. Thursday night's concert included an example of each.
Bartok completed his Violin Concerto No. 2 in 1938. Not only did he leave it as is, but, according to the program notes, expressed his satisfaction with the piece: "I was very happy that there is nothing wrong with the scoring, nothing needs to be changed," he wrote to violinist Joseph Szigeti, "even though orchestral 'accompaniment' is a very delicate business." While this may seem immodest, this listener agrees that nothing needed to be changed in the orchestral part or, in fact, the violin part. All it needs is a consummate virtuoso, and that clearly describes the evening's soloist, Gil Shaham. Demonstrating why he is one of the world's most celebrated violinists, Shaham enlisted his jaw-dropping technique to present a performance that was both thrilling and, in the slow movement, deeply moving. Following a tremendous ovation, Shaham offered a delightful encore, the Gavotte from Bach's Partita No. 3 for unaccompanied violin.
Sibelius struggled to produce his Symphony No. 5. He finished the first version of this symphony in 1915. He revised it the following year, and then completed a third version, which we heard in this concert, in 1919. It's another of those pieces that has a long history with this orchestra—given its United States premiere by the Philadelphians under Stokowski, and then frequently played and recorded twice by Eugene Ormandy during his four decades with the orchestra. But regardless of the history, Yannick led a performance that stands on its own in revealing the dark beauty of this work. This was a performance to savor.
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Author Notes: This is just the classic, jazzed up: smoked paprika gives the filling a nice smoky depth, and smoked sea salt lends a tiny crunch on top. —TheThinChef
Serves: 12 deviled eggs
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- Place eggs in a large saucepan and fill with cold water until the eggs are covered by about 2 inches. Cover, and place over high heat. When water boils, turn off the heat. Remove pan from hot burner (if you have an electric cooktop). Set a kitchen timer (or watch the clock) for 14 minutes. Meanwhile, fill a large bowl with cold water and ice. After the eggs are cooked, carefully transfer them from the hot water to the ice water. Let eggs cool.
- When cool, lightly tap eggs on the countertop to crack shells, and peel. Cut eggs in half lengthwise with a sharp knife. Gently pop the yolks out of each white half, placing yolks into bowls and setting whites aside. Discard 1 whole white. Place whites on a plate, cover with plastic wrap, and set aside.
- Place yolks, smoked paprika, and mayo in a medium bowl. Mash with a fork until smooth and creamy. Cover bowl with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- To serve, spoon filling into the white halves. To be fancier, spoon filling into a plastic zip-top bag, then cut a hole in one corner. Use it as you would a piping bag and pipe the filling into the whites. Sprinkle tops with smoked salt. Serve cold or at room temperature.
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Harry Gillum, Rocky Gallo, and William Knight are acoustic consultants based in West Virginia, where they specialize in the design and installation of small and large sound reinforcement systems for, churches, stadiums, arenas, nightclubs, D.J.'s, and any facility where sound reinforcement is required. We have done extensive design work, and reinforcement for indoor and outdoor applications as well. We have received certification from NSCA (National Sound Contractors Association) NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) from 1991-2007 and have worked in professional audio since 1970. We are full-time consultants with over 1000 installations. The client list includes numerous churches, clubs, and performance facilities. We have earned over 26 certifications in system design and engineering and attend training seminars each year.
It is our goal to design and install your FINAL sound system. That's because most churches are concerned about purchasing sound systems that they do it three or four times before they finally end up with one that meets their needs! In order to discover the final needs, we have an extensive interview completed with the venue before we ever quote a design or price. Questions and answers result in a great sound system. Anything less is considered substandard. We ask that you do the research only one time, disclose your needs, and request that the sound contractor provide the products and services that will meet your individual needs. This equates to become your final sound system. Should price be your only consideration, then we are not the company for you, however, if performance is number one, then you should consider our services.
Often the first system is purchased when the church is constructed, often a member offers his services since he knows something about sound, played in a band, has been a D.J. in the past and thus he becomes the professional or the best advisor the church has to work with. The church depends on him to design a system to meet the needs of the church or venue. This individual only wants to save the church money, which in the long run cost thousands of dollars due to lack of knowledge. This person prints up a list of the equipment he has the best knowledge of and sends it along as a specification for bid, yet he has NO knowledge of the total needs of the venue. Often he leaves the facility in a year or two and the system never meets the needs and the church starts over again. At this point, most members are saying, why change the sound system, we just bought a new one last year? Well, the truth is the first one never worked and now we are going to start this process over again. The venue or church never knew that sound professionals existed to provide such services. And seldom do they know where to seek such advice. In simple terms, anyone or business that has a business license for $ 15.00 can be in the sound business. There are no requirements that the business owner is trained in total sound design and installation. Just a simple business license permits them to sell you equipment.
Some of the most common problems are feedback (howling), poor speech intelligibility, muddy music caused by too much reverberation, the system can't be heard on the platform, dead spots, hot spots, and just plain unpleasant sound quality. Now the church researches system number two. There are several variations on system number two. Often, members of the praise and worship team make exploratory visits to their friendly musical instrument store, where everyone either is, or has been, or knows someone who is or has been a roadie for a band. All of these folks know how to put together a sound system, however, they lack system design training. They do not understand that each venue requires a different level of service and performance. Most just want to make a sale of the goods on hand.
The second system starts with someone in the congregation who is knowledgeable in sound and because he's a friend or a friend of a friend, he's asked to design the next system. The church depends on this individual because he has been exposed to live music in the past. Now the second time around, the designer (member) is chosen because he's someone's friend or a member who wants to help, but only because he has some level of knowledge with sound. System number two is purchased and installed, and rarely works any better than the first. Now twice as much money has been spent, and attendance is sagging because of the poor sound. The pastor, choir, children's church still has poor communication with the congregation. The praise and worship team sounds more like noise than inspiration. Desperate measures are called for. If they're lucky, the church comes to the realization at this point that they'd better find someone who really knows what they're doing, a proven expert with a track record. This is when Showtime Music becomes a part of the church. Someone insists on bringing in a professional to meet with the pastor, leaders of the praise and worship team, as well as the technical teams, and will study the worship space, and measure its acoustics. Someone who will have to be paid to design the system because they don't work on commission, or markup from the sale of the system. Like our company, we would prefer you purchase your systems from someone else if you cannot let our company design YOUR SYSTEM around your individual needs.
It Does Not To Be So Complicated? After all, isn't all we're talking about nothing more than a simple PA system? Why can't the church just buy a mixer and some loudspeakers at a local electronics shop (or a music store) and hang them on the wall?
That's what they did in the smaller church they just moved out of, and it worked fine! There are several major reasons. First, as the size of the worship space gets larger, the demands placed on the sound system grow exponentially. In a small space, the choir and praise band are much less likely to need amplification to carry to the congregation, and there is rarely enough reverberation to make it hard to understand the spoken word. The larger space, the more reverberation there will be to muddle both the spoken word and the praise band. Echoes from rear walls, balcony faces, sidewalls, and ceilings can make things even worse. It takes a very skillful sound system design to overcome these problems. It can be done and done well, but it isn't easy. The sound must be very carefully controlled, focused only on listeners with as little as possible spilling onto walls and ceilings. This takes the right type of loudspeakers in the right place and very carefully aiming. Loudspeakers designed for bar bands or for touring sound are rarely the right choice here. Often, the church ends up with a system designed by the local converted band member that knows what to offer. WRONG!! Have it designed correctly the first time and save thousands of dollars in the future. Let a sound professional with a proven track record become part of your sound system design.
NOW, the role of sound has become dedicated to praise and worship. Music is used to inspire, to lift the spirit, and to bring the unchurched into the fold. Choirs which used to sing with only an organ or piano are now accompanied in many churches by a rhythm section with guitar, bass, drums, and other instruments needed from the praise team. For churches that incorporate a contemporary style of worship, the sound system must make the choir much louder to balance with drums and electronic instruments, and the various musicians must be able to hear each other well to play together. Again, careful control of sound is critical if this is to be accomplished without feedback. The acoustic design of the worship space is fundamentally important for both of these concerns. Often there is so much reverberation in a church that the praise band has turned to mush before the sound system is even turned on. Everyone on the stage wants to be heard and plays too loud. Careful sound system design and enough money CAN provide good speech intelligibility in almost any space. But there is NOTHING that can be done with a sound system to improve the sound of the praise band unless the sound system contractor can train the praise team to understand the correct way to play and be disciplined for the service. If the praise team cannot understand the principals of dynamics, then the contractor has failed in his training program for the church. Our goal requires training on-site at least twice. If the venue is not prepared to bring the musicians together to learn, there is NO reason to spend the money on a new sound system.
An acoustic consultant is an expert who you hire to design your church's acoustics and your sound system. Some consultants specialize in acoustics, while others specialize in sound system design. Many of the larger firms have people who do both. A sound consultant's job is to interview your church and make a decision for your design based on your needs alone. Showtime Music studies acoustics, physics, and engineering the total application for your venue alone. The sound system consultant needs a solid understanding of acoustics, and electronics, as well as ongoing education, to keep up with advances. Your engineer will help choose the room finishes for the ceiling, walls, and floors in order to provide the room with good acoustics, which are best for your congregation's style of worship. Which (if any) floors should be carpeted? Should there be pew cushions? Where should the choir, the praise band, and the organ be located? The acoustic consultant will also work with your architect to make sure the church has a quiet HVAC system; elevator motors, door latches, and the like are some of the key concerns. Organ companies and music stores are notoriously bad at providing advice on the design of acoustics and sound systems. A true consultant is independent of stores, contractors, and manufacturers. We do not make our make living on the profit or commission from sales of equipment and the labor to install it. We design our equipment around your room, and if we require changes in the HVAC system or interior design, we will suggest these changes well in advance. Put simply, you need experts, with impartial advice. You need to be confident that we are technically correct, and are advising you in your best interests.
Your team must first understand the locate a sound contractor to design and install your last sound system. It is the goal of Showtime Music to d provide a designed system for your church's goals and worship service. We have only one goal, do it right the first time. If the price is the main issue for the church, we would prefer to not be involved. We design a sound system around your needs, and the price for the service is to provide you with the tools to meet your goals. If you or your church wants a budget system, we do not want to be a part of your wish list, we will be happy to design your future system to meet your goals. We understand that often the goals may take 1-5 years and we will design a system and installation to meet your goals. We ask that you not purchase a system based on price...we say wait and do it right for the last time.
Some suggestions for all venues and churches to consider: This is a list a several items to consider when bringing the sound system in the house: Work with the architect to get the acoustics right for the intended uses, and to prevent noise from both inside (HVAC systems, air flow pressure, motor noise, transformers, door latches, footsteps in the hall, etc.) and outside the building highway traffic, farm equipment, air crafts, and other such outside noise that may present itself during service.
Some suggestions to consider during your construction process: Work with the electrical engineer for the project to get a conduit for sound system wiring. We ask you to use PVC conduit and no metal for sound system wiring. Clean technical power and grounding so that everyday operation of the system is not troubled by hums and buzzes. Work with the mechanical engineer for the project to make sure that HVAC systems are quiet and that the air noise is less than 70db. This is the normal level we speak. If the HVAC system produces 15DB of noise, we must increase the overall volume by 15DB to compensate. This all comes with a price tag.
Work with the architect to find good ways to conceal loudspeakers, either by building them into ceilings and walls or by turning them into architectural elements which don't look like loudspeakers or are acceptable in the venue. Keep in mind that speakers are not invisible and they are required to produce sound for the service. The sound system you choose may not be pretty but you want one that does the job. This is what we provide based on our discussion with your sound committee. Showtime Music will only suggest and provide the correct equipment to satisfy your service needs.
Work with the architect and the congregation on both the shape and layout of the worship space, so that, for example; choirs are in a location where they can be miked without feedback, and so that the relationship between the choir, praise band, organ, and congregation allows the choir to be heard without being overpowered by the praise band or the organ. If the choir requires mics in front of the organ speakers and or pipes, you must understand, this will not work. This will require a strong understanding of what you can expect and how the system will work.
Design a sound system that provides both good intelligibility for the spoken word, clean dynamic sound for the musical elements of praise and worship, and is well balanced throughout the congregation. Not just a loud system. A great designed system is not loud, it is clear and heard in all seating areas.
Design system elements which provide good sound to those on the platform. There are many options today including in-ear monitors, wired, and wireless. We also have systems that offer onstage monitors for the first 16 channels of the mixing board to reduce the overall stage volume. This helps to reduce the overall volume level at the first few pews as well as the slap back from the stage that creates noise instead of music.
Review architectural, electrical and mechanical drawings before they go out to bid to make sure that things worked out at the design stage actually show up satisfactorily on the drawings. Require the contractor to provide additional information as to how the system will work. You may have to purchase these prints and you should expect a charge of 8-10% of the total bid contract if you require prints. The contractor should provide the wiring prints, equipment list, as well as the operation of the system. Do not insult the contractor by asking for the prints for free. If the contractor has completed the correct design prints, they have spent 50-200 hours on design work and they should be paid for the service. We offer a total design print at a cost of 20% of the total bid. Should your venue want to bid the design, we suggest that each designer/contractor meet with you and discuss your individual needs to avoid such conflict. Each contractor will design the system to work differently. Showtime Music offers consulting and design services for additional fees.
The congregation must work through budget issues. Sound systems nearly always cost more than the congregation expects or is prepared to pay. Some parts of the system can usually be deferred and purchased later, but it's usually necessary to dedicate more money to the sound system that was originally planned. These are sometimes hard decisions, and it's important to be working with someone you trust in working through them. The most important part of the sound and video system is for the members to be able to hear and see the service. Often, since these areas seem to have little value, the church wants to cut the budget, say we do not need this, and yet they have little or no knowledge of the required services needed. This is when the sound committee must step up to the plate and say...This is what we need.
Document the system thoroughly with drawings, specification, make and model, specific equipment list so that it can be competitively purchased from a good local contractor. If you ask for this information, you must be prepared to pay for the prints. The average cost is about 8-20% of the total bid. This is no different than calling a designer and asking them to design your church. There is always a fee involved for such services.
Help you find a good contractor to install the system, and help you either bid or negotiate the purchase with that contractor. The best possible position is to have a contractor that you fill good about there design to meet your goals and start a plan to complete your project. Most all sound and video contractors will have a bid within 6-10% of each other. Do not be afraid to accept the more expensive bid if you feel you will receive additional training and support. If you must hire training and support after the installation expects to pay up to $ 120.00 per hour if you must contact additional help from your local contractor. Price is not always the best deal. Service after the sale should be considered number one.
Coordinate with the contractor during the installation process to make sure things are done right, and work through the conflicts with other building elements which inevitably develop in any major construction project. No project is ever completed without flaws, however, if you make the changes during the installation process and discuss the changes with the contractor, you will have a less than flawless installation.
Once the system is installed and tested, only then can you discuss the points of the installation and how the system works.
How does a church find a good consultant? Strange as it may seem, there is no good list of consultants qualified to design sound and video systems for churches. Ask for references and a list of other churches completed by the contractor. Do not be afraid to ask for your sound committee to make arrangements to go to other churches that the contractor has installed quality systems in so you may hear their systems as well. Most of the better consultants are centered in a handful of the larger cities and work nationally. It's much more important for you to have a local sound contractor than to have an out of town consultant. The consultant will need to travel to your church only a few times to provide the services you need, but you'll want the contractor to be there for you long after the job is done to provide support and to help you expand the system as you grow. Buying a sound system can be a daunting task for any church, but be encouraged. If you'll follow the advice offered here, you really CAN get it right the first time! Showtime Music has many years of design and interview experience to help provide an improved worship service for your church. It only takes time to understand your program. No two churches have the same need and we work to provide the requirements for each church. An on-site consultation can provide for the many needs of your church. Good Stewardship is PRICELESS!!!
Showtime Music provides services and we consult to locations within 600 miles from our home base location. (One day drive) to provide a full service to the final installation location.
We are happy to provide design plans for your venue for a charge. We offer plans that provide for complete engineering to meet your goals if your location is beyond 600 miles from our home base. We offer design services and competitive bid structure for any venue. Review our design and installation venue site to better understand our services. An on-site consultation is available at a charge if beyond 600 miles from our home base. Send us your digital photos of your venue and will review at no charge. We will render a recommendation and installation at little or no charge based on your requirements. We pride our design work and we know what to provide for you. Let us provide our God give talents and trained skills to help with your worship service.
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To promote my horror novel, AFRAID, which debuts March 31, I'm uploading my eight second Beautiful Agony video. Ha! Kidding! I'm appearing on different blogs every day in March.
Please follow my daily journey, and broaden your blog-reading horizons. Commenting on the guest posts at the blogs I visit is a classy touch, too.
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"Zombie Elvis Found!" is an in-game joke, and possibly an Easter Egg in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
Basically, "Zombie Elvis Found!" is a headline on newspapers that are found on the streets throughout Liberty City and Vice City. The newspaper depicts the headline, along with a black and white photograph of Elvis' face. The headline can also be found on a banner which is attached to the DeadDodo plane, which flies about the city.
This is an in-game joke towards the hysteria that revolved around the alleged "sightings" of Elvis during the 70's and 80's after his death. He is never seen walking around the streets of Liberty City and/or Vice City.


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text: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Jim Lux wrote: > At 03:19 PM 3/19/2007, Robert G. Brown wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, David Mathog wrote: >> >>> After looking at the specs I believe that at least 4 of the 5 >>> can be wired to shut down instantly. (Not sure about the one >>> desktop size APC unit in the room, as it isn't mine so I don't >>> have the manual). However it seems that turning off the >>> tripp-lite UPS requires a positive voltage (12V) on the >>> inverter shutdown line. Which means, that even after the >>> power has been killed (overtemp, red kill button, >>> or building power shut down) the fireman entering this room would >>> still need to smack another (not yet extant) red kill button, and >>> that button is going to need DC power in order to work. OK, this and David's replies are well worth preserving in marble and bronze somewhere. I will dutifully spec out and assemble one as per the instructions below, and let my electrician friend do that last itty bit of wiring it in (or at least, wiring in the 120 line to drive the power supply). So, if the same kill switch controls the supply breakers, is this accomplished by just replacing the box breakers with special ones that can be tripped by the control lines? Sort of like a GFCI breaker with an extra wire where you can feed in a deliberate imbalance high enough to trip it? So with the resources you included I'll even try to answer this myself... rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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Probably one of the biggest blows to the Sochi winter Olympic hosts was to be knocked out by Finland today. A day before the quarter final I made Facebook post that read as follows "Reason why Russia won't win Olympic gold? Russia doesn't have a team, Russia has a group of individuals." Of course that was met with some glee from friends, but it turns out that the prediction was right.
Russia didn't win gold, because its players played as individuals and its biggest individual stars failed big time. Alex Ovechkin scored one goal in the opening game against Slovenia and that was it. Yevgeni Malkin never got going. In fact Russia's best player was Pavel Datsuyk. Some might argue that Ilya Kovalchuk or Alex Radulov. Both players played well and posses incredible amount of skill, but their commitment to a team system imposed by the coaching staff, is questionable.
Further to the point, if a guy turns up to an Olympic tournament with customised skates, and a custom stick (that is different from the Bauer Olympic stock) chances are he is placing himself above the team and he can do whatever he wants. It's not the reason why, but it plays a small part in the grand scheme of things.
When I said about Ovechkin's lack of production I got some pushback on it, but judging by his international presence over the past few years, there's a case to be made that Ovechkin isn't that effective in short tournaments, specially if he is a late addition. From the start of the Olympics, Ovechkin was a big part of the Olympics. Not just the Russian team but the whole circus.
Compare that with Olli Jokinen, whose morale and attitude has been questioned time and time again in the Finnish hockey circles. Before the games, Jokinen said on Twitter – via his wife – that he was prepared to collect bottles in Sochi if his team demanded it. Russian players, where stoic in their national team pride never made similar claims.
The reason why Russia failed, is not because of the number of KHL players, or NHL players who played for themselves. Quickly after the game was finished there were reports circulating the hockey world, suggesting that there was a rift between Ovechkin, Malkin and the head coach.
The reason why Russia failed is because its coach was not able to gell the team quickly enough and to buy into a system. To be honest, I don't think I saw a system from the Russians the whole tournament. It was apparent from the opening game of the tournament, that the Russian team was not going to be a threat and would not go to the medal rounds. It has nothing to do with potential rift between the coach and players, but it comes down to not having a system.
There was evidence of the coach losing the players at the 2013 World Championships (granted, Russia won the tournament in 2012), but even then there were signs that all was not well in the big red Russian machine.
The only part of the Russian team that deserves a absolution of sin is the goaltending department, which was among the strongest in the tournament after Finland and Sweden. There is a sombre time for reflection in Russian hockey ranks to determine what went wrong in such a high profile tournament and the fate of the coaching staff and GM will hang in the balance.
Similarly Canada has been in a similar pickle. A star studded team that is struggling and hasn't been firing on all cylinders. Canada was confident that it would secure gold in the second consecutive Olympics, following its triumph at Vancouver 2010. How could they not bring home the gold? With a roster like that they are sure winners. Same as the Russians.
Canada's captain Sidney Crosby hasn't been playing at his level and the reason for that is that Crosby is a great franchise player, but for a short tournament such as this and a team that is not built around him, he is finding it difficult. Sure enough the constant juggling of lines and personnel is not helping Canada's cause either. Canada is poised for a medal, sure, but it's not gold when its neighbour down south is having a more convincing tournament.
The other thing why I feel that Canada's success is not set in stone is that Canadian players have not yet fully adjusted to the rink size in Sochi. The rink in Vancouver, where bigger than the NHL rink played into Canada's and USA's hands but it was not a full Olympic size surface, as that would have required a long repairs at the Rogers Arena.
Canada is facing USA in a replay of the 2010 Olympic final in the semi final stage of the games, and it will be a miracle if Canada makes it to the final. So far the team has done little to suggest that it has what it takes against a tougher opponent.


text: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Kyle Spaans wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Chris Dagdigian <dag at sonsorol.org> wrote: >> spew out a terabyte per day of raw data and many times that stuff needs to >> be post processed and distilled down into different forms. A nice little >> 8-core box running a shrink-wrap HPC product with a single support contact >> could find a nice little niche in non-datacenter areas where significant >> compute is needed nearby some other sort of dedicated instrument or device. > ... > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Greg Byshenk <gbyshenk at byshenk.net> wrote: >> a business will also have to find >> (and pay) someone to build and maintain the cluster. > > > Forgive me perhaps for being naive, but why can't a knowledgeable > teenager / college student be paid ~$10/hour plus on-call time to do a > setup like this? Presuming they only need to hire someone to do > setup/administration/support (and not the actual programming itself). For parts of the beowulf "revolution", this is close to what happened -- opportunity cost time, no professional support. However, a) That doesn't work for corporations or big research computing groups at Universities or for University research programs where the primary researchers aren't computer geeks; and b) You are off by an order of magnitude in commercial rates for this sort of professional support. Hourly rates range from a barebones minimum of perhaps $20/hour plus benefits for somebody with skills at the level you describe (who simply wouldn't do for anything but a tiny cluster in a non-complex environment) to $75-200/hour for offsite pro-grade management and/or consulting. Onsite professionals make from $50K/year (for a fairly young, not yet terribly experienced) to perhaps $80K/year to do actual hands-on sysadmin and network engineering in a University, with the range being (correct me if I'm wrong, people) $75K to $150K/year for corporate, with the upper bounds of both ranges held by people who are also managers and who run junior sysadmins in a group of some sort. Offsite is much more expensive, STARTING at hourly rates corresponding to the $150K/year for a really good full time employee. Consultants are typically real experts, although there as always there is considerable variation, caveat emptor etc. rgb > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977


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Since man as discovered his consciousness and began to live in groups, he has thought and wondered about the beauty of nature, the vastness of space and immensity of time. Since then he has searched for a creator of this universe and all its constituents. This was mans first perception about God, 'the creator'. As time passed by man discovered his ignorance about certain things that surrounded him thus he attributed most things beyond his comprehension or understanding to God.
In the first instance is it not enough to enter a garden filled with beautiful flowers and appreciate it without thinking that there is a being at the bottom who planted it? Man in his quest to appreciate the beauty of his immediate environment and everything that was there before his existence as in his ignorance shifted the quest of understanding the complex puzzle of life to an all knowing creator that was there before his existence and know all about his existence.
As time went by, man had another puzzle to solve, though he now believes a creator exists, he wanted to know why he was created, his purpose of being alive. Yet again he related this to the eternal being, he saw himself as a servant of this creator. This was a new beginning as man started to feel God and God started revealing himself in different ways. For a long this perceptions and views about God has developed into what is now known as religion. Religion has helped in giving life meaning and solving life great puzzles.
In the mid nineteenth century when science became very prominent, it has been used as a tool in discovering our world and answering many life great questions. Since then man's understanding, meaning and perception of God and the universe has changed. He now knows the earth is round, not flat, that we evolved from the molecules of the early ocean, apes are our cousins, he now understand the weather and seasons, have landed on the moon, discovered the theory of evolution, the big bang theory, and now have answers to various life puzzles
Science has explained to man that the God theologians refer to is a 'blind watch maker' creating the universe following no specific pattern but guided by rules and laws of nature, out of all the plants and animals that have ever existed on the earth 99 percent are now extinct. The way we perceive God in this generation is quite different from the way our forefathers have perceived him, we no longer require any means of invisible support. It is said that men may not be the dreams of Gods, but rather that the Gods are the dreams of men.
it is quite impossible for a specie of our kind with limited time of about only 70 years to know it all, what we should strive for is making wise and efficient use of the little we are able to grasp, to change the world as we know it today to a better place for us and our unborn generation.
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Religion was man's first attempt at explaining the world. It has not however "helped to solve life's great puzzles". When Science started to do that the religious tried to block it at every chance and called its finding heresy. The god of the gaps is replaced faster now than ever before. God is no longer required by educated people in order to have meaning in their lives. Thankfully religion is dying out. It has hindered us for long enough. The world will be a better place without it.
Thank you Ray R i will correct that.though religion has provided answers, that does not make the answers correct, that is why we need to look for and accept better means of understanding the world we live in today. religion has served man in the past and we should not also forget the good it has done to man, though it is quite obvious that the bad outweigh the good
it is quite impossible for a specie of our kind with limited time of about only 70 years to know it all, what we should strive for is making wise and efficient use of the little we are able to grasp, to change the world as we know it today to a better place for us and our unborn generation.
A better place would be one free of fanciful and unnecessary beliefs with no actual basis in fact, don't you think?
unseen you are very correct. a world free of delusions
wow perspicaciti, you're in Nigeria? it must be lonely being an atheist there!
yes strega, very lonley. the internet is helping though...
Oh I do hope so, welcome to TA :)
thank you strega
Nothing could be more true than the FACT that Man created God in his own image. Had the dinosaurs been capable of contemplative thought, they no doubt would have endowed their "creator" with saurian features.


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