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Pablo García and Miguel Ángel Oxlaj Cúmez
Spring 2013 in Guatemala
"A collection of extraordinary force, full of unusual metaphors, with an accomplished atmosphere, where [the reader] really feels that the poet's voice has been worked by the dead and comes from the other side of things" - Juan Villoro
Born in Totonicapán, Guatemala, Pablo García learned Spanish and K'iche, the most common Mayan language, in school. He writes in K'iche before he translates it to Spanish and roots his writing in Mayan culture. García received the B'atz' Prize in 2007 for his book, Canto Palabra de una Pareja de Muertos. Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa founded the B'atz' Prize in 2004 to honor the work of indigenous writers.
"A story that exposes with grace and technical mastery the local varieties of collective fear and resolves the narration with an ending as plausible as unexpected" - Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Miguel Ángel Oxlaj Cúmez comes from a peasant family in San Juan Comalapa, Guatemala. He learned Kaqchikel at home, but with his father's encouragement, he started to read and write in Spanish. Oxlaj Cúmez started to write while he was studying to become a teacher at la Escuela Normal Rural Pedro Molina, and in 1998, he received a position at the school. Learning about the B'atz' Price encouraged him to explore the relationship between Spanish and Kaquikel, which, according to Oxlaj Cúmez, have similar rhythms and different structures. He received the B'atz' Prize in 2007 for his book, La Misión del Sarima'. The book is a mixture of oral tradition and magical realism, Spanish and Kaqchikel; in the the words of Oxlaj Cúmez, "it is a mixed history because our reality is like that."
Event Summary
2013 marked the first year of Writers at Home in Guatemala! Students read Pablo García's Canto Palabra de una Pareja de Muertos early on in the semester and worked with a K'iche scholar to understand the nuances of the language and culture. In early February, students traveled to Sendero Ecológico El Aprisco, a nature preserve and environmental education center in Totonicapán. The site served as a reflection of the K'iche language, whose vocabulary and symbolism resides more in the natural environment than the more artificial constructions of colonial and post-colonial society. García talked about the challenges and shortcomings of translating his work from K'iche to Spanish before he walked around the nature preserve with students. Towards the end of the semester, Cúmez came to Rafael Landívar University and gave an informal talk to CSB/SJU students about his inspiration for La Misión del Sarima'.
Student Testimonials
"Writers at Home was a wonderful introduction to the Mayan cultures that shaped much of our experience in Guatemala. It was incredible to talk with members of these Mayan cultures who were that willing to share them with us. As an English major, I loved reading their books and learning about how they reconciled the differences between languages. I am grateful to have experienced the first year of Writers at Home in Guatemala!"
Bridgette Springer, CSB/SJU '14


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The Name Blame
I know bakers see a lot of unusual names these days, but sometimes you've still got to wonder:
...are they doing "the drugs?"
(That's me channeling a little bit of my mom for you, right there. She puts a "the" in front of everything, like going to "the Walmart" or seeing "the Star Wars" or disowning "the daughter.")
Not cool, man. NOT COOL.
There are so many wrecky butterfly cakes coming in this month that my first thought for this next one was that it actually wasn't so bad:
(Funny thing: this one's a lot less phallic than most butterfly wrecks, too.)
From a bakery that uses a lot of clipart:
(Yes, really.)
On the plus side, I've *seen* most bakery clip art out there, and believe me, this is an improvement.
Do you think this next baker finished the cake, looked down, and thought, "Hey, what a coincidence!"?
(And no, for you positive Pollys out there - the birthday boy was not named Nemo.)
Now, you might think you could avoid your own birthday wreck by just having nothing on it.
And, hey, you might be right.
Thanks to Kasha D., Windy S., Anony M., Heather K., Aisha A., Sue P., & Kristen H. for not naming any names.

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Kaley Cuoco and Henry Cavill ended their short-lived romance only 12 days after the world found out they were dating in the first place.
According to People magazine, no reason was given for the split though a source did say that the "Man of Steel" star and the "Big Bang Theory" beauty were only in the "beginning stages" of their relationship.
Ever since news broke of their relationship, Cavill, 30, and Cuoco, 27, became the paparazzi's favorite couple. In the following week and a half the two were spotted hiking, going on a sushi date and doing grocery shopping.


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START Conference Manager
Hunting for Hip, Hipsters, and Happenings on YouTube
Chirag Shah and Gary Marchionini
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
The changing nature of information and evolving role of information sources have made it possible for almost anyone to be a consumer as well as a producer of information. Thus, many information services are focused on user participation and support different user roles. It has become essential for information scientists, social analysts, and digital library curators to recognize and study these social factors while analyzing the content of these information sources. In this paper we present these ideas in the light of our work with collecting and analyzing election videos from YouTube. Over the course of more than 8 months and 200 passes of data collection, we have gathered about 15000 videos along with nearly two dozen attributes for each video relating to US presidential elections 2008 from YouTube. Using this collection, we demonstrate how various social attributes such as tags, ratings, and comments can be used to detect significant trends, people, and events. This detection can help us gaining a better understanding of not only the content, but also the population that produces and consumes it.
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France 23-16 Scotland: Scots finish third in Six Nations
Two quickfire tries proved decisive against Scotland as France finally collected their first win of the RBS 6 Nations campaign.
France finally collected their first win of the RBS 6 Nations campaign as two quickfire tries proved decisive against Scotland.
The visitors to Paris had shown guts and determination to hold off continued French assaults in the opening 40 minutes but the pressure finally took its toll as Wesley Fofana and Maxime Medard crossed for converted scores within four second-half minutes of one another.
Scotland had led early from the boot of Greig Laidlaw and were tied at 9-9 as the Edinburgh scrum-half and French playmaker Frederic Michalak exchanged penalties before the home tries arrived.
A late Tim Visser touchdown gave the scoreline a more respectable look than was perhaps deserved but last year's wooden spoon winners can at least console themselves with the a third-place finish in the championships - their best result since 2006.
The visitors' Stuart Hogg showed the first sign of nerves in the wind and rain after two minutes when he knocked on a long punt into the Scots' 22, putting his side under immediate pressure.
Winger Sean Maitland saved any blushes with a brave tackle on Frederic Michalak and with that let-off, the Dark Blues pushed forward, gaining their just rewards after four determined drives into French territory when Laidlaw knocked over the opening penalty of the afternoon following a misdemeanour by the home side at the breakdown - and repeated the feat to make it 6-0.
France pushed themselves to within inches of the tryline after 23 minutes, only for Jim Hamilton's last-ditch heroics to halt a powerful heave from the hosts.
Winger Vincent Clerc was then brought down as he looked poised to cross while yet more scrambling was required from the away side to prevent Mathieu Bastareaud battering in for the try.
It was exhausting stuff for Scotland but it was France who ran out of patience and let their under-pressure opponents off the hook with an infringement at their umpteenth tryline ruck.
A dust-up between Hogg and Michalak saw both escape punishment from Welsh referee Nigel Owens, before Michalak kicked the home side's first points from a penalty following a collapsed Scots scrum.
Michalak's guile at fly-half was becoming ever more apparent as he teased the visitors one way and the other.
Again the Scots were forced into desperate defence and stepped over the line at the breakdown, handing the French number 10 the chance to slot a second kick over the posts to tie the scores.
The pressure was beginning to build on the Dark Blues and a third penalty was despatched by the Toulon playmaker to put the French ahead for the first time.
In Laidlaw, though, Scotland have their own Mr Reliable and the Edinburgh scrum-half soon levelled the scores with his third penalty.
And yet French hunger for the opening try was not diminished. Neither, though, was the tenacity of Hogg as he stood brave to block the way of Clerc as he burst through, holding up the galloping winger single handedly just yards from disaster.
However, he could not repeat the trick as another overload on the right flank proved fateful.
Fofana broke through before brushing off Hogg's despairing lunge before running in to score under the posts with 14 minutes left. Michalak added the extra two points to rub salt into freshly-opened Scottish wounds.
Having defended for their lives for most of the match, the tank was now empty and France added a second touchdown with 10 minutes remaining. Quick ball had been a rarity for them for most of the game thanks to the sheer awkwardness of the visitors but there was little resistance as Medard collected from a ruck and skipped in between the sticks.
With Michalak ruled immobile after dislocating his shoulder, substitute Maxime Machenaud took over kicking responsibilities with a successful conversion to extend the team's lead to 14 points.
That lead was trimmed back to seven, however, as Hogg darted forward before playing in Tim Visser for an easy try, with substitute Ruaridh Jackson converting.
There was little to worry about for France though and they counted down the five minutes that remained with little difficulty to finally collect a long-awaited Six Nations win in the final match of the 2013 tournament.
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Sarah Palin prepared for the speech of her life Wednesday as John McCain's campaign called for an end to questions about its review of her background and derided a "faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president.
As GOP leaders lined up to defend her, the first-term Alaska governor took a tour of the Xcel Energy Center stage where she will accept the No. 2 nomination.
A few hours later, she and her family met McCain on an airport tarmac as he arrived in the convention city.
The Arizona senator's campaign set the tone for the day early with a written statement that stood out for its admission that Palin is under siege—it condemned "this vetting controversy"—and for its attempt to blunt questions about how rigorously McCain and his campaign explored the background of a candidate who may get the nation's second most powerful job.
It also suggested that Palin is a victim of gender bias in the media "This nonsense is over," senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt declared in the statement, lashing out at "the old boys' network" that he says runs media organizations.
"The McCain campaign will have no further comment about our long and thorough process," Schmidt said.
With a quickly arranged news conference and a fresh television ad, McCain's team also sought to counter Democratic criticism that the first-term Alaska governor is too inexperienced to be president—the same argument the soon-to-be GOP nominee and his Republicans have used against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
(Watch the video above for CNBC's exclusive interview with Sarah Palin...)
The efforts indicated advisers are concerned the criticism may be taking a toll on her image.
Surrounded by fellow Republican women, former Massachusetts Gov.Jane Swift bemoaned "an outrageous smear campaign" against Palin and said: "She is more prepared than Barack Obama to be president of the United States."
The new McCain TV commercial quotes a Wall Street Journal editorial that says: "Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's and that she has 'earned a reputation as a reformer' and 'has a record of bipartisan reform.'" Conversely, the ad says, Obama offers only "empty words." It's set to run in key states.
Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton hit back.
He lauded Palin's "compelling personal story" and oratory abilities but also challenged her to "explain her reformer credentials." Said Burton: "What the American people will be looking for is whether she can explain how the economic agenda offered by her and John McCain won't just be more of the same Bush policies." McCain shook up the presidential race last Friday by picking Palin, a little-known governor less than two years in office.
Since then, a bright spotlight has been trained on the life and record of the self-styled "hockey mom" who has bucked the state's political establishment.
Days after Palin made her debut on the national stage with McCain, the campaign announced that her unmarried 17-year-old daughter, Bristol Palin, was pregnant.
Other disclosures followed, including that a private attorney is authorized to spend $95,000 of state money to defend her against accusations of abuse of power and that Palin sought pork-barrel projects for her city and state, contrary to her reformist image.
None of the revelations seem to have shaken McCain's confidence or undermined her support among GOP delegates.
(Watch the accompanying video for more...)
McCain's top advisers say they, and the candidate, were made aware of all of potential problems during what they contended was a thorough investigation of Palin by McCain's search team members.
Top McCain advisers said they welcome and expect a review of Palin's mayoral and gubernatorial record but that the media went beyond that.
"Certainly, her record deserves scrutiny, but I think we ought to look at her record," campaign manager Rick Davis told reporters on a conference call.
He condemned "the salacious nature" of some news stories designed to "throw dirt at our candidate." He urged the media to "dial it back." At the same time, Davis called for the same level of scrutiny on Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden.


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THL commentator Hans Mentha of Raleigh, NC has designed and displayed a beautiful flag for the resurgent liberty movement in America today and you can see him proudly displaying it above in Washington DC.
A lot of thought went into this and I think it very nicely summarizes the goals and principles of our contemporary freedom revolution.
He writes:
"A new flag should properly identify our struggle toward the ->Third<- war of independence. (The war of 1812 is known as the Second war of independence.)
Last winter I designed a flag that I've been carrying to events since the spring. It is based on historic symbols that reflect a respect for liberty...
My motivation for design of an alternative was to create something out of traditional elements, visually similar to the US flag, that would stimulate folks to ask questions and talk about what is happening in our nation.
Over the last century, we as a people have been willing to accept 'progressive' tyranny and Keynesian economics from our governors while we pretend to still believe in Liberty and free markets.
For me, an alternative flag is a 'battle standard' to rally attention until such time as we restore our Republic. At that time our traditional US Flag will once again suffice."
You can click the image below to enlarge it and read more about the flag that Hans designed:
Symbols on this Flag:
1. Nine vertical red and white stripes honor the American Colonies that protested the Stamp Act imposed by Parliament and George III
2. The cobalt canton, color of the Continental Army coat, represents a "blue-sky" of boundless optimism and limitless opportunity
3. Thirteen letters in the motto celebrate those American Colonies that fought United to establish themselves as independent States
4. "Live Free Or Die" expresses the conviction of men who shed blood so that we might dwell without coercion in civil society
5. A gold coin confirms specie as proper money, an exchange medium and store of value immune to manipulation and corruption
6. The image of "Lady Liberty" on the coin reminds everyone that free men defy oppressive governments and depose tyrants
Where can you get your own?
In Mr. Mentha's own words:
I've shared the PDF freely as an explanation for folks who inquired about the 3'x5' printed flag flying in the breeze. (The "base" 9-stripe is one of the pre Revolutionary War flags of the Sons of Liberty.)
This design was inspired by the historical fiction novels "Sparrowhawk" by Edward Cline. Mr Cline has a very unique perspective on Liberty and our Republic. He publishes regularly at Rule of Reason and should be on your reading list (if not already).
You may post the PDF on your site for folks who might be interested in making one of their own. The design elements are all in the public domain. I do not plan commercial production but wish to retain rights to the composite intellectual property.
Editor's note: Please remember that this design is copyrighted. So if you want to publish it or information about it at your website, credit the author: Hans Mentha, of Raleigh, NC.
More about Hans
Hans Mentha has been married to his wife Robin for 38 years. They live on 5 acres of woods in North Carolina and Hans is "purposefully unemployed" (he has "gone Galt" via an early retirement and I say "good for him!").
They're active in the ongoing effort to restore lost Liberty via their local group, NC Freedom. Mr. Mentha will be carrying the "Lady Liberty Flag" on the steps of the U.S. Capital again tomorrow at noon in response to Senator Michele Bachmann's invitation.
If you wish to contact Hans, please use firstname.lastname@example.com


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H.E. Dr. Khiane PHANSOURIVONG
Personal Data
Family Name: PHANSOURIVONG
Given Name: KHIANE
Date of Birth: 2 November 1957
Place of Birth: Dongla-ou Village, Vapi District, Saravane, Laos
Marital status: married Mrs. Phaichit PHANSOURIVONG with one daughter and one son
1980-1993: Master of Arts in economics and a doctorate in economics, Patna University, India
& Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, mathematics and English, Patna University, India
1978-1979: Peking School of Language (Chinese)
1971-1978: Savannakhet High School
Lao, English and French
Professional Experience:
2014-Present: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Lao People's Democratic Republic to the United Nations.
2008-2014: Director-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2007-2008: Assistant Director in the Bureau for External Relations and Coordination, the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia
2005-2007: Coordinator for External Relations, the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia
2004-2005: Deputy Director of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
2001-2004: Director of the ASEAN Economic Cooperation Division, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1997-2001: Senior Officer, the ASEAN Secretariat's Bureau of Economic Cooperation in Jakarta
1995-1997: Research Officer, Institute of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1995: Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs


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So… are we having fun yet?
In the wake of a lackluster 104-101 victory in Oakland over the fast-fading Warriors, the Los Angeles Lakers find themselves in familiar haunts. Against a backdrop that featured some vintage late-game heroics from Kobe Bryant (admittedly, said heroics would likely not have been necessary if he'd made more than a third of his shots before that point), an outstanding performance off of the bench by Matt Barnes (18 points, on 7-10 shooting and 3-of-5 on 3-pointers, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks in 30 minutes) and a showdown with the class of the conference looming in less than 48 hours, for the second game on the trot, the post-game chatter centered around a Laker star's involuntary relegation to the bench.
On Sunday night it was Kobe on the pine during the stretch run. This time Andrew Bynum was the target of Mike Brown's hook. Two minutes into the second half, having connected on just four of 10 field goal attempts, having made minimal impact on the boards, and appearing generally disinterested at the defensive end, Bynum, trailing the play as the Lakers were setting up in the half court, received the ball at the top of the arc, about 25 feet from the cup. With 16 seconds remaining on the shot clock and the Lakers holding a slender 56-50 advantage, Bynum, whose 6+-year resume had on it a grand total of seven 3-point attempts (and prior to Sunday night, no makes), assessed the situation and concluded that letting fly from distance was the option best aligned with the team's interests.
31 seconds after the ill-conceived heave, 'Drew found himself with a courtside seat for the remainder of the third quarter and all but the first 170 seconds of the final stanza. The game played out, the shot, the hook and Bynum's subsequent refusal to join the team huddle during timeouts ("I just sat where he (Brown) put me."), sending Twitter aflutter with reaction running the gamut, from "Did Bynum really get benched just for taking a 3? What's the big deal?" to "Andrew Bynum is a disgrace to the organization." The truth, as it annoyingly tends to do, resides somewhere in the middle.
Andrew Bynum is NOT a disgrace to the Purple and Gold. He is, by all accounts, an intelligent, charming and well mannered young guy. Despite having the trappings of wealth, celebrity in the city of Los Angeles at his feet since graduating high school, he's not run afoul of the law (poor choice in parking spaces notwithstanding) and has honed his craft to the point where there are not five people walking the planet better equipped to do his job.
Andrew Bynum is, however, a petulant child. This was a tantrum. You could see the clouds gathering. From his untimely ejection in last week's loss in Houston, to his lackadaisical effort the following night in Dallas, to his "I gotta get my numbers" proclamation immediately after, Bynum is acting out. Perhaps feeling (justifiably or not) about an aging Kobe the way that Kobe felt about Shaq a decade ago, or maybe jealous of the outpouring of love from Laker Nation toward backcourt savior Ramon Sessions, Bynum is not receiving the attention he clearly feels he is owed.
With that said, it's important that we take a step back and not make too much of the events of Tuesday night. This is not some apocalyptic breaking point, but a manifestation of an unseemly aspect of Bynum's personality. He is not a locker room cancer on a mission to tear this team apart at its seams, but an entitled adolescent in need of affirmation that he's not forgotten and still loved. This is not a straw that's broken a camel's back. Our camel is just a bit of a brat.
It is…
Cue the ukulele.
Allow me to wander off on a tangent for a moment. On more than one occasion, I have likened new Lakers President Jim Buss to fellow (albeit fictional) genetic lottery winner, Gob Bluth, While casting 'Drew Bynum here as pampered man-boy Buster, striking similarities between the current crew in Lakerland and the Bluth clan began to emerge. For instance, Jerry Buss is a perfect out-of-the-picture patriarch (George Sr.), with Jeannie – the daughter that is loved, but overlooked in matters of great significance –as Lindsay. Kobe is clearly Lucille Bluth, the under-the-radar (less in Kobe's case) puppetmaster, while Pau Gasol – talented, hard-working, always willing to sacrifice, but flawed in his own right and frequently disregarded – makes for quite the Michael. We can round out the gang with Mike Tobias Brown Fünke – the less-than-alpha outsider that probably regrets signing up for this shitshow, but with nowhere else to go – and Ramon Sessions – still innocent and somewhat above the fray – as the teenage George Michael.
Am I crazy, or does that kinda work?
Now if Ron Howard would just agree to do play-by-play….Yo quiero leche! Whuh?? Where are we?
Last summer I wrote about the "new Laker fandom." It is now upon us, and it is not well-versed in the art of subtlety.
Neither the behavior exhibited by Andrew Bynum nor the turmoil that persistently surrounds this team is unprecedented in the history of sport. This is just a pain-in-the-ass idiosyncrasy in Bynum's personality, not unlike the ones Shaq possessed, or those regularly paraded about by Kobe Bean. However, conspicuously missing (thus far) from this new chapter in Laker history is the organizational stalwart – the Chick Hearn, Jerry West, Pat Riley, Phil Jackson, Magic Johnson or Jerry Buss – with both the credibility and the gravitas to remind young 'Drew that this act only flies in Lakerland when you're stackin' 'chips, and even then, look at banner, buddy – no man is bigger than the franchise.
This is oddly sorta fun though, right? This is what this team is now. They fuck up until they have to get it together, and we have no idea where it's going.


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This is the Seventh in an ongoing series of bartender features on the Underhill-Lounge. Previously, I had experimented by asking the bartender at Montgomery Place to make me a Bombay Cocktail No. 2, but this just seemed to result in a grumpy bartender. To make it less of a shock, I thought I would contact some local bartenders and give them a choice of the dozen or so Savoy Cocktails that might be coming up in the book. Surprisingly, some actually were game.
Continuing The Savoy "J" Stomp with Daniel Shoemaker at Teardrop Lounge in Portland, OR.
The participants:
Daniel Shoemaker: Bartender Extraordinaire at Teardrop Lounge in Portland, OR.
erik_flannestad: Your itinerant Savoy Stomper.
Humuhumu: Tiki goddess and web developer.
Trott: Talented musician, friend and co-worker. It was Trott whose quixotic quest to make all the recipes from the "Joy of Cooking" originally inspired me to take on the Savoy Cocktail Book.
Tradertiki: Portland, OR blogger, Tiki enthusiast, proprietor of his home bar Reynolés Galley, and guide for the monthly "Tiki Tuesdays" at the Teardrop Lounge.
Also along for the ride were Mrs. Flannestad, who chose not to write up her thoughts and Trott's friend Ken. Siobhan and her husband Ben stopped by a bit later.
J.O.S. Cocktail
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Regan's Orange)
1 Dash Lemon Juice or Lime Juice. (Lemon Juice)
1 Dash Brandy. (Christian Brothers)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Carpano Antica)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well (well, stir, please) and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel on top.
Daniel stepped out for a moment, leaving us in the capable hands of Alyson for this and the next couple cocktails. This was perfectly fine, I suppose. A more assertive gin than the Plymouth might have saved this from being condemned as flat.
Humuhumu: I'm tired of vermouth. Tastes pretty flat.
Trott: J.O.S.=?? What could J.O.S. stand for? And who is Kaiser Solzheyn?
TraderTiki: A bit flat, flavor down low, watery.
Well, I'm pretty sure that J.O.S. doesn't mean "Java Operating System," but really have no other likely candidates. "Journal of Official Statistics"? There is a city in Nigerial called "Jos", but that's not an acronym.
Journalist Cocktail
2 Dashes Lemon Juice.
2 Dashes Curacao. (Bols Orange Curacao)
1 Dash Angostura Bitters.
1/6 French Vermouth. (1/2 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/6 Italian Vermouth. (1/2 oz Carpano Antica)
2/3 Gordon's Dry Gin. (2 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
It's always nice to come across a classic you have thus far avoided. I hadn't tried the Journalist before and quite enjoyed it. Interesting to see the response among the group that a slight adjustment of proportions makes, as this is otherwise pretty identical to the J.O.S. Daniel mentioned that this was one of the classic cocktail specials that they'd run through lately, to good response. I can see why.
Humuhumu: Nice and Balanced.
Trott: Excellent ass-end. (Great Finish!)
TraderTiki: Balanced, spice at the finish.
The Judge Jr. Cocktail
1/3 Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
1/3 Bacardi Rum. (3/4 oz Matusalem Platino)
1/3 Lemon Juice. (3/4 oz Lemon Juice)
Powdered Sugar. (1 tsp. Cane Sugar)
1 Dash of Grenadine. (House made Raspberry Syrup)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
In his 1927 book, "Here's How," Judge Jr. says about this cocktail, "This drink, I discovered later, was invented by someone else, but it's good just the same!" I'm not sure which drink he's referring to, but it is pretty similar to the Bacardi Special. Kind of funny that a guy would name such a pink drink after himself! I found it refreshing.
Humuhumu: Smells like watermelon, (the real stuff,) tastes too tart, without other flavors coming through->imbalanced.
Trott: I like that a lot, but I'm totally wasted.
TraderTiki: Too tart, grenadine not balancing.
The Judgette Cocktail
1/3 Peach Brandy. (3/4 oz Briottet Creme de Peche de Vigne)
1/3 Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1 Dash of Lime.
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I actually found this one fairly pleasant. Definitely dessert-esque, Humu really pegs it as similar to a dessert wine. It is a cocktail I could see enjoying after dinner. Maybe with a dash of bitters?
Humuhumu: Too sweet, tastes like dessert wine.
Trott: Sweet. Dry peach brandy would be… Oh gosh, I've had a lot to drink.
TraderTiki: Muscat like sweetness. Very sweet, but not cloying.
About this time, I hear Humu exclaim something like, "Nooooo! Not more vermouth! I'm vermoooooothed out!" There may have been some sobbing.
And I thought the "J" cocktails were safe.
I guess this is what happens when you involve civilians.
Of course, to be fair, if we were in Humu's milieu and drinking 20 Tiki cocktails in a row, about this time I would be exclaiming, "No! Not more Pineapple Juice! I can't take any more Pineapple Juice!"
It does make me wonder how warped my palate has become from drinking all these vermouth heavy cocktails. If you ask me to taste a cocktail, and I say, "Well, it could use a little more vermouth," now you know why.
Jupiter Cocktail
1 Teaspoonful Orange Juice
1 Teaspoonful Parfait Amour Liqueur. (Brizard Parfait Amour)
1/3 French Vermouth. (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Dry Gin. (1 oz Plymouth Gin)
Stir well in ice and strain. Twist of Lemon Peel.
I've been putting off the Jupiter for some time now, as folks usually descripe it as difficult to make. But Daniel really pulls it off. Just the hint of the Parfait Amour flavor is very subtle and enjoyable. The sort of cocktail I really enjoy. Where even after all these cocktails, there is something curious in the flavors that makes you want to take another sip and figure out.
Humuhumu: Simple–I think I have vermouth burnout, though.
Trott: See above.
TraderTiki: Calm orange flavor.
Obviously, it would have been wise to stop at about this point, but, well, few people have ever accused me of being a wise man. We also tried a couple Teardrop cocktails and some things that Daniel was working on. Then we settled up our bill and wandered off in search of dinner and, hopefully, to sober up a bit before the concert we were attending later in the evening.
First, let me say how great it was that Daniel and the other bartenders at the Teardrop were willing to play along with this little game. I've sort of wanted to do something like this myself, in celebration of 2 years of Savoy Stomping, but how much more fantastic to have Portland Monthly's 2008 Bartenders of the Year mix the drinks instead? Not to mention wash the dishes!
To be honest, when I was going over the drinks in preparation for the trip, and then looking at Teardrop's menu online, I was thinking to myself, "What the hell am I thinking? Why are we just not going to Teardrop to enjoy their drinks?" But then, who knows, maybe no one would have tried the John Wood cocktail for another 30 years. I certainly expect this may have been the first time anyone has made it in the last 30 years!
Speaking from my side of the bar, I know everyone had a great time and came away with a real respect with what they are accomplishing there at the Teardrop Cocktail Lounge. Just about everyone in the group was already making plans to return the next time they were in Portland.
I count myself lucky to have met these talented men and women and truly look forward to tasting what interesting things they are up to the next time I see them. I promise, there will be no Savoy Cocktails involved!
*These pictures by Mrs. Flannestad.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Reminder: Despite What You May Have Heard, Happy Birthday Should Be In The Public Domain
from the sing-it-loud deptA little over two years ago, we had an interesting discussion about the copyright status of the song "Happy Birthday." Now, you may have heard that the song is covered by copyright, by the estate of Patty and Mildred Hill (or, to quote a really old Aaron Sorkin-penned TV show: "wait, it took two people to write that song?"). It apparently generates about $2 million per year -- as any TV show or movie or restaurant or whatever that sings the song is supposed to pay up (side note: this is why many restaurants have their "own" happy birthday songs).
However, in that discussion we pointed to a paper that researched the history of the copyright on the song, and found that it should almost certainly be in the public domain. The Hill sisters had taken the melody from elsewhere (so, there should be no copyright on the melody) and written a song called "Good Morning to All." Someone else later added the lyrics for "Happy Birthday." Years later, there were a series of complex legal wranglings (and some underhanded maneuvers), and basically two parties, neither of whom realistically held the publishing rights to the song we know as Happy Birthday (but who probably did hold the rights to certain derivative works that no one performs any more), effectively appeared to agree to team up and simply to pretend via those derivative works that they did hold the publishing rights on "Happy Birthday," and no one has ever challenged them. In the 1960s, when the copyright was renewed, the company claiming to hold the publishing rights at the time failed to provide the necessary documentation to prove it held the rights.
Anyway, I bring it up again, because Ben Sisto has just done a really nice job recapping many of the details of the story, noting that Happy Birthday is almost certainly in the public domain:
To recap: due to Summy-Birchard Co.'s failure to properly renew in 1962, GMTA/HBTY would have entered the public domain. If this failure were to be dismissed as an excusable accident, we are still absent any document which proves beyond doubt that Mildred and or Patty Hill, the most plausible authors of the GMTY/HBTA combination, actually wrote it. Absent that proof, WMG only has an interest in the additional copyright matter (piano solo and 2nd verse) registered to Orem & Forman in 1934. While valid, those are separate matters from the GMTA/HBTY combination. A rote, uncreative variation on the earlier work can not be registered as a derivative; there has to be some added originality or editorial insight. The GMTA/HBTY as we know it today appeared regularly in print prior to the 1930s. Neither Orem or Forman's mostly forgotten additions had any impact on it's market potential. I believe GMTA/HBTY or simply Happy Birthday to You is currently a public domain work.Sisto adds one additional, and very telling bit of research to the original paper as well, noting that Patty Hill had a reputation for being meticulous in business dealings, and that the Hills had properly registered copyrights on other works, just not Happy Birthday -- implying that they had not written it:
As an aside, I suggest reading Agnes Snyder's 1972 paper for the ACEI, Dauntless Women in Childhood Education. In it, Snyder paints a picture of Patty Hill as a strong, dedicated intellectual who rose from a humble background to become one of the most important voices speaking on behalf of progressive early childhood education in America. After reading it, I became even more convinced the Hill sisters didn't pen the GMTA/HBTY combination. In all aspects of their professional careers they were articulate and exact. While perhaps it's not court-worthy evidence, it becomes hard to imagine GMTA/HBTY would have simply slipped through the cracks while their other works received protection through proper notice and registration. It seems more the case that the Hills felt entitled to rights due to HBTY's similarity to GMTA; and as much as I've come to respect the Hills I'd stick to the argument that similarity isn't enough to claim authorship.Unfortunately, of course, no one's going to challenge this and the current publisher, Warner Music, is surely going to insist that it does hold the proper rights, so the world goes on with the myth that Happy Birthday is protected by copyright.
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Today is Sunday, Oct. 14, the 287th day of 2001 with 78 to follow.
The moon is waning, moving toward its new phase.
The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mercury and Mars.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Libra. They include William Penn, the English Quaker who founded Pennsylvania, in 1644; Irish political leader Eamon de Valera in 1882; Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, in 1890; poet e.e. cummings in 1894; actress Lillian Gish in 1896; former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in 1916 (age 85); actor Roger Moore in 1927 (age 74); Watergate figure John Dean in 1938 (age 63); designer Ralph Lauren in 1939 (age 62); British pop singer Cliff Richard in 1940 (age 61); and actors Harry Anderson in 1952 (age 49) and Greg Evigan in 1953 (age 48).
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In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, led his invading army to victory over England's King Harold at Hastings. He's known to history as William the Conqueror.
In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for a return to office, was shot in Milwaukee. He refused to have the wound treated until he finished his speech.
In 1944, British and Greek troops liberated Athens, ending three years of World War II occupation by German troops.
In 1947, Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager, 24, flying a Bell X-1, became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
In 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1992, the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Oakland A's, 4 games to 2, to win the American League pennant and become first Canadian team to go to the World Series. The Jays would win the series.
In 1993, gunmen shot and killed Haitian Justice Minister Guy Malary, who'd been appointed by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in an apparent attempt to scuttle the agreement to return Aristide to power.
In 1994, the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian extremists ended with the soldier and four others being killed in a shootout. The same day, the Nobel peace prize was awarded to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
In 1996, the Dow cracked 6000, closing at a record 6,010.
In 2000, Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to meet with President Clinton in Egypt to seek a truce and possibly a way back to the peace table.
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Surprising Tests WITH Household AMMONIA (Jun, 1933)
Surprising Tests WITH Household AMMONIA
Simple Experiments and Home-made Apparatus Extend Your Knowledge and Speed the Work You Can Accomplish in Your Own Laboratory
by Raymond B. Wailes
IT IS surprising what the amateur chemist can do with a fifteen-cent bottle of ordinary household ammonia.
Being a mixture of ammonia dissolved in water, this pungent-smelling liquid offers an ever-ready supply of ammonia gas for the home laboratory. Even at room temperature, the gas is released from the liquid. By heating it, the experimenter can obtain the gas in larger quantities.
Strictly speaking, household ammonia is not ammonia at all, but ammonia water or ammonium hydroxide. Although ammonia can be liquefied, it is a colorless gas at normal temperatures. The fact that it dissolves readily in water makes the manufacture of ammonia water possible.
You hardly would suppose that the fumes rising from an open bottle of house-hold ammonia are inflammable. Yet, ammonia gas can be burned. To demonstrate this, place an ounce or two of household ammonia in a small flask. Fit the mouth of the flask with a cork containing
a metal or glass outlet tube and heat it. Ammonia gas will flow from the outlet tube and a match held close to the tip will cause the gas to burn as long as the match flame is present. If the outlet tube is placed in an atmosphere of oxygen, the ammonia gas will not only flame but will burn steadily. Like hydrogen, ammonia gas is lighter than air. For this reason it can be collected by holding an inverted bottle over the mouth of the generator flask. When the bottle has filled, it can be tipped upright by closing its mouth with a flat card or square of glass.
Collect a bottle of the gas and seal it with a card in this manner. If the bottle is then righted, the card removed, and a burning match dropped in, the gas will flame and glow slightly as it burns.
Household ammonia often contains impurities such as soap and oleic acid that make it unfit for use in experiments requiring pure ammonium hydroxide. The amateur chemist can prepare pure ammonium hydroxide, however, by heating some household ammonia and allowing the gas evolved to bubble through water. Make some, place it in a rubber-stoppered bottle, and label it "ammonium hydroxide." You'll find that it will be a useful addition to your stock of chemicals.
It has been found that as many as 700 volumes of ammonia gas can be dissolved in a single volume of water. This particular property forms the basis of an interesting fountain experiment similar to the one described some months ago in connection with sulphur compounds (P.S.M., Sept. '32, p. 50).
First, select a large-mouthed bottle and fit it with a cork having a hole through its center. Push the glass portion of a straight medicine dropper through this hole so that the tip of the dropper is inside the bottle, and connect a short length of rubber tubing to its outer end. Fill the tube and dropper with water and snap a > pinch clamp over the middle of the tube.
FILL the bottle with ammonia gas by inverting it over a heated flask containing household ammonia and quickly insert the cork containing the dropper. By squeezing the rubber tube above the clamp you can cause some of the water in the tube to flow into the bottle and dissolve some of the gas. This will form a partial vacuum inside the bottle.
Holding the bottle inverted, immerse the lower end of the rubber tube in a beaker or glass of water and remove the pinch clamp. The vacuum in the bottle will suck the water up through the tube and dropper and create a miniature fountain.
You can make the effect more mystifying by placing several drops of phenol-phthalein solution in the water before you open the pinch clamp. The water will remain colorless until it enters the bottle.
As it mixes with the gas, however, it will turn red because of the alkali effect of the ammonium hydroxide formed.
When heated with a caustic, such as lime water or lye water, all ammonium compounds decompose to form ammonia gas. For instance, if sal ammoniac is mixed with powdered lye and water, ammonia gas is evolved without the presence of heat. This, by the way, is a very simple and inexpensive way to prepare ammonia gas in the laboratory. Sal ammoniac can be purchased in any drug store and almost every home has a can of powdered lye on hand. The same type of reaction will take place if the sal ammoniac is mixed with lime water, excepting that in this case heat will be necessary to complete the process.
WITH certain types of ammonium salts and alkalies, you do not even have to add water to produce the ammonia gas. Sodium carbonate (soda ash) and ammonium chloride, both odorless substances, will react to form ammonia gas when they are rubbed in the palms of your hands.
Another simple way to make ammonia gas is to heat certain types of organic matter such as hair or pieces of animal horn. As a laboratory experiment, the amateur chemist can place some finger nail clippings in a test tube and heat them. A small piece of red litmus paper dampened and placed at the mouth of the tube will detect the alkaline trace of the ammonia gas evolved. This experiment can be made more effective by placing a small amount of dry lime or lye in the tube with the nail clippings. Incidentally, when handling lye it is best to use a glass or metal scoop.
Since ammonia and all its compounds contain nitrogen and hydrogen, the gas can be decomposed by the experimenter to obtain nitrogen. This is done by passing the gas over a hot metallic oxide. In the process, the hydrogen in the ammonia combines with the oxygen of the oxide, forming the metal and water, and the free nitrogen gas is released.
In the home laboratory the chemist can perform this experiment with a simple piece of apparatus assembled from various odds and ends.
SOME copper fly screening is first made into a small roll about eight inches long and placed in a short length of iron gas pipe. The outlet tube from an ammonia gas generator is led into one end of the pipe through a tight-fitting cork while a long outlet tube having a flexible rubber joint is fitted through a cork in the other end.
The entire apparatus should be arranged high enough to permit the iron pipe and the generator flask to be heated. The flask can be placed on an improvised
stand made from short lengths of ten-cent curtain rods. The rods should be bent at the proper points and threaded or glued into holes in a small wooden base. A square of iron fly screening placed over the uprights will support the flask. With the ammonia generator disconnected, heat the iron pipe with a gas burner. This will cause the copper screening to become oxidized, forming a coating of copper oxide. Then connect the generator, apply heat, and immerse the end of the outlet tube leading from the other end of the iron pipe in the water-filled collecting trough.
THE trough can be made from a ten- cent baking tin by soldering a bridgelike strip of tin across one end at such a height that it will be below the level of the water. Fill an empty bottle with water and carefully place it inverted on the bridge directly over an inch hole cut in the metal.
When the generator flask is heated, ammonia gas will be released and will flow over the heated copper oxide in the iron pipe. The hydrogen is removed from the ammonia by the hot oxide and the pure nitrogen gas bubbles from the outlet tube.
To collect the gas, place the outlet tube under the hole in the metal bridge supporting the bottle in the trough. The gas will bubble up into the bottle and displace the water. When the bottle is completely filled with the gas, carefully slip a piece of glass under the mouth and remove it from the trough.
By experimeriting with the nitrogen you collect, you will find that it is a very inactive gas. The fact that you can collect it over water shows that it is not particularly soluble. Carefully raise a glowing splinter of wood into an inverted bottle of the gas and you will find that the ember is extinguished. Nitrogen gas neither burns nor supports combustion. Further tests will show the gas to be tasteless and odorless.
In fact, nitrogen does not combine readily with many substances and its compounds are easily decomposed. The ease and violence with which most of its compounds break down are well illustrated by two common nitrogen-containing substances—nitroglycerine and gun cotton.
Ammonia and ammonium salts offer many other interesting and instructive experiments to the home chemist. The hydroxides of many metals, for example, can be formed by adding ammonia water (household ammonia will do) to solutions of the metals. Such solutions as copper sulphate, lead nitrate, iron chloride, iron sulphate, nickel sulphate, cobalt compounds, alum, and magnesim sulphate (Epsom salts) lend themselves well to this experiment.
The hydroxides form as curdy, jelly-like precipitates. In some cases they are so thick that the test tube in which they are made can be inverted without spilling the contents.
In these experiments, it is interesting to note that the precipitates of copper, nickel, and cadmium hydroxides will dissolve when more of the ammonium hydroxide is added to the solution. In the case of the copper sulphate, the resulting liquid will take on a deep azure blue color. If very strong ammonium hydroxide is used in the precipitating and dissolving processes, the blue solution will dissolve tiny bits of paper. This particular property has been used in the manufacture of artificial silk.
By adding water to a mixture of ammonium nitrate and zinc dust the experimenter can produce a small spontaneous flame. As the water is added, the mixture will bubble and smoke until it finally burns. Care must be taken, however, not to add too much water.
AS A safeguard, the mixture can be placed on the tin cap from a preserve jar and newspaper can be spread on the laboratory table to catch the chemicals should the mixture spatter.
No discussion of ammonia gas would be complete without some mention of its commercial uses. The most important uses of ammonia are as a refrigerating agent and for the preparation of ammonia water. Large quantities of ammonia, however, are also used in the manufacture of sodium carbonate, ammonium salts, and nitric acid.


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Congress stuck over minister accused of illegal mining
Karnataka's ruling Congress and the opposition are on a collision course over the latter's demand to sack mining baron Santosh Lad from the ministry on charges of illegally mining iron ore.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, whose rule during 2008-13 was rocked by mining and other scandals, has taken the matter to Governor H. R. Bhardwaj and has held a demonstration in Bangalore seeking Lad's removal.
It has threatened to continue the agitation till Lad is sacked.
Santosh Lad is the information and infrastructure development minister.
The Lad family has been in the mining business for decades and the controversy over Santosh Lad's alleged involvement in illegal mining has pitted him against his cousin Anil Lad, a Congress legislator.
In fact it was Anil Lad who fired the first salvo against his own party for not making him a minister on the ground that his company is facing charges of illegal mining. His contention is his cousin is facing similar charges but the party has made him a minister.
The main opposition Janata Dal-Secular too is demanding Santosh Lad's removal while former BJP chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, now heading his Karnataka Janata Party, has announced his outfit will launch an agitation if Santosh Lad is not dropped.
An NGO, Samaja Parivartana Samudya, on whose petition the Supreme Court had ordered a probe and cancelled licences of many mining companies, has also been pressing for action against Lad.
The 95-year-old freedom fighter H. S. Doreswamy, whom Chief Minister Siddaramaiah holds in high esteem, has also joined the issue. He has written to Siddaramaiah to consider the allegations against Santosh Lad and decide whether he should be retained as minister.
Siddaramaiah, however, has been resisting the demand, saying that Santosh Lad has clarified that his company V.S. Lad and Sons has not indulged in illegal mining nor has it been named in the Lokayukta's report of July 2011 on Karnataka's illegal mining scam.
The Lokayukta's report resulted in the BJP forcing Yeddyurappa out of office. He quit the party last December to head the KJP.
Siddaramaiah, as well as state Congress chief G. Parameshwara have been saying that the Lokayukta's report does not name Santosh Lad and hence he has been taken in the ministry.
Santosh Lad claims that the controversy has arisen because people are not aware that V.S. Lad and Sons and VSL Mining Company are different and he has no connection with the latter. It is VSL Mining Company which is facing allegations of illegally exporting iron ore.
He says his company's licence has been suspended not because of illegal mining but for dumping ore on forest land and this has been challenged in the Supreme Court.
Siddaramaiah seems satisfied with this explanation as he has been seeking documents from the opposition parties and the NGO to prove Santosh Lad's involvement in illegal mining.
The BJP says it has given all the documents to the governor for taking action.
The governor said early this week that he has passed on all the papers to Siddaramaiah.
While legal interpretations of documents will continue, the issue is certain to get politically hotter as the 2014 Lok Sabha elections approach and the Congress will have a tough time in warding off charges of being soft on illegal mining.
The Congress, particularly Siddaramaiah, has to show that he and his party are tough on illegal mining as during the BJP rule, he and the state Congress chief had led a 320-km 'padayatra' (walk) from Bangalore to iron ore rich Bellary district in north Karnataka to protest against illegal mining.
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The pediatric physical therapists and occupational therapists work closely with you, your child and the physicians to progress your child towards success.
Pelvic Floor Rehabilitation works to strengthen and coordinate the muscles that control the bladder. This program also educates you and your child on anatomy of the urinary tract system and strategies to avoid urinary leaks.
Your child's first visit will be a two hour long evaluation. During that evaluation, your child's therapist will take a thorough history and review all the paperwork that you bring into the evaluation (you will receive forms in the mail prior to the evaluation.) These completed forms will assist greatly with a thorough evaluation. The therapist will then place gel based electrodes around the anus. Next your child will sit comfortably in a chair and look at a computer that is connected to the electrodes. The computer allows the therapist, you and your child to see the muscles working and relaxing as your child performs pelvic floor exercises. The therapist will then analyze the results and review them with you and your child.
At each of the appointments, homework will be reviewed and practiced, education will be given regarding that week's activities and your child will be connected to the computer as they were during the evaluation. Your child will perform a variety of pelvic floor muscle exercises while the computer gives visual feedback, which helps to motivate your child to work these muscles.
Your child will be given homework at every visit that consists of exercises, education and diet related issues. He/she will need your assistance to complete these tasks successfully.
The pelvic floor rehabilitation program is not painful. The electrodes are gel based and go on and off easily.
Your pediatrician can make a referral to a pediatric urologist. After a thorough work up, the urologist will determine if your child would benefit from the program and make the referral.
The goal of the pelvic floor program is for each child to improve and/or achieve independent bladder control. Your child will gain knowledge of their urinary tract system and diet related issues. They will also gain improved self-esteem, confidence and the increased ability to participate in social activities such as sleep-overs.


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Paula Ross,�
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Oklahoma Tax Extension Deadline Approaching on October 15
Pay on Time, Pay Online at http://Taxes.OK.gov
Oklahoma City, OK. – October 9, 2009 – Oklahomans can pay their taxes before the October 15 tax extension deadline by paying online at http://Taxes.OK.gov
The online service, provided by the Oklahoma Tax Commission (OTC), enables taxpayers to securely pay a number of taxes online, including:
• Individual Income Tax�
"More Oklahomans have turned to paying their accounts online," said Paula Ross, Oklahoma Tax Commission spokesperson. "The online payment system is a quick and convenient way to ensure payments are received by our agency in a timely manner while giving the taxpayer peace of mind in knowing that their confidential information is kept secure."
OTC currently accepts payments via credit card over the Internet or by telephone. Accepted payments include Visa, MasterCard, Discover, American Express and debit card payments. �The payments are processed through a secure payment engine, which applies rigorous policies and procedures to ensure that citizens and businesses can be confident that their payments are safe, private, and secure. OTC's online payment options are a product of a partnership between the Oklahoma Tax Commission and OK.gov, Oklahoma's Official Web site.
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baasenotes needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
We need three icons - one for 'thumbs up' one for 'thumbs down', and one in the middle for 'neutral'
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
We need three icons - one for thumbs up, one for thumbs down, and one with a thumb in the middle for neutral.
To give you an idea of the type of thing required, here are what we're using at the moment:
I'd like them to be a bit bigger than this - these were designed in 2000, so are a bit dated now. I'd like something modern and clean. Not too detailed.
Let me know if you have any questions.
All 'Thumbs' must be entrants own work, and copyrights must be transfered in full to ourselves
I look forward to seeing your work


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Carlisle Floyd
Carlisle Floyd is one of the foremost composers and librettists of opera in the United States today. Born in 1926, Floyd earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano and composition Syracuse University. He began his teaching career in 1947 at Florida State University, remaining there until 1976, when he accepted the prestigious M. D. Anderson Professorship in the University of Houston. In addition, he is co-founder with David Gockley of the Houston Opera Studio jointly created by the University of Houston and Houston Grand Opera.
Floyd's operas are regularly performed in the US and Europe. He first achieved national prominence with the New York premiere of his opera, Susannah (1953–54), by the New York City Opera in 1956 after its world premiere at Florida State University in 1955. In 1957 it won the New York Music Critic's Circle Award and subsequently was chosen to be America's official operatic entry at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Of Mice and Men (1969) is Floyd's other most often performed work. In the 1998-99 season alone it was presented by New York City Opera, Utah Opera, San Diego Opera, and Cleveland Opera. Based on the Steinbeck novel, it was commissioned by the Ford Foundation and was given its premiere by the Seattle Opera in 1970.
Floyd's more recent operas, Bilby's Doll (1976) and Willie Stark (1981), were both commissioned and produced by the Houston Grand Opera, the latter in association with the Kennedy Center. A televised version of the world premiere production of Willie Stark opened WNET's Great Performances series on the PBS network in September of 1981. Floyd's latest opera, Cold Sassy Tree (2000) received its premiere at Houston Grand Opera in April 2000. Subsequently, it has been performed by Austin Lyric Opera, Central City Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Opera Carolina, Opera Omaha, San Diego Opera, and Utah Opera.
The composer has also gained increasing attention for his non-operatic works. 1993 saw the New York premiere of Floyd's orchestral song cycle, Citizen of Paradise (1984), given by the leading mezzo-soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, Suzanne Mentzer. Floyd also completed a large-scale work for chorus, bass-baritone soloist, and orchestra titled A Time to Dance (1993), commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association.
Floyd has been the recipient of a number of honors and awards: a Guggenheim Fellowship (1956); Citation of Merit from the National Association of American Conductors and Composers (1957); the Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award from the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce (1959); the distinguished professor of Florida State University Award (1964); an honorary doctorate from Dickinson College (1983); and the National Opera Institute's Award for Service to American Opera (1983). He served on the Music Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1974–80 and was the first chairman of the Opera/Musical Theater Panel. Floyd was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2001, and in 2004 was awarded the National Medal of Arts in a ceremony at the White House. In 2008, Floyd was one of four honorees—and the only composer—to be included in the inaugural National Endowment for the Arts Opera Honors. In 2011, he was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame, an honor reserved for the state's most-accomplished native sons.
Carlisle Floyd is published exclusively by Boosey & Hawkes.


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The old Mission Beach Elementary School and its 2.23 acres of prime coastal real estate sold for $18.5 million to developers Tuesday over the objections of the mayor, residents, and community representatives.
The San Diego school board voted 4 to 1 to sell the land to the highest bidder with trustee Scott Barnett dissenting.
Mayor Bob Filner made a personal appearance at the school board meeting in a last-ditch effort to partner with the San Diego Unified School District to "keep the land in public hands."
Filner apologized for getting involved in the matter at the 11th-hour after the city twice passed on its chances to buy the land — opportunities the mayor said he was unaware of.
"I think we can do this… Let's figure out how one agency can help another," Filner said. "You have surplus land, I would like a park…"
The sale of excess real estate is the cornerstone of San Diego Unified's plan to close a projected $92 million gap in next year's $1.1 billion operating budget. The board decided to sell assets to avoid massive layoffs.
Board President John Lee Evans said it would be too risky to walk away from the sale of the property just weeks before the district must adopt a final budget.
Barnett pitched an alternative proposal for the land, one that would sell it to the city for $11 million and keep the district as a $7.5 million equity owner. The suggestion was dismissed by the board.
It was never stated where the city, which has its own budget deficit, would get the money.
A vocal critic of the district's plan to sell land to balance its budget, Barnett has pushed for more creative uses of its surplus property that could generate revenue for years to come. He called the land sale a "cheap, quick fix."
Real estate sales are expected to generate $50 million for San Diego Unified this year. Additional parcels deemed excess by the district have been targeted to generate millions more next year.
Among the vacant lots, long-closed schools and other parcels that are owned but not used by the district, the former Mission Beach Elementary School is among the most desirable. Located just a block from Mission Bay and two blocks from the beach, it is rare for such a piece of coastal property in that area to go on the market.
Residents and community planners oppose high-density development, such as condos, that they say would add to the congestion, crime, traffic and other problems facing the neighborhood. Instead, the community had called for a combination use that could include park space, a police substation, a public parking lot and neighborhood gardens at the old school.
"We know they are going to build condos," said Lily Hickman, who chairs the a Mission Bay school advisory committee of parents. "That doesn't bring families with children to the community to fill schools."
The district put the Mission Beach campus for sale last year, accepting the high bid of $16.5 million from a developer before rejecting it unexpectedly after then-trustee Shelia Jackson changed her position on the sale. After Marne Foster was elected to succeed Jackson, she supported a plan to put the property back on the auction block.
Developers warned the district that its credibility was on the line if it continued to woo buyers and then cancel the deals.
Before San Diego Unified puts any property on the open market, it must first offer it to public agencies.
Evans said the city missed its opportunities to buy the land and that it would be irresponsible for the district to back down from a reliable bid.
McKellar-Ashbrook LLC out of La Jolla submitted the winning bid for the campus that has sat virtually vacant for decades. It is unclear what the group's plans are for the property.


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Arbres à loques
Maupertus-sur-Mer, France. 2014
Serie "Sands of Time"
|Silver-gelatin contact print, selenium-toned for optimal conservation
Image size: 20 x 25 cm
Limited edition of 30 | title, signature and number on the back
Tirage argentique par contact, viré au sélénium pour une conservation optimum
Format image: 20 x 25 cm
Edition limitée de 20 | titre, signature et numéro au dos
|Pigment print on 100% cotton paper
Image size: 35 x 44 cm, 40 x 50 cm
Unlimited edition | title and signature on the back
Tirage pigmentaire sur papier d'art 100% coton
Format image: 35 x 44 cm, 40 x 50 cm
Edition limitée de 10 | titre, signature et numéro au dos
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Image sizes are approximate. Contact me for exact sizes and custom sizing options.
All prints are hand-signed, numbered and captioned with location and year on the back by Elise Prudhomme. The print can be signed elsewhere and inscriptions included upon request.
Due to computer screen differences and printing techniques, there might be color and lightness variations between the image you saw on the web and the actual print. For purchases made directly online without viewing the print, I will issue a full refund for any print returned in new condition within three months of the purchase date.
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Garage Door Repair In West Point, GA 706-408-0717
West Point Garage Door Repair Service provides complete garage door repair services. We install and repair all types and brands of garage doors. We replace or repair springs, cables, openers, tracks and rollers. We also install new garage doors. We provide no obligation over the phone quotes and same day service. We also provide 24/7 emergency garage door repair service. If your garage door is stuck open and can't be closed or is stuck closed and can't be opened with your car in the garage, that's a garage door repair emergency. Call us at 706-408-0717. We always answer our phones.
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Garage Door Repair Tips
Garage Doors, regardless of whether they swing up in one piece or roll up in sections, operate on spring tension. The door moves via metal tracks, which are positioned on the walls of the garage. A set of springs provides the power. In cases where the garage door is having minor difficulty operating, garage door repairs can be fairly simple. Here are some helpful tips to get you started.
Begin by checking the metal tracks. Take a look at the mounting brackets and check to see whether they are loose. If they are, tighten the bolts and screws at the brackets. With the door closed, examine each track for crimps, flat spots, or dents. If you find damage, pound it out with a hammer or rubber mallet. Badly damaged tracks should be replaced immediately.
Next, inspect the tracks with a level to make certain they are aligned properly. Horizontal tracks should slant slightly downward. Roll-up door vertical tracks should be exactly plumb. Tracks must sit at the same height on both walls. If the tracks do not appear properly aligned, loosen the screws holding the mounting brackets and tap the tracks into position. Make sure to recheck the tracks using the level to make sure the position is correct, and then tighten the screws.
A good way to prevent problems is to regularly clean the tracks with concentrated cleaners in order to remove dirt and grease build-up. Clean the rollers and wipe down both tracks making certain they're dry.
Lubricate all moving parts using silicon lubricant spray or powdered graphite. Use household oil or silicone spray when dealing with the rollers. Make sure not to forget any pulleys in the system, and lubricate them with whatever was used on the rollers.
Check around for loose hardware and tighten as needed. With swing-up models, inspect the plates where the spring is mounted in order to be sure the screws are tight. Check the hinges that hold the sections together on roll-up units. Replace or tighten parts accordingly.
Take a look at the springs. On swing doors, the spring on each side is hooked into notches or holes. When a tension adjustment is required, move the spring hook to the next hole or notch. With roll-up models, the spring on each side is controlled by a cable on a simple pulley system. To adjust, pull the cable farther through the plate above the door and knot the end so as the maintenance the tension.
Hopefully you now have a better idea of what to look for when you make your garage door repair efforts.
Remember to call in a professional if you run into something you don't quite understand, as many of these systems can be rather dangerous to deal with.
Some garage door repair efforts can be made by a DIY type of homeowner, if your garage door is off its track or you have a broken torsion spring, it's best to leave it for trained professionals.
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