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When I was a little girl, my sister and I shared a room with Colonial floral-patterned wallpaper, matching canopy beds draped in starched tulle, and her imaginary friends – Hodo, Mucca, and Francie. They lived in the wall next to her bed. I envied their late night conversations and secrets. Recently, I recalled all of this when I came across a cute and sturdy upcycled little robot of a lamp on the interwebs. The Lampster. He's like a buddy for your desk, or perhaps the bedside table. I imagine him having a cup of tea with me while I bid plan sets, or watching late-night reruns of Family Feud together. My sister recently informed me that Hodo, Mucca, and Francie currently reside in the attic next to her bedroom. I believe her. I mean, where else would they live now that she's married with children? And I'm quite sure, given the right circumstances, my lamp would shout with glee every number one answer to "survey says!"
It's always nice to have a friend to talk to who lights up your life a bit.
It's also nice that this wallpaper is not on my bedroom walls.


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From Twitter 11-08-2010 @ 03:16 am
- 11:57:03: @ZuneSupport How can I get a replacement battery for my beloved Zune 30? It won't charge by USB enough to sync (various cables/ports) (cont)
- 11:58:53: @ZuneSupport (cont) I can charge via wall adapter, but full = less than 2 hours' audio. Can't afford new Zune HD, need 30 or bigger.
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Navy Seal member dies as parachute fails to open during demonstration in US
The parachutist, whose identity was not immediately released, was a member of an elite Navy parachute team called the Leap Frogs, a Navy spokesman said.world Updated: May 29, 2017 07:51 IST
A Navy Seal team member died Sunday after his parachute failed to open during a Fleet Week demonstration over the Hudson River.
The accident occurred a few minutes after noon near Liberty State Park, a large New Jersey park where thousands of people a year catch ferries to the nearby Statue of Liberty.
The parachutist, whose identity was not immediately released, was a member of an elite Navy parachute team called the Leap Frogs, a Navy spokesman said. The cause of the parachute malfunction was under investigation.
In a release, the Navy said the parachutist was rescued immediately from the water by US Coast Guard personnel who were standing by in vessels to support the aerial demonstration that featured a coordinated parachute jump. Local fire department personnel who were also on standby responded as well. The Navy said the parachutist was pronounced dead at Jersey City Medical Center at 1.10 pm.
The Navy said the identity of the victim would be released after family notifications were completed.
"Our hearts and prayers go out to his family, and I ask for all of your prayers for the Navy SEAL community who lost a true patriot today," said Rear Adm. Jack Scorby, commander of the Navy Region Mid-Atlantic.
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(a) No person or governmental unit shall establish or operate a hospital in this state without a license. An infirmary is not required to obtain a license under this Part.
(b) The Commission shall prescribe by rule that any licensee or prospective applicant seeking to make specified types of alteration or addition to its facilities or to construct new facilities shall submit plans and specifications before commencement to the Department for preliminary inspection and approval or recommendations with respect to compliance with the applicable rules under this Part.
(c) An applicant for licensing under this Part shall provide information related to hospital operations as requested by the Department. The required information shall be submitted by the applicant on forms provided by the Department and established by rule.
(d) Upon receipt of an application for a license, the Department shall issue a license if it finds that the applicant complies with the provisions of this Article and the rules of the Commission. The Department shall renew each license in accordance with the rules of the Commission. The Department shall charge the applicant a nonrefundable annual base license fee plus a nonrefundable annual per-bed fee as follows:
Facility Type Number of Beds Base Fee Per-Bed Fee
General Acute Hospitals: 1-49 beds $250.00 $17.50
50-99 beds $350.00 $17.50
100-199 beds $450.00 $17.50
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400-699 beds $750.00 $17.50
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Other Hospitals: $500.00 $17.50
(e) The Department shall issue the license to the operator of the hospital who shall not transfer or assign it except with the written approval of the Department. The license shall designate the number and types of inpatient beds, the number of operating rooms, and the number of gastrointestinal endoscopy rooms.
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Gilmore Girls in Aftermath
Gilmore Girls in Aftermath
by Evan Hrobak
On October 25th, we were one month out. We would soon be celebrating the election of Hillary Clinton—childhood hero of Rory Gilmore—and watching Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, filling our hearts with the limited victories of progressivism while our eyes went bloodshot from binging. There'd be coffee, probably wine, and the political circumstances of the revival would border on the poetic. Hillary Clinton turned out far less heroic than she once seemed, but a woman was about to trounce a misogynist on the grandest public stage, and that would make watching a fast-talking mother daughter duo that much sweeter.
Then November 8th happened, and the election results forced us to realize that an enormous percentage of the American citizenry thinks with a grotesque illogic that crosses into monstrosity. This is not an expression of incredulity, but an honest assessment of my neighbors and my changed relationship to them.
But November 25th came, too, and I still had a Netflix account, and I still watched A Year in the Life. I had to realize, too, that I was still capable of pleasure, of even genuine joy. How was I supposed to experience joy in a time I knew was only the beginning of something ominous? Shit, how could I go back to just watching TV?
Not many critics shared my love of the show, which made them seem more "in touch" and less ignorant. Our cultural commentators found editorial favor by railing against Rory's journalistic ineptitude, Lorelai's cultural insensitivity, the show's overwrought portrayal of its characters' all-too-WASPy problems. The revival might have been alright under a Clinton administration, but we didn't have time for an almost exclusively upper-middle class white feminism.
I agreed, and I didn't care. I might've cared at points, then returned to not caring. I'm still not sure if I should call it apathy. Apathy strikes me as a position, stemming either from the submission to defeat in the face of the unalterable, or an anarchic rage against that reason that turns out not to govern the world. Apathy is an extreme, and I'm too average for extremes, for remarkability. I'd go to work, come comfortably home, and switch on my Smart TV. Where apathy carries the traces of revolutionary spirit, I let my spirit be mollified by episodes on autoplay—a spirit still beaten but distracted into trance rather than defeated into submission.
Only a recent convert to Gilmore Girls, I had binged all seven seasons in the fall of 2014. I fell for book-loving Rory within a few hours, but more than that, I fell for Lauren Graham performing so effortlessly as the quick-witted ever-caring friend first and mom second. The mother-daughter dialogue showcased the driving aesthetic hallmark of the WB/UPN/CW networks: fast-paced witty banter loaded with pop-culture references and double entendres primed for literary analysis. Though planned and executed as a more family-friendly programming than the network(s)'s magnum opus Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls exhibited that same enthusiasm for language play and moral ambiguity that has sustained the CW as more than just a sexed-up version of the Disney Channel. Lorelai Gilmore dared to be more than the knowing uptight maternal figure conventional of family shows. A single mother who had become pregnant in her teenage years, Lorelai eschewed her parents' money to establish herself as a self-made innkeeper and an hip and in-touch confidant to her precocious daughter. Lorelai read both as a role model and as a human with genuine difficulties in the world.
Challenge was the show's charm; Lorelai and Rory both fucked up. Amy Sherman-Palladino, the show's writer-creator, subverted the familiar loss of virginity episode by having Rory sleep with the standard first boyfriend (the overly affectionate, small-town celebrant Dean), but only after he had married someone else. Lorelai started an ill-advised romantic affair with Rory's high school English teacher, and was woefully unprepared to support Rory through her college application process. Rory didn't finish her schooling on the regular schedule, dropping out in the middle of the four-year ordeal to re-enroll later. Sure, these are minor failures and ambiguities if you compare them to those of HBO's The Wire, but lauding and loving the greatest TV show of all time is easy. Gilmore Girls has a weirder appeal.
Weirdness matters. When we govern our lives with routine—this commute with those same songs on that same radio station, that workplace with coworkers XYZ and G for some reason, the gym playing the same other playlist that you didn't choose, this restaurant, that toothpaste; that which stands out often winds up being the most influential part of our day. In each off-kilter difference, we learn to re-examine our lives, to take a look a little more askew. Weirdness saves us from a drone's existence. Offbeat and quirky are aesthetic categories that allow streamers to seek out fresh perspectives.
A Year in the Life offered Rory's perspective 10 years out. Going through your 20's or 30's in the 21st century means more uncertainty about what constitutes adulthood than previous generations experienced—in no small part because previous generations royally fucked up adulthood. Rory—with her burgeoning but somewhat unstable career, hook-up based relationship with an old romance turned casual lover, and an actual boyfriend everybody kept forgetting—brought us the modern murkiness of new adulthood in her less-than-triumphant return home.
Somehow we learn to care about and care for fictional characters, not simply as if they were people, but precisely in their aesthetic separateness from our very real subjectivity. Rory, Lorelai, Luke, and Sookie are not people we love but artistic objects that have the experience of subjectivity so we might love more specifically, for a more specific moment. We care for, and through, Rory's indeterminate adulthood because she exists only aesthetically, so we might experience both her possibility and her permanence. More than being able to relate to a character, experiencing affectionately that character as an aesthetic object allows us to explore our own humanity. When I brought up some of the revival's criticisms to a friend over coffee, she stopped me to say "Yeah, I saw those. And I didn't even read them. It's like, can't you just let me have this?" Her tone wasn't despondent but annoyed, as if the critics were unduly focusing on minor interpretative avenues without experiencing the wholeness of the show—they might have a point, but they were watching improperly. She wanted people to understand the full force of emotion and feeling rather than hone in on some particular piece for some diagnosis of internal inconsistency. She wanted an erotics of watching, rather than a hermeneutics.
That erotics gets meta when we feel the offbeat ever-presence of television watching through A Year in the Life's references to binging. In a sense, Gilmore Girls wasn't revived. When we can watch any episode in one click, when new audiences discover the show every day, when people routinely rewatch a series over multiple years, when a show inspires podcasts that feature affectionate analyses of each episode, that show leaves its particular moment of creation and moves into a weird recursive presence. Gilmore Girls doesn't belong to 2000-2007, but to the now. Further, without commercial breaks or a more than 18 second delay between episodes, every character arc, storyline, and minor piece of art direction intensifies.
On several occasions, A Year in the Life goes so far as to make direct reference to this new and peculiar mode of watching. The show's dialogue at least twice refers to Buffy, a show that, like Gilmore Girls, exists in this strange state of being Netflix binge-able, heavily analyzed, and highly loved. In one scene, Lorelai asks how Rory is, and Rory replies "five by five." When Lorelai asks the phrase's meaning, Rory admits that she doesn't really know but had recently been marathoning Buffy. Of course, "five by five" is slayer Faith's ambiguous-in-origin slang phrase for something like "A-OK." In another episode, the always over the top Paris Gellar, now some sort of fertility company executive, berates her intern assistant and flings an insult about the college student wasting money on courses that explore Buffy the Vampire Slayer's influence on feminism. In these instances, the characters partake in the same conversations as their audiences. As Netflix would suggest both under "TV Dramas Featuring a Strong Female Lead," the contemporary audiences of both shows likely intersect. Then in some meta magnificence, characters from Gilmore Girls participate in that intersection. Tongues are deep in cheeks.
For the nerdier podcast fans, A Year in the Life offers multiple nods to their analyses of the show. When Rory decides to give up on her book project profiling the obnoxious author Naomi Shropshire, she enters a conversation with the writer's lawyer, played by Jason Mantzoukas. To the casual viewer, the actor's appearance is nothing special. At best it's an "oh that guy from that thing" kind of moment. But Mantzoukas is a star on the comedy podcast circuit, one who has repeatedly voiced his love of the show and his desire to have a role in the revival. On the Gilmore Guys podcast, fans even petitioned for Mantzoukas to play Al of Al's Pancake World, the multiethnic takeout favorite of Rory and Lorelai. Though his part is brief, Mantzoukas' appearance further demonstrates the show's commitment to the loving weirdness of watching.
Later in the revival, Rory finally finds a book project for which she has passion. At the urging of Jess (everyone's favorite boyfriend), Rory writes the story of her relationship with Lorelai. When Rory presents the book to Lorelai, the emotional force of the show turns on Lorelai's disapproval of having her personal story presented to the public. Given Lorelai's enduring coolness, the understandable reaction still manages to shock and sadden. But when Lorelai finally accepts Rory's manuscript, titled The Gilmore Girls, Lorelai has only one note: "Drop the 'the.'" In a move both subtle and sweet, the dialogue nods to everyone who has ever corrected the common mistake of adding the definite article to the show's title.
Still, there's the problem of distraction, of amusement, of not devoting attention to the imminent problems of the world. If the Trump administration is barring journalists from the White House, should we really be focusing our analytical efforts on television shows? I'd like to say yes. I'd like to defend podcast nerds and affectionate analyzers and make some sort of argument about training one's intellectual muscle through low-stakes workouts so that a more intelligent populace can pound through the pressing issues. I'd really fucking like to. Part of me believes that sort of thing, but part of me believes that isn't enough. I'm both inclined to think that analyzing TV shows is somehow good in its own right and that we ought to be more civically minded. Surely if we don't experience joy, we won't have cause for living. Surely if we don't fight our oppressors, we won't have occasion for living. Being a polemicist would be nice, but ours is an age of uncertainty.
On March 8th, I started up with a new therapist to deal with some of this uncertainty, and some biochemical problems, and some other issues. I knew that March 8th was International Women's Day, that many women were striking, that the mental health professionals in the office I was going to probably wouldn't, that we were to wear red in solidarity. I didn't know if a white guy donning a red flannel shirt could mean anything. But on the off chance that it did, I wore the shirt to the practice. When I walked in, there was no other red in the rural Pennsylvania mental health facility. Then a physician's assistant walked into reception in a red sweater. We locked eyes. Maybe she noticed, maybe she didn't. The gesture certainly wasn't grand. Hopefully it was an erotics of art.


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Hi friends! Did you have a good Christmas and New Year's Eve? I took a little time off from the blog to relax and spend time with family and friends. I was still working at my full-time job all week, but it was nice to have the evenings to watch Christmas movies at home and go out to dinner a few times! Now that it's January though, I'm ready to get back into a groove. I'm a firm believer in new year's resolutions. To me, it's the perfect time of year to reset and start over again.
Eric and I snapped these photos on Christmas, when we were in Muskegon visiting family. I always love the beach... in every season. Winter is no exception. The lighthouses were covered in snow and ice, and the blue of Lake Michigan is just so pretty against the white snow. I bundled up in this new cardigan from Lee & Birch, that I love! The neutral colors fit into my seasonal winter wardrobe perfectly, plus it's so thick and warm! Right now, they have 30% off everything with code "AFTERXMAS" so be sure to head over there and check it out. Plus, free shipping on orders over $50!
For new year's eve, Eric and I ended up staying home for the first time since we've been together! We bought tickets to a party, and our friends didn't get tickets in time, and the event sold out, so the whole night just didn't work out really, so we ended up selling our tickets. I also did not plan ahead, and we didn't have anything to eat at home, so we ate chips and queso leftovers, and cider with whiskeys. Not the most appetizing mix... haha! Next year, we already have plans, since Eric's band is already booked, so that's good. NYE is not my favorite holiday. For some reason, it's always sort of disappointing. I think it's because I put too much pressure on it to be amazing. Haha! But I do love the start of a new year.
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Chad's inclusion in President Donald Trump's most recent version of the travel ban doesn't "make any sense" and could be a "total humiliation" to America's "most important security partner in the region," according a former U.S. ambassador to the African nation.
"I was totally shocked by that. I don't understand the reasons for it... This ban doesn't seem to make any sense to me in terms of how strong a partner they are," former Ambassador James Knight said in an exclusive interview with Code and Dagger. "I don't know what the basis of the decision was... [But] I have no knowledge of any features of their exchange of information with us that would justify this.
"I don't understand it," he said, echoing the reported opinion of regional experts.
When adding Chad to its revised travel ban Sunday, the White House alleged that the central African nation "does not adequately share public-safety and terrorism-related information and fails to satisfy at least one key risk criterion."
Knight, a former career foreign service officer who was U.S. Ambassador to Chad from June 2013 to August 2016, said when it comes to information-sharing, at least in his experience, "that's not been true."
"During my time there, there was never indication that information that was important to us was withheld," he said.
The White House rationale also said "several terrorist groups are active within Chad or in the surrounding region, including elements of Boko Haram, ISIS-West Africa, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [AQIM]."
That's true, but the "or" part of that sentence is to be emphasized. Knight said those groups generally operate in neighboring nations and for the most part have been pushed out of Chad by the Chadian military.
"In my view, they were the strongest partner we had... In my view, they had the best army in Africa, the most effective one. And they were more willing to be aggressive in the fight, particularly against [Nigeria-based Islamist group] Boko Haram," Knight said, already slipping into the past tense as far as U.S.-Chadian relations go.
The U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, which maintains a short summary on its website about the major terror groups around the world, features no terrorist organizations operating in Chad, but several on its borders in just about every direction.
"I frequently heard... that Chad was an island of stability surrounded by instability and that was true," Knight said.
Knight said Chad's inclusion in the ban is likely a "total humiliation" to the local government. In response to the ban, the Chadian government reportedly released a statement asking Trump to reconsider a decision that "seriously undermines the image of Chad and the good relations between the two countries."
"The Chadian Government expresses its incomprehension in the face of the official reasons behind this decision," the statement added, according to The Washington Post, "reasons that contrast with the efforts and the ongoing commitments of Chad in the fight against terrorism."
Knight acknowledged there could always be classified reasons for the White House's decision -- perhaps referenced by the administration's contention that Chad "fails to satisfy at least one key risk criterion" -- but he said he would be surprised if there were "significant failures on the part of the Chadians" to justify such a harsh security measure.
Knight said the relationship between the U.S. and Chad can always be salvaged, but now it will require a "consolidated effort" from the U.S. government.
"I can't imagine a bigger surprise in terms of diplomacy, for such a good partner," he said. "This is really surprising... The fact that Chad could be punished like that...
"Terrorism is too important to us for this kind of carelessness. I hope that wasn't the case," he said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for further comment on Chad's inclusion in the travel ban.
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Interesting article about stopping all aid to Africa and why that might be the best solution after all.
DC Fire Chief
I asked the Fire Chief a question today on The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.: During the 911 calls of a recent SE fire, I heard one of the callers say the well worn phrase "If this was a fire in a white neighborhood, you would respond a lot faster?"
How are you going to fight that perception?
Chief Dennis L. Rubin: Wow. We arrived in less that five minutes to that call. Should we look into being Rocket Propelled? Our response times are great through-out every corner of the City. I worked five and a half years in the Trinadad section of town (E-10), we did everything that we were doing in upper northwest. I would submit that DCFD is color blind.
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65 years ago today was the Battle of Midway. If you have never read it, I recommend this book by two Japanese naval officers who were in the battle
Midway: the Battle that Doomed Japan. It is published by the Naval Institute and is part of the core reading at the Naval Acadmey. It is also a lesson for management, in that the Japanese assumed so much (wrongly) and had too much faith in their own superiority such that they were caught it the open when luck and skill went against them.
Slowly coming back
My database got destroyed. All my posts were lost. I'm working on it…
What we will soon have, maybe
In Tsim Sha Shui, just over the Star Ferry from Hong Kong Island, I came across this new vending machine in the subway station of all places. It's selling SIM cards for mobile phones, both the GSM and the CDMA variety (for those visiting China and wishing to have CDMA). Cards cost, mostly $98HK which is about $13 USA.
Almost all Hong Kong phones are sold "unlocked" meaning you can switch SIM cards at will. I was able to unlock my USA T-Mobile phone before I left, and now have SIM cards for the US, UK, Germany and Hong Kong. I think there is a market for a SIM card holder as they are always bouncing around in my wallet.
Will we ever get to this point in the USA where a phone is as easy a pack of gum? I hope so, but as long as the big carriers "lock" mobile phones most Americans won't know that getting a cellphone can be this easy.
Grey skies
I'm still trying to get the things going past my window function working. In the last week we've had several freighters, a warship and two cruise ships pass by, but the function to list them all is proving to be a bit difficult. Today it is cloudy outside and the only thing I can see are the occasional waterman laying crab traps. There seems to be several on this side of the Bay today–wonder if the crabs are here in the Spring (and if I shoudl set a trap


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Four lessons from riding a scooter on a longer trip
Most scooter trips are short. I usually ride them around a mile. But recently I tried a bit longer trip: three miles from downtown DC to Arlington, on a Bird. Here are four lessons I learned along the way:
1. After 2.5 miles, the motor was useless
Even with plenty of battery power left, my motor sputtered out after about 2.5 miles. Maybe it overheated, or maybe I just got unlucky, or maybe it was something else. Regardless, my electric scooter was on 90% human power after the Key Bridge, despite a battery that still had 50% of its charge.
I parked and switched to a fresh scooter for the steep climb up the Rosslyn escarpment, and sped away successfully.
2. Scooters move slower than bikes over distance
On short trips, scooters are arguably more convenient than bikes. They're easier to park, easier to start and stop, nimbler when navigating amid pedestrians, and they certainly move faster than walking.
But until trying a longer trip, it wasn't fully apparent to me how much slower scooters move than bicylces. According to Bird's ride history, it took me 28 minutes of riding to go 3.3 miles—good for 7.1 miles per hour.
I'm not a fast bicycle rider. Quite the opposite. But even I am faster than that. For comparison, I also rode a Jump electric-assist bike yesterday, over an equal distance from Trinidad into downtown DC. On the Jump, it took me 23 minutes to go 3.3 miles—8.6 miles per hour.
Granted I was on different streets, but the difference was noticable while riding. On the Jump, I move at a speed that feels comfortable to me compared to cars on city streets. The scooter feels uncomfortably slower than cars.
As a result, I'm less likely to ride a scooter in mixed traffic with cars than I am a bike.
3. Gravel paths or stairchannels? Nope
Anyone who's ridden a scooter even a short distance knows that the ride feels a lot different from a bike. Scooters' smaller wheels make for a bumpier ride, on which you have to pay more attention to potholes and other dips and rises.
So it was no great surprise when, upon trying to cross over Georgetown's gravel C&O Canal Towpath, I had to pick up and carry the scooter.
It was, however, a bit of a surprise that I had to carry the scooter up the 34th Street steps, despite the presence of a wonderful bicycle stairchannel.
Stairchannels are great, easy ways to help bikes up stairs. I'm a big fan, and I totally trusted Georgetown to have one here.
But when I tried to roll my scooter up the channel, the scooter only tipped forward. With front wheel drive and a center of mass that skews high and forward, the scooter's rear wheel lifted up uncontrollably. It was easier to ignore the channel and lift the scooter up the steps.
4. The K Street bikeway (scooterway) is a joy
OK, this is not strictly a scooter comment. But the new protected bikeway underneath the Whitehurst Freeway was the best part of my trip. If you haven't used it yet, give it a try on bike or scooter.


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Every opera fan knows "Una furtiva lagrima," and every opera professional knows that it doesn't end the way it says in the score. At the final cadenza, where Donizetti wrote this
the tenor sings this instead
Why? Well, it's traditional. Meaning it's one of those things you learn from teachers, coaches, and role models, not from your score. Meaning the community has decided this way of doing it is good, and has agreed upon it as a substitute for the original text. But how did that happen?
I suppose most of us, if we ask this question at all, assume that somewhere back in the day of interpretive freedom, some tenor came up with this ending, and its charm was so generally recognized that everyone eagerly adopted it. And in a way there is truth to that - but it omits a crucial factor that is worth some thought.
The history of "the cadenza" - the spot at the end of an aria where singers were expected to show their own musical imaginations - is long and fascinating. So is the history of "tradition" - concepts, ideas, choices, and habits evolving through communal experiment as opposed to singular events of authorship. But the "tradition" of singing this cadenza is not an example of those things. It is a fossil created by their death.
Here are three early cadenzas for "Una furtiva lagrima." The first two are by the composer, written down eight or nine years after the opera's premiere; the third is by the tenor Giovanni Mario, Donizetti's collaborator in the original production of Don Pasquale in 1842.
What can we say about the "tradition" thus far? The cadenza in the original score is on a single syllable in a single breath, has no chromatic notes, and resolves stepwise to the final tonic. About a decade later, both Donizetti and Mario were inclined to divide the ornament into two parts, to repeat a bit of the poetic text during it, to add some chromatic notes, and to finish with a falling fifth. If we took in some other examples we would find different details, but these are pretty typical, and they do suggest some kind of shared tradition - a communal inclination to do certain kinds of things, to go in certain directions.
That's the snapshot from the early 1840s, but now we come to the part most people don't know. This tradition was still alive sixty years later, but dead and gone within twenty years more. Where had the evolving tradition led by the time recordings arrived to allow direct observation? Farther along the path already seen: still more divisions for breath, still more chromatic notes, still more inclusion of text - all within that communal inclination to share certain ideas while pursuing them differently. The basic model was to start with a rise and fall that was mostly or partly florid (usually a run on the syllable "chie-do"), and then proceed to a conclusion that was mostly text-based. Here are nine examples of the starting portion and nine of the concluding one:
Notably missing: any particular inclination for different tenors to sing the very same cadenza.
So what happened? Simple: Enrico Caruso used the cadenza shown up at the top. At the time it was just one of several in a similar vein, and to that extent it was "traditional" - but the Victor Recording Company sold over a million copies of it. Younger tenors could emulate Rubini or García a century earlier, but they could imitate Caruso, and listeners could get used to one frozen rendition, heard as many times as they felt like it putting it on the turntable. Since Caruso's death over 200 tenors have recorded the aria, and today with a couple of clicks one can find hundreds more captured in live performance. As far as I know, all but four of them copy Caruso's cadenza.
This happened over and over to all kinds of interpretive choices in Italian opera. Why do two bars of Lucia's first-act cabaletta suddenly go at half-tempo? Why must Tonio sing a high A-flat in Pagliacci? And so on through dozens of other examples. What they have in common is that the imitation of selected recordings converted them from interpretations to assumptions, or even to obligations - from "one way it might be done" to "the way it's done." Is this a good thing?
Depends who you ask - because the same phenomenon changed listeners too. Maybe the opera public today has a higher proportion of people who honestly prefer to hear the same notes every time they hear a piece. And who is to say that's bad? After all, from Wagner onwards it became the normal expectation in new operas. But the way it happened - the sudden switch to rote imitation in music that had been open-ended - raises some doubts.
The "early music" movement has been interested in something else: reviving scores from the era when soloists were co-composers and their pieces were never the same twice. For those curious about reclaiming some of this creativity in mainstream opera, an easy place to start would be the long list of imitation-cadenzas. If we went back to making them up, we would not be rejecting tradition, but reconnecting with it.
Teatro Nuovo puts great emphasis on learning from the singers who had never heard, or heard of, microphone singing - primitive recordings from more than a century ago, forming a link to the traditions of opera's heyday and the infinite potential of the natural, unassisted human voice. Check this space regularly for samples, and click here for some pointers on how to listen.
Note: The tenors in the audio mashups are:
Cadenza beginning: Fernando de Lucia; Aristide Rota; Giuseppe Godono; Francesco Daddi; De Lucia (2nd version); José Mojica; Umberto Pini-Corsi; Giuseppe Vogliotti; Giuseppe Anselmi
Cadenza conclusion: Alessandro Bonci; Giovanni Manuritta; José Mojica; Giuseppe Anselmi; Ottokar Marak; Umberto Pini-Corsi; Fernando de Lucia; Isidoro Agnoletto; Florencio Constantino


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Diana & Brad | Engagement Portraits at Washington Park Arboretum!
I met Diana and Brad down at the Arboretum at Washington Park in Seattle for their engagement portraits. The area there is absolutely awesome for portraits. Lots of variety, beautiful vistas, interesting relationships between the foreground and the background. It may be a new favorite spot for portraits for me. Also, I brought my wonderfully talented daughter along with me. She created one of my favorite images of the day. I'm very proud!
This image was taken by my incredibly talented daughter, Alyssa Parris. She has a grasp on composition that many photographers twice her age would happy to have. I'm a little proud!
This last image of Diana and Brad walking through the forest reminds me of one of my favorite images of all time, Eugene W. Smith's "The Walk to Paradise Garden". You can see EWS' fantastic image from 1918 on Sotheby's website.


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So, the main reason why we were stuck with our old carpet for so long was that we realised early on that redoing the stairs and landing would also involve stripping off the old wall paper. You don't want to install a new carpet and then a year later start painting the walls and potentially ruin your carpet. Makes sense, right? It took 2 weeks for our painter/decorator to remove the old wall paper and paint the walls, so you kind of get an idea how big of a job it really was. When my eldest daughter was born, we installed safety gates on the stairs and I knew they'd mark the walls. Then when my second daughter was born I realised that I'm still probably not getting rid of them for a year or two, so we decided to redo the landing and stairs anyway. Having a brand new carpet is worth retouching the paint work and filling a few holes, right?
I wanted to keep this post short and sweet but somehow I've managed to write an essay. You see, there are so many different things you need to consider when buying a new carpet. Google, ask friends and visit showrooms. Spend a bit of time testing the underlays and carpet samples. Don't forget to get an underlay sample too and see what it feels like with the carpet on top.
I guess the main thing is that I absolutely love our new carpet. It has transformed our stairs and landing and the newly painted walls help too of course. I should probably add that since this is not our forever house, I'm hoping to get at least 5 years out of this carpet, although I'm sure it will last longer than that. The quality feels just amazing.
One more thing, I do find that the herringbone pattern hides dirt pretty well as I only need to hoover the carpet once or twice a week. We've had it for 2 months now and have already managed to get a stain few weeks ago. Luckily, I managed to get rid of it thanks to the Natural Flooring Care Kit I bought from Alternative Flooring. I found the Host Dry Carpet cleaner (powder) amazing and you can also buy it on Amazon. We also got our carpet scotch guarded but I don't think it made a difference.
Top tips on buying a carpet
- Go for an independent carpet shop as they will usually give you a more competitive price.
- Negotiate. I got free grippers, door bars and free scotch guarding as part of the deal. It's always worth asking!
- Take carpet and underlay samples home with you and do order a larger sample so you get a realistic idea what it will look like.
- Pick a carpet that suits your lifestyle. If you have pets or children, wool and/or other natural materials might not be ideal for you.
- If you're also decorating, make sure all the paint work is finished before you start (also ask your decorator to cut the sides of your old carpet, so that he can paint them and avoid possible gaps).
- Make sure that your floor boards aren't loose. If you have uneven floor boards, a good quality underlay will hide some of the imperfections (although in some case you may need to replace the floor boards with new ones).
- Buy a spot cleaning kit and get the carpet professionally cleaned every 2-3 years.
- Don't buy a light coloured carpet unless you are willing to do some spot cleaning.
- Pick a style you love. Many people these days want a new carpet/rug every 10 years, so there's need to go for something bland or boring just because you're hoping it will be timeless. Get the carpet you love in stead.
Have you bought a new carpet recently? Let me know if you have any carpet buying tips you'd like to share by leaving a comment below!


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I'm very fond of high gloss UV-resistant Polyurethane lacquer. Technically it still yellows, you don't notice it and blocks a lot of the uv-rays.
The picture above is from a sculpture I'm coating. It's base material is a sort of epoxy that professionals use for making their carrier moulds.
I love the viscosity and the colour, but it turns out green very fast. (In months)
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"The things that we pray for, Lord, give us the grace to labor for."
~Sir Thomas More
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- Spirit: St. Thomas More Chapel
- Expression: Creative Arts & Community Center
- Mind: Academic Building
- Body: Athletic & Fitness Center
Spirit: St. Thomas More Chapel
The Need: The Chapel relocation was first placed in the 1997 St. Thomas More Strategic Plan. Our current outdoor facility lacks symbolism of a Catholic school. The indoor facility provides a small space that serves as a chapel for mass, a space for adoration, and a confessional. In addition, the campus ministry program serves over 50% of the student body with very little office and ministry space.
The Solution: To reinforce the Catholic identity of St. Thomas More, the chapel will be prominently positioned at the front of the school. This new building will include a Chapel with fixed seating, an Adoration Chapel, a confessional, and a Campus ministry meeting room and offices. The increased space will allow more opportunities for the following campus ministry initiatives: service work, retreats, pilgrimages, leadership fellowship, and faith formation.
Future Use of Current Chapel: The current Chapel space will be used by our art department, providing additional space for teaching and storage. Art supplies and materials will be removed from plant maintenance areas, decreasing fire hazard and increasing safety.
Expression: Creative Arts & Community Center
The Need: In 1982, we served 750 students and offered 34 clubs and sports. Today, we serve over 1,000 students and offer 65 clubs and athletic opportunities. To accommodate the increase in students and opportunities, we need more meeting space, practice space and additional cafeteria space. After-school and evening activities in the current facility increase utility costs.
The Solution: The Creative Arts and Community Center will accommodate a variety of school groups including fine arts, ministry, spirit squads and extracurricular groups. The current stage will be relocated from the cafeteria to this building. This will allow the current cafeteria to increase in size, providing additional lunchroom seating. The plan encourages the addition of an outside dining patio and green space. This facility will provide a separate after-hours entrance into the school, increasing building security and reducing electrical usage.
Mind: Academic Building
Completed July 2017
The Need: With a lack of adequate space for the student population, 17 teachers shifted between class periods on rolling carts. Furthermore, the lack of classroom space also limited the additional courses and electives offered to students. The classrooms previously dedicated to the Options program made it difficult to support the goals of the program—academic and life skills.
The Solution: With the addition of classroom space, we not only decreased the number of roaming teachers, but also accommodated an increase in the number of electives offered. In conjunction with the existing curriculum, we are now able to provide additional dual enrollment courses for juniors and seniors to garner college credit. The two new Options classrooms have allowed the program to have the additional space necessary for academic, transitional and life skills training.
Body: Athletic & Fitness Center
The Need: STM currently has over 650 athletes participating in 20 sports with limited space and storage areas. Outdoor and indoor sports for male and female athletes lack ample lockers, training and fitness space, classroom space and meeting areas.
The Solution: The Athletic and Fitness Center will contain a weight room, locker rooms, equipment rooms, a training room and coaches' offices. The building will increase classroom and weight room space to meet the needs of both athletics and physical education classes. Additional locker rooms will provide male and female athletes participating in outdoor sports with a place to change and store their personal items and equipment. Through the creation of this facility, more existing building space will become available for indoor sports and other activities.


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May 16, 2017 • 143 minutes
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"There's a huge need for flexible sensors in biosensing," said Professor Tingrui Pan, who led the research project.
He and his colleagues used the sensor successfully in measuring the pulse in the human neck. The sensor also could be used in "smart gloves," giving physicians an enhanced ability to measure the firmness of tissues and detect tumors, and in "smart contact lenses," to monitor intraocular pressure without affecting vision.
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We at New Changing Life Deliverance Church is so blessed by what God has done for our ministry through the life and instruction of our Leader, Prophet, Evangelist, and Bishop Bobby Wellons, Sr. God has blessed him to carry out a great work that only the Lord has strengthened him to prosper in. We can never thank God, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior enough for the jewel HE has blessed us with.
On First Sunday, August 3, 2015 the Lord reminded us of the importance of Holy Communion and its benefits to our soul and body. Holy Communion is a memorial unto Jesus Christ, and we are encouraged to sup with one another by eating the bread (Body of Christ) and drinking the wine/grape juice (Blood of Jesus) as a time of remembering HIS death until HIS return. We must examine ourselves, and our faith in HIM, recognizing the price HE paid and the life He gave for our sins. We are forever indebted to HIM, so as often as we break the break and drink the wine/grape juice, do it in remembrance of Jesus with all affection and sincerity. Our faith in partaking in this Holy Communion with the eating of the (bread) Body of Christ and drinking the (wine/juice) Blood of the Lamb, and our reverence to HIS sacrificial death also assures that OUR bodies can be healed. The bible says that because of carelessness and unworthy participation "… many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." So, we can gain great health benefits in addition to remembering the death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Showing HIM that we APPRECIATE the sacrifice HE made for us and not taking it for granted.
Please review 1 Corinthians 11:24-30 for a deeper understanding of Holy Communion and its significance in our Christian walk.


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Cross boarder exchanges are becoming more and more seamless due to new technology and fintech businesses. Today we thought we would deep dive into foreign exchange, the basics, the market and the key players.
So what is Foreign Exchange?
Foreign exchange market is the market in which foreign currencies are bought and sold. The buyers and sellers include individuals, firms, foreign exchange brokers, commercial banks and the central bank.
Like any other market, foreign exchange market is a system, not a place. The transactions in this market are not confined to only one or few foreign currencies. In fact, there are a large number of foreign currencies which are traded, converted and exchanged in the foreign exchange market.
Nature of Foreign Exchange Market
The foreign exchange market is the place where money denominated in one currency is bought and sold with money denominated in another currency. It provides the physical and institutional structure through which the currency of one country is exchanged for that of another country, the rate of exchange between currencies is determined, and foreign exchange transactions are physically completed.
The primary purpose of this market is to permit transfer of purchasing power denominated in one currency to another. For example, a Japanese exporter sells automobiles to a U.S. dealer for dollars, and a U.S. manufacturer sells instruments to a Japanese Company for yen. The U.S. Company will like to receive payment in dollar, while the Japanese exporter will want yen.
The Foreign Exchange Players
Participants in Foreign exchange market can be categorised into five major groups; commercial banks, Foreign exchange brokers, Central bank, MNCs and Individuals and Small businesses.
1. Commercial Banks
The major participants in the foreign exchange market are the large Commercial banks who provide the core of market. As many as 100 to 200 banks across the globe actively "make the market" in the foreign exchange. These banks serve their retail clients, the bank customers, in conducting foreign commerce or making international investment in financial assets that require foreign exchange.
These banks operate in the foreign exchange market at two levels. At the retail level, they deal with their customers-corporations, exporters and so forth. At the wholesale level, banks maintain an inert bank market in foreign exchange either directly or through specialised foreign exchange brokers.
The bulk of activity in the foreign exchange market is conducted in an inter-bank wholesale market-a network of large international banks and brokers. Whenever a bank buys a currency in the foreign currency market, it is simultaneously selling another currency.
2. Foreign Exchange Brokers
Foreign exchange brokers act as agents who facilitate trading between dealers. Unlike the banks, brokers serve merely as matchmakers and do not put their own money at risk.
They actively and constantly monitor exchange rates offered by the major international banks through computerised systems and are able to find quickly an opposite party for a client without revealing the identity of either party until a transaction has been agreed upon. This is why inter-bank traders use a broker primarily to disseminate as quickly as possible a currency quote to many other dealers.
3. Central banks
Another important player in the foreign market is Central bank of the various countries. Central banks frequently intervene in the market to maintain the exchange rates of their currencies within a desired range and to smooth fluctuations within that range. The level of the bank's intervention will depend upon the exchange rate regime flowed by the given country's Central bank.
4. MNCs
MNCs are the major non-bank participants in the market as they exchange cash flows associated with their multinational operations. MNCs often contract to either pay or receive fixed amounts in foreign currencies at future dates, so they are exposed to foreign currency risk.
5. Individuals and Small Businesses
Individuals and small businesses also use foreign exchange market to facilitate execution of commercial or investment transactions. The foreign needs of these players are usually small and account for only a fraction of all foreign exchange transactions. Even then they are very important participants in the market.
Originally published at Your Article Library, Foreign Exchange Market: Meaning, Functions and Kinds & Foreign Exchange Market: Nature, Participants and Segments.
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Our payment gateway combines direct acquiring capabilities, 100+ alternative payment methods, mass payouts, and technological innovation within a single, unified integration, enabling e-Commerce clients to accept payments from and issue payouts to customers anywhere in the world.
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Employing over 150 developers and IT experts, ECOMMPAY provides the highest level of payment security and transparency, engineering proprietary technologies and adapting existing features. We are intimately familiar with the specifics of client industries, analysing consumer behaviour to advise merchants on payment strategies, risk management practices, and industry trends.
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Taking an individual approach to each merchant, ECOMMPAY offers a range of bespoke, tailored products, features, and technologies to streamline the payment process for end-users. Consumers can pay for goods and services on any device through our single, unified payment gateway, enjoying quick, convenient, intuitive, and secure transactions.
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We work with large and medium-sized online merchants from both low-risk and high-risk industries, as well as with banks, payment systems, and other major market players. Our payment services are available globally, without geographical restrictions, and our clients and partners are located around the world.
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We've come a long way and there's no end in sight!
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Another adaptation of a previous early post on eliminating NST. On Friday, March 9th, I'll have info on the 3 primary categories of HELP in breaking the habit: problem-solving thinking, cognitive restructuring, and detachment/distraction. By then you'll be able to find your away around intelligentwomenonly. com and add to your skills in eliminating NST. You'll also find new and previous posts about stress reduction, psychosocial, cultural, and political trends, plus other information related to intelligent women.
Breaking the negative self-talk habit doesn't require a 12 step program — even if you're addicted. It starts with the three steps below. Then you're ready to try out different techniques and discover which ones work best for you. We all need more than one technique. What works for me may not work for you. It's good to have a repertoire; different outfits to try on for different circumstances.
Here are the 3 A's — the starting point.
• Acknowledge without judgment, "Yes, I may overthink, like many other women." The term comes from the book Women Who Think Too Much by Susan Nolen – Hoeksema Ph.D. and identifies the process of growing negative self-talk, from a simple statement to a huge tangled, intertwined bundle.
• Accept as truth that negative self-talk generally does not motivate change or to improve performance. The voice of self-doubt and self-criticism isn't a tool for increasing self-worth or confidence. If it were effective at producing positive change women wouldn't still be putting themselves down at age 30, 40, or 50. They would have changed — to be smarter, or thinner, or prettier, or more assertive, or confident and outgoing.
• Allow yourself to accept the risk of changing your thinking habits. The worst thing that can happen is that you can't find techniques that work for you right away. And there are always new ones to try out — like the rubber band technique mentioned in the October 24th 2010 post.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Retro 5: The Three Step Program: Start to Stop Negative Self-Talk
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This past weekend, I ventured north of the border to Vancouver, British Columbia to photograph the amazing artist, illustrator, painter, and all around super nice guy Mark Atomos Pilon. He cheerfully opened his doors to myself and my family, our kids played, we made some photographs. I borrowed the astronaut helmet from one of my daughter's little friends (thanks Oliver, Michael, and Lisa!) and thankfully Mark provided the ray gun!
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It was celebration of the Panguni Pongal for the sixth day
People assemble before the Goddess Kaali, to pray
Big sand pot is full of water
Below is a stock of wood, set to enter
Water is set to boil, with high fire
Everyone sets eye, with a desire
From the boiling water, steam shall flow
Due to high heat, water shall overflow
Waiting all along was the priest
With a face, as if he is the angriest
He pumps towards the boiling pot, to charge,
Among the devotees who witness in large
With margosa leaves, he drenches his bare hand
Standing with bare foot, over the raw sand
Lifts his hand with boiling water to spread,
Only over his bare body, to spearhead
Again and again until the water pot becomes empty
None shall feel over him, pity
Bare body of priest now looks as normal
Though he withstood steams of thermal
Never anyone seen any boil
Nor none attempt to foil
To witness, you may become uncool
Until you watch the face of priest, as cool
Celebrated at Peraiyur since ancient time
With passage of time, never became dime
Truly an entertaining festival to express,
The true divine power of the goddess!
(Margosa tree =a large tree of the genus Melia (Melia Azadirachta)found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic)
(Peraiyur = A small town under the foothills of the western Ghats of South India in the Madurai District)
(PanguniPongal= a harvest festival around the first week of April month)
Remarkable Belief Poems New God Poems
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on summer zooming by.
It would be really easy for me to get sad about summer flying by. It's so fleeting. So perfect. So sun drenched and filled with the most beautiful moments. But I'm not sad. Because the fleeting part, is what makes it so special.
If everyday was Christmas Eve- it wouldn't feel special. Or the 4th of July, or your birthday, or your semi-annual visit with friends from around the country. We need these special snapshot seasons. So instead of being sad, I'm celebrating.
June was our busiest single month ever for this business. We flowered for 12 events total. And maybe more crucial than getting the events out the door, was finding a flow with our team for the season. I'm happy to report that I could not have chosen a better crew. Anna & Egan hold down the studio in a way that leaves me confident and feeling so good. And Lily manages our orders so that I never worry. There are more people who jump in to help us, with teardowns and setup and processing and bringing us food and smoothies and treats. Constantly reminded that it takes a village.
June was quick for you too. By the time summer really got 'rollin' we were sticking our flags in the window boxes and making plans for the 4th. You remarked to a friend "can't believe its July already" more than once, and on the high holy day we swam and drank and sang around a bonfire and ate 2 s'mores and stayed up past midnight.
July is something else at this tiny farm. It's like someone flips a switch overnight and suddenly the days are passing at warp speed. It's 9:45pm and I'm hanging lavender to dry. 10:15pm and Matt is still mowing the lawn.
The days are jammed with visitors dropping by to see the lavender and studio and this 'place in person' and I'm over that stuff where I sit and worry about what people think of this place. Is it underwhelming? Not as big as they thought? Not as beautiful? Don't care. It is my heart. My heart in physical location form. And I love it.
In the winter, getting ready for bed is a meditative and slow process for me. I boil the water and steep the herbal tea. I slide into my alpaca socks and fuzzy long underwear. I wear a sweatshirt & knit while we watch Netflix. I read a chapter or two in a book. I click on the space heater. I look at the radar. "How much snow?" "Maybe need to move snow before school tomorrow." And I take my time. The darkness enveloping the farm at 5pm means that by 8 I am in dreamland.
Last night I fell asleep with no blankets on me, my phone in my hand and glasses on my face. Soaking wet hair leaving a pool of shower water on our pillows. A box fan whirring in the room, Matt found me semi-conscious and pulled a blankie over me and turned off the light. That summer ebb & flow.
We went on a date yesterday too. Met friends for a drink at 4:30 and I felt like we were cheating on the farm. We both wanted to go for a drive after dinner so we drove from Boyne City to Charlevoix for ice cream. We held hands. Matt remarked how we can never take this for granted, that we live here.
And then we came home at 8pm and went back to work. I'm a big fan of this time of day to get stuff done because the sun is so much less intense. We are in the middle of lavender harvest and the landscaping fabric is so damn hot during the day that I can only go for a couple hours. But once the sun dips behind the barn, I can crank out 75+ bundles in no time.
And so, a girl harvests lavender with a giant dog while a guy installs a sign and goes to home depot and then hops on a mower. And I think to myself all the time, "What do people do who don't have this kind of project? This kind of passion they are chasing?" They go out and see a movie, and they cook dinner (a winter time only activity around here it seems) and they cuddle their babies and they decompress after a long day of work. They unwind.
I'm proud of us for finding the balance. For making it a priority. I know it isn't easy for Matt to leave for 3 hrs of daylight when the weather is perfect. But I need that time. For us to be normal.
And someone told me the other day I must be so tired. I must be so exhausted. And sure- some days I am. But this is what we do. And hey- January - March, those months are for rest.


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Exfoliate your skin if:
- you want your skin to glow...
- you want your skin to stay supple longer...
- you want to keep fine lines and wrinkles at bay...
- you want to prevent blemishes and acne.
Exfoliating the skin frequently removes the layer of old dead skin cells making way for new cells and rejuvenation. Without exfoliation, your skin may appear dry, rough, dull and lifeless. With exfoliation, your skin looks bright, radiant, supple, and smooth.
Get the most out of your moisturizer by preparing the skin through gentle exfoliation.
You can buy exfoliating skincare products but you've got an exfoliating tool on hand right now that is probably one of the best exfoliators you can find.
Your washcloths and even your bath towels are made to not just cleanse or dry the skin, but to brush those old skin cells away.
And don't use fabric softener on your towels! You'll only defeat their purpose!
Use your bath towels to slough away dried, dead skin cells after your bath or shower and your wash cloth to gently massage your favorite cleanser on your face.
Using terrycloth is the single most effective way to exfoliate and it's so inexpensive, too!
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I've spent the last 48 hours initiating myself with php/curl after discovering that the fopen() function was not allowed on DH shared servers.
My need is quite simple and I think I managed the hardest part. But stupidly, I'm blocked with something that is probably dead simple and maybe someone here can help.
A web site authorized me tu use their API and search their image database from my own web site. They only have a 1 page documentation showing a URL request lookalike and a description of the XML elements received when the request is successful.
I'm at the point where I managed to create a php file which fetch an example request (always the same) and parse it in a straight and simple table with SimpleXML.
You can check it here: http://fotonumerix.com/api-dreamstime/dreamstimeapi30.php
The code of my script is the following:
[code]------------------------------------------------------------<?php function My_simplexml_load_file($URL) { $ch = curl_init($URL); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); $xml = simplexml_load_string(curl_exec($ch)); curl_close($ch); return $xml; } $xml = My_simplexml_load_file('http://www.dreamstime.com/api.xml?username=MYUSERNAME&password=MYENCRYPTEDPASSWORD&type=get&request=search&orderby=downloads&srh_field=EXAMPLEKEYWORD'); if (empty($xml)) { print "Sorry , I could not find images matching your query.
Verify or modify your keywords."; } else { print "
|Dreamstime Image N° imageURL\" alt=\"Image labeled $item->title on Dreamstime\" target=\"_blank\">$item->imageID Label: $item->title Purchased $item->downloads times
|imageURL\" alt=\"Image labeled $item->title on Dreamstime\" target=\"_blank\">mediumThumb\" title =\"Image labeled $item->title on Dreamstime\">
So my problem with all that is to understand the logic of the form I want to create and how I pass the "post" values to this fetchparser script I did (and how i should modify it).
1- Do I have to crate a stand alone php which will contain only the code?
2- Do I have to set instead of the website?
That is how I understand the concept but if I'm right, I don't know, and I can't find how to transfer the content of the text field (containing the keywords) into the $url I used to fetxh the xml page with php/curl.
I hope my post was not as confused as I am.
Thanks in advance


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Approximately 1000 of the finest band, choir, and orchestra students are individually selected by audition, to represent each of nine districts in Illinois.  This year Geneseo has 27 outstanding students that have been selected as All-State musicians.
The IMEA does not observe any comparisons between schools, of the number of students who have been selected.  However, it is notable to our community that Geneseo High School (866 students enrolled), for the second consecutive year, has the greatest number of All-State musicians, out of all of the high schools in the State of Illinois. The next highest are Quincy High School (1920 students enrolled in three grades) with 25 participants, and Naperville Nequa Valley (4072 students enrolled) with 23 participants.
Our 2013 IMEA All-State Musicians are:
Corbyn Beck – clarinet, Gabby Cooney – tenor sax, Michael Daniels – alto sax, Taylor Hager – bassoon, Lily Kluge – clarinet, Courtney LaBrie – clarinet, Luke Larson – euphonium, Shaina Lohman – flute, Kim Moore – clarinet, Heather Robinson – tuba, Megan Roome – euphonium, Chelsea Schwarzkopf – oboe, Allison Yerkey – trombone, Chas Young – french horn, Jessica Schaumburg – percussion, Kamron Wilson – french horn, Morgan Bowton – alto voice, Karl Flynn – bass voice, Taylor Heppner – soprano voice, Hannah K. Johnson – alto voice, Hannah N. Johnson – soprano voice, Hunter Kuffel – bass voice, Dugan Kuffel – bass voice, Clare Possin – alto voice, Daniel Sears – bass voice, Naomi Terpening – soprano voice, and Ryan Zummallen – tenor voice.
This is a celebration of a community filled with passion and commitment to the arts.  Excellent music educators, a supportive Board of Education, parents willing to sacrifice their time, talents and treasures to support their children's musical endeavors, and students who do not just accept God-given talent as a gift and let it fallow, but instead dedicate themselves to a craft that shows both individual and collaborative excellence!
We understand in District 228 why music education is important.  Don't believe us?  Check out this site for more information.


text: We are a small and nimble shop, but we can certainly do big things. We are happy to announce the launch of www.laxoften.com . It's been over a 3 month span to develop and one of kind lacrosse experience that the lax world hasn't seen. This is just the first iteration of the site and we look forward to bringing in more social aspects to really get this community growing. It wasn't easy, but we are confident we provided a killer product for just a 3 man team. Mad love goes out to my partners in crime John and Tom. NOW SCHEW! GO! GO BUY SOME SHAKERZ SWAG ;)