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MAHLER Symphony No 9 Comparative review by Tony Duggan
WILLIAM ALWYN The complete symphonies on CHANDOS by Rob Barnett
VAGN HOLMBOE A compact biography and survey of the BIS recored cycle of the Symphonies by Rob Barnett
FERNANDO LOPES-GRAÇA 20TH CENTURY PORTUGUESE COMPOSER Review of four CDs by Rob Barnett
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Single Reviews
George ANTHEIL (1900-1959) Concert Music: Symphony No. 4 ('1942'); Symphony No. 6 McKonkey's Ferry (Washington at Trenton); A Concert Overture Theodore Kuchar conducts the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine. NAXOS 8.559033 [67:43] [IL]
ARNE: ALFRED An English Masque Jennifer Smith, Christine Brandis, David Daniels, Jamie MacDougall, Philharmonis Baroque Orchestra and chorale cond. Nicholas McGegan Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 75 605 51314 2 [PS]
EDGAR BAINTON Symphony No. 2 in D minor HUBERT CLIFFORD Symphony 1940 JOHN GOUGH Serenade for small Orchestra BBCPO/Vernon Handley CHANDOS CHAN 9757 [73 min] [HC]
BARTOK: Duke Bluebeard's Castle Op. 11, Cantata profana Sz 94. Hertha Topper, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, Helmut Krebs. RIAS Kammerchor, Chor der St. Hedwigs-Kathedrale, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin Ferenc Fricsay DG Originals Mono/Stereo 457-756-2 73m ADD (Recorded 1951/58) [GF]
Bernstein West Side Story symphonic dances; Gershwin Cuban Overture & Rhapsody in Blue; Grainger Fantasy on Porgy & Bess Jocelyn Abbott & Laura O'Gorman (piano duet) Cubitt Music ( A Quatre Mains) AOGCD 1. 64' 56" [PW]
SIR ARTHUR BLISS A Knot of Riddles, Angels of the Mind and other songs. Geraldine McGreevy (sop); Toby Spence (ten); Henry Hurford (bar); Kathron Sturrock (pf); Nash Ensemble conducted by Martyn Brabbins Hyperion CDA 67188/9 (2 CD set) 122' 31" [LF]
SERGEI BORTKIEWICZ (1877-1952) Symphony No. 1 in D Aus Meiner Heimat (1935-36) [36.11] Symphony No. 2 in E flat (1937) [32.10] orchestrated and played on the electronic SYNTHESISER by Daniel Oke The Bhagwan Thadani Bortkiewicz project. Bortkiewicz Vol. 11 - CD-23 [68.21]
BRUCH: Symphony No. 2 op. 36. Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra. Andreas Krecher: violin. Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra Gernot Schmalfuss MDG Gold MDG335 0868-2 76m DDD. [GF]
BUSONI 24 Preludes Op 37 BLISS Piano Sonata Trevor Barnard (piano ) Divine Art 2.5011 [DDD] [72' 58"]. [DW]
Frederic DEVREESE Gemini: Orchestral & Piano Works BRTN Philharmonic Orchestra - Brussels, various conductors including the composer Daniel Blumenthal - piano (and Robert Groslot on Gemini: suite for two pianos) CYPRES CYP1619 [2CDs: disc one - orchestral works: 58:10 / disc two - piano works: 56:19] [GD]
ELGAR - The Sketches for Symphony no 3 elaborated by Anthony Payne. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Paul Daniel. NAXOS 8.554719 [54' 59''] [PC]
THE SONGS OF EDWARD ELGAR Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mezzo-soprano), Neil Mackie (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano) Somm SOMMCD 220 [PS]
JENNIFER BATE plays British organ music ELGAR AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Jennifer Bate (organ) ASV Quicksilva CD ASV 6160 [AS] [RB]
AN IMAGE OF TRUTH The music of DAVID ELLIS Alison Wells, soprano - John Turner, recorder - Joanna Patton, clarinet - Peter Lawson and Keith Swallow, pianos - Jonathan Price, cello - Keith Elcombe, harpsichord - Coull String Quartet William Byrd Singers conducted by Stephen Wilkinson ASC RECORDS ASC CS CD6 [HC]
FAURE: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 The Schubert Ensemble of London ASV Quicksilva CD QS6237 65m DDD. [GF]
JOHN FIELD Nocturnes 1 - 12; Rondo in E (Le Midi); Rondo in E flat (Sonata No 1) Alan Cuckston (piano) Swinsty Records [DDD] FEW 115 [DW]
ARTHUR FOOTE (1853-1937) Piano Trio No. 1 in c minor (1884) DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 Serafino Trio rec Palma de Mallorca - 17-21 December 1999 SERAFINO TRIO (no number) CD available from the artists. Distribution via www.mp3.com [60 mins] [RB]
GOTTSCHALK: Piano Music for 2 and 4 hands. Alan Marks and Nerine Barrett. Nimbus NI7045/6 107m DDD.[GF]
REYNALDO HAHN (1875-1947) Piano Quintet (1921) [26 mins] String Quartet No. 1 (1939) [18 mins] String Quartet No. 2 (1940) [23 mins] Alexander Tharaud (piano) Quatuor Parisii world premiere recordings AUVIDIS VALOIS V4848 [67.45] [RB]
HALVORSEN: Stage Music Vol 1. 'Gurre': Dramatic Suite for Orchestra Op. 17, Askeladden, Suite, The Merchant of Venice - Suite. Latvian National Orchestra Terje Mikkelsen Simax Classics PSC1198 [GF]
George Frederick HANDEL Handel at the Opera overtures, arias and ballet music Collegium Musicum 90 conducted by Simon Standage Chandos Chaconne CHAN 06550 [66:37] [GD]
HAYDN String Quartets Op76, no1 in G; No2 in D minor (Fifths); no3 in C (Emperor) The Lindsays ASV CD DCA 1076 [DDD] [74' 39"] [DW]
HENZE Works for Two Guitars. "Minette: Canti e rimpianti amorosi" per 2 chitarre; Memorias de "El Cimarrón" for two guitarists (1995) and Drei Märchenbilder aus der Oper "Pollicino" (1980) Jürgen Ruck and Elena Càsoli (guitars) MDG Gold. MDG 304 0881-2. (59' 56'') [PC]
HERBERT HOWELLS Hymnus Paradisi; A Kent Yeoman's Wooing Song (premiere recording) Joan Rodgers, soprano - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor - Alan Opie, baritone - BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Richard Hickox CHANDOS CHAN 9744 [65] [HC]
Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen cast below Kühn Children's Choir, Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra Václav Neumann Supraphon 10 3471-2 (2 disc set) [TB]
ALEMDAR KARAMANOV (b.1934) Symphony No. 3 (1956-64) Piano Concerto No. 3 Ave Maria (1968) Vladimir Viardo (piano) Moscow SO/Antonio de Almeida rec 3 Nov 1994, Moscow Conservatory, Grand Hall MARCO POLO 8.223796 [73.38] [RB]
Erich Wolfgang KORNGOLD Juarez - The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex - The Sea Wolf James Sedares conducting the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Koch International Classics 3-7302-2H1 [60:35] [GD]
BENJAMIN LEES Symphony no 4 'Memorial Candles' Kimball Wheeler (soprano), James Buswell (violin), National Symphony of Ukraine, conducted by Theodore Kuohar American Classics Naxos. 8.559002 [DW]
LOCATELLI Concerti Grossi Op 1 nos 1-6 Capella Istropolitana Jaroslav Krecek. Naxos 8.553445 [DDD] [50' 27] [DW]
BENJAMIN POCHI MA (1964-) The Music of Benjamin Pochi Ma Vol. 1 Symphony in g minor Requiem Ohne Worte and 11 chamber works various soloists, Shanghai Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Li Jian Ping OMNIS ARS 020-99-672-01 c. 58 mins [RB]
MAHLER: Das Lied Von Der Erde John Mitchinson (Tenor), Alfreda Hodgson (Mezzo) BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Jascha Horenstein BBC Legends BBCL 4042-2 apprx £12 John Mitchinson (Tenor), Janet Baker BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Raymond Leppard The BBC Classic Collection BBCM 5012-2 bargain price approx £5
MARTINU: Julietta cast below Chorus and Orchestra of the National Theatre, Prague cond. Jaroslav Krombholc Supraphon 10 8176-2 (3 disc set) [TB]
JOSEPH MARX (1882-1964) The Three String Quartets Quartetto Chromatico (1936-37 rev 1948) Quartetto in Modo Classico (1940-41) Quartetto in Modo Antico (1937-38) Lyric Quartet world premiere recordings ASV CD DCA 1073 [79.22] [RB]
Billy MAYERL (1902-1959) Light Music for Piano and Orchestra including:- Marigold; Four Aces Suite; Aquarium Suite; Bats in the Belfry, Fireside Fusiliers; Busybody; and Pastoral Sketches. Andrew Ball (piano) Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gary Carpenter MARCO POLO 8.223514 [73:52] [IL]
JOSE VIANNA DA MOTTA (1868-1948) Symphony in A major À PÁTRIA (To the Fatherland) (1895) RDP Symphony Orchestra/Silva Pereira rec 28-30 June 1, 4-6 July 1977, Lisbon ADD PORTUGALSOM STRAUSS SP 4117 [49:03] Hungarian State Orchestra/Mátyás Antal rec 21-24 April 1988, Lisbon DDD PORTUGALSOM STRAUSS CD 870016/PS [40:55] [RB]
MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition. TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6, 'Pathetique'. Philharmonia Orchestra Carlo Maria Guilini. Recorded live in Usher Hall Edinburgh 1961 BBC Legends BBCL 4023-2 [76m] ADD [GF]
NIELSEN complete wind music Selandia Ensemble and guests Kontrapunkt 32288 60 mins. [PW]
ALAN RAWSTHORNE. Piano Quintet; Piano Trio; Cello Sonata; Concertante for violin and piano; Viola Sonata Rogeri Trio, John McCabe, Mark Messenger, Helen Roberts, Martin Qutram, Julian Rolton. Naxos 8.554352 [DDD] [70' 05] [DW]
ALAN RAWSTHORNE Music for violin and piano; Music for piano Benedict Holland (violin) Alan Cuckston (piano) [DDD] SWINSTY RECORDS FEW121CD [DW]
SARABAND FOR DEAD LOVERS, Songs and Piano Music by Alan Rawsthorne Sandra Dugdale (soprano), Martin Hindmarsh (tenor), Alan Cuckston (piano), Rene Atkinson (piano) [DDD] SWINSTY RECORDS FEW 120 CD [DW]
RIMSKY KORSAKOV Piano Trio in C minor (1897); MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (arr for piano trio by the Bekova Sisters) Bekova Sisters Chandos CHAN 9672 [DDD] [77' 45"] [DW]
EDMUND RUBBRA MUSIC FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO Sonata No 1 Op 11 (1930) Sonata No 2 Op 31 (1932) Sonata No 3 Op 133 (1968) Four Pieces Op 29 Variations on a Phrygian Theme for solo violin Op 105 Krysia Osostowicz (Violin) Michael Dussek (Piano) DUTTON CDLX 7101 [GH]
Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24, Belsazar, Romanzen & Balladen Op 49, 53 & 64 Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) Inger Sodergren (piano) BMG 09026 68900 65'53" [PW]
VARIATIONS. Schumann Impromptus Op 5; Beethoven Variations; Schubert Variations (world première recording); Ghost Variations. Brahms Variation on a theme of Schumann Andreas Boyde (piano) ATH CD23 [DDD] [67' 16"].[DW]
Schnittke, Pärt, Penderecki, Lutoslawski, Gubaidulina etc . Roman Mints (violin) Evgenia Chudinovich (piano) Black Box BBM1025 65 mins [PW]
SHOSTAKOVICH String Quartets Nos 4, 6 & 8 St Petersburg String Quartet Hyperion CDA67154 70m DDD [GF]
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Sonata PENDERECKI Sonata for violin and piano PART Spiegel im spiegel SCHNITTKE Sonata No. 3 for violin and piano, Stille nacht (Silent night) Daniel Hope: Violin, Simon Mulligan (piano) Nimbus NI5631 68m DDD [GF]
JENNIFER BATE plays British organ music STANFORD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES Including PARRY, Toccata and Fugue Jennifer Bate (organ) ASV QUICKSILVA CD QS 6222 [AS] [RB]
STRAUSS Metamorphosen, Capriccio sextet, SCHONBERG Verklarte Nacht. Brandis Quartet with Walter Kussner, Dietmar Schwalke, Rainer Zepperitz Nimbus NI5614 66m DDD. [GF]
DONALD SWANN The Isles of Greece - a cycle of songs for voices and chamber orchestra plus Donald Swann accompanying himself in The Casos Sonnets. Lucinda Broadbridge (sop) Juliet Alderdice (mezz) Jeffrey Cresswell (ten) with instrumental accompaniment/John Jansson. DIVINE ART 2-5010 [77.41] [PS]
EXPOSÉ - the chamber works of PETER TAHOURDIN: Dialogue no 1 (1971) for violin and piano; Raga Music 1 - The Starlight Night (1985) for soprano and ensemble; Dialogue No 4 (1984) for trombone and percussion; Songs of Love and Fortune (1992) for baritone and piano; Raga Music 4 - For Two (1991) for bass clarinet and percussion;Expose (1995) for solo piano Kirsten Williams, Michael Harvey, Jeannie Marsh, Gerald Gentry, Frederick Shade, Rudolf Osadnik, Arturs Ezergailis, Peter Neville, Barrie webb, Julian Warburton, Bradley Daley, Phillipa Safey, Carl Rosman MD 3205 Move Records [PC]
JOAN TRIMBLE: Two Pianos - Songs and chamber Music Various Artists Marco Polo Irish Composer Series. 8.225059 [PS]
MANFRED TROJAN (1907-83) Fairy Tales and Folk Songs Prince Bajaja (1950 arr 1970) [21.55] The Emperor's Nightingale (1948 arr 1964) [21.22] Czech and Slovak Folk Songs [15.54] Václav Hudecek (violin) Pavel Dreser (accordion) Lubomir Brabec (guitar) rec 4-6 March 1994, Prague SUPRAPHON 11 2203-2 131 [59.26] [RB]
TRUSCOTT Symphony, Suite in G and Elegy National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, cond. Gary Brain Marco Polo 8.223674 (60' 52") [PW]
Erkki-Sven Tüür Symphony No.3; Cello Concerto ; Lighthouse for strings. David Geringas (cello) Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna, cond. Dennis Russell Davies. ECM New Series 1673 465 134-2 (63 mins) [PW]
JENNIFER BATE plays British organ music PERCY WHITLOCK Organ Music Jennifer Bate (organ) ASV QUICKSILVA CD QS 6233 [AS] [RB]
Xenakis Oresteia Choirs and ensemble, with Spiros Sakkas (baritone) and Sylvio Gualda (percussion) Salabert SCD 8906 49'25" [PW]
ENGLISH LUTE SONGS. Works by: Purcell, Lawes, Dowland, Locke, Blow etc. Robin Blaze: countertenor, Elizabeth Kenny: lute Hyperion CDA67126 71m DDD.[GF]
ENGLISH STRING MINIATURES: "Summer Stream": Alan Langford: Four Pieces; Geoffrey Bush: Divertimento; Geoffrey Wright: Two Pieces; Herbert Sumsion: A Mountain Tune; David Lyon: Intermezzo; Anthony Hedges: Divertimento. Royal Ballet Sinfonia/David Lloyd-Jones ASV CD WHL 2121 [PC]
TORTELIER'S FRENCH BONBONS: Works by Hérold, Gounod, Thomas, Massenet, Adam, Chabrier, Auber, Offenbach and Maillart BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier Chandos CHAN 9765 [75' 08''] [PC]
Charlotte CHURCH Various songs and arias SONY SK89003 [DW]
RADIO CLASSICS Various composers and orchestras HMV CLASSICS 5 73550 2 [PS]
RENAISSANCE MASTERPIECES Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly Naxos 8.550843 [DDD] [69'01] [DW]
OF KNIGHTS AND CASTLES Sinfonia of Cambridge Brass Ensemble/Russell Keable DUNELM RECORDS DRD 0141
(from 2 Park Close, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 7RQ) [PS]
Collection: The Land of Mountain and Flood - Scottish Orchestral Music Royal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by John Wilson ASV CD WHL 2123 [70:46] [C S-S]
THE ROMANTIC CELLO: Sonatas by PARRY and HURLSTONE, pieces by HARTY Andrew Fuller (cello), Michael Dussek (piano) DDD DUTTON CDLX 7102 [PS]
WHALE SPIRIT RISING: MARJAN MOZETICH Fantasia .. sul linguaggio perduto for string orchestra (1981) 14.16 BRIAN ELLIAS Whale Spirit Rising for strings and baritone saxophone (1985) 26.24 KEITH JARRETT Elegy for violin and string orchestra (1985) 18.28 Eleonora Turovsky (violin) David Mott (sax) I Musici de Montreal/Yuli Turovsky rec Canada 1996-1997 CHANDOS NEW DIRECTION CHAN 9748 [59.18] [RB]
HOPE AND GLORY: Soundtrack to the TV series Music by: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Pachelbel, Wagner etc. Various Orchestras and conductors. BBC WMSF 6014-2 70m DDD. [GF]
EDWARD & SOPHIE: A Royal Celebration Official Recording of the wedding service by the BBC BBC WMEF0042-2 55m [GF]
Richard Rodney BENNETT & John TAVENER Gormenghast Orchestral score by Richard Rodney Bennett, the BBC Philharmonic conducted by John Harle. Choral music by John Tavener, The Academy of Ancient Music conducted by Paul Goodwin, with The Choir of Temple Church directed by Stephen Layton. Title song sung by Andrew Johnson. SONY SK89135 [67:20] [GD]
HAMMER FILM COLLECTION Vol 2 GDI Records GDICD005 Distributed by ABM Tel: (0208) 236 2310 Fax: (0208) 236 2312 [PC]
FRANZ REIZENSTEIN - Film Music for "The Mummy" GDI Records GDICD006. Distributed by ABM Tel: (0208) 236 2310. Fax: (0208) 236 2312. (57' 45'').[PC]
The CELIBIDACHE Edition - The Stuttgart Recordings Volume IV: Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)Nocturnes; La Mer; Ibéria (Images pour orchestre No. 2) Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)Daphnis et Chloé (Suite No. 2); La Valse; Le Tombeau de Couperin; Alborado del gracioso; Rapsodie espagnole SWR Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sergiu Celibidache DG 453 194-2 3 CDs [163:28] with bonus CD containing La Mer rehearsals [47:59] [IL]
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI - The Magician various orchestras RCA Red Seal - Artists of the Century series RCA 74321 70931 2 2 CD set (CD1 78.10+CD2 70.29) Mid price ADD [RB]
TOSCANINI CONCERT EDITION. Beethoven Symphony No 2 in D, Op 36; Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op 60; Overture Leonore No 3. With broadcast introductions and interval talk by Samuel Chotzinoff. NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini. Recorded at NBC on 4 November 1939 Naxos 8.110815-16 (2 CDs) [AAD] [95']. [DW]
TOSCANINI CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN. Symphony No 7; Septet, Op 20; Overture Egmont. NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini. Radio broadcast 18 November 1939. [AAD] [78' 51"] Naxos 8.110814. [DW]
TOSCANINI CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN. Choral fantasy for piano, chorus and orchestra; Symphony No 9 in D minor 'Choral'. Anita Dorfman (piano), Jamila Novotna (soprano), Kerstin Thorburg (contralto), Jan Peerce (tenor), Nicola Noscona (bass), Westminster Choir, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini . Radio broadcast of 2 December 1939. Naxos 8.110824 [AAD] [80']. [DW]
REALMS OF GOLD: The Letters and Poems of John Keats Read by Samuel West with Matthew Marsh Naxos Audiobooks NA217412 158m DDD.[GF]
The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (1999) By Ivan March, Edward Greenfield and Robert Layton Paperback - 1600 pages (November 1999) Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140513795 £19.99 (Amazon UK £13.60) [AB]
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It's a busy week. Thanksgiving menus are being finalized, the Holiday tables are being set and turkeys are being laid out to thaw. Thanksgiving is especially important to many turkey producers. After all, their livelihood is the staple of many Holiday dinners. One Iowa turkey producer has been able to weather the storm better than other livestock producers, so this Thursday, Katie Olthoff will be giving a lot of thanks.
She's a wife, mother, turkey farmer and avid blogger. So, as Olthoff makes her rounds through her newly renovated barn in Stanhope, Iowa, surviving 2012 comes as a huge relief.
"Feed is one of our biggest input costs. So, when corn prices rise like they have this year, that definitely puts a strain on our farm," says Olthoff.
Farming can be extremely difficult in years like 2012 when Mother Nature doesn't provide a key ingredient to farming—moisture. As the crops in Iowa grew parched, struggling to get enough rain, Olthoff knew 2012 would be a difficult one for many livestock producers to endure.
It's been more than just the drought. As the temperatures skyrocketed this summer, the heat also threatened her flock.
"Overnight one night, we lost 5% of one barn, because it didn't cool down overnight," Olthoff says. "The heat was just really hard on them."
Despite those challenges, Olthoff has been able to cushion some of the potential losses through good management practices.
"We've tried really hard to minimize our inputs in other areas and try to be very efficient and use the best management practices we can to make sure that we have big healthy birds going to market," she explains. "And then that's going to help minimize any losses for us."
She says those management practices, combined with being proactive, has been the recipe helping keep the Olthoff's in the black this year.
"Energy efficiency is always huge for us," says Olthoff. "We have tunnel ventilated barns, which instead of curtain side walls, they have big fans at the end that stuck air through."
This picture isn't as hopeful for all livestock producers. Pork producers are preparing for steep losses.
"As long as there are high commodity prices, if you're buying feed, it's going to be very difficult to have profitability," says Paul DeBriyn, CEO of AgStar Financial.
This makes Olthoff even more grateful for a profitable year. Despite surviving 2012, as a farmer, she knows there are still many hurdles ahead.
"Disease is one of our biggest concerns," says Olthoff. "We try to use biosecurity to minimize any disease entering the building. And then also, jus try to use the best management practices to make sure our turkeys are healthy, and they're not stressed and not susceptible to disease."
The necessary antibiotics, however, are becoming harder to get, and supplies have been limited.
Olthoff says she believes communication is key, educating generations removed from farming about how animals are raised, and why tools like antibiotics are so essential to the health of the birds.
Through her blog, transparency is her goal, realizing that may play a major role in helping save the future of her family's farm.
"So, I became really sensitive and concerned about that," she says. "And that's one of the reasons I started blogging about our farm is to share how we do things, and how we make decisions on our farm, so people know we're making educated decisions. We have food safety and interests as one of the big things we take into consideration."
Olthoff says she knows educating the public is a constant struggle, but believes it's an action many producers need to take.
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Study Links Prenatal Antidepressants Intake With Autism
A study released by the Archives of General Psychiatry says children whose mothers took antidepressants during pregnancy are twice as likely to be autistic.
The study suggests that the class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be risky early on in a pregnancy, CNN reported.
According to the small study, which included fewer than 200 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), children exposed to the drugs during the first trimester were nearly four times as likely to develop an ASD than unexposed children.
The study did not directly prove that taking the antidepressants, which include Zoloft and Prozac, directly causes ASD. The findings must be confirmed in larger studies, experts on prenatal and mental health say.


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My boy Mickey
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share that my dog Mickey passed on friday June 28, 2013 at the age of 17 years old. When I got home that last wednesday, I saw that it wasn't just a "bad day". It was his time to go. His head was always turned to one side, he couldn't stand-up or walk by himself. I had to carry him inside. He vomited a few times and wouldn't eat anything. He drank water but I had to hold his head and help him. He slept most of the time, waking every 4-6 hours. I would help him drink and I changed his sheets and blankets if he urinated.
When I took him to the vet clinic for the last time, my vet confirmed what I already suspected: his brain was affected. I stayed with him till the end, petting and talking to him. He left quickly and peacefully. The vet told me I could stay with him longer so I stayed awhile. More than a week later, when I returned to the clinic to get his ashes, I received a plastic-coated card with his footprints as well as a handwritten sympathy card from the vet and staff. It was totally unexpected. I thought I had finished crying but boy oh boy did the tears ever come back when I saw his footprints and when I read the card. I spread some of his ashes on Kalou's grave. She was Mickey's soul mate; she died 9 years ago. I'm sure they are together now, playing and having a ball!
I'm sad but I'm also happy: he had a good and long life. He was a happy dog and most importantly, he was loved. He was a great dog, a beautiful and gentle soul, always cheerful with an eternal puppy face smile . He was "mon petit homme" (my little man). Although the last few years were more difficult (it wasn't always easy taking care of a very old dog) memories of a younger Mickey are coming back.
I'm thankful I have my other dog Arielle and my 2 cats Kira and Jadzia. They make me smile and laugh. Here are the photos I posted when I first joined this board. Mickey is the blond and white dog.
(I hope I did it correctly, my computer knowledge is very limited, my now ex-hubby helped me when I originally posted those pictures.)
Thanks for reading.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" Mahatma Gandhi
I am so sorry...I too know it is difficult to take care of a very senior dog. I would do it all again in a heartbeat for just one more day. I am sure you would too.
He is young and whole and happy and running free of pain at the Bridge now with Kalou
Mum to Ziggy (6) and Zuzu (5), Zoey (8) and Raggzy (3) Keena (2)...my own little Heaven!
Ginger and Hobo at the Bridge (Valentine's Day 2011) but NEVER forgotten <3...
"I have sent you on a journey to a land free from pain, not because
I did not love you, but because I loved you too much to force
you to stay" ♥ ♥
We do not have to wait for Heaven, to be surrounded by hope, love, and joyfulness.
It is here on earth and has four legs!
Please accept my deep condolences Helen4
Even though you are coming to terms with Mickey's passing, we know that it's still a hard time
Sweet Mickey
So sorry to read this, my condolences. Mickey is whole and pain free again and certainly playing with Kalou. What a great mental picture that gives me. RIP sweet Mickey, you were and always will be loved.
I so sorry to hear of Mickey passing away. It sound like he had a very full life.
I'm so very sorry for your loss, but happy that your memories of young Mickey are helping you through this hard time. No matter how long they're with us, it's never long enough, but 17 years is a wonderful run! He looks so happy and carefree in that pic in the intro thread. Very obviously well-loved by his very excellent Mom!
"We are--each of us--dying; it's how we live in the meantime that makes the difference."
"It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived!"
"Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
Helene4, Mickey looked lovely and I think you did a splendid job, getting him to that age. I'm sure you gave and loved him through every minute of life you could give him. In the end they take the decision out of our hands. Very sad news, sending our sincere sympathy on your loss, and cyber hugs from me.
Thanks to all for your kind words. I will probably start a new thread; Arielle is having problems ajusting to Mickey's absence when I'm not home...
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- "Julie Parkes. Gone, but not forgotten."
- —Parkes's epitaph.[src]
Julie Parkes (late 1970s or early 1980s—1997) was a witch and a Hogwarts student in the 1990s, Sorted into Gryffindor House. Her untimely death came in the second half of 1997, possibly as a result of the Second Wizarding War, which was at its height.
Early life
Julie Parkes was born in or before 1982,[1] presumably sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s. She might have been born, lived, or had family in Godric's Hollow, as the village's cemetery was where she was buried after her untimely death.[3]
- "Thanks, Harry. I can't wait to play wizard chess!"
- —Julie Parkes in the Clock Tower.[src]
Sometime between Summer and Christmas Eve in 1997, Parkes either died or was murdered (the latter being more likely given her young age — something between fourteen and eighteen — and because of the war). She was buried in the local cemetery of Godric's Hollow, next to the Parish Church of St. Clementine.[3]
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game) (First appearance) (NDS version only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Mentioned only)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 She was at Hogwarts in the 1993-1994 school year. Thus, she was at least 11 years by 1993.
- ↑ World Exclusive Interview with J K Rowling
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
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Quality of Service for Web Services-Demystification, Limitations, and Best Practices
Web Services are based on a collection of standards and protocols that allow us to make processing requests to remote systems by speaking a common, non-proprietary language and using common transport protocols such as HTTP and SMTP.
With the proliferation of Web Services as a business solution to enterprise application integration, the quality of service (QoS) offered by Web Services is becoming the utmost priority for service provider and their partners. Due to the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the Web, providing the acceptable QoS is really a challenging task. In addition to this, the different applications that are collaborating for Web Services interaction with different requirements will compete for network resources. The above factors will force service providers to understand and achieve Web Services QoS. Also, a better QoS for a Web Service will bring competitive advantage over others by being a unique selling point for service provider.
Web Services QoS "Stack"
We are proposing a QoS stack that addresses various issues that are present in different layers of the Web Services stack, which is depicted in Figure 1.
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Figure 1: The layers of a Web Services stack
Web Services Performance
The performance of a Web Service is measured in terms of throughput, latency, execution time, and transaction time. Throughput represents the number of Web Services requests served in a given time period. Latency is the round-trip time between sending a request and receiving the response. Execution time is the time taken by a Web Service to process its sequence of activities. And transaction time represents the period of time that passes while the Web Service is completing one complete transaction. Higher throughput, lower latency, lower execution and faster transaction times represent good performing Web Services.
The overall performance of Web Services depends on application logic, network, and most importantly on underlying messaging and transport protocols, such as SOAP and HTTP, that it uses. The SOAP protocol is still maturing and harbors a lot of performance and scalability problems. The SOAP protocol uses a multi-step process to complete a communication cycle.
The SOAP request begins with the business logic of your application learning the method and parameter to call from a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document. This whole process is a time-consuming one, which requires various levels of XML parsing and XML validation and hence hits the performance of the Web Service.
Best Practices
Analyzing the above situation and looking in to SOAP and other related standards, as of now we cannot get away with the steps of XML processing. Instead, we can optimize the XML processing steps.
Some of the best practices to be followed to achieve the same are listed below:
- Use of efficient and lightweight parsers.
- Efficient use of XML validation in production mode.
- Use of compressed XML for sending the messages over network.
- Web Service Caching
- Use of simple data types in SOAP messages as far as possible.
Web Services Reliability
DemystifyingReliability is the overall measure of a Web Service to maintain its service quality. The number of failures per day, week, month, or year represents an overall measure of reliability for a Web Service. Reliability also refers to the assured and ordered delivery for messages being sent and received by service requestors and service providers.
The Web Services currently rely on transport protocols such as HTTP, which are inherently stateless and follow a best-effort delivery mechanism. It does not guarantee whether the message will be delivered to the destination.
Best Practices
The above problem rising due to the use of unreliable protocols can be solved using the following techniques:
- Use of asynchronous message queues.
- Adoption of new reliable transport protocols (such as HTTPR, REST, and BEEP).
Web Services Integrity
Integrity is the degree to which a system or component prevents unauthorized access to, or modification of, computer programs or data. Data integrity defines whether the transferred data is modified in transit. Transactional integrity refers to a procedure or set of procedures, which is guaranteed to preserve database integrity in a transaction; in other words, whether the database is consistent before and after a transaction: atomicity (no intermediate state).
Data Integrity is important for any object's proper functioning and must be assured or it could corrupt a larger program and generate a very difficult to trace error. Web Services transactions tend to be asynchronous and long running in nature. Transaction integrity is just one of several QoS elements, including security and process orchestration, which are missing from the first incarnations of Web Services standards of SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL.
Best Practices
Emerging standards in the business process management and transactions will help to achieve the desired QoS.
- Adopting standards such as BPEL4WS, WS-Coordination, WS-Transaction, and BTP would benefit service providers.
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Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, walks in the Assembly Chamber at the Capitol on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, in Albany, N.Y.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's Assembly has passed a ban against health professionals trying to change a child's sexual orientation through therapy.
On Monday the Democratic-led Assembly passed the ban 86 to 28. It would prohibit licensed psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, mental health practitioners and physicians from using conversion therapy on anyone under 18. Clergy would not be included.
The American Psychological Association says there is no evidence so-called gay conversion therapy can change someone's sexual orientation.
Bans against gay conversion therapy have already gone into law in New Jersey and California. A proposed ban was voted down in Illinois in April.
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A drive to scrap the state's no-fault auto insurance system was shifted into neutral, for at least a week in the Senate.
The delay comes as Gov. Rick Scott and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, proponents of last year's effort to remove fraud from the state's decades-old Personal Injury Protection (PIP) auto insurance system, have made public overtures that they would prefer giving the 2012 reforms a chance to take hold.
Still, Senate Banking and Insurance Chairman David Simmons, R-Maitland, maintains his belief that if lawmakers would agree to set bodily injury coverage as the new bargain basement system, premium prices for most Florida drivers would come down.
He noted that the state Office of Insurance Regulation estimates that more than 70 percent of motorists already have some bodily injury coverage.
But Simmons was greeted with silence Tuesday from members of his committee when he asked if they wanted to debate a proposal (SB 7152) to scrap PIP. Simmons requested a delay so he could discuss the proposal with Scott and Rep. Bryan Nelson, R-Apopka, who chairs the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee.
"This has happened pretty swiftly and it's very important for us to do this, under the circumstance, in a very deliberate approach," Simmons said.
Simmons attributed the silence by his committee to an understanding by members that change is needed.
"There are those who want to see how things develop over the next couple of weeks," Simmons said. "I think it's important for us to put it off a week so we can make sure everyone who has something to say about this issue has a chance to say it."
Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart, declined a request by Simmons to comment on the proposal that would toss the 2012 PIP law that he a primarily authored.
"I'm busy working on the budget," said Negron, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee.
According to OIR, of 135 policy filings sought since the 2012 law went into effect, 52 percent have seen a decrease in rates. About 28 percent have shown an increase.
The push to replace the PIP system has been rushed since a ruling in March by Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, who sided with chiropractors and massage therapists in a challenge to parts of the law.
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A thief stole my credit card number. Am I a victim of identity theft?
No. Card theft is technically not the same as identity theft. Card theft occurs when an unauthorized person uses your credit card number from an existing account to make purchases. True identity theft occurs when someone uses your personal information – such as your Social Security number, birth date, mother's maiden name – to impersonate you and apply for new credit accounts in your name. Identity thieves can also use your Social Security number to obtain work, which means that income they earn could be reported to the IRS as your income.
How do thieves get information to use my credit card or steal my identity?
Most credit card thieves still get information the old-fashioned way – by stealing a purse or wallet, sifting through documents in a mailbox or Dumpster or skimming cards. Skimming occurs when employees in retail business or restaurants, for example, swipe credit cards twice – once using their employer's credit card reader and a second time using their own reader. Insider theft also occurs when employees of companies or agencies that process documents containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive data steal it. A relatively new way to steal massive numbers of credit card numbers involves hacking databases, such as occurred in a recent incident involving a credit card processing company in Arizona. In that case, a thief or thieves accessed information for about 40 million credit card accounts. Identity thieves can get information the same way – by hacking data brokers such as ChoicePoint and Lexis-Nexis – or by obtaining Social Security numbers by sifting through public records, some of which are available online.
How will I know if my identity has been stolen?
You may not know. If you lose your purse or wallet or someone steals them, you may see fraudulent activity appear on your monthly credit card statement. But you may not know if a thief has stolen your identity and applied for new credit accounts in your name. That's because monthly account statements will likely be mailed to the thief's address or a post office box. You'd discover the problem the next time you tried to rent an apartment, buy a car or apply for a credit card or loan and got turned down due to a bad credit rating caused by unpaid credit card charges racked up by the thief.
If someone charges my card will I have to pay for the items they buy?
Federal law limits a cardholder's liability on fraudulent charges to $50. The card issuer – Visa, MasterCard, Discover – has to pick up remaining costs. Generally, card issuers will wave the $50 as well since they don't want to discourage people from using credit cards. A few card companies have zero-liability policies, which means that cardholders don't have to pay any fraudulent charges.
If someone steals my identity am I responsible for charges they make on new cards in my name or other damages they cause?
No. The same law mentioned above applies in this case. But you'll be saddled with the hassle of trying to clear your name and restore your credit, which can take years.
What should I do if my wallet or purse is lost or stolen?
Immediately contact all three credit reporting agencies – Equifax, Experian and TransUnion – and have them place a fraud alert on your account. This means that companies issuing new credit accounts in your name will have to call you to obtain permission first. The alert will last for 90 days only. You can extend the alert to seven years, but only if you've been a victim of identity theft and can provide a police report.
Equifax: 1.800.525.6285
Experian: 1.888.397.3742
TransUnion: 1.800.680.7289
In addition to contacting the credit reporting agencies, you should file a police report if your property was stolen. Close any accounts that you think may have been compromised by the loss or theft. The FTC provides more information and a chart to tick off steps you should take.
What can I do to prevent myself from becoming a victim?
There isn't really anything you can do to prevent identity theft. As long as Social Security numbers are used for purposes other than Social Security, you are at risk of having your identity stolen any time someone has access to documents that carry your number and other personal data. There are, however, things you can do to lower your risk of becoming a victim.
- Review monthly financial statements carefully for fraudulent activity.
- Request a free copy of your credit report from a credit-reporting agency once a year to examine it for fraudulent activity. A new law requiring credit reporting agencies to provide a free annual report goes into effect nationwide in September. Until then, it's in effect only in western and Midwestern states. The credit report will show who requested access to your credit record. Look for requests from companies you haven't done business with and tell credit-reporting agencies if you see credit accounts that you didn't open or debts you didn't incur. Check to see that your name and address are correct.
- Don't give your Social Security number to any business that doesn't really need it.
- Cross shred sensitive documents. Thieves have been known to piece together strips of paper that are shredded only once. Cross-shredders double-shred documents.
- Shred pre-approved credit-card offers before tossing them in the garbage.
- Don't store sensitive personal information, such as bank account numbers and passwords, on home computers or handheld devices.
- Install a firewall and anti-virus software on your computer and keep the virus definitions up to date to prevent viruses and Trojan horses from infecting your computer and feeding personal information back to hackers.
- Don't fall for phishing scams. Phishing occurs when someone sends you an e-mail purporting to be from your bank or other company you do business with and requesting you to update your account information.
- Use specially designed software programs to clean data from your computer before you sell or discard it. Simply deleting files will not remove data from the memory.
- Don't carry any documents in your wallet that have your Social Security number on them, including your medical card or military ID, on days when you don't need the card.
- Opt-out when your bank or other financial institution requests permission to share information about you with other businesses.
- Close all credit-card accounts except the one or two that you really need.
- If you are an identity theft victim and live in one of ten states, including California, Colorado, Louisiana, Maine, Texas, Vermont or Washington, consider placing a "freeze" on your credit report so that no one can access it without your permission. More than 20 additional states are considering passing similar legislation. Creditors need to look at your report before granting you credit. By freezing your report, it will prevent unauthorized people from seeing your personal data and it will prevent creditors from opening a new credit account in your name for an impostor. Some states only let victims of identity theft freeze their records. Other states allow anyone to freeze their record. The State Public Interest Research Groups maintains a list of states with freeze laws.


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Heavy rain on Tues. evening, with showers and thunderstorms into the morning. But then came the clearing and the sunshine – and the discovery of what some critters do to seek shelter from the rain.
Just outside my studio there is a shagbark hickory tree, with large, wide leaves. As it turns out – a perfect hiding place from the rain.
A Cecropia moth, our largest native moth, clings to the underside of one of the leaves. Wings folded, this moth was not disturbed by my attempts to photograph it, which proved extremely difficult. The breeze kept the leaves in constant motion, and I had to point the camera up toward the now-bright sky. So, the photos are not great, but enough to show you what I found.
At one point I did try to hold the leaf still with one hand, while attempting to work the camera with the other. When I did that, the moth opened his wings – possibly to scare me off with those spots! They look like holes in his wings in this picture, but they are just its spots. Not wanting to disturb the moth any further, I gave up and left it alone.
There were several black beetles clustered around the leaf stems, just a few leaves away from the moth. I haven't taken the time to identify them yet, but one of the scarab or stag beetles, I think. There were at least half a dozen. Again, very difficult to get a decent photo with the leaves swaying in the breeze.
And finally, right under the window frame, another huge spider. What is it with spiders and my studio building? I'm not sure what species this one is either – have to hit the books and find out. It should be fairly easy to find, given the striping and size – and I'll post it back here when I do. Until then, I'm with Ron in Harry Potter – "Why couldn't it be butterflies?"
Added Note: I took the time to research this and I think the spider is a six-spotted fishing spider. It says I can tell also by the "undersurface paler, except for six black spots between leg bases." So I'm supposed to turn this thing over and have a look at its belly? Seriously?


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Noted multi award-winning filmmaker Thomas J. Churchill's epic horror film, The Emerging Past Director's Cut was just released on Amazon Prime. This film is in the tradition of Hitchcock and is a new psychological thriller from the producers & Writer/Director of Check Point, The Rack Pack, and Lazarus Apocalypse comes THE EMERGING PAST.
When you can't see the future you need to live for the past. This film is the ultimate psycho-thriller roller coaster ride of terror. Murder and mayhem surround Queens New York photographer, Pamela Garret (played by Krista Grotte, Check Point, The Rack Pack, Lazarus Apocalypse, Hershel Gordon Lewis' The Uh-Oh Show) after she is discovered taking a life altering picture of a sacrifice ritual. Her world suddenly becomes a jigsaw puzzle as she quickly needs to solve it and find somewhere safe to hide before her emerging past catches up with her. With no where to go, she turns to her coworker Dylan (played by the late actor Brooke McCarter in his last and final role, The Lost Boys, Trashin, The Uh-Oh Show) for help. As stress levels rise in her search for the truth her coworker spins the game into another level as he reveals just who he really is. As she soon realizes that the past is never where you left it hence the title for the film.
"I'm so excited that the Emerging Past Director's Cut is on Amazon Prime. The Emerging Past was one of my first films, so it's as if my career has come full circle with this release of the film," said Churchill.
This film also stars horror icon Stephen Geoffreys (Check Point, LAZARUS, Fright Night, 976-Evil, Heaven Help Us, At Close Range), Steve Dash (Friday the 13th Part 2, Nighthawks, Alone in the Dark, Mr. Hush), Edward X. Young (Sea of Dust, The Green Monster, Mr. Hush), Tony Moran (John Carpenter's Halloween, BEG) and Mike Marino (Check Point, Sleepless Nights, Lazarus Apocalypse). The film is skillfully written and directed by Thomas J. Churchill (Check Point, Lazarus Apocalypse, The Rack Pack). This noteworthy film was the winner of 8 Awards including four for Best Picture at various Film Festivals across the world.
This has been a banner year for the prolific Churchill. His film, The Rack Pack, starring C. Thomas Howell is in post production. His much buzzed about film, Check Point, which was distributed by Sony was just released on all platforms. This film has an all-star ensemble cast consisting of WWE Universal Champion Bill Goldberg (The Longest Yard), William Forsythe (The Rock, Raising Arizona), Martial Arts Hall of Famer Mel Novak (Bruce Lee's Game of Death, An Eye For An Eye opposite Chuck Norris), Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th films), Tyler Mane (Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's Halloween, X-Men), Fred "The Hammer" Williamson (From Dusk Till Dawn, Starsky & Hutch), Former UFC Champion John Lewis (Sons of Anarchy), Krista Grotte (Nation's Fire, The Rack Pack) and Kenny Johnson (Bates Motel, The Shield). This project is also the last film of Ricky Harris (Heat, Dope) before his tragic and unexpected death. The action packed Syndicate Smasher, which he worked on with Novak and Laurene Landon (Maniac Cop, Sky) and played the role of Andy, just held it's world premiere to a sold out crowd.
Other projects this multi-talented filmmaker has worked on are the two time award-winning retro-film noir zombie epic-Lazarus: Apocalypse starring James Duval (Independence Day), which won best horror film at The New York City International Film Festival. He also produced and portrayed the sheriff in the indie film Mr. Hush. Churchill was also seen by millions on the SyFy Network's hit series Monster Man in episode #2 titled The Forbidden Werewolf. This talented multi-hyphenate had a memorable role in the new cult classic Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance with a talented ensemble cast consisting of Bai Ling (The Crow), Tommy Wiseau (The Room), Laurene Landon (Airplane 2: The Sequel), and Dawna Lee Heising (Pond Scum), and was reunited with Novak. Next on deck for Churchill is epic action thriller Nation's Fire, starring Grotte, which he wrote and will be directing. Also on deck for him is an edgy new anthology TV series, Cold Plastic, which he also wrote and is directing as well. Both projects are being production in conjunction David M. Parks' Apothecary Entertainment.
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For Timothy Williamson and Jessica Padgen, it wasn't exactly love at first sight. But the two Army specialists on leave from Iraq had more than "rest and relaxation" on their minds Monday afternoon when they were married at City Hall.
For Timothy Williamson and Jessica Padgen, it wasn't exactly love at first sight. But the two Army specialists on leave from Iraq had more than "rest and relaxation" on their minds Monday afternoon when they were married at City Hall.
When Williamson, of Cambridge, who works as a mechanic for the Army, and Padgen, of Long Island, who works as a medic, first met a year and a half ago when they were stationed at Fort Drum working together in the same company — the 277 Aviation Support Battalion. They didn't exactly get along.
"We clashed — we're the same person," Padgen said. "I'm a Yankees fan, and he's a Red Sox fan, so there was automatic tension."
Now, Williamson, 23, and Padgen, 24, are both serving in Tikrit, Iraq, in the 10th Mountain Division and the 10th Combat Action Badge. They began dating before they went overseas, when their feelings toward each other began to change.
"I guess we were just in the right place at the right time," Padgen said. "I started falling for him."
The newlyweds said their relationship during active duty was affected by factors that civilian couples do not have to encounter. When they were first deployed, they were separated for a month.
When the couple returned to the same location, their schedules still made seeing each other difficult, Padgen said. But having each other's support made their tasks easier. She said Williamson provides her with the "push" she might need at times.
Williamson said he and his bride did not have any privacy during deployment, but these hardships never spawned any doubt between the couple about their relationship.
"She does a lot for me," Williamson said. "She takes care of me, and I like to think I do the same for her."
Williamson said he proposed to Padgen this past Christmas Eve. He almost got "cold feet" at the time, but he said he knew Padgen would say yes. The couple could not plan their wedding right away because of the spontaneous nature of the Army.
"It's exciting they got the opportunity," said Kelly Allen, Williamson's aunt. "They both applied for leave at the same time, and they were lucky enough to get it."
Padgen said she hopes she and Williamson will be able to spend more time together when they go back on Feb. 5. However, the couple is unsure whether they will be able to live together while they are deployed.
Military couples are "very prominent," Padgen said, because a relationship with two people in service is easier than someone in the Army dating a civilian back home.
Williamson said he and Padgen will go on their honeymoon to Disney World next November, when they return from deployment. He said the couple plan to live in Cambridge when they are out of the Army in 2013.
There were 11 guests present at the ceremony, including Williamson's grandfather, James Williamson, a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars. Padgen, whose parents could not be present at the wedding, said the couple had met each other's families before they came home to be married.
"I kind of knew it was gonna happen," said Cathie Paulino, Williamson's mother. "I feel old; they just aged me 10 years."
David Williamson, Timothy's uncle, said everyone was shocked, because the wedding was planned so impulsively, and the couple is home for only two weeks.
Zach Allen, another uncle, summed up the general feeling in the room where the ceremony was conducted amongst many tears and flashing cameras.
"They're just so happy," he said.
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Home Brew
Matt Cohen '96 might not be considered unusual for finding his calling on campus, and in the library no less. Except he wasn't studying but flipping through a magazine—and his spark of inspiration was an ad for a home brewing kit.
"Late one night I went down to the kitchen at the base of the East Tower, boiled up some wort, and brewed my first batch of beer, a light American ale," recalls Cohen, who opened the Fiddlehead Brewing Company in Shelburne, Vermont, on New Year's Eve in 2011. "I thought it was pretty delicious, but I'm sure if I tried it now I wouldn't be able to get through a glass."
An anthropology major, Cohen found that his hobby fit neatly into his studies. "I soon realized that every culture had a fermented beverage," he says. But he wasn't sure brewing would become a career until after he graduated and moved to Vermont.
He started out at Shed Restaurant & Brewery in Stowe and then landed a job at Magic Hat in 1998. By 2004, Cohen was head brewer and the brains behind fan favorites such as amber ale Roxy Rolles and summer ale Wacko, which incorporates beet juice.
When North American Breweries bought Magic Hat last year, Cohen saw the atmosphere becoming more corporate. "I like the entrepreneurial spirit of craft beer," he says. "I had always wanted to own a brewery, and it seemed like the right time."
Fiddlehead Brewing Company makes its home in a barn-like structure on Route 7 outside of Burlington, Vermont. In the tasting room, Cohen sells his sole brew—an India pale ale—for patrons to drink on-site or carry next door to the BYOB pizza parlor. The ale is also on tap in more than 100 restaurants and bars in Northern Vermont.
"A lot of brewers make the mistake of brewing the beers that they want to drink, and their tastes aren't necessarily in line with the rest of America," Cohen says. "At Magic Hat, and at Fiddlehead, we put an emphasis on drinkability. My IPA, while it is hoppy and has beautiful hop aroma, is not as bitter as a lot of the other larger-production IPAs in the market."
Beer drinkers seem to agree. Cohen's original business plan called for him to brew 500 barrels in 2012; demand helped him surpass that figure by spring. "I'm on track to do 2,000 barrels this year," he says.
But he hasn't forgotten his home brewing start at IC. He commits to using local ingredients when possible, and a separate brewing setup in Fiddlehead's tasting room lets Cohen experiment with a new beer every two weeks. His most recent challenge is a modern take on the Vermont sap beer, a summer brew made from maple sap. Like that first attempt, he had to wing it.
"It's a historical beer, and we didn't have a recipe," he says. "But you know what? It turned out pretty good."
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Circle of Friends, a volunteer organization supporting Nationwide Children's Hospital, will host its 10th Annual Run for the Rainbow 5K Run/Walk and Kids Fun Run Friday, June 14, 2013 at New Albany Market Square, 180 Market St., New Albany, Ohio. Proceeds benefit pediatric cancer research in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's. Since its inception 17 years ago, Circle of Friends has raised nearly $1.5 million for the fight against pediatric cancer.
The event this year features the addition of a butterfly dedication prior to the race and many other pre- and post-race family fun activities. Registration opens at 5:30 p.m. with races beginning at 7 p.m. (Kids Fun Run) and 7:15 p.m. (5K Competitive Run/Walk). Registration fees are $20 for the Kids Fun Run and $35 for the 5K Run/Walk. Awards will be given to the top finishers in each race.
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"See the Passion.com" founder was Scarborough's guest 14 times in 9 weeks
On the April 26th, 2004 episode of MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host Joe Scarborough discussed what he called the New York Times' "bashing" of Mel Gibson's The Passion of The Christ with Jennifer Giroux, founder and director of See the Passion.com. In a teaser for the Passion segment, Scarborough said, "Mel Gibson has taken a lot of grief from 'The New York Times' ... over his blockbuster hit 'The Passion.' How many times can one paper get it wrong about a movie? We'll separate fact from 'New York Times' fiction."
In a teaser later on in the show, Scarborough said, "[I]t seems 'The New York Times' has it out for Mel Gibson and 'The Passion' and they're not afraid to use their newsprint to prove it. Blatant bias at the paper of record?"
During the segment on The Passion, Giroux said, "[New York Times columnist] Frank Rich just was the most highly offensive, insulting journalist, who actually talked in terms I can't even say on national TV about 'The Passion,' insulting the faith of millions of Christians, personally going after Mel Gibson."
This was Giroux's fourteenth appearance on Scarborough Country in nine weeks. See the Passion.com is the first project of Women Influencing the Nation (WIN). As the founder of WIN, Giroux leads a group of women against "the so-called 'feminist' oriented social engineers [who] have been busy re-writing the history books and assaulting the truth at every possible chance through the major media."
According to The Dallas Morning News, Giroux is "a former Republican who followed Mr. [Pat] Buchanan to the Reform Party." The Cincinnati Post reported that Giroux hosted a fundraiser and book-signing for Buchanan for his 1999 book A Republic, Not an Empire -- a book that, as The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, "reignited allegations that [Buchanan] is anti-Semitic." A Republic, Not an Empire was published by the conservative press Regnery Publishing. The following year, Giroux spoke at the 2000 Reform Party Convention in Long Beach, CA.


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Jake 'The Octogon' Tapper Gives Obama Conspiracy Theorists What They Want
ABC News' Jake Tapper, seemingly bored silly on a flight to Riyadh, or maybe just experimenting to see how many links he could get from wingnut websites, published perhaps the most imbecilic article in the history of journalism on ABC.com.
With a title, "The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots," that just pathetically screams "please link to me Matt Drudge," Tapper regurgitates a slew of widely-known facts about Obama's family's Muslim faith, slaps a provocative title on the piece, and repackages the whole thing as some sort of breaking news story in conjunction with Obama's trip to the Middle East. The highlights of the story are these:
-Obama's father was a Muslim.
-Chicago has a high concentration of people who practice the Muslim faith.
-Obama spent time living in Muslim countries as a child.
Voila! And that's how your Jake Tapper jerky journalism sausage gets made ladies and gentleman! Isn't he just swell?!
Predictably, the right-wingers are hysterical over this. In addition to the feature link on Drudge, there are at least four Free Republic posts on it that we saw, not to mention postings in just about every other conservative gathering place online. Just Google "the emergence of Obama's Muslim roots" and see for yourself. Or better yet, go sample some of the comments on Tapper's post. They're amazing.
As for Jake Tapper, we can't put our feelings for him into words much better than Daily Intel's Jessica Pressler did back in March of this year.
There are only a handful of people who live up to the sophomoric term "tool" quite the way ABC reporter Jake Tapper does. For starters: His big break was selling out the story of a date he had with Monica Lewinsky. He dated a Miss America contestant, once called a college-age reporter a "pussy" and, at the beginning of his career, reportedly handed a Salon reporter a wad of his chewed gum, telling her it would be "worth something someday." We're not trying to be mean or anything, or saying he's a bad person. It's just true: The man is a tool.
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Once Again with the Presidential Oath
In an attempt to argue that George Washington added the phrase "So help me God" to his presidential oath in 1789, David Barton wrote at Wallbuilders about the fact that some states included that phrase as part of their oaths for office-holders at the time. In particular:
At that time, New York law required that "the usual mode of administering oaths" be followed (i.e., "So help me God") and that the person taking the oath place his hand upon the Gospels and then kiss the Gospels at the conclusion of the oath.33 (Like the other states, these provisions remained the legal standard long after the inauguration.34)The quoted phrase "the usual mode of administering oaths" comes from the first work cited in Barton's first footnote, the Laws of the State of New-York. (The second work is a 1788 manual for New York justices of the peace. The following footnote points to an 1836 equivalent, based on 1821 law; it has nothing to do with the swearing-in of a federal official thirty years before that law, and seems to have been included just to make the presentation appear more weighty.)
As Ray Soller noted at American Creation, the 1778 law that Barton cites on "the usual mode" is actually about dispensing with that mode for people with conscientious objections to it. So the "usual mode" was not a legal requirement after April.
For the full context, on 5 Mar 1778, the New York state legislature passed laws to govern the swearing-in of state officials; that's chapter 7, though chapter 3 had already included an oath. Those oaths mention God twice, the second time in closing those oaths with "So help me God."
However, by 27 March, the legislature had to acknowledge that Quakers don't swear (chapter 16 and later). And on 1 April it agreed to "dispense with the usual mode" of having all men kiss the Bible because, chapter 25 stated, "many of the inhabitants" had objected.
Those revisions to the 5 March law don't specify that New York office-holders could decline to say "So help me God." Barton might argue that that means that provision of the law remained in effect. But the clear pattern is that the legislature moved away from requiring the "usual mode." There were just too many religious beliefs to demand the same ritual from every office-holder.
Furthermore, whatever New York laws said, they did not govern the swearing-in of a federal official like President Washington. The presidential oath is specified in the Constitution, just as these New York laws stated the oaths for New York officials, word for word. The New York laws included "So help me God"; the Constitution does not. Barton doesn't see that difference as significant; Soller does, as do I. Washington was, of course, involved in the creation of the Constitution and valued it highly.
Detailed contemporaneous descriptions of Washington's first inaugural describe him kissing a Bible supplied at the last minute by the local Freemasons and reciting the Constitutional oath as written—without "So help me God." One might think the use of that Bible would be enough to satisfy Barton's argument that early American society was infused with religious belief. Claiming that Washington added words that no one heard only weakens that position, turning it into a statement of faith rather than fact.


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-----Original Message----- From: Jared.Still_at_radisys.com [mailto:Jared.Still_at_radisys.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:50 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Apps 11.5.8 and 9i My question was not clear. I realize what MKS et al are, but what I really wanted to know is this: Are these things *required* for the installation of Apps 11.5.8 on Oracle 9i? Jared April Wells <awells_at_csedge.com>
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To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-Lversion ... similar to MKS but another name... that is supposed to be useable, but I have never used it. It lets you use all of the Unix commands, and lets cloning and patching work. Installation also has heartburn if there isn't something somewhere that lets it work unix like in the installation.
cc: Subject: RE: Apps 11.5.8 and 9i =) Sorry... MKS makes Windows think it is Unix based. There is a free
C++ (NOT .net last I saw... it has compatiblity issues) for the relinking of the products and libraries. You might not need it for the install (although it gets real bent if it isn't there) but for adrelink, it is a must. BIG hint here... make the directory name as short as possible in the install (C:\CPP is what ours is). It keeps the path as short as possible, and there can be no spaces in the path, so don't let anything go into "Program Files"
It is totally way easier if you are on a unix based platform... and the concurrent managers (job scheduling) really don't like being on Windows.
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GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick's poem has never rang more true for me in these past few days. Although I have been working on my family history since I was a young Boy Scout, there is much that I've yet to discover, and as each day passes opportunities may be lost.
This year our family reunion was postponed, and then canceled due to too many medical issues in the family. Between surgeries and diagnosis of cancer, my paternal aunts and uncles have been dealing with quite a bit of problems this year. Just last month, my mother found out that she had breast cancer. Fortunately, it was detected quickly, and the tests came back negatively for lymph node spread, but it is still a wake up call for the family.
I need to make a concentrated effort to have my family members write down as much about the family history - the stories that make our ancestors "real" people and not just names and dates. Few in the family are as excited as I am about genealogy, and if I don't do it now, this generation will pass on and more memories will be lost.
This past month the paper in Alexandria had two obituaries in the same edition for members of my extended Pierce family. There are still many twigs and branches on the family tree that I've yet to discover and/or flesh out.
While I have the opportunity to do research on my lunch hours in the hometown library of my maternal ancestors, I need to take advantage of the time and start gathering the rosebuds. The Lord may call me away from this area someday and make it more difficult to research these families. Over the years, I've thought that I had my maternal branches pretty well figured out. Now I'm discovering that there is still more to be gathered.
Gather those rosebuds - today.