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The first of a new class of Russian ballistic missile nuclear submarine is ready to be put into service with the Russian Navy, officials said.
The hoisting of the flag on the Yury Dolgoruky submarine and the signing of the acceptance act will be held at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk, the Rubin design bureau said in a statement.
A second Borey class sub, the Alexander Nevsky, is undergoing sea trials and could join Russia's Pacific Fleet in 2014, while a third, the Vladimir Monomakh, is under construction at the Sevmash shipyard, RIA Novosti reported.
Borey class strategic submarines are 580 feet long, with a hull 42 feet in diameter, and carry up to 16 multiple-warhead ballistic missiles.
A crew of 107 can take the sub to a maximum depth of about 1,500 feet and cruise at a submerged speed of about 29 knots, RIA Novosti said.
Russia is reportedly planning to build eight Borey class subs by 2020.


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General elections held in August 2010 were deemed largely free and fair by international observers, despite incidents of ballot burning and violence in some districts. Danny Philip, a veteran politician, was chosen as the new prime minister. In March, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission began its first hearings related to the 1998–2003 ethnic war. While Philips advocated pardoning crimes committed during the conflict, including murder, the opposition rejected broad forgiveness.
The Solomon Islands gained independence from Britain in 1978. Tensions between the two largest ethnic groups—the local Gwale people and the Malaitans—over jobs and land rights erupted into open warfare in 1998. Scores were injured or killed before peace was gradually restored through the 2000 Townsville Peace Agreement, brokered by Australia and New Zealand. Order was initially maintained by a UN mission and after 2003 by the Australian-led Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), which has continued to maintain a presence in the country.
In December 2007, Derek Sikua was elected prime minister and made political stability and national reconciliation priorities of his government. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission, modeled after South Africa's, was launched in 2009to investigate crimes and address impunity connected to the 1998–2003 ethnic war. In March 2010, the commission began its first hearings, during which witnesses told stories of threats, torture, death, and loss of homes. While Prime Minister Danny Philip advocates pardoning crimes committed during the unrest, including murder, the opposition objects to such broad forgiveness.
In the August 2010 general elections, a total of 509 candidates, including 25 women, from 14 parties competed for 50 parliamentary seats. The main campaign issues were control over the Rural Constituency Development Fund (RCDF), which critics say legislators abuse for private gain, and whether to continue formal ties with Taiwan or switch allegiance to China to maximize economic benefits. Independents won 19 seats, the Solomon Islands Democratic Party (SIDP) claimed 13, the Reform Democratic Party (RDP) and the Ownership, Unity, and Responsibility Party each took 3, and smaller parties captured the remainder. Approximately 100 international observers and police officers monitored the elections and maintained order. As is common in the Solomon Islands, new parties formed before the elections and disbanded afterward; legislators aligned themselves with these parties, but the groupings were fluid. RDP leader Danny Philip was chosen as the new prime minister, narrowly defeating SIDP leader Steve Abana.Philip, who served in parliament from 1994 to 2001, confirmed the country's ties with Taiwan and pledged to work with RAMSI, fight corruption, and promote gender equality and development.
The elections were deemed generally free and fair by international observers, though a few incidences of violence were reported. Ballots were destroyed and fighting broke out among supporters of competing candidates in some districts, and one person was killed by a warning shot fired by a Tongan soldier with RAMSI during a riot.
In November 2010, Jimmy Lusibaea, a leader of the Malaita Eagle Force—a militant group active during the civil war—was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for attempted murder, assault on police, and discharging firearms in a public place during an incident in 2002. Lusibaea was elected to the parliament in August to represent the north Malaita district and had been appointed minister of fisheries in the new government, though he will lose his seat if his appeal fails. Riots broke out in the capital when the sentence was announced, leading to 37 arrests.
Political Rights and Civil Liberties:
The Solomon Islands are not an electoral democracy. A governor general, appointed on the advice of the National Parliament for a five-year term, represents the British monarch as head of state. Members of the 50-seat, unicameral National Parliament are elected for four-year terms. A parliamentary majority elects the prime minister, and the governor-general appoints the cabinet on the advice of the prime minister.
While several political parties operate, political activity is driven more by personalities and clan identities than party affiliation. Also, shifting alliances within the parliament remain a source of political instability.
Rampant corruption at all levels of government is a major source of public discontent and hinders economic development. In 2008, a new ombudsman was appointed to investigate alleged government abuses and an anti-corruption taskforce was launched to develop a national anticorruption policy. In March 2010, the Leadership Code Commission—tasked with addressing official abuse and corruption according to the 1999 Leadership Code—stated that only half of some 800 government leaders had submitted statements declaring their assets and financial interests. In April, a group of citizens in Guadalcanal sued their representative in an effort to determine how he was spending $1.2 million worth of constituent funds annually. In October, Prime Minister Danny Philip suspended the Commission on Inquiry into Land Dealings in Guadalcanal in order to investigate allegations of serious corruption within the commission. The country was ranked 110 out of 178 countries in Transparency International's 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Freedoms of expression and the press are generally respected, but politicians and elites sometimes use legal and extralegal means to intimidate journalists. The print media include a privately-owned daily, a weekly, and two monthly publications. The government operates the only radio station. There is no local television station, but foreign broadcasts can be received via satellite. Internet penetration is low, mainly due to technical and cost barriers. Telecommunications are privately owned and operated. In December 2010, the government called for a third mobile telephony operator to increase competition.
Freedom of religion is generally respected. Academic freedom is observed, but a lack of public funds severely undermines the quality of education. In January 2010, the government introduced a free basic education policy to increase school enrollment.
The constitution guarantees freedom of assembly, and the government generally recognizes this right. Organizers of demonstrations must obtain permits, which are typically granted. Civil society groups operate without interference. Workers are free to organize, and strikes are permitted.
Threats against judges and prosecutors have weakened the independence and rigor of the judicial system. Judges and prosecutors have also been implicated in scandals relating to corruption and abuse of power. A lack of resources limits the government's ability to provide legal counsel and timely trials. The ombudsman's office has far-reaching powers to investigate complaints of official abuse and unfair treatment, but generally lacks the funds to do so.
There is no military. Domestic security and law enforcement are provided by a civilian-controlled police force of about 1,000 people, but poor training, widespread abuse of power, and factional and ethnic rivalries have undermined public trust in the service.
Anti-Chinese sentiment had grown in reaction to their perceived economic dominance and influence over politicians. Discrimination limits the economic and political roles of women, who won no seats in parliament in the 2010 elections. Rape and other forms of abuse against women and girls are widespread. While rape is illegal, no law prohibits domestic violence.

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In our last post we learned about the chestnut and its great value for food and timber. This time around we'll see what happens to a species, in this case the American chestnut (Castanea dentata), in the face of introduced disease.
Chestnut Blight and the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission
Chestnut bark blight fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica, formerly Diaporthe parasitica and Endothia parasitica) first arrived in North America from Asia in the last quarter of the 19th century, probably hitching a ride on infected Japanese nursery material in the days before quarantine regulations. The disease spread rapidly to the domestic species of chestnut which had no natural resistance. In 1904, trees at the Bronx Zoological Park were observed with cankers in their bark and the next year C. parasitica was identified as the cause.
Concern over the disease, which was killing large numbers of trees, prompted the Pennsylvania legislature to form a "Commission for the Investigation and Control of the Chestnut Tree Blight Disease" in 1911. It met first in February 1912 but opinion was divided among the participants as to whether the disease was foreign, having come in on infected plant material, or of domestic origin and caused by poor husbandry. Under the Commission's auspices, programs for diseased tree identification and destruction were implemented in hopes of stopping or at least slowing the progress of the disease. It was believed that 1913 would be a turning point; however the fungus continued its advance. The Commission ceased operations that year having removed over 30,000 trees. Its work might have ultimately seemed futile; however it raised official awareness of plant disease which led to quarantine regulations for plant material later in the decade, as well as proving the disease had wind-borne transmission.
Frank Meyer and Chestnut Blight
Frank Meyer collected ornamental woody plants in China for the Arnold Arboretum from 1905-1918. His primary employer however was the United States Department of Agriculture, in the person of David Fairchild of the USDA Bureau of Plant Industry. Meyer traveled widely throughout the country collecting plants of possible economic use; he photographed what he saw and wrote detailed descriptions of the uses the indigenous people made of the plants.
In late 1912, Fairchild was alerted to the fact that the chestnut bark blight which was ravaging trees in eastern North America might have come from Asia. He tasked Frank Meyer in 1913 to seek out chestnut trees in China and observe any that might be infected with the disease. In May, Meyer headed out to an area in Hebei Province and immediately found infected trees. In a letter to Fairchild in early June he reported that while he saw a number of trees exhibiting evidence of infection, he could not see any that had actually succumbed to the disease. He added however, that those trees might have "been removed by the ever active and economic Chinese farmers," who attempted to manage the disease, which they attributed to insect pests, by scraping clean the bark. He observed that in general, trees growing in good, well-drained areas were less susceptible to attack by the fungus than those growing in more stressful conditions. We have copies in the Archives of the photographs Meyer took in China for the USDA at the time, as well as further field observations in 1914 and in 1915 in Japan.
Whither Chestnuts?
The American Chestnut Foundation is working to breed American chestnut trees containing enough Chinese chestnut DNA to impart blight-resistance but which will retain as much of their original genetic material as possible. The program is especially keen to breed disease resistant trees which have the stature of pre-blight American chestnut populations, rather than producing small spreading trees which reflect their Chinese chestnut genes. Experiments continue apace but it takes time, five to six years, for the backcrosses and intercrosses to mature. We'll have to stay tuned for more developments.
The Library has books about chestnuts and the Archives has a collection on chestnut blight and the Chestnut Blight Commission. In addition we have many historical photographs of these magnificent trees in their heyday. Please pay us a visit to learn more.
Freinkel, Susan. American chestnut : the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.
Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission. Report of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission.
Harrisburg, C.E. Aughinbaugh, 1913-1914.
Pennsylvania Chestnut Blight Conference (1912 : Harrisburg, Pa.). The conference called by the governor of Pennsylvania to consider ways and means for preventing the spread of the chestnut tree bark disease : The Capitol, chamber of the House of representatives, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, February 20 and 21, 1912. Stenographic report of proceedings of the conference. Harrisburg : C. E. Aughinbaugh, printer to the State of Pennsylvania, 1912. Available to view online.
– Lisa Pearson, Head of Library and Archives


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Welcome to the Official Website for Rosslyn Chapel
One of Scotland's most remarkable buildings, Rosslyn Chapel has been in the ownership of our family since its foundation in 1446 and is still used today as a place of worship.
In 1995, we established the Rosslyn Chapel Trust, a charity to care for the Chapel by overseeing its ongoing conservation and public opening.
By supporting Rosslyn Chapel by visiting or making a donation, you are helping us to look after this remarkable and unique medieval building for future generations to appreciate.
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Handsome billionaire crybaby Sean Parker says his life is a nightmare after a media flap about his $4.5 million wedding turning into an ecological disaster.
Instead of galavanting in a tropical honeymoon paradise as newlyweds, the Internet mogul and wife have become victims of public persecution, says Parker, whose other troubles include having to live up to Justin Timberlake's over-the-top portrayal of him in Social Network.
"Instead we are being spat upon by complete strangers while walking together on the street, cursed at by a waiter in a restaurant who had read bogus media reports about our wedding and told by complete strangers that we should get our divorce papers ready since our marriage clearly isn't going to last," Parker told the Guardian via email this week.
OK, the spitting is pretty gross. The "death threats" Parker claims to have fielded from "eco-terrorists" on Facebook, not cool. The skipping your honeymoon to hole yourself up in your Menlo Park mansion … doesn't sound terribly unpleasant.
Moving on.
The former Facebook president married singer Alexandra Lenas earlier this month in a fantasy nerd dream ceremony off of California's central coast on a wedding set featuring a Games of Throne-sy cottage, fake ruins, staircases, waterfalls and an expansive dance floor. Even the guests had custom-made outfits. To get an idea of what this magical display of Silicon Valley excess looks like, peep this and this.
Unfortunately, the fairyland setup got built up around endangered redwoods and wildlife.
An environmental group summoned the cops and the California Coastal Commission to go after the tech mogul (which feels vaguely like coercion, but dude has money to spare). Parker relinquished $2.5 million in lieu of going to court. The "donation" will pay for conservation efforts and a campground for underprivileged kids.
You can read the coastal commission transcripts of the hearing here.
Find Jennifer Wadsworth on Twitter at @jennwadsworth.


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Dining on a Budget | Long Tieng
The city's best egg rolls just might be served in a barbecue joint.
And the 'cue is pretty good, too.
Like many other seemingly disparate combinations, this makes perfect sense in the story of owners Thomas and Kongsy Howard. He's originally from New Jersey and she's from Laos, but they met and married in San Antonio.
The egg rolls, similar to the Vietnamese cha gio, have a perfect crispness from the rice paper wrapper, along with a flavorful filling of minced meat (either beef, turkey or a mixture of the two), and vegetables with a bit of fish sauce. A small dish of a sweet and sour sauce accompanies each order, but these rolls are so flavorful they don't need any accompaniment.
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10259 O'Connor Road, Suite 4, east of I-35 N., 210-374-7352
Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 5-8 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon-4 p.m., 5-8 p.m. Saturday
Price range: Sandwiches $2-$6; main dishes $5-$10
Hit: Egg rolls, chicken
Miss: Although tasty, texture on brisket was a bit too soft
Lighter Choice: Smoked chicken
Noteworthy: Asian specialties on Fridays, and by arrangement for catering.
Kongsy also shows herself adept at Texas barbecue, using a smoker behind the restaurant.
Perhaps tops was a piece of smoked chicken, with a well-seasoned spice rub, tender meat and lots of good smoke flavor throughout. Similar to the best versions, it didn't need any sauce, but that's no knock on either of the tasty housemade sauces. The mild sauce has a touch of sweetness, but is nicely balanced. The hot sauce definitely has a kick, along with a touch of what may be ginger to give it an Asian overtone.
Either of the sauces brings out different flavor notes from the sausage, which is perfectly capable of holding its own in the realm of flavor.
The brisket has an excellent flavor but needs a bit of work on the texture. During a conversation at the cash register, Kongsy explained she wrapped the brisket in foil before smoking it. The flavor is on point, but the meat has a texture reminiscent of brisket that's baked in an oven, rather than smoked.
Sides, all made in-house, work with different degrees of success. Perhaps my favorites were the yams and green beans, although the potato salad merits a try.
On Fridays, she makes a couple of Asian specialties. Thomas posts the dishes on the restaurant website on Thursday evenings. If they could, they'd include the Asian items during other days, but it's not yet feasible. Right now, with their level of staffing and the size of their kitchen, they can barely handle the business they have already.
In other words, definitely try this place, but don't all go at once.
Correction: Egg rolls at Long Tieng restaurant, 10259 O'Connor Road, do not include pork and instead use either ground beef, turkey or a mixture of the two. The ingredients were misstated in a review on Sunday's page H7 and on mySA.com.


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The fifth concert of Paul McCartney's Out There tour took place at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.
It was the second consecutive night at the center, and was the tour's first US stop, following three nights in Brazil.
#Orlando, that was so cool! After first night jitters or whatever, we had a blast with you all. Thanks for bringin it #OutThere!
— Brian Ray (@brianrayguitar) May 20, 2013
McCartney's band was Paul 'Wix' Wickens (vocals, keyboards, guitar, percussion, harmonica), Brian Ray (vocals, guitar, bass), Rusty Anderson (vocals, guitar) and Abe Laboriel Jr (vocals, drums).
2 super fun nights in olando – back in the us and arenas. austin here we come!
— Rusty Anderson (@rustyanderson1) May 20, 2013
The setlist was mostly the same as the previous night's, although the band played I've Just Seen A Face instead of Hope Of Deliverance, and I Saw Her Standing There in place of Get Back.
- Eight Days A Week
- Junior's Farm
- All My Loving
- Listen To What The Man Said
- Let Me Roll It
- Paperback Writer
- My Valentine
- Nineteen Hundred And Eighty-Five
- The Long And Winding Road
- Maybe I'm Amazed
- I've Just Seen A Face
- We Can Work It Out
- Another Day
- And I Love Her
- Blackbird
- Here Today
- Your Mother Should Know
- Lady Madonna
- All Together Now
- Mrs Vandebilt
- Eleanor Rigby
- Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
- Something
- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
- Hi, Hi, Hi
- Band On The Run
- Back In The USSR
- Let It Be
- Live And Let Die
- Hey Jude
Previous Out There tour dates:
- 4 May 2013: Estadio Mineirão, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- 6 May 2013: Estádio Serra Dourada, Goiânia, Brazil
- 9 May 2013: Estádio Governador Plácido Castelo, Fortaleza, Brazil
- 18 May 2013: Amway Center, Orlando, Florida
Thank you #orlando for your big open arms on the opening of our #OutThere tour, USA style~ #rockonwards #sharethislove #afterglow
— Brian Ray (@brianrayguitar) May 20, 2013
Also on this day...
- 1968: John Lennon and Yoko Ono record Two Virgins
- 1967: Press launch for Sgt Pepper
- 1966: Recording: For No One
- 1966: Filming: Paperback Writer, Rain
- 1963: Live: Gaumont Cinema, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
- 1962: Live: Star-Club, Hamburg
- 1961: Live: Top Ten Club, Hamburg
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'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh, Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob, on my knees!' (Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol)
Very nice, SilverBells. I love that painting over the fireplace!
Beautiful tree, Heather! And the gifts are already wrapped---you're way ahead of me.
Jealous of your fireplace, don't have one in Florida. They make the holiday season so much fun. And your decorations are very nice.
beautiful photos everyone, love them all
When it seems the magic slipped away...
We find it all again on Christmas Day.
*Seeing isn't believing.Believing is seeing.*
Thanks *Snowflake*
Merry Snowy Christmas
Love & Peace to the World
Silver Bells ...... all very pretty ... love those pics


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Be sure to explore additional opportunities with our founding partners:
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September 26, 2019
TODDLER STORY TIME For children aged 18 to 36 months and their parents or caregivers. During Toddler Time, a librarian reads aloud and leads adult-child pairs in activities. Eiseley at 10:35-10:55 AND Gere at 10:00-10:20; 10:35-10:55
Read Aloud Lincoln is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and supported by the Lincoln Community Foundation in support of the Prosper Lincoln community agenda.


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Is Sevendust Splitting Up?
A series of tweets from Sevendust drummer Morgan Rose has some fans concerned the band may be close to calling it quits.
A few weeks ago, Rose tweeted:
"So guys, the whole farewell thing is being 'talked' about. We love each other; there's no issue with us. we just miss our families. no decision yet."
When Rose's followers expressed dismay, he followed up with, "So try n chill on making it in to something it's not. We love u guys n we are FOR SURE doing another record n touring it."
On September 1, he again responded to an upset fan: "We're not goin away. Not for years. Were 4 sure doin another record n 2 years of touring. We knew the rumors would go nuts."
The band's future may be uncertain, but its concert schedule is certainly full. The Southern-based outfit is currently touring to help promote its eighth album, 'Cold Day Memory,' and is slated to appear at the Uproar Festival.


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I think Higo is more suitable for Okino, and Haibara fits better with Akai. But Higo is still the best option aside from Akai, I guess. (I don't like Haibara with Conan or Mitsuhiko, btw).


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CEO Elon Musk is confident Americans will buy electric vehicles and thinks Tesla is setting an example.
A new approach has drivers paying based on how far they drive each month.
We took Chevrolet's pre-production Volt for a spin and found a peppy, very quiet, and driveable car.
When the ball drops at the stroke of midnight, less energy will be used thanks to LED bulbs.
In places like the Mojave Desert, some fight to preserve the landscape and prevent the installation of solar panels.
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Concern about asteroids, meteors, and other near-earth objects has increased in the past few years due to events like the Chelyabinsk meteor crash. Like meteors, asteroids have interacted with Earth in the past, and will continue to do so in the future.
In this podcast, join Amy Mainzer as she explains what an asteroid is, their origins in our solar system, and systems in place on Earth to discover, track, and predict impacts from Earth's nearest neighbors.
This lecture took place in the Hayden Planetarium on February 3, 2014.
Podcast: Download | RSS | iTunes (1 hour, 73 MB)
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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Solid U.S. jobs and service sector data on Thursday bolstered views the Federal Reserve could start slowing its bond-buying program as soon as this month, but plunging orders for factory goods highlighted uncertainty around the economic outlook.
The pace of growth in the U.S. services sector accelerated in August to its fastest pace in almost eight years, an industry report showed on Thursday.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its services index rose to 58.6, its highest since December 2005, from 56 in July. The reading handily topped economists' consensus expectations for 55 and beat the high end of forecasts.
"Services represent approximately 85 percent of the economy, so the continued expansion of the sector is critical for the continuation of the overall economy recovery," wrote Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies & Co in New York, in a note to clients.
In addition, U.S. private employers added 176,000 jobs in August, and new jobless claims last week fell to a near five-year low.
The data could help convince the Fed that the world's biggest economy is ready to stand on its own, able to withstand a pullback by policymakers on $85 billion per month in buying of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities.
Yields on U.S. Treasuries jumped to 25-month highs backed views about slower Fed buying. Stocks were on track for a third straight day of gains and the dollar notched multi-week peaks against the yen and the euro, fueled by the U.S. economic data.
Nevertheless, new orders for U.S. factory goods dropped in July by the most in four months, a worrisome sign for economic growth in the third quarter.
The Commerce Department said new orders for manufactured goods dropped 2.4 percent. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected an even sharper decline.
While the U.S. economy has generally gathered momentum in recent months, the recovery has been uneven, with occasionally mixed data clouding the outlook for Fed policy.
The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms surged in August to their highest in half a year, consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc said.
Still, data suggest the labor market - key for Fed decisions - is seeing a slow but steady comeback.
The 176,000 private jobs in the August report from payrolls processor Automatic Data Processing and Moody's Analytics came in just below the 180,000 expected in a Reuters poll, although analysts said the report was good enough to keep Fed tapering views on track.
"(It's) enough to reinforce expectations that the Fed will begin to taper its asset purchases," said Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics in Toronto.
Separately, the Labor Department said the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell 9,000 last week to 323,000, below the 330,000 expected in a Reuters poll.
The four-week moving average for new claims fell to its lowest level since October 2007, before the 2007-09 recession began. This measure, which is closely followed because it irons out week-to-week volatility, dipped 3,000 to 328,500.
All told, the U.S. jobs market has held up better than expected in the face of healthcare reform and government spending cuts, Moody's Analytics' chief economist Mark Zandi said in a conference call after the ADP report.
The data come one day before the U.S. government's report on August non-farm payrolls, which investors will scour in hopes of divining the future direction of the Fed's massive asset-buying program.
The Fed is now weighing when to pull back on its so-called quantitative easing program. Views it could slow its buying as soon as its September 17-18 meeting have sent Treasury yields soaring more than 100 basis points in recent months.
Policymakers say their decisions will depend on data showing the health of the world's biggest economy. The Fed wants to see the jobless rate closer to 6.5 percent from 7.4 percent currently.
Economists in a Reuters poll, however, see the August unemployment rate remaining flat and stagnant prices could also worry the Fed.
A separate Labor Department report showed U.S. labor costs were flat in the second quarter, a sign of minimal inflationary pressures, which could fan concerns inflation is too low.
At the same time, the report showed productivity rose 2.3 percent during the period, which was a bigger gain than expected and gave a more hopeful sign for the outlook for wages.
Over the last year, inflation has been well below the U.S. Federal Reserve's 2 percent target, which has led some analysts to expect the Fed could hold back on winding down its bond buys.
Extremely low inflation is scary because it raises the risk an economic shock - say, a meltdown in Europe or in emerging markets - could tip the economy into a downward spiral of falling prices and wages known as deflation.
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|Romand and Leona Kuehl nee Boegel
Romand was the son of John and Dorathea Kuehl nee Hermann and was born on April 7, 1909. He died on August 16, 1999.
Leona was the daughter of John and Bertha Boegel nee Rosbeck and was born on April 30, 1903. She died on May 19, 1984.
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And now, tonight. It rained the rain, but it wasn't cold. If you live in a drought-stricken area and would like immediate relief, just tell me to clean my bike and have me ride through. Without fail, every time I clean and lube my chain, it rains within 48 hours. Un-frickin-believable.
I left a little bit earlier than usual and accordingly, the roads were less crowded. I'd have a great commute if I didn't have to go to work at all. A bit boring though and harder (but not impossible!) to blog.
Occasionally drivers have to parallel park and this blocks the bike lane. Time to write a letter to the editor to call for the immediate ban of parallel parking. It slightly inconveniences me, which I'm fairly certain means that it should be made illegal. I mean, don't get me wrong. Sometimes I parallel park on the weekends. But parallel parking isn't really conducive to the evening commute. And furthermore, why can't they just parallel park in parking lots? They don't have to do it in the streets where normal people are trying to get home. Are urban parallel parkers just elite snobs? Shouldn't they think about how their parallel parking makes everyone think about other drivers, the ones who don't block traffic trying to back into a space?
Sometimes I do stupid things at the same time drivers of luxury cars also do stupid things. Maybe we should both just apologize.
Neologism (we should really come up with a new word for that) alert: can we settle on jaywheeling for the process by which a bicyclist "runs" a red light after stopping and making sure the intersection is clear? I sincerely doubt that it's my own coinage, but I'm going to champion this word and the 14 of you who read this blog can (and should) start using it too. Let's totally screw with the Google Alert results for some poor guy named Jay Wheeling.
Did you know that Congress has its own Christmas tree? Yeah, that's right. They were lighting it when I rode by. I took some pictures, but they're so piss poor that I won't post them here. If you'd like to get a sense of what they're like, take a black piece of construction paper, poke a few holes in it and then gouge your eyes out with a spoon because all you would see in the picture is total darkness. Automatic flash, yeah right.
Maybe there should be a twitter feed for bike lane problems. Not like blocked bike lanes, but bike lanes full of leaves or glass (Leaves of Glass was a less successful Whitman work). Maybe something like @DCBikeLane911. It'd be like @StruckDC or @fixwmata in that it'd be any all-in-one place to report bike lane problems. If anyone wants to take this idea and run with it, please do.


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Flip display
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ICD warnings
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No question: John Ashcroft is the worst attorney general in history.
For this column, let's just focus on Mr. Ashcroft's role in the fight against terror. Before 9/11 he was aggressively uninterested in the terrorist threat. He didn't even mention counterterrorism in a May 2001 memo outlining strategic priorities for the Justice Department. When the 9/11 commission asked him why, he responded by blaming the Clinton administration, with a personal attack on one of the commission members thrown in for good measure.
We can't tell directly whether Mr. Ashcroft's post-9/11 policies are protecting the United States from terrorist attacks. But a number of pieces of evidence suggest otherwise.
First, there's the absence of any major successful prosecutions. The one set of convictions that seemed fairly significant -- that of the ''Detroit 3'' -- appears to be collapsing over accusations of prosecutorial misconduct. (The lead prosecutor has filed a whistle-blower suit against Mr. Ashcroft, accusing him of botching the case. The Justice Department, in turn, has opened investigations against the prosecutor. Payback? I report; you decide.)
Then there is the lack of any major captures. Somewhere, the anthrax terrorist is laughing. But the Justice Department, you'll be happy to know, is trying to determine whether it can file bioterrorism charges against a Buffalo art professor whose work includes harmless bacteria in petri dishes.
Perhaps most telling is the way Mr. Ashcroft responds to criticism of his performance. His first move is always to withhold the evidence. Then he tries to change the subject by making a dramatic announcement of a terrorist threat.
For an example of how Mr. Ashcroft shuts down public examination, consider the case of Sibel Edmonds, a former F.B.I. translator who says that the agency's language division is riddled with incompetence and corruption, and that the bureau missed critical terrorist warnings. In 2002 she gave closed-door Congressional testimony; Senator Charles Grassley described her as ''very credible . . . because people within the F.B.I. have corroborated a lot of her story.''
But the Justice Department has invoked the rarely used ''state secrets privilege'' to prevent Ms. Edmonds from providing evidence. And last month the department retroactively classified two-year-old testimony by F.B.I. officials, which was presumably what Mr. Grassley referred to.
For an example of changing the subject, consider the origins of the Jose Padilla case. There was no publicity when Mr. Padilla was arrested in May 2002. But on June 6, 2002, Coleen Rowley gave devastating Congressional testimony about failures at the F.B.I. (which reports to Mr. Ashcroft) before 9/11. Four days later, Mr. Ashcroft held a dramatic press conference and announced that Mr. Padilla was involved in a terrifying plot. Instead of featuring Ms. Rowley, news magazine covers ended up featuring the ''dirty bomber'' who Mr. Ashcroft said was plotting to kill thousands with deadly radiation.
Since then Mr. Padilla has been held as an ''enemy combatant'' with no legal rights. But Newsweek reports that ''administration officials now concede that the principal claim they have been making about Padilla ever since his detention -- that he was dispatched to the United States for the specific purpose of setting off a radiological 'dirty bomb' -- has turned out to be wrong and most likely can never be used in court.''
But most important is the memo. Last week Mr. Ashcroft, apparently in contempt of Congress, refused to release a memo on torture his department prepared for the White House almost two years ago. Fortunately, his stonewalling didn't work: The Washington Post has acquired a copy of the memo and put it on its Web site.
Much of the memo is concerned with defining torture down: if the pain inflicted on a prisoner is less than the pain that accompanies ''serious physical injury, such as organ failure,'' it's not torture. Anyway, the memo declares that the federal law against torture doesn't apply to interrogations of enemy combatants ''pursuant to [the president's] commander-in-chief authority.'' In other words, the president is above the law.
The memo came out late Sunday. Mr. Ashcroft called a press conference yesterday -- to announce an indictment against a man accused of plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio. The timing was, I'm sure, purely coincidental.


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Dr. Scott Sicherer, author of Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies and associate professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, concludes from his 2006 review of seafood allergy studies:
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How We See It - Tesla, EVs and the Grid
How We See It - Tesla, EVs and the Grid
Smart grid safeguards are on the way. In addition to adding capacity, utilities are creating incentives and mechanisms to encourage EV charging at night when energy demand is low
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1) Smart Grid is the devil. It benefits only the utilities; no one has come up with anything better than feeble hand-wave benefits to the consumer. Internal "smart gridding" of the home so usage per appliance could be tracked would help, but is of no interest to the utilities. They just want to be able to cut off power where and when convenient, to reduce peak load requirements. Bah.
2)Tesla has gone with Solar City in offering free power to all Model S owners (on intercity freeways, etc.) using the best model: power the cars with Superchargers connected to the grid, and generate excess solar power to sell back to the utilities (i.e., more, overall, than the cars draw). Brilliant!
Well, the benefit to consumers is that the grid will go dark less often. Since we aren't used to this happening, I think we underestimate that benefit. Alternatively, we could pay more so that they could just install more capacity, but that's not how things seem to work in the real world.
It certainly serves as extra capacity, but if the FIT is > grid price, consumers are paying too much for it. As is the case with virtually all solar power, except in a few special circumstances of no economic importance.


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First Deus Ex, then Dishonored... dare we dream that first-person stealth isn't just coming back, but it's coming back better than ever?
Let's. Especially when modders toiling away on the final year of a school project are coming up with stuff that looks this good.
Abduction is a CryEngine 3 project that's looking awfully promising, even if we know next to nothing about it. Funny what proficiency with a fancy game engine can do for you.
Abduction - A fire in the sky - Stealth Game [Crydev, via PC Gamer]


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New in Logic Remote 1.3.5
• Includes stability improvements and bug fixes.
Previous versions
Logic Remote 1.3.4
• Includes stability improvements and bug fixes.
Logic Remote 1.3.3
New Features/Enhancements
- iPhone now offers more Touch instrument controls, including guitar, bass, drums, Smart Strings and chord strips.
- The name for the master output channel on the mixer now remains visible after adding tracks.
- On iPhone, selecting an empty Software Instrument channel strip no longer incorrectly displays audio interface input controls.
- The EQ again reliably displays correctly on the iOS device.
- External Instrument channel strips added to MainStage now show solo buttons in Logic Remote.
- The Stereo Output channel no longer sometimes shows a Record button on iPhone.
- The plug-in setting pop-over now remains open until you tap outside its boundaries, making it easier to audition different settings.
Stability and reliability
- Logic Remote no longer quits unexpectedly on iPhone if the device is rotated while the "Please open a Logic Project to begin" dialog is being displayed.
- If MainStage is relaunched while Logic Remote is showing the "Please open a MainStage concert to begin" dialog, the dialog now closes as expected after opening a concert.
- Logic Remote now shows the "Please open a Logic project to begin" dialog instead of the mixer from the previous project when a file is closed on the host.
- Logic Remote now allows creation of up to six Drummer tracks with GarageBand.
- Muted notes played on the fretboard of a Chord Strip are now recorded properly in GarageBand.
- Sustain is now automatically disabled when the arpeggiator is enabled.
- There is now better velocity sensitivity response when playing Touch Instruments.
- Logic Remote now controls the puck in Alchemy as expected.
Logic Remote 1.3.2
- Scrolling the Mixer no longer causes the Peak Meters to go blank.
- Changes made to track names and colors on the host are now immediately visible in the Inspector of Logic Remote.
- Tapping on an empty send in Logic Remote no longer displays unusable commands, such as Bypass.
- The Sends menu no longer comes up unexpectedly when tapping an External MIDI, or Output channel.
- Changes to a channel's panning mode in the host application area are now immediately reflected in Logic Remote.
- Stereo pan controls can now be inverted directly from Logic Remote.
- The Record button now reliably becomes visible when Show/Hide Record Enable Button is chosen in GarageBand while using Logic Remote on the iPhone.
- It's now possible to add additional sends using Logic Remote when the first page of sends is full, and there are not yet any sends on the second page.
- On the iPhone, all bar and beat position values are now visible when the playhead position is earlier than the first bar of the song.
- The Timeline now remains visible after the device is rotated to landscape and then back to portrait mode.
- Help tags now reliably remain visible on iPhone.
Logic Remote 1.3.1
Touch Instruments
- It's now possible to set the Drum Kit as the Touch Instrument input for any Software Instrument patch.
- Logic Remote's Touch Instrument input method now updates reliably when changing patches.
- The Touch Instruments keyboard no longer sends an unexpectedly large number of Sustain Off messages in some circumstances.
- Level meters throughout the application now register peaks in a consistent manner.
- Level meters now display value readouts.
- Double-tapping an empty EQ overview now adds the EQ plug-in type specified by the host application.
- Double-tapping the compressor slot now inserts a Compressor plug-in.
- Double-tapping a volume fader now sets its gain to 0db.
- Mixer channels now show a clip indicator on iPhone.
- It is now possible to reset all level meters by tapping the peak level display on one meter.
- It is now possible to bypass individual sends in the Logic Remote Mixer view.
- It is now possible to assign new sends in the Logic Remote Mixer view.
- Bypassed sends are now dimmed in the Logic Remote Mixer view.
- Plug-ins assigned to channel strips can now be opened with a double-tap.
- On iPhone, removing the last send from the Send 5-8 bank now causes the view to switch to the Sends 1-4 bank as expected.
- On iPhone, the scale on the Master meter no longer shows as linear when exponential is chosen in Logic's preferences.
- In EXS24, the Prev/Next buttons are now correctly labeled.
Key Commands
- Key command buttons on Logic Remote now illuminate to show their state.
- Logic Remote now supports Trim and Relative automation modes.
- Logic Remote now reliably showed the correct path to selected patches.
- Logic Remote no longer sends unexpected sustain off messages at the start of MIDI recording.
- The space bar on an iPad Pro Smart Keyboard can now be used to stop/start.
Logic Remote 1.3
New features and enhancements
- Adds support for iPad Pro and iPhone.
(iPhone version is compatible with Logic Pro X only and limited to transport control, dual channel strip faders, automation recording, and access to key commands)
- You can now connect multiple devices running Logic Remote simultaneously to the same host application.
- You can now drag key command buttons to new positions in the Key Commands view.
- The Reset Solo button now controls the Kill/Recall Solo button in Logic Pro X.
iPad Pro enhancements
- The higher resolution of the iPad Pro allows it to display more:
- The number of visible channel strips in the mixer increases from 9 to 12.
- The maximum number of currently playable piano keys increases from 31 to 41.
- The number of visible key command buttons increases from 24 to 35.
- The number of currently playable Chord Strips increases from 8 to 12.
- Logic Remote on the iPad Pro includes a combined view that offers a row of Key Commands in addition to the Smart Controls + Touch Instrument view and the Chord Strips view.
- On the iPad Pro, the Channel Strip element is combined with the plug-in interface. This allows you to use the plug-in chain without returning to the Mixer view.
- Logic Remote 1.3 includes various fixes and enhancements to improve connectivity.
Key commands
- The Key Commands window now refreshes as expected when reconnecting to a host.
- Tapping an unassigned key command cell on Logic Remote no longer causes the screen in Logic Pro X to flash.
- It's no longer necessary to open a Channel EQ plug-in window on the host for Logic Remote to display the EQ curve.
- Adjusting the ES2 Digiwaves slider from Logic Remote no longer causes ES2 to unexpectedly cycle through waves.
Touch instruments
- The onscreen keyboard now triggers sound as expected after switching from the keyboard to chord strips and then back to the keyboard.
Logic Remote 1.2.3
- The EQ graph on the Channel EQ now draws correctly.
- Gain values on the Channel EQ now render in the correct position on the screen.
- When used with GarageBand, Logic Remote no longer shows Note Repeat and Spot Erase buttons on the Drum Pads view.
Logic Remote 1.2.2
New features
- Logic Remote now includes tabbed Transform Pad and X/Y Pad Smart Controls for Alchemy instruments.
- It's now possible to create more than one Drummer track in Logic Pro X or GarageBand using Logic Remote.
- A double-tap on an Instrument slot now opens the Instrument plug-in.
Additional updates
- Includes general stability improvements.
- Logic Remote now shows the same warning dialog as Logic Pro X when Automation Write mode is selected.
- When selecting an input or output in Logic Remote, the current channel is now indicated by a checkmark.
Logic Remote 1.2.1
New features
- Logic remote no longer shows an unneeded Solo button on External MIDI channel strips.
- Editing graphs in the Graphic EQ is more responsive.
- You can now dismiss pop-up menus brought up from a channel strip by tapping anywhere on the same channel strip.
Logic Remote 1.2
New features
- You can adjust the Logic Pro X Channel EQ directly from an iPad.
- A new plug-in view provides access to Logic or Audio Unit plug-in parameters with Logic Pro X.
- You can remotely add or reorder plug-ins with Logic Pro X.
- Control the microphone and other input settings for compatible audio interfaces
- It is now possible to navigate tracks in the LCD pop-up menu.
- Holding the transport channel switch buttons now scrolls through tracks or channels.
- Single-tapping the center of a knob no longer affects its value.
- The Bass Fretboard touch instrument is now available with all patches.
- Logic Remote now has an option to override the system sleep settings on an iPad.
- The Metronome button's state now reflects the state of the Metronome in Logic Pro X or GarageBand.
- The Mixer now opens to the last selected view.
- Logic Remote no longer quits unexpectedly when switching to Smart Controls view from Drum Pad or Chord Strip view with a drum machine patch selected.
- If you reopen Logic Pro X, Logic Remote no longer briefly shows an unneeded "Please open a Logic project" dialog while reconnecting.
- Logic Remote no longer overrides MainStage's tremolo knob position.
- The next and previous patch buttons are now reliably available with MainStage when you select the first or last patch in the patch list.
Logic Remote 1.1.1
- Adds support for iOS 8
Logic Remote 1.1
- New streamlined design
- Adds more scale choices for Touch Instruments
Logic Remote 1.0.4
Fixes an issue that prevented scale modes and chord strips from updating to the current project key.
Logic Remote 1.0.3
- Includes support for MainStage 3.
- There is now a slider to adjust the velocity sensitivity of Touch Instruments.
- Logic Remote no longer offers the menu item "New Drummer Track" when the current Logic project already has a Drummer track.
- The screen to insert a plug-in is no longer blank after creating a new project in the Smart Controls/Touch Instruments view.
- The Remove Key Command menu item no longer appears when tapping an empty tile in the Key Commands window.
- Resolves a rare issue in which the Logic Remote and GarageBand timelines might become out of sync.
- Logic Remote no longer prevents iPad from entering sleep mode.
- When a new patch is created via the gear menu, Logic Remote now switches to the Library view.
- Includes several accessibility improvements.
Logic Remote 1.0.2
- Adds compatibility with GarageBand for Mac (v10.0).
- Velocity range is adjustable for Touch Instruments.
- Library Browser and Smart Controls can now appear on screen together.
- Includes various improvements to enhance performance and stability.
Logic Remote 1.0.1
- Includes several improvements to resolve issues related to connecting Logic Remote to the computer running Logic Pro X.
- Resolves an issue in which Logic Remote might quit unexpectedly when changing banks in the Mixer while moving a fader.
- Resolves an issue in which notes might hang while switching articulation settings.
- Fixes an issue in which the Chord Strip window might turn black if an empty Software Instrument track was created while it was open.
- Resolves an issue in which the Logic Remote LCD sometimes showed "Not Connected" after it successfully connected to Logic Pro X.
- The velocity range when playing Software Instruments from Logic Remote has increased.
- Fixes an issue in which switching out of Logic Remote while holding notes on the keyboard might lead to stuck notes in Logic Pro X.
- Includes several improvements to reduce the likelihood of hanging notes when using a USB keyboard with iPad.
- iPad no longer goes to sleep if Logic Remote is sending MIDI, or if Logic Pro X is playing.


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While Daphne tours the solo record and works on some new songs, please go check out the new website and goodies she's cooked up for you over at daphneleemartin.com
Moxie Release Show! January 25th!
The time has finally come! Moxie is ready to go and the band is champin' at the bit! So be there with your bells on, Oasis Pub (16 Bank Street, New London CT) on the 25th. Also appearing are native sons Quiet Life and New Haven's own indie darlings M.T. Bearington. Thanks a much love to everyone who loved on us, supported Dig and we're looking froward to rocking you in 2013! Don't forget to keep up with daphneleemartin.com and The Telegraph Recording Company!
Here's some rockin' Quiet Life for ya!
And some sweet sweet M. T. Bearington…
Luthiers Co-op! Friday!
We hope you're having a blast this holiday season! Raise the Rent will be doing a show Friday night at one of our favorite places: Luthiers Coop in Easthampton MA! This is a sweet little guitar shop full of the dreamiest vintage pieces and tons of lovingly handmade instruments! And better than that, they have a bar with some tasty local offerings and a stage! We'll be joined again by our pal Eric Stevenson from Pocket Vinyl! See you there!
Happy Holidays!
Well, as we have finally wound down our shows for 2012, we want to thank you all! This year was an absolute blast, we moved well over 1000 copies of 'Dig & Be Dug', "graced" the cover of a magazine, and played to the best audiences anyone could hope for, YOU! Look for lots more in the coming year with Daphne's solo album 'Moxie' hitting streets the last week of January. In the meantime, here's a new single from that record! Enjoy! Check in on our shows page for upcoming acoustic performances to round out the holiday season!
Whiskey & Sin! Happy Halloween, my loves!
Happy Halloween, y'all! Here's a special treat, will only be up today so catch a listen while you can! Here's Whiskey & Sin…
Womacks, Weird Beards, MR Poulopoulos & Raise the Rent!
Super excited! This will be the show of the Fall! Here's the FB Event invite, please please join us for an EPIC party!
HodgePodge Hartford! Oct 21!
Daphne Lee martin & Raise the Rent appearing at the Hartford HodgePodge! We play 2-4pm!
Pratt Street is hosting a fusion of events – equal parts street bazaar, festival and farmers' market, the inaugural Hartford HodgePodge will feature food, vendors, artisans and music in a high-energy setting, kicking off on Sunday, October 7, from noon until 6 p.m. Rinse and repeat every Sunday until November 18!
Anything goes! The interesting, the weird and bizarre are all welcome! Got something to SHOW, SHARE or SHOUT? We want to promote other great Hartford groups, events, and businesses throughout the event so if we're missing something or someone, if you need a vendor application or if you'd like to get involved, please email Stephanie Lynn at email@example.com. (860) 249-1757
Vanilla Bean Presents: Daphne Lee Martin & Amy Black
Details at http://www.songkick.com/
Amy Black ~ www.amyblack.com
so recently made her mark down south as a featured artist on the live radio show "Music City Roots" hosted by Jim Lauderdale and as a headliner at The Basement in Nashville and Eddie's Attic in Georgia at at the Americana Music Association's annual event.
Black's background is as refreshingly honest as her music. "My parents are from the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama," Amy explains. "But my dad is a preacher so we moved around a lot when I was a kid. I grew up in Missouri and Alabama and at 16, my parents moved the family to Boston. Talk about culture shock!"
Several times a year Amy would return to her family's Alabama hometown where her granddad, Thomas Reuben Jones, remained a core influence. "Man, did I love listening to him tell stories," she remembers. "He grew up red-dirt poor in Waterloo, Alabama and put himself through college. He worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority for decades and then started his own business. His stories were so rich with detail and he loved telling them. He was a bit of a showman and I think he passed that on me."
Amy sang publicly throughout her teens and fronted bands in college, but she did little with her music for nearly a decade. Her love for singing, however, would not be quelled. "About five years ago," she says, "I told myself 'it's now or never.'"
Black and her band started performing fresh takes on classic covers by her influences, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Emmylou Harris and her original influence, Bonnie Raitt. All she planned to do was sing, but Black quickly discovered she had songwriting skills of her own and began to add originals to her live show. In April of 2011, she released her sophomore album One Time, made up primarily of those originals.
Amy's gift of conjuring flesh and blood characters and emotions leaves an indelible mark. "Real American Roots music is born from adversity," she says. "Loving, lying, drinking, dying and going to heaven – not necessarily in that order."
Zoe Muth & the Lost High Rollers | Daphne Lee Martin at the Russian Lady!
Join us at The Russian Lady Tuesday October 9th as we host Zoe Muth and The Lost High Rollers in our Billiards Room. Whether it's an upbeat honky tonk beat or a slow sad story song, Zoe's music is very honest and familiar. Come enjoy a night of live music here at The Russian Lady starting at 8pm! 2012 CT Music Awards Country Artist of the Year, Daphne Lee Martin & Raise the Rent will be there to open the show! Here's more info at the FB Event!
Dirt Floor Session | October 6th
Saturday, October 6th, we'll be doing a very unique session gig at Dirt Floor Studios in Chester. If you haven't been there, it's a really neat analog tape recording studio, packed to the gills with vintage amps and instruments and is just about the warmest coziest place on earth. The series is filmed by Hawkhill Media and has hosted wonderful acts you may have heard of from Newport Folk Festival, our dear friends Brown Bird Joe Fletcher & Jonah Tolchin.
The whole lovely thing is hosted by a phenomenal songwriter in his own right, Eric Lichter and we'll be sharing the 'stage' with both him and Chris Bousquet. You do need tickets for this event, and it's very limited, so please please call the number on the flyer and reserve your seats now!
Here's a vid from the Joe Fletcher session!


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Sometimes I forget to take days off when working on projects, and then it seems like all the fun aspect of it kind of goes out the window.
So I put myself in time out this weekend, focusing on snoozing often and on taking pictures just for the hell of it.
It's also been forever since I baked something other than bread for sandwiches. For real!
The only sweet stuff I've had was either chocolate chips, Luna bars, or the occasional peanut butter mousse. I shouldn't complain, but my sweet tooth started to feel a little deprived.
The goodness that is MoFo has made me want to dive back into old cookbooks to try other people's stuff, so I picked up my copy of the Original King Arthur Flour Cookbook, and altered a recipe in order to make it vegan and to also make do with what was available in the pantry and fridge.
The original recipe calls for the muffins to be baked at 450°F for 20 minutes, which sounds a little excessive for sweet muffins. There's no way the outcome would have looked like anything other than charcoal in this oven of mine.
It is said to be perfectly fine when prepared up to a week before baking time, as long as the batter is properly covered and stored in the fridge, making it a breeze to bake right before eating. I haven't tried that part myself, since I like my muffins even when they're not fresh out of the oven, but I can see how it would be useful for those who are rushed in the morning, and who like nothing more than to bite into a still-warm muffin to get off on the right food.
Chocolate Chip Bran Muffins:
1 tablespoon (15 ml) apple cider vinegar
1 cup minus 1 tablespoon (220 ml) non-dairy milk (I used unsweetened almond)
2 tablespoons (30 ml) vegetable oil
1/4 cup (60 g) blended firm silken tofu or unsweetened non-dairy yogurt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 cup (125 g) all-purpose flour
1 cup (94 g) oat bran
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 cup (36 g) light brown sugar (not packed)
1/4 cup (50 g) granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
Generous 1/2 cup (100 g) semisweet chocolate chips
Line 11 out of 12 holes of a standard muffin tin with paper liners.
Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C, or gas mark 6).
Place the vinegar in a 1-cup measure. Top with milk. Let stand a few minutes to curdle and create buttermilk.
Transfer into a larger bowl and whisk together with oil, tofu and vanilla.
In a large bowl, combine flour, oat bran, baking soda, sugars, salt, and chocolate chips.
Fold wet ingredients into dry, stirring until just combined.
Fill paper liners to 3/4 and bake 18 minutes, or until set on top and golden brown around the edges. (The toothpick test is kinda iffy here with the chocolate chips.)
Transfer the muffins onto a cooling rack.
Yield: 11 muffins
Adapted from Whole Wheat Bran Refrigerator Muffins in The Original King Arthur Flour Cookbook. The original recipe is available as a preview here.


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If there are two things I like way more than I should it's Disney and karaoke videogames. Unfortunately, my love for Disney doesn't extend to their cable network, so my enjoyment of the last three Disney Sing It games has been limited — I mean, there's only so much Hannah Montana a grown man can handle. So I was more than reasonably excited to hear that Disney Sing It: Family Hits would feature songs from the studio's huge catalog of animated films. This game has been a long time coming, and it could have been awesome if there weren't some things holding it back.
Before I really get into this, we all know what a karaoke game is, right? You sing, you get points, it's exactly what it sounds like and it's been a genre for seven years now. Moving on.
Family Hits features 30 songs spanning 60 years of animated classics. The game is available for the PlayStation 3 and the Wii, and both versions are basically the same, except that the PS3 has HD footage and camera support. Normally developing a title for multiple platforms isn't a big deal, but in this case it causes some of the game's problems.
Thirty songs is not a lot, and a karaoke game is defined by its song selection. For the most part these are great songs, with the exception of some of the Pixar choices (Do you remember that classic Randy Newman song from A Bug's Life? Yeah, me either). Still, this game really needed to have more tunes. I love that songs from Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the Lion King are in here, but a lot of my favorite films only have one song, whereas Cinderella gets four, and the Toy Story series has three. Still, every song on here is better than most of the stuff they play on Radio Disney. These are Grammy and Oscar winning songs, sung by people who have the voices to carry the performance.
People can claim they don't like Disney movies and music, but they're usually full of it. I played this game like I play all singing games: I tricked friends into coming over, gave them wine, then busted it out. Sure, they all claimed they didn't know the words, but then got a nearly perfect score in Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Unless you lived under a rock your whole life, these songs are ingrained into your psyche.
Every song includes footage of the film in great looking HD on the PlayStation 3, while the Wii is in standard definition. What is odd is that the music videos are montages of the film, and not just the scene the song is from. Certain movies, like the Pixar films, require this since the song wasn't featured in full, but other times it just messes things up. For example, Almost There from Princess and the Frog has one of the most visually interesting scenes in the movie, but the music video has literally none of the cool stylized parts. What's up with that?
They also missed a major opportunity by not having a DLC store. A music store would have made this game for me. It's the biggest thing the Disney Sing It series is missing. The ability to expand my collection with downloadable tracks would ensure I'd be playing this game for months. So where the hell is it?
It seems like the fact that the game is for the Wii as well as the PS3 killed having more songs on the disc and a DLC store. Those features are just not as easily done on the Nintendo system. It's either that or Disney is already gearing up for Family Hits Volume 2 (which the trophy whore side of me likes, but the consumer side of me hates).
Closing Comments
The fact is that if the idea of singing Hakuna Matata in your living room appeals to you (as it does for me), then you'll enjoy Disney Sing It: Family Hits, at least for a while. It's definitely a game for the littlest of kids and the Disney fanatics, but these songs are way better than the pop stuff that has filled the previous games. If this game had an online store, or any community features, I could recommend it to everyone, but it really just doesn't have enough to stay fun for more than a night or two.