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Lolita Ritmanis a écrit:" Batman: The Animated Series" - wonderful memories of a truly amazing series. The entire team behind this show created something groundbreaking. It was a great honor to have been chosen by the late, great Shirley Walker to be on her team. I was just starting out in the business as a composer, having earned my living up until then primarily as an orchestrator on feature films as well as working on the Warner Bros. Studios lot on a regular basis in the music library -doing an array of jobs, everything from proofreading parts, to orchestrating on noteworthy films, and even ghost writing in a few instances. As part of Shirley's inner circle I was very fortunate to be given the opportunity to score a solo episode early in the process. That episode was "It's Never Too Late." Although there were an array of contrasting episodes that were assigned to me throughout the series, my first episode is most likely my favorite! I guess there is nothing like "the first." The tone of the episode required a bit of a film noir approach. It was very dark- moody - gangsters that I chose to highlight with a hint of jazz harmony! Every episode had it's charm. The real magic happened on the scoring stage where we were fortunate to work with LosAngeles top studio musicians. Their expertise brought our music to life. I congratulate everyone at Warner Bros who were a part of this remarkable series, with special thanks to Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett, Eric Radomski, Jean MacCurdy, Tom Ruegger and Paul Dini. With the Green light from Doug Frank (who was a key executive in charge of music at Warner Bros. at the time) these producers put their trust in Shirley Walker. They allowed her the freedom to create an atmosphere of creative expression amongst all of the composers that were blessed to be working on this series, with of course Shirley paving the way for all of us with her musical brilliance. Thanks to all the fans out there. Your support has meant so much to me personally over the years.
Michael McCuistion a écrit:"'Off Balance' was a terrific episode to be involved with. We happened to have the wonderful flute player Steve Kujala on the recording session, and he has the amazing ability to play the flute with fully smooth portamento between notes. Knowing this, and being assigned most of the scenes that featured the character Vertigo, I was able to write some motifs featuring Steve's unique flute playing that really evoked the feeling of being disoriented and suspended in anti-gravity - a terrific complement to Vertigo's powers. Combined with Mark Koval's darkly appropriate music for the other scenes, it turned out to be a very memorable episode."
"'Christmas With The Joker' was one of the very first episodes that Shirley decided to split between several composers. Shirley wrote some cues and then divided the rest of the show between myself and Lolita Ritmanis, and I ended up with most of the source cues. Naturally when Shirley told me that she wanted me to do a Joker-style version of The Nutcracker Suite I was absolutely delighted! I originally did a more straight-ahead approach with the orchestration, but when I showed it to Shirley she said "Well, this is fine, and it certainly would work, but it's the Joker - so go ahead and really amp up The Batman feeling as the piece progresses!" And so I went back and added progressively more of the "Batman sound" to the cue so that when it ends it's really bombastic. What a fun ride!"
Bruce Timm a créé les personnages de Harley Quinn (avec Paul Dini) et Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyound).
Sharnalk a écrit:Au lieu de répéter les propos de Chernabog,
Suffit de diviser en deux galeries bien disctinctesDarkcook a écrit:Pour les images, je ne pouvais pas agrandir les deux premières sans que les quatre autres ne soient trop grandes. Elles font partie d'une galerie, et ont donc toutes les mêmes coefficients de hauteur et largeur
Benco a écrit:et Cookie boy, qui parvient avec brio à retranscrire son analyse et son amour pour un personnage important, et ce jusqu'à donner des frissons pour ma part (mais c'est facile, il a évoqué la scène avec Hawkgirl^^)
Chernablog a écrit:Non, je n'y crois pas, il... il m'a appellé par mon vrai pseudo !!
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The recently announced publication from New South books, of a new version of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has created a backlash in defense of the original. Though perhaps the intentions were good, and the choice of an editor and Mark Twain scholar, Dr. Alan Gribben, admirable, the effort to sanitize the novel so that local school boards and libraries would stop censoring its availability on curricula and in public lending libraries is disturbing on many fronts. It is also dangerous in terms of a number of precedents: editing classic works of literature, even for reading by senior high school students; burying United States history and literary manifestations of it, in such a way as to damage understanding of current social issues; acceding to local pressure, sometimes limited to the complaint of a single parent; and, making use of the word nigger racist in new ways, including racism about who gets to use the word nigger in what context, whether historically accurate or not.
The word nigger is so sensitive in the United States that even African American pundits discussing the new edition don't dare use the word--carefully saying "the n-word" instead. Almost no mention has been made of the other editings of the double text Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition which include, according to the Editor's Introduction, altering identifications of other characters by their ethnicity, "the Welshman", a Scot, etc as was done in Mark Twain's time, and correcting Injun to Indian, for the character Injun Joe in both novels. In the Editor's Introduction Injun has now become the I-word, much like the F-word, which used to stand for the 4 letter version of "fornicate", has now come to mean "faggot". The section of the Editor's Introduction on "Word Exchanges" ends with this particularly cringe-worthy statement: "For the same reasons the eight references in Tom Sawyer to "half-breed" have been converted to "half-blood," which is less disrespectful and has even taken on a degree of panache since J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)."
The textual changes between the original standard Mark Twain texts, and the New South books edition are summarized thus:
Textual EmendationsMark Twain is deemed by literary scholars to be the greatest US novelist, or one of the greatest; and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to be his greatest or one of his greatest works. Twain's major literary contribution as a novelist was to write in the American vernaculars of the time: white, black, child, and adult. To replace nigger with slave is a travesty of this literary work and its contributions to American letters. This is not the same as updating the maid Dinah's speech in new editions of the Bobbsey Twins series of children's books which are much beloved but have no great literary impact. Their historicity is obscured by the new speech, and in that sense their updating is debatable.
With the exception of the changes in racial denotations (and in two archaic references to skin color) and the insertion of the raftsmen passage [which portrays whites in an extremely bad light], the texts of both novels otherwise follow the wording of the first American edition. Issues about questionable punctuation were resolved by consulting facsimiles of Twain's manuscripts. The editor has silently modernized certain eccentricities of nineteenth-century punctuation and spelling, and has given American spellings preference over British spellings. Obvious typographical errors introduced by the printers and inconsistent spellings have been corrected. Mark Twain occasionally added footnotes to his own books; here these are placed within the text and indicated by { } brackets.
Twain's primary mode of writing, or at least that of his greatest works, was social satire--of all of society, white and black, upper and lower, American and British, and himself included. Some of his most memorable words are gently satiric commentaries on the foibles of man, woman, and man and woman together.In Huckelberry Finn Twain used social satire to spread the Abolitionist message and cause, that he and his wife believed in and worked for, after the fact. In relation to the time of publication (1885) this message was a social one for his post-Civil war times: that niggers are human, with positive qualities, and worthy of better treatment than they were receiving. The satire reached the intended white audience by using that audience's language--whites then called their former slaves and newly freed servants niggers, in kindly and unkindly tones.
Tone is another aspect that should be well taught in literature classes, and how tone makes all the difference. I was having a conversation with a friend about this, and as she seemed not to understand, I said, "Here, I will demonstrate". Then I said, "You are a mother, and a café owner" in such a scornful tone she was physically taken aback. I didn't even bother saying anything about her race, her personal issues about her weight, or any other personally or socially sensitive topic. Written words similarly have tones to them and readers need to learn to identify the strategies used to communicate them, especially in the more insidious and subtle ways, so as to protect themselves from misreading, and acting on those misreadings.
Nigger derives from the Spanish and Portuguese negro (from the Latin for black, niger), widely used at the time of the Atlantic slave trade to designate a black, African slave. In its original meaning, it was a descriptive statement of fact. In Huckleberry Finn it is used as a descriptive statement of fact:
WE went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. When we was passing by the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. We scrouched down and laid still. Miss Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door; we could see him pretty clear, because there was a light behind him. He got up and stretched his neck out about a minute, listening. Then he says:No where in Twain's original is Jim referred to as "Nigger Jim", as if it were a name in itself. "Nigger Jim" is an invention of later commentators. This is something else that students in literature classes should learn--how a piece of literature is re-interpreted through time both by professionals and society at large.
"Who dah?"
Nigger is part of a lexicon that has evolved, where each word started as a relatively neutral denotation, then acquired negative associations, and those negative connotations were then given or exaggerated to enable a political or social movement requiring a new lexicon: nigger, negro, colored, black, African American. The latter term has come into contention, most dramatically during the 2008 election primaries, when African American writer Debra J Dickerson wrote a seminal essay on how Barack Obama wasn't Black in the way that the US understands "Black", that is, up from slavery Blacks: "Colorblind: Barack Obama would be the great black hope in the next presidential race -- if he were actually black."
According to Dickerson, African American and Black do not refer to a person like Barack Obama who has an African biological father, or to recent immigrants from Africa (now more often from East Africa). They refer to Americans whose ancestors include those who arrived as slaves from Africa (mostly West Africa), and those born of them into slavery in the US. In that sense Michelle Obama is both black and African American in a way that Barack Obama is not. Her family were also part of the Great Migration that saw "negroes" and "coloreds" head north for work, to places like Chicago, where her family settled, when the South proved an extremely difficult place for former slaves and their descendants to live and work.
There are dangers in hiding this lexicon and in sweeping its history under the rug. First, it is a lexicon and a history that explains the social place and social issues of current African Americans, a fuller understanding of which is lost without the knowledge of how and what was said and done when. Younger generations need to be aware of this, and they will acquire that knowledge, or not, primarily in secondary school. While 85% of the US population graduates with a high school diploma, only 28% graduate with a Bachelor's degree.
Secondly, obliterating this lexicon is dangerous in that it is important for all students to understand how certain words, which may or may not have been originally offensive, have acquired or increased in offensiveness and why. It is important for them to realize that part of social change is changing the lexicon and the metaphors that grow from it, and how that is done, so that they may learn to identify, and do it, or join it, knowingly, without being duped by propaganda or the linguistic version of the Emperor's New Clothes.
Third, the US demographic is rapidly diminishing the minority status of African Americans (now 12-13% of the US population). Only their history justifies their current prominent position in US social discourse. Nationally, Hispanics are overtaking them (15-16% of the US population), and increasingly Hispanics are moving into the traditional Southern states and Northern cities where the African American demographic is strongest. The relatively large African American population of California--large for a western state--is comprised almost entirely of African Hispanic Americans. If African Americans are to have a voice commensurate with their historical place in the country, and greater than their real numbers, new generations of Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and immigrants, including recent African immigrants (from all parts of Africa) need to learn to appreciate why they should hold that place.
Ultimately, it is racist to deny these words their appropriate places in American literature and history. The post-modern African American re-appropriation of the word "nigger" in film, song, and literature makes little real sense without understanding from whence the power of the re-appropriation derives--from their power in historical context: slavery, the Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, de-segregation, the Civil Rights movement. It is also racist that they cannot be used in non-pejorative contexts, like teaching, research, and accurate citation of original and contemporary works, by non-Blacks.
Below are excerpts from the original publication of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as it appears on gutenberg.org, the site of Project Gutenberg which provides free books and audio-books on line, primarily in English, but in a number of languages, though not yet including Arabic (any volunteer proofreaders? or audiobooks readers?).
The excerpts below were chosen for instances in which Jim appeared in the photographed text or illustrations, and for main excerpts of text where his role was key. The story of the nigger woman and her nigger kids, and the white woman and her white kids (below, just above Chapter XXXIII) is included as a good example of the message of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The full text of Twain's classic can be viewed and read here.
On a personal note, I have read, studied, and written on the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn previously. The most shocking aspect to me on this reading was the use of the reflexive verb "to hump oneself" (see the illustration and text prior to Chapter XII below)--that, and a very interesting interpretation of the Biblical story of Solomon (Sollermun), re-interpreted through the social class structures of slavery and the Reconstruction period (below, Chapter XIV).
He looked pretty uneasy, and didn't say nothing for a minute. Then he says:
"Maybe I better not tell."
"Why, Jim?"
"Well, dey's reasons. But you wouldn' tell on me ef I uz to tell you, would you, Huck?"
"Blamed if I would, Jim."
"Well, I b'lieve you, Huck. I—I RUN OFF."
"But mind, you said you wouldn' tell—you know you said you wouldn' tell, Huck."
"Well, I did. I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference. I ain't a-going to tell, and I ain't a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le's know all about it."
"Well, you see, it 'uz dis way. Ole missus—dat's Miss Watson—she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans. But I noticed dey wuz a nigger trader roun' de place considable lately, en I begin to git oneasy. Well, one night I creeps to de do' pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I hear old missus tell de widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn' want to, but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me, en it 'uz sich a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'. De widder she try to git her to say she wouldn' do it, but I never waited to hear de res'. I lit out mighty quick, I tell you.
"Well, you wouldn't a ben here 'f it hadn't a ben for Jim. You'd a ben down dah in de woods widout any dinner, en gittn' mos' drownded, too; dat you would, honey. Chickens knows when it's gwyne to rain, en so do de birds, chile."
"Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain't a minute to lose. They're after us!"
Jim never asked no questions, he never said a word; but the way he worked for the next half an hour showed about how he was scared. By that time everything we had in the world was on our raft, and she was ready to be shoved out from the willow cove where she was hid. We put out the camp fire at the cavern the first thing, and didn't show a candle outside after that.
I took the canoe out from the shore a little piece, and took a look; but if there was a boat around I couldn't see it, for stars and shadows ain't good to see by. Then we got out the raft and slipped along down in the shade, past the foot of the island dead still—never saying a word.
"Quick, Jim, it ain't no time for fooling around and moaning; there's a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don't hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can't get away from the wreck there's one of 'em going to be in a bad fix. But if we find their boat we can put ALL of 'em in a bad fix—for the sheriff 'll get 'em. Quick—hurry! I'll hunt the labboard side, you hunt the stabboard. You start at the raft, and—"
"Oh, my lordy, lordy! RAF'? Dey ain' no raf' no mo'; she done broke loose en gone I—en here we is!"
"Why, yes, dat's so; I—I'd done forgot it. A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'n. Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery. En I reck'n de wives quarrels considable; en dat 'crease de racket. Yit dey say Sollermun de wises' man dat ever live'. I doan' take no stock in dat. Bekase why: would a wise man want to live in de mids' er sich a blim-blammin' all de time? No—'deed he wouldn't. A wise man 'ud take en buil' a biler-factry; en den he could shet DOWN de biler-factry when he want to res'."
"Well, but he WAS the wisest man, anyway; because the widow she told me so, her own self."
"I doan k'yer what de widder say, he WARN'T no wise man nuther. He had some er de dad-fetchedes' ways I ever see. Does you know 'bout dat chile dat he 'uz gwyne to chop in two?"
"Yes, the widow told me all about it."
"WELL, den! Warn' dat de beatenes' notion in de worl'? You jes' take en look at it a minute. Dah's de stump, dah—dat's one er de women; heah's you—dat's de yuther one; I's Sollermun; en dish yer dollar bill's de chile. Bofe un you claims it. What does I do? Does I shin aroun' mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill DO b'long to, en han' it over to de right one, all safe en soun', de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would? No; I take en whack de bill in TWO, en give half un it to you, en de yuther half to de yuther woman. Dat's de way Sollermun was gwyne to do wid de chile. Now I want to ast you: what's de use er dat half a bill?—can't buy noth'n wid it. En what use is a half a chile? I wouldn' give a dern for a million un um."
"But hang it, Jim, you've clean missed the point—blame it, you've missed it a thousand mile."
"Who? Me? Go 'long. Doan' talk to me 'bout yo' pints. I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat. De 'spute warn't 'bout a half a chile, de 'spute was 'bout a whole chile; en de man dat think he kin settle a 'spute 'bout a whole chile wid a half a chile doan' know enough to come in out'n de rain. Doan' talk to me 'bout Sollermun, Huck, I knows him by de back."
"But I tell you you don't get the point."
"Blame de point! I reck'n I knows what I knows. En mine you, de REAL pint is down furder—it's down deeper. It lays in de way Sollermun was raised. You take a man dat's got on'y one or two chillen; is dat man gwyne to be waseful o' chillen? No, he ain't; he can't 'ford it. HE know how to value 'em. But you take a man dat's got 'bout five million chillen runnin' roun' de house, en it's diffunt. HE as soon chop a chile in two as a cat. Dey's plenty mo'. A chile er two, mo' er less, warn't no consekens to Sollermun, dad fatch him!"
I never see such a nigger. If he got a notion in his head once, there warn't no getting it out again. He was the most down on Solomon of any nigger I ever see. So I went to talking about other kings, and let Solomon slide. I told about Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time ago; and about his little boy the dolphin, that would a been a king, but they took and shut him up in jail, and some say he died there.
"Po' little chap."
"But some says he got out and got away, and come to America."
"Dat's good! But he'll be pooty lonesome—dey ain' no kings here, is dey, Huck?"
"Den he cain't git no situation. What he gwyne to do?"
A nigger woman come tearing out of the kitchen with a rolling-pin in her hand, singing out, "Begone YOU Tige! you Spot! begone sah!" and she fetched first one and then another of them a clip and sent them howling, and then the rest followed; and the next second half of them come back, wagging their tails around me, and making friends with me. There ain't no harm in a hound, nohow.
And behind the woman comes a little nigger girl and two little nigger boys without anything on but tow-linen shirts, and they hung on to their mother's gown, and peeped out from behind her at me, bashful, the way they always do. And here comes the white woman running from the house, about forty-five or fifty year old, bareheaded, and her spinning-stick in her hand; and behind her comes her little white children, acting the same way the little niggers was doing. She was smiling all over so she could hardly stand—and says:
"It's YOU, at last!—AIN'T it?"
I out with a "Yes'm" before I thought.
"I hain't ever done you no harm. You know that. So, then, what you want to come back and ha'nt ME for?"
I says:
"I hain't come back—I hain't been GONE."
When he heard my voice it righted him up some, but he warn't quite satisfied yet. He says:
"Don't you play nothing on me, because I wouldn't on you. Honest injun now, you ain't a ghost?"
"Honest injun, I ain't," I says.
"Well—I—I—well, that ought to settle it, of course; but I can't somehow seem to understand it no way. Looky here, warn't you ever murdered AT ALL?"
"No. I warn't ever murdered at all—I played it on them. You come in here and feel of me if you don't believe me."
So he done it; and it satisfied him; and he was that glad to see me again he didn't know what to do. And he wanted to know all about it right off, because it was a grand adventure, and mysterious, and so it hit him where he lived. But I said, leave it alone till by and by; and told his driver to wait, and we drove off a little piece, and I told him the kind of a fix I was in, and what did he reckon we better do? He said, let him alone a minute, and don't disturb him. So he thought and thought, and pretty soon he says:
"It's all right; I've got it. Take my trunk in your wagon, and let on it's your'n; and you turn back and fool along slow, so as to get to the house about the time you ought to; and I'll go towards town a piece, and take a fresh start, and get there a quarter or a half an hour after you; and you needn't let on to know me at first."
I says:
"All right; but wait a minute. There's one more thing—a thing that NOBODY don't know but me. And that is, there's a nigger here that I'm a-trying to steal out of slavery, and his name is JIM—old Miss Watson's Jim."
He says:
"What! Why, Jim is—"
He stopped and went to studying. I says:
"I know what you'll say. You'll say it's dirty, low-down business; but what if it is? I'm low down; and I'm a-going to steal him, and I want you keep mum and not let on. Will you?"
His eye lit up, and he says:
"I'll HELP you steal him!"
Well, I let go all holts then, like I was shot. It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard—and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation. Only I couldn't believe it. Tom Sawyer a NIGGER-STEALER!
"Oh, shucks!" I says; "you're joking."
"I ain't joking, either."
"Well, then," I says, "joking or no joking, if you hear anything said about a runaway nigger, don't forget to remember that YOU don't know nothing about him, and I don't know nothing about him."
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You'll notice even from a distance that Wei Shian Noodles stands out of its neighbors in the predominantly Asian shopping center anchored by 99 Ranch Market, at Jeffrey and Walnut in Irvine. Most of the center's tenants are restaurants, and to call the majority of them no-frills would be an understatement. This just helps distinguish Wei Shian, whose interior softly glows with the light of crystal chandeliers. Everyone inside is dressed just a little fancier, too. But not too fancy. It's all relative.
A quick scan of the shopping center reveals a restaurant a few doors away that similarly demands attention: Chong Qing Mei Wei, a tiny Sichuan restaurant that opened several years ago. It, too, radiates with the soft sparkle of chandeliers while all the neighbors are awash in blinding fluorescent. Not surprisingly, the two are owned by the same family.
The menu isn't particularly intuitive. Not everything listed under the heading "soup noodles" is actually soup noodles, for example. But some are, like the wonderful pork-filled wonton dumplings in a spicy red chili broth. However, there's so much chili oil in the broth, it's hard to imagine actually eating it like soup. But as a sauce for the dumplings, it makes perfect sense, and while you probably won't want to slurp up all the broth, you certainly won't have any wontons left over.
About halfway down the long roster of "soup noodles," you'll notice the dandan noodles, which definitely are not soup. But never mind that. These are probably the best dandan noodles available in Orange County. Dandan are a specialty of Sichuan, and mostly what passes for dandan in California is the tamer Cantonese interpretation, whose sauce is made of peanuts or sesame paste — or worse, peanut butter. But this is the real deal, Sichuan style. The sauce is bright red, slicked with a generous dose of chili oil and an electrical shock of Sichuan peppercorns. Your tongue will go numb. You'll want to have a glass of ice water handy, because drinking hot tea will only make it worse.
As good as the noodles are, however, my favorite thing on the menu here does not involve noodles. It's the "cold sliced spicy pork." It's not a very sexy name, but trust me when I say this is a truly incredible dish. The chilled, slow-roasted pork but is heaped into a pile and doused with a sauce of roasted garlic and sweet soy along with a handful of dried red chilies. I liked this dish so much I returned the very next day to eat it again, and when I got there, I noticed two other customers from the previous day who had done the same thing, only they had returned for the cold chicken, which I have yet to try.
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Two years ago, a pair of research teams each reported finding an elevated risk of breast cancer among women who sometimes worked nightshifts. One of the teams now finds that those women also face an increased risk of colorectal cancer.
Eva S. Schernhammer of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and her colleagues pored over data on 600 colorectal cancers diagnosed among 78,500 nurses participating in a long-running health study. As before, the researchers compared cancer incidence in women who reported working the graveyard shift with that of women who never worked nights.
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2009 release containing Bill Evans' debut album as a leader. Originally released in 1956, New Jazz Conceptions is featured here in its entirety, including an alternate version of 'No Cover, No Minimum' that completes the s... more »
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2009 release containing Bill Evans' debut album as a leader. Originally released in 1956, New Jazz Conceptions is featured here in its entirety, including an alternate version of 'No Cover, No Minimum' that completes the session. Added as a bonus, a couple of rare sessions from the same period, which feature Evans as a sideman on sessions for guitarists Dick Garc¡a and Joe Puma. 52nd Street.
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Samuel Chell | Kenosha,, WI United States | 12/27/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Bill's first album under his own name, recorded when he was 26, is of primary value to the Evans' collector, who can read about the album's background in Peter Pettinger's "How My Heart Sings." More than the personal expression of the artist, it's a revealing, extrovertish "statement" by the newest young pianist on the block, eager to prove he's a major contender in a field of few giants and many pretenders.Evans' own composition, "Five," disguises rhythmic complexity within a simple Monkish melody. And on another original, "Displacement," his breathless, dazzling bebop lines evoke the melodic/rhythmic complexity of Bud Powell played in the flawless, incisive technical manner of Lennie Tristano. By contrast, the two takes of "No Cover, No Minimum," a simple blues in G, find Bill struggling a bit to contain his technique sufficiently to produce a Horace Silver double-time feel.But there's also some hint of what's to come--Bill's "Waltz for Debbie," played more floridly here than on the later recordings, and "My Romance," which he would return to again and again during the final year of life.An album such as this exposes the rugged machinery, the technical mastery, that serves as a foundation for many of the most original creative artists--from Coltrane to Schoenberg to Picasso. It's that rock-solid inner core that permits the groundbreaking artist to expose his vulnerability and at the same time inspires our trust."
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M J Miller | Park City, UT, USA | 02/25/2001
(4 out of 5 stars)
"I was first exposed to Evans through his work with Miles Davis, particularly the classic "Kind of Blue", on which his contribution equals or exceeds that of Davis himself. This is a fine album, and might be a highlight in the discography of a lesser keyboardist. But by Evans' standards, this album pales in comparison to those that would soon follow, including "Everybody Digs...", "Portrait in Jazz" and "Waltz For Debby". This should not be your first Bill Evans purchase, but you will appreciate it's historical significance if you are an Evans fan."
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Fly By Light | Atlanta, Georgia | 06/23/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I love upbeat, energetic playing and this instantly engaging CD is crammed full of it. The muscular playing and energy level of many songs equals or even surpasses that of Portrait Jazz and Live and Montreux. Paul Motian (legendary drummer on Portrait, Explorations and Village Vanguard) delivers with typical flair, while Teddy Kotick spends much more time in the background more than Evans' later bass players. Although I enjoy Scott Lafaro's frequent and lengthy solos, the much smaller dose of bass solos on Conceptions makes it much more enjoyable for me than listening to Eddie Gomez go on and on. Being a 1956 recording, New Conceptions lacks slightly in clarity compared to later works, but does not detract at all from the listener experience.
It would be unfair to say that Evans' technique on Conceptions lacks in any way - the "Bill Evans" sound is unmistakable, though influences show up much more clearly here than in later recordings. His characteristic syncopations are already operating in full force in the appropriately titled, "Displacement". The dense and sometimes dissonant harmonies are a bit more obvious on this recording that on later Evans recordings. Although some (like "Five") sometimes bring Thelonious Monk to mind, Evans' rougher textures are not introduced quite so abruptly as Monk's, so they are not as startling. Evans' solos and solo intros (like the intros to "Conception" and "Speak Low") have flourishes that suggest the influence of Bud Powell, one of Evans' heros. Again, Evans shows more restraint that his predecessor, leaving out the more manic fills than Powell often included. The two bonus cuts of "No Cover, No Minimum" offer something a little different: Evans injecting his jazz and classical influences (and Mexican Hat Dance) into the blues. As with many other Evans bonus cuts, these lack a bit of the fire of the original album cuts (Give the poor guy a break - he did not like recording and obviously didn't want these cuts released for a reason!) Some might consider them too "formal sounding" to be true "blues", but they are still excellent, enjoyable and instructive.
What does this CD lack that later ones have? First, Scott Lafaro is not providing his groundbreaking bass accompaniments and solos. These clearly made later recordings special, but Conceptions would be a mess with Evans' arrangements played over Lafaro-style bass parts. Second, Conceptions lacks the restraint and subtlety that permeates the Village Vanguard recordings. This is the other side of the same coin - at the Village Vanguard, Evans left a lot more sonic "space" for Lafaro and Motian to work, so the music does not become too cluttered. By this time, Evans has fully integrated the "less is more" approach into his arrangements. This sparser style tends more to draw listeners in, whereas the density of Conceptions tends to jump out into the audience and meet the listeners.
If you are an Evans fan and wish you could hear him at his most extroverted (a la Montreux or Portrait), without all the bass solos, this is a wonderful CD to try. It may not be the Village Vanguard, but four stars does not do it justice."


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Essentially a live-action anime, Stephen Fung's Tai Chi Zero sweats rivulets of Tarantino-era digital anxiety from all pores—every kick, punch, pan, and zoom exaggerated for maximum impact. The camera wants to go everywhere and annotate everything; no scene avoids being stopped dead in its tracks with some kind of postmodern wink at the audience, usually a shout-out to your standard-issue video-game interface. The story kicks off with hellish metal riffs backing a gold-tinted war scene wherein our hero, described in voiceover as "The Freak" (Yuan Xiaochao), takes a blow to the head that sends him into a rage of kung fu. As it turns out, he's a prodigy at it—as long as he gets hit on a specific wart on his forehead.
Bumbling along the countryside, the Freak wanders into a small mountainous village and finds the citizenry there practicing Chen-style kung fu; he gets his ass handed to him by nearly everybody he tries speaking with. Tai Chi Zero is something of a pageant of celebrities from Hong Kong and China, and the big man in town is the mysterious Master Chen (Tony Leung Ka Fai). (Incidentally, for a small cameo the camera freezes on Andrew Lau and a title card declares: "That's Andrew Lau! Director of Infernal Affairs!") Chen is bound by law not to teach his technique to any outsiders, which makes the Freak simultaneously a threat and an outsider with no means of breaking in. To make matters worse, the Freak has a crush on Master Chen's daughter, Yuniang (21-year-old singing/acting/modeling sensation Angelababy). She, too, beats him up, but it's nothing personal, a kind of a meet-cute with long stares and soaring trumpets. The Freak manages to redeem himself when Yuniang's fiancée, Fang (Eddie Peng), returns to the village from an education abroad in a top hat, with the blueprints and the muscle to lay down pioneering railroad tracks. The Freak's forehead growth, meanwhile, grows black, sapping him of his energy and slowly killing him unless he realizes his full potential.
Redemption comes in the form of stopping needless Western modernization; the love triangle quickly proves a non-issue as Fang falls in love with one of his white henchwomen in a series of long, unbelievably stilted love scenes in dubbed-over English. Accidentally or otherwise, viewers will find themselves rooting for the Freak's two new relationships—one under Chen's mentorship, the other with Chen's daughter—and anxiously awaiting the next big martial-arts scene. Maybe betraying its market ambitions, Tai Chi Zero toggles between syrupy melodrama and crunchy violence pretty comfortably, regularly breaking the fourth wall to call out its characters' intentions for an easy laugh. The film seems to exist beyond history, factual or cinematic.
The film invites comparison to Stephen Chow's work, but Fung and his crew have no interest in Chow's meticulous choreography or eye for stark composition. Shots are short, shallow, and glitzy, and fight sequences are chopped up one blow at a time—or, worse, chopped up and digitally augmented, a la House of Flying Daggers. While the plot is as simple and time-honored (read: flimsy) as has ever existed in martial-arts movies, there's a semi-admirable, ultimately deadening impatience to the movie's flow. Tai Chi Zero ends practically mid-scene, only to run a two-minute long trailer for its already-shot sequel, Tai Chi Hero, over its sped-up end credits. The edit probably got a lot of laughter from the filmmakers, but the movie never takes its flippancy to the point of daring.


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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?—Mary Oliver
While vacationing in New Hampshire this month, I attended a play at a summer playhouse called The Peterborough Players. The walkway leading up to the playhouse was made of cobblestones engraved with names and dates of donors—one of which caught my eye and read,
It goes by fast.
I stopped in my tracks and in a flash a wave of "Holy S*#@$," passed through me. It goes by fast, I thought. My life is flying by. What am I doing? Am I living fully?
I looked at my beautiful seventeen-year-old daughter. "Holy S*#@$," I thought, she is almost out the door! I will be fifty in a few years! I looked at my wonderful in-laws sailing through their seventies and thought, "Holy S*#@$, they are getting older!"
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Some wise soul paid to put a special reminder on that pathway and surely thousands have walked over it. Perhaps only a few ever paused to see this powerful message. I feel fortunate enough to have allowed its whisper to find my ear that night. It penetrated my soul and, in a sense, woke me up out of my slumber.
Our lives go by fast. Why do we dwell on drama and clench our fists so often? Why do we hold ourselves back? Why do we care so much about what others think? Why do we hold onto our opinions so tightly that it tenses our faces?
In a blink of an eye, our children grow up and leave the nest. Why don't we take the time to lay down in the grass with them to look at the stars? I could go on and on about how not to miss "your one wild and precious life." I would share this message across the globe for the rest of my life if it would help one person receive the gift I did on that beautiful evening in New Hampshire.
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I can identify with all those descriptions - warrior, engineer and archeologist. I want to learn a practical martial art that will enable me to protect myself, however, I don't have the desire to compete seriously in a combat sport. So while I like to think there is a warrior in me, I am not a warrior. I find satisfaction in trying to master the waza and perfect each technique as much as possible, after all they are martial
, and I pursue budo because of its heritage and connection to the era of the Samurai. I find the history and lineage of modern Japanese budo fascinating. So I can say that my motivation for training in the martial arts is varied - I consider myself a martial artist not a fighter, but that doesn't mean I don't want to develop the necessary survival skills and instincts to defend myself in a violent confrontation. This is why I am inspired by the likes of Nishio Sensei, who sought to articulate and augment the martial integrity of Aikido. The same applies to Seagal. My current approach to training is to see the waza as vehicles through which to teach fundamental principles. The waza itself certainly contains martial application (obviously), but once the principles have been learned, they can be applied, henka style, to self-defence in a more "street" ready form.
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on 8/7/2016 10:56:00 PM
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A wonderful option if you're looking for a cruelty-free body wash. The ingredients list is A+++. I have no complaints whatsoever and will repurchase even though I like to switch up body washes often. It makes me feel clean and smell amazing (tropical getaway vibes!) It's around $12 for 16oz at Walgreens which is more costly than the typical drugstore body wash but it's worth it.
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I bought this after Xoxosincity recommended it and I have to say that I agree with her that this is a great body wash. It smells amazing and every time I get a whiff of it I think of summer and pina coladas (try the matching lotion too- it is wonderful and has a stronger scent) and it lathers well without stripping my skin or irritating my eczema. It is full of nourishing oils and shea butter which my skin loves and although the scent doesn't linger on my skin, I feel like it does a good job of moisturizing and cleaning my skin and doesn't break me out on my chest or back. If you love the scent of the coconut and hibiscus line from Shea Moisture, then you will love this too as it is pretty much an identical scent. I found my bottle at Walgreens, but you can get this at Target as well. It retails at $9.99 and you get a good sized bottle.
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I had to write a review for this body wash as well as all the other Shea Moisture products I love. I am surprised more people haven't tried or reviewed them. They are available and Target/Walgreens and this version is one of my favorites among the African Black Soap version I use as well for more clarifying. I love this wash as the Coconut & Hibiscus products smell so delicious and not artificial and are just full of rich nourishing ingredients that are amazing for leaving your skin so balances, soft, replenished, and smooth. They don't coat, leave films, or dry you out with a million unneeded lathering agents. And even with that I am surprised at what a nice creamy lather it gives with the product really going a long way unlike some natural washes where you have to use a lot more. Really worth the cheap prices imo for the quality/clean of an organic product. Also just a tip, there is one other body wash in the line called the Coconut & Hibiscus Shea Butter Wash which is nearly identical in ingredients but I always buy this version that is called the "Foaming Milk" as it is the same body wash lol but it comes in a 16 oz bottle for the same price as the other I tried first, which is in the 13 oz like most of their body washes. Weird I know but a little more product for the money with this version. Don't hesitate to try this ladies or gents as does what all the other drugstore/he body washes claim to do minus all the stripping/chemicals/cones/over perfumed fragrances they contain to do it! :)
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I'm not sure if I got a one from a bad batch or if the ingredients changed from a few days of sitting in a car but this was the most disgustingly, cloyingingly fake sweet smell of any body product I've ever smelled. I had my boyfriend attest to it as well. It was incredibly strong and filled up the bathroom with its scent within a few seconds of using it. I had to use a different body wash to get the smell off of me, and then I threw it in the bin. Disappointing because I like Shea Moisture shampoos.
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Microsoft Premieres Their Bing Television Commercial
As part of the company's $100 marketing push, Microsoft has started showing Bing search engine commercials on television in the US. The video is likely to appear in other countries as Bing's localization effort progresses, but if you're yet to see it…
At just over 1 minute, the commercial is very much style over substance. It's flashy, fast, fashionable and warns that people aren't searching – they're bailing. Apparently, we're all "lost in the links". We don't need queries and keywords that just lead to further questions – we need a decision engine.
Of course, the advert doesn't actually tell us anything. Why does the company consider my previous searching experiences to be so flawed? What does Bing do? Why should use it? However, this air of mystery will tempt many people to trying Bing and that's what Microsoft needs. Feedback about the search engine (sorry, decision engine) has been largely positive, but the project will only succeed if the company can persuade people to switch from Google and Yahoo.
Interestingly, there is just the briefest mention of Microsoft itself; their logo appears in the bottom-right corner during the last two seconds of the advert. Blink and you'll miss it.
If you had not already used Bing would this commercial encourage you to do so? Has the company purposely downplaying the Microsoft brand? Does television advertising work for web sites?


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Dowda second at State Powerlifting
By Brady Keane BCC Contributor
After four years of early morning workouts and long Saturday meets, senior Bryce Dowda's hard work paid off this past weekend as the multi-sport star placed second in the State Powerlifting competition.
"It felt amazing!" Dowda said. "Once I lifted 570 on deadlift and secured second place, I felt nothing but happiness."
In THSPA powerlifting, young men and women across the state of Texas compete in different weight classes in deadlift, squat, and bench. In the 275lb. division, Dowda placed second at the Regional meet behind the 2013 State Champion, with a total of 1555 pounds in the three lifts. Impressively, Bryce added 20 pounds to his lift total at the state meet.
In order to place second at the state competition, Dowda had to get 555 on deadlift, something that he wasn't able to pull up at the regional meet.
"At first I was worried I wasn't going get it because at regionals I tried 555 and didn't get it," Dowda said. "But I kept thinking I have to get this, and when I went up then and pulled it and got all green lights, I was ecstatic!"
According to head powerlifting coach John Irvin, Dowda is the first Bulldog since Tyler Stephens in 2010 to even qualify for the state powerlifting meet.
"I am proud of how Bryce has handled this season by working with the equipment necessary to get him to state," Irvin said. "He jumped a combined 145 pounds this season out of the three lifts."
On top of placing second at the state powerlifting meet, Dowda was also honored with a Football First Team All-District Defense award.
"It feels so good knowing that I ended my senior year on a good note," Dowda said.
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Description of problem:
DNS lookups from Mozilla, Lynx, Firebird are slow.
* dig is not *
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Every time.
This is fixed by issuing the following command:
/etc/init.d/network restart
This doesn't explain why dig wasn't slow though..
Mozilla might have old cached nameserver information? Is it possible you're
starting Mozilla before the networking has come up, somehow?
Anyway, another good test is to try going offline and then back online to reset
DNS settings. And make sure you have a relatively new Mozilla installed.
I tested this with the latest stable Mozilla, and the latest beta Mozilla.
I also had the same problem of slow DNS lookups with Ximian Evolution.
Networking cannot have been started before X has run.
I'm sorry, does that mean that Mozilla started before your network was
configured? Your statement is confusing.
> Networking cannot have been started before X has run.
Networking starts before X runs. I run Mozilla after X has loaded.
By X I mean X-Windows :)
This bug seems similar to bug #90211 which I see all the time. mozilla does
seem to be using old DNS info.


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Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Teodoro, 1942–, Equatoguinean military and political leader, president of Equatorial Guinea (1979–). He graduated (1963) from Spain's Zaragoza Military Academy while Equatorial Guinea was still a Spanish colony, and after independence worked (1968–79) in various capacities for Francisco Macías Nguema, his uncle and the country's despotic first president. In 1979 Obiang Nguema staged a coup and installed himself as military chief and president. He had his uncle executed, declared amnesty for political prisoners, encouraged refugees to return, and instituted other reforms. Although a new constitution was promulgated (1982), opposition parties legalized (1992), and legislative elections held (1993), only one party, Obiang's Democratic Party for Equatorial Guinea, had any real power and opposition was increasingly repressed. Obiang, who won landslide victories in the 1996, 2002, and 2009 elections, has solidified his dictatorial rule, which has been marked by rampant corruption and human rights violations.
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#notatarget — This was the theme of the World Humanitarian Day 2017, which was observed on 19 August. Again, there have been a number of incidents this year where humanitarian aid workers have been purposefully targeted, kidnapped, injured and killed. This day is a good opportunity to recognise humanitarian workers for what they contribute to society and to the world, and for the high price they often pay for being engaged.
Recognition can be a powerful opportunity for healing for those who were targeted and have to live with the resulting injuries, both visible and invisible.
I know, I 've been there. I've been a target. I also received recognition.
It was on a cold and grey November day in 2007, at the 30th International Red Cross Red Crescent conference in Geneva, when I found myself standing on the stage in a large hall, with lots of delegates from all over the world, together with James Carlton from Australia, Alexander Dumba Ika from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Josiah Gabel from France.
The occasion was the awarding of the Henry Dunant Medal, which is awarded every two years by the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.
At that time it was a somewhat awkward experience, being on stage in front of all those people, listening to speeches and receiving a medal and a huge certificate.
However, and not right away, deep within myself something clicked: for the first time in 11 years I knew I didn't have to hide an experience that gave a huge blow to my career development, leaving an unexplainable gap in my CV around years of inability to find and keep a job. Suddenly, years of disorientation, of feeling inadequate, insecure, unable to commit and generally being able to make sense of the direction my life was taking, came to an end. My sense of self and empowerment in my work life and career, which had been destroyed in an atrocious experience, with botched recovery efforts years earlier, were magically restored by a finely crafted and symbolic piece of metal bestowed in a public act of recognition.
The healing it caused is hard to describe, yet it was immediate and palpable.
Not that a medal can instantaneously heal any terrible experience, yet it contributes, and the power of recognition is deep and lasting.
As a Humanitarian worker, have you ever been given any personal recognition? Has society, or even only your employer, ever recognized you for your sacrifices and your willingness to venture into dangerous environments to help others? This may have been in small ways or maybe in big, maybe as a one-off or maybe regularly?
August 19 – World Humanitarian Day – is a perfect occasion to do just that. If you are reading this, and you are not an aid worker yourself, this would be a perfect opportunity to express your appreciation to someone who is doing humanitarian work, even if they work in your own local environment, helping vulnerable and disadvantaged people.
The author, Christoph Hensch, started working in 1989 with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for many years and in numerous countries. In 1996, Christoph was injured in an attack on a Red Cross facility. He was awarded the 'Henri Dunant' Medal, recognizing his «outstanding service and acts of great devotion» in his humanitarian work.
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WASHINGTON — Highlights from the Federal Reserve's survey of economic conditions nationwide. The survey, released Wednesday and known as the Beige Book, is based on information collected from the Fed's 12 regional bank districts.
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Economic conditions were mixed, but showed signs of improvement in some areas. Manufacturing picked up, with more factories planning to expand operations or increase hiring. Retailers saw sales decline from a year ago. Auto sales were roughly the same. Home sales were mixed, as was activity in the commercial and industrial real estate markets. In agriculture, production of corn, soybean and rice rose in 2009 from 2008 in most states in the region. Production of sorghum, winter wheat, cotton and tobacco fell.
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Economic conditions showed improvement. Most manufacturers said demand strengthened, with makers of semiconductors and related equipment reporting "sharp snapbacks." Merchants reported mixed sales results and are cautious about the outlook. Home and condo sales picked up, helped in part by the government's homebuyer tax credit. Signs of modest improvements in commercial real-estate activity reported.
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The economy flashed further signs of strengthening, despite some slowing in the housing market. Many manufacturers planned to increase employment and capital spending in the months ahead. Retailers mostly reported sales ahead of expectations, although some said February's severe snowstorms did slow business. Tourism activity in New York City picked up before the bad weather but was crimped when the storms hit. Both the residential housing and the commercial real-estate markets softened. Banks reported weaker demand for all types of loans and rising delinquency rates mostly for consumer loans.
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Economic conditions improved in some places. Factories reported widespread increases in shipments and new orders. Retailers, however, said a rising sales trend was interrupted by February's snowstorms. Similar reports came from car dealers, residential real-estate agents and home builders. Across industries, businesses say they expect only slow improvements in sales in the months ahead.
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The economy showed signs of improvement, although activity still remains below pre-recession levels. Factories said production was stable or rose modestly, and orders increased. Steel shipments were in line with expectation. Freight companies reported an increase in shipping volume. A majority of retailers said sales improved slightly from a year ago. Shoppers continued to focus on buying necessities. New-home sales picked up slightly.
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Economic activity slackened or remained soft across most industries because of severe winter storms. Retail sales — with the exceptions of items like food — were weaker. Big-ticket sales, including cars, dropped sharply. The bad weather also hurt sales at service companies, with airports, hotels and restaurants feeling the pinch. Many manufacturers lost a few days of production during the storms but were able to make up most of the lost activity. The housing sector was mixed, with bad weather limiting activity in many areas. The jobs market weakened.
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Economic activity was mixed. Retailers said sales were lower than expected, although tourism-related spending increased. Miami saw strong demand for hotel bookings due to the Pro Bowl and the Super Bowl. New Orleans got a boost from Mardi Gras. Factories noted some improvements in new orders and the decline in production eased. New-home sales softened, with the weakness most pronounced in Georgia.
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Economic activity improved at a moderate pace. Consumer spending increased slightly, although auto sales were weak. Factory activity gradually improved and orders increased, mostly reflecting the restocking of shrunken inventories. Demand from Asia boosted exports, but with growth in China expected to slow, companies predicted export activity would moderate as well. Construction activity stayed weak. In agriculture, corn prices fell amid last fall's record harvest. Hog and cattle prices rose, while dairy prices flattened.
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Economy grew modestly. Growth was reported in consumer spending, the services sector, energy, mining and home construction. Tourism was mixed, while manufacturing and commercial construction activity were stable. Softness in labor markets persisted. In agriculture, activity was down. Lenders expect overall agriculture income and spending to decrease in the first quarter of this year.
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Additional signs of modest growth reported. Manufacturing activity expanded but didn't lead to more hiring. Residential real-estate markets benefited from tax credits, while commercial real-estate activity weakened. Retailers' sales were weaker than expected, with some mall operators attributing that to winter storms. Energy activity expanded, with new drilling for gas concentrated in Oklahoma. In agriculture, the winter wheat crop was in good conditions, with limited reports of freeze damage.
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Economic activity improved. Retailers' sales improved from a year ago, and department store sales were better than expected. Manufacturers tied to construction-related industries continue to hurt. High-tech manufacturers continued to see strong growth in production and orders. Makers of fabricated metals, though, saw a slightly pickup in orders, while makers of transportation equipment said activity was mixed. Home building picked up, but commercial real estate activity remained depressed.
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Economic activity increased modestly. Retail sales firmed, with discount chains and department stores reporting sales increases. New car sales slipped. Factory activity was mixed. Demand grew for semiconductors. New orders for commercial airplanes and parts was sluggish, but backlogs of unfilled orders kept production steady. The pace of home sales was mixed, and the supply of unsold homes is high. Prices rose a bit. Commercial real-estate activity weakened. Sales grew for agricultural products, but oil drilling and capital spending were held down by weak global demand.
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