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Gill Oliver discovers how old cycles are peddling new business
With sales of vinyl records, upcycled furniture and vintage clothes booming, we are a nation gripped by nostalgia.
Another item riding high on the crest of the retro wave is the bicycle, as more cyclists turn their backs on carbon and opt for classic metal frames.
Brian Reid is so enthusiastic about this heritage he runs his own shop, Golden Age Cycles in Banbury, which specialises in bikes from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Demand for vintage wheels has proved so strong he has just opened a second – a 1,000 sq ft showroom at the hugely successful former RAF Bicester airfield and bomber base Bicester Heritage.
Brian, who stocks around 200 bikes, explained one of the main reasons they are sought after is they were handmade by craftsmen who displayed their names proudly on the finished product.
Some of the best-known makes include Hetchins, Mercian and Bates.
He pointed out: "I have bikes which are older than me.
"When they were made, it was a very different time as although they built them all similarly, each machine is very, very different."
"Yes, they are bikes but some are also works of art – they are beautiful."
And he joked: "I am not sure if I am running a bike shop, an art gallery or a museum."
Brian, a part-time school teacher, buys and sells vintage racing cycles which need restoring and he and his team carry out bicycle repairs.
Customers often ask him to keep an eye out for their perfect bike, in terms of looks, colour, ride and frame size.
Cycling in general and particularly time trialling and road racing has become hugely popular during the past 10 years, mainly thanks to Team GB's success in the Olympics and stars such as Chris Boardman, Sir Bradley Wiggins who was the first Brit to win the Tour de France, champion sprinter Mark 'Cav' Cavendish, Victoria Pendleton, and four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome.
Brian pointed out: "Modern bikes are amazing, carbon is king and lycra is everywhere, but it wasn't always like this.
"Modern-day racing cyclists tend to buy a more expensive bike every year or two, but some have realised they can't keep shelling out for a new one at £3,000-£8,000 a time and are turning to heritage bikes instead.
And along the same lines as classic cars and motorbikes, more enthusiasts are snapping-up hand-built heritage bikes as an investment.
"Modern ones are made in the Far East in anonymous factories by people pressing buttons," Brian pointed out.
"Heritage bikes may not be as fast or as comfortable as modern machines, but they've got character.
"They are a bit like an old friend and are more civilised, relaxing and fun, which is what it's all about."
According to Brian, the value of heritage bikes has been rising between 20 and 40 per cent a year.
"It's really exploded," he said.
There are two types of cycles which are 'riders' and 'hangers', the latter hung on a wall as a piece of art, rather than being ridden.
An example is a 1993 gold-plated, limited edition racing bike which came with a video of it being assembled and which was number eight out of just 35 in the world.
Brian explained: "A chap in the Lake District bought it when it was nearly new in the early 1990s, hung it on his office wall, went bankrupt and sold it to me.
"So, I have a 25-year-old bike that no one has even sat on."
He added: "When Raleigh had its centenary in 1987, it made two hundred 24-carat gold-plated bikes, many of which went straight to bike shops and again, most have never been ridden."
Brian imported from South Africa a very early carbon bike like the Lotus ridden by Chris Boardman in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.
The fact there were only 300 ever made and that this one had never been ridden, meant it sold to a customer in Malaysia for £8,500.
Extremely rare limited-edition bikes can be seen advertised for £80,000.
"It's like any field where you get collectors who want the rarest one, or the one they haven't got, they just go crazy," Brian explained.
"I am selling £1,000 bikes most weeks and tend not to sell anything under £200," he said.
It's not just Oxfordshire or British buyers who appreciate the craftsmanship of these bikes, Many of Golden Age Cycles' customers are overseas, including in China, the Pacific Rim, Taiwan and the US, despite them having to stump-up an extra £200 on top of the price to have the bike shipped out to them.
Many of his customers tend to be MAMILS (Middle Aged Men in Lycra) and he explained: "They may have realised they are not as fast as they used to be, so why not have a beautiful machine you can have fun with?"
Heritage cycles are often bought as second, third or even fourth bikes, as cyclists are well known for being big spenders on bikes, frames and other accessories but the pull of that old-style glamour can be irresistible.
At events flash carbon racing bikes costing £7,000 are often ignored, as everyone rushes to admire one of Brian's £200 classic models.
Running the business is a labour of love and one of the things he most enjoys is talking to customers and hearing their cycling stories.
Plans for the Bicester Heritage showroom include kitting it out with a Chesterfield sofa and coffee machine, so that customers can relax in comfort while he digs out their perfect bike.
The extra space will allow him to stock more bikes and expand the business further.
Brian pointed out: "It's totally up to customers whether they buy from me to ride them or just look at them but these are beautiful machines deserve to be cherished."
Golden Age Cycles shop is at 2-3 North Bar St, Banbury, OX16 0TB, Tel. 01295 369468. For more information, see goldenagecycles.co.uk
If you love heritage bikes, head for one of the many retro events around the country.
Bike Oxford on May 20 is a day of 25, 50 and 80-mile rides starting and finishing in Oxford, includes a vintage cycling element.
On September 9, look out for the Banbury Star cycling club's annual Retroride, see banburystar.co.uk for more details.
Vintage bikes can usually be spotted at Bicester Heritage open days Sunday Scrambles, plus there is a chance to check out the new Golden Age Cycles showroom, on April 22 and October 7, see bicesterheritage.co.uk.
Finally, head further north for the huge, three-day family-friendly festival where people get together to show-off their vintage bikes.
Eroica Britannia in Derbyshire has a group vintage bike ride at the heart of the weekend with most visitors dressing up in vintage clothing, live music, more than 200 traders and family entertainment. For more information, see eroicabritannia.co.uk/
(panel)CALENDAR OF EVENTS
April 19 – 22 Bespoked: The Handmade Bicycle Show, Bristol
April 22 Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble
May 5-6 Carlton Weekend, Worksop
May 20 Bike Oxford
June 2-3 Tour of Cambridge
June 15-17 Eroica Britannia
July 13-15 The Hetchins Weekend
July 15- The Chiltern Cycling Festival
September 9 Banbury Star RetroRide
October 7 Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble


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Food is good. Service is friendly but slow. If you go at lunch, get the buffet so you don't end up running over on your time for lunch.
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Anthony's is a great place! suburb food and service. I would love to try their duck next time we ever get by there! Anthony graciously serve 20 volunteer workers the evening of the Super Bowl even though they were closing early and we were a bit on the late side. great people
Family friendly place. Breakfast served all day. Salad bar and buffet included. Been going to this place since i was a kid. The waitresses are nice. Same for the cashier. Now the Food is great as well. American food. Some tex mex and seafood. Also there is a smoking section as well. But separated and well ventilated. Anyway enjoy your visit y'all.
Not sure how this place is rated so highly when they fail to season anything with simply salt and pepper. Bland as a rice cake. Last chance i gave them was with grilled pork chops with brocolli and beans. None of it had the slightest bit of seasoning. Asked for hot sauce and got salsa. If it wasn't right beside the highway with new people coming in frequently, it wouldn't survive.


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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Night Out @ Timmy Ho
Friday, September 25, 2009
FREE SPEECH & peace; Hand In Hand
Everywhere You Are
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Poets Head to the Garrets
News @ 11
Monday, September 21, 2009
NDPers Join FREE SPEECH movement?????
But that was the early 60's, when leftists rose up to throw off the repression of The Establishment, to liberate the literary and artistic imagination from oppression, from the general zeigeist to the residual attitudes of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities. "FUCK OFF" became a profound political statement. No longer would great literary talents such as Norman Mailer be compelled to write war novels using the weasel word FUG. Real soldiers say that?
Sadly, the enlightened left who broke down many barriers of censorshit, have morphed over recent decades to become the body that now enforces consorshit via the campaigns of political correctmess, especially establishing Human Rights Tribunals to enforce that censorshit. Nowadays, the FREE SPEECH movement has been appropriated by the right-wing. It doesn't have to be this way. FREE SPEECH belongs to every human being on this planet, right, left, centre, far out, commie, nazi, socialist, capitalist, etc. etc.
The pressure against FREE SPEECH serves no purpose other than to weaken the fabric of our culture and our future. But there is hope. A group of NDPers have mercilessly realized the threat that the Human Rights Commissions have in Canadian Society and wrote their first screed against that threat:
"That said I would like to draw your attention to a truism , also called common sense, "the road to hell is often paved with good intentions". You do realize that your very actions ensured that these bigots received more publicity than they could have ever dared hope for."Hopefully, the local Gordon Gilchrist screamers and whiners will realize the greater consequences of their censorious actions, and instead of calling for odious voices to be censored, take the FREE SPEECH road to make arguement against those voices they find disagreeable.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Negro Boy Captured In Cobourg
From the same neighbourhood (Corktown) in Cobourg where the lilly-white whiners demonize the off-white VISITORS.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Robert Paul Young
Born September 9, 1950, friends remember him as a drummer in a local band, but especially as the handsome and lithesome athelete who wore white shorts. Robert, a student at Cobourg District Collegiate Institute, West, had won several awards for outstanding athletic feats. Those close to Younger know his famous story of swimming the Rio Grande.
Robert is survived by mother Irene Young (nee Scott), brothers Scott Young and Jay Young and sister, Sandy Hegarty.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
"This past week was a little stressful as one of the respondents to the HRC case decided to use his office and all of the Catholic Churches in the Peterborough diocese to establish his authority, and my guilt, and to spread his version of recent events that is substantially different than what I perceive the facts to be (sound familiar?)."
Visit Jim's Blog and click on the phrase "(sound familiar)" and it will take you to a web site describing the infamous Inquisition. So poor widdle Jimmy feels absolutely persecuted and tormented and being prepared for torture and execution by the evil powers of the Roman Catholic Church. That's what the Inquisition was all about back in the dark ages. Jim Corcoran wants everyone to be convinced that this is what he is currently feeling. This is a man without a sense of proportion.
Corcoran starts off his opening paragraph whining about the week being "a little stressful" and finishes the paragraph by linking to the Inquisition no less. Should school students learn from this that the infamous Inquisition was an historical event that was a "little stressful" for the inhabitants of the dark ages. Is that what it was all about – a little stress? Really!
Jim Corcoran, recall, laid Ontario Human Rights charges against 12 parishioners and the local Bishop. Corcoran's very public complaint against the Bishop was very detailed, extensive and thorough. How dare the Bishop respond ("spread his version of recent events") to Corcoran's charges in public and to do so as the Bishop.
Yes, think of the Inquisition wherein the accused, the Bishop, has no right to face and question his accuser. Corcoran thinks that the Bishop should have no right to reply publicly to charges made in public. Corcoran also believes that the Bishop, charged as the Bisphop for Bishop duties should have no right to reply in public as the Bishop.
What planet of injustice is Corcoran living on?
People complaining against others via the Human Rights bureaucrazy, do not have to risk their financial livelihood. If Corcoran loses his case, he doesn't have to pay court expenses, as is the case in civil courts, real courts, not tribunals. The taxpayers are picking up the tab for a human rights case about gay discrimination, that Corcoran himself has admitted is not the "central point."
If there is an Inquisition here, it is coming from Corcoran and his merry band of politically correct inquisitors, the ones who swarmed Gordon Gilchrist in the recent past, now swarm around Corcoran chanting, "more power to the state."
Monday, September 7, 2009
Ten years ago, a ménage a trois of bitches became renown throughout the imagine nation of the Peoples Republic of Poetry for saving 20,000 annotated anthologies of William Blake's Collected Poetry from a fate worse than mediocrity.
In the heat of Word War 738, the main library of Poempeii had suffered a major airstrike from Bland Land and collapsed. Bills of lading indicated that the platinum-printed Blake anthologies had been delivered the day prior to the strike. The anthologies were nowhere to be found in the lightly-damaged shipping & receiving depot of the library. No other evidence was available to indicate the location of the books in the vast complex of the library, so Honey, Sugar and Ginger were called in.
The collapsed library was fragile and perilous. This fine family of bitches consisting of a mother and two daughters, were undeterred and sniffed out the precise location amid the rubble. Their sense of scent was so highly developed that the bitches needed only a single line of "Tyger, tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night" to trace the whereabouts of Blake's glorious illuminations. A brigade of Virility Verb Volunteers from the National Bard excavated the area and rescued the buried anthologies not ten minutes before the ground gave in, swallowing high literature in a single belch of banality.
Throughout the imagine nation, the poetariet celebrated; units of verse of the unitverse gathered in a Million Muse March to pressure the Poetburo to designate the trio as the Blonde Bitches of Blake. The following year later the bitches were promoted to the honoured poetsition of providing escort services for visiting artist dignitaries from other creative sectors of the imagine nation. The bitches began their careers in Poettsburgh, Poemsylvania distinguishing the distinctive scents of ubiquitous free verse, the boozy breath of limericks, the delicate fragrances of rhyme schemantras and the brittle odour of aging sonnets. Their tight familial bond provides a visceral collaboration that transcends all previous pack conjunctives.
They achieved the highest level of success for the Lost and Profound Dep't of the Poetection Agency of Poempeii where they had been employed for the first half of their career. There are numerous instances each year of poetry and portions of poetry being windnapped out of a child's careless hands. Random breezes will swipe a first draft rhyme, as easily as a fully developed sonnet.
Poettsburgh authorities released incident reports for 2008 revealing that 16 limericks, 4 quatrains, 2 rhyming couplets, and an entire sonnet had been swept away by wind. The Blonde Bitches of Blake were known to be able to follow the traces of imagination regardless of where the poems had been flung by intransigent gusts.
The bitches also served in the Sub-verse Dept for a handful of years. This is an odious but necessary service for the imagine nation – the search and seizure of doggerel from the pulp friction industry.


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Seneca Creek State Park is a 6,300-acre park in Montgomery County, Maryland. The park includes the 90-acre Clopper Lake, boat rental, fishing, canoeing and kayaking, hunting, picnicking, playgrounds, a disc golf course, a restored 19th-century cabin, and cross-country skiing.
A tire playground is local favorite for kids of all ages. The 16.5-mile Seneca Creek Greenway Trail follows the entire course of the creek and is available for hiking and biking. Enjoy the following photos and learn more about Seneca Creek State Park.
11950 Clopper Road, Gaithersburg, MD
Driving Directions: From I-270, take Exit 10, Clopper Road (Route 117). Turn right at the light, proceed for approximately 2 miles. The park is on the left.
Recycled Tire Playground at Seneca Creek State Park
Seneca Creek State Park has a unique playground made of recycled tires. Instead of mulch, the ground is covered in pieces of tire. The large playground offers swings, a 'spider hammock, a tire monster to climb on, a zip line and a tire obstacle course.
Hiking the Lakeside Trail at Seneca Creek State Park
The Lakeside Trail at Seneca Creek State Park is an easy 3.3-mile well-groomed trail that loops around Clopper Lake. This is a suitable hike for all ages and has wonderful views of the lake and woods. Over 50 miles of trails are available for hiking, horseback riding and bicycling and wind through a variety of habitat in the park.
Boating at Seneca Creek State Park
Clopper Lake Boat Center rents boats for fishing and recreation during the summer months. Private watercraft are permitted throughout the season. Fish include largemouth bass, catfish, bluegill, tiger muskie, and crappie. Seneca Creek is stocked with put-and-take trout. The Boat Center is open May until mid-June weekends only and then mid-June to early September Wednesday through Sunday, during September weekends only.
Picnic Shelter at Seneca Creek State Park
Picnic areas with tables, grills, and comfort stations are open daily until sunset. Picnic Shelters are available to rent from April through October. Seneca Creek State Park is a nice place to host a large picnic or special event.
Dragon at Seneca Creek State Park Playground
This dragon is a favorite with kids and one of the highlights of the recycled tire playground at Seneca Creek State Park.
Disc Golf Course at Seneca Creek State Park
A 32-acre, 27-hole disc golf course is located at the Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Disc golf is played much like traditional golf. Instead of a ball and clubs, however, players use a flying disc or Frisbee.
Clopper Lake - Seneca Creek State Park
Clopper Lake is a 90-acre lake surrounded by forest at Seneca Creek State Park. The park is one of the region's best kept secrets and a beautiful place to enjoy outdoor recreation all year round. During the holiday season, the Winter Lights Christmas Display benefits local charities and gets the whole family in the spirit of the season.


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Hampshire Cricket have secured a duo of sponsorship renewal partnerships this week, one with Southampton-based law firm, Paris Smith and the other with Marston's Beer Company.
Over recent years Paris Smith (one of the dominant regional law firms in Central Southern England) and the Club have worked closely together on a number of projects including the Ageas Bowl's major development programme, which includes the 175-bed four-star Hilton hotel, two new covered stands as well as the new 18-hole golf course. Paris Smith have also played an important role in helping Hampshire Cricket to secure planning permission to hold concerts at the venue.
Paris Smith will continue in its role as the Official Legal Partner of Hampshire Cricket & the Ageas Bowl.
Hampshire Cricket Chief Executive, David Mann said:
We have been delighted with the service Paris Smith have provided over a long period of time and I am very happy that it's been agreed to continue this partnership. Their help has been crucial to a number of developments at the Ageas Bowl, and they have played a big part in creating the fantastic venue we see today.
Paris Smith's Managing Partner, Peter Taylor, said:
Paris Smith have enjoyed a long standing relationship with Hampshire Cricket spanning many decades. We are delighted to have helped the Club to achieve its success and, in particular, it's undoubted ability to host international cricket. 2015 will be an exciting year for Hampshire Cricket and the Ageas Bowl both on and off the field and we are proud to continue our relationship.
Hampshire Cricket also announced the renewal of their sponsorship deal with Marston's Beer Company and Marston's Pedigree, the Official Beer of English Cricket, will also retain its status as the Official Beer of the Ageas Bowl.
Pedigree will also become Hampshire's main shirt sponsor for the LV = County Championship in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
The on-going partnership was toasted with a visit to Marston's local brewery at Ringwood from Hampshire all-rounder Sean Ervine, who was given a special guided tour by Head Brewer Jeff Drew. After the visit, Ervine spoke highly of the Brewery: "It's been a fantastic afternoon, getting the unique opportunity of a special tour of the brewery and it's great to see that Marston's Pedigree and Hampshire Cricket have extended their partnership."
The Ageas Bowl Commercial Director, Stuart Robertson, said:
We are delighted to be able to enhance this sponsorship deal and celebrate our excellent relationship by extending the partnership by a further three years with a beer that has become synonymous with English cricket, Marston's Pedigree. Ringwood beers have been a local favourite for many years now and we are pleased that they too will continue to remain available to fans at the Ageas Bowl.
Marston's Regional Sales Manager, Simon Marchesi, said:
We are very proud and pleased to continue our long association with Hampshire Cricket, forming part of our long-term support of cricket at a number of levels; from local club sponsorship and regional leagues through to its presence at five test match grounds and national sponsorship status.Being the Official Beer of English Cricket, Pedigree is clearly the perfect fit for all to enjoy at the Ageas Bowl – an eminently drinkable pint that goes hand-in-hand with the institution, timeless quality and easy-going pace of cricket.


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June 2013
We've gotten a lot of rain this year, but the biggest downpour came on June 6-7, when our biggest flood in my memory came. Fortunately for the human residents of the area, most of the water was routed into the Third Fork Creek and onto (most of) a soccer field. But it was tougher on the wildlife: as you can see, it battered an Asian Multi-colored Ladybug Beetle and drove a Spirobolid millipede to the top of an aster plant.
The month ended with a pleasant trip to Dare and Tyrrell Counties in northeastern North Carolina. Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head are on the Outer Banks, and Manteo is on Roanoke Island, between the Outer Banks and the mainland. Pea Island is about 20 miles farther south on the Outer Banks. All areas had recovered well from hurricane damage.
There are several live maps accompanying the photos below.
Elizabethan Gardens, Manteo, Dare County, NC 6/28/13
Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, NC 6/28/13
This town has drainage ditches on every street, many of which are covered with duckweed, and they host a variety of wildlife, including (apparently) Nutrias.
Jockey's Ridge State Park, Nags Head, Dare County, NC 6/28/13
It looks like the Sahara Desert, but the big dune was very enjoyable to climb in the early morning (just after 8 am.)
Kill Devil Hills, Dare County, NC 6/27/13
These Firewheels (Gaillardia pulchella) appeared within a few blocks of each other on a street near the ocean, illustrating the great variety among members of this species.
Pea Island Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, Dare County, NC 6/27/13
This was the first Black Skimmer I've seen north of Carolina Beach, NC.
Nags Head Woods Ecological Preserve, Dare County, NC 6/27/13
Creefs Cut, off Milltail Road, Dare County, NC 6/26/13
There were lots of dragonflies (mostly Golden-winged Skimmers) and deer flies, and the relationship was not accidental.
Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Columbia, Tyrrell County, NC 6/26/13
Durham, NC 6/25/13
Durham, NC 6/23/12
Durham, NC 6/21/13
My neighborhood marsh, Durham, NC 6/19/13
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/16/13
Durham, NC 6/15/13
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/14/13
Johnston Mill Nature Preserve, Orange County, NC 6/12/13
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, Orange County, NC 6/11/13
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/11/13
Durham, NC 6/10/13
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/9/13
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/8/13
Third Fork Creek Trail, Durham, NC 6/4/13
Durham, NC 6/2/13
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The Washington Bridal Showcase was yesterday…what a great day! We had so many brides, grooms and families stop by our booth and were so flattered by all the wonderful compliments on our work. It really makes 6 hours on your feet well worth it! :) Thanks to everyone who came to visit…we can't wait to work with you on your wedding stationery.
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On May 30 during the "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" talk show on the Russian Channel One Sergey Kurginyan, the leader of the Essence of Time movement and a political scientist, said that it is necessary to stop converting children into a commodity for the market. He also said that it is equally important to stop involving children in political activities and street actions.
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US jobless claims hit 42.5-year low as labor market firms
WASHINGTON, April 21 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, hitting its lowest level since 1973, suggesting an apparent sharp slowdown in economic growth in the first quarter could be temporary.
While another report on Thursday showed a mild weakening in factory activity in the mid-Atlantic region in April, manufacturers were fairly upbeat about business prospects in the next six months. This, together with labor market buoyancy bodes well for a pick-up in economic growth in the second quarter.
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"The labor market continues to improve. If the apparent slowing in GDP in the first quarter was truly a sudden change in trend, we should have seen something happen in claims by now," said Jim O'Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, New York.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 247,000 for the week ended April 16, the lowest reading since November 1973, the Labor Department said. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims rising to 263,000 in the latest week.
Jobless claims have now been below 300,000, a threshold associated with healthy labor market conditions, for 59 weeks, the longest stretch since 1973. Labor market strength comes despite signs that growth stumbled in the first quarter.
In a separate report, the Philadelphia Federal Reserve said its business conditions index fell to -1.6 this month from a reading of 12.4 in March. But the survey's indicators of future activity showed continued improvement - with rising expectations for increases in orders, shipments and factory jobs.
The dollar rose marginally against a basket of currencies, while prices for U.S. government debt fell. U.S. stocks were little changed.
The four-week moving average of claims, considered a better measure of labor market trends as it irons out week-to-week volatility, fell 4,500 to 260,500 last week.
The claims report covered the survey week for April nonfarm payrolls. The four-week average of claims rose 1,000 between the March and April survey periods, implying another strong month of employment gains. Payrolls increased 215,000 in March.
"This continued strength in the labor market supports our forecast for a modest rebound in consumer spending growth in the second quarter, but it also suggests that wage and inflation pressures will continue to build," said Jesse Edgerton, an economist at JPMorgan in New York.
The claims report also showed the number of people still receiving benefits after an initial week of aid dropped 39,000 to 2.14 million in the week ended April 9, the lowest level since November 2000. The four-week average of the so-called continuing claims was also the lowest since November 2000.
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I was a bit premature in heralding the beginning of spring. The day after my last post, the temperature plummeted and it snowed. Not much, but enough to make one want to turn on the oven and start cooking up a feast of warm comfort food. I've been making all sorts of bean dishes, but had not yet recreated the old classic from my hometown: Boston baked beans. Now that I've sampled our complete collection of heirloom beans from our Lonesome Whistle Farm CSA, I had the feeling that the Ireland Creek Annie beans, with their hearty but mild flavor and lovely brown sauce, would work well in this dish.
I started by cooking some chopped bacon in a Dutch oven until just crispy.
Then in about 2 tablespoons of the rendered bacon fat, I sauteed a diced onion, minced garlic, and some cumin, paprika, and brown sugar.
Meanwhile, I mixed up a sauce of ketchup, mustard, molasses, and vinegar, which I added to the pot, along with 4 cups of hot water and 2 cups of rinsed Ireland Creek Annie beans.
These went into a low 250 degree oven to bake, covered, for about 3 1/2 hours, alongside a roasting ham. Along the way, I also baked some acorn squash sprinkled with spices and toasted their seeds in some olive oil and salt. Once the beans were just soft, I salted them, uncovered the pot, turned up the oven to 400 degrees, and cooked them for another half hour until the bean liquid evaporated down to a syrupy, bubbling sauce, the ham glaze caramelized, and a pan of macaroni and cheese developed a toasted top of parmesan bread crumbs. We had quite a feast. The baked beans were delicious with just the right mixture of sweet and sour flavors.
Ireland Creek Annie Baked Beans
2 cups (1 lb) Ireland Creek Annie beans, or substitute light kidney beans
4 strips bacon
1 onion, diced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp ground cumin
1/2 tsp paprika
1 Tbsp brown sugar
1/4 cup ketchup
1 Tbsp mustard
1 Tbsp molasses
1/4 cup cider vinegar
4 cups water, heated
salt to taste
1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees. Cut the bacon into small strips (most easily done with scissors) and saute in an over proof pot until the strips are fairly crispy. Reserve the bacon and drain off all but about 2 Tbsp bacon fat. Add the chopped onion and saute until soft. Add the garlic, cumin, paprika, and brown sugar and saute for another couple of minutes. Meanwhile, mix together the ketchup, mustard, molasses, and vinegar. Pour this mixture into the pot. Rince the mixing cup with some of the hot water and add this and the remaining water to the pot. Add the rinsed beans and bacon bits, mix and heat the contents of the pot to a simmer. Then cover the pot and transfer to the oven.
2. Cook the beans in the oven for about 3 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally, until they are soft, but not falling apart. Add a little more water if they get too dry during the cooking process. Raise the heat to 400 degrees, remove the top, add salt if needed, and cook for another half hour until the sauce becomes thick and caramelized.
Other recipes for heirloom beans:
Flageolet bean salad with fennel, orange, and tapenade
Arikara beans with roasted fennel and peppers


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Ahoy there! Good to write to you all again, Internet residents. I wanted to get an update in before tomorrow, when I'm flying to Milan to visit my friend Mallory who is doing a month abroad there. It should be an adventure — my first trip to Italy, where I'm expecting to eat enormous quantities of pasta and feel very much like Brad Pitt in Inglorious Basterds.
But what, you may ask, has been going on in England? I will tell you now.
- On Friday, my trip to Wales was sadly postponed due to snow. Snow was the recurring theme of the weekend, as it snowed pretty much without ceasing from Friday am through to Sunday evening. Needless to say the English were freaking out over this state of affairs, yet the net accumulation was about an inch in my part of the city. I gather it may have snowed more outside London (certainly Wales would have been impossible) but it was amusing to watch the government and citizenry here react about the same way as one might in North Carolina. The snow did not prevent me from cooking a very tasty dinner with three other guys — two from Princeton and one from Amsterdam — on Friday night. In typical fashion, the four of us both overestimated the food we needed and, nonetheless, ate it all anyway.
You can barely even see it under all that snow.
- Saturday dawned, and the snow was not so bad, so I made my way out to Selhurst (near Croydon in the southern part of the city) to take in another football match. The local team, Crystal Palace FC, took on a team called Bolton Wanderers. They play in the "Championship" which despite the name is one level below the Premier League. Think of it as triple-A baseball except that if you finish in the top three you would get promoted (and the Kansas City Royals would be relegated and might have to spend a year taking on the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs). The stadium, a stark contrast to the Emirates, was ancient — the main stand was constructed in 1923 and my tiny wooden seat certainly felt that way. The ground has been expanded since then, including one end of the field where the seats are constructed on top of a Sainsbury's grocery store. But it felt very much like a neighborhood team, with a boisterous crowd that largely seemed to be materializing from the surrounding houses. The game was nothing special, a 0-0 draw between two very cold-looking teams, but I had a good time checking it out.
Get your groceries at half time! What a deal.
- Saturday evening I listened to Columbia's basketball team take on Cornell; you can find my column for the Columbia Daily Spectator about the experience here.
- It continued to snow on Sunday, which was fascinating. Since I already gave you a picture, here's the lovely English breakfast I had in the morning.
British bacon > British sausages. And no, I didn't each much the rest of the day.
- Yesterday I went to Somerset House with my London Architecture class. A very neat building complex, though my enjoyment was hampered by the freezing temperatures! There is a really impressive art gallery, including some impressionists, in one of the buildings, and I'm definitely going to go back to check that out.
The Navy Board once worked here. Truly rapturous stuff.
- Thing that may only interest me and my Dad — the British mint recently introduced a new design for the backs of their coins. Coins are a big deal in the UK, as they come in many strange denominations of up to 2 pounds (L2, L1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p). I had heard that collecting the latter six coins would be worthwhile, so I did so. Here's what they make if you put them all together.
Like the world's strangest puzzle.
- Yep, it's the Royal Shield! Hey, I think it's cool.
That is all for me for the time being, it seems. My weekend is just beginning — today I will be packing (very lightly) and preparing for a repulsively early flight to Milan Malpensa airport tomorrow morning. Miss you all and keep in touch. Arrivederci.


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text: ...and sometimes like sand something or someone will slip through your hands + it is only after it is gone, they are gone that you realize what you had. That does not mean they were meant to stay because some things end, in certain cases they have to end. Only in retrospect do you learn to truly treat people especially the ones you are connected to with the most gentle respect. Only in retrospect do you realize that true connections are not always common...when you find one, cherish + take care of it.


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Being of the Love Tribe, I still use the words 'hate' and 'despise' for things hateful and despicable. Just sayin'. So these photo samples are posted to offset or balance contrasting sentiments from previous posts. The ALF photo-posters are, of course, considered by the PTW to be 'hateful', 'violent', 'terrorist',..etc., cough, puke...But these pics below, as "cute" as they are, are illustrations of the root source of our sentient emotional universe - the knowledge of how the world really is. They are from the wild, from wildlife rescues, from zoos, and from personal collections.
|All photos published by AnimalLiberationFront.com
|Monkey in India serving water to the blind
This day in this particular corner of planet Earth the forest is burning 60 miles away at the edge of the demonic "premier national treasure" laboratory of the death cult; the very place where the death of the planet and all Life has been being concocted for the last 7 decades. We are enveloped in an unknown toxic blanket of smoke, the sun is obscured and eclipse-like and the light in the air is surreal; the lab has been dumping whatever the hell they feel like for the last 70-odd years in the surrounding forest and creeks. Everyone talks about the 'strange', 'unnatural', 'driven with a harmful intent' quality of the recent and ongoing fires, energies not experienced before, not in the previous close-call a decade ago when the fires spread the dumped toxins around with the monitoring of the air by various agencies lying out their asses. Around here the word is: "Veils? What fucking veils?". 'They' have turned the volume up to 11 and left the building. 'They' being the demonic entities, referred to by various names and designations throughout history, seldom believed to be 'real' by most or 'mythological' at best, by various religious belief systems, finally being noticed seriously only in the present century.
"Pole-shift is a bitch."
We need to be activating all our connectivity to the Devic realm, calling in all of whatever karmic 'notes' we might be having to request/invoke aid in bringing in a final disempowerment of all the machinations of the dark forces' omnicidal agendas, from weather and elemental catastrophes to the wars on Mother Earth's children everywhere. The Devic realm is just as fed-fucking-up as humans at this point. There is much power there. We have just forgotten to spend due time on that relationship, wandering traumatized through centuries in a materialist dream-scape. Entice the Devas to arise and see our determination and commitment to join in alliance, and assess our worthiness to stand with them in the great circle and net of protection needed to be bound stronger than ever now. Our companion-species, as well as local wild-species friends, are the perfect messengers and representatives of the Devic world. Tell them everything, all your thoughts and desires. Mantra, dance, sing, drum, mudra...it all works.
Right now I guarantee that all the Pueblos, Navajos, Apaches and their neighbors are doing this very thing with maximum power, since I've received emails and I-mails to that effect.
Wildlife is taking a monstrously huge hit right now, as they did in the Gulf of Mexico. Bird young are just hatching or have not fledged. Many parents are reluctant to abandon their young.
Situation is: there is an area at Los Alamos where they blew up over 100 tons (or was it 200?) of DU in the woods; there are tons of dioxin and PCBs also in the forest. Nice. And the fed "monitors" aren't monitoring these pollutants. Can't trust anything they say anyway.
My attitude is that, since the Santa Fe, Española, and Albuquerque economies are intimately tied to the Los Alamos, Sandia labs and peripheral industries, basically the whole damn state and most businesses, except the tourism sector, is guilty of participation in this demonic agenda, and there is gonna be karmic hell to pay. I despise the ignorant humans everywhere here who happily go about blindly living out their "freedom" and "merkin way of life" in their Range Rovers and Lexuses and Hummers while spitting and shitting on our Mother . The air and the light is totally surreal. Animals are agitated; my cat doesn't want to go outside. Many friends have packed up their kids and headed off to Colorado.We hear strange bombers flying overhead above the smoke at night - not 'tankers' - and we wonder about our gardens...
We of course are deeply disturbed at what the demonic militarist evil empire is doing from Mexico to Afghanistan to Gaza to Libya and everywhere in between, but dealing with the land and wildlife here is about all we can handle. At least the fucking death-cult Labs are shut down, even though it's now the largest fire in New Mexico history at 103,000 acres and still 3% containment.
My final question is: IF THEY CAN STEER RAIN INTO NEBRASKA AND SOUTH DAKOTA (see the radar signatures), CAN THEY STEER RAIN AWAY (AND INCREASE WIND) IN NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA???? Locals, btw, say they've never experienced continuous winds for so long in their lifetimes.


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Modern Oboe g/s/f cane Jeanne Medium
When the cane is good, the reeds are good…
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Before I began writing full-time, I worked in industry. Twenty-five years' commercial and business management, mostly on communications projects across Europe, the Middle East and the beautiful Pacific Rim.
But over the years a niggle grew, an itch I couldn't ignore. As a hobby I'd always loved writing; spare time was filled with research, manuscripts, a cheerful mania for editing. Finally I took a gulp, left the comfort of regular employment and went full-on for the writing malarkey.
To learn my new trade I took an MA in Professional Writing at Cornwall's Falmouth University. It was inspiring; I came away trained in feature writing, literary non-fiction, and research methods.
Now, as well as producing my own material I edit other people's non-fiction copy, business writing and advertorial pieces. From basic spelling, grammar and punctuation checks to major rewrites: refreshing, condensing, amplifying. I'm always happy to sit with the client to understand what's required, I write to style, and I've never missed a deadline.


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- 2 cups sugar
- 4 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 stick butter
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 3 cups oatmeal
- Waxed paper
In a good way! Well mostly…Corey and I got into a fight which sucked but ended well 😉
Actually that something I wanted to write about :eww: Corey and I had lost some of that flame, ya know what I'm talking about right? That feeling, butterflies, kissing and hugging and desire for eachother. We, by all means, have had a rough road and we jumped into all this with two feet. For those of you who don't know Cj and I met when I was 18 and he was 22, it was a fling (I was engaged) and then feelings started I broke it off with the other guy and we decided at some point a baby would be fun – Jayden was born 2 weeks after I turned 19, we got married 6 weeks before I turned 20, Brett was born 3 weeks before I turned 21 and Emmy was born on my 23rd birthday. Whirlwind – yes, romance – not so much. We have made plenty of mistakes and fallen really well into our roles of mom and dad but neglected lovers. Okay well that's all leading to…
We made out of hours last night! It was amazing and sensual and touching and feeling! Truly stunning, I'm still feeling butterflies! I wouldn't call it romance but fun and intimate and giggly- everything out marriage has been missing for so long!! We needed it 🙂 and when we texted this morning it reminded me of how exciting it was the time we talked after our first night together (we made out til 5 am) and I was that excited albeit more rested since we hit the pillows around midnight this time around.
On a less sexy note we went to my mother in laws place yesterday and it was soo fun! It snowed and it was gorgeous (posting pics during nap time) and we got to go for a walk sans kids 🙂 we also made amazing and easy vegetarian lasagna
And of course I'm posting the recipe
Veg lasagna
No boil noodles
Spaghetti sauce
Cottage cheese (or ricotta)
Light layer sauce
No bake noodle layer
Cheese (all mixed up first)
Repeat with sauce on top
Bake for 1:20 minutes at 375
Set on counter for 30 minutes
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In leu of the freezing nature of Colorado in February, I thought it would be fun to take an old long sleeve shirt that doesn't fit or is too well loved to be seen with in public and make it into a fab bag!
So, my lil broham Rick left this shirt at my place like 3 years ago, it's not becoming to my body type at all so it became my new bag! Thanks Rick!
The Shirt
First I folded it in half
Then I cut the arms off, and across the chest
Next I cut out the neck line area
I pinned the neckline to my 'bag' with the tag out, really only because GAP makes awesome tags
I then sewed the pocket to my bag leaving the top open-but I didn't take a picture because well *duh*
I then put one sleeve inside the other
Wrong sides together
Sew together
Hehe I changed my mind and did opposites cus I think it's much more punk rocker 😉
I went on and sewed my hand area to the side of my bag
I did end up X boxing these for extra protection to this sew a box and then an x from corner to corner
Now I have a new bag! Perfect for trips to the park where my coach bags aren't appropriate!
Coreys attempt at picture taking!


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Relevant Links
LISTEN: Heavenly Beat – "Honest"
Heavenly Beat, Def Rain, Nicholas Nicholas (5/28) @ City Tavern
READ: Verbicide Magazine's interview with Anthony Vialon of Floor
Floor, True Widow, Pinkish Black (5/30) @ Dada
WATCH: Parquet Courts – "Sunbathing Animal"
LISTEN: Parquet Courts – "Instant Disassembly"
Parquet Courts, Swearin', Radioactivity (6/3) @ Dada
WATCH: Nardwuar interview Perfect Pussy
Perfect Pussy, Potty Mouth, Stymie, Orgullo Primitivo (6/5) @ 3 Links
READ: Unsigned and Independent Magazine's recommendation of The Courtneys
The Courtneys, The Chloes, Toy Gun (6/8) @ City Tavern
READ+LISTEN: Noisey's interview with Bane, and listen to their new track "All the Way Through"
Bane, Give, Truth, Night Crimes (6/9) @ Dada
WATCH: Sal Barbier's interview King Buzzo and Tweak Bird for Scion AV
LISTEN: Tweak Bird – "Upside Down Frankenstein" from their split with King Buzzo
Tweak Bird, The Phuss, Drug Animal (6/19) @ 3 Links
READ: Myspace's interview with Incan Abraham
Incan Abraham (6/24) @ Crown & Harp
WATCH: Diarrhea Planet perform "White Girls" at Hangout Fest via MTV
Diarrhea Planet, Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires (6/25) @ 3 Links
LISTEN: Stream "Intro / Misery Loves Company" by Suburban Scum from their spilt with Xibalba
The Life & Death Tour: Backtrack, Harm's Way, Expire, Suburban Scum, Downpresser, Bitter End, Iron Mind, Will to Die (7/10) @ Sons of Hermann
LISTEN+WATCH: Stream Kitty Pryde's new EP impatiens, and watch the video for "BRB"
READ: "TV Party: Kitty Talks The Office" via Stereogum
Kitty Pryde, Awkwafina, The Weekend Hustler, Jenny Robinson (7/24) @ Dada
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Dallisgrass Ergot
Claviceps paspali
Dallisgrass (Paspalum dilatatum) seed heads are often infected with the fungus Claviceps paspali. Fungal spores germinate in the flower, grow in the premature seed and produce honeydew that is transferred to other seed heads by insects. In an infected flower, a fungal body or sclerotium forms instead of a seed. The sclerotium is round and up to 1/8 inch across with a cream-colored center. Its outer coat may vary from white to orange, red or black because of other fungi growing on the ergot body. Many seed heads include normal seed, honeydew and sclerotia. This fungus also infects and produces toxins in other Paspalum species such as brownseed paspalum and bahiagrass.
Dallisgrass Ergot is a perennial, warm-season, introduced - 12 to 48 inches tall.
Good grazing for livestock. Fair grazing for wildlife. Seedheads can become covered with a sticky "honey dew" that can cause ergot poisoning in cattle.
Dallisgrass may be found in all areas of Texas, but widespread ergot infection is usually limited to the eastern half of the state. The high humidity and soil moisture required for ergot production also occur in limited areas along streams and in canyon floors in west central and West Texas.
Toxic Agent
Sclerotia on Paspalum grasses contain paspalitrems, termorgenic mycotoxins responsible for dallisgrass staggers. Most cattle poisonings result when the cattle eat mature seed heads in the pasture; calves are known to selectively eat seed heads with honeydew. Horses are not usually poisoned unless they consume Paspalum hay that contains ergot.
Signs of Livestock Ingestion
Poisoned cattle and horses demonstrate similar signs, including: Hyperexcitability; Uncontrollable muscular tremors; Incoordination; Falling when forced to exercise; Inability to regain feet.
Cattle usually recover when they are removed from ergotized pastures unless there is misadventure, such as falling headlong into water or limb breakage, or if they go down in the sun and die of exposure or lack of water.
Horses with nervous ergotism tend to be destructive, often injuring themselves, sometimes requiring euthanasia.
Plant Characteristics
Seed Type: Non-Encapsulated
Duration: Perennial
Stem Texture: Hairless/Smooth
Growth Habit: Grasses
Leaf Shape : Simple with Pinnate or Parallel Venation
Season: Warm
Distribution : 01 - Pineywoods, 02 - Gulf Prairies and Marshes, 03 - Post Oak Savannah, 04 - Blackland Prairies, 05 - Cross Timbers and Prairies, 06 - South Texas Plains, 07 - Edwards Plateau, 08 - Rolling Plains, 09 - High Plains, 10 - Trans-Pecos
Distribution refers to the ecological region in Texas that a plant has been found. You can also view a clickable map.
Book: Toxic Plants of Texas (B-6105)
Collection: Toxics
Livestock Affected: Cattle, Horses
Livestock Signs: Collapse, Excitability, Incoordination


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Nineteen songs from the first seven years of our label. Slightly-skewed pop, indie rock, lo-fi folk, oddball electronic, and soundscape wizardry.
Songs from: Little Angry & The Sweets, Corespondents, Flying Circles, Guidon Bear, If It Ain't Breakfast Don't Fix It, Reighnbeau, The Washboard Abs, Advrb, Upside Drown, Sara Renberg, Midwife, Pleasure Systems, Blindfolder, David Thomas Broughton, Appalachian Yard Art, Jordan O'Jordan, Tucker Theodore, Indira Valey, Eleanor Murray...[ continued ]
The Blue Sky is Always Blue is made up of 15 transcendent pop songs for a super fun, post-apocalyptic dance party. Synth-driven pop with complex vocal layers, heavy bass lines, and plenty of hand-claps. Unlike anything else, but a good fit for fans of Kate Bush, CocoRosie, Bjork, and Laurie Anderson.
Comes with a full color poster showing images of handmade embroideries for each song...[ continued ]Poppet- The Crustacean
Glorious, brooding, and completely in a world of its own. The project of Molly Fischer (of Songs For Moms fame), Hot Tears nods to chamber-folk and a wide variety of punk and metal subgenres without fitting nicely into any box. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
With Erica Freas (of RVIVR) on cello, and a multitude of Olympia all-stars lending voices and studio talents.
Cover art by Jenna Peters-Golden...[ continued ]Hot Tears- Change of Heart
Store-wide cassette sale! The debut full-length from Oakland hypnotic dream punks, Silver Shadows. Post-punk rhythmic sensibilities and enveloping harmonies mix with otherworldly shoegaze-esque ambience to create an album too perfect to be ignored.
Listen on Bandcamp.[ continued ]
The long-awaited debut from Olympia supergroup Guidon Bear. Songwriter Mary Water (Little Red Car Wreck) combines with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Pat Maley (Lois, Courtney Love) and synth-player E. Michael Bradley (Parent Band)—all veterans of the '90s Olympia music scene—to create infectious and subtly complex pop songs about real-life nightmares, boot camps, late bills, and scraping by...[ continued ]
Store-wide cassette sale + last copy! From the brilliant mind of Evan Hashi comes a collection of homemade dub covers of great Olympia bands, past and present. Beat Happening, Kickball, Margy Pepper, Polka Dot Dot Dot, Cool Scool, Kevlar Klein, and LAKE songs are made anew.
Little Angry's Dubs Olympia is Oly-pop like you've never heard it before.
Listen on[ continued ]Little Angry- Polka Dub Dub Dub
Store-wide cassette sale! Tucker Theodore's debut, To Make the Sun Hurt, established a cultish following for the reclusive Olympia songwriter and soundscape artist. On his latest, 2017's Lady Hope, he takes his sound experiments even further. A psych-folk epic, Lady Hope is a wild hour-long ride through inner darkness and personal mythology.
With appearances from Allen Karpinski (The Six Parts Seven) and Madeline Johnston (Sister Grotto, Midwife)...[ continued ]Tucker Theodore- Skin
Corespondents' fourth album, Land of the Low People, is an album that exists both as a relic of the past and as a time capsule for the future. It's an album of familiar yet disconcerting melodies that draw inspiration from the Wild West and the Far East in equal measure. It defies genre, place, and time.
It's also the catchiest instrumental album I have ever heard. A perfect soundtrack to any situation or occasion...[ continued ]Corespondents- Face Cancellation
Store-wide cassette sale! The third album from The Washboard Abs finds them reinventing themselves yet again. After the bedroom-folk of Have U Scanned Ur Club Card? and the short, full-band bursts of Recurring Chasms, Lowlight Visions is both a continuation of their pop prowess and a revelation: a fully-realized vision by a band at the height of its powers...[ continued ]The Washboard Abs- Never Finds You
Store-wide cassette sale! On their latest EP, Reighnbeau producer Bryce Hample teams up with collaborators Colleen Johnson (Flying Circles, Silver Shadows) and Madeline Johnston (Midwife, Sister Grotto) to create an album that skirts the edges of IDM, dream pop, and electro-folk. Six off-kilter love songs—sparkling pieces of art-pop music for voice, electronics, acoustic guitar, and autoharp...[ continued ]


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Photoshop is a graphic editing program that is popular amongst all computer-users. This amazing software can work miracles on any element of graphics. Today, many people are fascinated by Photoshop, and would love to have the means to master it, however this could be a little complicated, especially if you do not have a logical and systemic information source. For beginners, its essential to have clear concepts of the basics of Photoshop, in order to master the more sophisticated features, without a hitch, later. And therefore, we bring to you the 15 Basic Detailed guides on mastering the basics of Photoshop that will enable to have clear concepts of the basics, as well polish your skills, in case you are already a pro.
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Getting Started with Photoshop
In this introductory chapter, which has been adapted from The Photoshop Anthology, 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and Techniques, author will cover some of the basic tools and tasks that we'll draw on in the later chapters. One of the best Photoshop guides on the internet!
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This article introduces the several cloning tools available in Photoshop. It goes over the proper usage and best practices of each. A very inforamtive and helpful Photoshop guide for beignners, it will not only help get your basics right, it will fascinate you to learn more about Photoshop.
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Conversations with drunk friends are very deep and philosophical sometimes. One such drunken conversation in the recent past made me realize something very interesting – Life is no different from a Cocktail (Non-alcoholics read 'Mocktail'). Every person has his/her own … Continue reading
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Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense
The house that helped build Google from the USA Today looks back at how Susan Wojcicki's decision to let Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, rent out space in her garage changed her life and ours.
Wojcicki purchased her 4-bedroom home on 232 Santa Margarita Ave. for about $600,000 and rented out the garage to Page and Brin for $1,700 a month (Google later bought the house). That decision helped create the most popular search engine in the world and changes Wojcicki's future forever.
Wojcicki became Google's 18th employee and is now the vice president of product management for Google. Her sister Anne married Brin earlier this year. Google invested $3.9 million in Anne's biotech company. Dennis Troper, Susan Wojcicki's husband, is Google's operations executive. Her brother-in-law, Gregor, worked in Google's finance department and her mom, Esther Wojcicki, consulted for Google on educational issues.
Susan Wojcicki is also responsible for helping invent the idea of Google AdSense. And she is now pursuing placing Google ads in newspapers, audio, TV and magazines.
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The world-girdling city (or ecumenopolis) is a familiar trope of science-fiction, most famously realized on Isaac Asimov's Trantor and the Star Wars films which borrow his conception of a crumbling intergalactic empire. The Universal Library, container of all human knowledge, is also a resident institution of much speculative fiction. The fourth season of the revived Doctor Who combines these ideas in a two-part story set on a planet called 'The Library.'
Unfortunately, the Library's library features some of the less-attractive features of sci-fi too - a badly-dressed man more comfortable with technology than people, a ridiculous story, an objectification of women, a zany cast of paper-thin characters with odd names (Strackman Lux), planetary-sized plot-holes, childishness, knowingness. And a last-minute rabbit-from-hat technological solution to an imminent planetary catastrophe. These easy catechisms are, I understand, part of the programme's ironic charm.
I wish people cared more about their real libraries than their imagined ones. For fifty years, many of Britain's great Victorian libraries have been closing down - nowadays cafe- and community-centre-style public libraries are in vogue, as well-meaning local politicians and managerialist public librarians seek to answer falling library visits with democratized (i.e. commercialized) spaces. So it was with Swansea's beautiful central library, in which the episodes were filmed, opened by the great reformist statesman W.E. Gladstone in 1887, closed in November 2007. The library was reopened in the 'New Civic Centre' by the Rt. Worshipful the Lord Mayor Cllr. Susan Waller in March 2008. Thankfully, the old building was taken over by a university, so didn't get turned into a Jamie Oliver restaurant. Doctor Who shares with contemporary Britain, and its contemporary public libraries, a certain metropolitan blandness, a preference for style over substance, and a rapid-fire postmodernity over reading-room thoughtfulness.
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"The opera was successful at its appearance – 'A Stirring Ovation...Reception of Hanson-Stokes Opera most Enthusiastic of 10 Years at Metropolitan', read the headline on page 1 of the second section of The New York Times - but audiences seemed more pleased with the piece than did the critics."
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"MERRY MOUNT is an opera in three acts by American composer Howard Hanson; its libretto, by Richard Stokes, is loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story THE MAYPOLE OF MERRY MOUNT, taken from his Twice Told Tales. Hanson's only opera, it was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
The opera received its world premičre in concert at the fortieth annual May Festival of the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on 20 May, 1933, with the composer conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The cast included Leonora Corona, Rose Bampton, Frederick Jagel, Chase Baromeo, John Charles Thomas, and George Galvani.
Its world stage premičre by the Metropolitan Opera was given on 10 February, 1934. As that performance took place at a Saturday matinée, it was broadcast nationally as part of the company's weekly radio series, with Milton Cross serving as announcer. The premičre featured Lawrence Tibbett in the central rôle of Wrestling Bradford, the Puritan minister, with Gladys Swarthout as his betrothed, Plentiful Tewke. Swedish soprano Göta Ljungberg and Canadian tenor Edward Johnson took the rôles of the Cavalier lovers, Lady Marigold Sandys and Sir Gower Lackland; Tullio Serafin was on the podium. The opera was performed eight more times during the season, but never returned to the Met's repertory, and subsequent performances have been scarce.
MERRY MOUNT is unusual in that its libretto was written without a composer in mind. Stokes had conducted comprehensive research into Puritan fanaticism, sexual obsession, and demonology; he found that it often reached pathological levels, and usually ended in death as a form of punishment, or redemption, for its victims. While he found his title in a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stokes crafted an original libretto which some compared to THE SCARLET LETTER. Upon completion of the text, Stokes went in search of a composer, finally finding one in Howard Hanson. Hanson, for his part, was new to the composition of opera, although he had already written a fair amount of choral music. Still, he was already respected as an elder statesman of American classical music, and such was his reputation that the Metropolitan was convinced to commission the work. MERRY MOUNT would be the fifteenth American opera, and the last but one, presented at the Met during the tenure of Giulio Gatti-Casazza as company director.
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From Kenya to Framingham – Shirley Amunya Excels at FSU
When Shirley Amunya's family moved from Kenya to the United States during her junior year of high school, she initially felt very shy due to her thick accent.
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Amuyna has found her voice at Framingham State, where she majors in Biology with a Pre-Med concentration.
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'There is a House in paradise called Happiness, and one wont be let in , unless he has made children laugh' Prophet Mohammed.
Rachel Riggs writes – Ive just recently returned from a trip to perform 'Cloud Child' in Hamadan, Iran at the 22nd International theatre Festival for Children & Youth 1-6th October 2015. I had been invited to perform at the festival before and this year everything came together, working out the idea of a collaboration with actress and director Afsaneh Zamanai. We had met two years before at a UNIMA festival in Nanchung, China, became friends and after many emails about visas, making set & props, and how we would collaborate, I was finally going to Iran (the visa arrived just in time!) The show fits in a large suitcase 20 kilos!We had 4 days to rehearse in Tehran, I was very grateful to be accomodated by the Dramatic Arts Centre of Iran, who organise the festival, and we practiced in ' the puppet house', the Tehran puppet centre, which was perfect. We also managed to fit in sightseeing to the Tehran National Museum and the Bazaar. Tehran is pretty hectic, trying to get across the road is insane and having to remember to keep my hair covered at all times, well i got used to it! But I was very grateful to Afsaneh for steering me in the right directions. Lots of help from my Iranian friends, I met two years ago in Kazakhstan – Hamed Zaeran, Komeil Shavasari & Maryam TehraniRehearsals went really well, Afsaneh is very skilled, she speaks great English, and so we had a lot of fun, working through the new version of 'Cloud Child' which is the original story simplified to play anywhere, and be open enough to allow contribution from the actor/puppeteer joining the creative venture. Its like a line drawing on paper, someone else can colour in and add their creativity.
All packed up ready to go to Hamadan, picking up Gary Friedman at the airport on the way! Gary's here to do a masterclass & film Iranian puppeteers www.puppetryfilms.com Also here from South Africa is 'Patchwork' by Joanna Evans and Asanda Rilityana, the first professioanl theatre for early years production, supported by Small size, Assitej, which was charming with live music by Pedro the music man, and shared similar theatre making methods.
'Cloud Child' has three performances on the Saturday, so we do the bump in and technical the evening before, which I was glad about because of course we were still working past midnight. It was very interesting to have the show checked by governing authority, and no problems, except to keep the scarf on!The technical team were amazing, stuffing cloud cushions, making the space as good as possible and with lots of fluffy clouds pinned around , looked much more inviting for early years audiences.
The first audience were all early years and perfect, I really enjoyed our performance and interaction with the children. they played with the cushions, and participated in the journey of the story with sensory storytelling – water, fragrant smells and the wind.The other shows had older children and adult audiences, still successfull but not quite having the early years energy and responses, the audience still played and enjoyed the sensory aspects, as well as the show being visual and not using any specific language.Afterwards I was given a beautiful flower bowl & certificate from the Association of Theatre for children & adolescents of Hamadan province.
Iran is the country of poets, and from my hotel window, I could see Baber Taher's shrine, reminding me of Thunderbirds are go! on the outside, inside are beautiful inscriptions, and luckily the day we visit, live poetry and music .
Im also here to teach a Masterclass for early years educators on the Sunday, all the materials are supplied by the festival, and theres also a group of children joining in too. Which is great, as i can model with the children. As I introduce myself & my work to the educators, i give the children a scarf each and ask them to imagine what else this material could be?With my excellent translator Mr Mutahari, we get into a rhythm and talk about the importance of play, letting the children lead the exploration with given materials, the adult observing and following the children's imaginative investigations. I use a mug to demonstrate making an instant puppet. My friends 3 and a half years old daughter perfectly assisted with no verbal language used. Firstly she used the mug as its functional use to drink from, then i turned it over and moved it as a head, and she pointed to where the eyes should be, So I stick on googly eyes, and she points to her own eyes. Then i model adding cloth to make a body for an instant character and interact with her, she touches the face and then takes my hand, the puppets hand. We also use our hands as puppets sticking on eyes and everyone has hands on play. I also talk about a puppet as a communication tool, and how I use this in the early years theatre and play workshops I create. I demonstrate with Cloud Child and immediately Mahora runs over to interact with the puppet again!The children have made their own creations from the scarves,naturally giving time to process and also use the cloud cushions. . They have some fantastic ideas and one girl has made a simple bird by folding the scarf material, she makes it peck from its nest of a cushion.I ask her how it flies and assist her when she shows me, taking a wing to manipulate. The imagination is always free and the children play happily making up stories, using furniture in the room.I also talk about the importance of sensory play, giving time to the process of exploration, to smell, taste and touch, see and feel. I demonstrate how this is used in the 'Cloud child' show with fabrics, water, fans and aromas.
It was a great privilege to share ideas and skills with female early years educators & theatre makers in Iran at the festival, and also to make contacts for future masterclasses and productions. Iran has the most sophistictaed theatre tradition in the middle east and a rich history, often overshadowed by modern predjudices . My trip to Iran was a wonderful opportunity to get a taste of the ancient & modern cultures, artistic traditions and vast amount of contemporary work happening in childrens theatre. In Tehran there are 3 childrens theatres, one dedicated to young children, and it would be very interesting and beneficial to develop further connections and collaborations.At the closing ceremony 'Cloud Child' recieved a Hamadan special ceramic award for childrens theatre and it was very interesting to see the incredible lifetimes work of Puppet master Marziyeh Boroomand in Iranian childrens theatre and tv, honoured with a special award . People have grown up with her television puppet characters and showed much appreciation.Huge thanks WA Department of Culture and Arts 'Artsflight' programme who funded my trip, and to the staff of the International childrens festival for a very successful event, and my Iranian friends new and old, for their friendship & hospitality.