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'Amok' review: A rock supergroup jam
Given its pedigree, Atoms for Peace's debut album, "Amok" (XL), should be great.
The supergroup -- with Radiohead's Thom Yorke on vocals, Red Hot Chili Pepper Flea on bass, R.E.M. and Beck veteran Joey Waronker on drums and David Byrne collaborator Mauro Refosco on percussion -- got together with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich for three days of jamming. There's no way that much talent can turn out something that's not good.
What keeps "Amok" from making the leap from good to great, though, is a problem that affects a lot of songs born from high-level jamming. So much of "Amok" is built around the strong grooves of Flea and Waronker that you wait for the inspiration that pulls it all together to arrive and, a lot of times, it doesn't, leaving you wondering why you waited.
The album opens with a stunning trick. "Before Your Very Eyes..."begins with a fierce bit of Fela-inspired bass guitar and African percussion, with Yorke's haunting vocals floating atop it all. As the song progresses, the warmth of that instrumentation is gradually replaced by synthesizers sounding increasingly icy, until it becomes twitchy samples and whispers.
It's a great song and an even greater concept, but it's a rarity on "Amok," where concepts usually win out. When Atoms for Peace have a great song, like the lovely "Ingenue," the results are spectacular. They should do the songs first next time.
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As most of you know, the town of Coulee Dam is investing (spending) over $5 million to upgrade their "aging" sewer treatment plant. I've written letters about this before. The town continues to pursue a design that is both antiquated and unnecessarily expensive while their consulting engineer is disproportionately enriched (they will take a bit over $1 million out of this community). This project impacts the sewer rates of Coulee Dam AND Elmer City, driving those monthly charges to $80 or more.
Typically, a project of this expense and scope would have involved an early and concerted effort for diverse funding … to fund from more than a simple loan. But that wouldn't have been as easy or as lucrative for their engineering consultant. One of the most likely places to look would have been the Colville Tribe and the Indian Health Service … but this would involve an expansion of the "partnership" and a closer look at the project scope/design, so the Town Council (and their engineer) seemed uninterested. Even though the town began "planning" for this project 10 years ago, and the Facility Plan has a funding/financing section, it was concluded that for money from the Tribe/Indian Health Service, "… it was too difficult to determine how many tribal members are in the service area …." Took me less than a half an hour! In fact, Mayor Snow complained that he tried, but could not even get the Tribe to return his calls! So I decided to become an activist in order to help us all find a way to both review the project scope/design and find "grant" funding to help with the financing. I contacted the tribe and they were, in fact, interested in learning more. I subsequently met with them three or four times to define the issue and its impact on over 230 native families. The tribe was both gracious and thoughtful. And finally, Mayor Snow really does contact the tribe and drags his interest-conflicted engineers along. The Tribe brings in its Public Works director and the Indian Health Service (IHS) to listen and advise.
The Indian Health Service steps up and appropriately assumes a leadership roll in the quest for funding and promptly suggests that it "may" be able to provide as much as $1.6 million in "grant" monies to help with the project and that it may be able to, through a "government-to-government" connection, bring the USBR to the table with yet additional funding. However, any/all grant funding agencies want to review the design to determine first if money could be saved by a better and/or more efficient design. The town's response was to ignore (and resist) that request and to push forward with the under-planned, over-designed, and excessively expensive project, even though they know there are viable alternatives at half the cost — ranging upwards from $2.2 million. The IHS even offered to manage and inspect the construction phase, saving even more, but the town, and of course its engineer (who stood to lose almost $400,000), were not interested and were unresponsive!
There is now, not because of any efforts by the town or its mayor, the very real possibility to fund all but $900,000 of this project from "grant" or other non-loan funds, which would make it unnecessary to increase the sewer charges above their current level. Mayor Snow hasn't even bothered to inform his council of these new and emerging financing options, but claims to be in constant contact with the Indian Health Service Engineer that is no longer spearheading the project … doesn't even remember the new engineer's name!
And the town's engineer? Well, think about it … for each dollar the town saves by reducing project scope costs, they lose between 20 and 30 cents. If the IHS manages and inspects, the town's engineer will lose, as I mentioned earlier, nearly $400,000, and an arrogant town council will have to admit that their "line-by-line" review of the project scope was, well, not very thorough or thoughtful and driven by their engineer's self-enriching influence.
The Washington Department of Ecology, the agency providing the $5 million loan, has indicated a willingness to let the project slow down a bit while the community explores other funding options; Coulee Dam, even in the face of this flexibility, has decided to stay on "their" schedule. After all, if their engineer can finish over-designing the project, they will make more money initially and again if there is a redesign! Meanwhile, Elmer City begins exploring alternates of their own — alternates that may prove more cost-effective for them, but would add another 25 percent to the Coulee Dam sewer charges, pushing the Coulee Dam rate to well over $100 per month for every homeowner and customer.
Meanwhile, the Coulee Dam attorney (in the face of his own conflicts-of-interest as the former attorney for Elmer City), finds it productive to disparage my efforts as those of a disgruntled citizen … I guess not realizing that community activism is part of a "right!" All-in-all, government at its best! Government steeped in stubborn arrogance and an ignorance of the better good!
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Love your recipes! I've got a question though. Your recipes with bacon often call for "center-cut bacon or turkey bacon." When you list the nutritional information, is that with the center-cut pork bacon or the turkey bacon? Thanks so much!
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Great question! You're right -- we do call for those types of bacon interchangeably. When it comes to real (pork) bacon, we always go for the center-cut kind -- it's sliced close to the bone, so it's less fatty than standard strips. But some people don't eat pork, and some just prefer the flavor of turkey bacon. And since the stats are very similar -- 30 - 35 calories and about 2.5g fat per slice -- you can use either one without affecting a recipe's nutritional information. Some brands make extra-lean turkey bacon, with about 20 calories and 0.5g fat per slice, but we think the taste and texture of regular turkey bacon make it worth a few extra calories and a little bit of fat.
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Be honest with your pals. Good friends care about you and will most likely be supportive. They might even help you out by ordering a few diet-friendly picks, like grilled chicken skewers (easy on the oil) and shrimp cocktail. Plus, they can help keep you on track when you feel tempted to order that towering margarita.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois has more cities providing 100 percent renewable energy than any other state, which has reduced pollution by the equivalent of removing a million cars from the road over the past few years, according to a report released Friday by national and state environmental groups.
A 2009 state law allowed communities to buy their own electricity, rather than relying on a central purchasing agency. Since then, more than 600 Illinois cities and towns have adopted aggregation, which allows them to bundle residential and small business customers to buy cheaper electricity in bulk from smaller suppliers.
Of those, 91 provide all renewable energy, either by buying it directly or buying credits that help fund renewable energy development, the report says.
Five other states — California, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Rhode Island — also allow communities to buy electricity, but none comes close to matching the renewable energy Illinois is purchasing, said Keya Chatterjee, senior director for renewable energy and footprint outreach at the World Wildlife Fund.
"It is huge what is already being done," in Illinois, Chatterjee said. "This is a story about local choice, and (Illinois) is choosing renewables in town after town after town."
The central Illinois city of Normal began aggregation about 1½ years ago, allowing officials to buy electricity at lower rates than they would have gotten otherwise, said Mayor Chris Koos.
He said aggregation also "meshed with broader community sustainability goals," which include trying to improve the environment. Normal buys renewable energy credits, which helps fund development of power sources such as wind and solar.
Chatterjee said the next step is for more cities to buy renewable energy directly, which will help create jobs in Illinois while benefiting the environment, Chatterjee said.
Last year, Chicago officials announced that 5 percent of electricity used by city residents and small businesses who participate in aggregation was supplied by Illinois wind farms. They said they will consider increasing that percentage when the current contract ends.
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said the report's findings could be a model for other states that are considering allowing community aggregation.
"Illinois is showing what can happen when change at the local level is harnessed to create a collective movement, and I hope other states take notice," Durbin said.


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ICC head says Ameren's performance was a marked improvement from recovery efforts after an ice and snow storm last year. .
The head of the Ameren Illinois utilities told the Illinois Commerce Commission on Tuesday that his company turned in "a solid performance" while restoring electricity to thousands of customers after an Aug. 23 storm struck Galesburg and other areas.
Charles Box, chairman of the state's utility-regulating panel, apparently agreed. He congratulated Ameren Illinois President and CEO Scott Cisel for the company's response.
"It's a lot different than it was last November," Box said at the conclusion of a meeting in which Ameren officials and the ICC discussed the utility's recent storm-recovery efforts.
Box's remark referred to an ice and snow storm on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 2006, that knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of Ameren customers, many of them in central Illinois. Some of those power outages lasted for days.
As a result, Ameren was criticized for what some people viewed as a sluggish response to the massive outages. The ICC and state lawmakers conducted hearings to examine the company's storm response.
Ameren responded to the criticism by pledging to do better in the future.
After Tuesday's ICC meeting, Cisel said: "We learned from our other outage performances. We assembled crews much quicker, had more people answer phone calls and were engaged directly with the media early on to let them know of our efforts."
More than 700 Ameren workers were involved with the power-restoration efforts.
Ameren officials were "more proactive" and more specific than in the past when it came to providing customers with estimates about how long it would take to restore their power, said Ron Pate, a vice president of regional operations for Ameren.
The Aug. 23 storm was quick and powerful, traveling about 60 miles in an hour and triggering winds of 75 mph to 80 mph at the Galesburg airport, Pate said. A "microburst" in the city of Galesburg produced winds estimated at 100 mph, he added.
The storm hammered Knox, Warren and LaSalle counties, bringing down trees and power lines. The historic Old Main building at Knox College, site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, sustained roof damage.
Storm-related power outages reached a peak about 5 p.m. Aug. 23, when more than 30,000 customers of AmerenIP and AmerenCILCO were left without electricity, Ameren officials said. Power was restored to nearly all of them by about 5 p.m. on Aug. 25.
There still is room for further improvement, Cisel said of his company's performance.
"We need to look at ways of processing outage information quicker and more effectively than what we've been currently doing," Cisel said, adding that crews then could be dispatched more efficiently to outage areas.
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Honoring One Of The Best
A fitting tribute to a great reporter.
Mike Miller is the best courts reporter I ever read. He's also a very good friend so this is not an absolutely unbiased opinion. But I read his work and tried to emulate his reporting style before we became friends so I stand by my assessment.
Mike retired from the Capital Times a few years back. That retirement is going to be shorter then he, or any of the rest of us, would like. Mike has pancreatic cancer that has spread. He's living with it right now.
A few weeks ago a whole bunch of people packed a Dane County courtroom where a pressroom was being dedicated in Miller's name. It is about as perfect a tribute as I can think of. First of all the judges and lawyers and bailiffs and court staff on hand all have tremendous respect for Mike. He knows more law than some lawyers and yes, some young judges. And he was a great newspaperman. A reporter's reporter. But he's also a great guy and the affection directed his way was as genuine as it was warm. And this editorial board would like very much for Mike to find some comfort in that affection and the well-deserved honor that came with it.


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Kenya Red Cross: 22 dead in upscale mall attack
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenyan military forces engaged in sporadic gun battles Sunday with the Islamic extremists holding an unknown number of hostages inside an upscale Nairobi mall, as officials said the death toll from a grenade-and-gunfire siege a day earlier rose to 59, with at least 175 wounded.
The hostage crisis passed the 24-hour mark and fears rose of a protracted standoff with terrorists using hostages as pawns. Kenyan security forces were seen entering Westgate Mall with at least two rocket-propelled grenades, heavy weaponry for a potential indoor battle with hostages present.
Elite military units were inside the Westgate mall, and volleys of gunfire continued into the afternoon Sunday. Two wounded Kenyan soldiers were seen being carried out of the mall in the morning.
Kenyan security officials didn't -- or couldn't -- say how many people the estimated 10 to 15 terrorists were holding hostage. Kenya's Red Cross said in a statement citing police that 49 people had been reported missing. Officials did not make an explicit link but that number could form the basis of the number of people held hostage.
Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga told reporters at the mall that he had been told officials couldn't determine the exact number of hostages, amid indications that Israeli military personnel were providing Kenya's military assistance.
"There are quite a number of people still being held hostage on the third floor and the basement area where the terrorists are still in charge," Odinga said.
Kenyan security officials sought to reassure the families of hostages inside but implied that hostages could be killed. Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Lenku said the security operation was "delicate" because Kenyan forces hoped to ensure the hostages are evacuated safely.
"The priority is to save as many lives as possible," Lenku said. More than 1,000 people escaped the attack inside the mall on Saturday, he said.
Britain's prime minister, in confirming the deaths of three British nationals, told the country to "prepare ourselves for further bad news."
"It's an extremely difficult situation but we're doing everything we can to help the Kenyans in their hours of need," David Cameron said.
More than 175 people were injured in the attack, Lenku said, including many children. Kenyan forces were in control of the mall's security cameras, Lenku said. Combined military and police forces surrounded the mall in the Westlands neighborhood of Nairobi, an area frequented by foreigners and wealthy Kenyans.
"Violent extremists continue to occupy Westgate Mall. Security services are there in full force," said the United States embassy in an emergency text message issued Sunday morning advising Americans to stay indoors and close to home.
Somalia's al-Qaida-linked rebel group, al-Shabab, claimed responsibility for the attack in which they used grenades and assault rifles and specifically targeted non-Muslims. The rebels said the attack was retribution for Kenyan forces' 2011 push into Somalia.
Al-Shabab said on its new Twitter feed -- after its old one was shut down on Saturday -- that Kenyan officials were asking the hostage-takers to negotiate and offering incentives.
"We'll not negotiate with the Kenyan govt as long as its forces are invading our country, so reap the bitter fruits of your harvest," al-Shabab said in a tweet.
Westgate Mall is at least partially owned by Israelis, and reports circulated that Israeli commandos were on the ground to assist in the response. Four restaurants inside the mall are Israeli-run or owned.
In Israel, a senior defense official said there were no Israeli forces participating in an assault, but the official said it was possible that Israeli advisers were providing assistance. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a classified military issue, would not elaborate.
Israel has close ties to Kenya going back many years. And in recent years, Israel has identified East Africa as an area of strategic interest and stepped up ties with Kenya and other neighboring countries, due to shared threats posed by al-Qaida and other extremist elements. In 2002, militants bombed an Israeli-owned luxury hotel near Mombasa, killing 13 people, and tried to shoot down an Israeli airliner at the same time.
"We have received a lot of messages from friendly countries, but for now it remains our operation," Lenku said, adding later: "I want to assure Kenyans that our security agencies are fully in control of the situation."
President Uhuru Kenyatta -- who said he lost his nephew and his nephew's fiance -- visited a hospital Sunday where he shook hands and exchanged words of encouragement with victims. M.P. Shah Hospital Chairman Manoj Shah said Kenyatta appeared visibly distraught at hearing the feelings of all the patients.
"He looked at many of the patients who had bullet wounds, who were suffering shrapnel damage. He shook their hands and wished them well," Shah said.
Shah said his doctors received 128 patients and performed 28 surgeries to remove bullets and shrapnel in the first 24 hours since the attacks began Saturday.
"We have at least two critical patients currently, one with bullets lodged near the spine," Shah said. He added that many of the victims_and four of the 19 fatalities at this particular hospital_were children.
Kenyans and foreigners were among those confirmed dead, including British, French, Canadians a Ghanaian and Chinese.
A 38-year-old Chinese woman was killed in the shopping mall "terror attack," the Chinese Embassy in Kenya said in a statement Sunday. Her son was injured in the attack and in a stable condition in hospital, according to the statement posted on the embassy's website.
Ghanaian poet and former chairman of the council of state Kofi Awoonor died after being injured in the attack, Ghana's presidential office confirmed. Ghana's ministry of information said Awoonor's son was injured and is responding to treatment.
Kenya's presidential office said that one of the attackers was arrested on Saturday and died after suffering from bullet wounds.
Britain's Foreign Office said that Foreign Secretary William Hague has chaired a meeting of Britain's crisis committee and sent a rapid deployment team from London to Nairobi to provide extra consular support.
The United Nations Security Council condemned the attacks and "expressed their solidarity with the people and Government of Kenya" in a statement.
There was some good news on Sunday, as Kenyan media reported that several people in hiding in the mall escaped to safety, suggesting that not everyone who was inside overnight was being held by al-Shabab.
Cecile Ndwiga said she had been hiding under a car in the basement parking garage.
"I called my husband to ask the soldiers to come and rescue me. Because I couldn't just walk out anyhow. The shootout was all over here -- left, right-- just gun shots," she said.
Security forces had pushed curious crowds far back from the mall. Hundreds of residents gathered on a high ridge above the mall to watch for any activity. Police lobbed multiple rounds of tear gas throughout the day at hundreds of curious Kenyans who gathered near the mall.
Associated Press reporters Tom Odula and Jacob Kushner in Nairobi, Kenya; Josef Federman in Jerusalem; Louise Watt in Beijing; and Cassandra Vinograd in London contributed to this report.


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It is not easy being an old lefty on campus in this war.
At the University of Wisconsin at Madison, awash in antiwar protests in the Vietnam era, a columnist for a student newspaper took a professor to task for canceling classes to protest the war in Iraq, saying the university should reprimand her and refund tuition for the missed periods.
Irvine Valley College in Southern California sent faculty members a memo that warned them not to discuss the war unless it was specifically related to the course material. When professors cried censorship, the administration explained that the request had come from students.
Here at Amherst College, many students were vocally annoyed this semester when 40 professors paraded into the dining hall with antiwar signs. One student confronted a protesting professor and shoved him.
Some students here accuse professors of behaving inappropriately, of not knowing their place.
''It seems the professors are more vehement than the students,'' Jack Morgan, a sophomore, said. ''There comes a point when you wonder are you fostering a discussion or are you promoting an opinion you want students to embrace or even parrot?''
Across the country, the war is disclosing role reversals, between professors shaped by Vietnam protests and a more conservative student body traumatized by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Prowar groups have sprung up at Brandeis and Yale and on other campuses. One group at Columbia, where last week an antiwar professor rhetorically called for ''a million Mogadishus,'' is campaigning for the return of R.O.T.C. to Morningside Heights.
Even in antiwar bastions like Cambridge, Berkeley and Madison, the protests have been more town than gown. At Berkeley, where Vietnam protesters shouted, ''Shut it down!'' under clouds of tear gas, Sproul Plaza these days features mostly solo operators who hand out black armbands. The shutdown was in San Francisco, and the crowd was grayer.
All this dismays many professors.
''We used to like to offend people,'' Martha Saxton, a professor of women's studies at Amherst, said as she discussed the faculty protest with students this week. ''We loved being bad, in the sense that we were making a statement. Why is there no joy now?''
Certainly not all students are pro-war or all faculty anti. But ''there's a much higher percentage of liberal professors than there are liberal students,'' said Ben Falby, the student who organized the protest at Amherst only to find that it had more professors than students.
On campuses like Yale and Berkeley, professors say their colleagues are overwhelmingly against the war. By contrast, students polled by The Yale Daily News are 50-50. Interviews elsewhere find students' attitudes equally fractured. Some are solidly for the war. Some are against it, but not to the point of protest.
''Protesting is a niche activity,'' said Prof. Michael Kazin, co-author of ''America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960's.'' ''There are some people who do drama, some people who do protest, other people who drink too much.''
At Georgetown, where Professor Kazin teaches history, a handful of antiwar students had a sleep-in last weekend on Red Square, named for the color of the bricks, not the political sentiment of those who gather there. Other students expressed disgust, so much that Professor Kazin said to his students that they seemed more upset about the encampment than the war.
He hears similar accounts in academic e-mail chains across the country. One example was a campus protest that drew 40 students, maybe 60.
Amherst's history should make it predictably antiwar. The Vietnam protests were so spirited that in 1972 they swept up the college president, John William Ward, who was arrested in a sit-in at nearby Westover Air Force Base. The protest included 1,000 students, 20 faculty members and the president's wife.
Now, the departing president, Tom Gerety, is firmly antiwar, as are most professors. The students, however, have yet to be swept up. Last month, the Progressive Students Association asked the student government to ask the faculty to take 15 minutes in class to discuss the war. The government refused. Some professors chose to take the time anyway, but many did not, having seen the reaction to the dining hall protest.
''There was a sense this is a different world,'' said Austin Sarat, a professor of political science who was active in antiwar protests in 1970 as a graduate student in Madison, Wis.
Students opposed to the war say they appreciate the professors' sentiments.
''It's a lonely place to be an antiwar protester on the Amherst campus,'' said Beatriz Wallace, a junior. In the dining hall, students have set out baskets of ribbons, some yellow, some red, white and blue.
Prowar students say they feel just as alienated. ''The faculty, and events, has a chilling effect on discussions for the prowar side,'' said David Chen, a sophomore.
In a discussion, Professor Sarat began with the proposition that if you love the United States, you must, as an act of patriotism, oppose the war. Students took exception.
''President Bush has taken an imperial position,'' Professor Sarat insisted.
Michael Valentine, a sophomore, replied: ''I don't think it's the dominance of the United States. It's the security of the United States that's at issue. They're saying the only way we can ensure the security of our citizens is to go in there.''
''And to make the Middle East safe for democracy,'' Professor Sarat interjected.
''Professor, that's only because a regime poses a security risk,'' Mr. Valentine said.
Professor Sarat said the change in tone reflected a larger shift.
''The notion that campuses are awash in political correctness,'' he said, ''is given the lie every day in my classroom.''
Still, he and others expressed wistfulness for days gone by.
''In Madison, teach-ins were as common as bratwurst,'' he said. ''There was a certain nobility in being gassed. Now you don't get gassed. You walk into a dining hall and hand out an informational pamphlet.''
The students' attitudes have many possible explanations. There is no draft this time. Students on small liberal arts campuses like this one are more diverse than those of the 60's and 70's. More receive financial aid, and many are more concerned about their careers than about protesting. But the students have also been pulled toward a more conservative mainstream than their parents.
''The most left president they know is Bill Clinton, running on, 'I'm tough on crime,' '' Professor Sarat said. ''The Great Society is to them what the New Deal was to me.''
John Lewis Gaddis, a professor of history at Yale, agreed, saying: ''These are the kids of Reagan. When I lecture on Reagan, the kids love him. Their parents are horrified and appalled.''
This generation is also shaped by Sept. 11. When Gary J. Bass, an assistant professor of politics at Princeton, asked his class on ''Causes of War'' how many students were in R.O.T.C., two raised their hands. The rest applauded.
''I had asked the question before Sept. 11 and not gotten that response,'' Professor Bass said. ''I definitely hadn't expected it.''
A nationwide survey of freshmen by the University of California at Los Angeles over the last 37 years reflected other shifts from Sept. 11. This year, more students called themselves conservative than in other recent surveys, and 45 percent supported an increase in military spending, more than double the percentage in 1993.
At a teach-in at Yale, the president, Richard C. Levin, announced that although he was against the war, the speakers were chosen to represent a range of opinions.
At Amherst, Prof. Barry O'Connell, too, tries hard. As he sits in a discussion group with students, he patiently listens to those who argue in favor of the war, even though he remains adamantly against it. Across the hall, a mug shot of Henry A. Kissinger is posted outside his office with the heading ''Wanted for Crimes Against Humanity.''
''My job is not to get my students to agree with me,'' Professor O'Connell insisted.
Still, he conceded, 'There is a second when I hear them, and my heart just falls.''


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I love making handmade presents in anticipation of a new baby. I will always remember knitting my soon-to-be niece a baby blanket while I was on a road trip through Europe many years ago. As I looked out the window and watched the fields and mountains pass by I thought about what she was going to be like with every stitch. What would they name her? Who would she look like? Would she like me? I felt like my good wishes for her were being knitted psychically into the blanket. Ever since then I've tried to make something special for each of the new babies that have come into my life.
In addition to heartfelt, I also try to make my handmade gifts practical. There isn't much point in putting so much care and effort into something if it won't be used. So lately, my go-to baby gift has been a set of Swaddling Blankets with a hand-finished edge. They strike a good balance between usefulness and homemade detail. They are the right size to swaddle a baby (42-inches square), but they work perfectly well as a burp cloth or stroller blanket too.
I actually made my first set of Swaddling Blankets a few years ago as a project for the Purl Bee. Now I'm giving the original pattern a fresh look with this season's fabrics. I designed two sets of two blankets each, one set in pretty pink:
and one in crisp blue:
I used the graphic Nani Iro double gauze stripes as the outsides and bright, lightweight Shot Cotton for the lining. These two fabrics together make a wonderful blanket, so airy and soft.
To make two blankets in either pink or blue:
- 2 1/2-yards of Nani Iro Spring Double Gauze in pink for the pink set and blue for the blue set. (This particular fabric is no longer available, but please check out all of our Japanese fabric for some great alternatives!)
- Two 1 1/4-yards of Shot Cotton in Clementine and Apricot for the pink set or Blueberry and Lemon for the blue set.
- One hank of DMC embroidery floss in color 151 for the pink set or blanco for the blue set.
- 100% cotton thread in color 1040
42-inches square
Cut the gauze and one of the shot cottons into neat 43-inch squares. The easiest way to do this is to cut them together at the same time. That way both pieces are exactly the same size.
Pin the cut pieces right sides together around all four sides.
Sewing and Turning it Out
Sew around the edge of the pinned pieces with a 1/2-inch seam allowance. Leave a 3-inch gap in the middle of one of the sides, and make sure to backstitch at the beginning and end of each seam.
Snip off the corners and turn the piece right side out.
Iron the piece right side out, making sure the corners are nice and pointy. Also make sure to iron the gap closed, with the 1/2-inch raw seams tucked in.
Using your embroidery thread sew a small running stitch a 1/4-inch from the edge, all around the piece. By doing this you will close the 3-inch gap.
Repeat for the second blanket and enjoy! –Molly


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Tickets for events at Royal Shakespeare Theatre
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Waterside, Stratford Upon Avon, Stratford Upon Avon, CV37 6BB
Royal Shakespeare Theatre tickets
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Venue Information
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) is a 1,040+ seat thrust stage theatre owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company dedicated to the British playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is located in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon - Shakespeare's birthplace - in the English Midlands, beside the River Avon. The Royal Shakespeare and Swan Theatres re-opened together in November 2010 after undergoing a major renovation known as the Transformation Project.
By Train
Nearest British Rail is Stratford-upon-Avon, about 20 mins walk from the town centre. A direct train service runs from London Marylebone and connections from all parts of the UK to Stratford via other rail routes.
By Car
The Royal Shakespeare Theatre is along side the River Avon and is well signposted thoughout Stratford-upon-Avon. M40 from London or the Midlands. The M40 links to the M42 and M25 which gives access to M1, M5, M6, M4
There are 40 spaces in front of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre with a small charge (but they do fill up quickly). 200 pay and display spaces in Church Street car park, a short walk from the theatre (Open Mon-Fri 18.00hrs- Midnight, Sat and Bank Holidays all day)Street parking is impossible but there are several other car parks throughout the town but all are at least 15 mins away from the theatre so allow plenty of time.
Wheelchair Access
The venue has wheelchair spaces. Please contact them to book and for any queries on 01789 272227.
Hearing Systems
The box office is fitted with a loop system and headphones are available from the venue itself.
Guide Dogs
All assistance dogs are welcome in the venue. Please contact the venue to arrange.
General Access Info
Please contact the venue directly for information 01789 272227.


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From Behind the Bar: On Hospitality
Tales from our resident bartender.
About the Author: You may have seen Michael Neff behind the bar at New York's Ward III and The Rum House. He'll be stopping by each week to share insights on cocktails and the life of a barman.
More Behind the Bar
The Magic »
So You Want to Be a Bartender »
In Defense of the Free Pour »
On Bellwether Cocktails »
Thinking About Gin »
New Orleans is a beautiful city, and I was lucky enough to spend a few days there recently. I was traveling on business, but since I work in a bar, that business involved cocktails. For those of you who haven't heard of it, Tales of the Cocktail is an annual bacchanal/convention that brings together people from all over the world to learn about, sample, discuss, and generally celebrate spirits and how we use them.
The event is headquartered at the storied Hotel Monteleone, which is conveniently located around the corner from a much earthier establishment, Acme Oyster House. Their specialty (besides oysters, obviously) is a massively decadent po' boy sandwich called The Peace Maker. While my nights were occupied walking the streets drinking Abita Amber from a plastic cup, each day started sitting at the Acme Bar and fortifying myself with fried shrimp and oysters on a roll. Yes, I want tartar sauce. Of course, I'll take the coleslaw. Absolutely, I'd like to wash that down with a cold beer.
The French Quarter was overrun with cocktail-types for five days, to the delight and chagrin of actual working bartenders who operated the establishments we all would frequent. Delight, because bartenders are famous for being generous tippers, and can often be compassionate customers. Chagrin, because we can also be royal pains-in-the-ass if things aren't going the way we think they should. The last thing any bartender on the planet needs to do is instruct a New Orleans bartender in the making of a proper Sazerac, but I saw it happen. The consequences were amusing for me, but embarrassing for the poor sap who thought to open his mouth. C'est la vie.
Of the bartenders I met working in The Big Easy, the man behind the bar at the Acme was by far the most impressive. Big and burly, with waist-long dreadlocks, he poured beers (often), made cocktails (occasionally), served up food (constantly), and ran an incredibly tight ship while keeping his cool, and making sure everyone had exactly what they needed.
What sold me was how he presented the check. He would look his guest in the eye, shake their hand, and say, "Y'all come back and see us any time." On my second visit, he said, "I'll see you back here tomorrow, right?" And he was right. I went back every day, in no small part due to the experience I had watching him work his bar.
What most people call lunch, I call breakfast, and it's a meal I tend to prefer alone. As I enjoyed my day's fortification, I had plenty of time to reflect. At the exact same time our fancy New York cocktail bars were being nominated for awards celebrating how awesome we are, this man was working his own brand of magic, brilliantly demonstrating that many of us miss the point.
Think about the last time you were in a bar where you were not known, and the bartender reached out and shook your hand. How often will a mixologist look up from the execution of his "mixology" when someone new bellies up? The phrase most necessary, but least often heard, in cocktail bars is "How are you enjoying your drink?" If we changed the yard-stick on how bars are measured from cocktails to hospitality, many of the establishments that won awards that weekend would find themselves soundly drubbed by little dives in places like New Orleans, Wichita, and Phoenix.
This is unfortunate for cocktail makers and imbibers alike. I love making cocktails as much as I love drinking them, but their creation is not my primary job. The first purpose of every bar, cocktail or otherwise, is to provide an enjoyable experience for our guests. It starts and end with hospitality. Period.
We forget that to our detriment. The cocktail has been elevated to culinary heights, which is a wonderful thing for all of us. The problem arises when they are elevated past the level of those who drink them. I am lucky to have trained many people who will go off in to the world to be fantastic bartenders. This process takes years sometimes, and the last thing I ever talk about is how to make cocktails. Compared to consistently delivering genuine hospitality to every single guest who walks in the door, day after day, making cocktails is a piece of cake.
My trip was illuminating. I tasted new spirits, compared notes with fellow travellers, and generally immersed myself in the collective culture of cocktails in this country. The best thing, though, was watching the bartender at The Acme. He reminded me that the bar for true hospitality is set very high, and I am grateful for the reminder. Hopefully, everyone else was paying attention as well.
Related: 12 Sips and Scenes from Tales of the Cocktail »
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Hey guys…I am writing you tonight to let you in on some exciting news! In order to expand upon Erin Lanahan Method, I have bought a different site to transfer over to so we can enjoy a lot more options and so I can deliver much more to you than I am currently able to here. Plus, it's just time for a new look 😉
Right now, the address www.erinlanahanmethod.com points to this blog which is actually www.erinsadventures.wordpress.com. and you can see so if you look in your browser right now.
I will now be hosted completely at www.erinlanahanmethod.com so please make sure this is the address you are using to access my site every time you come to visit or share it with others.
Also, as of Thursday morning U.S. time, my site will be temporarily down while everything switches over to the new domain, but please come back on Sunday U.S. time, because we will definitely be up and running again with a WHOLE NEW LOOK by then!
I am sooooo excited! I have put so much of my heart and soul into this brand and company and I am so thankful and grateful to you all for following along. If for some reason your subscription to my blog does not make the transfer, PLEASE come back to me at www.erinlanahanmethod.com next week and subscribe to the new and improved site. Having you on board with me really makes my world a better place, so I would hate to lose you in the change over.
Also, I would love to hear from you with any suggestions you have about what you would like to see me offer at Erin Lanahan Method. Feel welcome to express any of your ideas about how I can truly make E.L.M. feel like a place where you can come home and fill up with inspiration, motivation, insight, education, entertainment, and vision into your own creative expressions!
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From this heartfelt writeup from GreatBong on the Kolkata Knight Riders:
Then on days where we were playing among ourselves on the streets and there were not enough players to make teams, we would play by what was known as "lottery". In this form of "gully cricket" every player essentially forms a "team of one" and all that was left to be determined was in which order we would bat (this would be the reverse order in which we would bowl). Everyone would field and he who made the most runs won.
So how was this order decided? Someone (let us call him A) would stand and the second person (let us call him person B) would hold his hand behind the first person in a way that A would not be able to see. B would then show a random number of fingers and A would call out a name from among those assembled. And the number represented by those fingers would then become the called out person's batting position.
Thanks to the Knight Riders, I am once again in touch with my past in a way I never thought would be possible.
Leaving aside the zinger about KKR deciding their batting order using a random permutation algorithm, not only is the algorithm to obtain a secure permutation of the team's batting order remarkable in its simplicity, the childlike political compromises that made such a permutation algorithm necessary in the first place are truly endearing. Those kids would bring a tear to Bruce Schneier's eye.


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Young women chasing the fake, plastic lookPublished September 26, 2012 by Jenny
Paul Weston
The Sunday Mail (Qld)
May 23, 2010 2:57PM
Young women chasing the plastic look
Asking for larger breast enhancements
"We're happy with the fake look"
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YOUNGER women are not only demanding larger breast and lip enhancements – they want the finished job to look fake.
The trend started about six months ago, shocking experienced cosmetic surgery operators who until now had a largely middle-aged clientele taking conservative steps to stave off ageing, The Sunday Mail reports.
Social psychologists fear the trend will take off not only with wannabe models but also a new generation of women obsessed with cosmetically enhanced celebrities.
Loren Hammerich, a 20-year-old Gold Coast model, says she and her friends are just being honest about their looks and prefer not to hide their decision to have breast implants.
"We're happy with the fake look. We're not hiding it. We're proud of the way we look," Ms Hammerich said.
Would you pay for the plastic look? Tell us below.
International Surgery Group spokesman Pamela Noon said women in their 20s were asking for "the fake look" after seeing cosmetic surgery on celebrities in the US.
"In Australia, the demarcation line is with age. Older woman don't want to look overdone whereas young girls in their 20s are happy to have a look that's a bit exaggerated," Ms Noon said.
"People want to look like they've got their money's worth."
Some women in their 20s and early 30s are asking for the size of their breasts not just to be doubled, as has been the norm, but tripled in size.
A standard augmentation costs $11,000 to $14,000.
The other growing but much less expensive trend is for lips to have permanent tattoo colouring along with dermal fillers, which costs about $1300.
Gold Coast-based model Kimberley Scott, 30, said it took several operations to perfect the look of her lips.
"I've seen some horror results but if you go to someone who knows what they're doing you will get a wonderful result," she said.
Dr Evonne Miller, a social psychologist at the Queensland University of Technology, said she was concerned about the latest plastic surgery trend.
Enhanced Lips (real life Bratz lips :D)…What you think?Published May 27, 2012 by Jenny
I think most of them are funny and weird 😀 My favourite is second photo, not so overblown lips like others 😛 And sorry, I dont know how to implement that poll straight to my blog 😦 Must learn to do that if its even possible 🙂
Here is some blog which I found where is moar weird and funny lips


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When Native Americans first arrived in North America about 15,000 years ago, they found two species of bison or, more colloquially, buffalo.
The ancient buffalo, Bison antiquus, was the larger of the two. It was over 7 feet tall, 15 feet long and weighed up to 3,500 pounds. It was the most common large herbivore in the La Brea tar pits, which trapped and preserved wildlife between 40,000 and 11,000 years ago.
The ancient buffalo went extinct about 10,000 years ago, and while Native Americans hunted them, it is not clear whether hunting, climate change or a combination of the two caused their extinction.
The American buffalo, Bison bison, evolved from ancient buffalo and lived in similar environments when Native Americans arrived. Two subspecies of buffalo, plains and wood buffalo, are recognized today.
The plains buffalo is slightly smaller than and has a more rounded hump than the wood buffalo. Buffalo are 5 to 6 feet tall at the shoulder and adults are usually in the range of 700 to 2,000 pounds, though the largest wild bull ever recorded weighed 2,800 pounds. They grow larger in captivity, up to 3,800 pounds. For a large animal, buffalo are surprisingly agile and fast; they can jump over a 6-foot fence and run up to 40 mph.
While Native Americans may have contributed to the extinction of the ancient buffalo, immense herds of American buffalo lived beside Native Americans until several hundred years ago. Lewis and Clark commented that the buffalo were so abundant that they darkened the entire Great Plains; estimates of the number of buffalo ranged from 30 to 75 million.
As new settlers from the East moved West, they systematically and purposefully exterminated the buffalo from most of its native range, reducing them from many millions to a few hundreds in 1883. Today, about 500,000 buffalo live in national parks, conservation preserves and ranches, though most of them are tainted by past hybridization with domesticated cattle.
Buffalo can still be seen in natural settings in a few places: Yellowstone National Park, Wind Cave National Park and Wood Buffalo National Park in northern Alberta. However, one of the most spectacular sites to view buffalo in a natural setting is here in Colorado, beside the Great Sand Dunes and beneath the Sangre de Cristo.
Zapata Ranch, adjacent to Great Sand Dunes National Park, combines the historic Medano and Zapata ranches, each established about 150 years ago. The Nature Conservancy acquired Zapata Ranch in 1999 and in 2004 formed a partnership with the Duke and Janet Phillips family, fourth-generation ranchers, who manage the lodge and ranch. Guests can stay in historic ranch buildings and enjoy fine dining in the restaurant.
It is a prime site for a ranch, not only for mountain vistas but also because the pastures are watered by snowmelt running in Medano and Sand creeks and bubbling from several natural springs. It is a propitious site for birding and a unique site for photography and watching buffalo without a fence in sight. Occasionally, the buffalo stretch their legs by climbing up the sand dunes.
Zapata Ranch blends conservation biology, education, recreation and ranching. The 2,000 buffalo are managed as a wild herd, free to move about, with herds coalescing and splitting over the seasons. While some buffalo are harvested each year, some are allowed to grow very large and to die of old age. I was thrilled to see three large bulls, grey from watching many seasons pass. The largest of the grey bulls weighed just shy of 2,000 pounds.
Zapata Ranch is truly a natural site for buffalo, for they have come to the site for thousands of years. The oldest buffalo remains on the ranch are at a Clovis kill site and are estimated to be 11,000 years old.
Jeff Mitton (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado.


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David Martosko
Daily Caller
January 9, 2013
In an interview with the Daily Times Herald in Caroll, Iowa, state Rep. Dan Muhlbauer said governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms.
Muhlbauer, a Democrat from the western Iowa town of Manilla, is a cattleman and farmer. The newspaper reported that he owns a .410 shotgun, a .22 rifle and a .22 pistol.
"We cannot have big guns out here as far as the big guns that are out here, the semi-automatics and all of them," Muhlbauer told the newspaper during a December 19 audiotaped interview. "We can't have those running around out here. Those are not hunting weapons."
"We should ban those in Iowa," he said, adding that such a ban should be applied retroactively.
"We need to get them off the streets — illegally — and even if you have them, I think we need to start taking them," Muhlbauer told the Daily Times Herald. "We can't have those out there. Because if they're out there they're just going to get circulated around to the wrong people. Those guns should not be in the public's hands. There are just too many guns."
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About the Author
Mieshelle Nagelschneider is one of the nation's most renowned and sought-after cat behaviorists. In addition to working with thousands of cat owners in person, by phone, and online, she has consulted with vets to help them deal with the problem behaviors that their clients complain about and that they themselves have with their own cats. The Cat Behavior Clinic, which she founded, opened in 1999 and serves clients all over the world. She has been featured in Animal Planet's Must Love Cats, Martha Stewart Living Radio, USA Today, Cat Fancy, Real Simple, and Feline Wellness, and on Salon.com, Pawnation.com, and NBC's Petside.com, and serves on the advisory council for Pet360.com. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her family and nine animals: six cats, two dogs, and one monitor lizard.


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I want to set the shortcut ctrl + < to use as my "flip horizontal", and it works fine until I restart. Then photoshop replaces it with ctrl + & and I have to re-set the shortcut everytime.
Any clue how to make the keyboard shortcut stay as ctrl + < permanently?


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C# 4.0 with a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop)
C# 4.0 will apparently have significantly more powerful dynamic programming language features.
This may be old news for some of you, but I recently found a video of a presentation given by Anders Hejlsberg about C# 4.0 at the PDC 2008 conference. The slides are also available here.
I found the slides talking about the "C# compiler as a service" extremely intriguing so I watched the video for more information. Well the demo he gave at 61 minutes was really fascinating. He actually wrote a read-eval-print loop for C#, by using the C# compiler as an API.
There are some interesting parallels with Heron, but the fundamental difference is that Heron provides the code object model at compile-time. This has the potential for creating extremely efficient code, which is optimized statically: not just limited to the minimal optimizations provided by the JIT.


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Paul JOUVE (1878-1973): Eagle shredding, original woodcut, signed, 1932
Paul JOUVE (1878-1973) : Eagle shredding. Original color woodcut on Japan paper, signed lower right in red in the plate 'Jouve'. Engraved by J.-L. PERRICHON, after a painting circa 1922 (last picture), to illustrate 'Paradis terrestres' (Earthly Paradise) from COLETTE, Lausanne, Philippe Gonin, 1932. Limited edition of 130 copies.
Newly framed under glass with palm tree leaves wood frame.
Not a copy or reproduction as all my Jouve's. Sold with certificate.
From 1932
Plate : 30,5 x 24,5 cm - 12 x 9 5/8 in
Frame : 48,3 x 41,9 cm - 19 x 16 1/2 in
Felix MARCILHAC: Paul Jouve. Paris. Editions de l'Amateur. 2005. References of the book p.380. Original painting reproduced p.159.
Paul JOUVE (1878-1973):
Encouraged by his father, Paul Jouve spent a considerable amount of time during his childhood and youth drawing in Pariss Jardin des Plantes (main botanical gardens) and Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. By age thirteen, he was attending the École des Arts décoratifs (school of decorative arts), and was soon also accepted to the École des beaux-arts (school of fine arts). At about sixteen years of age, he submitted his first work to the Salon, where his drawings of animals gained the attention of architect René Binet; Binet subsequently offered Jouve a job designing the decoration for a monumental door that was installed at the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1900. Following this experience, Jouve actively pursued a career as an animalier sculptor, seeking his subject matter in the zoos of Europe and in Northern Africa.
In 1907, with the assistance of a grant from the Society of French Orientalist Painters, Jouve came to reside at the villa Abd-el-Tif in Algiers, which was a sort of French artists retreat in the African colony of Algeria. Unfortunately, war forced him to leave before long, but he traveled to Greece, exploring that region instead. After Greece, following World War I, Jouve traveled on to the Far East, visiting places like Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) in the French colony of Cochinchine (now Vietnam), and Phnom Penh in Cambodia. Later, he made his way back to explore jungles in Africa.
Throughout his extensive and adventurous travels, Jouve gathered visual references to incorporate into his artwork. Although he preferred sculpting his subjects, Jouve was a consummate artist, portraying exotic animals in watercolor, oil, and drawing media, as well. Contemporary sources classify his personal style as Art Deco, though this label may be misleading. Jouve sought to combine the French animalier tradition with newly available oriental vocabulary, and was informing this creative endeavor with first-hand experience.
An internationally successful artist in his own time, Jouve is perhaps best remembered today for his depiction of big cats, and for illustrating an edition of Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book in collaboration with the engraver F.L. Schmied (Swiss, 1873-1941). Jouve was elected to the French Académie des beaux-arts (Academy of Fine Arts) in 1945. He passed away in 1973.
Source: National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
MARCILHAC, Felix: Paul Jouve. Paris. Les Editions de l'Amateur. 2005.


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The More You Know
June 11, 2011
-I type 95-100 WPM. Keyboard ninja.
-Pet peeve: Chipped nails. If they chip while i'm out the first thing I'll do when I get home is fix them or completely remove the polish.
– I could eat fried zucchini every. single. day. Farmer Boys makes the best ones!
– Parallel parking gives me anxiety. I've done it a total of two times in my life.
– I have dermographism. When I was a kid, all my friends would draw on me to make their pictures 3D. I have to take allergy medication to calm it down before tattoo sessions.
Happy happy Saturday.
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June 13, 2011 7:56 pm
i love that you just posted that! my skin has always been like that, and puffs up at the tiniest itch. you're right, the more you know!
xo.anna marie


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Written by: McCartney
Recorded: December 1969-February 1970
Producer: Paul McCartney
Released: 17 April 1970 (UK), 20 April 1970 (US)
Paul McCartney: vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano, xylophone, Mellotron, drums
Linda McCartney: backing vocals
Available on:
Unplugged (The Official Bootleg)
Working Classical
A song originally written in Rishikesh, India in 1968, Junk was considered for The Beatles (White Album) and Abbey Road, although it remained unreleased until Paul McCartney's first solo album in 1970.
Junk had an early working title of Jubilee, and was also known as Junk In The Yard.
Paul McCartney recorded a demo version of Junk at Kinfauns, George Harrison's Esher bungalow, upon The Beatles' return from India. It was eventually released in 1996 on Anthology 3. A rough version, lasting just 16 seconds and sung in mock French, was busked on 9 January 1969 during the Get Back sessions at Twickenham Film Studios.
When beginning work on his first solo album, McCartney recorded two versions of Junk using his home studio at 7 Cavendish Avenue, London. More instrumentation was added at Morgan Studios.
Take one appeared on the McCartney album as Singalong Junk, with added Mellotron and percussion, whereas take two was given vocals and was issued as Junk.
Junk was first performed live as an instrumental during McCartney's appearance on MTV Unplugged on 25 January 1991, and appeared as the final track on that year's Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) album. An orchestral version opened McCartney's 1999 album Working Classical.


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Farewell Transmission.
I always said I would keep doing my work at princetonbasketball.com as long as it remained fun.
In the past couple of seasons it has become progressively less and less fun.
So, like a pair of my basketball writing heroes did before me - Jake Wilson and Kyle Whelliston - I'm stepping away for a while.
Content will cease to be added regularly here when this year's current subscriptions expire on October 1, 2013. With only a few days left until the end of that period, I can now make this announcement.
As for the future, I plan on keeping my press credential in the case that I am inspired to write the occasional larger picture "think piece" during the season.
You'll still see me at a number of games, especially at Jadwin Gym, and I very much want to get to my 200th consecutive Ivy League contest!
Both Stephen Goldsmith and Robert Solomon have shown interest in photographing occasionally for the site and I'd welcome that.
There may also be a guest columnist here from time to time.
In the next couple of weeks the pay wall on the site will come down and everyone will be able to explore princetonbasketball.com's full, rich history - something of which I am exceptionally proud.
Perhaps, like Jason Molina sings in the above song, I'll be "gone, but not forever." I'm leaving the door ajar for a return, though I can't promise when that might be - if at all.
I'm looking forward to this significant change in my daily routine, to unsubscribing from a bunch of RSS feeds, canceling a healthy number of Google Alerts and disconnecting from the world I've fully immersed myself in for so long.
It has been incredible running this site in various iterations since 1998. I've been able to do everything I ever hoped I could do, interview everyone I always wanted to talk with growing up watching Princeton basketball and most of all I'm pleased with the community we were able to build here together.
I've been awed by your support, friendship and good will over the years. Just because I am not going to be updating a web site's content regularly does not mean those feelings change. I'm excited about filling my late nights and early mornings with other pursuits, but a part of me will always care deeply about Princeton basketball and for those who love it the way I do.
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I didn't catch Arachnophobia (1990) during its theatrical release...but it's not like I wanted to, either. Spiders weren't my favorite thing as a kid, and I incorrectly assumed it was both (A) exceptionally bleak and (B) a straight-up horror movie. It's neither, actually. In hindsight, I shouldn't have expected anything different from Frank Marshall (who makes his directorial debut here), the producer behind such classic cinematic hybrids as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. While Arachnophobia isn't in the same league as any of those three, it's definitely a hard film to pin down.
Our central characters are the Jennings family, who recently migrated from San Francisco to the sleepy town of Canaima, California. Dr. Ross Jennings (Jeff Daniels) was promised his own office and a client list from the retiring Dr. Sam Metcalf (Henry "Don't Call Me Indiana" Jones)...who, unfortunately, rescinds the offer and stays in business. His wife Molly (Harley Kozak) offers to return to work for financial support, but...well, all that stuff eventually takes a back seat to spiders. Weeks before their arrival, Canaima resident Jerry Manley (Mark Taylor) was killed in Venezuela by a poisonous spider who hitchhiked back to California in his coffin. Soon enough, the town is hit hard by the deadly plague after our rogue arachnid sets up shop in the Jennings' barn and starts havin' babies. Lots and lots of creepy, crawly babies.
At 110 minutes in length, Arachnophobia runs at least 20 minutes too long for a horror or comedy film. More often than not, needless little details, mostly during the first hour, grind the pace to a halt. Even the initial setup scenes in Venezuela exist entirely to follow the "original" spider's journey to small-town America, when we don't necessarily need a feasible explanation for its arrival. From there, the uneven pace of the spiders' wrath feels much too episodic and repetitive...and by the time the real fun begins in Arachnophobia's brisk, over-the-top third act, we're wondering why it took so long to arrive.
Pacing problems aside, there is some fun to be had here...and in the right mood, Arachnophobia is passable popcorn entertainment. But it's most certainly for a limited audience: if you're severely freaked out by spiders and other creepy-crawlies, this movie isn't for you at all. If you're looking for a non-stop laugh riot...well, Arachnophobia isn't terribly funny either. But for those who don't mind their horror/ comedy hybrids on the slightly watered-down side, it's definitely worth watching at least once. Disney's new Blu-Ray edition offers a notable A/V upgrade from the non-anamorphic 1999 DVD release, but those looking for additional bonus features will be roundly disappointed. Let's take a closer look, shall we?
Originally sent to some review outlets last month, the initial screener for Arachnophobia suffered from black level and contrast issues which, to Disney's credit, were almost immediately rectified. This Blu-Ray under review today is the corrected version (which is the only one available in stores and online, so don't worry) and its 1080p video presentation is quite good. The film's original 1.85:1 aspect ratio has been preserved, the color palette looks perfectly natural, black levels and contrast are much improved, image detail and textures are crisp, and a fine layer of film grain is also present. Overall, Arachnophobia is simply a great-looking catalog release, and that's not always the norm on Blu-Ray these days.
The audio is presented in DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio and also gets the job done, offering crisp dialogue and robust music cues. Rear channel activity and LFE are used sparingly, and obviously the atmosphere becomes more aggressive during the film's chaotic third act. It's certainly limited to the original source material, but Arachnophobia sounds better than expected for its age. Optional French and Spanish dubs are available in Dolby Digital 2.0, as well as English (SDH), French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
Arachnophobia isn't a film with broad appeal: it's a bit too soft to get under the skin of most die-hard horror junkies and too creepy-crawly to sit comfortably with the whole family. The performances are quite good and the off-center cornball score suits the atmosphere well enough, yet its painfully slow first half barely makes the chaotic finale worth waiting for. There's definitely some intrigue lurking under its odd exterior, but only established fans should consider Arachnophobia worth a purchase. Rent It.
Randy Miller III is an affable office monkey from Harrisburg, PA. He also does freelance graphic design projects, teaches art classes and runs a website or two. In his limited free time, Randy also enjoys slacking off , juggling HD DVDs and writing in third person.


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One idea that I have in mind is hacking a shopping cart software like Zen-Cart but this may be an overkill if a non-shopping lighter-weight package exists.


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A friend wrote me a simple question today. My response turned out to be longer than i expected, but i hope it's useful (and maybe other people will have better suggestions) so i thought i'd share it here too:
Angela Starita wrote:
I'd like to save my work in a location where I can access it from any computer. I'm wary of using the mechanisms provided by Google and Apple. Can you suggest another service?
Here's my reply:
I think you're right to be wary of the big cloud providers, who have a tendency to inspect your data to profile you, to participate in arbitrary surveillance regimes, and to try to sell your eyeballs to advertisers.
Caveat: You have to trust the client machine too
But it's also worth remembering that the network service provider is not the only source of risk. If you really mean "accessing your data from any computer", that means the computer you're using to access the data can do whatever it wants with it. That is, you need to trust both the operator of these "cloud" services, *and* the administrator/operating system of the client computer you're using to access your data. For example, if you log into any "secure" account from a terminal in a web café, that leaves you vulnerable to the admins of the web café (and, in the rather-common case of sloppily-administered web terminals, vulnerable to the previous user(s) of the terminal as well).
Option 0: Portable physical storage
One way to have your data so that you can access it from "any computer" is to not rely on the network at all, but rather to carry a high-capacity MicroSD card (and USB adapter) around with you (you'll probably want to format the card with a widely-understood filesystem like FAT32 instead of NTFS or HFS+ or ext4, which are only understood by some of the major operating systems, but not all).
Here is some example hardware:
Almost every computer these days has either a microSD slot or a USB port, while some computers are not connected to the network. This also means that you don't have to rely on someone else to manage servers that keep your data available all the time.
Note that going the microSD route doesn't remove the caveat about needing to trust the client workstation you're using, and it has another consideration:
You'd be responsible for your own backup in the case of hardware failure. You're responsible for your own backup in the case of online storage too, of course -- but the better online companies are probably better equipped than most of us to deal with hardware failure. OTOH, they're also susceptible to some data loss scenarios that we aren't as individual humans (e.g. the company might go bankrupt, or get bought by a competitor who wants to terminate the service, or have a malicious employee who decides to take revenge). Backup of a MicroSD card isn't particularly hard, though: just get a USB stick that's the same size, and regularly duplicate the contents of the MicroSD card to the USB stick.
One last consideration is storage size -- MicroSD cards are currently limited to 32GB or 64GB. If you have significantly more data than that, this approach might not be possible, or you might need to switch to a USB hard disk, which would limit your ability to use the data on computers that don't have a USB port (such as some smartphones).
Option 1: Proprietary service providers
If you don't think this portable physical storage option is the right choice for you, here are a couple proprietary service providers who offer some flavor of "cloud" storage while claiming to not look at the contents of your data:
I'm not particularly happy with either of those, though, in part because the local client software they want you to run is proprietary, so there's no way to verify that they are actually unable to access the contents of your data. But i'd be a lot happier with either wuala or spideroak than i would be with google drive, dropbox, or iCloud.
Option 2: What i really want
I'm much more excited about the network-accessible, free-software, privacy-sensitive network-based storage tool known as git-annex assistant. The project is spearheaded by Joey Hess, who is one of the most skilled and thoughtful software developers i know of.
"assistant" (and git-annex, from which it derives) has the advantage of being pretty agnostic about the backend service (many plugins for many different cloud providers) and allows you to encrypt your data locally before sending it to the remote provider. This also means you can put your encrypted data in more than one provider, so that if one of the providers fails for some reason, you can be relatively sure that you have another copy available.
But "assistant" won't be ready for Windows or Android for several months (builds are available for Linux and Mac OS X now), so i don't know if it meets the criterion for "accessible from any computer". And, of course, even with the encryption capabilities, the old caveat about needing to trust the local client machine still applies.


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I think this forum is singularly responsible for the global Mobley shortage
All the Mobley needs is a source of 12 volt power. Ebay and Amazon have numerous AC, 12 volt and USB custom adapters available. It's become a regular cottage industry.Another option is to get the USB power cord and run it from a USB phone charger plug-in cube, a USB port on a computer or a USB pocket battery like you'd use to charge a cell phone.
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I just tried to order - AT&T is out of Mobleys - again. I will keep trying - too good of a deal to pass up. Thanks for all the info on this!
Same here.
Hi Bob TThe Mobley requires ATT Connected Car Unlimited Plan which is only available in the U.S. currently. Seehttps://www.att.com/devices/zte/mobley.html#sku=sku7700323
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