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In the late 1830s Adolphe Sax created an instrument which could complement the sonorities of brasses, woodwinds, and strings in an orchestral ensemble. Besides providing a unique timbre, the instrument was strong enough to sound with a chorus of brasses and soft enough to blend with a group of strings and woodwinds. Soon many musicians began to praise the capabilities of Sax's instrument, the saxophone. Its sound could easily swell and diminish, and its tone could mimic a variety of other instruments from a sonorous pipe organ to a plaintive human voice. Despite such flexibility, this first saxophone, the bass saxophone, was thought best suited for slow lyrical passages in orchestral music either as a solo voice or as harmonic support. Initially, musicians and composers considered the saxophone "inappropriate for the energetic and brilliant effects of military music." However, with the introduction of new members of the saxophone family, the instrument became a standard part of military bands and jazz bands, as well as contemporary ensembles and orchestras.
For over a century the saxophone has lent its voice well to the musical artistry of many styles and periods. "Artistry lies in the attention to detail," says Joseph Lulloff. In the turn of a phrase, the stroke of a brush, the sounding of a note, the fine details of execution give rise to a spectrum of human expression. In the art of Maria Ruggiero one sees distinctive shapes and blended lines. She captures in color the energy of sound. In the performances of Joseph Lulloff and Philip Hosford one hears a full range of emotion, from intense passion to quiet reflection. These recordings bring to life the music of composers who infused fine details of content and form into their work. In all the details of these interpretations, enjoy the artistry!
The compositions of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) were influenced by various types of music and musicians. By his early teens he was familiar with music of the Paris theater, as well as works by Stravinsky and Schoenberg. In 1915 Poulenc began studying with Spanish pianist Ricardo Vies, and he applied his teacher's unique pedaling techniques not only to his playing but also to his composing. The simplicity and clarity of Poulenc's music was partly influenced by his association with Satie and the other members of Les Six (Auric, Durey, Tailleferre, Honegger, and Milhaud). Whether writing for large or small ensembles, vocal or instrumental media, Poulenc strove for simple, expressive, and pleasing melodies. Although he thought his music was not particularly innovative harmonically, he did use chord structures and progressions from other composers to complement the beauty of his melodies. The Sonata for oboe and piano (1962), dedicated to the memory of Serge Prokofiev, is the last composition Poulenc completed before his death. He intended to write a cycle of sonatas for wind instruments, and he had already finished ones for flute and clarinet. Poulenc structured the Oboe Sonata on a slow-fast-slow pattern of movements in contrast to the more traditional fast-slow-fast pattern. The first movement, "lgie," juxtaposes a child-like theme with a more passionate aria-like melody and shifts between major and minor tonalities. "Scherzo" begins as a lively jig whose motives pass quickly between saxophone and piano. A lyrical passage featuring the piano interrupts the momentum, but the jig returns to finish the movement in a flurry. Poulenc described "Dploration" as "a sort of liturgical chant," and the writing in this movement recalls some of his religious compositions. The melodies here are plaintive and pensive in character, although there is brief reference to the child-like tune of the first movement. The piece in its entirety seems to capture the moods and passions of a human life from birth to death.
American composer and teacher Paul Cooper (b. 1926) studied at the University of Southern California under the guidance of Ingolf Dahl, Ernest Kanitz, Roger Sessions, and Halsey Stevens. In 1953 he earned a Fulbright Fellowship that allowed him to study at the Paris Conservatory with Nadia Boulanger. After receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1955, he taught at the University of Michigan and later at the University of Cincinnati. In 1974 he was appointed professor of music and composer-in residence at the newly established Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Cooper has won awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Rackham foundations. Four Impromptus (1983) is the second of three pieces Cooper has written for solo saxophone with orchestra or piano. It was commissioned by Louisa Sarofim for saxophonist Laura Hunter and pianist Brian Connelly. Each movement demands lyrical and technical artistry as the saxophone and piano timbres alternately blend and contrast in non-tonal harmonies. Cooper dedicates each impromptu to a different composer whose initials appear at the end of each movement. The first impromptu bears the inscription "I.N.I.S." ("In Nomine Igor Stravinsky"). The following impromptus are dedicated to Benjamin Britten, Roberto Gerhard, and Nadia Boulanger. Cooper added these inscriptions after the music was composed to indicate sources of his inspiration rather than to describe the stylistic aspects of each movement.
Alfred Desenclos (1912-1971) began his studies at the Roubaix Conservatory and continued them at the Paris Conservatory where he received the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1942. Consequently, he served as director of the Roubaix Conservatory from 1943 until 1950. Desenclos did not try to emulate a particular style or school of composition but rather searched for a personal voice which reflected his sensibility and intelligence. He wrote several chamber and orchestral works, as well as a requiem mass. His music for saxophone includes Prlude, Cadence, et Finale and Quatour de saxophones. In the year that it was written, Prlude, Cadence, et Finale (1956) served as a challenging examination piece for saxophonists at the Paris Conservatory. The three movements are performed without break and demand virtuosic solo and ensemble playing from both saxophonist and pianist. Desenclos begins the "Prlude" with an arpeggio motive which he develops in various ways before eliding it with a lyrical theme introduced by the piano. This romantic theme, sometimes plaintive and sometimes passionate, recurs throughout the piece. The "Cadence" displays the lyricism and agility of the saxophone as Desenclos expands and blends the preceding motives. The final note of the saxophone cadenza elides with the rhythmic theme of the "Finale" which explodes from the piano. The third and final movement features the piano in an extended solo which combines aspects of the three main motives. The saxophone and piano voices become intertwined as well, and although the pace sometimes relaxes, both instruments maintain the musical intensity and virtuosity through the culminating unison statement.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) earned acclaim in England and the world for his activities as performer, composer, scholar, and conductor. As a child he studied piano, violin, organ, and viola. However, composition became an important means of expression despite comments that "he was so hopelessly bad at it" in his early years of development. In struggling to find his creative voice, Vaughan Williams turned to native resources of the English folksong and music of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Their influence can be heard in the purity of his melodic writing and the simplicity of his harmonic language. Vaughan Williams believed that music was for all people, and he was eager to write for occasions great and small. Throughout his life he participated in numerous festivals and music societies while also maintaining a busy schedule as composer, lecturer, and teacher. Vaughan Williams collected over 800 folksongs and variants during his life, and many of these he arranged for vocal and instrumental ensembles. He also composed new works based on songs he heard. The Six Studies in English Folksong (1926) are not folksong transcriptions, but their inspiration can be traced to tunes he collected: (i) Lovely on the Water, (ii) Spurn Point, (iii) She Borrowed Some of her Mother's Gold, (iv) The Lady and the Dragoon, (v) Van Diemen's Land, and (vi) As I Walked over London Bridge. Vaughan Williams wrote these pieces for cello and piano and later arranged them for violin, viola, and clarinet. This version for saxophone and piano was transcribed by Joseph Lulloff.
Charles Ruggiero (b. 1947) holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and Michigan State University. Currently he is professor of music at Michigan State University, where he has taught music theory and composition since 1973. Although his compositional style is eclectic, much of Ruggiero's music reflects his lifelong interest in jazz. He is active as a jazz drummer and has performed with many notable artists, including several of America's leading jazz figures. As a composer Ruggiero is the recipient of numerous grants and commissions, including a 1987-88 National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Grant and several ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) Special Awards. His music has been performed in Japan, South Korea, and throughout North America. Two of Ruggiero's compositions for saxophone, Interplay and Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Orchestra, were written for Joseph Lulloff. Interplay (1988), for soprano saxophone and piano, was written as part of a 1987-89 National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Project sponsored by Tulane University. The title Interplay refers to the sometimes playful, sometimes combative, interactions that occur between the saxophone and piano parts throughout the composition, but especially in the work's outer movements. In the first and second movements of Interplay, two essentially distinct sets of musical materials are presented; in the third movement these two sets of materials are synthesized and transformed. The use, in the first two movements, of certain stylistic models and materials borrowed from modern jazz is confirmed in the final movement as it departs from its opening style and moves toward a blatantly boppish idiom. Organized into seven main sections, "Octaves" begins and ends with a juxtaposition of perfect and augmented octaves. In the second and the sixth sections, perfect octaves are used prominently in the eighteenth-century derived accompaniment figures of the piano part. The classical keyboard style of these two sections serves as a foil to the volatile jazz "comping" that dominates the middle of the movement. "Night Song" is an atmospheric "after-hours tune" in a harmonic style that is more explicitly tonal than that of "Octaves." Jazz-like pitch and timbre inflections, which for the most part are absent from the first movement, are introduced in "Night Song" and then are used more prominently in "Departures." The form of "Departures" is the result of a process in which tempos, textures, repetitive figurations, and harmonic progressions are established and then negated in ways so as to set up arrival points at new musical territories. "Departures" might be thought of as a voyage that ultimately takes the listener back to the two primary musical environments out of which were generated the materials of the first two movements: namely, the milieu of modern jazz and that of the neoclassic music of Igor Stravinsky. (The notes for Interplay were adapted from those of the composer. Ruggiero participated in the recording session of the work at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.)
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F. Poulenc: Sonata for Oboe and Piano, transcribed by Joseph Lulloff (1962)
The honors and praises bestowed on Joseph Lulloff are many. Audiences and students throughout the world recognize his accomplishments in both classical and jazz idioms. Each year he gives numerous solo performances with student and faculty ensembles, as well as with professional orchestras and artists. His teaching extends beyond his university duties to music camps and clinics for students of all ages. Lulloff received his B.M. and M.M. degrees in saxophone performance from Michigan State University where he studied with James Forger. After serving as assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Illinois, he returned to Michigan State to assume the position of Professor of Saxophone and Jazz Studies. His dedication to teaching earned him the prestigious Teacher/Scholar Award from MSU, and many of his students have received teaching and performing positions throughout the United States. Energy, intensity, and artistry characterize all of Lulloff's performances, from jam sessions to classical concerts.
Early in his career he presented his New York debut at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Success at the Pro Musicis International Music Competition took him to New York again, in addition to Boston, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, for solo recitals and master classes. Lulloff performs frequently as saxophonist with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Flint (MI) Symphony Orchestra, and the Michigan Ragtime Orchestra. These and numerous other groups have showcased his talents in many cities. Lulloff's music has reached international audiences as well. He presented solo recitals at World Saxophone Congresses in Tokyo and Nuremberg, and he also performed in Japan with jazz pianist Phil Strange. As a guest artist with the Prism Saxophone Quartet, he performed soprano saxophone during their 1995 South American tour. Philip Hosford has won acclaim around the world for his exciting and innovative performances. His interests in "off-the-beaten-track" programming ideas are appreciated by many people. A reviewer for the Washington Post recently wrote, "The piano repertoire can always do with a few more musical chestnuts, and Hosford appeared to have unearthed a couple that have all the right ingredients...He lavished more than sufficient technique and intelligence to make this program a memorable one." Hosford received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland where he studied with Thomas Schumacher. He earned his M.M. in piano performance at the Peabody Institute under the guidance of Ellen Mack. His other teachers have included Stewart L. Gordon, Roy Hamlin Johnson, and Audrey Bart Brown. Hosford served on the piano faculties of Michigan State University and the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, as well as the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC, during summer sessions.
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Roald Hoffmann
The Alchemical Fire
The first of the three men whose talents joined in the development
of European porcelain was Augustus the Strong, the Elector of Saxony
and King of Poland, who was besotted by Chinese porcelain. Serving
him was Ehrenfried Walter von Tschirnhaus, an aristocratic natural
philosopher and polymath with a practical bent. He wrote on
mathematics, but also learned how to make soft-paste porcelain in
France and built giant burning-lenses that reached the highest
temperatures yet observed.
The third man was Johann Friedrich Böttger, a young alchemist
in the classical vein, who believed in the central philosophy of
alchemy (and chemistry), that of essential transformation. He was
also a very good, practiced chemist, familiar with metallurgical
techniques and the arts of pharmacy. To be an alchemist at this time
was a precarious profession, a calling that required great political
skill. To gain patronage, one had to promise gold or medical cures.
To keep it, one had to practice, with refinement and skill, the art
of eternal, creative procrastination: always assuring more, always
asking for more. No wonder alchemists were always on the move! As in
the story of the goose that laid golden eggs—were the
alchemist to succeed, his patron would not want to lose such an
economic force—Augustus imprisoned Böttger in the
Saxonian capital of Dresden. The incarceration was, in part,
punishment for the failure to produce gold, in part, security of the
supply, should Böttger succeed.
At stake was not just Augustus's displeasure. Figure 3 is a
reproduction of a broadside, a contemporary account of what happened
to a Neapolitan alchemist, Count Domenico Emanuele Cajetano, who was
found cheating. He was hanged. Augustus's mien—you can
see why he was called "the Strong"—is captured in a
statuette of the King, made in Böttger's lifetime from a
marvelous red stoneware the alchemist labored to perfect.
Tschirnhaus convinced Augustus to put Böttger to the task of
making "white gold," or porcelain. It took only two years
to do so, when so many other attempts had failed, because of a
felicitous conjunction of materials and people. First, there were
nearby deposits of kaolin that were known to Tschirnhaus. This
Saxonian clay lacked the traces of potash mica that lent plasticity
to its Chinese counterpart and allowed Eastern potters to experiment
with more curvaceous forms. Still, this clay and no other was the
essence of porcelain. Next, Böttger could build kilns, in them
"the gehennical fire," that could reach the requisite high
temperatures. And finally, talent to decorate the porcelain existed
among the artists at Augustus's Dresden court. Figure 4 shows
a Meissen vase that imitates Japanese Arita porcelain
(left); in time unique decorative modes and figurines
(right) were elaborated.
But most of all, the success of the project was due to the careful
experimentation of the alchemist-turned-industrial-chemist. Set on
his way by Tschirnhaus (who died in 1708), Böttger first made
true, white porcelain in 1709 at the age of 27. In 1710 the
porcelain manufactory moved 15 miles down the Elbe River to the city
of Meissen and became known by that name. By 1713 it was an economic success.
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History: While they were both in the cabinet, under King Kamehameha V, American politicians John Mott-Smith and Charles Coffin Harris convinced the legislature to fund a hotel. It first opened in 1872. The hotel was converted to a YMCA in 1917 and used by the military in World War I. In 1926 the termite-infested building was finally torn down, and a new one designed in Spanish mission style by Lincoln Rogers of the firm Emory & Webb.
The Hawai'i State Art Museum is dedicated to presenting the largest and finest collection of work by Hawaii artists. The museum honors and inspires artistic excellence and promotes education andcultural enrichment.The Hawai'i State Art Museum marks a milestone for the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts (SFCA) and the fulfillment of a 35-year dream for a principal venue where the public can view a large selection from the SFCA's Art in Public Places Collection.In 1968, Hawai'i leaders and civic planners recognized the Capital District's unique value as the seat of Hawai'i government, its architectural dignity and beauty, and its rich history and culture.They recommended the acquisition of the historic, Spanish-Mission style YMCA building for a gallery, restaurant,government offices and as a focal point for cultural activities.The State of Hawai'i acquired the building in December 2000 and dedicated the second floor with its grand lobby, high ceilings, and architectural accents for the Hawai'i State Art Museum. Renovations began in November 2001 and the museum opened to the public on November 3, 2002
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Why Shorter Can Be Better on the Fairway. Really.
A veteran golfer stops trying to crush his drives and finds (some) peace
It has taken me far too long to realize that shorter is better, at least for me. I'm not talking about my height, which remains close to 6 feet despite some shrinkage over the years. I'm referring to my drives when I play golf, which I do frequently now that I'm fully retired and wintering in the sunny South.
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I was never particularly long, though I could occasionally drive the ball 230 or 240 yards, and would be disappointed if my drives didn't at least exceed the 200-yard mark. I could reach most par-four holes with a driver and iron. (This was before the proliferation of hybrid clubs and super-long par fours.)
Not until I was well into my 60s did par-four holes require a fairway wood for the second shot, and occasionally a third shot with a very short iron as well. And whereas I had usually played from the back tees at my course, I more often than not began to play from the men's front tees—an option for golfers over 70—set between the back tees and some much farther forward for women.
An Elusive Goal
As my distance continued to diminish, I found myself shopping around more frequently for new drivers and balls, enticed by ads in various golf magazines for the latest equipment that would supposedly increase my yardage by considerable amounts. Sadly, the promised gains seldom materialized.
Distressed, I next set out to recapture lost yardage with a rigorous workout routine under the guidance of a personal trainer in a nearby gym. I lifted weights, pulled long and hard on rowing machines, speed-walked on treadmills, struggled with devilish devices designed to strengthen my back and leg muscles, stretched and stretched, performed assorted balancing maneuvers and attempted, not always successfully, an assortment of sit-ups, push-ups and the like, always under my trainer's watchful eye.
The upshot of these considerable labors was little discernible change in the length of my drives and the arrival of an annoying new crick in an already-creaky neck that continues to this day. (My working out now consists of little more than some mild stretching done at home and mostly walking with a push cart for the bag on the course, which mercifully is pretty flat.)
Acts of Violence
Such was my mounting frustration that, unconsciously I am sure, my swings became increasingly—for lack of a better word—violent. This, too, failed to produce any additional yardage, but I did strain my back more regularly and would often lose my balance embarrassingly at the finish of a swing. Not coincidentally, my shots grew less and less accurate, and my handicap, which had been in the single digits well into my 60s, climbed into the high teens.
I became deeply discouraged. My enjoyment of golf, a lifelong pleasure, was such that to abandon the sport was not an option. So, and it was a more difficult decision than one might assume, I opted to accept my fate: I would yield to the years and content myself with ever-shorter, but hopefully more accurate, shots.
As an avid reader of the late Harvey Penick's sage instruction books, I also determined to spend most of my practice time working on my short game and putting. Mr. Penick observed that older golfers often spend far too many practice hours trying to bang out long shots on the range while neglecting the short game. They should do the reverse, he advised, because the short game is the one area where they can more equally compete with their stronger, longer juniors.
The Long and Short of It
As a result of my new approach, after a long climb my scores, though not yet my handicap, have edged down a very little. My short approach shots on par fours no longer accessible to me in two strokes are often closer to the hole, and my putting seems steadier.
I realize that all of this amounts to no more than a rear-guard action against the passing years. Indeed, I'm already planning my next move. I will bury whatever pride I still possess and move up from the over-70 tees to the women's tees. My friend and neighbor Tim Street, who hopes soon to enter the Guinness record book for shooting his age or less more than 1,000 times, has already done so, and in his late 80s he still enjoys the game.
A half-decade younger than Tim, I soon will follow him and, in the process, continue enjoying the game as well.
And however short I may become and however high my handicap, I'll try to keep in mind advice I recently got from a slightly senior octogenarian who occasionally plays way up front: "It's a lot better to be looking down at the divots than up at the divots."
Mr. Malabre, a former Wall Street Journal editor and columnist, retired in 1994. For a few years afterward, his handicap went down, but then began a long, slow climb. He plays mostly at the venerable Yeamans Hall course in Charleston, S.C. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Desjarlais (formerly Kern) is a force of energy, solely overseeing the restaurant operations at Bresca while maintaining an air of calm authority. In 2007, she opened the intimate five-table restaurant, which is vastly different from most of her previous culinary background. Previously she held executive roles, largely as a pastry chef, overseeing the operations of multi-million-dollar restaurants in Aspen, Colorado, and Las Vegas.
Bresca is a chance for Desjarlais to determine her own style. She describes the menu as inspired by the French Riviera, embracing influences from the south of France, Italy, and Spain, where the cuisines tend to "all morph together." While the menu weighs heavily on the Italian side, Desjarlais says she is always looking to try new things, while being mindful of clientele favorites and maintaining a menu with a sense of harmony.
Desjarlais's pasta options, which can be enjoyed as either an appetizer or a main dish, include Roman gnocchi — pasta dumplings with charred tomatoes, basil, goat butter, and Parmesan cheese. This, like much of Bresca's cuisine "appears more simplistic than it is," says Desjarlais. "To make the batter and get the density right and then they're pan-seared in olive oil and finished in the oven — there's a lot of love that goes into them."
And soon Desjarlais will have a new outlet for her creative offerings. In partnership with her husband, Erik Desjarlais, the executive chef and owner of French restaurant Evangeline, she will open 12 Seats, a "restaurant within a restaurant" located in the Bresca space. The new endeavor will be a 12-course meal for 12 people for a $120, with a 12-course wine flight available as well. Guests will be seated together at one large table on the last Sunday of every month, beginning October 25. The menu will change each month to include courses that Desjarlais says she hopes will "tell a story ... without becoming too intellectualized."
Twelve Seats is not only an opportunity for the pair to work together, but it also allows them to break away from some of the confines that go along with restaurant ownership. "There's a battle between being a restaurant owner and chef because to operate your business you have to appeal in certain respects to the larger mass," she says. "At 12 Seats we're not trying to appeal to the masses, there are no choices, it's a set menu, but it's not ego-dishes either. It's not Evangeline or Bresca dishes, so we can take off the personas and let go of our customer base."
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The 2012 self-titled debut album from the Welsh all-boys choir Only Boys Aloud is a reverent, lushly produced work that nicely showcases the 2012 Britain's Got Talent contestants. Although they finished third on Britain's Got Talent, Only Boys Aloud earned the ardor of the fans of the show. The public also appreciated that the choir, created and led by Only Men Aloud mastermind Tim Rhys-Evans, was not simply a musical phenomena, but also a civic organization designed to keep its young singers off the streets and out of trouble while also broadening their horizons. Prior to being on Britain's Got Talent, the choir had already garnered a following in Wales through its various performances, and even appeared on a Christmas album with Only Men Aloud in 2011. Rhys-Evans and the choir bring all of this experience and goodwill to bear on this debut. Here, the choir performs various traditional songs culled from Welsh choral repertoire, as well as some choice pop standards and holiday songs. Featured here are the choir's takes on such songs as the Welsh compositions "Calon Lân" and "Sospan Foch," Journey's "Don't Stop Believing," the contemporary worship standard "You Raise Me Up," and even John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)." This is an uplifting album that should appeal to fans who championed Only Boys Aloud on Britain's Got Talent, or any fan of well-executed boys' choral music. ~ Matt Collar


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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has come up with a vivid new way to express his contention that the nation is spending way too much money it doesnt have.
McConnell includes the tweaks in his opening remarks on the Senate floor on the 51st day that President Obama has been in office.
In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus, McConnell says. To put that in perspective, thats about $24 billion a day, or about $1 billion an hourmost of it borrowed. Theres simply no question: government spending has spun out of control.
The math: 50 days times 24 hours equals 1,200 hours. 1,200 times 1 billion equals 1.2 trillion (a thousand billions is a trillion).
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First it was email spam, then it was blog comment spam. After that came trackback-spam.
Now we have guestbook spam.
This (obsolete) guestbook was setup a couple of years ago when I hosted a project at SourceForge.
It's been filled with spam since then, random links and adverts, presumably via some kind of automated bot.
I've seen a lot of spam solutions for blogs, wordpress, movable type, etc. But nothing anti-spammy for guestbooks or random online scripts.
It seems a generic solution would be ideal, much better than my hacking on a guestbook script, then a voting script, then a form-mail script.
Something like CGI::AntiSpam which would examine all the submitted fields and apply a test maybe?
For the moment I'm just gonna hack all guestbooks I control to require that data be approved, otherwise it's hidden... A perfect thing to do on a busy working day ;)
Seems to be suffering again, the recentlog has been blank for most of the day.
I've lost my main account, and I'd greatly appreciate being certified if you've known me or used anything I've written.
Whilst my previous rating of Master was probably inflated it'd be nice to be able to post comments to articles ..
In the dim and distant past I even posted articles myself! I've been working on optimizing code via selecting GCC compilation options via Genetic algorithms, which I'm tempted to write about. (Hardly original, but interesting regardless).
Given Advogato's problems seems like a perfect time for somebody to setup an alternate site - there's updated code from R. Steven Rainwater .... Just a thought.
To make this latter point more interesting - I had to recreate my account today. Two disappearing accounts???
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A U.K. government inquiry investigating Britain's involvement in the Iraq War may want to take testimony from U.S. citizens, a British government official has confirmed to NEWSWEEK. The U.K. investigation, which began public hearings late last month, is examining why the British government decided to participate in the operation to oust Saddam Hussein. The inquiry's mandate (http://www.iraqinquiry.org.uk/about.aspx) includes examining how the war was launched and conducted, what happened when the initial military operation ended, and whether there are "lessons that can be learned." In public testimony so far, U.K. notablesincluding then-prime minister Tony Blair's former national-security adviser and a former U.K. ambassador in Washingtonhave provided new details about how George W. Bush's fixation with Saddam surfaced only days after the 9/11 attacks. Former U.K. officials have also described how feuding among Bush administration factions over Iraq was so intense that British officials sometimes had to inform Washington contacts about what their rivals in the U.S. government were up to.


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(What is being described is a typical aktion by anEinsatzgruppewhich operated throughout Eastern Europe implementing the Final Solution'. M.L.)The young Rabbi of Chorostkow, Rappaport, came over to my fayher who was his friend and suggests that everyone say Vidui (confessions before death). I did not let my father go and he listened to me. We are not dying yet, I told him and I believed it. I already had the temptation to struggle with death. I thought about it as I found myself in the Kopichinitser square on April 15, 1943. My mind was working how do I get away from here .
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[QUOTE=Labs R Us;1089279]Haven't you heard that whatever happens in Casey Illinois, stays in Casey Illinois? QUOTE]
Don't forget that there will be cameras wandering around.
The wetland is beautiful and ready for dogs. No problem getting down to the main mound. So there you have it--nice water and beautiful weather forcasted.
I'm thinking positive and ready for some great fun, weather and training. If I stay home, we wll still be walking on water instead of swimmimg in it.
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The hotel is on exit 129 on I-70 EAST, Casey Illinois.
We will meet at the Mc Donalds right across from the hotel and then caravan down.
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A new report confirms what we've suspected all along: Kim Kardashian cannot get enough balls.
Fried rice balls, that is, as the latest In Touch Weekly claims the pregnant reality star has been dumped by Kanye West because she cannot... stop... eating.
On March 17, a patron at South City Kitchen in Atlanta says Kim chowed down greasy chicken and waffles, along with smashed bliss potatoes, collard greens and mac and cheese.
"She hasn't just gained 20 pounds like she claims," a friend tells the tabloid. "She'd already gained 45 to 50 when she still had four months to go!"
Kim's weight has been the subject of the paparazzi for weeks, causing Helena Christensen to recently come out in defense of Kardashian.
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Kardashian, however, has denied this assertion, saying in a recent interview that West loves her growing body.
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Consumer advocates warn of Packers playoff scams
Scammers look for ticket bar codes posted on social media sites to replicate, resell
Judging by social media, there are numerous Green Bay Packers fans enjoying the opportunity to gloat about the team's NFC North-clinching victory on Sunday over the Chicago Bears. However, consumer advocates are warning that celebration should not include posting photos of playoff tickets to Sunday's upcoming matchup with the San Francisco 49ers.
"Whenever there's a high demand for something, it's an area that's pretty ripe for scams," said Kimberly Hazen, who runs the Southwest Chapter of the Wisconsin Better Business Bureau. She limited her taunting of her father, a Bears fan, to a text message Sunday, but worries specifically about what can happen when scammers see pictures of playoff seats.
"Scammers will actually scour social media sites to look for bar codes of tickets they can then copy," she said. "If you brag about it, take pictures of your ticket, (and post) 'Yeah, I'm going to the game,' and you put it on Facebook or some other social site, you're exposing a bar code, which scammers can lift to reproduce the ticket."
Hazen said the re-sale business for sports and entertainment tickets is a $10 billion per year industry and leads to hundreds of consumer complaints every year. For all the reputable ticket vendors and professional brokers, she said there are also people willing to break the law to make money.
"You should work with a reputable seller and run a (background) check on who you're buying your tickets from," she said. "The demand for these tickets is so high, people are willing to pay a ton of money. They're willing to take chances."
Hazen reminded consumers that actual, legitimate playoff tickets have official logos on them, come on sturdy paper stock and, as mentioned, have bar codes. Consumers should also compare seats from tickets to the seat map on the team's website to ensure they actually exist.
"The good news is we're in the playoffs. The bad news is it's the time people scam for tickets," Hazen said. "(We) go from the rational part of our brain to the emotional hysteria and we want to stay rational. Still do your homework, still check out the re-seller."
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"Twilight War: The Folly of U.S. Space Dominance" is the subject of a lecture by author and journalist Mike Moore scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Moore has written many articles on national security, conflict resolution, nuclear weapons and proliferation, and space weaponry. In his new book, which shares the title of his talk, Moore argues that the United States provokes conflict when it speaks of deploying weapons in space, and that the country must radically rethink its strategy.
Moore is a research fellow at the Independent Institute, an Oakland, Calif.-based libertarian think tank that sponsors studies of major political, social, economic, legal, environmental and foreign policy issues. He is the former editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and of Quill, the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists, as well as a former newspaper reporter.
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I have never done this and would like the low-down on how it works. I have the little Sherpa thinger to put the puppy in. So here are some questions...
1. Do I just tote the little gal through TSA? (I have artificial knees and set the alarms off and have to get patted down and so puppy and I will likely be momentarily separated.)
2. Do they run the puppy through x-ray... or do I take puppy out of bag and let them grope puppy and me and x-ray the bag.
3. Any health certificates or anything necessary (going from WA to NV) or any proof of ownership?
4. Is there any vet-approved puppy-Xanax or equivalent to help pup snooze through the excitement?
5. I think I'm flying Alaska Airlines but my understanding is that most airlines allow puppies if their in these Sherpa bags and "fit under the seat" though I have to tell you... the way they build these seats nowadays... I can't get my purse under the seat in front of me.
6. Puppy will be about 6.5 weeks old when all of this goes down.
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I read Robots in Disguise Vol. 5 on Friday.
Hard as it is to believe, both ongoing TF titles just keep getting better and better. If they continue at this rate, both will make Watchmen look like Youngblood by issue #50.
I've got a question I'd like some input on from anyone else reading regarding Soundwave.
So, chronologically, the first time we ever see Soundwave, he's on the streets, discovered by Ravage, Buzzsaw, and Laserbeak. He's being bombarded by information that he can't sort out--clearly he's what's been called an outlier in previous issues. The poor guy doesn't even know his name or where he came from.
With Ravage's help, he manages to control his abilities, and finds his way into Ratbat's employ, then into the Decepticons. He first meets Shockwave in person about the time that Shockwave joins the Decepticons and is tasked with building a combiner. And hates him immediately, blaming this on his inability to sense his thoughts. Shockwave seems a bit surprised to meet a guy whose name also ends in "wave."
Obviously, this isn't the question. However, we see that Shockwave, post-empurata, is experimenting on basically as many homeless Cybertronians as possible. We already know he had an interest in outliers prior to even his first meeting with Orion Pax. And the "shadowplay" procedure might have made him nastier, but he was already a scheming SOB prior to it.
So what I'm asking, was Soundwave a result of an earlier experiment by Shockwave, either on a lower-class outlier or as an attempt to artificially create an outlier? I'm really wondering if Soundwave had had a previous life, likely under a different name, until Shockwave kidnapped him, did something to him to create or augment his powers, and he somehow wound up on the street (possibly being dumped as a failure, since pre-empurata Shockwave probably wouldn't have been into the whole "corpses hanging from the ceiling" shtick). Think about it. After the flashback to his meeting with Ravage, the future cassettes try to help him figure out his name, and the only thing he can think of is part of the name of the guy responsible for his plight, and they all just figure it was his own name and the first part must've been "sound" because of his powers. Also, there's got to be a reason, story-wise, that he's originally shown with a mouth, but is wearing a mask by the time of his first encounter with Shockwave; that minor change to his face could be enough to keep Shockwave from identifying him. So Soundwave's hatred could be a result of a buried memory of what happened to him at Shockwave's hands, not because of his inability to read Shockwave's mind.


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Knee deep mud, jungle and lots of ants
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So i ended up being convinced (tho not very hard mind you) to stay in Cartagena till Thursday and party; however by Thursday i had decided i had to make a move or i was never going to as days spent sunbaking by the pool, going out clubbing and then sitting on the rooftop terrance till after sunrise just seem to never end.
After another such night i managed to catch the 9am bus to Taganga, however instead of being a 5 hour bus ride the driver decided to go all the way to Tyrona Park first before dropping us off which added and extra hour onto our trip and meant we were starving by the time we arrived.
I met some really cool American guys who ended up in the same room as me (score 1 for eye candy) and 3 Aussies that were staying at another hostel
Taganga is a really cool little beach town 5km from Santa Marta with a much more chill vibe. The beaches are good, the people friendly and bars and clubs open every night.
Sensations is the local club which is open every night of the week but especially goes off on a Wed and Thursday night for some reason.
Pooja (an American) i met it La Paz, Bolivia had made it up to Colombia and messaged me to catchup.
We met up at a Mexican restaurant in Santa Marta and it was nice to catchup with a familiar face and spend a girly day catching up on the goss and doing some much needed clothes shopping.
She was heading to Tyrona Park for 2 nights and invited me to come. Going camping on your own isn't much fun so i readily accepted.
The next day we were on a chicken bus from Santa Marta to Tyrona Park.
We had been told not to bring hiking shoes as the park was really muddy and that they would get ruined.
Really muddy was an understatement as most of the treck into the camp sites was knee deep mud and so we pretty much walked the whole 2 hours barefoot. It was a really fun and hilarious walk in and we were glad we had only brought light day packs.
Our camp site was 300 (Colombian) meters from the beach and we rented a couple of hammocks in an open air reed hut. The owner told us we wouldn't need nets as there was no mosquito's; we were rather skeptical at this however we didn't get bitten once!
By the time we had got ourselves sorted dusk was falling and it started to rain. Dinner was some wafer biscuits and an apple as we wernt really hungry and then we turned in for an early night.
The hammock was really comfortable and we were well rested when we awoke the next morning. The weather was really great; hot, sunny and not many clouds so we packed a day bad and headed down to the beach.
The beach where we were staying has a strong undertow and many people have drowned but it was only a short 30 minute or so walk down to the next main bay beach that was good for swimming
Tyrona Park is like something out of Jurassic Park: rain forest and then then when you walk out onto that beach.... its hard to explain but its a massive expanse of beach edged by massive white rocks and coconut trees.
After a good day at the beach we decided to get dinner at the campsite 'restaurant' where i got a surprisingly good fish dinner for $12,000 COP and played cards with some other backpackers also staying at the site.
One trek through the mud was enough so we rented horses to take us back out of the park for $16,000 COP which really was a good idea.
On the way in we had spent so much time looking at our feet and where we were stepping that we missed the beauty of the park and riding the horse allowed us a chance to appreciate it beauty before we left.
I saw a number of hawks & lots of butterflies, sadly no monkeys or toucans tho...
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Gluten Sensitivity Diagnosis is Accepted
"The Gluten Effect" was a combined labor of love and passionate mission. As clinicians we literally stumbled upon gluten 15 years ago as we analyzed patients for food reactions. As more and more patients were discovered to be sensitive we were literally amazed at the panoply of reactions associated with these supposed "innocent" and "healthy" grains.
We were initially taken aback that no one else seemed to be discussing this. Our gluten sensitive patients, for the most part, were not celiac sufferers. But they were certainly reacting to gluten and it was affecting them from their digestive tract to their nervous system to their hormonal balance to their joints. Were we hallucinating these reactions? Was there some placebo affect occurring?
I still remember so clearly discussing gluten with a mentor of mine about 8 years ago. He is a highly respected individual in the field of functional medicine and positively brilliant. I somewhat shyly proposed that he investigate gluten and gave a brief overview what I and my team were experiencing clinically. Ever the gracious gentleman, he was polite and attentive but I could tell from his reaction that he didn't consider gluten to be a legitimate health issue.
Yet barely three years after that meeting he spoke for the first time about gluten at a national conference. Not that I needed his blessing, but if felt good to have someone I so respected begin to see what I was seeing.
About 2 ½ years ago while in the throes of writing "The Gluten Effect" with my co-author, we began to feel like renegades as we came to the realization that despite all the scientific research that we had to hand that supported our work, most of our fellow clinicians were completely unaware of it.
We braced ourselves for some disbelief and opposition.
About that same time I spoke to a leader of a national celiac group. This individual is absolutely passionate about educating Americans about celiac disease and decreasing the amount of time that it takes to receive a diagnosis. But when I discussed gluten sensitivity with her, she really had absolutely no information about it.
A mere year later she was completely on board due to some personal experiences she had with people close to her. They were ill, not celiac, but removing gluten from their diet completely resolved their health issues. She was convinced but what ensued was some infighting with traditional MDs who worked within her organization. She even had her grant money threatened for a period of time.
The happy ending is that, fortunately, scientific research caught up with the clinical observations we were witnessing in our patients and gluten sensitivity was validated this year from many previously skeptical experts including Dr Peter Green and Dr Alessio Fasano.
So while that "war" is over there are many battles ahead. We still have a traditional medical community that thinks celiac disease is impossible unless a patient has unrelenting diarrhea and is severely underweight. These clinicians believe that an intestinal biopsy is still the gold standard for diagnosis and that without complete obliteration of the intestinal villi, gluten can't possibly be a problem for a patient.
On the other hand, research just came out in the British Journal of Nutrition whereupon they analyzed a group of non-gluten sensitive individuals who expressed a much healthier balance of microflora (good bugs) in their intestines after a 30 day gluten-free diet than was present prior to going gluten-free.
Does this mean that gluten isn't good for anyone? Is there something truly pro-inflammatory in these grains such that they spell ill health for all who consume them?
Or, if a truly healthy small intestine could be achieved would tolerance to gluten rise, as some researchers postulate? And is dairy the underlying culprit that causes the initial irritation thus "allowing" gluten to create its inflammatory effects?
And will all these questions be answered in the New Year?
I for one (and my team) are already diligently working on these issues and if the timing continues to occur as it has been, just about the time we feel confident in stating our findings, there will be ample scientific research to corroborate them.
I am very excited for 2010. I am anticipating meeting more of my readers as many have already come to visit our Destination Clinic from around the world this past year. We are expanding our clinic quite dramatically this year to better educate and treat all who seek better health.
As always, please let me know your thoughts and how I may help you.
To your good health in 2010!
Dr Vikki Petersen
Founder of HealthNOW Medical Center
Co-author of "The Gluten Effect"
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Hi again,
This year was a blockbuster for me as far as improving health and learning about gluten. There is now an entire group of people on the web going "primal" - i.e., not eating any grains. I am now one of them and that seemed to be the last ingredient in the recipe to health. I invite you to look at my blog at http://foodforprimalthought.blogspot.com/
Don't look at it for my info - I just started the thing yesterday and it's probably pretty boring for most. But DO look at the links on the sidebar. Several of those are written by medical doctors - PaNu (Dr. Kurt Harris) , Eades, Heart Scan, Nephropal, etc. These are doctors who are on board and know the dangers of grains. Mark Sisson at MarksDailyApple has one of the best sites on the web on primal eating and exercise. Hey, I linked you too! :)
Have you read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gart Taubes? I think it should be required reading by all doctors, nurses, nutritionists, etc. Amazing stuff!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
Dr. Petersen, the second half of 2009 was a nightmare for me and your blog and other sites related to gluten research were so helpful for me. In July I went to a family doctor for the first time to get a general check-up. I was feeling great but figured that being a woman in my mid 30's it was time. Blood tests revealed I had elevated liver enzymes (AST/ALT only). The dr.'s first thought was fatty liver but ultrasound revealed that everything looked normal. I cut out all alcohol (would have a glass of red wine everynight) but my levels kept rising. He referred me to a specialist who thought I had subclinical autoimmune hepatitis even though the blood tests were negative for that.
In September, for a few weeks my mother was baking unusually frequently and I was eating a lot more baked goods than I normally do. By the end of that month my AST/ALT jumped a lot higher at which point the hepatologist thought I should have a liver biopsy. I asked him to test me for celiac disease. His first response was that I wasn't showing any signs of malabsorption. The test result was negative which upset me tremendously b/c I thought we had finally found the answer! I learned from your site and others about non -celiac gluten sensitivity which can cause liver problems also. When I mentioned this to the first specialist he said "but the enzyme levels don't jump so dramatically."
I did go to another dr. for a second opinion about the liver biopsy and he also thought I should have one. The biopsy showed mild inflammation with no known etiology. I decided to go gluten-free since that biopsy. 2 months later I had another blood test and just got the results yesterday and my enzyme levels are normal! I could not believe it. If I had let the doctors just do their jobs and not looked into this myself, I feel I'd be close to being on steroids which the first doc was leaning towards. I'm still in disbelief, that I'm wondering whether the lab mixed up my latest blood with someone else's!
Here's to 2010 and continued research and gluten awareness!
- Justanordinaryweirdo said...
I just found your blog and it's wonderful, so affirming. I was ill for 3 1/2 years with gluten intolerance which started when I got pregnant with my 4th child- gained 10 stone in weight, developed asthma and various allergies, joint pains, dizziness and related nausea, clumsiness, sleeplessness, anxiety/ racing heart, numb/ tingly fingers and toes, needing to rush to the toilet, stomach tenderness, reflux, bloating, brain fog, crazy unstable blood sugar/ rampant hunger, dry eyes (MGD), felt exhausted and so on. It was a nightmare. My doctor did various blood tests and diagnosed depression and offered me antidepressants. I said no thanks.
Someone suggested I go off what to see if it helped my asthma. I went from needing ventolin several times a day to needing it rarely and started sleeping well and my waist shrank by 3 inches within days, no more heartburn... it was amazing! I took out all gluten and my life was changed.
I realised later I react to oats and corn as well so am now off those as well. I am still tired and seem to react to dairy too so now that is on the way out. I can now see I was reacting to gluten earlier in my life too, just more mildly, and the pregnancy for some reason kicked the symptoms up several notches. I hope that over the next few years I will be able to restore my health.
I am convinced that gluten is behind many of the health problems that plague our western culture and am so excited to find your blog!
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Any word when it is coming out?
Any word when it is coming out?
No matter how I die, even if there is a suicide note; it was murder. Cheers!
I haven't heard yet.I hope they make a real Batman movie this time.One that is based and looks like the comics.
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.
I hope they make it like the first two movies where Batman still was the bad@ss motherf**er and kept himself dark and secret
and they have to find a cool new bruce wayne
187_maul.Do you read the comics?I have for almost thirty years now and all of the movies were a major disapointment to me.
Your discription of the Batman is right on.But I really didn't see Micheal Keaton living up to the image of "the Man".Bruce Wayne is 6'2" and well over two hundred pounds of perfect muscle.He has a voice that could freeze water and unmatched fighting and detective skills.I want the real Batman in a movie.Not what IMHO have been really feeble and idiotic attempts.I am glad you liked the first two though
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.
I think the closest we'll ever get to the comics is the first Batman animated series. By far the best American Cartoon of all time, (not counting the Simpsons, which is more like an animated sitcom.)
I think that a lot of people who like Michael Keaton as Batman, never read a Batman comic. Dryanta hit the description right on, big, dark, and brooding. The movies never got it right, especially the costume. Batman doesn't wear rubber.
"Watch this, I'm going to horrify you into a coma..."
nope no rubber.Spandex.kevlar and nomex.I agree wolfwood most who liked keaton had no refence point on the character.And I agree the animated series was awesome.The closest representation of the Batman to date.Enough so it actually added to the comic in the form of Harley Quinn.
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.
The only way I think that the film series could make a justifiable movie is if the man, Frank Miller, wrote the screenplay, and had a large part in the creative aspect of the film. Nobody does Batman like Frank Miller, nobody. Although Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's "Long Halloween" and "Dark Victory" are very very close to perfection as well.
"Watch this, I'm going to horrify you into a coma..."
exactly.Miller would be the man.As long as they kept him free unlike the Robocop movie he wrote
Bye to all.thanks for some good times.
well I read the DC batman comics a couple of years ago and have a couple of otherstyle drawn comics too (like batman dark knight)
I liked the animated series although I think I first knew the movie and then the comic so the movie never was a big disappointment to me
I have read Batman comics, not a real comic buff but I have read some of them but I enjoyed Michael Keaton's Batman. The first 2 movies were good, but Forever and Batman and Robin just flat-out sucked.
Oh you've met him?Originally posted by Dryanta
Bruce Wayne is 6'2" and well over two hundred pounds of perfect muscle.He has a voice that could freeze water and unmatched fighting and detective skills.
I don't mind the rubber for the costumes, much better than the Adam West costume. I think the best costume however is the Batman/Batman Returns costumes.
I wish they'd go more by the animated series though, it was sickening that they went with Barbra being Alfred's niece and being played by Silverstone.
So far planned is Batman: Year One and a live-action Batman Beyond but I think they can't get proper funding so they haven't started any work at all on it. Though I'm not sure what the hold up is, I wish they'd release'em. Although if they do, then I hope they follow the series VERY CLOSELY on Batman Beyond and for Year One they better go back to the 1989 movie apperance of Batman since it would be a prequel.
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Anyone heard from this guy? Sounds like a scam to me....
Hi, my name is Armand Thibaud and I am from Langley, BC, Canada. I still have the 4 tickets for the BCS Championship game, LSU v Alabama, sec 141, row 13, $850 for the pair, $1700 for all 4.
I can send the tickets with overnight services today and you can receive them on Wednesday.
The tickets were bought by my company as a bonus we were going to give on a deal to a customer in the US. Unfortunately the deal did not go through and now we have them, but cannot use them.
My company will pay for the delivery of the tickets with the overnight delivery so you can receive them on Wednesday.
These are hard tickets and now we are looking to get back what was paid for them.
If you are still interested please back to me and let's work on the delivery and payment arrangements.
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I keep getting emails asking me to call or text some number in response to my ticket post, are people phishing for phone numbers or something
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Turnback Cave is a cave in Sinnoh that can be found by going to Sendoff Spring, which is located past Spring Path. The player can only go to Spring Path if they've received their National Pokédex.
Turnback Cave is home to the legendary Pokémon, Giratina. In Platinum, after beating or catching Giratina in the Distortion World, a portal will bring to Sendoff Spring. Until you beat her, Cynthia will be blocking the entrance to Turnback Cave.
To get there, you must go to Veilstone City. Then, you go to the south exit, which is Route 214. Go down a bit, then go to the little opening you see to the east. Run east and north on that path until you reach Sendoff Spring. There are two places to use Rock Climb. Go to the one east of the two trees. After using Rock Climb, go across and back until you reach another place where you can use Rock Climb, then go down there, and go in the cave, and you're in.
Once inside, you have to go room to room, choosing one of four directions, in order to find a total of three pillars. Upon finding the third pillar, any entrance you choose will lead to the room where Giratina awaits you. You can battle it by interacting with it, or if you have finished the battle and go back, that room also contains 1 of 4 daily items, depending on how fast you got there: Reaper Cloth, Nugget, Rare Bone or Stardust. Every room is filled with fog, apart from the room with the portal. Apart from the first, last and pillar-containing rooms, all rooms have breakable rocks.
You can go through a maximum of 30 rooms before being sent back to the beginning, or you can go through the same door as you entered the room through.
If you are playing Platinum, there will be a portal to the Distortion World in the final room. If Giratina fainted in the Distortion World at Spear Pillar, it will reappear here, but as its Altered Forme, and the portal cannot be accessed until you defeat, flee from, or catch Giratina. Entering this portal will take you to a new, small section of the Distortion World where you can acquire the Griseous Orb, Giratina's special item.
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I picked up C-3PO, Pit Droid, and Battle Droid on clearance at a local Wal-Mart (C-3PO was only $5!) and got all but the Battle Droid assembled last night. They're awesome! I haven't played with Legos since around the time of my last vintage figure war, but these were the most fun I've had with Star Wars toys in recent memory.
I'm considering paying the big bucks for the Stormtrooper and Droideka (I haven't seen either on clearance). Are they worth the higher prices?
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The Centipede
by A. P. Herbert
(Published in Punch, September 1920)
The centipede is not quite nice;
He lives in idleness and vice;
He has a hundred legs;
He also has a hundred wives,
And each of these, if she survives,
Has just a hundred eggs;
And that's the reason if you pick
Up any boulder, stone or brick
You nearly always find
A swarm of centipedes concealed;
They scatter far across the field,
But _one_ remains behind.
And you may reckon then, my son,
That not alone that luckless one
Lies pitiful and torn,
But millions more of either sex--
100 multiplied by x--
Will never now be born.
I daresay it will make you sick,
But so does all Arithmetic.
The gardener says, I ought to add,
The centipede is not so bad;
He rather LIKES the brutes.
The millipede is what he loathes;
He uses fierce bucolic oaths
Because it eats his roots;
And every gardener is agreed
That, if you see a centipede
Conversing with a milli--,
On one of them you drop a stone,
The other one you leave alone--
I think that's rather silly.
They may be right, but what I say
Is, "Can one stand about all day
And COUNT the creature's legs?"
It has too many, anyway,
And any moment it may lay
Another hundred eggs;
So if I see a thing like this (1)
I murmur, "Without prejudice,"
And knock it on the head;
And if I see a thing like that (2)
I take a brick and squash it flat;
In either case it's dead.
(1) and (2). There ought to be two pictures here, one with a hundred legs and the other with about a thousand. I have tried several artists, but most of them couldn't even get a hundred on to the page, and those who did always had more legs on one side than the other, which is quite wrong. So I have had to dispense with the pictures.
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Luma Pictures - FX Artist Position
FX artists (Maya, Houdini, Realflow, 3dsMax, Krakatoa, Fume, etc)
Luma Pictures is looking for Effects TDs
Luma Pictures is an artist centric feature film VFX studio located two blocks from the beach in Santa Monica, California. *We maintain a unique culture with an amazingly talented staff and are always on the lookout for exceptional people for full time and project positions.
- Light and render FX passes for specific shots using developed FX rigs
- Develop rigs/techniques to implement and optimize approved looks
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- Creation of tools and scripts to facilitate workflow
- Artist should be familiar with more than one of the following applications:
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