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What pleases me most is when The Japan Times arrives at my house at 3:30 a.m., rain or shine. I've read it for 63 years.
I once advised a student who had failed the Tokyo University entrance exam to study The Japan Times' editorials every day while consulting dictionaries. He followed my advice and made it into Todai the next year.
I fondly remember many enlightening contributors, including Kiyoaki Murata, Tsugi Shiraishi, Kazushige Hirasawa and Foumi Saisho. Today I no less enjoy instructive contributions by Takamitsu Sawa, Noriko Hama, Gregory Clark and others.
I sincerely hope your newspaper lives long and continues to inform us. On Oct. 30 I was 83.
The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.


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We stayed in a double room, and we found it very good. The bed is huge, the room is nicely decorated, and we had a view of the beautiful courtyard. The bathroom was clean, but a bit small. Staff was very friendly, especially the owner Bob, who speaks English very well. We were picked up at the station, and Bob also arranged for us to be dropped off when we had to go back, which was very convenient. Location is great, food is all right and at reasonable prices. We would stay here again.
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We stayed in an 8-bed dorm, and we found it very nice, almost more like a hotel than a hostel. Toilet and showers were nice and clean. The Western food there is good, but a bit expensive. Nice atmosphere, friendly staff, great location! You could walk to practically everywhere, and there was also several bus stops nearby. If I'm ever in Xi'an again, I'll stay here.
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Singapore, Singapore, 2011/02/07 - 10-fold increase in regulatory penalties, Macondo oil spill and greener base oils are key drivers in talks at the Drilling Fluids & Cuttings Management Asia Forum 2011.
The time is ripe for an industry dialogue as Asian governments push to reduce environmental impacts caused by oil and gas exploitation amidst rising world energy demand and increasing exploration in highly difficult environments.
In the wake of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, oil and gas companies expect wide regulatory changes, affecting companies' operational strategy, especially as safety and environment compatibility records will become a more important factor in gaining access to global reserves.
Top Asian drilling regulators from Department of Mineral Fuels Thailand, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Vietnam, Ministry of Environment Indonesia, Marine Environmental Protection Command Philippines and the Central Pollution Control Board India are among the regulators, who will discuss updates in regulations and the possibility of creating a regional standard for effluent guidelines governing drilling fluids and cuttings management at the Drilling Fluids and Cuttings Management Asia Forum on 22-24 February 2011 at the Four Points by Sheraton, Bangkok, Thailand.
Drilling fluids are critical components to drill oil and natural gas wells and on exploration drilling rigs, providing hydrostatic pressure to avoid formation damage and to limit corrosion, but most of them are toxic. The fluids come with any of the three base materials, which are water-based (which can be dispersed and non-dispersed), non-aqueous, usually called oil-based mud (OBM), and gaseous, in which a wide range of gases can be used. The dilemma is materials that show good technical performance and stability at high temperatures are frequently poor biodegraders and those that are the most chemically active can show the highest toxicities.
Asian governments have been vigilant in updating laws and decrees to avoid the devastation caused by drilling fluids and oil spill at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, especially with the recent concerns that some oil and gas companies tend to care more about profits than solving degradation problems.
Yet Asia remains to have the highest non-aqueous drilling fluids (NADFs) and oil-based muds (OBMs) discharges, which are effective but highly polluting to the environment, totalling 12,200 tonnes of discharge, 500% more than its North American counterpart at only 2,419 tonnes, according to International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (OGP) October 2010 report. A drilling fluids expert said, "Just formulating a regulation is not good enough. It has to be strictly enforced and there should be watchdogs enforcing the rule."
To respond to this, Mr Hoang Duong Tung, Director of the Center for Environmental Monitoring, Vietnam Environmental Administration said, "Recently, environmental inspection has been accelerated. The level of environmental penalties has increased 10 times compared to before. Environmental tax was passed by National Assembly in 2010. Environmental Police was established in 2009 and operates effectively." He added that related laws, government decrees, national technical regulations and policies are constantly building and improving to meet with the real situation. Mr Hoang's presentation aims to introduce Vietnam's legal framework for environmental protection in oil and gas exploitation.
The Drilling Fluids and Cuttings Management Asia Forum is the only government-business forum for leaders in Asian drilling fluids and cuttings waste management, featuring regulations, case studies and high-level dialogues on sustainable development of techniques and technologies for oil and gas exploration. The meeting, which includes CEOs and directors from major international and local industry players, seeks to address current opportunities and challenges in the area of drilling fluids and waste management in Asia. A full-day forum will be supplemented by a pre-forum dedicated informal master class and a post-forum dedicated session on waste management and drilling fluids for special applications.
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Attacks on women's reproductive rights have spread rapidly across the country, as state legislatures have enacted a record-breaking number of restrictions on abortion over the past several years. Last summer, all eyes were on Texas while activists protested against a harsh anti-choice measure that's now forcing clinics to close. This year, there are some new battlegrounds to keep an eye on.
The following states have each approved new abortion restrictions within the past month that represent serious threats to women's right to choose:
1. Oklahoma
On Wednesday, Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) approved a measure requiring abortion doctors to obtain admitting privileges from a local hospital — the same exact measure that was recently enacted in Texas. Although admitting privilege requirements are cloaked in the language of women's health and safety, doctors agree that they're entirely medically unnecessary, a thinly veiled tactic for eliminating access to legal abortion.
It's not hard to see the potentially catastrophic impact of the new law, thanks to the precedent that's been set by the Lone Star State. Since Texas' admitting privileges law took effect, multiple clinics have been forced out of business, and some doctors have lost their licenses because they can't comply with the medically unnecessary policy. That's left a huge swath of the state without access to a single reproductive health facility.
"If this law is allowed to stand, it will further expand the massive areas of the United States where women's constitutional right to safely and legally end a pregnancy is under siege by politicians attempting to make abortion nearly inaccessible by driving more and more good health care providers out of practice," Nancy Northrup, the president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, warned in a statement.
2. Louisiana
Just like nearby Oklahoma, lawmakers in Louisiana recently approved an admitting privileges bill that's directly modeled on the one in Texas. It's still awaiting Gov. Bobby Jindal's signature, but the Republican leader has already confirmed he plans to sign it. The measure is expected to close at least three of the state's five abortion clinics.
And that's not all. The Louisiana legislature has been busy attacking reproductive rights from all angles during this current session, and lawmakers have advanced several other anti-choice measures. In addition to the clinic restrictions, the state also approved a bill this week that will bar abortion providers from distributing any health information in public schools. The measure is intended to directly target Planned Parenthood, even though the women's health organization is the largest sex ed provider in the country.
Reproductive rights activists in the state are pressuring Jindal to veto the two pieces of legislation. "Over and over we've witnessed numerous attacks on women, men, adolescents and families' health. By now, it is clear that legislators are playing politics instead of increasing much needed access to health care and health education," a petition from Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast reads.
3. Missouri
Halfway through May, lawmakers in Missouri approved a measure that will triple the state's current waiting period for an abortion, requiring women to wait a full three days before being allowed to have the procedure. Only two other states, Utah and South Dakota, currently have waiting periods that long.
Similarly to Louisiana, the abortion opponents in Missouri haven't been content with just one bill attacking abortion rights. This session, the legislature has considered over 30 separate abortion restrictions. Since the state already has just one abortion clinic left, lawmakers are essentially focusing all of their attention on regulating a single building.
Women's health activists have also been frustrated with lawmakers' attitudes this session, accusing male politicians of making condescending assumptions about women's inability to make health care decisions for themselves. One GOP representative compared choosing an abortion to buying a car, suggesting that women simply need more time to think to prevent them from making a hasty decision. His female colleagues called the comparison "extremely offensive" and "demeaning to women," and activists protested by dressing up as cars in a legislative hearing.
It's important to put newly approved abortion restrictions in the context of the anti-choice laws that are already on the books in surrounding states. For instance, if Louisiana and Oklahoma both enact admitting privileges requirements, they'll join several other Southern states — Mississippi, Alabama and Texas — that have already approved them. Although Mississippi and Alabama are in the midst of legal challenges that have temporarily blocked their laws from taking effect, the country isn't too far off from a future in which harsh restrictions on abortion providers are in place throughout the South. Slowly but surely, Southern women's access to abortion clinics is disappearing.
"You're looking at huge swaths of the country where women's options are becoming severely limited," Amanda Allen, the state legislative counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, recently pointed out.


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QI BOUGHT a suite and paid in full.
The sofa had a hole in it and the company sent a repair man out.
I did not approve of the repair and told the company.
They said they would email the manufacturer and they would get back to me.
No-one has. Am I entitled to my money back? The salesman was rude to me.
ARude or polite, if the goods you buy are not of satisfactory quality (as these aren't) and no repair has been carried out properly, you are entitled to your money back.
And don't be put off by the shop trying to pass the buck to the makers, your contract and statutory rights are with the retailer and no-one else.
QI was made redundant and took my employer to a tribunal to get an award of the proper payment due under redundancy, breach of contract, accrued leave and monetary award.
The ex-employer has ignored the order for payment. I got a sheriff officer to serve the order on the firm but no progress has been made about payment.
I understand the employer is trying to get the firm struck off.
AThat's presumably to avoid paying altogether.
I strongly suggest you see a civil court solicitor to look at your options.
While the company remains going you can take what is called civil diligence against it – that involves getting into its bank account or threatening liquidation.
However, if the company has no assets that might make this kind of action pointless – but has it been shifting assets away, which a liquidator can bring back?
If all else fails the Government's National Insurance Fund will pay. Visit www.gov.uk/your -rights-if- your-employer-is-insolvent/ claiming-money-owed-to-you
QIn our part of Glasgow it is the "in thing" to monoblock driveways and on to the pavement and use the area to park vehicles 24/7 to the exclusion of others and even put up notices saying No Parking. Is this legal?
AI would have liked to know more information about this, but fundament-ally if a street is a publicly adopted roadway and pavement, it should not be blocked or obstructed.
So far as covering it with monoblock, speak to the council roads department and Transport Scotland, as depending on what kind of road/pavement it is, and what title deeds say for the property and carriageway, there may be planning and title deed restrictions on changing the surface.
And they cannot stop you parking outside their property as long as you are not blocking them in.
QI paid a professor to examine me for a claim. His report is based on what he says are my notes but I can prove they were not.
ATell your solicitors this and ask for a copy of the notes the professor used. If a mistake has been made, a fresh report can be done by that professor or another if you don't want to use him/her.
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Police Commissioner Has Concerns About Whether Card Would Be Secure Against Abuse
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton on Wednesday said he had concerns about whether a proposed municipal identification card would be secure against abuse.
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Marketing BA (Hons)
What makes Marketing at Worcester special?
Effective, planned and forward looking marketing is essential to the success of most organisations whether large or small, international or national, public or private sector. A degree in Marketing at Worcester Business school encompasses the latest marketing techniques, allows students to get hands-on experience, and demonstrates your professional relevance to the employment market by earning professional accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) alongside your degree with this CIM Graduate Gateway accredited course. When you complete your degree you can choose two extra modules to gain the CIM Professional Diploma and membership of Marketing's most relevant global professional body.
This is a highly-specialised and applied course taught by marketing practitioners and consultants with extensive experience of domestic and international marketing who are able to bring the real world into the classroom - (organisations they have worked with include the Advertising Standards Authority, BP, Deloitte, Mercedes, Next, Orange, Royal Aeronautical Society, Thomas Cook, Toyota, UK local councils, Egyptian SMEs and the Bank of China); and by experienced academics who can contextualise this value adding focus through their lectures and use of current research and insights for future thinking in this area.
Key features
- Gain real world knowledge by carrying out projects with case studies and 'live' clients – including international brands, agencies, charities and local industries – to develop your professional consulting abilities
- Build professional experience alongside your qualification with an optional one-year paid work placement
- An opportunity to study abroad in America, Canada, Europe, Australia or New Zealand
- Our graduates have secured jobs with companies such as Apple, Home Retail Group, IBM, KPMG, PepsiCo
- Our marketing courses were top-ranked by students in 2015 for course communications and library resources.
Business at Worcester is changing
This course is part of our 2017 Business course portfolio.
If you are interested in joining us in 2018, please see our new range of courses.
Entry requirements
What qualifications will you need?
UCAS tariff points
Entry requirements
112 UCAS Tariff points and Grade C in GCSE English Language and Mathematics
The points above are the new UCAS tariff, which will be used for courses starting from September 2017. See our new UCAS tariff page for more information.
The University will consider each application on its individual merits and will recognise a range of qualifications not currently included in the Tariff, including Access courses, European Baccalaureate and pre-2002 qualifications such as GNVQ. Please contact the Admissions Office for advice.
Applicants with no formal qualifications may be considered for Mature Student Entry Routes.
Other information
If you have any questions about entry requirements, please contact the Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email firstname.lastname@example.com for advice.
Further information about the UCAS Tariff can be obtained from http://www.ucas.com
Student opportunities
Worcester students had the opportunity to present their business ideas to a panel of industry experts. Competing to win a six week space at a retail unit at CrownGate shopping centre.
Book your place at an Open Day
Want to know why so many students love living and studying in Worcester?
Our open days are the perfect way to find out.Book your place
Course content
What will you study?
Here is an overview of current modules available on this course. Regular updates may mean that exact module titles may differ.
Year 1
Option Modules
Year 2
(content will vary if you choose to spend a semester at a partner university overseas)
Option Modules
Year 3
Option Modules
The range of modules in the course are perfect for me, since they are creative and outgoing. The teachers are amazing and incredibly enthusiastic.
Olivia Larsson, Student, Business, Marketing & Public Relations BA (Hons)
Teaching and Assessment
How will you be taught?
You will learn how to:
Explore the real-life application of learning via tutors with business experience, via work placement, and via contact with local, national and international businesses – in the past these have included Shell, Barclays Bank and the BBC.
There will be opportunities to take part in projects for clients, visits to businesses, live and computerised simulations, case studies and exhibitions alongside the usual lectures, workshops and seminars. You will develop a range of skills, which you can evidence on your CV and talk about at job interviews
Teaching approach
Worcester is a place where you will be supported to reach your full potential as a self-directed learner ready to make an immediate impact in the world of work. Tutors are friendly, approachable and accessible and virtual resources enable you to work flexibly to suit your own learning preferences and busy lifestyle.
You will progressively build your knowledge and expertise across levels of study through modules which are delivered in different ways, perhaps through traditional lectures and seminars as well as e-lectures, workshops and simulations. In a typical week, you will have 12 hours of scheduled contact time, which you will supplement with one-to-one tutorial meetings and around 20 hours of guided independent study.
There are a variety of assessment types – reports, presentations, projects, examinations – and sometimes you will even be able to choose an assessment style to suit you.
Professional Accreditation
As part of the Marketing; Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations; or Business, Advertising and Marketing degree the CIM will award a full exemption against one of the three modules that are required for the completion of the CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing.
To successfully complete the remaining two modules for the Diploma students need to pay a small additional fee to become student members of the CIM and an assessment fee and submit revised assessments drawn from relevant modules (depending on your modules selected) from within your Degree to be awarded a professional qualification and start your journey of full membership and lifelong learning with the CIM.
Meet the team
Here are a few of the current members of the department who teach on this course:
Dr Tim Sellick
Tim began the development of his sales and marketing expertise as the Director of a Direct Marketing agency where he worked for over a decade. He then moved into academia after completing his Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Post Compulsory Education) delivering programmes for Birmingham City University for Undergraduate, Post Graduate, and for professional participants. Tim then then joined Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford in 2009 to work in Executive Education.
Since 2011 Tim has worked at Worcester Business School where he teaches Marketing Communications, Marketing Strategy, and Sales Management.
Tim is a multi-award winning case writer and has authored a winning case in the EFMD's Excellence in Practice Awards twice. Tim is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (and a Chartered Marketer), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Association Academy.
Where could it take you?
We recognise that optimising your future employment and earning potential are a key factor in selecting your degree. All of our courses:
- Are written and taught by business professionals who adopt a real-world approach to learning, teaching and assessment and are fully aware of what today's employers are looking for
- Help you develop the skills required by graduate employers – Research and problem solving, Critical Analysis, Communication, Numeracy, Self-management, Interpersonal Skills, Team Working, Self-awareness, Use of IT, Enterprise and Creativity
- Offer the option of a paid placement year, which significantly increases your chance of getting a job when you graduate
- Include the opportunity to learn via live work-based projects, allowing you to 'earn as you learn' through paid part-time work
- Are accredited by, recognised by or mapped to professional qualifications and/or associations as appropriate
- Provide access to our broad network of business managers and employers (including our own Business School Advisory Board) who work closely with us to design courses, offer scholarships and prizes, host student visits, provide work-related projects and contribute to teaching activities
- Offer employment preparation workshops which include CV preparation (including access to our electronic CV Compiler Tool), mock interviews and meetings with employers
- Offer the option to spend a semester abroad at one of our exchange universities in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia or New Zealand to help you develop the intercultural skills that are so highly sought after by today's employers
During my degree, I obtained a range of employability experience and credentials which helped me get a full-time job working for PepsiCo when I graduated.
Gina Hankinson, Graduated 2012
Case study
Employer's view
"We've had a fantastic time with the students from the University of Worcester Business School. The Business Challenge module is truly innovative, providing opportunities to be creative and work with a great group of people. The students have not only left Funny Blood with a lasting legacy of ideas, campaigns and contacts but they've also raised awareness of Platelet Function Disorders both locally and - literally - Worldwide as well as raising vital funds for the Haemophilia Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Their projects have provided us with some amazing experiences like playing the giant killers at Worcester City FC, being on court with the Davis Cup players at Pershore Tennis Centre and Worcester Wolves and saving lives via #giveblood with NHS Give Blood. As a result, Funny Blood's been featured in the local press and radio a number of times and our social media interaction has increased; at the project's peak, our reach on Facebook was over 57k. A truly fantastic experience, thank you!"
Ruby Edwards
Founder, Funny Blood
How much will it cost?
Full-time tuition fees
UK and EU students
The standard tuition fee for full-time UK and EU students registering in 2017 will be £9,250.
For more details, please visit our course fees page.
International students
The standard tuition fee for full-time international (non-EU) students registering in 2017 will be £11,700 per year.
For more details, please visit our course fees page.
Part-time tuition fees
UK and EU students
The standard tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students registering on this course in 2017 will be £1,156 per 15-credit module, £1,542 per 20 credit module and £2,313 per 30-credit module.
For more details, please visit our course fees page.
Additional costs
Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses.
If you decide to take up the optional placement year accommodation and travel costs may be incurred dependent on location of placement. As placements are paid by the employer at minimum wage plus these costs can be covered by the student's wage. During this year you will pay 10% of normal academic fees to the University. You are provided with a placement tutor, and have access to the advice of the full placement team, as well as all University student support and services.
There are also occasional trips which may require you to incur travel costs.
Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience, and our welcoming student communities are great places to live and study.
We have over 1,000 rooms across our halls, 358 of which were new in 2009. We offer halls of residence to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Hall' at £94 per week to the £153 per week 'En-suite Extra'.
For full details visit our accommodation page.
How do you apply?
Applying through UCAS
Marketing BA (Hons): N501
Marketing (Placement Year) 4 Yr: N500
UCAS is the central organisation through which applications are processed for entry onto full-time undergraduate courses in Higher Education in the UK.
Read our How to apply pages for more information on applying and to find out what happens to your application.
N501 or N500
Get in touch
If you have any questions, please get in touch. We're here to help you every step of the way.
Admissions office
01905 855111
Admissions Tutor
John Gardener
01905 85 5357
Course Contact
Doug Wotherspoon
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PROSPECTIVE university students can spend up to £100 a month on clothes, a UCAS survey has found.
The results of the latest applicant lifestyle survey - conducted by student marketing specialist UCAS Media - show that dressing well is still high on the agenda.
More than 30% [of 24,000 students surveyed] said they spent between £21 and £50 a month on clothes, while 15% are shelling out between £51 and £100.
Further down the scale, 27% of those surveyed spend between £10 and £20 a month on outfits.
Most students (77%) said they preferred to browse for clothes in high street stores, with 13% saying they bought their wardrobe online. In contrast, 70% said they purchased music online and over 60% said they went to the web to find holidays and books.
The majority of students will spend between £21 and £50 a month on nights out, the research found.
Keith Parkman of UCAS Media said: "It's clear that students see buying clothes as an important lifestyle choice - retailers shouldn't ignore this.
"It's worth looking at how students shop for different items. Most will still visit the high street to find clothes but when it comes to music, books and holidays young people are going online.
"Understanding the subtle differences in students' buying habits, across different product groups, will enable marketers to tailor their customer contact accordingly."


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What would the cost for a two car (22x22) garage cost in Fort McMurray? This would include the pad, framing, roofing, siding, and connecting electrical and gas to the structure. I would be supplying the materials.
Cost to build a new 2 car garage will vary from $30 to $45 per square foot for standard construction including labor cost and materials prices. For a basic 2 car garage (22x22) with no custom work involved as well as using regular (low cost) materials total expenditures will run from $14,520 to $21,780 to complete the work.
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Excellence in Teaching (Full Time)
Each year, the University at Albany honors special members of its community with Excellence Awards denoting exceptional contributions to the life of the campus. Three faculty members received this tribute in 2007 for Excellence in Teaching (Full Time).
Kevin Williams, Psychology
Professor Kevin Williams has been teaching at UAlbany for two decades. He is currently the Department of Psychology's graduate director as well as area head for both the industrial-organizational doctoral program and the social-personality doctoral program. For 11 years he served as the department's director of undergraduate advising. Since joining the faculty, Williams has taught 12 different courses, ranging in size from small doctoral seminars to large lecture courses with more than 200 students. Each semester he also works with 10-20 undergraduate and graduate students on independent study and guided research projects. To date he has served as chair of 20 completed Ph.D. committees and as a member of another 25. Williams is a nationally recognized scholar on motivation and human performance, and he uses that expertise in his approach to teaching, mentoring, and advising. He seeks to get students actively engaged in the learning process, to instill a sense of ownership over their learning, to inspire confidence in their ability to learn, and to demonstrate the utility in what they are asked to learn. His passion for his subject, his love of teaching, and his devotion for students are all reflected in the abundant, positive testimonials and commentary in his nomination dossier.
Excellence in Teaching (Full Time)
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I had matrix fractional laser for acne scarring. My face is swollen and I am bleeding all over the face. My doctor says this will subside. Is this normal?
Is It Normal to Bleed After Matrix Fractional Laser Treatment?
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Nonablative fractional resurfacing does not cause bleeding except rarely. ablative fractional therapy is different, in that rawness is seen focally with pinpoint bleeding and oozing to follow. It takes longer to heal with long term redness that resolves after many weeks.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Martini Talk: Doris To Darlene & The Seafarer
There's a lot of imagination and high ambition on stage at Playwrights Horizons these days. And if Jordan Harrison's Doris To Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine doesn't quite deliver the goods there's still enough in his observations on the creation of music and the power it has to guide our emotions to keep things interesting.
Set simultaneously in three different eras, Harrison presents three musically inclined couples involved, in varying degrees, in risky relationships. In the 1860's we have composer Richard Wagner (David Chandler) who has bewitched, bothered and bewildered his devoted benefactor, young King Ludwig II of Bavaria (Laura Heisler) with his "Liebestod," the tragic love aria from Tristan and Isolde. One hundred years later we meet white record producer Vic Watts (Michael Crane), who discovers mixed race black/white singer Doris (de'Adre Aziza), changes her name to Darlene, writes her a hit single based on "Liebestod" and makes her both a star and his wife. (Kristin Childs supplies girl group pop melodies to Harrison's lyrics.) Modern day high school music appreciation teacher Mr. Campani (Tom Nelis), a gay man with a passion for opera, unexpectedly finds himself to be a role model for gay student referred to as The Young Man (Tobias Segal) who is fascinated with the songs of the now forgotten Darlene.
While taking spins on set designer Takeshi Kata's turntable, the six main characters in director Les Waters' energetic production (the actors all fill in as bit players in each other's stories) play out short scenes while taking turns narrating through third person commentary about themselves. It's an interesting device for sure, but one that tends to stagnate the action and takes uptime that might be better used delving deeper into the stories.
The realistic plot concerning Mr. Campani and his student comes off the best, mostly due to the lovely and understated work by Nelis. Crane is sharp as the music industry dynamo, particularly in a scene where he defends the simplicity of his lyrics, and Aziza sings very well, but their story starts with a bang and then fizzles into weak romantic melodrama. The grandly obsessive Heisler tries to kick some whimsical spirit into her underwritten role, but she's never convincing as the mad 18-year-old monarch, coming off more like an infatuated 14-year-old lad.
Doris To Darlene may not have the makings of a top 40 smash, but it's worth a try if you're in the mood for an interesting b-side.
I don't know if Conor McPherson was ever a camp counselor, but I bet he'd be great at telling ghost stories by the fire. In The Seafarer, the Irish playwright who specializes in weaving supernatural tales has got a good one to tell.
It's Christmas Eve in a coastal town so far off that holiday songs played on the radio are overwhelmed by static. There's also plenty of static between brothers Richard (Jim Norton), who may be a hard drinker but that's not what made him go blind, and Sharky (David Morse), who has a brief bout with sobriety in his attempt to get his life in order. (Let me just save us all a bit of time by letting you know that everyone in the play is a hard drinker.) This odd couple has invited a few buddies over for a holiday poker game. There's the thick-headed Ivan (Conleth Hill), who is up for anything that will keep him away from his wife, Nicky (Sean Mahon), who has been seeing Sharky's ex-wife and Nicky's mysterious and rather dapper friend who goes by the name of Mr. Lockhart (Ciaran Hinds). Although the author, who ably directs this production, has clearly stated in interviews the surprising bit of news that makes the stakes in this particular poker game especially high, I'd rather not be accused of revealing any spoilers. Let's just say that in this moody tale of men and their personal demons, Sharky's redemption hinges on how the cards are dealt.
Though the plot is rather thin, the writing is sharp and funny and the excellent ensemble is always entertaining as their colorful characters. Morse is very sympathetic as the loser determined to make good and Hinds counters with a cold matter-of-factness. Norton plays his scene stealing comic role with underlying nobility, while Hill is a loveable mess. Mahon may not have as much juice to play with as the others, but he's still a sturdy presence.
Rae Smith's nicely disheveled seaside home shows traces of better days and Neil Austin's lights set uneasy tones beautifully while, at one point, revealing a stunningly star-clustered night sky.
The play may have its slow moments, particularly in its expository first act, but once its course is set The Seafarer settles into a good, solid piece of story-telling.
Michael Dale's Martini Talk appears every Monday and Thursday on BroadwayWorld.com.
Photos by Joan Marcus: Top: Laura Heisler and David Chandler in Doris To Darlene: A Cautionary Valentine; Bottom: David Morse and Ciarán Hinds in The Seafarer


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Knitting…not just for grandmas anymore!
One of the first things that people say to me when I tell them that I LOVE to knit, is that I "Act like a grandma". But, once they see the type of knitwear that my classmates and I do, they are blown away. I promise that throughout the semester I will prove to you that no matter how talented our grandmothers may be…the scarves and hats they make us every year for our birthdays are just the tip of the knitwear iceberg.
Our process started all the way back in August, when we began do research to find inspiration, colors and yarns for our portfolios. We then began to endlessly sketch and throughout the semester illustrated two – 15 look collections. Thankfully, we only have to actually create two of these looks.
Going into week four of the semester, we've already got a lot accomplished. We've chosen our designs and are in the process of finalizing yarns. But of course, we are all creative people and without a doubt will make some changes along the way! So we are all knitting like crazy, trying to perfect our swatches and drowning in all of the different yarns we want to try…just wait until you see what everyone is doing! It is going to be FABULOUS.
And remember…Knitting actually is COOL. Don't believe me? You'll just have to wait and see.
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Farmhouse Gouda is a traditional Gouda but with a natural rind. It is made from raw cow's milk by Rockhill Creamery, a farmstead cheese company located in the town of Richmond.
Their traditional Gouda is offered at three different ages. The aged cheeses will have "Select" or "Reserve," marked on them with the number of days aged mentioned on the label. This semi hard cheese is perfect with some rustic bread and fruit.
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Former youth pastor who fathered teen's child sentenced
A Newport man and former youth pastor was sentenced last month for having sex with a teenage girl, whom he admitted to impregnating, and for possessing pornographic images of her as he awaited his criminal sentence.
Andrew Joseph Brown, 35, pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of child pornography. He received a nearly four-year prison sentence.
According to the criminal complaints filed in Washington County District Court:
In September 2013, a pastor at Oakwood Church in St. Paul contacted Washington County Social Services to report that a former youth pastor, identified as Brown, had had sex with a 15-year-old girl and impregnated her. Brown had recently resigned from the church, police learned.
Brown and the girl met in his capacity as a youth pastor, Washington County prosecutor Imran Ali said in an interview.
Brown apologized to the girl's parents and asked for forgiveness. He said he wanted to support his child, including by "having his wife do free daycare for the baby," a complaint states.
Brown pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct on April 16. He was released to an inpatient Christian treatment program while awaiting sentencing, Ali said. One of the release conditions was that he have no contact with the victim.
However, Brown's wife told a counselor that she knew he still was involved in a sexual relationship with the girl even as he awaited sentencing. He was receiving pornographic images of the girl through email accounts accessed on his phone.
Brown was arrested May 16 on suspicion of violating a no-contact order. He told authorities he was in love with the girl.
Brown pleaded guilty June 25 to three counts of possessing pornography involving a minor.
District Court Judge William Ekstrum sentenced Brown to 46 months in prison. He also was ordered five years of conditional release after confinement and will be required to register as a sex offender, which will include a 10-year parole period.


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Textron announced today that it has named Scott Ernest president and CEO of its Cessna Aircraft subsidiary. He succeeds Jack Pelton, who unexpectedly "retired" from Cessna on May 2, just 12 days after Textron chairman and CEO Scott Donnelly called the Wichita-based aircraft manufacturer's first-quarter financial results "disappointing." Cessna posted a $38 million loss in the quarter, mostly due to higher-than-expected costs in ramping up Citation CJ4 production. Ernest, who started at Cessna today, joins the company as a 29-year veteran of General Electric, where he most recently served as GE Aviation's vice president and general manager for global supply chain. Previously, Ernest was vice president and general manager for global services operations at GE Aviation's services business. "[Ernest] is a talented global business leader who has strong expertise in the aviation industry," said Donnelly. "Accelerating Cessna's new product and service development, strengthening its manufacturing and sourcing operations and intensifying its global expansion efforts are key to moving Cessna forward. [He] brings an extensive track record of success in these areas along with a reputation as an outstanding leader. I am confident that he is the ideal person to position Cessna for growth as the business jet market gains momentum."
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Raleigh, N.C. — The Red and White Food and Beverage Festival is this week, along with dinners, classes and cookbook signings to whet your appetite.
Indie pop band Dum Dum Girls takes the stage at Kings Barcade Monday night. Tickets are $14 in advance and $16 the day of.
Discover Venetian cuisine during a cooking class at Southern Season in Chapel Hill. Registration is $40.
The Red and White Food and Beverage Festival is Tuesday evening. Guests can sample products from NC State alumni who are involved in the food and beverage industry. Admission is $35 for the public and $30 for Alumni Association members. Proceeds benefit Wine to Water.
Enjoy a dinner featuring wines from Marisco Vineyards at the Washington Duke Inn Wednesday evening. Reservations are $69 per person or $59 for Executive Club Members. Dinner only, with no wine, is $49.
A new cookbook is creating a lot of buzz. Head to Quail Ridge Books & Music Thursday afternoon to meet Jean Anderson, author of "Mad for Muffins," try muffin samples and have coffee.
A documentary covering the journey of the band Shovels & Rope is screening Thursday night at North Hills. Tickets are $12.
For more fun events every day, take a look at our Best Bets Calendar or browse through event listings. We'll be back on Thursday with our weekend Best Bets!


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Oh hello there, Illinois. Almost didn't see you come in. You see, we've been arguing about whether we deserved to play in the national championship and almost forgot we are playing in a few days!
But honestly, Tim Beckman and Illinois are having a forgettable year. Apart from beating up on Cincinnati, it's been five straight in-conference losses and not too much in the way of highlights. Maybe that's a little unfair, as Illinois is second in the conference in passing yards per game, albeit in mostly losing fashion.
Below I preview the Illinois matchup and how the Buckeyes should fare.
When the Illini Have the Ball
Here are the Illinois offense's vitals:
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- Ohio State remains one of the best teams in the country at keeping plays in front of them. With only twenty opponent plays of more than 20 yards, the Buckeyes are tied for first in the country with Oregon and right in front of FSU and Michigan State.
- I took a look at Scheelhaase's situational production, and I found that he doesn't seem to be on his A-game in pressure situations. In particular, his completion percentage drops significantly from 70.1% in the second quarter to 57% in the fourth quarter.
- He's also less accurate in the red zone, with his accuracy dropping to 54.2%. This might be part of the reason why the Illini are 46% less likely to score a touchdown in the redzone than the Buckeyes.
- The Illini's turnover margin is -5. Between that and an explosive play margin of -5, it's pretty easy to see why the Illini don't win very many games.
- The Illini's runningback, Josh Ferguson, had a 20% RBSR and 2.6 YPA on nine carries against Michigan State. So, those numbers don't really do justice to Ferguson, since MSU is just one of the best rush defenses in the country...but you get the idea.
- Illinois does have a surprisingly high number of explosive plays on offense, so this should be a good warmup for Indiana, who takes the whole "terrible defense and good offense" thing to Mike Leach-levels. In contrast, Purdue was the opposite—terrible offense and fairly decent defense (I'm feeling generous).
- Scheelhaase has done surprisingly well this season, throwing for 2600 yards and 17 touchdowns already. However, against Michigan State and Wisconsin (the only defenses they've played that managed to put their cleats on the correct feet), he managed a more pedestrian 7.67 YPA. MSU held him to 103 yards passing.
- He's his best on first down, when Illinois actually has the greatest number of passing attempts. Further, he has far more than twice as many passing yards on first down than second and third down combined. In comparison, Braxton has roughly equal yards between first vs. second and third down.
- The numbers don't suggest Illinois will have the running game necessary to grind out long drives against the Ohio State defense, but will instead be forced to rely on big plays in the passing game.
When OSU has the ball
They will score points, and likely a lot of them:
|Redzone TD
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|Illini Defense
- Here's some context for the Illini's 56 explosive plays this season (in nine games, or more than six per game): Georgia State, New Mexico, Toldeo, Kansas, and Tulane all have given up fewer plays of 20 yards or more than Illinois. That's bad enough for 112th in the country.
- Probably the only statistic you really need to know is that Michigan State put up 42 points on this defense. Michigan State. Jim Bollman. *shudders*
- The Illini really struggle with creating negative yardage plays. They only have ten sacks on the year and most of their production comes from the linebackers (7.5 total sacks). They're not high on tackles for loss either, with only 46 (105th in the country). To be fair, Ohio State's defense isn't exemplary in TFLs either, with 53. Fortunately, TFLs aren't closely correlated with many other defensive efficiency metrics.
- Speaking of TFLs, they are on the other hand a pretty good indicator of how good an offensive line is at run blocking (Stanford, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia are in the top ten). Ohio State is fifth in fewest TFLs allowed, averaging just 3.9 per game.


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Retired Judge Mildred "Mimi" Methvin has been appointed, by order of the Louisiana Supreme Court, as judge pro tempore
of Division "D," of the 27th Judicial District Court in St. Landry Parish, according to Justice Jeannette Theriot Knoll. Methvin will fill the vacancy created by the death of Judge Donald Hebert on July 9, 2014. She will serve from July 14, 2014, through December 31, 2014, or until further order of the Court.
A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Methvin graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Tulane University in 1974, and she received her
law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1976. Before serving 26 years as a United States Magistrate Judge for the
Western District of Louisiana in Lafayette (1983-2009), Methvin held several positions in law and government including: staff assistant to U.S. Representative Gillis W. Long in Washington, D.C.; Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport; law associate at the law firm Gist, Methvin, Hughes & Munsterman in Alexandria; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport; and staff attorney for the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface in Charleston, West Virginia. After her retirement from the federal bench in 2009, Methvin served part-time as a Recall U.S. Magistrate Judge for the federal courts in Maryland and Pennsylvania from 2011- 2013. Currently, she is the owner of Satori ADR, L.L.C. an alternative dispute resolution and mediation service, and is the principal of the law firm Mildred E. Methvin, L.L.C. Both are located in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Throughout her legal career Methvin has presented numerous seminars for organizations such as the American Conference
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Novi, MI (February 17, 2009)--- You may have heard the term "complementary" used to refer to methods that are supposed to prevent or treat disease symptoms and wondered what that meant. The Botsford Center for Health Improvement (BCHI) is hosting a free workshop on complementary and alternative therapies to answer some of the questions surrounding this health option.
On Friday and Saturday, February 27 and 28 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., BCHI will discuss a variety of complementary medicine treatments including their safety and how they work. You will learn the basics and talk to experts in the fields of massage, Reiki, hypnotherapy, yoga and tai chi. Activities will include an interactive seminar on complementary medicine for preventive health care and disease management, demonstrations on the mind body connections, manipulations and touch, and energy therapy.
Monica Pagels, exercise physiologist and manager of the Botsford Center for Health Improvement, says, "Some complementary therapies may relieve symptoms of pain associated with chronic disease, relieve side effects of cancer therapy or improve a patient's comfort level. Remember, it is important for individuals who are thinking about using any alternative or complementary therapy to discuss this with their physician first."
The Botsford Center for Health Improvement is the first medical model fitness center in Metro Detroit. More than a health club, the Botsford Center for Health Improvement offers a complete wellness approach to all of its programs emphasizing prevention and lifestyle change. To learn more about the Botsford Center for Health Improvement or the Complementary and Alternative Therapies Workshop, please call (248) 473-3100 or log on to www.botsford.org/bchi.
Botsford Hospital, an independent 330-bed community teaching hospital in Farmington Hills, Mich., was founded in 1965. Nationally recognized for quality, safety and medical education programs, Botsford has received the 2007 Governor's Award for Improving Patient Safety and Quality of Care in the Hospital Setting, and, in 2007, a three-year recertification as a Chest Pain Center from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Botsford's Web address is www.botsford.org.
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A tourist-oriented shuttle linking downtown Dallas to the Bishop Arts District and other landmarks will include expanded access to north Oak Cliff, according to preliminary action taken Tuesday by Dallas Area Rapid Transit's committee-of-the-whole.
That's even though DART board members didn't resolve the $266,000 annual shortfall created by the lengthened route or staff concerns that the buses slated for the service couldn't safely make one of the turns in the new loop.
Proponents said those details could be sorted out before DART's board takes final action on May 28. And Oak Cliff boosters – on DART's board and in the audience – cheered the revised route as a way to boost neighborhood job growth.
"It will make a huge difference in a community that really needs it," said Bob Stimson, president of the Oak Cliff Chamber of Commerce.
The bus service is one of two shuttles scheduled to debut this August, making it easier to travel between downtown Dallas, hotels along I-35E, Oak Cliff and the Cedars entertainment district.
The two-year pilot program's $1.3 million annual cost is being shared by DART, the city of Dallas, Downtown Dallas Inc. and a federal grant. Buses would run every 15 minutes during most service hours, and plans have called for shuttle riders to pay DART's normal fares.
The new Oak Cliff route was initially slated to enter the neighborhood on the Jefferson Boulevard Viaduct, veer onto Colorado Boulevard, pass through the Bishop Arts District and then make a brief run on Jefferson Boulevard.
But neighborhood leaders said that alignment would ignore business and residents farther west. So they proposed an alternative that would enter Bishop Arts the same way, but feature a loop bounded by Davis Street, Edgefield Avenue, Jefferson Boulevard and Zang Boulevard.
DART staff said the loop wasn't feasible because of extra costs and the fact that larger buses couldn't safely make the lefthand turn from Davis Street onto Edgefield Avenue. And some DART board members said they wanted more information on how the longer route would impact ridership.
But other board members said the safety issue could be solved by trying shorter buses or taking a slightly different route. And they expressed hope that the extra $266,000 annual cost might be shared by the project's other stakeholders.
"It's absolutely correct that this is going to cost us more money," said DART board chairman John Danish. "But there comes a time when you really believe in things, you invest a little more money."
DART's committee-of-the-whole also gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a contract with Arlington to run a commuter bus line between the city's downtown and the Trinity Railway Express' CentrePort station.
That action came despite loud objections from some board members that the proposed contract gave too much power to Arlington and too little protection to DART's interests. A more robust discussion is expected at the next DART board meeting on May 28.


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Happy Friday! How was your week peachies? The weather in Hong Kong has been quite volatile of late with a peak of sunshine here and there followed by a long streak of rain and super humid weather. That just means the hot humid summer weather is upon us soon and it's not exactly my cup of tea. Hopefully it'll clear up soon as the hubby and I planned on hitting up the Island East Markets for some good old market fun and you know market under the sun with a small breeze is always the best. That said, I have a feeling I'll be staying indoors in the rain – some s'more love would definitely be good! I've really been missing all the market action in Sydney lately! Perhaps it's time for another Sydney trip? What about you peachies. What are you up to this weekend?
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Positive Feedback ISSUE 8
august/september 2003
Greetings Positive Feedback Onliners!
Is this thing live? tap... tap... feedback screech...
Its J-10, he breathed into the mic.
Musical Chairs
As some of you know, he said modestly, I wrote features and reviews, and conducted interviews for ten years at Stereophile, the last three as Senior Editor. Though I was downsized out in March 02, I have to say that my reviewing career was, more than anything, a constant source of joy and wonder. It was a privilege experiencing so much music so vividly through such interesting, individualistic, occasionally psychedelic equipment, then writing about the experience for you.
I always wanted my reviews to seem intimate, putting you in the Ribbon Chair, while I breathed down your neck on the slightly taller Frank Lloyd Wright Midway Chair positioned just behind it, up against the wall. Whats the Ribbon Chair? Kathleen and I love art and design, and weve a modest collection of interesting chairs. We rescued the Pierre Paulin Ribbon Chair, designed in 1965 for Artifort, from a used furniture place on Lafayette Street. After cleaning it up, we enjoyed its oh-so-60s orange fabric and white base. When lolling about within its cozy grasp, youre in our primary sweet spot. The second listening position is in the Midway Chair.
We also have an original Eames Rosewood Lounger and Ottoman. It only required attention oncean audio manufacturer (of course) banged the arms so hard the entire back assembly crashed to the floor. What I do for Queen and Realm, Moneypenny. A nice Brno chair by Mies van der Rohe in light gray leather rounds out the collection, along with a set of the beautifully architectural Midway chairs designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Midway Gardens in Chicago early last century.
The listening chair is important. Well talk about it. The short form is, you should be comfortable first and foremost. Listening should be a relaxing experience, not a pain in the pancreas, but do avoid couches with high backs. The same goes for high-backed chairs, especially those with winglets, lets call them, unfurled behind your audiophile ears. You may want to work on the reflective/refractive elements behind the listening position, but you want to do it intelligently, with purpose, not haphazardly.
Babes In Toyland
While at Stereophile, I engaged with many manufacturers and distributors who bubbled with enthusiasm for their particular designs and implementation of the audiophile dream. Most of them were great to know and, in many cases, learn from. I just got turned off when a few of them insisted their way was the only way. Nevertheless, theyre devoted people who march for their cause, because they must. Its in their blood. I respect that enormously, but it never stopped me from writing what I thought. There were a few who, ahhh, must not have been thinking globally, who were hostile or just behaved strangely. I always prefer to be professional with everyone to the extent that I can. Thank you.
Not everyone remembers that before joining Stereophile, I spent a year and a half at TAS! And Ive done a few articles for overseas audio publications, and a vinyl shopping tour for the Atlantic Monthly.
Recent Monstrous Events
A month or so after leaving Stereophile, I heard from Noel Lee, the Head Monster himself. "Sure," I thought fast, "I can work on those projects, but youll have to hire me!" Short silence, then "Uhhhh, okay." A few weeks later, cruising the hallways at HE2002 in New York, we closed the deal on the cell phone. I was a Monster whod have imagined it?
Traveling two weeks a month to Monster HQ in SF, sweating it out in the commercial trenches, some elemental truths became all too evident. As a journalist, I thought I knew exactly what was happening in my field. But I didnt know the half of it, so to speak. Working the other side of the fence changed my perspective entirely. And how. Nothing like working a pressured, deadline-driven job in a large, competitive consumer electronics firm for a high-voltage reality check. I bridged engineering and marketing with white papers, did public relations work, PR, manual and promotional writing, and contributed to the huge efforts needed to bring new products to market.
The experience was consuming. And so, after leaving Monsterville in August after almost a year and a half, I accepted David Clark and David Robinsons offer to contribute to PFO while reorganizing my work life. It is from these lofty heights that I shall spew.
We Now Rejoin Reality, Already In Progress
So whats happening out there? Lets begin with the laughable RIAA. Arent they having quite the annus horribilus? Their pratfalls are keeping the cable news networks up at night reporting their hilarious high jinks. And now theyre telling us that the barely adequate CD (sounding so much better these days) might not even survive as Universal opens the sluice gates at 30% off to move the goods. Of course, the entire situation is laid at the feet of those unscrupulous, criminally minded downloaders! Like the 12-year-old honor student in NY who apologized and reported that her stomach was all tied up in knots about it. Lookin good, RIAA.
They dont seem to realize the recording business has changed. In the past, millions were invested in grooming an artist for their hit single, album, and video. That may explain some of the greed and avarice. But now the market can decide for itself from its virtual station on the Internet. One cannot defy the march of time. We should, in my most humble opinion, find a way "in" for these people to embrace music in higher fidelity, not co-opting them out right at the beginning.
Yes, the world is a crazy place, dangerously shallow and without empathy or much merit. Ben and J-Lo, theyre on, theyre off, who cares? Who gets the 40-million-dollar home theater system, the better to watch Gigli? Six-pack abs and perfect bodies, rampant media sexuality. Briiiiiitney! Yo! Yo! (As if ) Yes, its the Race to the Bottom. No depth in life, no room for knowledge and wisdom, for connoisseurship, for knowing and deeply enjoying. Today, everything starts NOW and lasts for but a moment until the Next Happening Now moment comes along to weakly titillate.
Ive always told Those Who Believe to get off their collective butts, stop lamenting The End, and make a New Beginning in this admittedly flawed Bushian consumerist/high deficit world. It is your obligation to entice family and friends to the listening chair and crank it up. Some of them will just keep chattering away, but some will "hear it" and want it. A/V types, do the same! Blast em out of their chairs with special effects if you must, and some will recognize their pathetic HTIB (Home Theater In A Box) for the little underperforming (and unprofitable!) runt it is.
Little Shop Of Horrors
Walk into many shops and youll see plasma screens without audio! Look at the plasma ads in the magazinesno audio! Apparently the outside world is largely unaware of their sense of hearing and wants to keep it that way. Banker Boy coughs up $5000 on a luxury HDTV display and assumes the crappy $600 HTIB by Afterthought Electronics will do the job! Bzzzzt. At least put the plasmas in a good A/V room and show how much better their home entertainment system can be with more horsepower and better components. Home theater can be very visceral, so eviscerate them! Dont wait for the next big thing. Its already here.
Why isnt HTIB touted as a temporary solution, creating an upgrade path in the idiom, say, of high end audio? Its that race to the bottom mentality again, and everyone participates, from the manufacturer to the dealers who appear stymied, to consumers, who are fed up!
That Was Then, This Is Now
Our traditions have changed. Audiophiles once saved for upgrades to their system: a preamp or a better integrated, stereo then monoblock amps, speakers and wires. Today, many of these disillusioned would-be/could-be audiophiles are throwing it in and buying into consumer-level home theater for, they imagine, a better Quality of Cooping or Cocooning (simply put, staying at home!) You e-mail your friends to find out if theyve TiVod that special on Ovation last night. In fact, you never go out!
Our new-age social disorders, exacerbated by pervasive national angst, coupled with a complex, depressed global economy, have had a powerful effect on the ol Leave it to Beaver lifestyle. Its way too scary out there, so lets cocoon and watch a DVD at home tonight! One might say its not entirely a bad way to spend time with your loved ones. Forgo movies and listen to music if you can manage it.
The Consumer Societys new cooping instincts fueled home entertainments recent growth, in my view. Rather than run from it, we, enlightened audio species that we are, should embrace the changes and lift DNA samples of whatever opportunities for growth in video and audio are to be found in it. Grow, learn, change, or die, grasshopper. Home theater grows, audio can grow too, as the industry learns to market its products better, and to a wider audience.
Home theater is an exciting, immersive experience that can, on first explosion, captivate newcomers like nobodys business. Lets take this consumerist momentum and bring "them" closer to our fold. Get their jones up about surround sound and maybe a clever dealer will expose them to real music playback. Show them that its more than compressed bits of lame, screechy, flatulent noise in the mall.
High resolution? Dont have time, babe, gotta run
MP3 is the work of the devil. I tried it during my two-week stints at Monster and wasnt much impressed with the sounds from my hard drive, even with a Little Headroom and More power supply on a pair of Sennheiser 600s and Cardas cable.
If youve read me before, youll know I love upsampling and SACD. As Ive come to learn, DVD-A is another worthy storage medium when recorded and mastered well, but too often, DVD-A recordings are played back on consumer-grade equipment in mid-level A/V systems. The comparison isnt "fair and balanced," with the significant rift between consumer DVD-A decks and SACD machines with improved analog output stages and stiffer, regulated power supplies. Still, theres enormous musical potential in both formats.
The music business must adapt to the New World Order and come up with a business model that encompasses market realities in the 21st century. Id naturally like to see high resolution and standard CDs remain on the market. Perhaps we will become the totally downloading society, but for now, uncompressed is best. We have to consider if Universals move invigorates sales and other companies follow suit, if small labels will suffer, and what the numbers reveal. Speaking of numbers, Best Buy and Circuit City are down in the market today while specialty retailers are up. Catch the wave.
High resolution digital is so worth it though. And dont get me started on analog, my true love. Its never been better.
Chez Ten
Kathleen and I? We have a modest home theater system around a Toshiba 32-inch HDTV. Its a pastiche of components that sound, as the French say, pas terriblenot terrible.
But our tastes run to two-channels siren song. Our digital front-end is a Classe Omega SACD/CD upsampler with separate power supply, built like a jewel chest from Bulgari. It handles everything with control and elegant aplomb.
For vinyl, I still thrill to my vdH Grasshopper IV Gold mounted in a thin Forsell Boron arm on the Air Force One. The flywheel is fine, but the trick for best sound is a stretch-thread drive that absorbs the little bump made by the old dental floss knot flicking around the capstan of the wheel. The sound is sweeter and more stable with the softer stretchy thread. The dependable, ever-adaptable and quiet BAT VK-P10SE phono stage makes for an appealing analog sound.
My preamp of choice is the Lamm L2 Reference. Its hard to imagine a more direct, non-editorial switching gain device than this. Its power supply and tube regulation are in a separate chassis, solid state output stage in another. This remarkable hybrid brings the music home without fail and seemingly without effort. We can talk about it, but the bottom line is its fabulous neutrality, the integrity of the sound and imaging, and just how stable its electronics remain in all situations.
In fact, in my experience, when playing with well-engineered power supplies like these, no power conditioning is necessary. Good connections, dedicated lines, and good grounds when possible, and let the money you spent on these upper-crust front-end components do the work for you.
Before anyones bile bellows forth, let me add that todays components offer huge performance for the buck, way more than even three or five years ago. And although Kathleen and I are spoiled beyond reason, we all must focus on the entry-level domain to impress, educate, and indoctrinate the unknowing.
Our summer amps are the Linn Klimax Solo 500 monoblocks, appreciatively cool-running, with trick power supplies and quick, elegant white wine sound. We boughtem, theyre fab, thats my story and Im stickin to it!
When the weather becomes cool, I savor a fine Bordeaux, then wire up the original Krell 350mc monoblocks. Theyre hot, honey, even when in "bias-down" mode. For our old leaky loft, thats no sin. They grab the Utopias in a tight, sexy embrace and produce an awesome, powerful, tight, and tuneful bass, terrific die-for-it midrange, and sweet class-A treble. Sweet? You bet, ever so big time.
I have to work out my cables, but all things in good time.
Your Mission, Mr. Phelps
I will pontificate further on the State of Things, and welcome your feedback. (Sometimes itll take a while to get back to you, but I will.) Ill also write about system setup, basics to bullshit. And talk about footers, resonance, electrical considerations, speaker positioning, and other matters of import to us all. Maybe Ill have a look at some new components, too. In the meantime, loosen up and enjoy your system, whatever it is. Well make it perform! Enjoy
Oh, and let me tell you about your origins.
Lets step into the Wayback Machinethank you Mr. Peabody and Shermanand we find ourselves at the entrance to a cave, 24-96 Rubble Strewn Drive. Theres audio erectus and his cousin, video maximus, our very own knock-kneed ancestors.
Audio leans on his club and wiggles his toes. Hes remembering the deep dish from last nights party around the fire. It was all so deeply satisfying; pounding on the hollowed-out tree stumps, rapping the coconuts with sticks, drawing on the wall, and howling with the gang. We gotta do that again, he thinks. And again, and again.
Harp music, pages falling from a calendar
Consider the following modern-day scenarios. Youre single (you dog), 30-something, and largely unfettered by family, but have lots of friends. You and your buds are camped around the HDTV, the surround system cranked, and youre taking in the US Open as Roddick turns Ferrero into "peanuts, no I mean peanut butter!" offers an enthusiastic Kathleen, my audiophile wife, otherwise known as K-10. (Im J-10, as thats the way K-10 says my name, Jon-a-ten.)
Popcorn, chips, nachos, and beer are already showing signs of advanced depletion. As the peanut crumbles and Roddick launches a shockwave serve at 149 mph, the whole gang jumps up pumping their arms and howling at the moon while beating on any piece of furniture "falling readily to hand." All youd need are a few coconuts.
Scenario two: Upon arriving at the manse one Friday evening after work, youre gratified to see mom, sis, and Bud ensconced around that huge new plasma screen watching a thunderous Terminator 3, or is that Arnolds latest press briefing? You give everyone a hug and thank the A/V gods your boy isnt out taking drugs and your daughters not spending time with that hatchet-faced cretin from the electronics outlet store.
If youre a prosperous guy or gal, you pull out your hookah and slippers and tiptoe into the listening room and fire up the stereo. If, alas, as is too often the case, your company is downsizing, join the family around the A/V system and vow youll enjoy music over the weekend tout en famille.
And Your Point Is?
Trailing mauled analogies behind me, I (finally) get to my point. There has always been an active culture of listening to music, from the earliest lutencorn chips party through Mahler in candlelit rooms, to Ravel, Stravinsky, Basie, Ellington, arena rock, rap, and Moby. And in these multimedia days, musiceverywhere around usis augmented by video imagery that for many enhances the "experiential" sense of involvement for multchannel music, home theater, and other electronic entertainment systems. Thats part of the problem, but well come to that.
So every time you come home, kiss the missus (apologies to Ellen DeGeneris), pull off your shoes, and fire up your A/V systemor, more meaningfully, the stereo. Youre propagating an ancient, vital, very human ritual. Bless you and your honored ancestors. And the op amps they rode in on. Keep the faith, go forth and make the world a better place!


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By: Eames Yates
May 22, 2013
Budget cuts in the military will be affecting Moody Air Force Base.
After weeks of debate the Defense Department has announced plans to furlough roughly 700,000 civilian employees in the military, 500 of which work at Moody Air Force Base. With less money in their pockets local businesses could also feel the hurt.
Jesus Sebastian, La Jalisco Supermarket: "They come here a lot and like every business, every small business around here we all profit or get something back from Moody."
Tony Mallory, Mallory's Farm owner: "With about eighty percent of our business being from Moody it would actually close us down. Because if they don't have the money to spend then, you know, we're going to be one of the first things to be cut off."
Moody released a statement to WCTV saying:
"Generally employees will be furloughed one day a week for up to eleven days beginning on July 8th 2013. Supervisors are working contingency plans to handle operations during the furlough period."
But for some local businesses near Moody the impending furloughs don't represent the beginning...The tough times are already here.
Freddy Mikell, Bemiss Hardware owner: "They are still coming in buying, The foot traffic hasn't changed but what they are buying has changed. It's a lot less, they're spending less. They have a lot less to spend."
Moody has a nearly 450 million dollar annual economic impact on Lowndes County. Time will tell if that number shrinks.


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cry bloody murder
Fig. to scream as if something very serious has happened, especially unnecessarily. Now that Bill is really hurt, he's crying bloody murder. There is no point in crying bloody murder about the bill if you knew the restaurant was expensive.
get away with murder
1. Lit. to commit murder and not get punished for it. (See also get away with something.) Don't kill me! You can't get away with murder!
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get away with someone or something
to escape, taking someone or something with one. The kidnapper got away with little Brian. The burglars got away with a lot of cash and some diamonds.
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to do something and not get punished for it. (See also get away with murder) You can't get away with that! Larry got by with the lie.
murder on something
very destructive or harmful to something. Running a marathon is murder on your knees. This dry weather is murder on my crops.
Murder will out.
Prov. Murder will always be discovered.; A bad deed will be found out. Horace thought he had disposed of his victim in such a way that no one would ever discover his crime, but murder will out.
scream bloody murderand yell bloody murder
Fig. to complain bitterly; to complain unduly. When we put him in an office without a window, he screamed bloody murder. There is something wrong next door. Everyone is yelling bloody murder.
get away with something
to avoid blame, punishment, or criticism for doing something bad She cheated on the test and thought she could get away with it.
Usage notes: often in the form get away with it, as in the example
get away with murder
to not be punished for bad behavior It seems to me that kids these days really get away with murder in the classroom.
scream bloody murder
to shout or to complain very loudly Sometimes the baby screams bloody murder when we give her a bath. I'm so frustrated with the telephone company, I want to scream bloody murder.
Usage notes: sometimes holler bloody murder and yell bloody murder, with the same meaning
get away with murder(informal)
to be allowed to do things that other people would be punished or criticized for Dave gets away with murder because he's so charming.
I could murder something.(British informal)
something that you say when you want a particular kind of food or drink very much I'm starving. I could murder a curry.
scream blue murder(British, American & Australian informal) also scream bloody murder (American & Australian informal)
to shout or to complain very loudly Readers screamed blue murder when the price of their daily paper went up. Someone took the child's ice cream away and he started screaming bloody murder.
get away with
1. Escape the consequences or blame for, as in Bill often cheats on exams but usually gets away with it. [Late 1800s]
2. get away with murder. Escape the consequences of killing someone; also, do anything one wishes. For example, If the jury doesn't convict him, he'll have gotten away with murder, or He talks all day on the phone-the supervisor is letting him get away with murder. [First half of 1900s]
murder will out
Certain news cannot be suppressed, as in He's being charged with embezzlement and fraud-murder will out, you know. This expression already appeared in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale: "Murder will out that we see day by day." [Late 1300s]
scream bloody murder
Angrily protest as loudly as possible, as in When Jimmy took her teddy bear, Lauren screamed bloody murder, or Residents are screaming bloody murder about the increase in property taxes. The scream here may be either literal (as in the first example) or figurative, which is also true of invoking murder as though one were in danger of being killed. Versions of this term, such as cry murder, date from the 1400s.
murderand slaughter
tv. to overwhelm; to beat someone in a sports contest. We went out on the field prepared to slaughter them. The murdered us in the second half.
scream bloody murder
tv. to scream very loudly; to complain or protest loudly. She screams bloody murder every time I get near her.
get away with murderInformal
To escape punishment for or detection of an egregiously blameworthy act.
murder will out
Secrets or misdeeds will eventually be disclosed.


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Ray Lavender ft. Jeff Chery - Champion
On Sept. 19, six-time world Champion "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather will come out of retirement for a bout against John Manuel Márquez. It goes without saying that the legendary pugilist's return to the ring deserves hard-hitting hip-hop commemoration, and although the tribute track we watched Konvict singer Ray Lavender and Jeff "Pay$0z" Chery record in a recent video ultimately wasn't selected as the boxer's official theme music, there's no denying it packs a mean punch. Originally set to premiere in the Booth but recently leaked to the 'net in unfinished form, the unreleased cut finds the collaborators squaring off against their challengers over an hyped-up synth-string beat by J Hot. Pay bobs and weaves his way through two verses, waxing poetic about Mayweather's many achievements, and Ray ties it all together with a high-powered hook. Pound for pound, Champion is a knockout, and should leave listeners amped for the upcoming bout as well as the projected year-end release of Chery's Booth-sponsored Going Against the Grain mix-album.


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Panathinaikos reach quarter-finals after shootout
ATHENS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Panathinaikos reached the Greek Cup quarter-finals after a 3-2 penalty shootout victory over Apollon Kalamaria on Wednesday.
Panathinaikos were held to a 1-1 draw over 90 minutes in the fifth round replay, a 65th minute goal by Dimitris Papadopoulos cancelling out Alban Bushaj's early goal for Apollon.
With the scores level after extra time, the game went to penalties. Apollon missed their first kick and Panathinaikos their first two but Nasief Morris, Ricardo Bovio and Dimitiris Salpigidis all scored to ensure a thrilling Panathinaikos win.
In the other fifth round replay PAS Ioannina, promoted this year to the second division, beat Super League side Iraklis 2-0.
The goals came in the space of two minutes just before halftime from Konstantinos Kazanaferis and Giorgios Saitiotis.


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TEL AVIV (Jul. 2)
Liver transplant operations in Israel are at least a year away, as the Health Ministry has said that none of the three hospitals vying for the necessary license to perform such operations is capable of doing so.
The three medical centers — Rambam in Haifa, Beilinson in Petah Tikva and Hadassah in Jerusalem — are contesting this ruling and each is putting forward its own virtues to indicate it is ready to start operating immediately on the some 20 Israelis now in urgent need of liver transplants and now trying to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars needed for the life-saving operation abroad. The hospitals say that a specially-appointed committee has erred in its assessment of their capabilities.
Rambam Hospital said it should be allowed to begin operations because its Dr. Yigal Kam is widely recognized as Israel's pre-eminent expert in liver transplantation, having trained at Pittsburgh's University Presbyterian Hospital, where he has carried out a number of transplants.
The Histadrut's Beilinson Hospital points to its great experience in carrying out kidney transplants and to its central location in the middle of the country.
Hadassah's Ein Kerem is considered to have the best facilities and was chosen by the Health Ministry last month as the sole Israeli hospital for heart transplants.


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