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Apple has announced a special media event to take place on September 9, 2009. The invitation indicates that it will be iPod-related (just like in previous years) and will take place in San Francisco.
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Beatles rock band is being released on the 9th. What's to think this isn't Beatles related?
I can't imagine how they could re-package Beatles tunes in order to have me re-buy what I already own.
If that's the case, isn't it a bit of a travesty to advertise for a Beatles-related event with a Rolling Stones lyric? No sir, I don't think it has anything to do with the Beatles.
This sounds like poor planning on Apple's part. I can't imagine theyll get much of a crowd considering that its the Dreamcast's 10th birthday...
I wonder if the earpiece cord coming out of the bottom of that iPod in the picture is significant.
It's probably an iPod touch, although, if the Classic were to survive, it would unify the lineup somewhat if its headphone jack were moved to the bottom.
Come on Apple Wheel! *fingers crossed*
It's not just the release of Beatles Rock Band that's scheduled for that date:
Also note that currently, none of The Beatles music is available through any digital distribution channel. I wouldn't be surprised that with the remastered re-release, that the catalog would finally be coming to iTunes.
Sounds like September 9th is going to be an all-around Beatle's blitz.
It seems odd that they use a Rolling Stones theme when the event takes place on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of the millenium, and the Beatles had that "Number 9" nonsense.
I told my co-worker that the British Invasion band that Apple chose for the 9/9/09 event was The Rolling Stones. Incredulously, he exclaimed, "The Who?!"
9/9/9 is pretty significant for other reasons. Hopefully nothing bad happens that day in the UK.
Personally I'm looking forward to a 250GB iPod Classic.
It's the date of Satan doing a headstand.
As a Who fan from long ago, I can assure you that people try to put us down.
...i really hope apple remedies its past few years' neglect and finally offers an ipod with sufficient capacity for lossless collections...i hope as much, but given their contemporary direction, i remain skeptical that they give a damn...
Well, you see... the iTunes/iPod connection will be the magic bullet to get those of us who don't give a rat's ass about The Beatles to come in from the cold.
Didn't Apple have an iPod event a couple (or 3-4) years back that had a tag line from a Beatles song? I seem to remember it, but can't find any google evidence to back that up
If you'd just stay in one place, that wouldn't happen.
For starters the slogan being ripped from a Rolling Stones tune.
The Beat Goes On.
Ive had some Yerba Buena in cali before... Whoo that was awesome.
It's almost like you're blaming the victim.
From where I'm sitting that looks awful cold.
So this is Yet Another iPod Update? Those slogans always seem to match what they talk about ("There's something in the Air" -> MacBook Air), so it seems like a non-event to me; I have an iPhone, so new iPods really don't interest me. I guess it could still be a surprise. Maybe Teh Steve will be back.
If Apple doesn't update the iPod Classic with a bigger HDD, how many years will it be before we see a 256GB+ flash-based iPod (3-5 years)?
Was that when Apple released a special Sonny And Cher edition of the iPod?
If it's only rock and roll, this means no camera iPod, right?
(Film rolls would be too much a stretch, as the camera would be digital)
So that silhouette is obviously a girl, but are those really rock and roll shoes? More like Sunday-go-to-meeting shoes.
Hipster chicks are all about vintage heels now. Hawt, IMO.
Hipsters, heels, and chicks aside, Yerba Buena is an awesome name. I should use it more often.
Touch Mini, maybe iPod Touch (S)
Seriously, what else could they have to generate any interest?
Obviously a girl? I thought it was that guy who lives in the pink adobe house nextdoor to us. He wears shoes like that on Saturday nights. Red/green hair. I wonder if Apple'll show a half-ripe tapplet.
What I really want to see is an Apple media server. A place where the members of a household can store their stuff and an intelligent yet simple way to tell which music/pictures/film can be accessed by everyone and which are exclusive for one account. This device will come with video and audio out, ethernet, WLAN and USB2 for additinal disk space.
I'm simply looking to an iPod Touch updated w/ GPS, compass and a camera. A built in mic would be nice too for Skype app, but I won't hold my breath for that feature.
I predict the iPod "classic" will get an SDD drive so it can be modernized, but still have big capacity. Both the "classic" and the "nano" will get cameras, a bigger screen, and a new scroll wheel which is under the screen. The "touch" will be updated with more iPhone features.
And of course the iPhone "shuffle" will finally be revealed. It will speak the names of people in your address book in order and you can click on the button to call the one you want. Think Jitterbug with an Apple flair and seventeen less buttons.
It would make sense for the Beatles catalog to be announced as well. It has to be released some time and right when Rock Band comes out makes as much sense as any date. I would predict a Beatles special edition iPod with all the Beatles songs preloaded.
Holy heck! I'm going to take a day off work to play Dreamcast then! It's still going strong, noisy overheating but awesomely fun to play thing that it is
The slogan Apple have chosen sounds like it carries the implication "Yeah, it's another round of iPod updates, and they're pretty average - nothing to get excited about, but people like iPods, so...". It can either mean that, or they're giving us lack of excitement for a big announcement.
Will Teh Steve be there?
One thing I'm still waiting for: *all* iPods and iPhones supporting the "downscale to 128Kb/s for syncing" feature the Shuffle has. Would make all of mine that much more useful.
160GB isn't enough for you? WTF?
The biggest iPod now available is 120GB, Hanser.
And my collection is almost that big with lossy compression. I shudder to think how big it would be lossless.


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And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
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An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America #8
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First 'True' Colored Doll
New York -- Dr. Ralph Bunche and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt examine the first "anthropologically true" colored doll to hit the market. Called the "Saralee Negro Doll," it was created by a White Southerner, Mrs. Sara Lee Creech (1951)
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Aunt Bea,What a yew got thar?..What r yew cookin' up NOW?
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Could Eleanor get any cooler?
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Nobody doesn't love Saralee.
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644 Acres of land consisting of 4 contiguous land parcels. located in the Niland area, HWY 111and RR track passes through the South East corner. Also located within The?West Chocolate Mountains?REEA area which creates a new Solar Energy Zone (SEZ), which is part of President Obama's "administration's efforts to facilitate solar energy development. APN#002-490-001-000; 002-490-002-000; 002-490-007-000; 002-490-008-000;
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By Susan Redden
JOPLIN, Mo. —
A rural Joplin man pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge and was assessed a suspended sentence for an assault on a woman less than four months ago.
Chad E. Hutchens, 43, pleaded guilty in Jasper County Circuit Court to misdemeanor assault in a plea agreement with the prosecutor's office. Associate Judge Richard Copeland assessed Hutchens one year in jail, with execution of the sentence suspended and the defendant placed on probation for a year.
Hutchens had been facing a felony count of second-degree assault for allegedly grabbing Katrina Gibbs by the neck, throwing her to the ground and breaking her ankle during an argument Sept. 27.
Gibbs told a sheriff's deputy that she was called to an address to pick up her boyfriend because Hutchens was trying to start a fight with him. She told the deputy that when she arrived, she asked her boyfriend if Hutchens was "the drunk guy" who was trying to fight him, and Hutchens took offense and attacked her.
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JOHNSTOWN — RZASA – Margaret R., 76, Johnstown, died Feb. 10, 2013, at Memorial Medical Center. Born March 3, 1936, in Johnstown, daughter of John G. and Mary (Pavlick) Novak. Preceded in death by parents; husband, Fred W. Rzasa; and brother, William Novak. Survived by children, Joanna T., Stone; James M. Rzasa; and Mary M., wife of Louis W. Cover, all of Johnstown; grandchildren, Jacob, Stephanie, Joshua, Nathan and Ryan; great-grandson, Zachary; brothers, John, married to Julie Kovalchik; and Joseph; sister, Helen Yuhas; and sister-in-law, Jenny Kogut. Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Margaret was a former member of SS. Casimir & Emerich Church, where she volunteered for fish fries, pierogi sales and festivals. Member of St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, where funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Franciscan Friars, OFM, Conv. Friends will be received from 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Francis G. Ozog Funeral Home Inc., 710 Broad St., where vigil for the deceased will be held. Committal, Grandview Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations be directed to the family and they will donate to a charity of their choice. Condolences can be sent to the family at ozogfh.com.


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... I will explore putting a Type 1 diabetes description and disclaimer in some of our campaign materials. Also, when we are a part of upcoming longer format tv and radio news stories we will talk about the difference.
Thanks again for your feedback.
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More *#@* from Sevre
Barf. As I read this they will "explore" making a distinction between t1 and t2 in some cases (not all) but are really looking to get their crappola into wider circulation.
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If they mention (even disclaim) type 1 - it'll be associated with that vile video. That video needs to be buried.
- November 14, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Scott said...
Double barf
- November 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM
"I will explore putting a Type 1 diabetes description and disclaimer in some of our campaign materials"
What the heck?? These aren't even the same disease!! Some folks just refuse to be educated. Triple barf.
- November 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM
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DiMarzio Steve Lukather Transition Pickups
DiMarzio pickups has announced new Steve Lukather signature pickups.
Developed for Toto's Lukather's new Music Man guitar, the company will also sell them separately.
DiMarzio announced it will release two new Transition humbucking pickups for electric guitars in early December of 2012. The Transition pickups were developed by DiMarzio and Lukather for his new LIII Music Man guitar. The pickups will also be available for retail sale from DiMarzio.
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Why T. Boone Pickens Could Be the Best Hope for Wind Energy
The Texas oilman's 'green conversion' is all about business
T. Boone Pickens appears before a congressional panel.
All of a sudden, everyone seems to be talking about wind energy. Sleek, gray wind turbines, rising hundreds of feet into the sky, rotate in steady, clockwise loops in television ads that pop up almost hourly. Both presidential candidates have heartily endorsed wind power. Even oil giants like Shell and Chevron are on board. Yet this spring, when the Department of Energy looked at wind power, it found huge hurdles, particularly the question of how to send electricity from the blustery Midwest to the big coastal cities.
The logistical and technological challenges remain, so why the new gust of interest? Four-dollar-a-gallon gas and concerns about oil, for starters. But the emergence of a Texas oilman and 1980s corporate raider as a national spokes-man for wind energy is transforming the playing field. T. Boone Pickens isn't offering any new technological solutions, but his endorsement is the most emphatic signal that wind energy has moved beyond the realm of the green lobby. It has gone mainstream, led by a titan of business with decades of oil experience. Returning to the national spotlight at the age of 80, Pickens is everywhere these days, traipsing across cable news shows and before congressional hearings. Moving beyond his reputation as a Republican partisan who funded the controversial swift boat ads attacking John Kerry in 2004, he has personally pitched his "Pickens Plan" to both Barack Obama and John McCain. And he is starring in his own TV ads, touting his plan to wean America off oil. Pickens wants 20 percent of U.S. electricity to come from wind power in 10 years, in the process helping to free up natural gas to become the country's main transportation fuel.
Game changer. Since his ads began airing, Pickens has won praise from politicians and the media alike for his "green conversion." But his fervor is not a sudden convert's zeal as much as a businessman's quest for a legacy. In the corporate world, Pickens has long been a game changer, and his embrace of wind is a good harbinger for alternative energy. America, he says, is ready for green energy. It just needs a leader.
Over the past 20 years, since he first became wealthy by mounting takeover bids on much larger companies, Pickens has routinely been asked if he is in it just for the money. He invariably says something like, "I'm worth enough money already." Maybe so, but easily overlooked is the simple fact that a growing number of companies believe that they can make money from wind. This wasn't always the case, of course. Wind turbine technology has advanced significantly in recent years, and the cost of generating electricity from wind has dropped by about 80 percent from the 1990s. U.S. wind production jumped 45 percent last year, and, in July, the country overtook Germany as the world's top wind producer.
Today, Pickens may be the most high-profile investor in wind, but he's far from the only one. A number of big investment banks, like Goldman Sachs, as well as top hedge funds, are hopping into the game. JPMorgan's energy unit, for example, has invested $4.4 billion into more than 40 U.S. wind farms.
Until Pickens emerged this summer, along with a $58 million ad campaign paid for out of his own pocket, the excitement was largely limited to trade publications and corporate boardrooms. Pickens took wind public, a move that comes at just the right time. Wind power, despite its recent advances, is still in a delicate position. It produces around 1 percent of the country's electricity. It's competing for attention with other nascent renewable energies. And it's still alarmingly dependent on government support. Over the past decade, every time federal tax credits for wind energy have lapsed—and it has happened three times—the wind industry has crashed. There's no guarantee that wind (or solar, or biofuels) will succeed on a large scale.
Certainly, Pickens stands to win big if wind power blossoms. Mesa Power, the wind firm he launched, is planning to build the world's largest wind farm near Pampa, Texas, for which it has already spent $2 billion to buy 667 wind turbines from General Electric. His hedge fund, BP Capital, is heavily invested in natural gas, and he stands to profit if natural gas becomes a transitional source of automobile fuel, as he envisions.


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Enid News and Eagle
ENID, Okla. —
Whenever severe weather nears the area, trained storm spotters are activated across the county to report back with crucial information from the field.
Certified Director of Enid/Garfield County Emergency Management Mike Honigsberg said there are more than 180 storm spotters in the county's network.
Honigsberg, who is a certified trainer for the National Weather Service, has hosted training for the storm-spotter network and began a certification program for them about three years ago.
"We started this certification program three years ago and we all kind of agreed we'll go three years and those that attend all three years, and go out in the field when we activate, we would do a certification program," Honigsberg said. "We have over 180 spotters in the county. The first year we're certifying 60 or so. I'm happy with that. Next year, we'll add a whole bunch more."
He said offering the certification to spotters "is the least thing I can do."
"These people dedicate themselves to public safety and that's what it's all about," Honigsberg said.
He said severe weather dictates when spotters are called and activated.
"Sometimes we scramble and other times we have time to get out there and get set up," Honigsberg said. "They know everything is coming. I do briefings with them, too. I send out the pages and emails. They all get them."
Honigsberg said most of the spotters have been with him the 18 years he's been emergency manager for the county.
Training is done in two-hour courses and six to eight hours of activation, usually spread over four or five storms. But Honigsberg said the training is all business.
"It isn't sitting back and cutting up. It's serious stuff," he said. "We go over stuff, they ask questions. Even what I call the veterans ask questions because no two storms are alike."
He said he is working on an advanced training class to give spotters more insight into storm structure, some radar interpretation and updates on the latest advanced technology.
Waukomis Fire Chief Clarence Maly said his department used to storm spot even before Honigsberg was named emergency management director.
He said the training is important to all members of his department.
"It's very informative, and especially for the new people," he said. "For some of the older guys that have been around forever, we can help teach the new guys."
Maly said when he and his spotters are activated during storms, they typically set up in one of three areas.
"We've got a hill west of Waukomis we sit on so we can see the whole valley," he said. Another truck is sent to a hill south of Bison and the third is set up west of Waukomis. Each truck has a two-man team of spotters.
"Our deal is lives and property," Maly said. "We get to watching storms, or if we get a tornado, and there are any injuries or property damaged, we get it taken care of."
He said the network does a good job of getting information about storms where it needs to be.
"It's a pretty good network," Maly said. "With Mike's group, the sheriff's office and everyone working together now, it's working really well."
Drummond Fire Chief Jeremy Messall said he's been a storm spotter for about a decade, ever since he joined the department.
He said the storm spotter training was "great" because it offers the mechanics of what's behind a storm.
"We make our guys do refresher courses every year for updates and just to keep it fresh in their head," he said. "Being in Drummond, we're the southwest-most department in the county, so we usually catch it coming in first."
He said the department deploys teams south on Oklahoma 132, the Bison blacktop and another toward Ames. The training the spotters received and the network itself are very important, Messall said.
"We're the eyes for the town, we're the eyes for Enid to let them know what's coming into the county," he said. "Every department does their job, no doubt."
Fairmont Fire Chief Joel Eggers said his department has been part of the storm-spotting network ever since Honigsberg became emergency management director.
"I think it's necessary training," Eggers said. "I think we need to have that training so we know what we're actually looking at and dealing with out there."
He said having trained spotters in the department helps ensure information given to the public is accurate.
"All spotters have that training," he said. "It makes us more reliable than just a citizen on the street."
He said his department usually deploys about four miles south of Fairmont to the southwest or at 66th and Southgate, depending "upon the direction of the storm and where it's heading."
"We're in contact with Mike and he's letting us know where it's coming from and what it's going to do," he said. We kind of gear our locations from his input."
He said the members of his department are spotters only — not storm chasers.
"We've been able to keep a fairly good distance from the storms because we don't chase," Eggers said. "We are truly spotters. We stay in our location and move accordingly to avoid being caught in any storms."
He said his spotters are trying to protect people with accurate information.
"We're trying to help our communities be warned, and a lot of times, the TV stations are not the best source of information for our area," he said. "We tell people to listen to our local radio stations and be aware of what's going on."
Honigsberg said the spotters all are involved in emergency services, making it easier for them to communicate.
"The key thing about our people in the field is they are all emergency services personnel in some shape or form," he said. "They're rural fire, sheriff's office, Enid Police Department."
He said their first priority is to their respective jurisdictions, and their second priority is if something is damaged by severe weather, they can act as emergency responders.
"In my opinion, we have the best network of storm spotters in the state," Honigsberg said. "We are where we are today because we all work together. After a major activation, we get together after a week or so, sometimes it's that night, and we go over what went right and what went wrong.
"And if something went wrong, how can we fix it? How can we become more efficient? And that's why we have the caliber of people we have. We encourage each other. If someone makes a bad decision, we explain why not to do that, and we move forward because everybody makes mistakes," he said.


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- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Bring a saucepan of water to a boil. Boil tomatoes for about 5 minutes, then remove from the pan, and drop into a bowl of cold water. Peel, and cut in half. Place tomato halves cut side up onto a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, and season with salt, pepper and tarragon to taste. Reserve 1 teaspoon of tarragon for later.
- Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven. Meanwhile, combine the beans and mushrooms in the container of a food processor or blender, and process until smooth. Set aside in a small dish.
- Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the garlic, and cook stirring until fragrant. Add the bean and mushroom paste, and stir to blend. When the tomatoes are done, place them into the food processor, and process for about 10 seconds. The tomatoes should not become a paste, but more of a pulp. Stir the tomatoes into the skillet a little bit at a time, and season with poultry seasoning and the remaining teaspoon of tarragon. Heat through.
- Place tortillas into the oven, and cook for about 1 minute, or until slightly hardened. Remove from the oven, and place on a baking sheet. Spread some sauce onto the browned side of each tortilla, sprinkle with olive slices, and cover generously with shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Bake for 3 to 5 minutes in the preheated oven, or until cheese is melted and the edges are lightly browned. Cool for a few minutes, then cut into quarters and serve.
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I really wanted to love this. It sounds so good and good for me. But it was just OK. Reminded me too much of a bean tostada. Couldn't tell the mushrooms were even in it. I think I'd try again and not put the mushrooms in the processor. Also add some freah spinach and onions maybe. The sauce looked like refried beans. Maybe leave the tomatoes chunkier? i liked it enough to keep fooling around with it. Thanks for posting.
This was a great dish. The children loved it as well as the hubby!! Thanks!
very good. but, dont forget to add the onions in there too. :)
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Russians, Norwegians and Germans; polyphony, brass and pianola: the latest releases
This month, we've some virtuoso pianola, Bruckner and Chopin get downsized, and there's some full-fat Mahler. Rare American orchestral works rub shoulders with Mozart, and a Russian conductor gives his final performance. A British pianist tackles Ravel, and a Danish accordion player seeks Slavic inspiration. Brass players from San Francisco take on contemporary music, and Trio Mediaeval revive 13th-century polyphony from Worcester. And a young Norwegian brings Grieg to vivid life.
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Grieg: Chasing the Butterfly: Recreating Grieg's 1903 Recordings and Beyond Sigurd Slåttebrekk and Edvard Grieg (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra/Michail Jurowski (Simax Classics)
Start with the bonus disc, a reissue of a 2004 performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto. It's jaw-droppingly good; a hackneyed, over-familiar work reinvigorated in Sigurd Slåttebrekk's hands and beautifully accompanied by Michail Jurowski's Oslo players. Grieg's brassy, gloriously affirmative coda has never sounded more gracious, its scrunchy chord progressions (what is it about Scandinavian composers and flattened sevenths?) hitting exactly the right spot. Brilliant. Slåttebrekk, working with producer Tony Harrison, had wanted to create a fresh performance, "to bypass any tradition-encrusted patina", and their next move was to investigate a set of acoustic recordings made by the elderly Grieg in Paris in 1903.
There's always a fascination in hearing composers play their own work. Restoring old recordings can be a dangerous business – in removing too much ambient hiss and crackle you can end up with something sterile and lifeless. Despite the surface noise, Grieg's selection of Lyric Pieces and movements from the Op 7 Piano Sonata are startling. He's so fast and energetic, though within the quick tempi there's a surprising amount of flexibility and schwung. Slåttebrekk has attempted to reproduce Grieg's own performing style, with hours spent analysing the 1903 recordings and taping his versions on Grieg's own Steinway. What makes the results work is the intent behind them; we move beyond skilled impersonation to something quietly magical, Grieg's miniatures gaining unexpected, touching profundity. Wonderfully enjoyable, and as a bonus we get to hear Grieg's performance of the irresistible Wedding Day at Troldhaugen spliced together with Slåttebrekk's recreation. Only the abrupt change in sound quality betrays the joins.
Watch Slåttebrekk's performance intercut with Grieg's own
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Trio Mediaeval: A Worcester Ladymass (ECM)
This is an imaginative reconstruction of a 13th-century Mass to the Virgin, mostly made up of surviving scraps and fragments of polyphony composed by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St Mary's in Worcester. Trio Mediaeval don't pretend to give us authenticity; this music wasn't written for performance or meant to be ordered in any particular sequence. British Minimalist Gavin Bryars was asked to add to the work, composing a Credo and a Benedicamus domino to complete the set of 20 pieces. Nor would it have been sung by male voices, but Trio Mediaeval's cool, vibrato-free sound approaches perfection, giving many of the pieces brightness and lift. Listen to the disc without following the track listing – after the stark setting of Benedicta/Virgo Dei genitrix, Bryars's Credo steals in – the language less bare and less consonant, but not distractingly so. And it's wonderfully recorded in a remote Austrian monastery with a glowing, resonant acoustic.
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Bruckner: Symphony No 2 Swedish Chamber Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard (Bis)
You don't expect Bruckner to sound this charming. The composer's final three symphonies are colossal late-Romantic breeze blocks, austere, stately and majestic. The lesser-known 1872 Second Symphony already prefigures some of Bruckner's tics – shimmering strings at the opening, an earthy scherzo and the characteristic duplet-triplet rhythm, which dominates the later works. In this slimmed-down Swedish performance it sings and dances – a 40-piece orchestra can react with a fleetness which the Vienna Philharmonic can't match; Thomas Dausgaard's direction suggests he's steering a lightweight racing bike rather than manoeuvring an oil tanker. The sextuplets on high strings at the start are so cleanly articulated, and Bruckner's galumphing bass lines are for once audible as melodies.
Listen to the beautiful wind writing, which looks back to Schubert and Schumann. Dausgaard's slow movement is compelling – it's great to hear those slow Brucknerian chord progressions for the first time in this work. In this symphony there's no cymbal-capped climax, but the journey still thrills. Dausgaard's witty scherzo delights, and the finale ends things in high style – Bruckner's abrupt, almost brusque coda bringing us into bright, breezy daylight.
Chopin's own quartet arrangement of the F-Minor Concerto doesn't sound like a diluted version of the orchestral version; what's striking is how successfully Roger Woodward manages the tricky balance between piano and solo strings. If anything, the reduced tutti opening is more successful, with not a hint of muddiness or greyness. Woodward's playing is as benignly effortless as always, without a trace of ego. The sublime Larghetto too gains from the extra transparency and the Allegro vivace swings and dances slyly. Only once did I forget that this is a chamber performance – surprised to hear the solo horn call chiming out on cello a few minutes from the close.
Beethoven's Piano Quintet No 3 was written when its composer was 15, in 1785. The athletic piano part is rarely silent, the solo strings occasionally a little subservient, though they do get the chance to sing in the central Adagio con espressione. This is music of precocious, radiant geniality. Woodward's Bösendorfer makes a glorious sound, matched by the Alexander Quartet. And it's on the Celestial Harmonies label, so the recording quality is outstanding. Woodward's erudite notes are fascinating.
Ives/Brant: A Concord Symphony; Copland: Organ Symphony San Francisco Symphony Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas, with Paul Jacobs (organ) (SFS)
Charles Ives's rambling Concord Sonata, published in 1920, is a famously intractable, inaccessible piece. So difficult that certain chords can only be sounded by lowering a wooden plank onto the piano keyboard, it baffles, moves and astounds by turns. As with much of Ives's more outré work, one wonders if he knew exactly what this near-unplayable music would ever sound like. Henry Brant's orchestral reimagining of the work, written between 1958 and 2004, doesn't solve any structural problems, but hearing Ives's craggy dissonances played on loud brass is thrilling, and the homely introspection of the opening to The Alcotts nicely caught – listen out for the Beethoven quotations shortly afterwards. Brant's orchestration is more polished and idiomatic than genuine Ives – listen to a bold performance of the Fourth Symphony and the effect should be wild and chaotic. But Brant's orchestral colours mean that the piece sounds far more sophisticated – melodies emerge more clearly, and there's a feeling of lightness and space.
Aaron Copland's rarely heard 1925 Organ Symphony presents fewer problems, unless you're expecting Appalachian Spring-style folkiness. Copland's early music can be stark and angular – the more jagged writing here suggests skyscrapers rather than prairies. Copland treats his organ as an orchestral instrument, a beefed-up woodwind soloist. The quiet, pastoral opening leads into a swinging scherzo, but best of all is the longer final movement, its majestic close shocking, haughty and triumphant. Excellent performances and superb, natural-sounding production.
Mahler: Symphony No 8 London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, London Symphony Chorus, vocal soloists/Klaus Tennstedt (LPO)
Mahler's extravagant "Symphony of a Thousand" can only work when it's led by a believer. Klaus Tennstedt's live reading, taped by the BBC in 1991 in a Royal Festival Hall barely able to contain the sonic shockwaves released, is sensational – a Bernstein-style love-in which convinces on every level. There's the London Philharmonic's thrilling delivery – wonderful brass just about staying the course for 87 minutes, and the care with which Mahler's frequently delicate colours are painted. The opening tutti roar is a stunner, but equally startling is the start of the first movement's development, tubular bells punctuating string pizzicati and angular march figures in the winds. The movement's final Gloria patri domino is overwhelming. It's such a surprise then to move to the chillier, Sibelian colours of the second movement's orchestral prelude, played with devastating rawness by Tennstedt.
The choral sound is rich, weighty and believable, and Tennstedt's vocal soloists are consistently inspired; I particularly enjoyed hearing Susan Bullock and Jane Eaglen soaring above the massed forces. It's a work that needs to be heard in concert; this performance grips from the opening organ pedal through to those ecstatic ascending major ninths on trumpets.
Mozart: Symphonies Nos 39 & 41 English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner (SDG)
Mozart is the one classical composer I have had problems with; his music suffers when treated with too much affectionate gloss and the harmonies can become cloying rather than piquant. However, these live performances of two of the mature symphonies have had me leaping around with delight. They're live, originally issued to audience members at London's Cadogan Hall in February 2006 shortly after the concert had finished, and now given wider release. Mozart on period instruments is now standard practice, and the playing in both symphonies is predictably high-class. The spacious introduction to Symphony No 39 is characterised by limpid wind playing, with vibrato-free low flutes adding delicious recorder-like colours. Listen to the magical passage two minutes before the symphony's close, when questioning bassoons and clarinets lead us out of the darkness into a reprise of the main theme, fearlessly articulated by Gardiner's strings.
Symphony No 41 is equally invigorating. There's no hint of pomposity in the swaggering opening, underpinned here with clear timpani strokes. The closing Molto allegro explodes with joy and the upfront recording adds to the physical excitement.
Winter Sketches: Russian Music for Accordion Bjarke Mogensen (Orchid Classics)
Tchaikovsky used four accordions in his Orchestral Suite No 2 of 1883, and Prokofiev wrote for the Russian bayan in the 1930s. This instrument has a long history in Russia – hence Bjarke Mogensen's nicely chosen recital of folk-tinged music, a mixture of transcriptions and works originally composed for accordion. You can sense the vodka-tinged melancholy, and Mogensen's playing is so subtly coloured and imaginative that there's literally never a dull moment. It's difficult to name highlights, but Londonov's witty Two Russian Folk Songs are a delight, its tiny jabbing dissonances delicious and piquant. Solotaryov's Chamber Suite is moody and bluesy.
Arrangements of two pieces from Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges are goofy fun, and I loved the low, wheezing chords which open Chernikov's take on the Volga Boat Song arrangement. There's nothing profound here, but the sense that the musical material exactly matches the instrument's capabilities.
Watch Mogensen play Prokofiev
Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music Steven Osborne (Hyperion)
Ravel can be easy to admire and difficult to love. What Steven Osborne seems to manage in this immaculately produced survey of the composer's piano music is to reveal the warmth and tenderness in so many of these pieces – both personal qualities which this most fastidious of musicians conspicuously lacked. The darkness is here too – a black, virtuoso account of Gaspard de la nuit, and of Osborne's own performing edition of La Valse, where the sense of collapse is truly terrifying, a dance of death as vivid as that in Stravinsky's Rite.
After which, you'll need some light relief, and the less oppressive works captivate. Le Tombeau de Couperin sparkles – be dazzled by Osborne's fearless closing Toccata, and witness time standing still in the Pavane, evidence that Ravel did indeed possess a heart. It all fits on two generously filled discs – miraculous accounts of the Sonatine, Miroirs and the Valses nobles et sentimentales along with the miniatures. Osborne's Hyperion recording of the Debussy Préludes is already a market leader; this Ravel set is equally good.
Launched in 1897, the Aeolian Company's Pianola rapidly established itself as the standard player piano – essentially a modified piano capable of reproducing music recorded by punching holes in strips of paper. It's wrong to think of the instrument as a primitive jukebox – a player piano is controlled by its player. The speed at which the piano roll passes through the mechanism needs to be adjusted, and foot pedals generate suction which controls dynamics. It's hardly surprising that Stravinsky was intrigued by the pianola's possibilities – not least for the fact that when making the rolls there's no need to be restricted to using two hands. The versions of Petrushka and The Rite of Spring were made by the composer in the early 1920s, with the help of assistants – these are not real-time transcriptions of Stravinsky's playing. What we do hear is fascinating – British pianolist Rex Lawson's interpretations of the Stravinsky piano rolls. The Étude for Pianola is a dazzling, dissonant mélange of Spanish dance tunes, full of widely spaced chords and mechanical ostinati.
Of the two ballets, Petrushka comes off best – the Dance Russe exhilarating, and the final Shrovetide Fair sequence dazzles. But what can start to grate is the lack of dynamic contrast, despite Lawson's best efforts. Accompanying figures have unnatural prominence, and this becomes more of an issue in The Rite, where Stravinsky's melodies need careful balancing if they're to sing in the orchestral version. Here, it's all a bit relentless – often amazingly exciting, as in the Danse de la terre and Danse sacrale, but the incredible power and high volume soon become exhausting.
Watch Rex Lawson perform
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1; Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945 version) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra/Evgeny Svetlanov (ICA Classics)
Overshadowed by the later works, Tchaikovsky's First Symphony isn't played as often as it should be. It's refreshingly free of the doom-laden atmosphere which can make the mature symphonies uneasy listening. It still sounds unmistakably Russian, despite the composer's desire to write a symphony more obviously Western-influenced than those by his predecessors. It's heard here in a charismatic, nicely recorded performance from the Barbican in 2002, in what turned out to be Evgeny Svetlanov's final concert – he died just a few weeks later. Fascinating to hear how the BBC players sound so idiomatically Slavic, with bold wind and brass playing supported by dark, rich string tone. The concert closed with an incandescent performance of Rachmaninov's The Bells - surely ICA Classics have missed a trick by not releasing this as well.
The coupling is a 1995 Philharmonia account of Stravinsky's final thoughts on The Firebird. The 1945 suite is more transparently orchestrated than the 1919 version and includes more of Stravinsky's magical linking passages. Under some conductors it can sound brittle, but Svetlanov's penchant for rich textures and balletic sense of rubato mean that we're still very much looking back to the 19th century. As with the Tchaikovsky, the solo winds excel. The Danse infernale struts with barbaric swagger, with excellent trombone smears and whooping horns. And listen to Stravinsky's subtle 1945 change to the final 7/4 apotheosis, with the brass chords more clipped and detached.
Listening to this glorious CD of American brass music after the Ives/Copland disc reviewed above got me thinking about what gives so many of these works their unmistakable flavour – something to do with the wide intervals, the syncopated rhythms, the melodies which so often curve upwards rather than down. The oldest work on this disc dates from 1980, the most recent from 2009. The language is unashamedly tonal and defiantly, unapologetically positive. Brass ensemble music can easily become dull; there's little chance of that here when each work is so imaginatively and idiomatically scored. Michael Tilson Thomas's Street Song seems at times to channel the spirit of the composer's mentor Leonard Bernstein, and Tilson Thomas knows exactly what a good brass group can do – check out those wonderful slow trombone slides in the second movement.
The three John Williams works are high-octane easy listening, technically brilliant showpieces. Parts of Bruce Broughton's Fanfares, Marches, Hymns and Finale recall B-movie soundtracks and Shostakovich-style manic energy. Kevin Puts's Elegy offers much-needed repose before the percussive handclaps of Scott Hiltzik's Spirals. The playing by San Franscisco-based Bay Brass is phenomenal and spiritual uplift is guaranteed.
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What is the likelihood of obtaining representation?
Also, how many agents should one plug away at before becoming discouraged with reasonable cause? Assume all agents queried have been researched and represent the category of fiction in question. In this case: Literary Fiction.
Regarding your first question, I unfortunately don't know and I'm unaware of any survey conducted about this type of thing. However, in my opinion I do believe that if you write a book that has publishing viability and you query properly and thoroughly that you will eventually secure representation.
Regarding your second question, I saw somewhere that there are probably about 400-450 reputable literary agents in the United States. While it may not make sense or be cost effective to query all of them, I certainly think that you should be as thorough as possible in your submissions without actually driving yourself crazy. What that specific number is will depend on you.
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I got my agent without a referral and without having met him at a convention, simply by sending a query with the first five pages.
Most of the writers I know found their agents that way--honestly, the only person I know who got representation because of a referral was already contracted with a NY house but left her current agent and needed a new one.
So I have to agree with Mr. Lyons. If you've written something the agent likes and thinks they can sell, it doesn't matter how they came to read your work.
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Like december/stacia, I found my agent by a conventional query. In fact, I had a number of agents offer. No referrals. No conference contact.
Write your best work AND your best query. Good luck!
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I seem to hear about lots of authors finding an agent through the query route, enough that I think it is very possible and they're not just a bunch of exceptions.
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President Barack Obama will not support the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (PDF) recently passed by the Senate, according to a senior White House official speaking on background to Information Security Media Group.Read more
Reuters and the South China Morning Post (by way of GIGA OM) are reporting that at least four of Microsoft's offices in China have been raided by the Chinese government.Read more
AARP said in a press release today targeting New York's elderly population that "Internet fast lanes" for a fee being considered by the Federal Communications Commission would leave "older New Yorkers in the dust online."
More than one million Americans left comments for the FCC on a proposal by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler that would allow service providers to charge content providers a reasonable fee for better access to its customers.Read more
If there is one thing I have learned over the last few years working with Andrew Eisen, it is that he can be a bit of a smart a$$. If you need proof of that just watch his latest video, "My Wii U Is Collecting Dust ." And if that doesn't prove my point, then just watch this classic Andrew Eisen video, "The Man Your Games Could Sell To."Read more
Stockholm, Sweden's week-long Stockholm Pride Festival kicks off today, and to celebrate Swedish retailer Webhallen is auctioning off a custom rainbow flag colored PS4 which it is calling the "Sony GayStation." Proceeds raised from this auction will go to the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights.Read more
HBO's documentary film about game addiction in South Korea will premiere tonight at 9:00 PM ET. The film, "Love Child," tells the story of two South Korean parents who were so addicted to the Korean MMO Prius that they neglected their three-month-old child to the point that he died. They were later charged by police.Read more
Microsoft has announced which games it will be giving away for free on Xbox One and Xbox 360 as part of its Games With Gold program. Starting August 1 and running until the 15th, Xbox Live Gold subscribers can download Motocross Madness for free, while Xbox One owners can grab Crimson Dragon and Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut for the entire month.
On August 15, Xbox Live Gold subscribers can download Bethesda's hit stealthy action game, Dishonored for free. They will have until August 31 to grab the game.Read more
An investigation by Reclaim Your Game reveals that the new version of The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection contains SecuROM, the notorious DRM. But the worst part is the fact that, while EA was giving away the game for free (because it is ending support for it) to anyone with an Origin account, it didn't bother telling anyone that the game contained this DRM scheme.Read more
Continuing its series of reports on popular YouTube personalities taking money to promote games, Gamasutra offers details of a recent survey that shows how developers feel about the whole issue. In its survey of developers Gamasutra asked a handful of questions about paying for coverage, if they would consider paying for coverage in the future, and if any traditional media outlets had ever asked them for money.Read more
Developer Facepunch Studios has agitated the Rust community simply by announcing that it is working on several other game ideas. It all started when it announced a prototype for a new game called "Riftlight," an arcade space shooter with action-RPG elements. Fans of Rust, the popular action survival game that was released on Steam Early Access, are angry because Rust is still in development and unfinished. Fans see it as Facepunch taking focus away from that game to work on this new game.Read more
Or maybe it is the other way around.
With all the news media reporting on civil unrest around the world, whether it is the wars in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and more, or the street violence in the US and Central America, it might seem so surreal that it could very well be coverage of video games. In fact, the difference between real life and video games is so slight that many in the news media mistake video game footage for real life carnage.Read more
Raptr has introduced a major update to its service that adds the ability to record or stream gameplay video with virtually "no degradation of system performance thanks to hardware encoding support across both AMD- and Nvidia-based graphics processors (GPUs)."Read more
A federal grand jury has added a racketeering charge to suspended California State Senator (D- San Francisco) Leland Yee's list of charges which includes gun-trafficking, corruption, and other felony counts. The indictment came Thursday and supersedes the charges that prosecutors filed in March against Yee, alleged Chinatown mobster leader Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, Yee campaign consultant Keith Jackson, and dozens of other defendants.Read more
Microsoft has partnered with China's third-largest telecommunications company to sell Xbox One starting in September, according to Reuters. Reuters is reporting that China Telecom Corp. has inked a deal with Microsoft that will allow the company's 30 million customers to purchase the system by signing a contract. Xbox One systems will also be available for purchase at retail.Read more
Verizon's 4G networks soon will start feeling a little less unlimited for customers who don't pay for data by the gigabyte. According to GIGA OM, Verizon will start prioritizing traffic so that customers who pay for mobile data by the gigabyte get access over customers who use Verizon's unlimited plans. The new policies will only apply when the network gets crowded, according to Verizon. Read more


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Police officers pursuing three vehicles during a high-speed chase that began in Trenton, N.J. and ended in the Levittown area made a deadly discovery when it was over -- the dead body of New Jersey man in the vehicle's trunk, police said.
Dardar Paye, 33, of Maplewood, N.J. -- a town in Essex County in northern New Jersey -- died of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Payne's body was discovered when officers popped the trunk of one of the vehicles on U.S. Route 1 near the Oxford Valley Mall exit early Sunday.
The events that led to his apparent homicide remain a mystery to police.
Trenton police and Pennsylvania State Troopers were able to stop two of the vehicles and make four arrests, but what was still under investigation Monday were the events that led to Paye's death, police said.
Paye was a convicted felon in New Jersey, having served time in the New Jersey prison system from June of 2005 to March 2006 for a drug dealing sentence, state records show.
Arrested during the 1 a.m. Sunday incident were: Phobus Sullivan, 27, Mack Edwards, 25, Danuweli Keller, 23, and Abdutawab Kiazolu, 22, all of Trenton. Trenton police said Monday that the suspects are being held only on charges related to the pursuit and none have been charged in connection with Paye's killing.
Sullivan also has a felony criminal record from New Jersey, having served six months in the state prison system in 2009 for burglary, records show.
The bizarre incident began at about 12:55 a.m. Sunday, Trenton police said.
City Detectives Jason Astbury and Charles Steever were in a south Trenton neighborhood when they saw three vehicles -- two cars and a minivan -- speed past. The detectives tried to pull over the vehicles, but the trio of vehicles fled faster.
The chase wound its way onto the Route 1 bridge spanning Trenton and Morrisville, Pa. and then onto Route 1 south, police said.
One of the cars -- a four-door Buick -- came to a stop on the highway near the Oxford Valley exit and Sullivan, the alleged driver, bolted on foot. Trenton Detective Elizer Ramos, who had joined the pursuit with other officers, apprehended Sullivan moments later, police aid.
Detective Astbury arrested vehicle's passenger, Edwards, and in the course of searching the car found Paye's body.
The minivan successfully eluded a Trenton police car, which police said broke down during the pursuit, but Pennsylvania troopers were able to stop the minivan a short distance later on Interstate 95 near Trevose, and arrested Keller and Kiazolu.
The third vehicle -- a silver Mitsubishi -- exited Route 1 at the Route 13 exit and was able to get away, police said.
As of Monday evening, all four suspects were jailed in Bucks County, Pa. awaiting extradition to New Jersey.
Trenton police said anyone with information concerning the whereabouts of the silver Mitsubishi is asked to call lead homicide investigator Detective Michael Krunchinsky at 609-989-4164 or the Trenton police confidential tipline at 609-989-3663.


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Comment: Image recognition fail (Score 1) 192
Try out the phones image recognition system, aim it at a politician, but it doesn't tell you how much it costs to buy the politician. So the phone needs more work.
Try out the phones image recognition system, aim it at a politician, but it doesn't tell you how much it costs to buy the politician. So the phone needs more work.
What about the film industry creating a cartel and using laws to enforce it, stuff like region coding DVD's and BluRay's, encryption, or adding unskippable bs like copyright notices on LEGIT bought products. The "pirates" are obviously giving consumers a better product, but corrupt governments side on the media cartels who refuse to update their business models to the current real world - they are stuck in the last century.
The law has been bought and paid for by the corrupt media cartels. The law is a disgrace, as are our bought corrupt politicians.
Mirrors = Real time view.
Cameras = not real time, time lag to display, terrible AGC with sunlight.
In the time an image takes to display on a screen, depending on speed, you could have moved quite some distance that could affect whether a manoeuvre is safe or not.
I don't know if it counts as "elegant code", but I find it really useful that code is fully commented. Speaking for myself, it's useful to come back months or years after originally writing code, and knowing why I wrote such a routine the way I did, and what it does, making changes easier and quicker.
If one thing the Edward Snowden releases have shown, is if the authorities are telling you they plan to do something, they are probably already doing it.
The UK is a basket case, it treats the arts in higher esteem than the sciences and engineering (unlike countries like Germany). The general public in the UK don't like people who takes sciences (how popular are science nerds/geeks compared to jocks in school?) Money is thrown at the arts like it's going out of fashion, the scienes however always have funding problems.
When I studied at university, the arts students were the ones who had lots of time to prop up the student bars, and could get any books they wanted very cheaply (say £5), whereas for sciences, it was normal to spend £50+ for just one book.
In the UK, the amount of effort you put into a science degree and pay you get, is inversely proportional to the effort and pay the arts students get (unless you're really really good in your chosen science subject)
So of course, the sciences should have their courses paid for compared to the arts. But I would add to that, to prevent people jumping onto a science course because it's free, they MUST have studied science courses and have good grades in them from lower schools before getting to university. This should prevent students from moving courses.
Never mind wearable tech, in the UK, mens trousers (pants to the US audience), are getting ever smaller pockets, and now same happening to coats too (or vanishing pockets). Guys put their stuff in their pockets, we don't want to look like idiots like ex-footballer David Beckham with bags trying to look as if men should have them to carry their stuff like women.
"I'd rather be spied on by...." Girlfriend / wife
I'm not a professional photographer, but I do not like point-and-shoot cameras, shutter lag, limit of lens choices (actually no choice just the one), terrible f-stop range, terrible noise on sensors, tiny sensors, and they are way too light to be able to make steady shots, and not seeing through the lens at what you're shooting is totally weird with the electronic lag of CCD to LCD display.
With a DSLR I can shoot with very high shutter speeds, having the ability to change lenses allows me to get either macro close or very far objects closer up. You can also clip on filters to change the image, like polarisers.
Most people will not need a DSLR, but to claim that those cameras are only for professionals is rubbish. Even a cheap DSLR will out do a point-and-shoot. And let's not even get into thiny pinhead size sensors in mobile phones and claim that it's genuinely 8MP+.
What I meant was write better encryption for the masses. Change the email system so emails are not all sent like postcards. Nothing illegal in that.
If you're good enough to work in this so called "cyber security", bare in mind the crimes of NSA and GCHQ against the entire planet, you'd be better off being on the good guys side, the side of everyday people.
Recently, I tried to add a signed key to my emails so people could "prove" they were from me. I was requested by everyone using some Microsoft package for email, to stop, as Microsoft was messing up the formatting of the email, and adding the key as plain text to the email, unlike other packeges I was using and treating the signature a bit like an attachment, something you can click, but is not shown as part of the main message.
So until this rubbish is sorted out, people will not be able to use even simple things like signing messages, let alone encrypting messages.
Serious crime is laundering drug cartel money through the City of London (as has been recently proved), but the City of London police don't want to police it's square mile. Money talks, and the bankers have bought all the "justice" they want.
That's BT for you, instead of investing in the network, they flog the life out of the old crap they have to avoid investing in the network, and give more money to shareholders.
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2 May 2012 11:54 PM #11
GXT 3 Support
GXT 3 Support
Any plans for GXT 3 support? it would be just awesome
3 May 2012 12:55 AM #12
For a now i don't have such plans. GXT 3 internal design was completely changed compared to GXT 2.x. So it requires a lot of time and energy to add RTL support there.
3 May 2012 1:13 AM #13
How to
How to
Could make a quick how-to/tutorial on how to apply RTL-changes. maybe this would help attracting people to contribute
3 May 2012 1:17 AM #14
As i told GXT 3 internals was completely changed so the techniquie i used in GXT 2.x RTL can't be applied to GXT 3 in the same condition. So i can't provide such tutorial.
5 May 2012 2:48 AM #15
Sencha GXT 3.0 RTL Support
Sencha GXT 3.0 RTL Support
The good thing is that if you take a look at this blog entry (http://www.sencha.com/blog/announcing-sencha-gxt-3-0/) where they announced GXT 3.0, you will see this:
The GXT 3.x Roadmap
Sencha GXT 3.0 lays the groundwork for the next generation of web application frameworks. We are planning to add support for the Gray theme, and following that, we plan to introduce RTL and ARIA support.
So hold your horses and hopefully soon we'll see GXT RTL fully developed and supported by Sencha.
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Original recipe yields 16 servings
- In a 1 1/2 pint jar, layer the split peas, bouillon, barley, lentils, onion flakes, Italian seasoning, rice, and bay leaves. Wrap the pasta in plastic wrap, and place in the jar. Seal tightly.
- Attach a label to the jar with the following instructions: Friendship Soup ADDITIONAL INGREDIENTS: 1 pound ground beef, black pepper to taste, garlic powder to taste, 1 (28 ounce) can diced tomatoes - undrained, 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste, and 3 quarts water. TO PREPARE SOUP: Remove pasta from top of jar, and set aside. In a large pot over medium heat, brown beef with pepper and garlic; drain excess fat. Add diced tomatoes, tomato paste, water, and soup mix. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Cover, and simmer for 45 minutes. Stir in the pasta, cover, and simmer 15 to 20 minutes, or until the pasta, peas, lentils and barley are tender.
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I just made three jars for gifts and they look great! As for the jar problem, Classico pasta sauce comes in 26 oz heavy mason jars.(Just soak off the label). They are almost square which shows off the mix beautifully, plus a regular mason lid, metal or plastic, fits perfectly. I use these jars for canning since they're so pretty and right between pint and quart size. I also put the pasta in small plastic bags and knotted them to prevent spilling when removing from the jar.
We're giving soup and brownie mixes for gifts this year and LOVE this soup! It has excellent flavor and texture (my husband is a chef, so we are particular about our dining). We only made a few modifications to the recipe--reduced rice to 1/4 cup (we used Jasmine rice), reduced tomatoes to 1 14.5 oz. can (28 oz. was just too much-- it overpowered the rest of the ingredients), and used 1 tbsp fresh minced garlic instead of garlic powder. Perfect! I know it will be a big hit with our friends and family this year!
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WOW! I made 36 of these for Christmas gifts(Buy stock in Walmart as that's where I got all my ingredients and the jars :). I took others suggestions and used 2 8 oz. cans of tomato sauce and 1 14 oz. can of diced tomatoes. I gave the soup mix along with a wooden spoon, the can of tomatoes and 2 cans of tomato sauce in a gift bag with a box of corn muffin mix. (The only thing the recipient had to provide was the ground beef, garlic powder, pepper and water). Needless to say, it was a HUGE hit and everyone that has tried this LOVES it. This recipe makes a ton, but those that had company over the holidays appreciated this no fuss meal that served a gang THANKS SO MUCH! Again, my dogs got a sampling in their dog food which they gave 5 stars to also. GREAT RECIPE
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Amount Per Serving (16 total)
- Calories
- 101 cal
- 5%
- Fat
- 0.6 g
- < 1%
- Carbs
- 19.2 g
- 6%
- Protein
- 4.9 g
- 10%
- Cholesterol
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- < 1%
- Sodium
- 444 mg
- 18%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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