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The theme - in case we hadn't guessed already - was the hunt, a favourite of John Galliano's, and a continuation from the couture show held in January. Karlie Kloss opened the show, strutting out in a leather riding cape thrown over a wisp of a chiffon dress and thigh high boots - a theme that was played out in various forms throughout the collection. Some looks took on masculine elements - riding britches or cropped jodhpurs worn with neatly cropped Spencer jackets and waistcoats, topped off with a tweed flat cap, worn at a jaunty angle. Some were utterly feminine; flirty floral chiffon dresses with lace garters. But the most successful looks, encompassed both elements; a spriggy-printed short ruffled dress under a butter-soft aged leather riding jacket, cut neat at the waist with a waterfall collar, or a nude broderie anglaise gown worn under a chocolate suede frock coat. The collection had an unapologetically decadent feel to it and was sexy as hell. The clothes were undone, and the models' hair - either in long single plaits or coiffed up dos was unkempt and dishevelled, gave the impression that they had just arrived back from an invigorating ride (or possibly a liaison with a stable boy)… But that was just the styling. Dior customers will be thrilled with this collection - it offers them the best the house has to offer; impeccable tailoring, charming day dresses and gowns with serious 'wow' factor.
The finale of the show was Galliano's traditionally over-the-top and camp curtain call. The lights went out, the wind and the rain started howling again, and the we could just make out his silhouette leaning dramatically on one of those columns dressed in a frilly shirt and tight britches tucked into riding boots. Swaggering down the catwalk to rapturous applause he looked very pleased with him self indeed. As well he might, as it certainly was an epic Dior show.
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IPTV UK: what's on tonight?
IPTV Week logo 2012 looks like it stands a good chance of being the year that IPTV really starts to go mainstream, with more services and a good range of content appearing built in to TVs and other devices, not to mention the web. And, of course, the launch of YouView will help raise the profile of IPTV still further in the …
What about the WAF?
or Wife Approval Factor.... how well will the family get on with accessing these services in from of the telly, and from what I have seen, not very well yet.
An issue with a lot of these is that you cannot access them from a single unified frontend, although XBMC and Boxee come close. I'm a long running Mythtv user, but it has very limited support for streaming services like these especially UK based ones. The wiki entry for netflix advises running a virtual XP machine on your myth server.
Really don't want a windows box under the telly - Got a plan for a Raspberry Pi running XBMC velcroed to the back, when I can lay my hands on one for a sensible price.
In my family
WAF is much better than rented DVDs from lovefilm, but that is mostly because it (blinkbox) can be used to silence the kids on minutes notice.
Price-wise it's so-so, one have to be careful not to pay over the nose buying poor movie. Also the choice is far from great, if you want to view something else than blockbusters of yesteryear
Not bad, so far...
@gaz 7: "how well will the family get on with accessing these services in from of the telly, and from what I have seen, not very well yet."
We're trying that experiment now. We have an AppleTV hooked up to the telly, and drive it variously from iPhones, iPods touches, and an iPad. The ability to stream anything on the Macs in the household coupled with iPlayer and other TV streaming apps (and the fact that the TV becomes a huge display for games etc on the iPhone et al) is brilliant. Everyone's handled the transition well, but the unreliability of streamed media stands out as a major irritation. You can't really be certain that you can see a program uninterrupted from beginning to end.
re: What about the WAF?
Well, I run XBMC on a jailbroken apple tv 2, and iPlayer's HD content works really nicely, if that helps.. The interface is OK, and it all supports the Apple remote with the minimum of faffing about.
(The Jailbreak is easy as hell, too- it's called "Seas0npass" if you want something to google)
Sony Bravia helps with WAF - ITV and C4 could be more helpful though.
Our new Sony Bravia Freeview HD telly has BBC iPlayer built in and by connecting an external HDD it's easy to record programmes - even HD ones. The nice surprise for me has been how well the set plays HD content from iPlayer - this is over a 5MB connection from Demon. iPlayer is integrated really nicely and fully complies with WAF.
There are however a couple of things which could make the TV perfect:
1. Series link recording - currently you have to select each programme to record.
2. Addition of ITV Player and C4 catchup player to the existing iPlayer and C5 player.
3. Ability to plug in a CD/DVD/BluRay player to play music/films.
4. Ability to play music from di.fm or other internet sources.
That would make the TV a fully fledged media centre which should pass WAF with flying colours!
Please note - Other Freeview/HD/IPTV's are available.
It just gets worse
Our village has poor broadband, 1/2 MB is pretty good going, and there are no plans to improve it even though we are less than 4 miles from a major town. There must be many places where they'll get left behind. The current thinking is that 90% of the population will get a decent speed, but that still means 6,000,000 without.
We don't have gas either, but are only 1/4 mile from the main supply to Leeds and beyond.
Still, we have two pubs!
IPTV, the downside
Is that the distributors get to know what you are watching.
Then they sell that to the advertisers.
Try explaining the to the wife why adverts for 'Hot women chatlines' that suddenly start appearing on your TV in the middle of Corrie?
I'm sure some statto somewhere will start compiling facts aboyt who watches what and what changes.
How Sex Chatlines followed by Divorce Lawyers 4 U and then Estate Agents.
Do we really want our private lives exposed even more?
I'll make do with Broadcast FreeView/FreeSat and a PVR
Not bothered about advertisers but...
...it does show the problem of user preferences. I've got Netflix working on a few devices around the house (PC, PS3 in the living room and a Wii upstairs where the missus gives our new baby his night feeds). Actually a decent user experience setting it up, but Netflix relies heavily on your viewing behaviour to present recommended content; my behaviour (catching up on old action movies mainly) and the missus' (Downton bloody Abbey and documentaries) are rather different. Even if Netflix allows different logins on the same account (not sure it does), its hardly "frictionless" to keep switching passwords. As my kids get older and start using this type of service, its only going to get worse.
My other frustration is that all the UK catch up services aren't available on TV in Ireland, even where they ARE available on PC (e.g. 4OD), and only Netflix and Acetrax are available in the VOD category. I have a suspicion the rights landscape is going to create a big digital divide for TV content in smaller countries.
Re: IPTV, the downside
Yes ... advertisers guessing what you are interested in from past history can be very irritating ... after buying a birthday present for a friends young daught I had months of emails from Amazon telling me "as someone who's bought Sylvanian Families in the past you may be interested in ..." - eventually I investigated and found out how you can click on a link to tell Amazon to ignore the history that is leading to this.
Then recently having upgraded my phone to something that can display flash adverts and not having AdBlockPlus available in default browser (hmm maybe time to switch!) I'm seeing ads ... was quite interesting to realize after researching electric guitars for son's Christmas present that I was suddenly getting ads for the shop I'd bought it from all over the place .... but now, as a result of looking for info on how to fix a leaking toilet, I'm being bombarded with ads for flush mechanisms!
IPTV, the downside →
targetted ads based on preference
Tesco, very helpfully, already do that with their boody clubcard. Not p0rn, but the missus nearly found out about my secret addiction to ginsters crack filled pasties.....
Tend not to use the card any more when I shop now.... Every little helps - err no it bloody doesnt...
1984 and big brother cos, well we've brought it on ourselves...
I would be interested to know what the subtitle support is like. I'm hard of hearing and a big frustration for me is that many TV services have very poor support for subtitles. This includes non-IP platforms like Sky, which has a very poor implementation of subtitles with big blocky text obscuring too much of the screen, which often don't work, even when they are provided which isn't as often as you might imagine. And then they can be out of synch.
Apple TV does support subtitles I believe, but the only ones I've been able to find are the ones hard-coded into foreign films. Lovefilm certainly doesn't support subbies.
And they wonder why illegal downloading is popular.
Subtitles on a Sony Bravia...
...are pretty good. If you record a programme to an external HDD you can then switch them off/on during playback. And the subtitles on HD programmes are far less blocky and intrusive.
In other words
It's all a mess.
What about services like TVCatchUp? Has a nice WMC plugin and is effectively realtime IPTV.
It's also still too pricey
When they're asking £2 - £3 an episode, you might as well subscribe to the full package with either of the incumbents - it'll work out cheaper. In an average week the TV is maybe on here for 5-6 hours a day between us, so let's be really generous and say 5 one hour episodes (most are shorter) at £2. Or, around £280 a month to replace TV with IPTV.
Knock it down to 1/5th of that and we're talking. Of course the ISPs will then put their prices up to cover the increased bandwidth use... so you can't win.
Youview sounds good. Neflix and lovefilm are a joke unless you like movies over 5 years old (and *somebody* tell Netflix that 'Chitty Chitty bang bang' is not scifi!). Blinkbox has so many adverts it's basically unwatchable (When the adverts are so intrusive you can't follow the story any more, what's the point?) .
I'm also looking at Raspberry Pi to help (waiting for a plex client) to improve the WAF on my existing setup (since new TVs are totally out of the question in the current economic climate) enough so I can tell VM where to shove it. When that's gone there's money waiting for an IPTV provider that doesn't suck, when one appears.
Not sure how/when, but...
Spotted NetFlix seems to have appeared magically under the "Internet" menu of my apple TV... which is XBMCd and set to skip any auto updates. Hmmmmmmmmm.
The image shown in TFA is what used to be the Wii interface to the iplayer.
It's a fat finger friendly interface which, unlike the main page, doesn't do retarded user agent checks so you can connect with pretty much anything.
All about the bandwidth
So the IPTV world thinks HD means DVD quality!
Don't underestimate the bandwidth you can achieve by bringing back a BluRay disc from Block Buster - 30 to 40 GByte/trip is something like 100TX ethernet and once it's home will play from start to finish.
High Latency though.
What if you get half way through your Blu-Ray Hi Def version of 'Meet the Fockers' - realise it's terrible and then want to watch something else?
Bandwidth isn't everything!
Are you telling me you'd be halfway through Meet the Fockers before you realised it was terrible?
I have an HTPC with a DVR card so generally I just record stuff directly to that machine. Then I can just watch the files on my laptop during my commutes.
iPlayer is probably the best of the streaming services and surprisingly doesn't require a TV license to access the content. But there's occasionally stuff that they don't put up (Match of the day arrives half way through the following week) so for that I'll hit up UKNova/TheBox and other specialist download sites (RacingForMe for all types of car/bike racing). Wiziwig for streaming sport if there's no channel showing it in the UK.
Eurosport Player for just £3.99 per month is amazing and is probably the service I watch most. Always loved Eurosport coverage from the old analogue satellite days. SkyGo is good as well as there's a few of us who have clubbed together to share a subscription, Sky Sports is poor value if you have to pay full whack.
I'm vaguely tempted by the LoveFilm Instant thing (not been bothered with physical media for a few years now, I've got enough DVDs and CDs and definitely don't need more) but I wish there was a way of just paying a couple of quid to stream a film for a week or so rather than taking out a monthly subscription. I believe YouTube now has a paid-for one-off film streaming service though but I don't think there's much on there as yet.
iTunes I can't really comment on as I've never used it and hopefully never will.
But generally torrent downloads from super-private trackers is superior to streaming. You can download at 5x faster than the speed of watching the program. I can watch it on any device that file format. And I can watch it when not connected to the internet. I spend alot of time travelling and having films that I want to watch on long flights is much better than watching a heavily cut version of Miss Congeniality 2 Cruise Control or some other drivel that the airline has decided that must watch.
Streaming services still can't beat that flexibility and probably never will. Let me pay a few quid to download a file of a film that I can delete if it's cack or keep for a while if it's good (rare), then I would be interested.
"Let me pay a few quid to download a file of a film that I can delete if it's cack " ... and get your money back?
If you aren't asking for it, this is similar to how blinkbox works : your purchased movies are attached to your account and you can stream or download them (WMA with DRM, IIRC) at any time you want and any number of times. The price is not very competitive though, often above what you would pay for DVD at Amazon.
There are no refunds though. If you think the movie could be not worth the purchase, you can "rent" it which gives you right to view by streaming or download (must be some DRM here) within 24 hours. But you can't purchase movies you rented before with a discount, meaning if you rented something and liked it, you must pay again to see it again after 24 hours. This is quite silly.
Until blinkbox goes away taking your "purchases" with it. Frankly, purchases tied to accounts is simply not sustainable. Pretty soon you're going to have 5 different accounts all with different purchases that you never owned in the first place.
I'd rather get a dvd, at least I won't have to worry about not being able to watch it a few years down the line and can still rip to non DRM'd up the pooper files that do, really, play everywhere.
well the point about making "purchases" in the cloud is that I don't give a sh* about physically owning *certain* things; they are not worth storage space on my shelf (yes, physical space is expensive if you live in rented flat). There are DVDs, Blu-Rays and CDs I like to own, but it's not your average yesteryear blockbuster production.
There is contradition here I know - when movie "on the cloud" is more expensive than DVD from Amazon then something is wrong.
I *guess* the problem is production cartels setting end consumer price, they don't give sh* since they virtually own monopoly on film production. Lack of competition is bad for consumers, who would have thought of that?
They can ram it
I have cable, I get ComedyCentral.
Can I use the ComeyCentral catch-up service? Can I cock.
Epic fail.
There is one place, on Internet. Stop it already with the false barriers to trade.
Who's going to pay for all the extra bandwidth?
Wasn't it recently that the telecoms were complaining that video streaming was taking too much bandwidth?
Give this a try
Tried it out to see if it works and WOW
When enabled my pc works as if in the USA so I can see Hulu ABC etc etc
And when I go to netflix it shows the USA version of the site with mega loads of content on the same login.
For $4.99 a month to add so much extra VOD without having to set up vpn and DNS etc its a great way of seeing what you can't otherwise
Any site that tries to make me install Silverlight before i can stream a videos aren't going to work for me, already got one bloated proprietary plugin in the form of Adobe flash that i had to install to make some website work correctly and i don't want to have to install another.
"World+Dog is familiar with BBC iPlayer on the web..."
Yes, we know it only works in the UK
Just like Hulu
Why the hell the BBC simply doesn't let non-UK residents pay a "licence fee" to watch beats the heck out of me.
Oh yes....artificial barriers to free trade.
Wherefore art thou YouView
I was hoping YouView was going to be the one box, unified frontend, PVR, catch-up TV and apps for everything (lovefilm, netflix etc.) but not had any news for ages! :(
@Big_Ted Hope you don't get extradited to the US for that post lol
Content, Accessibility and Price.
Not enough content and too slow. Not universally available and easy to access. Too expensive for run once streams.
Too fiddly
"Not everyone is prepared to connect their computer to the TV to give them access to the whole range of sites."
Well plugging a HDMI lead in to a modern laptop and looking for what you want on a streaming service using a keyboard to type in search terms, is far quicker than struggling to enter letters with a TV or STB remote control. You are faced with at best a plodding phone style keypad (lost the knack now I'm using Swype on a Galaxy S rather than an old Nokia), and at worst an excruciatingly painful on-screen keyboard - I'm looking at you iPlayer.
Freeview+ works fo rme
I keep reading about all this IPTV and on-demand services and I just think. I don't have the time or the inclination anymore to care that deeply about a TV series or even a film.
We record what we want on our Freeview+ box and then watch back as and when we want to.
We still go to shops so pick up DVDs (yes those disc things) for films we want to see.
I think we've used iPlayer twice since it's been launched because we forgot to record something.
None of this subscription service. Just pay the UK license and off you go.
Maybe when it is unified, easy and not crazy expensive I might consider it but for now it's all a bit limited with a big dose of lock in.
Awful choice
Looking at these prices, the spread of content in a dozen different sites, the 'licensing' rather than purchase... I don't think Torrents are going anywhere soon. £4.99 for old doctor who? £11 for three eoisodes of Sherlock (within a walled garden, no less?). Make them 50p an episode and we're talking... this article should not have been a promo-sounding round-up, but a rant.
Wife and kids love XBMC
Kids really like XBMC so much so they refuse to watch regular telly because:
a) There is hardly anything interesting when they want to watch something.
b) They can not watch it more than once.
My 3 year old asked me once:
- Daddy play that again!
--I can't, it is broadcast TV
- Daddy use the remote
--Me: I try to explain to a 3 year old what broadcast is, and how we do not have control over it.
- Daddy I like what I saw and I want to watch it again, use the remote and click on it again.
--I will but you won't be seeing the same show... kid gets angry and makes a crying attempt.
- Do not worry Daddy will download that entire show for you and we will play it on the mediacenter (XBMC)
A few days back my two kids were explaining to a visiting friend of theirs what is what they and on TV, and why do they like it (XBMC)
In the words of a 3 year old:
XBMC is great because you can watch the shows you want as many times as you like, Telly is bad.
There you have it boys. Kids know what's good. For them watching TV is disappointing.
Millions left out...
... not that it's the end of the world or really much of a big deal in the grand scheme of things...
But only the cities and larger towns will truly be able to benefit from IPTV.
For the rest of us, streaming hi-def TV is either frustratingly erratic or downright impossible.
The problem is, it does seem unlikely the entire country will be pushed into the broadband fast lane - the economics probably simply aren't worth it.
I'm sure BT have done all the market research to determine which areas to upgrade and it'll obviously be those areas which are profitable and have the numbers.
I'm not sure what the exact figures are, as there's plenty of them about that conflict, but it seems even standard broadband speeds of 2mb/s and above are only available across 50% or less of the country.
Ah well, probably a good thing to be honest, too much TV is life destroying.
Series catch up
The iPlayer app on our Samsung IPTV gives us series catch up, unlike the Virgin Catch Up service which is one week only, That's about all it gets used for. Sometimes buffers/fails in HD (20Mb package), but of course Richard and Usain are coming round personally sometime time in July to give me 40Mb.
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Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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Vacc-4x immunization
Drug: Vacc-4x
Vacc-4x is a peptide-based HIV immunotherapy administered intradermally
Placebo Comparator: B
Drug: Sterile water
Sterile water for injection.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 55 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18-55
- HIV positive at least one year
- Clinically stable on ART for at least six months
- Documented viral load less than 50 copies/mL for the last six months
- Documented prestudy CD4 cell count equal or more than 400x10exp6/L
- Nadir CD4 cell count equal or more than 200x10exp6/L
- Signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Reported pre-study AIDS-defining illness within the previous year
- Malignant disease
- On chronic treatment with immuno-suppressive therapy
- Unacceptable values of hematology and clinical chemistry parameters
- Current chronic infection such as HCV and HBV or active tuberculosis
- Pregnant or breastfeeding women
- Not using safe contraceptive methods
- Participation in other clinical trial
- Incapability of compliance
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00659789
|United States, California
|Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048-8700
|UCLA CARE Center
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90035
|UC Davis Medical Center
|Sacramento, California, United States, 95817
|United States, Florida
|University of Miami School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University Division of Infectious Diseases
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
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|Berlin, Germany, 13353
|EPIMED GmbH
|Berlin, Germany, 12157
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|Bonn, Germany, 53127
|ifi - Studien und Projekte GmbH, an der Asklepios-Klinik St. George
|Hamburg, Germany, 20099
|Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf
|Hamburg, Germany, 20246
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|Köln, Germany, 50937
|Istituto San Raffaele
|Milano, Italy
|Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol
|Badalona, Spain, 08916
|Hospital Clinic i Provincial
|Barcelona, Spain, 08036
|Unidad de VIH, Hospital de Bellvitge, Calle Feixa Llarga s/n, Hospitalet de Llobregat.
|Barcelona, Spain, 08907
|United Kingdom
|Brighton and Sussex University Hospital, HIV/GUM Research, Elton John Centre
|Brighton, United Kingdom, BN2 1EE
|Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
|Harrison Wing St Thomas' Hospital
|London, United Kingdom
No publications provided by Bionor Immuno AS
Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Bionor Immuno AS
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00659789 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|CT-BI Vacc-4x 2007/1, EudraCT No.: 2007-006302-13, IND Number 13619
|Study First Received:
|April 14, 2008
|Last Updated:
|February 2, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Institutional Review Board
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
United Kingdom: Research Ethics Committee
Germany: Paul-Ehrlich-Institut
Germany: Ethics Commission
Italy: Ethics Committee
Spain: Spanish Agency of Medicines
Spain: Ethics Committee
Keywords provided by Bionor Immuno AS:
treatment experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Lentivirus Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Slow Virus Diseases
Virus Diseases
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Chris Culliver was already having a rough couple of days, picking the worst possible moment to reveal his very stupid opinions about gay people.
It does not get better. This week, a second-grade class from Elmwood Franklin Elementary in Buffalo, N.Y., took a break from (presumably) learning about monarch butterflies to correct the grammar of a recent Chris Culliver tweet, as well as those from a few other NFL players. This is how every error on Twitter should be fixed. Check them out below:
Oh RT @cullyinthehouse: I pray to God I'm never dieing broke— Dike Lowery(@cheyeeeeee) January 30, 2013
Could be intentional. "Dieing" is an industrial term meaning "cutting, forming, or stamping with or as if with a die," referring to this kind of machine. Chris Culliver likely doesn't have the technical skills to hold a dieing job for long, so if he's already broke and employed in this capacity then things would not look good for him.
It's true I could be alot better, But wit the football— Titus D Young Sr (@TitusDYoungSr) January 22, 2013
Let's give a little credit here, given that this is about as humble as Titus Young ever gets on Twitter. "Alot" and "wit" are wrong, and "But" shouldn't be capitalized, and yet the dude nails "It's." I fuck that up at least once a day.
Merry Christmas to everyone. My God bless you all!— Wes Welker (@WesWelker) December 25, 2012
Could just be a missing comma: "My god, bless you all!" Sounds like a quote from It's A Wonderful Life.
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Everybody's got babies on the mind these days! Fearne Cotton is in the middle of maternity mayhem as she moves closer to her due-date, while Megan Fox gave birth to a baby boy!
While maternity wear conjurs images of Mom jeans and muumuus, Fearne Cotton has given pregnancy a fashionable spin. As she told Company magazine: 'I'm not keen on the idea of elasticated waistbands, so I'm sticking mainly with clothes I like but in bigger sizes!' And she's holding true to her word, because while her bump grows, she's looking staying put as a F/W 2012 fashionista with fur-trim and Mulberry bags. However, she admits it takes commitment: 'There are definitely some days where I want to roll up in a pair of dirty jeans and an old jumper, but it's not worth the s**t I'd get.' While we feel for you Fearne, we do enjoy the pregger's look on you!
And in other baby news, Megan Fox finally gave birth! She's actually been a proud Mama for a couple of weeks now, but decided to let her fans in on the good news. Miss Foxy-Fox and husband Brian Austin Green announced the birth of their son, Noah Shannon Green, on her Facebook page yesterday. It's surpising she was able to keep the secret so long, as their 'healthy, happy, and perfect' bundle of joy was born on the 27th of September. She wrote she was 'humbled by the experience,' and is truly 'blessed.'
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Movement 1: Allegro energico
Movement 2: Allegro vivace e leggiero
Movement 3: Adagio mesto
Movement 4: Fuga: Allegro con spirito
Like all successful magic acts, the scherzo's nimble demeanor and myriad sleights of hand manage to delight the senses while keeping the audience slightly off balance. Such 'tricks' include flirting back and forth between double and triple metre, playful bitonality, and an occasional, sardonic glance down to the piano's bottom range from the music's high-register perch. If the few minutes required to play the scherzo feel over before they begin, the Adagio mesto's four-plus minutes could seemingly go on for ever, and we'd be none the wiser. The composer's biographer Nathan Broder called this spacious and elaborate lamentation 'the most tragic of all of Barber's slow movements'. Here Barber's use of tone rows within accompanimental figures and to enhance the music's melodic trajectory truly comes into its own. One wonders if the movement's imposing passacaglia structure was a response to Barber's intense immersion in Bach at the time of composition (he had recently purchased all forty-seven volumes of the Bach-Gesellschaft).
The fugal finale, however, aspires to instrumental as well as compositional virtuosity, inspired, no doubt, by the singular abilities of Barber's friend, the pianist Vladimir Horowitz, who had premiered the composer's Excursions for piano solo in 1945. Barber had first conceived the Sonata as a three-movement entity concluding with the Adagio mesto, but Horowitz suggested that the work would sound better if he made 'a very flashy last movement, but with content'. To Horowitz, Barber was 'one of the few American composers who knows how to write for the piano'. In turn, Barber admitted that his piano writing was influenced by Horowitz's playing, and his teenage studies with the redoubtable Isabelle Vengerova reinforced his own predilection for the Russian style of pianism with its wide range of colors, subtle tempo fluctuation, and huge sonorities – all quintessential Horowitzian qualities.
Although the Sonata (commissioned in the autumn of 1947 by Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers in honour of the League of Composers' twenty-fifth anniversary) was not specifically written for Horowitz, the pianist's highly acclaimed premiere performances during the 1950–51 concert season quickly established the work in the international repertoire, and not just with younger musicians. The late American pianist Mary Louise Boehm had prepared the Sonata for its Amsterdam and Paris premieres, and brought a copy to her teacher Walter Gieseking. 'He asked to try it out', she recalled to this writer, 'and was fascinated by the music, realizing immediately that it was a great piece. He read through the first three movements just like that. But when it came to the Fugue he got stuck!' Small wonder that one of the Sonata's adoring fans, Francis Poulenc, declared the sparkling finale 'a knockout'.
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WASHINGTON - When Kristi Mangan saw a picture of her sister kissing someone this spring, she wondered who the mystery person was.
Then she realized that person was herself.
The photo was taken at last year's Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure, just after Mangan had undergone chemotherapy for breast cancer, which had robbed her of her hair.
Mangan's hair is now back. But the Manassas, Va., mother of two young boys won't forget what she learned.
"I found the lump myself," Mangan remembers. "I was actually running on my treadmill ... and my chest was sore and I was poking around and I felt it. And I asked my husband, 'Does this feel like a lump?'"
Mangan normally wasn't one to conduct self-exams.
"I had foolishly -- out of fear, ironically -- not been doing them, assuming my doctor would find if something was wrong," she says.
A doctor didn't detect the lump only weeks earlier. The cancer was spreading rapidly, and Mangan began treatment immediately.
When she ran last year, Mangan writes in a Komen blog that it was just one week after her last chemo treatment. A photographer captured a tender moment with her sister at the finish line, and the photo since has been prominently featured by the organization.
A few weeks after the race, there was no sign of Mangan's cancer. She plans to run in this year's Komen race on Mother's Day weekend, May 11.
"If there's one thing that I could convey to other women and men, it's to do a self-exam every month, and to not be afraid of it or to assume that a doctor is going to find if something's wrong," she says.
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a male who is meek and timid, shows female personality traits. basically a male who wouldn't survive outside the security of his mother's arms reach. Also look at pansy, sissy, fruit, wimp
Mikey Jackson, Artist Formerly Known as Prince, Urkel and any man who scratches and slaps during a fight
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A word filter on 4chan that comes about by saying "faggot."
OP is a candy-ass roody-poo fucker.
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(noun) A person who displays insufficient fortitude or toughness in a difficult or uncomfortable situation; by extension, a person or thing which is inadequate to the purpose at hand. Can be turned into an adjective by adding -ed ("candy-assed"). Frequently heard in the military.
"He was too much of a candy ass to do a hundred push-ups and run ten miles before breakfast."
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Richard Simmons.
Hey who's that candyass sweatin' to the oldies?
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Kulkuohjeet kohteeseen Riad Layalina
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Many cheap flights are available from Ryanair, Easyjet and Jet4you…
Riad Layalina is located 23 km away from Fez Sais Airport.
You can easily get to the riad by :
Hiring our airport transfer service, 15 € (takes 30 minutes to get to the riad)
Renting a car
Hiring a taxi
Taking the bus which leads you to the central bus station, near the railway station, in the new town (1 hour). Very cheap but not very convenient as you will have to take a taxi from the railway station to the riad.
If you are already in Morroco and come by train, many cities lead to Fez new town. From the railway station, you can :
Hire a small taxi, the red ones (between 10 and 15 dirhams), maximum 3 people.
Hire a big taxi, maximum 5 people
Hire our transfer service, 7 €.
Very easy access also from the medina's bus station (400 metres)
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[QUOTE=cr726;2799154]You are acting like these wars just started. You are right with your history about Dems, but the last 8 years have not shown the same.
I am all for a draft, then Iraq will be over.[/QUOTE]
Have we lost at least 25,000 military in the last eight years? I'm referring to wars where we have and a democrat has been in charge...get off your liberal ass and pay attention for a change.


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Table of Contents
- What is an Art Journal?
- Art Journals May Contain
- Art Journal DOs & DON'Ts
- Art Journal Supplies
- PAPERCUTS handmade Art Journals
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What is an Art Journal?
An art journal is any type of journal, diary or sketchbook used by any type of creative or artistic person. An art journal may capture or record a specific event or subject, or it may capture the artist's life during the time that they are using it.
Often, Art Journals are used as a tool to help the artist cope or deal with an emotional struggle or to explore their own thoughts and feelings as they work through their own creative process, but everyone will (and should!) use their art journal in the way that makes the most sense and "feels right" to them.
Art Journals are frequently very personal, but some artists may share all or a portion of their art journal pages. Art Journals should always feel like a "safe space" where you can share and record your own thoughts.
The words "journal" and "journey" are derived from the same root, the French word, "jour," which means "day." The original function of a journal was to record day-to-day living which often included business transactions, weather, nature and travel observations, births, deaths, etc. Later, as the "age of enlightenment" emerged and more and more people had access to education, journals became much more self-conscious, including personal commentary and reflections on social and political issues, events, feelings, and ideas.
Art Journals May Contain:
- drawings, sketches, paintings or illustrations
- photos
- words, narratives, stories, lists, poems, lyrics, quotes, diary entries or thoughts
- book, newspaper or magazine clippings, found objects
- ideas, brainstorms, plans, dreams, goals, secrets
- anything else that makes sense to the artist.
Art Journal Dos & Don'ts
DO: Choose an Art Journal that you feel a connection to. You'll be more motivated to work in it. Personalize it by writing your name inside the cover. (You may want to write your phone number or email address inside as well, in case you misplace your Art Journal.)
DO: Carry your Art Journal around with you. You never know when inspiration will strike.
DO: Dedicate time to spend alone with your Art Journal in a quiet and comfortable place with few distractions.
DO: Allow yourself to break rules. Work out of order if it feels right to you. Skip around the book. Work on several pages at a time.
DO: Experiment. Make mistakes. Try new things. Vent. Be honest. Be open.
DON'T: Feel pressure to make your Art Journal pages look a certain way, or worry about "messing up" a page. Instead, try to own and accept your "mistakes" or cover them up. You may find that the act of covering up artwork or words that you're unsatisfied with is a positive feeling, while the act of ripping out a page is a negative one.
DON'T: Worry about choosing a "theme" for your Art Journal. Instead, allow a theme to evolve, while still giving yourself the freedom to work outside of the theme if the mood strikes.
DON'T: Share your Art Journal with anyone else, unless you feel comfortable doing so.
DON'T: Feel like you need to "finish" the Art Journal or complete every page. When it's time to move on to a new Journal, you'll know.
Art Journal Supplies
The list below is not meant to be a comprehensive list. You may use any art, writing or scrapbooking supplies that you like. You may choose to have a lot of art journal supplies, or may use only one or two. There is no need to spend a lot of money to get started. You probably have most of these things already.
Here are some of the supplies that I find myself reaching for the most frequently in my own art journal pages:
An Art Journal.
The Journals shown here are my 4" x 6" Wire-Bound Recycled Art Journals, but any type of journal, notebook or sketch book will work. You'll want one with a sturdy binding and a paper-weight that will work with your supplies of choice.
Writing implements.
Pencils, Markers, Colored Pencils or whatever you like. Use the tool that you feel the most comfortable with, to help you write and draw your "stream of consciousness" without being slowed down by your tools. I personally like Sharpies and Prismacolors, but they do tend to bleed a bit on thinner papers.
- Scissors or an X-acto Blade.
I use scissors more frequently, but if I'm cutting out illustrations or silhouettes I also like the X-acto craft knives that swivel 360 degrees, to cut out curves and tight corners.
- Adhesives.
I like a glue stick, but I've also used "Scotch" tape, packing tape, and masking tape throughout my own journal. Scrapbooking adhesives can also be useful (though I find them to be more expensive.)
- Paper for collage.
I keep a stack of 3" x 4" mixed papers next to my desk that I use throughout my book. Sometimes they're used as a space for writing, or to cover up mistakes. (This is also a great way to cover up ink or marker that has bled through from the other side of the page!) PAPERCUTS handmade sells 50 pack of mixed papers, but you can also collect your own. I especially like to use discarded paper that would be otherwise meant for the trash. It's amazing how much you can save from the recycling bin once you get in the habit.
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Stickers from Produce
Tags and Labels from clothes or other product packaging.
Dried or Pressed Flowers
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Monthly out-of-cycle full backup
I've been searching and reading up on a lot of threads, but none seem to describe what I'm pondering..
I've been tasked - to my regret - with keeping a monthly full backup of our SQL 2005 (soon 2008R2) databases.
At the moment I've got this scheduled:
- Full backup 1 time each week (saturday night)
- Daily diff backup (each evening)
- Hourly log backup (24/7/365 unless a diff or full backup is processing)
We are doing regular restores of all types of backups as part of development, testing with live data and debugging, so I know everything works and that I can restore to a point-in-time without problems and with no LSN (Log Sequence Number) issues when restoring.
My problem is this monthly full backup.
I want the monthly full to be detached from my normal cycle as much as possible.
I know it will have implications to the log backups as I cannot perform log backup while a full backup is running, but I can live with that. Using a different managementclass is of course self-explanatory, and I have no problem using a different node name if it helps (will it?) to seperate things.
I cannot use VSS as I need the data stored on the TSM server.
My main concern is that this monthly backup screws up the LSN that the diff and log backups depend on. How can I be absolutely sure that it wont change or mess up the LSN of the regular backups?
So far, the best option I've come up with involves a T-SQL (below) script that dumps the databases to flat files and then use a BA to store the files. That way I can be absolutely sure that LSN numbers are not affected as I know the backups are taken with the option COPY_ONLY.
-- revision: $Id: backup-flat.sql,v 1.3 2012/02/02 09:39:15 jedc Exp $ -- -- MSSQL backup script -- -- Backups all online databases to flat files that gets overwritten on -- every backup (and not appended). use master; declare @base as varchar(512) declare @dbname as varchar(40) declare @status as varchar(256) declare @dbbkpname as varchar(256) -- Place to put backups - must exist or the script will fail set @base='D:\SQLBackup\' -- Iterate through all online databases declare rs_cursor CURSOR for select name from master.dbo.sysdatabases open rs_cursor Fetch next from rs_cursor into @dbname WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0 BEGIN select @status=CAST(DATABASEPROPERTYEX(@dbname,'Status') as varchar(256)) IF @dbname <> 'tempdb' and @status = 'ONLINE' BEGIN set @dbbkpname = @base + @dbname + '-COMPLETE-sqlagent.sqlbackup' -- backup databases 'with format' to replace existing files and 'copy_only' so LSNs are not affected backup database @dbname to disk=@dbbkpname with format, copy_only END FETCH NEXT FROM rs_cursor INTO @dbname END CLOSE rs_cursor deallocate rs_cursor
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Have you tried creating a secondary node something like NODE-SQL-MONTHLY and defining the tdpopt file for it. If you want to use the copy-only function in SQL then you need to dump the backup to a file and have the MONTHLY node act like a normal client and do a backup of the directory where the backup is stored.Chad Small
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Sorry for the lack of answer - I'm been away on holiday for the last few weeks.
No I havn't tried to create a new node with the monthly schedule, as I'm 99,9% certain that it would break the log chain.
I guess I'll just stick to the SQL-script and place those files under a new policy that fits my retention policy for those monthly backups.Regards,
Jens Dueholm
I know LOG backups depend on the Log Seqence Number, but was unaware that DIFF backups do. Are we SURE that's the case for DIFF?
I have this same situation, where I am being required to implement a 3 Month and 1 Year backup for SQL dbs, in addition to their daily. The DBs will be in SIMPLE recovery mode, but I would like to utilize DIFF backup most days to avoid a FULL everyday for Dbs that see very little change.
Does DIFF backup absolutely break the LSN if the DB is in SIMPLE recovery mode?
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You might want to take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ql.105%29.aspx (possible choose another version than SQL 2008 R2) to be sure.
DIFF backups relate to the latest full backup - and a log backup relates to the latest full, diff or log backup if a full, diff or another log backup exists.
If you do not use a "Full Recovery Model" and stick to Simple (as you say you intend to) you loose all access to diff and log backups.
All backups of Simple databases are full backups - there is no log available, and thus no way of knowing what data has changed since the last backup, so a full backup with all data is the only way of ensuring a valid backup.
But please - don't take my word for it - read up on MSDN and the online MS SQL help for truely valid answers to your questions..Regards,
Jens Dueholm
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