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Peter Dinklage Gossip
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Tyrion and The Khaleesi
Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Iain Glen, Nathalie Emmanuel, and several other cast members from Game Of Thrones were photographed in Seville, Spain yesterday working on season 5. PopSugar posted pictures from the set the other day – click here Full Story
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Why are we crawling towards the premiere of Season 4 of Game Of Thrones? CRAWLING. We had Bran and Hodor on The Social yesterday! Did you know Hodor is a professional DJ who's toured with Scissor Sisters and Calvin Harris?!? His real name is Kristian Nairn. Full Story
X-Men Anchorman
Here are some new shots of Peter Dinklage, James McAvoy, and Michael Fassbender in Montreal, in costume, on the set of the next X-Men movie. Or they could be cameos in the new Anchorman movie. Fassbender looks quite good with that scarf around his neck. X-Men: Days Of Future Past apparently takes place in 1973 Full Story
Self-Possession, Strength, and Dragons
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Game Of Thrones Season 3 Episode 4 recap So there was that episode. Delicious! Pace like a …not a train, exactly, but a really satisfying stretch of highway where everything moves along and there's lots of stuff to look at. I had fun, and while sometimes having fun with Game Of Thrones means being terrified and wincing at the brutality, it's not like it can happen with any other show. Full Story
Game Of Thrones is better than movie stars
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Covered the Game Of Thrones Season 3 premiere red carpet last night at the Chinese Theatre. The last time I covered a movie carpet at the Chinese Theatre it was Gangster Squad in January. The carpet was easily 4 times longer. And with 4 times LESS people. Or more. You can imagine how long the cast list was last night for GoT, right? We've been conditioned at these events to expect that they'll arrive just before the start of the screening and not stop and make you feel that they're doing you a favour by showing up and talking. Full Story
Cersei, Littlefinger, Tyrion, and Bronn!
On set in Dubrovnik, Croatia this week shooting Game Of Thrones Season 3, thanks GOD! We're still around 6 months out from seeing any of it but at least, at least it's happening, at least they're in process. I have decided that Cersei is my hair idol. Full Story
We Know Where She Gets It
Game Of Thrones Season 2 Episode 8 recap (Lainey: I've not watched this episode and won't be able to until I get home next week. But I read Duana's pieces before they post. Just wanted to let you know that Game Of Thrones pain is stronger than Cannes pleasure.) Obviously, Game of Thrones is fascinated by parentage, by bloodlines and family. Full Story
"I enjoy you...but be careful"
Game Of Thrones Season 2 Episode 7 recapPreviously, Cersei sent word to Jamie that she loved him, Jon Snow swore to kill Ygritte but couldn't, Bran surrendered Winterfell to stupid Theon, there was a riot and Sansa was almost raped (but I think the hound called her "little bird"?), Arya had Jaqen kill a guy who was going to out her, Hodor and Osha got past Theon's guards. Full Story
More Tyrion
Does it seem like Peter Dinklage gets papped the most out of all the cast members of Game Of Thrones? There are many reasons for it, and much of it has to do with geography, some of it awards, but obviously too it's Tyrion's popularity. Dowager Countess vs Tyrion Lannister, cut for cut... Who wins? Anyway, in case you missed it earlier this week, HBO has officially confirmed it: Game Of Thrones will be back for Season 3. Full Story
The Cold Winds Will Rise ... soon
Every time I watch this trailer, I get goose bumps at the sound of the 3 horn blasts at the end. The long wait is over. The cold winds are rising. Winter is coming...On April 1.FINALLY!Game Of Thrones Season 2, are you ready? How great is Game Of Thrones? So great that even Duana is obsessed. Not that Duana doesn't love good tv, but this genre, it's really not her thing. Full Story
GG Best Swagger: Peter Dinklage
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First of all, I've never had to defend liking such a critically acclaimed show as I do Game Of Thrones. I know my TV tastes usually run to people ranting their feelings at length. But I am addicted to this show and no, I don't usually watch fantasy, and yes, the show is way, way worth it by the end of the first episode, let alone the nine awesome hours that follow. Full Story
Men love Kanye, Ryan, no Hamm?
"Top" lists to me are weird. Some names on the lists I totally, totally understand. Others... ???Askmen.com has announced its annual Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2011 list. Steve Jobs is #1. Completely. Sure. Seal Team Six is #2. Fine. Then Larry Page and Warren Buffett which, HUH? to them being back to back, right?The only celebrity male to make the top 5?Kanye West. Full Story
The Emmy Awards 2011
So Alec Baldwin was supposed to appear in the opening video. Baldwin made a joke about News Corp and the phone hacking business. The bit was subsequently cut. As such, he decided not to be part of it at all which is why Leonard Nimoy ended up playing the president. (Source Full Story
On Kit and Game of Thrones at Comic-Con 2011
As Sarah noted in her post earlier, Game of Thrones was a huge draw this weekend at Comic-Con. The line was long for the panel. Unfortunately – for me at least – there was no standard line for the media. They allowed 2 or 3 of the big outlets a few questions but it wasn't a regular situation where the press were invited to a specific event. Full Story


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The LG Spirit is a mid-end device with a bit of a stronger punch. The device doesn't do bad with a 4.5-inch screen, Android 4.0 and a 1.2 GHz processor. All for $200 after a $70 mail-in rebate (no contract) from Metro PCS. Not a bad deal if you ask us!

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Nobody notice Cloud Nothings playing Saturday and Sunday?
anyone wanna make an actually good/realistic one? If I was good with computers and things I would
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This question may have been asked, but I am lazy. Has there ever been a fake poster that ended up being 60% correct or more?
56.548% isn't bad. Did you seriously do that math? IF you did Well done, Sir, Well done. If not..... well done, Sir, well done .
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Bloody Beatroots headliner? Muse the 5th or 6th on the poster. Neon Trees as the subheadliner? Just save yourself the embarrassment and delete your post now
Last line Saturday
Hello my name is Johnny Polite and they are going to kill me...
Concert Calendar:
Burning Hotels 1.14 | The Kills 1.23 | Adam Ant 2.7 | Girls 3.9 | Dr. Dog 3.11 | Neon Indian 3.13 | Andrew Bird 3.15| Band of Skulls 3.17
Ice Cube and Action Bronson would both be sick to see at chella.
Asher and Syd The Kid too...
PS : i put psy as a joke, cus i dont see him having his own set cus he only has that one song , but i see him appearing during someones show.
Florence without the Machine and Mick Jagger solo? Train? Sign me up. But really, you had me at us Andronicus.
1/11 Tamaryn @ The Echo, 1/20 Elton John @ Caesars Palace, 2/14 Sparks @ The Ace, 2/17 Emmy the Great @ DC9 (?)
haha glitch
Arcade Fire 10/29 @ The Capital Building
Arcade Fire 10/31 @ The Palladium
Two Door Cinema Club 11/1 @ The Fox
Father John Misty 11/2 @ The Wiltern
Day of the Dead 11/2&3 @ LA Historic Park
The Head and the Heart 12/7 @ The Wiltern
Volcano Choir 1/18 @ The Fonda
The Wanted? Higher than Modest Mouse? Maybe I don't get it...
dumb dummies
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BALTIMORE (AP) - Johns Hopkins University officials say they will give $10 million over the next five years to help communities surrounding its Homewood campus in Baltimore.
University President Ronald J. Daniels said Thursday that the future of the university is tied to the community. Daniels says the interests of the university's neighbors, including safe streets, workforce development and eliminating blighted properties are also the interests of the university. University officials say they hope to attract 3,000 new households as well as shops and cultural institutions to the neighborhoods in the next decade.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the university also announced plans to hire more city residents and increase supply purchases from local businesses owned by women and minorities.
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Disaster Recovery: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
To withstand a disaster and the resulting disruption, businesses must be able to depend on the cooperation of their employees. That presumption is the fundamental belief behind a well-thought-out business-continuity plan, which, in theory, should not only account for the recovery of IT systems, but also the resumption of overall operations.
This philosophy has evolved over several decades, but some business-continuity and disaster-recovery experts believe it is in danger of devolving.
"If we go back, way back, in history it was disaster recovery in the IT perspective that started the whole thing, and that was were the focus was; so when you said the term disaster recovery, you thought about protecting your technology," says Barney Pelant, principal with Barney F. Pelant and Associates, a disaster recovery consultancy. "It was not until the '80s when people started to recognize that it wasn't just an IT issue, it was a business issue. So we started driving this from a business perspective for a while, and the term changed from disaster recovery to contingency planning to business-recovery planning to business-continuity planning to business-continuity management."
Despite of all the progress that has taken place within the typical enterprise in unifying business-side and IT-side business-continuity efforts, there has been a regression recently that is so pernicious that even the terminology has reverted back to the old days.
"What happened in that whole process is [that while] it came together, it's now come back apart again," he explains. "It is unfortunate, but what has happened is, business continuity does not intend to imply technology strategy, and technology is back to the terminology of disaster recovery. There is this gap that is getting wider and wider."
The gap isn't just in terminology, either. As David Sarabacha, western region leader for Deloitte & Touche's Business Continuity Management services group, puts it, many technology executives tasked with disaster recovery efforts aren't communicating at all with those in charge of the rest of the business continuity planning.
"I've got a few clients who are experiencing that exact thing, where I can talk to the CIO and have one conversation and then talk to the head of the business-continuity management program that might sit in the risk group, and they don't even talk to each other," he says.
Bad Things Happen in Bunches
"It's not a trend that anybody in the industry would like to see," Sarabacha says of the growing gap between traditional IT disaster recovery and overall business-continuity management.
As he and other experts explain, when bad things happen to a company, it is almost always forced to mobilize all its recovery efforts at once, from the business and the technical side.
"Business continuity is quite often labeled an IT problem, but it isn't. It's a business issue," says Roy Illsley, analyst with Butler Group.
There are so many interdependencies between business operations and IT that risk managers must communicate with IT disaster-recovery experts in order to prepare appropriately, Illsley explains. For example, he often sees out-of-touch planners from the business side just assume that they will be able to count on their employees to work from home in the event of a disruption—without ever consulting IT.
"But if your capacity on the network is only allowing certain people to get in, you can't get everybody working from home," he says. "So, you've got to think of technology supporting what the business wants to do in the event of a disaster so that they can work."
Cooperation beforehand between IT and forward-thinking executives on the business side can be the make-or-break difference between staying afloat after a disaster or drowning in insolvency, Illsley says. One of the best ways to sell a comprehensive program is to look at a case where things were done right, he notes.
"Grolsch is a prime example of an organization that could have completely gone out of existence if they didn't have a full business-continuity and IT disaster-recovery plan in place," Illsley says.
In May 2000, after an explosive fire at a neighboring fireworks factory set Grolsch's primary brewery ablaze, the Dutch company was able to rely on a plan that not only had alternate IT systems back up and running in 48 hours, but also put the logistics to place to replace production with output from a secondary brewery and prearranged factory partnerships with other brewing companies.
"This example demonstrates that having plans to cover all of your major business processes is important, and that sometimes they are all needed together at once," according to a Butler Group paper on the Grolsch disaster. "The plans must cover technology, people and buildings, and be documented so that, in the event of a full-scale or partial disaster, the people responsible have them in hand when making decisions."
Not Meeting Recovery-Time Objectives
As the Grolsch example makes clear, integrating IT disaster-recovery and business-continuity planning is critical. So why is the gap between the two widening?
Business-continuity experts say the tightening economy is partly to blame. However, they believe bridging the divide between technical and business expertise is also a matter of motivation.
"I think the consistent problem is that the folks who are tasked with developing business-continuity management programs often have little to no technical skills," Deloitte & Touche's Sarabacha says. "The person in charge of disaster recovery just gets tired of explaining and discussing technical aspects with that person and kind of gives up."
No matter what the reason, the biggest way the gap can negatively affect an organization is by skewing RTOs (recovery-time objectives). According to Sarabacha, many enterprises are falling short when it comes to meeting RTOs. This is partly due to a lack of realistic expectations that stems from scarcity of communication between IT and business-side managers.
Often, a business will base its RTOs solely on the capabilities of its IT department to get things back up and running after disruption. These organizations fail to consider the logistics of resuming other business processes and operations, setting unrealistic objectives and failing to prioritize based on realistic expectations, notes Pelant, the disaster-recovery consultant.
"We're finding that recovery-time objectives now have gotten so short that only IT can meet them. The business side can't meet them," he says, explaining that some businesses might set a recovery objective of one hour for a certain business function. "But if you think about an hour's lapsed time, the time interruption evacuating the building, collecting your thoughts, and then relocating to an alternate site and then setting up and starting to renew operations, it's hard if you've only got an hour to do that. There's a real lag there on the business side in that if you really are going to effectively do that, you really have to have some type of an alternate operation in place─not an alternate site, but an alternate operation that can pick up the workload in that time frame, and that's not happening."
Sometimes, it isn't just the business side that lags, either. According to Sarabacha, business leaders who are out of the loop might also set unrealistic expectations that IT staffers cannot meet.
"We have several clients we help with testing of their disaster-recovery plans, and almost without exception, the results come out to be three, four and five times the duration expected," he says. "For example, we've got one where they [estimated a] 12-hour RTO for their critical ERP [enterprise resource planning] application, and it took 66 hours to bring it back up. That's something a business can understand. They might not understand why it took 66 hours, but they can understand that now they have got a problem."
Business-Impact Analysis is the Key
Pelant and Sarabacha agree that the key to integrating IT with overall business-continuity planning and maintaining realistic RTOs is in running an effective business-impact analysis.
Just the act of getting IT disaster-recovery experts together with business-management and business-continuity planners to run an analysis will start cranking the gears of cooperation, Pelant says.
"By going through that process of doing the business-impact analysis and by understanding the interdepencies of the business, you start to realize that you depend upon other people," he says. "So if you do the impact analysis right and you really focus on the fact that one cannot define one's own importance, it will start to break down those silos."
Pelant and Sarabacha believe that many organizations breeze through the business-impact analysis without putting enough thought into process priorities.
"It never ceases to amaze me that's where real-time recovery objectives really come from," Sarabacha says. "The industry touts business-impact analysis, … looks at each of these critical business processes and determines how long those can be done without the system and how long they can be completely not done after a disaster event. And that should drive the requirements for IT. Inevitably, I talk to the CEOs and the head of IT disaster recovery, and they say, 'well, we kind of took a look at it, basically, and said 12 hours sounds pretty good, 24 hours sounds pretty good,' and there's no real linkage to what the business really needs."
Even organizations that do collect data based on priorities are doing it wrong, Pelant says. "Many business-impact analyses are really opinion surveys because nobody really wants to go through the work of really analyzing priorities," he says. "What you do is, you send out a questionnaire and you ask somebody how important are you and how fast do you need to get back online? And so you get the wrong answer, and it's like the old IT axiom 'garbage in, garbage out.' You can analyze that kind of information as much as you want, but it's still garbage."
The best way to start the analysis is to conduct interviews with business managers and be sure to insert an IT disaster-recovery expert at each interview, Sarabacha says.
"One thing we're doing with a client right now that I think is very positive is, they have their IT disaster-recovery leader sitting in on each and every one of the BIA [business-impact analysis] interviews with the business-process owners. So they're really able to provide feedback on the systems and applications that support that process as you're hearing from the business side. As opposed to keeping it all siloed, [they're] really bringing IT and business to the table at the same time as you're doing the analysis. So as the results come out, there's much less time to buy in, and everything is more consistent on the first round."
Throughout the process, Sarabacha encourages IT staffers to be more disciplined about opening up system data and explaining application interdependencies to business leaders who use these applications and must prioritize their need for an individual application in an emergency situation.
"As you're doing this process, inconsistencies in the way things are done and what things are called are one of the big problems. Some companies, for instance, have pet names for their applications, and the one person in IT who really knows what [they are] knows that there are actually six applications behind that," Sarabacha says. "The person in the business just knows it as the pet name and doesn't really know what they're talking about. That whole discussion around their requirements is kind of vague and uncertain because nobody knows what they're talking about. And if IT can provide data from reports and other systems on what each application is, what the feeders are, and offer data-flow diagrams, that would be incredibly helpful to the business side."
The business-impact analysis process is also a time to think creatively about how to utilize existing operations and infrastructure to improve recovery time with an acceptable budget.
"It takes creativity because you're not going to reduplicate a department to be standing by waiting to pick up the pieces in case your primary department is interrupted," Pelant says.
Instead, some organizations are looking at triangulating multiple offices or sites so that one can act as a backup for the other without incurring extra cost.
"It gets away from looking at it as insurance and actually building business continuity into the operational activities of the organization," Sarabacha says.


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I was thinking of you at work on Tuesday. A lovely British lady came in to buy some fabric to make a Union Jack quilt for her son. I told her about your sewing. She wished her son would be more adventureous and let her pick a bunch of patterned blue, read and white but alas he wanted it to be all in solids...I think she is going to use a stripe for the binding so it's not so boring for her to sew!;)ReplyDelete
Just think...Aug 3rd Maria will be arriving in London on her way to Oxford...I'll have my own in to all things UK!:) *sniff*
Cool stuff. I LOVE it when the mail arrives.ReplyDelete
And your blog post reminds me that I want to start that Union Jack quilt. How is yours coming along?
You have the BEST mailbox! I love all of it...and you deserve all of it...:0)ReplyDelete
Don't you just love the color card? It is wonderful when shopping for just the right color!! Thank you so much for the heads up on the FREE Cath Kidston magazine. I so went right over there to request mine!! I am excited to get mine. I think that your mailbox must have been doing a happy dance!ReplyDelete
this is so fun. i love that color card!!! i went straight away to get myself a copy of that cath kidston mag. i can not wait until it comes.ReplyDelete
Love the color card too...and I just ordered the Cath Kidston magazine!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the heads up on the free magazine . . . I just ordered one!ReplyDelete
I have both the Kona color card and the Moda card pinned on the wall right by my machine. It makes me happy to just look at them. Today I found some light blue solid Kona on a 50% off clearance table and bought the end of the bolt. Not sure what I will do with it, but I keep collecting the solids for something fun in the future.ReplyDelete
Yay, I'm glad you received your package! I love sending people things. ;)ReplyDelete
Give your dentist a wave for me!
What a happy day! Any day there's fun mail is a happy! Enjoy! :)ReplyDelete
You have the best friends Amy! To have good friends I know we must be a good friend. I know that you are. Goodies here look so fabulous.ReplyDelete
very fun that you got the mittens. i ended up with 3 pair. should have gotten more from my contact people. my whole family would have been so excited. oh well. at least me and my two sisters own them. a little memory for you of "my" olympics.ReplyDelete
Ooooh yummy post! Cath Kidson stuff is disasterous- is there anything of hers that you DON'T want? I don't think I've come across any yet...glad you got some jelly babas!!ReplyDelete
Amy, love your blog. You always have something fun and fresh. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
in LOVE with the Kona card.... I must have one for myself. Like, immediately if not sooner.ReplyDelete
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Founded in 1980, MedcoEnergi Internasional (MedcoEnergi) was the first national drilling company in Indonesia. With remote sites around the world, the right communication tools are critical for MedcoEnergi employees to collaborate on complex
projects. The company had deployed a robust Microsoft communications solution that included email, unified messaging, presence information, instant messaging, conferencing, and desktop sharing capabilities. It also retired its outdated private-branch exchange
telephony system and deployed an enterprise voice solution. MedcoEnergi wanted to expand this voice solution even further to ensure that every employee could stay connected and to reduce costs across the organization. It deployed Microsoft Lync Server 2013
for the improved high-availability options and client capabilities.
Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, MedcoEnergi Internasional (MedcoEnergi) is an integrated energy company with operations in five countries. It focuses on oil and gas exploration and production, power generation, and downstream industries, which include fuel distribution
and biofuel production. The company has approximately 3,000 employees. With multiple business units and geographically distributed operations, the company relies on its communications platform to share information and collaborate.
Because MedcoEnergi has 28 locations around the world and multiple project sites, employees frequently rely on the videoconferencing and desktop sharing capabilities in Microsoft Lync Server 2010. Many departments use either audio or videoconferencing to
hold their daily team meetings. Most employees use the desktop sharing capabilities to collaborate on projects, and the IT team uses it to troubleshoot and resolve issues even with users in remote locations, helping to keep help-desk costs down.
MedcoEnergi also wanted to provide Lync-qualified IP phones that offered more features, such as a company directory that displays presence information for every person in the organization, to use in conference rooms, lobbies, and at the guard gates. "Right
now, the guards at our security gates don't have phone lines, so they rely on radios to communicate with us," explains Cecep Saefudin, Manager of Infrastructure Services at MedcoEnergi Internasional. "We needed a better way for them to connect to the rest
of the company."
Because MedcoEnergi employees depend on Lync for their communications, providing a reliable service is extremely important for the company. "Lync contributes to productivity for all users here at MedcoEnergi. Whether employees are traveling or in the office,
Lync makes it easy to get in touch with anyone," says Saefudin. "Since we depend on Lync so much, we are very focused on ensuring employees always have access to it."
To further improve its communications capabilities, upgrade its communications for remote offices, and take advantage of the new high-availability configurations, MedcoEnergi deployed Microsoft Lync Server 2013. Lync Server 2013 is the latest unified communications
platform from Microsoft.
The front-end server pools are linked so that MedcoEnergi can failover Lync service to the disaster recovery site if necessary. With Lync Server 2013, employees who connect through the backup pool will still receive the full set of communications capabilities.
"We have fully tested the failover capabilities and are confident we can provide the reliability our users demand from Lync Server," says Saefudin.
At its remote sites, MedcoEnergi will deploy Ferrari Electronic OfficeMaster Survivable Branch Appliances (SBA). The SBA is based on cost-effective media gateways hosting the Microsoft Survivable Branch Appliance software package. The SBA provides a public
switched telephone network connection in the event of wide area network failure. The company plans to use SBAs at its branch offices to provide a redundant voice connection in the case of a network outage.
The company is currently evaluating voice hardware certified for Lync Server 2013, including the Jabra PRO 930. For common areas, the company plans to deploy the snom 821 IP phone, which provides directory search and presence information. The company is
also testing the Microsoft LifeCam Cinema high-definition (HD) webcam so that it can provide videoconferencing capabilities for all employees to use at their desks.
Employees also have an alternative to the Lync client, the Microsoft Lync Web App, which provides a full-featured user experience, including voice and video over the Internet. MedcoEnergi wants employees and external contacts to have the ability to connect
over the Internet to help lower toll charges for external users who use the callback feature. MedcoEnergi is looking forward to using the Lync Mobile client for voice and video while connected to wireless networks, which will also reduce phone charges.
The company is also federating with Skype so that it can use video, audio, and IM communications with Skype users around the world for both business and personal communications to enhance work-life balance. "We have many employees who use Skype today to
talk with customers or vendors. The federation between Lync and Skype will make those communications easier," says Saefudin.
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WHEN: 1 hour prior to showtime WHERE: Will Call window - West side of building Customers must have actual credit card used to purchase the tickets, a photo ID and their Ticketmaster confirmation/order number.
Parking Info
Premier Parking is available at all points of purchase for $15. The Old National Centre parking lot is available first come, first serve. Ample parking is also available along streets as well as adjacent parking lots.
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News about Joan Baez, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
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Music Review
Her Voice May Be Worn, but Her Passion for the Cause Remains Strong
If anyone ought to recognize a great antiwar song when it comes along, it is Joan Baez, who appeared at Town Hall on Tuesday in a career retrospective celebrating her 50th year in show business.October 30, 2008 artsReview
New Jersey Weekly Desk
Joan Baez Fights Myth of Being Joan Baez
The Joan Baez touring today is very different than the 1960's model. This millennial version is a more mellowed rendition of the former firebrand. Regarded as the queen of folk music (to Bob Dylan's king), Ms. Baez, 59, has been a political activist most of her life, and not surprisingly she still seeks peace. But now it's a personal inner peace. She's already done her fair share of work to save the world.October 15, 2000 nyregionReview
Arts & Ideas/Cultural Desk
Still So Earnest After All These Years
Love and loneliness, causes and reminiscences all converged on a wistful serenity when Joan Baez performed on Thursday night at the Bowery Ballroom. Quietly finger-picking her acoustic guitar while her band whispered its accompaniment, Ms. Baez sang about the dignity of humankind, the perfidy of individual men and the longing for home in a voice that suggested a poised compassion for all her characters.March 25, 2000 artsReview
Cultural Desk
Joan Baez: Resilient, Romantic, Undiminished
It speaks volumes about pop culture's shift in sensibility over two decades that a rap album by Tupac Shakur should be No. 1 on Billboard's pop album chart, while Joan Baez, the queen of 60's folk music, is not even associated with a major American record company. Ms. Baez's absence from the recording scene is not a result of deteriorating vocal powers.April 12, 1995 artsReview
Weekend Desk
Two Nights with Joan Baez and a Flood of Memories
While Joan Baez hasn't been a total stranger to New York City in recent years, the folk singer's appearances tonight and tomorrow at the Beacon Theater represent what Miss Baez cheerfully referred to the other day as ''your basic comeback.''November 18, 1983 artsReview
Joan Baez, Jack White and Marcus Mumford to Headline 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Concert
Part of the proceeds from the Sept. 29 show at Town Hall will go to support the National Recording Preservation Foundation.
August 19, 2013, Monday
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Joe Smith, a former record executive, donates a collection of interviews with more than 200 giants of the music industry.
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For Joan Baez, Another Protest
A folk singer who was a leader in opposing the Vietnam War serenaded a new generation of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street event.
November 11, 2011, Friday
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"In Performance at the White House: A Celebration of Music from the Civil Rights Movement" was the Black History Month event in Michelle Obama's continuing music series.
February 10, 2010, Wednesday
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WASHINGTON - The fight over a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates pitted a disgraced former delegate against a man with a criminal past who was selected to replace her.
A Prince George's County Judge ruled Wednesday that neither former Delegate Tiffany Alston nor Gregory Hall, a former drug dealer, have a right to a disputed seat in District 24, which represents a portion of Prince George's County.
In his ruling, Judge C. Philip Nichols wrote "The circumstances of this case do little for the good name and reputation of our state and even less for our county."
The judge found that despite Alston's arguments, the District 24 seat was indeed vacant and her removal from office should stand.
Alston and her attorney Raouf Abdullah had argued that because she was given probation before judgement in her case involving misuse of state funds, Alston should be allowed to get her old seat back.
Alston had been convicted of misuse of funds for taking $800 in state funds and using it to pay an employee of her law firm.
Nichols likewise ruled against Hall, who pleaded guilty in 1992 to possession of a handgun in connection with a shooting and who readily admits he was a drug dealer two decades ago.
Hall argued that he had a right to the seat because the Prince George's Democratic Central Committee had submitted his name to Governor Martin O'Malley. But Nichols ruled that because O'Malley never finalized the appointment, Hall had no claim to the office.
Nichols' ruling sends the messy fight over who should replace Alston right back to the bitterly split Democratic Central Committee. And the move could give O'Malley some added leeway.
Under one interpretation of Maryland law, if the committee withdraws one name, it loses its right to make a second binding submission to the governor.
Asked about that, and whether it opens the door to the governor making his own selection, O'Malley's spokeswoman Raquel Guillory said the Governor's Office is studying the ruling.
Guillory says the governor is pleased by the judge's decision.
Hall intends to appeal the judge's ruling, according to his attorney Walter Green.
WTOP's Kate Ryan and the Associated Press contributed to this report. Follow @KateRyanWTOP and @WTOP on Twitter.
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6/01 in Yankee History
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1925: Lou Gehrig begins his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.
In a Monday game at the Stadium' 18'000 are on hand to see the Babe make his first appearance of the season. He goes 0-2 with a walk against Washington's Walter Johnson before leaving in the 6th inning. The Senators win 5-3. In the 9th inning' Gehrig pinch-hits for Pee Wee Wanninger' launching the streak that will eventually surpass the record held by Everett Scott, the shortstop whom Wanninger replaced in the Yankees lineup.
On other 1sts of June…
2009: In a 5-2 victory at Cleveland, the Yankees play their 18th straight game without an error, breaking the record held by the 2006 Red Sox.
2008: Another spring training hope goes by the wayside: the Yankees designate infielder Morgan Ensberg for assignment on June 1. Right-hander Scott Patterson is recalled from AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to fill the spot.
2003: The Yankees defeat the Tigers in 17 innings by a score of 10-9. New York takes a 7-1 lead as Roger Clemens starts in pursuit of his 300th win' but Detroit tie the game in the 7th. David Wells, who contributes 5 2/3 innings of relief, will get the win.
2001: The Stadium witnesses a rarity, as Cleveland starter C.C. Sabathia
earns a win despite pitching only 4 innings. The game is called because
of rain after 5 innings with the Tribe ahead' 7-2. The rules state that
in a 5-inning game' a starter need not go the full 5 to earn a victory' There have been just 5 other cases
since 1970 to match C.C's.
1999: At the Stadium' Roger Clemens and New York overpower the Indians 11-5. Derek Jeter has 2 hits' 3 runs' and has now reached base in all 50 Yankee games (a record going back to 1961). Reliever Steve Reed plunks Jeter in the 8th' then Paul O'Neill hits a 2-run homer.
1992: The Yankees select Derek Jeter as their first-round pick in the amateur draft, and the sixth pick overall.
1988: The Yankees take football all American Deion Sanders in the 30th round of the amateur draft.
1973: Fred Heimach, pitcher and pinch hitter for the Yankees in the late '20s (and member of the 1928 championship team), dies at the age of 72.
1961: Bob Turley gives up Vic Wertz's first triple in 6 years as the veteran slugger leads the Red Sox to a 7-5 win over the Yankees. Since June 14' 1955' Wertz has played in 596 games and collected 537 hits' but no 3-baggers.
1960: Mickey Mantle hits a one-out home run in the first inning' a 400-foot blow on an 0-2 pitch' for the only Yankee hit against Baltimore's Hal Brown. The Birds win 4-1 and sweep the three game series with the Yankees to move into first place (27-15). New York leave Baltimore in 4th place (19-19).
1958: In Boston' Bob Turley wins his 8th' 10-4' for the first-place Yanks. He allows 5 Red Sox hits' 3 by Billy Klaus' as Andy Carey helps with 5 straight hits.
1947: Joe DiMaggio has a single' double' and 2 homers to drive in 5 runs and lead New York to an 11-9 win over Cleveland. Al Lyons wins his only decision for New York this year' beating Bob Lemon.
1936: In an exhibition game at West Point' the Yankees easily subdue the cadets' 6-2. Lefty Gomez pitches the first 3 innings and allows 2 runs.
1920: At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth makes his first start on the mound this season' pitches 4 innings' then goes to right field after the Yankees take a 10-run lead. Roger Peckinpaugh's inside-the-park homer and Ping Bodie's homer off Erickson are the big blows. New York roll to a 14-7 win over the Senators' the 9th win in a row for the Yankees' as they move into second place behind the Indians.
1918: Losing at home 5-3 against the Yankees' the White Sox load the bases in the bottom of the 9th with no outs. Chick Gandil lines a shot to third baseman Frank Baker' who turns it into a game-ending triple play. The Yankees win 6-3.
1910: Still in his playing days, batting leadoff for the Cardinals, future Yankee manager Miller Huggins becomes the first player in modern major league history to make six plate appearances in a game without recording a single official at bat. In a game against the Phillies, Huggins walks his first three times up, follows with a sac fly and a sac bunt, then draws another free pass to force the lead run across in the eighth inning. The Redbirds win, 10-5.
1908: The first-place Highlanders trip Ed Cicotte and the visiting Red Sox' 2-0. Jack Chesbro allows just 4 hits in the victory. But the Highlanders' 20-15' will win just 31 more games the rest of the way for the first of the four last-place finishes in franchise history to date, with a 51-103 record.
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I've been wearing the Shannon for over a year now and I love it. I have very thin hair and it makes me feel complete. It looks natural, and people ask me weekly who does my hair! I've purchased other styles, but they did not look good on me, the Shannon is perfect for me. It is long , but my hair dresser, who is excellent with wigs, cuts them to fit my face. If you want to wear wigs, you have to take care of them. Treat them with care, keep them clean, get the frayed ends clipped. I just washed the four that I have right now.they dry overnight! I am extremely pleased!Just want to add that I will be 65 this year! This Shannon takes years off my age in looks!
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Does look like real hair. The fit is good. I am waiting to see how it holds up on a real windy day. The winds can get up to 40 mph. The color I wanted was not available so I ordered a shade lighter and am pleased with it. The bangs could be a little longer.It does not resemble the picture on the web. I have not been able to duplicate that style which was one of the reasons that I purchased it. The style it had when it came out of the box is OK. I have used heating tool, but am not able to get a curl. Maybe I am apprehensive about getting the heat too hot.I will keep it because it does look natural.
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My new "hair" - wow
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Looks so natural, comfy. I took it to the hairdresser to have the bangs clipped, since I'm a klutz. I have ordered 3 of the Shannon. Please give us a heads up if you are going to discontinue the Shannon. Laid off and this/these wigs just give me so much confidence, well at least hair-wise :)
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The previous reviews are what convinced me to buy and I am happy they did. This wig is everything I'd hoped for and the color matches my own hair perfectly. Very, very pleased!
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I have found a wonderful wig in the Shannon. My hair is falling out due to an illness, and this is the closest thing to my real hair.The feel,style and color (8/12A#6),the movement,and being able to use a little heat when wanted is truely amazing to me.I love the way it falls so real around my face. The length and cut is perfect for me. I ordered another wig 5 months ago from another company. It is now put away out of sight. I paid alot more for it than the Shannon.I ordered a large thinking I needed it but with the Shannon I'm so glad I got it in average. Fit's perfect and so comfortable.It stay's put and no worry in it shifting on me. Only wish I had known about Paula Young back then.As a matter of fact when I ordered the Shannon I also ordered the Chantel and the Annabella. I love them all and WILL order all 3 again. I never want to be without either of them.The color is so true to life in the way it looks. Thank you Paula for such great products and in making me feel good and beautiful once again.
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This is one of the most natural looking wigs that I have ever seen and used and I am picky. Very few people know it is a wig. My hairdresser was floored and my dermatologist wanted to know where I got it to refer to her patients. That is the highest complement. Thank you for this great quality product.
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Love it! Need more colors!!!
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The first one I got was too dark, but the second one isn't quite so dark. I get lots of compliments when I wear it! I lost some hair but not all my hair during chemo treatment and some days I just can't get my own hair too look good. It is quick and easy and the only complaint I have is I wish there were more blonde colors, even white, which is what my own color is! I also wish there was one with the lace front! But still I am very happy with it!
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After my hairdresser trimmed it to fit my neck length neither of us could believe how natural it looked! She really couldn't believe that I'd bought it off the internet as the colors looked so natural and she was certain that it had been purchased at a local shop! I am breaking it in gradually, but I already am finding the shock of seeing myself without it after wearing it for even a few hours! I'm really going to enjoy this! Have already referred my girlfriend to your computer site!She's has been wanting to try one out and change her look occasionally! Thanks for a great experience!
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I LOVE THIS WIG!!! I ordered it in the #8/12A. It is beautiful. I have very thin hair and was tired of being embarrassed by it so I decided to buy a wig. After looking and looking I bought this one. A week later I bought another, same wig, same color. I was the talk of the meeting with well over 100 people there. The compliments keep coming! Some people I know don't know that it's a wig! If you are on the fence, don't hesitate you will not be sorry! I'm only sorry I waited so long! What a difference it makes in how I feel when I go out! Thank you so much Paula Young!!
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I love this wig. But I wish you had a similar style about 2 inches shorter. I have it professionally cut into a shorter version for myself.


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In the Orchard, c. 1910
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of Chief Justice G. Tritschler
Dorothea Sharp was one of England's best-known Impressionist painters, working among the generation of artists who succeeded the French Impressionists. Borrowing stylistic elements from her French colleagues, Sharp used an unconventional palette and loose brushstrokes to create naturalistic renderings or impressions of the landscape. As is typical of Sharp's choice in subject matter, In the Orchard celebrates rural labour in the outdoors, showing a woman feeding chickens. Focusing on domestic activities-—in this instance work on a farm—Sharp's painting echoes the work of Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt, two French artists who championed the honest depiction of women and children at work, at play, and at home in urban and rural settings.
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- The complex foraging strategy of the specialised gallfly Urophora cardui (Diptera: Tephritidae) for host plants (Cirsium arvense, Asteraceae) (2004)
- Nearly all herbivorous insects in terrestrial ecosystems depend on plants for their survival and reproduction. They dominate terrestrial ecosystems due to species and individual abundance. Interactions between these two groups are thus of a high significance for the analysis and the understanding of complex interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. Foraging for host plants by herbivorous insects is of a central importance. In the present thesis the foraging strategy of the specialised gall fly Urophora cardui on the creeping thistle, Cirsium arvense, was investigated as an example for the foraging of a specialised herbivorous insect. Males and females of U. cardui use the larval host plant as rendezvous place. The males establish territories on the plant, which they defend against conspecifics. The females lay eggs into axillary buds in order to initiate gall development. Male and female body size, measured as weight at eclosure or capsule width, was not correlated with male respectively female longevity. Males lived shorter than females. Capsule width of males and females was not significantly different, while weight at eclosure and fresh weight at death was. Females weighed more, which may be due to their higher need of energy during adult life. Both sexes lost body weight during life. All behaviours, which are performed by males and females on the host plant were defined, recorded and analysed. Females spent most of the time on resting, probing axillary buds, running on the plant and grooming. Males spent most of the time on copulation and patrolling their territory. The behaviour of both sexes was highly variable between individuals. Concerning the movement pattern on an already chosen host plant, females concentrate on the upper parts of the host plant. They were mainly occupied with extensive probing of various axillary buds, which occurred in a suitable developmental stage at the top of the plant. In contrast males patrolled the whole plant, although only the upper leaves became marked. If they encountered another male threatening and fighting were inevitable. Fights lasted several hours interrupted by threatening periods. Mating of males and females usually followed oviposition. Neither females nor males accepted modified host plants or models of thistles. Their behaviour on modified thistles was reduced mainly to running around the plant and grooming. These results indicate a rigid host plant template using the input of several senses, the flies always recognise models and modified plants as a non-host plant. Both sexes were able to discriminate host plants and non-host plants from a distance of 0.8-2m. The time male and female flies needed until they selected one of the host plants in a particular host plant stand depended on the number of non-host plants, host plants and the number of suitable hosts. The decision-time became shorter, if there were not too many suitable host plants. This may be due to decreasing sampling time of the host plants present. U. cardui females did not prefer plants of a certain height. In contrast the branching level, which indicates the number of axillary buds, and the number of flower buds played a significant role during foraging for host plants. Plants with an intermediate branching level were preferred, while those with many flower buds were avoided. Males of U. cardui were able to select their territorial plant on olfactory cues or on visual cues likewise. In contrast, emales were not able to recognise their host plant on olfactorial cues alone. But, if male-marked and unmarked host plants were available they significantly preferred the marked thistles. The differentiation between marked and unmarked C. arvense was made according to olfactorial cues, since plants did not differ in their height, nor in their branching level, nor in the number of flower buds. Thus, female selection of larval host plants depended on male choice for territories. This result is remarkable, especially in evolutionary terms, since males select the larval host for the offspring of their predecessor. Interestingly males preferred plants marked by conspecifics also. On the tip of the females' ovipositor there is a receptor field with several morphological different receptor types. Mainly they seem to have mechanoreceptive as well as chemosensory functions. These receptors enable the females to measure and analyse the inner structure of the plant tissue at the axillary bud. The width of the apical meristem of the axillary buds was proven to influence female choice of the oviposition site. Axillary buds with an apical meristem-diameter above 0.62mm had a higher probability to became chosen by the U. cardui females. The clutch size was adjusted to the diameter of the apical meristem, indicating, that females were able to estimate the quality of the respective axillary bud influencing larval performance. These results were summarized in a model of the foraging strategy of U. cardui.


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George Agnew Reid
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The Story, 1890
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123 x 164.3 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift from the Hugh F. Osler Estate
Painting, Canadian Historical (1800-1910)
George Reid painted The Story after returning to Toronto from his studies in France, and the work's theatrical naturalism and technical finish reflect Reid's solid academic training. The painting was displayed at the French Salon in Paris in the spring of 1890, but not before it was purchased by the wealthy financier, politician, and public art gallery advocate, Sir Edmund Boyd Osler. Osler's son, Hugh, later brought the painting to Winnipeg, where he relocated his family in 1903. Reid actually constructed the hayloft depicted in this work in his Toronto studio, and local boys were his models. The cascading light creates a dramatic mood, heightens the group members' interactive expressions, and illuminates an access point for the viewer, to the right of the ladder.
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Hana wrote:Oh. Still not cool to call anybody a hoarder. >_>
Q.U. wrote:You must be lonely in bed if you stuff it with so many plushies.
Ever tried a dog or a cat instead?
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anyway i present you my fucking tidy room
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Hana wrote:Where are the bookshelves filled with fantastic stories? Where is the YARN, man?
That's rather tactless. =n=
Gah. The simplicity...where are the THINGS? Where are the bookshelves filled with fantastic stories?
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