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Thursday, December 02, 2010Texas
{*FTF*} I think. Found at 7:50 am. Not sure if I'm the first to find or not. The log has been used before and has quite a few signatures. I had found a different container at this location before, so I had an idea what I was looking for, but was surprised to find this one instead. This was a fun hide. Thanks for setting up another one in Bryan. No one was outside or I would have waved at ya!This entry was edited by nativtxn on Thursday, 02 December 2010 at 08:39:10.
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Participants work together to map a route to a facility where they do, or could, help others, echoing the No More Turning Away collaboration among Unitarian Universalist congregations of the Central Midwest District.
Form small groups at worktables. Ask what the children know about the nearby facility—homeless shelter, food distribution center, etc.—which you have chosen. Establish the purpose of the facility, the services delivered there, its location in relation to your congregation, and any relationship the children or others in your congregation have as service providers at the facility.(Note: Be sensitive in your phrasing. Some participants may have received services at the facility you have chosen or used similar services elsewhere. Empower all the children as potential helpers. Acknowledge that, from time to time, everyone needs someone else's help; today's conversation is focused on the times when we are the ones helping.)
Tell the groups they will work together to make an illustrated map from the congregation to the facility where they (will, or could) help others. The map should show how to get there and what will happen there. Suggest the groups begin by deciding how to divide the work; illustrating, drawing roads, titling the map or items on it, and pencil-sketching the route are possible tasks. Invite them to work carefully and collaboratively to make a map others could use to find their way to a service opportunity at the facility.
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September 1, 2014
very very nice item.. make me save for long journey from speed trap.
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August 4, 2014
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This product also has a lot of great features like dim modes, and quiet modes. And this detector can be loud enough to be heard over loud music and also be very quiet when you don't feel like being bothered.
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January 1, 2014
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December 9, 2013
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September 1, 2014
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August 25, 2014
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July 16, 2014
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July 4, 2014
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July 2, 2014
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May 26, 2014
This was my first ever radar detector, I'd never been pulled over before though I felt like I was pushing my luck. So I got a radar detector to give me a little assistance. It saved me once going 85 in a 35, KA band went off slammed my brakes slid around a corner and met a sheriff going 34 miles an hour. Sometimes cops don't have their radars on, which is a major downfall, so you'll still have to watch out. Just got busted criminal speeding, had my friend rip it off the dashboard and throw it under the seat.
I had set too much faith in the radar detector after it saved me about 3-4 times, which was major stupidity on my spot. My KA band went off, and I hit the brakes, but the cop was already about 150 yards away scanning me. He told me that he caught me doing 87, although my radar detector went off and I was only doing 75 at that point... But, it would have been stupid for me to tell him I had one. If you're caught doing a speed and you know you're screwed just keep going that speed until they pull you over, find a spot to pull of turn off your headlights and wait until you're not there anymore.
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April 27, 2014
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March 20, 2014
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March 11, 2014
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February 28, 2014
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January 31, 2014
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I recommend this to anyone who wants a detector but doesn't want to spend a lot.
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January 26, 2014
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Love the settings customization, alert styles etc!
4 on durability due to month of owning, although its held up in the MI winter so far
4 on use because it can take a bit to understand the features, but great manual!
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January 12, 2014
Great product, works great, super price, easy to use would buy again!
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January 9, 2014
The machine works very well. the first time I used it; it paid for itself.
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Dunnellon, Florida
January 2, 2014
Not bad for the money. I bought this for a present and had about a week to try it. I haven't bought a new detector in 18 years, been using my valentine one. This one isn't even in the same league as my old V-one as far as sensitivity and range. It does have some nice features though. Better than driving without anything but for an experienced radar detector user I would recommend spending more money on something better.
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Paragould Arkansas
December 27, 2013
This seems to work pretty good. It quit a bit larger than the other Whistler
that I owned before this one but that is no a problem for me. For the price I fell it was a good value the product.
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December marks the sixth month of my blogging on Cinema Styles. My profile says I've been on Blogger since March 2007 but Cinema Styles did not begin until July. That's because when I first started on Blogger I ran a couple of other blogs that eventually became one blog, Cinema Styles. I wrote about politics, religion, science and whatever else piqued my interest or ire, including movies. By June it was becoming increasingly difficult with my workload to maintain a focus for my blogs and they became disjointed and confused. The main thing I wrote about was politics. The reason, as some of you may have discerned from my comments on other blogs, was because I have a feverish and intense dislike and distrust of government and politicians and so used blogging as a way of venting my frustrations.
After two months of blogging it seemed I had found a niche. Chris Weigant, a fine political writer who writes for The Huffington Post as well as his own page ChrisWeigant.com, commented on a post I had done on the "Bong Hits for Jesus" decision. After that we commented on each other's sites and he linked a post I had done on President Bush's capital punishment record while Governor of Texas in a post of his own. It wasn't long before I was getting combative comments from right-wing bloggers looking for a fight. I tried to be kind and conciliatory in my responses but it became clear that none of them were looking for a middle ground. And frankly, I just didn't have the time or energy for the fights they wanted to engage in. I don't know if any of you have ever been involved in an online clash of political ideologies with someone before but I can tell you from experience, it's pointless. No one concedes a point, no one budges an inch. Flames fly back and forth. It's draining and futile. And absolutely no fun. So I decided to make a change.
In my original blog I had posted articles on Oscars picks and the occasional performance or moment in a film. I decided in July to create a new blog, Cinema Styles, and put all the movie posts there. As for the other blogs, they're still there but there's nothing on them. I use them now to test new templates, design ideas and format posts that will be transferred here. As for the name, Cinema Styles, it's dull. I know that. My other blogs (there are ten in all) have much more creative and fun names. They include Magnificent Bile, Like a Sinner on the Wet, Toys of Desperation, Plastic Spiders, Treacherous Guile, The Synchronicity of Fish and a personal favorite, Screaming Electric Genitals on Fire. But when I started my movie blog I wanted the content to be memorable, not the name. So I purposely chose something generic. I knew I wanted the word "Cinema" in there, and since almost every variation of cinema phrases had been taken for blog titles already, I came up with Cinema Styles and never looked back.
Luckily my first comment on Cinema Styles came from Dennis Cozzalio. Why is that lucky? Well, certainly not because he's a mischievous leprechaun (although I have my suspicions), but because in a post like this one, looking back over the first five months, it just wouldn't be impressive to write, "And that's when I got my first comment from some guy named Fred in Missouri." Anyway, he commented on my Birth of a Nation analysis and I was thrilled. It inspired me to keep going because frankly I wasn't sure if I wanted to. I had gotten used to comments on Magnificent Bile for my political posts and it was feeling kind of lonely on Cinema Styles. But it also let me know that there were others out there interested in dissecting film and film history. Right now on Scanners, Jim Emerson's terrific blog with the Chicago Sun Times, there is a discussion about separating style from substance, technique from content. The very ideas I discuss in my piece on Birth of a Nation. As I said there, and on Scanners in agreement with Jim, I don't see the two as being separate. One works with the other.
But as much as I love dissecting film and film history, and debating the state of film criticism (a very popular topic of discourse on the Internet film-blogging community), one thing I don't care a lick for is discussing the state of film blogging. In fact, my first reaction is usually, "You're joking, right? The state of film blogging?" The state of film-blogging is pretty simple to sum up: It's in its infancy. There's nothing to discuss. In ten or twenty years maybe. But right now, no. We're all getting our feet wet at this point and I'm not going to worry about whether or not we're all the best writers in the world or who's better than whom. Do you know what I do here on this blog? I write reviews of classic movies, write up performances, scenes, do the occasional list and parody post. You know how that separates me from most other film bloggers? It doesn't! That's what we all do! Reviews, lists, recommendations, debate starters, etc. And what's wrong with that? For one thing, it provides a wonderful alternative to the Mainstream Media Critics. And that's great! Before I started blogging I read all of their stuff. Since I've been blogging I get reviews and reactions to current and older films almost entirely from the bloggers. I still read Ebert and Rosenbaum occasionally but I'll be honest with you: Since I know how Dennis, Kimberly, Ken, Brian, Neil, Rick, the Shamus, Jim, Ed, the Siren, Peter, Eddie, Ray, Justine, Kim, Hedwig, the whole gang at The House Next Door, TCM's Movie Morlocks (and so many more I'm probably leaving out) feel about movies, because of the intimate personal atmosphere blogging provides, I'm much more trusting of their reactions to films than anything I could get by reading the latest Tomatometer on a movie in current release. And if Bill had a blog, I'd read his reviews too.
Who's Bill you ask? That's another thing I love about blogging. The interactions and connections you make with people that you would have never met otherwise. You see, I love commenting on other people's blogs. That probably comes as little surprise to anyone reading this. I love the interaction and discussion. Some blogs I stopped commenting on because they never provided a response. And that's fine. There's no hard fast rule on this kind of thing nor should there be. But for me I love the interaction. Whenever someone comments on my blog I always respond and I love it when a discussion gets started. Sometimes it goes off topic and I don't mind that either as long as everyone knows it's still okay to comment on the original topic. For instance, a couple of weeks ago Kimberly and I went off about World War II in the comments section of a post I did on racism in Hollywood. Then Jim came in and commented on the post itself instead of the WWII discussion. Terrific. I'm always worried when the discussion goes off topic that others will be dissuaded from commenting on the original post and I want everyone to know it's okay to ignore the discussion at hand and comment on the original topic to your heart's content. But what about Bill? Oh yeah, Bill.
So, a couple of months back I was reading Cozzalio's blog. Bill came on and disagreed with Dennis' views on Dazed and Confused. The two of them went back and forth, completely ignoring my "pay attention to me" wise-ass remarks in between. Then Sal, an old buddy of Dennis' and a fine regular commenter there, asked who this entity called Bill was. Well, Bill took offence to that and told him to "pack it full of walnuts." This amused me to no end so I commented that I wished I were an entity and asked how does one become one. Bill commented back about the annual dues and we were off to the races. Sal, being the great guy he is, apologized and then Bill and I just kept going on until Dennis finally stepped in and told everyone to get back to the topic at hand. Or was that the other post where Dennis and I started trading Steely Dan quotes to purposely bewilder Bill? I can't remember now. The point is Bill now comments here and I'm a better blogger for it.
So those are my views on blogging and commenting on blogs. I hope I never get spammed to the point where I have to hold comments for approval because I feel that interferes with the "of the moment" beauty of commenting. I understand that some blogs have to do it, but when there is no delay between commenting and seeing the comment posted there is no confusion of ideas. For instance, how many times have you commented on a delayed comment blog only to see that when the comment appears three other people agree and two others have radically different ideas. If only you could have seen their comments when they made them a much richer discussion of the agreements and disagreements could have taken place. But again, I understand it has to happen because of spamming and I personally despise that jerk who spammed the Shamus at Bad for the Glass (one of my favorite stops) and forced him into delayed commenting approval. It hasn't hurt the site at all as the Shamus is a great cultural blogger regardless of comment discussion, I just wish we could still see each other's comments as they were posted.
And one last thing about commenting. I love writing about movies and commenting on them. Sometimes my comments are a little too jokey, sometimes too dogmatic in tone, sometimes too bland ("Great Post") but I hope they are taken in the nature they are given: A love for movies and discussion of movies. I know I probably annoy some bloggers out there like Arbogast from time to time, but I enjoy commenting on Arbo's blog because he seems quite humorous and good natured and able to take any smart-ass remarks I can give him. And then give them back to me two-fold. And even though her blog has very little to do with film, The Sheila Variations is one of the most amazing cultural blogs in existence and Red herself is one of the most genial hosts and most timely comment responders out there and I'm very glad to have made her acquaintance.
Okay, I think I'm done except to say thanks to everyone I haven't mentioned and thanks to all those without blogs who visit here regularly. Now on to the plastic surgery.
You see, I bore easily with the look of things here on my blog. I've changed the sidebar a hundred times and I've never had a banner last longer than two weeks before changing it (the banner at the top of this post and the one to the right are the first and second banners I used). So now I've decided to change the whole damn look of the thing. New template (self-designed) and everything. Just a warning so the next time you come here in December you don't think you've clicked the wrong link and immediately back out. And the design's nothing special, just different. It will allow me to change the background more often so that the banner doesn't carry the whole weight of the look of the blog. Oh yeah, and the content will now be entirely concerned with toiletry products of a questionable nature. Okay, maybe not. It will still be all about movies (mainly from the teens through the seventies) with the occasional rant outside those perimeters. And I wouldn't want it any other way. I love writing about movies too much and I don't care that I'm not getting paid for it or read by millions. I didn't start this in the hope of winning the first-ever Pulitzer Prize awarded to a blogger. I started it because I loved it, and still do. As a wise man (Brian, the Cinephile of Bubblegum-Aesthetics) once said about blogging: "It's writing, not as obligation or propriety, but as bliss." Thanks for the summation Brian. I agree. Bliss, indeed.


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Since 1984, Rock-N-Roll University has equipped musicians with the equipment, accessories, and skills to pursue their ambitions in songsmithing. Glistening guitars in all shapes and colors hang from the walls in rows, surrounded by equipment such as amps, practice books, and freeze-dried roadies. The shop also retails and rents instruments for orchestras and bands as well as the various parts and salves to keep them in working order. Rock-N-Roll University also has a varied curriculum for students of music. There are both private and group classes, where you can learn with traditional lessons, jam sessions, and band programs that culminate in live concerts.
Diane Garetano's school—whose curriculum covers piano as well as other instruments—was an immediate success in the first year. She was renting space to accommodate her ever-expanding student body and the pianos that kept sprouting extra keys. Today, The Piano Studio for Kids imparts instrument skills at two locations. The school also has evolved in terms of technique, with instructors now incorporating even more methods built on fun, structure, and positive reinforcement. Once a year, students may elect to show off the fruits of these labors, with admission free of charge at a recital culminating in certificates, gift bags, and applause.
In 1998, School of Rock's first location was built in Philadelphia to strengthen kids' self-confidence, develop their musicianship, and most importantly, spark an insatiable enthusiasm to learn. Today, the School of Rock franchise has branched out to more than 65 locations throughout the United States and Mexico. During the school's music lessons, encouraging instructors well versed in methods of rocking and rolling—such as strumming guitars, tickling keyboards, and causing avalanches with yodels—demystify music theory for mini Mick Jaggers of all skill levels.
School of Rock's Rock 101 program acquaints beginners with the instrument of their choice using a curriculum of weekly private lessons and group band rehearsals. Virtuosos ready to hit the stage can participate in the performance program, which prepares students for live performances that pay homage to beloved rock icons such as Queen, Led Zeppelin, and Mount Rushmore.
The professional musicians who teach at New York Academy of Music believe talent appears at a young age. That's why their music programs start for kids as young as 2 years old with Rock 'n' Tots, a class where pre-kindergarten kids can listen to rock and pop while they bop and learn. Once students have excelled beyond the bounds of Rock 'n' Tots, they can attend the RockStar Academy?where they'll learn how to perform and write songs?or take private lessons that cover nearly all instruments and styles. For seasoned performers, an onsite recording studio provides a place to lay down tracks.
Having already taught himself how to master the axe, guitarist Chris Strick now guides students of all ages in their own journeys to master the instrument. During lessons, Chris listens to his students to determine their playing styles, preferred paces of learning, and how many necks their guitars should have. Lessons will stress the importance of practicing and the musical abilities innate in every person that picks up a guitar. Chris can travel up to 10 miles so that students can learn in the comforts of their own homes.


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[2126] Effects of Long Term Tissue Fixation on the Immunohistochemical Expression of MSI Makers in Colon Adenocarcinoma
Patrick Adegboyega. LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA
Background: Colorectal adenocarcinomas with microsatellite instability (MSI) do not respond well to Fluorouracil-based chemotherapy and do have treatment outcome that differs from that seen in microsatellite stable tumors. In clinical settings, immunohistochemical staining for makers of MSI [Mismatch repair (MMR) gene products] is used to screen for the presence of MSI; and has been shown to have comparable sensitivity and specificity with MSI detection by PCR. It was recently shown that routinely used tissue fixative such as dissect aid negatively impacts MMR proteins immunohistochemistry. 10% Neutral Buffered Formalin (NBF) was shown to be the optimal tissue fixative for MMR protein immunostaining in routine surgical pathology practice. This study explores the effects of long term NBF tissue fixation on the immunohistochemical expression of three MMR gene products (MLH1, MSH2 and MSH6).
Design: Study materials consisted of cases of colonic adenocarcinoma: 7 primary colectomy and 1 secondary hepatectomy specimens received for tumor diagnosis and staging. Samples of normal colon and tumor from each specimen were fixed in NBF and submitted for routine processing with paraffin embedding after fixation for 1 day, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year. Immunohistochemistry for MLH1, MSH2 and MSH6 was performed on representative sections of each block. Immunoreactivity scoring was done using a semi-quantitative score of 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Results: MLH1 immunoreactivity scores for all the samples were strong for the samples within the first 3 months of fixation (previous findings) but thereafter became drastically reduced and is completely negative in 5 of 8 cases for MLH1, 3 of 8 cases for MSH2 and 2 of 8 cases for MSH6 after one year of fixation.
Conclusions: Although 10% Neutral Buffered Formalin solution is the preferred fixative for MMR immunohistochemical assay, long term tissue fixation (greater 3 months) results in loss of immunoreactivity of MMR proteins in tissue sections and so may produce spurious results (false MSI status).
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Monday, March 19, 2012 1:00 PM
Poster Session II # 306, Monday Afternoon


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Azerbaijan is democratic and lawful is one of the billboard sayings attributed to the country's recently deceased dictator, Heydar Aliyev, which for many of its citizens would be true enough if "democratic" were changed to "kleptocratic" and the first l dropped from "lawful." The onetime Soviet republic, whose outline resembles a fierce bird dipping its beak into the Caspian Sea, is stuck between Russia to the north and Iran to the south—hardly a place where you would want to open up a lemonade stand, much less a modern free-market democracy. And yet, for all its troubles, Azerbaijan carries on. Its people, hypereducated in Soviet times, are kind, friendly, and decent, though often driven by tough economic circumstances to record-breaking levels of patronage and graft. The oil industry keeps pumping money into the pockets of local politicos as well as the vast coffers of concerns like British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. And the country's rich, bloody history astride the tectonic plate at the conjunction of Russia, Persia, and Turkey makes it one of the most fascinating and—every once in a while—beautiful places in the former Soviet Union. Azerbaijan offers more than just the usual litany of crumbling palaces and grilled meats. The country is a true reality tour, a catalogue of everything that is wrong with the world at the beginning of the 21st century and a vibrant portrait of how life is lived by the majority of humankind—which is to say with difficulty, ingenuity, piety, and unshakable pride.
The first thing one should do, after getting ripped off by the taxi drivers at the airport, is head to the Mirvari Café by the Baku waterfront. The capital city is often compared to an amphitheater built around the polluted green stage of the Caspian Sea, and the open-air Mirvari, whose roof resembles a series of overturned mussel shells, provides the visitor with an orchestra seat. I order a plate of sturgeon kebabs and unfurl the Russian-language newspaper, the Echo. The front page has an article titled "The Black Economy of Azerbaijan is Equal to That of Nigeria," explaining that 60 percent of the Azerbaijani gross national product is off the books. I pour a tart pomegranate sauce over the grilled sturgeon, which, while not the best in town, still manages to be both crisp and mealy, a combination that goes down well with a bottle of Khirdalan, the heavy local lager. Azerbaijan is a Muslim country, but the influence of religion here is moderate enough for women to promenade down the waterfront in tank tops and Daisy Duke shorts, although men, oddly enough, are confined to heavy-collared shirts and sweltering gray trousers usually held up by stiff cardboard-like belts. The harbor rocks to the sound of Turkish disco music, and oil derricks, shimmering beneath the afternoon sun, crowd one end of the bay. A nearby billboard shows the deceased Aliyev standing in front of the Baku skyline next to his son, Azerbaijan's new president, Ilham Aliyev, in a pose that seems to suggest the caption: "Son, do you want to take over a small oil-rich country when I'm gone?" I swallow my last fish kebab and look around. Sea, oil, nepotism, sturgeon, the black economy, women showing off their barely clad hips—I have Azerbaijan before me on a platter.
Like most cities of the former U.S.S.R., Baku has a solid inventory of dogmatic Soviet-style museums (State Museum of Carpets and Applied Art, anyone?), but the capital's true cultural draw is its eclectic architecture. After lunch, I visit the compact Old Town. The Maiden's Tower, which guards the waterfront, is perhaps the most famous of Baku's tourist sights. The ancient eight-story fortress, whose true purpose has never been ascertained (good guesses include a fire beacon, an astronomic observatory, and a Zoroastrian temple), is an unduplicated architectural wonder: a round structure with a single buttress pillar projecting from its eastern side. Estimates for when the original tOWER was built range from 600 b.c. to the 12th century, but the ribbed wedge of the buttress gives it an almost futuristic feel, as if it were an enormous piece of postmodern furniture. A hike up to the tower's top reveals a vista of the carpet shops and minarets of the Old Town in one direction, the sea dotted with oil tankers in another, and, facing away from the bay, the higgledy-piggledy onslaught of new residential skyscrapers that make parts of the city look like a miniature São Paulo.
The Old Town itself is remarkably devoid of tourists: its many carpet sellers call after the rare foreign visitor with a profound glottal cry. In the daytime, it is a child's wonderland, filled almost exclusively with happy little post-Soviet tykes kicking soccer balls past the low domes of the hammam . The Old Town's gem is the 15th-century palace of the Shirvan-Shahs, complete with a harem, mosque, family mausoleum, and the shah's supreme court. The latter features a delicate eight-sided pagoda where the shah sat and communicated with the condemned through a hole in the ground (only the poor fellow's head was visible). Elegant Kufic calligraphy graces the walls of the compound. The crescent of the Old Town is ringed by an assortment of fin de siècle mansions built during Baku's first oil boom, which brought prospectors with surnames like Nobel and Rothschild to the dusty shores of the Caspian , and provided Lev Nussimbaum (a.k.a. Kurban Said) with the cosmopolitan setting of his celebrated novel Ali and Nino. Like newly rich immigrants everywhere, the oil magnates went crazy with the money and the ornamentation, ending up with a mélange of styles, from Moorish to Persian to Italian Renaissance. The overall results, however, are impressive. In the course of a five-minute walk I encountered a city hall that could hold its own against the Hôtel de Ville in Paris; a colorful local take on Venice's Palazzo Contarini; and a wedding hall that would not be out of place amid the neo-Gothic quads of the University of Chicago.
When the merciless sun sets, or at least laggardly tips toward the horizon, it is time to experience Azerbaijan's other treasure: dinner. This requires disabusing oneself of any preconceptions one may have about mutton. The Azerbaijani kitchen cooks up a fearsome shashlik, or "mutton kebab," the meat usually taken from the loin or hind leg, seasoned with spring onions, put on a spit, and roasted over a charcoal fire. While the best shashlik is usually found outside the capital, the Karvansaray restaurant in the Old Town has a light touch with the grill and also comes up with delicious mutton plov (pilaf) and dolma. Substandard versions of dolma can be found in many Turkish and Middle Eastern restaurants in the States, but the Azerbaijani kind are the real deal: vine leaves, peppers, and tomatoes stuffed to bursting with rice and large juicy chunks of mutton. The plov is mutton and rice tossed with onions, dried grapes, apricots, and chestnuts. The combination of sweet fruit and flavorful salty meat is delectable.


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More Legendary weapons from the Kael encounter {WoW}
Apr 30th 2007 12:08PM One thing stops me from getting excited about new legendaries: the fact that they're Tempest Keep only. I guess my reaction is just a big old: what is the POINT? Why not make an encounter balanced around the gear we get to keep? How do they really make things more interesting? Only a few of them even have an on use ability, so the others don't even give you tactical choices.
Clue me in on what I'm missing, here, someone.
Mr. Stormrage's Worst-Dressed List, 2007 {WoW}
Apr 18th 2007 11:40AM I so don't like the priest set. Emperor Palpatine, anyone? It's a hugely shadow-oriented look in my book. What kind of holy priest wants chained and blindfolded faces on their clothes? Creepy is putting it mildly.
But hey, we're all used to wearing for utility, not looks, in this game.
Unwanted BoE Epics on the black market {WoW}
Apr 17th 2007 3:32PM If it was a guild group, why not just ask those with her on the run to roll again? Winner gets to sell it. It's not like she has to hunt down PuG members.
When it comes to nerfs, maybe change is good {WoW}
Apr 11th 2007 1:04PM If that were truly their game design philosophy, with the nerfs, then I'd be left shaking my head. Wouldn't it be far less frustrating, to change the environment up (especially in PvP), rather than to change the classes? That would achieve the same goals without alienating or aggravating a good number of their players. Additionally, if it was truly PvP-oriented, they'd be able to leave their PvE players in peace while tweaking for optimum PvP interest. *wistful sigh*
We are all geeks together {WoW}
Mar 19th 2007 8:19AM Yet again, another wowinsider article which makes me want to shout out: "Hellooooooooo, women play too!" Ugh.
Not all WoW gamers are men holding a pissing contest about sex.
Sorry -- the article (and a few before it, here) really provoked me. Bah.
Blue Notes: Seduction, Pet Health, and Old Hillsbrad {WoW}
Mar 14th 2007 8:19AM "It's not a nerf for priests. It's a bonus for Warlocks." Hee. Are the priests considered just a bit touchy, perhaps?
Use the Armory to find WoW's worst player {WoW}
Mar 13th 2007 4:30PM Bah. Yet some more "it's mean but hee hee hee" humor. Snark your friends good-naturedly, but come on, hunting for easy targets? Puhlease.
Socketed items still not impressing players {WoW}
Mar 13th 2007 8:17AM To those that say they play the game for fun, not loot: Lots of us find the 'fun' in the game to be not just the content (though that's up there), but in the gearing up. The game is rather built around that, too. Once you've seen the content, what keeps you coming back? Blizzard sure wants you to go again and again and again and again and... you get the picture.
About socketed items, my biggest beef is meta gems. If I want the +healing/-threat diamond, then I need to put different gems in all my other sockets than I would normally put there. It's like Blizzard is dangling this pretty thing above your head and then waggling a finger and saying "uh uh uhhhh, no meta for you unless you take off some of the other pretties." Which makes that meta less worthwhile.
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Feb 21st 2007 3:56PM CoH: Circle of Healing
FH: Flash Heal
GH: Greater Heal
PoH: Prayer of Healing
PoM: Prayer of Mending
Circle of Healing or Circle of Terrible? {WoW}
Dec 13th 2006 9:55AM Is CoH useful? I'm not sure I'll find out. I couldn't make myself give up what felt like critical talents in the discipline tree to try it out, and the one priest in our guild that went full Holy specced to shadow only two days later.
I definitely see situational uses for it, and I'm all for more instants. I don't see getting it if it means my *healing* spec talents in discipline have to go by the wayside.


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- December 31, 2009 04:31 AM (GMT)
Oh man, this is going to be either amazing or hilariously bad.
- December 31, 2009 06:17 AM (GMT)
Seriously though...
Thats some really "radical" way to promote games like these...
Oh. sprites in HD... thats cool too :D
- January 1, 2010 09:28 AM (GMT)
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- January 29, 2010 09:34 AM (GMT)
MW2 has the nightvision googles and this has:
Record of Agarest War XBOX360 Set
Why they would include a mousepad for a console release.. I have no Idea, and @ 60USD it seems to be nice bargain, that is if inanimate objects shaped like boobs or if you still need to hug something to help you sleep are your thing...
I have a 360, but for the moment, I'll look forward for news on the gameplay,
the extras.
- January 30, 2010 12:23 AM (GMT)
you know what the mousepad is used for, yes? no, not that. that's just pretense :whistle:
- January 30, 2010 04:47 PM (GMT)
I'm not going to buy it, but I'm kind of glad they're marketing it like this. If it's a Japanese game that'll be bought by weeaboos, why not market it like such?
- February 2, 2010 12:12 PM (GMT)
I'm buying it.
What? I so am.
- February 3, 2010 02:32 AM (GMT)
I was going to buy it for my PS3, but I hate digital releases. Instead I am buying the limited edition 360 version.
.......I will use that mousepad, but when I am not using it, I will hide it in the box. The box will also be concealed...
- February 3, 2010 04:37 AM (GMT)
(CandycaneMang @ Feb 2 2010, 09:32 PM)
I was going to buy it for my PS3, but I hate digital releases.
Eh? What's an analogue release?
Sayo's Guardian
- February 3, 2010 10:38 PM (GMT)
Now I feel like an idiot for getting the PS3 version.
UK sells the gamein stores and not on PSN.
- February 3, 2010 11:10 PM (GMT)
I'm sure if you can get it as a download you can also buy it (obviously the reverse is NOT true)
Usually the only games that are ONLY available as a download are pretty minor crappy stuff
I too prefer buying and not downloading from the PS Store ... so I still have it when the hard drive fails in the PS3.
Hard drives fail often and I do not expect the one in my PS3 to be magically better than any others ...
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Castleford Tigers suffered their first defeat of the First Utility Super League season after a narrow 23-16 loss to Salford Red Devils at the AJ Bell Stadium on Sunday.
It was a tight, scrappy game for large parts of the afternoon, but a second half brace from Andrew Dixon meant the home side just came out on top to pick up their first victory in three matches.
Salford started the brighter of the two sides, and Martin Gleeson's early try was added to by Greg Johnson inside the opening 20 minutes to make it 10-0 to the hosts.
Castleford then started to grow into the game and Justin Carney pulled a try back for the Tigers. Marc Sneyd showed good pace on the left before finding Shenton, who offloaded brilliantly to gift the winger his fifth try of the campaign.
Daryl Powell's side probed thereafter with Shenton and fellow centre Jake Webster making breaks, but both couldn't quite find the keys to draw Castleford level.
However, it was Salford who scored minutes into the second half after the home side regained the ball from kick-off, with Chase feeding another good ball to Dixon, who stumbled over the whitewash.
Both sides continued to make mistakes, but the game turned in Salford's favour on the hour mark. Referee James Child sinbinned Adam Milner for impeding a Salford player as the Red Devils approached the try line, and seconds later Dixon exploited the space to score his second of the game.
Milner's yellow card saw Daryl Clark re-join the action though and his explosive, alert run set him free, before Weller Hauraki crashed over to put just two tries between the teams.
The Tigers were seemingly back to their best at last, and with ten minutes remaining, Luke Dorn scored a try from the halfway line and it was Salford who were looking like they had a man disadvantage, not Castleford.
Further chances came and went, but Powell's men ran out of steam. Chase eventually had the last say against his former employers, scoring a drop-goal to put daylight between both sides, and inflict the Tigers with their first loss since 2013.
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Salford: Mullaney, Johnson, Gleeson, Sa'u, Meli, Chase, Smith, Morley, Lee, Tasi, Hansen, Dixon, Puletua SUBS: Fages, A.Walne, J.Walne, McPherson
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(Concise Encyclopedia)Ancient capital of the Aztec empire. Located at the site of modern Mexico City, it was founded c. 1325 in the marshes of Lake Texcoco. It formed a confederacy with Texcoco and Tlacopán and was the Aztec capital by the late 15th century. Originally located on two small islands in Lake Texcoco, it gradually spread through the construction of artificial islands to cover more than 5 sq mi (13 sq km). It was connected to the mainland by several causeways. The population in 1519 was estimated to be about 400,000 people, the largest residential concentration in Mesoamerican history. It contained the palace of Montezuma II, said to consist of 300 rooms, as well as hundreds of temples. It was destroyed by the Spanish conquistadores under Hernán Cortés in 1521.
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Toronto, ON – Canada Basketball, in conjunction with the ACTS Athlete Institute, is proud to announce the inaugural Canada Basketball Junior Academy, set to launch this weekend – February 15 to 17.
The Junior Academy is a part of Canada Basketball's Targeted Athlete Strategy (TAS) program which was started in 2009. One of the primary objectives of the TAS program is to guide the development of athletes in the youth age group category. Past participants of the TAS program include NCAA players Anthony Bennett and Kevin Pangos, as well as high-school standout Andrew Wiggins.
Over the course of six weekend training camps and an extended week-long camp, all of which will take place between February and August, 40 identified athletes in grades seven (birth year 2000) and eight (1999) will participate in on-court training, strength and conditioning sessions, and informational workshops. The planned curriculum is designed to nurture and enhance the athletes' play, leadership qualities and in-game decision-making abilities to be applied on the international stage.
The Junior Academy is meant to continue to fill gaps in the athlete's developmental pathway between the Learn-to-Train and Train-to-Train stages of the Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model in order to guide players towards becoming "Global Players." This process stresses the importance of athletes training to be successful on-the-court in addition to gaining the knowledge base necessary to be ambassadors for the game and the country.
The ACTS Athlete Institute, located in Orangeville, Ont., offers a wide variety of educational and training facilities to focus the performance of the 40 individuals. Athlete Institute training personnel, Canada Basketball coaches and various staff members will work together to foster a successful learning environment to prepare the selected athletes for the next stage in their development.
"The Junior Academy represents a tremendous opportunity for Canada Basketball to develop some of our nation's elite prospects in the Learn-to-Train and Train-to-Train stages. We are working to train athletes from an earlier age, to aid in the growth of the players that will one day represent Canada internationally. Through our Academy, we will be able to further expose and align our technical curriculum with the development of elite athletes at the younger ages," said Rowan Barrett, Assistant General Manager and Executive Vice-President of the Senior Men's Program.
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Space miners will prize water more than gold. Its value manifests when it is split into its elements: Hydrogen can recharge power cells and be recombined with oxygen to produce energy-rich fuel. Harvesting water in space is cheaper than shipping it from Earth. Every gallon, at a weight of 8.33 pounds, can cost tens of thousands of dollars to launch. Planetary Resources could profit by selling space-harvested water to governmental or private spacecraft at a premium but for less than it would cost to deliver from Earth.
Carbonaceous chondrite asteroids are the best prospects for water. The surface of these so-called C-type asteroids is crumbly, says John Lewis, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona and author of Mining the Sky, the seminal book on the space industry. "You can hold a cube between your thumb and your forefinger and crush it," he says. There's no need to burrow; you can just scrape the surface of a C-type asteroid to mine its water.
A swarm of mining bots, clinging with barbed feet to the surface of an asteroid, would slurp up water-laden soil through proboscis-like drills, while others would vacuum the debris left in their wakes. The robot would then pull out the soil, or regolith, and deposit it in a sealed container. The robot would walk, float, or crawl to a processor lashed to the surface or floating above it. The processor would heat the regolith to release water vapor, which would be collected into a storage tank.
Space miners face a more difficult challenge when harvesting metal. M-type asteroids, essentially big flying chunks of solid metal, might not feasibly be mined, says Harry McSween, geoscientist at the University of Tennessee and chair of the surface composition group for NASA's Dawn asteroid probe. Anchoring to such a body would be hard enoughdrill-style landing pads wouldn't worklet alone sawing off a chunk of the asteroid for processing. "When you think about how much energy would be required, it seems pretty unrealistic," McSween says.
But Lewis figures that some asteroids might be made up of as much as 30 percent metal, in the form of an iron-nickel-cobalt and platinum-group alloy. "The temptation is to simply use a magnet to pluck the metal grains out of that regolith," he says.
Some metal-rich asteroids might be worth taking closer to Earth, as close as the moon, in their entirety. "The concentration of metal is so high that you have to wonder whether you could just bring the whole thing back," Lewis says.
Space sells, but who's buying?
It remains unclear who will purchase the goods that space miners have gone to such pains to gather.
The most lucrative opportunity might be platinum-group metalsone category of the few space commodities that would be shipped back to Earth. "These materials enable so many different high-tech processes that we use," Lewicki says. Today, platinum-group metals are essential to catalytic converters in petroleum engines, as catalysts in the production of silicone, and in the manufacturing of glass. They are incorporated into hard drives; in spark plugs, where their low corrosion rates allow 100,000-mile life spans; and in medical devices, where they are prized for their biocompatibility.
A 500-ton asteroid with 0.0015 percent platinum metalsa common percentagewould have three times the richest concentration found on Earth. "To have more of this material will open up economies that we can't even predict," Lewicki says.
But most asteroid commodities will only be marketable in a future where ambitious spaceflight is a regular human activity; for example, extraterrestrial depots where spacefarers could top off their fuel tanks and water supplies while on long trips. If there are no such trips, there is no business model.
Similarly, the idea that common metals will be useful in space is predicated on a manufacturing industry that is building space stations and spacecraft in orbit. Assembling structures in space, rather than launching them from Earth, is appealing because it avoids the cost of launch. A lack of orbital construction or the advent of cheaper launch systems could obviate this business.
If space stations are growing food for full-time residents, they could become lucrative markets for more than iron and steel. Asteroid-derived nitrogen and ammonia would be in demand for fertilizer. Such industries are vital if humans are to make their home in space. "We're talking about technologies that break the umbilical cord to Earth," Lewis says.
Planetary Resources' scheme is more than a business plan, it's a rose-colored blueprint for supporting space exploration. Its existence speaks to humanity's drive to explore, to spread, and to support the most audacious of our dreams.
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Oct 6, 2010 9:31 PM by Ariel Wesler
The wet weather on the Central Coast has already left a path of damage in its wake. A local church is cleaning up extensive water damage from last night's rains, and drivers are getting an early taste normal winter weather.
The rain did damage both inside and out. It caught this Grover Beach church on 16th Street by surprise.
"We had started to tear off the roof," Pastor Reynolds Ritchie.
The water poured in overnight, flooding the sanctuary and causing extensive water damage. ServPro Restoration came out and put a tarp on the roof. With water saturating the carpet, the heavy duty clean up continued all day.
The company at the church until about 1 a.m. taking care of the initial flooding. They estimate they'll be here for another three to four days until all the water is gone.
In Arroyo Grande, a tree fell, knocking out power and cable for one homeowner.
"All of our lines is laying down in the lot underneath the broken branch," said Joy Bena of Arroyo Grande.
On the roads, the CHP reported a few minor morning accidents. A woman suffered minor injuries after a car hydroplaned on Highway 101 north of the Santa Margarita off ramp. The CHP offers this advice.
"Make sure that you're giving yourself more time, more room and be aware of what's around you," said CHP Officer John Townsen.
Whether or not you're prepared for the wet weather, think of this as a chance to prepare.
"When the regular rain comes, we'll be ready for it," Pastor Reynolds said.
The CHP says first rains of the season usually bring out the oils in the road, making them slicker. Officers say keep a four second following distance and make sure your vehicle is ready for the rain. Check brakes, tire tread, lights, and windshield wipers.
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Retiring members of the Seattle Symphony pursue new passions
By Melinda Bargreen
Seattle Times music critic
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Bernard Shapiro, left, and Bruce Lawrence are among the six musicians who are retiring from the Seattle Symphony after decades of service. The six have diverse plans for their retirements.
Conductor Gerard Schwarz, center, is pictured with retiring Seattle Symphony Orchestra members (left to right) Glen Danielson, Bernard Shapiro, Martin Friedmann and Bruce Lawrence.
When four retiring members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra stepped out on the Benaroya Hall stage last month for a midconcert recognition ceremony, the applause built to a thunderous roar. The audience got to its feet and continued a lengthy ovation, complete with cheers and whistles.
The four musicians — Bernard Shapiro (oboe), Glen Danielson (English horn), Bruce Lawrence (bass) and Martin Friedmann (violin) — hadn't played a note that evening, but the audience was applauding because they knew the quartet's history: decades of service to the orchestra and the community.
All of them (plus two more who couldn't be present that evening, violinists Janet Fisher Baunton and Joan Martin Woodard) were prominent and highly valued players who worked days and evenings on weekends, holidays, birthdays and anniversaries. Another player, percussionist Randolph Baunton (who is not retiring), was cited for his 50 years with the orchestra.
No wonder the applause was loud and long.
But while the applauders knew the players as orchestra members, there's a lot more to the story. Symphony musicians also are bikers, dog trainers, kayakers, contractors, chefs, linguists, writers, professional photographers, jazz players, historians and hang gliders.
And in the case of the 2005 retirees, the personalities and post-retirement plans are just as diverse.
Bruce Lawrence
Encouraging diversity; an upbringing in jazz
Bruce Lawrence's departure from the orchestra reduced its African-American membership by 50 percent, a fact that makes him shake his head. This tall, gentle man knows firsthand how hard it can be for black kids to enter the world of classical music — and that's why he is determined to open some doors.
"Student tutors come from Garfield High School, where there's a great orchestra," Lawrence notes, "and they're just incredible. I've been doing this for a couple of months now. These kids are surrounded by hip-hop stuff, but I've been exposed to something great that I can share with them."
Lawrence grew up in lower Harlem, in a musical family: "My dad was a baritone who wanted to be a concert singer; he sang in the Paul Johnson Choir. But in his time, the opportunities just weren't there." The young Lawrence originally studied piano, but was told by a teacher at New York's Music and Art High School that his big hands would make him a natural for the double bass (as the instrument formally is called). He went on to more success on that instrument at the Juilliard School, but afterward Lawrence took up jazz because there were more opportunities there for black players.
In Harlem, he was surrounded by legendary jazz artists such as Duke Ellington and Lena Horne. Lawrence played his bass alongside such legends as Charlie "Bird" Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie.
"A lot of guys in the neighborhood were learning to hot-wire cars," Lawrence remembers, "but I was just really involved with music, and nobody gave me a bad time about it. People had a lot of respect for good music. Sugar Ray Robinson used to carry my bass from the big double decker bus to my house. I sparred with him at the gym."
Lawrence smiles at the memory.
"He had mercy on me."
Lawrence's heart was in the classical world, however, and in the late 1950s he joined the symphony orchestra of Ottawa, where the racial barriers weren't as confining, and went on to other jobs in Halifax and Syracuse before being recruited by the Seattle Symphony in 1968. "That was the best thing that ever happened to me," he says. Lawrence plays a huge full-sized bass made by Hammond Ashley, and he loves "the big, masculine sound it makes. I love to play Bach suites on that big bass."
His eyes shine when he talks about the youngsters in his fledgling string orchestra.
"You should see the look on their faces when they're playing," Lawrence says. "It's hard for them to get instruments; a lot of them are borrowed. We only have about 12 kids now, but there will be more. I feel so good about it!"
Bernard Shapiro
"A beautiful life" with a rich, round sound
It was 1961 when a young Bernard Shapiro joined the Seattle Symphony, where his principal oboe position has made him one of the orchestra's most prominent and indispensable players. He's still playing the oboe (he'll be in the "Ring" orchestra for Seattle Opera in August), but he's also studying Spanish, watercolor painting and printmaking. His collection of self-portraits, a nod to Andy Warhol, will appear in the Licton Springs Review, published by North Seattle Community College.
"I've also started a culinary program, to see what professional cooking is like," says Shapiro, a lifelong gourmet.
"We start every morning at 7:30 a.m., which takes some dedication."
He taught at Pacific Lutheran University for 22 years, and at the University of Washington in the 1960s, but Shapiro is teaching less these days. Partly that's because he feels his brand of oboe playing ("dark, heavy, more macho") isn't what music directors are looking for these days.
"I like a juicy, big sound," he explains, "but it's not in style now. Nathan (Hughes, the Symphony's current principal oboe) plays lighter and has more endurance. It's like a racehorse versus an armor-carrying horse. Most students don't know that heavier sound now, and it's a disservice to teach it."
Audiences who remember Shapiro's big, rich sound might disagree. He learned that sound back in his New York days, when he earned a B.A. and an M.A. from the Manhattan School of Music. He went on to play first oboe with the Eighth Army Band, as well as the Seoul and Korean Broadcasting symphonies.
It was in the Army that Shapiro learned the technique of circular breathing, which allows the player to form a pocket of air in the mouth, pushed out with the tongue, while he breathes in through the nose. Thus, the stream of air through the oboe is continuous.
"It's been a beautiful life," he says, of his years playing the oboe.
"I don't know which direction I'll go now, but they're all interesting. Life's a candy store."
Glen Danielson
He'll play a final "Ring" then do some traveling
Shapiro's colleague in the oboe section, Glen Danielson, is a specialist on the oboe's glorious alto cousin, the English horn, which he has played here since 1967. He, too, will play this summer's "Ring" — in fact, Danielson has played all 42 "Rings" here.
"It will be my swan song," he says, of next month's Wagnerian performances.
If you're a Magnolia resident, you may have come across Danielson walking speedily backward along the neighborhood boulevards ("It's great for the back"). He also jogs to keep in shape; English horn players need plenty of lung power.
Danielson grew up in West Allis, Wis., home of the flamboyant Liberace, and began his orchestral career with Beethoven's Ninth in his first year at Milton College. He'll be back there this summer for his 50th high-school reunion.
A mild stroke prompted Danielson's decision to retire; he is otherwise healthy, but lingering effects in one tiny area of the eye meant that he had a narrowed visual range. Now he looks forward to doing a little traveling, and hearing some of Europe's great concert halls firsthand.
"Jerry (Schwarz) has been so wonderful to work with. I have so many great memories, and I'll miss it all so much. But I plan to keep in shape, buzzing away on my reed as I drive my car."
Martin Friedmann
A world traveler with a very musical family
Martin Friedmann, a 25-year veteran of the orchestra, is part of one of Seattle's most distinguished musical families (his oboist wife Laila Storch taught at the University of Washington and recently completed a first-rate book on oboe legend Marcel Tabuteau, and their violist daughter Aloysia is the founding director of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival with her husband, pianist Jon Kimura Parker).
Friedmann may look mild-mannered and scholarly, but he's an adventurer who spent his pre-Seattle years trekking in Nepal when it was first opened to foreigners back in the 1950s. With a master's degree from Juilliard in his pocket, Friedmann traveled around the world with his violin, soloing in Mozart for the Calcutta Symphony, performing for a music society in Bali. It was in Vienna that he met his wife; they married in Rome, and then lived in Salzburg, where Friedmann was concertmaster of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Storch played in the Mozarteum Orchestra.
Then the traveling duo ended up in Puerto Rico, where they played the Casals Festival and the Puerto Rico Symphony. When they moved to Seattle in the late 1960s, Friedmann decided to finish his education with a doctorate (at the University of Washington); he headed the music department at Cornish College in the 1970s.
Joining the Seattle Symphony in 1980 was "one of the best moves I ever made," Friedmann says. "I enjoyed every moment." In his spare time, however, he continued hang-gliding in Australia and "going off the beaten path" to New Guinea, Botswana, Bhutan, Sikkim, Tibet, Pakistan and other exotic destinations.
The most memorable incident? Playing for the King of Nepal, who arrived "with all his uniformed, medaled generals — very glamorous. He listened politely to Bach and Beethoven, then asked me if I knew "Souvenir" (by Frantisek Drdla). Fortunately I was able to play it and please him. He invited me and my pianist to fly anywhere in Nepal; flying was necessary because there were no roads."
Friedmann's post-retirement plans include the restoration of the score of a mass composed by his wife's great-great-great grandfather, Alois Storch, a pharmacist and amateur composer who was a contemporary of Mozart. Just don't be surprised if he also sneaks off to Tasmania or Tajikistan for more traveling.
Janet Fisher Baunton, Joan Martin Woodard
Both were key members of second violin section
The remaining two retirees, both members of the second violin section, have made remarkable contributions to the orchestra and are beloved by their peers. Janet Fisher Baunton, longtime principal second violin, joined the orchestra in 1968, but has been plagued by an injury she sustained in 2000. A strong section leader, she is well known as an advocate for music education and considers the orchestra "one of the most successful amalgams of society in existence."
Violinist Joan Martin Woodard, who joined the Symphony in 1976, is an alumna of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra and has a number of strings to her bow — including classical mandolin and guitar, both of which she has played with the orchestra on several occasions. One particularly memorable concert paired her on the mandolin with famous singer Bobby McFerrin.
"We will miss them all," says Schwarz, of the six retiring players.
"But I hope we'll often see them back, on the stage and in the audience. I'm so proud of their enormous contributions to this orchestra and this city."
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September 28, 2011 | Anna Belle Leiserson
Do you want to know what's really happening on your congregation's website — basing it on hard data instead of your best guess? Or would you like a few compelling graphics about your site to show leadership?
It's surprisingly easy to do this with a new breed of software tailored to websites, loosely named "analytics."
Analytics actually is more than just software. It's a process — a process of matching core goals with objective numbers. In other words half the equation is the number-crunching software; the other half is people culling the most meaningful trends out of these numbers.
It's a beautiful thing. Analytics move you and your site past opinions, past committee-think, past politics, and even at times past individual design sensibilities. You can tell which pages are most attractive to users, which least, the technologies used, sites users came from, how long they stay on your site, the most popular search terms, and a ton of other helpful information.
The sooner you can use analytics in your redesign the better.
The leader of the analytics software pack is Google Analytics. It's free, relatively easy to install, gives you a wealth of data, and automatically gives you handsome, dying-to-be-shared graphs of what's happening on your site. The information it generates is always helpful, but never more than in the early stages of a redesign.
If you're already using analytics for your site, now is the time to review the data. If you're not yet using analytics and have a site, now is the time to start. Within a month, you'll be getting invaluable insights from this data.
To install Google Analytics, go to their site at google.com/analytics/ and set up a Google account if you don't already have one. (This is the same account used for Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google+. If you have any of those, you've already got one.) Just sign in and follow the instructions.
Usually the most challenging part is adding the code. The code looks like this, where UA-XXXXXXXX-X is your account number:
Most people do this one of two ways. Either you have your webmaster add it to the site or else your content management system has a way to add the account number and takes care of the code for you. If you're using WordPress, it's easy to add with a plug-in like Google Analytics for WordPress.
The second challenge with Google Analytics is learning to swim in the sea of numbers. Much of the data isn't that useful, so where do you find the good stuff?
Going through the menu on the left, the following are my top picks:
Analytics software comes in two basic types. The first, including Google Analytics, is JavaScript-based. You put a snippet of JavaScript code in your site and then visit the mothership to read the results. The big advantage of this method is that it's relatively easy, both to set up and use. The disadvantages are it's third party (out of your control), users have to have JavaScript turned on, and it doesn't measure files that don't have the snippet of code (including PDFs). Clicky Web Analytics is an increasingly popular alternative that falls in this category.
The second type is server-based software that analyzes what are called "log files." Server log files keep track of every single transaction. Thus advantages include the ability to track all media types (including PDFs) and users don't have to have JavaScript on. Most of all, it's in your control. If you make a mistake all is not lost forever. On the other hand, it can be difficult to install and the free ones don't render your data in a way that's as obviously meaningful as their JavaScript cousins. The most popular free log analyzers are AWStats and Analog. If your host comes with either pre-installed, by all means, use it.
In fact, you can use as many types of analytics on the same site as you wish. At work I use AWStats in addition to Google Analytics. But for my church I just use Google Analytics — and it's plenty.
There are a two other applications closely related to analytics that you might want to consider for your site — both from Google. Google, it seems, rules the analytics roost.
Google Webmaster Tools helps you with your site's placement on Google. It tells you the most popular search terms used for your site, records pages that aren't found and a number of other helpful, if rather geeky, things.
Feedburner is analytics for blogs and other sites that syndicate content with RSS feeds. One of the neatest things about Feedburner is it lets you email your syndicated content to those who are interested. That's what I use at the top of the sidebar of this very site.
For those interested in learning more about analytics, my favorite resources are:
Next week we'll start the formal kickoff of redesign — rolling it up to leadership with needs assessments. Until then, have fun digging through web data.
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This is a photo of a chandelier in the parlor of a local house museum (house is circa 1880 if I recall correctly).
I want to buy similar light fixtures for my own old home. I am especially obsessed with the chandelier. :) However, I don't know the proper term for either of these light fixtures, so I'm having trouble searching for any to buy. The chandelier looks Eastlake, and the other light looks like an oil lamp maybe, but that's all I know. Can anyone help with proper names? Thanks! |
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Hmm, neither image posted. Isn't that special. Here's a link to the chandelier-looking light: http://images2.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp5365%3B%3Enu%3D3364%3E633%3E96%3B%3EWSNRCG%3D326%3A%3A%3A8364336nu0mrj Here's a link to the oil lamp-type light: http://images2.snapfish.com/232323232%7Ffp53689%3Enu%3D3364%3E633%3E96%3B%3EWSNRCG%3D326%3A%3A%3B76%3C6336nu0mrj |
- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Wed, Nov 17, 10 at 9:54
It's vaguely eastlake style chandileier. Is the bust attached to the light? The oil lamp is a "pull down" light or "pulley light". You could snag it, pull it down to light it, and push it back up. |
- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Wed, Nov 17, 10 at 10:43
The first one is a Neo-Grec gasolier circa 1870s-1880s. Rejuvenation Lighting currently produces a similar one oritinally made by Hollings. |
- Posted by newdawn1895 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 18, 10 at 9:46
Here is a picture of my cousins house using a chandy similiar to the second one. I think it looks good in a country kitchen. |
- Posted by newdawn1895 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 18, 10 at 10:02
The one above is brass and of course yours is made of wrought iron. I would call the second one a Lantern chandy, but not sure of the proper name. |
- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Thu, Nov 18, 10 at 10:12
Here is a link that might be useful: Rejuvenation
- Posted by newdawn1895 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 18, 10 at 12:50
Pal, you certainly know what your talking about. Your a good source of information. .....Jane |
- Posted by sombreuil_mongrel (My Page) on Thu, Nov 18, 10 at 20:17
If there are stylized palmettes/anthemions, it's neo-grec. Good catch palimpsest. Casey |
The kerosine lamp in the linked picture appears to be missing the pulley mechanism and the smoke bell....but..I guess I would call it a hanging kerosine lamp. Linda C |
- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Fri, Nov 19, 10 at 10:23
It also might be well to point out that the gas...as in natural gas...fueled chandelieres are always hung by a pipe that the gas can run through...never a chain or a thin wire sort of thing.And the gas fueled lights always have a petcock which can turn on or off the gas supply. Linda C |
- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Fri, Nov 19, 10 at 17:41
True, and this is where many reproductions drop the ball: a natural gas fixture hung by chains. The solar lamp and argand lamp above are hung by chains because these are oil lamps or kerosene lamps that were fed only from the central reservior. I don't know how long that solar lamp would have burned before needing a refill. |
The other lamp you are trying to figure out is a library lamp. It held a reservoir of oil (not gas) and while some could be pulled down, most were not. They were common in a less well to do house. (a larger home would have had a more spectacular fixture). They come in many different colors, from ruby to opal to painted glass shades. |
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