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Brazil's threatened slice of paradise
Development completely disappears once you stroll beyond the boundaries of Abraão -- and stroll you must as no private cars are allowed on the island and the limited public transport is for island residents only. Dirt paths skirt through rainforest and along the shoreline, leading to Ilha Grande's postcard-perfect beaches, past colonial ruins and up to the steep mountain slope of 982m-high Pico do Papagaio, which affords 360-degree views over the island.
One of the best activities is to explore the island'sintriguing past. A 7km hike from Vila do Abraãoto to the south side of the island leads to the ruins of the Cândido Mendes penitentiary and the ghostly settlement of Dois Rios, a handful of dwellings where the prison guards formerly resided and where trees now grow through the middle of abandoned houses. The path leading 6km east from Abraão winds through jungle, past tiny inlets and bays before reaching the stunning beauty of Praia do Lopes Mendes, whose dazzling white sands consistently earn it a ranking among Brazil's top 10 beaches. A shorter jaunt is the 1.7km Circuito do Abraão, which leads from Vila do Abraão to the moss-covered ruins of Ilha Grande's first prison, Lazareto, passing a 19th-century aqueduct next to a picturesque swimming hole where local children splash about on their way home from school. Beyond the aqueduct , a trail leads to Cachoeira da Feiticeira, a refreshing 15m waterfall, before continuing to the beach of Saco do Ceu, whose calm lake-like waters make a marvellous setting for a swim.
While there are plenty of memorable walks on the island, you can also sign up for an outing with the sustainably-minded O Verde. Run by Argentine expat Gigi Courau, O Verde offers guided hikes, kayaking and snorkelling trips and visits to local island communities. For trips to beaches further away, book a boat trip with one of a handful of operators based at Abraão, such as Sudoeste SW. You can also negotiate a pick-up and drop-off with one of the local fishermen, who know some of the most idyllic spots. And if you would like to explore the riches beneath the sea, sign up for a dive with Elite Dive Center to see the abundant marine life and a number of shipwrecks -- some of which date back to the 16th Century.
There is much to explore on the island, and it is still easy to find a quiet stretch of shoreline backed by virgin rainforest and relax for a spell. In the future however, this slice of paradise may not be so easy to come by.


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A Weekend in the Ozarks
Road trip to the Ozarks
Tom takes us into the hills and rivers of Northwest Arkansas
On the face of it, going to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for Fourth of July weekend was a quixotic choice. For whatever reason, the Natural State is not tops on the list of vacation destinations for my fellow Austinites. But for my girlfriend and I, a trip there made sense. We wanted to be able to drive somewhere we hadn't been before where we could spend time outside without spontaneously combusting, and in the oppressive heat of July, there just aren't many places like that out there.
So it was settled rather quickly. We booked a rental through HomeAway, took time off, and spent an evening figuring out what we wanted to do up there. And then we set off.
As anyone who's traveled it knows, the only thing exceptional about the drive up from Austin into Oklahoma is its utter blandness. It's not quite the horizon-to-horizon expanse of pancake-flat corn and soybean fields that was the Indiana of my youth—there are hills, after a fashion, in Oklahoma—but the ride doesn't often offer much more than empty, semiarid vistas. However, that changed when we pulled onto Oklahoma State Highway 43, a hilly, gently winding road that led, rather unexpectedly, to this:
The contemporary section in Crystal Bridges museum. I enjoyed this occurence in particular
Sardis was apparently a town that now lies under the reservoir of Sardis Lake. The only visual clue to its existence is a causeway out to where the cemetery used to be, now a raised island with the tombstones placed on top of it. We learned all this later, but even at the time, the reservoir definitely felt eerie. There were so many dead dragonflies around the walkway that they formed dunes, and mud-daubed swallow nests were clustered along decrepit buildings of unknown provenance and function. At one point, a stretch Hummer pulled up and a wedding party piled out, took pictures amid a whirlwind of chatter, then piled back in and sped off.
After Sardis, the rest of the ride up was more attractive, with progressively denser forests closing ever closer on the roads we traveled until, on the tight switchbacks of Route 62 leading into Eureka Springs, they nearly formed a canopy over us.
After dropping our stuff at our vacation rental, a cute little apartment in the town's downtown, we briefly explored our surrounds. I'm going to be blunt: Eureka Springs is touristy. There's no getting around that. A stroll down Main Street yields the same sights the epicenter of any ultra-popular middle income destination will provide: knickknack shops overemphasizing the touristic aspects of a particular place (for Eureka Springs, that was vaguely rustic and "down-home"), silly T-shirt stores, and throngs of meandering visitors.
And yet…I liked it. Eureka Springs draws plenty of your average weekend gawkers, but it isn't big enough to be truly oppressively touristy, and those folks are just one element in an unusually diverse group of visitors. In addition to having your quotient of schlocky stuff for sale, the town is gay-friendly, a haven for antique hunters, a Christian tourism destination, the most significant stop on the Pig Trail Scenic Byway, the "Wedding Capital of the South," and perfect as a jumping-off spot to explore the Arkansan Ozarks, which is what we intended to use it for. It was tolerant and cute and—and this is important—we consistently ate well there.
A digression on the food, because its quality was surprising: I'm usually vegetarian but I'll occasionally eat fish when it's well-prepared. While travelling in the Midwest, the South, and the Southwest, that usually means I'm confined to cobbling together sides to form odd, starchy meals that are simultaneously heavy and unsatisfying. I've also found that places as touristy as Eureka Springs often skimp on quality unless you know where to look—and, being a tourist, it's hard to know. In Eureka Springs, though, I never had to eat mashed potatoes with a side of cornbread. The salmon my girlfriend ordered at the Local Flavor Café was, no exaggeration, the most expertly prepared, if not necessarily sauced, cooked salmon I've ever eaten, and my portabella mushroom with goat cheese and artichoke hearts was hearty and subtle. The veggie hash at the Mud Street Café, while certainly no dainty amuse-bouche, was not the greasy foodsplosion it easily could have been, and the vegan plate at the Garden Bistro was a welcome pile of tasty veggies in a region of the country more known (and justifiably so) for its barbecue.
We decided to spend one day doing human things and one day doing natural things, so our first full day in the region, we stopped by the Thorncrown Chapel just outside town before heading on down to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville. Thorncrown Chapel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright disciple E. Fay Jones, is considered one of the finest American buildings of the 20th Century. Set in the woods, glass walls encase a dazzling intricate latticework of painted wooden crossbeams. It's a peaceful, contemplative place, one that we sat in for some time, gazing.
Crystal Bridges is a museum focusing on American art and funded by Walmart, but it's no mere vanity project. The collection is serious, well-chosen, and top-shelf, and the space—cavernous yet warm, and a more active participant in the experience than your typical brightly lit, white-walled box—is a pleasure to inhabit.
Buffalo National River
Saturday, we drove southwest through Harrison to the Buffalo National River, the first place designated as such in the US. The portion of the river in the park gently meanders and bends around bluffs and gravel bars for 135 miles and is a great bucolic weekend activity. We rented our canoe from Buffalo River Outfitters and opted for a four-mile trip. The water level was low in parts—locals told us later that the best time of year to canoe it is in the spring—but the temperature was perfect for dipping in to cool off from the hot summer sun.
Now here's the part of the article where I casually drop something in the recounting that was actually monumental during the trip: I lost my keys on the river. In doing so, I had to get towed to the outskirts of Harrison, across the highway from the Toyota dealership, and needed to stay there until it opened on Monday so I could get in it, drive back to Eureka Springs to pick up my stuff at the rental, and drive home. This had the effect of simultaneously cutting my trip short (since I was stuck without transportation on the side of Route 65, not exactly the most pedestrian friendly situation) and lengthening it (since I had to postpone my return to Austin until I could drive my car again). The most informative thing I can say about my change of venue is that Eureka Springs certainly out-charms a faceless motel on the edge of Harrison. The highlight of my stay was watching and actually laughing at an episode of America's Funniest Home Videos.
And then, new keys, the drive down into Texas, a stop in Plano to visit family, hours of podcasts and music and chatter and quiet, shuttling through a darkened landscape toward home. Home was nice after all that.


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Granted, Stoddard's reasons for resisting further media consolidation could hardly be more different from those of the National Rifle Association. She doesn't want to boost conservatively inclined information purveyors such as the Fox News Channel, whereas Charlton Heston and company are worried that what it referred to in a recent mailing as "gun-hating media giants like AOL Time Warner, Viacom/CBS and Disney/ ABC" will whip up a weapon-banning fervor among the populace if given the opportunity. The NRA urged members to send the FCC postcards decrying this prospect, joining plenty of other collectives with disparate views, and individuals of every description responded. By one count, over 700,000 folks shared their displeasure -- and while they didn't win this time around, people like Stoddard believe there may be a different outcome in round two. "There's still a chance these changes could be rolled back," she says.
FCC commissioners led by Michael Powell, son of Secretary of State Colin Powell, didn't overhaul every standard. For instance, radio-station ownership levels remain the same, and the ban against a single firm owning more than one of the big four TV networks wasn't altered. Now, though, local TV stations owned by a single company can cumulatively reach 45 percent of American viewers, rather than 35 percent, the previous threshold, thereby potentially giving networks more clout over more outlets. Businesses can also buy multiple TV stations in the same market, with the number determined by the area's size; in general, a single owner can hold two signals in markets with at least five stations, and three in communities with eighteen or more. (TVRadioWorld. com lists fifteen analog TV stations in the Denver/Boulder area, plus numerous digital and low-power signals.) And for markets with a minimum of nine TV stations, like ours, the prohibition against one entity owning a newspaper and one or more broadcast stations or radio-television combinations is out the window entirely. Goodbye.
That's the way Dean Singleton likes it. The head of MediaNews Group, which owns the Denver Post and over a hundred other print and broadcast properties across the country, Singleton has, by his own account, been working since 1993 to remove FCC limits that prevented a single company from owning a newspaper along with a television or radio station in the same community -- a tenet known as newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership. Indeed, Singleton's advocacy in this area has made him a target for criticism from ostensible peers like the Seattle Times Company's Frank Blethen, who champions local ownership of media properties. When testifying before a Commerce Committee hearing in May, Blethen was asked by New Hampshire Senator John Sununu if he viewed Singleton, who also addressed the panel, as a threat to democracy. Blethen's simple answer: "Yes."
Be that as it may, newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership is officially a reality, and Singleton sees it as a "win-win" for everyone. "When you break it down by facts, it not only looks reasonable, but you have to wonder why it took so long," he says. "The opponents yell and scream about what's wrong with this, but they can't tell you what it is. They haven't shown one piece of hard evidence."
In his Commerce Committee testimony, which was largely reproduced in a May 25 op-ed essay for the Denver Post, Singleton made an intriguing case for how the crushing of cross-ownership barriers would help consumers in small communities. "In Pittsfield, Massachusetts, I own a newspaper that covers the western quadrant of Massachusetts," he stated. "There is no television station there and never has been. If this rule is changed, we could put a station on the air that provided local TV news for the first time ever."
Of course, such a project would present Pittsfield residents with something of a quandary, because the novelty of local television-news coverage would also give MediaNews unprecedented power to influence the community via the media. In Singleton's view, the majority of Pittsfielders would regard this tradeoff as eminently acceptable, and he's probably right. However, his line of reasoning seems less straightforward when applied to Eureka, California, which has four TV stations with relatively few hands on deck; Singleton revealed that the news staff at the strongest of these tops out at eleven. He contends that by combining radio, TV and newspaper service, the pool of news gatherers available to these entities would instantly be much larger, thereby providing better service. Others might counter that the main results, beyond cost savings due to economies of scale, would be greater duplication of stories from medium to medium and, probably, a less competitive environment overall.
Who's right? We may not find out as quickly as many thought even when it comes to MediaNews. The company already owns KTVA-TV in Anchorage, Alaska, which was picked up, according to the MediaNews Web site, "in anticipation of changes in the regulations governing ownership of newspapers, radio and television." Just as important, Singleton said earlier this year ("Green-Light Specials," January 23) that MediaNews was "preparing to purchase both radio and television. In some cases, we already have agreements to do so, subject to the change in the rule." Last week, Singleton told the trade magazine Editor & Publisher that he's likely to exercise an option to buy KTVS-TV in Fairbanks, Alaska.


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one of the things that is crucial in the next regime is not just proper development of newton, but allowing and trusting him to make adjustments to the play and call audibles when needed or even have plays that are intended to be audibles.
fwiw, there is one potential HC who does this as part of his system. hopefully they all do.
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Silverlight Tour Paris in june
The Silverlight Tour is coming back to Paris, France and for the first time with Silverlight 3 content!!
- When: June 02-04
- Where: Paris, France
- Registration (Fr): http://www.octo.com/com/com_formation-silverlight.html
If you are looking for 3 days of intensive Silverlight training in French this is your chance to learn it from soup to nuts!
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Silverlight 3 ebook preview
While at MIX09 we were given a free print preview of the next book of Laurence Moroney (First Look: Microsoft Silverlight 3 – MS Press) with a chapter on some of the new Silverlight 3 features.
Silverlight – Get Color from Hex
What if you want to get a Color from its hexa value (#FFBBCC88) ?
Silverlight 3 - Create a nice Navigation Flip
Here is a sample we made at RunAtServer using Silverlight 3 Perspective 3D feature and the new Navigation API to create a nice navigation flip!
How does it work ?
Short story
The app use the new navigation api to navigate while animating a 3d flip transformation.Long story
The main xaml has a Frame element in a StackPanel with an associated PlaneProjection:<StackPanel x:Name="mainContentPageContainer" Grid.Row="2"> <StackPanel.Projection> <PlaneProjection x:Name="mainPanelProjection" /> </StackPanel.Projection> <navigation:Frame x:Name="mainContentPage" Source="HomePage"></navigation:Frame> </StackPanel>
There are 2 Storyboards (FlipStart and FlipEnd) with one animation each:
- The first Storyboard animate the RotationY property of the PlaneProjection (mainPanelProjection) from 0 to 90 (half 180°) during 1s.
The navigation will happen when it complete. - The second animate the RotationY property of the PlaneProjection from 270 to 360 (half 180°) and NOT from 90 to 180, we'll see that later.
Note the Easing function to add a bounce effect at the end of the page flip.
<Storyboard x:Name="FlipStart"> <DoubleAnimation From="0" To="90" Duration="00:00:1" Completed="Flip1Half_Completed" Storyboard.TargetName="mainPanelProjection" Storyboard.TargetProperty="RotationY"> </DoubleAnimation> </Storyboard> <Storyboard x:Name="FlipEnd"> <DoubleAnimation From="270" To="360" Duration="00:00:1" Storyboard.TargetName="mainPanelProjection" Storyboard.TargetProperty="RotationY"> <DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction> <BounceEase Bounces="2" EasingMode="EaseOut" /> </DoubleAnimation.EasingFunction> </DoubleAnimation> </Storyboard>
To learn more on PlaneProjection and Perspective 3D read my previous post:
http://weblogs.asp.net/lduveau/archive/2009/03/31/silverlight-3-playing-with-perspective-3d.aspxThe menu is composed of HyperlinkButton elements whose Click events check if the requested page is not the current page and begin the first Storyboard (FlipStart).
private void Menu_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { menuClicked = sender as HyperlinkButton; if (mainContentPage.Source.ToString() != menuClicked.Tag.ToString()) FlipStart.Begin(); }
This is where the magic happens:
Remember the first StoryBoard (FlipStart) apply a 3d transform on the StackPanel from 0 to 90°. When it complete it just navigate to the requested page, then the next Storyboard (FlipEnd) begins! But if we do just that the new page would be inversed, that's why after the first 90°, the page do a full 180°, and then finish animating a new 90°… makes sense?void Flip1Half_Completed(object sender, EventArgs e) { if(menuClicked != null) mainContentPage.Navigate(new Uri(menuClicked.Tag.ToString(), UriKind.Relative)); FlipEnd.Begin(); }
That's it!
The code attached is a bit more complex as I added the direction change after each menu click, as well as selected menu backcolor management.
Download the code (Silverlight 3 beta needed)
Technorati Tags: Silverlight 3 - The first Storyboard animate the RotationY property of the PlaneProjection (mainPanelProjection) from 0 to 90 (half 180°) during 1s.
Silverlight 3 – The amazing Bouncing Plane demo
The source code of the demo showed by Scott Guthrie during the Keynote at MIX09 is available thanks to Henry Hahn. This impressive demo shows several Silverlight 3 new graphics features : Pixel Shader effects, Perspective 3d and the new Easing Functions.
Prevent a Silverlight animation from running twice
By default in Silverlight a user can launch the same animation several times, even if the animation is not finished. Side effects: the animation starts again and your code (if any) runs twice. Sometimes this can be annoying.
Empty iframe purpose in Silverlight html test page?
As you may have noticed while creating a Silverlight project, the default html test page generated by Visual Studio 2008 contains the object tag + an empty invisible iframe with no id.
Code Camp Montreal 2009
The next Code Camp Montreal will take place on Saturday, May 30th 2009. -
My blog in French, or Spanish, or Chinese, or…?
Use the Microsoft Translator Widget to translate your web site!
My Silverlight talk at Montreal .NET User Group
This week I gave a Silverlight presentation at the Montreal .NET Community (www.dotnetmontreal.com).
Very few slides and lots of code, I built live from scratch a Silverlight business oriented application with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend, here is what I demoed:
- Entity Framework over a SQL Server db (beers!)
- WCF service + asynchronous call on the Silverlight 2 client + best practice
- Design and Animation with Blend + a few tips (tab key to collapse windows, properties search)
- Tips to prevent an animation from running twice
- DataGrid templating (custom columns, custom selected row view)
- DataBinding
- Isolated Storage cache [Learn more]
- Custom alternative "no Silverlight installed" version as well a as a way to simulate a user without Silverlight in IE. I finally build a nice working version of the page with data for the user without forcing him to install Silverlight. [Learn more]
- Quickly talked about some of the new features coming with Silverlight 3 (currently beta)
Silverlight experience: Alternative ASP.NET version: Lot's of content! I wanted to show a bit of Silverlight 3 but that was too much.
You can download my code (*) here:
As well as the slides (french):
(*) The download include the asynchronous Database update as users edit the DataGrid.
For those of you who are interested to hear about Silverlight 3 don't worry you still have plenty of events coming!
- Montreal Code Camp in may
- Forum des architectes in may
- Our Silverlight Tour training
- More to come…
The very first Silverlight 3 training in Montreal!
Be ready for the next version of Silverlight!
I am so happy to announce that I will give a french Silverlight 3 training at the end of this month in Montreal, Qc.
The Silverlight Tour has already been modified to include Silverlight 3 content. If you want to be ready for the next version of Silverlight, this is the place to be. This three-day workshop is going to teach the latest features of Silverlight as well as the complete Silverlight 2 stack.
- When: April 27-29
- Where: Montreal, Qc
- Registration (Fr): http://www.runatserver.com/SilverlightTraining.aspx
The new features covered include:- Out of Browser Support
- Pixel Shaders
- Animation easing
- Hardware Graphic Acceleration
- Behaviours
- Navigation Framework
- Blend 3
- Binding Improvements
- Secure Web Services
- Binary XML Transport
- RIA Services Client Controls
- Preview of RIA Services
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My talk on MIX09 (french)
As last year, I was invited at the Visual Studio Talk Show, a Quebec .NET podcast, to talk (in french...) about all the announcements (mainly Silverlight 3) made at MIX this year, so in case you need a recap...


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The research staff at the Rock and Roll Hall of Shame has spent long and hazardous hours exposed to songs that are considered crimes committed against rock. This includes good bands gone band and bad bands that got...badder.
To aid our prosecution we enlisted the help of our friend and fellow crime fighter, Ms. Beth Mann.
Check out Beth's page for Crimes Against Rock Part One!
MJ Listens to crimes against rock Beth contemplates Rock n roll justice
CRIME: Wanted - Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
VERDICT: Guilty!
MJ: Bon Jovi's crime? Out of control metaphor and indiscriminate face rocking. ("I've seen a million faces, and I've rocked them all.") Here's the thing Jon, you're not a cowboy, dude. You're a rock star. From Jersey.
Beth: Dead, please.
CRIME: We Didn't Start the Fire—Billy Joel
VERDICT: Guilty!
MJ: List blogs are good but list songs are always a bad idea. They're lyrically lazy and absolutely no fun to sing. We Didn't Start the Fire is the exemplar of bad list songs. And did Joel just have the audacity to rhyme homeless vets with Bernie Geotz? Yes. Yes, he did.
Beth: In full agreement. This song gives me a headache. We may have not started the fire, but that doesn't mean this song shouldn't die a slow, fiery death. I think Joel should also be held accountable for Uptown Girl. God, that song makes me want to impale myself.
Crime: Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen Verdict: Hung Jury
MJ: I disagree with this one being on the list. It's a song about a veteran. As a vet myself, I cannot dis this song in good conscience. The biggest crime in regard to this song was Ronald Reagan mistakenly thinking the song was some sort of patriotic paean and using it for political purposes.
Beth: First off, this song has been played ad nauseum. If someone told me that Born in the USA would be eradicated, never to be heard again, I'd file my nails and ask "What's for dessert?" And secondly, while I'm a Jersey girl, this is Springsteen at his screechiest and most constipated-sounding. His vocal cords sound like their being drug over broken glass. And it's a little to "Ra Ra, Go America" for me as well. I feel like someone force-fed me the flag.
MJ: Actually Beth, the song isn't "ra ra, go America" –it's a song about the decaying of the American Dream, the chorus is meant to be ironic.
Beth: Yes, but its come to represent something that's ra ra, I think. No one listens to the lyrics. They just hear Born in the USA - the patriotic anthem. It almost has become like one of the awful country tunes, with that "I drive a truck and I'm an American, damnit" feel.
CRIME: I Would Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) - Meatloaf
VERDICT: Guilty!
MJ: I spent an inordinate amount of time deciphering this incomprehensible and overblown suck-o-rama. Doctors believe I have still not fully recovered.
Beth: Yes, this song is comically bad. I'd actually turn this one up and listen just to be happily tortured. I want to be on the train for this wreck. (And clearly it's about reverse-dildo sex.)
CRIME: Hollaback Girl—Gwen Stefani
VERDICT: Guilty!
MJ: I have no idea what a "hollaback girl" is, and I'm pretty sure this is a crime against rock, but Gwen Stefani is so dang adorable that I'm going to have to pass. I think I'm in love with her.
Beth: Gwen Stefani is a bit of a poseur. She's not a rocker, she's a wannabe. "I'm just a Girl" almost classifies as rock but that's because a rock band influenced her. Her work makes taffy seem complex.
MJ: Work? Who was talking about her "work"?
Beth: Making you about as complex as taffy. One of our only females on the list and you need to objectify her? Nice. Kudos for your evolution and stuff. Kegger in the future?
MJ: You're right. I should be more mature - like how your meditation on the sexiest men in rock explored the musical nuances of chord progression, polyrhythms, and the jazz time signatures contained in the intellectual musical stylings of Jared Leto. And what was that about beer?
CRIME: Hot! Hot! Hot! - Buster Poindexter
VERDICT: Guilty!
MJ: In which David Johannson embraces the '80s. So, uh, anyway, the New York Dolls were awesome at least.
Beth: No, it's not, not, not. Dear God, what was that all about? Let's pretend this never happened. Shhh...keep walking, keep walking...
CRIME: You're the Inspiration - Chicago
VERDICT: Guilty!
Beth: Ugh. Another band that everyone thinks sucks because they don't know about early Chicago. Its like newer Chicago shat upon older Chicago.
MJ: Who was the genius who put Peter Cetara in charge?
CRIME: Love in an Elevator - Aerosmith
VERDICT: Guilty!
MJ: So, Aerosmith's life had become so empty and shallow that they found artistic inspiration in having random and meaningless sex in elevators. Way to keep it real Areosmith. Jeez, you guys should have just stayed on drugs.
Beth: It's no Janie's Got a Gun, for sure. (A good tune for chicks who are feeling a touch homicidal.) But yeah, Aerosmith - it's not quite rock and roll to me. Not at this point. Earlier Aerosmith, yes. (Though I confess, I kinda like Pink.)
Crime: Shiny Happy People--REM
Verdict: Guilty!
Beth: Wow, I forgot how much I dislike this song. It's almost as bad as Stand ("Stand in the place where you work, now face north! You know what - don't tell me which direction to face, REM. I'll face east just to spite your ass.)
Ultimately, Shiny, Happy People is the Barney of rock tunes.
Barney says "Thanks for stopping by you shiny happy people!"
Check out Beth's page for more headbangers (and not in that rock and roll sort of way.)
Oh, that probably explains the super annoying factor then!
And yeah, the line is very blurred on what is considered "rock"--though that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I question the jurisdiction of the jury, though. Is this really rock at all? OK, I'll accept Bruce, Aerosmith and R.E.M., but Chicago? If we're going to include even fluffy poodles, why are The Eagles allowed to escape the long arm of the law? Their crimes are legion.
I just knew that was gonna be high on one of these two lists.
Alas.........I am wrong again.
Curious what Eagles tune you think is a train wreck.
But she's a whole other post...
I liked the tag-team posts with Beth--very nice!
You love me
Let's get a gun and kill Barney!
With a bang-bang shoot-em-up
Barney hits the floor
No more purple dinosaur!
Leaves humming.
(correctamundo about all except Bruce's song. Ironic and beautiful, it just got played to death)
But, the two postings have given me some ideas for some more music posts of my own.
("Stand in the place where you work, now face north! You know what - don't tell me which direction to face, REM. I'll face east just to spite your ass.) Agreed.
Bon Jovi? To my ears: The pits
I've always also thought Tom Sawyer(or anything really) by Rush was a major earsore but figured they were respected by their peers or whatever.
Very enjoyable feature! Thanks.
The Eagles, btw, are guilty not only of crimes against rock, but also against country, blues, and humanity.
"record store snobbery and condescension chatter" - that's wonderful! - from michael rubenstein
"tag-team posts" - good term and technique we can use again, from spotted mind.
as for the pop/rock differentiation:
- Stefani claims to be a "rock star" - hey, look at the "cute" little tag hanging from her Gucci belt. Why it says it! In plain language. Her music MUST rock.
- Chicago WAS a rock band - there's no doubt there. You'd have to have a good argument for me to think otherwise. I liked Kathy's comments about what they signified at the time. They had a fucking horn section! How sweet was that.
- Billy Joel may be a tough call but he has a heavy pop sound and I think HE wouldn't classify his music in either direction. "Don't Ask me Why" or even "Big Shot" - is that pop? I don't think so.
So, as a present, just in case you haven't seen it. Patti Smith, singing you light up my life.
Sadly, no one is innocent in rock.
In case Norwonk doesn't respond -- essentially every damn thing the Eagles did is a crime. The band defines middle-of-the-road consumer product.
Fernsy, yes...you are right. Rush was forgotten and shouldn't have been. It was an oversight by MJ....ha...
Stim and Norwonk, I think we have a problem here. The Eagles don't suck and don't represent rock mediocrity - there are bands FAR more mediocre than The Eagles.
Their harmonies are always dead-on, they have a tight, well-worn band. So many good members. And good, well-crafted songs. They're too tight a band with too many solid musical skills to be called mediocre.
I can see how you might think they're a little soft or something, I suppose. They don't really rock out in the traditional sense. Hmm...but not mediocre.
And Juliet--that Patti Smith vid hurt my head. Thanks, I think...
Fingerlakeswanderer you said: "I assume that somewhere in the great cosmic list has to be Celine Dion's cover of "You Shook Me All Night Long." --If that exists it will be my new favorite song!
A small number of legitimately great songs (e.g., "Against the Wind", "Main Street", "Night Moves",) are the Washington Generals compared with the Shitty Harlem Globetrotters of "Katmandu", "Old Time Rock and Roll", "Shakedown", "Rock and Roll Never Forgets", and "Rock and Roll and Rock and Roll and Rock and Roll". (Okay, I made up that last one, but it wouldn't surprise if that's the name of his next song. Or AC/DC's, another group that probably should make this list in the same way as Seger--a few terrific songs and many shitty ones.)
Also, I think I found Cindy Ross's trainwreck tune...and its a killer:
And MJ, look at the hit we take from Ron67 at the end of my comments...and boy does he have some nerve considering what he has posted on his page
...oh dear, look at me - I'm gossiping on OS.
Actually, I had to come back and defend Bon Jovi. It's been eating at me all day. He is the excepting to the sucking in later years rule.
Yes, Dead of Alive is silly crap but our little boy is all growed up now. He does the best, and I mean the very best, version of Hallelujah ever. Check it out. The dude can sing!
Thank you and good night.
I will say this about Bon Jovi: the lead singer sure is purty. And he keeps getting purtier, that's what's weird.
I will say this about Bon Jovi: the lead singer sure is purty. And he keeps getting purtier, that's what's weird.
"this is Springsteen at his screechiest and most constipated-sounding." YES, you have described the sound absolutely perfectly.
Great job, you guys. I am sure the beer is the only way you made it through!
You hit one of my hot buttons with Chicago. Their work with Terry Kath was phenomenal and had so much originality. Post-Terry Kath, they became a pop joke. I liked Peter Cetera better as a condiment, not as the main dish. He was very effective in this, one of my Chicago favorites.
Sorry, but as much as I dislike Cetera's, Stefani's and Meatloaf's songs--all of those artists, plus Beth's choices, BAD are still more listenable to most contemporary music GOOD.
The worst thing that ever happened to radio was losing personality-driven radio programming. Payola aside (and what entertainment medium doesn't have its dark sides?), Top 40 radio was one of the greatest milestones of anyone's rites of passage while growing up. Dick Clark's AB was a Sat a.m. staple; I always watched it before going out that nite to remind myself of how to dance. Not that it really helped, but it was the ritual of youth that I still remember fondly of that time.
I cannot STAND to listen to most radio today. Given the resurgence of those old bands, I'm hardly alone. Just like I don't really watch a lot of TV b/c it's just too inane.
I truly feel sorry for young people today and the dearth of talent that passes for music these days.
In full agreement with Elsma.
I think someone should come up w/a radio station, streamed via computer, w/programming we WOULD listen to.
I'm planning for retirement in the next few years, and that's 1 thing on my list (after I find another job to supplement the .50/mo allowance that retirement will provide me). One of the formats I'd like to see is classic big band/Latin jazz (again, something I remember from growing up: listening to that music while my parents went out for the nite). But classic R&R would work well nicely too.
I think something like that would really find its audience. There are too many of us out there who feel likewise. And who knows? Maybe contemporary musicians would learn at last to find some talent--and radio-listening youth might--MIGHT--learn to recognize talent from noise...
Did you guys forget Kansas' mopey Dust in the Wind?
I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again - you're the freaking man when it comes to spot on music reviews. Seriously.
And thanks for rightly pointing out that "Born in the U.S.A." is anything but a cheerleading song. President Reagan tried to hijack it for that purpose but Bruce didn't let it happen.
Music should never be judged by how casual listeners (I should say cavalier listeners) think they hear it. It's a great tune that qualifies as a genuine anthem of truthiness.
Rated and appreciated.
Re: Born in the USA
Lemme see if I can get this straight. You include a song because you don't understand what it's about. When it's pointed out that you don't get the song, you maintain your stance, saying, (in effect) "Well the fact that I and others aren't smart enough to understand it proves that I'm right in including it on this list."
Sheesh...what a maroon.
btw, my eight-year-old nephew adored Weird Al Yancovik's takeoff of Meatloaf's song, which he called "I Would Do Anything for Lunch"
One of my main issues (which I clearly mention in my review) with BORN IN THE USA (caps intended because that's what the song sounds like to me) is the grating vocals, not just meaning. It's bombastic and lacking in nuance.
Listen - don't lecture me on Bruce. I was BORN listening to the man. That song is not one of his better songs. Its like marching band music.
And frankly, just because its about a vet doesn't make me like a song...I mean, really, what kind of message is that? Does that mean every film about war is good just because?
It's that slippery slope I find very dangerous. I should like it simply because its political messaging resonates with you. I call bullshit to that.
And elsma--same goes for you. Sure there's a lot of dreck that gets popular, but that's always been the case. It's important to separate and identify popularity from quality and influence when discussing music. And get yourself a satellite radio for goodness sake. You'll be happy you did.
Cap'n, dude. Way to stick up for me! Though, you might want to watch out--Beth is talking the plank for you.
stim--you're right about the Eagles. MOR crap. No wonder punk took off during their heyday. Just thinking of the Eagles makes me want to bump The Clash.
Nikki--Good observation. You're thinking of MST3K--Mystery Science Theater 3000. I'm a big fan. I got the idea to write about crappy music from that show.
Really enjoyed the rest, though I mostly like REM (yes, Automatic for the People). I have a real loathing for Huey Lewis, so feel vindicated...rated.
That's why I go to Phish concerts instead!
90% of what they played wasn't rock at all. It was London-Liverpool singy-songy sing along music for beer swilling pub goers. Ditties. It had no connection whatsoever with rock's origins in R&B. String them up with Meatloaf.
I agree there is a big difference between a Chuck Norris Vietnam flick and "The Deer Hunter." For my money, "Born in the U.S.A." is "The Deer Hunter" rather than a Norris movie. But then that's what's cool about music. One person's grating vocals are another person's much loved anthem.
As much as I love Bruce Springsteen, I am with Beth on "Born in the USA." I chalk it up to his being married to the movie star at the time.
But holy earache, Juliet, with that Patti Smith clip. Her "Frederick" is a sappy little bit of happiness about how much she loves her husband, which is totally cool. But this? I fear I will be hearing it in my head all day long.
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Posted by Erik Manassy on Jan 2, 2012 in Main, News, Opinion, Twitter Conversations | 6 comments
With the 2011 season over the Jets, I'll be honest, I've been a little spoiled with going to the AFC Championship game on the road two years in a row. It felt like an annual man-vacation to me where I got to spend time with my father, brother and other relatives, but I'm also a realist and I know the Jets had a very slim chance to make it this year with an "average" team.
This last game, I was honestly prepared for the season to end, hoping for a Jets victory but I didn't think every single team we needed to lose would. The last moments of the season will probably go down as the worst moment of the 2011 season and it just confirms what I already knew deep down: Santonio Holmes is not a captain, a team player or a professional.
When a player "quits", it is the cardinal sin amongst teammates and I was glad to see the good guys call him on it. LT is truly a man amongst boys and if you see how he carries himself, that's a TRUE leader. He made a great point in that no one wants to follow someone like that, I know I wouldn't. Throwing a Tantrum, looking away from the action of the game with a scowl on your face proves nothing but the fact that you are a child.
I had my reaction on twitter (I took out the name) and someone got in my face saying I should get the facts before I rush to judgement. I didn't know the particulars of THAT moment but I already knew how it was going to turn out and I was correct.
e_man What are the chances the Jets trade Holmes?! 1/1/12 4:08 PM |
e_man @—— just watching him pout like a baby is enough for me. He threw a fit cause he didn't get the ball… He's AWFUL 1/1/12 4:15 PM |
@e_man oh–you know that for sure?? 1/1/12 4:15 PM |
Unless you were on the field or know exactly what happened with @Holmes10…hold off on the judgement. #getthefacts 1/1/12 4:17 PM |
e_man RT @——–: @e_man are you throwing a little tantrum now? >nope, never liked the guy. Ask anyone. 1/1/12 4:20 PM |
e_man @——- His actions all season and career are enough for me. This wasn't one incident. 1/1/12 4:22 PM |
Now unfortunately I lost them as a follower but I'm not in the business to please everyone. From the moment the Jets signed Holmes this year I knew they made a mistake and I was less than pleased. Holding my tongue publicly on twitter, people who were closest to me knew I despised his attitude. I don't hate anyone, just bad behavior and I could not support this player anymore than the minimum because he was a Jet.
Even after this mess, Holmes thought it was a good idea less than an hour to tweet:
santonio10 Ready to start making plans for the offseason. Grind mode= Coach Shaw I'm ready! 1/1/12 4:56 PM |
I believe the majority of the fans feel the way I do. The first question they asked themselves may have been the one I asked:
e_man What are the chances the Jets trade Holmes?! 1/1/12 4:08 PM |
Now let's be clear, I'm not saying the Jets failure of a season was all on Santonio Holmes but he helped. I'll state the obvious holes that most of you have read thousands of times:
The offensive line: No depth and no exceptional starting talent
Mark Sanchez: He clearly regressed although his stats went up failed in big moments
Eric Smith: Is not a starter, too slow.
Brian Schottenheimer: Is a good OC, but clearly not a match for the Jets and the personelle
Mike Tannenbaum: Failed to bring in the depth and in my opinion overpaid for certain players (eh hem, Holmes)
Rex Ryan: Refuses to admit this wasn't a great team, but worse, enables bad behavior. He continued to the last moment by not "knowing" what was going on with Holmes. (He knew).
Remember under the Mangini regime when the Jets would ONLY bring to the team high quality individuals in attitude AND talent. I know that the Jets just wanted to win and Rex believes that he can turn any individual into a winner. He thought that about Holmes and it back fired on him. Rex believed that by making him a captain, it would force Holmes to accept the responsibility and change his attitude. What's that saying, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. Can you push the horse in? That would be my answer here. You need to find any way possible to move on from Holmes next season and It's going to be a costly one.
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Good, timely post, Erik! I'd love to see Jared Odrick in Green & White.
I'm hoping a CB, S, WR, OG will fall out of the Top 15-20 into our laps. Otherwise, trade down for Golden Tate and pick up Carlos Dunlap or Corey Wootton in the 2nd round.
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Rich Cimini's thoughts on adding a pass rusher through the draft:
Michigan's Brandon Graham (if they trade up)
Texas' Sergio Kindle (if he slips a bit)
TCU's Jerry Hughes, an explosive edge rusher. -
Unless O'drick or Mike Iupati are available at #29 I dont see any worthwhile picks for them in the first round. In addition, I dont think the Jets will target a wide receiver until later in the draft. Perhaps not until the 5th round with someone like Marcus Easley from Connecticutt. The Jets are a team known for running and defense and intend on sticking to that plan. I believe they will target defense in the beggining of the draft. Perhaps trade out of the 1st to pick up and additional 2nd and 3rd (Teams will be willing to make that trade in order to draft Colt McCoy). Then I could see them drafting Ricky Sapp and Corey Wooten in the 2nd round (regardless of what Jason Taylor does). Then take a safety such as Rashad Jones in the 3rd. Then taking a corner in the fourth. With the 6th and 7th, I see them taking maybe Zoltan Mesko the Michigan punter and either a blocking tight end or blocking fullback in the 7th. This type of draft would leave very few holes on the team going in to next season. Shoring up the O-line or another running back are other possibilities to look out for. Also I would not be shocked if they move some players closer to draft day for additional late round picks such as Bryan Thomas or Kellen Cleming (if someone were willing to give 4th or 5th's for them Id take it) especially with this year being such a deap draft.
http://www.jetstwit.com/ Erik Manassy
Ricky Sapp, right… I also see the Jets grabbing this kid. Wow, lots of detail here! Thanks for the post!!
http://www.jetstwit.com/ Erik Manassy
I don't see the Jets trading up. I actually see them moving out of the first round if anything to get more picks.
Eric, they were an average team the previous two years, too. In fact, without a couple of big plays from Holmes in 2010, they would have missed the playoffs then, too. Sanchez is not a consistent regular season quarterback or a championship quarterback. They should go after Matt Flynn. They really should replace Ryan with O'Brien from the Patriots. If he stays, it's time for Rex to rehabilitate himself, pay a visit to Foxboro, and kiss Belichick's Super Bowl rings. He can pick up a few pointers on coaching while he's there, especially on keeping his mouth shut, at least until he wins a Super Bowl. Talk is cheap and he talks a lot. Thanks to him, fans from all over (not just New England) love to see the Jets lose more than any other team. If we feel that way, just imagine the extra motivation he gives Jets opponents!
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Why not? I do it in Feb. |
We rose folk generally don't prune in fall, unless to top tall plants leaving wood well above pruning height. If repeat-blooming roses are pruned too early in spring, new shoots that are encouraged to start low on the stubs or from underground will be killed by late freezes at about 27-28 degrees. It is better if any premature growth start higher on the canes. I would think most rose growers in CT prune around April 7, but get local advice. A rule of thumb is when the forsythia usually blooms. Be sure to remove all the winter damaged wood, even if it is sprouting. Cane segments with tan or brown center pith are damaged-- except maybe old barky canes as opposed to green canes. |
- Posted by naturalstuff Z6 / CT (My Page) on Sun, Mar 22, 09 at 18:56
Thanks michaelg. I noticed today there is new growth coming out on the canes. I hated to do it but I had to prune them lower. Not much becuase I didn't want to ruin the new growth. The Forsynthias are starting to bloom here too. I'll just leave them be and see what happens. I can always prune them lower in the fall I guess. |
On hybrid teas and similar roses, I prune off a lot of new growth every spring because the underlying canes have winter damage (shown by brown center pith). Injured canes will bud out, but the resulting growth is weak and supports little or no bloom. This year after several morning lows around 5 degrees, I had to prune several roses right down to the ground. They will grow back to 6' over the season. In a true zone 6 climate it's normal to lose almost all the exposed wood. |
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ALBANIA/MACEDONIA/US - Experts look into effects of failed Macedonian population census
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[Report/commentary by Aleksandra M. Mitevska: "Drama Within the
On 12 September 2010 former Justice Minister Mihajlo Manevski and
Framework Agreement Minister Abdylaqim Ademi assured the public that
there was no room for manipulation with the figures when, as
representatives of the VMRO-DPMNE [Internal Macedonian Revolutionary
Organization-Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity] and the DUI
[Democratic Union for Integration - BDI in Albanian], respectively, they
were the first to announce that the government had agreed on the Census
Law, given that the census was initially planned for April this year.
Despite the remarks, mostly by the ethnic Albanian opposition parties,
the Assembly passed the law without any impediments.
A year later both the ministers and the political circumstances changed,
and that same Census Law (but with an altered date for this statistical
operation) has become the stumbling block between the ruling coalition
partners, notwithstanding the perception that the discrepancies over its
enactment existed merely in the State Census Commission [DPK] and that
they spread on the turf from there.
Ahead of the 11 October holiday, the Macedonian 2011 census had an
inglorious epilogue. The government, too, confirmed this fact because at
a session, which was being held simultaneously during the issuing of the
European Commission's report, it concluded that the Assembly must
urgently pass a law on cancelling the Census Law.
The government explained that "inconsistencies and irregularities have
emerged in the enactment of certain legal provisions after the Census
Law was put into effect as a result of insufficient time required to
prepare and train those who conducted the state's census, especially the
regional instructors and census team members."
There are different reports as to when a new census might be held in
Macedonia, depending on which ruling clan these rumours stem from.
Rumour even has it that it is possible to put this operation in
moratorium in the next few years in order to preserve peace in the
The latest census of the population and households was conducted in
2002, and international standards envision that a census should be held
once in 10 years and it is recommended that it should take place in the
first year of the new decade. This is unless the state is politically
unstable, so it is prevented from carrying out this operation at a
certain point.
In that sense, it is probably better that the census failed, instead of
ending with results irrelevant and contrary to the reality. On the other
hand, the futile attempt to count the population and the households
demonstrates the capacity of the institutions that were supposed to
carry out this operation, the degree to which the ruling parties can
control the situation, and the functioning principles in the relations
of the coalition partners, which represent their respective ethnic
communities in the government. Or, as analyst Petar Arsovski says,
conducting the census shows how much we can do to make a crucial state
mechanism function without the influence of the ethnic policy or at
least without being obstructed by it.
"How can we trust the state if each operation depends on political
deals? If we are unable to hold a census, then how can we convince the
public that we organize fair elections?" Arsovski wonders.
After the State Census Commission members tendered their collective
resignations, the opposition SDSM [Social Democratic Alliance of
Macedonia] asked for the culprits to be found, assessing the decision to
halt the census as scandalous. The VMRO-DPMNE replied that the Social
Democrats (who were already in a coalition with the DUI in 2002 -
editorial note) rigged the previous census in order to register 120,000
more ethnic Albanians. Because of these theses, the census has been
brought into close connection with the 2001 constitutional amendments
and the Framework Agreement has been openly contested, because its
essence contains the 20 per cent factor as a basis for the ethnic
Albanian community's rights.
Analyst Ismet Ramadani says that all the census-related developments
indicate that the trust between the Macedonians and the ethnic Albanians
is still at a low level. In his view, with this census Macedonia has
sent out a bad message to the international community about the state
institutions' potential.
"It is bad when a state that has obtained the European Commission's
recommendation [to begin EU entry talks] three times in a row and is an
EU candidate state shows that it cannot conduct a census. This news has
a bad echo in Europe," Ramadani says.
Politics was definitely crucial for the 2011 census, although
disagreements on the methodology are given as the official reason for
this fiasco.
"The commission's discord expanded on the ground," Slobodanka Gievska
stated the day when she resigned from the DPK's presidential post.
Still, the crucial question here is where the discrepancies in the
commission came from.
Vice Prime Minister Musa Xhaferi assessed that the end of the census was
not a tragedy. This decision may really have no tragic consequences on
the ruling coalition's future, but all the developments as early as the
spring (when the sparks began to fly in the Census Commission) clearly
indicate that something is amiss in the partners' relations, and thus in
the coexistence as well.
Source: Utrinski Vesnik, Skopje, in Macedonian 14 Oct 11 pp 1, 4
BBC Mon EU1 EuroPol 141011 dz/osc
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Subject: | James Lawlor b 1765 Queens Co. Ireland d 1869 Oak Creek Milwaukee Co WI | |
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There is a Lawlor obituary in the German language paper, Banner und Volksfreund from Oct. 13, 1869 in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The German newspapers are on a database available at the Milwaukee Co. Library. Milwaukee German Newspapers 1844- 1930 is on Facebook which is where I read the translated obituary on Dec 10, 2010. The transcription is: "An old man died - Last Saturday James Lawler died in Oak Creek, Milwaukee County, at the great age of one hundred and four years, a resident of our area since 1848. The deceased was born in November 1765 in Queen's County, Ireland, participated in the Irish revolutionary struggle in 1798 and after the unfortunate outcome, emigrated to America. The deceased was buried at St. Stephen's Cemetery in the Town of Lake, and was the father of former school superintendent of the district, Wm. Lawler." The story is also covered in the Milwaukee Sentinel on the same date October 13, 1869. "Death of Centenarian- Mr. James Lawlor died in Oak Creek on Saturday, at the advance age of one hundred and four years. He was the father of William Lawlor, Esq., late District Superintendent of Schools." I have no connection or information about the Lawlor family. |


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