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On the morning of the 9th of July 2009, I was lucky enough to shoot the Cold Cradle series. This morning 15th july 2011, the conditions are nearly the same.
Cradle Mountain/Dove Lake Tasmania,Australia.
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this is nothing short of a killer shot
Thanks very much John:o)
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lovely shot
Thank you very much indeed Tina:o)
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John said it!
Thank you most kindly:o)
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Just like dejavu all over again Mark except this time its 5Dii, Zeiss & Lee LOL
I agree with John, killer shot.
Marvellous how we advance our learning and adapt to new equipment. Thank you most kindly Garth:o)
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Looks cold but as usual beautiful
Was and is cold at present….beautiful time of day julie anne:o)
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Thank you Eivor:o)
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Awesome shot mate. well done.
Thanks heaps Mate:o)
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Fantastic photography
Thank you very much Yani:o)
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Thank you lori….nice to get out and take some shots:o)
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CB's mate……really like this version!!
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Ghana's hype over Obama, beyond race
Ghanaians take a special pride in the fact that neither they nor Obama are descended from slaves, but they know that his visit has more practical reasons, too.
Accra, Ghana
How about this for a headline: "Here comes Obama, the Black Magic."
If you saw that in the US, you might take offense. It sounds a lot like "Barack the Magic Negro," the satirical song that a GOP operative sent to members of the Republican National Party in a compact disc last Christmas. Across America, politicians and columnists tripped over themselves in denouncing the song.
But I'm not in America. I'm in Ghana, where I recently encountered the "Black Magic" headline in a story about President Obama's July 10 overnight visit. And I'm once again struck by the easy playfulness that surrounds the subject of race here. When I walk through the streets of Accra, Ghana's capital, people will sometimes shout "obruni" (white person) at me. But if I grin and say "obibini" (black person) in reply, they smile back. It's all in good fun.
And there's a good reason for that. Unlike blacks in the United States, most Ghanaians here don't have ancestors who suffered the horrors and indignities of slavery. So they're much less touchy than we are about race, which conjures up the most painful aspects of our own shared past.
This history also helps explain the distinct hype and excitement surrounding Mr. Obama here. Sure, Ghanaians are proud that their country is the first sub-Saharan African nation to host the first American president of African descent. But they're also proud that Obama – like most Ghanaians – does not descend from slaves.
"The 44th President of the United States had a Kenyan Luo father who went to study in America where he married a white woman of Scottish and Cherokee descent," the "Black Magic" article noted. "Obama's skin coloration did not link his ancestry to the dehumanizing trade started in the 17th Century."


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I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want out of life. It's a new year which usually causes people to re-evaluate their lives. We look back at our previous year and frown at all the things we didn't accomplish. We worry that yet another year has gone by without us ever really noticing it. There are still so many things we want to do, but haven't gotten around to yet. A new year seems like the perfect remedy for that. It's a chance to start all over again. A chance to wipe clean everything that was wrong with yesterday so that today is all shiny and new and "fresh with no mistakes in it".
The way we were
Technically, we can do this at any moment in our lives, but New Years always seems like a good excuse to change and improve ourselves. It's exciting because everyone seems to be doing it at the same time. There's an energy in the air full of resolutions and hope. People everywhere begin to believe they can make their dreams come true, even if only for a moment. That's important. It's also important to remember that we don't really need to know what's going to happen next for us.
Something blissful this way comes
In a weird way I've always known what I wanted to do with my life. My wants have changed several times, but I always had some sort of plan to get where I wanted to go. First I wanted to be an artist, then an actor, then I was sure I was going to be a writer. Now I have no idea what I want. This made me feel lost for awhile and terrified that I didn't have a plan. I felt like a failure and that I was letting people and myself down. But now I realize that I don't need to know what my next chapter will be. I never could have predicted the things that happened to me last year. I met my half sister for the first time. She moved in with me and now I'll know her for the rest of my life. I went to Chicago for the first time and got to see Lady Gaga in concert. And I started this blog. This little blog that came to me one day because I needed an outlet, a way of expressing myself to the world.
There's no way I could've predicted any of those things would happen and I won't be able to predict what's in store for me this upcoming year. But that's okay. I don't want to know. That's part of the adventure, the fun. It'll be a bit scary at times of course. We're taught to plan and make goals, but sometimes it's better to just let life introduce itself to you.
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I don't know about you, but I'm going to try my darnedest to relax and just float my way through this year. As long as I can make rent, put food on my table, am in reasonably good health, and have people who care about me I think I'll be just fine. Those are all the tools I need. The rest of my life will slowly introduce itself to me and being the polite little boy that I am, I'll just have to introduce myself to it too.
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SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) on Thursday, February 5, to take part in an exciting "NanoCareer Day" program. During the quarterly event, students learned about the 21st Century science behind New York's rapidly expanding high-tech economy through hands-on experiments and presentations.
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Yesterday Nintendo launched the 3DS, the House of Mario's latest line in the DS family of portable systems. Today, the Japanese game maker updated its digital download spots with two new games and a duo of samplers.
Leading the pack this week is Simply Solitaire (200 DSi points) on DSiWare. From Engine Software, the title puts the classic single-player card game into gamers' pockets. Additionally, the game boasts 50 puzzles in each level.
Also out on DSiWare now is Faceez: Monsters (200 DSi points, or $2). From Neko Entertainment, the game has players using the DSi's camera to snap shots of their friends and then lets them slap an array of monstrous faces onto them. Possibilities include zombie, werewolf, and vampire skins.
Switching to WiiWare, Nintendo did not add any new games to the download space this week but did welcome two new demos, the first of which is for the four-player dart-throwing game Dart Rage. The other new demo out now on WiiWare is for the children's game Learning With the PooYoos: Episode 2.


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It may be the most natural thing in the world, but as every mom learns, giving birth is only partly instinctive. The rest is a matter of going with the flow -- adapting to the unique circumstances of your own pregnancy and labor -- and making the most informed choices you can. But are women as aware of the options they have along the path to parenthood as they could -- or should -- be?
A landmark survey conducted by Harris Interactive for the Maternity Center Association with support from Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute, uncovered some surprising answers. Polling nearly 1,600 first-time and veteran mothers across the country, the wide-ranging questionnaire touched on everything from caregiver choices to pain relief options. And while the numbers show that women are more involved than ever in mapping out their own birth plans, the poll also uncovered some basic gaps in our knowledge about labor and delivery. Of course, we can only fill in the blanks if we know what we're missing. For that, read on.


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It looks like getting your jersey raised into the rafters as a Dallas Maverick's legend takes more than a few solid years and a championship. In this case, Mark Cuban, is preaching loyalty, and apparently Jason Kidd doesn't fit the proverbial "glass slipper".
Mark Cuban says "no chance" the Mavs retire Jason Kidd's number via ESPN Dallas/Fort Worth.
"I was more than upset," Cuban said. "I thought he was coming. I was pissed. … "J. Kidd is a big boy; he can do whatever he wants. But you don't change your mind like that. That was … yeah. I'm sure I'll get over it at some point, but as of now, I wouldn't put J. Kidd's number in the rafters."
The Mavericks owner and Shark Tank personality, Mark Cuban, seems a bit peeved with J-Kidd and his decision to ditch Dallas for the New York Knicks.
Cuban had said that Kidd's decision "hurt my feelings" and Cuban's recent lash towards the future hall of famer is undoubtedly an extension of his anger towards Kidd's overall choice to leave the Mavs.
"He's a good guy, but I just thought that was wrong," Cuban said. "You can't put a guy's number in the rafters when he decides he doesn't want to be there."
Cuban feels played by Kidd during the off-season, claiming the point guard wasn't straight forward about wanting to leave. Cuban went on to praise Jason Terry for being honest and up front about wanting to explore his options and even says that the likelihood of Terry's jersey eventually reaching the rafters will be considered.
"Putting somebody up in the rafters, that's something sacred in my mind," Cuban said. "You don't just do it just to do it, to have a big ceremony, to sell tickets. You haven't seen me decide yet. I go back and forth on Derek Harper all the time, but Harp will be up there before J. Kidd will."
"I've always said my prerequisite was that you played on a championship team for the Mavs. I'd say Jet's got a shot, Dirk's an obvious, but as of right now I wouldn't put J. Kidd up there."
Well, there you have it. As of right now, Jason Kidd's number does not seem like it has a chance of being featured in the rafters of the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas.
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This apartment is in the Greenway / Upper Kirby Area neighborhood in Houston. Nearby parks include Meyer Park, Rebecca Meyer Park and Lamar High School Football Field.
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Anna Netrebko, hot on the heels of her recording of Strauss's Four Last Songs, heads the cast of Deutsche Grammophon's new Iolanta. Tchaikovsky's seldom performed opera, which had its premiere on the same night as The Nutcracker, is relatively neglected. However, this recording, and Netrebko's championing of the work on stages around the world, will change perceptions. Conductor Emmanuel Villaume finds the tender wonderment at the heart of this beautiful work, and the cast is strong from top to bottom. As Iolanta, the blind Princess of the title, Netrebko dominates the opera, singing with unfailing beauty of tone and dramatic intent. She herself has said that the music of Iolanta is a source of joy – and on this hearing recording, it surely is.
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As I write this, the sounds of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House can be heard in the Covent Garden orchestra pit, rehearsing for Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, under the baton of Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. His new recording of this opera, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and NDR Choir, must rank as the finest modern recording. The orchestra hurtles into the overture and Nelsons never lets the pace flag; there is tension even in the reflective moments, and when he gives the orchestra its head, it is genuinely thrilling. Terje Stensvold is vocally lighter as the Dutchman than we would expect, but he knows his way around the role, and there is a welcome balance between his Dutchman and Kwangchul Youn's Daland. Anja Kampe is magnificent in one of Wagner's most difficult soprano roles, and with artists of the calibre of Christopher Ventris (Erik), Jane Henschel (Mary) and Russell Thomas (Steersman), this recording has everything going for it.
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Diana Damrau is singing Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor to acclaim across the world at the moment. In this recording, a live performance, she takes ownership of the role. Completely in control of Lucia's vocal pyrotechnics, without ever using them to show off, she understands the role perfectly, and uses the decoration to express emotion and growing insanity to chilling effect. She is surrounded by a stellar cast including Joseph Calleja, who sings with grace and unfailing style. The final scene, which includes the oft-cut Wolf's Crag scene, gives Calleja's Edgardo some additional dimension, and allows him a moment opposite Ludovic Tezier's Enrico (smoothly sung and thoughtfully characterized). Jesús López Cobos conducts his second recorded Lucia, leading a detailed and melancholy account without any loss of brilliance where it is needed.
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When Riccardo, the hero of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, is warned that someone will kill him at his masked ball, he really should take heed. For one thing is certain in opera – parties are bad for your health.
Mozart certainly realized the potency of parties. In the masked ball in Don Giovanni the anarchic Giovanni tries to seduce Zerlina to the sound of three dances performed simultaneously. When he's caught he barely escapes with his life. Less violent but equally arresting is the Act II finale to Così fan tutte, where Dorabella and Fiordiligi's marriage to their 'Albanian' lovers collapses in startling revelations and recriminations.
Bellini and Donizetti were particularly drawn to the disastrous wedding party. Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor arrives like an avenging fury to prevent Lucia's forced marriage, and Elvira in I puritani goes mad when her groom disappears. But it didn't always have to be a wedding – surely the most devastating bel canto party of all comes in Act II of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, where the anti-heroine poisons six noblemen – including, unwittingly, her son.
Verdi loved operatic parties. They gave him the opportunity to deploy great entertainment music, and he knew that the best way to deliver curses and accusations is against a background of frivolity. Take Monterone's chilling curse in Rigoletto during the Duke's hedonistic banquet – or Alfredo's terrible denunciation of Violetta in La traviata, amid Spanish dances and gambling. Parties also prove perfect environments for murder, in Un ballo in maschera and also in Les Vêpres siciliennes, where Guy de Montfort survives an assassination attempt at a ball in Act III only (innocently) to precipitate a massacre at his son's wedding in Act V.
Terrible secrets are revealed at celebrations in Wagner's operas; the most dramatic comes in Götterdämmerung, when Brünnhilde breaks off her forced wedding to Gunther to accuse Siegfried of treachery. But this is nothing to the chaos of King Herod's feast in Richard Strauss's Salome, which culminates in the heroine embracing John the Baptist's severed head.
Russian operatic parties are powder kegs waiting for an inevitable spark. Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin brings about disaster at Tatyana's name-day ball by taunting his friend Lensky, who challenges him to a duel. Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride is poisoned at her engagement party (by an admirer who believes he's administering a love potion) and then forced to renounce her fiancé and become the Tsar's wife. But the prize for the most debauched Russian party undoubtedly goes to the drunken wedding orgy in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, where Katerina and Sergei are arrested for the murder of Katerina's first husband.
There are plenty of gruesome celebrations in 20th-century opera, too. It's a dance that finally sends Berg's Wozzeck into mental collapse, while the elegant party in Act III of his Lulu ends with a stock exchange crash and the heroine fleeing the police. Schoenberg (Moses und Aron), Schreker (Die Gezeichneten) and Henze (Die Bassariden) all explored the destructive power of orgies, and Britten provides a terrifying picture of mass hysteria in the Act III dance of Peter Grimes. Festivities don't get any better in our own century: in Turnage's Anna Nicole the heroine's attempt to host the party of a lifetime ends with her husband's death and ultimately her ruin.
All this destruction begs the question - can a party in opera ever be enjoyable? Well, the townspeople in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg have a good time (apart from Beckmesser). And if Sharp-Ears's wedding in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen is anything to go by, animals in opera are able to celebrate with the unadulterated joy that so often eludes their human counterparts. But it's operetta that chiefly celebrates the more cheerful side of partying: the ensembles in praise of friendship and champagne in Johan Strauss II's Die Fledermaus and the final scenes of Franz Lehár's Die lustige Witwe remind us that parties can – just occasionally – actually be joyful occasions.
Un ballo in maschera runs 18 December 2014–17 January 2015. Tickets are still available. The production is a co-production with Theater Dortmund and Scottish Opera and is given with generous philanthropic support from the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund.
La traviata runs 18 May–4 July 2015. Tickets go on general sale 27 January 2015. The production is generously supported by Rolex.
Don Giovanni runs 12 June–3 July 2015. Tickets go on general sale 31 March 2015. The production is given with generous philanthropic support from the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund and is a co-production with Houston Grand Opera.]]>
Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor and Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
With its story of family feuds and romantic rivalry, The Bride of Lammermoor is particularly appropriate for opera. Donizetti and his librettist Cammarano streamlined the drama, omitting complicated subplots, political references and many of the characters (such as Lucy's tyrannical mother) to focus on the lovers Lucia and Edgardo. Donizetti heightened Lucia's plight by writing her an extended mad scene in Act III (not included in Scott's version), and provided Edgardo with a suitably operatic suicide, rather than Scott's ignominious fall into quicksand.
Abbé Prévost's L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut and Jules Massenet's Manon/Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut, among others
Abbé Prévost's tale of a young man who sacrifices everything for love hasn't been out of print since its first publication in 1731. The novel has inspired several operatic adaptations – all markedly different from Prévost's original. Massenet focussed not on the hero Des Grieux but on the hedonistic, tender Manon, depicting her volatile character in arias ranging from the mournful 'Adieu, notre petite table' to the flamboyant 'Obéissons'. Puccini concentrated on the 'desperate passion' of the lovers, giving them music of Wagnerian intensity that makes their love seem far nobler than that of Prévost's ill-matched couple.
Alexandre Dumas fils's La Dame aux camélias and Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata
Alexandre Dumas fils's first 'hit', the novel and subsequent (1852) play La Dame aux camélias, have gained lasting fame in Verdi's operatic setting. Verdi makes his heroine Violetta more impressive than Dumas' Marguerite, minimizing the character's vulgar aspects to concentrate on her moral dignity and tenderness. His hero Alfredo is far more likeable than Dumas' rather priggish hero Armand, and his one act of cruelty to Violetta is impetuous rather than calculated. His, and his father's, reconciliation with Violetta in Act III is one of Verdi's most moving scenes. Small wonder the opera is now far more popular than Dumas' novel.
Prosper Mérimée's Carmen and Georges Bizet's Carmen
Mérimée was inspired to write his popular novella after his 1830 visit to Spain, where he studied gypsy culture. Bizet and his librettists set Part III, detailing the tragic love affair of the soldier Don José and the seductive gypsy Carmen. They slightly softened the story, enhancing its romantic elements by adding the dashing torero Escamillo (based on a minor character in Mérimée) and the innocent young Micaëla; so creating two love triangles. Bizet brilliantly conveys the Iberian atmosphere of Mérimée's novella through his music, particularly Carmen's sensual Habanera, Séguidille and Danse bohemienne.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers and Massenet's Werther
Goethe's epistolary novel about a young man who falls hopelessly in love with a woman betrothed (later married) to another was a runaway success – so much so that the book later embarrassed him. Massenet turns Goethe's examination of obsessive passion into a romantic tragedy. He gives his heroine Charlotte two arias in Act III that reveal her genuine love (never confirmed in the novel) for Werther, and provides his hero with an ecstatic death scene in which he is united with Charlotte – in stark contrast to the literary Werther's lonely, botched suicide.
Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky loved Pushkin's verse-novel, which was already a literary classic when he began his great opera. To some degree he stuck close to Pushkin when constructing his libretto, sometimes barely altering the original text. However, he avoided the dry, witty tone that predominates in the verse-novel and instead sympathized wholeheartedly with the romantic passion of Tatyana (expressed movingly in her Letter Scene) and the melancholy of Lensky (in his aria 'Kuda, Kuda').
Henri (Henry) Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème and Giacomo Puccini's La bohème/Ruggero Leoncavallo's La bohème
Henri Murger's satirical autobiographical tales of bohemian life in 1840s Paris brought the struggling writer to public attention and international acclaim. Puccini's opera is only loosely based on Murger. He concentrated on the few genuinely romantic and tragic elements in the novel to create a work often called 'opera's greatest love story'. Leoncavallo tried to stick closer to the episodic, black-comic tone of Murger's novel. The result was a more fragmented drama that vacillates between farce and tragedy, and which has never gained a firm hold in the repertory.
Nikolai Leskov's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District and Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Nicolai Leskov's chilling novel explores the boredom of provincial life and the suppression of women. Shostakovich focussed on the second theme in his operatic masterpiece. He depicts his heroine Katerina as an intelligent, lonely, passionate woman surrounded by brutes: the cowardly Zinovy, the macho Sergey and the bullying Boris. He made Katerina a warmer, more sympathetic and less vicious woman than in the novel, and gave her some of the opera's most beautiful music, such as the aria 'Zherebyonok k kobïlke toropitsya'.
Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw
Henry James's ghost story has fascinated readers and critics for generations –not least for the ambiguity of whether the ghosts seen by the Governess really exist. By giving his ghosts voices and having them participate on stage, Britten seems to imply that they are 'real' – though a degree of uncertainty remains. But certainly his ghosts have more definite personalities than in James, particularly Peter Quint, with his eerie celeste accompaniment and seductive speech. The scene in which the ghosts summon the children at night is particularly spine chilling.
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Poul Ruders's The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood had worried about how her award-winning dystopian novel, with its internal monologues, multiple locations and fragmented chronology, could be turned into an opera – but she was very impressed when she saw the premiere of Poul Ruders's opera. Although Ruders and his librettist Paul Bentley cut some of the characters and reduced the number of flashbacks, they remained remarkably faithful to the novel's plot and tone. Many critics saw the opera's message as particularly relevant to the conflict-ridden early 21st century.
We recently asked what books you'd love to turn into an opera or ballet, with suggestions offered as diverse as Winnie The Pooh and The Bell Jar.
La traviata runs from 19 April–20 May 2014. Tickets are still available. Manon Lescaut runs from 17 June–7 July 2014. A small number of tickets are available, and there will be 67 tickets available on the day of each performance. The production will be broadcast live around the world on 24 June 2014. Find your nearest cinema here. La bohème runs from 9–19 July 2014. Tickets are still available.
After Daniel Day-Lewis was done gallivanting around the Mid-West as a Mohican, he appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence as respectable lawyer Newland Archer in this tale of high society in 1870s New York. Faced with the dilemma between his attractive but rather dull wife (Winona Ryder) and her more sophisticated and fiery cousin (Michelle Pfeiffer as a Countess no less), will Newland cast off the shackles of society's rules and give into passion or will he opt for a loveless marriage?
Whilst there aren't any diabolic visitors in Scorsese's tale, the choice of Faust for the soundtrack during the opening scene does reflect the torturous dilemma the main character does have to face.
Everyone's favourite pre-revolutionary fan of frivolity was brought to life by Sophia Coppola in this film which received a mixed reaction from the critics. The film was criticised for the stylised modernisation of the life of Marie Antoinette, played by Kirsten Dunst. Still, a trip to the opera for the Queen Consort provides a perfect excuse for the depiction of an extremely lavish operatic experience - a favourite of courtesans until the guillotine was wheeled out in 1793 by Monsieur Robespierre.
This particular clip features Rameau's Platée, although as a bumper prize for opera fans Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro appears later on in the film as well.
This over-the-top science fiction film from French director Luc Besson saw Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich fighting to save humanity from the camped up clutches of Gary Oldman. One of the most memorable scenes (filmed in our very own auditorium no less) featured blue skinned diva (voiced by Albanian soprano Inva Mula-Tchako) belting out 'the mad scene' from Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in a perfect example of blue bel canto.
Before Pavarotti bellowed the crescendo of Nessun Dorma into living rooms around the world, the aria was used in Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields - a film about photographer Sydney Schanberg being trapped in Cambodia during Pol Pot's Year Zero campaign of genocide. It's estimated that Pot's regime in the country claimed the lives of two million Cambodians.
The emotion of the aria perfectly counters the cold stoicism of Richard Nixon's news broadcast speech before it gives way to heart-wrenching footage of victims during the crescendo. As a word of warning, this clip does contain shots some viewers may find disturbing.
Like a filmic Tosca, The Talented Mr Ripley was filmed primarily in Rome and Venice, using many landmarks of the cities as backdrops for a murderous thriller. The film tells the story of Tom Ripley and his friendship (increasingly an obsession) with wealthy shipping heir Dickie (played by Jude Law).
In this clip, Ripley is dragged to see Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin by socialite Meredith Logue. The famous duel scene in particular affects Ripley, reminding him of his own murder of Dickie (in a rowing boat with an oar, if you're wondering...)
We'll be counting down the next 15 films over the course of the week. In the meantime, what are your favourite films featuring opera?
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"Must have for any Heinlein Fan."
Heinlein Early Years
The roots to many later novels by the grandmaster. You can see the development of the concepts that run through many of his later works.
Awesome Characterization!! I had already feel in love with his narration of Glory Road!! I loved the life he gave to many old favorite characters.
I doubt that Hollywood will touch any of these stories as is. Look what they did to Starship Troops and Puppet Masters.
I keep hoping that Expanded Universe would be converted to Audio. This was a good additional to the audio library of Heinlein work.
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Sten means stone. Nomen est omen: this is a fucking boulder of an album. With lichen and shit growing on it. After a pretty lengthy four year waiting period since Den Förste, Sten is pretty much the perfect sequel to that record. It takes the same sound, expands it with the grandeur of the band's earliest works like The Oden Sessions, packing it out to over an hour in length (almost twice the length of Den Förste) while still maintaining the layered intricacy and compelling instrumentation of the predecessor.
Appropriately the band presents their latest opus with a stunning piece of artwork in keeping with the 2009 album. I love those swirling, marine-yet-earthy, malleable but timeless patterns - apt for Ocean Chief's music, since it is heavy as hell but very easy to drift away listening to while kicking back on a slow afternoon. However here some images of Vikings and trollish figures from the band's lyrics are included in the artwork, and yeah, I think you could probably have your prisoners of war row to these inexorable, erosive rhythms. Not to mention this makes for a far more authentic immersion into Viking lore and suitable atmospheres than that thing they've got on HBO.
Ocean Chief are a great argument against anyone claiming smoking weed damages productivity and accomplishment. So admittedly they took four years to finally put this out, but bear with me. Everything about the band in 2013 is actually tightened up, improved and squeaky fucken' clean. From the painfully precise drumming to the lovingly crafted guitar lines to the perfect production, it's all knocked up a notch. But that isn't to say anything has changed about the winning formula from the previous record. Straight in with a bang - the whole band comes straight in on 'Den Sanna Styrkan', and the massive Sabbath-on-ketamin riffs BEGIN. Prepare the longships you cunts. Sten contains four tracks of between 15 and 20 minutes that slowly burn through slow but utterly head-noddable riffs that as usual sound all their own, rather than derived from their beloved influences.
It isn't just the guitars that make this killer though. Yet another band that I am glad to hear singing all of their lyrics in Swedish too - the vocals just sound really awesome and badass on this recording. Pretty stoned and strained, but still throaty and commanding. The keyboards are an element that has really improved - in fact this is the only band I've heard that seems to use keyboards in the same way as guitars in a stoner doom setting - as in, when the band cuts away and only keyboards are playing in 'Den Sanna Styrkan' and 'Oden', it's still fuzzy and amplified as all fuckery. And the whole way the keyboards are not only made heavy, but are used to set the scene and vibe at the start of the excellent 'Slipsten', is just something only Ocean Chief can do like this.
Anyway, an album that can be described as "four ridiculously long and absurdly slow and dense doom metal songs in Swedish about Vikings" might seem taxing, but the number of moments that constantly refresh the songs and make me appreciate the riffs in a new way when they come back in, is high enough to make Sten extremely replayable. For example, the jazzy drum break and warbling guitar solos in the middle of that opening track are stoned brilliance, right up your street if you ever loved anything by Ufomammut or if you like the idea of Ozzy-era Sabs slowed down even further and viewed through some oceanic, somehow psychoactive kaleidoscope. Take also the brutal bass guitar rhythms in 'Slipsten' that rampage into the song's final six or seven minutes, or the pounding doom barrage of 'Stenhog's' climax with ambiences and sublime keyboard textures easing between the riffs. The murderous, chugging rhythms over which drone baneful leads on the finale 'Oden'. Monstrous, wonderful, scenic, just excellent.
I don't toke up any more, and haven't done really since 2009. The year I discovered Ocean Chief... maybe this band hits the spot just as well when I want to mong out. I think so. With these last two full-lengths, and especially this far longer one, the band have shown they can truly impress at album-length the way they have done on split releases with Runemagick, Kongh and The Funeral Orchestra. Despite not being quite as intensely good as the previous record, perhaps only due to my extreme enjoyment of that album first as there are no particular flaws to speak of, this is a no-brainer for those who enjoyed Den Förste. The band say to expect a "different album" next time around, with their fifth full-length unexpectedly just a year on the heels of this (scheduled for summer 2014), so if this is their epitome and final, sacral immortalisation of this sound, ye must treasure it even more, worshipers of the ocean chief. I said treasure it!
Ocean Chief is a relatively unknown Swedish sludge metal act, and this release was my first exposure to the band. I really did not know what to expect when the CD arrived, but I was met with extremely heavy and entrancing sludge that left me in a stupor. The intense long compositions and epic, powerful riffs make the music delivered in these four tracks a treat to hear, and these guys provide an unusual spike in the standard thick stew of sludge and stoner metal.
I love the composition style brought forth on this album, with the riff-centered guitars leading the charge, and providing the meat of each track. While listening to this album, I often found myself dozing off or spacing out, not due to boredom, but due to the hypnotic and repetitive nature of the guitar riffs, which would bore me in other albums, but works very well here. Distortion is present, but the guitars are cleaner than most sludge work, actually creating an atmosphere and legibility between each riff, rather than a giant wall of distortion, and that makes this album a real treat to hear. The atmosphere on this album is as powerful as the ocean, and those are the images that come to mind when listening to Sten (this is perhaps due to the absolutely gorgeous artwork). The bass buffers the guitars with a deep warm tone, and works well in conjunction with the guitar. The drums sound very good on this record, with a powerful kick sound and a solid performance overall. The drums drag the sludgy guitars along well, and keep the record going. With that said, the songs begin to wear thin after a while. I feel like Ocean Chief doesn't quite have the chops to pull off songs of these lengths. The second track definitely overstayed its welcome, and I began to check the time every so often as the 19-minute beast droned on. I also feel that the repetition drags the album down. This is not the case, however, on the final track, Oden. Odd synthesizer and keyboard effects carry this epic track home, and the album ends on a triumphant, entrancing note. The hypnotizing feel of this awesome song makes it a great finisher, and easily the best song on the album.
The girth of these tracks brings down the record, which could have been trimmed down from it's 70-minute running time. But the bizarre, otherworldly feel of this album is a nice change from the massive distorted hunks of music that are modern sludge and doom records, which can wear thin after a while. I would recommend this album to any fans of doom, sludge or stoner who are looking for something that breaks tradition.


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Now I'm awake due to the fact that my co-worker roomie is snoring so loud and heavy I just can't fall asleep. Thankfully I don't work tomorrow and I go home Saturday. Not sure I could handle him anymore. Nice guy but he stays up later than I do. (getting too damn old) Has a horrid laugh and the snoring is wow I just wish I could properly record it for you.
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Damn. I'm sorry man. But I'm glad you aren't seriously hurt. What happened?
Car in front of me made a rapid right turn, which caused me to slow and the girl behind me was speeding up, as we had just left a red light. She was distracted for a moment and then couldn't stop in time. Bam.
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That was after I had mentioned to him we had discussed where he left to and asked him to pop in and say hello.
He was the sort of guy who couldn't resist summoning spell, if but for a brief moment.
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I know, or knew, more than I want to. Been in and out. What is your questions... or info you need. If I don't know it I can find it for you.
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The distance between "center of the civilized world" London and "grim oop north" Halifax is approximately the same as the distance between New York and Boston. The United States is f#!%ing huge.
There is a story I have been unable to verify about Nazi POWs being sent by train to Fort Riley during WWII. The train ride was so long the POWs though that they were being sent in circles to confuse them. They escaped and after days of travel thought that they had gotten away by crossing the border into Mexico. when in fact they had made it to the border... of Oklahoma. They were promptly sent back only then realizing just how big our country really was.
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Went to bed a bit past one am, woke up around eight am. (Not counting waking up and falling asleep a few times, as usual). I think we can call it a success. If I manage to stay up til one or two am without napping the things might go the right direction.
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Why yes, Peter was delightful.
Just checking in folks. At the library for free wi-fi and sending in resumes to a couple of companies and finalizing the paperwork for the one that offered me the job. Really hoping for this second job though, it looks to be a potentially longer term job and well it pays better too. Send good thoughts please.
Your friendly cross betwixt Zach Galifianakis in the campaign and Paul Giamatti in anything but Amazing Spider-Man 2. Or so says HD
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Just an FYI, he is not a Liberal. Nor are his views. He is Catholic. He essentially holds the same views as his predecessors, it is the slant of the media that has changed.
There is one major difference, talked about this last weekend over beers with Houstonderek, this Pope does things out in the open and not behind closed doors. This is why he is shown as a liberal, not a conservative like Benedict XVI was. As he did everything behind closed doors. Like excommunicating a lot of priests and removing Bishops from influential posts, more than any other Papacy in a long time.
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You must be watching news stories I have not.
Honestly nothing has changed since the last two Papacies. The opinion has always been that there is nothing wrong with being gay. No one has ever said that you will go to hell for it, or really anything else. Marriage is and was always for one man and one woman. That belief wont change. It is tradition and biblical. Specifically new testament biblical.
Never once has the church said condoms cause aids, rather promiscuity does. Condoms in the churches view promotes promiscuity. 1 + 1 = 2. Encouraging belief in witchcraft?? Um sure whatever, not sure where that came from, so can't begin to respond to it.
Training more exorcists, yes. Giving them more training is psychology as well a sociology to weed out other causes so when an exorcism is warranted (whether you believe it would ever be or not is as irrelevant you choosing to think calculus is not factual). So yeah a more educated priest hood.
AH Kansas, I get back and it is a nice rain free day. Trying to leave the Houston area and the rain was so bad that we missed the correct turn and started driving back to Houston on the highway. My worst nightmare was coming true.
Ok Not my worst, in my nightmares its my mental image of Jersey doing this to me, but still it was close.
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Now we are in Northeast Texas. The trip home is a little slower. We still have a little over 2 hours left to go. We left around midnight last night.
Here is hoping that you came home safe and sound, despite the torrential rains.
They have subsided now.
Oh and now I see that you have. Rock on. We leave at the break of day, to be home by supper time. Well me, Woodraven will have another 6 hour drive from there.
Last night, Boudreaux and Thibodeaux walked into City Bar and ordered a couple of drinks. They then took sandwiches from paper bags they had brought with them and began to eat.
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I did get your text last night about the proposed kidnapping. Sadly, it wasn't until around midnight, when I woke up on the sofa, where I had fallen asleep watching tv.
I think the plan today is to kidnap me after lunch and force me to watch this new X-Men movie. After I sneak out for Mass and then a lunch with a convention gorged Wolfthulhu.
Damn i've wanted to kick Brian Singer in the Jewels for a few years now.
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Garden Edges/Shape
In front of one side of my house I have an ugly uncared for spot. It has a yucca which grew from just a wee plant and now is huge. The yucca and pot of mexican hats at end of this space make mowing difficult (large ride on mower) and it is never trimmed as well as it should be either. I'm going to put a garden here.
My questions:
a) Should I make the edges contoured or straight? I want to make mowing easy (hubby does this and isn't detail orientated). I also have dogs so I may need to put up a small barrier to keep them out. On the other side of the house I have a long straight garden with a little 12" cedar rail fence to keep the critters out. All of my gardens have straight edges, are round edges harder to keep defined? What would you recommend for a barrier since I wouldn't be albe to use cedar rails to follow a round contour?
b)I'd also like to raise the bed a bit but am concerned about the hardyboard (or whatever the siding is called). You can see it goes down to pretty much dirt level now. Is there a barrier that one can put up between the garden and house so as not to damage the siding?
c) How wide should I make this space. Keep in mind that I'd like herbs so will want to be able to pick them. I'm thinking of a herb here...lots of mulch...a herb there so there is walking space between the plants. Would a width of about 3-4' be ample?
For planting, I plan on dividing the yucca (I'm hoping I can reduce it to about 1/2 it's current size) and then planting some herbs.
Saw your post down close to the bottom of the page, so I thought I'd bump it up. I think your idea of curved beds is a good one. Use a water hose to make the shape, and then ride your lawnmower close by to make sure you can mow the curves (that they are not too sharp).
As far as edging, there are lot of options, depending on what you want to achieve. Bricks or stone laid so the lawnmower can mow the edge of the lawn without using a trimmer is a good choice. Or lots of stores have different edgings you can use, from steel edges to more decorative plastic ones. Each edging has its pros and cons, so you have to decide what the most important feature is for you.
As for your siding, I would be careful raising the beds because you don't want to encourage termites.
A width of about 3-4' sounds good to me. You can reach in there for weeding, but it's not too wide where you would need paths for weeding.
Good luck!
Curved lines tend to look more natural and are actually easier to mow, at least for me.
I would pull the bed away from the house and for the space between the bed and the house put down a heavy duty weed barrier cloth and cover it with decomposed granite or something similar. It looks like you don't have enough room to put a decent layer of mulch over the soil without the mulch coming into contact with the siding. Plus, most of the time, the eaves of the house will keep the rain from reaching anything planted against the house.
I'm not sure on the edging issue. I have yet to find something that keeps St. Augustine and Bermuda in place or allows the lawn mower to edge the grass. But, if you have a raised bed (I wouldn't make it very tall in front of the window), as long as it's a relatively hard surface that can tolerate the weed whacker, it's pretty easy to edge. Or, you can put a pathway next to the edge of the bed and periodically pull any stray grass.
Good luck and enjoy the new bed!
Thanks for the great ideas-I'm finally getting around tot his garden now that it has cooled off. I'll use a hose to lay it out.
I have some black edging I'll put it in to hold back the lawn (or attempt to). Can I also put in a trough with this edging? I like the idea of running a trough around the edge of the garden and mulching it or graveling it in. I'd like a nice distinct barrier without anything for my husband to gripe about mowing wise!


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The new Xbox One Guide will help users discover and watch TV through voice control commands, search, favorites, and trendy. Now you can pin all your favorite shows to one place and browse trendy to check out the most popular shows within the Xbox community. Xbox One finally puts the user at the center of their entertainment and is the beginning of truly intelligent TV. Xbox One has a new elegant design backed by raw power that will offer faster human control for a more human experience. Xbox One is a system where all of your devices will work together in harmony to create a lag-free and instant entertainment experience. Microsoft will release 15 exclusive game titles in its first year with 8 of these titles being brand new franchises. Get ready, gamers; Xbox One will launch around the world later this year!
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The lowdown: The striking fashion spreads, pin-thin models, freebie perfume samples (guilty as charged) — you've been getting lost in the pages of ELLE magazine since your mama bright it home from Publix. Now — tada! — you can surrender yourself within the first-ever ELLE Spa at The Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach.
The hood: Located inside The Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach, the spa is located above 1500 Degrees restaurant. The vibe: On-trend, just like the coveted glossy. A burning fireplace, living flower arrangements, French wingback chairs and sunny treatment rooms create a chic feel within the 22,000-square-foot space.
The highlights: Expect a well-edited mix of ELLE-approved treatments for the face and body including luminosity-boosting signature facial by renowned holistic Palm Beach aesthetician Tammy Fender.
The pièce de résistance? The spa exclusively sells two tailored Essie nail polishes — the neon pink Eden and got-to-have-it-coral Roc. Ah, the little things.
The sweet deal: Mention this article and new guests get a 20% discount off one choice of ELLE Spa Face, Massage or Body treatment. Offer only valid for two weeks from publication date.
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Finances a challenge, but college confidently advances
At Antioch College a new class of 45 students has been accepted, three of the six initial faculty positions have been filled and work to renovate the campus continues.
Ken Champney
Kenneth Hilbert Champney, a lifelong Yellow Springs resident and businessman, died gently Friday morning, April 15, at home with family members.
A day for kids and wellness
Many parents may not know that holistic approaches — yoga, massage, aromatherapy, good nutrition, herbs — may help to prevent illness and injury in their children and lead to a long, healthy life.
Baseball, softball seasons cancelled
There will be no baseball or softball at Yellow Springs High School this spring. Neither team was able to field the minimum of nine players necessary to compete.
Lynn Russell Hickerson
Lynn Russell Hickerson of Orrington, Maine died Friday, April 15 surrounded by family.
Barbara Preis memorial
A memorial service for Barbara Preis will be held Saturday, May 7, at 2 p.m. in Rockford Chapel.
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Norma Jane Musick
Norma Jane Musick, lifelong friend to Yellow Springs, died Monday, April 4, just short of her 59th birthday.
A celebration of the Peace Corps—A life-changing experience
Yellow Springs is known as a singular place, but villagers may be unaware of one unique aspect of the village: its residents include an unexpectedly large percentage of returned Peace Corps volunteers.
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Charlotte sends Ed Driggs as emissary to Raleigh
After last year's acrimony between Charlotte and the General Assembly, a Charlotte City Council member is trying to extend an olive branch to lawmakers during the legislative session that convened this month.
Republican City Council member Ed Driggs spoke to the Mecklenburg delegation Wednesday morning as he continued making the rounds of legislators.
Driggs chairs the City Council's intergovernmental affairs committee.
"I'm trying to address a very unproductive perception that we're at odds with each other," he said after meeting with local lawmakers. "There are so many things we have in common, and I'd like to see us focus on those."
Driggs outlined the city's legislative priorities, which include a bill that would allow the transit system to use longer buses.
In 2013, the city fought Republican lawmakers over the effort to move Charlotte Douglas International Airport from city control to an independent authority and then to a commission. That matter is still in court. Other legislation, including a move to replace the city's business privilege license tax, has also been seen as a threat to cities.
Sen. Malcolm Graham, a Democrat, applauded the city's latest emissary.
"It's good," Graham said. "Obviously it's a Republican administration. … He talks their language."
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