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From what i get , mauser designed the
swede rifles and their 6.5x55 cartridge
the first rifles were made in orbandorf
germany. Those crowns are swedish.
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I just picked up a well worn m/96. It's a 1900 Mauser Oberndorf with a 4 digit serial number - 2380. If I remember correctly, this is supposedly a replacement receiver for an 1898 dated Carl Gustaf m/96.
Here's what has me confused. Almost all of the parts are Mauser parts, based on the serial number fonts, Mauser crowns and other Mauser markings. The only exceptions are the barrel (matching s/n in Swedish font, crown over S), and the cleaning rod. The stock is German, but also has a crown over S on the wrist.
If this is a replacement receiver, shouldn't all the other parts be Swedish? Was an entire 1898 Gustaf m/96 replaced with a Mauser m/96 that was stamped to match the replaced rifle?
Last edited by NW Swede; 05-30-2010 at 01:15 PM.
From what i get , mauser designed the
swede rifles and their 6.5x55 cartridge
the first rifles were made in orbandorf
germany. Those crowns are swedish.
NW Swede : We have learned much since the theory of 1900 Mauser replacement receivers was floating around . Actually , there appears to be 5000 extra Mauser 1900 M-96's made & probably numbered 1 - 5000 . Yours is one of them . The rest of the 1899/1900 Mauser contract falls approximately in the 20xxx to 59xxx serial range . It has a replacement barrel from the Stockholm Army workshop . The cleaning rod should be unnumbered with a Mauser crown .
Actual replacement receivers can have all original parts , except the receiver , or any combination of original & replacement parts .
FIVESHOT : The Swedes & Norwegians combined to developed the 6.5x55 cartridge . Mauser made the first M-94 Swedish Mauser carbines in 1895 , but Carl Gustaf made the first M-96 Swedish Mauser rifles in 1898 .
Thanks Swede! That explains it. The cleaning rod has a CG crown and a non-matching number. This rifle has seen better days, but it's mechanically sound and everything except the barrel appear to be original, German parts. I'm finding lots of different-looking stamps and letters or numbers in places that Swedish parts don't have markings. Pretty cool!
Hmmm... Interesting.
I guess I have one of those also. Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf 1900, s/n 2521. Inspector O.G. No tilted crowns, every number matches except it's a replacement beech stock and handguard, both unnumbered.
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Here are some of the interesting markings on this rifle. The firing pin, safety, bolt shroud, and cocking piece all have what looks like a gothic font "M". Also, I found a small "s" stamped in front of the rear sling swivel and a matching one on the bottom of the receiver. I like the stylized font stamps that are found on many of the parts too. I don't know what it all means, but it's interesting to me because I haven't seen these kinds of stamps on Swedish-made m/96 rifles.
Good job on the photos . You are lucky that you have all original parts on a M-96 bolt . Many have been replaced over the last 110 years . You have a RARE example of a Mauser 1900 M-96 rifle . I am surprised the barrel is the only replacement part . Nice addition to your collection .
Thanks Swede! I got this one from an older gentleman who bought several m/96's from an importer back in the 90's. He's selling off what he has left and I got to choose from about 8 different rifles. The low serial number and German markings are what made me pick this one, although there were several in much "nicer" condition. When I bought it there was a fine coating of light rust on most of the exposed metal. Luckily it came off easily with some oiled 0000 steel wool.
Despite being "well worn" this rifle has a lot going for it. It's rifles like this one that shot down our previous theory about replacement receivers on the low number 1900 Oberndorfs.
This rifle has not been rebuilt other than having a barrel replaced. The stock is original and the rest certainly looks untouched by Bubba. It's worth more as it is than if somebody made it more pretty with sandpaper and cold blue.
NWSwede - you're not new to Swedes. This was a good purchase.
Beeker77 - I own 2545. Its a FrankenSwede http://dutchman.rebooty.com/ObieWanFrankenSwede.html .
Thanks for your confirmation about this rifle. I was having second thoughts when I got it home before giving it a good look-over. I have to give credit to the House of Karlina site for the education on German Swedish Mausers.
I own sr #70, all matching & cut down to M 38 length. Original stock.
Does your stock have the " C.1900 " stamped on it ? Look carefully , it may have been filed or sanded off . Could be a tell tail sign it was there .
Late reply. I don't see any sign of a "C.1900" marking on the stock.
The crown marks in the first set of pictures are German Mauser crowns, they have a belly base. The only Swedish crown I see is on the wrist and barrel when the barrel was replaced at the Stockholm facility (crown over s). The other markings are all German. Looks to me like a German made Mauser with a replacement barrel. Very nice rifle! Lucky you...if you want to sell it let me know.
Just found this thread. I have M96 1900 Oberndorf sn 92, in fairly good condition. I'll have to take a better look at this old girl.
Very nice rifle indeed. It will be even better if she still shoots well. You made a great purchase there, the old original rifles are way more interesting then the almost new ones.
Very nice, NW Swede.
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Here is a picture of two of the four low serialed 1900 Mauser m/96 rifles that I own. These are FSR rifles, with diopter sights. Although both have Mauser made stocks on them, the one at the front has a hole for the stock disk, but the rear one has NO stock disk hole, as they were originally made. The stock disk holes were done in Sweden.
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I am now the proud owner of the two that Buffdog posted above.
I have heard (or read) several conjectures that the FSR will price lower since it is not 'original', and also that they price higher due to accurizing modifications?
I would guess there may be lots of other factors involved, like matching s/n, original maker, front sight, etc. But what is the comparison, in general?
Any thoughts?
Multiple-FSR owner wants to know.
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@Beeker77 I own two FSR rifles. I paid a little more than the average price for a nice CG m96. Of course one of my FSR rifles is a 1944 Husqvarna m96 with a Hauges diopter. I don't know if you recall...I bought your Waffenfabrik Mauser Oberndorf 1900, s/n 2521.
I am certainly not any expert on this matter. I don't think there is any big premium on these rifles, at least not at present. I don't necessarily follow the herd when it comes to buying rifles for my collection. These two rifles pictured above came from a good friend, so they have a special value attached as far as I am concerned. I think they are a likely a bit of a "sleeper", though. There were only 5000 made, all in the sn range of 5000. I am not sure if they started with #1 or not. The value $ wise will only go up.


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Rules and Self-Rules: Effects of Variation upon Behavioral Sensitivity to Change
Baumann, Ana A., Abreu-Rodrigues, Josele, Souza, Alessandra da Silva, The Psychological Record
Verbal statements describing contingencies of reinforcement or punishment, such as instructions, rules, advice, or commands, have been most widely denominated as "rules" (Skinner, 1969). Rules have important effects on behavior. Under some circumstances, rules may facilitate the development of contingency control. For example, in the presence of rules, contingency-appropriated behavior tends to be acquired faster (e.g., Ayllon & Azrin, 1964). This effect has been reported when contingencies are complex (Baron, Kaufman, & Stauber, 1969; Takahashi & Shimakura, 1998), imprecise (Cerutti, 1991), or aversive (Galizio, 1979). Under other circumstances, however, rules may impair control by the prevailing contingencies. Accordingly, studies have shown that when contingencies change, such that rules no longer correspond to the current contingency, rule-controlled behavior may remain unaltered (e.g., Kaufman, Baron, & Kopp, 1966; Paracampo, Souza, Matos, & Albuquerque, 2001; Shimoff, Catania, & Matthews, 1981). When behavior, verbally mediated or not, does not change with changing contingencies, it can be said that behavioral insensitivity was observed. If, on the other hand, behavior changes when contingencies change, it is said that behavior was sensitive to the change in contingencies (Madden, Chase, & Joyce, 1998).
Because much of human behavior is taught through rules, and behavioral insensitivity may not always be adaptive, many studies from human operant laboratories have focused on identifying the variables of rule-controlled behavior that increase behavior sensitivity to change. Sensitivity to change is more likely to occur when (a) the prevailing contingencies do not support rule-governed behavior (e.g., Galizio, 1979; Newman, Hemmes, Buffington, & Andreopoulos, 1994), (b) rules do not fully describe task performance and/or contingencies (e.g., Danforth, Chase, Dolan, & Joyce, 1990; Raia, Shillingford, Miller, & Baier, 2000), (c) the new task is of low complexity (Albuquerque & Ferreira, 2001), (d) individuals have a history of extinction or punishment for following rules (e.g., Hackenberg & Joker, 1994; Martinez-Sanchez & Ribes-Inesta, 1996), and (e) competitive social reinforcement for rule following (i.e., a pliance contingency) is not present (e.g., Barrett, Deitz, Gaydos, & Quinn, 1987; Hayes, Brownstein, Zettle, Rosenfarb, & Korn, 1986; Navarick, 2004; Otto, Torgrud, & Holborn, 1999).
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This is an amazing movie! I think the critics are too busy focusing on the fact that it's a Spike Lee movie and not on the story itself. Like Malcolm X, this movie was incredible, the actors were amazing, and it was beautifully shot! Spike I'm proud of you and look forward to your next film. Again you do a film that touches our spirit and bring us stories that Hollywood never makes. Hollywood can get the middle finger! I'm tired of watching the movies that depict negative African American images & stereotypes. I've seen those sorry a$$ critics give thumbs up to some of the worst movies ever made! Kick Rocks Hollywood! Spike Lee is the truth! God Bless & keep the movies coming! You'll never be understood as long as minds stay closed.
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"Ten Conservative Principles" by Russell Kirk (from The Politics of Prudence).
Rod Dreher, Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, Gun-Loving Organic Gardeners, Evangelical Free-Range Farmers, Hip Homeschooling Mamas, Right-Wing Nature Lovers, and Their Diverse Tribe of Countercultural Conservatives Plan to Save America (or At Least the Republican Party) (Crown Forum, 2006).
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Rod Dreher, "Birkenstocked Burkeans," National Review Online, 12 July 2002.
Rod Dreher, "The New Conservatism: It's Crunchy," Dallas Morning News, 21 February 2006.
William McKenzie, "New Ideas Are Welcome, But . . . ," Dallas Morning News, 21 February 2006.
Eric Weslander, "Local Conservative's Web Site Catching on Nationally," Lawrence Journal-World, 20 November 2004.
Terry Mattingly, "National Crunchy Cons Day," Get Religion, 21 February 2006.
"Crunchy Cons," Reveries Magazine, 21 February 2006.
George H. Nash, "The New Counterculture: Meet Rod Dreher, a Conservative Who Is Critical of Capitalism," Wall Street Journal, 21 February 2006.
Gerald Russello, "The Rise of Bohemian Burkeans," New York Sun, 28 February 2006.
Kelly Jane Torrance, "Birkenstocked Republicans," American Enterprise, 16 February 2006.
Catherine Seipp, "Whole Foods Conservatives," New York Post, 12 February 2006.
Patrick W. Gavin, "Crunchy Conservatives: Republicans in Birkenstocks?" Washington Examiner, 2 March 2006.
Charles Colson with Harold Fickett, The Good Life (Tyndale, 2005).
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Hello Everyone,
Just a question on my mind. How do the solo riders that compete in RAAM train for the Race. I want to do the race as a soloist but not for a couple of years. Just wondering how intense the training is for them.
thanks- Gumballer9
Hello Everyone,
Just a question on my mind. How do the solo riders that compete in RAAM train for the Race. I want to do the race as a soloist but not for a couple of years. Just wondering how intense the training is for them.
thanks- Gumballer9
1. What is your comfortable long distance right now? For example, are you riding centuries every weekend, etc.?
2. Have you started Randonneuring yet? The RAAM riders I know do a lot of Randonneuring events to get comfortable with the distances, etc.
3. Have you done a 24-hour race yet? The RAAM riders I know also do 24-hour races for practice, and as the qualifier for the RAAM, of course.
If you're interested in the RAAM, I assume you've been to this site already and have read through the articles: http://www.ultracycling.com/ ... and specifically, if you haven't been here already, you'll want to go here: http://www.ultracycling.com/siteindex.html#raam
My Links page lists all sorts of Randonneuring and 24-hour race sites if you need that information: http://www.machka.net/links.htm
And of course, this is the official site of RAAM: http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/raa...?N_webcat_id=1
I have several friends who have done the RAAM as a team, and I'd like to do the RAAM as a part of a team one day too, but it hasn't fit into my schedule or budget yet.
Last edited by Machka; 05-21-09 at 01:26 PM.
I'm pretty sure there isn't any such thing as a "RAAM" training program. Typically, you train to become fit enough to attend and complete a RAAM Qualifying event successfully. Usually this involves riding nearly 400 miles in 24 hours for men.Just wondering how intense the training is for them.thanks- Gumballer9
If after you have trained successfully to qualify, then you will have realized the type of riding and training you prefer and you will expand and refine these training scenarios -assuming you have the luxury of time and money.
Good luck with that if you have a full time job or a family. People have done it but only with the full support of their bosses, teachers, families, etc. You cannot do it alone.
All you need to do is add a little commuting mileage. Ride about 100 miles a day commuting, except after work on Friday, take the long way home so that it takes you until Saturday night to get home, say 400 or 450 miles. Seemed to work OK for Pete Penseres (spelling?).
Ask Vireo, he competed in RAAM..
AnyOne Else competed In RAAM on this site???? -GuMBALLER9


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Theme parks | Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company has begun preliminary design work that will pave the way for Marvel superheroes to one day appear alongside familiar characters in Disney theme parks. Iger told shareholders attending the annual meeting Tuesday that the company has been working on some concepts, but hasn't announced anything yet. Disney is currently developing attractions based on James Cameron's Avatar film for its Animal Kingdom park in Orlando, Florida, which are expected to be ready in 2015. [Los Angeles Times]
Comic strips | Alan Gardner counts 57 newspapers that aren't carrying this week's Doonesbury comics, which address a Texas law requiring women requesting an abortion to submit to a transvaginal ultrasound. But according to Universal UClick, no papers have dropped Garry Trudeau's strip. [The Daily Cartoonist]
Publishing | John Jackson Miller discusses the Rule of Eight, which holds that independent publishers start to falter once they put out more than eight titles per month, and goes into the nuances of the theory with its originator of the idea, Marc Patten. [The Comichron]
Some newspapers just put Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury on the editorial page; others run it next to Garfield and then are startled when they notice the tone is somewhat different. Watch for one of those moments next week: The Portland Oregonian and the St. Paul Pioneer Press have already announced they will not run a week's worth of strips that are critical of the Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before they are permitted to have an abortion. Other papers, including the Kansas City Star, will move them to the op-ed section. Jim Romenesko has the scripts as well as statements from the two papers—and from the Dallas Morning News, which will run the strips. (Honestly, the scripts sound a bit heavy-handed, but I thought Friday's was dead on.)
On the one hand, you can see the papers' point. People don't want to hear about abortion over their Cheerios, and the strips include mention of a ten-inch "shaming wand" and show a woman in stirrups in an examining room. But Doonesbury has always been controversial and by now, there is no excuse for editors not to know what they are getting into. Besides, it's satire on a social issue that has been very much in the news these days, including the news and opinion sections of those same newspapers, so why not run it on the funny pages?
The Atlantic Wire thinks that getting himself banned is brilliant self-promotion on Trudeau's part, noting that the Chicago Tribune pulled some Doonesbury strips last year that drew from Joe McGinniss's book about Sarah Palin. And it's not like he'll take a big hit from this; Lee Salem, president of Universal UClick, which syndicates Doonesbury, figures "20 or 30″ papers out of the 1,400 that carry the strip will kill next week's episodes.
UPDATE: In an interview with the Washington Post, Trudeau says that ignoring the latest turn in the abortion controversy would be "comedy malpractice."
Creators | Market Day creator James Sturm explains he'll be boycotting The Avengers movie because he believes Jack Kirby, co-creator of many of Marvel's longest-lasting characters, "got a raw deal": "What makes this situation especially hard to stomach is that Marvel's media empire was built on the backs of characters whose defining trait as superheroes is the willingness to fight for what is right. It takes a lot of corporate moxie to put Thor and Captain America on the big screen and have them battle for honor and justice when behind the scenes the parent company acts like a cold-blooded supervillain. As Stan Lee famously wrote, 'With great power comes great responsibility.'" Tom Spurgeon notes the position seems to mark a shift for Sturm, who wrote the Eisner-winning 2003 miniseries Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules for Marvel. [Slate, The Comics Reporter]
Retailing | Rumors have begun to swirl that online retail giant Amazon plans to open a brick-and-mortar store in Seattle within the next few months to help gauge the profitability of a chain. The store reportedly won't just sell e-readers and tablets, but also books from Amazon's newly launched publishing division. [Good E-Reader, Gawker]
Publishing | Japanese publisher Shueisha Inc. released the 65th volume of Eiichiro Oda's pirate manga One Piece last week with a first printing of 4 million copies, tying the record set in November by the previous volume. [The Mainichi Daily News]
Retailing | Howard Ackler writes about the final days of Dragon Lady Comics, the Toronto retailer that closed last week after 33 years in business. [National Post]
Passings | Tom Wilson Sr., creator of the long-running comic strip Ziggy, passed away Sept. 16. According to a press release from Universal Uclick, Wilson, 80, had suffered from a long illness and died in his sleep. For more than 35 years, Wilson served as a creative director at American Greetings. Wilson first published Ziggy in the 1969 cartoon collection When You're Not Around. The Ziggy comic panel, syndicated by Universal Uclick (formerly Universal Press Syndicate), launched in 15 newspapers in June 1971. It now appears in more than 500 daily and Sunday newspapers and has been featured in best-selling books, calendars and greeting cards. Wilson's son, Tom Wilson Jr., took over the strip in 1987. [Universal Uclick]
Awards | The Chill by Jason Star and Mick Bertilorenzi won an Anthony Award this weekend at Bouchercon, the annual mystery convention. The Vertigo Crime selection won in the Best Graphic Novel category, while Birds of Prey writer Duane Swierczynski took the Best Original Paperback category with his novel Expiration Date. [Examiner]
The Poynter Institute's Jim Romenesko (always the go-to source for journalism news) reports that Newsday and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution have joined the Chicago Tribune in refusing to run this week's Doonesbury strips, which include excerpts from Joe McGinniss' book The Rogue, an unauthorized and extremely salacious biography of former Alaska governor and vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Shawn McIntosh, editor of the Journal-Constitution, has this response to readers who commented:
Mr. Trudeau has based this series of comic strips on an as-yet unpublished book by author Joe McGinnis about Sarah Palin. Since the book is not yet published, Ms. Palin has not had an opportunity to comment publicly on the content included in the book and picked up in the cartoons. Nor has the book yet been reviewed for accuracy. In essence, the cartoons would be reporting news, not commenting on news that is already public.
That raises an interesting question: Would the papers run the cartoons two weeks from now, after the book has been published? According to The Washington Post, McGinniss sent cartoonist Garry Trudeau an advance copy and later approached him about "an exclusive first-serial arrangement." Honestly, this sounds as much like blatant product placement as an attempt to break news on the comics page.
Sales charts | Dollar sales of comics sold through Diamond Comic Distributors were up more than 15 percent in August, while graphic novel dollar sales rose by more than 31 percent when compared to the year-ago period. ICv2 puts the gains in perspective, noting that comic sales were down 17 percent in August 2010 and graphic novel sales were down 21 percent. August 2010 also had four ship weeks compared to August 2011's five. DC Comics topped the August charts with Justice League #1, followed by Flashpoint #5, Fear Itself #5, Flashpoint #4 and Ultimate Comics Fallout #4. Serenity Better Days and Other Stories from Dark Horse was the no. 1 graphic novel for August. John Jackson Miller offers commentary as well as a look at the best-selling comics of this century, a list that will include Justice League #1. [ICv2, Comichron]
Comics | The Centers for Disease Control has awarded a roughly $145,000 contract to Terminus Media to create motion comics to educate young people about HIV. The comics will be offered on "internet-capable platforms" including desktop computers, laptop computers, video gaming systems, wireless phones and tablet computers. [Politico, Via]
Hello and welcome to another week of What Are You Reading?, where we talk about what comics and other stuff we've been reading lately. This week our special guest is Robin McConnell of Inkstuds fame, who will be guest blogging with us as well. Robin has a new book out that collects 30 of his interviews with folks like Jeff Lemire, Joe Sacco, Kate Beaton, Jaime Hernandez and many more; you can find more details on it over on his website.
To see what Robin and teh rest of the Robot 6 crew are reading, click below.
Retailing | Diamond Comic Distributors has announced it will close its Los Angeles distribution center in March, with the facility in Olive Branch, Mississippi, taking over its functions. Regional Manager James Nash will relocate from L.A. to Olive Branch. There's no word on how many jobs will be eliminated in the move, but ICv2 reports that "other staff has been encouraged to apply for positions in Olive Branch after their tenure in Los Angeles ends at the end of March." [ICv2.com]
Publishing | Following Tuesday's announcement that Ron Perazza has been named vice president of online for DC Entertainment comes word of two more additions to the department: DC Comics Online Editor Kwanza Johnson will be digital editor for DC Entertainment, and Technology Editor Dave McCullough will become director of online, both based in Burbank, Calif. The department will be headed by former WildStorm Vice President Hank Kanalz, who was promoted in October to senior vice president, digital. Heidi MacDonald also has a letter to freelancers from DC Vice President Terri Cunningham announcing that the Editorial Administration department will become Talent Relations & Services, which will remain in New York City. [Twitter, Twitter]
Legal | The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is resurrecting a revised bill to tighten regulations on the sexual depictions of minors in manga, anime and video games. An earlier version of the controversial proposal was voted down in mid-June. The new bill removes vague defining terms like "nonexistent youth" and reportedly avoids references to "characters younger than 18," increasing the likelihood that the proposed legislation will pass. [Anime News Network]
Retailing | As the small independent retail chain Joseph-Beth Booksellers files for bankruptcy protection, its president warns of even tougher times ahead for bookstores. "I think in the next three to five years, you'll see half the bookstores in this country close," Neil Van Uum says. [Lexington Herald-Leader, via ICv2.com]
Awards | The Webcomics List Awards is accepting nominations until Dec. 20. Winners will be announced on Jan. 31. [via Forbidden Planet International]
Publishing | John Jackson Miller delves into September's grim direct-market sales figures and discovers a (relative) bright spot: Sales of lower-tier titles — those that don't crack Diamond's Top 300 — appear to be increasing, to record levels. "How do we know?" Miller writes. "Believe it or not, a record for high sales was actually set in September. The 300th place comic book, Boom's Farscape #11, sold more copies to retailers in September than in any month since November 1996: 4,702 copies. That's a record for the period following Marvel's return to Diamond. This bellwether tells us about the shape of the market, and how prolific the major and middle-tier publishers are; when many of their titles are being released and reordered, higher-volume titles tend to push farther into the list."
However, the higher you go on the list, the worse things look: "The average comic book in the Top 25 is selling more poorly in 2010 than in 2003. At the very top of the chart, 2010's average top-sellers are about 25% off what the best-sellers of 2003 were doing." [The Comichron]
Digital publishing | As expected, Barnes & Noble on Tuesday unveiled its Nook Color e-book reader, priced at $249. The 7-inch LCD touch tablet runs on the Android 2.1 operating system, and offers web browsing, audio and video playback, and basic games (CNET notes that Barnes & Noble is pushing the device as a "reader's tablet"). The device ships on Nov. 19. [CNET, Salon, paidContent]
Internet | PayPal has announced its much-anticipated micropayments system, with Facebook and a number of other websites lining up behind it. PayPal describes the new product, available later this year, as an "in-context, frictionless payment solution that lets consumers pay for digital goods and content in as little as two clicks, without ever having to leave a publisher's game, news, music, video or media site." Scott McCloud is quick out of the gate with reaction: "This is so close, in almost every respect, to what we were asking for over a decade ago, it's almost eerie. They're even using the same language to describe it." [TechCrunch]


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Golden Sands by DrewHopperWatch
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I haven't been out shooting for a while so thought I'd process a colour shot from this day [link] I quite like the mood of the shot, very beautiful sunlight coming in from the west, which really lit up the foreground well. I used no filters here, just the 10mm again and minimal processing. Enjoy.
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amazing work!
Love the photo,but is it me, or the horizon is a bit crooked?
dude amazing do you have a flickr account ?
Love the colours. Awesome shot.
AMAZING picture.
Damn but that's impressive. Love the way the lines in the sand and the patterns of the clouds seem to converge and pull the eye into the frame. And the colours are amazing!
Damn fine work.
Damn fine work.
I love the colors. And the shot is amazing.
Great colors.
Any way your gallery is amazing
Any way your gallery is amazing
stunning contrast between the two colours, the image is overpowering - but in a good way
Love the saturation of colour (works better than the B&W, IMO) and the beautiful natural lines. Well done. I'd love to be able to take something like this.
This is just stunning, I love how it's taken from an angle where the viewer looks from the golden sands onwards to the landscape, then the vast gray clouds. Brilliant work.
Love the contrasting colour. Awesome shot
love the lines in the sand, awesome shot man
This is one of the photos I usually see in NG or something... and wonder.. does this place really egsist... I don't even mind your signature up there... which I usually hate...
Very very nice! Beautiful shot!
Wonderful colour
wow great capture !
Amazing image
no filter and such rich tones. just incredible. 10mm prime? on what body?
Fantastic! Wow.
beautiful ... seems that the sand and sky are running.. flowing in the same direction ...
Just great! Isn't it wonderful when the light, land and clouds all come together?
Brilliant image man!
I really love the contrast of the blue and gold Also the lines both in sand and in the sky lead you towards the center of the photo Inspiring
Great shoot.
so beautiful. Those lines in the sand just take the cake. The lines of the clouds, too, all lead to the center. Excellent composition
incredible shot, love the colors and that sky
Phenomenal shot!! The contrast between that golden sand and the dark sky is amazing, the two look like they belong together. The ripples in the sand are also amazingly detailed.
Amazing shot! Great DOF and colours. Beautiful! Instant fav!
great atmosphere! love the reflections.
This is such a great shot, it makes me think that I'm actually there (and I wish I was)
I really like this one The textures in the sand and the clouds go really well together!


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Total Fat: 6 g
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Ronan Keating has issued a violent warning to his former Boyzone bandmate Stephen Gately's husband - he will "sort him out" if he ever punches his pal again.
Gately and ANDREW COWLES became embroiled in a nasty row outside plush London eaterie THE IVY earlier this month (OCT03), which reportedly resulted in the singer being physically attacked by his partner.
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I find Winged Victory breathtakingly powerful and beautiful. I long to see what her head and face looked like.
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Glad you like it Mark!
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-- Most Air Force civilians under the National Security Personnel System will convert to the General Schedule by the end of this fiscal year in support of the Department of Defense goal to convert out as quickly as possible. This conversion out of NSPS was mandated by the Fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act.
With few exceptions, Air Force NSPS employees will transition between July 4 and Sept. 12, according to Headquarters Air Force Directorate of Force Management Policy officials. The remainder are in positions covered by statutory and DOD exemptions and will transition in 2011.
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FORT BENNING, Ga. (June 6, 2012) -- No waiting. No phone tag. Martin Army Community Hospital has made it easier for patients to communicate with their doctors when it launched RelayHealth's secure messaging.
RelayHealth, a commercial, off-the-shelf software suite, is available to all patients who are assigned to the hospital's Family Medical Home and consolidated troop medical and dental clinics.
"This is an excellent product that will enhance patient services allowing contact between the patient and provider," said Dr. (Capt.) "CJ" Atkinson, the hospital's acting chief of Department of Primary Care. So far, 785 patients with his department and 352 Soldiers with the Warrior Transition Battalion use the system.
"If I was running my own private practice, I would absolutely want to have this for my patients," he said.
Patients can register for RelayHealth at app.relayhealth.com. Using the secure portal, patients can request appointments with their health-care providers and get a response in a few hours.
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In Linn's third release in collaboration with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Joseph Swensen conducts a programme of Jean Sibelius' theatre music.
'This is an absolutely super Sibelius program containing a well-chosen selection of some of his finest theater music.' ClassicsToday.com
The foundations of Sibelius's reputation are his symphonies, tone poems and increasingly his songs but the music he wrote for the stage throughout his creative life includes some of his finest scores. This CD presents his theatre music from two distinct periods - the 1900s (contemporary with his Violin Concerto, and the Second and Third Symphonies) and the 1920s, including some of the last works of his to survive.
Striking economy of expression and intensity are characteristics shared by much of his incidental music for the stage. In his stage music, Sibelius tends not so much to accompany dramatic action but to set scenes, create atmosphere or provide a prelude or intermezzo to the action for what were predominantly exotic or mystical dramas.
Joseph Swensen and the SCO have released five recordings together through the Orchestra's partnership with Linn including music by Dvorak, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Prokofiev.
Sibelius Theatre Music
In 1902 Sibelius was approached by his brother-in-law Arvid Jarnefelt and asked to provide a score for his new play Kuolema (Death). By this time Sibelius was reasonably experienced, having already written music for Adolf Paul's King Christian II - to great acclaim - as well as the Karelia music. He was working on the Violin Concerto at the time, but was still able to produce a score of around 20 minutes with six movements. Two of these went on to enjoy an independent life in the concert hall: the Scene with Cranes and Valse Triste. In his text, Jarnefelt specified a waltz tune to accompany a stark scene early in the action: a young boy sits beside his mother's sick bed. She dreams of rising up and dancing with ghostly spectres in the room. Eventually Death arrives at the door and claims her. This little waltz subsequently became Sibelius's most often played and arranged work. The impecunious composer stood by and watched as the piece became an international hit - yet he made not a penny in royalties from the many arrangements, having signed away the rights to a publisher. He would spend many years writing light music, fruitlessly hoping to strike gold again.
Maeterlinck's drama Pelleas et Melisande (1893) fired the imagination of a number of prominent fin-de-siecle composers, Debussy, in his great opera, Schoenberg in his huge romantic orchestral canvas, and in the delicate atmospheric stage scores by Faure and Sibelius. Faure's score was written for a production at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London in 1898 while Sibelius worked on a staging for Helsinki's Swedish Theatre, translated by Bertel Gripenberg, in 1905.
Most of the music takes the form of interludes, conjuring up the magical and fantastical nature of the play, and also the claustrophobic atmosphere of the love triangle of Golaud, Melisande and Pelleas. Sibelius almost immediately produced a concert suite. It opens with an imposing evocation of a castle, broadly drawn and epic in style. The darkness of the drama is already evident in the second movement, a portrait of Melisande. With At the Seashore Melisande and Pelleas see the departure of the ship in which she arrived. By a Spring in the Park acts as a prelude to the two lovers walking together but hints at the darker turn of events to come. The Three Blind Sisters is a song, sung by Melisande in the play and takes the form of a medieval ballad. The Pastorale conjures up a scene of colourful harvesting. The music of Melisande at the Spinning Wheel is very graphic but it also, in its dark obsessive way, portends tragedy to come. The Entr'acte acts as a prelude in the play to a scene where Pelleas and Melisande plan a secret meeting but once again there is dark undercurrent. The suite ends with The Death of Melisande, the longest and most substantial movement, a remarkably touching prelude to the last act, as Melisande lies dying from childbirth, Golaud left with the unresolved question of her relationship with Pelleas.
The early 1900's, a heady time for theatre in Finland, was also the time of Sibelius's most intense activity in writing for the stage. Very quickly after Kuolema (1902) and Pelleas et Melisande (1905) he produced music for Hjalmar Procope's play, Belshazzar's Feast. In contrast to Maeterlinck's masterpiece, Procope's play now really only survives through Sibelius's music - and critics at the time were not slow to point out the superiority of the music to the drama.
Belshazzar's Feast was premiered at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki in November 1906. Sibelius provided a score of ten numbers, and although the concert suite (which Sibelius premiered himself, in 1907) has only four movements, it incorporates all the significant material from the full score. The opening Oriental Procession is the nearest Sibelius came to conjuring up the colour and exoticism of the east - comparable to Anitra's Dance and the Arabian Dance in Grieg's music for Peer Gynt. This procession arrives from the distance, and disappears again with a broad, stately tread. Solitude was originally a song for Leschanah, the Jewish woman of the play who sings 'Jerusalem, how can I forget thee', but in the suite the vocal line is compellingly rescored for solo viola and cello. The intensely beautiful Nocturne features a long sad melody on solo flute. It accompanied a beautiful stage setting of the starry night. The final movement, Khadra's Dance, integrates two of the original movements, Dance of Life and Dance of Death.
By the mid-1920s Sibelius was reaching the climax of his compositional career and, although it was only to become apparent later, the period of his last major surviving works. In close succession, in 1923 and 1924, the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies emerged and the greatest of the symphonic poems, Tapiola, would appear in 1926. In 1925 Sibelius composed his score for Shakespeare's The Tempest. This was a return for him: back in 1901 his close friend and patron Axel Carpelan had suggested that he look at the play as a source of inspiration. This commission turned out to be his largest and most ambitious theatre score. In his theatre music to date, Sibelius had shown great resource in working around the limited forces available. With this score, he had the Royal Danish Theatre, a home of opera as well as drama, at his disposal and his music extends to around an hour with vocal soloists, choir, harmonium and large orchestra.
A great success in Copenhagen, the score was revived a year later in 1927 in Helsinki, when Sibelius added a different Epilogue and also produced, for the concert hall a Prelude and two Orchestral Suites. The first suite is for large orchestra and includes some of the larger, more dramatic numbers including a reprise of The Storm which in extended form constitutes the Prelude. The Suite No 2 is for small orchestra and concentrates on some of the more intimate portraits and episodes. Both suites include some of the composer's finest music for the theatre, indeed some of his most inspired ideas worthy of standing alongside the last two symphonies and Tapiola as the culmination of his life's work in these genres.
The suite opens with the Chorus of the Winds which accompanies Ariel's narration of how he conjured the storm and brought all on board the shipwreck to the island. The Intermezzo evokes Alonso's grief at what he believes is the death of his son, Ferdinand. The Dance of the Nymphs comes from the Harvest Festival scene. There is a baroque grandeur to the portrait of Prospero and magical fragility to that of Miranda. The two songs were originally sung by Ariel - a soprano - 'Before you can say come and go' and 'Where the bee sucks', but in the suite the second gives the melody to two clarinets. The Naiads is a response to Ariel's song 'Come unto these yellow sands' and the suite ends with the Dance Episode a strange dance drawn from a larger portrait of Prospero's treacherous brother Antonio.
Like many composers before him (including Beethoven and Mozart), Sibelius had to be pragmatic about composing to order to generate much needed income. He wrote plenty of salon miniatures (not least because he never gave up the hope of chancing upon a second Valse Triste), and could also be commissioned to compose music for special occasions. The Karelia Music was written for a fund-raising event consisting of a series of tableaux portraying major events in Karelian history. The Press Pension Celebrations music was another case in point, and like the Karelia music it yielded one of Sibelius's most popular scores: Finlandia. The Andante Festivo was originally written, rather improbably for a factory in 1922. He was working on the final two symphonies when he received the commission. It was scored for string quartet but is normally played today in the 1930 version for string orchestra with optional timpani (omitted in this recording). Although it inhabits the same sound world as the luminous string writing in the last two symphonies, this slight but effective work is most famous for the distinction of being the only score to survive in a recording conducted by Sibelius himself. The recording was in the archives of Finnish Radio after the composer in 1939, at the age of 74 and already in retirement, conducted an orchestra for the last time for a short-wave radio broadcast to the New York Fair. Given that the technology for recording had been around from early in the century and Sibelius had been active on the podium until the late 1920's it is tantalising to imagine what else could have existed today if he had been lured in to the recording studio or if the radio broadcast of his 1924 concert, devoted entirely his own music, in Copenhagen had survived.
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Whenever the ladies of our church host a shower, these pita sandwiches appear on the menu. Not only are they easy and delicious, they add color to the table. —Janette Root, Ellensburg, Washington
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Welcome to 8tracks radio: free music streaming for any time, place, or mood. Click play to start listening to this alternative folk playlist including folk rock and soul. You can also download one of our free apps to enjoy internet radio on your favorite device.
Alternative folk + alternative rock + folk rock + soul — 1 playlists
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Mumford & SonsBon IverIron & WineFleet FoxesSufjan Stevens
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