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Hi, my name is Mary Gildersleeve. I began designing shortly after teaching myself to knit at the age of 8, primarily because I do not take commands very well and I also could not afford the fancy ...
Hi, my name is Mary Gildersleeve. I began designing shortly after teaching myself to knit at the age of 8, primarily because I do not take commands very well and I also could not afford the fancy yarns back then. Knitting and designing were my constant activities throughout undergrad, grad school and family life until, in 1997, I finally went professional and established By Hand, With Heart ... traditional hand-knit designs with a modern twist. I now create designs for various knitwear outlets (including published designs in Knitters, INKnitters, Cast On), custom knit original designs, and self-publish my own patterns . I maintain a website (www.marygildersleeve.com) where I discuss my work, my findsÃâà(reviewing books and supplies) and suggestions for teaching everyone this age-old art. I particularly love teaching all aspects of knitting ... from beginner to expert, from learning to read charts to designing your own. On most Saturdays, you can find me working at my LYS, Dog House Yarns in Culpeper. I am the exclusive designer for the cashmere-farm, Spring Gate Farm, located in Barboursville, VA.
I earned an MBA from the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA) in 1988 and a BA in Print Journalism from Gonzaga University (Spokane, Washington) in 1983. I continue with my knitting education by attending seminars, voraciously reading all knitting books, magazines, and websites, and constantly honing my practical knitting skills. I was an active member of the Association of Knitwear Designers (which shut down, unfortunately).
I am married, have 5 children (10 to 23 yrs) and keep busy homeschooling, working on the computer, writing articles, and knitting, knitting, knitting in rural Virginia. In 2008, a book I wrote was published "Great Yarns for the Close-Knit Family: over two dozen hand-knit designs inspired by a dozen fantastic family read-alouds"; a year later, another book I wrote hit the bookstores, "In His Image: Nurturing Creativity in the Heart of Your Home" (both are available on Amazon and other book outlets)..
Just in time for holiday knit-gifting: You can make one of each or two of one - it's up to you!
The projects use a total of about 320 yards of yarn (a skein of Big Trend from Marks & Kattens will give you just enough) or 160 yards each.
The half-linen stitch cowl (7-1/2" x 22" circumference) sits up near the neck with enough room for breathing! The bias-stitched scarf (6" x 42") is enough to wear flat or wrapped around your neck like a cowl.
Either way, you'll have as much fun wearing these as you did knitting them!
20sts x 36 rnds in half-linen stitch (done in the round)
20sts x 24 rows in stockinette (worked flat)
320 yards of Worsted weight


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Check Out Our New Mother's Day Gifts!0
Our Personalized Mother's Day Gifts Store is full of great new gift ideas for all the wonderful mothers and grandmothers out there!
We're so excited to share all of the fun new gifts we've added to the site, including one of the most popular new gifts, the Loving Words To Her Personalized Throw Pillow! This beautiful keepsake pillow comes in your choice of 6 designs that feature cute sayings any mother or grandmother would love to have in their home. Some of the cute sayings include, "The best moms get promoted to Grandma," "Behind every good kid is a great Mom," and "Home is where your Mom is." After you've picked out your favorite design, you can add any 1-line message to the bottom. The pillows are $29.95 each but if you act fast and shop before our Mother's Day Sale ends on April 20th, you can get them for just $20.95 each! Not only do we love these designs, our fans do, too! The personalized "Loving Words To Her" pillows have become one of our most popular Ladies Gifts among our fans! Create one for your Mom or Grandma and she's sure to love it and display it proudly!
Just about every mother and or grandmother out there has their own famous recipe that the whole family enjoys. Now you can celebrate those special dishes and the woman behind them with our new "She Makes The Best… " Personalized Apron and Potholder! You can personalize the design with any name or title, such as "Grandma Ruth" or "Nana Jackson," so that it says "__________ makes the best:" then you get to add up to 3 of her famous recipes! You can personalize the apron for $26.95 or the pot holder for $15.95 or if you shop before our Mother's Day Sale ends, you can get them while they're just $21.55 and $12.75 – that's 20% savings! Just think of how excited she'll be to see this personalized apron once you've customized it just for her – she'll be truly touched by your thoughtful gift and she'll be so excited to wear it every time she makes one of her famous meals!
We've added so many New Mother's Day Gifts there's no way we could show them all to you here. You'll have to visit the above link to see them all, but there is one more gift we'd like to share with you before we go: the stunning "Always With You" Personalized Heart Key Ring. The front and back of this beautiful, shimmering, silver-plated key ring can be engraved with any name or title on the front and any loving sentiment on the back. It's usually $21.95, but if you hurry over you can personalize it while it's still on sale for just $15.35 – what a steal! Not only will this beautiful gift and your thoughtful message touch her heart, she'll be thrilled that she can take the special message from her loved ones with her wherever she goes!
We hope you love all of the new gifts we've added to the site and we'd love to hear what you think about them! Leave a message in the comments below or check us out on our Facebook Page to tell us what you think. And don't forget to visit PMall's Personalized Mother's Day Gifts Store to find the perfect gift for Mom and Grandma before Mother's Day on May 11th!
Recipe Contest: Side Dishes That Steal The Show!0
Thanksgiving dinner always revolves around one thing – the turkey.
We always feel bad for the stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, etc. … it's almost as if we can picture the side dishes looking at the beautiful turkey and saying, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!"
But not this year!
This year is going to be different because PMall.com is moving the spotlight over with the "Side Dishes That Steal The Show" Recipe Contest!
We're asking you to share your favorite side dish recipe with us for a chance to win a prize!
All you have to do to enter is send an email to email@example.com with the subject line "Thanksgiving Recipe Contest" with the following information:
- Your full name and an email address that we can use to reach you if you win the contest
- The name and recipe for your favorite Thanksgiving Side Dish and a few words about why you love it so much.
And that's it! Please make sure you send in your emails before the end of Thanksgiving Day on November 22nd, 2012. We will announce the winner here on our blog on Friday, November 23rd.
What are you playing for you ask?
Well the winner, who will be chosen by the A Personal Touch staff, will win their very own Give Thanks To The Cook Personalized Apron and matching Potholder!
That way you can cook in style the next time you're preparing your favorite side dish!
We can't wait to see all the recipes start rolling in!
Good luck!
Turkey Day Tips and Treats Everyone Will Love!0
November is here, which means Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away! Whether you're hosting the big feast at your house or bringing a dish to someone else's home, we have some great tips for you to add A Personal Touch to your Turkey Day!
There's one thing you can always count on happening Thanksgiving Day – a mess! With all the chopping, cooking, baking, etc., the kitchen is guaranteed to suffer a spill or two.
That's why the Give Thanks To The Cook© Personalized Apron, which you can find at PersonalizationMall.com, is a must have for any cook this Thanksgiving! Since the bird has to spend so much time in the oven, the cook is usually stuck wearing an apron while their guests arrive. When you personalize the Give Thanks To The Cook Apron you not only get to personalize your name on the apron, you can display an elegant design in the kitchen while you cook and host at the same time, too! It will protect the nice clothes you have on underneath while still featuring a festive Thanksgiving design!
If you don't plan on doing too much cooking this year and were only assigned a side item, the Give Thanks To The Cook is the perfect hostess gift to give to the chef who has taken on the turkey challenge! They'll be truly touched and will know that you really are thankful for their hard work.
Also, if you're responsible for a side dish and aren't sure what to bring, we have an adorable suggestion for you. Make sure you ask to bring a dessert so you can make your own Turkey Treats like the ones we saw on OurBestBites.com! Click on the previous link and you'll be able to read the full recipe for how to make these beautiful birds!
All you need is candy corn, double stuff Oreo cookies, whoppers, peanut butter cups, and chocolate and yellow frosting! This may take some time so if you're running late you can just get the base of the turkey started and bring the supplies to the house where you'll be having dinner. You can make it a fun project that kids of all ages (5-105 years old!) will love to help with! Sticking with the spirit of Thanksgiving, ask your little (or big!) helpers to say one thing they are thankful for each time they add a feather (candy corn) to their turkey.
The little turkeys could double as adorable place holders and will taste so good, every guest will gobble them right up!
We hope this helps get your creative juices flowing because we'd love to hear any ideas you may have for some fun Thanksgiving treats! Leave a comment here with a suggestion so we can all share and make sure you keep checking back here on the A Personal Touch blog all month long for more tips and tricks to making your Turkey Day fantastic!
Happy Gifting!

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Law:Tobacco Statistics
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Sec.501.Collection and publication; facts required; deteriorated tobacco.502.Standards for classification; returns and blanks.503.Reports; necessity; by whom made; penalties.504."Person" defined.505.Access to internal-revenue records.506.Returns under oath; administration.507.Limitation on use of statistical information.508.Separability.509.Repealed.
§501. Collection and publication; facts required; deteriorated tobacco
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to collect and publish statistics of the quantity of leaf tobacco in all forms in the United States and Puerto Rico, owned by or in the possession of dealers, manufacturers, quasi-manufacturers, growers' cooperative associations, warehousemen, brokers, holders, or owners, other than the original growers of tobacco. The statistics shall show the quantity of tobacco in such detail as to types, groups of grades, and such other subdivisions as to quality, color, and/or grade for particular types, as the Secretary of Agriculture shall deem to be practical and necessary for the purposes of this chapter, shall be summarized as of January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, and an annual report on tobacco statistics shall be issued: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall not be required to collect statistics of leaf tobacco from any manufacturer of tobacco who, in the first three quarters of the preceding calendar year, according to the returns of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue or the record of the Treasurer of Puerto Rico, manufactured less than thirty-five thousand pounds of tobacco, or from any manufacturer of cigars who, during the first three quarters of the preceding calendar year, manufactured less than one hundred and eighty-five thousand cigars, or from any manufacturer of cigarettes who, during the first three quarters of the preceding year, manufactured less than seven hundred and fifty thousand cigarettes: And provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may omit the collection of statistics from any dealer, manufacturer, growers' cooperative association, warehouseman, broker, holder, or owner who does not own and/or have in stock, in the aggregate, fifty thousand pounds or more of leaf tobacco on the date as of which the reports are made. For the purposes of this chapter, any tobacco which has deteriorated on account of age or other causes to the extent that it is not merchantable or is unsuitable for use in manufacturing tobacco products shall be classified with other nondescript tobacco and reported in the "N" group of the type to which it belongs.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §1, 45 Stat. 1079; July 14, 1932, ch. 480, §1, 47 Stat. 662; Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 749, §1, 49 Stat. 893.)
1935—Act Aug. 27, 1935, inserted "and Puerto Rico" after "United States", substituted "seven hundred and fifty thousand cigarettes" for "one million cigarettes" before second proviso and inserted second proviso.
1932—Act July 14, 1932, substituted "thirty-five" for "fifty" and "one hundred and eighty-five thousand cigars" and "one million" for "seven hundred and fifty thousand cigarettes".
Change of Name
"Porto Rico" changed to "Puerto Rico" by act May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.
Section 4 of act Aug. 27, 1935, which amended this section and sections 502 and 505 of this title, provided as follows: "If any provision of this act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the act and the application of such provisions to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby."
§502. Standards for classification; returns and blanks
The Secretary of Agriculture shall establish standards for the classification of leaf tobacco, and he is authorized to demonstrate such standards, to prepare and distribute samples thereof, and to make reasonable charges therefor. He shall specify the types, groups of grades, qualities, colors, and/or grades, which shall be included in the returns required by this chapter. The Secretary of Agriculture shall prepare appropriate blanks upon which the returns shall be made, shall, upon request, furnish copies to persons who are required by this chapter to make returns, and such returns shall show the types, groups of grades, qualities, colors, and/or grades and such other information as the Secretary may require.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §2, 45 Stat. 1079; Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 749, §2, 49 Stat. 894.)
1935—Act Aug. 27, 1935, inserted "and such returns shall show the types, groups of grades, qualities, colors, and/or grades and such other information as the Secretary may require" in last sentence.
§503. Reports; necessity; by whom made; penalties
It shall be the duty of every dealer, manufacturer, quasi-manufacturer, growers' cooperative association, warehouseman, broker, holder, or owner, other than the original grower, except such persons as are excluded by the proviso to section 501 of this title, to furnish within fifteen days after January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, completely and correctly, to the best of his knowledge, a report of the quantity of leaf tobacco on hand, segregated in accordance with the blanks furnished by the Secretary of Agriculture. Any person, firm, association, or corporation required by this chapter to furnish a report, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof who shall refuse or willfully neglect to furnish any of the information required by this chapter, or shall willfully give answers that are false or misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $300 or more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §3, 45 Stat. 1080; July 14, 1932, ch. 480, §2, 47 Stat. 663.)
1932—Act July 14, 1932, made quasi-manufacturers subject to section.
§504. "Person" defined
The word "person" as used in this chapter shall be held to embrace also any partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §4, 45 Stat. 1080.)
§505. Access to internal-revenue records
The Secretary of Agriculture shall have access to the tobacco records of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and of the several collectors of internal revenue for the purpose of obtaining lists of the persons subject to this chapter and for the purpose of aiding the collection of the information herein required, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the several collectors of internal revenue shall cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in effectuating the provisions of this chapter.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §5, 45 Stat. 1080; Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 749, §3, 49 Stat. 894.)
1935—Act Aug. 27, 1935, reenacted section without change.
Abolition of Offices and Transfer of Functions
Offices of Internal Revenue Collector and Deputy Collector abolished by 1952 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §1, eff. Mar. 14, 1952, 17 F.R. 2243, 66 Stat. 823, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, and by section 2 thereof a new office of district commissioner of internal revenue was established. Section 4 of the Plan transferred all functions, that had been vested by statute in any officer or employee of Bureau of Internal Revenue since effective date of 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 26, §§1, 2, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, to Secretary of the Treasury.
Functions of all officers of Department of the Treasury, and functions of all agencies and employees of Department, transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Treasury, with power vested in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his functions, by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 26, §§1, 2, eff. July 31, 1950, 15 F.R. 4935, 64 Stat. 1280, 1281, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, referred to in text, is an officer of Department of the Treasury.
§506. Returns under oath; administration
The returns provided for in this chapter shall be made under oath before a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue, a postmaster, assistant postmaster, or anyone authorized to administer oaths by State or Federal law.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §6, 45 Stat. 1080.)
Abolition of Offices and Transfer of Functions
See note under section 505 of this title.
§507. Limitation on use of statistical information
The information furnished under the provisions of this chapter shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied. No publication shall be made by the Secretary of Agriculture whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment can be identified, nor shall the Secretary of Agriculture permit anyone other than the sworn employees of the Department of Agriculture to examine the individual reports.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §7, 45 Stat. 1080.)
§508. Separability
If any provision of this chapter is declared unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of said sections and the applicability of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(Jan. 14, 1929, ch. 69, §9, 45 Stat. 1080.)
§509. Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title II, §262, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 973
Section, Pub. L. 98–180, title II, §214, as added Pub. L. 101–624, title XV, §1557, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3699; amended Pub. L. 102–237, title III, §337, Dec. 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 1859, provided for reporting requirements relating to tobacco.


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Sunday, April 21, 2013
AIKEN, S.C. – Before a record crowd on "Pack the Park" day at Roberto Hernandez Stadium, the nationally fifth-ranked University of South Carolina Aiken baseball team claimed a dominating 19-4 win over Peach Belt Conference foe Columbus State on Sunday afternoon.
The victory allows the Peach Belt Conference-leading Pacers to move to 21-6 in league play this season. The Pacers now need just one more victory to guarantee an outright Peach Belt Conference championship.
Columbus State (25-18, 17-9 PBC) opened the game Sunday with two runs in the top of the first inning.
From there, it would be all Pacers as USC Aiken posted 19 of the next 21 runs in the game. USC Aiken scored in six of its eight team at-bats. They posted four runs each in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
USC Aiken (37-9, 21-6 PBC) closed out the victory over Columbus State out-hitting the Cougars, 18-11. Nine Pacers had an RBI in the game.
Tyler Moore (Evans, Ga./Evans HS) led five Pacers with multiple hits with four. Moore was 4-for-6 with four RBIs and two runs scored in the resounding Pacer victory.
USC Aiken's Ryan Metzler (Glen Burnie, Md./Siena) was 3-for-5 with three runs scored and an RBI in the game, while JJ Loker (Elkton, Va./Spotswood HS) scored three runs and drove in another to go along with a 2-for-3 performance at the dish.
Bryce Baur (Moncks Corner, S.C./Florence-Darlington Tech) and Branden Millhouse (Summerville, S.C./USC Upstate) were the final Pacers with multiple hits as each had two. Baur scored twice and Millhouse drove in two, while scoring two.
Martin Castro led Columbus State in its loss with three hits.
USC Aiken starting pitcher Ryan Milewski (West Boylston, Mass./West Boylston HS) obtained the win on the hill. Milewski (5-3) dealt six innings, fanning three.
Columbus State starter Jake Ezell pitched the first 4.2 innings in his loss. He is now 2-3 on the year.
USC Aiken has now claimed 10 of its 12 three-game series this season (Lincoln Memorial, Carson-Newman, Shepherd, Francis Marion, Flagler, Young Harris, North Georgia, Augusta State, Lander and Columbus State). The Pacers swept Lincoln Memorial, Shepherd, Flagler, Young Harris, North Georgia, Augusta State and Lander.
USC Aiken won all of its home three-game series in the 2013 regular-season.
USC Aiken will next close out the two-game 2013 Outback Cup against rival Augusta State at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24 at Roberto Hernandez Stadium.
USC Aiken claimed game No. 1 of the 2013 Outback Cup with a 4-1 10-inning victory over Augusta State on Wednesday, March 27.
USC Aiken is 8-1 all-time in Outback Cup games.
The second game of the 2013 Outback Cup will serve as Senior Day for the Pacers. The game is also the home regular-season finale for USC Aiken.
Box Score: http://www.pacersports.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/boxscores/20130421_i2q3.xml


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Did you know that smoking on a plane, child labor and heroin were once legal? Learn more about this and 24 other things that used to be legal in our slideshow.
25 Things that used to be legal
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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
February 01, 2006
President Bush Proposes Energy Initiative to Reduce Oil Imports
President Bush outlined an Advanced Energy Initiative in his 2006 State of the Union Address, with the goal of replacing more than 75 percent of U.S. oil imports from the Middle East by 2025. The Initiative provides for a 22 percent increase in clean energy research at DOE. "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world," said President Bush. "The best way to break this addiction is through technology." See the State of the Union Address on the White House Web site.
A White House fact sheet on the Initiative gives a preview of the President's proposed budget for 2007, which will include a new $148 million Solar America Initiative to accelerate the development of solar cells. The Solar America Initiative would more than double the funding for research in solar photovoltaic technologies. The budget will also include $44 million for wind energy research, a $5 million increase over this year's funding level.
The President also proposed accelerated research in producing ethanol from cellulosic biomass sources, such as agricultural wastes or switchgrass, with the goal of making such cellulosic ethanol practical and competitive within 6 years. The President's 2007 budget will include $150 million for the effort, an increase of $59 million over this year's funding. Cellulosic ethanol has the potential to displace up to 30 percent of the current fuel use in the United States.
The President's plan also aims to accelerate research in the next generation of battery technology for hybrid vehicles and "plug-in" hybrids, vehicles that can be recharged at night and can run significant distances on electric power only. The 2007 budget will include $30 million to speed the development of this technology. The budget also continues to fund the President's Hydrogen Fuel Initiative, providing $289 million in 2007, an increase of $53 million. See the White House fact sheet.


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The Nazi propaganda machine's mission was simple if despicable: Use carefully selected words and images to justify dehumanization and genocide. Movie Information A Film Unfinished
Showtimes | Official site
Director: Yael Hersonski
Run time: 90 minutes
MPAA rating: R (disturbing images)
Synopsis: Director Yael Hersonski examines a Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto.
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There's nothing simple, though, about A Film Unfinished, a remarkable new documentary that reminds us of film's inherent capacity for lying.
Director Yael Hersonski takes familiar footage of life in the Warsaw Ghetto and turns it into a macabre and somehow poetic hall of mirrors. Her ace in the hole: lost outtakes, recovered in 1998, showing how Nazi film crews directed Ghetto life to make it look tolerable. With the help of a cameraman's testimony and the diaries of Adam Czerniaków, Warsaw's Jewish council leader, we take in the staging of a live show (audience members were forced to laugh or else) and an elaborate feast, a cruel joke at a time when only the most fortunate Ghetto residents were lucky enough to eat horse meat. The emaciated faces we see here are walking ghosts: The Ghetto was liquidated and its residents executed shortly after the footage was shot.
We also see some of today's Ghetto survivors watching the footage alone in a dark theater. "Jews didn't bury their dead in coffin!" exclaims one survivor with disgust as she sees staged footage of a funeral procession. Indeed, as other parts of the footage show, corpses were often left lying on the Ghetto streets. In one sequence we see how film crews directed residents through multiple takes to walk past the dead bodies without paying heed. The Nazi suggestion: Only subhumans could behave in such a way. Propaganda works in many different ways.
A Film Unfinished, which showed earlier this year at VideoFest, takes abject imagery and turns it into an essential statement on why we bear witness. The film pulls back the curtain on a deadly PR machine and forces us to consider its deceptions.
Follow Chris Vognar on Twitter: @chrisvognar.


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A local food show that airs on KEYT also explores the Central Coast.
Today, the film crew of Inn Crowd made it past the gates of Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Chef Budi Kazali and Colonel Keith Balts gathered several dozen airmen and showed them some tricks to Kazali's French and Asian fusion cuisine.
Afterwards, airmen showed Kazali a few tricks of their own around the base--a missile, a launch pad and their K-9's.
Kazali is an award-winning chef at Ballard Inn in Santa Ynez.
His show airs 6:30 on Saturday evenings.
The episode filmed on the base will air in March.


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The upcoming Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U fighting game will have "Nintendo-like" modes, according to Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada. Speaking to GamesRadar, Harada said that while the core gameplay mechanics will be the same as in the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, the Wii U version will have features that are tailored to the GamePad tablet controller. This isn't the first time Harada made comments about the Wii U — earlier this month he claimed that the Wii U CPU is underclocked, and that the Wii U GamePad controller is "distracting" in fighting games.
"There are going to be some modes that will be interesting, because they are very Nintendo like", Harada said. He added that part of the Nintendo-like game mode was already shown at E3. He explains how at preview event at E3 back in June, players saw a mushroom drop down, which made one of the characters bigger as he ate it (referencing to Super Mario, of course). Tekken Tag Tournament 2 will be released this September on the PS3 and Xbox 360, while the Wii U version will launch with the console, most likely in November.
Via GamesRadar (Thanks, Ian!)
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JavaFX - Upload and Download Large Files
By Rakesh Menon on Jun 17, 2009
We can upload or download large files using new HttpRequest attributes available in JavaFX 1.2.
HttpRequest has input and onInput attributes that provides InputStream which can be used to download data. This stream supports mark, reset, available, skip etc. But to support this HttpRequest buffers the data. Due to this buffering it was not possible to use this approach to download large files.
JavaFX 1.2 introduce two new attributes - source (InputStream) and sink (OutputStream). If we set
sink attribute, we can directly download the content of stream without buffering. Also with
source we can upload the content. Eg: By setting it to FileInputStream. When source or sink attribute is used, corresponding input, onInput, output, onOutput will not be functional.
<script src="http://dl.javafx.com/1.2/dtfx.js"></script><script src="/rakeshmenonp/resource/UploadDownload/UploadDownload.js"></script>
For Applet mode, click on above image
The application downloads a larger version of the photo. I took it from Somnathpur using Nikon Coolpix!
function downloadFile(url , outputFile) {
In above sample,
sink is assigned to a
FileOutputStream. So all the content will be directly written to file without buffering. Note: For making the application compatible with mobile or other platforms we will have to use only subset of
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"Maine's Forever Wild Park" Baxter State Park by sarahandgareth
Baxter State Park Travel Guide: 28 reviews and 43 photos
Baxter State Park is probably the jewel in the crown as regards wilderness experiences in Maine. Indeed, for many Mainers, climbing Mount Katahdin, in the park, is something of a rite of passage.
Being from Maine, Sarah had visited the Park a number of times, but our first joint visit was part of Gareth's introduction to all things Maine.
Baxter covers over 200,000 acres in northern Maine, and is named after former Governor Percival P. Baxter. After he had completed his term of office, he began to make land purchases in this area, and then, starting in 1931, donated them to the State. Essentially, the original Park was the gift of one man, with the State making subsequent purchases to bring the Park to its current size.
It's an astonishing wilderness area, preserved, as much as possible, in an entirely wild state. The area was logged in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but nature has been allowed to return the area to its original state, and the Park's mission is, first and foremost, preservation, and not recreation. This means that there are very strict limits to the numbers of people who can visit on any given day.
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Nice photo of the moose. and other Katahdin tips are good , too. "
Great tips and beautiful photos of Katahdin and its area! I've driven by many times on I-95 but have yet to make a climbing attempt!
Nice pages on Baxter. We want to go there when our daughter gets older and can hike a little farther.
This place has long been a lure for me for its legendary moose sighting. Hope to visit some day soon. . .
Amazing Moose photos! I just returned from my 1st Maine trip! I just love it there. Very helpful page, I definately want to visit there!!!
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POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Kawartha Lakes, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: undrafted
ISLANDERS TRANSACTIONS: Acquired from the Boston Bruins, along with Yannick Riendeau, in exchange for Brian Rolston and Mike Mottau on February 27, 2012.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Signed by the Boston Bruins as a free agent on March 23, 2011.
Recorded one assist and 48 penalty minutes in 22 games during his second professional season and first with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers of the American Hockey League...Also played six regular season games and seven playoff games with the ECHL's Las Vegas Wranglers...Scored four points (2g/2a) in the playoffs, tied for second in scoring among team defensemen and sixth overall.
2011-12: Split his first professional season between the Providence Bruins of the AHL and the Reading Royals of the ECHL, while also seeing action in two games with Bridgeport after being acquired in a trade...Went scoreless in 21 total AHL games with Providence and Bridgeport...Scored nine points (2g/7a) in 25 ECHL games with Reading...Added two assists in five ECHL Playoff games with Reading.
2010-11: Established junior career highs in goals (10), assists (31), points (41) and plus-minus (+44) during his fourth season in the Ontario Hockey League and first with the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors...Added six assists in 20 OHL playoff games as Mississauga advanced to the OHL Championship, falling to the Owen Sound Attack...Recorded two assists in five games at the Memorial Cup, which Mississauga hosted, as his club fell in the championship game to the Saint John Sea Dogs.
2009-10: Began his third OHL season with the Belleville Bulls before being traded to the eventual OHL and Memorial Cup champion Windsor Spitfires...Recorded eight points (1g/7a) in 33 games with Belleville before the trade, then posted seven points (2g/5a) in 24 games with Windsor...Added six points (3g/3a) in 19 OHL playoff games and two points (1g/1a) in four Memorial Cup games...Attended Boston Bruins development camp following the season.
2008-09: Appeared in a junior career-best 61 games during his second OHL season with Belleville, scoring 15 points (1g/14a) with a plus-35 rating...Added two assists and a plus-5 rating in 17 playoff games, as Belleville reached the semifinals of the OHL Playoffs.
2007-08: Recorded eight points (2g/6a) with a plus-10 rating in 60 games during his first full OHL season with Belleville...Added an assist in 13 OHL Playoff games.
2006-07: Drafted by the Belleville Bulls in the sixth round (109th overall) of the OHL Priority Selection...Spent most of the season in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League (OPJHL), scoring 16 points (2g/14a) in 40 games for the Lindsay Muskies...Also made his OHL debut with Belleville, recording an assist with a plus-7 rating in nine regular season games and going scoreless in six playoff games.


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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:30 am
Post subject: Think I'm in shock! Lol
So I'd been having a few things going on but didn't think much of it as didn't want to get my hopes up (we'd only been TTC for 3 months)...guess I could have though cos I got my BFP yesterday
I did a Tesco test yesterday morning and saw a pretty faint but definitely noticeable line (even DH could see the line when I emailed him a pic ) I wasn't convinced that I was pregnant so decided to do a CB Digi one later on the evening. Well that confirmed I am 1-2 weeks pregnant I honestly cannot believe it. DH and I are over the moon that we will be having a little baby brother or sister for our princess. Fingers crossed it will be a good pregnancy.
Well done to everyone else who has their BFPs too xx
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:40 am
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Hi hun - not cheeky at all
My symptoms were as follows:
Very wet down below
A little up and down mood wise
Cramping/Twinges in my tummy
Very hungry
Bleeding gums when brushing
Felt a bit bloated
I honestly didn't think much of these though. They're different to when I conceived my DD - then I had implantation bleeding and really sore boobs. Not this time though
What symptoms do you have? When are you testing? Good luck xx
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 2:14 pm
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Thanks for the reply
Well I started off with light pink wet blood, then I was wet below then yesterday I saw a lil brown blood there all light no heavy blood at all. Then now im starting to feel so tired, I just woke up from a 2 hour nap which is weird because I don't nap at all. I've noticed for the past 2-3 days my breast are sore and tingly. I've had cramps like a period and I'm not due af in the next 2 weeks.
I feel like I'm pregnant but wouldn't know until I test. I was thinking of testing a few days before my af will be due.
What do you think hun?
Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 11:45 am
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Well, it wasn't meant to be ladies
We were on holiday in Devon last week and I started bleeding on Monday evening - nothing much but I had a bad feeling. On Tuesday, it had gotten worse so we decided to go to the local hospital as I couldn't get hold of any midwives After two hours of waiting, we had a chat with a doctor who confirmed that I had lost the baby and that this was basically a period Obviously we were devestated however, we had to get on with things for our little princess. I've had my cries and cuddles and I am feeling much better about it now. I am just relieved that I was only 5 weeks gone as I cannot imagine how difficult it is for those ladies who are further along One of the hardest things though was having to tell the people who knew I was pregnant that this had happened - we will definitely be waiting for the 12 weeks to pass next time.
DH and I have decided to leave TTC for a bit until our little lady is a bit older. When something like this happens you start to appreciate things a bit more and I want to enjoy every moment with her as she is growing up so quickly
So ladies - I wish you all the very best of luck with TTC and I will still be around as enjoy catching up with you all and finding out who has their BFP


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If this year's E3 was anything to go by, 2015 may well prove to be the year of the collectible card game. All the big names seemed to have one, but none of them seemed to be able to tell you why theirs was the one you should play. For me, these johnny-come-latelys may have already been rather handily upstaged: none seemed to advertise anything like the ingenuity of the free-to-play Duelyst [official site], with its whip-smart mixture of card play and turnbased tactics, whereby you summon fantastical units to a gridded arena and duke it out until one general falls.
It's in closed alpha at the moment, and I've been really enjoying it – though I feel I've barely scratched the surface of the strategies that are possible. Luckily, I've been able to pick the ample brains of Counterplay Games' Keith Lee about Duelyst's six factions, their varied tactics and the long-term ambitions to use the aggregated wins and losses of players to inform an ongoing epic narrative.


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How do you sell farmland in Iowa? There really are two options and depending on the marketing plan you desire that may be a private treaty listing or an auction.
1. Private Treaty Listings: Listings are the best method to sell your farm in certain cases. Recreational land typically sells by listing when there is a lower return and it could take months to attract the right buyer.
2. Farmland Auctions: Tillable and pastured farmland often does better at auction than does recreational land. This asset has a much higher demand, a much larger buyer pool and offers a greater return. This give us the ability to create competition for the asset and bring you top dollar using an auction.
With a listing the seller puts the property up for sale and waits for offers from buyers. Listings can take 6, 12 even 18 months to sell. Typically when a farm is priced correctly it should take around 6 months to sell a farm by listing. Some sell immediately and others can take longer. Marketing of these properties is often called "drip" marketing, a little bit is put out there every week.
With an auction the seller offers the farm to all buyers one time and then conducts an event (the auction) to negotiate the highest price. Marketing of auction properties is done by an aggressive "condensed and accelerated" marketing campaign. All ads, flyers, signs, mailings are done at one time with a "due" date (auction) being the end of the marketing period.
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Definición de solmization en inglés:
sustantivo[mass noun] Music
- Known variously as solmisation, solfeggio or solfège, numerous systems have appeared over the centuries, all fashioned to meet specific needs or based on divergent theories.
- The history of the use of solmisation in voice training has been traced in the west and in India.
- Music playschools also introduce the children to the basics of solmisation and musical notation.
The commonest European system, still in use, originally named the notes ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la in groups of six (hexachords) beginning on G, C, or F, using syllables from a Latin hymn for St John the Baptist's Day in which each phrase begins on the next note in the scale: 'Ut queant laxis resonare fibris Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, Solve polluti labili reatum, Sancte Iohannes'. A seventh note si was added later (from the initials of Sancte Iohannes). Modern systems typically use the sequence as arbitrarily adapted in the 19th century: doh, ray, me, fah, soh, la, te, with doh being C in the fixed-doh system and the keynote in the movable-doh or tonic sol-fa system.
- Oraciones de ejemplo
- A student got 15 questions correct on the written test - a multiple-choice exam that asked him to spell words like syssarcosis, peirastic and solmizate.
- This way of thinking is called 'solmisation' - so there you are - just get solmisating!
- The margins aren't empty - they form the space in which the inventiveness of the central section is sung into place (it's called to solmizate).
Mid 18th century: from French solmisation, based on sol 'soh' + mi (see me2).
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How Uncredited Voice Over Roles in Disney Films "Kept the Magic"
By Stephanie Ciccarelli
August 13, 2010
Have you ever considered how many voice over roles went uncredited in the earliest days of animated film?
This article looks at a specific example regarding one of Walt Disney's most famous animated masterpieces and explores the lengths Disney went to in order to stake his claim to a franchise voice.
Which film and voice artist am I talking about?
Find out in today's VOX Daily!
Someday, My Credits Will Come
Unlike the success and attention most animation voice actors experience today, identities of the first voice actors were often kept under lock and key so as to preserve the "mystery" of the voice.
These were the days of contracts and indenture that effectively tied talent to a certain production company and dictated much of what they were able to pursue in their careers.
Can you think of any instances of when this may have happened? Let's take a look at the mystique surrounding Walt Disney's animated masterpieces from 1937 to 1942.
One Way Walt Disney Kept The Magic
In his first animated feature film, Walt Disney purposefully hid the identity of the voice of Snow White, the 18-year old Adriana Caselotti (1916-1997), effectively rendering her voice property of Disney. The only other film role she had was a bit part in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
When approached, Disney also denied Caselotti an opportunity to appear on Jack Benny's radio show.
For the record, the entire voice cast of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) went uncredited. This pattern continued for a number of years including films such a Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942) to name a few.
It wasn't until the mid 1940s that voice actors were credited for their roles in Disney's animated films including features such as Saludos Amigos (1943), The Three Caballeros (1944), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Cinderella (1950), 101 Dalmations (1961), The Jungle Book (1967), Robin Hood (1972) and so on.
By not sharing who the voices were, Disney was able to keep those voices under lock and key so to speak. The result of this decision was that certain voices, such as that of Snow White, were unique to his franchise and not associated with other characters or roles. In a very real way, this action insured the franchise, its characters and its iconic voices.
Modern Day Magic Keeping
While studios adopted the practice over six decades ago of acknowledging who talent are in animated films, there are ways that they can still "keep the magic" as it were by having artists sign agreements that would keep them from announcing their involvement or sharing details about an upcoming feature, at least for a time. These agreements are called Non-Disclosure Agreements or NDAs.
This may mean that in addition to not talking about it in the literal sense, a voice artist also cannot share information online via Facebook, Twitter or any other medium that could breach their contract on a global scale.
Do You Know of Someone Who Deserves Recognition?
To give you full disclosure, Caselotti did enjoy publicity later on as the voice of Snow White when Disney sought to honour its stars and released anniversary versions of the film. She also went on to participate in many celebrations over the years and received recognition for her work.
That being said, numerous roles still go uncredited because of the number of lines one might say or other reasons. The likelihood that you'll receive any press is slim to none unless you share the information yourself.
If there are people you know of who ought to receive credit but were not given any, feel free to add a comment and let us know about their roles!
Best wishes,
©iStockphoto.com/Diane DiederichRelated Topics: Adriana Caselotti, animation, credits, Disney, radio, Snow White, Voice overs, Walt Disney
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I don't think Uncle Walt is to be commended for this course of action. These people deserved recognition for their hard work and to pull this sort of corporate "WE OWN YOU" move is a nasty thing to do to someone - especially someone 18 years old who wants to make a name for themselves in the business.Posted by:
I always thought it made Walt a hypocrite to require the voice talents in the early years to remain silent and uncredited, yet he was seen on camera performing Mickey's voice.
I especially felt bad for Caselotti. She seems to have been denied both stardom and a more successful career at her young age because of her contract with Disney.
And if it hadn't been for Mel Blanc's determination in negotiating to get screen credit, he might have had the same fate as the early Disney voice talents. (I believe Blanc also attempted unsuccessfully to copyright his voices.)
To my knowledge, the most infamous (repeat) case of uncredited voice talent goes to Marni Nixon, who dubbed the singing voices of some of Hollywood's leading ladies: Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn. Nixon would later bill herself as "The Voice of Hollywood."
I had a Disney vinyl record as a child with Nixon singing as Mary Poppins, which I'm sure Julie Andrews gave her full approval to because it was reported that when Andrews met Nixon on the set of "The Sound of Music" she told her, "I really love your work!"
Nixon also was the singing voice of Grandmother Fa in Disney's Mulan.
Another infamous (and lesser-known) uncredited voice role was Paul Frees, who dubbed Tony Curtis' falsetto as Josephine in "Some Like It Hot."Posted by:
Alexis Serrano (my daughter) was the voice of the Vulcan Student girl in the last Star Trek movie. Even though she was uncredited, she is getting residual checks so that's something. I have tried repeatedly to get her on IMDB without success.Posted by:
I didn't see any mention of Kathryn Beaumont who voiced "Alice" in Disney's Alice In Wonderland.
She's English and tapped for duty when she was about 15. She became a schoolteacher just blocks away from the Disney studio in Burbank. Married name was Levine. Last I heard she was divorced?/widowed? and living in the Riverside, CA area. Nice lady; met her in the mid 80s. Was smart enough to have a photo taken with her! =)
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It seems to me I always knew the name Marni Nixon. So, even though she may have been uncredited, there were articles written about her work, especially at the time of "My Fair Lady."
That was one of the all time ironies of Hollywood.
Julie Andrews was a smash hit on Broadway -- but they figured she wasn't well known enough to carry the motion picture -- so they chose Audrey Hepburn with Marni Nixon singing. OK -- but then came one of the all time best selling films "The Sound of Music" carried by Julie Andrews.Posted by:
As an aside to Craig's mention of Paul Frees. . . Frees also dubbed Herve Villechaize's entire performance in 1971's "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight," one of De Niro's earliest films.Posted by:
At various places (ice show) (Disneyland) (Park in Fla) I have been the voice of Doc the Dwarf but was always well paid. No credit but great memories of doing the work and spending the money. Thanks to Disney's Sue Lum and a prayerful thought for Mary Kay Bergman who once was also Snow White. Resquiat in Pace! Love from Del Roy -now in Eugene, Or.Posted by:
I am a radio personality, and would love, love, love to audition for a disney character voice for an a animated project. Please contact me with information about it.Posted by:
Hi and Good morning,
As you will see my name is Paul Randall and i live in the UK in cenrtal London Westminster,as a family man with 4 girls i have been there voice of walt disneys Donald Duck , dressing up,and acting the part, as my girls are growing up and friends and family say, "Paul you should contact disney and work for them doing Donalds voice"
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We think the pixilated look of the set along with the many convertible building features makes this construction set well suited for Minecraft fans. We also like the detailed features, such as the TNT and removable wall, and the ability to reconfigure the set to meet fans' Minecraft visions.
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This set can be combined with additional Minecraft LEGO sets, which are sold separately.
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Twelfth Night, or What You Will
by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, or What You Will Society and Class Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Scene.Line). Line numbers correspond to the Norton edition.
Quote #1
O, that I served that lady
And might not be delivered to the world
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is. (1.2.43-46)
This passage reminds us that it's not just her gender that Viola hides when she cross-dresses as "Cesario." She also disguises her "estate" (meaning her "general condition" and also her "social rank"). Viola's assumed identity as "Cesario," then, suggests that both gender and class are not stable identities. Rather, they can be performed, disguised, and impersonated by just about anyone.
Quote #2
Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats.
He's a very fool and a prodigal. (1.3.23-24)
Even though Sir Andrew Aguecheek is a wealthy nobleman, Maria predicts that his foolish ways and excessive spending will drain his wealth within a year. This, perhaps, is why it's so important for him to marry the wealthy heiress, Olivia.
Quote #3
She'll none o' the Count. She'll not match above
her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit. I have
heard her swear 't. Tut, there's life in 't, man. (1.3.107-109)
Sir Toby is preoccupied with marrying his frenemy, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, to his kinsman, Olivia. To encourage his pal, Toby insists that Olivia will not "match" (marry) above her "degree," which means her social rank ("estate"), her age ("years"), and her general intelligence ("wit"). In other words, Toby says Olivia won't marry the Duke, who is higher ranking, older, and smarter than Olivia. (We know better – Olivia's just not into him.)
History Snack: These comments echo a common Elizabethan idea that nuptials among "equals" made for happier marriages. In 1568 Edward Tilney, one of Queen Elizabeth's courtiers, wrote a famous book called The Flower of Friendship. Check out this excerpt from Tilney's book on marriage – it sounds a lot like what Sir Toby says about Olivia: "equality is principally to be considered in […] matrimonial amity [friendship], as well as years, as are the gifts of nature, and fortune. For equalness herein, makes friendliness."
Of course, even though Toby Belch argues for Olivia to marry a social "equal," he's clearly not at all concerned with his niece's happiness. Toby wants Aguecheek to marry Olivia for selfish reasons. Our theory? If Aguecheek marries Olivia, he'll control Olivia's wealth. Since Aguecheek pretty much does whatever Toby says, Toby would be able to access and to some degree, control Olivia's fortune through Aguecheek. Olivia's situation as an unmarried heiress with a dead father places her in a situation that's similar to that of Portia in The Merchant of Venice. Portia and Olivia are both powerful women with a lot of money and no husband to tell them what to do – until Shakespeare marries them off, that is.


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Tokyo, January 27, 2010 - NEC Corporation today announced its selection by HT Mostar d.d., one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's leading telecommunications carriers, to deploy approximately 70 units of the "PASOLINK" ultra compact microwave communications systems for its operations. Bosnia and Herzegovina becomes the 139th country to adopt the PASOLINK system.
Recent economic conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina demand expanded data transmission capacity among businesses and larger networks. The deployment of PASOLINK contributes significantly to the country's establishment of a strong IT infrastructure that supports steadily increasing data traffic.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's HT Mostar adopted PASOLINK's "NEO" series, which is highly evaluated for its ability to flexibly accommodate growing transmission needs through a variety of different interfaces on a single platform. This enables companies to cheaply and easily update infrastructure through software upgrades, and eliminates the need to supplement existing systems with expensive new additions.
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My thanks to Brian Thomson for sending me the news that Ian McDonald will be providing the music at an all-star benefit reading of Hamlet in New York this month.
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KC In The UK
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jul 16, 2015
King Crimson rehearsals are underway this week ahead of the first full UK tour since 1982, which begins next month.
Fair Streaming
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Thu., Jul 16, 2015
Anil Prasad has followed up his recent viral polemic on streaming with a look at what a more equitable streaming model might look like, including comments from Trey Gunn and Markus Reuter. Check it out here.
Adrian's Idiom
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jul 14, 2015
Adrian Belew has unveiled his latest composition on his Youtube page. Writing about the tune Adrian notes "its a brand new song called "idiom" from the upcoming FLUX pack.*
in case youre unsure, an idiom is a phrase or expression used figuratively rather than literally. for example if you use the expression "he bought the farm" you are not referring to someone purchasing real estate, youre talking about someone dying.
idioms fascinate me because they are usually bizarre. there are thousands of idioms in the english language. this song is made entirely of idioms.
it was raining cats and dogs between a rock and a hard place so I drove him up the wall and down to the wire at the drop of a hat, an arm and a leg he lost his head for a piece of cake
so he went back to the drawing board for a taste of his own medicine with a chip on his shoulder tighter than dicks hat band he was off the hook on the fence over the top and out on a limb
singing Im an idiom somebodys pulling my leg Im an idiom you must be pulling my leg
the song was recorded by daniel rowland and miles fuqua at studiobelew in mt. juliet, tennessee mixed and mastered by daniel rowland written and performed by yours truly written on july 1, 2015
*a full explanation of the new FLUX pack is coming soon.
Oblique Murphy
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Jul 14, 2015
Ronan Chris Murphy, who worked on various King Crimson mixing projects, including USA, and was part of the ProjeKct Two crew, has released a video where he provides a beginner's guide to Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies. Check it out here.
King Canada
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 13, 2015
With both nights in Quebec now sold out, a third date has been added to King Crimson's run of dates in Toronto. The full dates for the Canadian tour are: Fri 13th Nov Quebec Palais Montcalm Sat 14th Nov Quebec Palais Montcalm Mon 16th Nov Montreal Theatre St. Denis Tue 17th Nov Montreal Theatre St. Denis Thu 19th Nov Toronto Queen Elizabeth Theatre Fri 20th Nov Toronto Queen Elizabeth Theatre Sat 21st Nov Toronto Queen Elizabeth Theatre Tue 24th Nov Calgary Jack Singer Concert Hall Thu 26th Nov Vancouver Vogue TheatreFri 27th Nov Vancouver Vogue TheatreSun 29th Nov Victoria Royal Theatre
King Controversial
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 13, 2015
On this date 12 years ago King Crimson played the Montreux jazz festival. It didn't go well for the band.
To Text Or Not To Text...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Jul 13, 2015
My thanks to jhessell who sent in this article about how one actor handled a member of the audience texting during a performance.
Jakko Talks King & Kinks
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 12, 2015
A few weeks ago Jakko Jakszyk was a guest on Steve Davis's Interesting Alternative show on Phoenix FM radio. You can hear Jakko talking to Steve and co-host Kavus Torabi (of Gong, Guapo etc) and playing a selection of tracks from his musical past and present. Jakko also tells the story of how he came to be a member of The Kinks for ten days. Meanwhile tomorrow evening, Theo Travis will be joining Steve and Kavus to talk about his new album, Transgression. Tune in live at 10.00 p.m.
The Albums Not For Streaming
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Jul 12, 2015
Here's a piece on ten albums that do not appear on the new Apple music streaming service.
On This Date 31 Years Ago...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sat., Jul 11, 2015
The Discipline-era King Crimson played its final gig together at Le Spectrum in Montreal.
We recorded the last shows on
multi-track. Sensing that the end of the band might be nigh, this
allowed for a possible live-album to commemorate the outfit (as with
"USA"). Bill mixed the tapes for a Canadian radio broadcast, which
became a bootleg (as with any radio broadcast) called "Absent Lovers".
Any mix of any music is a presentation of a world-view: a sonic society
of the imagination, how we see that world & our place in it. When I
was given a copy of Bill's mix, it confirmed my sense of Bill's Crimson
world-view, and gave deep offence. My own Crimson world-view of the same
event can be found on the DGM "Absent Lovers" (with acknowledgement to
David Singleton, my Ton Prob partner). Bill's is on the bootleg.
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Re-Konception! Bringing God's message through music
John "Joby" and his wife Miriam "Mimi" Brown are on a mission to bring the Word of God to the masses through music. "The Lord told me that the music he gave me is not mine to keep, I must share it with the world," Joby said. The loving and devoted Beaver Falls couple are completing that through the revamped Christian contemporary duo Re-Konception! RE-KONCEPTION! JOBY AND MIMI BROWN "Our music is a blend. The lyrics are from the Gospel and our musical background is set in reggae, rock, pop, R&B and jazz. My taste in music is eclectic," said Joby who studied classical music under his mentor, Dan Henderson, a former operations manager at Word-FM. Joby sings lead on all of Re-Konception! music. "We're the cutting edge of urban contemporary Christian music.


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At uShip we have coordinated the transport of thousands of vehicles over the last five years, and while we take pride in every success story, it is particularly exciting to see our efforts validated by shippers who trust the marketplace with extremely rare and/or valuable vehicles. Anything but normal, the following cars are the hottest, coolest and sweetest ever to grace the uShip's listings.
Regarded as the first affordable automobile, Henry Ford's Model T was manufactured between 1908 and 1927. Junkinjeff's beautiful, red carriage will be around for years to come after its successful trip from Munford to Ft. Mitchell.
With top a top speed of 198 mph, the twin-turbo W12 engine Bentley Continental GT can get places fast. What's more, this luxurious king of the automotive jungle turns heads with its looks as much as performance. As of press time lipemedeiros was in the process of negotiating a delivery for his two Bentley's [check current status of listing].
Explosive acceleration catapults the Ferrari F430 from 0-60 in a face-flattening 3.6 seconds. Inspired by the Italian racetrack, these slick machines demand an estimated $175k in the states and pauldipaolo shipped his over 500 miles for $1100, zoom zoom.
Faster than a speeding Mustang, the Saleen Cobra is a rare and pricy version of Ford's classic sports car. Manufactured by Saleen, Incorporated of Troy, Michigan, very low production numbers make this a car collector's dream.
By producing only 500 McLaren SLR's a year Mercedes Benz has made the model one of the expensive and rarest vehicles on the road today. For about $500,000 you'll rocket 0-60 in 3.1 seconds and reach a top speed of 208 mph. We're talking muscle.
blitzforce's 1965 Shelby Cobra brings bling to a whole new level. Chromed out to max, the customized roadster is one of the cooler cars you will ever see. He recently trusted it to uShip and was rewarded with a 1700 mile shipment for under $2,500
Like its cousin Shelby, the AC Cobra is a British roadster originally intended for the track. Designed as a "corvette beater," the light weight auto is so fast that it is rumored to have contributed to the implementation of national speed limits in the U.K. While no laws were broken during the transport of BajaBoys' 1967 gem from Riverside, CA to Sumas, WA, you can bet federaltowingltd was putting the pedal to the metal.
antiqu8ed's 1932 Ford Street Rod is straight out of a mobster film, but cooler. The black and aqua exterior make this hot-rod an eye catcher, and the antique body style harkens back to the heyday of American automobile manufacturing.
lherndo shipped his immaculate 2007 Corvette ZO6 from Warrington, PA to Lexington, SC for under $500. That's just over a dollar for every horse this luxurious sports car kicks out. In addition to 405 horsepower, the ZO6 zooms 0-60 in under four seconds and blasts through the quarter mile in under 12.
Written by Ben Leffler, who has yet to drive anything as cool as these cars but aspires to one day do so.


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U.N. Declaration
of HumanRights Turns 50
in the Declaration Thinking
Globally Acting
in the Declaration Thinking
Globally Acting
On December 10, 1948,
not quite three years into its history, the United Nations produced
perhaps its greatest accomplishment: the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. The world was stunned by the horrors of two world wars,
struggling to rebuild and to cope with decolonization in Africa and
Oceania. Amidst Cold War rhetoric and after surviving 1,400 votes
on every word, the declaration was adopted.
It has held up through
the years as a Magna Charta, a Bill of Rights, for the international
community. Like the knights of King Arthur's court who committed themselves
to a rule of law and "might for right," the then-58 member states
set forth the ideals to which they agreed to hold themselves and others
accountable. Humanity entered a new age that day.
The declaration is
"a living document that challenges every nation every day to live
up to the high standards we have set for ourselves," Craig Kuehl,
a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Human Rights
Commission, said last April.
But Kuehl asked if,
50 years from now, we will "still carry the weight of prejudices,
intolerance and injustice on our back." He pleaded that, instead of
just pointing out rights abuses, the next century "must be the age
of prevention." He said, "We cannot afford to have nations hide their
human-rights abuses behind religious, historical or cultural veils."
in the Declaration
The declaration consists
of a preamble and 30 articles. Article 1 states: "All human beings
are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit
of brotherhood." Article 2 insists that these rights and freedoms
are for everyone.
Subsequent articles
spell out such rights as: to life, liberty and security of person; against slavery and servitude; against torture; against
arbitrary arrest and to a fair trial; to freedom of movement within countries, and the right to emigrate and to return;
to a nationality; to marry and found a family; to own property; to
freedom of thought, conscience and religion; to work, with equal pay
for equal work; to join trade unions; to a standard of living adequate
for the health and well-being of self and family, with special assistance for mothers and children; to education, with parents able to choose the kind of education
for their children.
Sounds like the political
and social agenda of the United States over the last 50 years, doesn't
This is a time to look
back with pride on the declaration and its accomplishments over the
years. The declaration itself was not legally binding, but it has
spawned an impressive body of international law, like the covenants
concerning genocide, racism, the rights of the child and elimination
of discrimination against women.
The annual meeting
of the United Nations Human Rights Commission focuses world attention
on cases of torture, disappearances, arbitrary detention, summary
executions, violence against women and the right to development. In
just the month of October the United Nations High Commissioner investigated
the executions of 24 former members of the military junta in Sierra
Leone, the murder of a labor activist in Colombia and the expulsion
of foreign workers from Belgium.
The declaration is
currently providing the basis on which Amnesty International, environmental
groups, the Human Genome Project (for mapping and sequencing the human
genetic code) and even the Pontifical Council for the Family arguing
against abortion can make their cases.
The problem now, as
in 1948, is to translate words into deeds. It is time for reinvigorated
It is time, for starters,
that the United States pay up its membership dues because, without
that organization functioning smoothly, none of this human-rights
protection can happen.
To recapture its reputation
as a promoter of human rights, our country could at least debate the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which
other nations have signed. It speaks of governments guaranteeing a
just wage for a minimum standard of living, adequate food, housing
and clothing, and physical and mental health.
Closer to home, parishes
could sponsor a Human Rights Day near the anniversary to talk about
the world situation
and how Christians can improve it. And intercessions concerning human
rights should be a regular part of Sunday Masses.
Eleanor Roosevelt was
the first U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and the head of the
U.N. declaration drafting committee from 1946 to 1948. It was she
who brought the problem of human rights home: "Where, after all, do
human rights begin? In small places, close to home--so close that
they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world
of the individual person: the neighborhood...the school or college...the
factory, farm or office....Such are the places where every man, woman
and child seeks equal dignity without discrimination.
"Unless these rights
have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted
citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain
for progress in the larger world."B.B.


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book is not only very good, it is important. In the introduction, author
David Darom, who is a marine biologist, photographer and collector of knives,
describes becoming aware of a gap between the exquisite work he saw in shows
and a general perception of folding knives primarily as practical tools.
As a successful author of 20 books on a wide range of subjects, Darom took
what was for him a logical route to close this gap; he made a showcase book
to exhibit what he calls a Hall of Fame of leading knifemakers.
The author's sense of mission permeates the book, and it bubbles with
the energy of an enthusiastic and knowledgeable collector eager to share
his discoveries. Darom features 22 artists, in each case showing the construction
of a particular knife and offering a gallery of other pieces and a personal
statement by the artist. This first tier of designers is augmented with
nine additional knifemakers, each presenting a short biography and abbreviated
The fine collection of contemporary work is preceded by seven essays
that set the stage for the examples that follow, covering topics as diverse
as the art of collecting and technical notes on engraving, anodizing,
and scrimshaw. Of particular value is the description of Mosaic Damascus
by Steve Schwarzer. This relatively new process combines the tradition
of canemaking used to create millefiori glass with high technology powdered
steel metallurgy to create complex patterns in decorative forge welded
The book is lushly illustrated altogether there are nearly 300 photographs
of knives and the techniques used to create them. Acknowledging the familiar
dilemma of how to show several views of a three dimensional object (like
both sides of a knife), Darom has used computer manipulation to create
hybrid photographs that seamlessly blend several views of a single knife
into one image. What appears at first glance to be a photograph of several
similar knives lying side by side, turns out to be an image depicting
the opened, closed, and detailed views of one knife. Although initially
unsettling, the benefits of this surreal presentation are hard to deny,
since seeing an entire knife and a close detail simultaneously is thrilling.
All this makes Custom Folding Knives a good book, but what makes it important?
Handmade knives and the artists who make them have long labored under
a Good Ole Boy stereotype that binds them to gun shows, paramilitary catalogs,
and hobbycraft technology. This book does not argue against these bridling
limitations it shatters them completely. From elegant engravings to Mardi
Gras colors, to intricate Mosaic Damascus figures, these knives astound
us. Who could have guessed that in studios around the world, talented
men and women are making folding knives whose vitality, craftsmanship,
and artistry are on a par with our finest jewelry and watchmaking? Well,
David Darom knew, and lucky for us, he did something about it.
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The 40-year-old Norwegian launched his reign as manager with a 2-1 FA Cup third-round victory at Newcastle on Saturday, but will now get down to the business of trying to preserve the Bluebirds' top-flight status.
Cardiff currently sit one place and a single point above the drop zone heading into Saturday's home clash with fellow strugglers West Ham, and while the manager hopes to bolster his squad during this month's transfer window, he is happy with what he has inherited.
He said: "I have a solid foundation here but it's a long season. It's the longest and hardest and most intense season in any football country, so the depth of the squad is something I am looking at, of course.
"But the quality is there. We have got loads of quality to work with and then maybe some additions to blend in.
"Of course we have not had a lot of time on the training ground, so we have had to go through a few things in the meetings.
"But the foundation is there. The performance against Arsenal, that was, for me, very pleasing to see. It was very exciting to see the way they defended against a top, top, top team, Arsenal away from home.
"They lasted 88 minutes and that was a good performance. For me, it was just to build on that a few things going forward, and we defended fantastically today."
Cardiff started brightly at St James' Park and thought they had taken the lead when skipper Mark Hudson headed home Peter Whittingham's early corner, although referee Anthony Taylor had spotted a foul and ruled it out.
Keeper David Marshall needed the help of his right post to keep out Hatem Ben Arfa's 25th-minute piledriver as the Magpies belatedly found their feet, and when the home side finally took the lead through striker Papiss Cisse 16 minutes into the second half, it did not come against the run of play.
However, Solskjaer, who knows a thing or two about how effective substitutions can be from his own playing days, shuffled his pack to great effect to drag the Welshman back into the game and then win it.
Craig Noone, who had replaced Peter Odemwingie seconds earlier, blasted a 73rd-minute equaliser past keeper Rob Elliot from the best part of 30 yards and Fraizer Campbell, who had taken over from Andreas Cornelius, powered home Whittingham's corner seven minutes later.
Solskjaer was understandably in jubilant mood as he reflected upon his first afternoon in the dug-out.
However, he was well aware that victory on Tyneside is only a start and that the hard work is still to come.
He said: "The best time you have got is when you are playing, of course. That's the best time of their lives, that's the best time of my lads' lives, they should enjoy it.
"But for me now, that time is over. You do really enjoy the moment, of course. Today was a fantastic time for us but, as I said, it was great and pleasing for the lads and we have got something to build on."
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- Peter Whittingham


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Home Ownership in Canada Gets a Little Tougher
By David George-Cosh
Affording a home in Canada got a little bit tougher in the second quarter of the year.
With home sales and housing starts rising and home prices edging higher in the past several months — bucking calls that Canada's housing market is in a 'cooling-off' phase — the rate of home appreciation was sufficient to wear down the affordability of a single-family home a little, Royal Bank of Canadaid in a report released Tuesday.
According to the bank, the housing affordability measure, or the cost of owning a home as a percentage of household income, rose by 0.3 percentage points to 42.7% for a detached bungalow in the second quarter from the prior quarter. For two story homes, it rose 0.4 percentage points to 48.4%. The housing affordability measure for condos in Canada was flat in the quarter at 27.9%.
Despite being slightly harder to afford a home, Canadians continue to be active in the housing market. Recent changes to the mortgage-backed securities guarantees announced by the government-backed Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation are expected to have a "marginal effect on housing demand," said Craig Wright, chief economist at RBC, and the lead author of the report.
"Barring another turn of the housing-policy screw by the federal government, home resales will stabilize near the recent not-too-hot, not-too-cold levels in the near term," Mr. Wright said.
Not surprisingly, the biggest risk weighing on the Canadian housing market continues to be the threat of rising interest rates. Mr. Wright notes a "slim chance" that rates will hike soon, forecasting that the Bank of Canada might finally act on its key policy rate sometimes around mid-2014.
Some of Canada's big banks have already started bumping mortgage-lending rates higher, with Bank of Montreal leading the pack last week when it raised its five-year fixed rate to 3.79% from 3.59%.


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text: Okay I admit it's not a great feeling staying up to four in the morning with your guy friend watching the first Ninja Turtles movie. It evokes thoughts like What have I become? or Is this really my life? Irregardless it's an excellent movie! It's crazy that it stands the test of time, but it does. Continue reading


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Accounting for a Sustainable Future
If you're trying to find a stock you can stick with for the long term, there's a raft of financial data to help you choose, including annual reports, regulatory filings, and financial databases. Nonfinancial data, however — say, a company's record on carbon emissions or on monitoring suppliers for human rights violations — is a no man's land. Many firms offer informal reports on something called ESG — Environmental, Social, and Governance — but what they disclose, if anything, is up to them.
Robert Eccles would like to change all that. He is chairman of the new Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a nonprofit organization seeking to establish industry-specific measures for sustainability that can be incorporated into filings such as 10K forms Eccles, who was a featured speaker at a recent conference on long-term investing organized by Chazen Senior Scholar Patrick Bolton, talked with Chazen Global Insights about the challenges of getting companies to fess up.
Chazen Global Insights: I can see the case for sustainability standards. But if firms self-report, how trustworthy will that data be?
Robert Eccles: Financial reporting is self-reporting too. The difference is that [with financial reporting] there's standards and there's audits.
CGI: So will there be verification or audits of this nonfinancial reporting?
RE: Ultimately, that's where I think you're going to see this go. In South Africa, where reporting of both financial and nonfinancial data is mandated through integrated reporting, investors are starting to go to companies and saying, "Well, okay, it's nice that you've got this integrated report. But now we want some assurance that the sustainability data is of the same quality as the financial data."
CGI: At SASB you're establishing industry-by-industry standards, right?
RE: That's right. It'll be an apples-to-apples comparison in 89 industries organized into 10 large sectors. That way, information on customer loyalty or carbon emissions within each sector is done the same. So you can look at two different companies and basically measure and report the same way. The reason for this sector approach is that the material ESG issues from an investor perspective vary by sector. A bank's carbon emissions are not important, although they are for a coal-fired utility company. Conversely, how a bank manages market risk is very important.
You could get a third party to provide some kind of assurance opinion on it. But until you have standards you really can't do any sort of meaningful verification.
CGI: Who would these third parties be?
RE: Probably the Big Four accounting firms. There are some boutique firms that will do environmental verification or human rights audits, but they tend to be very specialized people who cannot provide assurance across the entire range of material ESG issues in a sector. As investors start asking for audits of integrated reports, they will want the capabilities and credibility of a Big Four firm that's got skin in the game to put their name on it. And even these firms have a long ways to go in having the necessary capabilities to do an integrated audit.
CGI: If we haven't been able to achieve unanimous adoption of global standards for accounting, how can we hope to do it for nonfinancial measures?
RE: First of all, standard-setting is hard, and nobody is happy with the result in the end. Everybody thinks their situation is different.
In the end it's up to governments to decide whether they're going to require reporting or not. Companies would generally prefer not to provide this information, or to do so on a selective basis. But standards actually lessen the burden, because once you know the rules of the game, software companies can develop software and IT firms can develop platforms that make it relatively easy to do.
CGI: So it sounds like the initial impetus will start in Congress.
RE: No, not necessarily. I think if it started in Congress it would be too soon. The ideal model for SASB would be for companies start to adopt these standards on a voluntary basis because it's in their self-interest to do so and investors start pushing for them. My fantasy scenario is that you've got companies and investors holding hands, going to the SEC, saying, "we're already doing this; why don't we make sure it's a level playing field for everybody?"
CGI: What's the one thought you want to leave readers with concerning this whole push for mandatory sustainability reporting?
RE: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was formed forty years after the SEC basically created accounting standards. I don't think we would have the capital markets we have today without accounting standards and financial reporting requirements. And I don't think we're going to have the capital markets and the society we want for tomorrow without standards for nonfinancial information and some reporting requirements. To create a sustainable society, companies and investors need to be taking all of these issues into account. What SASB and integrated reporting will do is make that possible.