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With Jean-Yves Sebillote and Valentin Villenave, piano.
Pieces from Debussy, Mulsant, Tomasi, Dubugnon.
Thanks to Diederik Suys for his help and loan the SE electronic microphone!
With Jean-Yves Sebillote and Valentin Villenave, piano.
Pieces from Debussy, Mulsant, Tomasi, Dubugnon.
Thanks to Diederik Suys for his help and loan the SE electronic microphone!
Dans notre classe de contrebasse au CNSMDP, nous essayons d'illustrer tous les nombreux aspects stylistiques ainsi que l'amour de la musique et de notre instrument.
Tout d'abord il faut parfaire tous les aspects techniques si besoin est.
Je vous inviterai à vous départir de tout préjugé, afin d'ouvrir votre curiosité à toutes les techniques dans le monde.
Egalemment, la pédagogie de la contrebasse doit beaucoup tenir compte des paramètres physiques de chaque individu afin d'adapter au mieux sa technique au profit du résultat.
Les buts: acquérir toutes les techniques d'archet indispensables dans le patrimoine de notre famille des cordes, et concernât la main gauche, imaginer sans cesse de meilleures combinaisons de doigtés au profit du son selon les tempi et notre volonté de style d'expression.
C'est donc une passionnante recherche que je vous propose, enrichie par les intervenants en master class ou échanges Socrate qui sont invités le long de l'année, ainsi que par mes propres voyages et récitals dans le monde.
Les styles d'interprétations sont tous illustrés : l'expressivité dans le baroque, qui n'est pas la même que dans le classique ou le romantique (Marin Marais, Sperger, Brahms et autres).
On perfectionne aussi l'expressivité musicale aussi dans la musique moderne du 20eme s, d'écriture traditionnelle, (Tomasi, Henze et autres) ou contemporaine, écriture du geste, d'effets sonores combinés, théâtre …
( Druckman, Xenakis, Boivin et autres….)
Et toujours une active collaboration existe aussi avec les compositeurs d'aujourd'hui.
Enfin, les traits d'orchestre et la préparation mentale aux concours monopolisent beaucoup de temps pour ceux qui s'y destinent. Ma fonction de contrebasse solo de l'orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris ainsi que celle de mon assistant Jean-Edmond Bacquet à l'Orchestre National nous permet de vous livrer toute notre expérience. A bientôt avec plaisir , n'hésitez pas à nous contacter …
Dear friends, In Fort Collins University ISB convention, june 3 2015, 8 pm, I will have the pleasure to perform the Henri Tomasi concerto, premiere in USA, « Celestial dance » from Rufus Reid, Sonate from Florentine Mulsant (2014), world premiere , Dvorak cello concerto (mvts 1 and 2 ) with pianist Dianne Frazer.
Hello Master. I would like to receive some advices from you about the moment when one is going to play a new master piece. How should I start with it? And, what do you think about how long must be the time to study? I will be so gratefull with you, because I feel that I have a trouble with my studies´s technique. I hope don´t be bothersome with all this questions. Thank you so much!
My answer:
Preparing a piece must be carefuly done. First read the notes and sing in the same time. If you are experimented, you can play first view, but never play without hearing and singing the note before ( inside you, or really). Then second time, add the rythm, count… you have now an idea of the style, of the composer, and imagine which king of sound he( she) was thinking, in comparaison with all your musical culture. You can now also make an analysis of the structure of the piece. Look at the piano part and note on your bass part all the indications you need to be able to lead the piece when performing. The pianists or conductors have a big advantage: they have the score! We must prepare also our « score », noting for instance the rythm of the piano when we don't play, etc… Notice the dynamics asap. Then begin to fix the fingerings and bowings. The one depends on the other, you will experiment yourself which fingering is well with a bowing, discuss with your teacher, etc… no bowing is obligatory, no fingering, it must just fit to your hand and be logical with the music, that's all… innovate for yourself, take lessons with many professors as possible to be rich on fingerings.Then you can practice, enjoy, rehearse and rehearse, you will be soon able to play by memory, that is great…
How much time per day? Are you a big wardrobe, or a normal person? it depends on you, never exagerate. For instance, if you don't have big hands and arms, never more than 3 hours per day…. it is a question of health… so, in this case, choose between the scales and technique and the music pieces… or do both not too long… respect your body and stop immediately if you feel a tendinite could come…
Enjoy bass! Thierry Barbé
Hello! These are the questions that I would like to ask you:
1. Why did you choose the double-bass? Was there any other instrument, that you have played before?
TB : Yes I played the piano from 11 to 16 years old in a little school of music, and my piano teacher was also double bassist in the Philarmonique Lorraine Orchestra ( my native city, Metz, east France). As I was serious, she presented me to her husband, principal bass in this orchestra and professor at the Metz conservatoire. My dream was to play violin, ( I liked so much the sound) and I said, yes, double bass is a big violin, I like so much music, that with double bass I will enter in the conservatoire. Professor Maurice Leblan, pure french school, was talented, and played really good with a nice vibrato. I was passionnate with classical music, and after 2 years, I forced him to let me go in the conservatory 's orchestra.
2.Who was your first teacher?
TB : Mr Leblan is coming from Lille, and entered Paris conservatory under professor Boussagol. He was perfectionnist and played wonderfull. He had very big hands and muscles…. a best, to play bass naturaly… In his hands, any bass and bow sounded perfect… the mass of his body and his great technique, his perfect pitch, his sense of exactitude made all. Some first pieces that I heard him playing with advanced students where Dragonetti and Dittersdorf concerti, pieces from Serventi, Desenclos and Hindemith sonata. Delightfull lessons to hear for a beginner… Then I heard a recording of Henze cto by Gary Karr. He had at this time a nice vibrato too. Those both expressive ways of playing convinced me that double bass had to be played as a violin. The very nice sound of my second teacher Jean-Marc Rollez in Paris conservatory confirmed me also in this opinion, with more virtuosity.
3. Who was the person that influened you the most?
TB : From those 3 persons, I will advantage the first, because his sense of perfection was more equilibrated. He was the typical case of un unknowed artist very talented. Touching, isn't it?
4. As I remember from our chats, you're very interrested into expressing yourself on the stage. What is your conception of teaching this your students. In other words do you have any special method to convince them to do so, or you just support their natural inclinations?
TB : Some of us have naturaly the sense of the scene, which means that their attitude is convincing for the public. For instance some artists are playing with sincere passion, warm sound, demonstrative gestures ( not too much please), they engage all what they are humanly, it must go out… Of course the public in its diversity reacts differently sometimes. We can like or not. In order to correct this, it is highly recommended to think , as it should be normal, first to the composer, style and period of the piece, and to rend what is truely written. This way should make it better, because it can domesticate an excessive personality.
On the other hand, some of us are opposite: they don't want to express themselves, prefer staying in the section of an orchestra. They play exactly what is written, but we don't feel anything, because the human artistic expression is absent. For them, I try to simulate the personality, to activate the internal fire .
Of course, we are never only black or white, we have a mix, but there is a dominant, against it is not possible to fight.
This is why those individual characters orient us more rather to barock, or classic- romantique, Jazz, or contemporary music.
5. How important was for you to work as a principal bassist. How strong did it influence your solo playing and your teaching?
Beeing a principal bassist means that : 1- you can hear yourself playing in the orchestra because you are first, and the conductor and others also… 2- you have the responsability to give the attack to the section, keep the tempo and take care to the rubatos and to the dynamics 3 you play the solo when there is one 4- You decide the bowings 5- you have the responsability to maintain a good work ambiance and you have to be in constant sociable mood. 6- you are supposed to have good relations with the conductors… 7 It is recommended to like this responsability naturaly.
This fonction stimulate my practicing and my recital activity, because we need to be in good condition in the orchestra. About teaching, we know better how things happen in the professionnal life, we are more often in the orchestra jurys, so we have a better experience for the orchestral excerpts and the attitude to have in auditions, as coach for the students
6. what are your impressions about french or german bow? What was the reason for you to play the first one?
TB : I learnt first french bow as used in my country. The common ideas of french (not very open people) is that the under hand grip manipulate the bow less easily, like a long scale that we carry from the botton and not in the middle. They always defended the over hand grip, first against the Dragonetti bow and Cherubini around 1830. They invented a mix with the Tourte french bow frog with the head of the Dragonetti bow. Then I understood that french bow grip, similar to cello as I had been taught, requires big strong hands to avoid tireness. Rollez invented a new grip to avoid that and to get more density, but it was bad for a naturel spiccato because it was based to much on the First finger and thumb, the hand completly balanced on their side. I invented another one more in the way with the french and italian traditionnal schools : finger more perpendicular to the frog, but what was new is the second and third finger gripping under the frog, to help the thumb and to have also a dense sound. When I studied Under hand bow, I found the same different characters of the grips about density, between austian, tcheque, american, polish school grips. I even, you can imagine invented mine, a mix between all, in order to have the density I like. Of couse, speaking about sound is the main purpuse for me, and I am convinced that the differences between the bass sounds are not coming so much from the bows, but rather frome the basses and their regulations. The orchestras sound different in Germany than in France because the basses are different, not so much the bow. I can get the same sound with any bow on a bass. The sound is in our internal ears. The tastes and tradition of sound are different. This is why I like double bass, a very interesting instrument. Now, I over-passed 30 years in my orchestra, and yes, I use both bows during my long evenings in Opera. The under hand grip is taking care better of my shoulder than the over hand, but the over hand takes care of my elbow better than the Under hand grip. You see that the one is complementary to the other, considering the matter of health. For my recitals, I keep my native bow, as like a cello recital. My conclusion is so that we need both bows for question of health in our long professional orchestral life, and because it is so interesting….
7. You perform a lot of transcriptions. What is the reason of this decision? And what new challenges did it bring for you?
TB : We fall in love with a nice piece that is well known from the violin or cello repertoire: let's play it ! the public needs to listen confortably some knowed pieces in a recital program, and some discovers. We have a huge original repertoire for our instrument. Hard contemporary music bassists, who dislike romantique and classic music, generaly say that repertoire does not exist, but this is not true. What is true is that our numerous composers are generaly not so well known for a normal public. But we would need a life to play all our original music…
Playing a cello , viola, violin piece is challenging. We have to find new fingerings, new combinations. But the fondamental reason is that I am a singer in my nature. In any instrument community we find the two kinds of natures : rather rythmique or rather melodique. If all double bassists where only from the rythmique side in the classic music, our life accompagniement fonction would be less sensible. Let some of us sing if they want, and let the others playing rythmic music. But in Jazz also, we find melodic bassists…. ( Scott Lafaro where one of the first for instance…)
8. You are a member of jury of many competitions. What are your impressions about this work and how much did it influence your own playing?
TB : I regret that being a jury member cut a normal human contact to share with the candidates. I am happy when I can speak to them after the competition. But it is too much rare. We must also be carefull to suceptibility. The competition is for me a great observation moment of our various parameters, technique, basses, bows, bodies, hands, arm proportions, attitudes, postures… I always note about the instruments, strings, sometime I draw the player with his ( her) bass position. I appreciate the good candidates, and I engage my personal taste only for the final round. This expérience does not influence too much anymore my own playing, but gives me expérience to affinate the bass techniques according to the different kinds of bodies-players. My pedagogic passion is to observe the relations between the physical caracteristics of people's body and the double bass.
9. You've gained experience as a professor of Paris Conservatory, and giving a lot of masterclasses. How much it is important for you to get a contact with younger bassists, and does it influence your own development?
TB : Of course, I learn always much with students, ( same reasons that said and here the contact is great, with a real exchange, which can include also by transitivity exchange with their teachers. I really appreciate. I like also the process of « explaining » to people and to get results, even if it is later. I don't like to be superficial in master classes, I try to speak on every parameters that the student needs to improve. It can be like a doctor. We fix the goals for making music, I mean phrases, dynamics, ambiance, sound quality and this lead us on technique and body parameters considerations. In my classes in the CNSMDP and the CRR St-Maur ( east suburb close to Paris), this is of course not diagnostic, but a longer building process, assited by me, plus the work of the huge repertoire. The more people we meet, the more reachest we become…. And the more reachness we can give… this is life…
10. What are your plans for the nearest future?
TB : The nearest future which will give a lot of fun for me is to play Dvorak concerto with an amator orchestra with a High C in solo tuning. ( means High D). I want to explore more this tuning, that I already tryed with the Dubugnon Mikroncerto, and that we need for the Poradowski concerto if with orchestra.
TB : In conclusion, thank you Donat for your intelligent 10 questions, I am sure that you knowed already the answers, and that you share my opinions….
Thierry Barbé, 17-sept 2013
One of the most influential composers of the late 20th century, Hans Werner Henze was noted for his many operas, symphonies and ballets and for a commitment to political art which informs much of his work.
Born on 1 July 1926 in Guetersloh, Germany, the son of a schoolteacher, Hans Werner Henze was initially educated at schools with a socialist outlook. But, following the Nazi Party's ascent to power in 1933, he lived a dual life.
While dutifully studying the official curriculum at school, he played chamber music at a partly Jewish family house and there steeped himself in proscribed literature, including Mann, Wedekind and Brecht.
He developed his greatest love, music, through listening to Bach and Mozart and playing the cello.
In 1942, Henze entered the Brunswick State Music School, where he studied piano, percussion and musical theory.
Even so, the modern repertoire hardly ever intruded into a wartime milieu dominated by German Romanticism.
Henze's father was killed on the Eastern Front and Hans was conscripted into the army in 1944, ending the war in a British prisoner-of-war camp. His experiences left Henze with a lifelong hatred of fascism which informed much of his work.
As he later told the BBC: « Everything that the fascists persecute and hate is beautiful to me. »
It was only after the war, studying in Heidelberg, that Henze first heard composers like Bartok, Berg and, most importantly, Stravinsky. He also composed his first work, the 1946 baroque-style Kammerkonzert, which won him a publishing contract.
The following year came the first of Henze's 10 symphonies, a neo-classical work featuring a viola solo.
Commissions soon mounted, most notably for stage music. Henze composed ballets – including Jack Pudding and Georges Dandin – and operatic works, like Boulevard Solitude.
In 1953, seemingly overloaded with work, and jaded with intolerant attitudes towards his homosexuality, Henze moved from Germany to the Italian island of Ischia in the Bay of Naples. That year he completed Ode an den Westwind, a cello concerto based on Shelley's iconic series of sonnets.
Increasingly political
He enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with the Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann, most notably with Prinz von Homburg (1958), an adaptation of Heinrich von Kleist's powerful psychological play.
Henze also enjoyed great success with the opera Elegy for Young Lovers, penned by WH Auden and Chester Kallmann.
In April 1964, Henze received the accolade of having all of his first five symphonies performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, together with the premiere of his opera Being Beauteous.
From the mid-1960s onwards, Henze's work took on an explicitly political tone. The oratorio, Judische Chronik, was followed by a fugue, In memoriam: Die Weisse Rose (the White Rose), dedicated to the young anti-Nazi martyrs Hans and Sophie Scholl.
After students hung a red flag from the conductor's podium, both the orchestra and choir refused to perform. The ensuing riot, while perfectly in tune with the spirit of the times, did nothing to enhance Henze's reputation.
Shrugging off criticism that he was an armchair revolutionary, Henze premiered his Sixth Symphony in Havana, Cuba. In 1973, his avowedly political Voices features 22 revolutionary poems and drew comparisons with Kurt Weill.
In recent years, Henze's works took on a more reflective mood. His Requiem (1990-92) was a moving, wordless, meditation of life, death and war. Classical themes also came to the fore, for instance in the theatrical Venus and Adonis (1993-5).
Hans Werner Henze mixed neo-Classical themes with a decidedly modernist approach. But underlying all his many works – symphonies, operas, concertos, oratorios and ballets – was a refreshing subversiveness born of his hatred of Nazism.
In this way, Henze was as important as a chronicler of the darkness of the 20th century as he was as a musician.
Yesterday, I received a nice letter after a recent master class… I am very happy because it describes an aspect of my pedagogy. Sorry for publishing it…
« Dear Thierry,
I want to thank you once again for taking the time to come for the
masterclass. I have since talked to all students and the everyone was
overwhelmingly enthusiastic.
I, personally, was very impressed by the thoroughness and analytical manner in which you approached the technical aspects of the instrument.
Definitely food for thought for the students.
Aside from the lessons, I very much enjoyed your recital. You have a lovely, warm, round sound. That, combined with the beautiful lyrical approach to the instrument is a joy experience.
One thing in particular that you mentioned is something I will keep with me. You told the students to practice something for ten minutes every day and then go on. That is not new, but the notion that your body and mind will eventually gravitate to what is right and good is a nice way of putting it. Students tend to want to force things to happen, but trusting that your mind, body and musicality will learn towards it naturally is a good piece of wisdom.
Thank you for pointing that out. »
Today, I was asked this question:
Hi Monsieur Barbé!
I'm a 20 year old doublebass student in …. and hope to someday study in Paris. I've looked at many bass players bow technique (…) but since adopting your technique it has really done wonders for my playing. Since I'm on the subject you spoke of putting finger 2&3 under the frog. However do you still « pull » the bow with the first finger (down bow) and forth finger(up bow).
Thank you so much for replying and giving me free advice!
All the best and hope to see more videos soon!
This is my answer
Very honored, …, thanks and I am happy to count for you, near all those fabulous french bow players who are all my great friends.
For your question: I see what you mean. Well, I don't feel exactly that way for explanations.
I think the explanations where clear, the result was:
Hello again Monsieur Barbé!
I apologize for not writing this mail earlier. But it so happens that I have been on tour with my orchestra, and have had a great many opportunity's to try out my new bow technique!
I just wanted to say thank you for your elaborate answer it really helped a lot! And I hope that I can ask some more questions regarding bass playing in the future. There are probably more people with the same type of questions on their mind as me.
Merci beaucoup!
My good friend Catalin is an amazing musician. He belongs to the « singing double bass » familly, as I think I do. His Kreisler transcription is not easy and he performs it with a nice sound like the violin. This type of transcription played on a modern double bass, easy regulation, solo tuning, bright and warm sound, brings to the musical community the sound of a « cello-alto » as the viola does for the violin. I like it!


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The adjustable prop, which preceded the constant speed prop was a bit more like a car transmission. There were ground adjustable props in which the pitch could be changed, say to a fine pitch for a short takeoff, or a coarse pitch for range and top speed. The spitfire originally had a two speed prop, selectable from the cockpit.
The constant speed prop automatically changes pitch to put a load on the engine such as to maintain a constant RPM which is selected. High RPM's are selected for takeoff and max speed, lower RPM's for economical cruise etc. The engines create a lot of wear and internal friction at high RPM, so are much more efficent at lower crusing RPM's.
The idea is to not create too much pressure in the cylinders, a bit like stepping on the gas and trying to start the car off in top gear. So to increase power, prop RPM up first, then MP. Lowering power, MP down first then RPM.
Cheers: Tom
No Cliff, actually, some of us converse quite a lot "behind the scenes" at here at SOH. Some of the newer members to the forum have taken it in a direction I do not care for in regards to language and tone. But not being a Moderator, I am not going to get shot down just to give my opinion. Maybe I should, but I have tried to make suggestions in the past about postings and rec'd no backup from the site Admin or Mod, so I''ll keep my mouth shut. My system is what is it is. I can not afford any upgrades at this time, so I just keep tinkering with the CFS3 settings and Nvidia control panel settings, hoping I find the 'sweet spot'. My XFX Alpha Dog 8800 GTS 512 card is oc'd by 12%, and that helps...some. If I go to 15% oc, the system crashes (failed the Nvidia on-board test). I have even spread my page file over two HD's, trying to balance any VM load. I have 3 gig DDR Ram, so I am about maxed out for WinXP 32 bit. Maybe after next year when my daughter go off to college, I can afford a better all around system (yeah, right!!) My USAF pension only goes so far, and I can hardly bring myself to sub-teach any more....They will not allow us to control the students at all---I can not even make the *******s stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, let alone be quite for it. I deciede it was not worth $10/hr for the grief.
Anyhow, nice to chat. IF you have any ideas for to optimize my system, feel free to advise.
I have to say it's very nice to have a talk that's not biased - thanks for the objective view. I think OFF is fantastic, always have - since I eagerly awaited the very first posting of P1. But all that - well, I dunno - it seems to change once you start asking the full price of a stand-alone game. What puzzles me is why they don't seem to understand that it's not helping their business case to handle the graphics issues as they seem to be. Mind you, *I* don't have all the answers - but what I've seen doesn't seem to cut it.
Re: the white triangles...yeah, had some of that too. It's pretty much history, though, having gone from 2 8800GS's (384M RAM) to the 9800's I have now (1G RAM). Goes to show they *were* right about one thing: Limited memory seems to cause/worsen the white triangles. At the same time, though, these are pretty serious video cards; I'd expect top-notch from them ('specially at nearly $200 each *ouch*) - and I get it, everywhere but in OFF. Anyway, I can *still* get the triangles if I'm jacking around with settings and, say, set the sliders too high (currently, 5-3-3-4-1, I think, and pretty fluid). But still the occasional stutter...*gawd* I hate it
Worse part is that a person can be made to feel pretty alienated here, if they don't agree with a certain few about OFF, or even about PCs in general. No matter how many times I assure people it's not me or the rig, it just keeps coming back to that. I post benchmark scores, strictly as comparative data - I get, "Benchmarks don't really mean anything". I mention I use SLI - "SLI isn't right for this" (like I'm actually going to *not* use it for one game when it works so well for everything else!). Its funny you mention moving your POV too fast with TrackIR causing the triangles...I actually remember *several* here who (seriously) suggested "Don't turn your head so fast...". Honestly, all these supposedly WWI afficianados, and none remembers why those guys wore *silk* scarves? Don't turn your head so fast - in a combat flight sim? You're kidding...right?
Finally, as for settings/specs, believe me, when you (or anyone) posts specs, etc. it *is* noticed and definitely noted. I do comparisons all the time; system specs, settings, a vs. b vs. c, etc. It helps. (I run tech support for sites across US/Canada, so I'm pretty fair with comparison diagnostics).
Well, I've gone on, huh? Sorry - but it's nice to talk. I've not used these visitor messages at all until now, so if I'm breaching protocol, I apologize. I'd gladly trade emails if it's more appropriate. Who knows? More people talk objectively, maybe it will result in a fix for (what I consider) the only show-stopper in OFF.
I understand your frustration with the tone of the froum. I have commented to several members that it is not the same atmosohere (no pun intended) as when I joined last Feb. I spent most of time on the CFS3 WWII forum, where the folks seemed to be less 'competitive', for lack of a better word. I have just about stopped postting in the open forum and pose all my ?'s to firstname.lastname@example.com directly. I get straight forward aswers with no BS, no snide remarks and no Anti-American sentiment. All that aside, as good as my middle-of the-road PC runs P2 and P3, I still get the "white triangles" artifact if I move my POV too fast with TrackerIR. But that is the only issue I have. I have posted my system settings and Nvida settings for all to see, but nobody seems to care---at least they do not respond to my posts. Any how, the offer still stands, and I will not let this forum get hijacked by a bunch of hammer-heads with too much testosterone...or ale in their guts and time on their hands. I don't know what the moderators are doing...they used to keep a close (r) eye on things here. I have noticed we are losing some of the 'regular' members we used to have and they are being replaced by a new breed. I am not shy about PM'ing the mod's to try and keep things in line. This our forum. Let's not forget that.
And what-do-you-know...WM just answered my question, precisely as I thought he would: He's not going to discuss it unless you've already paid. Charming. There's no reason P3 couldn't benefit from experiences of P2 users with regard to this graphics issue. I didn't ask if he were going to 'do any optimizations' for P2, did I?
Hello, and thanks for the reply and your offer to help. I'm not sure there's much to be done, if I can be honest. I've been around here a couple years now, studied/tried every tweak I've seen (and then some!) My machine runs other games superbly at or near max settings (CoD5/WaW, AoE3, CoH - all very graphics intensive). To be honest, there's a looooong story here, with plenty of frustrations. I don't mind sharing but you might regret asking *lol* Oh, and yes, I am using P2 (sorry, just thought it was an 'understood', given I'm not using P3 but still lamenting graphics in OFF). I think there's too much focus on FPS - *I* get very-good-to-great numbers. The point everyone seems to miss concerns 'stutter' and other little graphics misbehavior. CFS was notorious for this, I think OFF inherited it - and, for all their marvelous talents, I'm not sure there's anything the OFF dev team can do about it. But all anyone seems to want to discuss is "I get 50FPS". Great, but that split-second stutter absolutely *ruins* the immersion - and, in a combat flight sim...it can easily get you killed. It's just unacceptable, if I'm to pay $50 for it...you see?
- Best.
Doug, I got OFF 2 yesterday in the mail. I loaded it up last night and had a chance to get up in the air. It is great! Thanks again for sending me a copy. Take Care.
we have been looking into it
actually we have more fs members than cfs members
most of the fs members use netwings
cfs is a different story
we are considering it
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I have a friend that works for MLB and he told me that the Reds are definitely a dark horse for Lee, though not the favorite at the moment.
Take it for what it is worth.
I have a friend that works for MLB and he told me that the Reds are definitely a dark horse for Lee, though not the favorite at the moment.
Take it for what it is worth.
Aaron Harang, Travis Wood, Yonder Alonso, and Devin Mesarreco for Cliff Lee and Brandon League
"I could watch video of Griffey swinging all day. It's like baseball porn." - C. Trent Rosecrans
2008 Reds Record When I Attend: 9W - 5L
2009 Reds Record When I Attend: 1W - 2L
2010 Reds Record When I Attend: 1W - 0L
2011 Reds Record When I Attend: 0W - 1L
Too much. Mes and Wood shouldn't go for a rental in my opinion.
Just saw this on CBS Sportsline when I clicked on Lee's player profile:
FWIW...Cliff Lee, SP SEA
News: MLB Network analyst and former Mets general manager Jim Duquette said on Sirius XM satellite radio Thursday that Mariner pitcher Cliff Lee told people around the club that Tuesday's start may have been his last start with the team. Lee has been prominently featured in trade rumors, but there are no reports as to who he may wind up with if he does indeed get traded.
"Ill kind of have a foot on the back of my own butt. Thats just how I do things. -- Bryan Price, 10/22/2013
What a hell of a debut for Wood. If he really is "trade bait," M's had to be highly impressed.
From CBS Sports:
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/story/1...;pageContainerCincinnati knows it has a real chance to win the NL Central, and Lee could put the Reds over the top. And, don't underestimate the Reds' motivation: General manager Walt Jocketty was fired by St. Louis less than three years ago, and you bet the twin prospects of bringing the Reds back to prominence while toppling St. Louis to get there would become a highlight in Jocketty's personal scrapbook.
One thing to consider is...if the M's plan to trade Lee...I think they have to move within the next couple of days. The deeper into July Lee stays with the M's...the less he becomes worth to another team. Think about it...he'll probably make 6 starts this month. If they decide to trade him and wait until the deadline and the team trading for him loses those 6 starts...I would think that would really decrease his value to another team.
It sure does sound like it's going to be the Twins. They have a better trade piece at the most premium position. No way on earth do I give up Mez for him. Become way to valuable to this franchise this season. He could be in Cincy as soon as next summer. He might only be a month away from Louisville.
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I'd give up Mez for him. People keep forgetting the Reds would get two draft picks once Lee walked at the end of the year. There is a ton of value there. Two of the prospects that we trade away can basically be replaced.
Chances like this don't come along too often. Cliff Lee is as close to a sure thing as there is, and he has a great postseason track record. It's going to be a bidding war, so the Reds will certainly have to give up something of value, which is to be expected.
If someone said when the Reds drafted Mez in 2007, "This will be the guy that you will trade for one of the best 4 pitchers in baseball that will almost assure you that you will make the postseason", what would you have said?
I'm surprised that I have yet to see two words associated with Mesoraco on this board, so I'll go ahead and float them out there: SELL HIGH
I am not saying that any of this is necessarily a fluke. Mez could become a very good prospect and player at the major league level. In fact I was one of his bigger skeptics, but am starting to come around the kid, and would probably rank him as the second or third best prospect in the system at this point. But remember, he has had one very good half season among three years of mediocrity. Here are just a few players in the last few years who had very good pedigrees and sustained a career minor league OPS over .800 (read: better than Mez), including success in the high minors:
Jeff Clement
Jarrod Saltalamacchia
Taylor Teagarden
Max Ramirez
Look at how they have turned out. The Braves were smart and traded Salty at his peak for Mark Teixiera. Let's be more like the Braves for once. True they had McCann at the big league level, but we would have Hanigan, Grandal, and presumably two additional high draft picks as a result of Lee's departure.
Go BLUE!!!
I'm still intrigued by the possibility of trading Bailey as a PTBNL if he can show that he is healthy. The guy could clearly use a change of scenery if nothing else.
Go BLUE!!!
I'm sure they are viewing the Lee trade as a way to inject youth and talent into the org that is currently lacking. They have to hit a homer here (and not one with a shoulder problem).
Also, the 2011 draft is shaping up to be one of very nice depth...
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Larry Clinton, captain of the tall ship Peacemaker, remembers the long lines of people who waited to board his vessel at the 2013 Tall Ships Erie festival.
It was part of the first Great Lakes tour for Clinton and his crew aboard their three-masted, 150-foot-long, barquentine vessel.
"Our experience in Erie was great,'' Clinton said. "We've never been treated better in any port we've ever been in. The folks at (the U.S. Brig) Niagara rolled out the red carpet and we really enjoyed sailing with them last year.''
When Clinton scheduled the Peacemaker's summer sailing season, he wanted to make a return trip to Erie a priority.
Clinton guided the Peacemaker into Presque Isle Bay on Thursday morning and docked at Dobbins Landing, where it will offer public tours today through Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
"When our schedule allowed, I got in touch with the Dobbins Landing folks and the (Erie-Western Pennsylvania) Port Authority, and they were just tickled to have us come in and open up,'' Clinton said.
Tour prices are $6 for adults and $3 for children ages 7 to 12.
"We really wanted to stop in Erie,'' Clinton said. "Last year, Tall Ships Erie was a fantastic event. It was so well-attended, that people had to stand in line for two and a half to three hours to get on our ship. I know that kept a lot of people from being able to come on and enjoy it. There's not going to be thousands of people here this weekend, so folks can really take their time and look inside and outside the ship.''
Clinton has a crew of 15, but expects an additional 10 crew members to bolster ship staff this weekend. He said his crew will play music on the deck each day during the ship's Erie stay.
The Peacemaker was built with tropical hardwoods in 1989 in South America and purchased in 2000 by the Twelve Tribes, a religious group that has about 50 communities in North America and South America.
It was originally christened the Avany, but began sailing as the Peacemaker in 2007 after crews spent several years replacing all of the ship's mechanical and electrical systems, and rigging it as a barquentine. The ship's home port is Savannah, Ga.
"We spent the winter in Buffalo because we had such a nice time last year in the Great Lakes,'' Clinton said. "It was our first Great Lakes trip.''
Peacemaker began its summer sailing season in June. The vessel has sailed more than 3,000 miles this summer and has visited ports in Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario, Clinton said.
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Clinton said the Peacemaker plans to depart Erie either Monday night or Tuesday morning for a trip to Brockville, Ontario.
Looking from the ship's pilot house at Dobbins Landing, the U.S. Brig Niagara could be seen docked nearby in its berth behind the Erie Maritime Museum.
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My wife and I jointly own a buy-to-let property and we are both aged over 65.
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On my tax return can I put more rental income to my wife or do we have to declare it equally?
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Laura Howard of This is Money's Ask an Expert section, replies:
This is a valid question as organising your tax affairs efficiently can save a lot of unnecessary expense.
As you already know, the rent from your buy-to-let property is deemed as income and is therefore subject to income tax.
Every individual is given a personal allowance (tax-free amount),
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2013 Teams: Kane County Cougars, Midwest League, (A), Daytona Cubs, Florida State League (A+)
Northsiders Report 2014 Ranking—Not rated
How acquired—Drafted in the fifth round in 2009, #170 overall
Prior to Cubs
Darvill caught the attention of scouts as a member of the Canadian Junior National Team. He prepped at Brookswood Secondary School in Langley, British Columbia, and was a member of the Langley Blaze of the British Columbia Premier Baseball League when the Cubs selected him in the fifth-round and signed the infielder for a reported $144,200.
Cubs Career
Darvill began his pro career in the Arizona Rookie League, playing in 34 games after he signed (.223/.295/.231). Darvill got off to a hot start in Mesa in 2010 and earned a promotion to Boise but struggled in his first trip to the NWL. Darvill returned to Boise, was the team's starting shortstop, and had a solid season batting .256/.346/.318 with 29 runs and 7 SB in 66 games. Darvill completed his first full season at the age of 20, playing in 116 games with a slash line of .224/.285/.306 for Peoria in the Midwest League in 2012.
2013 Season
Darvill opened 2013 in Kane County playing 15 games at four different positions: 3B-2B-SS-LF. He hit .347/.429/.469 with two triples and six RBI, earning a promotion to Daytona on May 9. Darvill was a solid second baseman for the D-Cubs with a .983 fielding percentage, 135 assists, and 40 double plays in 55 games. The left-hander hit .253/.324/.365 with 3 HR, 34 RBI, 37 R, and 8 SB. In the playoffs, he hit .250 with 2 RBI in the FSL finals and .333 in the divisional series. Darvill finished up the year in the Arizona Fall League, added to the taxi squad after it was decided Javier Baez wouldn't play in the AFL. Darvill hit .171/.237/.286 in 11 games and belted a homer in his first game.
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The Cubs minor league staff thought enough of Darvill to send him to the AFL so its not out of the questions he begins the season as Tennessee's starting second baseman. An injury to Stephen Bruno allowed Darvill to get a starting role in the FSL and he took advantage, especially on defense. An organization can never have too many athletic middle infielders with a good baseball IQ, and Darvill continues to improve as he progresses through the system.
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Age 18, (1/24/1996)
Bats: Both
Throws: Right
Height: 6-foot
Weight: 170
2013 Team: Dominican Cubs, Dominican Summer League (SS)
Northsiders Report 2014 Ranking —Not rated
How acquired—Signed as a free agent July 2, 2012
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Delarosa came to the states for spring training and EST, and was sent back for the DSL season, making his pro debut at shortstop on June 1 in the season opener. The 17-year-old played in 11 games in June and didn't see any action the rest of the season. He really struggled at the plate striking out 20 times in 45 plate appearances. He was 3-39 with three RBI, two walks, and two stolen bases. Delarosa did participate at fall instruct in Mesa in October, seeing action in four games.
2014 Outlook
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Four people were transported to area hospitals Wednesday after this two-vehicle collision on La. 365 near Branch.
According to State Police Troop I, the two vehicles were traveling east on La. 365 behind each other when one slowed to make a turn into a private drive. The white Chevy (making the turn) was then rammed in the rear by the silver Ford. The Ford then entered the westbound lane, overturned and entered a ditch on the north side of the roadway.
The driver of the Ford, Michael C. Vidrine, 28, of Eunice, was ejected and transported to Our Lady of Lourdes by Air Med with critical injuries. The three occupants of the Chevy were juveniles ages 16, 15 and 12. They were taken to Crowley American Legion Hospital with minor injuries.


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Mequon native John Ridley, who received an Oscar nomination for his "12 Years A Slave" screenplay, said real credit belongs to the slave the film is based on, and to the director and actors who brought the tale alive. Oscar nominations were announced Thursday.
The wrenching film, based on the memoir of Solomon Northup - a free black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War South - "is about a father and husband wanting to get back to his family and a very remarkable American who never gave up," Ridley said in a interview Thursday after the nominations were announced. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
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Hemsky is a classy player if healthy! Age, injurys and cap hit is his worst enemy.
3rd line minutes doesnt mean less toi, if they run 3 scoring lines!
Omark Gordon Hemsky
would be a great offensive threat (with Gordon as the safety belt), especially against easier competition.
So i hope Omark shows up at camp so they can rolling 3 scoring lines some games, and go with Smyth Gordon Hemsky other tougher games.
I dont think smitty has gas enough for a full season and build up some value on Omark isnt wrong either, could maybe fetch a 2 round pick at deadline if showing progress.
Or a Hemsky trade at deadline, ifnt the intention to resign him as a Ufa is there.(2x3.5).
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Yes we may be able to help you but without knowing what the code is, the err.number and err.description,... well presently we are clueless as how to help you....
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I want to upload the whole thing... Gimme a sec...
Here's the file... But apparently this site doesn't allow WinRAR files so it's shared on Google Documents... --> https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B52wIfN_dSxoN2RiOTM1Y2UtZGRkNy00YzFkLWFmZWQtODY4ZmVhOWY3YTRk&hl=en
First of all, you are using a datacontrol to handle all your data requirements. I personally would have used ADO etc, where you can specify
Currently you have your database in your F: drive. Make sure that when you are running your app, the database is in the same drive on the host pc, otherwise you will get errors of not finding/connecting to the database.
Secondly, when adding new data, i.e. a new user, you have the following code -
!Address = Int(txtAddress.Text)
. This will raise an error if a user enter text and not an integer or numbers, as is what happened to me. Build error traps into your application... You will use something like -
If Not IsNumeric(txtAddress.Text) Then
SendKeys "{BackSpace}"
End If
'Use this in the txtAddress_Change sub
Thirdly, when you view your clients from your datagrid and you select to add a new client, AFTER saving the record, refresh your datagrid so that the new client can be viewed -
'You should refrain from using dat as a prelude to a datagrid name. Rather call it grdClients. datClients would normally refer to a datacontrol.
Fourthly, we do not use Gloabal anymore. Use Public instead. You are also refrencing a textbox in your module -
If (txtMovieID.Text = "") Or (txtMovie_Name.Text = "") Or (txtGenre.Text = "") Or (txtType.Text = "") Or (txtMovie_Year.Text = "") Or (txtCopies.Text = "") Or (txtRating.Text = "") Then
flag = 1
flag = 0
End If
, but nowhere on which form it is placed. Again, personally, I would rather use the variables on a form level, and not in a module. Else try to add the following -
If (frmClientRecords.txtMovieID.Text = "") Or (frmClientRecords.txtMovie_Name.Text = "") Or (frmClientRecords.txtGenre.Text = "") Or (frmClientRecords.txtType.Text = "") Or (frmClientRecords.txtMovie_Year.Text = "") Or (frmClientRecords.txtCopies.Text = "") Or (frmClientRecords.txtRating.Text = "") Then
flag = 1
flag = 0
End If
This is how far I got testing your app. First try and correct these problems before we continue. REMEMBER, add error trapping to your application. Do not wait for it to generate the error first and crash. Run your app constantly to test all the code you have added.
Good luck. If you find more errors, let us know where the error occurred, and we can help you so much quicker.:)
Thanks alot, lemme debug then ill get back to you... Though btw i'm using ADO, it's easier to access the database with it...
Cool man. Please close this thread if you are done with it. As far as ADODB etc is concerned, still the best, because you will always be able to connect to your database without having it in your path specified when coding. You will find this when you start installing on client machines or you start running servers etc.
I have attached a file that will help you a LOT, which will also show you how easy it really is.
Enjoy coding bud...
Cool man. Please close this thread if you are done with it. As far as ADODB etc is concerned, still the best, because you will always be able to connect to your database without having it in your path specified when coding. You will find this when you start installing on client machines or you start running servers etc.
I have attached a file that will help you a LOT, which will also show you how easy it really is.
Enjoy coding bud...
My apologies dude, this happens when you rush through other peoples code. I see that you have used ADO, sorry. I have however picked up errors on your datacontrols. Skip the attachment, you are doing well. I'll play around a bit more with yours and re-submit that again, cool?
Thanks for taking the time. In the mean time, lemme continue making the corrections you mentioned.
Hi All,
I am doing a project on a Video Library Management System for my final year Computer Science project and I've run into acouple of errors. Could anyone out there help me out...???? Please, I'm desperate...!
wow nice project .. video library please help me to my final project like that ..
i need help on system analysis &design with my project on hostels management system using vb
I'm glad you got it helpful. Please do not resurrect old threads. If you have any questions please ask. You are welcome to start your own threads.
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Cons: Cheap plastic stand, one clip broke when I was placing it on. But it hasn't affected it really. Other than that, it's a good monitor.READ FULL REVIEW
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LOS ANGELES — The space crunch for new stores in established shopping districts here is pushing new national and independent retailers to find the next cutting-edge retail neighborhood — and two appear to be emerging.
This story first appeared in the July 18, 2007 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
Seeking to replicate, or even improve on, the ambience of destination venues such as Robertson Boulevard and Melrose Place, many retailers are focusing on La Brea Avenue, between First and Fourth Streets, and Melrose Avenue, west of Orlando Avenue, where Melrose Place begins.
Vacancies on Los Angeles' high-profile shopping streets have dwindled to almost zero, and rents have doubled — and even tripled — in the last five years, topping out around $18 a square foot, real estate agents said. Factors contributing to the squeeze include Los Angeles' transition into a global fashion hub energized by the celebrity culture and a growing pool of local designers.
"People are searching high and low for something that has character and low rent, and that's hard to find," said Jack Kyser, senior vice president and chief economist for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. "When you walk down Robertson, you think, 'This is a pleasant place to be.' There aren't too many places in the city like that left."
Districts that begin as havens for independent boutiques — on Robertson Boulevard, Chanel, Coach, Intermix and others supplanted many smaller businesses — are almost always eventually co-opted by major companies. "The nationals move in and squeeze out the retailers who made the area what it was," Kyser said.
On Robertson Boulevard, those retailers included contemporary brand Chan Luu and upscale misses' label Harari, which recently accepted lease buyouts from Coach and Intermix, respectively, and have yet to relocate.
In the hunt for districts that combine hip neighbors, attractive retail space and affordable rents, easy access and ample parking, businesses with differing pedigrees — independent versus established — are zeroing in on sections of La Brea and Melrose Avenues.
The two areas, which are roughly a mile from each other, were far from commercially dormant before — both had restaurants and interior design stores for years — but in the last six months, they have seen an influx of high-end fashion retailers.
The three blocks of La Brea Avenue attracting new apparel boutiques make up a fraction of the street, which begins in Hollywood and ends in Inglewood. Retailers such as Von Dutch, specialty boutique Sugar and vintage depot Jet Rag have operated stores in the Hollywood section of La Brea Avenue for years, but the new retail strip begins five blocks south, embedded in the affluent Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Since March, three new contemporary and designer specialty boutiques — Publik Park, Studio R.C. and Presse — have joined upscale specialty stores American Rag Cie, Iconology and designer vintage boutique The Way We Wore. American Rag, the area's pioneering boutique, doubled its selling space last year with the addition of its jeans-focused World Denim Bar.
"That whole corridor is changing," said Nicole Deflorian, a retail real estate agent with The Piken Co. who has recently leased spaces on La Brea. "The street has always had a furniture vibe, but now it's becoming more fashion. People are being priced out of other areas. We definitely are having more fashion retailers contact us, and we're reaching out to people in the fashion world now."
The current hodgepodge of businesses, including European-style restaurants such as Campanile and Ca' Brea and new gourmet food store Algabar, evoke the eclectic mix on Robertson Boulevard circa 1997.
Rents on the strip are also in the same $4-a-square-foot range as they were on Robertson 10 years ago, Deflorian said. Parking at metered street spots and in spots behind storefronts is generally no-fuss.
Retailer Michelle Dalton Tyree, a former WWD market editor who launched contemporary specialty store Iconology in February 2006 on La Brea Avenue between Third and Fourth Streets (when the only other notable business was a car dealership), always believed other stores would follow. "The Hancock Park clientele alone is huge, and they've been very excited about having high-end options closer to home," she said.
Dalton Tyree added that the street "is eclectic in the best sense of the word — boutiques, home stores, fabulous restaurants." Iconology's clientele includes Eva Longoria-Parker and Felicity Huffman, who are able to shop the street without being trailed by paparazzi. Unlike Robertson, which has more of a walking, village-like feel, La Brea is one of the city's main thoroughfares, with a steady flow of cars speeding past, so foot traffic continues to be sparse.
Ex-New Yorker Lily Savitch opened her 1,200-square-foot namesake contemporary specialty store on La Brea Avenue in March, several blocks north of where the other fashion retailers have set up. "I really believe in this street and this neighborhood," she said. "I wanted something that had a NoLIta or an East Village feel….All the stores that are here are very different from one another. It's not like Robertson, where the boutiques carry all the same things."
Chanel Lee, another retailer new to the street, launched specialty store Studio R.C., which sells high-end Asian labels including Suecomma Bonnie and H.R., in June next to high-end designer store Presse. "I would drive down the street every day for years and see how it was developing," she said. "I had no hesitation in opening here."
As La Brea lures first-time retailers like Savitch and Lee, the west end of Melrose Avenue is enticing major names in fashion. The street is already famous for its shopping, but apparel companies typically have kept to the densely packed, well-traveled blocks east of Orlando Avenue.
Newfound interest among luxury apparel companies in the 13-block western section of Melrose could be credited to the rise of the adjacent designer shopping row, Melrose Place. That strip of Melrose Avenue "has really just become something," said Jay Luchs, a retail realtor for CB Richard Ellis. "Suddenly, there are [big-name] people wanting to be there."
Theory and Diabless have recently joined the pioneering Marc by Marc Jacobs store and Diane von Furstenberg on the two blocks of Melrose Avenue just west of Orlando Avenue. A BCBG flagship and a Helmut Lang boutique are slated to launch on the strip in August, near an APC store that opened last month.
"Melrose Avenue is a key up-and-coming retail location," said Lubov Azria, creative director of the BCBG Max Azria Group. "As an L.A.-based company, we feel it is necessary to have visibility in the hottest retail area in L.A."
Parking in the district can be tough, and is relegated to metered street spots. This prompted Theory and Helmut Lang, both owned by Link Theory Holdings Co. Ltd., to create a shared parking lot behind the two units. Azria said she was unconcerned with the dearth of parking.
West of La Cienega Boulevard, Melrose Avenue shrinks from a fast-moving thruway to a quaint, slow-moving local street, snaking through the city's interior design district. The slower pace, paired with landscaped sidewalks and the presence of two popular eateries, Le Pain Quotidien and Urth Caffe, have equaled a steady-but-concentrated flow of foot traffic in the center of the district.
Kitson, the retailer that helped build buzz about Robertson Boulevard, plans to open a 7,000-square-foot store on Melrose Avenue, across from the Pacific Design Center, in October. "I always try to go where there are popular restaurants because there's foot traffic there," said Kitson owner Fraser Ross. "The real reason I'm going to Melrose is to create a new [shopping] area….It's going to have a different vibe from Robertson, though — more upscale."
Longtime tenants on these western blocks include John Varvatos and artsy designer emporium Maxfield. Among the newer additions are Seaton, DDC Lab, vintage store Sielian's, specialty boutique Sienna and Costume National, which relocated from the more bustling eastern section of Melrose Avenue (now more of a sportswear hub) last year.
Along with Kitson, existing tenants soon will be rubbing elbows with two of fashion's most illustrious names, Balenciaga and Karl Lagerfeld. Both fashion houses have signed leases on the street and are expected to launch units later this year.
Luchs noted that the Tommy Hilfiger Corp., Karl Lagerfeld's parent company, originally looked into the space on Melrose Avenue for Ally Hilfiger's forthcoming People's Place specialty store, but "Tommy Hilfiger corporate saw it and they wanted it for Karl Lagerfeld," Luchs said.
Contemporary brand Seaton opened a store next to Costume National on one of the street's most western blocks. Foot traffic on the block is still sparse, said Seaton co-owner Mark Freeman, "but since we've been there, I can't tell you how many people are calling me and asking if there's any space opening."
He added, "I personally hope it doesn't become like Robertson. There's something sleepy and charming about the way it is now."


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totally agree; we get bombarded enough with the political crap. The comics should be a safe respite.
how do you know that wasn't his intent…to avoid violence in to comic and yet still give folks something to think about? It isn't "screwed up" in my opinion…which is as valid as yours.
I love all the pictures on this strip. I must confess, I do "borrow" some of them to share on Facebook. So many of the black cats today remind me of the multitude of black cats who have honored me with their presence in my home.
No wonder this is #1 in my queue. Graham, what a great tribute to your fans. I'm just a lurker, but I feel like I know each of you!
I rarely comment but I read the comments every day and absolutely love the pictures; I feel like I know each of you personally. Please keep posting the pics and forgive me if I occasionally "borrow" one or two to post on Facebook.
Neutered bulls are called steers, not geldings. geldings are horses, donkeys or mules
or know the difference between your and you're
So sorry about the loss of our friend Linda. She was so faithful in posting pictures for all of us to enjoy and started something I hope can be continued. I am not computer literate and rarely comment but read the comments faithfully.
In Moose County?
Yep, need a new PCP. And thank you for your service to America. Our servicemen and women are so often underappreciated.