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Mondelez International, the food company formerly known as Kraft, wants the world to drink more of its coffee and is launching a simultaneous push of its Carte Noire brand in three countries: Australian, the Netherlands and Spain.
But while the food giant is launching a full range of products in the Netherlands, such as beans and ground coffee, pods and Nespresso-compatible capsules, in Australia the company is only going for the instant market. Australian shoppers will only be able to buy the instant and freeze-dried ranges.
Spain is only getting the Nespresso-compatible capsules.
In part, it's because the brand, although well-known in Europe, is new to Australia and the company wants to keep the introduction simple. But it's also because instant is a big market. Australian per-capita coffee consumption jumped to 2.6 kg in 2009 from 1.2 kg 30 years earlier, but painful as it might be for the nation's urban cafe hipsters, instant coffee still dominates consumption in this country and is only declining slowly.
"People have a repertoire of coffees they're drinking," says Darren O'Brien, Mondelez International Australia's managing director. "They can tell you about what they drink in the morning, on their way to work, what they drink in the afternoon and when they're having a dinner party. On different occasions, they drink different types of coffee. We can help them to premiumise their coffee experience when they have an instant coffee, it's a big market."
Instant coffee in Australia is dominated by Nestle, the world's largest coffee producer and third-largest player Master Blenders, the company behind the Douwe Egberts and Moccona brands. Second-largest producer Mondelez, which took its new name in Australia on July 1, is aiming to have a 5 per cent share of the $1 billion coffee market within three to four years, O'Brien says.
"If we're talking three to four years' time and we aren't talking about a brand worth more than $50 million in the market, we won't have achieved our ambitions of scale," he said.
Mondelez will be pushing Carte Noire in a "multimillion-dollar" marketing campaign between now and Christmas, he said.
Hope for the cafe vultures
While estimates of the size of the instant coffee market vary – O'Brien says it is 60 per cent of all coffee consumed in Australia, but research firm IBISWorld puts the figure at 80 per cent – it is big. Coffee accounts for more than a fifth of Australia's total grocery value, IBISWorld says.
But for all the focus on instant, the nation's cafe vultures can take heart. With a nudge from entrepreneurs such as Phil Di Bella, they have been doing their bit as well, driving a 65 per cent increase over ten years that now means more than one billion cups of coffee are consumed in cafes, restaurants and other outlets each year, IBISWorld says.


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Friendly rivals take aim at state title
Madison — They play in different conferences. Their schools are separated by 37 miles, and their teams rarely meet.
But in the past year, Oak Creek's Kaylor Steger and Kettle Moraine's Dylan Patscot have become fast friends. Now the two buddies will spend five hours together Tuesday chasing high school golf's ultimate prize.
In the first round of the WIAA Division 1 state tournament Monday, Steger and Patscot brought majestic University Ridge to its knees.
Steger shot a 4-under-par 68 Monday and leads the individual tournament. Patscot fired a 3-under-par 69 and is tied for second place with Onalaska's Bennett Hutson.
"We've become really chummy over about the past year," Patscot said of himself and Steger. "It kind of started on social media and it's grown from there. It's going to be a lot of fun playing together."
Homestead, seeking its first team title since 2006, leads a congested field with a 308. Eau Claire Memorial is second at 310, while Waterford and Green Bay Notre Dame are tied for third at 313. Nine schools are within 13 shots of the lead.
"The big thing we talked about was you can't win the tournament on the first day, but you can definitely lose it," said Homestead junior Charlie Maleki, who is tied for fourth with a 72. "And we gave ourselves a chance."
Steger and Patscot did the same, putting together memorable rounds on a picturesque day made for scoring.
Steger birdied three of the five par-5s and made seven birdies overall. His putter was magnificent throughout the round, too, as he made a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 1 and 15-footers for birdie at No. 7 and 11.
"It's a great round, but I left about six shots out there," said Steger, who finished fifth at state last year. "The course was playing really easy and I threw a lot of shots away. I can't do that (Tuesday)."
Patscot's round was highlighted by an eagle-3 at No. 16, where he reached the green in two and drained a 35-foot putt. He also drilled an 18-foot birdie putt at No. 3 and a 30-footer for birdie at No. 7.
"It was a really good putting day," said Patscot, a Charleston Southern recruit. "The greens were quick but very true, and they rolled really well."
Homestead rolled to the top of the team standings thanks to a balanced effort. In addition to Maleki's 72, senior Zach Shahrokhi carded a 77, freshman Robbie Morway fired a 79 and senior Marty Kimmel shot an 80.
Waterford, which made its first trip to state last year, led for much of the day. But the Wolverines struggled down the stretch and settled for a third-place tie.
Still, it was an exciting day for the program. Senior Zach Nash led the way with a 76, while seniors Garrett Buri and Grant Beck both shot 77.
"Waterford golf has come so far the last four or five years, it's really unbelievable," Nash said. "We all tried to come out and go as low as we could, and we all played really solid."
Par 72; 6,477 yards
First Round
Team scores — 1, Homestead 308; 2, Eau Claire Memorial 310; 3, Notre Dame Academy and Waterford, 313; 5, Marquette 316; 6, Eau Claire North 318; 7, Neenah and Appleton East, 320; 9, Middleton 321; 10, Racine Case 326; 11, Brookfield Central and DeForest, 333; 13, Holmen 335; 14, Slinger 336; 15, Fort Atkinson; 16, Kenosha Tremper.
Individual scores — 68: Kaylor Steger, Oak Creek. 69: Bennett Hutson, Onalaska; Dylan Patscot, Kettle Moraine. 72: Ricky Kuiper, RC; Charlie Maleki, HOM; Patrick Sicula, Whitefish Bay; Eddie Wajda, BC.73: Eric Van Tubbergen, RC. 74: Brian Dankle, Burlington; Connor Grundman, NEE; Garret Loomis, River Falls; Matt Tolan, Eau Claire North. 75: Connor Konicke, MARQ; Erik Thulien, AE; Sawyer Weiss, ECM. 76: Jonah Buss, Kimberly; Ethan Diestler, ND; Josh Haunty, MID; Ryan Isaacson, EC; Phillip Johnson, Germantown; Andrew Knoll, New Berlin West; Cal Meyers, SLI; Zach Nash, WAT; Isaac Quella, NEE; Alexander Rendon, Greendale; Jack Ritchay, ND; Carson Torhorst, ORE. 77: Grant Beck, WAT; Garret Buri, WAT; Ben Johnson, ECM; Connor O'Neil, ND; Sasha Oosting, Manitowoc; Harrison Ott, MARQ; Zach Shahrokhi, HOM; Kyle Tanriverdi, ARR. 78: Tyler Bee, ECN; Phillip Boldt, AE; Sam Glennon, RC; Logan Handy, Oshkosh West; Trey Hewuse, Tomah; Brady Thomas, Mid; 79: Matt Unger, DF; Matt Tuman, Wausau East; Kyle Warkoczewski, Muskego. 80: Joe Benbow, Wisconsin Rapids Lincoln; Logan Comte, ECN; Marty Kimmel, HOM, Ian Statz, BD. 81: Austin Elsner, New London; David Keane, MARQ; Eric Olson, HOL. 82: Tyler Church, HOL; Alan Lemons, AE; Austin Moe, EC; Kyle Schneider, FA. 83: Sam Galloway, NEE; Evan Hussey, MARQ; Joey Levin, MID; James Maney, WAT; Connor Simon, DF. 84: Jack Burns, SLI; Pat Fisher, Hudson; Connor Frawley, Hol; Emmet Herb, MID; Brad Leitermann, MUK; Robert Petitjean, ND; Matt Puetz Wat; Charlie Stankiewicz, MID; Ben Wagner, ND. 85: Nate Gilbert, FA; Sam kuklinski, AE; Braden Mueller, Shawano Community. 86: Jared Bollinger, ECN; Matt Maus, BC; Ryan Wirthlin, HOM. 87: Matt Hodges, BC; Ben Miller, KT; Jack Mulvey, NEE; Mitch Strom, FA; Ben Wanke. 88: SLI; Tyler Cramer, ECN; Bentley Glass, FA; Aaron Rosauer, NEE; Drew Schroeder, HOL; Josh Trasser, BC. 89: Eric Jahnke, Watertown; Tanner Schmidt, SLI; Louis Williams, MARQ; Sean Yun, BC. 90: Adam Berthiaume, AE; BenGordon, KT. 91: Brad/Bill, Michael Koehler, KT; Robbie Ponty, ECM. 92: Nate Ciske, FA; Rueben Herschleb, DF; Tyler Ray, DF. 93: Nick Zielinski, KT. 94: Nick Perri, KT; Austin Walsh, SLI. 103: Kyler Esme, Racine Case. 106: Ben Emmons, RC; Nick Lager, HOL.
First Round
Team scores — 1, Edgewood 301; 2, Catholic Memorial 305; 3, Sheboygan Falls 316; 4, River Valley 319; 5, Marinette 324; 6, Osceola 326; 7, Ellsworth 350; 8, Roncalli 363.
Individual scores — 68: Chris Colla, Winnebago Lutheran. 72: Matt Bachmann, SF; Johnny Decker, ED. 73: Dylan Allen, CM; Gabby Curtis, Altoona; Chapin Orr. 74: Dan Cronick, OS; Jackson Eversol, McFarland; Tommy Mohs, ED. 76: Ben Gilles, ED; tyler King, CM. 77: Michael Immekus, CM; Drew Pipik, Edgerton; Logan Theisen, RON. 78: Jordan Duffy, Hayward; Haydn Ring, RV; Alex Wedige, RV. 79: Tyler Beeck, SF; Dillon Byrne, ED; Josh Smies, Oostburg; Joel Stanislawski, CM; Andy Swanson, MAR. 80: Michael McDonald, Hayward; Garrett Waloway, MAR. 81: Matt Andrews, SF; Conor Farrell, CM; Justin Fleury, East Troy; Anders Wermuth, RV. 82: Dakota Langlois, MAR; Bryce Stein, ELL; Graham Westley, RV. 83: Denin Bieberitz, MAR; Alex Brandt, Chilton; Mitch Hustad, OS; Andrew Yontz, ED. 84: Sam Marti, SF; Alex Wolfe, OS. 85: Sam Marks, Berlin; Derek Wedige, RV; Sam Wolfe, OS. 87: Craig Block, Wrightstown. 88: Sam Schneider, RON. 89: Chrystian Kulow, ELL; Mike Tingelhoff, ELL. 90: Austin Byl, OS; Emery Whalen, ELL. 91: Austin Madden, SF. 94: Ryan Richter, RON. 99: Kyle Kurrelmeyer, ELL; Mike Wagner, MAR. 104: Zach Angst, RON. 108: Jake Bohman, RON.
First Round
Teamscores — 1, Lancaster 317; 2, Osseo-Fairchild 325; 3, Racine Prarie 326; 4, Racine St. Catherines 330; 5, McDonell Central 339; 6, Eleva-Strum 357; 7, St. Thomas Aquinas 379; 8, Crandon 387.
Individualscores — 69: Thomas Longbella, MC. 72: Patrick Treichel, Saint Marys Springs. 74: Zach Hentrich, LAN. 77: Adam Gabbey, RSC; Andrew Gates, LAN; Matt Sieg, OF. 78: Connor Cain, RP; Joe Markgren, OF. 79 — Jordan Knutson, Grantsburg; Drew Zimmerman, Cuba City. 81: Michael O'Brien, RP; Taylor Ryman, Mineral Point; Brady Sarauer, Saint Marys Springs; Ben Sellers, Racine Prarie. 82: Matt Higley, ES. 83: Nathan Farrey, LAN; Josh Hentrich, LAN; Jake Hierlmeier, Glenwood City. 84: Casey Boyle, STA; Jack O'Brien, RSC; Dino Dominici, RSC; Peter Ottestad, OF. 85: Ryan Busey RSC; Austin Buss, Randolph; Michael Schmidt, STA; JEff Stemper, Catholic Central. 86: Jake Hulberg, ES; Isaac Mcllquham, OF; PJ Munro, RP. 87: Samuel Chapman, RP; Hunter Rudnick, Cadott. 88: Troy Dorlock, RSC; Tanner Dusick, MC. 90: Jarret Jordan, MC; Brady Weber, CRA. 91: Sam Belland, CRA; Nolan Wolberg, Ioila-Scandinavia. 92: Josh McllQuham, MC. 95: Nick Hunstad, OF. 96: Scott Bloom, ES; Alex Hulbert, Weyauwega-Fremont; Tony Thalackerr, MC. 97: Collin Higley, ES. 98: Thomas VanZile, CRA. 104: Andy Lang, STA. 106: Levi Carlson, STA. 108: Dakota Conley, CRA. 114: Taylor Wilson, STA. 116: Owen Hauth, LAN. 129: Austin Polar, CRA.
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Fiscal cliff deal leads to rising mortgage rates
Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages rose this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 3.31 percent, up from 3.24 percent at this same time last week.
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Dracula returns in new Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 screens, art
A bevy of new screenshots and concept art has been released from Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 showcasing Dracula himself. Players will have to guide him through an unknown world after he awakes in modern times without his powers. After making a deal with Death, Dracula sets out to defeat Satan and once again become mortal. The new material shows some of the environments, monsters, and platforming puzzles Dracula must best as he makes his way to the final battle with the prince of darkness.
Steam's Early Access version of Blackguards now available for OS X
Daedalic has launched their upcoming role-playing game Blackguards on Steam's Early Access for Mac. The first four chapters are now available for download, and new chapters will be added leading up to the game's official release on January 24. As part of the program, gamers who participate are able to submit feedback to the developers regarding the areas open for play, which will enable them to make any necessary last-minute tweaks before launch.


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Huge news, although it is just re-offenses within Northampton County:
Director of Corrections Arnie Matos did not exactly say that Northampton County needs no jail. But he did point out that, contrary to the trend elsewhere in Pa., the County's jail population is decreasing. It's dropped from 920 to 736, despite all the predictions from experts in three-piece suits. Matos also pointed out that recidivism (criminal behavior by an offender who has already been jailed once) has dropped from 69% to 36.5%.
Since 66 cents of every County tax dollar pays for the back end of crime, this has a dramatic impact on your tax bill.
Bernie O'Hare says Matos credits the Community Education Centers for the big drop.
I think the next County Executive should also apply to try out the new state pilot program for HOPE-style probation reform. How it works is that people who get probation are randomly drug-tested each week, and if the test comes back positive they get swift, certain mild sanctions for every instance of detected drug use – like a weekend in jail, rather than a long sentence. The idea is to get the criminal justice system to act like a halfway-decent parent, rather than ignoring most probation violations and then randomly lashing out with long sentences. This approach has produced huge drops in recidivism in Hawaii and early signs show that other areas are replicating the success.
As Bernie points out, this is the most important fiscal issue in the County, just because of how large a share of the budget goes to the criminal justice system. If John Callahan can get the recidivism rate down to 15-20% through probation reform, that'll have large positive implications for the County budget, and it'll also yield big economic gains for the cities, as perceptions of increased safety boost business investment and land values, and reduce the high cost of crime avoidance behavior. Politically, it would turn heads statewide for a progressive Democrat to post major results on an issue that Republicans unfortunately continue to own.


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I officially started working as an urban designer after graduating in 2010; however I had been working within the Boffa Miskell urban design team for some time.
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The Masters of Urban Design requires students to exhibit these skills through various design studios and a lecture-based curriculum. It provides you with a platform to experiment with different forms of project visualisation (2D and 3D) as well as different graphic communication styles and to determine what methods are effective. This is counter-balanced by the written component which forces you to refine your thinking and articulate your ideas so they can be comprehended by others.
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Where: The School of Architecture and Planning, City Campus, The University of Auckland.
Prerequisites: Professional qualification in architecture, planning or landscape architecture. Admission is by selection.
Course dates: Semester 1 of each academic year.
Cost: approx $7500 (domestic fee).
Course numbers: approx 20.
Starting salaries: Graduates may earn $40,000 a year, depending on the region, rising to $60,000 to $80,000 with three to five years' experience. Experienced urban designers can earn $100,000 plus (Source www.careers.govt.nz).
Course length: One year full time (part-time option of two to four years).
Employment outcomes: Professional urban designer, urban design consultant, or, with relevant qualifications, architect, planner or landscape architect specialising in urban design.
The graduate
Jonathan Wong, aged 26
Landscape Architect and Urban Designer with Boffa Miskell Limited
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[The language of the music of ancient Greece] is a uniquely simple language but one that can find endless possibilities of development. It easily accepts external influences - a new color, a new combination of intervals, a rhythmic pattern - and it has the capacity of continually renewing itself. Those composers who bought into the theory that this ever-evolving system was dead at the beginning of the 20th century were enthusiastic and passionate adolescents, almost all of whom later recanted and got back to writing music, having passed through their tantrum phase. Hindemith, Weill, Copland, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Bartok, Shostakovich - they all ended up in a very different place from their bang-on-a-can, yell-in-your-face entrance onto the international stage. We don't teach that version of history [today], mind you. We are meant to believe that classical music just got more and more complex and experimental — and continues to. But the only way to accept that idea is to eliminate the data, since this explanation of the 20th century describes a fraction of the music actually composed and listened to. If you were a physicist, and proposed a theory of the Universe that simply ignored 99% of perceivable information, you would be laughed out of the Academy.Yes indeed. Indeed you would. Read the whole article here.
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A stranger asks me to write an Aesthetic Statement. He demands my notion of the ideal poem, so he'll know the secret of my love of some poems and my distaste for others. I feel his pain. Perhaps he wants to prosecute me should I praise a poet who deviates from my Platonic ideal. An aesthetic statement is of little use to a critic unless he's a lover of manifestos, a maker of quarrels, or a host who treats his guests like Procrustes. Aesthetics is a rational profession for the philosopher, but for the working critic it's a mug's game. To write about your aesthetics is no better than revealing your secrets if you're a magician, or returning a mark's stolen wallet if you're a pickpocket.This is must-read stuff — for MSM professionals as well as for us mere blogger amateurs.
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How have we allowed this to come about? How has one of mankind's most glorious achievements [viz., opera] fallen into the hands of this freakish band of directors that seeks only to demean the form in its own narcissistic, solipsistic image? How have we come to be beholden to such as one of the most outré of this ill-begotten breed who can trenchantly assert that he is 'faithful to Mozart', a claim that carries as much validity as would Richard Dawkins declaring he is faithful to God? It is my firm conviction that no part of the operatic world, from administrators, to conductors, to singers, critics and audiences can escape censure.*The essay is well worth one's time reading in full. (Our thanks to Opera-L member Peter Bollard for the above Early Music World link.) * To which compare our,
And what sort of respect should be shown singers and musicians — the sine qua non (literally) of an opera performance — who were too cowardly to adamantly refuse to take part in such butcheries? That's right. None at all. They deserve to share the full weight of our censure along with the butchers initially and ultimately responsible for the butchery.
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As I have often said and sometimes written, the history of art extends from Anonymous to Untitled, from when only the work mattered to where only the name in the signature does. What reminds me of this is a reproduction in The New York Times (10/16/12) of an untitled painting by Franz Kline, which, at the forthcoming auction, "is expected to bring $20 million to $30 million" and make me sick to my stomach. I recall a time, long ago, when Kline yelled at me at a party, "You are full of shit!", and I replied, "Maybe, but at least I don't smear it on canvas and peddle it as art." Art today is the result of a tacit conspiracy among artists, art historians, art critics, art dealers, nabobs who don't know what to do with their money, and all the people who don't know anything about art. And why shouldn't it fetch that much when the article about the Kline painting notes that one by Clyfford Still, resonantly entitled "1949-A-No. 1" went for $61.7 million? Even Clyfford with a Y should raise a cautionary eyebrow.Read the full text here.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 28 October 2012 | Permalink
Chaos, as Wagner himself sometimes suggested, is likely to be the rule, rather than the exception, in our world (and in productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen that try to reflect or comment on that world) until another cruel divine order emerges to force things back into unity. Rings devoted to the evils and collapse of Eastern European communism are surely on the drafting boards already, now that Rings devoted to the evils and collapse of capitalism and fascism are becoming routine. Be grateful if you have the opportunity to see a contemporary Ring that is as compelling to look at as it is to listen to; thoughtfully (not narrowly or spitefully) of our time; on the whole generous to Wagner, rather than mean-minded and reductive; one that makes provocative sense, and still seems to grow out of the music, which is (fortunately) larger than all of these postmodern Konzepts put together.Read the full text here.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 13 October 2012 | Permalink
The artist who fired the imaginations of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Mann, Cather, Kandinsky, Isadora Duncan, and Eisenstein, among hundreds of others, cannot be summed up in a few adjectives. [...] Wagner must take some of the blame for the reductionist image that prevails in the public mind. It was his spiteful anti-Semitism that has caused so many people to draw a straight line from the "Ring of the Nibelung" to Hitler.Read the full text here.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 26 September 2012 | Permalink
Next month marks the centenary of the birth of the conductor, musician, visionary, jester, husband and father who bore witness to, and embodies, his time, the core of the 20th century, and whose genius — a word too liberally used nowadays — not only towered over the music-making of his lifetime but radically changed it in ways that are only now becoming clear. [...] [H]e made music of magic and quality, entwining power and clarity, that no other interpreter of his time — not even Karajan, Jansons, Ancerl, Böhm or Bernstein, in what is rightly considered music's golden age — could match. In the studio, Solti revolutionised the science and art of recorded music so as to democratise it at the highest — still unsurpassed — level of atmosphere and sound quality. And in concert, Solti is the only name one can speak in the same breath as those that dominated the generation that preceded him — astride both the second world war and the iron curtain — Evgeny Mravinsky in Leningrad and Wilhelm Furtwängler in Berlin. Solti was the true heir to their legacy on record, and their way of electrifying live performance through blending restless and rigorous perfectionism with explosive spontaneity.Read the full text here.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 09 September 2012 | Permalink
Few Baroque operas (and all by Handel) have clawed their way from oblivion to the margins of the standard repertoire, a source of chagrin to anyone who loves the period or simply hungers for broader musical experience. The Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera offered radically different solutions to this lacuna earlier this year. NYCO revived an unknown opera by Georg Philipp Telemann in a beautiful and expertly performed production at El Museo del Barrio. The Metropolitan Opera crafted an entirely new work from music by eight Baroque composers, set to a new libretto in English. The Met's venture was the riskier proposition, bound to trigger grumbling among Baroque aficionados who resented the missed opportunity to stage an historical work. But while the revival of existing operas such as Telemann's Orpheus at NYCO contributes more to our musical knowledge in the long run, the Met's Enchanted Island must also be counted a resounding (and insufficiently appreciated) success.Read the full text here.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 07 September 2012 | Permalink
Besides having cultivated taste, feeling and a talent for clear observation of all classical musics:Mr. Hunka remarks of the original list that "of contemporary critics, and judging only by what they publish under the guise of criticism, I can count the number of both online and print reviewers who meet [these] qualifications on the fingers of one hand." Word!, re, the above list.
1. The critic should know the greater part of historical and contemporary classical music as written and performed. Added to this, he must be conversant with general literature: novels, poetry, essays of wide scope.
2. He should know the history of classical music from its origins to the present.
3. He should have a long and broad concert- and opera-going experience — of native and foreign ensembles.
4. He should possess an interest in and a familiarity with the arts: painting, theater, architecture and the dance.
5. He should have worked in classical music organizations in some capacity (apart from criticism).
6. He should know the history of his country and world history: the social thinking of past and present.
7. He should have something like a philosophy, an attitude toward life.
8. He should write lucidly, and, if possible, gracefully.
9. He should respect his readers by upholding high standards and encourage his readers to cultivate the same.
10. He should be aware of his prejudices and blind spots.
11. He should err on the side of generosity rather than an opposite zeal.
12. He should seek to enlighten rather than carp or puff.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 18 June 2012 | Permalink
Too many directors arrive at the opera house these days knowing little or nothing about music. Most come from the spoken theater, focus only on the text and don't understand how to give the music its space [we would have said, "give the music its due"]. It may seem obvious to you and me, but a brilliant theater director does not automatically translate into a brilliant opera director. If I am a crack racecar driver, that doesn't qualify me to be an ace pilot as well. I sometimes feel that directors devise all these elaborate concepts because they don't trust the power of the music and are terrified of boring the audience. Opera is a truly magical art, but the magic originates primarily in the music that we singers [we would have added, "and the conductor and orchestra"] work so hard to communicate.Yes indeed. Peter Gelb, take note.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 20 April 2012 | Permalink
Peter Gelb has both raised expectations and invited criticism by calling Robert Lepage's $16 million production of Wagner's Ring cycle for the Metropolitan Opera revolutionary. He used the word again in a recent interview at his office, as he spoke of the "trials and tribulations" of executing Mr. Lepage's "superhuman," technically daunting concept in a repertory theater "against amazing odds." [...] Despite the technical problems and the stinging barbs the production has received from many critics, Mr. Gelb sees the Lepage Ring as emblematic of his mission to bring the latest theatrical thinking and technology to the Met. "Over all for me, on balance, I think it's a remarkable experience," he said. Yet even he is a little worried: "I reserve final assessment until I see how it all works out technically, when presented complete in the space of a week."To be fair to Mr. Gelb in the matter of his defenses of the Lepage Ring, he at present finds himself in a seriously difficult position: he has to defend his original decision on this staging against the reality of now having on his hands a clear white elephant — a multi-million-dollar white elephant; by far the most costly production in Met history. Back at the planning stages of the project, the Lepage staging must have looked like it would be THE perfect solution for the Met: a staging that used spectacular — yes, even "revolutionary" — new technology to present Wagner's Ring the way Wagner himself conceived it. In one fell swoop, Mr. Gelb must have thought, it would satisfy both "progressives" and "traditionalists" and the Met would be the beneficiary in terms of critical accolades and ticket sales. Unhappily, things didn't work out that way. Neither "progressives" nor "traditionalists" were satisfied, and the critical response from all quarters — both print and digital, professional and amateur — was largely anything but enthusiastic. The problem Mr. Gelb faced in the planning stage was that, because of the nature of the staging, it was difficult, if not entirely impossible, to make anything even approaching a trustworthy assessment of the staging until it was fully a fait accompli, and so, at the time, he had to rely almost exclusively on how the thing looked on paper, so to speak; a hugely risky gamble given the costs involved; a gamble that, as things turned out, Mr. Gelb lost — big time. But, as always in the arts, and particularly in the performing arts, no risks taken is a prescription for stagnation, and so perhaps we all — and that very much includes us — should cut Mr. Gelb just a modicum of slack when it concerns his desperate if impotent defenses of this failed staging. We all can afford to give him that much.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 05 April 2012 | Permalink
At the end, the manner of my "passing," as the pious so delicately refer to death, was as much a disappointment to the dewy-eyed acolytes of god-worship as it was to me, although for rather different reasons. For more than a year after I publicly announced in June 2010 that I would begin chemotherapy for esophageal cancer, the stupidest of the faithful either gloated on their subliterate Web sites that my illness was a sign of "God's revenge" for having blasphemed their Lord and Master, or prayed that I would abandon my contempt for their nonsensical beliefs by undergoing a deathbed conversion. The vulgarity of the idea that a vengeful deity would somehow stoop to inflicting a cancer on me still boggles the mind, especially in the face of the ready explanation supplied for my illness by my long, happy, and prodigious career as a smoker of cigarettes and drinker of spiritsRTWT here. Somewhere, Christopher must be smiling — on several counts.
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The Metropolitan Opera has just opened a searingly erotic Don Giovanni, yet the New York Times has dismissed the new production for its "timidity." Other members of the New York press corps are even more contemptuous. The New York Observer sneers that the "new Don Giovanni is worse than bad: it's nothing." And the New York Post calls the staging "dreck." What has inspired such critical contumely? The riveting production is a faithful rendering of the opera's music and libretto.RTWT here.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 30 October 2011 | Permalink
Beethoven was a great, great composer, whom I admire enormously. But for me, music history basically begins with Gregorian chant then goes to the end of 1750 with the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Then it goes on without me paying much attention until Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Bartok and so on. The entire classical and Romantic period is filled with geniuses that I don't listen to and from whom I've learned absolutely nothing.Why are we not surprised?
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Star Machine, 1966
Les Levine
Irish, Canadian, American, 1935
acrylic plastic and aluminum
213.4 x 243.8 x 304.8 cm
Purchased 1967
National Gallery of Canada (no. 15337)
© Les Levine / SODRAC (2017)
Shown for the first time in New York at the Fischbach Gallery in October 1966, this work was intended as a piece of art that "would be very close to not existing and yet exist." Les Levine was attempting to create an artwork that would involve the viewer in a kinetic experience of the space instead of relying solely on contemplation. With the title in mind, the viewer – as collaborator – is considered the "star," exploring the physical space within this "machine."
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Water is a fundamental right of all human beings because it significantly affects the quality of life and enables people, especially the poor, to live with dignity.
Global geo-politics has ensured acute disparities in water wealth, chronic insufficiencies and deteriorating environmental sustainability. Albeit their minimal contribution, the impact of these disparities and insufficiencies is significantly borne by the poor.
Water is a natural resource and has remained with people as common property. However, today, water in all its forms is less a resource and more a precious commodity coveted by all, and with ownership claims by many vested interests. This is evident when governments collude to fulfill private corporate interests and bypass the needs of the marginalized. The water-based ecosystem forming the base of human civilization is under threat with its growing scarcity. Monopolization and privatization of water distribution and unequal consumption has led to water becoming out of reach of the common people globally. The priorities of development further widen the disparities in favor of the affluent. The politics of water is apparent in the inequitable per capita distribution of water to urban and rural areas. The average amount of water required daily is 135 litres. Metropolises get 300-350 litres per day (LPD) whereas towns and villages may get only 100 and 30 litres LPD respectively. This is also evident when large reservoirs are used to supply water to cities whereas the surrounding villages face scarcity. This inequitable distribution of water results in misappropriation. The situation is further complicated by using fresh potable water for unsuitable purposes such as cleaning and gardening. This wasteful consumption of water denies the marginalized a just share of this natural resource.
A significant number of organizations and governments the world over are working on this challenge and developing sustainable intervention models. There are several community driven approaches where the attempt is to bring water within the reach of people and help establish their ownership and right on it.
The social work profession with the commitment to work with the marginalized and the underprivileged cannot be immune to the challenges posed by the scarcity of water. lt is inevitable that the profession joins the various efforts made the world over to tackle this problem head on. This international conference is an attempt by College of Social Work, Nirmala Niketan, Mumbai, lndia, to examine specific nuances of water scarcity and develop viable social work intervention strategies based on the experiences of successful intervention models.
1" Water - A Human Right: The reducing amount of water fit for drinking and other domestic uses erodes the nights and dignity of the affected persons, especially of vulnerable groups including women, children and indigenous people. Monopolization and privatization have become the bane of the above-mentioned groups. These two processes have reduced people's physical, economic and social access to water and are also raising the spectre of conflict between classes and even nations.
lndia, like many other countries, is witnessing the privatization of previously community-owned water resources. Both surface water and groundwater are being degraded by biological, toxic, organic and inorganic pollutants. Various technical and policy decisions also impact sanitation and hygiene. ln this context, it becomes important to understand the decision-making processes in sectors such as industry, agriculture, urbanization and sanitation. These sectors have far-reaching changes in the economic and social lives of people by influencing the distribution, management and consumption of water.
lt is important to envisage the role of the community and other stakeholders in the process of policy and decision making. Thus, the conference will examine global and regional intervention models as well as mechanisms for redressal and protection in order to facilitate adequate transfer of information to the affected.
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At my job we're looking for high gloss finish and we've tried a few different types.
Acrylic enamel, modified alkyd enamel, acrylic urethane, urethane enamel.
Imo best gloss came from acrylic urethane. Is there anything else we could try besides going with base/clear automotive finish?
Nope, you pretty much tapped the market out.
Imo the best gloss is with Acrylic Urethane, am I right?
The best would be to go with Base Coat/ Clear Coat. Cut and buff, then floss your teeth using a the mirror image of yourself in your cars paint.
Why would you not want to use Base Coat/ Clear Coat?
It's just machinery, but higher end machinery so we're using higher grade paint than just acrylic enamel we use on everything else.
In your case, acrylic urethane would give the highest gloss.
There's lots of industrial enamels out there, but none are
very glossy, at least not as much as automotive paint.
Just curious, what type primer are you using, epoxy?
Urethane clear is the way to go, but be advised there are varying levels of gloss in urethane clears.
If the acrylic urethane you are using has a compatible clear that uses the same hardener, you may be able to mix the last coat 50/50 for a glossier finish, if the paint mfr. allows for it.
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Assessing diagram quality: Making a difference to representation
Diezmann, Carmel M. (1999) Assessing diagram quality: Making a difference to representation. In 22nd Annual Conference of Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 1999, Adelaide.
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The effectiveness of a diagram in problem solving is dependent on its utility as a cognitive tool. In order to develop students' ability to use diagrams as cognitive tools, teachers need to assess the quality of students' diagrams and provide them with the necessary support. However assessing the quality of diagrams is problematic. This paper discusses how theoretical prototypes and exemplars of level of performance provide a practical and effective avenue for assessing the quality of students' diagrams.
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Just picked up my 642 today.
I'll get a range session in tomorrow and see how I do shooting a snubby.
This is a discussion on The Superduper Snubbie thread within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I guess this counts, old S&W mod 10-7...
Just picked up my 642 today.
I'll get a range session in tomorrow and see how I do shooting a snubby.
My pic's keep saying they are too big for the forum, but I find myself taking my wife's SW-637 in my pocked...more and more...certainly bigger than my backyard carry (NAA .22LR)
Stay armed...revolvers are good...stay safe!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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In God we trust, everyone else keep your hands where I can see them.
Rights are like muscles: If you don't excersise them they slowly disappear.
The chrome 442 is my carry, the SP101 is my shooter and the 36 no dash (circa 1969) is just for fondling...
I have always been a Smith and Wesson man. I wouldnt trade mine for anything. That being said a couple of months ago I bought a Tasurus 850UL for a light weight carry piece until I found what I really wanted to carry. I was impressed with the fit, trigger, and how it shot. I found I could hit with it no problem. Two months later I figure I have found my carry piece. Its the Taurus.
Taurus 605, .357 Magnum. The ammo is Magtech Guardian Gold (.357 mag) & DeSantis pocket holster.
If you own a handgun and your state law allows it, please carry.
Big Taurus fan here too. I REALLY love my 85 Ultralite and nemesis holster. Long live the snub!
Kel Tec P-32 .32
Grendel P-10 .380
Can anybody recommend a good speedloader pouch/carrier? Right now I'm carrying them in a pocket (where they roll around)
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I am grateful to blood donors because some years ago I needed many transfusions. After I regained my health I began donating so that I could help others and in fact on December 2 2009 I gave my 117th whole blood donation. In 1971 while my husband and I were living in Colorado I became pregnant. We were really excited about this but it was a nerve-wracking time as I had suffered numerous miscarriages. At the beginning everything seemed to be going well with this pregnancy but then still early on I started passing blood. Doctors diagnosed a placenta previa (where the placenta is lying low in the uterus next to or covering the cervix) and prescribed complete bed rest. All throughout my 5 months in the hospital I lost large amounts of blood requiring many transfusions to keep me and my baby alive. At one point I exhausted the hospital's supply of my blood type and a unit had to be rushed in from another blood bank. And once during my lengthy hospitalization I was so dangerously ill that a priest performed the last rites for me.
As my husband and I were so anxious to have a child I was willing to undergo all the medical treatment hospital stay and life-threatening blood loss in an attempt to save the baby. At 8-1/2 months doctors decided to perform a Cesarean section but sadly my baby daughter did not survive. And then I contracted an infection and had to remain hospitalized continuing to receive transfusions. After a couple of years when I had finally regained my health I knew I wanted to help others by giving blood. I started donating wherever we lived as we moved around through my husband's military career. I hope that my story will help inspire others to begin donating blood.


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With all but one of the House races now resolved, Republicans have picked up at least 63 seats, the most in a midterm election since 1938. So, it might be fun on this Thanksgiving Day to recall how, just 18 months ago, Time's Michael Grunwald was arguing in a big cover story that demography and its "extremely conservative" philosophy meant the Republican Party could be on the verge of extinction.
Back in May 2009, Newsbusters Brent Baker picked up on Grunwald's piece for the ridiculous way he painted the GOP as extremist:
They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base.
But re-reading the piece today, it's even more striking how Grunwald's "analysis" was based on liberal wishful thinking that small government conservative policies were like political arsenic, and how Republicans had to drop tax cuts and cultural conservatism if they ever hoped to come back from the wilderness.
In other words, move left. But the GOP instead moved right, and was rewarded by voters. Which is why conservatives should probably not take strategic advice from their ideological adversaries in the media.
Here's a lengthy excerpt; you can read the entire piece online here.
These days, Republicans have the desperate aura of an endangered species. They lost Congress, then the White House; more recently, they lost a slam-dunk House election in a conservative New York district, then Senator Arlen Specter. Polls suggest that only one-fourth of the electorate considers itself Republican, that independents are trending Democratic and that as few as five states have solid Republican pluralities. And the electorate is getting less white, less rural, less Christian — in short, less demographically Republican. GOP officials who completely controlled Washington three years ago are vowing to "regain our status as a national party" and creating woe-is-us groups to resuscitate their brand, while Democrats are publishing books like The Strange Death of Republican America and 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. John McCain's campaign manager recently described his party as basically extinct on the West Coast, nearly extinct in the Northeast and endangered in the Mountain West and Southwest.
So are the Republicans going extinct? And can the death march be stopped?...
The party's ideas — about economic issues, social issues and just about everything else — are not popular ideas. They are extremely conservative ideas tarred by association with the extremely unpopular George W. Bush, who helped downsize the party to its extremely conservative base. A hard-right agenda of slashing taxes for the investor class, protecting marriage from gays, blocking universal health insurance and extolling the glories of waterboarding produces terrific ratings for Rush Limbaugh, but it's not a majority agenda. The party's new, Hooverish focus on austerity on the brink of another depression does not seem to fit the national mood, and it's shamelessly hypocritical, given the party's recent history of massive deficit spending on pork, war and prescription drugs in good times, not to mention its continuing support for deficit-exploding tax cuts in bad times.
As the party has shrunk to its base, it has catered even more to its base's biases, insisting that the New Deal made the Depression worse, carbon emissions are fine for the environment and tax cuts actually boost revenues — even though the vast majority of historians, scientists and economists disagree. The RNC is about to vote on a kindergartenish resolution to change the name of its opponent to the Democrat Socialist Party. This plays well with hard-core culture warriors and tea-party activists convinced that a dictator-President is plotting to seize their guns, choose their doctors and put ACORN in charge of the Census, but it ultimately produces even more shrinkage, which gives the base even more influence — and the death spiral continues. "We're excluding the young, minorities, environmentalists, pro-choice — the list goes on," says Olympia Snowe of Maine, one of two moderate Republicans left in the Senate after Specter's switch. "Ideological purity is not the ticket to the promised land."
Hispanics, Asians and blacks are on track to be the majority in three decades; metropolitan voters and young voters who skew Democratic are also on the rise. This is why [GOP lobbyist Ed] Rogers recently decided to quit being a talking head: "I had a meeting with myself, and I said, Do we really need more white lobbyists with gray hair on TV?" But it's not clear that more diverse spokesmen or better tweets can woo a new generation to the GOP; support for gay rights is soaring, and polls show that voters prefer Democratic approaches to health care, education and the economy. "The outlook for Republicans is even worse than people think," says Ruy Teixeira, author of The Emerging Democratic Majority. "Their biggest problem is that they really believe what they believe."
So Republicans need to decide what Republicans need to believe. What does their three-legged stool of strong defense, traditional values and economic conservatism mean today? Does strong defense mean unqualified support for torture, outdated weapons systems and pre-emptive wars? Do traditional values mean no room in the tent for pro-choicers like Specter and Snowe? Even Joe the Plumber — who opposes abortion and homosexuality and considers America a "Christian nation" — wants the party to drop its "holier than thou" attitude on divisive social issues.
The most urgent question is the meaning of economic conservatism. Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, a conservative who keeps a bust of Reagan on his desk, surprised me by declaring that the Reagan era is over. "Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts," he said. "The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set." Snowe recalls that when she proposed fiscally conservative "triggers" to limit Bush's tax cuts in case of deficits, she was attacked by fellow Republicans. "I don't know when willy-nilly tax cuts became the essence of who we are," she says. "To the average American who's struggling, we're in some other stratosphere. We're the party of Big Business and Big Oil and the rich." In the Bush era, the party routinely sided with corporate lobbyists — promoting tax breaks, subsidies and earmarks for well-wired industries — against ordinary taxpayers as well as basic principles of fiscal restraint. South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint's Republican alternative to the stimulus included tax cuts skewed toward the wealthy; at this point, the GOP's reflexes are almost involuntary.
The problem for Republicans, as the RNC's Steele memorably put it in a TV appearance, is that there's "absolutely no reason, none, to trust our word or our actions." Republicans, after all, proclaimed that President Clinton's tax hikes would destroy the economy, that GOP rule would mean smaller government, that Bush's tax cuts would usher in a new era of prosperity; now the House minority leader says it's "comical" to think carbon dioxide could be harmful, and Steele says the earth is cooling.
Polls show that most Republicans who haven't jumped ship want the party to move even further right; it takes vision to imagine a presidential candidate with national appeal emerging from a GOP primary in 2012. DeMint, the South Carolina Senator, greeted Specter's departure with the astonishing observation that he'd rather have 30 Republican colleagues who believe in conservatism than 60 who don't. "I don't want us to have power until we have principles," DeMint told Time after firing up that tea-party crowd in Columbia. Voters certainly soured on unprincipled Republicans. But it's not clear they'd like principled Republicans better.


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Because you demanded it: a photo-realistic representation of what it's like inside the car we all own, the 1985 Toyota Soarer. Incredible!
[A great first date conversation starter is Lancia's amazing narrow-angle V4, shown here on a Fulvia Berlina. Just 12 degrees! And it was canted 45 degrees to the side! So cool! Photo Credit: Lancia]
Check Out The Amazing Insides Of A 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
It's a common occurrence: you get into your 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo to drive to work, passing several other 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlos as you go. You wonder to yourself — what exactly is under the skin of these fine automobiles?
"Fuck Yeah Cutaways" Could End Up Being The Internet's Greatest Time Waster
All of us love looking at cars, but have you ever stopped to wonder what's inside a car? What even makes them run, anyway? Is it a system of highly-trained squirrels who run on tiny treadmills that propel the car forwards and backwards?
This Is What The Inside Of A Formula One Car Looks Like
A few months back Sauber F1 showed off an F1 car cut in half. That project took two years, but they didn't have the rights to show off the BMW drivetrain. Now they do.
What Does An F1 Car Look Like Cut In Half?
It took the Sauber team two years to complete this, the first complete dissection of an F1 car. The results are absolutely fascinating.
The Audi R8 V10, Cut in Half
You've seen the Aston Martin DB9 sliced open. Two subtracted cylinders and a sprinkle of Vorsprung later, we give you Audi's R8 V10. Click through for two more pictures.
Yoshihiro Inomoto's Amazing Car Cutaways
Cutaways. We've always loved them, but never understood how they're made or what incredibly anal person created them. Here's the answer: Yoshihiro Inomoto, and he's been mastering these cartistic marvels for 40 years.
Iron Chef, Detroit Auto Show Edition: Battle of the Cutaway Displays
Use to be, carmakers would run an early prototype through the largest bandsaw they could find, file down the sharp edges and call it a cutaway. But like anything else, competition for consumers' eyes has forced display creators to be ever more clever, escalating the state of the art. I'm not afraid to say the trend…
LA Auto Show: Buick Lucerne Chop Job
While the sliced right down the middle Ford GT at SEMA a while back was certainly interesting, the braintrust at Buick evidently has super sawing ability. Buick sliced up this Lucerne into six parts and encased it in plexiglass to give potential buyers an inside look into all the swell features of this fine and…


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Thats not how this turbo system works. Its not a sequential set up. Equal sized turbos are attached to 3 cylinders each and provide their own boost to each side. BMW preferred to use smaller turbos with quicker spool on each "bank" to ensure low end torque. Regardless of how the turbos are set up final drive still means nothing in the power category.
You're right about the twin turbo setup. I was thinking of BMW's twin turbo diesel engine that has a sequencial turbo setup.
However, gearing does influence the drivability of a turbo engine car. Just as an example, off line in 1st gear, the car with the higher multiplying gear ratio is going to reach a lower RPM than the same car with a lower multiplying gear ratio at the same speed. Hence, as an example, at say 40mph, one car will be at 3000 RPM vs the other car will be at 4500 RPM. If your boost doesn't kick in until 4000RPM, then having the gear ratio that gets you in that RPM range quicker will make getting into the "boosted zone" easier. Typically, the car that gets into the boost zone quicker will be faster. At higher speeds, this becomes less significant as you can choose to use a lower gear to keep your revs up, and hence in boost. At lower speeds, you only have a few choices in gears and you can't go lower than 1st.
In any case, if this engine uses smaller turbos that kick in at lower RPM ranges, then a lot of this matter less.
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8 strips bacon
1 large cucumber, peeled and seeded
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped red onion
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
8 slices country wheat bread
2 cups fresh borage petals or microgreens or baby arugula
Total Time: 1 hr 30 min
Prep: 20 min
Inactive: 1 hr
Cook: 10 min
Yield: 16 tea sandwiches
Working in batches if necessary, cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crispy, about 10 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
While the bacon is cooking, grate the cucumber on the large holes of a box grater. Wrap the grated cucumber in cheesecloth and squeeze to remove as much liquid as possible.
Combine the cream cheese and mayonnaise in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix until smooth, about 1 minute. Add the cucumber and red onion and mix until combined, about 30 seconds. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
To assemble the sandwiches, divide the cream cheese mixture evenly between 4 slices of bread. Break the strips of bacon in half and top each sandwich with 4 halves. Sprinkle the borage petals over the top, then cover with the remaining four slices of bread and press down firmly. Cut away the crusts. Slice the sandwiches diagonally in half and then diagonally again, to make triangles. Serve.
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