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Is there a good DVD player that will set the resolution to what I tell
the DVD player to use? Right now I have the resolution set to 800x600
because that is the best reading but when I play a DVD I want the
player to switch over to 1360x768 or 1080i. Right now I need to
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In her attempt to fight her addiction to smoking, the actress has turned to electronic cigars that releases water vapor.
Katherine Heigl is sick of her smoking habit and has taken to electronic cigarettes in a desperate bid to quit once and for all. The former "Grey's Anatomy" star reveals she has been sucking steam for the past six months but fears if she stops she'll pick up cigarettes again.
She tells Parade magazine, "It's (electronic smoking) helping me not to actually smoke real cigarettes. You feel like you are smoking, and you get to exhale but it's just water vapor and not nicotine. I've been doing it for six months."
"Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you, do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'"

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text: I'd probably just invest in a couple of 2 gig HDs and rip them all. Who wants to keep physical media around? This pertains more to vinyl than any other form of media, but I know for many, there's something about having the tangible item there. You can make a connection to the drive to gain material possessions, but there's a more deeply rooted aspect behind this mindset. To an extent, I'm the same way with DVDs. I could easily put everything on some external hard drives and clear up a lot of space. But there's something to be said for picking up the physical item and, in many cases, going through any bonus reading material included. Of course, that's just one theory. I can't even say it applies to me across the board, since I have no real desire to do this with CDs, despite the sound quality selling point of the CD vs. an MP3 and the inclusion of liner notes.


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Google "Bloody Sunday 1972" and the Wikipedia entry will show you a camera shot no one who saw it on television that Jan. 30 will ever forget. It was of a Catholic priest in the Bogside area of Derry in Northern Ireland. It shows him crouching down and waving a bloodstained white handkerchief. Behind him come four men carrying a dying man out of the range of British soldiers who that day shot 26 innocent protestors, 14 of whom died.
The priest was Fr. Edward Daly, who later became bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. His book A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop has just been published by Four Courts Press.
What distinguishes his account is that he puts the blame for what are disparagingly called the "Troubles" -- more than 3,500 people were killed between 1968 and 1998 -- on the Irish Republican Army, the British and Northern Ireland authorities, and, in part, on the Catholic bishops themselves.
Himself a simple priest before his ordination to the episcopate, he found the great majority of his fellow bishops in both parts of Ireland to be theologians, canon lawyers, teachers and administrators, 75 percent of them drawn from these professions, which account for 20 percent of all priests. He was the first bishop of Derry in the 20th century not to have been president of Derry's diocesan college.
After 20 years of conflict, Daly censured his fellow bishops for not answering charges that the Irish church was backing the stronger side as it always had done in Ireland. Nor had the church issued a statement on the morality of the British presence in Ireland.
"I believe," he wrote, "that we must formulate and communicate a theology of struggle against oppression, a theology of nonviolent struggle, a theology of justice, a theology of tolerance and accommodation of different ideals and ideas specifically addressed to our situation."
He proposed meetings between the bishops and the different Northern parties, particularly Sinn Féin, and with the three Northern Protestant churches. He was a powerful and frequent critic of the IRA's violence. His most outspoken attack was in 1990 when the IRA strapped a Catholic man to a van, forced him to drive it to a British checkpoint and exploded the van by remote control, killing the driver and five British soldiers.
In his homily at the driver's funeral Mass, Daly called it "an act of unspeakable cruelty. These are the fruits of the Provisional IRA -- by their fruits you shall know them. ... They corrupt every thing and every person they touch."
On politics he has always been strongly in favor of Irish unity, yet he challenges the assumptions that Irishness equates with Catholicism, and vice versa, and doubts the accepted wisdom that 99 percent of Northern Catholics favor a united Ireland.
[Desmond Fisher is a former editor of The Catholic Herald, London, and a former head of current affairs at Radió Telefís Éireann.]
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German computer scientists working on a product that seems either doomed or useless to its theoretical customers have actually done more than create a bicycle brake controlled using a wireless network.
They have highlighted, quantified and laid out in clearly definable terms the false assumptions, poor decisions and sloppy systems design that makes building or using wireless applications chancy.
In building a wireless bike brake no one will buy, they've provided all the evidence you'll ever need on how to build wireless apps that work quickly and reliably no matter how thin the bandwidth, or intolerant the users or other applications are of any delay.
If you're a cyclist, or interested in cycling gear, read the press release here, because it may be the only time you ever see anything about wireless brakes again .
If you're interested in wireless application development or deployment, go straight to the research paper itself around (PDF). The wireless brake may be destined to fail, but the things its inventor learned about how to make machines talk efficiently over wireless networks is definitely worth knowing.
"Wireless brake" and "hit by a truck" sound the same to a cyclist
Despite the impression you may have gotten from Lance Armstrong's obsession with gear and all the new designs, fashions and colorful stuff packed into your local bike store, the cycling industry and cyclists themselves are not quick adopters of new technology.
Sure, bike companies manipulate carbon fiber with the best of them and obsolete their own products so customers can buy replacements nearly as quickly as computer-industry vendors do.
They don't change the basics much, though.
The basic double-diamond shape of the bicycle itself hasn't changed in more than a hundred years. Design and functions of the components evolve slowly. New generations often look identical to old generations, with a few percentage points of improvement in performance or reliability built in or a few grams of weight shaved off.
So word that a group of computer scientists at a German university have built a set of brakes controlled using a small motor for a braking mechanism and wireless signaling device to tell it when to brake and how hard, is unlikely to cause cyclists to line up to try it.
Even its inventor only wanted to teach his wireless brake to talk
Making a popular set of bike brakes wasn't really the point of the project, however.
The project was to find out how to make the wireless connections between two components of a system that has to operate in real time – with milliseconds of difference between success and failure – more reliable than systems normally are that are connected by a wire.
Bike brakes are small and cheap, compared to controls for a locomotive or chemical plant, for example. So they're easy to work on.
And the timing requirements make for a pretty demanding obstacle to overcome.
On a bicycle – which gives the rider no protection at all from obstacles and on which even the most expert riders frequently crash – a brake that responds precisely as you expect it to exactly when you need it is not an option. There is no time to wait for for a lag caused by static or conflicting radio signals or magnetic interference or the million other things that make your cell phone or laptop freeze up on a WLAN once in a while.
The need to slow suddenly from 30 MPH to zero provides so small a window of opportunity that the brake has only 250 milliseconds to engage from the time the wireless control is pressed, according to the functional analysis done by a team of German researchers trying to figure out how to build wireless controls that work quickly and respond accurately within tiny slivers of time that make up the normal operating requirements of real-time computer-driven control systems.
The Germans don't really care about bikes, let alone bike brakes. They care about stopping trains, cranes, airplanes, drawbridge motors, industrial machinery and every other bit of technical appliance or machine being designed with wireless controls to make them more convenient and up-to-date, according to a paper published by IEEE called A VerifiedWireless Safety Critical Hard Real-Time Design.
ProTip on adding reliability to wireless: Add a wire
"Wireless networks are never a fail-safe method" for controls of any kind because of the limitations and difficulties of broadcasting complex digital commands via radio, almost all new complex industrial systems are being designed with wireless controls, according to Holger Hermanns, chairman of the Dependable Systems and Software department at Saarland Univ.
Everything from pacemakers to chemical-plant controls are going wireless; freight and passenger locomotive systems that rely on wireless for brakes and other controls are being tested in Europe already, and will be in commercial use within half a decade, Hermann said.
Making wireless applications like that reliable is far more important than bulletproofing wireless brakes for a bicycle. The quick response time, inability to tolerate failure and even stark limits on size and energy make bikes an ideal test bed for experiments in making wireless controls more reliable, Hermann said.
If a bike brake fails during a test, someone's probably going to bounce off a tree or wall. Even if it's kept out of live-traffic situations, failing to stop a moving locomotive has much weightier consequences.
"The wireless bicycle brake gives us the necessary playground to optimize these methods for operation in much more complex systems ," according to Hermann who, with his research team, tested the brakes using quality assurance processes and algorithms normally used for aircraft or chemical factories.
The goal was to build the radio-frequency send/receive systems that were as reliable as possible, test configurations that should deliver the best performance, and examine the process and protocol involved in sending commands from brake lever to brake, to spot errors that might stretch out stopping times.
The end result was a system that responded quickly and accurately enough every time but three out of a trillion. That's a reliability rate of 99.999999999997 percent . It's also 13 nines , just so you don't have to count, significantly higher than the data-center quality test of "five nines," or 99.999 percent uptime.
Repetition is not the answer; repetition is not the answer; repetition is not the answer
While the result was good, the way Hermann and his team found to get there was exactly opposite the one they thought would work.
As you'd expect, they assumed with wireless, the main reason a wireless signal is the failure of signal to reach the receiver in time.
In this case that meant a radio signal sent from a hand-operated controller on the handlebars of a cruiser bike to a brake on the wheel.
Rather than rely on just one point from which commands could be broadcast, researchers put five senders on various points of the bike, each of which would send the same message several times. With all of them sending the same message over and over, all at once, the chances that the signal would not go through in time would have to be divided by the number of senders and the number of times each sent the message, right? Assume three repeats of each command and you cut the likelihood of failure by 15x?
Sender and receiver communicated using the gMAC networking protocol; sender and receiver communicated using TDMA – a call-and-response system in which each component gets to send just one data point before having to stop and wait for a response from the other.
Each round-trip data exchange made up one slot in a frame of TDMA requests; the length of the frame itself was determined by how long it took the completed message to arrive.
The command language allowed slots in a TDMA frame to be assigned to sender and receiver randomly, using a scheme called Dynamic Slot Allocation (DSA), or it could hand out a seating chart that would tell both sender and receiver which got to speak when and in what order each should sent the bits of an overall message. The scripted process was called Fixed Slot Allocation (FSA).
DSA is easier for programmers to use because it doesn't require them to decide every detail about which slot to fill when, is far more common in wireless systems than FSA
Experiments don't always turn out the way you expect; that's why you do them
The team started with a single sender and receiver, but realized they had a problem from the get-go. The quickest round-trip response they managed to get from the brake was 125 milliseconds – 25 milliseconds longer than they wanted to average.
The reason had nothing to do with the radios or interference. The receiver wasn't getting half the messages the sender put out.
That's where redundancy should come in. More broadcast points = fewer lost messages, and it worked, kind of.
The number of messages completely lost dropped by 25 percent – which put the message-loss in the still-unacceptable 37 percent range overall.
Actual response was worse, though. Response times were longer and failures more common because the messages that were getting through were too old – they repeated bits of message the receiver already had, or were part of commands that were already out of date. They were sending 'slow down,' when the delay had caused the message to become 'SSSTOOOOOOOOPPPP.' Not a good characteristic in a brake.
What's the problem
The slots allocated in a TDMA frame boil down to opportunities to talk. If the sender is allocated slots 1, 3, 5, and 7, then it says its piece during those slots of time, and the receiver answers during slots 2, 4 and 6.
Dynamically allocating those slots didn't result in an orderly conversation in which both sender and receiver waited its turn so they could both say what they needed to most quickly. No, they fought over who got to talk when, often both talking at the same time, with no one listening.
The result is a lot like the collision of packets in a local-area Ethernet network. If the port onto an external network is narrower than the number of packets trying to squeeze through, packets bump into each other and both have to wait their turn.
IT's simplest solution to that is to expand the bandwidth so there are fewer collisions.
What Hermann and his team found is that it's much better to avoid collisions in the first place.
While DSA let both sender and receiver shout without listening, FSA told each when to speak. The result was that, even with only one sender rather than five, commands nearly always got through with little or no delay.
Average response times dropped far below the 100 millisecond limit, and the percentage of dropped or failed messages fell from between 35 percent and 50 percent to...0.003 percent.
Once the messages are actually getting through, then you can test for the kinds of things you assumed were the problem in the first place – external sources of static that cause problems with the radio signal itself.
You might not need to, though.
The key to arrive at a safe [reliable] design is to drastically reduce the individual message loss probabilities," Hermann and his team concluded. "for the [wireless brake] system this is achieved – maybe not surprising – by avoiding randomness in slot assignment, using the fixed slot allocation scheme...this twist results in a design with very high reliability guarantees, far beyond the "five-nines" yardstick."
The dryly worded research paper doesn't drive the point home too sharply, but for developers and networking engineers, the message should be clear: redundant signals and overabundant bandwidth do not deliver rapid response times or eliminate lag on their own. Adding more bandwidth is an inefficient way to fix a bottleneck within an application, especially one that is very time sensitive.
The best way to make a wireless network an efficient and reliable medium for time-sensitive command-and-control signals is to make sure the messages being sent are as clearly defined as possible and that the developer or the application itself determines ahead of time seemingly trivial variables like whether client or server gets to talk first and when it's acceptable for them to just talk over each other.
I hate to tell you this if you work in IT, because you're almost certainly working on one set of wireless applications or another, whether that means supporting WLANs, building apps to run on handhelds and communicate via G3, or working on more complex system-programming jobs like teaching locks, RFID cards and building controls to talk using Near Field Communications, Bluetooth or some other short-distance wireless protocol.
Whichever it is, and whatever limits you face because you're using commercial software, not something whose root you can grab sufficiently to change the way it creates data frames or packets, the best way to make a networked application run fast and reliably is to pare down the options it has to communicate, give it the shortest most concrete commands and ways to communicate them, and don't bother with signal replicators until you know for sure the unacceptable lag times you're trying to troubleshoot aren't due to bits of the application contending for space to talk and not giving any other component a chance.
It's a critical difference that will become more important as wireless networks become the norm for corporate networks, rather than an add-on that's considered a benefit, but not a reliable resource.
Holger Hermann and his unmarketable wireless bike brake, circumlocutory, academic writing style and abstruse choice of topics may seem an odd source from which to get confirmation of what seems like a core principle of good wireless application design, but you take insight where you can get it.
This seems like a good one. Much better than the assumption that the world need another failed high-tech bicycle component, anyway.
Read more of Kevin Fogarty's CoreIT blog and follow the latest IT news at ITworld. Follow Kevin on Twitter at @KevinFogarty. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.


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Hello I am new here too but I may be able to give you some advice. A few years ago I owned a 1999 Vauxhall Omega Elite 2.5 auto. This car was built in Germany and was a lovely ride but from time to time I had exactly the same problem. Start the car, put it in D and move off. 'CLUNK'......orange gearwheel with exclamation mark on dash. The warning on the computer said 'Auto Gearbox in Safe Mode'. Clunky gear changes and it seemed like the auto clutch was slipping. The only way to get rid of the problem was stop, turn off engine and re-start but bugger me 200 yards down the road it went again. It progressively got worse until I was at the point of not wanting to drive it at all. Anyway, I got on the forums and found out it was simply the gear selector switch. I dont know about the auto Beemers but this car had little orange LED's next to the gear selector ie, R,1,2,3,D,N,P had lights next to them and would light up next to the selected gear. When the problem ocurred all the lights would come on regardless of what gear you were in. It turned out to be the selector switch which was a small black box on the side of the gearbox containing nothing but a circuit board. When the gear lever was in say D, a linkage to this box would simlply light the LED to indicate what gear your in.......pretty pointless but what this simple fault did was freak out the computer and tell the engine management there was a gearbox fault hence it went into 'safe mode'.
Worth a look buddy as Im sure BMW will use the same principle. It was a £50 fix for the Omega and it 100% cured it. Good luck mate let me know how it goes.
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Philadelphia, PA – Olivia Nutter, daughter of Mayor Michael Nutter, was assaulted during a high school track meet last week.
Nutter was punched in the head and face and had her hair pulled following a track meet at Morris E. Leeds Middle School in East Mount Airy on April 18, according to police. She was walking toward a group of girls when one of them told her to move. Moments later, she was assaulted, and police were called. The person responsible then fled the scene.
Nutter's assailant, 18-year-old Cierra Ryan, surrendered herself to Northwest Philadelphia detectives Monday and was charged with simple assault and recklessly endangering another person. The motive behind the attack is unknown at this time, and it is also unknown whether Ryan was also participating in the meet.
A spokesman for Mayor Nutter said there had been "an incident and Olivia is fine."
"Now the appropriate authorities are dealing with the matter," Mark McDonald said.
Olivia Nutter, also 18, is a senior at Julia R. Masterman Middle and High School, a prestigious magnet school in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia. The school is considered one of the best college preparatory schools in the tri-county area and has been named a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence twice. It was also ranked as the top public school in Philadelphia by US News & World Report last year, and was ranked 61st nationally.
Alumni of the school include Kevin Bacon, Will Smith, who attended 7th grade at the Masterman, and Raymond Teller, who attended middle school.
It is unclear if Ryan is also a student at the school.
When Michael Nutter was running for his first term as mayor in 2007, his then-12-year-old daughter gained local fame when she starred in a TV commercial for her father's campaign. In the ad, she shows viewers her home and school and then goes on to say that her father is the only Democrat running that has a child in a public school. She also jokes that her dad is "pretty cool for an old guy" and that, even though he was "pretty busy," he still found time to take her to school.
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Mech Tree
I know, it's been weeks since I've posted, and now I'm just giving you another drawing, but this is all I've had time for lately!
The most recent Sugar Frosted Goodness was "sketch" and I was excited because I figured even when I'm busy I can find time to do a sketch. I was mostly wrong, the category was last week's, but I figured I might as well finish it anyway.
*I've been interested lately in steamer-punk art and sculpture. I realize I'm coming a bit late to the trend, but I'm completely intruiged by the combination of industrial elements and victorian ornament. I've been wanting to do some kind of drawing in the style, but the elements of steamer-punk; archetectural and mechanical, are exactly the kinds of things I don't have experience drawing. I'm far more comfortable drawing people and organic objects, so I figured instead of leaping straight in, I'd take a lesson from Mattias and steampunk up something I was more comfortable with. (If you haven't seen Mattias's Baroque Star Wars I highly recommend it, particularly the Death Star.) I've done this before on a small scale with a metal lobster (not to be mistaken for a rock lobster), but a tree was a much larger undertaking.
It took for freaking ever, possibly nullifying the time benefit of doing a "sketch." Most tedious were the "leaves" which were inspired by Solio portable chargers, which are sort of flower or leaf shaped, and being solar chargers, do in fact serve the same purpose as leaves.
For some reason I wanted the roots to include wheels, and they are therefor obviously not rooted at all. Matt insists that the wheels make it a car, and he's probably right, but I don't see why it can't be a tree as well. Now that I've got it on the computer I can see that I've left a few areas unfinished (trailing wire, needs extra wheels, etc.) so maybe I'll post the final version once I finish.
The visual charm of steamer-punk for me is that it has aspects of both design and art. Steamer-punk drawings remind me of the da Vinci sketches of crazy flying bicycles. At some point I'd like to start making show type art (as opposed to illustrative art) which exploits that design visual. It probably won't be steamer-punk, but playing with that style is a nice way to stretch my skills, and also much more satisfying than other kinds of practice, like say, still lifes. Bleagh.
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by Kerry
These are fantastic!! I miss getting to see your awesomeness every day.
by Alice
Steamer-punk! I'd never heard of it, but I really like it. It has a certain whimsical nature that I would not expect to see with all of the rectangles. I could envision a children's story inspired by this.
Kerry- I miss you too Kerry. For one thing, no one else will stand on tables for me to use as a model! I hope I can get to Boston sometime, or you can get to Cleveland (it's really much better than everyone thinks, honest).
Alice- I'd never heard of it either until a couple years ago, I love the look of it though. I agree that it's got a whimsical feel to it, though that might be counter to the point of Steamer-punk, which is more sort of cynical.
These drawings are grate. Your seemingly lively trees and the way you seem to bring innnatimate objects to life. Fantastically weird unique things. Can you come up with a practical ideas that can actually be made into real world products. I am thinking along the lines of park things like benches, and posts and things like that. Maybe we can bring your ideas to life put them into public parks.
I'm looking to get a couple of tattoos done, however, I haven't really been inspired. That is until I came upon your punk art tree. Would you be able to do a few sketches? I'm thinking of a weeping willow and haven't come across anything beautiful and inspiring yet. Will you do me the honor? I would love it so much! ~Thanks!


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own key facility, come and go as you please
Excellent hotel with very nice room overlooking the beautiful swimming pool area. We had a very good meal in the restaurant beside the pool. Helpful staff. This hotel is just outside the town so transport is necessary. Delightful little town with shops and bars set around a pretty square.
Located in the vineyatds. Superb outdoor pool, beautifully maintained.and the ac worked well. Room very clean and newly decorated. Shower too small as it was less than 80 x 80
We used this hotel in transit from Spain to UK and were not looking for luxury. It served its purpose very well. The rooms had recently been refurbished and were clean and comfortable. Dinner was reasonably priced and well cooked.
Spacious room; good wi-fi; nice country side views. Overpriced 6 euro breakfast,coffee, orange juice, one cup of each, a roll and croisant. Restaurant had only one set menu; owners dogs wandering around. It's a motel with a pool.
Hotel was clean and functional It was difficult to exit the hotel in one Direction
Spacious room - comfortable bed - attention paid to detail too near a noisy road; not impressed with the food at the hotel (dinner). Starter/desert were fine but the main meal was awful (duck).
It was adequate for a one night stop-over when travelling through France. The local wines were good at a reasonable price. Nothing really to dislike.


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Wilmington's Ridings toward victory
Royals prospect flirts with no-hitter in longest outing of career
By Andrew Pentis / Special to MLB.com | August 12, 2012 1:22 PM ET
"I didn't know that was truly a high," he said. "I'll be getting more innings, I guess."
The Royals prospect took his fifth turn in the rotation and carried a no-hit bid into the sixth Sunday as the Class A Advanced Blue Rocks blanked the visiting Salem Red Sox, 5-0.
Ridings (5-1) gave up three hits and a plunked batter. He had retired nine straight when Red Sox third baseman James Kang led off the sixth with an infield single.
"I threw a curve, got a ground ball to third. Cheslor Cuthbert backhanded it and made a nice play but tripped over the base," Ridings said. "He knew the situation and he tried to make a throw.
"I realized it, but it was a close game, 2-0, and I was just trying to get outs."
With less than 24 hours notice that he was actually starting, the 24-year-old right-hander recorded 21 outs (two more than his career high), three on strikes and 10 on groundouts. For the latter, he credited the resurgence of his two-seam fastball, which he employed more often as a collegian but less so as a pro.
"I was keeping ball down and getting ahead early," said Ridings, who still mainly uses his four-seam fastball, to go with the curveball (his lone plus offering) and the changeup. "And our defense made some really nice plays. [Luis] Peterson, our shortstop, saved at least two or three hits. [With two outs] in the second inning, he made a great diving stop."
Ridings, who required Tommy John surgery late in his senior season at Western Kentucky University, fell to the 41st round in the 2010 Draft. He made 13 Appalachian League starts in 2011 -- all on a strict pitch count -- and began this season in the bullpen for Class A Kane County. In 21 appearances for the Cougars, he compiled a 2.43 ERA and a 39-to-6 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Those results prompted his June 22 promotion to the Blue Rocks.
In 10 Carolina League games -- five of the last six have been starts -- he has a 2.63 ERA. Opponents are batting .189 against him.
"I'm not sure [about] the plan, to be honest," he said. "I was OK with the 'pen. I got here, we had a couple injuries and promotions and next thing I know, I'm starting again, which is what I have been doing my whole life."
Making his Class A Advanced debut, Red Sox starter Michael McCarthy (0-1) gave up two runs on six hits, including Murray's Watts fifth-inning solo homer -- over 5 1/3 frames. He walked two and struck out five.
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Elision Ensemble
It takes a while to decode the image: blurred and feathery, it looks organic. A Venus flytrap perhaps. It is only when the music issues forth from the mouth of the cadaver lying on the dissection table in front of the screen that one realises it is an eye, a human eye, in close-up, the lashes interwoven as it opens and shuts.
The Elision Ensemble has never been satisfied with the wide-angle view.
These intrepid artists prefer the macro lens or the microscope. Whether it is sight or sound (or smell, for that matter, as anyone who attended The Opening of the Mouth will attest) they bombard the audience with an overwhelming blanket of sensory detail.
In TULP: The Body Public the subject is at its most intimate and human. Visual artist Justine Cooper has collected a swag of human remains, interviewing visitors to the Art Gallery last month and compiling their voices, their faces and even the rhythmic rumbles of their bodies.
These are used by the composer John Rodgers as an organic ground bass, a heartfelt riff of noise, over which he lays improvisation interspersed with songs from the early Baroque.
The stories are startling: a woman's journey through breast cancer, or a man's experience of home surgery (with whisky when the anaesthetic runs out), makes compelling viewing. The unrelenting close-up camera angle captures all the fascinating and painful nuances of emotion.
It is almost too much to take in, when you realise that flanking the stage are two latex screens behind which musicians draw visceral sounds from their extended bodies, the instruments.
Over this the voice of Deborah Kayser floats like a heavenly breath. Pure and unforced, but impressively agile, she negotiates Monteverdi and Merula with a curiously sterile and strangely inhuman perfection, especially compared with the tales of humanity on screen.
Her chalk-faced character acts as part Sibyl, part Everywoman, making the transition from death into life, birth (through the latex screens, with a neon-lit umbilical chord) and back to death. She is accompanied ably by the ensemble of musicians, who not only play beautifully, but then proceed to operate, dissect and deconstruct the very sounds of their instruments.
TULP is a revelation - a confronting, sometimes unbearably intimate collage of what it means to be human.
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This weekend the grounds of the St. Louis Community Centre will come alive with the sounds of some of the top bluegrass and old-time music bands in the region. This western P.E.I. community hosts the fourth annual St. Louis Bluegress & Oldtime Music Campout June 18, 19 and 20.
Nova Scotia's South Bound joins Bluefield Grass, Eastern Edition, Country Grass, SK Bluegrass, Dunromin Four, Bethany Coughlin and New Acquaintance, and Prospect.
Also joining the lineup is New Brunswick's New Connections, along with the Arsenault Brothers, Charlie Hansen, Keelin and Elaine Wedge, Heartfelt Bluegrass and Like Father, Like Daughter.
Eileen Brown, one of the organizers of the event, says the idea for the Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Campout came when the community centre had to cancel its weekly bingo because of poor attendance.
"We still needed a way to raise money to keep the community centre going, so we came up with the idea of hosting the Bluegrass and Oldtime Music Campout," says Brown, who can also be seen with a musical instrument in her hand during the weekend.
Funds raised are split between the Miminegash Fire Department and the Community of St. Louis, which operates the St. Louis Community Centre.
Last year, organizers were able to hand $1,000 each to the Miminegash Fire Department and the Community of St. Louis.
The cost for the weekend pass is $30, which includes rough camping. An electrical hook up will cost $35. Sites for electrical hook ups are reserved on a first come, first serve basis.
Individual day passes can be purchased for $10 on Friday night, $15 on Saturday and $10 on Sunday.
There will be a children's program for those between the ages of four and 10 on Saturday.
Guitar, mandolin, harmony and bass workshops will also be held on site.
There will be a shelter, in case of poor weather, and there are washrooms, showers and concessions on site.
For more information, contact Brown at 882-3056 or Wilma Jones at 882-3518.
Jones, also an organizer and entertainer, said, "It's a great family oriented event," as she walked the grounds in St. Louis recently.
"It's a lot of fun. It features Island bands, as well as those from off-Island, and gives those Island bands a chance to showcase their stuff."


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Wasps, a side who always seems to make life hard for themselves, went within a whisker of nailing down their place in the playoffs for the final spot in the new European Rugby Champions Cup. They did so despite going two tries down before the game was barely 15 minutes old, having to come from behind again in the second half and ending the game with two men in the sin bin.
Ultimately, Dai Young's side strengthened their grip on seventh spot in the Premiership thanks to a remarkable nerve-calming try from wing Will Helu who took a cross-kick off his bootlaces to stumble home. Unless Exeter beat Harlequins, Wasps will meet Stade Français over two legs regardless of what happens in their final-day encounter at Northampton.
The dates for the games – on 17 and 24 May – have been settled, but a draw will decide in which order the games are played. As for Newcastle, they picked up two bonus points that were rendered irrelevant in their fight for survival due to Saracens' victory over doomed Worcester.
The first half was remarkable in that Wasps gave Newcastle a 17-point start and yet still went to the break 12 points clear and with a bonus point in the bag.
Before a minute was up Mike Blair was in under Wasps' posts thanks to a jinking run from wing Sinoti Sinoti. Joel Hodgson, the 21-year-old fly-half who is a product of the Newcastle academy, kicked the conversion on his way to collecting 18 points.
With Hodgson on form and Wasps looking as though they were already on holiday, it looked as if Dean Richards's team were heading for their fourth win of the season and safety from relegation without help from Saracens. Instead, Wasps woke from their slumbers and began the fightback.
First, the fly-half Andy Goode tried to thread his backs through the Newcastle defence, but when that failed it was left to one of the big boys, Nathan Hughes, to barge his way over. Goode missed the conversion, but the head of Wasps steam was rising and Ashley Johnson became the next forward to go over, steering a rolling maul from a five-metre lineout before James Fitzpatrick earned a yellow card for spoiling the chance of a third try.
Nevertheless, the penalty got Wasps back to within two points and they were not to be denied. Johnson almost made the line, as did James Haskell, before Hughes got his second with two minutes of the half left, leaving just enough time for another surprise.
This time the try was down to the Wasps backs, Elliot Daly chipping and chasing up the left before his pass, intended for Helu, slipped and bounced nicely into the path of scrum-half and occasional wing Joe Simpson.
Not that Newcastle were done for. The second half started at the same frenetic pace as the first. Sinoti and Fitzpatrick both went close before the wing Noah Cato got home twice within seven minutes.
The first try involved a slice of luck, the wing slipping to leave Tom Vardell grasping thin air, but the second allowed the visitors to reclaim the lead. There was still time for Wasps to reassert themselves, with Helu's acrobatic try from Goode's precise cross kick and a run in from Charlie Hayter.


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Why Joyce Murray shouldn't be immediately dismissed in Liberal leadership race
Tomorrow, Vancouver Quadra MP Joyce Murray is expected to announce that she's entering the Liberal leadership race.
To date, media have more or less coronated Papineau MP Justin Trudeau as the winner for the following reasons:
• He has high name recognition.
• He's fluently bilingual.
• He beat up a Conservative senator in a charity boxing match.
• Polls suggest that the Liberals will fare well in the next election with him as leader.
• He looks good on TV and on the front pages of newspapers and magazines.
Murray, a former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister and owner of a successful reforestation business, has far more qualifications on paper than Trudeau. She obtained a master's degree studying climate change back in 1992, winning the dean's convocation medal as the top MBA graduate.
Her son, Baba Brinkman, is a brilliant rap artist.
But Murray will have trouble generating much attention amid the Trudeaumania that seems to be gripping the mainstream media.
For example, when Straight reporter Carlito Pablo broke the story that Murray was eyeing a run for the top job, it was ignored by virtually every news outlet in the country.
In light of this, why shouldn't Murray's chance of winning be rejected outright? Here are some things to consider:
• Environmentally minded candidates fared exceptionally well in the federal NDP leadership race. The B.C. Green Liberal Caucus supported Nathan Cullen's leadership bid. He came third, despite having little name recognition at the outset. The winner, Thomas Mulcair, also had the support of many environmentalists.
• In his eagerness to win support in Alberta, Justin Trudeau, has stood up for tar-sands development, winning him praise from the industry-loving Ethical Oil website. This will not stand Trudeau in good stead with environmentalists.
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• Trudeau has demonstrated that he makes gaffes, most notably when he suggested that Quebec separatism had merit in light of how Harper is governing the country.
• If Bob Rae's machine were to get behind Murray, this would give her candidacy some credibility. Rae must be a little miffed at Trudeau for trying to usurp the party's leadership before he's really ready to become prime minister. Rae's unlikely to publicly back any of the candidates, but he could quietly steer support Murray's way.
Murray will no doubt say that she's in the race to win the Liberal leadership. And that will be accompanied by more than a few guffaws from those "in the know". But front runners have fallen on their face before—just look back to Edmund Muskie in 1972, Gary Hart in 1988, and Michael Ignatieff in 2006. This Liberal leadership race still has a way to go before it's over.
Follow Charlie Smith on Twitter at twitter.com/csmithstraight.
9 Comments
Nov 25, 2012 at 11:14pm
If Joyce Murray is invited and attends the annual Bilderberg Meeting next June, she could be selected. Murray Mania may take hold and challenge the chosen.
basement dweller
Nov 26, 2012 at 1:23am
N.B. If you're not already a registered member of an opposing party, you can vote in the liberal leadership. You can be in any riding in Canada. She could be prime minister some day. Want a part in that?
Nov 26, 2012 at 8:55am
I have no doubt that Canada would be well served were Ms. Murray at the helm.
Go Joyce!
Nov 26, 2012 at 9:47am
lol what rubbish...
* Since when is having an MBA ( it's for Dunce's who need it for basic business skills since they have none) a 'qualification to lead Canada?
* Justin would get more women votes period,
Murray (mba lol) who?
Not my real name
Nov 26, 2012 at 10:04pm
Phew. For a while there I was thinking we would have to endure another liberal leadership race before the next provincial election. Probably why this announcement got no attention, people want the liberals out!
James G
Nov 27, 2012 at 8:30am
And here is why she should be immediately dismissed:
Ran for the Gordon Campbell Liberals to get the NDP out.
Calls for co-operation amongst the Greens, Liberals and NDP to get the Harper Conservatives out.
Voted repeatedly along with the entire Liberal caucus to keep the Harper minority Conservatives IN.
In my view, this is an utter phoney, someone willing to take any position to end up in power and hey ... that does make her an ideal Liberal but not for reasons outlined above.
Should one photo surface of Ms. Murray being sworn into Gordon Campbell's cabinet alongside Christy Clark, it will all be over.
SPY vs SPY
Nov 27, 2012 at 11:48am
Take a look at her record as Premier Gordon Campbell's first Minister of the Environment.
She earned a big bonus on her Cabinet Ministers salary by
Yah, some Eco - Friendly Minister of the Environment.
She was known as the Cabinet Minister Responsible for the Ministry of Earth, Wind and Fire!!
She has never recanted what she did or even hinted that what she did was WRONG.
basement dweller
Nov 27, 2012 at 2:43pm
@ SPY vs SPY
There's a bigger picture there. Why would the budget be slashed and staff relieved? Only if responsibilities from that ministry were transferred to another. I doubt it was her idea. Let's see some citations.
SPY vs SPY
Nov 27, 2012 at 10:13pm
Basement Dweller
You prove that having 1 or 2 wildlife Officers serving the entire Kootenay Region, is responsible management.
Her Budget Documents are available on-line and prove my statements.
You prove yours!!!!


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For a generation, the economic consensus has been that, for capitalism to deliver the growth and living standards that make it legitimate, state activity has to be as minimal as possible, leaving business and finance to spearhead economic dynamism themselves. But the programme has not worked. The deregulated financial system, left to itself, created a first-order financial crisis, and now western economies are stricken with an enormous overhang of private debt.
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The common thread between the byelection vote in Eastleigh, in which the coalition partners saw their vote haemorrhage to the insurgent Ukip, and the general election result in Italy, where Beppo Grillo's anti-politics Five Star Movement won 25% of the vote, is that voters across Europe are plumping for the anti-system party. One exit poll at Eastleigh showed that three-quarters of voters were unhappy with the parties at the moment and 83% with their party of choice. Exiting Europe or clamping down on immigration were less the issue than more generalised anti-political establishment anger, albeit one with a rightwing bias.
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But with output still 4% below its peak in the second quarter of 2008, the most prolonged period of depressed output since the 19th century, and living standards for the bottom half of the population being squeezed with no prospect of let-up until the end of decade, economic resilience is fading fast. If the political mainstream parties cannot devise a viable response, and quickly, then Britain – like Italy – could find itself overshadowed by the nihilism of an insurgent anti-politics party.
It is in the Conservative party that the crisis of ideas and values is initially and most forcefully playing itself out. For today's crisis is a potentially mortal threat to a party of the mainstream political right, especially in a country where a populist centre-right press embraces Ukip-lite policies along with a soft Tea party agenda as the solution to Britain's ills. Conservative associations around the country, fed this diet daily, offer a firm political base for the factions in the Tory party that variously argue for what party vice-chair Michael Fabricant calls a less muffled Tory voice but one grounded in clear Tory values and principles.
However, the open question is what those Tory values and principles are, and most importantly whether they work as an appropriate response to the capitalist crisis through which we are now living. In the 1930s, faced by a crisis on a similar scale, the Tory party was unashamedly pragmatist – proactively using the state to reorganise industries and directing bank lending. The British economy recovered to peak levels of output after four years in 1933 and grew strongly over the rest of the decade. Those are not the Tory values and principles to which Mr Fabricant and the vigorous factions on the right of today's party appeal.
Instead, they argue that the problem with the past 30 years, along with the stagnation that has followed, is that a Thatcherite, anti-European, minimal government programme has not been prosecuted with enough vigour. The response to economic stagnation is not to re-examine the whole approach to managing the economy but, rather, to reinforce the case for more austerity, more spending cuts, more assaults on so-called "red tape", more vigorous controls on immigration, more tax cuts for rich "wealth generators", more disengagement from the economy by government and exit from the EU.
Reinforcing the very policies that have landed Britain in an economic quagmire is not going to work – nor, as the dwindling Conservative modernisers recognise, do such policies have broad electoral appeal. They reinforce the toxic image of the Tory party.
Rightwing Britain has become an echo chamber, filled with voices booming at each other – but the prospect of a near certain general election defeat in 2015 has enormously raised the stakes. How to avoid or mitigate this fate does not permit compromise. The Tory party is now condemned to go to war – a fight over whether it believes in uncompromising libertarianism and euroscepticism or a more nuanced, pragmatic approach to managing economy and society.
It thus becomes more possible that Ed Miliband could become the next prime minister – albeit heading a government that would quite probably include Liberal Democrats. Such a government will inherit an economic mess but, more worryingly, no consensus on what to do. Miliband, together with progressive politicians and activists from both parties and beyond, needs to encourage its formation now.
He must confront economic libertarianism and euroscepticism head on and show intellectually and practically why they are wrong. He needs to hasten the opening up of his own party so that it is less throttled by its own traditionalists. He needs to develop a convincing programme of financial and business reform that will lift investment, innovation and productivity in which government and the private sector co-create wealth. This will be a 30-year programme of national renewal. It will require intellectual conviction, powerful argument, smart policies and a strong coalition of interests, backed by the best in business and finance.
Mr Miliband has a mere 18 months to prepare: nor can he be expected to do this alone. If we want political parties that work, rather than rising votes for anti-politics parties, then a responsibility falls to citizens to step up to the plate. Parties are partnerships, too. The time has come for the best to engage with the political system. If that fails, then Britain really will be lost.


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This bill is co-sponsored by Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO).
The Security in Bonding Act of 2013 closes a loophole that allowed unscrupulous businesses to offer inadequate assets to back a bond. The lack of oversight on non-corporate sureties has resulted in a number of documented cases where assets pledged to back the bond have been illusory or insufficient.
Among the highlights of the bill:
- Requires non-corporate sureties to pledge specific and secure assets as required from others providing collateral to the federal government
- Requires those assets be held by a government entity to ensure payments can be made in the event they are needed.
- Allows the government to ensure payment of subcontractors and suppliers.
- Raises the guarantee on the Small Business Administration Surety Bond Guarantee program from 70 percent to 90 percent. This change would help more small businesses get bonding at no extra cost to the government, because the program charges fees to participate and has successfully functioned running a surplus.
Rep. Hanna and Chairman Graves say it's time to close the loophole and protect honest small businesses.
"The Security in Bonding Act will protect the construction industry from bad practices that hurt their bottom line and hinder their ability to grow and create jobs," Rep. Hanna said. "I've seen first-hand the damage that can occur when inadequate bonding was secured for a project. It hurts everyone, particularly the small business suppliers and subcontractors that provide goods and services - yet risk not being paid for their work.
"This common-sense fix will strengthen the integrity of the bonding process. It provides more certainty and security for small businesses that deserve to get paid for their work. These companies should focus on how to expand and create jobs -- rather than worry about whether or not they will get paid."
"I applaud Rep. Hanna's common sense reforms regarding bonding," Chairman Graves said. "These reforms help in three ways -- first, small businesses will have greater access to prime contracts; second, small construction subcontractors who perform in accordance with their contracts can rest assured they will be paid; and third, taxpayer investments in construction projects will be better protected."
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Hi Best Bill ...and you are THE BEST!!
So very sorry to learn that you are leaving the list. I have so enjoyed all
your; Interesting News, Cemetery stories and
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not just for me, but for so many on this List.
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Happy River is First Winner for Prospective
Freshman sire and grade 2 winner stands at Ocala Stud. Happy River also was his first starter.
Freshman sire and grade 2 winner stands at Ocala Stud. Happy River also was his first starter.
A.P. Indy has a son out there whose own sons have yet to show their potential—and each of the most promising ones has his first foals about to race.
The only Mineshaft yearling in the Ocala Breeders' Sales Co.'s August yearling sale is among the horses to watch during the Aug. 25 final session of the two-day open sale in Ocala, Fla.
Stephen Chesney and Cory Hoffman's Melmich left no doubt Nov. 29 at Woodbine, smashing the course record for 1 3/4 miles by nearly two seconds in the $150,000 Valedictory Stakes (Can-III).
Homebred Holiday Star defended his title in the $100,000 Sycamore Stakes (gr. IIIT) Oct. 15, galloping to a second consecutive win for Augustin Stable in the 1 -mile turf test at Keeneland.
Saddling three of the seven expected starters, trainer Mark Casse will try to grab a third straight victory in the Dominion Day Stakes (Can-III) on Wednesday, July 1 at Woodbine.
Trainer Paul McGee also has the $400,000 Brooklyn Invitational (gr. II), a 1 1/2-mile dirt race on the June 6 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) undercard, under consideration.
The field for the $1 million, 1 1/4-mile Santa Anita Handicap (gr. I) March 7 is full, but beyond headliner Shared Belief, the race lacks the potential star power that appeared to be possible when nominations came out.
Finnegans Wake and Patrioticandproud are set to renew their rivalry once again in the $200,000 San Marcos Stakes (gr. IIT) Feb. 7 on the grass at Santa Anita Park.
Prospective, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Malibu Moon, has his first foal -- a colt -- arrive Jan. 13 at Ocala Stud in Florida.
Veteran turf runner Finnegans Wake has found a home in California, coming from off the pace once again to capture the $200,000 San Gabriel Stakes (gr. IIT) Jan. 3 at Santa Anita Park.
After breaking through with his first stakes victory in six tries, Dynamic Sky attempts to surpass $1 million in career earnings as one of the favorites in the $200,000 San Gabriel Stakes (gr. IIT) Jan. 3 at Santa Anita Park.
Finnegans Wake recorded the biggest win of his career when he held off longshot Patrioticandproud to take the $251,250 Hollywood Turf Cup (gr. IIT) at Del Mar Race Course on Nov. 27.
In upsetting massive favorite Frac Daddy in the $155,100 Dominion Day Stakes (Can-III) July 1 at Woodbine, Sky Captain extended his perfect 4-year-old season to three races and secured the first stakes win of his career.
Frac Daddy has found his forte as a synthetic surface specialist and will bid for his fourth win from as many starts on an artificial track in the $150,000 Dominion Day Stakes (Can-III) July 1 at Woodbine.
High Cotton will remain at $7,500 stands and nurses, while new stallion Prospective still stand for $5,000.
Prospective, Malibu Moon's grade II-winning earner of $719,130, has been retired from racing and will stand at J. Michael O'Farrell Jr.'s Ocala Stud in Florida for the 2014 breeding season.
Where the 4-year-old son of Malibu Moon and grade II winner will stand has not been set.
The conditions at rainy and foggy Woodbine for the Singspiel Stakes (Can-IIIT) were miserable for all except Forte Dei Marmi, who gave trainer Roger Attfield his fifth consecutive win in the race July 6.
Multiple stakes-winning Woodbine veterans Pender Harbour and Riding the River appear to be the most promising choices in a field of nine that are set for the June 23 King Edward Stakes Presented by TVG (Can-IIT).
Multiple graded stakes winner Nates Mineshaft highlights the lineup for this year's $150,000 Hanshin Cup (gr. III) at Arlington Park May 25, making his first appearance for owner Windy Hill Farm in more than 11 months.
Cyber Secret has not won on the dirt at Churchill Downs, but fresh off a 5 3/4-length victory in the April 13 Oaklawn Handicap, trainer Lynn Whiting is willing to put his unbeaten season on the line.
Dynamic Sky recovered from a tough trip to win the $100,000 Pasco Stakes over stablemate Sky Commander Jan. 12 at Tampa Bay Downs, giving owner John Oxley and trainer Mark Casse consecutive scores in the race.
James Street, rallying with determination on the outside, collared pacesetter Patrioticandproud in deep stretch and went on to win the xx Autumn Stakes (Can-II) Nov. 10 at Woodbine.
Bill Farish Jr.'s Pool Play will be pointed toward the Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (gr. I) Nov. 23 at Churchill Downs, but the 7-year-old might not be the only Clark starter for trainer Mark Casse.
|Breeder / Owner
|Norman McKnight
|Holiday Promise
|Jerenesto Torrez
|Moon Traveler
|Joe Woodard
|Mark E. Casse
|Mark E. Casse
|Cougar II H. (G3)
|Jonathan Kiser Novice S.
|Honorable Miss H. (G2)
|Prairie Gold Lassie S.
|A. P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase H. (G1)


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A. There really are no particular obligations connected with hostessing a bridal shower in the way of speeches or ceremony. The point of a bridal shower is to give the bride a chance to enjoy some private time with the women who are closest to her. People usually celebrate with refreshments and gifts (and sometimes games), but otherwise the atmosphere of most showers is usually pretty low-key and casual.
Your duties for the day are limited. You have done the planning, and will do the set-up and pre-party preparations tomorrow. When guests begin to arrive, you should welcome them and try to make them feel comfortable. Having something to drink or munch on while they wait for the rest of the guests is always a good distraction and ice-breaker.
When all guests and your cousin are present, you will probably want to "officially" greet everyone. If you haven't provided drinks before, you might give everyone a beverage and then make an official welcome or propose a short toast to begin. Or if you will eat right away, you can make a few welcoming remarks when guests are seated.
Sometimes at a shower, there are a couple different parts of the event, and the hostess may choose to say a few words to and/or about the bride at the beginning of each (refreshments, activities, gifts, for example) and before the guests leave. But again, there's no set procedure or specific expectation.
All that really needs to be said by you, as hostess is:
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Bridal Showers & Bachelorette Parties
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You are welcome to cater your shower/bachelorette party. We can open early for mimosas or stay open later for after hour's fun.
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#WeWant TOMS, The Normal Heart and more
Welcome to #WeWant, a weekly selection of the stuff OnMilwaukee.com editors and staffers love.
Dry with it: T3 Featherweight Luxe 2i
Somethings are just worth the extra moola, and the T3 hair dryer brand is one of them. My older T3 broke, so I'll be investing in a new one soon. The T3 Featherweight Luxe 2i will be the one as it is most similar to my old one. I style my hair both curly and straight, so a diffuser is a necessity, and the T3 moves a lot of air without ruining my curls. -- Carolynn Buser
Watch it: "The Normal Heart"
I was lucky enough to go to the Milwaukee premiere of HBO's now Emmy-winning made-for-TV movie back in May at the Oriental Theatre. Several months later, I'd still put it as one of the better films I've seen in 2014. "The Normal Heart" – released this week on DVD and Blu-ray – is an incredibly powerful movie, one unrepentantly big, blunt, angry, enraging, unnerving, horrifying, exhausting and – in the end – all too avoidably tragic.
Director Ryan Murphy ("Glee," "American Horror Story"), in his traditional manner, certainly pushes hard on the gas. Few emotions are left small; few points are made too finely. But considering the subject matter – the 1980s HIV-AIDS crisis and the desperate attempts by the conflicted gay community (led by a terrific Mark Ruffalo, deeply flawed but also deeply human) to give the plague the attention it needs – the volume level feels just right, in both its moments of righteous fury and its moments of sweetness. A movie about people dying and crying out to be heard should be loud. -- Matt Mueller
Wear them: TOMS Cordones
During this time last month, I was in a desperate need for a new pair of casual shoes. When it comes time to buy a new pair, it usually takes me longer than it really should. When it comes to shoes, I'm extremely picky. A friend of mine had told me a while ago about TOMS, a brand that has a unique business model: the "one-for-one" model. For every pair of shoes that are purchased, a second pair of shoes will be sent to a child in need.
I ordered a pair of black Cordones, which are extremely lightweight and comfortable. They're perfect casual shoes to wear wherever you go. The shoes come in different styles and colors, so you definitely have options to choose from. Even if you're looking for a pair of dressier shoes to wear to formal events or work, TOMS has your back and your feet.
Although the prices range from $50 to over $100, they're definitely worth every penny because of the product and the humanitarian pursuit of the company. -- Colton Dunham
Charge with it: Powerocks Magistick Universal extended battery
If I have heavy use during the day my iPhone battery can wind down by evening. Plugging this baby in works both as a battery and a charger. You charge the Powerocks and you can get two or three full phone charges out of it. Small enough to carry in a purse or man bag with ease. $19.99 on Amazon. -- Dave Begel
Read it: "Excess All Areas: A Lighthearted Look at the Demands and Idiosyncrasies of Rock Icons on Tour," by Sue Richmond (Backbeat Books)
This fun hardcover is a perfect book for your music room or coffee table. Wilf Hanson's stylized illustrations marry well with a selection of riders from touring musicians' contracts. Some are surprising (Black Sabbath apparently loves mangoes) and Slipknot loves them some Campbell's Chunky soup. Others are clearly added to riders to see how far bands can push it. Sterephonics demand an ass-shaped pinata, Blur's Graham Coxon wants fake mustaches and Gay Dad used to require "vine tomatoes (preferably Moroccan; the Provencale variety are rather demode)." Book Electric Six for your venue and be prepared to deliver a .38 special pistol and six rounds of ammo. -- Bobby Tanzilo
paddyf | Aug. 29, 2014 at 9:14 p.m. (report)
To Bobby Tanzillo: re: Band riders - I am a Summerfest stage manager and a stickler for contracts, especially riders. I usually read them 3 times - once at beginning of festival to see if I have to plan ahead to get something, a second time the night before and give to my stage hands and sound and light crew and finally the morning of the show before the bus shows to make sure the Road/Tour Mgr doesnt surprise me with anything. My favorite Rider this year was Delta Rae where they wanted a hug for each band member (hidden in the food/bev area). I gave them their hugs right before they started while putting out towels and they were ecstatic. They said nobody ever honored that. See a pic of the band. I didnt mind the Rider.
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English Placement Test (EPT)
In order to ensure that new students are ready to enroll in college-level English, the CSU has developed the English Placement Test (EPT). This test has been designed for high school seniors who have not met the EPT requirement by any other means. If you have not met this requirement, you must take the EPT test before you can register for classes at the CSU.


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Chrome 2.0 Alpha: Linux Version in June
Google has released version 22.214.171.124 of Chrome. This latest rendering comes with an updated Webkit and heralds complete support for Linux and Mac.
Besides the revamped Webkit, which provides improved CSS support and a new zoom function, Google has, according to the release notes, modified the internal protocol. Instead of using the Windows' HTTP library, Chrome comes with its own HTTP network protocol. This clears the way for Linux and Mac versions of the browser. From the release notes:
"Google Chrome now has its own implementation of the HTTP network protocol (we were using the WinHTTP library on Windows, but need common code for Mac and Linux). We fixed a few bugs in HTTP authentication and made Google Chrome more compatible with servers that reply with invalid HTTP responses. We need feedback on anything that's currently broken, particularly with proxy servers, secure (https) sites, and sites that require log in."
From the Linux point of view, these are important changes. But there's more: among other new features, Google developers have built in support for Firefox extensions. According to a statement from product manager Brian Rakowski on NowCnet.com, the Linux and Mac versions of Chrome should be available in this year's second quarter.
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Kolab Now Integrates Collabora Online
Kolab Now subscribers now have access to Collabora Online.
Endless OS, a Distribution Without Internet
A new version of Endless OS has been released.
GitHub Announces Open Source Friday Program
They encourage people to take time out and work on open source projects on Friday.
System76 Announces Their Own Distro, Pop!_OS
Pop!_OS is based on Ubuntu and uses the Gnome stack.
Linus Torvalds Talks About His Motivation
He never tires of working on the Linux kernel.
Debian 9 Stretches Its Wings
The new release of Debian has a very strong focus on security.
Trojan Turns Raspberry Pi into a Cryptocurrency Mining Device
Two trojans in the wild are targeting Linux machines.
Fedora 26 Beta Comes with New Features
The workstation comes with the latest Gnome desktop environment and support for many application build systems.
Raspberry Pi Foundation Merges with CoderDojo Foundation
The two foundations join forces to expand their efforts to reach young people.
Samba Security Hole Patched but Risk is Bigger
Millions of devices that use Samba Server are vulnerable to attacks.


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