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I'm rewatching Game of Thrones Season 1 in anticipation of Season 2 beginning April 1 2012. This is the seventh post in this series and covers the episode "You Win or You Die". As before spoilers for the whole of season 1 and the book A Game of Thrones will follow so please don't continue if you haven't watched the whole first season. I will avoid spoilers from later in the book series though so if you are only watching the show have no fear that I will spoil events still to come in the adaptation.
The earlier posts are:
- "Winter is Coming"
- "The Kingsroad"
- "Lord Snow"
- "Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things"
- "The Wolf and the Lion"
- "A Golden Crown"
The introduction of Tywin Lannister is a fantastic scene. Charles Dance is excellent in the role and the character seems a fit for the series straight away. His barely contained fury and disdain for others immediately informs our understanding of his children. Establishing his own concern with legacy in this first scene gives us a clear insight into his character too. I love the symbolism of Tywin skinning a stag as he greets Jaime, this being the episode of Robert's death.
Cersei and Eddard's second scene together this season is an improvement over their first. I like seeing the two of the face off. Cersei is surprisingly honest with Eddard when confronted with her secret which suggests to me she has already set her plan in motion to have Robert endangered during his hunt; if I am wrong she certainly will after Eddard gives his warning. She is clearly defiant in the scene so Eddard's failure to appreciate the threat she poses seems all the more tragic.
The third scene of this episode is the one I have heard the most complaints about since it aired; Littlefinger teaches Ros and Armeca his view of seduction. His monologue offers insight into his methods and motivation. He speaks about his love for Catelyn Stark (without naming her) and his duel with Brandon to explain his approach to the game. It is important for the show to establish Littlefinger more firmly in the mind of the viewer in this episode before his betrayal of Eddard. We have had hints of his childhood before and he referenced the duel when he was first introduced to Eddard but it is worth exploring his history in more detail so that we more fully understand his motivations. While his back story is delivered by Catelyn's inner monologue in the book we don't really have an insight into his thinking until much later in the book series. I think making him less enigmatic here is an interesting choice. We don't necessarily need to know the mental state that leads to his betrayal of Eddard because we didn't in the book but I don't think it hurts the show or his character to establish it now. It certainly strengthens this single episode by giving the viewer the information they need to answer "Why did Littlefinger betray Eddard?" at the close of the episode. The device chosen is controversial; backing this scene with Ros and Armeca having sex has been called distracting. I think it was necessary for Littlefinger to have an audience and one that was not listening too closely to what he was saying for him to reveal what he does here. He is contemplating his self image while simultaneously teaching the women the techniques he used to manipulate Eddard into trusting him (minus the instructions on the mechanics of sex!) It does make uncomfortable viewing because we are seeing women being taught to exploit their sexuality for money but also because of the window we get into the darker thoughts of Littlefinger. I think it was supposed to be uncomfortable though so don't mean that as a criticism. Overall the scene is purposeful but off putting. While it seems to be aimed at the television viewer the backstory is kept so mysterious as to be difficult to understand on the first watch through. I don't think it deserves the criticism I have seen heaped upon it but it is definitely not the show's finest moment.
Natalia Tena gets to overcome Osha's introduction as a ruthless kidnapper to be feared in her scene with Theon. Having a clash of cultural identities between the two is a great opportunity for humor and softening of her character. It also gives us insight into the Wildling and Ironborn cultures, particularly the Wildling's very different (and more consistent with the modern) approach to rulers and inheritance. Finally it is another opportunity to resonate the tension of the prologue by having Osha explain what she is fleeing from and why Theon's sexual menace doesn't scare her. Having reminded the audience of the White Walkers the next scene of a riderless horse arriving at the wall is more foreboding.
Jon gets a heavily featured episode here after being absent from the last two. The Night's Watch graduation scene is nicely put together with great use of the Castle Black set. James Cosmo is great as Lord Commander Jeor Mormont and does a fine job of refuting some of the negative claims made about the order in the first half of the season. Jon's reaction to his assignment is a low moment for the character and his self obsession is unappealing. It does give Sam a chance to show the sharpness of his mind by reading the Lord Commander's intention and gives Bradley another funny line in "I always wanted to be a wizard." Taking the oath before the heart tree is a nice scene and I am glad the majority of the words made it on screen. Ending the arc with Ghost rediscovering the hand keeps it from being to saccharine and again keeps that note of tension that underpins the season long arc resounding.
Daenerys and Drogo get a wonderful married couple scene as she braids his hair and tries to convince him to invade her former kingdom. Not exactly the sort of thing my wife and I do on a regular basis but nevertheless written and performed with a lovely sense of happy normality. The purpose of Jorah's disappearance to Qohor is spelled out when he receives his pardon from Varys. This is a lot earlier than the revelation was made in the books but helps to lend weight to Jorah's intervention in the assassination attempt and is a smart move for the adaptation. Abandoning the POV structure and having Mormont become a main character makes it difficult for the show to sustain the longform mysteries of the book surrounding him without it feeling like it is cheating the audience. Simon Lowe is excellent as the Wineseller assassin managing to underline his jocular patter with some menace. The failed attempt on Daenerys life also gives us a short action sequence for the midpoint of the episode. Drogo's pledge after discovering the assassination is another adrenaline releasing moment and helps to build the episode to a satisfying conclusion. Dany's seeming concern over the fate of the Wineseller is paid off by her having him lashed to her own saddle – I think it shows that her capacity for violence to those who have harmed her is growing following the death of Viserys.
Robert's deathbed is established as a gory affair by Renly's appearance when he summons Eddard. It is interesting that the show added a final moment between Joffrey and Robert. I'm surprised Joffrey wasn't more pleased to see his father dying; he is not quite the sociopath I suspected. The deathbed scene of the book is filled with Eddard recalling the death of his sister at the Tower of Joy and on this rewatch I really missed those moments. Establishing Eddard's manipulation of Robert's proclamation is well done and again underpins the tragedy of the betrayal – Eddard is willing to bend his honor a little to protect his friend but does not do enough to protect himself. Selmy gets some consolation prizes in the next scene – he gets to stand among the small council reminding us that the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard is a member in the books and he gets Renly's line about Robert ordering them to stand down which Ian McElhinney imbues with self recrimination. His rejection of Renly's offer to help and his advice to act swiftly is singularly short sighted. Renly similarly makes mistakes though – he overplays his hand here, he could have enlisted Eddard's help if he had concealed his intentions to make his own claim a little longer. Again the end of the episode becomes more tragic with so many opportunities narrowly missed.
It is good to hear so much talk of Stannis here – setting him up as a significant figure for the second season. Keeping him off screen is the right decision for the adaptation and no doubt made casting an actor like Stephen Dillane easier because they could show him more substantive scenes. I am pleased the adaptation did not decide to cut to him off on Dragonstone. I found it interesting that Eddard's guard Tomard is told to ride straight to Stannis rather than stopping off on the sea journey with the girls as in the book. He then does not appear in the final scene in the throne room and I assume he made it out of the city. I wonder if the letter will be mentioned in the second season at all? Stannis knows about Joffrey's lineage in the book and moves to Dragonstone after Jon Arryn is killed to gather his forces. In the show there is no mention of Stannis being involved in Jon Arryn's investigation as Eddard retraces his steps. Perhaps the letter will be used to lend more significance to Eddard's findings in the show although it would then be difficult to explain Stannis avoiding the capital.
Eddard's scene with Littlefinger is one of my favourites in the whole series. Gillen does a great job of showing Littlefinger deciding to betray Eddard. I think Littlefinger honestly would support Eddard if he had convinced Eddard to follow his plans. Knowing that Eddard's honour is prohibitive to him being of further use, Littlefinger abandons him in favour of Cersei. I love the final scene in the throne room. It is a fantastic way to end an episode. I think altering the staging so that Ser Barristan is already there is a good idea and makes Cersei's dismissal of him seem all the more unfair in the subsequent episode. Not having Myrcella or Tommen present probably accounts for their being one less Kingsguard than there is in the book.
This is a well put together episode with the Tywin scene serving as a prologue of sorts and the three main arcs (Eddard, Jon and Daenerys) all building to satisfying conclusions. It is one of the best pieces of season two and a joy to watch.


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Quiquiriquí - Mexico, Puebla (Spanish)
Sound Engineer: Félix Blume
Microphone Used: MS Setup Schoeps CCM41+CCM8
Mixer: cooper
Recorder: zoom H4n
Recorded in 2010
MS is encoded in stereo left-right
The rooster's singing has so many names around the world.
Cocorico in France, Cock-a-doodle-doo in English, kikeriki in Germany, quiquiriqui in Spanish...
Does the rooster really sing differently according to his nationality?
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In support of the missions of Lindsey
Wilson College (LWC), the School of Professional Counseling (SPC),
and the Association for Play Therapy (APT),
The mission of the Appalachian Play Therapy Center (APTC) at LWC
is to foster the mental health and development of children and
families, especially those in the Appalachian region of the United
States, through the processes of play and play therapy. To satisfy
this goal, APTC provides play therapy services, offers play therapy
training and supervision to students in SPC and mental health
professionals, advances play therapy research, and promotes play
and play therapy in the community.
About the Director
Dr. Jodi Crane, LPCC, NCC, RPT-S is Associate Professor in the
SPC at LWC. She received her play therapy training at the
University of North Texas under Drs. Garry Landreth, founder of the
Center for Play Therapy (CPT) and leading expert in child-centered
play therapy, and Sue Bratton, current Director of CPT and Past
President of the Association for Play Therapy (APT). She is the
author of chapters in Landreth's Innovations in Play Therapy and R.
Van Fleet & L. Guerney's Case Studies in Filial Therapy (with
Sue Bratton) and in the forthcoming Integrating Expressive Arts and
Play Therapy with Children and Adolescents edited by E. Green &
A. Drewes. She is the first recipient of APT's Research Grant to
complete and publish her research in the International Journal of
Play Therapy. She is on the Board of Directors of APT and served as
President of the Kentucky Association for Play Therapy. She is also
a member of ACA, KMHCA, AAMFT, IAMFC, ACES, and ACC. In 2010, she
received the Terry Fontenot Play Therapy Award for her service to
play therapy in Kentucky. She and her husband, Dr. Jeffrey Crane,
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First write-thru with quotes from NTSB and divers update
CG Air Station Cape Cod - The body of John F. Kennedy Jr was reportedly found early this morning still inside the fuselage of plane that crashed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
White House sources have told the media that Navy divers working round the clock found a large section of the plane last night with Kennedy's body still on board.
A statement released this morning by National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall confirmed that large section of the plane was found last night, about 7 miles off the southwest coast of Aquinnah. In a written statement, Hall indicated that he, Coast Guard Rear Admiral Richard Larrabee, and others had gone out to the USS Grasp this morning. The Navy ship was repositioned overnight, and is not situated over where the wreckage was found.
At this hour, divers are going into the water to more closely examine what they have found. Hall indicated in his statement that the divers primary mission will be recovery of the bodies. It did not indicate, however, whether the bodies of Kennedy's wife, Carolyn, and sister-in-law, Lauren
Bessette, had also been found.
Federal investigators said yesterday that they believed they had targeted the splash point of the plane piloted by Kennedy about 7 miles from the southwestern tip of Martha's Vineyard.
The single-engine Piper Saratoga disappeared Friday night en route from New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard. Investigators believe Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette, perished in the crash.
During a press briefing at Air Station Cape Cod yesterday, Robert Pearce, a chief investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board, said new radar data seems to indicate that Kennedy's plane may have plunged into the sea at a speed even faster than previous estimates. He said the rate of descent may have been more than 5,000 feet per minute. Estimates given on Monday were about 4,700 feet per minute.
The updated information is being collected from civilian and military facilities along Kennedy's presumed flight path. Along with air speeds and rates of descent, the data is giving investigators a picture of the maneuvers Kennedy went through as sped toward the island in dark, hazy skies.
According to Pearce, an analysis of radar data for the last seven minutes of Kennedy's flight has the plane descending from an altitude of 5,600 feet, at 700 feet per minute, some 34 miles from Martha's Vineyard Airport.
The descent continued for about five minutes, to 2,300 feet, until the plane was 20 miles from the airport. The plane then started a right turn and climbed back to 2,600 feet.
About a minute later, the plane began descending at 700 feet per minute, heading east. Thirty seconds into that turn, Pearce said, the airplane made a turn to the right and began its fatal plunge.
At that point, he said, the plane may have dropped more than 5,000 feet per minute. The gauge on Kennedy's plane topped out at 2,000 feet per minute.
Divers were put into the water yesterday but the depth and conditions limited their search.
Navy Capt. Bert Marsh, a supervisor for the salvage effort, described what the team is up against.
"What they're facing, essentially on the bottom, is a water temperature of around 52 degrees, the visibility is less than 8 feet, and there is a significant current that they are fighting against," Marsh said.
In addition, their gear limits them to about 15-minute dives, including the time spent diving down and coming to the surface, Marsh said.
As the intense, worldwide coverage of the massive search and recovery mission continued yesterday, Jim Hall, chairman of the NTSB, again cautioned reporters about reading too much into the emerging data.
"I know that the competition in the news business is fierce. We see that in the number of individuals represented here and the number of cameras that we are looking out at," he said. "But neither the sensitivity of the families involved, nor the cause of aviation safety, or the information flow to the people that are watching this around the world, will be served by groundless speculation."
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U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing considering the nominations of William B. Schultz to serve as General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Christopher J. Meade for the position of General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury:
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to take a moment to once again express my concerns about a growing problem relating to Congress's dealings with the Obama Administration because I believe it is relevant to today's hearing.
As part of their case against King George III, the Second Continental Congress repeatedly noted in the Declaration of Independence that George had consistently frustrated the attempts of the colonies to govern themselves. In these grievances we see frustration with a strong executive authority that dominated the legislative authority.
The very first grievance against the king noted in the Declaration states "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good."
Later, the revolutionaries indicted the king "For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever."
These grievances were the inspiration for our Constitution, which created a system of checks and balances between the Executive and Legislative Branches.
Put simply, our system of government was designed so that Congress would be tasked with writing the laws that the Executive Branch implements. Now more than 200 years later, many would argue that the Executive has become more powerful, perhaps too powerful, at the expense of Congress.
Congress shares significant blame for this.
In an editorial published last year in The Washington Post, former HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt noted that Obamacare contains the phrase "the secretary shall" nearly 2,000 times. Even during his tenure, Secretary Leavitt noted that he had been advised that HHS "has more power than a good person needs or a bad person ought to have."
HHS is more powerful now than it has ever been before. Among literally hundreds of other functions, Obamacare designates that the HHS secretary will develop "tooth-level surveillance."
As such, perhaps the next nomination to HHS secretary ought to be jointly referred to this committee and the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs.
The continued abdication by Congress of legislative power and the accumulation of that power by the executive makes the positions of Chief Counsel at HHS and Treasury very important.
The two nominees before us, if confirmed, would wield vast influence over decisions that might impact the lives of every American. This is why I, along with many of my colleagues, believe that thorough oversight of the Executive Branch is critically important to preserving our system of checks and balances.
The level of responsiveness from the administration, and specifically HHS and Treasury, to written requests for information has continued to be lackluster at best. I, along with many other members, have raised this issue numerous times, but to no avail.
Both of the nominees today are currently serving in an acting capacity in the roles to which they have been nominated. Consequently, they know agency practice and have worked within the existing agency structure, including how the agency responds -- or, in many cases, does not respond -- to information requests from Congress.
I would respectfully suggest that when they return to their agencies, they pass along a reminder that at least some in Congress find the lack of responsiveness to be entirely unacceptable.
My goal is to be able to work together with the Executive Branch, and I think our system of government works better when our two branches of government cooperate.
I hope that any nominee that comes before this committee does not believe that their responsibility to work and communicate with Congress ends with their confirmation. There have been several recent instances in which nominees have pledged to me and this Committee that they would work to promote transparency and would be responsive to Congress. Unfortunately, following confirmation, those pledges have too often been abandoned.
I know that Chairman Baucus recognizes the need for transparency and responsiveness and that he will work with me on finding a solution to this problem. To his great credit, he has repeatedly shown leadership in this Committee by backing up any Member's request to any agency of government. And I appreciate his leadership and support.
Finally, I want to conclude with a brief statement on the scheduling of this particular hearing. Mr. Chairman, I assume that there are many in the administration and on your side of the aisle that would like to see these nominations move quickly. However, when we rush these proceedings -- particularly so near to the end of the Congress -- we do the Committee a disservice.
As you know, there is a very important Republican Conference meeting today at 4:00 pm. Despite that, it was decided that a good portion of this hearing would be devoted to honoring our colleagues leaving the Senate.
I appreciate the desire to honor those who deserve it, as our colleagues do, but that shouldn't cause the hearing to get short shrift. In particular, I do not want to unduly limit questions from members of the Committee in order to complete the hearing on a shortened timeline.
These nomination hearings are more than just a box to be checked. They are essential to ensuring that we adequately fulfill our advice and consent responsibilities here in the Senate.
Mr. Chairman, I hope that you will recognize this and work with me to ensure that every member of the Committee gets ample opportunity to ask the nominees their questions and to receive answers, even if it means that we have to reconvene the hearing -- and bring the nominees back before the Committee -- at a later date. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Source: http://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=dfec4028-5056-a032-52f9-59199f85f490


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Abstracts by:
| Benjamin Albritton | Barbara Altmann | Evelyn Arnrich | Elizabeth L. Keathley | Deborah McGrady | Kevin N. Moll |
The International Machaut Society sponsored two sessions and a business luncheon at Kalamazoo; all events took place on Saturday May 10th, 2003.
This project has its origins in an error. Some years ago, I found in a fifteenth century manuscript (BNF f.fr. 2201) a poem attributed to Alain Chartier. I knew from its language, themes, form and rhetorical flourishes that the attribution was incorrect and believed it might be the work of Christine de Pizan, with whose style it was entirely consistent. After some sleuthing, however, I discovered that I, too, was wrong. The poem was well documented as part of the corpus by Guillaume de Machaut.
This experience raises questions concerning the conventional nature of late-medieval courtly poetry. We can easily mistake a poem by one author for the work of another because so much of that poetry draws on the same themes, vocabulary, tropes, meter and rhyme. In particular, it confirmed the strong intertextual link between Machaut and Christine. In this paper, I wish to analyze what evidence there is for a deliberate dialogical, intertextual relationship between the works of Machaut and Christine and what is more simply the result of the popularity of particular forms and themes in late-medieval poetry.
Reading Machaut side by side with one of his greatest literary descendents will give us a better understanding of the writerly genealogies late-medieval authors constructed as one way to legitimize their public voices. Machaut's key role in medieval literary history becomes clearer as we examine how his successors altered the models he created. As for Christine, her work must be read not in isolation but in context; like all her contemporaries, she deliberately inscribes her writing as part of the traditions and prevailing currents of her cultural milieu. She must be read as a reader of the master, Machaut.
My approach includes examining the ill-defined overlap of our notions of intertextuality and conventionality. In its broadest sense, the term "intertextuality" actually encompasses literary convention. In practice, however, critics tend to see an "intertextual" relationship between two pieces of literature as positive and worthy of notice, while "conventional" has a more negative valence. The study of the use of conventional forms is a rich area of enquiry for Middle-French poetry, however, in which each author finds his or her own voice through subtle variation. To appreciate this aesthetic we need to re-examine our use of current critical terms as they apply to the Middle Ages.
My initial corpus for this new paper will be the highly
structured, intricate lyric poems known as "complaintes" or "lais," of
which Machaut composed 24 and Christine three. In future stages I will
extend the analysis to their allegorical work.
In general the motets written by Guillaume de Machaut have come down to us by means of the Machaut Manuscripts MachA, MachB, MachC, MachE, MachG and Vg. Apart from these manuscripts, three motets nos. 8, 15 and 19 were also handed down in Codex Ivrea respectively in Trém. During the presentation all manuscripts, containing the above mentioned motets will compared by an open edition in order to their assignment of the text to music. Differences based on the scribal praxis will shown and analysed. The presentation aims at a more detailed perspective on scribal processes of the Machaut motets.
The International Machaut Society sponsored two sessions and a business luncheon on Saturday 8 May 2004.
This paper addresses the issue of residual traces of Machaut's Voir dit in fifteenth-century compendia. Beyond providing evidence that Machaut's magnum opus survived well into the next century before disappearing with the advent of print, this residue presents invaluable insight into the ways in which later generations interpreted the work. In essence, this residue records how Machuat's text was decouvert, chante, flageole by later generations. To develop this argument, I will survey briefly four fifteenth-century revivals of the Voir dit that relocate the text in distinctive textual terrains. These "terrains" range from miscellaneous collections of poetry to new literary creations, where in each case the dominant text feeds off the Voir dit by way of direct citation, appropriation, or poetic recall. The three cases are as follows: 1) a miscellaneous collection of late medieval poetry produced circa 1400 (University of Pennsylvania Libraries, MS Pa), 2) a radically abridged version of the Voir dit contained in a collection of Machaut's works produced most likely between 1425-1430 (Pierpont Morgan, MS Pm 396), and finally, 3) René d'Anjou's 1457 eulogy to Machaut in his imaginary visit to the master's tomb recorded in Le livre du cuer d'amours espris. These examples have been privileged because they present tantalizing evidence that Toute-Belle and Guillaume's love affair "was sung, performed, talked about" for many decades after the composition and initial circulation of the Voir dit, but they also disclose to what extent Machaut's text was co-opted, rewritten, and repackaged to serve very different ambitions.
Analysis of Guillaume de Machaut's lais reveals the repeated use of a rather complex metric structure. This stanza form appears in lais which received musical settings as well as some which did not, and appears confined to the chronologically later works. The purpose of this paper is to examine the elements that distinguish this stanza form from the plethora of forms Machaut used, as well as to consider the possible significance of the use of this recurring musical and poetic form.
This form, a7a7b4b7a4a7b4b7a4, is asymmetrical in both its rhyme- and metric-schemes, yet has a highly consistent musical form. It is used in fourteen of the lais (including the two canons, but excluding the lais found to contain hidden polyphony), and in six instances is used for the opening and closing stanzas. In effect, it is repeated often enough to become a recognizable fixed form within the larger context of the concrete form of the Machaut lai (twelve stanzas with different metric and rhyme schemes, save the first and last which are of the same form).
Areas of consideration include: poetic and musical context within specific works; aspects of form as related to a shifting concept of genre in the later lais; questions of intertexuality (how should the reader/listener understand a recognizable form within a genre which prizes difference); and possible precedents for this highly organized presentation of a specific signature form. Finally, I will address the question of why Machaut chose to emphasize this particular form.
As her only poem (that we know of) set to music during her own century, Christine de Pizan's ballade Dueil angoisseux has garnered a certain amount of attention from musicologists. Its place in the first part of her Cent Ballades, a section entitled "Poemes de Veuvage" (Poems of Widowhood), has led Dueil angoisseux to be regarded as a powerful lament on the death of her husband, and Binchois' setting is also assumed to respond to someone's death (whose is unclear). But unlike some of her other ballades and rondeaux, Dueil angoisseux makes no reference at all to her deceased husband. Rather, the ballade protests the frustrations of her condition of widowhood, and the envoy makes a direct appeal for aid.
There is a striking correspondence between the content of Dueil angoisseux and the autobiographical account of her misfortunes in L'Avision-Christine (Christine's Vision)--her financial difficulties, embarrassment, "labor in vain," and victimization by uncaring or unscrupulous persons--all crystallized in Vision in a ballade complaining of the treatment of widows in general: "Alas! Where shall they find solace/Poor widows who have lost all?" Liane Curtis has argued persuasively that Dueil angoisseux represents a woman's use of lament, a culturally ascribed "feminine" genre, to gain access to public speech. But it's even more than that: it's a woman's use of a feminine genre not to express her sadness, but to make demands of an unjust and uncaring world.
Christine acknowledged that part of the appeal of her poems was their female authorship: the nobles in France and abroad found this quite novel. Binchois, who served the Burgundian court as Christine had, surely had some sense that there was more to this ballade than a widow's sadness, and this suggests that his compositional response to the poem as well as the occasion behind his setting stand to be reconsidered.
This paper explores the issue of the polyphonic mass cycle as it appears to have been conceived in the fourteenth century, as opposed to its much more familiar guise in the fifteenth century, when musical unification through a common cantus firmus was a clear element of its design.
Following the work of Leo Schrade, the study begins by defining the mass cycle of the period in terms of its paleographical and musical characteristics, tracing its roots in the plainchant cycles that began to be common in the thirteenth century. Codicological criteria for defining the mass cycle proceed from the contiguous placement of appropriate settings of the Mass Ordinary in liturgical order in manuscripts (including settings of the Ite missa est), as well as the extent of regularity in the inclusion of the various movements. Musical evidence considered includes the extent of tonal coherence among the various movements of a putative cycle, the use of preexistent plainchant melodies in polyphonic contexts, and the reuse of related motivic, tonal, and rhythmic material in disparate movements.
The following section of the paper comprises an assessment of the Machaut Mass, comparing this famous cycle with the other generally recognized mass cycles of the period (i.e., the Tournai, Sorbonne, Toulouse, and Barcelona masses), as well as considering a number of further groupings that have been proposed by various scholars.
The paper concludes with a general reassessment of the use of preexistent material in mass movements of the period, particularly the so-called parody techniques that have at times been emphasized as being cultivated by composers of liturgical music during the fourteenth century. These are shown to be based on procedures that are more utilitarian, and less self-consciously artistic, than has generally been acknowledged in the literature.
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Apparatchiks come and apparatchiks go, but the eternal challenge for political parties is to keep renewing their supporter base to have relevant policies and a connection with the broader community between elections. So the unusually public divisions within the Liberal Party over organisational leadership, management and policies should be seen as a healthy development at this point in the federal electoral cycle and not something to be brushed under the carpet at the behest of ever-ready spin doctors.
Professional management is as important for political parties as it is for modern companies, with the need for expertise in fields such as marketing, accounting and human resources. But too much control by centralised professional managers runs the risk that parties will hollow out as they provide less space for activist members and leave campaigning to experts who care little for the policy alternatives that should be the lifeblood of a working democracy.
Of course the Liberals have good reason to believe that the Labor government will try to take advantage of the already public divisions over the party presidency, and more so now the review of the past election by former minister
But the Liberals should be commended for taking advantage of the leaking of Mr Reith's report to release it and give their members a sense that they have a serious role in choosing candidates and choosing policies. It might make for some uncomfortable moments as the debate unfolds, but it will give the party the opportunity to say to the broader electorate that it is a party open to debate and diverse views.
It won't be hard to contrast this with the Labor government where former prime minister
As revealed in The Australian Financial Review and later by the party yesterday, the Reith report is the kind of document that all political parties can benefit from in the dog days of trying to shift from loss of government to restructuring to pave the way for a return to power.
But far from dog days, yesterday's Nielsen poll is the latest to suggest the Liberals have a strong chance of returning to power and have no time to lose in getting an administration and policy structure in place to be ready. Professional apparatchiks may say this is no time to be risking an airing of differences, but the party should be taking advantage of its public support to prepare for the future.
Some of the government's difficulties today reflect the inability of Labor to resolve internal differences over issues such as refugees and environmentalism during its long years of opposition.
Mr Reith observes in his own report: "It is not obvious to me why the Staley review was not released . . . it was a good report but hardly a hand grenade and the failure to release it even to members of the federal executive has meant that we have lost time by not fully confronting some issues three years ago." He goes on to make good suggestions for recruiting and energising members, finding good candidates early and raising funds.
But the important issue is policy preparation for an election and then government, as Labor's imbroglio over its changing story on how to deal with climate change illustrates. And Mr Howard underlined this point on the weekend with a simple solution to the Liberal dilemma over how to embrace a more flexible labour market by recommending a return to a pre-Work Choices regime with additional measures to help smaller business with unfair dismissals.
The opposition has a policy review process under way to avoid a repeat of what Mr Reith sees as inadequate policies to suit the needs of different regions in the country. But the question arises, if Opposition Leader
The government's position may be parlous in the polls, but the likelihood is that it will push its climate policy through Parliament with the support of the independents and Greens and then settle in for a long haul to an election still two years away. So the Liberals should be concentrating on using Mr Reith's report to prepare for an election on the normal schedule and likely government, rather than being sidetracked by a policy-light hope that the government will crumble early under the intense pressure of Mr Abbott's campaigning.
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222 to 215 million years ago
Late Triassic period
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Herbivore - club moss, low level ferns, roots, and tubers
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The best fossil find was at the Petrified Forest at St Johns in Arizona where forty individuals were identified. A low-slung, powerful animal resembling a hippopotamus,
was not a dinosaur, but a dicynodont or "two-dog tooth", so called because it had toothless jaw margins with only the two canine teeth, near the front. Dicynodonts are therapsids, or mammal-like reptiles, a group that includes the ancestors of modern mammals.
was a sturdy animal with tusks for rooting through the soil in search of a range of vegetation and a beak for uprooting plants. Fossil evidence from tusks from other dicynodonts show wear patterns of alternate deep grooves and a smoother polishing effect. Some palaeontologists have interpreted this as evidence that they lived in a highly seasonal environment. In the dry season the earth they dug up would be hard and granular, causing deep grooves on their tusks. In the wet season, the ground would be wet and silty, helping to polish them.
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But he operates in a mode as old as American letters—aw-shucks credulity mixed with an observant intelligence.
The quirky tenor of his voice, combined with his observant, mocking tone, gelled perfectly with the screwball proceedings.
Like other folks, observant Jews buy disposable tablecloths, he discovers, but the tablecloths are pre-cut for Shabbat use.
Although he prefers to call himself an "observant" rather than an "Orthodox" Jew, he is in fact an Orthodox Jew.
Even in the most ridiculous moments, an observant, compassionate intelligence shines.
Clodagh, to her own annoyance, coloured; and Barnard smiled in his observant, quizzical fashion.
And work, as these years have taught the observant, is but for slaves and the conscripted.
She was born to be a man's comrade, observant, unexacting, level-headed.
And your temper—even Arthur noticed it, and he is not at all an observant man.
A monk in the stalls was at prayer, he also kept an observant eye on the two visitors.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by MegaMagick, Oct 7, 2012.
I wish someone would tackle him while he is doing his salsa dance.
I thought the NFL hated TD celebrations? Yet they play salsa music for Cruz.
Seriously. They could be down 3 scores in the 4th and I still wouldnt count them out. GRRRRRRR
LOL Mike Vick
Vick Fumble #2!
vick fumbles yet again
Fumble Vick. LOL
Another eagle TO that won't be taken advantage of.
Group celebrations they dont like.
Trent Richardson says 1st and 20? No problem.
When will Foles be in?
The slow-mo cheerleader high kicks was the highlight of my 45 minute afternoon.
Kudos to the production team of the WAS/ATL game.
Pittsburgh? :bang2:
God the Steelers are so inept.
The Eagles / Steelers is such a poor game I'm switching to Red Zone.
Vick fumbles again
Atlanta / Skins is zzzzzzzzzz too
Richardson is an absolute beast
that is the Falcons I know!!
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NEVER in all of the years I have been reading the Ledbury Reporter have I felt so enraged that I felt the need to write a response to a letter by Ms Victoria Crowe (No Benefit, 27th January 2012).
The comment "Although developers always promise that they will provide more jobs, these are not proper careers.
"They tend to be part time with no prospect for advancement... keep young people in small towns by providing proper jobs, not just shelf stacking" absolutely astounded me.
This is blatantly disrespectful to all of the hard working people that work in supermarkets and I find the comments highly offensive.
I take it that Ms Crowe has never shopped in Ledbury Tesco before? Or if she has, then how an earth would she be expected to buy the items without the shelf stackers or pay for the items without the checkout assistants – because apparently these are "not proper careers".
Just like a job working in one of the town's local shops, behind a till, in a cafe... are not proper careers I suppose?
With unemployment at its highest, there are people in Ledbury who are currently struggling to put food in their kids' bellies and keep a roof over their families heads – I'm sure not many of them would turn down employment in a supermarket "with no prospect for advancement".
I worked in a supermarket after leaving school and found this to be a very valuable credential on my CV, as most of my previous employers commented on how this position showed I was "willing to work hard".
How very sad that what started out as a refreshing debate regarding whether a town should have another supermarket, has become a class war.


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By Mike Chappell, The Indianapolis Star
To the surprise of no one, the Indianapolis Colts will make former Stanford QB Andrew Luck the first overall pick when the NFL draft starts Thursday night, GM Ryan Grigson said after Tuesday's voluntary minicamp practice.
"In fairness to Andrew Luck and fairness to the whole process -- the media gauntlet he's going to be enduring the next couple of days -- I thought it was the right thing to do to announce we're going to take him,'' Grigson said. "I didn't see the point in prolonging what the world already knows.
"It's about Andrew. We wanted to do the right thing by him."
Today's announcement made it official, but a source confirmed the Colts' decision last week. The team already had informed Luck he would be their quarterback of the future.
After the Colts make Luck the 12th quarterback in the past 15 drafts to be selected first overall, the Washington Redskins are expected to take former Baylor QB Robert Griffin III with the No. 2 pick.
Nate Davis is a reporter, blogger and editor who's been at USA TODAY since 2000. He has covered the NFL since 2005. No, he did not play quarterback for Ball State. Davis' succession of our esteemed colleague Sean Leahy at The Huddle is considered a Brady-for-Bledsoe swap by most "insiders."More about Nate


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Staff writer Theresa Juva went on a ride-along with a New York State Trooper targeting texting drivers. (Read her report here.) Not only did the trooper have quite an easy time finding potential texting law violators, he told Juva that when he stopped people, they readily admitted that they knew… Read More →


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Work to install a large drain pipe under Peebles Road in McCandless, delayed by bad weather, will keep the road closed to most traffic through Feb. 15, PennDOT officials said.
Peebles Road has been closed between Hemlock Drive and Presidential Drive since late November. Work will resume when weather allows.
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Davis Strong Through Seven in 10-2 Win
By Eric Little / Augusta GreenJackets | August 28, 2012 8:00 PM ET
Rome, GA - The Augusta GreenJackets scored in six of their nine trips to the plate against the Rome Braves in Tuesday night's series opener between the two teams, building a big lead early and never looking back in a 10-2 victory over the Braves.
The GreenJackets sent eight to the plate in the first inning, taking the lead just two hitters into the game. Shawn Payne walked to lead things off after a 28 minute delay at the outset. He stole second and then third before Jose Flores singled him home to put the GreenJackets on the board. Augusta would load the bases before Jeff Arnold came though with the inning's biggest blow, a two-run single to stretch Augusta's lead to 3-0.
Payne would add to the lead in the second with a solo homer while Devin Harris duplicated the feat in the third - belting his team-leading seventh homer of the year to lead off the third inning and push Augusta's lead to 5-0. Later in the third, Kelby Tomlinson's sacrifice fly made it a 6-0 game and the rout was on.
Garrett Buechele singled home two more in the fourth inning to push the lead to 8-0. Brett Krill's RBI double in the fifth inning made it a 9-0 GreenJackets lead while Joe Staley drew a bases-loaded walk in the seventh to put Augusta up 10-0.
Paul Davis (6-7) delivered a solid outing for the GreenJackets, getting his first win in a month. In seven scoreless innings, he allowed five hits and walked three while striking out five. Davis kept runners out of scoring position for much of the night, as Rome only had men to second and third against him on three separate occasions. In addition, he was able to spread the damage against him; Rome had multiple hits against Davis in just one inning - his seventh and final frame.
Rome broke up the shutout in the eighth inning, getting two runs on four hits against DeMondre Arnold. The last two, RBI singles by Kyle Kubitza and Brandon Drury, made it a 10-2 game. Kevin Couture retired three of the four he faced in the ninth to seal Augusta's win.
Fabian Williamson (2-4) took the loss for the Braves and was roughed up from the outset. He didn't escape the third, firing just 2.2 innings and allowing six runs on six hits and four walks. Four Rome pitchers combined to walk 11 GreenJackets hitters. The damage could've been worse offensively for both sides as the Braves stranded ten runners while the GreenJackets left 14 men on base.
The GreenJackets will look to make it two in a row in Rome on Wednesday, sending Kyle Crick (7-6, 2.30) to the mound against David Starn (1-2, 6.04). First pitch from Rome comes at 7:05 p.m. with radio coverage beginning at 6:50 p.m. on ESPN Radio 1340 AM and www.greenjacketsbaseball.com.
The GreenJackets return home on Friday to open their final series of the year - a four-game set with the Charleston RiverDogs. Single-game tickets for any GreenJackets home game are currently available by calling the GreenJackets front office at 706-922-WINS and online at www.greenjacketsbaseball.com.
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The Importance of Being Sticky
In your opinion, what big business imperative doesn't get enough attention? — Pedro Cézar Dantas Neto, São Paulo
Not innovation, that's for sure. It's on everyone's mind these days, appropriately so. Same for technology, globalization, and employee engagement—all burning bushes, as they should be. Quality doesn't get talked about as much as it used to, but that's because it's a given. Ditto for teamwork. And strategy, well, in today's lightning-paced world, people seem to be giving it as much attention as it deserves.
Which is something you can't say about stickiness. Of all the business ideas in the "debate-o-sphere"—and stickiness has been out there for years now by many names, "customer retention" and "loyalty" among them—it still doesn't obsess managers nearly enough. Because stickiness can change the game. It transforms business from a transaction-based model to a more lasting, mutually beneficial one in which companies improve their own revenues and margins by improving their customers' competitiveness.
Indeed, the only trouble with stickiness, in our view, is that it can be hard to create. But still, let us suggest a few proven ways to go at it.
The first, perhaps not surprisingly, is good old-fashioned service. What is surprising, however, is how exceptional and inventive customer service needs to be to stand out these days. Take Mitchells, the Connecticut-based clothing chain. It has managed to outperform the competition in the tough suburban New York market not only by treating customers like royalty but as individuals, offering personal "enhancements" such as same-day tailoring and home delivery. Similarly, Four Seasons wins hearts and wallets in the crowded luxury hotel market by invariably delivering high-quality, seamless experiences.
For manufacturers, customer service is critical, but another approach to stickiness can pack an even bigger wallop. It requires moving from a product-focused business to a product-and-long-term-service business by guaranteeing productivity gains to customers. Now, most engineers want to build new machines, the faster and more powerful, the better. With this model, you're asking your engineers to focus on continuous technology upgrades to meet the terms that got you the sale. You're also betting they can deliver those upgrades in a way that provides productivity increases over many years. That's a big wager, but if you're right, it's a huge win for everyone.
Another tack, open particularly to commodity businesses, is to use your strong balance sheet to take a major outlay of capital off of a customer's hands. Industrial gas companies win long-term contracts, for instance, by building their plants next to customers' factories, providing over-the-fence, competitively priced raw materials. Some plastic manufacturers build on-site silos for customers, essentially guaranteeing a cost-competitive supply. Again, their customers return the favor by, well, sticking around.
Almost all companies can create stickiness by sharing knowhow. Welcome customers into your R&D facilities with a "my lab is your lab" mind set, share new designs for packaging, or show off next-gen products. If your expertise is in human resources, train your customers' managers in hiring, coaching, and evaluation. Many companies that are strong on Six Sigma, for instance, send their "Black Belts" into customer organizations to launch training programs. Such unbridled sharing of expertise creates a real affinity, not to mention a mutual obligation that can yield dividends for years.
Finally, many businesses can create stickiness by building user communities. Every year, for instance, software company SAP (SAP) hosts conferences where customers can meet with IT experts, software developers, and, most important, each other. These aren't sales events per se, but you can be sure that attendees leave with a feeling of partnership with SAP that contributes to the company's steady share gains.
Look, we're not inventing gravity here. We know that most companies have at least paid lip service to some of these ideas. But that's often the extent of it. The truth is, any one of these approaches involves a cultural shift, with a time-and-money commitment from management and the acceptance of some level of risk. Organizations must come to see the world through customers' eyes. Otherwise, unlike gravity, stickiness just won't happen.


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Anyone who describes themselves as a badass does sound like a jerk. Sorry but she's right on that point
thats kinda why i put quotes around that statement.. it wasnt MY official titling.. i made that statement based on what everyone ELSE said/how everyone ELSE acted.. its only being a jerk/arrogant if you speak of YOURSELF in that manner.. if others do it FOR you then its an entirely different thing
Gosh you ARE a jerk. Come back and look over some of your old posts in about ten years when you grow up and see if you can stomach it.
I'm guessing he knows that already
95% of the time youd be correct with that statement.. this particular time however Id have to disagree. for example ton stark (on the iron man movies) is a jerk because hes full of himself... nobody else talk about how wonderful/great he is EXCEPT him. Now if OTHERS were doing it and he was merely repeating what hes heard other say about him a million times then I probably still call him egotistical (as opposed to modest) but hed then lose his "jerk" tag sense at this point he has ppl who can backup the claims he makes about himself as opposed to the entire room rolling their eyes in disgust everytime he goes off on a rant about how "awesome" he is.. while everyone else is looking like "well he seems to be the ONLY one who thinks that"


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This is an adult-only speaker cable review. With my system designed for ultimate stereo reproduction, wired in technically (and sonically) advanced Harmonic Technology CyberLight interconnects and tweaked to kingdom come, I will hold no punches and take no prisoners in my analysis of these new speaker cables from Harmonic Technology. My reference speaker cables are the twice-as-expensive Kimber Select 3038 Black Pearls, also designed to be the ultimate solution for speaker connectivity. Get ready for the battle of the metals from two of the most renowned and respected cable companies in America.
Harmonic Technology designed the Magic Reference Tweeter Speaker Cable as an all-in-one solution for speakers that do not require bi-wiring, a list that includes my Avalon Eidolons. They also make a bi-wire cable called the called the Magic Reference Bi-Wire, which uses the Reference Tweeter on top and the Reference Woofer on the bottom. This cable is exotic, with 40 percent 6-9s copper and 60 percent 7-9s (!) silver in dual 10-gauge strands per leg soldered to a silver spade. The copper and silver are both patented single-crystal wire, and the insulation is advanced polyethylene around individual conductors. At $1800 for an 8-foot length, it's among the lowest-priced of the reference cables sold today. I used a 4-foot length, as my Kimber reference cable is also 4 feet and I wanted maximum consistency. They require 200 to 300 hours of break-in, and mine got an additional 70 hours on the audiodharma Cable Cooker.
I must add one small aside here. Oh how I wish Jim Wang, President and Chief Inventor at Harmonic Technology, could develop a way for the CyberLight interconnect solution to be applied to speaker cables (see the CyberLight reviews by Robert—Part 1 and Part 2—and by Max Dudious). The CyberLight Interconnects continue to astound me with their utter lack of coloration and their intense and accurate musicality. After months of use, the CyberLights have become my reference cables (used with the battery pack), surpassing all comers at any cost or composition. If you have not test driven these interconnect jewels, you just can't know what you are missing! Though Jim is investigating a fiber solution for speaker cables, nothing is imminent.
Back to the cable comparison. It amazed me how these two reference speaker cables sounded so little alike. The Magic Tweeter cable is more spacious, dramatic, and powerful, the Kimber Select more intimate, lean, and snappy. After hours of comparison listening, I found the Magic Tweeter more detailed and realistic in the vital midrange and more accurate in the bass. The highs above 2500Hz were more of a toss-up. The Kimber is more silvery and sharply focused, the Magic Tweeter more spacious, textured, and you-are-there. The Magic Tweeter always sounded more like a performance and less like a recording. I was very surprised at this outcome, particularly considering the cost difference between these cables.
The new reissue of the 1959 Mercury Suppe Overtures on SACD had a vintage flavor and texture with the Magic Tweeter cables. It sounded newer and overly analytical with the Kimber. The sound was very analog with the Magic Tweeter, as it should be. There was also better center fill and depth. I am convinced that the Magic Tweeter cables reproduced this superb new SACD with more honesty.
Listen to the new Brahms Piano Concerto on RCA/BMG SACD, and you will be thrilled by its power. You are transported to the performance with the Magic Tweeter cables, and the effect is not subtle. I heard twice the number of violins through the Magic Tweeter, and a real space for the piano. The piano tone was divine. What a performance, and what sound!
Try the Getz/Gilberto Verve SACD, and be prepared to be stunned. When Astrud Gilberto began to sing, she appeared just behind my right speaker in amazing, gorgeous perfection. I was blown away. It was as if the entire system was OTL. Wow! I recently listened to the fabulous Speaker's Corner LP of this recording and, if memory serves me, it was every bit as good.
The bass swagger and intensity of SuperBass 2 on Telarc SACD was dead on. Though the percussive effect of the strings was a bit faster on the Kimber, the Magic Tweeter was so much more you-are-there. The woody character of the bass boxes and the marvelous rosin sound of the bowing were vastly more accurate and alive with the Magic Tweeter. You live this recording, you don't just play it. With the Magic Tweeter, it was much more exciting to hear. The clinking of plates and the vocal asides were fascinating and vivid. The club environment and ambience reached out into the room and pulled me to the stage. I loved it.
The Telarc Carmina Burana on SACD was magical. The added power and midrange texture truly enhanced my listening. The cut "In Trutina" clinched the deal. Though the Kimber. I heard a bit of added sweetness and shimmer on the soprano's top notes, but the leanness was fatiguing. With the Magic Tweeter, the soprano was there to behold. I played this track over and over, marveling at the musicality and power of the sound. It was never edgy or lean, always suave and sophisticated. The Magic Tweeter cables are a major achievement.
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Etheridge, 41, has been dating Michaels, 28, for about two years, Pariseau said.
The musician shares custody of a daughter and a son with former partner Julie Cypher.
The two made news in 2000 when they revealed that musician David Crosby was the sperm donor for their children, who were delivered by Cypher.
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Woolton Pie was created by a chef at the London Savoy during World War II. It was designed to be filling while predominantly using vegetables from the garden (which were obviously unrationed). This is the traditional wartime recipe and rather bland by modern taste. Feel free to spice it up with modern day condiments, herbs and seasonings. You can also alter the vegetables to suit your personal tastes. Enjoy, keep calm, and carry on!
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This was exceptional. I used potatoes, carrots, chives, onion, garlic and corn as my vegetable. I think I used too much water so I added extra oatmeal and cornstarch to thicken until I got the consistency I wanted. I almost did not make the crust but am so glad I did. It is amazing. The only thing I did different was to add chicken soup base until it tasted right as I did add too much water I think. I also used a little less salt in the crust. Thank you so much for posting the recipe.
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- 1 lb diced potato
- 1 lb cauliflower
- 1 lb diced carrot
- 1 lb diced parsnip
- 3 spring onions
- 1 teaspoon vegetable extract
- 1 tablespoon oatmeal
- parsley
- 4 ounces cooked & mashed potatoes
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 8 ounces plain flour
- 3 ounces shortening
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
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- Place all ingredients except for parsley into a large pot.
- Add just enough water to cover.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally to prevent vegetables sticking to pot.
- Allow the mixture to cool.
- Sprinkle with parsley and season to taste.
- Combine salt, flour and baking powder.
- Rub shortening into flour mixture.
- Gently mix in potato.
- Add a little water if desired to create desired consistency.
- Knead
- Roll out onto floured board.
- Place pie filling into a deep pie dish or casserole dish.
- Cover with Potato pastry
- Bake in 400 F oven for 25-30 minutes or until pastry is lightly browned.
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I have a question about a old BSA 303 and a sealed ham can of ammo maybe somebody can help with. ON THE STOCK IT HAS THE NUMBER 1687. THEN STAMPED IN THE METAL ABOVE THE TRIGER IT HAS A SMALL CROWN AND G R, BSA.02, 1918, SHT LE, TTT (AND A STAR LOOKING PICTURE). THE AMMO CAN HAS A STICKER ON IT SAYING 05-76-11 320RD .303 BRITISH 174GR FMJ PRINTED ON CAN IS HARD TO READ IT ALL BUT SAYS 7.62 24 WITH A LINE UNDER IT AND 53 UNDER IT.
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Welcome! First please turn off your cap locks.
And make it hard to read.
Yes, good pics help a lot! Well lighted, plenty pixels in focus. Also- uh- what is your question? Have not asked one yet.
In the meantime, your rifle is the classic SMLE Mk III. Later known as Rifle #1, Mark III. Markings? Made by Birmingham Small Arms (BSA). All military arms in Britain were the property of the monarch (GR is George Rex, or King George) and it was made in 1918 (you have a WW 1 veteran) Ammo is correct for that rifle.
Here is a TON of reading for you. http://www.surplusrifle.com/smle/index.asp
One of the best battle rifles ever built.
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Thanks for nothing. If caps is all yall know anything about looks like i come to the wrong place to ask questions. Strange thing is i dont hear any shouting when i see capitol letters. Lot easier for me to read to. That said i bid you all a good day. I wont be back in this site again.
Alabama, you didn't ask a question. You just spat out some specs with no photos to help us out. C3shooter gave you plenty of helpful information. Sounds like you got your monies worth.
I have some info on the 303 and ammo. I will look it up and post it. Dont pay no attentions to the people on here that cant read and need something to fuss about. Any info you get from them would be useless. C3shooter did have some useful info and the caps didnt bother him
Way to welcome a new poster.
and the guys were just yanking his chain a bit. if he got his feelings hurt over that, then he probably won't enjoy this site very much. having a thick skin and the ability to also laugh at yourself is required here on this forum.
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Polish Scientist and Astronomer. Considered the Father of Modern Astronomy, he was the first to postulate that the earth revolved around the sun, and that the earth was a moving planet. Born in Thorn (now Torun, Poland), Copernicus was educated at the University of Krakow. From the influence of his uncle, a catholic bishop, he was appointed a canon of the cathedral of Frauenberg (now Frombork, Poland), providing him with income for the rest of his life. His church gave him permission to study in Italy, where he received a doctorate in law from the University of Ferrara, and studied medicine at the University of Padua. Returning to Poland, he became a medical advisor to his uncle, the bishop, who gave him great latitude in continuing his studies. Copernicus took interest in the relationship of motion among the heavenly bodies, and began to study them in earnest. For nearly 1,400 years, astronomers believed in a theory originally put forth by Ptolemy (100-165 A.D.), an early Greek scientist working in Alexandria, Egypt, that the earth was stationary, having no motion, and in the center of the universe; that all other heavenly bodies revolved around the earth. Ptolemy's theory, expressed in his 13-part book, "Mathematical Composition" was widely read throughout the world, and generally accepted by most people. Copernicus was the first scientist to seriously challenge Ptolemy's theories, and to explain convincingly why he believed the theory was wrong. In his book, "Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" (1543), Copernicus demonstrated that earth moves through the heavens, and that people have no sense of motion because they are moving along with the earth. He also demonstrated how the earth's motion could explain previously unexplainable movements of other planets. Copernicus's theory laid the foundations for later scientists, such as Galileo, Johannes Kepler, and Sir Isaac Newton, and is accepted by modern astronomers as the system by which our solar system and the universe work. In 2008, scientists announced the discovery of Copernicus's remains in an unmarked grave at St. John's Cathedral in Frombork. The astronomer was reinterred there with religious ceremony on May 22, 2010, and a black granite marker was placed at the site.
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Coleura afra
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Coleura afra
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|Taxonomic Notes:
|The recently discovered population in Madagascar could prove to be a distinct species.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
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|Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A.M., Racey, P.A., Cardiff, S. & Bergmans, W.
|Hutson, A.M., Racey, P.A. (Chiroptera Red List Authority) & Cox, N. (Global Mammal Assessment Team)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
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|Range Description:
|The African sheath-tailed bat is found in much of east and eastern-central Africa, with an isolated record from central Mozambique. It is also found in west Africa, with records from Guinea and Guinea Bissau, northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and western Nigeria. There is also a small distribution in western Angola. This species was recently discovered in Madagascar (Goodman et al. 2005) and is known only from the Ankarana Special Reserve in the north of the island and the Namoroka National Park in the west.
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Native:Angola (Angola); Benin; Central African Republic; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Côte d'Ivoire; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Madagascar; Mozambique; Nigeria; Somalia; South Sudan; Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Togo; Uganda
Possibly extinct:Congo
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|In the African portion of the African sheath-tailed bat's distribution, it roosts in large colonies (in the 1,000s of animals). The population and local abundance of this species in Madagascar is not known, but there is a minimum estimate of 500 individuals in one cave complex in Ankarana, Madagascar.
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|On mainland Africa, the African sheath-tailed bat is found in well illuminated caves, rocky crevices and cellars of houses (Rosevear, 1965). It preferentially roosts in caves along the sea and lake shores (Kingdon, 1974). In Nigeria, the African sheath-tailed bat is found in localised rocky habitats in southern Guinea savanna. Rosevear (1965) stated that they occur in woodland but only where there are acceptable roosting places. It is likely that other colonies occur in suitable rocky habitats in the southern Guinea savanna of western Nigeria. On Madagascar this bat taxon appears to be more varied in its habits, with some roost sites typically very dark and others quite close to the cave entrance. The two known sites on Madagascar are within dry deciduous tropical forest on a karst substrate (Goodman et al. 2005). Some authours suggests that the African sheath-tailed bat migrates (Happold, 1987; Skinner and Smithers 1990).
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|The threats to this species are not well understood. Disturbance of roost sites could potentially be a threat, but the effect of this on the population is not well known.
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|On the African continent, there are no species-specific conservation measures in place, but there are some protected areas within its range. Both of the known sites for this species in Madagascar are within protected areas (the Ankarana Special Reserve and Namoroka National Park).
|Mickleburgh, S., Hutson, A.M., Racey, P.A., Cardiff, S. & Bergmans, W. 2008. Coleura afra. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T5113A11115576. . Downloaded on 26 July 2017.
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Scottish actor Ian McDiarmid, who played Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, won best movie villain.
About 15,000 readers voted, and Mickey Rourke won man of the year for his role as street fighter Marv in Sin City.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's squirrels won best movie animal.
War of the Worlds star Dakota Fanning, 11, was awarded best child actor for her part in Steven Spielberg's film about alien invasion of earth, which starred Tom Cruise.
Nev Pierce, deputy editor of Total Film magazine, said: "Batman Begins was a smart but funny reinvention of an iconic figure and had fantastic performances.
"It was also excellently directed by Christopher Nolan. Film fans want more and Batman Begins overcomes the horrible taste that previous outing Batman and Robin left in people's mouths.
"We had more people voting for our awards this year than ever before and 2006 looks set to be another great year at the box office."
Last year's villain of the year was US President George Bush for his unwitting role in the Michael Moore anti-Iraq war documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.


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Andy Carroll will serve his three-match ban after an arbitration hearing found against West Ham.
The tribunal was held after the Hammers had threatened legal action following the striker's dismissal for his much-publicised clash with Swansea City's Chico Flores in last weekend's 2-0 victory at Upton Park.
Following the hearing which reportedly lasted for six hours, the tribunal found an independent commission was correct to reject the Hammers' appeal against the dismissal.
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January 20, 2013
Wind power pays dividends for nation
In the Jan. 13 article on wind power, we highlight that the Production Tax Credit, (PTC) has driven $15 billion in annual private investment. Here in Colorado, that translates to more than 5,000 wind-related jobs and more than $15 million in annual tax payments to rural counties and lease payments to landowners, allowing rural communities to invest in schools, roads and emergency care services.
The PTC has helped create a new American manufacturing industry — currently, more than 500 manufacturing facilities across 44 states manufacture components for the wind industry. As a result, more than 60 percent of a wind turbine's value is now produced in America, compared to 25 percent in 2005, a key factor leading to wind power's costs declining 90 percent in the past 20 years.
Wind power also is saving consumers money. Because it has no fuel costs, wind energy protects consumers from volatility in the price of fossil fuels, much like a fixed-rate mortgage protects homeowners from fluctuations in interest rates. Xcel, Colorado's largest utility, based recent wind acquisitions on the basis that our low-cost, fixed prices may ultimately save consumers as much as $100 million over 25 years.
And all of this happens while maintaining system reliability, another benefit wind plays in a diverse energy portfolio. Xcel in Colorado has obtained more than 50 percent of its electricity from wind on at least half a dozen occasions in the past year — hammering home the point that integrating large amounts of wind into the system happens reliably and at low-cost.
Tom Darin, western regional representative of American Wind Energy Association
Renfroe's guns bill makes sense
I want to express my appreciation for the bill Sen. Scott Renfroe is proposing, which is cosponsored by Rep. Lori Saine and Sen. Ted Harvey.
They are proposing that Colorado School Boards be given the freedom to allow their teachers to go armed at school. Rep. Dave Young has also stated those who wish to do so should be well trained in using a gun, all of which makes sense.
There are always going to be unhappy people in our civilization but it is ridiculous to think we can pay for enough mental health resources to keep everyone happy. So we have to decide the best way to stop the violent outlet of these angry people. Laws restricting access to guns do not help because generally those wanting to take out their anger through guns almost always get those guns illegally. Therefore, we should be as prepared to defend ourselves as these angry people are to attack us.
If you want to make the path easy for them, then advertise that in this school no one has a gun, no one will stop the expression of that anger. But I want school boards to at least have the freedom to choose whether their schools are to be outlets for that anger or whether they are willing and prepared to defend our children. Thanks Scott, Lori and Ted.
Dianne Stille, Eaton
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The Reserve Bank of Australia is under more pressure to cut interest rates because of a downturn in housing finance and lacklustre prospects for businesses not involved in the resources industry.
The number of mortgages issued dropped 1.2 per cent in January, the first monthly decline in nine months. Falling house prices and lower interest rates failed to lure more buyers into the market.
Taking into account extensive refinancing as borrowers shopped around for better deals, housing finance was even weaker. The number of new loans fell 2.9 per cent, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Interest among investors was particularly weak and fell 7.1 per cent.
Loans for established homes dropped 1.2 per cent and finance for the purchase of newly built houses fell 6 per cent, which was partially offset by a 0.2 per cent increase in borrowing to construct dwellings.
Despite the setback, borrowing for housing in January was 5.4 per cent higher than a year earlier, excluding refinancing.
Economists and industry groups warned that the jobless rate could rise if the central bank did not ease monetary policy.
BIS Shrapnel associate director Kim Hawtrey said conditions in the housing industry might be weaker than the figures suggested because stamp duty exemptions and other incentives were due to expire.
"The figures show more clearly that new home construction, a key driver of employment and output, is in a particular funk," Mr Hawtrey said. "[It] will not make it any easier to keep unemployment at its current levels."
RBC Capital Markets economist Michael Turner said weakness in finance for new dwellings "suggest a lower level of construction activity in 2012 compared with 2011".
Master Builders Australia chief economist Peter Jones said the results underlined the need for monetary policy to be eased.
"The two recent rate cuts in November and December are not enough and Master Builders believes the Reserve Bank needs to do more to boost confidence and maintain a sustainable recovery in residential building," he said.
A National Australia Bank survey found business confidence fell last month amid a drop in orders and high inventories, which suggest little incentive for an increase in production or employment.
The Australian Financial Review