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Bob Wills may be the king, but Guy Clark was recently anointed the elder statesman of Texas songwriting.
The Monahans native has released more than 20 albums. Jerry Jeff Walker had hits with Clark's "LA Freeway" and "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train." Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Kenny Chesney and Jimmy Buffett have also covered his tunes.
He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation's Songwriters Hall of Fame 2004. In 2005, he was given an AMA Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting. His 2006 album, "Workbench Songs" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Contemporary Folk/Americana category.
On Nov. 2, musicians and fans from all over the world gathered at the Long Center in Austin to help Clark celebrate his 70th birthday. On Dec. 6, Icehouse Records released "This One's for Him," a 2-CD set of 30 Clark tunes, covered by some of the best musicians in the business. The show and CDs are the culmination of a two-year-long venture led by Grammy-winning producer Tamara Saviano.
"It has been an important project to me from the beginning," Saviano said recently. "Guy is an incredible artist and his catalog is deep with these colorful pieces of literature. He tells a story the way no one else can."
The show featured over 15 performers, while the CD includes 33 gifted artists, including Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Radney Foster, Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jack Ingram, Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Verlon Thompson and James McMurtry.
"The first day Radney Foster came in and nailed 'L.A. Freeway,'" said Verlon Thompson, Clark's close friend and touring partner for over 20 years. "Then Rodney Crowell came in next [for 'That Old Time Feeling']. Then Jack Ingram ['Stuff that Works]. Then in the afternoon, Kris Kristofferson came in ['Hemingway's Whiskey']. Then we cut a track for Willie [Nelson, who covers 'Desperados Waiting for a Train]. That was just the very first day. If I hadn't been so focused on my work and trying to play well, I could have gone crazy. It was like a dream come true happening every other day or so."
Creating the set list and putting artists together with songs fell mostly to Saviano, who had a wish list in mind.
"I match performers and artists, and then it evolves from there," she explained. "Quite a few worked out for this album. I wanted Lyle Lovett for 'Anyhow I Love You,' Roseanne Cash for 'Better Days,' Kevin Welch for 'Magdalene' and Joe Ely for 'Dublin Blues.' It's a fun process."
When it came time to pick a back-up band for the artists and the Austin show, Saviano knocked it out of the park again.
In addition to recording "All Through Throwin' Good Love After Bad," Thompson handled guitar duties and lent his vocals to several tunes, along with Jen Gunderman on keyboards and accordion, Glenn Fukunaga on upright bass, Lloyd Maines on guitar and lap steel and John Ross Silva on percussion.
Shawn Camp, whose fame should be more widespread, lends his incredible gifts on guitar, fiddle and mandolin. Camp also laid down a achingly beautiful arrangement of "Homeless" for the CD.
Thompson believes the collaboration will meet the approval of all music fans, not just those who have followed Clark for over five decades.
"If you don't even know Guy Clark and you sat down and put this album on, you would want to find out who the hell is Guy Clark and why are all these people doing his song and why don't I know about him." he said. "It's a pretty amazing view of Guy's life."
The songwriter's Texas childhood looms large in his comprehensive catalog. Willie Nelson lends his incomparable stylings to "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train." The song details a relationship between a young boy and a rapscallion. Vince Gill lowers his beautiful tenor voice to do the talking blues on "The Randall Knife," an emotional ode to Clark's father, an attorney. "The Last Gunfighter Ballad" (Steve Earle), "Texas Cookin'" (Gary Nicholson, Darrell Scott and Tim O'Brien) and "Texas 1947" (Robert Earl Keen) round out a tour of the Lone Star State.
Relationships are important to Clark, as borne out in "That Old Feeling" (Rodney Crowell), "Anyhow I Love You," (Lyle Lovett), "Magdalene" (Kevin Welch), "Magnolia Wind" (Emmylou Harris and John Prine) and "Dublin Blues" (Joe Ely).
Clark wrote one new song for his friend Jerry Jeff Walker to sing. "My Favorite Picture of You," is a tender love letter to Clark's wife, Susanna.
When Clark called Walker to tell him about the tune, he said, "This may be my best one yet."
One of Thompson's favorite moments on the CD is Terri Hendrix's interpretation of "The Dark," even though her recording session didn't come off exactly as planned.
"The day Terri was originally scheduled, we got behind," he said. "She was supposed to be the last one, but we ran out of time, so we had to bump her."
The hiccup proved to be fortuitous, however, as it gave Hendrix a chance to change her song.
"The delay gave her more time to sit down and decide what she really wanted to do," he explained. "When she walked into Cedar Creek Studios [in Austin], she just stepped up to the mike and started playing."
What happened next was magic.
"It was one of those breathtaking moments," Thompson explained. "We all looked around the room at each other and had to choke it back to keep it together."
Having a mix of artists, not all of them household names, adds a lot of layers to the album.
"It doesn't always have to be the same names," he said. "I thought it was brilliant to have some different blood."
For example, John Townes Van Zandt II, who covers "Let Him Roll," has yet to cut a record, but when he took the stage in Austin, the crowd exploded into applause. J.T., as he is known, is the son of the late, legendary Townes Van Zandt, Clark's best friend and touring partner for 30 years.
Clark's songs about the hardscrabble life of a journeyman musician light up this collection.
"The Guitar" [Ramblin' Jack Elliott], which was released on Clark's 2009 CD "Some Days the Song Writes You," sprang from a workshop he conducted with Thompson.
"Verlon and I were teaching a songwriting class at a guitar camp," explained Clark in a 2009 News-Telegram interview. "There were about nine students in the class. I said, 'Let's write a song.' That's the way I teach."
Clark said he put the song away and didn't think of it again until someone e-mailed Thompson asking about it.
"I asked Verlon if he remembered the chords," Clark said. "Then, I read the lyrics. Verlon read them. We said, 'This is really good.' Verlon picked up a guitar and spoke it [the lyrics]. It was so powerful."
"Cold Dog Soup" (James McMurtry) was written after Van Zandt's 1997 death and gives listeners a gritty glimpse into a musician's life on the road.
Neither Saviano or Thompson were in the studio when McMurtry laid down the track at Cedar Creek Studio in south Austin, much to their regret.
"Out of the 30 tracks, this is the only one I was not in the studio for," Saviano said. "After I heard it I wished so much I had dropped everything and gone to Austin to be there, but the truth is that James is a total pro and didn't need anyone to get in his way."
Thompson said the song was in the set list for a couple of years after it came out, but they've let it slip off their radar. McMurtry was originally set to do another tune, but this one turned out so well, they decided to use it instead. It was a match made in songwriting heaven.
It's the perfect combination of Guy Clark's lyrics, McMurtry's unique musicality and the ghost of Townes Van Zandt.
McMurty is characteristically laid back about the experience.
"I can't really tell [if it's good or not] when I'm recording," McMurtry said during a phone interview last week. "I did a couple of takes and the engineer thought it was good, so I left it alone. Listening back a few days later, I thought, 'Yeah, it's pretty good.'"
Thompson is not so blasé.
"If you had to cast a character to take one of Guy's songs, blend in a little Townes and a little of his own experience, that was the one," he said. "You gotta hand it to James. He knows how to read and interpret that kind of work. With Guy's songs, you don't just pick 'em up and sing 'em. McMurtry nailed it on every level. It's turning out to be very popular."
For music lovers, especially fans of Americana songs, it really doesn't get much better than this. The cut, with just McMurtry and a guitar, should be on every "best of" list when awards season rolls around.
Thompson also has high praise for Saviano.
"Tamara has to get a major shout out," he said. "I've never seen anybody dive so completely into anything – ever. She has given up her entire life to this thing and a lot of it wasn't so easy. No one else could have done it. She's so passionate about Guy and his music. She's going to be turning things away now."
With all the slick, over-produced pablum spewing out of Nashville these days, "This One's For Him" is a breath of rarified air – rich stories, told with wondrous music, by one of the best songwriters to ever pick up pen, paper and guitar.
"Guy's a poet and a Renaissance man," Saviano said. "They don't make 'em like him anymore."
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Cilantro Lime Chickpea Salad
Recipe by KatieMurch
Light and delicious salad chockfull of protein. From: http://www.heathersdish.com/1/cilantro-lime-chickpea-salad/
Top Review by Dr. Jenny
I really wanted to love this recipe as I love chickpeas and love all of the ingredients. I think this recipe could be really good still, with a few modifications. One of the pros about this recipe is that it uses staples I usually have on hand and the food processor takes care of a lot of the prep. This makes it handy for when you are on the go. The problems I had were that I had really juicy limes. When I added all that lime juice to the processor I started to get worried, as that, plus the olive oil seemed WAY too much for the amount of chickpea/onions/spinach waiting in the bowl. I was also worried about 3 Tb of sugar. Knowing I don't like things too sweet, I cut back to 2 Tb. When I poured the dressing over the chickpea mixture, my salad more resembled a soup (not the way it looked in the photos on the blog you referenced at all). The dressing was still way too sweet for me. For others that like sweeter dressing, maybe cut to 1 Tb; for me, it would be more like a teaspoon. I added another can of chickpeas to the salad and it was still swimming in the dressing. I then "drained" a good portion of my salad until at least it did not resemble soup. It's chilling right now and I suspect I will drain it a little more and put it in some pitas for lunch tomorrow. Made for Fall PAC
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 (850.48 g) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 946.36 ml fresh spinach, loosely packed
- 1 onion, chopped small
- 4 limes, juice of
- 1 bunch fresh cilantro (about loosely packed cup)
- 44.37 ml sugar
- 29.58 ml Dijon mustard
- 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
- 7.39 ml chili powder
- 118.29 ml olive oil
Directions See How It's Made
- Chop the spinach very finely (feel free to use a food processor and pulse 3-4 times).
- Add the chickpeas, onion, and spinach to a large bowl. In the same food processor add the lime juice, cilantro, sugar, mustard, garlic, chili powder, and olive oil. Process til it comes together into a dressing, about 30-45 seconds.
- Pour over the chickpea mixture and stir to combine.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Let sit for about 10 minutes on the counter or overnight in the fridge to let the flavors marry. Enjoy!


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LONDON -- Usain Bolt backed up his billing as a "living legend" by winning the Olympic 200 metres and becoming the first athlete to repeat as double Olympic sprint champion.
"Bask in my glory," Bolt boasted. "I've got nothing left to prove."
Undaunted by the first world record of the Olympic track meet run by 800-metre winner David Rudisha less than an hour before the 200 final, Bolt was not about to be upstaged by anyone.
He dominated his favourite event almost from the starting gun and had enough of a lead to slow down at the line, bring his left index finger to his mouth and signal a "ssssshhh" that was broadcast around the globe.
It should certainly silence the critics who claimed he was out of form ahead of the Olympics after losses to Yohan Blake at the Jamaican trials.
"That was for all the people that doubted me," Bolt said. "I was just telling them, 'You can stop talking now, because I am a legend.' "
But he didn't stand a chance of hushing the 80,000-capacity crowd at the Olympic Stadium, which went wild as Bolt delivered on his promise of winning when it counts most.
They knew they were witness to something unique.
"I've done something that no one has done before, which is defend my double title," Bolt said. "Back-to-back for me. I would say I'm the greatest."
His 19.32-second winning time was just .02 seconds outside his winning mark at the Beijing Olympics.
Just like Sunday's victory in the 100, his junior training partner, Blake, stayed closest, and Warren Weir made it a full Jamaican medal sweep before Wallace Spearmon of the United States crossed in fourth place.
Bolt kissed the track twice before striking his trademark "To the World" pose, pointing both his index fingers upward to show what he had achieved.
He can still make it six-for-six at two Olympics if he leads his nation to victory in the relay.
"It's all about the 4x100 now," Bolt said, "to have some fun and go out there and do our best."
His win in the 100 seemed to lighten his burden in his more favoured event.
He discarded the black woollen hat he wore before his races in the 100, which reflected his mood and the cold conditions.
Thursday's temperature of 23 C and a shot at the double-double brought out the Bolt of old. Wearing a Jamaica-yellow cap backwards and joking with his kit volunteer, he made the pre-race activities feel like a small-town Caribbean weekend track meet.
Next to him, Blake was all intensity and concentration, but it wasn't enough to upstage Bolt like he did at the Jamaican trials.
Rudisha was just as confident as Bolt. He predicted a world record and delivered with an overpowering show of front-running to win the 800 title.
When many were still hoping Bolt would set such a world mark in the 200 later Thursday, the Kenyan stole some of the Jamaican sprinter's thunder at the beginning of a balmy evening suited for setting great times.
Rudisha set off with his giant strides from the starting gun, immediately took the lead and steadily built on it, as many of the year's greatest middle-distance runners could never even get close. He finished in 1 minute 40.91 seconds, shaving .10 of a second off the mark he set in 2010.
"Yes, he's the greatest runner," said Timothy Kitum, Rudisha's teammate who took bronze. "He told me he's going to run a world record today. He's the best."
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1430: History of the
Dr. David F. Krugler Fall 2009
This course examines the major forces, events, and people which have made American history since the 1870s. The course has four primary goals:
To provide each student with a basic knowledge of
2. To show how historical events such as the Great Depression and World War II have had differing effects on Americans, and to be flexible in choosing the "major forces, events, and people" we study.
3. To demonstrate why history is not an exact or objective science, but rather is a discipline dependent on interpretation, revision, and argument.
4. To regularly consider the ways in which contemporary Americans—not just historians—use history to understand their own lives and the world in which they live.
History 1430 is a General Education course. Accordingly, it is designed and taught to meet the competency standard as defined in the Undergraduate Catalog: "The purpose of the study of history is to challenge students to understand and assess our past, in order to form a clearer perception of the present and to deal more effectively with public issues." Upon satisfactory completion of the course, students will be able to "demonstrate knowledge of the past; explore the multitude of circumstances and events that have helped to shape historical judgments, actions, and visions; [and] interpret the sources of historical change in a variety of contexts" (Undergraduate Catalog 2009-2011, p. 30).
Material is presented topically and chronologically. Students must complete weekly reading and discussion assignments, outlined in detail below. Additional assignments include two hourly exams, a five page paper, and a two hour final exam. Eligible students who require academic test or lecture accommodations should speak with me. Accommodations will also be made for religious holidays.
Course meeting times and locations:
History 143 has two separate meeting places:
· On Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11-11:52 am, all students attend lecture in the Thomas Lundeen Lecture Hall (Room 103, Doudna Hall).
· Each student must also be enrolled in one of the following discussion sections: B1, meeting on Tuesdays, 12-12:52 in Doudna 212; B2, Thursdays, 10-10:52 in Boebel 225; B3, Thursdays, 12-12:52 in Doudna 212.
Books: The following texts are required; all are available at the textbook rental center.
James Henretta et al.,
· James Marten, Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era
Victoria Bissell Brown and Timothy J. Shannon, Going to the Source: The
· Samuel T. McSeveney, Selected Historical Documents to Accompany America's History vol. 2: Since 1865
· Edward H. Judge and John W. Langdon, The Cold War: A History through Documents
Some reading assignments come from web sites or handouts, which will be distributed in advance of the discussion class. It is each student's responsibility to get the handout if class is missed. If possible, links to the handouts will be placed online.
Your grade is based on exams, a paper, and discussion section assignments.
Exams: You will take two hourly tests and a final exam. Each exam will be in an essay format; a study guide will be provided in advance (see below for exam dates).
Writing: You will write one paper of five pages. A detailed explanation of the topic and the assignment will be distributed well in advance of the due date. The paper is due on Thursday, October 29. **Please know that late papers will not be accepted.**
Discussion Sections: Discussions of the weekly reading assignments are held either on Tuesdays or Thursdays. The reading assignment must be completed by the date and time of your discussion section. Your individual participation is mandatory, and you cannot make up work from skipped classes. Participation includes oral contribution to class discussion, quizzes, group work, homework, and in-class writing assignments. To help you prepare, I will distribute an assignment guide in advance of your discussion section.
Attendance: The undergraduate catalog states that students should attend classes regularly and that faculty are expected to record attendance in their classes. Accordingly, roll will be taken in both lecture and discussion. Repeated failure to attend class will result in a lower course grade. Except in case of emergencies, makeup tests will not be given without prior approval.
Grade Parts: 2 Tests @ 75 points = 150 points
1 Final = 75 points
1 Paper = 75 points
Disc. assignments = 100 points
Total = 400 possible points
Grade Scale: Your grade will be based on the number of total points you earn during the semester. Grades are based on a percentage scale that sets an A at 90% or more of the total possible points; B at 80 to 89%; C at 70 to 79%; D at 60 to 69%; F at 0 to 59%. The following scale tells you how many points must be earned to receive the grade indicated:
A: 360 – 400 points D: 240 – 279 points
B: 320 – 359 points F: below 240 points
C: 280 – 319 points
Lecture, reading, and assignment schedule. Please note: readings are subject to changes, which will be placed on the weekly assignment guide. When this syllabus and the guide differ, follow the guide.
Week 1: No reading
Tu 9/1 Introduction to the course
Th 9/3 State of the nation in the 1870s
Discussion: Understanding and using primary sources
Discussion: The 1894
Week 3: Read Going to the Source, 73-93
Tu 9/15 Late 19th century politics
Discussion: One immigrant's life: memory vs. history
Tu 9/22 Expansion abroad
Discussion: American Indians and the challenges of assimilation
Week 5: Read Going to the Source, 115-23
Tu 9/29 Progressivism, cont.; outbreak of World War I
Discussion: Army screening of recruits
Tu 10/6 US and World War I
Th 10/8 A quest for "normalcy" after the war
Discussion: Progressivism and child welfare; paper assignment
Discussion: Causes and onset of the Depression
Week 8: Read America: A Concise History, 745-51; Selected Historical Documents, 283-91; handout
Tu 10/20 Combating the Depression
Th 10/22
Tu 10/27
Th 10/29 Fighting in
Week 10: Read
Tu 11/3 Victory and postwar changes
Th 11/5 The early Cold War
Discussion: Origins of the Cold War
Week 11: Read
Tu 11/10 Eisenhower Republicanism and the New Look
Discussion: 1950s society and culture
Tu 11/17 The Great Society and its critics
Discussion: The 1960 election
Tu 11/24 TEST 2
Week 14: Read Going to the Source, 249-71
Th 12/3 Watergate and its aftermath
Discussion: Letters home from
15: Read
Tu 12/8
Th 12/10 End of the Cold War
Discussion: Activism in the 1970s
FINAL EXAM: Monday, December 14, 5-7 pm. Please note: graduating seniors must take the exam.


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IIDA's 15th annual Industry Roundtable explored the intersection of culture, the workplace and social media. Here's a sampling of what the experts had to say.
IIDA's 15th annual Industry Roundtable explored the intersection of culture, the workplace and social media. Here's a sampling of what the experts had to say.
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Social media and the mobility of the office have revolutionized the way we work. In just a few short years, technology
has made the business world smaller by connecting brands and people together on a personal level, from anywhere in the world. It has changed our work processes and the way consumers interact, perceive and learn about brands and companies.
With this in mind, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) recently brought together key manufacturers and designers in the industry to discuss the impact of social media in the workplace at its 15th annual Industry Roundtable, entitled "Work: Who, Where and How: The Intersection of Culture, Workplace, and Social Media." The discussion, led by IIDA Executive Vice President and CEO Cheryl Durst, Hon. FIIDA, LEED AP, focused on the new office environment, and the effective use of social media in communications and as a branding tool.
For starters, the younger generation has formed a powerful online community, and that is what they are now looking for in a work environment. They want to be able to engage with coworkers in a team atmosphere and on a more personal level, driving the change from fewer private offices to more group areas that enable collaboration.
And that isn't the only change—the ability to work from anywhere, at any time is becoming more and more the norm. The idea of the virtual workstation is in full swing, and now includes coffee shops, hotel lobbies and home. This dovetails with a recent study by Haworth which showed that 58 percent of Generation Y (15-29 year olds) prefer to have a certain degree of flexibility in their work. Employees now have the ability to read Facebook updates before starting their day and check tweets on their phone while riding the bus. Communication between team members can occur through several different mediums—instant messaging, voice calls, web conferences or video conferences—allowing everyone to participate, regardless of their location.
This instant access to social networks makes it
even more essential for companies to be thinking of the best approaches for connecting with their central audience. While the design firms and manufacturers at the Industry Roundtable may have different social media strategies, everyone assembled had one goal in common—to increase brand awareness, and reach their customers in a more authentic and effective way.
A panel of social media experts shared the newest trends and benefits of social media, and included Chris Bates, president of the Office Furniture Dealers Alliance (OFDA); Melanie Kahl, knowledge manager with Perkins + Will; Lira Luis, AIA with atelier lira luis, LLC (ALLL); Claire Monette with NELSON; and Jessica Statz, IIDA with Gensler.
The panel agreed that the core of social media is user engagement that delivers thought-provoking content that also forms and fosters relationships between the brand and its audience. Social media has taken on a variety of roles today including sharing knowledge, expertise and inspiration, along with supporting ongoing collaboration with clients, colleagues and the online community. It can also be used to tap into trends and cultures, promote events and products, recruit employees, and serve as an informal customer service agent.
Of course, interacting and responding to a large social media network can be a full-time job. For example, here at IIDA, we have grown our social media network to nearly 45,000 followers across all social media channels. We have two Twitter accounts, two Facebook pages, two blogs, a LinkedIn, Pinterest and YouTube account. A recent article in Perspective encouraged designers to take advantage of this vast social media network, even if it means hiring someone to do it. The payoff is worth it—with more than 800 million active users on Facebook and more than 200 million users on Twitter, the idea of not taking advantage of a free marketing technique seems out of the question.
Social media is an extension of a brand. It is a living, breathing, acting advocate, more so than anything else. Every friend and follower of a brand knows that there is an actual person on the other side of that screen who can respond in real time to questions, ideas and complaints. They know that someone is reading their comments and listening to what they have to say, which is an invaluable position
to be in as a brand. Having a strong following on social media is like having an army behind you. They are your brand advocates and best marketers. People take recommendations from friends and make decisions based on what they say—whether it's a restaurant suggestion or a product they are curious about, they will always ask the people they know first. That is why developing a social media branding strategy is so vital; it acts as a word-of-mouth referral service in the online world.
"At Perkins + Will, social media is shrinking the size of our global firm by making it easier to share news and information across sectors, individuals and locations," says Kahl. "Amongst the marketing team, following other offices on Twitter has increased inter- and intra-office collaboration. Twitter has also allowed our local offices to deepen their presence in the design world of their own cities. As design professionals, we use social media to keep the pulse of design trends, meet design influencers, and contribute to and instigate design dialogues."
The key is creating and cultivating a valuable relationship between your company and your followers. In order for your brand to have a strong following of users, it needs to generate interesting and unique content while maintaining conversations with those users. Social media allows brands to have a voice that shapes their image. The content, photos and links posted say something about the brand and what it values; this is what users look at. If they find value in what the brand finds value in, the relationship will grow.
The way we communicate and relate with each other in the business world has been greatly influenced by technology. The dynamics in the office have evolved to where collaboration is the norm, enhancing work relationships. The youngest generation in the workplace is coming to work to see the people they want to see—their team, their coworkers and their friends. It seems that, interestingly enough, work has become the new social network.
IIDA President Peter Conant, IIDA, AIA, LEED AP is the founder of Conant Architects in New York. You can reach IIDA at (312) 467-1950 or at email@example.com.


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|From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 19 09:04:44 EDT 2006
At Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:35:00 +1000, Jepri wrote: > The error: > ..\actinic\actinic.ss::15268: tcp-connect: connection to 10.0.5.5, port > 80 failed (at step 6: Only one usage of each socket address > (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted.; errno=10048) > > I am writing web crawlers and file transfer agents using lots of > threads. This error occurs when I try to shift a file using multiple > threads (to reduce latency). > > I'm not quite sure what that error means. If there has been a collision > of source ports, then something has gone very wrong in network layer. > But I think it means that I can't open two connections to the same port > on the same server. > > If the latter, would it be possible to have that restriction lifted or > is it too fundamental to change? It's very common to open multiple > connections to a server when doing web work. Yes, you certainly should be able to open multiple connections to the same remote port. Are you supplying the 3rd and 4th (optional) arguments to `tcp-connect', which determine the local interface and port for the connection? If so, that could be the problem, since you can use each local port only once. But supplying the 3rd and 4th arguments is unusual. Matthew
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A group of Patrons recently (November) visited London's Victoria and Albert museum to see the 'Engineering the World: Ove Arup and the Philosophy of Total Design' exhibition.
The exhibition featured previously unseen archival materials for famous Ove Arup led projects such as the Sydney Opera House, alongside more recent prototypes and digital animations by Arup.
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FROM THE PUBLISHER >>Time of year bringing out best in folks
As I exited the car, I locked the door, only to realize that the keys I had in my hand were not mine, but the key to the first neighbors home. It was cold, windy and raining and it was Christmas night. The only choice I had was to call a locksmith.
After Sylvia Smith of Smith Wrecker in Cabot unlocked the door, I reached for my purse to write her a check. When I asked her how much I owed her, she replied, This is what you owe me.... a Christmas hug....Merry Christmas!
I appreciate so much that she came out on such a nasty night, but to leave her family on Christmas and then be so kind deserves some special recognition. I had received so many reports of sad news over Christmas weekend that Sylvia Smiths kindness on Christmas Day was especially sweet, Mrs. Frederick said. I work at Metropolitan National Bank in Cabot and received a call on Saturday, as my family sat down for our Christmas meal together, that (teller) Jim Garison had been killed in the robbery at our Colony West branch.
Mrs. Fredericks neighbors help each other all the time. My neighbors are wonderful about taking care of my dog, getting my mail and even taking care of my lawn when I am out of town, Mrs. Frederick continued. My next door neighbor had been gone for five days and the other neighbor had left for a one week trip to California. As far as the goodness of other people, I could go on and on. I was widowed at the age of 37 with three children still at home. My husband died from a malignant brain tumor at the age of 40.
He was 62 tall, a strong, active, healthy man until the cancer struck. He only lived 4 1/2 months after his diagnosis. During that 4 1/2 months, he and all three of our children celebrated their birthdays. Jim turned 40, our oldest son turned 19, our daughter turned 12, and our youngest son turned 8. Jim passed away in February 1987. During his battle with cancer and after his death and the years since then, we have experienced the tremendous, overwhelming outpouring of love and support from friends, family, neighbors and our church.
One of the most generous acts of kindness came just a few years ago from our newly elected mayor of Cabot. Eddie Joe Williams and his family have been friends of my family for about 15 years. About seven years ago, I came home from work on my lunch hour and discovered water pouring down my driveway. I opened the front door to discover that a water hose to my washing machine had burst. Water was approximately six inches deep throughout my house. My oldest son was stationed elsewhere in the Navy, my youngest was in college at ASU in Jonesboro and my daughter was married, so I had the task of dealing with the mess by myself...or so I thought.
Eddie Joe and I attended church together at McArthur Assembly of God in Jacksonville. When he heard of my plight, he came over and offered to help. Eddie spent not just hours but days turning into weeks, cleaning, painting, and carpeting my house. I had homeowners insurance that covered part of the work, but Eddie out of sheer kindness did more than the insurance would cover. He solicited help from other church members and together they did an amazing job on refurbishing my home.
I hesitate to name those who helped Eddie Joe with the work, because there were so many that I know I would miss someone, but I have always wanted a way to express my deep appreciation for the goodness of my friends and family over the years. Perhaps this is the way. Thank you!


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Givenchy Pre-Fall 2013
You are not alone in noticing the sea change in fashion over the last few years, the oftentimes subtle—and oftentimes not—alterations and calibrations in how women have been putting themselves together. It's a little more utilitarian, and masculine, and athletic, and denuded of anything that speaks of nudity, i.e.: Sexiness in any conventional expression looks just plain wrong, try-hard, smacking of the kind of desperation that befits someone of Housewives (as in The Real) status. The shifting attitudes about what's age-appropriate have played into this; who says a woman in her fifties can't work a leather biker jacket and a conceptual pant and a deftly reimagined sneaker? And, of course, a newish generation of designers have come into vogue, shaking things up. Hovering at the top of that list would be Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, who has fused haute couture's artisan's approach with a gritty streetwise sensibility that has never been less than thrilling to view—and, when it comes to the women clamoring to get their hands on an ornate satin sweatshirt, a militaristic multi-layered coat, or a gladiatorial leather sandal, empowering to wear. Tisci's pre-fall is likely to only further stoke the flames of desire for what he's producing for the house.
For this season, Tisci took his menswear as one of his starting points, an approach he already explored with a recent couture collection. (For instance, the nose rings he gave the guys on his runway were later readily and enthusiastically employed to give a fetish-y underground vibe to the kind of intricate dresses that take entire ateliers days and weeks on end to produce.) Tisci worked in baseball jackets, graphic varsity sweats, and substantial shoes embellished with some kind of gleaming metal, be it a sporty sandal encrusted with a heavy bike chain or encasing the back of an ankle boot in silver. (Almost every single pre-fall showing of the last few days has partnered substantial flats with everything.) But he also developed a few of the ideas he'd started exploring with his spring women's, specifically, morphing its many shades of beige into camel (the color of pre-fall, as it happens) and its asymmetric cutting, slicing the sleeve off a knee-length tunic dress to wear over slim pants, echoing the season's dominant silhouette of a skirt worn over trousers. As it turned out, these were actually a single piece. Like all good designers, Tisci designed it to put the "effortless" into effortlessly cool.


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The pending lawsuit alleges over the years, Peter Madoff — who worked with his brother since 1965 — his daughter and nephews "withdrew millions more than they invested" in private investment accounts they had with the firm.
Peter Madoff "ignored obvious red flags that the profits reflected in account statements could not have been earned legitimately, to the detriment of BLMIS and its other customers," the lawsuit says.
It says about $13 million was "fraudulently diverted" to Andrew Madoff, which he used to buy a $4.4 million Manhattan apartment, for a $30,000 investment in the hair salon and to put $12,000 down on a boat.
In all, Picard has filed more than 1,000 civil lawsuits to recover money from investors who were paid fictitious profits by Madoff above the amount they invested. Picard and the government have combined so far to recover about $10 billion, mostly through deals with those who profited from Madoff's investment business.
Picard has said he would like to recover $17.3 billion of the $19.5 billion that was put in Madoff's accounts by investors.
An initial distribution of $272 million that was to be paid to 1,224 investor accounts on Friday was delayed indefinitely while lawyers decide how a recent court ruling might affect payouts. A lawyer for Picard said first payments that were to average about $222,000 will definitely go out by the end of the year.
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Man up Webber, you had your chance at the title and you choked good and proper.
The only person that made it easier for Alonso was Massa, another number 2 driver.


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London (UPI) Feb 07, 2006
A post-Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change must include targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday.
Eyeing a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire in 2012, Blair said despite U.S. concerns, there would have to be more decisive action to cut emissions.
"In my view, this can only be done if you have a framework that in the end has targets within it," he told a committee of senior parliamentarians. "If you don't get to that point...the danger is you never have the right incentives to invest heavily in clean technology."
U.S. President George W. Bush has rejected a targets-based approach in favor of developing clean technologies to curb greenhouse emissions. Remarks by Blair last year were interpreted as a sign he was moving toward the U.S. position, but Tuesday's comments are an apparent reassertion of his commitment to the Kyoto Protocol and a successor treaty.
Blair said the fight against climate change could only be won if the United States, India and China signed up to a framework that included targets and that succeeded the 1992 Kyoto Protocol climate pact.
"If we don't get the right agreement internationally for the period after which the Kyoto protocol will expire -- that's in 2012 -- if we don't do that then I think we are in serious trouble," he told the committee.
Asked if the world had seven years to implement measures on climate change before the problem reached "tipping point," Blair replied: "Yes."
Blair said he was speaking to Bush about global warming "virtually the whole time."
He said the United States had "a very clear position" on tackling climate change, and there could be a way forward if Washington were persuaded that controls will not hinder economic growth. He added there was no point in speculating on the U.S. position until discussions were concluded.
"My own view, as I say, is that they have moved a long way in the last couple of years, but obviously I and many others want to see America move much further," he said.
Blair said finally a climate change deal could only come about with a framework of incentives so the private and public sectors work on technology necessary for clean energy.
"It is only going to come through the science and technology being developed," he said. "One thing that is absolutely essential in this area, in my view, is to dispose of a lot of the nonsense that simply points the finger at America and says America is the only problem in relation to climate change."
Many European Union states were struggling to keep to their Kyoto targets, Blair said, while emerging economies such as India and China had not joined the protocol.
But there may be signs that Washington might be seeing that there are real issues to do with security of energy supply. Bush surprised the world last week by using his State of the Union address to tackle the issue, saying the United States was "addicted to oil."
Bush pledged to reduce U.S. oil imports from the Middle East by 75 percent by 2025 by increased use of green technologies. He set a six-year goal for making ethanol-based fuels practical and vowed to fund additional research into ways to make ethanol not just from the commonly used corn but also from wood-chips or grasses.
Critics, however, were skeptical that the U.S. administration would really put that much effort into alternative fuel research.
Professor Michael Grubb, senior economist at the Carbon Trust and a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said any U.S. acceptance of emissions targets was a long way off.
"It'll be a very long way from where they are now to endorsing any type of targets-based approach," he told United Press International.
Blair's renewed commitment to a targets-led agreement could be read as a correction of earlier comments that had been interpreted as a move away from a Kyoto-style deal, Grubb said. In fact, the British government had never seen an inconsistency between targets and technology, he added.
Grubb said the U.S. attitude was changing "in some ways," particularly in terms of growing concerns over energy security. There was "considerable unease" in Washington over the isolation of the U.S. position and its substance; the argument that technology alone could tackle climate change was "a pretty strange one," he said.
There was as yet no "credible alternative" to a targets-led approach, he told UPI.
While it was important to secure an agreement between as many countries as possible, if that involved scrapping the fundamentals of the Kyoto regime it would be a "self-defeating exercise," he added.
Tony Juniper, executive director of Friends of the Earth U.K., said: "We're pleased to see that the prime minister is calling for an international framework based on clear targets and timetables."
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During the final pages of the work, as the waves thrashed higher and higher, a man began volubly vomiting up the contents of his stomach. All very nasty for those around him, who edged away as far as they could.


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In my opinion, each story was certainly very good reading, however none of them actually scared me enough to give me nightmares. I think that I may want to read some more anthologies in the future, and I give this particular book an A! I'm definitely glad that I read it, but I can send this book away to another good home should anyone else want it.
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Feb 23, 2012 04:30 AM|thaicarrot|LINK
Seems like there is lots abuse.
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Other Cons is that too heavyweight at client with lots JavaScript lot function at the same time.
I was found too slowly than MVC. I should take advantages at Server and Client(Progressive Enhancement)
Why Microsoft did such think like that? Confused:
Feb 26, 2012 12:13 AM|mystere|LINK
99.9% of users will have javascript, those that don't are likely running something like noscript, which allows them to turn on JS on an as needed basis. They can turn it on for my site, or they can go somewhere else.
Google has used this technique for gmail and other apps for years now. It's well known, and works well.
Having said that, I think it requires a special kind of app for a single-page app. It's just another tool in the toolbox. There's nothing to be confused about. And I certainly don't see what you mean by "Abuse".
Feb 26, 2012 02:20 AM|thaicarrot|LINK
Sound great. If you try you will find it is slowly than MVC.
Feb 26, 2012 02:07 PM|mystere|LINK
Sound great. If you try you will find it is slowly than MVC.
It is MVC, how can MVC be slower than MVC? If you mean it will be slower than not using Javascript, then of course. Any time you abstract anything it's slower than not using the abstraction. Using a framework is slower than not using a framework. using an ORM is slower than not using an ORM.
The question is whether or not the performance is acceptable, and my guess is that any performance issues you notice are not related to Javascript, but rather related to doing an Ajax request. But, you have to consider in the context that you would have to do a round trip without Ajax as well, you just don't notice it because it's buried in the round trip process we've been conditioned for years to ignore.
My guess is that if you time it, the Ajax version will actually be faster. You just don't notice the non-ajax slowness.


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I found this recipe on the internet to make cookies with a bag of mini M&M's. I liked that it has oatmeal in it which make them a bit more chewy than your average cookie. You can also substitude chocolate chips if you don't have M&M's.
Top Review by Rollin in the Dough
These were really good! I didn't make them exactly as instructed just because it was a last minute choice and I only had one small tube of M&M minis so I used those and 2 chopped up Hershey w/ almond bars! (left over stocking candy :) I halved the recipe, they were a little crunchy on the outside and chewy in the middle. Perfect, thanks!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (12 ounce) bag miniature M&M baking bits
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 1⁄2 cup margarine
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups flour
- 2 cups oatmeal (either quick or long cook)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
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- In a large bowl, mix together sugars, shortening, margarine, vanilla and eggs with an electric mixer.
- In a seperate bowl, combine flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder and soda.
- Add dry ingredients to mixing bowl a cup at a time until it is mixed together completely.
- Open bag of M&M baking bits and pour out 1/3 cup to reserve for later. Add the rest of the chips and fold into batter.
- Chill cookie dough for 1 hour.
- Later, preheat oven to 350 degrees. On ungreased cookie sheets, or using parchment paper on cookie sheets, drop dough by spoonfuls with room for spreading.
- Take 2 or 3 of the reserve M&M's and place on top of each cookie. This way, some clearly show after the cookie bakes.
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By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY
Boring is never pretty.
On the not-precisely-scintillating plus side, The Beautiful Life isn't the worst new show of the season — or even the worst new soap on CW.
It may lack Melrose Place's flashy production values and trashy pedigree, but it makes up for that by being marginally better written, though admittedly, we're not talking about a particularly high bar here.
Unfortunately for Life, the minus side predominates. Say what you will about the relative value of trash and flash, but without them, this teen drama quickly turns so torpid and vapid, you'd think its sole goal was to reinforce model stereotypes along those lines.
That can't be true, of course, because the big-name producer here is model-turned-actor Ashton Kutcher, who loosely based the series on his own early career experiences.
His barely acceptable stand-in is Ben Hollingsworth as a corn-stalk-straight Iowa farm boy who comes to the attention first of a predatory gay modeling agent and then of a kindly young model — played by one of the show's best assets, Sara Paxton.
Beauty may count in this world, but apparently sex counts more.
The male agent wants the farm boy (why isn't particularly clear).
A female photographer wants a desperate-for-work male model (High School Musical's Corbin Bleu). And a male photographer wants just about every female around — including the former star model ineptly played by an affectless Mischa Barton.
Barton has had her share of well-publicized personal problems, but it's her professional troubles that should concern CW. She was stilted at best on The OC, and instead of improving as an actress, she's merely solidified bad habits.
It's true that co-star Elle Macpherson matches her for wooden stiffness, but no one expects Macpherson to act. Barton has to aim higher and, perhaps, work harder.
Still, what's dispiriting about Beautiful Life is that it's too lazy to even work as successful eye candy.
The casting is unimpressive, and while you may not expect a Mad Men-type attention to detail, you should expect a show about models to keep Paxton's hair and makeup consistent from shot to shot. You can't convincingly re-create a world if you can't be bothered to take seriously the things people in that world take seriously.
Pay attention to being pretty, folks. That's pretty much all you've got going for you.
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Welcome to the fourth installment of Bf+Gf Anime Review where you can find a double-sided review that aims to help you decide if various anime are worth watching/watchable with your Boyfriend or Girlfriend! First I'd like to apologize for the two week break (though I don't think anyone reads this, so... who am I apologizing to?) Linny got a bit sick and we both decided to wait until she felt better to continue the reviews. But now we're good to go! Today we're bringing you a review for a relatively recent anime: Deadman Wonderland!
Note: This is a review for the subbed version.
Deadman Wonderland is a 2011 anime series based off of the manga of the same name. It follows Ganta Igarashi, a young high school boy, who is forced to witness the grotesque murder of his entire high school class at the hands of a mysterious killer known only to Ganta as the "Red Man." Before the "Red Man" leaves he implants a small red crystal in Ganta's chest. From there Ganta is accused of murdering his entire high school class, and with the help of some doctured evidence, sentenced to jail in Japan's largest privately owned prison: Deadman Wonderland.
Deadman Wonderland is an amusement park that uses it's inmates to entertain the customers. Inmates participate in cruel and unusual performances (often resulting in their deaths) all for the entertainment of the crowds. Inside the prison Ganta must come to grips with his new found power, given to him through the crystal that the "Red Man" planted into his chest and find a way to escape the prison before it kills him.
Tom's Take:
Deadman Wonderland might initially put people off because of it's hyper violence (which there is quite a bit of) but unlike some other hyper violent anime, Deadman Wonderland is not all about the blood and guts. Instead there's actually a story behind it. And it's a pretty good one. While some of the villains are quite over the top there are many characters that do feel three-dimensional and fun to watch. The story itself flows pretty well, although it becomes much more interesting after the first three episodes. There are several twists and turns that keep the viewer guessing as to how the whole thing is going to play out. Unfortunately the show doesn't have an ending seeing as the manga it's based off of is still ongoing. The show also didn't perform all that well in Japan which leaves it up in the air as to whether there'll be a second season or not. If you end up enjoying this series you may have to settle for catching the ending through the manga.
Score: 8.0 - A very interesting and intriguing story.
Linny's Take:
Deadman wonderland is a twisted, violent and action packed anime. Its the classic case of young innocent protagonist pushed into the middle of a situation he has no understanding or control over. Being a short anime with only 13 episodes, I feel like it does manage to pack in a lot but also leaves a lot unanswered. Almost every episode has an interesting revelation or twist and keeps you on your toes. However , it is also extremely sadistic and could leave many a person with a bad taste in their mouth and not wanting anymore of it. I would warn you to think twice about watching it with your lover if either of you is easily squeamish or unnerved. It isn't graphic but it does present several morally unbalanced scenarios and acts. For me however, I enjoyed the action scenes, especially since I like animes which explore mutant humans with amazing powers. As for the sadist parts of the anime I just brushed them aside as its only a story and didn't feel like dwelling on it.
Score: 6.5 - To be honest, I would give it more based on the action scenes alone. However at times I felt like the sadist elements were just a little too forced and wished the story had been told more efficiently.
Tom's Take:
Deadman Wonderland has a large cast of characters, though, only a few appear often and receive character development. The story is really centered around Ganta and a young girl he meets in prison, named Shiro, so it's not surprising the side characters often get shafted in terms of screen time. Which is unfortunate because the show has several side characters that seem terribly interesting. One such character even received his own thirty-minute OVA spin-off.
The villains can be somewhat one dimensional but it actually works fairly well for this type of show. Unfortunately, because the show ends before the story actually reaches it's conclusion it makes it hard to judge the characters, especially when their arcs aren't yet complete. It'll be interesting to see what becomes of Ganta, Shiro and the rest of the cast as the story progresses.
Score: 7.5 - Great main and supporting cast, but little time is spent with the fun supporting characters.
Linny's Take:
I didn't take much to the protagonist as he kinda seemed too bipolar and sometimes way too morally "good guy" to me. However, Shiro, his 'magical girlfriend' of sorts did win me over with some of her more naïve/endearing moments. They were both a little too syrupy sweet for me. I did enjoy the other gray area characters a lot more especially since it made them more humane imo. Just felt more realistic to have people who werent inherently good or bad, but instead motivated by different things.
Score: 7 Good supporting characters , but generic lead characters who were a little too predictable and boring.
Voice Acting:
Tom's Take:
Deadman Wonderland has a great japanese cast that really brings each character to life. While some voices definitely feel like stereotypes, the actors still do a great job in bringing those characters to life. As with most japanese voice acting it's hard to find fault with something they do so well. However there are few voices that stand out as truly amazing. While the show has a good cast no one steals the show.
Score: 8.0 - Good performances all around but lacking in stellar performances.
Linny's Take:
Twas all in Japanese, so... good job I guess. Nobody stuck out as a bad dub so nothing to complain about here.
Score: 8
Tom's Take:
Deadman Wonderland's soundtrack fits with the events of the show, though, beyond the memorable opening credits none of the background music immediately springs to mind. Thankfully there isn't any music that detracts from the rest of the show but you do wish more of the tracks stuck with you after the first viewing.
Score: 7.0 - A good, working, soundtrack but nothing that sticks with you.
Linny's Take:
This is where I felt Deadman Wonderland first hooked me in. The opening sequence is a feast for my senses. I love the blood red theme they had going on, along with the opening song. It all just seemed like such a good preview to the kind of show that Deadman Wonderland is. The ending theme I would declare average, nothing amazingly done but it does its job.
Score: 8
Tom's Take:
Deadman Wonderland has some strong animation throughout the show and I can honestly say I don't recall any dips in quality. The show keeps up with the blood and guts gushing everywhere and no where does the hyper violence take a hit because of lack of budget.
Score: 9.0 - Strong animation throughout, very minor complaints.
Linny's Take:
Decently done, with good detail to the scenes regarding the 'powers' of the characters. I liked a lot of the character designs as well.
Score: 7
Final Thoughts:
Tom's Take:
Deadman Wonderland is one of those shows that either you'll love it or hate it. It hinges on how you react to the violence. Clearly Deadman Wonderland isn't meant to be realistic. It's got a very satirical and dark feel to it and often exaggerates in order to make it's point. If you find that annoying or think that Battle Royal is a bad movie, then Deadman Wonderland probably isn't for you. However, if you can make it past the violence and take the show for what it is then you'll have one hell of a time. That said I would not recommend showing this show to anyone who gets the least bit squeamish from hyper violence, even animated the show can be a bit much at times for some people.
Score: 8.5 - Great show, but marred by it's heavy use of hyper violence limiting it's potential audience.
Linny's Take:
If you and your partner are into the idea of watching humans with violent powers and seedy manipulative and corrupt people, then Deadman Wonderland is the show for you. If either of you is the nervous kind, please skip it. If you do decide it is your cup of tea, I say sit back, relax, and enjoy the sadistic plot and the slightly puzzling powers of the characters. Personally for me, Deadman Wonderland was one of the first animes I ever watched where sadism and action were mixed into an interesting, sick little conconction. Not outright gory but at the same time, queasiness and uneasiness inducing enough to the degree I like. All in all, a good choice for someone craving a different kind of action anime but definitely not perfection either.
Score: 7.5
Combined Score: 8.0
And that's it for Deadman Wonderland! Hope you enjoyed the review and next time it's back to a classic as we continue our Slayers reviews with Slayers Next!


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Apple has just seeded the first beta of OS X 10.8.3 (build 12D32) to developers of Mac Developer program.
According to the tip we received, Apple hasn't provided much details in the seed notes except for mentioning that the following will be focus areas:
- AirPlay
- AirPort
- Game Center
- Graphics Drivers
We'll update the post with more details shortly.
Related Topics: Apple News, Mac, Mountain Lion, OS X


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In a bare office room in the City, one of London's best musicians is telling me of his struggle with testicular cancer. Gareth Davies, principal flute of the LSO, was given the dread diagnosis in the summer of 2004, a fortnight after his daughter was born. After surgery and chemotherapy, he returned gingerly to work, just in time to play Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in St Paul's Cathedral.
And felt nothing. "I've always been an instinctive player," he says. "I get a shiver up the spine when we play big symphonies, but something had changed inside me. It felt like I didn't have any reason to be there." Every time he played, there was a black hole where the feeling used to be. He played on and, still feeling nothing, talked to his wife about giving up the job. You cannot be a soloist in a top orchestra and not come alive to the sound of music. The cancer was killing a vital part of him.
Just before Christmas, Davies played in Mahler's 10th Symphony with Daniel Harding, a conductor his own age, a bit of a mate. He knew the music was about love and death, and that Mahler never quite finished it, but his focus was on the practical aspect of floating a flute solo early on in the finale. "There was a low thud of a drum," he remembers. "Daniel looked across, cued me in, I closed my eyes and just played this tune. At that moment, everything came flooding back. Something connected. The music of Mahler had flicked a switch somewhere in my brain. I knew I could carry on." Gareth Davies had beaten his cancer.
Musicians are usually the last to speak emotionally about music but Gareth's testimony, among many others I have heard, pinpoints an ethereal element in Mahler that may help account for his irresistible rise. Almost unheard half a century ago, Mahler has displaced Beethoven at the centre of concert life. More of his symphonies than ever before will be played at this summer's Proms. There are 27 performances scheduled at London's South Bank over the coming year. China is about to hear its first Mahler cycle, South Korea its second. True, we are approaching the 150th anniversary of his birth, on July 7 1860, and then the centenary of his death, on May 11, 1911. But the rise and rise of Gustav Mahler is one of the cultural phenomena of modern times and I have spent half my life trying to figure out why.
The subjective factor cannot be ignored. In any Mahler performance, you will see, among 3,000 listeners, people who have been struck to the pit of their being by something in the music, tears rolling unnoticed down their cheeks. That doesn't happen often in Elgar, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Puccini or Richard Strauss, to name five of his coevals. Mahler, for some reason, changes people's lives.
The late Klaus Tennstedt, one of the most inspirational conductors ever heard in Britain, told me how, during a midlife nervous breakdown, he found in Mahler "the meaning to my existence". In a small Czech town, not far from Mahler's birthplace, I met a schoolmaster who, under communism, built a secret life for himself and his family in Mahler's life and works, a place where they could speak freely without fear of the secret police. A Wall Street financier discovered his true potential on chancing to hear the Resurrection Symphony. Mikhail Gorbachev in his memoirs relates how Mahler got him through the year he was ousted as Russian leader.
Why Mahler? At a personal level, each of us will have different theories. But there is more to Mahler than the personal. Like Sigmund Freud – whom he consulted in a desperate bid to save his marriage when his young wife took a lover – Mahler exploited the events of his own life as a template for the human condition. Every note he wrote was an attempt to understand and heal the miseries of mortal existence.
As a boy, he saw his brothers and sisters carried out in coffins from the rear of his father's tavern while the singing and drinking continued in front. His first symphony is a protest against the world's indifference to the death of children. His second proclaims that no church or faith holds a monopoly on the afterlife. The third is a lament for heavenly landscapes ravaged by industrial progress, a cry for the environment. The fourth, in which the leader of the orchestra is made to put down his precious violin and play a gypsy fiddle, is a commentary on social exclusion. The sixth is a dire warning of the imminence of world war.
For Mahler, the personal was always political. Never a soapbox preacher, he concealed these profound anxieties beneath a layer of protective irony, his greatest musical invention. Irony, in Samuel Johnson's definition, is a way of saying one thing and meaning another. In Mahler, every phrase and gesture is susceptible to subversive connotation (Mahlerian irony would later allow Dmitri Shostakovich to survive under Stalin). Many conductors ignore Mahler's subtleties and deliver readings of literal stolidity, all the notes in good order. Many Mahler concerts miss the point.
The issues that Mahler raises for the first time in music are, if anything, even more cogent today. In my first exposure to Mahler as a young writer in a rented basement, I recognised things I could relate to in modern Britain – racial prejudice, workplace chaos, class conflict, relationship confusion, alienation and loss of identity. I was obviously not alone. Over four decades I have seen him move from the margins of public consciousness to a point of such ubiquity that Harry Potter cannot obtain lift-off on his broomstick without an accompanying snatch of Mahler's Resurrection.
Once we grasp the possibility of multiple meanings, his music combines intellectual challenge with emotional catharsis, a double whammy no other symphonist can match. I listen to Mahler in grief and joy. There have been times when I could listen to nothing else, and others when I could not bear to hear a note of his music. But I have always known that he is there when I need him to make sense of my world.
Norman Lebrecht's book "Why Mahler?" is published by Faber & Faber, £17.95


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Robin Thicke shows his deep love in a piano-driven ballad song called 'The Sweetest Love', which has just been revealed.
A new song called "The Sweetest Love" from Robin Thicke has surfaced. Described as a piano-driven ballad, the song mainly refers to a sweet relationship between two people who are deeply in love.
Furthermore, the ballad song is strongly suggested to be the second single of his upcoming third studio album "Something Else", which is described as "wine and bubbly" and due to come out on September 30. In an interview, the singer states that his new material is a crossover between "classic Philly, Motown and '70s black disco which meets the creativity of The Beatles and Bob Dylan."
Two weeks before his album is released, Robin will hit the road with R&B female singer Mary J. Blige for "Love-Soul Tour". The 18-date concert series will kick off on September 19 at Virginia Beach's Pavilion and wrap up on October 22 at Blaisdall Arena in Oahu, Hawaii.


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In August 1992*, the Olympus Group established its Environmental Principles to articulate basic positions on environmental issues and to set ambitious environmental protection goals. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities are based upon these principles.
The Olympus Group, respecting nature and the health and safety of mankind, has resolved through its technological development and adoption of ecologically compatible business practices to contribute to the reestablishment of a healthy environment and a society in which sustainable development is possible.
In all business activities, the Olympus Group will give priority to environmental protection and will apply itself with dedication to this task both on an organizational and individual basis.
*The Olympus Group revised its Environmental Principles in October 2005.
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We will develop products, services and production technologies with a careful and conscientious regard for safety and environmental protection. Furthermore, we will make the results of such developments available to all interested stakeholders.
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We will take the initiative in setting up our own pioneering standards and norms. We will assess the environmental impact at each stage of our operations, through development, production and sales, to realize continuous improvements.
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We will publicize and engage in other activities with the purpose of informing all Olympus staff of the need for environmental protection. We will encourage each and every staff member to increase his or her understanding of environmental protection activities at home, at work, and in the community.
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