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We often speak of fashion as an art form created in fabric and draped upon the canvas of the human body. As beautiful and true as this view of fashion is, there does exist a form of art that uses nothing but thread to depict everything from the mythological to the historical. Tapestry weaving dates back millennia to the days of the ancient Greeks. The intricacy is awe-inducing, considering that tapestries portray scenes with the same amount of detail found in paintings. However their richness lays not only in their artistic content, but even in their individual threads — some of which were made of pure gold.
Traditionally tapestries were used as decorations; however many were so grandiose in size that to call them merely decoration would be an insult. Along with aesthetic values, they also possessed a practicality. Not only did they serve to insulate castle walls, but the stories that were woven into them could be passed on across time and continents. Although the craft of tapestry weaving is no longer a common practice, this fall designers such as Dolce & Gabbana and Balmain have infused the opulence of tapestry textiles into their runway looks.
This week's Fashionista shows us how visually interesting and exotically beautiful this fall's tapestry trend can be. When I saw this Fashionista I was immediately drawn to her very bold coat. The mix of patterns combined with the fur around the collar is very reminiscent of the Russian Matryoshka dolls and the famous Fabergé eggs. It was intriguing, eye-catching and it conveyed the story of a rich Eastern European culture.
Whether you want to choose something as bold as a coat, or simply go with a pair of shoes, there are plenty of sartorial options. To add some pop to your pants, try this alternative with a floral tapestry print from Paul by Paul Smith. For the perfect combination between modern edge and ancient art, opt for this motorcycle jacket from Free People. The luxury of gold threading is imitated wonderfully in this baroque sequin bodycon dress from Vero Moda. For the Fashionistas who love heights and florals, you can never go wrong with a pair of Jeffrey Campbell boots. Just as with any bold print, the trick to wearing a tapestry textile is to let that piece take center stage. When picking out a textile pattern, opt for the more opulent. Use the colors in the textile to help you choose the solid colors that you'll be incorporating into the rest of your ensemble and accessorizing should in turn also be kept minimal.
This fall, weave the common thread between tapestry and fashion into the perfect work of art for your wardrobe.


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Is coffee bad for you or good for you? Does acupuncture actually work, or does it produce a placebo effect? Do kids with autism have different microbes living in their intestines, or are their gut flora largely the same as neurotypical children? These are all good examples of topics that have produced wildly conflicting results from one study to another. (Side-note: This is why knowing what a single study says about something doesn't actually tell you much. And, frankly, when you have a lot of conflicting results on anything, it's really easy for somebody to pick the five that support a given hypothesis and not tell you about the 10 that don't.)
But why do conflicting results happen? One big factor is experimental design. Turns out, there's more than one way to study the same thing. How you set up an experiment can have a big effect on the outcome. And if lots of people are using different experimental designs, it becomes difficult to accurately compare their results. At the Wonderland blog, Emily Anthes has an excellent piece about this problem, using the aforementioned research on gut flora in kids with autism as an example.
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For instance, in studies of autism and microbes, investigators must decide what kind of control group they want to use. Some scientists have chosen to compare the guts of autistic kids to those of their neurotypical siblings while others have used unrelated children as controls. This choice of control group can influence the strength of the effect that researchers find–or whether they find one at all.
Are pesticides helpful things that allow us to produce more food, and keep us safe from deadly diseases? Or are they dangerous things that kill animals and could possibly be hurting us in ways we haven't even totally figured out just yet?
Actually, they're both.
This week, scientists released a research paper looking at the health benefits (or lack thereof) of organic food—a category which largely exists as a response to pesticide use in agriculture. Meanwhile, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, which forced Americans to really think about the health impacts of pesticides for the first time, was published 50 years ago this month.
The juxtaposition really drove home a key point: We're still trying to figure out how to balance benefits and risks when it comes to technology. That's because there's no easy, one-size-fits-all answer. Should we use pesticides, or should we not use them? The data we look at is objective but the answer is, frankly, subjective. It also depends on a wide variety of factors: what specific pesticide are we talking about; where is it being used and how is it being applied; what have we done to educate the people who are applying it in proper, safe usage. It's complicated. And it's not just about how well the tools work. It's also about how we used them.
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"It is not my contention," Carson wrote in Silent Spring, "that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm.
Over at Download the Universe, Ars Technica science editor John Timmer reviews a science ebook whose science leaves something to be desired. Written by J. Marvin Herndon, a physicist, Indivisible Earth presents an alternate theory that ostensibly competes with plate tectonics. Instead of Earth having a molten core and a moveable crust, Herndon proposes that this planet began its existence as the core of a gas giant, like Jupiter or Saturn. Somehow, Earth lost its thick layer of gas and the small, dense core expanded, cracking as it grew into the continents we know today. What most people think are continental plate boundaries are, to Herndon, simply seams where bits of planet ripped apart from one another.
The problem is that Herndon doesn't offer a lot of evidence to support this idea.
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Once the Earth was at the center of a gas giant, Herndon thinks the intense pressure of the massive atmosphere compressed the gas giant's rocky core so that it shrunk to the point where its surface was completely covered by what we now call continental plates. In other words, the entire surface of our present planet was once much smaller, and all land mass.
I did a back-of-the-envelope calculation of this, figuring out the radius of a sphere that would have the same surface area as our current land mass. It was only half the planet's present size. Using that radius to calculate the sphere's volume, it's possible to figure out the density (assuming a roughly current mass). That produced a figure six times higher than the Earth's current density — and about three times that of pure lead.


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This is the home for Rebex Music which houses my lyric work and is the place for lyric writers to collaborate and tune-smiths to marry a lyric to their work.
My name is Tommy Glassford and I've been collaborating in the writing of song since I was a teenager, that was a few years ago now. All my lyrics are archived here and you are welcome to use, amend or adapt.
Most of my lyrics have my music but that's another story for another time. I'm making them available for you to have a browse through and if one inspires you in the writing of song, then get on with it. Just let me know via email – tommy AT thelyriczone.net. If someone else is working on the lyric, I'll let you know, if their work marries to the lyric I'll run with it, if not, I won't. It of-course has to be remembered that I retain all the copyright on all my lyrics. Amendment and a lyric re-write is obviously part of the project plan, the writer of the amended lyric clearly retains their own copyright so the end product could well have percentage of copyright ownership. I'm also available for collaboration on a lyric you may have as part of a song project, email me.
There will be four categories of lyric, each is a different stage in my lyric-writing life. The first is the Commodore years when I was supposedly finding myself. Then there's the Amiga trip years when I lost myself again. The third category is the time of the pc. The fourth will be the work I've been developing over the last say ten years or so, I'll be calling this area 'work in progress'.
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Onnora Quinn Stone, 87, of Owensboro passed away Thursday, January 19, 2012 at her home. Born in Hancock County, Mrs. Stone was a daughter of the late Michael and Nellie Veach Quinn. She was a member of Blessed Mother Catholic Church and greatly enjoyed her family and her flowers. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Albert Prinston Stone; her grandchildren, Todd Keller and Michael Morris; and her brothers and sisters, Lawrence Quinn, Don Quinn, Gene Quinn, Ollie Quinn, Curtis Quinn, and Roselee Shadwick.
Surviving are her sons, Carl Stone (Roselee) of Gallington, TN, David Stone (Connie) of Mesquite, TX, Darrell Stone and Glenn Stone, both of Russelville Marvin Stone (Cheryl) of Knottsville, Larry Stone (Lora) of Whitesville and Terry Stone (Jerry Lynn) of Hawesville; her daughters, Barbara Morris (Harold) and Bernice Knott (Danny), both of Whitesville, Geraldine Keller (George), Carol Harper (Gary), Veronica Trangas (Rick), Marilyn Stone, and, Cathy Horn, all of Owensboro, and Dianne Wilhite of North Carolina; 39 grandchildren; 58 great-grandchildren; 5 great-great-grandchildren; her brother, Jim Quinn of Owensboro; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.
The Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m., Monday January 23rd at Blessed Mother Catholic Church, followed by burial in Resurrection Cemetery. Visitation will be at Glenn Funeral Home and Crematory Sunday, January 22nd, from 12:00 p.m. until the conclusion of prayers which begin at 7:00 p.m., and from 9:00 until 10:00 a.m. Monday . Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to Hospice or Blessed Mother Catholic Church
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Under an A-76 streamlined competition involving ten or fewer employees, the cost of the government performance is compared with the estimated cost it would take a contractor to perform the activity over the performance term of five years for both competitions. The contractor-estimated cost is computed using fully loaded labor rates from existing federal contracts which match up with the duties and responsibilities of the federal positions.
The results of the latest competitions indicate that OPM's employees can perform these job functions more efficiently and effectively than private sector competitors. "President George W. Bush's Management Agenda calls for a federal government that delivers results to the American taxpayer, and competitive sourcing conducted fairly is one move toward meeting that challenge," stated James.
In October 2003, OPM completed the A-76 standard competition of its test administration and warehousing activities. Here again, OPM employees won the competition involving 180 full time equivalent (FTE) positions. The OPM employees' winning proposal reduces the cost of performing this activity by over $10 million over its five-year term.
OPM has six other A-76 streamlined competitions underway. The latest involve the agency's network management, mail services, employee benefits, billing and collecting, trust fund accounting, and administrative accounting activities, and are scheduled to be completed by the end of April 2004. In addition to these competitions, OPM is conducting an A-76 standard competition of its clerical/technical and administrative support positions. These competitions will affect 163 FTE positions. The performance selection decision for the standard competition is scheduled for the end of August 2004.
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Want to take a shopping trip to India in 20 minutes?
No jet lag -- you're going to The Maples. Who knew there were so many treasures from India and Pakistan in one spot --well, besides the 6,000 people from the Indian sub-continent who now live in and around the Maples?
Mandalay West Plaza is Little India's indoor bazaar. People pop in for Bollywood clothing, sparkly jewellery, Indian food, a tasty sweet house, groceries, teas and herbal cures.
To get there, head for Inkster Boulevard and the Maples' main drag, Mandalay Drive. It looks like you're going nowhere at first, but keep looking left. Within a few blocks you'll find an L-shaped strip mall with a big parking lot anchored by Style India.
Delicious smells waft from the Punjab Sweet House & Restaurant in the bend of the L, and from the India Spice House at the other end of the L.
Then there's the giant Punjab Banquet Hall, an ornate wedding-reception palace with a throne-style stage for the happy couple.
"About 80 per cent of our customers are from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Philippines and the Middle East," says owner Ravinder Singh Buttar, 45.
While the plaza may look pretty quiet mid-day, when rush hour traffic starts rolling in, watch out! The entire parking lot is filled by 5 p.m. with shoppers looking for groceries, herbs and spices, take-out samosas and dinners, plus clothing and jewellery for the many weddings and parties in the community.
When that banquet room fills up with party-goers in brilliant saris and suits, it's bang-shang-a-lang until 1 a.m.
"It gets pretty loud, but the grandmothers are all up dancing too," Ravinder says.
There are four ceremonies/parties as part of most weddings: the engagement party, the girls' music and henna party, the wedding ceremony and the reception, he says. These days they can be spread apart or booked together over a couple of days.
Unlike many Canadian weddings, these big affairs are often booked, cooked and hastily planned at the last minute.
"People will phone three, four days ahead and say, 'Do you have Friday open? If not, how about Saturday then?' " Ravinder says. "That can mean up to 13 or 14 different main dishes, fruit drinks, chai tea and liquor."
Ravinder is especially proud of the private dressing room for brides and bridesmaids, secretly accessible from the back of the building for surprise grand entrances.
Ravinder's brother Parminder Singh Buttar, who sells clothes for weddings and other occasions at Style India nearby, explains why many East Indian wedding are done in a rush.
"If it's a love wedding, where the young people choose each other, or even if it's an arranged wedding where the parents choose," people from this background seem to think it's wise to get the couple married quickly once the decision is made. No time for arguments, changing one's mind or bridezilla nonsense. They just get the deed done.
Parminder deals with customers and tends the busy phone at Style India, the huge "Bollywood collection" clothing store in the strip mall. There are about 20 mannequins lined up on a shelf overhead modelling different styles of richly coloured and lavishly beaded suits. A suit is a dress with matching narrow pants underneath, hand-embroidered and usually shipped from India. They can be ready-made in different sizes, or fully beaded and semi-stitched with the sides left undone to be tailored to fit different widths of customers.
If you want to pick your own colours and designs, staff will take measurements at the store for their tailors -- local artisans who custom bead and embroider.
Saris, an easier form of dress, are 5 1/4 metres of material wrapped in a certain fashion to stay on a woman's body. These days, in recognition of fumble fingers, some are already made to stay done up. They run from $15 to $500.
Special wedding dresses, called lengha, encrusted with embroidery and beading, cost anywhere from $500 to $5,000 and can be as heavy as 12 kilograms.
Men's wedding suits -- elegant knee-length coats with embroidery and beading -- match the brides' clothing for beauty.
Soft blankets with patterns are featured in the windows of the store.
"It is a tradition to give a blanket as a wedding gift," says Parminder. A couple will get 10 to 12 blankets at a wedding.
"When the groom's father meets the girl's father in their home it is a tradition to hug each other and give a blanket," he says.
The store also stocks children's clothing.
"I came here to Canada in 2001," says Parminder, 48. "I was an electronic technician but it was hard to get work repairing computers. But we discovered it was hard to get Indian clothes in Winnipeg."
Punjab Sweet House & Restaurant
This charming shop is run by a family of five -- father Gurtej Singh Malhi, mother Rajinder Kaur Malhi and teenage sons Ishraj, Jahuir and daughter Simrat. There are dozens of colourful dessert treats in the showcases, the top sellers being gulab jamun (whipping cream and milk, deep-fried in syrup) and kaju barfi (diamond shaped treats made of cashews, milk and sugar).
"The buffet is all vegetarian,'' says Ishraj, 19, who wears his hair in a sikh topknot and went to Mennonite Brethern Collegiate Institute. "We supply to other stores and weddings and do a lot of catering and we bake for Dhoom Restaurant downtown. We are famous for our samosas."
India Spice House
At the far tip of the L we find the lively Joe Gupta of India Spice House fame. Gupta, a former journalist, is also a herbalist and cook.
"I taught Peter Warren from CJOB how to cook curry, and Mayor Bill Norrie used to stop on his way back from getting his haircuts near my Pembina Highway location," he says.
Gupta says he is proud of his service to people with aches and pains and common diseases such as diabetes. He opened his Mandalay West store in 2002.
"I was the only tenant at the time, bit now the plaza is full," he says.
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When Can You Ignore It?
Everyone has to face information that they would rather not see sometimes. It might be a speeding ticket or their weight. It might be the result of a survey that gave results that they are not comfortable with. One course of action is to ignore it but that is not always the right or the best action. Sometimes the unpleasant information is a critical warning that must be heeded.
More importantly, ignoring facts can damage credibility. In Court, the requirement is to give "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth". This is also the rule in science where all the results of an experiment must be presented.
When analysing data, these problems arise in the form of values that were not expected or do not fit well with your model of how things should be. The statistician calls these outliers. Can those data values be ignored as "obviously in error"? Or are they actually warnings that contain important information?
The Depression of 1929-30 is an example of economic time series data. It did not fit the pattern of any previous economic data and clearly conflicts with many of the mathematical models currently used by econometricians. But the Depression was real and perhaps taught us more about the world economy than any other event of the last century.
Two aspects of the Depression - the financial cost (Dow Jones Index) and the human cost.
There are situations where some data must be ignored, or at least downplayed. For example, when statistics on house prices by suburb are given, it is usual to give the median price, not the average. This recognises that averages can be seriously affected by one or two extreme values and hence not give an accurate indication of the typical price. The median, which is simply a value that has half the data on each side of it, uses the information that these high prices exist but ignores their actual values.
Every time information is ignored, it is valid to ask whether it was appropriate to do so. Simply that it was inconvenient is not a good excuse and detracts from the credibility of the analysis. Not surprisingly, it can raise questions of objectivity and integrity. There is no substitute for being methodical and documenting why decisions are made the way they are. If it is believed that the data is in error, it is good to have some idea of how the errors may have been made.
Again, the Depression is an example of this. Every time an economic forecaster ignores it - saying in effect "it will never happen again" - they are understating the risks or uncertainties in their forecasts.
These are issues that statisticians grapple with every day and tools have been developed to help. For a start, statisticians have clear ideas of random variation and thus ways of deciding whether a data value is reasonable or unreasonable terms of the context. Some of these methods have become highly systematic, including ones that build a natural caution into the analysis while minimising how much information is lost - this is the area of robust statistics. The median is just one example of a robust statistic.
Another strength of statisticians is in recognising the bias that might be introduced by leaving out data. For example, the distribution of the original data might be skewed and removing extreme data points can lead to the distribution of the refined data set to be centred.
However, these methods do not remove the responsibility to ensure that it is appropriate to ignore some information. If anything, the use of robust methods increases the risk that poor decisions are made since they are automatic. In the end it is the professional responsibility of the statistician to say what data must not be ignored, even when such a statement is unpopular.
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Manage Chrome devices
As an administrator, you can manage your organization's Chrome devices from a single place with Chrome device management. Configure Chrome features for users, set up Chrome device access to VPNs and Wi-Fi networks, force install Chrome apps and extensions, and more.
You can apply each setting to specific groups of users or to everyone in the organization. Most settings provide the option of enforcing a particular configuration or letting the user choose. For example, administrators can specify a standard home page for everyone or allow people to set their own homepages.
Get licenses, enroll, and set up devices
You need a license for every Chrome device that you manage for your organization. The following licenses are available:Chrome device management license
This is a multi-purpose license that gives you access to all the settings and policies that can be configured for your organization's Chrome devices. You can purchase a license that lasts for the lifetime of the device or an annual license that you renew each year.
This license gives you access to the settings you need to configure Chrome devices running as kiosks, such as a guest registration desk, a digital sign, or a point-of-sale system in a store. However, the single app kiosk license can't be used for public-session kiosks.
For more information about management licenses, see Chrome device licenses. To purchase licenses, contact the Chrome or Google for Education team. You can also purchase your Chrome device management licenses online.
After you purchase licenses for your devices, you enroll them and then configure settings and policies in the Google Admin console. A list of device and user settings is below.
To configure Chrome settings:
- Sign in to the Google Admin console.
- Click Device management.
- On the left, click Chrome management.
- Select the category of settings that you want to configure.
- Select the organization where you want the settings to apply.
Note: By default, an organizational unit inherits the settings of its parent in the organizational tree. However, you can override the inherited setting by explicitly changing the setting for the child organizational unit. The new setting applies to users in that organizational unit, and any children of that organizational unit.
- At the bottom, click Save. Settings typically take effect within minutes, but it might take up to an hour to propagate through your organization.
You can configure the following Chrome settings in your Admin console:User settings
These settings apply to a managed user's Chrome session on any platform, including Chrome devices. They don't apply to users signed in as guests or signed in with Google Accounts outside of your company or organization. For most settings, you have the option to enforce a particular setting or leave the choice to the user. For example, you can specify a standard homepage for all users or you can allow users to set their own homepages.
From the user settings page, you can:
- Allow or block apps and extensions.
- Automatically install apps and extensions for users in your domain.
- Create a private Chrome app collection for your users in the Chrome Web Store.
- Specify which users can publish private Chrome apps.
- Configure SAML Single Sign-On for Chrome devices.
For more information, see Set Chrome policies for users.
Public sessions allow multiple users to share the same Chrome device without needing to sign in with their account. Popular uses for public sessions include loaner devices in a library, cyber cafe, or business center. They're also used for student exams and point-of-sale kiosks in a store. For more information, see Manage public sessions devices.
These settings apply to anyone who uses the device, even if the user is a guest or signs in with a Google Account outside of your company or organization.
For more information, see Manage device settings.
View your Chrome device details including hardware information, OS information, system activity and useful information for troubleshooting.
For more information, see View Chrome device information.
Configure policies and settings for individual Chrome apps (compared to User settings where you can manage multiple Chrome apps within an organizational unit at once). All of the app polices that you can set in User settings (such as block, allow, force install, and recommend apps in the Chrome Web Store to your users) are available in App management.
Additionally, App management lets you view a consolidated list of your configured apps from all of the organizational units in your domain. You can also configure settings for customizing apps and deploying an app as a kiosk app.
For more information, see Manage Chrome apps one at a time.
View reports about your Chrome devices on this page including Chrome devices (7-Day active), device release channels, device boot modes, and devices count by version.
View your device shipment details on this page. You only see this option if you purchased devices directly from Google.
Devices will only show up on the Shipments page if your order was fulfilled from Google inventory. Devices ordered from vendors, resellers, or third-party sites will not appear on this page. As of late 2013, Google stopped fulfilling orders from its warehouse, so administrators will not see any information related to recent hardware orders made through authorized resellers on this page. Please contact your reseller for shipment details.
For more information, see Track Chrome device orders.
- Set up Google Cloud Print to print from your Chrome devices in your organization.
- In the Admin console, click Device management > Chrome devices to see information about the Chrome devices in your domain. You can also create organizational units to group devices that share the same configuration.
- Configure most of your Chrome devices to use the Stable release channel, but also have a few devices on the Beta and Development release channels. This helps your organization test upcoming Chrome features and detect incompatibilities between Chrome and your environment. To find out more about release channels, see Manage device settings.
- To learn more about deploying Chrome devices, see the Chrome Device Deployment Guide.


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SCEA's PR Manager Eric Levine has revealed how fans can win a PSN voucher code today to prepare for opening day of MLB 10: The Show on the PSP.
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Once again heralded as the most realistic baseball simulation on the market, MLB 10: The Show has been embraced by media since launching earlier this month.
For those of you traveling this spring, MLB 10: The Show PSP is the perfect game to take on the road. Whether you're following your team on Spring Training, hitting the beach for Spring Break, or just taking a time out from your living room, The Show for PSP and PSPgo offers the deepest experience short of you actually stepping onto the diamond, all while on the go!
To give you a small taste, here's a look at our MLB 10: The Show PSP trailer. We're also going to be giving away PSN voucher codes for this title, so be sure to keep an eye on the PlayStation Twitter feed for a chance to score an MLB 10: The Show PSP voucher. Welcome to The Show!
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Mail not delivered to a place using Mail-in database created during place creation
Technote (troubleshooting)
You are unable to send mail to a place in Lotus Quickr services for Lotus Domino when using Internet mail. You obtain the e-mail address for a place from Customize > Basics> Incoming mail, paste that address into an e-mail, and send it. You mail is never delivered; it stays in the mail.box database.
Users using internet mail are not able to send mail to a place.
This problem occurs when the Internet address field in the Mail-In Database document in the server's Domino Directory is not filled out. If the Internet address field is blank, then the mail router does not have the information to route the mail so it stays in mail.box.
By default, the Internet address field is blank when Quickr creates a new Mail-in Database document for a new place. An enhancement request for future releases has been submitted asking that Internet Address field be filled out when a Place is created.
Resolving the problem
Fill out the Internet address field in the Mail-in Database document in the server's Domino Directory. The format is PlaceName@hostname, for example, email@example.com.
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Pixel Film Studios Releases TransFlare Transitions for Final Cut Pro X(January 09, 2013)
Aliso Viejo, California (PRWEB) January 09, 2013
Final Cut Pro X plugin and effects manufacturer, Pixel Film Studios, announced the release of Transflare, a package light burst transitions and plugins for Apple Final Cut Pro X.
TransFlare is the perfect complement plugin to our extremely popular ProFlare plugin, said Christina Austin, CEO of Pixel Film Studios. Fans of our plugins have been waiting for these FCPX transitions for awhile.
With Transflare's huge library of light bursts along with its customization options, there are endless ways for users to flicker, flash, and flare from clip to clip. Editors can choose from seven different types light bursts categories (including: color light leaks, lens flares, sun flares, and DJ light leaks).
Transflare contains no digitally generated imagery. All 70 of the light effects were professionally made by bouncing light inside a lens to give your footage the most realistic flares, leaks and bokeh possible.
TransFlare was designed to work seemlessly inside Final Cut Pro X, eliminating the need to composite footage. Users simply have to choose a light effect in the transitions window, and then calibrate the color and intensity of the light. They can also adjust the length of the transition in the timeline to best work with the scene.
Established in 2006, Aliso Viejo, California-based Pixel Film Studios is an innovative developer of visual effects tools for the post-production and broadcast community. Their products are integrated with popular non-linear editing and compositing products from Apple FCPX. All Apple, the Apple logo, Mac OS X, and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
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West Valley City • The National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks on Monday assigned goaltender Igor Bobkov to the Utah Grizzlies, their ECHL affiliate.
Bobkov, 22, is a Russian native who spent his first full professional season with Norfolk in the American Hockey League last year. He went 11-17 with a 3.13 goals-against average for the Admirals.
In 2011, Bobkov helped the Russian junior team to a 5-3 come-from-behind win over Canada in the gold medal game of the World Junior Hockey Championships.


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Per ESPN's Marc Stein, the Knicks have claimed PG Jeremy Lin off waivers from the Houston Rockets. The Harvard product played sparingly last season for the Golden State Warriors, but at 6'3″, 200 lbs., he's an intriguing player, having averaged 18.0 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists for the D-League's Reno Bighorns last year.
Lin's non-guaranteed contract is extremely manageable at just under $800,000 this season, and the 23-year-old is an excellent low-risk gamble for New York given its obvious depth issues in the backcourt. Scouting reports indicate that Lin plays aggressive defense, is an above-average rebounder, and has shown a distinct nose for the ball.
During his four-year Ivy League-career, Lin averaged 12.9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.0 steals on 48% shooting over 115 games. At a bare minimum, he should be able to push Mike Bibby in the backup point guard role, and maybe the Knicks will catch lighting in a bottle with the cheap, young and defensive-minded player.
Plus, there are many Asian-American-Knick fans living in the tri-state area, so there's that.
Don't forget to follow @LoHudKnicks on Twitter.
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Valley Drive-In
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5934 Evangeline Trail,Cambridge, NS B0P 1G0
400 cars
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1950's style drive-in theatre located in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. It was closed in the 1990's, but reopened and operated as a fundraising project of the Coldbrook and District Lions Club.
400 car capacity and theatre is open weekends from May to September.
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"I had the designer mock up a color that was not offered for preview. The proof arrived lightning fast. Then the actual magnets arrived four days ahead of schedule! We will be ordering invitations from WPD as well."
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Alcoholics Anonymous, 8 p.m., St. John's Episcopal Church, Cambridge. Open "Big Book" study. Use rear entrance.
Fish or steak dinner, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Buffalo VFW. Public is invited.
Feb. 9
Celebrate Recovery, 6 to 8 p.m., Christ United Methodist Church. There is a large group meeting, open small groups and fellowship afterward at the "Solid Rock Cafe." Focus is "freedom from life's hurts, hang-ups and habits." For information, visit email@example.com. Everyone is welcome.
Breakfast, 9 to 11 a.m., hosted by Byesville VFW Post 3760 Ladies Auxiliary. Open to the public.
Breakfast, 8 to 11 a.m., Buffalo VFW. Open to the public.
Weight Watchers, 9 a.m., Cambridge YMCA.
Narcotics Anonymous, 11 a.m., St. Paul's CME Church, 410 Wall Ave., Cambridge.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 11 a.m., basement of St. Paul's CME Church, 410 Wall Ave., Cambridge.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., basement in Quaker City United Methodist Church, 60 W. Main St.
Saturday night bingo, doors open, 4 p.m.; kitchen opens at 5 p.m.; and bingo begins at 6:30 p.m., Liberty Community Volunteer Fire Department. Paper cards are available.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8040, 10 a.m., post home, Buffalo.
Indian Camp Grange, 7:30 p.m., Grange Hall. For information, call 432-2485.
Texas Hold 'Em Poker game, 6:30 to 11:30 p.m., Cambridge Elks Club. Food and drinks will be available. Proceeds benefit the Samaritan Center.
Marion Township trustees, 7 p.m., Summerfield.
Jackson Township trustees, 8 a.m., town house, State Route 339, Dexter City.
Day of Creativity, 2 to 6 p.m., Masonic Temple, Zanesville. The program is to encourage children to participate in the arts by giving them a day full of activities and lessons about the arts, due to many schools cutting art programs.


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EJ Dionne tells Obama to take electoral advice from Bernie Sanders — who, Dionne points out, "actually is a socialist and believes devoutly in grass-roots, class-based politics" — and detects encouraging signs that Obama, finally, is doing just that. Rallying progressives is indeed the right strategy, says Dionne, and the polls suggest that Obama's campaigning shift to the left is working.
His base-rousing speech to a "boisterous" rally at the University of Wisconsin, says Dionne, "reflected the White House's realisation that Sanders is right…"
The president was not reluctant to draw class lines or ideological distinctions. He cast Republican support for a $700 billion tax reduction for the wealthy against the cuts it could force in Head Start and student loans. He criticized his opponents' "blind faith in the market" and the idea of letting "corporations play by their own rules."
Thus the irony: A president who largely disdained a mobilizing strategy for his first year and a half in office has returned to his community-organizer roots to try to salvage an election. Here's the further irony: He has a real chance of pulling it off, which leads to a question. If Obama succeeds, will he continue to keep his supporters engaged and "fired up", as Sanders suggests he should? Or will he go back to an insider strategy that helped bring him to the brink of this precipice?


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Britney Spears is said to have been considering quitting pop music to be a stay-at-home mom for sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.
No joke, Britney Spears is planning to quit her music career and be a stay-at-home mother.
The pop singer is said to have been considering putting the brake on her singing career because she couldn't bear to be apart from her sons, 19-month-old Sean Preston and 7-month-old Jayden James.
Rumor has it that Spears allegedly revealed her worries while shopping for her boys at Los Angeles children's store, Glen Kids at the Glen Centre.
"Britney said that Sean and Jayden are the loves of her life and that she enjoys every moment with her kids. She was excited to pick out some new clothes for the boys and she picked up some designer jeans and other items," Website X17 Online quoted a source as saying.
"Britney even talked about being a stay-at-home mom, saying that she loves it and that because of her boys, she's not looking forward to going back to work!" Is she or isn't she? Time will tell.


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So what Spacewalk said.
Also, the reason the clip has that name could perhaps be becasue VEVO is US based? i have no clue tho! =)
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I'll put it this way; as someone who liked Gods Of War even I thought that it was turgid and uninspiring.
I may have been disappointed in Wintersun's Time I, but I'll just pretend that Ne Obliviscaris' "Portal of I" is actually Time I from another line in time. Because it's simply one of the best albums I've heard in a while.
The song Hail, Kill and Die says it all really. The title sets it up to be a follow up to Hail and Kill but the lyrics read like a Blood Of the Kings sequel only not a very good one and as sequels go it sure ain't no Return Of the Warlord. I was hoping that the Thunder In the Sky EP was going to be a strong indication of the direction for this album but I was met only with disappointment. Even Warriors Of the World part 2 would have been to my liking dud parts and all.
What a shame.
I can't recall if I've posted a Block Hole song before but if I did it probably would've been Demoniac City so here's a different one anyway just in case. Cult!
Black hole are stoned genius. The Demo they did had some of the worst singing I think I've heard.
I was out of energy and felt like flatlining out in bed. Then I slapped the possessed on the turntable:
Who needs coffee? I have POSSESSED!
We need some Ouroboros here.
Album of the year so far, no doubt about it. Ghost's new album will most likely take it's place..
Nevermind, this song made it pretty clear which will be the album of the year 2013.
And who needs Possessed when you have Desaster?Quote:
Who needs coffee? I have POSSESSED!
Some of my favourites right now! What do you think?
It's been two weeks and it's still stuck in my head.
Ha, good to hear Darkthrone taking another sound on again.
I imagine this is causing more angry people to smash old copies of Transilvanian Hunger.
It's kinda like Helloween in Isengard with Darkthrone bits. It's more my kind of thing than Transilvanian Hunger even if the band is becoming more "dad rock" with every release. If your dad was into speed metal that is. It's a really good album, almost as good as Circle the Wagons but it falls a bit short. I'm still going to give it the number two spot on my best of year list.
A) Generally seems to be an honest guy, and he does not seem to want to do that stuff now
B) Getting on a bit. Seriously, even the youngest bands from about 1993ish (people who were 13 or 14 at the time) are all now at least 33.
I like the current Darkthrone wave a lot more then the previous Punkthrone stuff though.


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WP 1. Terrestrial Environment
The work package focused on terrestrial radioactivity, arctic freshwater ecosystems and food chain surveys in Finland, Norway and Russia.
Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) was the leader of WP 1. The activities and main results included
- The laboratories of STUK, NRPA and MMBI participated in an international intercomparison exercise where low-activity samples were sent to the laboratories for analysis. Based on the results of the analyses, the proficiency and quality of the laboratories were assessed. The intercomparison samples were received in autumn 2011 and the analyses were completed by the beginning of 2012. Each laboratory showed a good performance.
- The laboratories of STUK, NRPA and MMBI exchanged information on the sample types and species, sampling and sample treatment methods, radioactivity measurements and reporting of results as well as the results obtained before the project. The capacities and analysis methods of the laboratories and their possibilities to expand were discussed. The laboratories compiled lists of key species and sample types that could be used for following and assessing the changes in the state of environmental radioactivity. Agreements were made of the sampling and analyzing methods used in regard to obtain comparable results between countries and laboratories. When the species were selected the focus was on the natural products that are commonly collected and utilized in each country (berries, mushrooms, game, fish, reindeer meat). Lichens, mosses and soil were collected in order to assess the transfer of radionuclides via food chains.
- The researchers from the participating laboratories arranged a sampling trip in Svanhovd in Finnmark region of Norway in autumn 2012. Samples of vegetation and soil were collected and taken back home by each participant. During autumn/winter 2012/2013 the samples were analyzed ant the results of each laboratory compared. The main aim was to compare the sampling, pretreatment and analysis methods of participating laboratories.
- The current status of radioactive contamination in the terrestrial environment in the EuroArctic region was assessed during the project.
- Reports and publications were written based on the joint environmental researches and their results. The results were also presented in several international conferences. Scientific articles were published in international peer-reviewed scientific publications. In the end of the project, a popular booklet on environmental radioactivity of the Euro-Arctic region was compiled.
WP 1 publications:
A report on environmental radioactivity of EuroArctic area (available upon request from NRPA or STUK): Gwynn, J.; Leppänen, A-P.; Kasatkina, N: The current status of levels of radiologically important radionuclides in the terrestrial environments across Troms and Finnmark (Norway), Lapland (Finland) and Murmansk Oblast (Russia).
A report on the Svanhovd joint field work (available upon request from NRPA or STUK): Moller, B.; Nalbandyan, A: Assessment of the joint field work performed by NRPA, STUK and MMBI in Norway in 2012. Proposed strategies for future cooperation.
A scientific publication on the radioactivity of mushrooms and berries of Murmansk Region: Matishov, G.G.; Kasatkina, N.E.; Usyagina, I.S.; Farion, D.A.: Artificial Radionuclides in Edible Wild Mushrooms and Berries of the Murmansk Region. Doklady Earth Sciences, 2014, Vol. 455, Part 2, pp. 463–468.
A report on the effects of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident on the environmental radioactivity in the EuroArctic region: Leppänen, A-P.; Kasatkina, N.; Moller, B.; Nalbandyan, A: Traces of Fukushima nuclear power plant accident observed in the EuroArctic region.


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KNOXVILLE – Tennessee basketball coach Cuonzo Martin will now have some options at point guard when he puts together his 2014-15 lineup.
Four-star PG Larry Austin pledged to the Vols on Thursday afternoon over an impressive offer list that includes Illinois, Memphis, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma State and Wake Forest.
The 6-1, 165-pounder from Springfield, Ill., will join 2013 incoming freshman Darius Thompson as point-guard-of-the-future options for Martin after senior Antonio Barton, a transfer from Memphis who is scheduled to enroll in August, departs following the 2013-14 campaign.
"Austin is a tough-minded point guard that can run the team, get others involved and make plays off the dribble," ESPN.com wrote in a scouting report. "He is athletic and can finish in the lane, hit the mid-range pull up and has improved his three ball. Austin has all the tools to be a special player with continued improvement. Great upside."
Though not blessed with exceptional size or athleticism, Austin seems to be the type of point guard Martin likes – tough, defensive-minded, gets to the rim and sets up his teammates. He's got plenty of pure talent as well – three of the top four recruiting services rank him as one of the top-100 players in his class.
Austin becomes the third commitment in Tennessee's 2013-14 signing class, joining forward Philip Cofer and wing Jordan Cornish. The Vols will lose four scholarship seniors after next year - Barton, forward Jeronne Maymon, guard Jordan McRae, wing D'Montre Edwards. In addition, junior forward Jarnell Stokes is an NBA early-entrant candidate.
That means Martin could be look to add two or three more players in this class to supplement Cofer, Cornish and Austin.
How the major recruiting sites rank Austin:
Rivals.com: 4-star; 96th best player in the nation
ESPN.com: 4-star; 68th best player in the nation
Scout.com: 3-star; 27th best point guard in the nation
247Sports: 4-star; 95th best player in the nation
247Sports Composite: 4-star; 100th best player in the nation
Daniel Lewis covers Tennessee athletics for Nooga.com. Follow him on Twitter @DanielNooga


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Oil Slips as Ukraine, Libya Keep Market in Check
Little in Way of Supply-and-Demand Fundamentals to Drive Trading
Crude-oil prices ended lower in muted trading Tuesday as ongoing strife in Ukraine and Libya weighed on the market.
The benchmark U.S. crude contract for July delivery fell 24 cents, or 0.2%, to $104.11 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The global Brent contract fell 30 cents, or 0.3%, to $110.02 a barrel on the ICE Futures Europe...


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Synergies and Tradeoffs in International Cooperation: Broadening, Widening, and Deepening
International cooperation rests on state preferences with regard to the substantive scope, geographical range, and institutional depth of issue-specific devices to over-come collective action problems. Substantive broadening, geographical widening, and institutional deepening are the elixir of life of the European Union. As is familiar from international cooperation more in general, and not only from European integration, this rests upon a complex process of bargaining among states, each of which has its particular preferences. This paper explores two hypotheses about the relationship be-tween preferences on broadening, widening, and deepening. The first hypothesis as-sumes that the relationship is characterized by a virtuous cycle, while the second hy-pothesis assumes that there are tradeoffs rather than synergies. By looking at a sample of 24 distinct case studies from a specific policy field, namely international coopera-tion against drugs, the paper shows that, at least in this particular policy field, state preferences follow a synergetic pattern of broadening, widening, and deepening.
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Fort Bragg, NC Residents Can Count on Time Warner Cable for TV
Many residents of Fort Bragg have discovered the great news. Time Warner Cable is their telecommunications service provider! 94% of Fort Bragg residents still watch their favorite television shows on a traditional screen; that's 23,984 people. Perhaps you number among the rest of the population who use their smartphones, computers and tablets to watch television programming each week. Regardless of what you like to watch, Time Warner Cable has a programming package for you.
Get the TV programming Time Warner Cable offers in Fort Bragg, NC and see why it's the best! It doesn't matter if you love movies, sports or local programs; there's something for you. Get special programming features that are only available from Time Warner Cable; including TWC TV™, which gives you the ability to watch TV or program your DVR from your wireless device.


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CURRENT/ELLIOTT - The Skinny in Cloud Wash Destroyed
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There have been some debates involving pre-ripped jeans. Some say that buying pre-ripped jeans is ignorant because one can always rip a pair of their own jeans for free. Other (smarter) people say pre-ripped jeans are fabulous, badass and last longer than self-ripped jeans (without the chance of X-Acto related injuries). The latter might also reference these Current/Elliott jeans, stating that the rips are strategically place and expertly executed, and mention their coordination with the faded, over-distressing. The former, I would presume, would withdraw their complaint in the face of obvious rock-osity. Take THAT proposition team!
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I love something a bit different! These jeans are so fun! What a way to express you peronality!
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The skinny jean is vital in Seattle fashion. This is an especially forward piece with the extreme acid wash.
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"All of my people — right here, right now. Do you know what I mean?"
"All of my people — right here, right now. Do you know what I mean?"
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Apologies to the non-New York reader — limits of space, time, and brain prevent me from looking outside Manhattan in this companion to the Opera Preview and the New Music Preview.
Carnegie Hall: The season opens on October 6 with a de-luxe all-Strauss program — Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, the works. Ian Bostridge, who delivered a hair-raising Die schöne Müllerin at Zankel Hall last season, sings Winterreise on Oct. 15, with Leif Ove Andsnes miming the hurdy-gurdy. On Oct. 25, James Levine marshals the Boston Symphony in Mahler's Eighth; he'll have made his debut as the new Karl Muck three nights before. On Nov. 20, Gidon Kremer's Kremerata Baltica in an all-Shostakovich program, including the death-shrouded Fourteenth Symphony; Kremer's way with Shostakovich is spellbinding. On Nov. 29, the Venice Baroque Orchestra plays the serenata Andromeda Liberata, which may or may not be Vivaldi's; no matter whose it is, the Venetians will make it glow. On Dec. 1, the poetic young Austrian pianist Till Fellner, whose recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier has serious traction on my playlist, gets his Zankel on.
The New York Philharmonic: Lorin Maazel's merry band begins the season on Sept. 21 with a shockingly innovative program of the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Dvorak New World Symphony. There are scattered points of interest in the months that follow. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, Maazel unveils Augusta Read Thomas' Gathering Paradise, a set of Emily Dickinson settings. Also, Lang Lang will either bang or sing his way through Tchaikovsky's First Concerto, depending on his mood. October: not a whole lot going on. November 11-13: Sakari Oramo, Simon Rattle's successor at the City of Birmingham, who English chums swear is the real deal, does Sibelius, Saariaho, and Tchaikovsky, with the aid of Karita Mattila. Dec. 2-4, David Robertson leads the string orchestra version of Steve Reich's Triple Quartet. Dec. 16-18, the divine Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sings Britten's Phaedea with Colin Davis conducting.
Great Performers at Lincoln Center: Jane Moss' fastidiously progressive series plays it safe this fall with dollops of Brahms, who, as Gunther Schuller demonstrated in his book The Compleat Conductor, is the most badly played great composer in the repertory. I'm not too worried about Herbert Blomstedt's programs with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Oct. 18 and 19), which anchor the series. Blomstedt is a greatly underrated conductor whose secret is that he's got rhythm (at least of the Brahmsian kind). On Oct. 17, Wolfgang Holzmair sings Brahms Lieder, hopefully reminding us how powerful Brahms' songwriting can be. On Oct. 31, the absurdly gifted scholar-violinist Andrew Manze dispels the Hamburg fog with a program of Mozart and Vivaldi; I stress again that Manze's new Vivaldi disc (not out til Sept. 14) is beyond. Curiosity will lure me to Leon Botstein's all-Czerny program with the American Symphony (Nov. 14). To give over a whole program to Czerny, long-reigning tyrant of piano finger exercises, sounds like a self-parodying gesture on Botstein's part, but some people actually consider Czerny some sort of lost great composer, and in 2002 the pianist Anton Kuerti went so far as to organize an entire Czerny Festival in Edmonton. We'll czee. Lastly, you wouldn't be a fool if you bought a ticket to Simon Keenlyside's song recital of Schubert, Brahms, and Mahler (Dec. 5).
A sped-up, inadequate tour of other New York halls: The New York Early Music Celebration (Oct. 1-10) has dozens of worthy events — count me in for Pomerium's program of Ockeghem and Gombert at Corpus Christi Church. That same afternoon, the Mozartean Players are playing at the Frick Collection, which hasn't yet announced its entire fall schedule. The never boring New York Festival of Song presents a Kurt Weill / Berlin–in-the-twenties evening at Merkin Hall on Oct. 14. On Oct. 24, the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the really early music ensemble Sequentia in selections from the group's new CD, Lost Songs of a Rhineland Harper, up at The Cloisters. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has the Orion Quartet doing the six Bartok quartets (Nov. 21, 23; $72 for the set). Miller Theatre is generally pegged as a new-music clubhouse, but under George Steel's direction it has become a hotspot of early musicking as well. See Europa Galante reuniting Bach and Vivaldi et al (Oct. 14) or the Tallis Scholars belting out Palestrina, Lassus, Isaac, and de Rore (Dec. 10; "belting out" ironic). The Miller season opens on Sept. 18 with a Leonard Bernstein tribute; it includes excerpts from the great man's troubled but potent late opera A Quiet Place, which New York has never heard. Finally, poking my head into jazz, I'll put in a probably unnecessary plug for Black, Brown, and Beige chez Jazz at Lincoln Center on Oct. 25 — part of the new jazz hall's opening festival. I have never experienced Ellington's symphonic masterpiece live, and I'm as eager to hear this show as anything else on the fall schedule.
ADDENDUM: I know I've limited myself to Manhattan, but I want to add that the New Jersey Symphony looks to be in great shape under its new conductor Neeme Järvi, despite all that risky business with stolen and/or fake violins. The indefatigable Estonian adds to the Brahms flux with a program of the Second Serenade and German Requiem (Nov. 19-21) and presides over a festival of Scandinavian music in January.
August 22, 2004 | Permalink
One more thought about film music, following on the Elmer Bernstein obituary below. Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, and David Raksin, by doing their utmost for a few immortal films, have, in the process, gained a certain kind of immortality. This is an ironic turn of events because film composers are so often dismissed as the hacks of the composing world, the manufacturers of imitative background pap. "Sounds like a film score" is the put-down of choice for tonal orchestral music. "Serious" composers are supposed to suffer neglect in their lifetimes, with the gratitude of posterity their invisible reward. The my-time-will-come mindset was especially widespread in the twentieth century, with composers believing that if they invented a new sound or came up with a "big idea" they would win their place in history. The result was a great deal of superficially difficult, emotionally disposable music, whose ultimate historical value is now very much in question. By contrast, it seems certain that in a hundred years people will still be talking about Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo, Goldsmith's Chinatown, Raksin's Laura. They have gone down in history, because they found a way to make their music matter.
August 22, 2004 | Permalink
The fact that Jerry Goldsmith, David Raksin, and now Elmer Bernstein have all died in the space of a month may make people talk about the end of an age in film music. Bernstein himself addressed this issue in an impassioned speech in 1998:
People say to me, 'You know, what has happened to film scoring?' I hear this all the time. I hear it from filmmakers. 'You know, what happened, you know, what happened to the great film scorers?' Well of course it's a nonsensical question because I'll tell you, I teach a class at USC, and I'm here to tell you that there's nothing wrong with film scoring and the people that I teach there, I just hope to see them fed into our business. There's nothing wrong with film scoring and there's nothing wrong with the talent, but there is something wrong, seriously wrong with the process and the system.
Bernstein went on:
The composing of music is an art. In our business, art is the only three-letter dirty word because art requires courage, and it's very hard to have courage when you spend a year and a half ... two years developing a project, shooting a project. A project which costs millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars. And you blow it out all one weekend on sixteen hundred screens, and what happens on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of that weekend determines whether that picture is going to survive or not. It's a numbers game. Everything about our business has become a numbers game. We're automated and that is not a good atmosphere for art. And that is the problem we're facing.
In any case, Bernstein wrote a lot of wonderful music, from Man With the Golden Arm in 1955 to Far From Heaven two years ago. Sweet Smell of Success is my personal favorite — it hints at the hot emotion behind the film's ice-cold facade.
August 20, 2004 | Permalink
From Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet, lately purchased at the Rodgers Book Barn:
There is one question that we seldom ask each other directly: it is too brutal. And yet it is the only question worth asking our fellow-travelers. What makes you go on living? ... I supposed, vaguely, that it was a kind of balance, a complex of tensions. You did whatever was next on the list. A meal to be eaten. Chapter eleven to be written. The telephone rings. You go off somewhere in a taxi. There is one's job. There are amusements. There are people. There are books. There are things to be bought in shops. There is always something new. There has to be. Otherwise, the balance would be upset, the tension would break.
It seemed to me that I had always done whatever people recommended. You were born; it was like entering a restaurant. The waiter came forward with a lot of suggestions. 'What would you advise?' And you ate it, and supposed you liked it, because it was expensive, or out of season, or had been a favorite of King Edward the Seventh. The waiter had recommended teddy bears, football, cigarettes, motor bikes, whisky, Bach, poker, the culture of Classical Greece. Above all, he had recommended Love, a very strange dish....
August 20, 2004 | Permalink
Carl Wilson, aka Zoilus, has an excellent piece on the insecure friendship of literature and rock. Choice line: "How do you get 50 novelists out of the swimming pool? Tell them there's an argument in the kitchen about Dylan's gospel period." Harry Pata, you're my hero for this unexpected take on the somber giant of Soviet music: "Dmitri Shostakovich, we love you. And your little circular-rimmed glasses. Because you were emo before the word even existed." Bard College's program is doctored to illustrate the thesis. George Hunka, Jessica Duchen, and Helen Radice, all linked to the right, have joined forces on a new site called ArtsBlogging. It will be taken into account. Greg Sandow has written another aggressively sensible overview of the classical predicament. And Terry Teachout has finished his seventeenth book of the year. Excuse me while I stare moodily into space for an hour.... Damn book ... the summer's over ... hopeless ... how do you cut 100,000 words? ... Teachout! ... Should have chosen an easier topic, like Debussy's Parakeet, or Spinal Apocalypse: How Overwrought Book Titles Are Ruining Publishing, or An Oral History of Anal Sex ... apathy, despair ... [more coffee] ... OK, I'm back. Congratulations, Terry!
August 18, 2004 | Permalink
Back in January, I traveled to Iceland to work on a profile of Björk, which appears in this week's New Yorker. I later went to Salvador, Brazil, and London, England. Here I'm posting scattered snapshots from the Iceland and Brazil trips, fleshing out scenes described in the profile. Some of the pictures will already be familiar to close readers of the blog. I did not photograph Björk herself, for obvious reasons. I was grateful enough that she'd let me in to her extraordinary world.
Below are various views of Reykjavík, beginning with Mt. Keilir as seen from the airport road:
What I saw when I talked to Björk about the "Nordic idea":
Moving on to Brazil, this is the view from the house where Björk worked on Medúlla for several weeks:
Here is a shot of the Cortejo Afro drummers, whom Björk recorded for "Mouths Cradle" and then left out because they didn't fit the (nearly) all-vocal concept of the album:
Next are several shots of Matthew Barney's float in the Salvador Carnaval, taken from the balcony where Björk was observing the procession. Valgeir Sigurðsson, who engineered Medúlla at his Greenhouse Studios, can be seen in the white coat on the right-hand side of the top of the float.
The man in the green and pink shirt is the great Caetano Veloso:
At this point, alas, the battery in the camera gave out, and the next day I was flying back to New York. The remaining drama of the making of Medúlla was sonic rather than visual.
August 18, 2004 | Permalink
A reader sent me a link to the Pierre Boulez Project, in which Josh Ronsen takes at face value Boulez's old proclamation that "all the art of the past must be destroyed."
Another reader pointed the way to David Rakowski's site, which gives a hilarious and harrowing picture of the pedantic gobbledygook that still infuses composition classes at some American universities. Imagine the expletives Mozart might have spat out if you'd told him to "keep all registers active." Rakowski also has a Lexicon with definitions for "Lenny's Revenge" ("Contemporary concert music that sounds like warmed-over Bernstein, especially ze mambo from ze Vest Side Story") and "Dogma Breath" ("A person with an overdeveloped sense of Manifesto Destiny"). Wise and funny stuff.
August 17, 2004 | Permalink
...Frank Gehry's performing-arts center at Bard College, where I spent the weekend. Bard's Shostakovich Festival continues for another week, the probable highlight being the Fourteenth Symphony with the great Russian bass Nikita Storojev. Fans of the Solomon Volkov controversy will be interested to know that Laurel Fay has uncovered a memo by Shostakovich's close friend Isaak Glikman, reporting that the composer railed against the writing of memoirs in the months before his death. He also asked, "What sort of person is this Solomon Volkov?" A full report will appear in the New Yorker in a couple of weeks.
On Saturday I broke away from the round-the-clock socialist-realist hilarity to visit the other chief cultural destination in upstate New York, the Rodgers Book Barn. It's one of the most delightful used-book stores in the country, not just because of the selection (large, cheap) but because of the adventure of getting there. Study the map closely and watch out for those little signs. I picked up first editions of Isherwood's Prater Violet and Klaus Mann's Pathetic Symphony.
I wrote a brief discography to accompany my Björk profile, which appears in the New Yorker this week but is not yet online. Some more Björkiana will follow later this week.
August 16, 2004 | Permalink
I'm heading upstate today for Bard College's weekend-long Shostakovich Festival. Unfortunately I will miss the opening ceremony of the Olympics, which is supposed to have interesting music. I may meet up with a rural S/FJ to plot our co-blogging venture, the Popular Vs. Classical Extreme Eustace Tilley Smackdown. My profile of Björk will shortly be flying toward the presses, to appear on Monday alongside some New Yorker online-only and Rest Is Noise barely-online features. This is the "top-secret project" I've been not very subtly hinting about. The passing of David Raksin (see below) is much on my mind.
August 12, 2004 | Permalink
While finishing up Björk, I listened to a slew of CDs at the office yesterday. The winner was Baltic Voices, a Harmonia Mundi compilation of modern sacred music from the Baltic Sea region. The composers are Urmas Sisask, Toivo Tulev, Per Nørgård, Galina Grigorjeva, and Alfred Schnittke; the luminous chorus is the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, under Paul Hillier. The influence of Arvo Pärt is strong but not inescapable. Grigorjeva, in particular, is a composer I'd like to hear more of; her On Leaving ruminates in the grand Russian Orthodox tradition. Other CD's I'll deal with in ultra-gnomic Christgau style. Daniel S. Godfrey, String Quartets (Koch): rare wedding of flawless craft and flowing lyricism. Haydn, The Seasons (Harmonia Mundi): René Jacobs spews out another eccentric but persuasive recording. Get his semi-definitive Figaro first. Anna Netrebko, Sempre Libera (DG): the girl can sing. Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters (Universal): ditto. Vivaldi, Concertos for the Emperor (Harmonia Mundi): Andrew Manze's playing in the scalding finale of the C-minor sounds exactly as scary as Vivaldi's was said to have been.
August 12, 2004 | Permalink
I was very saddened to read of the death of David Raksin, whose Laura theme is one of the great inspirations in film-music history. I knew Mr. Raksin slightly. He was a warm and witty man whose library of anecdotes reached back deep into the golden age of Hollywood. I was amazed to read that he was 92 — he looked 75 at most. A few years ago I had lunch with him at Musso & Frank's, and when we sat down he said, "I used to have lunch at this table with Charlie" — meaning Charlie Chaplin. He told me fabulous stories of Schoenberg, from whom he took some lessons. Once he made the mistake of asking how to write music for an airplane sequence, whereupon Schoenberg snarled, "Like music for big bees, only louder." He also retold at my request the famous Raksin Hitchcock anecdote. Hitchcock didn't want music for the lost-at-sea drama Lifeboat because he thought audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the ocean. Raksin said, "Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from." I had been meaning to e-mail him asking whether he knew Lulu at the time of Laura, because something about the theme resembles Berg's "portrait" music. Too late. First Jerry Goldsmith, now Raksin: these are sad days for film-music buffs.
Incidentally, Raksin not only wrote a glorious, swaying theme for Laura but also introduced a striking electronic innovation. Everyone who's seen the movie remembers the scene in which Dana Andrews stares at Laura's portrait and falls under her spell. The mood is set by eerie shimmering chords on the soundtrack. What Raksin did — as he explained in an interview with Roy Prendergast, author of Film Music: A Neglected Art — was to record a series of piano chords with the initial attacks omitted. The engineer turned on the microphones only after each chord had been struck, and continued bringing up the levels until ambient noise saturated the ringing tones. Raksin then made tape loops from this spectral, disembodied sound. "It was the interplay of the partials without the ictus," he explained. Some years later, the Beatles used the same trick to create the massive piano chord at the end of "A Day in the Life."
August 11, 2004 | Permalink
I've been reading over brochures for next season, trying to nail down my reviewing agenda for the fall. I like to take my time deciding what to cover; my first instincts usually lead me to write about the same Germanic foolishness over and over (Schoenberg, Wagner, Schoenberg, Wagner). As a public service for those who live around or are passing through New York — The Rest Is Noise is nothing if not public-spirited — here's a rundown of potential highlights at the major halls and houses. Today, opera; next week, concerts. I issue a challenge to all you culturally aware non-attenders out there: you are not allowed to use the adjective "operatic" unless you have actually seen an opera in the last three months. Troy does not count.
The Metropolitan Opera: On paper, it doesn't look to be a particularly mind-blowing season at the Met. Four new productions: Cyrano de Bergerac, Faust, Rodelinda, The Magic Flute. The first and the third are star vehicles — the Franco Alfano obscurity Cyrano done at the bidding of Placido Domingo, Rodelinda made to order for Renée Fleming. Rodelinda will at least have an outstanding stage director in Stephen Wadsworth, and if Renée's acting doesn't grip you then Stephanie Blythe's surely will. The Magic Flute, opening Oct. 8, ought to be a visual hoot: Julie Taymor makes her Met debut, the wizardly George Tsypin designs. There's a fine young cast led by Dorothea Röschmann and Levine's new favorite Matthew Polenzani. This is probably my Met review for the fall. As for the revivals, I'm most jazzed about seeing Karita Mattila tear up the stage in Janacek's Katya Kabanova (Dec. 17). There is no way this can go wrong. Otherwise, the newly budget-conscious Met seems to be banking on a lot of newish singers in the repertory pieces. Angela M. Brown as Aida? Sylvie Valayre as Tosca? Elena Evseeva as Mimi? You take your chances.
New York City Opera: The season opens on Sept. 8 with Richard Strauss' luminous late masterpiece Daphne. I've never seen it in a full staging, though I have fond memories of the San Francisco Opera's semi-staged production ten years ago. Elizabeth Futral sings the title role; Stephen Lawless directs. The tricky thing about Daphne is that it ends with a woman turning into a tree. Good luck with that. I'm also duty-bound to attend the Oct. 31 world premiere of Charles Wuorinen's Haroun & The Sea of Stories, with a James Fenton libretto based on Salman Rushdie. A quick listen to an Albany CD of voice-and-piano excerpts didn't leave me giddy with anticipation, but, as the great Anna Russell used to say, I will go with a completely blank mind. City Opera also presents Tazewell Thompson's production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, which drew raves from Peter G. Davis in its Glimmerglass incarnation.
I plan to leave town in December for the Chicago Lyric Opera world premiere of William Bolcom's A Wedding. The Lyric, celebrating its Golden Jubilee Year, also has a Don Giovanni with Bryn Terfel and Karita Mattila, the first installment of a Ring cycle (but I've filled my Wagner quota for the year), and a promising new production of Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen. I'll probably also stop in at Placido Domingo's Washington Opera, which has the junior tenorissimo Salvatore Licitra in Andrea Chénier and Britten's monumental Billy Budd in the Francesca Zambello production from Covent Garden. Domingo's West Coast office, the Los Angeles Opera, offers a strong, Placido-led cast for Idomeneo, plus Exorcist director William Friedkin taking on Ariadne auf Naxos (let's hope there's no projectile vomiting). Finally, the San Francisco Opera has its own Billy Budd with barihunk Nathan Gunn and the North American premiere of Ligeti's comic-apocalyptic Le Grand Macabre. There's no reason to envy New York.
August 11, 2004 | Permalink
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Complete Orchestral Songs. James Conlon conducting the Gürzenich-Orchester Kölner Philharmoniker; with Soile Isokoski, Violeta Urmana, Andreas Schmidt, Michael Volle. EMI 5 57024 2
Is there such a thing as second-rate genius? Mahlerian settings of Langston Hughes, among others, gloriously sung.
I finally finished Michael Chanan's Musica Practica: The Social Practice of Western Music from Gregorian Chant to Postmodernism. In what has to a personal best of sustained procrastination, I've been trying to get through this book since its publication in 1994. Not the writing itself but my odd reading habits are to blame: I tend to bury one half-finished book under the next. In any case, Musica Practica is a tour-de-force, demystifying the "music itself" (as musicologists used to say) by showing how social practices and technologies shape it and direct it. Something quite uncanny happens at the end of the Prologue; working off citations of Mark Poster and Jacques Attali, Chanan essentially predicts the entire musical universe we've been living in for the last few years, the world of MP3s, downloading, and the iPod:
Whatever becomes information, anyone can now store and reproduce, repackage and refashion to their own purposes without anyone's permission, without payment, and largely without detection. Hence the expanding domain of information threatens the principle of private property....The results can be heard in the cacophony and confusion of contemporary music, which the recent introduction of synthesizers and samples has only increased. On the one hand, the technification of music has distorted the process of listening and damaged our hearing. On the other, it increasingly throws everything back into the arena, as the ease of reproduction allows the circulation of music to escape the control of the market and discover new forms. In short, the old hierarchies of aesthetic taste and judgment may have broken down, but music continues to breathe and to live according to its own immanent criteria.
I'm glad I waited to finish the book, because back in 1994 I would have had no idea what he was talking about.
It has been 59 years since the dropping of the bomb on Nagasaki, 35 years since the Manson murders, 30 years since the resignation of Nixon, 29 years since the death of Dmitri Shostakovich, and 90 days since my first post on this site. Surely the worst is now behind us.
"Is there any significance to the fact that this word for pleasure in the discomfiture of others exists only in German?"
— Peter Gay, My German Question
August 07, 2004 | Permalink
Kyle MacMillan of the Denver Post has an arresting lead for his profile of the brilliant coloratura Natalie Dessay:
Ask an opera diva about the biggest challenges she faces on stage, and you might reasonably expect her to cite nailing the high notes or handling a tricky articulation. But 39-year-old French soprano Natalie Dessay, the unrivaled star of this summer's Santa Fe Opera season, likes to buck expectations. She offers a surprising answer that reflects a huge transformation underway in recent decades in the opera world — achieving dramatic impact. "It's the hardest job," she said. "You have to be able to sing, of course. But the other half of the job is to be able to act. Even if the libretto is not so interesting, it's our job to make it interesting."So many singers these days are trained to make beautiful sounds, so few have thorough grounding in acting. Those who do command the stage — a short list might include Dessay, Karita Mattila, René Pape, Lauren Flanigan, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, and, yes, Placido Domingo — seem to have an inborn knack for it; few were actually schooled in theater. Hopefully, the "huge transformation" that MacMillan mentions is just beginning, and the next generation of stars will make good operatic acting the rule and not the exception. Link via ArtsJournal.
August 07, 2004 | Permalink
What do Inuit throat-singing, avant-garde heavy-metal vocalism, Japanese beatboxing, the impossibly cool electronic production of Mark Bell, and the centuries-old Icelandic choral tradition have in common? Opacodex can tell you.
August 06, 2004 | Permalink
Terry Teachout asks some heavy questions about the point or pointlessness of writing about art in a dangerous time, and answers them movingly. What would I do if only a day remained? It doesn't do my mood much good to contemplate such questions, but at some point or another I would reach for Brahms' Intermezzos Opus 117, and in particular the first, which since age seventeen or so has been the music closest to my heart. Some years ago Radu Lupu made an irreplaceable recording of Brahms' late piano music. It offers something more than beauty — it gives sympathy, compassion, companionship. Other than that, I'd want to get out of the house and leave art behind. When, on September 11, I left the building from which I'd watched the terror unfold and joined the endless crowd of people walking up Seventh Avenue, I felt one of the most powerful emotions of my life, which was the feeling of belonging to a mass. Strange how seldom our so-called mass culture provides such a feeling. Even the rowdiest entertainments return us to the suburbs of solitude, our disconnectedness rushing back in.
August 06, 2004 | Permalink


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Harbor is a new show from playwright-director Jon Cellini at the Victory Theatre Center, called one of the bravest and most prolific production theaters in the Los Angeles area. Adding to the appeal of a great new play are its stars, Matthew Lillard and Mary Thornton Brown.
Lillard has a lot of excitement in his life right now, with the release of The Descendants film with George Clooney, and producing and directing his first feature film The Fat Kid Rules the World. But even with all of that, he says "doing theater reignites my energy and love of acting. Being in the moment is what theater is about, and the feeling is second to none."
Why did he choose Harbor? Lillard reveals, "It's an opportunity to work with a dear old friend, Jon Cellini. He's incredibly talented, and has written a great part in an exciting play. I had to do it."
It's an emotionally dynamic relationship drama that is skillfully balanced with humor, according to producer Suzie Gardner. The story has a single mom, Jules (Thornton Brown), dealing with the return of Tommy her ex-husband (Lillard), following the death of her father. The situation sets off a powder keg of emotions, and explores what it takes to say good-bye.
"This straightforward yet exciting play lives in the moment in a way people can relate to," Lillard explains. "The great thing is that this delivers in both the comedy and drama."
The Victory Theatre Center's Harbor opens Oct. 27 and has a limited run through Dec. 3, playing Thursday, Friday, and Saturdays at 8 p.m. Tickets are $24, and preferred seating is $34. Group and senior rates are available.
The Victory Theatre is located at 3326 W. Victory Blvd., one block east of Hollywood Way in Burbank. For reservations call (818) 841-5421.


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Four Goals Lead Lady Flames to Road Victory
Four Lady Flames netted goals on Saturday afternoon, helping the Liberty field hockey team secure a 4-0 victory over Washington & Lee at the Duchossois Outdoor Athletics Facilities Complex. The win is the program's first true road victory, after posting three neutral site wins and one home victory this season.
Liberty's four goals on Saturday, which came from Abby Batdorf, Helen Doolittle, Mercedes Cox and Lindsey Hanks, backs up its four-goal performance against Roanoke on Wednesday. The 4-0 victory is the largest margin of victory in the program's brief history.
With the win, the Lady Flames are now 5-6 on the year, while Washington & Lee falls to 4-7 for the 2011 campaign.
While Washington & Lee posted the first shot of the contest at the 4:06 mark, Liberty took control of the offense shortly after. An initial attempt to score off a penalty corner was unsuccessful, but freshman Batdorf put the visitors on the board through 8:24 of play. Batdorf netted her third goal of the season, coming up with the loose ball on the left post and slipping it past starting goalkeeper Kirsten Kyne.
The Lady Flames posted four more shots in the ensuing eight minutes of play, but no attempt found the target.
Doolittle then tallied her team-leading sixth goal of the season to put Liberty up 2-0. Charging from the top of the circle, Doolittle fired the shot just inside the arc. A deflection off a defender's stick lifted the ball into the air and over Kyne's shoulder on the left side of the goal.
Liberty tried two more shots in the first half, but came up empty. Through the opening 35-minutes of play, the Lady Flames held an 8-1 advantage in both shots and penalty corners.
Cox boosted Liberty to a 3-0 cushion quickly in the second half, scoring just 1:42 into play. After Batdorf had carried the ball to the endline, she dished the ball to to her teammate just off center of the goal. Cox then struck the ball to the back of the cage for her second goal of the season, giving Batdorf the assist on the play.
Liberty capped off its scoring at the 63:46 mark, with a goal from Hanks. Alex Hibbs controlled the ball into the circle on a fast break opportunity, but goalkeeper Caroline Sutherland, who played the second half, charged to break up the opportunity. With the ball loose, Hanks grabbed possession and earned her second goal of the season.
Ann Jefferis played the entire 70 minutes in cage for the Lady Flames, but was not forced to make a save on the afternoon, resulting in her third shutout of the season.
The Lady Flames controlled the offensive effort on the afternoon, outshooting the Generals 15-2 and having a 12-1 edge in penalty corner opportunities.
Liberty will have a short break away from competition, as its next contest is slated for Oct. 16 against Davidson. The Lady Flames will hit the road again as they travel to face the NorPac program. Game time is scheduled for noon.