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"Pekka Kuusisto…surely has the most personal sound of any classical violinist now alive" (Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph)
Artistic Director: ACO Collective
Artistic Partner: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Artistic Director: Our Festival
Following his enormously successful London BBC Proms debut, the 2016/17 season sees Kuusisto perform with the Seattle Symphony, Mahler Chamber and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. An advocate of new music, Kuusisto gave the world premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund's Violin Concerto, leading to a critically acclaimed release of the work with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (BIS) in 2015. He also collaborates frequently with composers such as Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason and Thomas Adès, and premieres a new work by Anders Hillborg this season with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Artistic Director: ACO Collective
Artistic Partner: The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Artistic Director: Our Festival
Following his enormously successful London BBC Proms debut, the 2016/17 season sees Kuusisto perform with the Seattle Symphony, Mahler Chamber and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. An advocate of new music, Kuusisto gave the world premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund's Violin Concerto, leading to a critically acclaimed release of the work with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (BIS) in 2015. He also collaborates frequently with composers such as Nico Muhly, Daníel Bjarnason and Thomas Adès, and premieres a new work by Anders Hillborg this season with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Last season, he toured Europe with Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä, including his Edinburgh International Festival debut, and returned to the Scottish Chamber, City of Birmingham Symphony and Toronto Symphony orchestras. Recent recital highlights include London's Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Dortmund's Konzerthaus, with upcoming performances at Mozarteum Salzburg, Carnegie Hall and Princeton University.
Joining together with performers across the artistic spectrum, Kuusisto works with electronic musician Brian Crabtree, jazz-trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Dutch neurologist Erik Scherder. Regular chamber partners include Anne Sofie von Otter, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Nicolas Altstaedt and Olli Mustonen.
Widely recognised for his flair in directing ensembles from the violin, this season Kuusisto becomes Artistic Partner with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and continues as Artistic Director with ACO Collective. He also regularly directs The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Tapiola Sinfonietta and Britten Sinfonia.
Kuusisto received the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2013 and is Artistic Director of the award-winning 'Our Festival', based in Sibelius' home town. His next CD release features him as both director and soloist for Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Tapiola Sinfonietta.
Pekka Kuusisto plays a fine Stradivari violin kindly loaned to him through the Beares International Violin Society.
"Kuusisto, an artist of astonishing gifts, booted up his iPad and tackled the daunting score animatedly… His playing was by turns expressive and fiercely vibrant in this journey of many moods." (Cincinnati.com, January 2017)
"What could have been just a clever programming idea instead provided the foundation for one of the most enjoyable SPCO concerts of the season… from the sensation that the SPCO might have found its ideal artistic partner in the imaginative and extraordinarily gifted Kuusisto." (TwinCities, January 2017)
"If the Haydn was exuberant, the symphony that concluded the evening, Prokofiev's "Classical" — deliberately modeled on Haydn — was positively incendiary in its impact. Kuusisto was again the catalyst, driving the outer movements at a blistering tempo that required a crack response from the SPCO players, and got it." (Star Tribune, January 2017)
"Kuusisto, an artist of astonishing gifts, booted up his iPad and tackled the daunting score animatedly… His playing was by turns expressive and fiercely vibrant in this journey of many moods." (Cincinnati.com, January 2017)
"What could have been just a clever programming idea instead provided the foundation for one of the most enjoyable SPCO concerts of the season… from the sensation that the SPCO might have found its ideal artistic partner in the imaginative and extraordinarily gifted Kuusisto." (TwinCities, January 2017)
"If the Haydn was exuberant, the symphony that concluded the evening, Prokofiev's "Classical" — deliberately modeled on Haydn — was positively incendiary in its impact. Kuusisto was again the catalyst, driving the outer movements at a blistering tempo that required a crack response from the SPCO players, and got it." (Star Tribune, January 2017)
"The Festival's string highlight, however, was Finn Pekka Kuusisto's bracingly fresh account of Sibelius's Violin Concerto in a triumphant concert with the Minnesota Orchesstra under Osmo Vanska (23 August)…he transformed it into a thoroughly modern, forward-looking work, fleet and glacial in its opening and disarmingly direct in its strongly defined finale, with a distinctive folk twang too." (The Strad, November 2016)
"Kuusisto and Altstaedt absorbed each other's roles, blending and rising to forge the dominant idea so seamlessly that one could have been listening to a single interpreter. Their performance was always unassuming and intelligent in delineating the phrasing and textures. This whole concert was a treat." (The Strad, October 2016)
"[Kuusisto] executed the virtuoso work with flair and a charming chuckle, suggesting both a zest for life and musical supremacy." (Kolnische Rundschau, Olaf Weiden, September 2016)
"The oft-played work is match made in heaven for the captivating Kuusisto, who is as brilliant as charismatic. With chameleon-like changeability he shows everything off here: total melodiousness in the "Aria", enchantment in the "Lento intenso", then dance-like tricks and soulful, lyrical solo melodies." (Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, Rainer Nonnenmann, September 2016)
"What followed, however, upstaged all else. It was the Proms debut of Pekka Kuusisto, the maverick Finnish violinist, improbably playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto ... He really is the David Bowie of the fiddle. His played-and-sung encore … brought the house down." (The Times, August 2016)
"Who needs a 'Last Night' when you have Pekka Kuusisto? The Finnish violinist's performance of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto will surely prove to be one of the most joyous events at this year's Proms. ... Kuusisto gave us sheer joy: 'light-hearted' and 'cheeky' were not words I'd ever thought I would use to describe this work, but they are apt in this case, supplemented by 'honest', 'open-hearted' and 'songful'. ... Sparing with vibrato, the violinist revealed an innate sense of phrasing, letting the melodies unfold with the gentle ease of a folk singer, taking Tchaikovsky's themes back to their roots." (Seen & Heard International, August 2016)
"This Finnish violinist has always gone his own way, as likely to be found playing jazz, electronica or folk music as a concerto, and his Tchaikovsky last night was no different. ... From the long opening melody to the Finale's boot-stamping dance of a theme, Kuusisto was as much a fiddler as a violinist. Arms flowing loose, feet syncopating to the rhythms of his bow, mouth constantly on the edge of a grin, he took Tchaikovsky's art music and distilled it down to its folk essence. Tempos, freed from the weight of Romantic emotion and vibrato, suddenly danced, and melodies relocated from ballroom to barn shook off maturity for lightfooted youth." (The Arts Desk, August 2016)
"Undeniable star power supplanted mere ensemble virtue in the complicated concerto, with Pekka Kuusisto making the impossible solo challenges seem rapturously easy" (Martin Bernheimer, The Financial Times, June 2016)
"Then the virtuosic violinist Mr. Kuusisto gave a fearless account of Ligeti's Violin Concerto…Mr. Kuusisto vanquished the concerto's daunting challenges, giving a wild yet masterly performance and eliciting a tumultuous ovation. Mr. Gilbert, the proprietor of the biennial, beamed." (Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, June 2016)
"Kuusisto is a one-of-a-kind violin player – supple, lyrical, virtuosic and intensely personal all at the same time. He played the Nielsen as though it had been written for him – actually he played it as though he had written it himself, so thoroughly did he inhabit this odd, compelling music… Kuusisto made every twist and turn of the score make sense, and conductor Mena was with him every step of the way. The performance was balanced, expressive and thrilling, just as you hope music can be." (Robert Harris, The Globe and Mail, June 2016)
"[Kuusisto]...then displayed his imagination by leading the SPCO strings in an absorbing mix of music by contemporary composers Nico Muhly, Erkki-Sven Tuur and Bryce Dessner […]Taken as a whole, it was an ideal blend of intellect and heart, tremendous technique and ebullient abandon." (Pioneer Press, April 2016)
"Kuusisto has a stage presence that is simultaneously elegant and mischievous. With his balletic conducting gestures and expressive eyes, he led the ensemble into the exciting territory of modern works, classic masterpieces and a reimagined Beethoven quartet." (Canberra Times, February 2016)
"Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto gave us a rugged and intensely intimate blow-by-blow account with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and conductor Tuomas Hannikainen. Nielsen was a folk fiddler and Kuusisto made it show in the gorgeous looseness of his rhythms and stripped-back grit of his sound. There's not an inch of formality to his playing: he might as well have wandered the hall and whispered, crooned and stomped directly into our ears. His encore was a pair of traditional polskas, full of spry ornamentation and raucous swing. What a thrill." (Kate Molleson, The Guardian, October 2015)
"Kuusisto's personality shone through from the opening Bach-inspired flourishes, through to the macabre, dance-infused finale. His rich full-bodied sound was mirrored by the orchestra with some lyrical contributions from the brass and playful exchanges with the woodwind section." ***** (Susan Nickalls, The Scotsman, October 2015)
"The performances are strong, confident and poetic, and violinist Pekka Kuusisto tackles the challenges of Darkness in Light as though they were by Prokofiev or even Tchaikovsky." (Stephen Johnson, BBC Music Magazine, July 2015)
"The Violin Concerto Darkness in Light (2012) was composed for and dedicated to Pekka Kuusisto, who gives a dazzlingly virtuoso account of it here…Kuusisto navigates his way brilliantly through the gamut of effects including multiple-stopping, microtones, harmonics et al, all expressed with a broadly legato flow…" (Guy Rickards, Gramophone, May 2015)
"Magnus Lindberg's violin concerto…[was] a true technical and sonic showcase. Frankly spectacular. Kuusisto…demonstrated his full virtuoso abilities and stood up to the challenge like very few fellow violinists could possibly have done." (Jorge Aráoz Badí, La Nación, April 2015)
"Fagerlund's music is highly energetic and detailed. The recording in addition is penetrating, dynamic and rings, just like the composition, with Pekka Kuusisto's virtuosic playing; the concerto being commissioned for him." (Wilhelm Kvist, HBL, April 2015)
"…There are passages of subtle virtuosity from Pekka Kuusisto as well as a lovely static passage where the violin hovers over a constantly shifting quiet orchestra…This is a very fine concerto indeed full of invention, colour and energy. It receives a terrific performance from Pekka Kuusisto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hannu Lintu." (Bruce Reader, The Classical Reviewer, April 2015)
"[The Sibelius Violin Concerto] is often played – but never quite like this, and the performance by violinist Pekka Kuusisto was the evening's great surprise…he launched into the music with a straightforward intensity that had the listeners leaning forward in their seats. There were no showy virtuoso flourishes and no grand gestures; instead, Kuusisto wielded an awe-inspiring technique and displayed a brilliantly thorough command of this challenging score. After the final bravura notes, the audience just exploded, into an ovation that sounded less like sedate symphony-goers and more like the 12th Man. Kuusisto was called again and again to the stage, until he provided a wonderfully Finnish encore by the 19th-century folk musician Samuel Rinda-Nickola, complete with foot-stomping emphasis." (Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, March 2015)
"…Kuusisto stood out. He committed at every moment to Sibelius' music, whether spinning a thread of tone in his opening bars or turning to the orchestra with a smile between solos, absorbing energy for his next entrance…Kuusisto consistently draws you in with his playing, as if he's trying to share a secret…Everyone left for intermission with the same huge smile Kuusisto wore at the end, and a guy walking past me up the aisle told his date, 'I have a new favorite fiddler.'" (Lawrence Toppman, The Charlotte Observer, March 2015)
"Kuusisto is clearly a risk taker and in this case, he was eminently successful. This collaboration represented an inventive reimagining of the classical sound and offered the opportunity to hear this music afresh. The freewheeling program offered a novel way to structure a recital, thinking outside the usual box…Kuusisto himself provided much of the energy of the event…He was clearly having a rollicking good time and his mood was contagious…he is a true virtuoso, playing with expressive flair and control…Kuusisto demonstrated mastery as a classical violinist and as a fiddler, a different skill set…the ear-catching thrills kept the audience enthralled." (William Randall Beard, Star Tribune, March 2015)
"If you've encountered an uncomfortably aristocratic air at some classical music concerts you've attended, be assured that violinist Pekka Kuusisto seems intent upon doing away with that. The flamboyant Finn engages audiences with a puckish playfulness, approaching the music with a palpable thirst for fun and adventure…Employing an expressive face and a loose-limbed bounciness, he clearly captured the audience's fancy, judging from its lusty ovations. And he underlined the Bach sonatas' foundation in dance by interspersing Finnish folk tunes from Bach's era, climaxing in a "polska for the devil" that was thrillingly fiery." (Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press, March 2015)
"…a brilliant adventure, full of surprises and imagination…[This was] without a doubt the most incredible improvisation I have ever heard." ***** (Jónas Sen, Fréttablaðið, February 2015)
"Kuusisto's playing of Lindberg's merciless solo part was spectacularly effective, drawing the ovation that he deserved." (Michael Tumelty, The Herald, October 2014)
"Thomas Adès's violin concerto Concentric Paths is a bracing, if barbed, work. Pekka Kuusisto attacked the busy, complex, circular patterning of the first movement with relish and held his nerve in its whistling, high-wire writing. Something of a maverick, he was at once battling vigorously with the fast writing and seeming to joust with it physically, jumping suddenly forwards and back. There's a dystopian, or at least chaotic, edge in the slow movement too, a quality that Kuusisto evoked in the fast angular yet legato runs over rumbling tuba and drum. Much of the remainder of the movement calls for well-fuelled high-lying playing, in which Kuusisto excelled." (Edward Bhesania, The Strad, February 2014)
"Pekka Kuusisto, the elfin Finnish violinist who surely has the most personal sound of any classical violinist now alive… For his encore Kuusisto played the Sarabande from Bach's D minor Partita. Here, finally, Kuusisto's own rhapsodic voice stood out nakedly, as delicate and fleeting as a distant bird." (Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, February 2014)
"Mr. Kuusisto's passionate rendition of the work's Chaconne proved arresting; his idiosyncratic style stopped short of indulgent with unpredictable twists of tempo, phrasing and dynamics. During his no-holds-barred playing, there were many broken bow hairs, which danced over his instrument like gossamer insect legs." (Vivien Schweitzer, The New York Times, January 2014)
"Kuusisto, directing from (and occasionally rising from) the concertmaster's chair, offered a bracing account, historically informed yet personally inflected, that captured the music's vigor and wit. His breathless tempo in the finale left both orchestra…and audience pleasantly warm. I went home singing….he is not so much a violinist as a musician who happens to play the violin." (Larry Fuchsberg, Minnesota Star-Tribune, January 2014)
"…to hear the whispered tenderness that Kuusisto brought to the final simple motif was worth the trip to Perth in itself." (Rob Adams, The Herald, April 2013)
"The solo was played with bracing intensity and brilliance by the Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto." (New York Times, February 2012)
"Pekka Kuusisto, a violinist whose rare gift is to become rather than perform the music he plays, made light work of the finely spun figurations that filter through into the dappled orchestral textures...Here and throughout, the playing was marked by the kind of luminous and infectious beauty that comes only from a true marriage of mastery and love." (The Guardian, February 2012)
"Kuusisto makes an extraordinary sound, delicate and changeable and yet tough as steel wire." (The Telegraph, February 2012)
"The Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto, probably the most engaging maverick in classical music today, appeared once to give a startlingly eerie account of Stravinsky's Airs du rossignol and Marche chinoise, again to supply the piano part in the orchestra's aptly grotesque romp through the same composer's Suites Nos 1 and 2 for Small Orchestra; and a third time as a superbly characterful soloist in Adès's own violin concerto, Concentric Paths." (The Times, February 2012)
"The young Finn produced some of the most spontaneous and out-of-the-box violin playing and musical interpretation I have heard…what Kuusisto did with it all was fresh and unpredictable. There were no templates, no predictable strategies. At one moment in the Stravinsky he was playing in period style, the next with sweet tone, then with full-on passion, then at the threshold of audibility, and finally barnstorming rambunctiously." (The Herald, February 2010)
"Lending his wayward genius to all this was the guest solo violinist, Pekka Kuusisto. What an extraordinary sound he makes, tremulous as a reed, often folk-like in its flatness, and yet so expressive." (The Telegraph, February 2010)
"Other highlights are the gorgeous romancing of the Cantabile, the effortlessly sweet-singing Sonata in A and the heroic Tarantella, originally for violin and orchestra: here Kuusisto really shows his violinistic mettle with some impeccable double-stopped spiccato and frenzied, stratospheric twirling." (The Strad, February 2010)


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Hi Gary,
thanks for this helpful review. Peppermit 7 really looks stunning.
Did you check how much memory the distro used after booting?
I'd like to try it out on some oldish laptop with only 2 GB ram.
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hi melissa,
i started a toshiba satellite notebook with 2gb ram with peppermint 7 usb key and after loading the desktop it uses about 250mb ram, so i think it will work well on your machine also.
anyway you can always test it from a bootable usb without the worry of having to install it on your hard drive. i suggest you to download the iso, and burn it onto a usb using the excellent tool unetbootin, either from a linux or a windows machine.
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I first tried Peppermint at v.5- it was OK but did not grab me. But after reading your review I decided to give Peppermint 7 a try.
Am I glad that I did. It is beautiful to look at, really flies, and everything just works.
The blend of LXDE and XFCE works really well.
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I have been using LXLE for the past 3 years. I switched totally to Linux after the demise of XP. After trying many different distros at the time LXLE was the only one where everything seemed to work. I was not so happy with the newer releases of LXLE so for the past couple of weeks have been trying out some different distros. My short list came down to Peppermint or Manjaro. Peppermint is the only one that has installed on different laptops with no problem. I have kept Manjaro on one laptop as I like the rolling updates but for day to day use I will now be using Peppermint.
Oldest laptop I have installed it on is a Dell Inspiron 6000 with a Pentium M 1.73ghz and 2gb ram and it runs fine. For older laptops with 2gb of ram I use the 32bit version. Others which have 4gb + of ram, I use 64 bit although looking at RAM usage of the 64 bit version, it rarely goes over 3gb.
In my opinion, Peppermint is a great distro. It works out of the box, is fast on older hardware and I like that it comes with the minimum of apps installed so I can install what I want.
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Joe Biden is in the Middle East, where he took the time to condemn Israel for existing while posing beneath the picture of one of the world's great Nobel Peace Prize winning terrorists:
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Here's one that should send a real positive message to Israel:
Israel's only hope now is that Abbas is run over by Biden's motorcade when Plugs leaves town — and there's a better than average chance of that happening.
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No…but since its the sterotype of the Jewish people all over the world, one that has quite a grain of truth to it, as the blacks make excellent basketball players, the Jews have ALWAYS been great at making money…the ONLY reason anyone can think of why the Jewish people vote for people who could care less about them…is…money.
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Derrick Rose? Kevin Durant? John Wall? Next.
The days of the infamous "One-and-Done" college basketball player are behind us. Welcome to the dawn of the "Half-and-Done-ers."
To the surprise of nobody, Kansas Freshman guard, Josh Selby, announced today – via Twitter – that he will forgo his sophomore, junior and senior seasons and enter this June's NBA draft. This on the heels of last week's announcement out of Durham, NC which saw Duke guard, Kyrie Irving take the same step.
Due to the NBA's age restriction, we have witnessed a host of talented players pass, briefly, through the ranks of amateurs for a full season while they placed their dreams of professional basketball on hold for one, often spectacular year. It's not a new phenomenon.
But most of these players PLAYED an entire season in college before heading off to richer pastures. So, the announcements from Selby and Irving offer a rare glimpse at two young players who both missed significant portions of their one and only collegiate season. Selby missed the first 9 games of the season awaiting the NCAA's decision on his eligibility…and then 3 additional games later in the season due to a foot injury. Irving missed the last 3 months of the regular season for the Blue Devils before returning in the NCAA Tournament.
In their short time on the court, each player made contributions to their team. Irving was second on the team in points per game (17.5) and assists per game (4.3) while playing and was a significant factor for Mike Krzyzewski's squad. Selby, while never finding the stride he showed when he was so heavily recruited out of high school, showed flashes of the player he could be with impressive offensive numbers in several games for the Jayhawks.
But, both Selby and Irving – rivals.com's No. 1 and 2 point guards, respectively, in the 2010 class – played partial seasons at best. And, now that their time in college is done, they can move on to bigger (richer) and better (MUCH richer) things without leaving too much of an impact at all on the college game.
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Johnny from Fan Rants gave the series a positive review:
Frankly the casting is spot on, all solid actors with their own strengths and they thus far have brought solid performances to the show. The main thing they have changed is the fact that Chance is no longer a master of disguise but rather a bodyguard. A highly skilled and connected bodyguard that is.
They have dropped many hints that he may have been a spy at one time, but nothing concrete. What we do know is, he speaks multiple languages, so far Japanese and Russian, knows martial arts, is a master shot and tactician.
I like the show for its action and humor. So far the writing has been very well done and as I said earlier, the casting is very good. They are actually using some quality comic book writers for the scripting, Carmine Infantino and Len Wein have writing credit on the first two episodes. Also they have had some excellent guest stars so far, Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica), Danny Glover, Alessandro Juliani (BSG), Sean Maher (Firefly), and Emmanuelle Vaugier (CSI NY).
Graeme McMillan feels that the concept suffers in comparison to the comic:
I've given up wondering why certain things are adaptations as opposed to original creations, for the most part, but Human Target just confuses me; it's different enough in concept, characters and tone from the original that, if the names were different, it would be its own thing. It's not an adaptation, or even a recreation; it's an appropriation of the name and idea that someone will be protecting clients, and little else. It's not even as if the comic Human Target would be difficult to do as a television series; it'd be the anti-Dollhouse in some senses – multiple actors playing the same character, instead of one actor portraying multiple characters – but as much about identity and personality… which, come to think of it, may be as much a turn-off to mass audiences as Dollhouse seemed to be. But it's hard to deny that Human Target the comic – and especially Peter Milligan's more nuanced take, as demonstrated in Chance Meetings – is much more interesting, individual and worthwhile than the TV version. It's an ironic shame that the concept's very identity was sacrificed in order to make it to television.
Finally the blogger at What is Unseen dislikes the writing of the show:
The stories are weak. It seems as though they're trying too hard and trying to be something they're not just to 'blend in' with television. But they're falling flat if that is what they're doing. I say make it your own and then own it. The cast is a pretty decent one, a lot of potential. However, the show doesn't even keep up with their talent. I gave the show a chance, I went in with an open mind and expecting something mediocre. I kept watching in hopes it would approve…I received nothing back a bad story and boredom in return. Sigh…what is happening to entertainment? I honestly feel insulted that they actually think this kind of tv will entertain us television viewers. We might be overworked and looking for an hour vacation from our stressful days, or something just to wind down to on television but I'd rather watch info commercials on snuggies rather than Human Target. Not to mention why are so many comic characters being taken and 'inspired' for stories and than butchered when hitting the television screen or movie screen…? An argument for another day perhaps?
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One of my house mates, has been constantly uploading torrent type stuff for the last couple of days, and it's getting to be a bit of a bore, as it is killing the network.
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OK... so why would government debt spending count as positive GDP? That makes no sense.
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Police should not be scapegoated for arrests in high-profile corruption cases
Outrage and disquiet following the video about food served to BSF jawans is understandable. But hype and hysteria cannot help resolve the issues it has flagged.
The recent debate about the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act demands that changes must be seen in this context.
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Going by this viewpoint, the army is the sole repository of competence and commitment in anti-terror operations in the country.
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Quick question. I am attempting to work with a corrupted database that is offline in order to salvage some emails. I have successfully run eseutil /p however, I wanted to run the isinteg utility as well. I know how to do it when it is still in the original location. However, I am not sure how to run it when it is a different location altogether. The reason I am confused is because the utility seems to require a <server name> switch and obviously that does not apply here. Anyway to accomplish this? Thanks!
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Hey Mike, quick answer
No :-(
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Oct 29, 2010 at 3:32 UTC
Hey Mike, quick answer
No :-(
Oct 29, 2010 at 3:37 UTC
That is what I was thinking (should be able to though). However, upon checking, it seems that the eseutil /p actually did the trick so I probably do not need to run this anyhow. Thanks for the response. Best answer awarded.
Oct 29, 2010 at 3:37 UTC
when you run Eseutil, you can move database files to temporary locations to make repairs. But to run Isinteg, you must put the database back in the location from which it is normally mounted.
Oct 29, 2010 at 3:43 UTC
yes but I wouldn't do that with a secondary copy that is not going back into production
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Two years after the city of New Orleans was flooded by Al Gore's global warming, the liberal media insisted everyone reflect on the disaster. What they found was that since the majority of the city's population had either died in the flooding or recovery efforts, there still remained a small percentage of people who had first-hand knowledge of those critical first five days and cared that little has changed since then.
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I must admit I'm a little addicted to Facebook. Only a little, and certainly less than I used to be, but the need to log in often throughout the day in order to see what all of my Facebook friends have been up to is still present. I say Facebook friends because the idea of friendship has changed thanks to social networks, whether for better or worse.
I'm not alone in being just slightly addicted to Facebook, or of social networks in general. So much so that Internet Addiction Disorder is a recognized condition with its own illustrative infographic Facebook Psychology - Is Addiction Affecting Our Minds? [INFOGRAPHIC] Facebook Psychology - Is Addiction Affecting Our Minds? [INFOGRAPHIC] Internet Addiction Disorder (otherwise known as Facebookalitis) is set to become the big psychological disorder of the 21st century - and it seems we have mostly Facebook to thank for that. Thanks to the social... Read More . This led me to wonder how the MakeUseOf readership uses Facebook, and in particular whether Mark Zuckerberg and co. have enabled individuals to expand their groups of friends.
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We asked you, How Many Facebook Friends Do You Have? The response was absolutely phenomenal, with the article garnering well over 100 comments. Every one of the people who responded shared a number with us; those numbers ranging from 0 (for people who don't use Facebook) to 5,000 (the limit imposed by Facebook).
The average number of Facebook friends maintained by MakeUseOf readers is 386 (yes, I actually did the math). This is a much higher number than the 120 Facebook friends averaged across the whole of the social networking site. It's also a much higher number than the 150 that is Dunbar's number, which Saikat previously explored How Many Friends On Facebook Is Too Much? [Opinion] How Many Friends On Facebook Is Too Much? [Opinion] I never thought that we would be so 'obsessed' with friends. Collecting friends seems to be a fad that refuses to die down thanks to social networks. When we talk about social networks, we usually... Read More , and which Arron Walker also mentioned in the comments.
As someone who currently has 80 Facebook friends, and who has never had more than around 120, I find it hard to understand those who have thousands of friends. I doubt I have even met 5,000 people in my lifetime, let alone known them well enough to add them to Facebook. It's clear that some treat collecting Facebook friends as a game, and that the vast majority of those on their lists are nothing more than vague acquaintances. But that's just my opinion.
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A few months back, my Facebook Friends count was almost touching 700, and coupled with almost 250 like pages and subscriptions, Facebook for me was almost resembling Rudyard Kipling's Junglebook. So one day I decided that sanity need be restored, and start and un-friending the so called acquaintances. I guess the count of friends came down from 689 in the morning to 36 in the by the evening. Also another day, I did a similar exercise with Like Pages. Today my Friends count stand at 44 including my relatives and my Like pages stand to 6 out of which one is MakeUseOf page. Has of be a very special page to withstand the onslaught. Sanity restored!!!
This comment won purely for reminding us all that a good spring clean is sometimes needed, even when it comes to Facebook friends. Dropping from 689 to 36 may be extreme, but I heartily applaud the effort.
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Nearly tripped over when I read my name o_o I was sitting down of course, so I couldn't actually trip. Hadn't realised you had an article exploring it, interesting read, I was expecting clear cut number being an opinion article, but it was open ended. And yeah, that kind of spring cleaning is equivalent of burning down your house, then walking of with your personal affects.
So Sincere the comment. Most of people have friends for filling, like a dental filling.
Rajaa does deserve that. He's the epitome of spring cleaning. Now if he wants to share his method so we can take some pages out of his book.
I think the two attributes of the methodology used are Patience (believe me, you will need a load of it, specially midway of unfriending people, but you would need the hard resolve to complete the process) and Guts (I am sure, I must of ticked off a few people in the process and they must be pretty cross with me but as says time is the best healer and they must have forgotten the incident by now). :) :P


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This guy I just had a coffee with sent me a text straight after our date saying I was worth the subscription fee.
he's also hitting me with comments about me having a nice bum etc and that I'm gorgeous. Is this a red flag in the dating game.
he uses whatsapp and is frequently online. I'm not checking but whenever I go online he's online. And he Jeri's winking at me on the dating site even though he has my number.
Does he sound like a player too?
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He sounds kinda weird in general. Subscription fee? Who says that? lol I don't know about a player but I'd say he's just after sex for sure based on his comments to you.00|00|0
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a subscription fee? dafaq? smh this dude thinking you a weight loss program or something.00|00|0


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Gender: Male
Eye colour: Brown
Hair colour: Brown
Hair length: Short
Playing age: 28 - 38 years
Height: 5ft 9ins
Weight: 69kg
Build: Thin
Location: London
Nationality type: European
Appearance: White
Ian trained at Mountview Theatre School, where he was awarded a singing scholarship. His career so far has encompassed musical theatre, childrens' shows ("an athletic and inventive Toad"), operetta, classical and modern theatre, short films, radio dramas and TV; playing a wide range of roles from the romantic lead ("Company"; "Spinsters") to the naïve and boyish ("The Snow Queen"; "Unidentified Human Remains") to the comedic ("The Tempest"; "Global Conspiracy").
One reviewer of "Joseph" commented that Ian (as Judah) "provided moments of pure theatrical beauty", and another that he "shines in the role of Sabian" (Doctor Who: Primeval).
Cockney, Birmingham, RP, Somerset, Welsh, Midlands*, Yorkshire
Bass Guitar
Musical Theatre
Driving, Video, Dancer, Singer, Solo Singer, Muscular, Musician
Mountview Theatre School 1997 - 1998 Post graduate Diploma in Acting and Musical Theatre


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- DavidD477 commented on backbeats's instructable Make a Contact Microphone10 months ago
Probably not since the sound is made by the tap dancer's shoes clicking off the surface, standard microphones (directional microphones with a cat's tail over it) should work better think of the surface of the floor as a percussion instrument and the shoes as drumsticks attaching one to a drum-skin wouldn't work well, but attaching it to the wooden body would. If you attached contact mics to the wall just above the floor they might work but if you want the sound re-created perfectly you're better off with conventional mics, probably two front and two rear for even sound distribution.View Instructable »
Hot glue is an electrical insulator, it wouldn't work well in place of solder. A soldering iron and solder cost under £10 or approx $10, not a big expense and you'll probably find yourself mending good earphones that broke at the jack from metal fatigue, a soldering iron saved an expensive computer headset multiple times as the wire kept getting pulled when I stood up if it was caught on something; you'll find that you end up mending items that you'd usually throw out and re-purchase, usually at a much higher price than the soldering iron and solder. Some flux; even though most soldering wire is coated in a bit of flux using soldering flux means you get better connections on some metals which seem to repel solder otherwise.


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Former land girl Nellie, 92, receives veterans badge for her work in the WLA
Ermanno is looking for information on Marietta, most likely a Land Girl in Skipton who knew his grandfather, Italian Prisoner of War, Congedo Cesare Antonio during the Second World War. Marietta might have been a pet name. Please do get in touch if you recognise the woman in these photos, or know of a Marietta who worked in the Women's Land Army.
Common Ground Theatre present The Lumberjills by Hannah Davies and Tom Cornford.
Come to Dalby, The Great Yorkshire Forest, and experience theatre in a beautiful and atmospheric natural setting. The Lumberjills takes place in a woodland glade and tells the stories of the women who worked in Britain's forestry trade during the Second World War. We invite you to step into a 1940s world of gramophones, tree felling and tea dances. This is a poetic and dramatic celebration of the lives of the unsung heroines of the forest's past.
Praise for previous work:
'Storytelling at its best' D&S TIMES 'A delight throughout' THE PRESS
'What art can and should be' THE SCOTSMAN
'Davies does justice to a truly remarkable story' THREE WEEKS ìììì
'Shot through with moments of exquisite beauty' TIME OUT
Dates: 20 – 31 July 2pm and 6pm
Tickets: www.cgtheatre.co.uk
PERFORMANCE SITE: The show is performed in a woodland glade at the end of the fully accessible Ellerburn Trail in Dalby Forest. Picnics welcome (no glass). This is an outdoor event, please remember to dress for the weather!
PARKING: The nearest parking is at the Dalby Forest Visitors Centre Car Park (YO18 7LT). Discounted parking on the day of your performance when you show your e-ticket on entry to the forest. There are some disabled spaces available close to the performance site (access half an hour before show start time). Please email firstname.lastname@example.com with details of your booking and specific requirements.
Yorkshire Women at War: Story of the Women's Land Army Hostels
General Information
First Name(s): Marjorie
Unmarried Surname: Haigh
Date of Birth: 27/09/1901
Place of Birth: Sheffield
Date Joined WLA: 1943
Life After War
Return to pre-war occupation: No
Stayed on the land: No
Further Information
Previous occupation before WLA / WTC: Steelworks / clerical?
Reasons for joining WLA / WTC : Open air life / organising
Type of work undertaken:
- Secretary (Yorkshire) – 1943 – 1945?
- County Secretary (Lincolnshire) – 1945 +?
- Country Organiser (Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire) – 1947 +
Contributor Details
Name: Richard Haigh
Relationship to Land Girl: Nephew
WW2 Slip Confirming Enrolment In WLA
Slip Confirming Enrolment in the Women's Land Army
Slip giving signed evidence of enrolment in WLA in West Riding of Yorkshire for showing to Employment Exchange 28th July 1941.
Source: Stuart Antrobus