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Our Top Picks
Best Overall: Cuisinart CEC-10 Central Egg Cooker at Amazon
"Cook ten eggs at a time in two tiers or use the removable tray."
Best Multitasker: Hamilton Beach 5.5-Quart Digital Food Steamer at Amazon
"Stackable steaming trays with egg holder. Also includes a rice bowl."
Runner-Up, Best Overall: VonShef Electric Cooker at Amazon
"An affordable, stainless steel model that can cook seven eggs at once."
Best Budget: Dash Rapid Egg Cooker at Amazon
"Make up to six hard, medium, or soft-boiled eggs, plus individual omelettes."
Best High-End: Maverick Henrietta Hen Egg Cooker at Amazon
"Well-designed appliance with fun shape that boils or poaches eggs easily."
Best High-Capacity: Dash Deluxe Egg Cooker at Amazon
"Cooks a dozen boiled eggs at a time or up to seven poached eggs."
Best for the Microwave: Nordic Ware Microwave Egg Boiler at Amazon
"Microwave cooker lets you steam-cook hard-, medium-, or soft-boil eggs."
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Best Overall: Cuisinart CEC-10 Central Egg Cooker
First, let's get this out of the way. This cooker looks pretty darned cute. It's shaped like an egg, or perhaps a very tiny space ship. Handles on the side make it easier to lift the lid, but oven mitts are a good idea, since it does get hot during cooking. This will steam-cook eggs to hard-, medium-, or soft-boiled, and can cook up to ten eggs at a time in two tiers.
But this isn't just for steaming eggs in their shell. It also includes removable trays so you can poach four eggs or make 3-egg omelets. The cooking time is controlled by the amount of water added, using the included measuring cup. There's a simple on-off switch and a blue LED light, audible alert, and standby mode to help keep the eggs from overcooking. This also comes with a piercing pin to poke a small hole in the egg shell for easier peeling.
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Best Multitasker: Hamilton Beach 5.5-Quart Digital Food Steamer
If you like the idea of an electric egg cooker that will make your egg-cooking foolproof, but don't like the idea of a gadget that has only one use, you might like this food steamer. It has two stackable steaming trays that have divots for holding eggs upright. You can use one or two trays at a time or remove the center divider if you need to steam larger foods like a whole head of broccoli. The trays nest for more compact storage.
Since this isn't just for eggs, it has higher-end features, like a digital touchpad, an automatic keep-warm setting, a count-down timer, and a delayed-start feature. You can use it for fish, chicken, sausages, or vegetables. A rice bowl is included for steaming rice or keeping small food contained. Even with all of these features, it's quite affordable.
The steamer turns the heat off automatically if the water runs low, and it will beep, the display will flash, and the low water indicator will light up. You don't need to remove the food to add water—just pull out the water drawer to refill, and restart the steamer to continue cooking. How easy is that?
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Runner-Up, Best Overall: VonShef Electric Cooker
With a sleek design, stainless steel exterior, and a flat stainless steel heating plate, you'll be making hard-boiled eggs in style with this countertop cooker. It has automatic power-off, over-temperature protection, and a light that shows that the unit is on. When the water has boiled out, the eggs are done, and the unit shuts off automatically.
This holds seven eggs for boiling and you can choose to make soft-, medium- or hard-boiled eggs based on the amount of water used. They'll be done in 8-10 minutes, which is much faster than cooking on the stove. This also includes accessories for making poached eggs or for steaming.
04 of 07
Best Budget: Dash Rapid Egg Cooker
If you're looking for an egg cooker that won't cost a lot but still gives you quality performance, consider this one from Dash. It lets you make up to six hard, medium, or soft-boiled eggs, plus individual omelettes, two poached eggs or scrambled eggs. The device comes with a poaching tray, measuring cup, omelette tray, and six egg holding tray. It's simple to use, and all the non-electronic parts are okay to toss in the dishwasher.
Most people were happy with their purchase of this product citing how great the eggs come out when using it and the fact that cleanup is super easy. One person complained about the jarring noise it makes when in use, so you might not want to use if someone is sleeping in the house or you have pets that don't like loud noise. But most people were satisfied with the overall performance on this product.Continue to 5 of 7 below.
05 of 07
Best High-End: Maverick Henrietta Hen Egg Cooker
This adorable egg cooker is decorative enough to leave on your counter all the time, even if you don't cook eggs every day. While the shape is fun, it's a well-designed appliance that boils or poaches eggs easily. It can poach up to four eggs at a time, or cook up to seven eggs in their shells.
Operation is easy—just add water to the marked level for soft-, medium-, or hard-boiled eggs, plug it in, and let the machine do all the work. A piercing pin prevents shells from cracking. When the eggs are done, the hen "chirps" to alert you, with a sound that different from all the other beeps in your kitchen.
For easy cleaning, all of the hard plastic parts except the power base are dishwasher safe, but since you're only using water, they're just as easy to quickly wash by hand.
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Best High-Capacity: Dash Deluxe Egg Cooker
If you need to cook a dozen eggs at a time, this is the cooker for you. You can make soft-, medium-, or hard-boiled eggs, or you can cook up to seven poached eggs in one go. The included omelet tray can be used for omelets or scrambled eggs. If you want even more versatility, you can use this to steam tortillas or vegetables. This has an auto shut-off, so you don't need to be there when the eggs are done.
This model comes in red or black; if you don't need to cook as many eggs or want a more compact cooker, there's a similar appliance that will cook seven eggs at a time.
07 of 07
Best for the Microwave: Nordic Ware Microwave Egg Boiler
It seems impossible, but this microwave cooker lets you steam-cook hard-, medium-, or soft-boil eggs in ten minutes or less. You don't have to pierce the shells first, and the eggs won't explode. The secret is that the cooker shields the eggs from the microwaves, while at the same time the microwave heats the water to create steam to cook the eggs. The result is evenly cooked eggs without hotspots that sometimes occur with microwaved eggs—it's just like steam-cooking on the stovetop or in an electric cooker.
This cooker holds four eggs, and when you're done cooking, you can just pop it in the dishwasher. But since it doesn't get very dirty during cooking, it's just as easy to give it a quick wash in the sink.
Since microwaves vary in power, it might take a few tries to find the perfect cooking and resting time to get your eggs just the way you like them, but once you've figured it out, it will produce nearly foolproof eggs every time.
What to Look for in an Electric Egg Cooker
Number of eggs Even if you'll only be using a few eggs at a time, you might want to make a double batch so you won't have to cook more later. On the other hand, hard-boiled eggs spoil faster than raw ones, so if you aren't going to use large quantities, a more compact cooker might be your best bet.
Controls Many egg cookers have very simple controls. However, certain models are slightly more complex, with lights or audible alerts to help you monitor the cooking progress.
Additional cooking options While most electric egg cookers can also make poached eggs, others can make omelets as well. If you only want to cook eggs in their shells, there's no need to pay for options you won't use.


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More From Child Actors
When we talk of child actors, Jodie Foster's name is probably among the first ones that come to mind. From appearing as a little girl in the 1976 film 'Taxi Driver' to evolving to more mature roles as a successful young actress, she has achieved the dream every child actor harbors. Similarly, actors Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint, who began their careers as children in the 'Harry Potter' film series, have all now moved on to play more mature roles in mainstream films. While there are numerous child actors like Lindsay Lohan and Macaulay Culkin who achieve much popularity as children, it's only a few who are able to transition to an equally successful entertainment career as adults. While many struggle as teenagers and twenty-somethings to re-establish themselves in the acting field, a few like Peter Gardner Ostrum—a child actor turned veterinarian—go on to build successful careers in entirely different arenas! Regardless of what the future holds for them, child actors do lead extremely fascinating lives while working in the show business. Interested in learning more about child actors? Read on for more information on the lives and works of child actors from across the globe.
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Arcadia near Church, SkokieChicago , IL
United States
See map: Google Maps
Date of Theft
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 3:00pm
Basic Bike Info
Bicycle Type:
Road Bike
Burgundy and ivory
Condition of Bicycle / Distinguishing Features:
Red handle bar tape, spokedinks on front wheel, "oh shit" breaks, tasle under back seat, small rip on the underside of seat
Owner Information
Contact Email:
Contact information hidden by Chicago Stolen Bike Registry. Contact the CSBR staff to contact the owner.
Lock Information
How was the lock defeated?:
Other situation, please describe below.
Lock Type:
No Lock
What was the bike locked to?:
Other situation, please describe below.
How was the bike locked?:
Other situation, please describe below.
Incident Description
Which type of area was your bike stolen from?:
Garage or enclosed parking area.
How long was the bike locked in this location?:
Bike was located inside of a locked garage
Incident Description:
Returned from a weekend away to find garage open, only thing missing was the bike. The other bike was still there. They left the helmet, but took the new u-lock with the bike.
Recovery Information
Recovery Notes:
On 10/17/2012 a craigslist user saw this bike listed by Shining Bikes and Things, cross-referenced it against the Chicago Stolen Bike Registry and alerted the victim. Her husband and a friend went to the shop with police report and original sales receipt in hand. Per victim shop employee claimed "we check the registration of all bikes that come in" and questioned whether she had registered the bike. Chicago police refused to intervene, reportedly stating "he (the shop owner) has rights too." The bike was stripped of lights and fenders but had been given new tires. The victim plans to follow up with Skokie police to see if there can be legal consequences to the shop.
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The project consists of eight two bedroom and two bathroom apartments- all with spacious and contemporary living areas. There are two apartments per floor - ensuring optimum privacy for potential buyers. The two fifth floor apartments benefit from individual private and luxury roof-gardens with lovely views of the neighbourhood. Each apartment has one parking place and a storage room on the ground level. The residential neighborhood is quiet and family orientated surrounded by residential properties. The project is very near to supermarkets, private schools such as the American Academy and with immediate access to highways to Nicosia, Limassol, Paphos and Ammoxostos.
The Project has EPC certificate with "A" Energy Efficiency Rating.


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Ephesians 4:13 – The unity of the faith03-07-2018 - Posted by Andre Piet
…unto the end that we should all attain to the unity of the faith…
Paul writes from the prison about the gifts that the ascended Christ gave to the ecclesia. He would not continue to give those gifts; he gives them "until" they would have fulfilled their function. As building-scaffolding disappears when the building is ready.
Since Christ's ascension to the time when this epistle was recorded, it was a time of infancy (4:14). The ecclesia needed guidance from men who were deputized by Christ himself. Much of what had been preached as the Word of God was only known locally. Here a letter, there an essay and another book elsewhere. Moreover, not everything of God's word was recorded (Col. 1;25).
The truth of faith that was available to "the saints" so far was fragmented and incomplete. But… it would not stay that way. Those whom Christ had deputed for that purpose would unite "the faith" (= the Word that should be believed). Once completed, the writings would be included in one 'library'. That is what 'the Bible' is: a library (> biblia = books). Thank God, at the end of their lives, the apostles gathered their writings (2Tim.4:13; 2Pet.1;15) as their inheritance. In it we find "the unity of the faith"!


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The question, "Am I warm or cool?" is probably one of the most frequently asked questions by women when it comes to makeup and wardrobe color choices.
Over the years, there's many myths about how to answer this question, such as looking at the color of the veins on the underside of your forearm. However, there's a reason why a 'myth' is called a 'myth', right???
The best way to determine if you are Warm or Cool is by looking at and comparing your skin against the colors: Gold and Silver. No two colors tell which category you fall into better than these.
To begin your color test, pick up a fabric swatch of each color and lay them side by side in NATURAL DAY LIGHT. Don't use incandescent or fluorescent lighting because they will change the color of your true skin tone and will render this color swatch test inaccurate. Nothing is more accurate than natural daylight.
Next, remove all jewelry from your hands and place one hand on the gold fabric swatch and the other on the silver fabric swatch. Look at each hand- one will look 'pasty' and the other will look healthy and vibrant. If your hand on the silver swatch looks best, you are 'cool'. If the hand on the gold swatch looks best, you are 'warm'.
Please note that the results from this color swatch test DOES NOT mean that if you're 'cool', you can never wear warm tones again and vice versa. It simply means that certain colors will look better on you than others. In order to pull off warm tones (or cool tones) successfully (without looking pasty and sallow), you'll have to work a little harder with color coordinating and mix up your color palette a bit.
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Here at Academic Appointments, we really appreciate our candidates and the hard work that they provide in schools, which is why we developed the 'Candidate of the Term' Award!
Nominations this term came in thick and fast which is why it took the team so long to choose a winner!
The winner of 'Candidate of the Term' was Jennifer, one of our teachers at Academic Appointments. Waverley Primary Academy nominated Jennifer for the following reason, "Jennifer started with us in September 2016. She very quickly settled into the academy and within 2 months became a member of the middle leadership team, leading maths throughout the academy and has recently been awarded a TLR3. She has been proactive in working towards securing rapid progress for our children in all core subjects, complying with existing policies and rewriting new ones. She has demonstrated her ability to lead and support staff and always comes to see me with solutions as opposed to problems. She has built up excellent and professional relationships with children, parents and staff and is now established as a valuable and committed member of the Waverley family and SLT. Jennifer is moving from strength to strength and it has been a pleasure and a privilege to witness her confidence and skills grow in such a short time".
Well done to Jennifer for winning our 'Candidate of the Term' award, and thank you to Waverley Primary Academy in South Yorkshire for taking part in our 'Candidate of the Term' award.
We would also like to take this opportunity to say well done to candidates who were also nominated for the following reasons;
Amanda was nominated by Bradford Academy, "Amanda joined us in September and has fit in as part of our staff perfectly. She is extremely conscientious, organised and goes way beyond what we would expect from a supply teacher. She attends training, stays for electives after school and is always here early in the morning to plan and prepare for her day. She feels like a permanent member of out team".
Lisa, Our Tuition Lead nominated Tutor Alex due to the amount of positive feedback she had received. The below reasons are why Lisa nominated Alex;
"J actually cheered when I told her Alex would continue tutoring her! Alex liaises well with me around the content of the sessions and is very open to structure them around any difficulties I feel J has had in her current studies at school. J looks forward to her sessions and is more than happy to do any homework set".
"I was worried that R would not engage as prior to the tuition he didn't see the point, however, he has actively and enthusiastically taken part in these sessions and I really think this is down to the approach that Alex takes, she makes the sessions fun and interesting and R looks forward to them each week".
"I am very happy with the additional tutor work that Alex provides J on a weekly basis. Alex is very understanding of J and his needs and the work provided for J along with his homework is always to a high standard".
"Alex has the pupils engaged and is a lovely tutor, the pupils always look forward to her coming".
Hendel Primary School in South Yorkshire nominated Gina for the following reason, "I would like to nominate Gina for Candidate of the Term. She has been such a dedicated, hardworking and positive addition to our team. We have had some lovely comments from parents and staff singing her praises saying how lovely she is with the children, and how pleasant she is to work with. Nothing is too much trouble for her and she has fitted in immediately into school as if she has always been here. She makes sure the children's books are all marked and kept up tp date and is evening doing an Open Afternoon tomorrow for her class. Well done Gina you thoroughly deserve this award!".
Academic Appointments would like to thank all the above schools and carers for their nominations and taking part in 'Candidate of the Term'!
Make sure to keep an eye out for when Steven, Senior Primary Consultant in South Yorkshire will be presenting Jennifer with her certificate and £50 worth of Love2shop vouchers.


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It is not uncommon during an exercise to use a vast amount of the kit that we carry onboard. The list of equipment which we get out might include the 'x-boat', first aid kits, stretcher, emergency steering, salvage pump, drogue, tow rope etc etc. Once back in the boathouse much of this can be re-packed and stowed away for next time. However, a lot of it needs to be dried off first. Consequently, the morning after an exercise, the boat looks a little bit like a gypsy camp with the boat festooned with kit waiting to dry. If we subsequently get a shout there is bit of a scramble to return all of the kit to its proper stowage before we launch. Otherwise Dave will do it over the course of the next day or two as and when the kit drys.
Even after all
You just survive soldier
And your soul is beautiful
And your soul is good
Ride on and turn the people on
(Even after all - Finlay Quaye)
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Today there are estimated over 143 million orphans in the world. Many of these children, particularly those in the third world nations, are special needs children. They are HIV positive or have Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, or were born into extreme poverty that has taken its physical and emotional toll. For many of these children, adoption is literally the difference between life and death.
The sad fact is that prospective parents with the means to adopt, usually don't want a special needs child. Prospective parents who are willing to accept a special needs child, often don't have the means. The Rollstone Foundation seeks to bridge this gap by helping to supply the means by awarding grants to adopting parents. These modern day saints, who willingly take special needs children into their homes, need all the help that we can give them.


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Ullah, Z. and Khan, A.S. and Muhammad, N. and Ullah, R. and Alqahtani, A.S. and Shah, S.N. and Ghanem, O.B. and Bustam, M.A. and Man, Z. (2018) A review on ionic liquids as perspective catalysts in transesterification of different feedstock oil into biodiesel. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 266 . pp. 673-686.
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The past few decades had seen a rapid hike in the world's population, which has caused an excessive use of fossils and, consequently, the diminution of fossil resources and the advent of global pollution problems. In this regard, the renewable and eco-friendly properties of biodiesel fuel provide an alternative to petroleum fuel. Many countries are looking into the use of biodiesel, particularly countries that are more susceptible to environmental problems. Biodiesel could be synthesized from different origins, including organic oils from animal fats and vegetables. At the same time, the production of biodiesel from vegetable edible oils can create food security problems; hence, the selection of cheap sources, like animal fats, is a valuable feedstock, but its availability is limited. Thus, more preferable sources other than low-cost feedstocks with high free fatty acids content include unrefined crude oils, discarded cooking oil and inedible oils. This paper is aimed to highlight biodiesel and its availability from various feedstock for its preparation. It also discussed how the ionic liquids (ILs) can be the catalysts to produce biodiesel; these liquids are sourced by different feedstocks by transesterification method. Due to several limitations and problems associated with traditional homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts in recent years, ILs are increasingly used as the catalysts or solvents for free fatty acids esterification, as well as the transesterification of vegetable oils. This paper is focused on the transesterification of fatty acid with ILs, cost and recycling of ILs, the effects of adding enzyme, Lewis acids and amines on ILs catalysed reaction, the use of Brønsted acidic, basic and dicationic basic ILs as the sole solvent which supported acid/base-catalysed IL for biodiesel synthesis. In addition, the proper research focuses and new developments in this regard would make the ILs as an ideal catalyst for biodiesel preparation from various feedstocks. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.
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The Times of India, New Delhi, 12th January, 2015
NEW DELHI: A senior campaigner with Greenpeace India, an environmental NGO, was allegedly stopped at IGI Airport from boarding a flight to London on Sunday. Priya Pillai, who works on climate and energy and on rights of tribal people in Mahan in Madhya Pradesh, was stopped at the immigration counter despite having a valid visa. Her passport was stamped with "offloaded."
She was asked to wait at the airport for three hours after which she was allegedly told that her name was on a list of people prepared by the government who cannot be allowed to travel abroad. Pillai said she has a business visa to travel to the UK valid for the next six months.
Pillai was to take Air India 115 to London at 6.50am on Sunday. She told TOI that she was travelling to meet members from the All Party Parliamentary Groups of the UK parliament. "On January 14, I was scheduled to meet a group on tribal affairs and another on Indo-British relations. I was to talk on the Mahan coal block issue and its impact on tribals. I wanted to discuss Essar's role in displacement and environmental degradation in Mahan with the parliamentary groups. This is nothing but a crackdown on voices of dissent," she said.
The immigration officials allegedly told they are just following government orders. "Has working for marginalized people become an offence in India?" Pillai asked.
Greenpeace India in a statement claimed that this is the second time an employee are been denied a go-ahead by Indian airport authorities despite a valid visa. In September last year, Greenpeace campaigner Ben Hargreaves, a UK national, was reportedly refused entry to India.
Greenpeace India has written to MEA and Airport Authority of India about barring Pillai and has asked the government to explain the legal basis for the ban on her leaving the country.
The home ministry had recently directed RBI to stop flow of funds to four NGOs funded by American bodies. The government has already put Greenpeace International and Climate Works Foundation under scanner and made it mandatory for them to take permission from MHA before bringing any foreign funds in India.
This directive came after a leaked IB report in June last year alleging that protests against development projects were being fuelled by few foreign NGOs that caused a presumptive "loss of 2-3% to India's GDP."
While the home ministry did not comment on the issue, a senior intelligence official said a lookout circular had been issued against Pillai given her active association with Greenpeace India. "She was to talk about the campaign of a blacklisted organization, which was not seen as appropriate. A lookout circular was issued against her making it mandatory for immigration authorities to restrain her from boarding the flight to UK," said the officer.


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"As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare and bizarre disorder. That is all that I was taught on ... It soon became apparent that what I had been taught was simply not true. Not only was I meeting people with multiplicity; these individuals entering my life were normal human beings with much to offer. They were simply people who had endured more than their share of pain in this life and were struggling to make sense of it."
― Deborah Bray Haddock, The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook
Trauma- and stressor-related disorders are disorders that are caused by trauma or extreme stress. These disorders are closely related to anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and dissociative disorders. Symptoms of trauma- and stressor-related disorders revolve around fear, anger and aggression, or dissociation as a result of the trauma experienced. Symptoms of these disorders may be primarily internalized or externalized (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).1
Trauma- and stressor-related disorders include:
Disinhibited social engagement disorder, acute stress disorder, and adjustment disorders are not addressed within a unique page on this website. However, disinhibited social engagement disorder is characterized by a child displaying culturally inappropriate and overly familiar behavior with relative strangers due to the child having experienced insufficient care that prevented the formation of selective attachment at an early age. Acute stress disorder is very similar to posttraumatic stress disorder but has a pattern of symptoms that only last from three days to one month after the trauma. Adjustment disorders are also similar to PTSD but are diagnosed either when a trauma that would merit a diagnosis of PTSD has occurred but not all other criteria necessary for a diagnosis of PTSD are met or when the symptom pattern of PTSD occurs in response to an event that would not count as a trauma (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).1
Additionally, complex-posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) is commonly discussed in trauma and dissociation research and has been proposed for inclusion in the ICD-11.
1 American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9780890425596.dsm08


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A flexible new technique is presented to calibrate the monocular system of phase-based fringe projection profilometry, which is made of a camera, a projector, and a computer. The proposed algorithm mainly consists of a more flexible phase-to-height conversion model and a minimum norm solution, followed by a nonlinear optimization based on the maximum likelihood criterion. In the whole calibration procedure, this method only requires the camera to capture a few two-dimensional checkerboard target images and several deformed fringe images with at least three different orientations. The proposed technique neither subjects to certain limitations nor measures additional geometry parameters in advance. Also, no highly precise gauge blocks or extra reference phases are involved. In contrast with the existing methods, the proposed technique is easier to use and more flexible. Experiments have been performed to validate the performance of this technique.
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Trump trade tweaks trash loonie
Michael O'Neill
FX Trade Strategist / http://www.Loonieviews.net
* Canada GDP data came in flat and failed to boost CAD
* US softwood lumber duty sends USDCAD soaring
* US GDP weaker than expected but offset by a higher employment cost index
By Michael O'Neill
When Canada's prime minister paid homage to president Trump in Washington on February 13, Trudeau reportedly received assurances from the president that the US only wanted to tweak the North American Free Trade Agreement.
More specifically, Trump said "we have a very outstanding trade relationship with Canada. We'll be tweaking it. We'll be doing certain things that will benefit both of our countries. Our relationship with Canada is outstanding. We are going to work together to make it even better."
The PM, and many others in Canada, breathed a huge sigh of relief that Canada's economy would be spared "the wrath of Trump."
Alas, it was not to be. Imagine the surprise in Ottawa on April 24 when US Commerce Secretary Ross slapped a 20% countervailing duty on softwood lumber imports from Canada… and to rub salt into the wound, he made it retroactive for 90 days.
USDCAD rallied on the news and has since added to those gains.
Hewers of wood and drawers of water, beware. Photo: Shutterstock
On April 26, there was a rumour (trial balloon, maybe?) that Trump was going to pull the USA out of Nafta. USDCAD soared, rising from 1.3540 to 1.3648 in Asia.
That night, the rumour was kiboshed as Trump announced, "I received calls from the president of Mexico and the PM of Canada asking to renegotiate Nafta rather than terminate. I agreed… subject to the fact that if we do not reach a fair deal for all, we will then terminate Nafta,"
USDCAD unwound its earlier gains. However, the fact that the US leaving Nafta is a real possibility led to renewed strength.
In Donald Trump's 1987 book The Art of the Deal, he outlines 11 steps for business success:
1. Think big
2. Protect the downside and the upside will take care of itself
3. Maximize your options
4. Know your market
5. Use your leverage
6. Enhance your location
7. Get the word out
8. Fight back
9. Deliver the goods
10. Contain the costs
11. Have fun
It would appear that steps three through seven have been employed in the trade talks with Canada and the loonie is collateral damage. The Fibonacci retracement of 2016's 1.2458-1.4689 range targets 1.3837 (61.8% level and then 1.4162 (76.4% level).
USDCAD daily with Fibonacci retracement
Source: Saxo Bank
The week ahead
The new month kicks off with a distinct lack of players on day one. A host of countries are closed on Monday including China, Germany, and the UK which will put a damper on trading activity. Japan books off for three days beginning Wednesday.
On Monday, AUDUSD traders will focus on inflation data while the US ISM Manufacturing PMI data will be the highlight of the New York session.
Tuesday, the Bank of Japan policy meeting minutes are released and the governor delivers a speech. The Reserve Bank of Australia interest rate decision is also due. Rates are expected to be unchanged and the statement "cautious" before Europe unloads a ton of Manufacturing PMI data. The US data calendar is bare.
Wednesday, Japan is closed. NZDUSD traders will react to the GlobalDairyTrade auction released earlier in New York as well as the employment report. In Europe, Eurozone GDP and producer Price data is on tap. It is Federal Open market Committee day but as FOMC meetings go, this is expected to be a snooze-fest. It is a statement-only meeting
Thursday, Japan is closed again. AUDUSD traders will be busy dealing with trade data and a RBA governor speech. Markit Services PMI data is released in the UK and Europe. Trade data is on deck in Canada and the US.
Friday, Japan is still closed. Eurozone Retail Sales data gets released but the focus will be on the US employment report. If weather was truly a factor behind the week March data, this report may deliver payback.
The week that was
There were plenty of reasons to expect an entertaining week and for the most part, it was.
Monday, EURUSD gapped higher in Asia after Emmanuel Macron's French election win. The gap has yet to be filled. It was the same story for USDJPY.
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The election fallout continued in Europe and New York and dominated trading. German Ifo data didn't cause a ripple and there weren't any US data of note. Traders were also concerned about President Trump's promised "big tax reform" news due Wednesday.
Tuesday, the Asia session was a tad quieter than normal due to Anzac holidays in Australia and New Zealand. EURUSD climbed to 1.0898 in Europe and peaked at 1.0950 in New York thanks to Reuters reporting "sources" at the ECB said a tapering signal may be seen in June.
The Canadian dollar was crushed when the US announced 20% countervailing duties on softwood lumber imports, retroactive for 90 days. The loonie recouped its losses by the end of the New York session on an oil price rebound.
Positive US economic data releases did not have much impact as traders were waiting for Trump-s tax plan. The US dollar ended the session with losses against the majors except for Kiwi and yen.
On Wednesday, Asia, and European traders were buying USDJPY and selling EURUSD ahead of the US tax announcement – even sterling got into the act. AUDUSD popped to 0.7550 as Q1 CPI was released but quickly faded the move. The US opened with small gains across the board. The highly touted, "biggest in American history", tax cuts underwhelmed. Most of the headlines were leaked earlier and the administration was vague on details.
European currencies and yen all finished the day higher. The commodity currencies got whacked, led by the Canadian dollar, due to a report that President Trump would take the US out of Nafta. He didn't.
Thursday, the Bank of Japan monetary policy statement did not cause mush of a stir. USDJPY inched up from an opening level of 111.04 ahead of the BoJ announcement but couldn't get any traction above 111.37. USDCAD reversed Wednesday's gains after the US administration said that it would not leave Nafta. Oil prices continued to move lower on oversupply concerns. Sterling got a boost in Europe on an election poll showing the conservatives with a big lead.
The European session was quiet until mid-morning when the ECB policy statement was released. It was as expected. Mario Draghi's press conference triggered EURUSD selling which didn't last and EURUSD recouped most of its post-press conference lows by the end of the New York session.
US data releases were softer than expected but didn't have much of an impact on trading. The dollar ended the New York session with small gains across the board except against sterling and yen which were almost unchanged.
On Friday, higher than expected Eurozone inflation data lifted EURUSD in European trading. The US GDP data was mildly softer than expected and did not have much of an impact.
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(STATE COLLEGE, Pa.) -- A detective testifying in a Pennsylvania courtroom Thursday regarding the death of Penn State student Tim Piazza said some surveillance footage from the Beta Theta Pi house appears to have been deleted.
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The Fremont Store (Minnesota Blessing Number 2)
In 1997, at the end of August, on a photography trip to Minnesota, Ruth and I discovered an old general store in Winona County called the Fremont Store. It was Sunday and, much to our disappointment, the store was closed. In those days, I was shooting with two Canon film cameras and, due to the cost of film and processing, I was very careful about how many times I pressed the shutter. So I took a couple of pictures of the outside of the store and we moved on.
This year, in early October, Ruth and I finally returned for three days of photographing on the backroads of Minnesota, and this time I was armed with a digital camera, which allows me to be more creative and capture more compositions. It was Saturday morning and, as we arrived in the little crossroads town of Fremont, we were blessed with a lighted "OPEN" sign in the window of the Fremont Store.
A steady rain was falling as I set up my tripod while holding an umbrella over my camera equipment. The gray day was a perfect match for the weathered gray wood of the store building. There is a weather-worn but sturdy wooden porch in front and two large multi-paned windows, one on each side of the door. The front of the building contains both Coca Cola and 7-Up signs; the side, a large and rusted Pepsi sign.
When I'd finished capturing the outside of the store, Ruth and I went inside. In the early days, this store, which dates back to 1856, sold food, clothing, hardware, tires, and gasoline to the community of Fremont and the folks of the rural township of Fremont. Today, the shelves that line the outer walls are sparsely stocked with food and there are no free-standing shelves in the center of the store.
As we walked across the creaky wooden floor, we were surprised that there was no one in sight, not even the store's owner. But after a few seconds, a door opened on the side of the store and a young girl stepped out.
"Hi! I'm Tammy!" she said with a big smile on her face.
"I'm Joann," I said, "and this is my sister, Ruth."
"Do you want to meet my grandma?" she asked, excitedly, then quickly headed towards the back of the store. "GRANDMA! We have customers!" she announced. Her grandmother then came out from a door at the back, walking slowly with the help of a walker. She was wearing a baseball cap that said "Fremont Store" and a warm smile that would take the chill out of this damp day. We introduced ourselves to Martha Johnson, owner of the store.
"Ask my grandma how old she is!" Tammy said with great enthusiasm as her grandmother leaned on the walker with a sparkle in her eyes.
"Well, that wouldn't be very nice," I responded.
"No, just ask her," Tammy repeated, "she likes it!"
"Okay, how old are you?" I asked.
"I'm 93!" she said. She then told us that her son, Don (Dony, as he liked to be called) ran the store for 20 years, but died from complications of muscular dystrophy in 2003. She said she was told when he was young that he would probably only live to be about 17 years old, but he had lived to age 68.
She then told us that, after Dony died, she didn't have the heart to close the store because he loved it so much. "I don't make any money at this," she said, "but I keep it open in his honor." She also told us that when they purchased the store almost 30 years ago, it took 18 boxes of Spic and Span and 20 gallons of paint to clean up the building. "There were 25 people in Fremont when we moved here; now there are 15."
As Martha continued to talk with us about the history of Fremont and their lives there, we checked the antique cooler for some old-fashioned bottles of soda. We also purchased a Fremont Store bumper sticker and a photo of the Fremont Creamery.
Martha's husband Martin was a buttermaker for 40 years and managed the Fremont Creamery, which is still standing across the road from the store, but it is no longer in operation. He was a lifelong friend to Frank Root, who purchased the Fremont Store in 1921, and ran it for over 50 years.
If you haven't had the opportunity to visit an old general store, you're missing out on a real down-home treat.
Happy Shunpiking!
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I knew Dony Johnson when he was married to Pauline. They both were in electric wheelchairs. They ran the Freemont store for years. They both worked hard. We loved visiting them. My Bob also in a wheelchair(a quad).ReplyDelete
Loved to sit and visit Dony. They sold us their old van with a wheelchair lift in it for $1
Small town love and friendship at
the best. Dony and Pauline and Bob are all gone now. I have found memories of it all.
I have a hat from the Fremont store and my son asked where it came from.
So I got on line and what nice photos of the store you took.
Martha is looking good.
- George JenningsJune 18, 2011 at 3:00:00 PM CDT
My great great grandfather, Luther Rice, built the Fremont Store but it was built in a different location a short distance from where it now stands. My wife and I along with our daughter and grandchildren visited the store a couple of years ago and enjoyed a visit with Mrs. Johnson. We have several pictures and enjoyed seeing yours. My ancestor operated it as a general store from 1856 until about 1880.ReplyDelete
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Thank you so much for posting these pictures it just makes my day. I am the great-grand-daughter of Frank root, my grandmother Evelyn Mae root/Pfeiffer was his daughter she left minnesota and move to California and had my mom Bonnie Mae Pfeiffer/bilo. My name is Connie savage/Brown I live in riverside California near the famous mission inn. The last time I was to the store was in 1984, I miss it a lot I hope to visit it again soon. Thank you again for such lovely pictures of great-grandpa's store I truly loved them they brought back so many memories. We used to call our great-grandpa grandpa bozo as we loved bozo so dearly as we did our grandpa.ReplyDelete
Connie, I'm so glad our photos made your day. The store is, indeed, a special place and of great historical significance. We felt privileged to be able to visit it and photograph it. Thank you for adding some personal history to our story. I hope you make it back to Minnesota soon.ReplyDelete
And to George Jennings, who filled us in on the early history of the store, thank you!ReplyDelete


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The forecast is continually gloomy in "When the Rain Stops Falling," a sorrow-sodden family drama by Andrew Bovell that opened on Monday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Nobody in Mr. Bovell's time-skipping saga, sensitively directed by David Cromer ("Our Town"), is ever far from an umbrella, making this Lincoln Center Theater production entirely apposite for the city's long, strange and soggy winter.
The heavy weather doesn't stop at the precipitation of the title. Fractured marriages, accidental deaths, disappearing children, suicide and a chart-topping horror that it's best not to give away all make appearances in this fitfully moving but diagrammatic play about the long legacy of unnatural acts.
The play opens in the future, the year 2039, as a big fish falls from the sky in Alice Springs, Australia, where the desperate Gabriel York (a fierce Michael Siberry) has just been wondering what to serve his son, Andrew, for lunch. Gabriel has not seen his son in many years because he abandoned the family when Andrew was just a boy.
"I know why he is coming," Gabriel confesses, his searching eyes bright with remembered shame. "He wants what all young men want from their fathers. He wants to know who he is. Where he comes from. Where he belongs. And for the life of me I don't know what I will tell him."
Certainly it is a complicated story. The play jigsaws across the better part of a century, moving between London and various locations in Australia as Mr. Bovell charts the bound fates of two families and several generations. As illuminated by an ensemble cast that infuses these disturbed and sometimes disturbing characters with soulful, affecting depths, the relationships eventually emerge with an emotional clarity that the play's elliptical structure works against.
Although it moves back and forth among the decades, with characters from disparate eras sometimes sharing the stage, the tale essentially begins in London in 1959, where the middle-class marriage of the bookish Henry and Elizabeth Law (Richard Topol and Kate Blumberg) shows strains when odd incidents begin to befall Henry after the couple's son is born.
Henry's confession that he inadvertently began "pleasuring" himself on the commuter train strikes me as rather blithe for the era or any era as does Elizabeth's shrugging reception of this news. "No wonder you forgot your umbrella," she sympathetically observes. Worse is to come, but piecing together the puzzle takes time, as the play also shows us glimpses of the alcoholic Elizabeth some years on, now played by Mary Beth Hurt, entertaining her frosty 28-year-old son, Gabriel (Will Rogers), over the same fish soup that she was preparing for his father many years before.
Gabriel's truculence stems from a stewing dissatisfaction over his father's mysterious disappearance when Gabriel was 7, a subject about which his mother has remained stubbornly reticent. This unease will ultimately send him on a journey to Australia, where he will meet a lonely young woman with her own legacy of familial woe: Gabrielle York (Susan Pourfar), as she is coincidentally called, lost both her parents in the aftermath of a tragedy involving her brother's disappearance.
Mr. Bovell is big on coincidences and on recurring motifs, even recurring bits of dialogue. Across the generations, fish soup is prepared and served. Across the generations, characters make wry jokes about the weather, noting that people are "drowning in Bangladesh." Across the generations, the channels of communication between children and their parents are stymied by the secrets of the past.
But Mr. Bovell's elaborate structure tends to keep us at a cool distance from the characters. Noting the patterns, absorbing the repeated imagery, diagramming the genealogy in your head not to mention wondering at the obsession with fish soup you may find it hard to fully immerse yourself in the destinies of the people onstage. This is despite terrific work from Mr. Cromer's astutely assembled cast, which infuses the schematic storytelling with regular jolts of powerful emotion.
The actresses playing the younger and older Elizabeth and Gabrielle offer nicely matched portraits. Ms. Pourfar's young Gabrielle is tense with yearning but also wary of committing herself to an affair with the affable young Gabriel, haunted as she is by the shadows of the past. These have darkened considerably in Victoria Clark's moving portrait of the older Gabrielle. Further losses and afflictions have turned her into a ghostly, tormented figure at war with both the memories of her younger self and her long-suffering husband, Joe (Rod McLachlan).
Ms. Blumberg, as the young Elizabeth, blends a 1950s wifely warmth with a crisp intelligence. (She counters Henry's rather weird bits of trivia about weather history with learned notes about cultural events taking place at the same time.) The shocks of life have drained the warmth from the Elizabeth played with a hard asperity by Ms. Hurt, leaving behind just the tough-minded mother closed off from an open relationship with her son by the secrets she refuses to divulge.
The men are likewise fine, with Mr. Rogers touchingly awkward as Gabriel; Mr. McLachlan endearing as the devoted but neglected Joe; and Mr. Topol imbuing his portrait of the disturbed Henry with an unsettling mixture of bourgeois academic rectitude and nervous, possibly sinister idiosyncrasy. Henry Vick rounds out the cast in the small role of the son expected for lunch in the opening scene.
The production's crepuscular design befits the overriding tone of mysterious images emerging behind a rain-covered windowpane. The lighting by Tyler Micoleau discerns innumerable shades in drizzly grays. Fitz Patton's smart sound design and Josh Schmidt's moody music work together to heighten the sense of portent. And David Korins's minimalist set, a circular moving platform set within another, on which a few key pieces of furniture are placed, effectively echoes the play's swirling structure.
Mr. Cromer's staging finds the sad poetry in the patterns as characters from past and present circle one another unknowingly or sometimes stand vigil before their younger selves, frozen in sorrow or regret. The gloom can become oppressive at times, but the shadowy mise-en-scène echoes the darkness through which the characters struggle to discern a way forward, or at least find a way to escape the past.
By Andrew Bovell; directed by David Cromer; sets by David Korins; costumes by Clint Ramos; lighting by Tyler Micoleau; sound by Fitz Patton; music by Josh Schmidt; stage manager, Richard A. Hodge; general manager, Adam Siegel; production manager, Jeff Hamlin. Presented by the Lincoln Center Theater, under the direction of André Bishop and Bernard Gersten; by arrangement with Jean Doumanian and Freddy DeMann. At the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Lincoln Center; (212) 239-6200. Through April 18. Running time: 1 hour 45 minutes.
WITH: Kate Blumberg (Younger Elizabeth Law), Victoria Clark (Older Gabrielle York), Mary Beth Hurt (Older Elizabeth Law), Rod McLachlan (Joe Ryan), Susan Pourfar (Younger Gabrielle York), Will Rogers (Gabriel Law), Michael Siberry (Gabriel York), Richard Topol (Henry Law) and Henry Vick (Andrew Price).


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Subject: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,ben dover & phil mac avity
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:19 PM
why oh wy are the pipes, both highland and lowland not seen more on the folk scene, i did see that one brave morris side at broadstairs had two sets of breton pipes, i think it was royal liberty, whats wrong with people the pipes are so folk its unbelivable, yet very few people seem to play the things, whatch out broadstairs me an my mate are comin pipes an all, thats if we can skive off work.
Seriously a much malined instument that can be so versatile, i include the irish pipes as they all seen to be put down in one way or another, RISE UP YOU PIPERS, RISE UP.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: oldhippie
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:55 PM
you related to ben dover & c. howard feels?
It would be nice to have a short list of those bands and singers that do use bagpipe accompaniment on their CDs. I get a lot of requests for pipe music.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:13 PM
Here's a very good Sussex band - The Twaggers - with Derrick Hughes playing the Northumbrian small pipes:
Noble Squire Dacre & Biddleston Hornpipe
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:15 PM
Croft No.5
Clan Wallace
The Dropkick Murphys
Enter the Haggis
Grier Coppins -Canadian bagpiper, led an ad-hoc group known as Victims of Bagpipism also leads the Toronto-based band Taxi Chain
The late Canadian-born Scottish musician Martyn Bennett (1971-2005) played Highland bagpipe and Scottish smallpipe in combination with hip-hop and electronic dance music on all of his albums.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:16 PM
oops that GUEST was me, cookie went AWOL for a moment....
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Paul Burke
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:18 PM
The highland pipes (and gaitas) are a bit full- bodied for the average singer, I can't imagine anyone singing with Breton pipes (I assume you mean the biniou) and I suspect that even Irish pipes are a bit hard to balance with the voice- it's probably no accident that you see them more with amplified bands, where you can adjust the relative volumes easily, than purely acoustically. Northumbrian pipes are much more suited to the unaccompanied human voice.
Having said that, there is an Eastern European tradition of singing with bagpipe accompaniment, though the songs I've heard tend to be of the more strident sort.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,BEN DOON,
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:19 PM
not forgetin red hot chilli pipers, they can rock ya boat
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Leadfingers
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:37 PM
As Mr Burke said , the main problem is Balance ! Especially Scottish Highland (War) Pipes . you need to spend SERIOUS pennies on P A to get something that will satisfactoraly mix pipes and other instruments .
And I used to play in a Pipe Band when I was a lad , so I DO know what I am talking about .
With some Pipes you CAN adjust the volume a bit with reed adjustments , but the bag pressure with Highland pipes rather cuts that idea out .
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Sarah the flute
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 05:27 PM
I play Scottish smallpipes with the Flying Chaucers as well as my flute. - well not at the same time!
The irish pipes are alive and well at the Kilkenny Tavern as well as some Highland Bagpipes. We often have 2 sets of Irish pipes and on one memorable occasion there were 4 !!!
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Nick E
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 07:13 PM
First a question; are small pipes the same Uliean pipes (SP?)
Second, to mind come I think of Tom Lenihan and Neil Anderson as semi folkie/rockers with strong bagpipe content.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Campin
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 07:47 PM
Uillean pipes are a development of smallpipes - smallpipes have parallel-bore chanters, uillean pipes are a kind of smallpipe that can overblow and have keys (the intermediate step, smallpipes that overblow and don't have fancy mechanisms, are the "pastoral pipes", which are now rather obscure).
It occurs to me that I don't understand how that's acoustically possible. A parallel-bore chanter ought to overblow like a clarinet, at the twelfth. An uillean or pastoral pipe overblows at the octave. What gives? Is the chanter made just conical enough to turn it into an oboe?
The best balance between vocals and pipes I've heard is Norman McKinnon singing in Gaelic with Adrian Schofield on the Northumbrian pipes - I doubt if anybody had tried that before, and it works brilliantly.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 10:57 PM
Hasn't seemed to bother :-
Bothy Band
Tannahill Weavers
etc, etc, over the years!
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: JohnB
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 11:10 PM
You have obviously never heard the totally brilliant Sheffield group, Crucible.
Or Orange Peel Morris when we can get Robin to came and play with us, which used to happen more than it does now, so sad.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Paul Burke
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 02:05 AM
I've never heard Crucible, but the remaining list given by our guest were all recording studio or stage based bands- I doubt if any of them gave many totally acoustic performances. The basic problem is that the reed/ bore combination dictates the volume- there's very little scope to adjust the reed without affecting tuning, overblow characteristics etc.
Morris is another matter- with all due respect, no one expects a polished vocal performance, you have at least half-a-dozen singers, and it's performed oudoors. In the middle ages, bagpipes were classed generally as outdoor instruments.
Jack, there's a good explanation on the UNSW musical acoustics website of why cones overblow an octave while cyliders do a twelfth. They've moved the actual page since I bookmarked it, so you'll have to hunt a bit.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Marilyn
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 04:32 AM
The Time Bandits are a band local to us here in Cheshire, UK.
Listen to track 2 : Laride - magic!
Their piper, Helen de Lemos, plays border pipes made by John Swayne.
On the other tracks (St Paul's Steeple and Pepper's Black) she plays recorder, another much maligned but beautiful instrument (well, it's beautiful when Helen plays it!).
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 04:42 AM
Jack Campin doesn't know much about Uilleann pipes. That much is clear.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,pil mac avity
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 05:01 AM
Battle of the pipes, bring em on, dig em out of te cupboards dust em off an drag em out, time for the pipers
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 05:31 AM
Kathryn Tickell
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 05:59 AM
One of the very finest pipers round right now is Paul Martin. His playing can also be heard as part of the very wonderful Horseplay and the spectral feral medievalism that is Wulffengrim.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Tradsinger
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:24 AM
Lots of fine Spanish and Portuguese bands have bagpipes:
Miradoiro, LLan de Cubal, Tejedor, La Musgana, Galanda Galandum, Trasga, etc
All worth checking out on Youtube.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:50 AM
Jack Campin doesn't know much about Uilleann pipes. That much is clear.
Well, if you know more than I do, let's hear it. Since you've communicated no information at all so far, the only way is up.
I haven't seen a scaled drawing of the bore; externally they look like a cylindrical pipe.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Lady Nancy
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:54 AM
I sang to Adrian Schofield's Northumbrian pipes several years ago at a concert in Ilkley (West Yorkshire) but sadly we never recorded it!
I've also sung to the Scottish Small-pipes for the last 16 years and one day I will play my own set to accompany myself with my partner playing a harmony on his. Now THAT will be beautiful! Thanks Ray Sloan - the pipes work beautifully together even though they were made several years apart...
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Nessie
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 07:16 AM
Vicki Swan plays small pipes to great effect in her sets with Jonny Dyer (along with many other instruments, the lass is so talented!)
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 07:35 AM
Jack Campin doesn't know much about Uilleann pipes. That much is clear.
Unlike your response, Peter, Jack's reply is quite reasonable, asking as he does for further information on the somewhat baffling acoustical properties of the Uillean bagpipe chanter. As a surmise, his Is the chanter made just conical enough to turn it into an oboe? is accurate enough I would have thought.
Why not enlighten us further?
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Wolfhound person
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:09 AM
The bore of the Uilleann pipes is conical, as are the Pastoral pipes, and Border / Lowland pipes. And GHB.
The angle of the cone differs on each, and makers argue for ever about the exact angles, some guarding their own recipe rigorously.
I believe Pastoral pipes are the narrowest (1:50 gradient?), Uilleann are about 1:40; with Border pipes about 1:25/30. I don't know what the taper is on GHB.
Parallel bore pipes overblow a twelfth. SSP do not overblow well, NSP will do it but it's very much a minority pastime.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:10 AM
Peter - even supposing Jack did know nothing - what exactly would your point be?
Why do people constantly make these nasty side-swipes just for the sake of having a go? seems to happen sooner or later on practically every thread...
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Banjiman
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:21 AM
You can see and hear the Mrs (Wendy Arrowsmith) singing with Uillean piper Uilliam Haicéad here if you want to. A bit of a standard (She Moves Through The Fair), but they do "The Great Silkie" together on her first album as well. Don't have a video of that though.
.... and leave Jack alone!
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Gibb Sahib
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:35 AM
Might as well ask, "Why aren't there more women in men's restrooms?" You might like it to be so as part of a personal fantasy, but to ask the question like that shows little understanding of the history, practicalities, and cultural context of bagpipes. Why would there be a need for them in "the folk scene" any more than there's a need for a gamelan gong there?
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:36 AM
What I'd like to hear as an accompaniment to "The Great Silkie" is one of Julian Goodacre's Cornish double pipes. They were just made to imitate a monster from the deep.
It's not quite a bagpipe but this is awesome: Barnaby Brown and Patsy Seddon
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,Jemmagurney
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:38 AM
The Bagpipe society hold an annual weekend (the blowout) with concerts and workshops and sessions in june (i think). Mostly english and french pipes I think, rather than highland or uillean. If you ever need a strong dose of bagpipes, I think this is the place to be. :)
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Campin
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 08:46 AM
Two people I can think of who accompany their own singing on smallpipes are Allan Macdonald (in Gaelic) and Davie Robertson (for Scots ballads). Dunno if either of them have recorded this, but it's well worth looking out for.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: The Villan
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 09:05 AM
Lster Simpson plays bagpipes http://www.moorfolk.co.uk/lestersimpson.htm
So do Something Nasty In The Woodshed http://www.myspace.com/somethingnastyinthewoodshed
Uillean Pipers
Cara's Mike Ryan http://www.carasmusic.com/
John Devine who also plays in Wild Willy Barrett's Sleeping Dogz http://www.johndevinemusic.com/index.html
Ther is also
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,SallyM - at work
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 09:10 AM
Regarding the original query, I do know of a few pipers around my area (North Bucks & South Beds) who play various types of pipes in sessions - uillean, border and northumbrian - but they certainly do seem to have frequent 'off' days. It seems that bagpipes of all types are quite fickle, temperamental instruments to play and suffer quickly from heat and humidity changes. They have often been brought out of cases then put straight back again after a few squeaky blows with a lot of grumbling and cursing from the owner !
However there must be several closet players lurking around somewhere :
The Bagpipe Society
and their 'Blow-out' festivals must be sight - and sound - to hehold !
Sal the Gal
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: The Villan
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 09:12 AM
Hit the button too quick
There is also Sam Sweeney from Kerfuffle who plays bagpipes http://www.myspace.com/kerfufflemusic
Andy May from Jez Lowe and The Bad Pennies plays Northumbrian smallpipes http://www.jezlowe.com/band.asp
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Bernard
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 09:19 AM
Another vote for Chester's Time Bandits here! Helen de L is so in control of her plumbing! An interesting combination is the pipes and Hurdy Gurdy - oh, and they've a new CD out called 'The Cold Air of Morning'.
And Vicki Swan - oh, and don't forget Garva (briefly known as 'Fir Play') - at Lymm Folk Club we often get to see both John Murphy and his son Liam playing Uillean pipes together! Uillean - elbow, in case anyone didn't know!
I think one reason why you don't see more pipes is the simple fact that they are so difficult to play well... tuning and maintenance is much more involved than, say, a guitar, where you can get away with changing the strings every ten years or so... ;o)
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,romanyman on another puter
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 02:37 PM
I love the pipes my stepdad was a piper it was probably the only ting i did like about him but thats another story, yes royal lib have pipers, and theres nothing wrong with that, i wish id paid more attention, when i had the chance now i wish i could play them as many morris tunes could be played on these beasties, i think probably the small pipes would blend in well , but hey the war pipe would add a hell of a sound, hmmmmm is it too late to get a set, hmmmmmmmm may be trade in te melodeon nnnnaaaahhh well maybe oh i dunno
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Rifleman (inactive)
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:16 PM
"An interesting combination is the pipes and Hurdy Gurdy"
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: The Villan
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:28 PM
Hey Romanyman
I saw Patrick Purves with the Alford Morris team play the bagpipes when I booked them for a special day at Market rasen. So there is another one. He was good as well.
He went on the plinth this week in London. Click on this link http://www.thisisgrimsby.co.uk/news/Morris-man-plays-plinth/article-1145386-detail/article.html
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: boosh
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 05:00 PM
What about Mark Saul?
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:41 PM
I haven't seen a scaled drawing of the bore; externally they look like a cylindrical pipe
Sorry for being short Jack but the interweb is full of people making statements about things they know little about.
Na Piobairi Uilleann or The Seán Reid Society both have websites where some basic, and more advanced, information about the instrument.
Reading up is a simple job, but I suppose it's easier to blurt out something and place the onus of providing the proper information on others.
And by the way, I have yet to see a chanter that looks even slightly cylindical. Keys on a chanter are not, by the way, 'fancy mechanisms' nor do they have anything to do with overblowing. Like keys on other woodwinds they cover holes that provide chromatic semitones to the chanter's natural diatonic scale.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Paul Burke
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 02:04 AM
I haven't measured, but I suspect that 'flat' Irish pipe chanters are less steeply coned than D chanters. Cetrtainly the holes are relatively smaller, and the tone generally a lot more intimate and less strident.
But back to the original question. Which morris side uses two sets of Breton pipes? They are among the least tractable of bagpipes, and have largely been replaced by GBH pipes in Brittany itself.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST,Peter Laban
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 04:09 AM
Flat chanters are more narrow and, as you said, smaller holed , not less conical.
Are Biniou kozh harder to handle? In my experience, I had a spate playing the biniou during the 1970s and still have them, one chanter reed and one drone are easier to handle than say, the Uilleann pipes. They will damage your hearing and break glass though.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Anne Lister
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 03:09 PM
I've had Steafan Hannigan play assorted pipes (Uillean, Scottish small, Northumbrian and Highland) and various chanters on all my albums. We have also done some live acoustic gigs together from time to time and it's hard work to sing with any of the small pipes when there's no p.a.! However it's worth remembering that the Highland pipes were considered a weapon of war for a good reason, and played inside they're not a very sociable way to treat an audience.
I remember one recording session using the Highland pipes when the recording engineer and I took refuge under the recording desk ....but oh, what a glorious sound to work with when we were mixing!
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: InOBU
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 08:31 PM
(dear mud elves, can some do a blue clickie?)
Go here, pipes in a folk band... Sorcha Dorcha, the hardest working band in Irish music (as Cathal McConnell said of us...)
All the best
Lorcan Otway - Uilleann Piper - S.D.
(as well as whistle player, button accordian player, singer, guitar player, bodhran player, flute player, chief porter, etc. of the band Sorcha Dorcha)
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: The Villan
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 01:38 AM
Iam not a mud elf, but here you go
So do you have a myspace account then?
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: Jack Campin
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 07:07 AM
Having said that, there is an Eastern European tradition of singing with bagpipe accompaniment, though the songs I've heard tend to be of the more strident sort.
It's usually dance music so you have to make a fair bit of noise.
A bit east of Europe, singing (in Laz) with a bagpipe: Laz horon on the tulum. The interesting thing about this is that the pipe is mouthblown - the bag is so big that you can play on through a whole line of the song before losing pressure.
This is also done in Hemshin (Muslim Armenian valley in north-east Turkey near Rize) which may be where bagpipes were invented. There are a lot of YouTubes of Hemsin tulum playing and I don't have time right now to find one that demonstrates singing with it in the Hemsin dialect of Armenian, but there must be some. This kind of double-chanter pipe was traditionally distributed from Iran to Tunisia.
Subject: Folklore: The Friars of Urlaur pt 1
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 04:05 PM
from Co. Roscommon, where there is a Lake Urlaur, or Loch Árlár
In times long ago there was a House of Friars on the edge of Loch Urlaur, but there is nothing in it now except the old walls, with the water of the lake beating up against them when the wind blows from the south. Whilst the friars were living in that house there was happiness in Ireland, and many is the youth who got good instruction from the friars in that house, who is now a saint in heaven.
But there was a change to come and it came heavy. Some evil spirit found out its way to Loch Urlaur. It came at first in the shape of a black boar, with tusks on it as long as a pike, and as sharp as the point of a needle. The friars did not know what was in it, but they were not long in doubt about it; for it let a screech out of it that was heard seven miles on each side of it; it rose up then on its hind feet and was there screeching and dancing for a couple of hours. Then it leaped into the loch, and no sooner did it do that than there rose an awful storm. Furious waves rose upon the loch; then came the lightning and the thunder, and everybody thought that it was the end of the world that was in it. There was fear and astonishment on the friars, and they did not know what they ought to do.
When the storm departed they went to the edge of the loch. There was a chair cut out of the rock about twenty feet from the edge, and they saw the black boar sitting in the stone chair that was cut out in the rock.
"Get me my curragh," said the Father Superior [these were Dominicans, so no abbot], and I'll banish the thief." They got him holy water and his curragh, and two of them got in with him. But as soon as they came near to the black boar, he leaped into the water, the storm and the waves arose, and the curragh and the three who were in it were thrown high upon the land with broken bones.
They sent for a doctor and for the bishop. When they told the story to the bishop he said, "There is a limb of the devil in the shape of the friar amongst you, but I'll find him out without delay." Friar Lucas turned out to be the friar they were seeking for; he flung down a cross that he had round his neck, smote his foot on it, burst into a great laugh, turned on his heel, and made for the stone chair. When the rogue got that far, he whipped off his friar's habit and flung it out into the loch. When he stripped himself, the brothers saw that there was hair on him from the sole of his foot to the top of his head, as long as a goat's beard. He was not long alone; from the bottom of the loch, the black boar came to him, and they began romping and dancing on the rock.
(to be continued)
Subject: Folklore: the Friars of Urlaur, pt 2
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 04:18 PM
(pt. 2)
Then the bishop enquired what place did "friar Lucas" come from. The Superior said that he came a month ago from the north, and that he had a friar's habit on him when he came, and that the Superior had asked no account from him of what had brought him to this place. "You are too blind to be a Superior," said the bishop, "since you do not recognise a devil from a friar." While the bishop was talking, the eyes of everyone present were on him, and they did not notice till the black boar came behind them and the rogue that had been a friar riding on the boar. "Get the villain, get him," says the bishop.
"You didn't get me yourself," says the villain, "when I was your pet hound, and when you were giving me the meat that you would not give to the poor people who were weak with the hunger; I thank you for it, and I'll have a hot corner for you when you leave this world."
The black boar gave no rest to the friars either by night or day; he himself, and the rogue of a companion that he had, were persecuting them in many a way, and neither the brothers themselves nor the bishop were able to destroy or banish them.
One night the brothers had a dream, and it was not one friar alone who had it, but every man in the house. On the morning of the next day, after the matin prayers, the Superior said, "I was dreaming, friars, last night about the evil spirit of the loch, and there was a ghost or an angel present, who said to me that it was not in the power of any man living to banish the evil spirit, except in the powere of a piper whose name was Donnchadh Ó Grádaigh who is living in Tavraun, a man who did more good in this world than all the priests and friars in the country." "I had the same dream too," says every man of them. "It is against our faith to believe in dreams," says the Superior, "but this was more than a dream; I saw an angel beside my bed clothed in white linen." "Indeed I saw the same thing," says every man of them.
(to be continued)
Subject: Folklore: The Friars of Urlaur, pt. 3
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 04:28 PM
(pt. 3)
"It was a messenger of God who was in it," said the Superior, and with that he desired two friars to go for the piper. They went to Tavraun to look for him, and they found him in the pub, half-drunk. They asked him to come with them to the Superior of the religious brothers at Urlaur.
"I'll not go one foot out of this place until I get my pay," says the piper. "I was at a wedding last night and I was not paid yet."
"Take our word that you will be paid," said the friars.
"I won't take any man's word, money down, or I'll stop where I am."
There was no use in talk or flattery, they had to return home again without the piper. They told their story to their Superior, and he gave them money to go back for the piper. They went back, gave the money to the piper, and asked him to come with them.
"Wait until I drink another 'cnaighín,' I can't play hearty music till I have drunk enough."
"We won't ask you to play music, it's another business we have for you."
Ó Grádaigh drank a couple of 'craigíns,' put the pipes under his oxter, and said, "I'm ready to go with ye now."
"Leave the pipes behind you," said the brothers, "you won't want them."
"I wouldn't leave my pipes behind me if it was to Heaven I was going," says the piper.
When the piper came into the presence of the Superior, the Father began examining him about the good works he had done during his life.
"I never did any good work during my life that I have any remembrance of," said the piper.
Subject: Folklore: The Friars of Urlaur, pt. 4
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 04:36 PM
(continued: part 4)
"Did you give away any alms during your life?" asked the Father Superior.
"Indeed, I remember now, that I did give a tenpenny piece one night. She was a daughter of Mary O'Donnell. She was in great want of the tenpenny piece, and she was going to sell herself to get it, when I gave it to her. After a little while she thought about the mortal sin that she was going to commit, she gave up the world and its temptations and went into a convent, and people say that she passed a pious life. She died about seven years ago, and I heard that there were angels playing melodious music in the room when she was dying, and it's a pity I wasn't there listening to them, for the tune would be mine now!"
"Well," said the Superior, "there's an evil spirit in the loch outside that's persecuting us day and night, and we had a revelation from an angel who came to us in a dream, that there was not a man alive able to banish the evil spirit but you."
"A male angel or female?" says the piper.
"It was a woman we saw," says the Superior, "she was dressed in white linen."
"Then I'll bet you five tenpenny pieces that it was Mary O'Donnell's daughter was in it," says the piper.
"It is not lawful for us to bet," says the Superior, "but if you banish the evil spirit of the loch, you will get twenty tenpenny pieces."
"Give me a couple of 'craigíns' of good whiskey to give me courage," says the piper.
"There is not a drop of spirits in the house," says the Superior, "you know that we don't taste it at all."
"Unless you give me a drop to drink," says the piper, "go and do the work yourself."
They had to send for a couple of craigíns, and when the piper drank it, he said that he was ready, and asked them to show him the evil spirit.
(to be continued)
Subject: Folklore: The Friars of Urlaur, pt. 5
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 04:50 PM
(part 5)
They went to the brink of the loch, and they told him that the evil spirit used to come on to the rock every time that they struck the bell to announce the "Welcome of the Angel" [the Angelus?]. "Go and strike it now," says the piper.
The friars went, and began to strike the bell, and it was not long till the black boar and its rider came swimming to the rock. When they got up on the rock, the boar let a loud screech, and the rogue began dancing.
The piper looked at them and said, "wait till I give ye music." With that he squeezed on his pipes, and began playing, and on the moment the black boar and its rider leapt into the loch and made for the piper. He was thinking of running away, when a great white dove came out of the sky, over the boar and its rider, shot lightning down on top of them, and killed them. The waves of the loch threw the bodies up on the edge, and the piper went and told the Superior and the brothers that the evil spirit of the loch and its rider were dead on the shore.
They all came out, and when they saw that their enemies were dead, they uttered three shouts for excess of joy. They did not know then what they would do with the corpses. They gave forty tenpenny pieces to the piper and told him to throw the bodies into a hole far from the convent. The piper got a lot of tinkers who were going the way, and gave them ten tenpenny pieces to take the corpses a mile from the house of the friars, and to throw them into a deep hole into a 'sgraith-logadaigh' -- a shaking-scraw. The tinkers took up the corpses, the piper walked out before them playing music, and they never stopped till they cast the bodies into the hole, and the 'sgraith-logadaigh' closed over the corpses, and nobody ever saw them since. The 'Hole of the Black Boar' is to be seen still.
The piper and the tinkers went to the pub, drank until they were drunk, then began fighting, and you may be certain that the piper did not come out of Urlaur with a whole skin.
The friars built up the walls in the roof of the convent and passed prosperous years in it, until the accursed foreigners came who banished the friars and threw down the greater part of the house to the ground.
The piper died a happy death, and it was the opinion of the people that he went to Heaven, and that it may be so with us all!
pp 328 - 351, volume I, Abhráin Diadha Chuige Connacht / Religious Songs of Connacht, edited by Douglas Hyde (an Craoibhín Aoibhinn). Dublin: M.H.Gill & Son, 1906.
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Jul 16 - 05:03 PM
Amos 8:4-6, 9-12
Subject: RE: bagpipes in folk,
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 09:41 PM
I hear this young Uilleann piper from time to time, usually at the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, RI. He lives just across the state line in Massachusetts. https://torrinryan.com
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Most dishes are very enticing, especially the silken tofu, deep fried with crispy edges and intensely flavoured with lemongrass. The refreshing rice paper rolls are stuffed with soft shell crab, shredded carrots, cucumbers, vermicelli and are great too.
The miniature pho is also a nourishing dish that comes in a single serving size complete with an abundance of cilantro and tasty roasted duck.
Coffee addicts will surely love their Asian inspired coffee gelato. It comes with a drizzle of dulce de leche and a few crushed coffee granules over the creamy coffee gelato.
Also, we requested our pineapple freeze to be purposely made without alcohol and the waitstaff was more than willing to accommodate our request. Service at its finest.
Lemongrass crispy silken tofu
Soft shell crab rice paper rolls
Roast duck pho
Vietnamese coffee gelato
Caramelized condensed milk
Pineapple freeze
Viet Kitchen
Address: G04 & 06 Nexxus Building, 41 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong
Telephone: 2806 2068
Opening Hours: Mon-Sat 11:00-22:00
Related post: http://spotthefood.blogspot.hk/2015/06/viet-kitchen-viet-bistro-bar.html


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How to Use Crossover Cable to Connect a PC to a Printerby Jordan Whitehouse
A crossover cable is an Ethernet cable that is typically used to connect hardware, such as printers and computers, to a network. With a crossover cable, you don't need a network device, such as a router. You can also use a crossover cable to connect your computer to a printer that is on the network. The entire process for hooking up your printer to your computer will take about five minutes.
Step 1
Turn off both the computer and the printer.
Step 2
Plug one end of the crossover cable into the network card port, located on the back of the computer.
Step 3
Plug the opposite end of the crossover cable into the port on the side or the back of the printer.
Step 4
Turn on your computer and the printer.
Step 5
Navigate to your computer's "Control Panel," click on "Printers" and select "Add Printers."
Choose the printer that you are connected to in the list that appears, and follow the instructions to complete the set-up.
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