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This week's winner is an IT tune, Ten Penny Bit.
Almost 5 years ago, this tune had a run here as an "Other Tune". Here's a link to that discussion!
Here is a link to five setting for the tune on the session.org. On that site, they say it's also known as Billys Awake, Cock O The North, Jan Koop Mij Kermis, The Ten Franc Piece, Ten Penney Bit, The Ten Penny Bit, The Three Little Drummer Boys, The Three Little Drummers.
Here's the video that Martin Whitehead started the discussion with in November 2010.
Here's the video I made for that first run! It's sure been a while since I've recorded any videos!
Here's my version on a Jimmy Moon mandolin and Tom Buchanan Bouzouki. I haven't touched the flat top for a while - I've been in an f-hole phase - and fell out of love with it but I took it with me on holiday and had a holiday romance. It seems to suit these A dorian Jigs with all the sweet ringing open strings. The video of it cuts out near the end as the battery on my camera gave up - I was racing to the end against a flashing low battery charge light on the camera- the camera won.
Hey James, well done!! I love the sound of your flat top mando and your accompaniment on the zouk really complemented the melody very nicely.
Here's the Art IN Hand String Band. Carrie Wild on fiddle, Dusky Loebel on guitar, and myself on mando. We always had fun with this one.
Extremely nice James and great backup. Woodenfingers, sounds like you and your band are having a great time nicely done.
Here's my version of the Ten Penny Bit. It's played on my 1913 Gibson F2 mandolin. The guitar is tuned DADGBD and capoed at the 7th fret. Love this mandolin for the pretty stuff!
Five very fine versions, from Martin's initial posting to the latest here. All very listenable and the differences in the instruments add to the enjoyment.
Y'all are sure on top of it this week!
James, I absolutely love your arrangements of these trad tunes. You nailed this one.
Those hammer ons and pull offs are so pretty in your version, Michael. I'm happy to say I must be picking up some of your style because I'd started working on adding those in the same place while playing around with the tune yesterday.
What a fun band, Bob. I like the sound y'all have together.
Barbara, your five-year-old version sounds fantastic. I can only imagine how great you must sound on it now.
After hearing all the fine versions of this jig I recorded a quick take on mandolin with guitar backing this evening and posted on my Soundcloud page. Did not have time to get the video going as I wanted to get this out while the tune was fresh!
Managed to record a clip this morning on video. Wanted to show the new mandolin I have just finished!
I like the way you kick this song off, John. And the whole tune is so happy and delicate the way you play it. I bet Bertram would have something to say about being able to hear pixies dancing in the glen. Your new mandolin sounds amazing.
I'll pass on this one, I think. I have changed little in my rendition since the one in that "Other" thread, so it would boil down to a late summer rerun. I can see that James Rankine has approx. done the style I would do it in, anyway, and his is excellent.
Thanks Marcy for the credits, OTOH... John's new mandolin indeed has a scintillating brilliancy to it (and I like the purfled binding!), but pixies is not what I'd expect to dance in glens, especially not in Scottish glens - those are for giants (I always felt being watched by creatures bigger than me there); in general, the elementals described in the Celtic west (from the leprechauns and stray sods of Ireland to the trowies and selkies of Orkney) do not share the disneyesque playfulness one would associate with pixies - they are more the kind your parents warned you to beware of.
Ha, That's exactly why I leave the metaphors to you, Bertram. I checked out your version on the other thread. That was great, and much more like a giant in the glen. What a blast from the past that old thread is! I miss a lot of those folks.
I must admit I'm always a little self-conscious when posting a jig to the Cafe. I have never been able to play DUD DUD as the prescribed method for picking jigs. Truth be told I am not sure I could tell if anyone else was picking that way or not. So here is my non- traditional, incorrectly picked version of Tenpenny Bit.
David - great playing! I love the sound of that mando. I certainly can not tell whether you are DUD DUDding or DUDUDUDing. When first watching Michael's video I wondered if he was DUD DUDding but he goes to fast to tell...
John - your new mando looks as good as it sounds!
Michael - your F2 still has a wonderful sound either because of, or despite, its lengthy life. You can also jig up a storm there. Nice.
That's true Rock&Roll David, and I am not DUDDUDing either, so who am I to inform the DUDPD?
John: that's a beauty of a mandolin and a well played jig.
Gotta love the bowed bass and the driving mandolin from David.
I don't DUD DUD either. I just try on get the stresses right with DUD UDU and it seems to work alright so far...
As far as I understand it, DUD DUD is intended to give players the best chance of generating that rhythm of two beats in a bar, three notes to a beat ... everyone here has managed to create this pulse regardless of pick direction, so all goals have been achieved.
I've started learning this tune. Let's hope I can get enough practice in this week to post "on time".
So, we all admit to not sticking rigidly to the DUD DUD picking pattern! I can hear the Thought Police TUT-TUTTING at our sacrilege. Great to see so many folk playing the jigs in the way they feel comfortable with.
David, the Sobell is sounding great there, and thanks too to those of you who praised my new mando; I'm quite proud of my latest build!
Great video, David. I know I'm often confused by your choice of pick direction, but to my ear on this video it sounds no different from a DUDDUD picking pattern! You did a great job with the accents and rhythm.
I hope I'll be able to record a 100%-DUDDUD version during the week!
David, what a cool and original take on this one. That sounds absolutely awesome with the bowed bass.
Great playing everyone! Really nice versions.
David, love that bass, timeless and ethereal. Fine guitar and mando too.
James, great stuff, and your bouzouki is fabulous. Last week, before hearing your video, I made a sort of octave-something + mandolin version, but I really don't have a clue how to play octave accompaniment so I was just kind of stumbling through it and doing some single-note stuff with sort of drones/unisons. I like yours better.
Anyway below is mine which has tons of errors, kinda wished I'd noticed all my funky notes while I was playing it instead of later after I'd already put the video together, oh well. This is my brand-new cheap Rogue mandolin, recorded the same day I took it out of its factory shipping box (I put on a new set of light gauge strings that I prefer, and lowered the bridge a little, but otherwise it was already set up reasonably good). I stuck a low-cost pickup on it and ran the sound into my Roland Micro Cube so it might just as well be an electric mandolin, but I may have things set wrong (pickup location etc) because it's thin sounding, will have to experiment more.
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Interesting version you have created with the electric mando sound (I like it!) and the guitar tuned in 5ths.
I find the DUD DUD discussion interesting. When I started playing mandolin I figured I would be doing old time and bluegrass, and most of my early tunes were with the straight DUDU picking. I slowly began doing more and more IT music, probably because my earlier non-mandolin experience was with Celtic music. I came to a point where I realized that should be my focus (with a little old timey stuff mixed in) and I started taking lessons from a very accomplished guitar/mandolin/tenor banjo IT musician. At the time I still played everything DUDU, and I thought my jigs sounded pretty good nonetheless (BTW David does do a great job as well). I told my new instructor that another guy I took some lessons with took the view I have seen here which is, if it sounds good, don't worry about it. My instructor, however, insisted I try and learn the DUD DUD picking. In fact, he said to stop playing jigs until I could get the hang of it. I'm glad he did. First, as good as I thought they sounded before, the jigs I knew before I figured this out sounded better. Second, once it became automatic, learning and playing new jigs became MUCH easier.
It really was much easier to get the hang of than I thought it would be. I struggled with it before, but that was because I was always thinking about it when I played the tunes. How my instructor got me started was to just play G and D scales DUD DUD with each note as a triplet for a few minutes every day. Then after a couple of weeks, I took a couple of jigs that are almost all triplets and played them slowly - I recommend The Kesh and The Lilting Banshee as good ones. You see, the thing that throws you off of the DUD DUD pattern are held eighth notes and pick-up notes, so playing runs of triplets is much easier to stay on the right pattern. Also, tapping your foot on the first down stroke of each triplet helps. As he told me, eventually it become automatic. I'd say it took me about a month to get pretty consistent.
Another advantage to getting proficient on DUD is when you play hornpipes. Those great triplet runs you see in hornpipes are almost automatic once you get the hang of the picking pattern.
My trick was to practise the DUD DUD pattern without any mandolin at all - just holding a coin and brushing it over my other hand in rhythm, while sitting at my desk, on the bus, or watching TV. Once the right hand knows what to do, it really does become easier to learn new jigs.
Of course, I never developed much speed either on jigs or on 4/4 tunes. But DUD DUD I can do.
great to see and listen to many great versions, thats a sweet sounding mandolin John and who doesn't covet David's Sobell! i enjoyed learning this one, played on the cheap plywood backed octave. anyone else struggle to go back to the mandolin after playing an octave ?
Nice version and very well picked! You're right that it can be hard to go back to the mandolin after playing the octave. I prefer my octave for the pipe tunes I enjoy playing - the lower octave and the greater sustain give the tunes an extra, I feel.
As solid as ever Lawrence, and the crowing B part is well pronounced. Am I struggling to go back? Nah, I've given up
Since I started taking online lessons with Marla Fibish, I've been de- and reconstructing my jig picking. I could already do DUD DUD, but we've been working on emphasising the third and sixth eighth notes (quavers) a bit more to improve the rhythm. I'm also working on my triplets and on putting tunes together in sets.
So here's Tenpenny Bit together with Rakes of Kildare. Ten pennies for a rake seem like a very good price. I hope it's not junk.
Well played, sir. Fine transition between the two tunes.
Nice playing Dennis. I will go to your page and leave some pretty comments.
Dennis, clear and expressive picking, but in times when a luxury top hat went for 10 shillings and sixpence, and when you could cross the Liffey for 1/2p, 10 pence for a wooden rake sounds expensive...
I totally forgot about Rakes of Kildare, must revive that.
Great sound snd picking, Dennis!
You're sounding more like Martha every day Dennis.
She's my favourite jig player, no... I mean you are!
Well played.
Thank you all! Good point about inflation, Bertram.

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A motorcycle taxi, or cart bike, is a licensed form of transport in some countries. The taxi typically carries one passenger, who rides as the pillion behind the motorcycle operator. Multiple passengers are common in some countries.
According to some sources, motorcycle taxi service in Brazil began in 1994, in Crateús, in the state of Ceará,[1] when an employee of the Bank of Brazil bought 10 bikes for rent, for the transport of persons. Other sources state that it started in Bauru, São Paulo, in 1996, when an unemployed biker hung a banner across the road to the city, reading "help a biker racing to 1.00 real." Today, almost all Brazilian cities have motorcycle taxi service.[2] Recently, they have appeared in poorer and less urban areas, where young people increasingly support themselves by driving them.
Typically, the fare is a flat fee, regardless of the distance traveled. However, the charge may vary according to the time of day or day of the week, or increase for distances that are greater than usual.
Licensing requirements for motorcycle taxis vary by municipality. Small towns tend not to regulate them at all, while in larger cities, they are regulated in much the same way as taxicabs. In July 2009, the Brazilian Senate approved standards[3] for motorcycle taxi drivers and motorcycle couriers.[4] They must be at least 21 years old, have held a Category A drivers licence for at least two years, and have attended a training course.
In Phnom Penh and other cities in Cambodia, motorcycle taxis are widely available as a form of low-cost public transport. Motorcycle taxi drivers, who are almost exclusively male, are called motodops." They tend to hang around outside major tourist attractions, office buildings, public markets, and near the corners of residential streets. There is no regulated system of training or bike maintenance and no common uniform, so anyone on his way home from the market might offer you a ride (and the driver's intentions can generally be trusted, the state of his bike, a little less so). Always negotiate the fare in advance (use gestures, if necessary). Don't expect a motodop to understand English or to read a map - he'll likely flag somebody down who can help translate or navigate, if necessary. Fares vary depending on distance and weather but should always be cheaper than a tuk-tuk. Fares are higher at night and when embarking from tourist areas. You'll get a better rate if you can negotiate in passable Khmer, but have a heart: these are generally the folks that live on a few dollars or less per day. As of 2014, helmet laws apply only to drivers, so bring your own helmet if you're worried about safety, but it's not legally required.
Motorcycle taxis are also the most common form of transportation in Maroua, Cameroon.[5] Multiple passengers are carried on most trips; as many as four children are sometimes carried on a single motorcycle. Helmets are rarely used, but the traffic and speed are moderate in the city. Short distances cost about 200 francs, less than US$1.
In mainland China, motorcycle taxi service can be traced back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. There are currently motorcycle taxis throughout China, including in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. They are popular primarily due to their low cost: the fare for short trips is just 5 yuan (less than US$1) per person.
In Goa, India, motorcycle taxis are required to be licensed. Driven by men called pilots, they are much cheaper than other taxis, although a passenger can only carry a backpack as luggage. In some parts of the state, motorcycle drivers are legally required to wear helmets, but any passengers riding pillion are not. Motorcycle taxis can usually be identified by their distinctive yellow and black colours. The fare should be fixed in advance, and trips are not metered.
Motorcycle taxis are a very common form of unlicensed transport in Indonesia, where they are known as ojek. Ojek can be found in most areas of the country, from towns where traffic jams commonly hinder other forms of transport, to rural areas inaccessible by four-wheeled vehicles. Because of traffic, ojek are often the fastest form of transport, especially in Jakarta. Many people choose them over taxicabs, which are safer, but slower and more expensive.
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Before the trip begins, the passenger usually haggles with the driver over the fare, which generally ranges from 5,000 to 10,000 rupiah (about US$0.50 to US$1.00) for short trips. Indonesian law requires motorcycle riders to wear helmets; often on ojek, however, only the driver does so. Although the driver will sometimes provides a helmet for the passenger, more often, drivers simply avoid main streets, and the attention of police.
Nigeria has about three million motorcycle taxis,[6] locally called okadas, with over one million in Lagos alone. In Lagos, new rules prohibit okadas from carrying pregnant women or children. Authorities say okadas will be stopped from driving up the wrong way, and the number of roads on which they are authorized to travel will be sharply reduced.[7]
Motorcycle taxis in the Philippines usually have sidecars, or seats extended sideways, often by use of a T-shaped crossbeam. The latter type of taxi is known as habal-habal, or a skylab,[8] because of a resemblance to the Skylab space station that orbited the Earth in the 1970s.[9] Covered, three-wheel autorickshaws, known as tricycles, are also a common mode of transport.[10][11]
In 1994 and 1995, there were several motorcycle taxis in Stockholm. Due to the city's northern latitude, motorcycle taxi service is only feasible during the warmer months, and it remains a niche industry. As of 2011, there is one company offering tours using two Chang Jiang sidecar motorcycles.
Motorcycle taxis (Thai: มอเตอร์ไซค์รับจ้าง, motoesai rap chang, pronounced ) are a common form of public transport in Bangkok and most other cities, towns, and villages in Thailand. They are generally used for short trips. In Bangkok, there are motorcycle taxi queues on many sois, or side streets, and the queues are regulated by the city's government. Licensed motorcycle taxi operators wear orange vests. In compliance with Thailand's helmet law, many (but not all) drivers carry a spare helmet to offer to passengers. Bangkok locals generally only use motorcycle taxis when they need to get somewhere fast, as metered taxi-cabs are actually cheaper (but slower) than flat-rate motorcycles. Therefore, motorcycle taxi-drivers in Bangkok have built their reputation on delivering service as quickly as possible and tend to drive very fast and weave through traffic. Consider the risk.
Motorcycle taxi service in London began in 1990. It has established itself as a niche industry, never growing past a total of 15 bikes. All equipment is provided for the passenger, along with an intercom system linking the rider and passenger. The motorcycles have racks that can hold a carry-on suitcase, for trips to local airports, especially Stansted, Gatwick, and City. The bikes are now licensed by Transport for London and the Public Carriage Office, which also license London's black cabs. There are currently three firms based in London offering taxi bike service.
A motorcycle for-hire service started in California and New York City in 2011. As with a sedan service, passengers may not hail the motorcycles on the street; instead, a yearly individual or corporate membership fee is charged, plus an hourly rate. Experienced riders, many former motorcycle police officers, carry clients on Honda Gold Wings, and in California, can bypass traffic congestion by lane splitting.[12] Passengers are provided with helmets, airbag vests, and in-helmet, Bluetooth cell phones. Besides the Gold Wings, the service bought several Can-Am Spyders, before realizing they were not capable of splitting lanes.[13]
Nimble motorcycle taxis, which surpass buses in speed and mobility, comprise one of the most popular modes of transportation in Vietnam, where they are known as xe ôm. Passengers can get a ride simply by hailing passing operators, or by finding drivers who gather at public places such as schools, markets, hospitals, and bus and train stations.[14]
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The latest financial present events within the world monetary markets has prompted a response that is both too late to avert the crisis and doesn't address the root causes of the problem, which is selfish and grasping behaviour of people who find themselves not held accountable for his or her actions. Life and health insurance have skilled the highest progress charge for the insurance enterprise in the past century. Insurance coverage, whatever the sort, is a necessary economic instrument meant to cut back monetary dangers and to ensure that monetary losses are kept to a minimum.
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The blackbody radiation left over from the Big Bang has been transformed by the expansion of the Universe into the nearly isotropic 2.73K Cosmic Microwave Background. Tiny inhomogeneities in the early Universe left their imprint on the microwave background in the form of small anisotropies in its temperature. These anisotropies contain information about basic cosmological parameters, particularly the total energy density and curvature of the universe. Here we report the first images of resolved structure in the microwave background anisotropies over a significant part of the sky. Maps at four frequencies clearly distinguish the microwave background from foreground emission. We compute the angular power spectrum of the microwave background, and find a peak at Legendre multipole $\ell_{peak}=(197 \pm 6)$, with an amplitude $DT_{200}=(69 \pm 8)\mu K$. This is consistent with that expected for cold dark matter models in a flat (euclidean) Universe, as favoured by standard inflationary scenarios.
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Bock James Joseph
Bond Richard J.
Borrill Julian
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House of Shine Receives Certification Award
The Center for Nonprofit Management's program, CNM Certified, named House of Shine as the first of two organizations to receive this distinction. Being recognized as CNM Certified means House of Shine is using a valid methodology for collecting, analyzing and reporting results; making data-driven decisions; improving program performance; and engaging stakeholders in a meaningful way.This program was launched in part because funders told CNM they wanted to see the nonprofits organizations they are investing their dollars in to show that their programs are, in fact, making a positive impact. CNM Certified is currently available only to CNM-pact clients who have been using their online portal for at least 3 months. House of Shine is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to unearth and harness people's talents and gifts for the greater good of their communities. We host workshops for women and children focusing on self awareness and strengths and write and deliver curriculum for schools K-12. For more information about House of Shine, please contact Colleen Monroe at firstname.lastname@example.com


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A Few Things to Note about Veganism in Thailand
- Fish sauce is often considered vegetarian, and it is a key ingredient in Thai cuisine. Always, always ask about its inclusion in a dish, even if it is marked vegetarian. This goes for all Thai restaurants worldwide. Nearly ever Thai restaurant I've entered uses fish sauce and/or shrimp paste in items on their so-called vegetarian menus.
- While its vegan status is debated elsewhere, in Thailand oyster sauce is considered vegetarian. If this is a concern, query ingredients before you order.
- If you want to ensure a vegan dish, ask for it to be made Jay, with the two above ingredients omitted. Jay is the Thai equivalent of vegan.
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3 Benefits of Getting a Job Driving Trucks
Are you looking for your first career path or considering changing your current one completely? If you've found yourself wondering what it's like to be your own boss and avoid boring office jobs, you might consider driving a truck for a living. There are many benefits to doing so.
1. Plenty of Traveling
If you've always wanted to see the country but never have the money to travel extensively, a trucking job is an excellent compromise. Over-the-road jobs allow you to travel the entire country, taking in new scenery and learning about new places along the way. If you plan carefully, you can even schedule your days off to be in cities you want to explore more thoroughly.
2. Job Security
Trucking is one of the best jobs to have if you want something that you know will remain secure. Truckers are always in great need to ensure people get groceries and other goods transported as needed, whether that's across the city, the state, or the entire country. Even if autonomous trucks become a thing in the future, they will likely still have drivers inside in case of an emergency that an AI isn't prepared to handle.
3. Work Is Flexible
Becoming a truck driver allows you to work when you want to. Some people choose to stay on the road almost continuously, stopping only when required by law to take time off and rest. Others choose to work in their local city so they can get home every night. Some people even take on work seasonally to make a few extra bucks, such as getting truck driving jobs hauling grain.
Regardless of why you want to become a truck driver and which type of work you intend to do, ensure you work with a reputable company. A good company will ensure you have a CDL, do a background and drug test, and train you as needed before putting you on the road.


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There has been some debate, usually centering on the availability of prison weight rooms, that overdeveloped physiques might constitute a serious threat to the rest of us, with stockpiled biceps compared to street-legal weapons and so on. This is a nonissue in Teddy Bear, a Danish character study of a bachelor bodybuilder living outside of Copenhagen with his mother. Instead, director Mads Matthiesen emphasizes muscle mass as an agent of isolation, a padding that keeps the world away.
Thirty-eight-year-old competitive bodybuilder Dennis, played by Kim Kold, is introduced on a zero-chemistry date, grasping for straws. One wonders how any man could approach middle age and be so totally hapless with women. The question is immediately resolved when Dennis comes home to his mother, Ingrid (Elsebeth Steentoft), a slightly wraithlike woman with ramrod-straight posture who waits up on her son and grills him on his whereabouts. Through Matthiesen's felicitous selection of telling details, we quickly comprehend that the absolute boundaries of Dennis's life are home and the gym—where we see him smile for the first time, greeting the image of his flexing body in the mirror.
As is necessary in playing such a peculiar human special effect, Kold is himself a competitive bodybuilder, "discovered" by Matthiesen in the 2007 short Dennis, which was developed into this, Matthiesen's first feature. Aside from his towering, enveloping mass, Kold has an eloquently open face. Dennis's downcast eyes broadcast his inchoate desire for companionship so clearly that only his mother could miss it.
But Dennis is two-timing her, following his uncle's lead to Pattaya, Thailand. So naive as to realize only belatedly that some smiles in the Land of Smiles come with a price tag, Dennis is taken in by Scott (David Winters), the toad-like proprietor of suggestively named bar the Sugar Shack. Here, huge, seemingly virile Dennis is an abject failure as a sex tourist, looking on unstirred and aghast as the Sugar Shack's young bar girls canoodle with dissipated retirement-age Westerners trying to squeeze some last drops of transient pleasure from life. Dennis knows everything about using his body as a performance engine but nothing about using it as an organ of pleasure.
Although this is never explicitly resolved, Dennis gets a little closer in courting Toi (Lamaiporn Hougaard), a widow who owns a Pattaya gym. This leads to a farce of the cheater's double life when Dennis returns home and scrambles to satisfy both new girlfriend and mother. The last shot is the film's only panoramic image, and the only cinematographic choice Matthiesen makes, adhering otherwise to contemporary Eurozone realism and Dennis's POV. These self-imposed limitations prevent Teddy Bear from having the breadth of a great work, but they give it the coherence of a good tale, simply told.
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Sometimes, in its ongoing bout with Shakespeare's canon, Folger Theatre goes for the outright pin. At other times, it seems content with a draw.
Folger's new "Twelfth Night" qualifies in the humbler category: It is a production that is merely cute. Director Robert Richmond, who in January guided the young Zach Appelman to a steady star turn in Folger's "Henry V," finds no theme or performance of similar dynamism with which to inspire him. The proceedings skip manically from moment to moment and gag to gag, skimming the surface of a bittersweet comedy, leaving its darker underpinnings underexplored.
Although the evening does manage to get laughs, they are mostly of the reflex variety, the short-burst guffaws that express an audience's recognition of familiar jokes — or its relief at a classic's accessibility. With its time-honored Shakespearean devices (woman disguised as man, twins mistaken for each other, stranger in strange land), the plot cannot hold many surprises for the company's return customers. Some may even recall the worthier attempt at a madcap "Twelfth Night" in the music-driven production mounted at Folger a decade ago by Aaron Posner.
Still, Richmond's screwball machinations, which include characters freezing downstage for photographs and silent-movie-style chase scenes, seem to undercut the original design rather than illuminate it.
The action has been dialed forward to 1915, which mostly is an accommodation for the cutaways and gowns supplied by costume designer Mariah Hale, and for the playing of period songs — music being the food of love and all that. To fill out the economical 11-person cast, some actors dance (weirdly) with mannequins, with ensemble member Joshua Morgan solidly providing the piano accompaniment. Nestled among the conceits is the story of the romantic confusion wreaked by Viola (Emily Trask), who disguises herself as a man to serve Duke Orsino (Michael Brusasco) and present his matrimonial case to the grieving Olivia (Rachel Pickup).
Trask conveys a Viola as appealing gamine; one only wishes that the amorous connection between her and Brusasco, evoked in both speeches and physical encounters, gave off more sparks. As Feste, the clown in Olivia's household, Louis Butelli alternates between benign and malignant spirit, an ambiguous portrayal that comes closest to projecting the enigmatic duality of "Twelfth Night."
The most glaring mishandling is Richmond's treatment of that enduring standard-bearer of pretentiousness, Olivia's snooty manservant, Malvolio. He's played here by Richard Sheridan Willis, an actor of comic polish who needs little help in creating an illusion of unctuousness. (The waves in his hair, rolled into cylinders, wittily give him the look of an overgrown Munchkin.)
The scene, however, in which Malvolio is tricked by naughty Maria (Tonya Beckman) and the nasty drunk Toby Belch (Craig Wallace) into appearing in foolish wooing garb before the unwinnable Olivia is smothered by grotesqueness. Shakespeare has Malvolio deceived into appearing before her in yellow stockings, in a fashion called cross-gartering, both of which Olivia loathes. Modern productions seem intent on ruining the joke by turning the fashion faux pas into a vision of a character out of an S&M nightmare.
Here, outfitted like a decadent bumblebee, Willis's Malvolio is made to seem so irredeemably perverted that the pathos of the ensuing scene — in which he's taunted while locked in a cell — comes to naught; that his prison is the inside of a baby-grand piano comes across as just another gimmick.
Tony Cisek's set, with its oversize, damaged rose window and free-standing white staircase, has the same effect as much of this rambling evening, rife with obvious or just plain odd choices.
by William Shakespeare. Directed by Robert Richmond. Set, Tony Cisek; costumes, Mariah Hale; lighting, Andrew Griffin; sound, Matthew M. Nielson; fight direction, Casey Kaleba; dramaturgy, Michele Osherow. With Chris Genebach, James Konicek, William Vaughan. About two hours, 50 minutes. Through June 9 at the Folger Theatre, 201 East Capitol St. SE. Call 202-544-7077 or visit folger.edu/theatre.


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Working on a steel girder more than 50 storeys over Edmonton would unnerve most people, but for ironworkers building one of Canada's tallest towers it's another cool day on the job.
"It takes a little nerve, but you kind of tune out the height after you have been doing it for a while," said Keith Stevenson, business manager for Ironworkers local 720 on Thursday.
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About a dozen of the local's 2,200 members are installing trusses and putting in bolts at the top of Edmonton's 66-storey Stantec Tower, which will be Canada's highest office building west of Toronto when it's completed by the end of the year.
The skilled tradespeople are captured in a series of heart-stopping photos posted on Facebook by the Building Trades of Alberta, doing what Stevenson admits is "a fairly specialized type of work."
"You have to really like the heights. You don't always get to work at heights like that … You also have to be able to climb up without assistance."
All their work is done with harnesses and other safety equipment.
While ironworkers don't have many chances at such projects because towers are often built with concrete rather than steel, some members enjoy working on such a lofty perch, he said.
"I think the excitement of it (is the appeal). It gives you a bit of a rush. And the knowledge you're doing something other people can't do. A lot of these guys are thrill-seekers in their off-hours."


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April 1 (CRICKETNMORE) - South African batsman Aiden Markram has shown some great strides of becoming a great player for South Africa. Today, this talented South African cricketer touched a milestone of scoring 1000 runs in test matches while playing from South Africa. He also became the fastest South African batsmen to touch this landmark in just 186 days from his debut. Aiden Markram has played a total of 10 matches in which he already have 3 fifties and 4 hundred under his name.
Virat Kohli also wished him luck for his century that he scored in the 1st innings of this 4th test match against Australia.
Lets Check out the fastest batsmen to score 1000 runs in fewest days from their debut:-
Days Players
1. 166 M Hussey
3. 207 A Voges
4. 227 A Strauss
5. 244 H Sutcliffe
6. 268 B Luckhurst
7. 291 M Slater
8. 295 K Pietersen
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4 ― An American's love for cats has seen the establishment of a coastal sanctuary for the felines in Teluk Bahang, Penang aptly named "Cat Beach".
Teviot Fairservis, 61, from Connecticut set up the "no kill" cat sanctuary two years ago, where cats roam freely and are only caged if they're sick, The Star daily reported today.
"Cat Beach was set up in late 2014, a few years after I moved to Penang from Langkawi with my eight cats," Fairservis was quoted saying.
The beach sanctuary is now home to 126 cats.
"I need at least RM125 daily to feed them and about RM20,000 annually for vet care and emergencies. Being a non-profit shelter, I depend on donations but there have been times that I have to use my own money," she added.
She said she has hosted volunteers from all over the world, including from Pakistan and Turkey.
Cat Sanctuary Teluk Bahang from Patric Ganz on Vimeo.
"I've always been an animal lover. When I was about 10, my cat gave birth to a kitten on my bed and that was a profound moment for me.
"For me, animals are teachers as they've taught me about kindness and happiness," said Fairservis.
Cat Beach will reportedly organise a fundraising concert on December 13 featuring musicians from the Prince of Wales Island International School and the Penang Lights Contemporary Choir at the Penangpac in Straits Quay, Tanjong Tokong.
Those who wish to donate to Cat Beach can visit its crowd funding page here. At the time of writing, US$3,835 (RM15,809) has been raised out of its US$12,000 goal.


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he relief fiasco taking place in Burma is, as far as my memory goes, without precedent. The world is mobilized, and yet remains paralyzed by one man -- Burma's pig-headed ruler, Than Shwe.
"Voting" in his "constitutional referendum" is under way now. Turnout is reported to be light. Widespread rumours in Burma say the result will be fixed at 84.6% for "Yes."
An aircraft arrived on Thursday from Qatar, loaded with relief supplies, medicine, and 62 people comprising search and rescue teams along with doctors and nurses from Indonesia. Because the junta had not expected the relief workers, the entire shipment was expelled back to Qatar. The junta openly asked for international help, and then reject most of it. "We'll take some of these, we don't want this, take this back, oh these will look good in my pantry. And you willing hands are certainly not welcome." It's disgusting.
The disaster's homeless are being turned away from emergency shelters, with authorities telling them to go back and stay in their destroyed homes as they don't have enough food for the survivors.
For the deeply xenophobic ruling generals, everyone is a potential enemy, including those who approach such humanitarian catastrophes with nothing more than their compassion and their earned expertise.
When the 2004 tsunami devastated Aceh, a responsible government immediately opened the door to everyone who could help. An elected government's main concern was for the welfare of its people. The immediate response was swift and massive, undoubtedly saving thousands more lives. Military ships were converted to offshore hospitals, helicopters ferried the injured and sick in one direction, and food, medicine, shelter and mobile clinics in the other. Aid agencies take some time to get their networks established, but these military efforts were crucial life-savers until that could happen.
Yet here is a catastrophe quickly approaching a similar scale to that in Aceh, and we see the actions of an irresponsible government. The junta is least concerned with their people's welfare. Its only concern is for its continuing ability to control them. Foreigners delivering medical aid or using their expertise in emergency recovery are seen as a threat by the junta -- they might lose face. Even more so if those foreigners happen to be wearing the military uniforms of developed countries. Who knows what might be inside those boxes instead of ready-to-eat biscuits?
"They're afraid that if foreign soldiers come in they are the spearhead to overthrow the government," said Josef Silverstein, a retired Rutgers University professor who studied Myanmar for more than a half century.The paranoia of these people might seem unbelievable, but it really is this extreme. If they don't start giving more access PDQ, they will really need to start worrying about their position. The Responsibility To Protect doctrine of international law isn't just three words. This may present just the right occasion for laying down a precedent; the regime's willingness to sacrifice thousands of the lives of its own people simply for its own comfort and security, is unprecedented.
From the junta's perspective: "Aid workers could be carrying weapons to give to the people, they could give them ideas of how to overthrow the government."
The RTP doctrine has been established, and it's the rapidly approaching time to put it into practice. State sovereignty doesn't trump all else, and for this doctrine to be taken seriously it's time to lay down the law (and I don't care what China has to say about it, in trying to protect their junta friends with their veto). Sovereignty does not include making thousands more die of disease, exposure or starvation when they could be saved by help that is ready and waiting, but refused.
Failure to act will result in the entire "international system" being discredited even more than the brainless junta already is.
An editorial in The Irrawaddy puts it very well:
By his actions, Than Shwe has shown the world what kind of man he is—a mentally deranged dictator, holding his people hostage at the end of a gun barrel, utterly unfit to rule a country.The junta is presently more concerned with "winning" its sham "referendum" than it is with the survival of Burmese people. Opposing them in this referendum is illegal; opposition has been and will be punished.
The cyclone has again unmasked the true colors of Than Shwe's regime, which claims to have built a modern, developed nation. It now bears the responsibility for the catastrophe wrought upon the country by the cyclone, and it must be held accountable.
The military seized all food and equipment which had arrived via the World Food Program, and WFP officials said they had "no choice" but to suspend their efforts. Aid supplies which have made it in, on a few permitted flights, have been taken by the military and slapped with labels proclaiming the goods to be donated by high-ranking officers.
They care only about building their own faces. Uniformed officers are shown on state television, condescending to hand over a package to wretched-looking survivors. This is not mass distribution, this is propaganda and nothing more. While each day the assistance is kept away means how many thousands more deaths? For the ruler, priority number one is promoting his "Yes" to the "referendum" in happy, singing video spots. A survivor in devastated Bogalay township said they have seen no relief or aid workers at all.
"People are waiting to die," he said. "We need aid such as food, water, medicines and shelter, not just video clips for show."The National League for Democracy has formed its own emergency relief committee. These people are certainly ready to govern (as they should be doing now, by rights, having won the last democratic election by an 85% landslide). Nyan Win, party spokesman:
"The current situation is a real concern to all Burmese and all humankind," he said. "This is a national tragedy and humanitarian crisis. People are dying."Former student leader Mo Thee Zun says if the junta continues refusing international help, it amounts to a kind of genocide. I find it difficult to disagree.
The news that US navy ships were approaching Burmese waters is spreading among the people. The comments by a US official a few days ago, that the US might be forced into dropping emergency supplies with or without approval (later denied by the SecDef), also seem to have been carried on Burma's grapevines.
"There are a lot of rumors that US is coming to deliver aid," said a Rangoon journalist. "Some people even went and waited at the (Rangoon) port."
"And people in the delta area keep looking at the sky," he said.
While the junta's own massive military forces are doing little of anything to rescue citizens or help picking up bodies, their other forces in the pro-junta civilian militias have been doing something -- attacking relief convoys.
Club-wielding members of a pro-regime citizens' group attempted to hijack relief supplies in Rangoon, according to local charity groups and non-government organizations in the former Burmese capital.The USDA has also been busy (this group also participated in the violent suppression of democracy demonstrations last August and September). They're busy re-labelling the aid supplies to indicate their own generosity. When people who are getting no attention erected banners simply asking, "Please Help Us," the USDA shows up to rip down the banners and punish the people who raised them.
A convoy of vehicles carrying rice to cyclone victims in Rangoon's Thanlyin Township was attacked on Thursday by armed members of Swan-Ar-Shin, a government-supported organization that helped suppress last September's demonstrations, one Rangoon source reported. The attackers were armed with clubs and knives, the source said.
One NGO worker said permission had to be obtained from another pro-government organization, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, before relief supplies could be delivered.
Is it time to force humanitarian intervention? I say yes, it is.
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It boggles the mind to imagine how former death row inmate Jerry Hartfield, an illiterate man with an IQ of 51, is still locked up today after a Texas appeals court order a new trial for him over 30 years ago.
Hartfield was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1976 murder of Eunice Job Lowe. In 1980, a Texas appeals court ordered a new trial because a juror was wrongly excluded from the initial trial. Though state attorneys fought for a rehearing on that decision twice, the court rejected their request. In 1983, then Governor Mark White commuted Hartfield's death sentence to life in prison, though his conviction had been overturned and and a retrial had been ordered. Nothing happened with the case for the next 23 years.
In 2006, with the help of another inmate, Hartfield filed a handwritten writ of habeas corpus, asking to either be retried or set free, arguing that his 6th Amendment right to a speedy trial has been violated. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the motion twice before it was heard by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, who said a conviction didn't even exist in the case. "Hartfield's position is as straightforward and subtle as a freight train….The court's mandate was never recalled, its decision never overturned, the conviction never reinstated; yet Hartfield never received the 'entirely new trial' ordered by the court," said Hughes.
The state appealed Judge Hughes' decision, and the case went before a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which called Hartfield's incarceration "disturbingly unprofessional" but returned the case to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, requesting that it define the status of its ruling overturning Hartfield's conviction. Such action is likely to drag the case out even longer.
This is a highly disturbing case that demonstrates just how broken things are. How are we to trust a system to make decisions involving life and death when the same system essentially forgot about a mentally impaired man who has spent the majority of his life behind bars without due process?
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Challenges of Hidden Data in the Unused Area Two within Executable Files
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Problem statement: The executable files are one of the most important files in operating systems and in most systems designed by developers (programmers/software engineers), and then hiding information in these file is the basic goal for this study, because most users of any system cannot alter or modify the content of these files. There are many challenges of hidden data in the unused area two within executable files, which is dependencies of the size of the cover file with the size of hidden information, differences of the size of file before and after the hiding process, availability of the cover file after the hiding process to perform normally and detection by antivirus software as a result of changes made to the file. Approach: The system designed to accommodate the release mechanism that consists of two functions; first is the hiding of the information in the unused area 2 of PE-file (exe.file), through the execution of four process (specify the cover file, specify the information file, encryption of the information, and hiding the information) and the second function is the extraction of the hiding information through three process (specify the steno file, extract the information, and decryption of the information). Results: The programs were coded in Java computer language and implemented on Pentium PC. The designed algorithms were intended to help in proposed system aim to hide and retract information (data file) with in unused area 2 of any execution file (exe.file). Conclusion: Features of the short-term responses were simulated that the size of the hidden data does depend on the size of the unused area2 within cover file which is equal 20% from the size of exe.file before hiding process, most antivirus systems do not allow direct write in executable file, so the approach of the proposed system is to prevent the hidden information to observation of these systems and the exe.file still function as usual after the hiding process.
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all the times that I felt lonely while at ACRE. 2015. Video / installation.Completed during my residency at ACRE, this video serves as the online counterpart to a physical installation on the grounds of ACRE's residency in Steuben, Wisconsin. The permanent installation, a wooden signpost with the web address of this video, rests at the top of a mountain colloquially known as Cell Phone Mountain, as it's the only place to get a cell phone signal at ACRE without going into town.To reach the physical installation:
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LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia, – The Elite Basketball Academy hosted close to 30 campers from across six states. The staff put an emphasis on detailed fundamentals and crisp execution. Here is the first installment of evaluations from last weekend's camp.
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Hailey Swain – Holy Innocents (Atlanta, Georgia), – Class of 2025
Swain is a left handed lead guard with advanced skill for a sixth grader. Her ability to handle and her footwork to match make her one of the top prospects in the city at the middle school level. She does a good job of holding her follow through on her jump shot. She looks to be a consistent scorer at several levels moving forward.
TiAna Davis – Horizon Middle School (Colorado Springs, Colorado), – Class of 2023
Davis impressed with her soft touch on her jump shot. Her follow through during form shooting was nearly flawless. She produced into competitive situations as well. She proved that she did not have to have the ball in her hands in order to score. She moved to open areas and found ways to score even when she was not the primary ball handler.
Mia James – Wesleyan School (Norcross, Georgia), – Class of 2025
Although smaller, James proved to be one of the more talented prospects at the camp. She handled the ball with sureness and exhibited fundamentals that are advanced for her age. She took instruction and executed well on the court. Her ability to pass the ball and score off the move should make her a productive player in years to come.
Mallie Gene Coleman – Livingston Middle School (Livingston, Tennessee), – Class of 2023
Jean showed a consistent follow through on her jumper during the camp. She proved she is a fundamental player who can handle, defend and score the ball when she gets a sliver of light on the perimeter. Look for her game to grow with added experience.
Kylah Stovall – Reimagine Prep (Jackson, Mississippi), – Class of 2024
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We haven't heard much lately about bird flu (maybe because the apparent collapse of our economy is enough for everyone to worry about), but a recent Associated Press article points out a new way in which Americans are not prepared for the possible pandemic.
Despite the hassle we've given the Indonesians over their refusal to share bird flu samples, the U.S. actually has a law on the books that would prevent (or at least delay) the sharing of vaccines with any of the Axis of Evil countries (including North Korea, which is in prime bird flu territory, and Cuba, which is just a bird flight away).
Not clear how much of a problem this is, since no one knows how long it would take to cut through the red tape if sharing were necessary. It's also unclear whether the regulation has any merit, since scientists quoted in the story say the chances of terrorists using vaccines to develop weaponized bird flu are extremely slim.
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NSA intercepts for Bolton masked as 'training missions' (EN)
Wayne Madsen, Onlinejournal.com - via Cryptome.org
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April 25, 2005-According to National Security Agency insiders, outgoing NSA Director General Michael Hayden approved special communications intercepts of phone conversations made by past and present U.S. government officials. The intercepts are at the height of the current controversy surrounding the nomination of Undersecretary of State John R. Bolton as ambassador to the United Nations.
It was revealed by Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) during Bolton's Senate Foreign Relations Committee nomination hearing that Bolton requested transcripts of 10 NSA intercepts of conversations between named U.S. government officials and foreign persons. However, NSA insiders report that Hayden approved special intercept operations on behalf of Bolton and had them masked as "training missions" in order to get around internal NSA regulations that normally prohibit such eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.
It is noteworthy that in the fictional movie "Enemy of the State," it was under the authority of a "training mission" that renegade NSA officials targeted U.S. civilians for eavesdropping. United States Signals Intelligence Directive (USSID) 18, the NSA's "Bible" for the conducting of surveillance against U.S. persons, allows "U.S. material," i.e., listening to U.S. persons, to be used for training missions. However, USSID 18 also requires that all intercepts conducted for such training missions are to be completely destroyed after completion of the training operation.
In the case of Bolton and other Bush administration hardliners, the material in question was not deleted and was transmitted in raw intercept form to external agencies for clearly political purposes-a violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and USSID 18, which only allows such raw training mission intercepts to be transmitted when evidence of criminal activity is uncovered during the training mission.
Unlike signals intelligence (SIGINT) data stored in the "Anchory" (formerly known as the SIGINT On-line Intelligence System or "SOLIS") database, training intercepts are completely off-the-books and, in the case of raw intercepts provided to Bolton and others, the NSA and its Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID) can claim "plausible deniability" in stating that only "official" intercept transcripts were provided to users outside the agency. Because they are to be destroyed after completion of training missions, the training intercepts do not appear in any agency logs and cannot be obtained by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unless they are subpoenaed directly from Bolton and his colleagues.
Hayden breezed through Senate conformation hearings as the new deputy director of National Intelligence, where he will serve as John Negroponte's chief assistant and have authority over the entire U.S. Intelligence Community.
Intelligence community insiders claim that a number of State Department and other government officials may have been subject to NSA "training" surveillance and that transcripts between them and foreign officials likely ended up in the possession of Bolton and his neoconservative political allies, including such members of Vice President Dick Cheney's staff as David Wurmser (a former assistant to Bolton at State), John Hannah, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Possible affected individuals include : Secretary of State Colin Powell and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and their conversations with their counterparts and officials around the world ; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs William Burns and his telephone conversations with International Atomic Energy Agency director general Mohammed el Baradei and Britain's top non-proliferation official William Ehrman (Bolton was frozen out of negotiations between Burns, Britain, and Libya over the stand-down of the Libyan weapons of mass destruction program) (also Burns's conversations with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al Shara over charges by Bolton that Syria possessed WMD, and conversations between Burns and former chief UN Iraq weapons inspector Hans Blix) ; various phone calls made by Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Brent Scowcroft ; U.S. Special Envoy on North Korea Charles "Jack" Pritchard and his telephone conversations with U.S. ambassador to South Korea Thomas Hubbard, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs James Kelly, and Richard Armitage ; New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and his telephone conversations with Secretary of State Powell and North Korea's deputy UN ambassador Han Song Ryol ; phone conversations between Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden and his Iranian counterpart, Majlis foreign affairs chair Mohsen Mirdamad, and between Biden, his staff, and William Burns and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Marc Grossman ; and President Jimmy Carter's phone conversations with Cuban officials before and during his May 2002 trip to Cuba (Carter said he found no evidence to support Bolton's claims of Cuban biological weapons development).


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