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Washington @ Dallas Steven--Dallas. In the preseason, this was probably one of the more attractive matchups. Oh how things can change in only one season. Jack Dale- Dallas- Such a crappy, crappy game. I hate that I have to pick either one of these teams. I'm in a bad mood now. Trevor Kuss- Redskins. I think this comes down to who will find a way to lose the game, and I'll almost always bet on the 'Boys when it comes to that.
Houston @ Tennessee Steven--Houston. Demoralizing season for the Titans trumps demoralizing loss last week for the Texans. Jack Dale- Houston- Tennessee is on a downward spiral and Houston will go in and sweep the series. Let's hope to see more Finnegan v. Johnson! Trevor Kuss- The Andre Johnson's. With the struggling defense for the Titans it comes down to if the Texans can put some point on the board, and after that showdown with Finnegan I think Johnson is going to be really pumped up to put up some big numbers on the Titans defense. add to it that Courtland Finnegan is a punk and not anywhere good enough to cover Johnson unless he cheats and you have a recipe for a Texans W
Jacksonville @ Indianapolis Steven--Jacksonville. Never, ever would have made this pick prior to this season. Peyton looks out of sorts this year and I'm rooting for the Jags to finally have some sort of success. Jack Dale- Indianapolis- I have been taking David Garrard in most of my picks this year, but I have to be realistic. I don't think that Jacksonville can sweep the Colts this year, and I don't think the Jags can hold on to that top spot in the AFC south. Trevor Kuss- Colts. despite his struggles I can bet against Peyton Manning when it comes to a late season game with the season on the line.
Kansas City @ St. Louis Steven--Kansas City. Still in control of the division and can pick up an easy win against a young St. Louis team. Jack Dale- Kansas City- As badly as I want the Raiders to make the playoffs, I have to take KC to beat the Rams so the Niners wont fall another game behind them. Trevor Kuss- Rams. The Rams are good at home and are a lot better than people may think. This could be a lot closer if Matt Cassel ends up playing but I'll still take the Rams/
Buffalo @ Miami Steven--Buffalo. One thing the Bills have been able to do this year is score points. Miami has scored 20 points in the last two weeks combined. I think the Bills' hot streak continues. Jack Dale- Miami- Miami is riding high after an improbable win against the flailing Jets, and I expect them to continue this against the Bills. Trevor Kuss- Dolphins. Despite Ryan Fitzpatrick getting way too much respect in the KDVS Sports Department (looking at you Kartar), I think the Bills are just a flat out bad team. The Phins have struggled all year but they should be able to take down the Bills
Detroit @ Tampa Bay Steven-- Bucs. The Lions are struggling to put points up and the Bucs have a pretty good defence. Jack Dale- Tampa Bay- What does Steve say? The Bucs beat bad teams? Yeah. Trevor Kuss- Bucs. The Bucs defense is too good for the struggling Lions. plus that Josh Freeman guy isn't halfbad either
Arizona @ Carolina Steven--Carolina. The Cardinals' offense looked absolutely garbage last week. Too bad they were playing the most garbage team in the league with the most garbage defense. Even though Carolina has everything to lose by winning, I still give them a shot to pull it out. Jack Dale- Arizona- Oh hey let me go gouge my eyes out! Trevor Kuss- Panthers. Both these teams are terrible, I almost just flipped a coin but I'll just take the home team and leave it at that.
New Orleans @ Baltimore Steven--Baltimore. Drew Brees trails only Eli Manning for the NFL lead in interceptions this year. Not a good sign for a matchup with one of the NFL's best defenses. Jack Dale- New Orleans- This one will be a good game, and I could see how one would rather take Baltimore, but I think that New Orleans has hit their stride late, and Baltimore barely walked away with their win on Monday. Trevor Kuss- Saints. The Saints seem to be back in 2009 form and the Ravens have been off and on all year; this could be the game of the week if not for the NFC East matchup.
Philadelphia @ NY Giants Steven--Philly. Michael Vick has had a great year and will lead the Eagles into the playoffs. You're welcome Chris. Jack Dale- Philadelphia- Vick's play will continue, and I don't think the Giants limited offense will do much against Philly, especially with Steve Smith out for the rest of the year. Trevor Kuss- Giants. When in doubt take the home team, I think the Giants defense could potentially shut Vick down aside from 1 or 2 deep balls. It will be on the Giants run game to put up some points with the injuries to wide-out.
Atlanta @ Seattle Steven--Atlanta. The Falcons are about 1 more win from resting their starters for the playoffs. Pete Carroll's bunch has been inconsistent, with flashes of brilliance at times and immaturity at others. Jack Dale- Atlanta- Although opponents often have trouble playing in Seattle, the best team in the NFC will not. Trevor Kuss- Falcons. The Seahawks are a team that is still coming together, having 28 players who just joined the team this season. It also doesn't help that they're just not that good.
NY Jets @ Pittsburgh Steven--Pittsburgh. Ok, I'll say it. I don't think the Jets are that good. Too many close games against bad teams. Pittsburgh is looking for a playoff spot and is hungry. Jack Dale- Pittsburgh- The Jets will continue to spiral downward, wouldn't it be funny if they didn't reach the Playoffs this season? Trevor Kuss- Steelers. Mark Sanchez is bad and still inexperienced; the Steelers D tends to take advantage of that. Look for a pick-6 and the Steelers to run away with this one
Denver @ Oakland Steven--Oakland. Perfectly legitimate for people to wonder whether the Raiders can put up 100 points against the Broncos on the season. Tebow is not the answer. Neither is Kyle Orton. They need to go 1998 Florida Marlins on that team and pick Moreno, Clady, Dumervil and Royal out of the rubble, before starting over completely at every other position. Jack Dale- Oakland- I hope Oakland does more of the same when it beat Denver 59-14 Trevor Kuss- Raiders. The Broncos are a team in shambles and the Raiders need this win to stay in the playoff race.
Green Bay @ New England Steven--New England. Nobody has looked better lately than the Pats, while the Packers put up only 3 points against Detroit. Jack Dale- New England- Even with Aaron Rodgers I would still take New England, the best team in football right now. Trevor Kuss- Patriots. Best team in football possibly up against a back-up quarterback? although even if Rodgers plays I would take the Pats a home. Brady currently has a home winning streak of over 30 games.
Chicago @ Minnesota Steven--Chicago. Playing on a neutral field. Outside. In the winter. In Minnesota. With a potential 3rd string quarterback. And an interim head coach. I would be very impressed if the Vikings won this game. Jack Dale- Chicago- This game will be exciting for like the first 5 minutes when Mike Tirico, Jaws, and Jon Gruden will be gushing about the fact that the game is outside in Minnesota. Then the Bears will dominate. Then it will be boring. Trevor Kuss- Bears. two words... Joe Webb.


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The carrots themselves taste very much like mustard. I like mustard, but it was a bit much for me. Blockette took one tiny bite and spit it out. I don't think it was the taste so much, but the smell. When I was making these, Blockette made a bigger stink about the smell of the vinegar than the actual stink. Mrblocko was not brave enough to even try a taste. Oh well. You can't win 'em all.
The picture below is a half recipe. It fits perfectly in one of those square 4 cup ziploc containers.
1/2 recipe pickled carrots makes 1.5 pints (Head over to Babble for the full recipe for
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1/2 lb. of carrots, peeled. sliced into 4″ lengths and quartered
1 c water
1 c apple cider vinegar
1 Tsalt
1 T sugar
1/2 t brown mustard seeds
4 bay leaves
5 whole cloves
1/8 t red pepper flakes
pinch celery seed
2-3 smashed garlic cloves or a quartered onion (optional)
Wash and dry jars, rims, and lids. Bring med pot of water to boil. Blanch carrots 1 min. Pack carrots in prepared jars. In same pan used for blanching, combine water, vinegar, sugar and spices. Bring heat up til almost boiling and sugar dissolves. Pour over carrots, leaving 1/2″ head space. Distribute bay leaves, cloves, and garlic or onion, evenly between jars. Let liquid come to room temp and seal. Keep in frige for 1 week.

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Upcoming Concert Calendar for Los Angeles - Oh My Rockness
Shows are changing all the time. We do our best to keep up, but please check with the venue before you buy tickets and/or head out. If you see something on our show list that's not right or that needs updating, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "UPDATE" in the subject line. Thanks!
- Mono05/01, The Glass House
- Future Islands03/02, Center For The Arts, Eagle Rock
- Mono04/30, Troubadour
- Four Tet03/06, The Echo
- Tokyo Police Club05/01, The Echo
- Yellow Ostrich03/18, The Echo
- Lost in the Trees03/20, The Echo
- Band Of Skulls03/18, The Belasco
- Phantogram02/21, The Wiltern
- 2saved×together PANGEA, The So So Glos, Thee Rain Cats12/12, The Standard, Downtown LA
- King Krule, Willis Earl Beal12/18, The Fonda Theatre
- Dum Dum Girls, Dream Boys01/28, The Echo
- 14savedImagine Dragons, The Naked and Famous02/14, The Forum
- Washed Out, Kisses01/27, El Rey Theatre
- Holograms, TV Ghost, Heaven12/19, The Echo
- Icona Pop, k.Flay, Sirah12/17, The Fonda Theatre
- Cults, De Lux12/21, House of Blues Los Angeles
- 12saved×The Growlers, The Abigails, Mystic Braves12/27, The Echo
- The Dismemberment Plan, Telekinesis12/12, The Fonda Theatre
- Jagwar Ma, Fascinator12/13, El Rey Theatre
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Nice dick -- she's a lucky little slut. I would be a total sex pig too if my boyfriend was hung like you!!
Wow, hot vid!!! Im from Buffalo too. Is that parking lot to the theater on Elmwood? I have met a few there and had some fun there myself! I think I recognized the backdrop. You 2 are very sexy should come check out the theater with me and my g/f/playmate sometime. Loved how the car was shaking but next time leave the window down and talk dirty! Once again great effort thanks and keep having fun!
Best video yet...hot from start to finish...that looked like loads of fun...
Wow he's hung like a horse and she's willing and horny , made me cum.
Fun Vid, back in my waitress days I gave to many blow jobs in the parking lot at pipers alley, this brings back memories!


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Yet another Olympic controversy has clouded the English capital after four pairs of players - two from South Korea and one each from China and Indonesia - were evicted from the games for, and I quote, "not using one's best efforts to win."
I know that it sounds idiotic, but it's true, all of the pairs were diabolical.
Each of the players were accused of wanting to lose their encounter in an attempt to manipulate the draw for the knockout stage so that they could have an easier match. Which isn't really what the Olympics is all about.
The longest rally in the match lasted for four shots and each of the eight made a host of basic errors that saw them serve the shuttlecock, *snigger*, into the net repeatedly and miss it on several occasions too.
It's not like they weren't warned too, the match referee Thorsten Berg came on to the court to threaten the players with disqualification if they didn't give it their all. But unfortunately they didn't heed his advice.
A sold out attendance at Wembley voiced their discontent by jeering, booing and chanting at the players, as they'd paid an obscene amount of money to be in the crowd.
Here are three other hilarious disqualifications from the Olympics that have left a sour taste in the mouth of the organisers, but made most of the general public lol.
Evander Holyfield, 1984 - Poor old Evander, years before geting bitten close to deaf by Mike Tyson, the big man was still looking to make a name for himself. But in L.A he found himself disqualified for repeatedly punching on the break in a fight with Kevin Barry, even though he was clearly in control of the bout.
Soviet Pentathalon Team, 1976 - During the height of the Cold War being labelled a Commie was the worst accusation anyone could throw at you. Yet it always seemed a tad unjust until the Montreal games when it was discovered that Boris Onischenko had hidden a button inside his epee which activated the electronic scoring machine when pressed. To me, that's ingenius and he should have rewarded for his efforts.
Arash Miresmaili, 2004 - These games have seen some of the fittest athletes in the world compete but sometimes it isn't always the case. In Athens in 2004 an Iranian judoka was disqualified for being overweight after going on a politically motivated eating binge. Now that's a protest that I can get behind!


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December 2, 2009
Volleyball ready for its first dance
Week 15: NCAA Tournament
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GREELEY, Colo. -- Northern Colorado, winners of this year's Big Sky Conference Championship, will taste NCAA Division I postseason play for the first time Thursday, Dec. 3, when it faces #6 Washington in the first round of this years NCAA Volleyball Championships at Moby Arena in Fort Collins, Colo.
A victory there would be historic and give Northern Colorado a chance at revenge against Colorado State or a first meeting with Middle Tennessee State.
- Northern Colorado volleyball has already authored arguably the finest season in school history. At 21 wins, the Bears have won more than they have in any other NCAA Division I season and the most since winning 25 matches in 2004.
- There's still some fun to be had, though. The Bears, in winning last week's conference championship, now get to compete on the biggest stage possible, taking on Washington on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
- The Bears are making their first appearance in an NCAA Division I postseason tournament, but Northern Colorado is no stranger to postseason play. NC made 15 appearances in the NCAA Division II tournament, most recently in 2002.
- A victory Thursday would, obviously, be the biggest in the history of Northern Colorado volleyball and would allow Northern Colorado a potential rematch with rival Colorado State. The Bears fell to the Rams 3-2 this year at Moby Arena.


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Glendora city officials are disputing the results of a study that showed higher-than-regulated levels of arsenic in one of the city's water wells.
The study, commissioned by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and conducted by the Agricultural Commissioner's Office, examined 195 well water samples across LA County.
Results from the study showed 12 wells containing arsenic levels in excess of the regulated limits, including wells in Glendora, Tujunga, Lancaster and Acton. Saugus had the highest concentration of arsenic at 72 parts per billion.
According to the study, which was conducted between March and September, the Glendora well at 2600 Big Dalton Canyon Road yielded 18.2 ppb of arsenic, above the Health Department's maximum of 10 ppb.
But officials from Glendora's public works and water departments say the study yielded a bad sample and that a recent retest of all city water wells came out negative for arsenic.
"When we got the results, we panicked, but we immediately ordered a retest of all the wells," said Dave Davies, director of public works. He said the new samples from the entire water system in Glendora – including reservoirs and storage units – came out clean.
Glendora Water Department Director Steve Patton said he instantly knew the results were "bogus"
"Contaminated water is typically found near industrial areas. We're one of the luckey purveyors in the basin," said Patton. "There's no industry above us. All the industry is south of Glendora."
Ken Pellman, spokesman for the Agricultural Commissioner's Office, said the department cannot vouch for any subsequent tests cities may conduct after the study's results.
"Our results show the well in Glendora had a high reading of arsenic," said Pellman. "It wasn't the highest, but it was higher than the federal limit."
However, Pellman said he would not consider the results a cause for major concern.
"Well water is typically blended with other water in the system," said Pellman. "What's in the well doesn't equal what residents are getting out of their taps."
He described 10ppb – the federal limit for arsenic – as an eyedrop of water within an Olympic-sized pool.
Patton said Glendora city officials order tests of water wells for arsenic every three years. Within the last three years only four wells were found to contain less than 3 ppb of arsenic.
The county study also tested for levels of chromium and lead. One well in Castaic was in excess of the federal and state limits of lead of 15 ppb, at 37 ppb.
While the most dangerous form of chromium – chromium 6 – poses a high risk to animal and human health, there is no federal or state limit for that contaminant.
State law limits total chromium at 50 ppb, although no wells in the study were in excess of that number.
However, the study found that there were three times the number of sites in a 2001 study showing levels of detectable total chromium.
Dr. Jonathan Fielding, director of the county's Department of Public Health, said while the county should continue to monitor levels, he reassured residents should not be alarmed over the results.
"Arsenic and chromium are naturally occurring, so they will always be there to some degree in our water supply,'' Fielding said.
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There was a recent article in the NY Times discussing distress during ICU and a subsequent PTSD. Indeed most patients remember at least parts of their delirium.
Haloperidol Has Little Effect on Delirium, Coma in Controlled Trial — Physician's First Watch
Haloperidol Has Little Effect on Delirium, Coma in Controlled Trial
By Joe Elia
Haloperidol, commonly used to prevent delirium in critical care, showed no such effect in a double-blind study reported in the Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
Researchers randomized 140 adult patients requiring mechanical ventilation in an intensive care unit to either 2.5 mg of haloperidol every 8 hours for up to 14 days, or saline placebo. Patients with agitation received limited doses of rescue antipsychotics, most often haloperidol.
The two groups spent about the same amount of time free of delirium and coma. The haloperidol group had less need for rescue antipsychotics.
The authors conclude: "Haloperidol did not modify the prevalence or duration of delirium or coma." A commentator agrees that the study "constitutes evidence of no benefit." She asks whether delirium requires drug therapy, saying that "the challenge lies in the distress delirium symptoms cause in caregivers." Her final question: "Are we treating the patients or our own discomfort?"
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Background: NEJM Journal Watch summary on antipsychotics and delirium in the ICU (Your NEJM Journal Watch registration required)
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I'm not sure why everybody is treating this like it's such a definitive study and why they assume the results can be translated into other populations. There are various studies in the psychosomatic psychiatry literature that shows Haldol working for delirium (treatment and prevention) in different populations.
Of course we are "treating our own discomfort."
What is so wrong with so doing?
For the same reason we give chloral hydrate to bloody noisy drunks --
so that WE may get a bit of rest!!
In Hospice care, the delerium that comes with end stage dementia and Alzheimers is well controlled with Haldol, also has some anti emetic virtues. Also helps with delerium when Morphine metabolits build up, until we can rotate to another opioid.
Assessment, prevention and intervention for delirium should include involvement from a hospital psychologist (e.g. Rehabilitation Psychologist, Clinical Neuropsychologist). I also note that there is no field in categories and specialties (menus above) for psychology OR physical medicine and rehabilitation. Hopefully this oversight will be correct. Thanks
It is not the distress of delerium treatment of the authors. What are your suggestions for alternate management , after you assume the basic life functions?.


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Under Construction: Why Alberta's exempt market needs work
The province's exempt market has been cleaned up considerably of late, but one of its insiders thinks there's still more work to be done
by Max Fawcett
In late 2009, National Instrument 31-103 was proclaimed in force by the Canadian Securities Administrators in an attempt to better regulate the various exempt markets across the country and create some measure of accountability for the people who operated within it. But for many Albertans who were already invested in the exempt market, 31-103 proved to be too little, too late. By the time it was passed into law, it was clear that they would never see the money that they invested with real estate firms like Bridgecreek, Concrete Equities and the Harvest Group of Companies, among others, either because of deliberate fraud or massive incompetence on the part of the people running those outfits.
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Frank Lonardelli was at the heart of that storm, and he saw what it did to those people. As the newly appointed CEO of the Harvest Group, he was charged with trying to make at least a little bit of lemonade out of the lemons. But he quickly discovered that the situation was worse than it had looked when he agreed to take the job, and soon found himself travelling up and down Highway 2 in order to tell rooms full of investors that they'd never see their money. "I saw 8,000 to 12,000 people that bought bonds that had no hope in hell of ever seeing their equity within a five-year period of time, or the face value returned," Lonardelli says. "There must have been 100 to 150 people crying at the end of my presentations and hugging me and saying, 'Thanks for telling us the truth.' So yeah, it certainly was difficult."
He'd seen that situation from both sides, too. Back in 2005, he had the difficult duty of settling his mother's estate after she died of cancer. She was a widow, and she'd raised four kids in Winnipeg after emigrating there from Naples Italy. But when Lonardelli took a look at the investments that she'd been allowing a financial planner to manage on her behalf, he discovered that the planner had convinced her to liquidate her ultra-safe government bonds and put the proceeds into a private holding company that he was using to make some decidedly more risky investments. As it turned out, she wasn't the only one who got suckered. "On the flight over, I called my lawyer and my sister up, and I said, 'You need to know what happened to mom here – and you probably should be aware that if he did it to mom, he did it to other families.' Well, he did it to other families – between eight and 13 of them." In the end, Lonardelli managed to get her money back – and that of the other families affected – after about six months' worth of wrangling with the Canadian Securities Commission and the Manitoba Securities Commission, along with the financial planner himself. They were lucky. The Albertans that he had to deliver the bad news to a few years later as the CEO of the Harvest Group weren't. And they weren't alone, either.
Craig Skauge, the president and founder of the National Exempt Market Association, says that the industry is far better equipped to root out fraud and incompetence than it was before 31-103 was introduced. "In the past, it was all self-serving," he says. "The Bridgecreek guys were raising money for Bridgecreek. The Concrete [Equities] guys were raising money for Concrete. They were telling whatever story they wanted, and there was nobody there to verify it. Now, you have third parties like Raintree and Pinnacle that are raising money for third-party deals, and they're taking a very deep look under the hood – at the deal, at the people behind the deal – before they'll raise money for them."
But Lonardelli, who is now the CEO of Arlington Street Investments, isn't nearly as confident that the industry has left its troubles in the past. His company deals in commercial real estate, and raises some of the capital that it uses to scoop up undervalued properties (like its 8th Avenue Limited Partnership, which was recognized as the 2013 Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year by the Exempt Market Dealers Association of Canada) on the exempt market. He says that while he's noticed some significant improvements, there are still some important changes that have yet to be made.
Those changes need to begin, he says, with making sure that the people interacting with the investing public – the exempt market dealers – are better trained and more closely scrutinized. "It's the irony of this market," he says. "The exempt market has to be the most nuanced space in the capital markets, with the most complicated and diverse set of products. Yet it has representatives selling the product that have the lowest level of proficiency. That's a deadly combination."
He also wants to see exempt market issuers provide an annual disclosure of their operations. "I guess people might say, 'Gee, that sounds like a lot of regulation, a lot of disclosure,'" Lonardelli says. "No – those are table stakes. If you're going to take that kind of money from those people, then you should probably provide that information. And if you're not, you shouldn't be part of the business."
As the president and founder of the National Exempt Market Association and the president of Exempt Experts and Target Capital, Skauge has a vested interest in avoiding that kind of outcome. "It's a really critical time for this industry," he says. "There isn't room for a lot of screw-ups right now because there were so many in the past. There can't be those high-profile blowups for this segment of the capital markets to continue with any level of credibility. The next few years will say a lot."
Skauge thinks that the last few have already said a lot, and he's particularly pleased with the impact that that 31-103 has had on the way that the province's exempt market dealers operate.
His views about the role that regulation plays in the sector have evolved over the last few years, too. Back in 2008, when he made a written submission to the Ontario Securities Commission and the Alberta Minister of Finance, he insisted that more regulation wasn't needed. "It seems to me that the Canadian Securities Administrators are trying to fix something that is clearly not broken," he wrote. "The pendulum of regulation has swung far enough and the current regime is serving investors well. There is no problem and therefore no solution (i.e. additional regulation) is required."
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Today, though, he concedes the changes contained in 31-103 were needed, and that more may well be required. He largely agrees with Lonardelli's prescription for a combination of greater financial disclosure by issuers and better education and certification for the people selling exempt market securities. "We're working with a number of education providers on redeveloping the course that they have to take," Skauge says, "and we'd like to see some continuing education requirements as well. I'd like to see an actual designation."
Skauge may be in favour of more education and disclosure, but he doesn't want to see the exempt market regulated out of existence. "One of my biggest contentions is the fact that everything in this space is still categorized as high risk," Skauge says, "when factually that's not the case. It very well may have been the case in the past, but now you have registrants under the full view of the ASC. I don't think it's fair to categorize this world the same way as the pre-31-103 world."
And, he says, Alberta needs the exempt market more than ever. "When 2008 hit, credit tightened up drastically at the banking level, particularly for small- and medium-sized businesses. It's almost as though those who don't want money can get it lent to them readily, and those who need money, well, tough luck. And while that may be prudent on the bank's behalf, it doesn't help the economy."
Finding that balance between protecting investors and facilitating market access for those looking to raise capital is an ongoing challenge for the ASC's Bill Rice. As its chair and CEO, he's responsible for protecting investors from unscrupulous operators (like Concrete Equities' David Jones and David Humeniuk, for example), but the far bigger threat might be posed by their own behaviour.
"We spend a great deal of time and money trying to warn people that they should look after themselves, that they should take appropriate steps to evaluate risk, that they should get advice, that they should take the time, that they should get involved with professional advisors, that they shouldn't let themselves be subjected to pressure tactics," Rice says. "But in the end it's the investor who is going to make his or her own choice." Skauge agrees with Rice. "I think if a lot of people did the amount of due diligence before investing that they've done after, they'd have been better served. Don't get me wrong: I feel bad for any investor that lost money, particularly in fraud. But people were too trusting with the people selling the products."
Herein lies perhaps the biggest challenge of all that the people working within the exempt market have to face. The premise upon which the entire market is based – that the people making investments in the exempt market have, as the Ontario Securities Commission says, "a certain level of sophistication; the ability to withstand financial loss; the financial resources to obtain expert advice; and the incentive to carefully evaluate the investment given its size" – may be fundamentally, even irreparably, flawed.
Marian Passmore, the associate director of FAIR Canada, a national non-profit organization that represents the interests of Canadian shareholders and investors, certainly thinks that could be the case. "What we see is that wealth is not a proxy for knowledge or sophistication, and it just allows people to go after investors with sufficient funds," she says. "We've criticized that exemption, and suggested that it should be designed differently." And while Lonardelli isn't willing to go quite that far, he says that investors need to be better prepared if they're going to put their savings – often, a substantial portion thereof – to work in the exempt market. "Investors always get hosed because they don't know the questions to ask," he says. "They walk in, the first question they ask is, 'How much money am I going to make?' as opposed to, 'How much money are you going to make?'"
Equally important, he says, is the fact that people operating in the exempt market also need to start asking some questions of each other. "If I'm going to spend any time in the exempt market, I need it to be healthy," he says. "It has to be asking some tough questions, and we have to be holding each other accountable." That hasn't happened yet, he says, noting that, for example, while exempt market dealers are now better regulated than they were before, many of them still haven't faced up to the fact that they were responsible for moving a lot of the product that eventually turned sour. "What were the responsibilities of the dealers who basically sold this product that defaulted? I don't know – I guess you could say there was no regulatory regime, so therefore there wasn't any responsibility," he says. "But I don't know if that washes."
Skauge, for his part, seems to agree. "I don't think we can ignore our past. Some of the people in the exempt markets like myself are from the pre-31-103 world, so I don't think we can ignore it. Does it help? No. But it's reality."
And while Lonardelli may be a critic, he doesn't think that the exempt market's checkered past means that it's inherently or irreparably dysfunctional. "Even in the public market we make mistakes, as good as all the smart executives and the scrutiny and regulatory regimes are," he says. "Companies still go bankrupt, they still become insolvent, they still don't hit their revenue targets." He's even willing to cut the people responsible for some of the higher-profile blowups a bit of slack. "In this exempt marketplace, there are a lot of people who really thought they could do it," he says. "I've been an entrepreneur for 17 years, and I know what that feels like."
The attrition process that's taken place over the last few years, meanwhile, will have a cleansing effect on the entire sector. "I believe that, as those guys go away, they'll be replaced by people who actually know what they're doing," Lonardelli says. "And the dealers that made a bunch of mistakes, they're going to ask better questions. They're going to think about what they're putting on their shelves, because it's not in their interest to have those deals blow up as well." But until the exempt market dealers and issuers who were around pre-31-103 are truly willing to take a hard look at the role they played in those blowups, Londardelli says that the market as a whole won't be able to truly move past them. "That's the problem with trying to create a better exempt market – it's having that conversation about what you learned about your mistakes. If you can't admit to the mistake you made, there's no conversation to have."
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For all the improvements made to the Alberta exempt market, and particularly to the way that dealers are regulated, there's still a fairly large problem that has yet to be addressed. Under the Northwestern Exemption, issuers don't have to register with the ASC provided they confine their operations to British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the Yukon and comply with the terms and conditions of the exemption. FAIR Canada's Marian Passmore thinks it needs to be repealed – immediately.
Why? "It allows people who aren't registered to sell high-risk exempt market products to the investing public, and so there is a lack of ability to oversee those individuals," she says. "There's no background check, and the only information that they require is a form that has basic contact information. They could have been sanctioned by another regulatory organization, or even convicted of a criminal offense, and still sell in the exempt market in Alberta. So, for example, Earl Jones [the convicted Montreal fraudster who bilked family, friends and investors out of a combined $50 million] could go out to Alberta and set up shop."
NEMA's Craig Skauge wants to see the exemption repealed as well, noting that its elimination wouldn't affect those looking to do one-off issuances. "Publicly, we're in favour of it. There's nothing preventing an entrepreneur right now from going out and raising money on a one-off. He doesn't have to be registered under a dealership or under the Northwestern Exemption. It's there for those guys that make a living raising money, but don't want to be registered."
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Honeywell QuietClean Tower Air Purifier Product ReviewsModel Number: HFD-110 Category: Air Purifiers Dimensions: 11 x 9 x 28 in Color: white Room Size: 124 sq.ft. sq ft Speeds: 3 Warranty: 5 year limited Price: $199.99 Sale Price: $159.99 Save: $40.00 (20% off) Great UnitThis has to be the best air cleaner I have ever owned. I would certainly recommend this unit to anyone that is looking to buy something that filters the air like nothing else. I have owned other units, and after getting this unit, I wouldn't own any other kind. The one filter is washable and the other 2 can be blown out, with a air compress, which will extend the life. Best of all, you don't have to buy those expensive replacement filters. As a smoker, and someone who owns a animal, I would certainly recommend this unit. If I walk into the house, and I can smell any odor, then I know that either my filter needs to be washed out or I need to change my central heat and air filter or both. Again, it is fantastic! I have also bought units for my children and they too love theirs. RegistrationIts nice a quiet and compacted. Easy to use. Takes up less space then my older one. Can use right out of the box. Bad AppilanceI brought a model HFD-112 and I think the motor is bad and I cannot fine no on to talk to about this problem.If some have the same problem please email me.ProductIt does everything that it states on the box and instructions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quiet Clean TowerI have had this for about 3 weeks and I like it a lot. I've noticed a decrease in the amount of dust, odors, and cat hairs floating around, it's quiet, and a good value. I recommend it. Compact design and quietSo far, I am very happy with all 4 purchased. I bought 3 models HFD-010 and 1 HFD-110 for various rooms. I notice a reduction in dust throughout the house and I feel like the air must be cleaner from plooen than non-purified air. Doctor RecommendedWhen I heard that the Honeywell Quiet clean Air Purifiers were highly recommended by Doctors, I knew I just had to have it. It is my first using the HoneyWell Air Purifiers and it did not take not even one minute to smell the clean air in my living room after the air purifier was plugged in and turned on for first time. I'm just loving the fresh cleanliness. Thank you HoneyWell for a quality product and for my health. Money well spent. Roland Balli Honeywell air purifierJust receicied mine today so dont know how well they work but like the way they look and the fans speed are pretty quiet . Will come back later and finish my review. The price was good also got one big one and one smaller one for $190, from HSN. Also like the washable filters. If they work good then Ill be happy. Great BuyI thought I would try a different type of air purifier from my previous one and this is very quiet. I do wish besides having the timer to cut it off it had a timer to turn it back on but a good buy! So far looks goodJust received your product today. Will see if it helps my wifes allergies. Controls are straight forward, filter maintenance looks reasonable, unit has nice appearance. Four stars based on these observations. Fifth star if it helps. Air PurifierWhen I purchased this air purifiers it was noisey and only got worse. Now it is not working and I will need to return. I seems to clean the air of dust so I am disappointed it only lasted less than one year.Honeywell PurifierI've had my purifier for about a week,LOVE IT, alot less dust,and smells better!Air Purifiers HFD-010Your air purifier was easy to start just take it out of the box and plug it in. I just plugged the purifier in 15 minutes ago so I don't know if it cleans the air or not. I'll have to let you know in a couple months if it works.Air TowerI just bought this unit at Sam's that came with a small tower unit. 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The equipment has some problem with the fan. It makes a rhythmic sound apparently due to some interference with the rotation. Also, I prefer no fan, since the filter machine is for th bedroom. Even with a well functioning fan, the machine is noisy. So Far So GoodI've only used the air purifier for a few weeks, but so far everything runs great. It's very quiet and light weight, easy to move from room to room. I'll know more after I clean the filter for the first time. Very nice so farI just started using it It is very quiet just a fan running and it is very nice looking,bigger than what i thought which is a good thing easy to understand operation. I like the timer feature where it shuts off by itself after setting it so far so goodProblem with Pre-FilterI just got this as a gift for Xmas and went to clean the filter for the first time and noticed that it has a defect.Model HFD-110 Air PurifierHave only recently purchased product but found it extremely quiet compared to others I have had. Attractive case ("appearance"), and air volume movement as well as other built in conveniences such as timer and variety of speed , very convenient.Honeywell HFD-110 QuietClean Tower Air PurifierPurchased this item brought it home plugged it in and within hours the quality of the air had improved by 75%. It is also great at keeping the dust on your furniture down.jerseyaliceNoticed the air quality difference within the first 24 hours of installation. 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Salt Lake City: quiet business dinner on a Monday evening?
Headed out to Salt Lake for a convention this weekend. Most of the meals are group events (including a lovely-sounding dinner catered by a local chef who happens to be someone's nephew...)...However, I do have dinner planned for Monday evening with a colleague. Hubby is coming with me, but he has to head on to Colorado for business of his own Monday am, so it will be just the two of us. I'm looking for a place where we can have a beer or three and do some serious catching up. I prefer a quiet place where we can sit in a corner and not be noticed by others there for the same meeting. OTOH, it IS business so an overly romantic place would not be appropriate. He appreciates a good beer and good food but is not an overly adventurous eater, so ethnic ([particularly if spicy) probably isn't the best choice. Good seafood or maybe Italian would probably be best; neither one of us eats much red meat. Ideas, hounds?
I suggest Cucina Toscana, Market Street Grill or the New Yorker. All three are on Pierpont Ave and in walking distance of the Convention Center downtown. Cucina Toscana is always my first choice downtown. The owner, Valter Nassi, is ever present and adds an authentic Italian flare to excellent food. Market Street Grill is one of several restaurants owned by the same group and all of them are excellent. They have a variety of dishes, but I go there for their breakfast or seafood dishes. They have high backed booths which provides a lot of privacy. If you want something more upscale, the New Yorker (next door and owned by the same people) maybe the best restaurant in town.
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307 Pierpont Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84101Market Street Grill
260 S 1300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102New Yorker Restaurant
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I'm glad a local chimed in with up to date recommendations. Market Street Grill and the various locations was/were pretty hit or miss, have things evened out? How is Wild Grape Bistro these days?
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I go to the Market Street Grill in Cottonwood most often and it is pretty consistent. They just opened a new one on the South end of the valley that I haven't tried yet. I've only been to the Wild Grape Bistro once (over a year ago) and it was nothing memorable to me. I'll have to give it another try.
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481 E. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84111Market Street Grill
260 S 1300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102-
re: jsheets
Thank you all for your replies. BTW, we didn't go to Market Street Grill, but another attendee whose opinion I trust raved about it. Actually, we were about to duck out of the cocktail party and go there when we were approached by another friend and invited to join his group for dinner. We felt it would be rude to refuse, so our "catching up" had to wait until later in the evening. But we were VERY glad we did accept his invitation: he ended up treating a group of 8 to a wonderful dinner at Cucina Toscana. He let the waiter chose and serve family style, and it worked beautifully. About the only thing I didn't like was the angel hair pasta with lemoncello sauce (too sweet), but there were a couple of other delicious pasta choices (my favorite was a spinach-stuffed ravioli). The antipasti and main courses were also delicious; we ate (and drank :-) so much that we left stuffed and with muddled minds....so I can't remember everything. I know that I didn't eat the veal, and instead indulged in a second helping (there was plenty!) of the baked halibut for my main. (There was also a duck dish, come to think of it...:-) We all chose our own desserts, and I had the single best pistachio gelato of my life. All the gelatos are made there, as is most everything. Yum! I have no idea what our host paid for that over-indulgence of a meal, but he was still smiling as he signed the check so it couldn't have been too bad. And the owner did come over to talk to us several times, kissed all the ladies on the cheek as we left, and made us feel very at home. Definitely recommend Cucina Toscana...
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307 Pierpont Ave, Salt Lake City, UT 84101Market Street Grill
260 S 1300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102-
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I stopped patronizing Market Street operations years ago, after dropping serious coin as a loyal customer for 18+ years. Portion sizes have dropped, service can be hit or miss, and I'd rather support the local "independents" instead of what has become a corporate entity. I'd rather drop my foodie bucks at Copper Onion, Pago or Wild Grape.
878 S 900 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Janet, where are you staying? It's been a while since I was in SLC so instead of pretending to know anything, I'd go by Gringo Stu's recommendations:
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anyone just change half there res to keep beneficial microbes etc.... or does that matter if your using a enzyme product?? recirculation if your pH and ec/ppm are stable why not save half nutes???
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[QUOTE=rbahadosingh;5004174]why would you just change half? you dont know what nutrients are used/absorbed when the plants are fed. they could use a certain amount of this and a little of that.
when using a media like rockwool biology shows up spores,microbes etc,the roots know they,re there and exude sugars to entice them to colonize,this means that all the inorganic nutrient solution that percolates through the media arrives back at the resevoir with biology thriving,this is a good thing,it means there is a healthy microbial population out colonizing pathogenic microflora,this is a great reason NOT to disinfect a recirculating nutrient solution unless a variable goes out of balance and root die off occurs
it has been discovered tat plants spend 25%of their growing energy excreting sugars to feed microbes,microbes in turn feed plant ions specific to the exaduates released from the plant, so the plant feeds the recirculated waters microbes its waste which then sends back the necessary ions back to the plant
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Are you running organic nutes? I would say this is a good idea you have and Ive thought of it myself too, however a 50% may be overkill. The idea for the rez changeout is to dump all of the unknown that have built up in there with all of the top offs, adjustments, leeching, feeding and evap. Change it all, start at a known point again, however, if you want to save the beneficials, I feeel you dont need much of the orig res water to do so. Say a 10% save, plus if you think about it, much of your media (rookwool, coco etc) has many of the bene's in there too.
Save 10% or less and you should have a lot of the community in there I think...
yeah i think im gonna try it ,theres just gonna be alot more testing and adjusting it makes sense, but then back to the does it even matter if im using a zyme product question???
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i dont change res somtimes for 2-3 weeks and never had a problem. i also have had periods i change every week. Let them tell you what they need. i can tell you this. Their is no reason what so ever to use full nutrients that the manfacture sets. they dont need that potent of nutrients at any time. I have learned from different people that you need to monitor what the plants want. Not what the demand is set by the manufacture. Its taking notes and seeing what the plants need is the key. Also this allows you to save money on nutrients. Monitor those ppms and see what the plants are eating. That is the key. Now im a firm believer that you can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. These are not methods that i have came up with but i do follow them. get a good ppm meter and see what they want. if the ppm goes down they are taking in more nutrients. if the ppm goes up then they are absorbing more water then nutrients. I have noticed this in my clones that they need less nutrients, sure enough they were burned a few days later. im glad i dilluted a tit.
yeap np man. also best advice i ever got on here was from some guy, i was all bummed that i got a male and he suggested to like experiment on it. so heh, i did bro. best learning experience ive had and awesome advice.
okay so i havent changed the res since dec 3/2010 its jan 4 now ,no problems but i am changing today its getting a touch grimy and i dont want to lose speed with problems check my journal for pics of the plants,i just topped up and adjusted daily, they are thriving
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Purge your res every 2 weeks, but check for ph and EC swings several times a day. If you have a larger res you'll change it less and have less ph and ec swings.
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ISLAMABAD: Mukhtar Mai said on Tuesday that rumours of her earning millions of rupees by publicising her gang rape ordeal was baseless and propaganda.I have Rs 2.2 million and not millions of rupees in my account, she told reporters at National Library. She said that out of the Rs 2.2m, she had spent Rs 1.2m on constructing a school in her village.She said the government had excluded her name from the Exit Control List (ECL), but that she had no intention of living abroad. She said the government had played an important role in assuring justice to her. She also thanked the government for awarding the Madar-e-Millat Fatima Jinnah gold medal to her. onlineRadish, banana removed from LG symbols listISLAMABAD: Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar, acting chief election commissioner, has directed returning officers not to allocate the symbols of radish and banana in the second phase of local bodies elections.Although these symbols had been allocated to candidates of the first phase of the local bodies elections, the Election Commission had been asked to delete them from the symbols list of the second phase. staff report9 hurt in Astore football violenceStaff ReportGILGIT: Nine spectators when injured at a football match in Astore district when some supporters of rival teams began firing in a stadium on Monday. Police sources said that the match between rivals Eidgah and Chungarah had always been a sensitive occasion, characterised by clashes between fans, however, firearms had never been used at the stadium before. The injured have been admitted to Astore Civil Hospital for treatment, but no information was available about their condition.
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Paweł Althamer - KAIROS Prize winner 2013
Paweł Althamer, who was born in Warsaw in 1967, studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He started out with sculptures for which he used natural materials, such as grass, wax or hair, materials that start to rot away after a while and thus emphasise the transitory nature of art. Since the 1990s, Paweł Althamer has been pursuing a special form of participatory art production. Such projects have not only given rise to characteristic works of art but have also led to unique experiences for those involved.
In 2011, for example, during the Almech exhibition at Deutsche Guggenheim, he arranged for portraits to be made of visitors and guides, cleaning and security staff, bank managers and their customers, creating a monumental, collective self-portrait. The people who were portrayed discovered the possibility of active involvement and intervention; they saw themselves in the sculptures, giving their visit to the exhibition, otherwise usually an anonymous experience, a very personal face.
In other performances, Paweł Althamer has worked with homeless people, convicts or patients, drawing them out of their isolated social role and thus empowering them to become artistic players. For almost twenty years, for example, he has headed the Nowolipie Group, a weekly sculpture workshop for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis. Althamers work is also shaped by the strategy of social sculpture, a characteristic feature of European art. At the turn of the millennium, he planned the collective sculpture Bródno together with his neighbours in the apartment block by that name. He persuaded 200 tenants to switch their lights on and off in a certain sequence, so that at midnight, the number 2000 became visible on the outer façade. This simple idea compellingly linked art and life, because it not only provided a visual message for the spectator, but also strengthened the sense of community among the tenants. In 2009, he relinquished his own role as an artist when he handed over his exhibition at the Museum Fridericianum to the school children of the city of Kassel.
Paweł Althamer answers socio-political questions about participation, justice and individual scope for action using artistic strategies that undermine familiar structures and rules. The way we live, the way we work, the values that are important to us his installations, performances and activities make us aware of these things, in surprising ways. He directs our attention towards things that appear self-evident or that we have repressed, and thus blends aesthetic sophistication with social sensitivity to produce a very distinctive artistic oeuvre that leaves its mark, as the KAIROS prize jury explains its decision to bestow the award on him.
The KAIROS Prize was awarded to Paweł Althamer on 24 February 2013 at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
KAIROS Prize
Since its establishment the foundation has awarded various cultural prizes of different endowment throughout Europe. Reflecting the changing social, political and cultural conditions of contemporary Europe, most of the previous awards were discontinued in favour of one newly conceived and at the same time higher endowed prize.
The KAIROS Prize is honouring European artists and academics from the fields of the fine and the performing arts, music, architecture, design, film, photography, literature and journalism. The award is designed to be given above all to individuals for artistic achievements, but also to producers, festival directors, publishers or gallery owners whose activities take place outside of the public limelight in short, to creative personalities who give important impulses to art and culture in Europe.
The KAIROS Prize is endowed with the amount of 75.000 and aims to honour outstanding individuals working with entrepreneurial spirit, persistence and creativity in the field of European culture and intercultural understanding. The prize is named after the Greek god KAIROS the god for "the right moment" as it seeks to encourage and promote artists, curators, managers in the field of culture or science at "the right time in their career". It is neither an award for life time achievement nor a singular project, but rather seeks to identify early achievement, special work in progress as well as potential for future sucess.
The KAIROS Prize is awarded annually in Hamburg by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S. An independent committee decides on the awarding.
Committee of the KAIROS Prize
Christoph Stölzl, (chairman) president of the Liszt School of Music Weimar
Christine Eichel, author and journalist
Heike Catherina Mertens, director cultural department of Schering Foundation
Nike Wagner, art director of the Weimar Arts Festival pèlerinages
Armin Conrad, editor-in-chief at 3sat kulturzeit
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2012 Paris-Roubaix: Why is Ale-B gazing up so astounded at the firmament? Hmm, maybe he sees the most boring superhero ever Superman battling UFOs. More importantly, what is Pippo doing? It appears to these undiscerning eyes he is making certain his cologne is at acceptable parts per million to distance the peloton from him when he breaks away…bah, alas it was not to be—wah! (Credit: Makoto Ayano via Cyclowired.jp)
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Head coach Bill Huntington said you could see where meet workers had scraped the ice out of the steeplechase pit and placed it on the side of the track.
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Garvin, Robin Wildstein Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-11022008-105602 Title Romantic Irony in the String Quartets of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann Degree Doctor of Philosophy Department Music, College of Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2008-09-03 Availability unrestricted Abstract This dissertation applies the concept of Romantic irony as a critical approach to instrumental music of the nineteenth century, based on the string quartets of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Robert Schumann. Romantic irony, notably identified by Friedrich Schlegel, influenced authors and composers and Mendelssohn and Schumann would have been familiar with the concept. As Romantic musicians with extensive literary knowledge who also composed significant string quartets, Mendelssohn and Schumann are the two most obvious choices whose music enables such a study.By the nineteenth century string quartets had become established as the most academic, intellectual, and abstract of the instrumental genres. The genre would intuitively seem the least likely to manifest Romantic irony. If Romantic irony could be shown to exist in string quartets, then it must have been a very powerful concept indeed.
There can be no formulaic methodology for indentifying Romantic irony in a musical work. Consequently the primary criterion of any methodology for this investigation must be the flexibility to adapt to different situations. Certain fundamental objectives will remain constant, although in each case the subsidiary ones will differ. The procedure consists of examining each work in a series of steps: 1) identify the perceivable world of the work; 2) recognize the contradictions of that world; 3) identify the work's persona; 4) distinguish the paradoxes specific to the work; and 5) explain how the preceding steps lead to transcendence, or how a new understanding of the world is reached through the work's paradoxes.
Mendelssohn and Schumann express some similar themes in their respective quartets. By raising issues of musical meaning, the quartets compel a look at the broader scope of music and meaning. The two composers express their concern with musical meaning in very different manners, however. Schumann's focus is on the larger picture that includes the history of music, while Mendelssohn emphasizes his own intriguing aesthetic position regarding meaning in music.
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Posted 17 August 2008 - 07:05 PM
It now comes with a developement VM so that it is much easier for newbees to add their own stuff.
A boot into the developement VM will give you this desktop.
Adding additional applications is done by installing them on the fly while monitoring changes will installrite.
Usage of plugins is no longer required in most cases.
Once you are happy with the results - copy them to a USB-disk or truecrypt-container and use it along with a ramloading CD
Guide to use the developement VM:
Posted 31 August 2008 - 09:44 PM
which prepares the files for
dotnet2, viclient, converter, vitoolkit, powershell, virtual disk developement kit in one run. Takes about 15 minutes ... inside a VM
You only have to run "create MOA-core" once - then run "create developement VM" - add the install-files inside an ISO - boot into the VM and run esx-bandit-wizard.cmd
See a boring Video - you just have to interact a few times
another wizard prepares Workstation 6.0.4
In case you wonder how I can install a 500 Mb application inside PE
... no problem - in the developement VM you have about 260 Mb of free space in X: and about 12 Gb of free space in R:
Posted 14 September 2008 - 09:13 PM
see http://sanbarrow.com...opic.php?p=4729
Posted 25 September 2008 - 04:25 AM
Posted 12 October 2008 - 02:46 AM
Video shows a 685 Mb CD with an ESXi VM on CD - including latest esx-tools (dotnet2 and viclient ...)
Posted 12 October 2008 - 06:35 AM
That looks good. To bad no USB at the moment.
You should add some of youre links to youre Signature.
Posted 12 October 2008 - 04:16 PM
To bad no USB at the moment.
First things first - there has changed a lot in WS 6.5 and getting support for the core-functions was first on my list.
Also as WS 6.5 packs into 23 MB and WS 6.0.5 packs into 20 Mb it is no problem to have both versions on CD. If you need USB for VMs you then select WS 6.0.5 at boot-time - if you need WS 6.5 functionality you select WS 6.5
Its interesting to see the capabilty of WS 6.5 to overcommit RAM for VMs once you set a page file.
I was able to run VMs with together about 6 Gb nominal RAM on a 3.6 Gb host.
Posted 12 October 2008 - 04:59 PM
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Posted 17 October 2008 - 04:57 PM
Its nice to hear that.
Posted 27 October 2008 - 01:08 AM
I guess only ESX-users may understand what it is good for ....
Only works on latest hardware - the VM alone needs at least 1 Gb of RAM.
You can also read it as a an example for a procedure to access any filesystem ...
If you need to read Solaris - just boot a Solaris-VM then ...
Posted 27 October 2008 - 03:26 AM
Posted 27 October 2008 - 03:01 PM
Cant you do something similar using Workstation.
? - i am using Workstation - the ESX-VM I start then could also be a NT 4 VM, FreeBSD , Solaris or whatever ...
Using the ESX as a VM is just interesting because there is no driver for the VMFS-filesystem available that would run on Linux or Windows ...
So this is a workaround to access VMFS filesystems
Posted 23 November 2008 - 08:45 PM
Both 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 versions are buggy - I don't recommend to use them unless you must run ESX 3.5.* inside a VM.
(the bugs are in the VMware release itself - MOA port is ok)
Posted 24 December 2008 - 03:15 PM
MOA-kiosk mode
see http://sanbarrow.com...kiosk-mode.html
boots from USB-disk - the piggy-packed VM starts to boot after maybe 2 minutes.
The user can NOT interact with the LiveCD - only with the Kiosk-VM.
Once the Kiosk-VM shutsdown - the LiveCD shuts down as well.
Posted 25 December 2008 - 02:44 AM
Not bad.
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Posted 09 March 2009 - 06:52 PM
Also, I'm getting this error when trying to "Create Development VM" under Test
Line 0 (File "C:\moa\moa24-setup.exe"):
if FileExists(&playerpath & 'vmplayer.exe') then run("moa24-dev-vm\moa24-dev.vmx")
Error: Unable to execute the external program.
Posted 09 March 2009 - 07:11 PM
So the idea is - install Virtual BOX once and keep the files - next boot load it with the virtualbox-lodr.exe.
You can run Virtual BOX at the same time as VMware Workstation - just make sure you DO not start a virtual box VM with VT-support as this will crash all VMware VMs
About saving your settings ...
read the MOA-roadpack post here http://sanbarrow.com...opic.php?t=1250
a setup like that allows to keep most settings - only the system-core itself will be untouched and clean at every boot
Posted 09 March 2009 - 10:37 PM
Can't seem to log into your website forum just yet to download. Can you activate my account? Also, any ideas on the errors above?
Posted 09 March 2009 - 11:11 PM
That error is harmless - bad coding on my site - it just means that you probably do not have VMplayer installed so that you can run a test VM.
Ignore this - preferably simply use a blank USB-disk or stick - put a tag-file "moa-is-at-home.tag" in the root of the disk/stick - boot MOA-bandit from CD with the disk plugged in and see what happens
Next download and install VirtualBOX once on the fly to R:\vm\virtualbox.
Then you can reboot and next time launch it with the virtualbox-lodr.exe.
Posted 09 March 2009 - 11:43 PM
Actually I had both VMPlayer and Workstation installed. I did run the moa24-dev.vmx by double clicking and it did launch in Workstation but again hiccuped about the ISO file. I redirected it to the right location and it started up so I got it up and running. I forgot I have VirtualBox as a portable app on my USB along with most every app I'll be needing(SOOO nice to be able to run PortableApps!!!) so I guess the only thing I would like to do is to make sure this(meaning drivers) would work on as many systems as possible. Can DPsBase Drivers be implemented with MOA2.4? I couldn't get sound or wifi to work on a laptop I've tried this with.
Posted 09 March 2009 - 11:58 PM
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Drivers - yep - I tried last driverpackages but then went back to a slightly older version as it worked better here.
On my notebook I have both wireless and sound ... only the ATI video does not work here.
As always with BartPE - finding the best compromise with boot-time and compatibilty takes some time.
Posted 10 March 2009 - 11:08 PM
Hi Christian
sunray73 is active
Drivers - yep - I tried last driverpackages but then went back to a slightly older version as it worked better here.
On my notebook I have both wireless and sound ... only the ATI video does not work here.
As always with BartPE - finding the best compromise with boot-time and compatibilty takes some time.
That makes sense... Is there away to install the drivers after booting up to the image?
Also, would it be possible to create a version that didn't pop anything up (i.e. questions where VM is etc...) on bootup? I like MOA as is without the need to add VM workstation or applications as all of that I have as a portable app. It would be cool just to have one that just gets you directly into windows with the ram window minimized(or disappear completely) and maybe the normal windows icons only on the Desktop(i.e. My Computer, My Network Places, Recycle Bin, I.E.) Again, great job on MOA2.4!!!!!
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McHeaters didn't actually lose, 17 to 8, to the Paddy Whackers in Monday night first game; it's just that they ran out of time (the games are seven innings or one hour, which ever comes first). The Whackers let loose an unabated storm of runs on their opponents starting with the first innings. They scored four runs in the first, a couple more in the second, six in the third inning,
Read more: David Versus GoliathThe sparse crowd at Monday night's six o'clock game was treated to a classic! The Stonebridge Farmers tangled with the Chamber Rockers, and finally started to show the "stuff" that made them last year's adult co-ed league champions. The Farmers planted the seeds for victory with a single run in the top half of the opening frame, but the
Read more: Quarry Workers and Whackers RollUndefeated Blue Mountain Stone got the night off Monday evening on the adult co-ed softball schedule of games in Bohn Park, and a pack of "also rans" used the league leaders' respite to nip at the heels of the "Big Dog!" The Natural Disasters, McHeaters, and the Paddy Whackers, all sporting 2 – 1 records, seized the opportunity and won their respective contests to pull within a half a game of the Quarryworkers.
In the six o'clock game between the Natural Disasters and Fast Signs, it was the Disasters that got off to a fast start. Scoring seven runs
Read more: Also Rans Gain Ground On BMSThere was no sign of rust from any of the adult co-ed softball teams after the Memorial Day weekend lay-off. Monday night's games were exciting and well played, with timely hitting and some great glove work in the field.
The opening game pitted the always-entertaining Hooligans against the Paddy Whackers. The Hoolies, looking resplendent in their new jerseys and caps, came out swinging and posted two runs in the first inning. Unfortunately for the Hooligans, that was the last time they led
Read more: Adult Co-Ed Softball Back In ActionThe Hooligans were attempting to get their first win of the season Monday night. Unfortunately, they were trying to get that win against Fast Signs, who were still licking their wounds from the drubbing they took last week, at the hands of the Blue Mountain Bullies. Needless to say, Fast Signs was in no mood for any shenanigans from the Hooligans. The Hoolies got off to a quick start, going up one to zip in their half of the first. That was the last lead they saw. Fast Signs spanked the Hooligans with five runs in the bottom of the first, two more in
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In their quest for a third repeat of double gold, the Lyons Lions traveled to the Colorado State Track and Field Championships where the Lady Lions were expected to have a legitimate battle with Paonia and 2A-newcomer Hotchkiss, as well as their usual worthy eastern plains' competitor, Akron. Senior Nola Basey led the charge with her superior jumping abilities by taking the high jump win on day one with 5'4". Basey unleashed a personal record breaking leap of 17'-7.5" in the long jump to take the win by more than a foot on day two. Had the
Historically it takes pitchers a little longer into the season to catch up with the hitters. But this was ridiculous! In four games Monday night, there were one hundred and twenty-one runs scored, and more hits, walks, and errors than can be humanly calculated. But it was entertaining. If you haven't taken the family down to Bohn Park on a
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