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First Ladies of Jazz
Things just got a whole lot cooler around here. At two Dallas theaters, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday are back and ready to swing. Giving remarkably convincing performances as the late, great jazz icons in separate shows, E. Faye Butler is Lady Ella and M. Denise Lee is Lady Day. They sing their great big beautiful hearts out and break ours as they share the music of these women, and their life stories, scarred with similar tragedies, mistakes and regrets.
It's been more than 50 years since the real Fitzgerald and Holiday recorded an album together at the Newport Jazz Festival. They were of the same generation, born two years apart. That's startling to consider, given that Fitzgerald, the "Is it live or Memorex?" star who died in 1996, still seems so contemporary. She enjoyed a long career, living into her 70s, recording more than 200 albums and receiving every accolade the music industry affords. Billie Holiday was made legendary by her sad, early death (of cirrhosis of the liver) in 1959 at the age of 44.
The closest we can come to a reunion of these legends now is through the sort of living Memorex versions performed in two impassioned biographical musicals that just happen to be running at the same time—Ella at Dallas Theater Center and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas.
With one exception, the cast of Ella comes to DTC direct from its month-long, sell-out performance at Chicago's Northlight Theatre. This big-scale, glitzy production spreads across the wide Kalita Humphreys Theater stage, lit by designer John Lasiter in vivid blues and violets. The performers' experience as an ensemble is evident in the smooth chemistry among Butler and her tight onstage combo: conductor-pianist Anderson Edwards, drummer Walter Kindred, bass player John Whitfield and trumpet player Ron Haynes, who blows a mean horn and turns in a charming impression of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong on George and Ira Gershwin's "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off."
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Based on a play by Dyke Garrison, written by Jeffrey Hatcher and directed by Rob Ruggiero, with musical arrangements by Danny Holgate, Ella unfolds over a day and a night in 1966 as "Miss Fitz" prepares for a concert in Nice, France. In the first act, she's in good voice but bad temper, snapping at her conductor and scowling at her longtime manager, Norman Granz (Dallas actor Kieran Connolly). She doesn't like being urged to put more "patter" into her act. Ella was never good with the frivolous chitchat. She just wants to sing the notes and go home. Sad, mad and distracted—we find out why later on—but when the music starts, she never misses a beat.
In the much stronger second act of Ella, we get a lavish 40-minute concert. The singer sweeps onstage, resplendent in a glittery turquoise gown. Between "Lullaby of Birdland" and "S'Wonderful" and "Dancin' Cheek to Cheek" and the achingly sweet "My Buddy," she also gives with the patter. A little too much patter perhaps, since the music's so great and Butler masterfully interprets it as the "First Lady of Song." But the recollections serve to infuse the tunes with additional layers of meaning.
There are jukebox shows and bio-musicals and this, which falls somewhere in between as a one-woman songbook with biographical monologues. Like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald was born to unmarried parents, suffered childhood sexual abuse, did some time in reform school and worked around brothels as a young girl. Both singers got their big breaks at Harlem's Apollo Theater and later filled Carnegie Hall. Both married early to men with shady reputations. Neither had children of their own, though they desperately wanted to be mothers.
But that's where their stories diverge. "My life is more like Doris Day's than Lady Day's!" says Ella in Ella. She didn't drink, use drugs or stay out late with the band after gigs. There were no run-ins with the law. She dreamed of having a family, but when she came close, she scuttled domesticity to stay on the road nearly year-round, even after secretly adopting her sister Frances' eighth son. According to this show, constant work served as Ella's distraction from the messy realities of life.
The script occasionally stumbles into clumsy pronouncements—"Why should I sing the blues? I know the blues"—but Ella soars on the full-throated voice and dynamic acting of its star, E. Faye Butler, who also starred at DTC in the Dinah Washington bio-show Dinah Was. She gets every nuance of this homage right: the precise diction and phrasing Ella Fitzgerald was known for, the complicated jazz-scatting using nonsense syllables instead of lyrics, and the big notes belted with such wide-open ferocity they seem to bend molecules midair. Butler's performance of the Gershwin torch song "The Man I Love" is the showstopper. She sings it. She acts it. She lives it. She is to die for in this role.
Over at Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Denise Lee is playing a Billie Holiday in much worse shape than Butler's Ella Fitzgerald. Writer Lanie Robertson's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill finds the singer on the downside of stardom and just months from death. It's 1959, and because she's done eight months of prison time for a felony narcotics rap, a broke and broken Holiday has been barred from the swank Manhattan clubs where she reigned in the 1940s and '50s.
Reduced to singing for drinks and tips, she's been booked into Emerson's, a smoky Philadelphia dive. Offstage she's heard saying "I can't go on," and she wanders out through the audience—arranged around candlelit café tables at CTD—before climbing the steps to the microphone in front of her trio (conductor-pianist Joe Rogers, drummer Charles E. Dunlap and bassist Chris White).
DTC's Ella re-creates a smart, polished concert in a 1,000-seat venue. On designer Wade Giampa's dingy, brick-walled set at CTD, Lady Day (directed by Phyllis Cicero) plunges the audience into a murky juke-joint where it hurts to see the star slumming. The atmospheres of these shows are as different as the stars' temperaments.
What the productions have in common is the fine work of their leads. As Billie Holiday, Lee, a longtime fave on musical theater and cabaret stages in Dallas, doesn't have to attempt a spot-on impression to get the job done. She has a voice you could warm your hands on, whether singing as herself or in character. It's a stretch to accept her as the strung-out Holiday, even with the gardenia in her slicked-back hair. She's too robust to be a junkie. But toward the midpoint of the two-hour show, she clicks directly into the essence of Holiday.
It happens as she eases into one of Billie Holiday's best-known songs, the haunting "Strange Fruit," from the poem by Abel Meeropol about lynching in the South. Here Lee gets closest to Holiday's sound, her own clear, rich voice giving way to Holiday's ragged rasp. She teases the tempo the way Holiday did and curls up, over and around the notes.
From that point on, Lee is Lady Day. In the second act, she slurs and wobbles—which makes the music even sadder—as if she'd gone backstage at intermission to shoot up in utter despair. As the lights go down, we see Billie Holiday silently mouthing words, already a ghostly figure.
See these shows for the music, for the soulful singing and acting, to be reminded who Ella and Lady Day were and why they were loved. It's a strange but happy coincidence that for a few weeks in February we can be right there with them as the ladies sing the blues.
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Notes On Liberty, a new short documentary directed by John Scott and produced by Karen Rodriguez, will screen as a part of Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films 2009. This human rights festival travels to three cities in Lithuania in late October and early November. It will also screen in mid-November at the 2009 Cucalorus Annual Festival of Independent Film in Wilmington, NC. And, Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts has selected it for its inaugural video essay feature slated for its spring edition.
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Hello i heard that if your bump is small you can remove it without breaking the nose so look at my bump is it possible to fix it without breaking the nose? Hello Is it possible to make my bump smaller not to remove completely just to rasp a little. if yes how does it look like can others notice that you have a bump on nose? Thank you
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You have not given us a true lateral view of your nose which is the only way to distinguish the height of your bump from the rest of the dorsal profile. That said, small bumps on noses that have dorsal aesthetic lines that are of normal width (not narrow) can be rasp reduced. However, if the bump is high or the aesthetic lines are narrow, rasping will likely create an undesirable increase in width in the area of the bump. Osteotomies are the best bet in that situation.
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Hi Belloni, thanks for your question.
I had a patient ask me the same question last week. Once you remove the bump your nose will look wider, to correct this the bone is broken in a very controlled and precise fashion by a procedure called osteotomy. This weakens the bone enough so that a gently push is all what is required to narrow the nose.
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Hi Belonni,
Of course, the definitive answer to this question rests with a formal, in-person consultation. Also it would be helpful to have a lateral view (profile view) of the nose.
Generally speaking, a nasal hump is reduced via rasping. Hump reduction may lead to the nose looking wide (known medically as an "open roof"). This would necessitate osteotomies ("breaking the nose") to narrow the nose and re-establish nasal harmony.
As an analogy, please think of a pyramid. Imagine the top or apex of the pyramid has been removed. From above, the pyramid would then look wide (i.e. "open roof"). It would be necessary to reposition the walls of the pyramid (i.e. osteotomies).
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Your pictures are inadequate to judge and feeling it through a physical examination is the best way to know for sure. But simplistically if you only want a smaller hump then it can be rasped. But if you want the hump completely gone then osteotomies will probably be needed.
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A very small bump can be removed without repositioning the nasal bones. Looking at the pictures you submitted (a profile view would help) you will probably need osteotomies. Breaking the bones will also be necessary to to reduce increased width of the bridge where the nasal bones come together .
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From your photos, rasping via a closed approach would be sufficient to correct this dorsal hump deformity without resorting to osteotomies or in-fracturing of the nasal bones since your nasal width is appropriate. See a board-certified plastic surgeon for a consultation.
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ROSENBURG, Ondina. School lunch of first through fourth grade municipal school children in S. Paulo, Brazil. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 1978, vol.12, n.1, pp.55-66. ISSN 1518-8787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101978000100007.
A population of 380 municipal school children belonging to the first through the fourth grades was studied so as to analyse the nutritional value of the school lunch and its role as a substitutive for or as a complement to breakfast. 1. The average calory intake was 15,50% of the daily requirements; most frequently it was between 15 and 20%. 2. The average protein intake was 28,64% of the daily requirements; most frequently it was between 25 and 30%. 3. The average intake of fats or lipids was 10,36 grammes; most frequently it was between 10 and 20 grammes. 4. The percentual composition of the school meal showed the harmonic distribution of the nutrients which were more adequately interrelated than at breakfast.
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Alabama Shakes Singer Brittany Howard Robbed at Gunpoint in Nashville
Published Dec 18, 2012
The incident happened on Saturday night (December 15) in Nashville, on the front porch of Bomb Shelter producer Andrija Tokic's home. According to Nashville Scene [via Spinner], Howard was hanging out with members of local rock band Clear Plastic Masks when two hoodie-wearing teenage boys, approximately 15 or 16, approached them with guns drawn. The thieves got away with cellphones and a small amount of cash, but luckily no one was hurt.
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In order to maintain this sort of structure in society, certain conditions would have to be in place: Con-artistery, rewards and punishments, possibility of advancement, etc.
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Mafia Caught Trafficking People on Craigslist http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/the_mafia_caught_prostituting_kids_on_craigslist
Former Spurs player arrested for possible involvement in trafficking ring http://www.nationofhiphop.net/news/109789-former-spurs-player-involved-underage-sex-trafficking-ring.html
Many other links and information, http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm
Doctor faking deaths in a foreign country and selling the children . http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/doctors_arrested_for_faking_infants_deaths_to_sell_them
Man claims he was in a multigenerational family cult. hhttp://ritualabuse.us/ritualabuse/survivor-stories/story-of-survivor-of-multi-generational-
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Freemason busted transporting a girl. I could not verify source. http://freemasonrywatch.org/freemason.law.clerk.ny.human.trafficing.html
Change.org website The article is "America's Children are being Arrested not Rescued" It also includes comments http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/americas_trafficked_children_are_being_arrested_not_rescued
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CNN news video Delaware pediatrician indicted 471 counts alleged abuse of patients http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2010/02/23/nr.pediatrician.sex.charges.cnn?iref=allsearch
Eye to Eye Human Trafficking in the United States CBS News http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAaWjsAOCA
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Comparison of Aneuploidy Risk Evaluations (CARE)
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The primary outcome of this study is the false positive rate of fetal aneuploidy detection for chromosome 21, 18, and 13 by the Verinata Health Prenatal Aneuploidy Test and screen positive rate for fetal trisomy (T21) and trisomy (T18) by conventional prenatal screening methods. Birth outcomes, or karyotype if available, will be used as the reference standard.
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I have found that when cocking the hammer back on the M29 for SA shooting 4 of the chambers slide into place like glass. The 5th one is slightly harder to cock into position and the 6th is almost impossible as if something is hanging it up. 5 and 6 will go into postion and fire upon trigger pull, but this is not right by any stretch. I just recently got the gun used and this was the first time @ the range with it. I have oiled it and tried to work it in by cycling the SA mode and rotating the cylinder. It seems to have improved some but the problem is still there intermittantly especially on #6. I haven't been able to ask the seller if the gun sat unused and unoiled for a long time or if it may have been caused by somthing else. I will continue to try to find that out. Any thoughts on what it might be and does it need to go to a gunsmith? Thanks.


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Marc and Cindy Miller of Ocala, Florida are proud to announce the engagement of their daughter, Adrianne Kathleen Miller to Tye Brannon Buckley.
Adrianne currently resides in Tallahassee, Florida. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from FSU and is currently employed as an account manager at RB Oppenheim Associates.
Tye currently resides in Blythewood, SC. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and is employed in Technical Sales at Spirax Sarco. He is the son of Ben and Kim Buckley of Tallahassee, Florida.
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Big Chop or No Big Chop????
I have been transitioning for 5 months. I've seen amazing results but I still have a billion different textures on my head! The only thing I can do with my hair is a bantu knot out and I think my hair is getting tired of that...I'm running out if options! HELP!
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BY: Kenali ( 4b ) | 4.1.15
although we all support your decision if you DO choose to big chop again (yay!), you don't have to resort to that. try doing 2-strand twists or protective styling like wigs, braids, etc. to give your natural hair a break. just moisturize your hair really well and practice the LOC method regularly.
Here's the LOC method, in detail- http://www.naturallycurly.com/curlreading/kinky-h...
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As a big chopper, I must say it IS invigorating. Especially because I was just as frustrated with my hair as you. I did it for my self esteem. And I have been happy ever since. Think about how your life would be after you big chop and how it would be handling the hair you have now for however long you plan.
I just really want to say, do it for you. Do it to make your life happier, less stressed, more productive. But if you can't really see it getting much better, then switch it up with extensions. Or at least something to give your hair a break and for you to get more time to think
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In poetry, the end of the world tends to be an either/or proposition. "Not with a bang but a whimper." "Some say … in fire, some say in ice." At the movies, there's a certain sameness to it all. Witness the twin asteroids that threatened Earth in 1998's Armageddon and Deep Impact; the pair of alien invasions in 1996's Independence Day and Mars Attacks!; or our own space-faring missteps in Red Planet and Mission to Mars in 2000.
Terra is under threat again this year, but for every world-shattering action, there seems to be an equal and not-so-opposite reaction. Nowhere is this more apparent than in 2013's apocalyptic fare.
Not content with the fact the supposed end of days came and went on Dec. 21 without so much as a whimper, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen — the writing team behind Superbad and Pineapple Express — have written, directed and appear in This Is The End, an ensemble comedy that imagines how a bunch of funny celebrities face the apocalypse.
Meanwhile, writer/director Edgar Wright and writer/star Simon Pegg are at work on a film that will turn Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz into a trilogy. It's called The World's End, and it's about an epic pub crawl that turns into a battle for the future of humanity.
The competing end-of-everything movies have an interesting facet generally missing from such film face-offs. This Is The End is an American production while The World's End is unabashedly British. Too often, it's U.S.A. vs. U.S.A. (or Britain vs. Britain, as in the 1998 costume pieces Elizabeth and Shakespeare in Love). Differing sensibilities – Stiff Upper Lip compared to Stiff Uppercut to the Lip – may provide some welcome variation in theme.
Don't look for that kind of parsing of sentiment in some of the other movie matchups this year. Olympus Has Fallen (which features the immortal line "Olympus has fallen") stars Gerard Butler as a Secret Service agent who must protect the president (Aaron Eckhart) when the White House comes under siege. Then there's White House Down, with Channing Tatum in the service, and Jamie Foxx in the Oval office.
At least the combined might of Olympus White House Fallen Down should bring some of the gravitas (or at least firepower) back to presidential fiction. The decades have seen a slide since 1964 gave us President Henry Fonda trying to avert a world war in Fail-Safe.
In the '90s there were presidents in peril (In the Line of Fire) and their families in peril (Air Force One), but eventually it devolved into presidential dating comedies (1995's The American President) and then dueling presidential daughter dating comedies; First Daughter and Chasing Liberty, both from 2004. Unless we're going to see a film about the romantic tribulations of the president's kid's dog, this is the only way to go.
Another similar-looking pair of movies coming this year looks not at the end of the world but its aftermath. Tom Cruise stars in Oblivion, which imagines a crumbling, dilapidated planet some 60 years after an alien invasion left a scorched-Earth mess behind.
The father-and-son team of Will and Jaden Smith go even further into the future in After Earth, crash-landing on our planet 1,000 years from now and finding that the planet has evolved into something that doesn't welcome human visitors. At least the apes haven't taken over.
2013 is full of additional pairings, though some stretch the definition more than others. If you want a superhero matchup, look no further than Man of Steel vs. Iron Man 3. The latter also fits into the exo-skeletal-saviours-of-humanity genre, opposite Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim.
The superhero sequels, meanwhile, include Kick-Ass 2, which is also one of a growing number of kids-who-kill features, alongside The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Ender's Game. And at the other end of the spectrum, dangerous seniors in the already-released The Last Stand, Stand Up Guys and Bullet to the Head, and the upcoming A Good Day to Die Hard, Red 2 and The Tomb.
Finally, don't forget the straight-up sequels, which include Despicable Me 2, Smurfs 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Grown Ups 2. They say good things come in threes. The jury's still out on those that come in twos.


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ednesday May 15, 2013 Xcel Energy filed a proposal to increase it's fuel cost factors. This is in effort to reflect the rising cost of fuel.
If this proposal is approved by the Public Utility Commission of Texas, customers will have higher fuel charges on their bills beginning June 1, 2013.
Fuel costs typically account for a third of a customer's bill. For example, a customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours a month the new cost factor would mean an average increase of 6.2% or $5.87 a month.
This increased cost is for Texas customers as New Mexico customers are already paying higher fuel prices.
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Championship leaders Queens Park Rangers maintained their unbeaten start to the season as Kaspars Gorkss' brace helped them on their way to a 3-0 scalp of Doncaster Rovers.
The Latvian defender's strike shortly after the break finally broke Doncaster's resistance, and he killed them off with a late header to add to Adel Taarabt's penalty as Rangers edged six points clear at the top.
Neil Warnock's side have yet to concede at home and, with seven wins and a draw from their first eight games, have made their best start to a season since 1947.
They endured a frustrating first half, but whatever Warnock said at half-time had the desired effect as QPR finally clicked into gear after the break.
A pedestrian opening period did not spark into life until the 25th minute when Martin Woods' 25-yard free-kick was pushed onto the inside of the post by the diving Paddy Kenny.
The ball fell at the feet of James O'Connor, with Kenny still grounded, but the defender's goalbound shot was superbly cleared off the line by the sliding Clint Hill.
Rangers finally got a sight of goal after 36 minutes when Spurs loanee Kyle Walker overlapped down the right and crossed for Jamie Mackie.
But the striker, who has scored eight goals in eight league games so far this season, saw his weak shot saved by Neil Sullivan.
Taarabt almost produced a goal for Rangers at the start of the second half, but his precise free-kick was headed over the top by Gorkss.
But the breakthrough eventually arrived in the 53rd minute when Gorkss met Akos Buzsaky's corner with another firm header.
His initial effort was blocked by Rovers right-back Mustapha Dumbaya, but the big centre-half reacted quickest to slam the loose ball past Sullivan.
Rangers midfielder Hogan Ephraim had the ball in the net in the 72nd minute but was just offside when he collected Taarabt's pass.
But the second goal did arrive in the 81st minute after Heidar Helguson was upended in the area by Sullivan.
Helguson got back to his feet and tucked the ball away but referee Roger East had already pointed to the spot.
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An addition to my earlier post on Wednesday activities since so many kids will be out of school ...
E. Carroll Joyner Park, 701 Harris Rd., will host two Fall Foliage Tours at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Wednesday. Urban Forester Evan Keto will offer the free tours.
Parents and children of all ages are welcome. No registration is required. If you're interested, just gather at the information kiosk located next to the Joyner Park parking lot.
For more information, contact the Wake Forest Parks and Recreation Department at 919-435-9560.
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what will the recovery time be surgery on a frozen shoulder, having both the manipulation + athorscopic... this is only 6 weeks after bicep tendon surgery, should I even have it done?
Whether or not you should have it done should be a discussion you have with your surgeon. He/she should be able to tell you more about the procedure. Ask about the risks and benefits of having the surgery verses trying a more conservative approach.
In general, it can take 6 months to recover although you should be able to do normal activity (get on a sweatshirt or lift milk) much sooner.
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The 2014 Celebration of Abraham is scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 26 at Saint James Fellowship Hall on B Street at 2:30 p.m. and the program will begin at 3 p.m., ending at 5 p.m.
The event is free and open to everyone. Everyone is encouraged to come and bring their friends.
This January's convocation of Celebration of Abraham will focus on "loving kindness." Loving kindness is more than an action, according to organizers. It begins in the heart. At the celebration, people will grapple the ways they can show more loving kindness.
This year the planners of the Celebration of Abraham are hoping to begin the community discussion prior to the date of the Celebration. They have posted a blog and invite everyone to add their thoughts, examples of loving kindness, sacred texts and other quotes they believe relate to loving kindness. To read, follow or comment on the Celebration of Abraham blog, please go to http://celebrationofabraham.net. For more information contact Helen Roland email@example.com


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There is an art to newspaper headline writing. And sometimes that art hits the mark, such as in the following ones sent to me by an Internet friend:
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Police Begin Campaign to Run Down Jaywalkers
Panda Mating Fails; Veterinarian Takes Over
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
War Dims Hope for Peace
If Strike Isn't Settled Quickly, It May Last Awhile
Cold Wave Linked to Temperatures
Enfield (London ) Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
Red Tape Holds Up New Bridges
Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
New Study of Obesity Looks for Larger Test Group
Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
Kids Make Nutritious Snacks
Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half
Chainsaw Massacre all over again!
Hospitals are Sued by 7 Foot Doctors
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If you can get editors to help with book content and cover designers to help with the front ... what sort of third party help exists to assist with blurbs? Anyone?
A literary agent perhaps? But you are the captain of your own book. No one knows it or cares about it like you. With some research on the "how to," guidance on content, and feedback from a trusted few, it can be taken on by the author if they choose.
Authors need an external editor by the nature of that mission, to catch issues initially overlooked. Some need cover designers because they do not have the artistic skills for such an endeavor. But a blurb is just another form of writing. A particular one with its own peculiar set of restrictions, but still within the tool-set of an author.
That is just my opinion. There are marketing experts out there I surmise who are very good at it. I wonder, in this new era of self publishing, if more and more authors are just doing it themselves. You could always try it, run it past some people and see how good it is. Seek out a pro if you are not satisfied.
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Politicians finally do something right: a political answer for all occasions.
Something healthy before the decadence: Brussel Sprouts in Sage Brown Butter.
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What is the most expensive record in the world? The answer is something of a moving target. Some say it's the acetate that a young Elvis Presley recorded for his mom—the amateur recording that got Sam Phillips to sign him to Sun Records, thereby giving birth to rock'n'roll. Others say it's another acetate that a group called the Quarrymen made in the late 50s. They, of course, went on to be the Beatles. But there's a new contender.
Last year, Wu Tang Clan made a record Once Upon a Time in Shaloin and manufactured exactly ONE copy. It was a statement against the growing disposable-ness of music. Shaloin is encased in an intricately etched silver box and was stored in a vault in Morocco. It was for sale, but you had to bid on it. Someone finally did—for a rumoured $5 million US. Is this the most expensive record in the world? Sure looks like it.


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What's the best RC TRAINER ????
Hi guys this is my first post and i was wondering what the best RC Trainer would be with a wingspan around 1.6m .
I like the design of an Alpha 40 and a Seagull boomerang.
It has to be Balsa Though
Here's my other question : When i get one should i go straight into flying with that or should i build a nice little foamie to start of with ???
here's an example of a little foamie i might build
I'd be grateful for any replies
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Hi there,
The planes you listed are all nice but they are all four-channel planes. Unless you have someone who is going to be teaching you in a buddy box setup I'd recommend starting with a 3-channel trainer. You can build your first plane but having no experience in flying you may find it a bit more challenging especially if you run into a problem. Some nice 3-channel trainers that come ready to fly out of the box are the Hobbyzone Champ and the Hobbyzone Super Cub DSM. These planes tend to fly well right from the get go. Later once you get comfortable with it you can modify the super cub's wing, adding ailerons to it and learn to fly four-channels. Neither are quite 1.6m but typically with planes, the bigger they are the harder they fall (i.e. more severe damage in a crash). The flip-side of course is they won't tolerate as much wind as the bigger heavier planes but as a beginner it's not a good idea to be flying in moderate to heavy winds anyway.
If you still want to go ahead and experiment with that $10 foamy then I suggest building the wing with a dihedral and no ailerons. You can build another wing or modify the current one with ailerons once you've gotten more experience. Also you may want to increase the size of the elevator and rudder slightly since you'll be relying on them. Also if you haven't already, give the foamy (scratchbuilt) section of the forum a look. Lots of great plans and tips on building to be had there.
Whatever you go with make sure to read the Six Keys to Success and find a good size field with plenty of room especially for your first few flights. Good luck.
Thanks for that link it was really helpful . I might go with 3ch but 4ch will allow me to easily step up to a second plane whereas using no rudder or ailerons would mean i have to learn to use them on another plane . I'm unsure at the moment but i would certainly consider 3ch (probably cheaper too).
That said - the Super Cub is a solid trainer plane for people working without an instructor. The control layout is not the reason for that though. What makes it a good trainer is its durability, tolerance of setup errors, good power level, reliable performance, Spektrum, and it is an attractive model.
This would be a good one close to the size ( 1.6 m ) you mentioned http://crashtesthobby.com/products/albatross , or this larger one http://crashtesthobby.com/products/storm-chaser . But whatever you get , have someone experienced in RC help you set it up ( CG , trim , etc. ) .
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I would suggest buying a good quality simulator. It will more than pay for its self.
I started with Real Flight Basic, and later bought the full version. The full version is worth the extra.
I have a couple 3 channel planes, but I much prefer 4 channel and I don't think it is a problem to start with one. The Apprentice flies great, it is tough, parts are reasonable, and it flies inverted and does basic aerobatics well for a high wing trainer.
I started with the Phoenix simulator last Christmas. I then bought an Apprentice 15e. I already have a few flights in with a friend who trimmed the plane (only took a few clicks of up elevator). I do think the simulator helps with muscle memory and getting used to the orientation of the plane
Support from Horizon Hobby was great. They replaced a dead servo in two days and even replaced the fuselage when I showed them that a bad linkage had burned the first servo out.
The difference between flying a 3-channel plane and flying a 4-channel plane has nothing to do with ailerons. Both the 3-channel and 4-channel configurations have great roll control. On one, your roll control is the ailerons, on the other it is the rudder. On both planes, your primary roll control is put on your right stick for mode 2 transmitters. 4-channel it would be aileron, 3-channel you plug your rudder into the aileron position in the transmitter. You do not have to relearn to fly when changing from 3 to 4 channels. That is a HUGE misconception. With both, to roll the plane you deflect the right stick.
The big difference between the two types is the amount of dihedral in the wings. 3-channel planes have a large amount of dihedral angle, making the plane self-stabilizing. When you bank or roll the plane using the rudder, you must maintain deflection throughout the maneuver because as soon as you let go of the stick the plane automatically returns to straight and level flight. For the unassisted beginner, this can save your life. If you don't think a 3-channel plane can do lots of great maneuvers, my Slow Stick wants to have a conversation with you. You can actually do rolling circles with a 3-channel plane (it can, I can't yet!) and it is no more difficult (or easy for that matter!) than it is with 4 channels.
With the 4-channel plane, you have little or no self-correction. When you make a turn, you do not maintain aileron deflection throughout the turn. You release the stick when you are at the bank angle you want. To come out of the turn, you apply opposite aileron to unbank the plane, centering the stick when you are level. Your plane is just as happy in any angle of banking and has no mind of its own. You give it the command to bank knife edge and it will happily turn on its side, lose all lift and crash into the ground. If you can't see the orientation of the plane properly (a learning process for ALL of us) or don't know the correct control inputs to fix your problem you'll have a smoking hole in the ground in seconds.
So both kinds have roll control that works great. With ailerons you have more control over roll rate and can hold a roll angle better--better precision by far. But you give up an airplane that knows how to fly.
People who know how to fly call a 4-channel more controllable. That is the same as saying it is less stable and doesn't know how to fly by itself.
With an instructor, there's no reason not to start out with a Parkzone Trojan or build a decent flying balsa kit. Pay attention to the advice of your instructor on the plane. They'll also want to pre-flight check your plane, a function more important to you than the flying instruction! They'll immediately see little stuff that you would never find because all the parts and impacted into that proverbial crater and can't be analyzed any more. It doesn't matter how well YOU can fly if the plane is incapable of flying.
Learning without an instructor is possible, with correct plane selection, iron discipline, lots of research and good luck. Having an instructor is much more fun, you will learn faster, break less things...it just avoids the inevitable heartache of learning on your own. It's so much better to learn from other people's mistakes than live through your own!
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Ranch Hand
Java always makes a copy of the argument and passes the copy. The called method has a local copy of the data. If the method changes the data it changes the copy, so the original value is not changed.
When we pass a primitive like int this make perfect sense. The method gets its own int variable, a copy of the original.
When we pass an object we have to think very precisely. The value that is copied and sent along is a reference or pointer to the object. The method gets its own copy of the pointer, but it doesn't get its own copy of the object. If the method changes its copy of the pointer to point to a different object the original pointer is not affected. If the method changes some of the attributes of the object, it changes the original object.
Whew! Did that make sense?
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Originally posted by Stan James:
Paul is right, but this usually needs a bit more clarification. Should probably be in the FAQ. Or probably is.
Whew! Did that make sense?
So much sense that I used it to replace the present text in the FAQ (which was a little bit confusing, in my opinion).
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Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
So much sense that I used it to replace the present text in the FAQ (which was a little bit confusing, in my opinion).
Hi preuss..
So after i read that link ...
I just wrote a snippet could u pls explain ..
i think as of my knowledge it is working as contracdictory ..pls
let me know if what i taught is wrong
why that p[0] is printed in console as Gowtham rather than what we given in console .. it stills over rides ...
Thanks in advance
Thanks, Ganesh Gowtham
Ranch Hand
Given that copy of the pointer your main method can modify the contents of the array. Your method cannot change the original pointer to point to a new array though, because you only have a copy of the pointer.
Does that make sense? We can make some longer examples if you like.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi
Does Java pass method parameters by reference, by value, both or neither?
Also on a related note.
What is the difference between an object and an object reference?
[ July 03, 2005: Message edited by: Tony Morris ]
Tony Morris
Java Q&A (FAQ, Trivia)
Still, that begs the question: what is call-by-reference? Take the fictional Latrino language which supports true call-by-reference:
double x = 1.67
Blob blob = new Blob()
bar( blob, x )
assert blob instanceof Noob // TRUE: Latrino is call-by-reference
assert x > 1.67 // TRUE: Latrino is call-by-reference
bar( Blob goop, double mint )
goop = new Noob()
mint = 3.14
1 pointer to an array
1 array
It may be tough for you to understand since arrays can appear to behave differently. Try creating a similar example but not using the main method and not passing an array. try passing an int or Object.
A friend of mine gave what I thought is an excellent analogy...
Say you give me a piece of paper that has the address of a house written on it. Now, say I go to the house at that address and rearrange the furniture inside; you'll see the rearranged furniture when you visit the house, since we both held the same address.
Say you give me another piece of paper with the old address again. Now, say I take the paper, erase the address and write a different address on it. You won't see any changes I make to my paper or the new house; you've still got the old address.
just a simple solution. Java uses pass by value for both primitive and Objects. in case of primitive, it is a straight as an arrow. But for Object types,java passes the value of the reference. So what actually the calling method recieves is the copy of the reference of the object. hope it is clear.
I am not completely useless.
I can be used as a bad example.

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Originally posted by Anoop Kavalloor:
Dear all,
just a simple solution. Java uses pass by value for both primitive and Objects. in case of primitive, it is a straight as an arrow. But for Object types,java passes the value of the reference. So what actually the calling method recieves is the copy of the reference of the object. hope it is clear.
There is a subtle point here that is a cause for confusion, at least, in my experience (as a university teacher that is). Java does not pass objects, not ever. In fact, objects don't even have names, which makes it difficult to discuss. For example:
Object o = new Object();
There is an object there, but it has no name. There is also a reference, called 'o' - it has a name. We can talk about the object by saying 'the object that o refers to', but otherwise, nothing else is accurate.
Java passes all types (reference and primitive) by value. Objects are not types (despite what your teacher might tell you); they are merely objects.
Does this sound like the Semantic Police? Certainly not according to all the confusion that I see as a result. It's much more than a mere issue of semantics.
See if this helps:
Tony Morris
Java Q&A (FAQ, Trivia)
Paraphrase of madhu gadde:
Hi all,
which type of passing technique does java use?.
The answer to this is simple. If the argument is a primitive type, then it is passed by value. If the argument is a reference to an object, then it is considered pass-by-reference.
Actually, "under the hood," the same mechanism is used. It just happens that if you pass the value of a reference, it has the effect of pass-by-reference. Therefore, authoritative sources call it pass-by-reference. Objects are not copied. Only the reference to them.
See page 133 of Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 ISBN 0-07-213208-6, or similar source covering Objective 3.03.
This question belongs in the introductory thread.
Juan Rolando Prieur-Reza, M.S., LSSBB, SCEA, SCBCD, SCWCD, SCJP/1.6, IBM OOAD, SCSA
Originally posted by john prieur:
Therefore, authoritative sources call it pass-by-reference.
Actually, authoritative sources are always very careful to call it "pass by value" and go through the whole explanation of how references are passed by value. Anybody who says otherwise is not with the program, I'm afraid.
Specifically, VM Specification 2.10.1
'When the method is invoked, the values of the actual argument expressions initialize newly created parameter variables (�2.5), each of the declared type, before execution of the body of the method.'
Can't get any more 'explicit' or 'authoritative' than that surely?
Any other "authoritative source" is codswallop. Technical books, marketing hype, brochures on the latest buzzword, etc. are not authoritative sources. Particularly since their primary agenda has nothing at all to do with portraying correctness.
Tony Morris
Java Q&A (FAQ, Trivia)
The specification is entirely consistent. The distinction betweeen call by value versus reference is something that confuses a lot of new programmers so it's an easy mistake to make.
James Gosling, in The Java Programming Language, stipulates the following:
"All parameters to Java methods are 'pass by value.'"
No matter how explicit or authoratative, what might be crystal clear to one reader could be easily misinterpreted by a naive or uninformed reader. That is why James Gosling's book is such a welcome addition to any library.
>> Any other "authoritative source" is codswallop.
Even if your interpretation was correct, and it's not, broad sweeping statements like that have little value.
>> Particularly since their primary agenda has nothing at all to do with portraying correctness.
Would it make a difference? You failed to interpret the plain facts of the specification.
A good approximation but incorrect. In true pass-by-reference, no values are copied, not even the reference. So if you called foo(bar) and assigned bar a different value inside foo, the caller's bar reference would reference the new value.
My paraphrasing of the authoritative source is done as some link that I posted earlier where it's made clear that Java passes all types by value.
Tony Morris
Java Q&A (FAQ, Trivia)
If pass-by-value were used instead, there would be the cost of copying objects, marshalling and unmarshalling.
Thanks for your comments
Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
Rick, Tony's got it right here -- he's addressing his comments to John, not to me. He agrees with me, and as we all know, I'm always right
However, you have not actually identified your authoritative citation (URL, page, etc). Instead, you quoted a source that clearly does not mention pass-by-(reference or value). I'm willing to consider that Sun's publications may have made inconsistent assertions. But show us.
Meanwhile, you can argue with Sun Microsystems authoritative publications, which states in one example:
Notice when an object is passed to a method, any changes that occur inside the method also occur to the object outside the method. This is because the reference variables ... both point to the same object. Hence, a change made within the method changes the data in the same object. The object was passed by reference.
See page 133 of Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 ISBN 0-07-213208-6.
The italics are in the actual book for emphasis. That is the effect regardless of under-the-hood implementation details. Although training material is not as authoritative as specs, the explanations are sometimes clearer and equally reliable.
[ September 10, 2005: Message edited by: john prieur ]
Juan Rolando Prieur-Reza, M.S., LSSBB, SCEA, SCBCD, SCWCD, SCJP/1.6, IBM OOAD, SCSA
The problem is that you do not know what call-by-reference means and you are not alone. It is something of a moot point because every Java programmer that has the foggiest idea what they are doing knows how object references work in Java. That in inclues you. I am certain you know what is going on mechanically but you are describing it improperly as pass-by-reference.
Java trips up C++ programmers when they first start using Java. C++ does support true c-b-r but the default is c-b-v. In C++ when you pass on object it creates a copy of the object, just like a primitive. It will even perform a deep copy if your class is in a standard form.
Now, as the reference you cited. It's not the best description but it's not inaccurate. A reference is indeed being passed. That is not the definition of call-by-reference.
I don't think you've failed to grasp this; you simply don't know what the definition is. You are making assumptions that are invalid. Propably three quarters of Java programmers make the same mistake.
No; passing a reference does not imply pass-by-reference. Pass-by-reference is not available in Java.If the argument is a primitive type, then it is passed by value. If the argument is a reference to an object, then it is considered pass-by-reference.
Therefore, authoritative sources call it pass-by-reference.
Here's *the* authority:
All parameters to methods are passed "by value." In other words, values of parameter variables in a method are copies of the values the invoker specified as arguments. If you pass a double to a method, its parameter is a copy of whatever value was being passed as an argument, and the method can change its parameter's value without affecting values in the code that invoked the method. For example:
The following output illustrates that the value of arg inside halveIt is divided by two without affecting the value of the variable one in main:You should note that when the parameter is an object reference, the object reference -- not the object itself -- is what is passed "by value." Thus, you can change which object a parameter refers to inside the method without affecting the reference that was passed. But if you change any fields of the object or invoke methods that change the object's state, the object is changed for every part of the program that holds a reference to it. Here is an example to show the distinction:
This program produces the following output: Notice that the contents of the object have been modified with a name change, while the variable Sirius still refers to the Body object even though the method commonName changed the value of its bodyRef parameter variable to null. This requires some explanation.
The following diagram shows the state of the variables just after main invokes commonName:
At this point, the two variables sirius (in main) and bodyRef (in commonName) both refer to the same underlying object. When commonName changes the field bodyRef.name, the name is changed in the underlying object that the two variables share.
When commonName changes the value of bodyRef to null, only the value of the bodyRef variable is changed; the value of sirius remains unchanged vecause the parameter bodyRef is a pass-by-value copy of sirius. Inside the method commonName, all you are changing is the value in the parameter variable bodyRef, just as all you changed in halveIt was the value in the parameter variable arg. If changing bodyRef affected the value of sirius in main, the "after" line would say "null". However, the variable bodyRef in commonName and the variable sirius in main both refer to the same underlying object, so the change made inside commonName is visible through the reference sirius.
Some people will say incorrectly that objects are passed "by reference." In programming language design, the term pass by reference properly means that when an argument is passed to a function, the invoked function gets a reference to the original value, not a copy of its value. If the function modifies its parameter, the value in the calling code will be changed because the argument and parameter use the same slot in memory. If the Java programming language actually had pass-by-reference parameters, there would be a way to declare halveIt so that the preceding code would modify the value of one, or so that commonName could change the variable sirius to null. This is not possible. The Java programming language does not pass objects by reference; it passes object references by value. Because two copies of the same reference refer to the same actual object, changes made through one reference variable are visible through the other. There is exactly one parameter passing mod -- pass by value -- and that helps keep things simple.
Arnold, K., Gosling J., Holmes D. (2000). The Java� Programming Language Third Edition. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
John, I guess besides arguing about what "pass by reference" means, we're arguing about what "authoritative" means. I would say that study guides for an exam, regardless of who publishes them, are not authoritative. In fact, the content of the exam itself isn't an authoritative source for information about Java. SCJP/D/A study guides are not designed to teach you the Java language. They are designed to teach you to pass the exam, which is a horse of a different color. There's nothing wrong with that, but we do actually have separate forums for discussing those individual parallel universes.
Meanwhile, here in the Java in General forums, we look to the formal specifications (the JLS, the JVMS, J2EE spec, etc) and we have the JPL book, written by the father of Java, which I'd consider to be the Java correlate of the old C++ ARM. Anything else is derivative, not authoritative.
OK, here's a concrete written in Latrino (my favorite fictional language). A hash mark indicates a reference in Latrino.
Point of interest: My Latrino language is a combination of Latin and Neutrino for no other reason that it sounds cool. Others have observed that is has an excremental quality to it, whatever that means.
[ September 10, 2005: Message edited by: Rick O'Shay ]
Originally posted by john prieur:
Tony and Ernest,
Thanks for your comments
See page 133 of Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 ISBN 0-07-213208-6.
The italics are in the actual book for emphasis. That is the effect regardless of under-the-hood implementation details. Although training material is not as authoritative as specs, the explanations are sometimes clearer and equally reliable.
[ September 10, 2005: Message edited by: john prieur ]
VM Specification 2.10.1
When the method is invoked, the values of the actual argument expressions initialize newly created parameter variables (�2.5), each of the declared type, before execution of the body of the method.
Is it not clear that this is mandating pass by value semantics? What about if I emphasise the "newly create parameter variables" part?
Your example from some arbitrary technical book is a perfect example of why not to use technical books as anything more than they really are - a way for the author(s) to feed his/her children while at least appearing to portray some level of truth as a secondary agenda. Certainly not an authoritative source.
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Salary: 8000RMB per month
Others: Z visa,free apartment,airfare
Location: Jinan, Shandong province
School type: Private training school
Start date:ASAP
Workload: 25 teaching hours+15 office hours
Salary: 9000RMB per month
Others: Z visa,free apartment,airfare,other bonus
If you are interested in the above mentioned positions, please email your completed docs(CV/recent photo,scan of passport,degree and tefl)