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From weight training to jogging in the park, there are hundreds of ways to improve your health and lose weight. One of the most effective ways is through cardio, both in short, powerful and intense bursts and slow, low-intensity workouts.
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Jogging (or walking)
When it comes to cardio fitness, sometimes the most basic workouts are the best for improving your health. Jogging is a fantastic way to burn calories and improve your body's cardiovascular fitness, improving almost all aspects of your health.
Best of all, it's a form of cardio exercise that you can do anywhere. From your local park to a treadmill in your garage, all you need for a jogging workout is some open space, fresh air and a supportive pair of running shoes.
Like any form of cardio exercise, it's best to start small when you make jogging part of your fitness routine. Start with a 15-minute jog around your local park or on your treadmill, then gradually increase your jogging time until it's at least 30 minutes.
Once you can jog for 30 minutes comfortably, focus on improving your pace instead of extending your workout. Try to add a few hundred yards to you 30-minute jog on a monthly basis and you'll soon be running at a serious pace.
Jogging is one of the most effective forms of cardio exercise for burning calories, but has some downsides. One of the biggest disadvantages of jogging is that it's hard on your knees and ankles, particularly if you have flat feet or existing injuries.
Avoid the side effects of high-impact jogging and distance running by warming up well and, if you still seem to be affected by knee and ankle pain, walking instead of jogging whenever you exercise.
Would you like to make jogging part of your cardio fitness routine? Learn the right form for running to avoid injuries, feel better and improve your mile time with some training tips from Right Form Running.
While jogging might be the easiest form of cardio exercise, it's often quite hard on the joints in your knees and ankles. Swimming is a great alternative cardio fitness workout that's completely impact-free and far less likely to result in injuries.
From freestyle to backstroke, all forms of swimming are great for pumping blood to your muscles and improving your heart health. A half-hour of swimming will leave any non-athlete feeling tired out and majorly calorically depleted.
Like with jogging, it's best to start small with your swimming routine. Swim lengths of your local pool – or, if you have a swimming pool at home, your own pool – for 10 to 15 minutes. Once you're comfortable, increase the pace but not the workout time.
A good swimming workout should include a variety of strokes and techniques, from the classic freestyle to more advanced techniques like butterfly. This variation offers a good blend of cardio fitness and resistance training for your muscles.
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While yoga isn't a pure cardio workout, it offers a great mix of resistance training, relaxation techniques and light cardio training. A one-hour yoga session will give your heart a great workout, burning calories and improving your health.
One of the best ways to increase the intensity and difficulty of yoga is to raise the temperature. Hot yoga – yoga in a heated room – burns more calories and assists your body in refreshing itself of toxins by sweating out excess moisture.
Yoga also improves your flexibility, making it easier for you to practice other forms of cardio fitness like running, swimming and kickboxing. Because of this, it's a great 'accessory' form of training that you can add to your weekly exercise routine.
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From the ancient art of muay Thai to modern forms of karate, there are numerous styles of kickboxing. While their techniques and rules may differ, the results are the same: rapid weight loss, better health and massively improved cardio fitness.
Kickboxing is one of the best ways to improve your cardiovascular fitness, and it's something that anyone can do. Although many kickboxers compete in fights, you'll get all of the benefits with none of the injuries by practicing kickboxing technique.
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From pushups to jumping squats, plyometric exercises help you get in shape using nothing more than your own weight. Although plyometrics are often used to build strength, they're also a great way to improve your cardiovascular fitness.
Putting together a plyometric workout is simple, and there's no need for any special equipment or training. From bodyweight squats to pushups, the basic movements of plyometric training can easily be performed in your living room or yard.
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Which form of cardio fitness is the most effective?
Whether you want to lose weight or simply improve your heart health, some forms of cardio training are more effective at burning calories and getting your body into gear than others.
If you'd like to maximize your results in the shortest possible time, knowing which forms of cardio are the most effective is important. Read our blog post on the types of cardio that burn the most calories to learn how to create an efficient workout.


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First ALP Shipment to Kenya Gets a Warm Reception
In late May, a team from the US and Kenya celebrated a landmark event in ALP history—the first arrival of books and the creation of 32 libraries in the country.
Creating Libraries Is a Family Affair
While the teen years can be tough ones for families to navigate, Shamruthi (Shammy) Subramanian and her family have found closeness and purpose in doing book drives for ALP.
Swazi Primary School Eagerly Awaits Library
When Constance Groenich, Principal of Zwide Primary School in Swaziland, told Dudley Butts that her school needed a library, he quickly agreed to help.
Midland School Discovers Many Ways to Pay It Forward
Midland Elementary School in Rye, New York, began its book drive with the goal of collecting 2000 books to create two libraries, one in Ghana and one in Lesotho.
ALP's New Partner in Malawi Means More Success Stories
In 2004, Khalidwe Jera entered Mtengowambalame Primary School in Malawi. At that time, he could not read, write or speak English.
Creativity, Cooperation, And Changing Lives… At Work!
When the employees of Janbala launched a book drive last fall, their motivation was to help create a library in Botswana, but in the process, they strengthened cross-departmental collaboration.
Book Drives Build Leaders
Divya Prakash, a fourteen-year old Book Drive Organizer, feels that ALP has transformed her life.
2016 Compassion in Action Awards
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ALP Transforms Lives
Mwza first learned that reading was "cool" at age 10 when the first library—with books donated by ALP volunteers-- was delivered to his village.
Dear Friends
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I do have an update this week. Not on Cloud 10 specifically. (I will wait until I actually have readers before I start doing that.) Last week I reached out to the owner of www.socalledfantasyexpert.com to apply to be a writer for their website, which launched around the same time as Cloud 10.
Other than writing, my other love is sports. Playing sports, watching sports, reading about sports...and now hopefully writing about sports. Unlike the other stat heavy articles that are abundant across the web, I am hoping to provide a more lifestyle or human opinion to SCFE.com. My articles won't just be about "who to select in your next fantasy baseball draft." Instead I plan to have them focused around the lighter side of fantasy sports. One article I am thinking of writing - just in time for Valentine's Day - is "How to convince your wife that Fantasy sports will improve your marriage." Or something to that effect.
Anyway, supposedly my first article about why fantasy players should keep their inner "fan" out of fantasy baseball should be live tomorrow. Once it is, I will post a link and hopefully traffic will start flowing between sites. No, I don't have any illusions that people who arrive at my site via other methods, will all be Fantasy Baseball players, but my hope is that Fantasy Players who read my articles, might also enjoy Cloud 10. We'll see...
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You have to be ready for a fight if you try and reel in a Freshwater Drum. Sure, it makes for a tasty meal, but they will go down swinging. At least they are widely distributed in many freshwater habitats from the Hudson Bay all the way down to Guatemala. That's around 2,500 miles of prime fishing. Whether grey or brown in hue – depending on the type of water you are fishing in – they are not the largest of game. An average of 15 pounds? You've reeled in bigger, but their fight will put any largemouth bass to shame! This Infarnt & Toddler Tee is the perfect trophy!
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Experience Profile
Tom is a Principal Lawyer and the Head of the Criminal and Misconduct Department within Slater and Gordon's Wakefield office. He specialises in the defence of police officers in criminal cases, proceedings under the Police (Conduct) Regulations and as Interested Persons at coroners inquests. He joined the firm in 2004 and became Head of the Wakefield office in May 2011.
Tom is an accredited police station representative and regularly advises clients under arrest or attending voluntarily to be interviewed under caution, advising on all aspects of the criminal law. He often represents police officers in the Magistrates' and Crown Court accused of serious duty related offences from misconduct In public office, manslaughter, dangerous driving and sexual offences, amongst others.
Tom has been involved in many high profile cases including the recent acquittal of a South Yorkshire officer accused of causing death by careless driving whilst responding to an emergency. He has also recently represented a former detective involved in a large scale corruption case and has extensive experience representing clients for computer misuse and data protection related
He has considerable experience in the representation of police officers during Post-Incident Procedures in the aftermath of major incidents such as shootings, deaths in custody and police pursuits. He advises officers on all aspects of the procedure as set out in APP Armed Policing Manual (formerly ACPO Manual of Guidance). Tom has extensive experience of advising officers
on requests from Post-Incident Managers (PIM), Investigating Officers (most commonly the Independent Police Complaints Commission), and advising officers required to provide initial accounts or detailed statements thereafter. He is a frequent speaker at educational seminars on the topic to various forces around the country and often assists in practical training exercises.
Tom regularly represents officers as Interested Persons at Coroners inquests. Tom represented two West Yorkshire officers at the inquest into the death of Raoul Moat. He has conducted numerous inquests following deaths in custody in high profile cases in forces such as West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.
Along with Senior Principal Lawyer, Nick Holroyd, Tom currently heads the Slater and Gordon team in relation to proceedings arising from the Hillsborough Stadium disaster. Tom is instructed on behalf of the Police Federation of England and Wales to represent its members, both retired and serving, who are to give evidence at the inquest and who are to be interviewed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and Operation Resolve as part of the criminal investigation.


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Perhaps you'll get a better handle on the issue of the Great Cartoon Controversy of '06 if you consider that even a one panel drawing is still a work of art, made by an artist. And Art has been at the center of the blasphemous firestorm of Free Speech since it began and historically, religious and secular leaders have sought to contain Art and the artist somehow.
Hard to relate to the wild, murderous rioters? Then imagine the most sacred thing you can and then imagine someone taking that sacred image and making an artwork of it in the most vile and despicable of conditions. Righteous Indignation has been as common as grains of sand on the beach throughout human history.
Recently, hordes of angry emailers attacked NBC for a TV show called "The Book of Daniel" and many stations had to consider whether or not to show it. A sculpture of the works of the Ten Commandments in an Alabama courthouse brought fierce battles to the courtrooms. The scope and severity of a battle may change from one culture to another, but it is certainly a battle of great intensity. And it is about control, it is about containing the human imagination.
That pesky Freedom of Expression is still a revolutionary idea. Mix Free Will with Fundamentalism and you have an explosion waiting to occur.
Some in the American press and media are wrestling with the ideas of censorship and law and how can America maintain its leadership in the push for Freedom in these times.
Here's a few thoughts from cartoonist/writer Ted Rall:
"Being provoked, as I tell myself when I'm sitting next to Sean Hannity, doesn't justify reacting with violence. And as Kuwaiti oil executive Samia al-Duaij pointed out to Time, there are better reasons to torch embassies than over cartoons: "America kills thousands of Muslims, and you lose your head and withdraw ambassadors over a bunch of cartoons printed in a second-rate paper in a Nordic country with a population of five million? That's the true outrage.
As the only syndicated political cartoonist who also writes a syndicated column, my living depends on freedom of the press. I can't decide who's a bigger threat: the deluded Islamists who hope to impose Sharia law on Western democracies, or the right-wing clash-of-civilization crusaders waving the banner of "free speech"--the same folks who call for the censorship and even murder of anti-Bush cartoonists here--as an excuse to join the post-9/11 Muslims-suck media pile-on. Most reasonable people reject both--but neither is as dangerous to liberty as America's self-censoring newspaper editors and broadcast producers."
Read the whole column here.
And more from editorial writer John Leo considers whether or not all this is a matter of "being civil" and admits his argument fails as:
" ... pressure to avoid publishing things that offend Muslims has been rising, particularly when death threats are made or expected. [Journalist Oriana] Fallaci, the target of many such threats, is said to be in hiding in New York. Nobody knows how many death threats have arisen from the cartoon dispute. Under the circumstances, civility might emerge as less important than standing up now to the danger of censorship through fear."


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Luke 24:36-53 Common English Bible (CEB)
Jesus appears to the disciples
36 While they were saying these things, Jesus himself stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 37 They were terrified and afraid. They thought they were seeing a ghost.
38 He said to them, "Why are you startled? Why are doubts arising in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and my feet. It's really me! Touch me and see, for a ghost doesn't have flesh and bones like you see I have." 40 As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet. 41 Because they were wondering and questioning in the midst of their happiness, he said to them, "Do you have anything to eat?" 42 They gave him a piece of baked fish. 43 Taking it, he ate it in front of them.
44 Jesus said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the Law from Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled." 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures. 46 He said to them, "This is what is written: the Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and a change of heart and life for the forgiveness of sins must be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 Look, I'm sending to you what my Father promised, but you are to stay in the city until you have been furnished with heavenly power."
Ascension of Jesus
50 He led them out as far as Bethany, where he lifted his hands and blessed them. 51 As he blessed them, he left them and was taken up to heaven. 52 They worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem overwhelmed with joy. 53 And they were continuously in the temple praising God.
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www.common-place.org · vol. 4 · no. 1 · October 2003
David Waldstreicher teaches history at the University of Notre Dame and is the author of In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (Chapel Hill, 1997) and editor of Thomas Jeffersons Notes on the State of Virginia and Related Documents (New York, 2002) and The Struggle Against Slavery: A History in Documents (New York, 2002). He is currently finishing Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution.
"Jefferson repeatedly relied on the common symbol of homespun, much as he wore the best clothes he could find while in France, but when he dressed even further down as president he knew that his slippers would be understood differently by different people."
Redressing Early America
Review by David Waldstreicher
Hats off to Linda Baumgarten and Colonial Williamsburg. They have put together a book that is an exhibit catalogue, synthesis, and a piece of decorative art itself. Like the museum, What Clothes Reveal is worth its high price of admission.
The books jacket reveals the ambition and the splendor: not one but five mens suit coats from the eighteenth century grace the cover, layered as if being displayed for a genteel purchaser. Each one is carefully wrought, down to the dozen or so fabric-covered buttons. The back flap features four pairs of womens shoes, in bluish green, tan, and a beige-ish yellow, arranged in a circle, toes tastefully pointed inward . . . exquisite, really. There are more than 350 illustrations of mens and womens fashions in the volumeartifacts from the collection and period illustrations that fill in the gaps. As in contemporary exhibits, sidebars, projected on what appears to be a blue linen background, address particular issues and problems like bed gowns, the confusing names of imported fabrics, how suits were made to fit, and the "Scarlett OHara myth" of tight corsets and tiny waists. If you are interested in how and why stomachers were worn, or how our founding mothers managed lactation fashionably, or who wore breeches and whenand you like to see what you are reading aboutthen this is the book for you.
In thematic chapters What Clothes Reveal seeks out the general public and scholars alike. Baumgarten begins with perhaps the most interesting question of all: how did these clothes survive? How do they make it into a museum? The introduction and first chapter serve as a primer on connoisseurship and some of the basics of eighteenth-century clothing: styles, court dress, undergarments, fabrics. Some of the most beautiful costume pieces adorn these first chapters.
We then move on, as the fashion history scholarship has, to questions of meaning. And here the work gets more general, introducing contemporary material culture scholars perspectives on how everyday lifes meaning is mediated by, understood through, and thus best recaptured by objects. As the subtitle reveals, Baumgarten employs the structuralist notion of dress as a system of meaning, being akin to a language. A fashion is like a trope, an article of clothing like a word well or ill chosen from a widely shared but culturally bounded repertoire. This explanationitself a metaphorhas its limitations. It snags especially on the eighteenth centurys own penchant for metaphors of clothing.
For example, Thomas Jeffersons famous rapprochement with his old friend and political enemy John Adams occurred after Adams, cheekily complimenting him as a "Friend to American Manufactures . . . of the domestic kind," sent him "two Pieces of Homespun": his son John Quincy Adamss leather-clad Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (1810). The package of books got separated from the letter, so Jefferson did not get the joke at first, thinking that there were actual textiles from Braintree on their way south. The thought inspired him to wax poetic in his response to Adams about the "economy and thriftiness" that placed one sheep for every person on Virginia farms, increased production of cotton, hemp, and flax, and ultimately made "every family in the country a manufactory within itself." After Adams then explained about the books, Jefferson apologized for his flight of rhetoric. Adams replied that such words had been exactly what he had wantedsuggesting that each man sought to continue a conversation that had always mixed national politics and the stuff of everyday life.
Such rhetorical and archival (not to mention presidential) stuff may seem far removed from the material and artifactual realities clarified by Baumgartens study and the visit to the museum it permitsbut is it really? Adams knew very well Jeffersons penchant for dressing up and dressing down to make political points, as when he had greeted the British ambassador and spouse in his "down at the heels" slippers. (Adamss own great-grandson Henry, with his usual combination of brio and solid research, would later observe that "Jefferson, at moments of some interest in his career as President, seemed to regard his peculiar style of dress as a matter of political importance, while the Federalist newspapers never ceased ridiculing the corduroy small-clothes, red-plush waistcoat, and sharp-toed boots with which he expressed his contempt for fashion.") The point is that some analytical distinction between language and clothing needs to be kept in order to appreciate how historical actors interwove them.
The structuralist approach tends to conflate language and other aspects of culture. As a result, common meanings are stressed and specific, often political actions are underrated. What we gain in Baumgartens approach, for example, to James Fenimore Coopers close attention to clothing in his (not coincidentally named) Leatherstocking tales, we lose in her assumption that Cooper mainly reveals widely shared myths about the recent frontier past. The problem is not that Americans did not imagine leather goods like hunting shirts and moccasins as part of a self-sufficient, passing frontier past. Baumgarten rightly calls such beliefs myths, reminding us several times that neither Americans not Indians were self-sufficient with respect to clothing during the eighteenth century, except for brief and highly politicized intervals. The problem is that seeing Cooper as someone who captured existing myths makes it hard to see how, as Alan Taylor pointed out in William Coopers Town, he was also creating them, for purposes at once personal and political.
Not everyone agreed about the meanings clothing revealed, even if they would have agreed that clothing had meaning. Perhaps the uses of clothing became more creative during this period precisely because of such disagreements. Certainly slaves and other working people found meanings and uses for clothing they made, acquired, and altered that the original owners of those gowns and jackets would not have acknowledged. Jefferson repeatedly relied on the common symbol of homespun, much as he wore the best clothes he could find while in France, but when he dressed even further down as president he knew that his slippers would be understood differently by different people. As Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has suggested, it may be time for the very material as well as symbolic complexities of clothing to guide our understanding of culture and history. Clothing may make a better metaphor for culture than language makes for clothing.
Fortunately What Clothes Reveal does not get caught in the tight-spun webs of myth. Baumgarten does a tremendous service in comparing ordinary and fancy clothing. She does even better by stressing the common threads. Dress historians have successfully pieced together the scraps of evidence that show how high and plain styles both overlapped and differed in a period when clothing, because of its great value, was regularly recycled. Instead of apologizing for the non-American origins of most of the textiles in the collection, Baumgarten details the adaptation of metropolitan styles to colonial and American contexts, a running theme of the study. A final chapter explores subsequent alterations and returns to the artifacts themselves, many of which are not in their original shape. Refreshingly, there is not a whiff of condescension in this work toward any maker or wearer of clothing. Because they shared and shaped the goods, and because of the beauty and usefulness of what they created and adapted, for Baumgarten early Americans join a democracy of meaning-making, one which opens up the subject rather than restricting it to textile experts and collectors.
Id still rather have just one of those suits in my closet. Imagine the effect on my students were I to give my "consumer revolution" lecture in period attire! But I will settle, happily, for the book on my shelf.
Further Reading:
The exciting possibilities of clothing as the "stuff" of early American history have been demonstrated by, among others, Jonathan Prude, "To Look Upon the Lower Sort: Runaway Ads and the Appearance of Unfree Labor in America, 1750-1800," Journal of American History 78 (1991): 124-60; Karin Calvert, "The Function of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America" in Cary Carson, Ronald Hoffman, and Peter J. Albert eds., Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Charlottesville, Va., 1994), 252-84; James Axtell, "The First Consumer Revolution," Beyond 1492 (New York, 1992); Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities (New York, 1992), esp. chap. 3; Shane White and Graham White, Stylin: African American Expressive Culture from Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit (Ithaca, N.Y., 1998); Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth (New York, 2001); Michael Zakim, "Sartorial Ideologies: From Homespun to Ready-Made," American Historical Review 106 (December 2001): 1553-1586; Catherine Anne Haulman, "The Empires New Clothes: The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth Century British North America" (Ph.D diss., Cornell University, 2002). My own sampler projects appear as "Reading the Runaways: Self-Fashioning, Print Culture, and Confidence in Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic," William and Mary Quarterly 56 (1999), esp. 250-54, and "Why Thomas Jefferson and African Americans Wore Their Politics on their Sleeves: Dress and Politics Between American Revolutions" in Jeffrey Pasley, Andrew Robertson, and David Waldstreicher, eds., Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to the Political History of the Early American Republic (Chapel Hill, forthcoming).
The Adams and Jefferson letters referred to are John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 1 January; 3, 10 February 1812; Jefferson to Adams, 21, 23 January 1812, in Lester J. Cappon ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters (Chapel Hill, 1959), 2:290-97. The passage from Henry Adams is in his History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson (1889-91. repr. New York, 1986), 126-27.
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We have taken a look at ways to harness the ocean's immense power before but this alternative energy solutions is slightly different. Using subsea moorings and 100′ diameter turbines this solution targets Gulf Stream currents to produce power. Inhabitat.com tells us;
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Look for the first prototype to be launched by Dania Beach Florida based Center of Excellence in Ocean Energy Technology in the first quarter of 2008.
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At this past ASI in March, I finally got to take a look at the Game Gate VU, a coin-operated kiosk that would allow operators to place an Xbox 360 or a PS3 on location and they could legally place certain games in said kiosks. I do not believe that it is available yet but it already has some competition coming along, promising to do virtually the same thing but with a different platform – the PC.
Called the "eSpot Gaming Extreme", this is a coin-operated cabinet that will allow people to surf the internet and play several licensed PC games from companies like Valve, Ubisoft and more. Initially they plan on having 27 titles available, including Left 4 Dead, Far Cry 2, Hawx, CounterStrike, and others. They have an agreement to include most EA titles on the platform, minus titles like Need For Speed and PGA Golf which are licensed for coin-op amusement with GlobalVR. Right now they are promising to distribute the game in Europe, Russia and the Middle East with the possibility of a release in North/Central/South America and Asia later on.


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[Special Issue] Cheap and Cheery! A Complete Guide to Japan's Izakaya
In Japan, there are many [Izakaya] (Japanese pubs) that serve fantastic food at reasonable prices. They are popular not only among Japanese people, but also among tourists. This article introduces basic facts about izakaya, along with information and tips on how best to enjoy them.


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Kinki University to Straighten Out Name
What's in a name?
If it's Kinki University, probably more than was intended.
Which is why the school has finally decided to change it.
Kinki University, a prestigious institution of higher learning located in the Kinki area of western Japan that includes the major industrial city of Osaka, said this week it would change its official English name to Kindai University because of the undesirable connotations its current name suggests to English speakers.


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I'm very excited about Mitt Romney adding Paul Ryan to the Republican ticket for the 2012 presidential election. The reason is that with all of the debate going on in the country Paul Ryan has put forward a budget with specifics that is a concrete manifestation of their view of government. It gives us something to talk about other than a string of abstract platitudes regarding what government should be. We can argue whether government should be big or small, but each vision has consequences. The Ryan budget lays it out. Now, I would love it if Barak Obama would also put forth a similar budget. Something specific. Something that we can compare side-by-side. The fact that the Democrats haven't even passed a budget in the past 3 years is a travesty in its own right.
We can have a real debate about what we would like this country to be like. I'm excited about this because with the Ryan budget we can really battle it out, over specifics about what it means. Hopefully, we can all decide what we want in this election, and have our debate, and then who ever wins – wins. Perhaps then, instead of muddling around, we can move forward on some path.


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With the help of a dispatcher, several medics, and her husband, a Northwest D.C. woman gave birth to a healthy baby along Nebraska Avenue.
Dan Swanson said he and his pregnant wife left their home near the National Zoo to head to Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring last Wednesday morning.
"My wife said, 'You gotta pull over, we're not going to make it,'" Swanson said. "Of course, I floored it, but she said, 'You need to pull over right now!'"
Swanson pulled the car into a driveway along Nebraska Avenue near Military Road, and called 911. Trouble was, he gave the wrong address to dispatcher Marcellus Banks. Crews eventually made their way to the correct spot thanks to Banks' quick thinking.
"If it would have been another 15 seconds, I would have had to catch [the baby]!" Swanson said.
"I had to let them know as long as we're on the phone, [responders] were on their way too," Banks said.
News4 was there this week as Swanson thanked the dispatcher and the responders for their quick response. "You all stepped up and really helped us," he said.
"The baby's doing well and we're excited about that," D.C. Firefighter Lamont Veney said.
This was at least the fourth baby born in an unexpected place in the region this month. On Aug. 1, a baby boy made his grand entrance on the platform of the L'Enfant Metro station. Two weeks later, a baby girl was born in a car alongside I-270. And just on Tuesday, a boy was born in a car that was pulled over on I-95 in Elkridge, Md.


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People sometimes have a hard time wrapping their brain around the fact that I blog about music and I'm also a yoga instructor. And if I'm a music blogger, why am I always talking about film, TV or yoga? It actually makes perfect sense to me... or rather non-sense. As a person who tends toward over thinking, I'm drawn to experiences that help silence the never-ending game of telephone that goes on in my own head. What appeals to me about yoga and the cultivation of inner stillness, is the same refuge that I seek through great art and storytelling. It's through the expanding of my heart that I am able to quiet the mind, which ultimately enables me to better express my own voice. Some days are easier than others, but like anything, it's a work in progress with hopefully no end-all in sight.
Take for example, the HBO show Enlightened. Last year immediately upon seeing the first episode, I posted a blog applauding the series and the use of the poignant Regina Spektor song "Human of the Year" at the close of the premiere episode. It perfectly expressed the sentiment of the show, in which Laura Dern's character so convincingly explores the struggles we all face in trying to get to the heart of our inner truth without blowing it along the way.
The subject of personal growth is one I connect to, but it surprises me the series hasn't appealed to a larger audience and the future is uncertain. It's ironic that the show about trying to pull it all together after some unraveling is now hanging by a thread... awaiting HBO's decision to renew for another season. I don't claim to be overly enlightened but I find it to be one of the most insightful and thoughtfully written shows on television. Each week I'm amazed at how brilliantly creator, writer and actor Mike White weaves together these soul-searching characters and scenarios. (The "Following" episode alone, exploring our insatiable need for social media connection, should earn him the award for human of the year.)
Though the show is teamed next to Girls it hasn't enjoyed the same popularity. Maybe it's because no one knows about it and it's not getting the same publicity. Or maybe it's because floundering just isn't as funny when you're well past your 20s. We point and gawk at it when it's on reality TV but maybe the raw and authentic emotion of it all bubbles a little too close to the fictitious surface. But that's exactly what makes it compelling. The teetering between heart wrenching and heartwarming or profound and pathetic is stuff we all grapple with on a daily basis. Regardless of how life plays out, aren't we all in our own way, trying to make some sense of it?
It's almost as if Mike White is wrestling with his own inner dialogue and expressing it through the words of his characters and unknowingly questioning the fate of his show's future. On one hand, slacker boss Dougie responds to corporate layoff with, "Life's a sneaky bitch... Just when you build your castle, here comes the fucking tidal wave." But then, his own character Tyler, finally hoping to get a little piece of the of the pie asks in earnest, "Can't this have a happy ending for everyone?" With the season and possible series finale this weekend, let's hope it's the latter and HBO sees the light and doesn't blow it.


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Every parade enthusiast can name the one act or feature that simply passes too fast.
For some, it's the floats. Others want to spend more time with the Grand Marshal. And still others love to gaze upon the saddled set.
But a lot of people long for a longer moment with the bands. After all, regardless of where you sit on a route, you'll likely only hear a portion of a song (cheers to the bands that stop and linger for a whole set).
But Bandfest is all about stretching out that special moment. It's a two-day party spotlighting the marching bands of the Rose Parade, meaning fans can sit in the Robinson Stadium stands at Pasadena City College and get all the brassy, beautiful music they need.
The most musical of the Tournament of Roses events is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 30 and Saturday, Dec. 31. There will be three sessions of band playing over the two days, and you can bet some buffs'll be at each one. The bands are "award-winning," say the parade organizers, so count on seeing some sharp choreography and some spangly, crisp uniforms (yep, we love the uniforms so).
Admission to a session is $15. For parking info and times, check out the Tournament of Roses site.
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Welcome to November's Matthew 5:16 Project!
If you remember, the idea behind this year-long project is to challenge us to live intentionally and in such a way that our actions point others to God… resulting in His PRAISE.
- January's project – Replacing lies with the TRUTH of who we are.
- February's project – Learning about God's active love.
- March's project – Owning our sin and receiving His forgiveness.
- April's project – Using our words for good… to bless others.
- June's project – Making the right choices in life.
- September's project – Choosing joy.
- October's project – Taking every thought captive.
November's project is a reminder to refocus our cluttered calendars on what's important. You're gonna love it.
By the amazing, Amanda Barnes…
November is upon us which means the end of the year is quickly approaching. The days keep flying off my calendar faster than the leaves are falling off my trees.
And I am aware… very aware… that Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. They are by far my favorite holidays because the offer:
- Familiar traditions
- Yummy food
- Fun celebrations
- Time with family and friends
But I know that with these holidays comes the potential for chaos and madness. Especially if I don't get in front of it… now.
So this year – in an attempt to keep a very intentional perspective on God throughout the rest of 2012 – my family has joined me in deciding to put God and family first this year.
We want the holidays to be about the holidays… not about every possible activity and event that we run across. Even though there are lots of good stuff out there, like school programs, parties, shopping, events, fundraisers, etc.
You see.. all of those thing have the ability to steal our focus.
And when that happen, we see changes at home.
- Our conversations are interrupted by distractions.
- We don't make time for each other.
- We don't connect with God as a family.
It's not how we want things to be.
So, we had a family meeting so we could set expectations for this coming holiday season now rather than find ourselves frustrated later. And we have declared the month of November as a month of WORSHIP.
We want togetherness in heart and spirit and mind.
We want to be a family who will intentionally PRAISE our God – together.
And we feel that in order to stand strong against the pull of our culture to be all and do all to everyone … we need to be united at home.
- United in what we believe.
- United in who (or what) we will worship.
- United in FAITH in The ONE True GOD.
- United by prayer and worship.
- United by intentionally putting God at the head of our home and dinner table.
So this month, as we prepare to offer thanks with our country, we will offer thanks to God for what we have… today.
The big and little things.
We will Praise God for WHO He is and WHAT He has done for us.
WE will share testimony of HIS GOODness.
We will read scripture chosen by a different family member each day.
We will read the scripture in various translations for deeper understanding.
And we will sing and worship out loud together, offering up PRAISE to God.
Now we realize it might not look Norman Rockwell-ish – but God knows our heart and our intentions. And we intend to put HIM first.
You see, we want to slow down and simplify life so we can keep our EYES on the PRIZE.
We want to enter into the Christmas season with softer hearts and spirits hungry for JESUS.
And we know if we don't pause and really look around… we can get caught up in the glitter and glitz of it all. We can get sucked into the busyness of the season.
I invite you to join us.
- Will you invest in the relationships of those who sleep under your roof?
- Will you offer sacrifices of praise to The God who made you?
- Will you put your family above all of the other voices that will clamor for your attention?
- Will you say no to the requests and 'demands' of the world so that as a family you can pause for reflection on what this LIFE is really all about?
This won't be easy, because saying "no" is hard sometimes.
But we've decided we want a simpler version of the holidays. And as a family, we want to focus on Jesus and each other.
It's our HOPE that as we draw in close, we'll end the year with a more refreshed and contented family.
So here's our plan:
Each day, our family is going to spend time together reading scripture… praying… and worshiping.
We're going to get back to the basics.
Need scripture ideas? Check these out:
Need worship song ideas? Try these:
Undignified – David Crowder Band
Good Morning – Mandisa
Only One – Jaye Thomas
No One Like Jehovah – Kelanie Gloeckler
He is Faithful – Bryan and Katie Torwalt
All Consuming Fire – Jesus Culture
Holy Ghost Party – Cory Asbury
I Love Your Presence – Bethel Live
The Word of God has Spoken – Travis Cottrell
Wounded One – Davy Flowers
Friends… may you find peace in the journey of intentionally fighting for what matters. May you be blessed as you press into God's heart and may you rest in knowing God is pleased with our humble attempts to teach the next generation that nothing matters more… than LOVING God with ALL that is within us.
© 2012 careyscotttalks.com, Amanda Barnes
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I've been interested in songwriting process for a long time, although I think it's only in the past 5 or so years that I've thought of it in terms of an actual process. I played in several bands in high school and college and somehow we managed to create songs without really planning the construction of them too much. After having gone through an MFA program, I've become a lot more aware of and interested in specific processes that people use. Not least in part to studying some of the process of John Cage. Continue reading
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is making music only for the young?
An elliott live video that I hadn't seen before popped up on youtube today. Dated 1998, it really made me think about how cool it is that these guys had such proficiency at what they were doing at a relatively young age. ..and not only that, but they had also gone a long way to develop their own artistic style – I was going to say art form, but rock music wasn't new, and there was a whole community even in just their geography.. but still, what they were doing had some new elements. I think that's got to be a really fulfilling situation to be in. Very self directed.
"Local" music / "The history of Lafayette Music according to Pat McClimans"
There's some allure for me in music attached to a geography that I also am attached to. Last week I watched a documentary called "It's Gonna Blow: San Diego's Music Underground 1986-1996". It was pretty good. I've gathered some "dots" of information about the San Diego music scene past, but this helped me connect them and make a little more sense of it.
Hearing about some of this stuff in a chronological context reminded me a lot of some things that I saw and heard about in Lafayette. In my formative years (1998-ish) there, I ran a local music website, and at one point around 2001, my friend Pat was kind enough to write me a fairly comprehensive history of the Lafayette music scene from his vantage point. It coincides with the timespan covered in the aforementioned movie quite well, and I'd guess that similar other stories across the country match too. Kind of a Dischord Records to post-Seattle era. I can't tell if this was a particularly good window of time for music, or if I'm just partial because it's when I was young and into music.
Anyway, here's Pat's history of Lafayette music: Continue reading
On the topic of pop music driving anti-intellectualism..
As I'm trying to establish myself here in San Diego, I've found that I'm gravitating towards music again. I'm just a few blocks from a great concert venue that a lot of locals and larger names play, and I think that finding myself in that fray reminds me how much accumulated knowledge, and maybe even skill I have in the area.
While I've been thinking more deeply philosophically about music, expression and identity, I bumped into a couple of interesting articles. The first, The Assault on Intellect: How Popular Music's Lyrics Perpetuate American Idiocy cites work by Andrew Powell-Morris on the topic of "Lyrical Intelligence" wherein the author uses some rubric to determine the reading level of lyrics on the billboard charts over the past 10 years and graphs it all out. The takeaway is that lyrically, pop music is getting dumber.
I don't necessarily agree with the metric – I think I'd like to somehow measure the depth of the themes of the songs as well as the instrumental maturity.. but nevertheless, it's a pretty interesting idea, and one that has crossed my mind in the past. Notably, I remember a paraphrase from a friend back in Lafayette on the topic of local bands – "I don't like local bands; They all try to make their music difficult". The last half of that certainly has some salience to me. I remember playing in one of my longer running bands, Summerfield, and trying so hard to create something original and challenging. I've come to understand this as something of an appeal to ego, but doesn't make me value it any less. I think the flip side is a band that can go play a three chord song that people enjoy dancing to. Both are valid in their own ways.. Why I'm attracted more to the former, I don't know. Leaving a lasting mark? Advancing an artform? Self fulfillment from conquering a challenge?
Back to the literature review though.. I saw another article around the same time that referenced a GZA interview on the topic of the absence of lyricism in modern hip-hop. I've heard a little of this material before in other interviews with the rapper, but this was a broader collection of ideas. GZA's criteria of quality aren't that well organized, but I'll attempt to capture them in bullet point format here:
- lyrical
- Strong
- Fresh
- New
- discussing the art of MCing
- good analogies
- good wordplay
- good sentence structure
- good visuals
- not about negative things (?)
- having a message
- telling a great story
- grabbing you / pulling you in
- understanding life
- witty
- intellectual
- smart rhymes
- clever rhymes
I see three main themes in these items.. The first is embracing a kind of "meta" culture – describing your rapping skills, and maybe even bragging about them. This is definitely a prominent element in most music styles, but I'm not sure if is really a strong thread in what makes lyrics "good", at least not for me, from a critical viewpoint.
Storytelling is another theme mentioned by GZA. This one definitely resonates with me and I've often cited a good story as the main driver for my preference of hip hop songs. In an era of popular artists bragging about material possessions and success at dubious endeavors, hearing a good story can make a difference.
The last, and largest theme in GZA's list of preferred qualities seems to be a general intellectual depth and thoughtfulness. Both in terms of being a person with a broad knowledge to draw from but also displaying an aptitude for abstract thinking. This, I think, most relates to the example I cited above about local bands. GZA's motivations to be creative, innovative and intellectual may be ego driven, but they do also push the envelope of what other artists are doing.
Looping back to the Lyrical intelligence rating, I suspect the criteria used there would probably call GZA's works less intelligent since the main metric is application of grammar rules – something that is less important to the artist than the wit and craftiness he imbues.
So what?
I guess I wrote this all out to start a conversation with myself about how to make smarter music. I'm going to forego the question of whether challenging music is better or worse than simple music. What is "good" to me? and how would one integrate the conversational tradition of most music lyrics with something more heady?
Music that matters (to me) – Waltham/Damone
There are ongoing themes in my listening habits; at the most fundamental, bands that I tend to revisit occasionally. Sometimes it's more about the body of work of a specific musican or group of musicians. In this case, I wanted to post about a couple of bands that I keep coming back to, and the common denominator is guitarist Dave Pino.
I think my introduction to Pino was the band Damone, and specifically their album "From the Attic" which saw major label release on RCA in '03. (a version of it had previously been self released as "This Summer" under the band name "Noelle") I really wish I could remember how I found this album, but I'm totally drawing a blank. It was around the time that I was the operating station manager for the short lived Purdue Student Radio station which would be the sensible discovery avenue, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't. I do know that the single "Frustrated Unnoticed" was the first song I heard, and it felt like a different production style than the rest of the record, but regardless, "From the Attic" was, and continues to be a very captivating album for me. The lyrics were all penned by Pino, supposedly as a means to get back a girl who had dumped him. A band was formed around these songs when Pino encountered Noelle LeBlanc, then still in high school. On this album in particular, Noelle's inexperienced yet honest vocal delivery is the perfect match for the adolescent-ish tales of lost love. This feature is something that I've struggled to explain to people who are used to well polished and professional singers. There's just something real and personal about it.
Here's a very early public access in-studio of the band complete with the oddball-ness of Pino rocking a doubleneck SG; apparently the norm for him while in this band:
It must have been around 2006 when I found out about the band, because I remember their second album surfacing. I had been telling people how cool Damone was, and they would go listen to the couple of early release tracks on myspace (sic) and tell me I was stupid because the band was terrible. The band had very much changed. Instead of the 80's influenced pop-rocking featured on "From the Attic", the new record, "Out Here All Night" was showing a lot more thrash metal influence, while keeping the power-pop choruses in place. Noelle's performance was a lot more confident, no doubt built up from years of playing shows. It lost some of the charm though, I think. Another really obvious thing was the absence of Pino from the videos. He's still credited for the album, but I question what level he was involved.. As I encountered more of his body of work, it seems like this material wasn't as much "him". The band released a third album in '09, but to be honest, I haven't even listened. I think I'm only in it for the first one. Apparently the band has folded, but Noelle continues with solo work as well as a band called The Organ Beats.
At some point I realized that Pino was really the mastermind behind the Damone record that I enjoyed so much, and I started digging to see what he was up to after leaving Damone. There were a few bits and pieces out there. Notably, this youtube video of his process in learning to throw a guitar around his body, a showmanship bit that had some popularity at the time. (I must admit I suffered some injuries attempting the same myself)
There were also a handful of really cool guitar lesson videos he had done, breaking down some of the more difficult parts of Damone songs. Here's the only one I can find that's still on youtube:
Perhaps the most relevant thing I found though was Pino's previous band Waltham, (to those of us not from the east coast, it's pronounced "Walth Am") and this great little bio pic that someone made of them:
The whole angle is great. it's kind of a slightly modernized take on 80's stuff like Rick Springfield. It's kind of gimmicky, but still good enough to enjoy. In my excitement about the band, I started telling friends, and oddly, a couple of people I knew were aware of these guys. My buddy John had been living out in Boston and recognized some of the guys in the band from their day jobs at Guitar Center. My friend Karen who had lived in Sommerville told me about the Pizza place that Dave's father owned.
Showing a bit of a pattern, the band continued but Dave was gone. The 2003 release "Permission to Build" had all the same charming Pino features that Damone's "From the Attic" did, but the follow up EPs were lack luster. Still the band made a major label run in '05 with some touring through Germany. After a long hiatus, they put out another collection of songs through band camp in 2013 as "Wicked Waltham" but it seems like they only play new years eve events and the occasional charity show at this point. Still, they left behind some good music and some entertaining, albeit slightly hokey videos like this one:
Pino now seems to be a bit of a hired gun, playing with the band Powerman 5000 and Andrew W. K.
Greasers Palace – Lafayette bands of yesteryear
I've been on something of a sabbatical for the last few months. Partially I just couldn't stand to think about academia anymore, and partially I needed to take a time out to try to figure out who I am as a person at this point in my life. (Perhaps I'll touch on this in a later post)
During this time of self directed listlessness, one of the things I've picked up on is how important music is in my life despite my self-imposed absence from participation in it the past several years. Part of this has involved catching some of my favorite bands of olden times who are now re-activated, like Braid, who I saw in Chicago recently in support of their new record and Failure who seem to be giving it another go. Additionally, I do a fair amount of reminiscing about Lafayette bands that I knew personally.
A week ago I was poking around youtube, and happened to find a pile of videos from Greasers Palace, a band that was active in the 2002-2005 ish timeframe. When I first met these guys, it was during the era of "Tazzma's Rock 'O Rama", a sketchy venue in the spot on 6th street that has hosted Luckey's, Mixerz, Downtown Records, The Venue, and most recently an installation gallery show by Purdue Visual and Performing Arts grad students. At the time, their music was a weird amalgam. There was a lot of Marilyn Manson influence; an element of shock showmanship, and offbeat instrumentation like theremin and Q Chord. At this point there was also a hint of John Mellencamp influence, which later became more prominent. The music was interesting, but a little chaotic. At the time, it was kind of a high point for me in terms of a happy, networked music scene, and these guys played a big role in that, I think. They were friendly with most of the other bands they encountered, and cool to me as well, so we became friends.
Here's an audio recording of one of their sets at Tazzma's around this time:
Over time their sound evolved, and more of the typical punk rock influences came in. The Mellencamp vibe came in more too. While it's worth mentioning that Seth and Elijah, the two brothers in the band were from Southern Indiana, and the 'Coug could be counted as a role model, I was never quite sure if the Mellencamp thing was tongue in cheek or serious. I think initially, I viewed it as a joke, but it caused me to go a little deeper into his catalog, and I eventually found myself taking him seriously. I guess it's similar to the way people view Journey? Anyway, as a hoosier, I now have a pretty good appreciation for Mellencamp's perspective even though I still laugh at him from time to time. A few selected hilarities:
"But you must believe that when I walk down the tracks
All those young girls fall back and say
There goes that sleek young silhouette
He don't drive no Corvette
But he stings just like a Sting Ray"
—Chestnut Street Revisited
"I've seen lots of things
But I have not seen a lot of other things"
—You've Got to Stand For Something
At about this point I started helping them record. This was more an element of convenience for everyone than a business transaction. I think they'd recorded at a studio somewhere and didn't like it or it was hard to schedule or something, and there also wasn't a lot of money flowing around.. Plus, they had some decent equipment including a little BOSS recording workstation, I think it was a VS-890. I may be wrong, but I think my payment for recording them was getting to use the BOSS recorder to do a Jim-Jims album later which ended up being "Here it comes!", probably my favorite album that I recorded. At the time, I think John Gordon had moved on to Boston, meaning the usual recording space that we had been living in was gone, but I think I still had some of the equipment around, so we set up in the living room of Casey, the drummer's house that the band was practicing in.
I ran the session in what became my standard documentary style. We set up live, with amps semi isolated in different rooms, and the drums in the living room. Micing was all pretty basic. I don't think I had anything fancy. I remember that there was a good balance on the two guitar tones. Their bass player had disappeared at some point prior, so they went with a two guitar/vox/drums arrangement that really worked for them. Elijah was using a bandmaster set to an almost muddy tone; lots of low end. he played mostly drop D barres, and the tone fit the style. I can't remember what Seth was playing through.. Something a little more high gain with a slight harshness. Maybe the tubeworks or a marshall of some kind. I think we got everything live. Vox and guitar solos may have been overdubbed, but I don't think so. I remember that the band was adamant that the vocals be low in the mix and they wanted a little distortion on them. I think I used a terrible ART TubeMP for that task. I didn't realize it at the time, but Elijah didn't have lyrics for all the songs and Seth didn't have guitar leads/solos. In more recent listens, I've been able to catch some mumbling where the words weren't done, and for one of the solos, I recommended that Seth just play the tapping part from AC/DCs thunderstruck; which he did, and I think it sounds ok.
I guess it's all a little fuzzy at this point. I feel like I did two 4 song sessions with them, but I really only remember one. Maybe we recorded something at Tazzma's during the day? I don't know. Four of the songs ended up becoming the Tatonka EP – Brown Bottle Blues, Transmission, Straight Shooter and 9" Chamber. A few more ended up being their "Going to Arizona" demo – Road to Damascus, Immortal Class, and Battle Flag. I really enjoy that I was around to see the evolution of what these guys were doing, and I'm also really glad to have known them. They were great friends. Once Seth and Elijah graduated, all of them moved to Arizona, and they continued on as a band for a while, but I think it petered out as everyone established adult lives. The last time I heard from any of them, Casey was still playing in a band, but that was admittedly many years ago.
Here are youtube videos for some of the songs I did with them:
Design and Music: Louis Kahn – Order Is
I seem to be picking up pieces of the idea that musical composition is design. I mean, it's clear that it is, but I think many don't think of it in the same what that we think of visual design, but there are parallels both philosophically and pragmatically. I'm going to try to start documenting the bits that I find. Here is the first – Order Is by Louis Kahn.
Design is form-making in order
Form emerges out of a system of construction
Growth is a construction – In order is creative force
In design is the means – where with what when with how much
The nature of space reflects what it wants to be
Is the auditorium a Stradivarius
or an ear
Is the auditorium a creative instrument
keyed to Bach or Bartók
played by the conductor
or is it a conventional hall
In the nature of space is the spirit and the will to exist in a certain way
Design must follow closely that will
Therefore a stripe-painted horse is not a zebra
Before a railroad station is a building
it wants to be a street
it grows out of the needs of the street
out of the order of movement
A meeting of contours englazed.
Through the nature – why
Through the order – what
Through the design – how
A form emerges from the structural elements inherent in the form.
A dome is not conceived when questions arise how to build it.
Nervi grows an arch
Fuller grows a dome
Mozart's compositions are designs
They are exercises of order – intuitive
Design encourages more designs
Designs derive their imagery from order
Imagery is the memory – the form
Style is an adopted order
The same order created the elephant and created man
They are different designs
Begun from different aspirations
Shaped from different circumstances
Order does not imply Beauty
The same order created the dwarf and Adonis
Design is not making beauty
Beauty emerges from selection
Art is a form-making life in order – psychic
Order is intangible
It is a level of creative consciousness
forever becoming higher in level
The higher the order the more diversity in design
Order supports integration
From what the space wants to be the unfamiliar way may be revealed to the architect.
From order he will derive creative force and power of self-criticism to give form to this unfamiliar.
Beauty will evolve.


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Do You Offer Media Mail?
We most certainly do. But this mailing option is only valid for orders that consist of records, posters, or any other format we carry besides apparel. If you place a order with apparel items included and have selected the "Media Mail" option. Your order will be cancelled and not processed.
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24 days, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
What Is A "Preorder Item"?
Pre-order items are sold prior to shipping date. A Shipping date will be stated when an item is up for sale. These dates are a rough aproximation on when the item will be ready to ship and not 100%. Please keep that in mind when ordering. If you order an item that is not a pre-order along with a pre-order item they will both be shipped when the pre-order is ready.
I Received an Apparel Item And It Differs A Bit From The Images Shown On The Shop, What Gives?
All of the photos on our webstore are mock images, and not actual photos. There may be some differences from what photos are on the product page.
What Countries Do You Ship To?
We ship all International orders via USPS. International orders ship within 3 business days of ordering and usually take between 2-4 weeks to arrive at their destination. Depending on customs and where you live it can take up to 6 weeks. Orders can take a significant amount of time to reach their destination. Please keep in mind that postal Holidays, weekends, and inclement weather can/will effect delivery times.
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You can pay with a Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express credit card or PayPal. We also accept Money Order and personal check. Your orders will not be shipped or processed until we receive these payments. Please contact us before hand if you are going to pay via money order or check.
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Arnulf Lindner
Arnulf Lindner's relationship with music began at an early age, when he joined a rock band at the age of ten as a bass player. Dissatisfied with the limits of his musical knowledge, he wanted to attend music academy in order to learn double bass and piano. Arnulf studied those two instruments at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, gaining a diploma and also completing additional studies in composition and music analysis. He then attended the Hochschule für Musik in Graz for five years, studying double bass, electric bass, piano and arrangement. Since 1990, he has been working as a professional musician in a wide range of styles.
In 1998, Arnulf founded the music label em-el (Emotional Electronics) together with Dieter Kolbeck, who now plays and produces for Hubert von Goisern's ex-Alpinkatzen singer, Zabine. A year later, Arnulf and Dieter released an album The Ballads of Francois Villon, a crossover of techno, drum 'n' bass, jungle, rock elements and traditional songwriting.
Arnulf moved to London in 1999, the home of the music he loves. He then returned to Austria to play bass guitar and double bass with Hubert von Goisern's live band for the first part of the Fön/Trad tour. He was later replaced by Antonio Porto from Brazil. Arnulf then returned to the UK, where he played with Ed Harcourt for a few years. He has also toured with such big names as Cerys Matthews and Paul Heaton, and recorded with Richard Ashcroft, Brett Anderson, Bertine Zetlitz, Anjali and Pleasure.
At the beginning of 2003, Arnulf was one of a small group of musicians whom Hubert von Goisern invited to join him on the Krippenstein in order to record the album Trad II. Arnulf now joins the tour in 2004.
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Szene Instrumental, Quinteto Tango, Streicherensemble Wien, Capella Con Durezza, Musik und Maskentheater Frankfurt, Ensemble Modern, Ernst Friedrich, Velt Schiffmann, Bodo Hell, Renald Deppe and more...
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Capturing Highlights and Drips in Your Food Photography
Highlights and drips are two areas where food photography differs a little from non-food photography. Traditional commercial photography tends to shy away from the harshness of specular highlights and the messiness of drips and imperfections.
Specular highlights are sometimes just a smidge too bright and distracting in a photo, but these glistening highlights are a great enhancement to some food photos, as shown in the following figure. They give the images depth and form and, when controlled, can make a good image spectacularly appetizing.
Honing in on the highlights
Generally speaking, a highlight is the lightest area of an image, and a specular highlight is a highlight with shine and sparkle.
To create or increase highlights in a particular dish, try these ideas to bump up the shine:
Brush a small bit of oil on your subject. This technique is particularly appropriate for meats or fish. The key here is restraint. Too much oil just looks greasy, so be sure to use only a small amount of oil and cover only part of the meat. A small brush is the best tool for this technique, but a paper towel works just fine in a pinch.Credit: Focal length: 38mm, Shutter speed: 1/160 sec., Aperture: f/6.3, ISO value: 400Oil brushed on scallops gives some extra shine.
Spray a little oil on your food. Using a spray oil product can have an awesome effect as well. The spray produces a nice, even highlight that doesn't look greasy. Remember to use just a little, though.
Ladle a little sauce over, under, or around your food. Using a sauce in your photo can create a nice highlight and add a color accent — bonus!
Spray water on produce to create water droplets. This trick is an awesome way to make produce look fresh! Buy a small (less than 6 ounces) empty spray bottle at your local drugstore. You can use plain water, or you can mix it with a bit of glycerin to provide staying power under the lights.
If you decide to use glycerin, create a mixture of 1/3 part glycerin to 2/3 parts water. Use the spray sparingly on the front part of your subject.
Smear a little water on your subject. For this look, you can use a small pastry brush, or even just your finger. Smearing water on your food subject creates a nice, rough highlight on your food.
All these techniques create new highlights and draw your eye directly to the subject. Keep in mind that highlights generally pick up the color of the light source or reflector, rather than the color of the food or dish.
So what do you do if you have an over-the-top highlight? You can tone down and control highlights that are just a little too harsh by using different techniques with your lighting setup. Lighting distance is key here. Bringing your filtered lights (soft box, umbrella, or other translucent material) in a little closer can soften and mute a too-bright highlight.
Decidedly delicious drips
A drip of frosting slowly edging its way down a cake makes the cake look even more inviting. The imperfections and messiness of food can seriously bump up the delicious factor in a shot. An image with a drip or two takes what would ordinarily be considered a flaw (Eek! The frosting is melting!) and turns it into the main focal point.
When a drip happens by accident, work quickly to capture that serendipitous event. A drip falling from, say, a teriyaki glazed burger is a phenomenal point of interest that makes the viewer want to chow down with vigor.
Staging a drip isn't easy, but you can encourage a drip by using just a little too much topping right at the edge of a surface, as shown in the following figure. Set up your shot before spreading the topping. (Setup includes plates, napkins, any necessary props, and lighting.)
Warming up a sandwich with cheese in a panini press, oven, or frying pan can also provide a scrumptious drip opportunity. Create your sandwich, including a little extra cheese, add heat, and then prepare to capture the delicious, gooey drips, as shown in the following figure.


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A UC Berkeley study recently looked into the use of public assistance by fast food workers.It found that between 2007 and 2011, about a quarter of California's fast food workers received Medi-Cal, and another 40 percent were uninsured.
Ken Jacobs with the UC Berkeley Labor Center says that was before the Affordable Care Act expansions. He says now, it's likely that more fast food workers are getting publically subsidized care.
"Fast food workers are more likely to have coverage through Medicaid than the workforce as a whole, and much more likely to be on public assistance programs than the workforce as a whole," says Jacobs. "And that makes sense because it's a low wage workforce and many of the workers are working part time."
Jacobs says the high turnover rate in the fast food industry also makes it difficult for workers to secure health insurance.


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Patreshettarlini Adams has been the stage manager at The Wilma Theater since the theater made its home on the Avenue of the Arts in 1996. "Pat" is celebrating lucky season #22 at the fabulous Wilma! Her career has included 7 seasons as stage manager at the Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ; and, in past years, Pat has worked the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, GA and the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, NC. She has also found herself traveling the world with critically-acclaimed dance company Noche Flamenca! Most recently, she is using all her free time to spoil her grandsons, Isaiah and Elijah. God Is Good!
Meet the Artists
Krista Apple • Lenka 35
Ross Beschler • Napoleon / Reagan / Ilya
Keith J. Conallen • Bureaucrat / Father
Sarah Gliko • Bureaucrat / Mother
Aneta Kernová • Lenka
Jered McLenigan • Marek / St. Bernard
Anthony Martinez-Briggs • Bureaucrat / Hot Dog Seller
Aneza Papadopoulou • Old Woman
Campbell O'Hare • Young Woman / Hana
Steven Rishard • Bureaucrat / Pavel
Michael Rosse • Grandfather
Production Team
Blanka Zizka • Playwright / Director
Matt Saunders • Set Designer
Oana Botez • Costume Designer
Thom Weaver • Lighting Designer
Daniel Perelstein • Sound Designer
Mariana Sadovska • Composer and Musical Director
Christopher Ash • Projection Designer
Stew • Translation & Arrangement of Karel Kryl's songs
David Bova • Hair and Makeup Designer
Silvana Cardell • Choreographer
Ian Rose • Fight Director
Walter Bilderback • Dramaturg
Nell Bang-Jensen • Dramaturg
Clayton Tejada • Production Manager
Patreshettarlini Adams • Resident Stage Manager / AEA


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Photography Classes in Cathlamet WA
Looking for photography classes in Cathlamet WA? No matter if you are a hobbyist, professional, or beginner, the best way to improve your photography technique is through hands-on classes with knowledgeable instructors.
There are numerous recognized and accredited photography schools in Washington. Subjects taught in photography classes include portrait capture, exposure and composition, lighting, posing and unposing, and other photography fundamentals. Growing into an accomplished photographer can result in a lifelong hobby or successful professional career.
There are numerous Photography Classes in Cathlamet WA:
- Cathlamet Photography 101
- Cathlamet Digital Photography Classes
- Cathlamet Nature Photography Classes
- Cathlamet Editorial Photography Classes
- Cathlamet Studio Photography Classes
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1241 NW Johnson
Portland, Oregon 97209-3023
Phone: (503) 226-4391
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Mt Hood Community College
26000 SE Stark St
Gresham, Oregon 97030
Phone: (503) 491-6422
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The Art Institute of Seattle
2323 Elliott Ave
Seattle, Washington 98121-1622
Phone: (206) 448-0900
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Seattle University
900 Broadway
Seattle, Washington 98122-4340
Phone: (206) 296-6000
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Seattle Community College-Central Campus
1701 Broadway Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122
Phone: (206) 934-3800
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3000 Landerholm Cir SE
Bellevue, Washington 98007-6484
Phone: (425) 564-1000
110.00 miles away
Shoreline Community College
16101 Greenwood Ave N
Shoreline, Washington 98133-5696
Phone: (206) 546-4101
115.48 miles away
University of Oregon
110 Johnson Hall
Eugene, Oregon 97403
Phone: (541) 346-1000
151.06 miles away
Western Washington University
516 High Street
Bellingham, Washington 98225-9008
Phone: (360) 650-3000
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How good is your home heating system? Does it warm up the whole house on a cold day? Does it cost more than you think it should to get enough heat in the winter? Are you thinking about switching to an alternative heating system? Do you want to upgrade to a newer heating system? I started this blog to talk about the different alternatives for heating your home. Find out when it's time to upgrade your heating unit and when you can make modifications or repairs to your old unit to improve its efficiency or keep it going a while longer. Also, check out the pros and cons of different alternative heating options from geothermal units to pellet stoves. Your home heating answers are here!
21 May 2015
If you are considering a commercial fence around your business property because there is so much theft starting in the area, you want to get moving on the project fast. There are so many ways a fence is going to protect you and save you money after installation. If you aren't sure what materials to choose or where the fence should go, here are a few things you want to consider.
6 May 2015
Clogged, old, or broken filters can cause a lot of problems for your furnace. By extension, they can cause a lot of problems for your in-home comfort. The good news is that dealing with filters is one of the few things that you can do without the need for professional help: Problems Caused by a Dirty Air Filter Quite a few issues can alert you to a possible problem with your filter.
17 April 2015
If you are in the market to buy a home, do not forget to talk with new home builders. These homes are not always put in the local real estate listing book (the MLS). Instead, builders buy a whole tract of land, build homes on them, and then have their own selling office. Because the builder owns the tract, he or she is often willing to give discounts and other benefits to buyers to keep their cash flowing.
7 April 2015
It seems like just yesterday that we were shopping for Christmas presents and preparing to bring in 2015. Yet, spring is here and summer is right around the corner! If you've decided to enhance your summer living by adding a new porch to your house, this is indeed the perfect time to do it. Here are some ideas for you to consider before you finalize your plans. The Flooring - Choose concrete!
25 March 2015
With so many people having personal experiences with bed bugs when they travel, everyone and their neighbor is on high-alert when it comes to these pesky critters. Bed bugs commonly latch on to clothing and luggage to hitch a ride to the next available food hot spot and these smart travelers can multiply real fast. If you are the property manager of an apartment building, just one tenant providing the traveling vehicle for these bed bugs could leave your entire building at risk.


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The representatives write a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, urging the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether Clinton Foundation donors had unusual access to Hillary Clinton while she served as secretary of State. This comes after an August 24, 2016 Associated Press article that claims over half of all the private citizens Clinton met with in those years donated to the foundation.
Representative John Ratcliffe (R) spearheads the letter, which cites the evidence in the article, then says, "All of this makes it very unclear where the State Department ended and where the Clinton Foundation began. … The facts as they have been reported surrounding the Clinton Foundation warrant an investigation that is beyond reproach and beyond any appearance of political favoritism. Appointing a special counsel is a necessary step at this juncture."
The presidential campaign of Republican nominee Donald Trump has also been pushing for a special prosecutor in recent days. Prominent Republicans such as vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani have issued similar statements.
Not surprisingly, Clinton and other Democratic politicians reject the need for a special prosecutor. For instance, Representative Adam Schiff (D) says, "There's no evidence at all of any illegality in terms of Clinton Foundation and the secretary of state's of work. … The most that has come to surface is that some of the Clinton Foundation supporters also met with the secretary of state, which you would imagine would be the case. So no, that's not at all the kind of foundation you would want for the extraordinary step of a special investigator [or] prosecutor." (The Hill, 8/30/2016)


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Four Sector Skills Councils are joining forces to secure the future of the UK manufacturing and engineering sectors through the Productivity and Competitiveness (PAC) programme.
Engineers pooled techniques to create an approach tailored to help smaller companies.
The Manufacturing Skills Alliance is made up of nuclear, oil and gas body Cogent, Improve, which looks at food and drink, building manufacturing and processing council Proskills, and engineering and technology group Semta.


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Possible redesigned MacBook Air photos surface - rumorPictures of a possible MacBook Air prototype with no hard drive and extra battery space have surfaced ahead of Apple's Oct. 20 "Back to the Mac" event.
The photos, obtained by Engadget from an anonymous source, show a unibody frame that appears to be for a 13.3-inch laptop computer, which could possibly be an early prototype of an upcoming revision to the MacBook Air. The computer appears to have USB plugs on both the left and right sides, Mini DisplayPort and an SD card reader.
Engadget's source claims the rest of the machine is also unibody, including the "large single mouse button," but the screen will keep the current MacBook Air style, instead of the "edge-to-edge glass with black edges" that current MacBook Pro models have.
The laptop allegedly runs the same 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo as the current MacBook Air, further evidence that the photos are of an early prototype. Engadget's source claims "the model dates back to at least April."
The unverified photos represent "just one SKU," so Apple may have something else in store as well, wrote author Paul Miller.
AppleInsider confirmed Friday through several independent sources that Apple will release a smaller 11.6-inch MacBook Air next Wednesday at the company's "Back to the Mac" special event.
Another source familiar with the matter believes the smaller form factor will forgo conventional hard-disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) storage options in favor of an "SSD Card" that resembles a stick of RAM, although AppleInsider is unable to confirm this detail.
Earlier this month, AppleInsider reported that supplies of the two existing 13.3-inch MacBook Airs had dried up throughout the company's indirect sales channels, suggesting that a complete overhaul to the line was imminent.