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Friday, September 09, 2005
Gentlemen, old Bach is here....
"Gentlemen," he said, "old Bach is here." Those who heard him said there was "a kind of agitation" in his voice.
These are the opening words of James Gaines' new book. Bach's compositions are well documented in a wealth of excellent recordings, and there are many scholarly books on his life and work, starting with Albert Schweitzer's seminal biography which was first published in French in 1905. But to date the Bach literature has lacked a really accessible book that makes the man, as opposed to his music, come to life.
Now we have Evening in the Palace of Reason. This follows the lives of J.S.Bach and Frederick the Great in parallel and culminates in their meeting in Potsdam. This resulted in the composition of the mysterious Musical Offering after Frederick challenged Bach to write a six part fugue on a theme supplied by him.
Evening in the Palace of Reason works wonderfully at several levels. It paints a well researched picture of Bach that really makes him come alive as both genius and fallible human being. The character of Frederick and his place in the history of Europe are also skillfully defined. And themes as diverse as the Enlightenment and the structure of cannons and fugues are skillfully threaded into the narrative.
The combination of readability and scholarship make this book a real winner. How refreshing to see a book aimed at the mass (as opposed to academic) market that comes complete with comprehensive notes on sources, bibliography, discography and a glossary of musical terms. Congratulations to publisher Fourth Estate for showing that the words scholarship and mass-market are not mutually exclusive.
The more that I learn about J.S.Bach, the more I am awe-struck by his sheer genius. Evening in the Palace of Reason really brings home his sheer fecundity. It underlines the extraordinary discipline and technique that lie behind the inspiration. It set me thinking about the links from Bach's mathematical forms to modern music. It made me listen afresh to not only Bach, but also to 20th century composers including Webern and Kurtag. It prompted me to take Douglas R. Hofstadter's extraordinary book Godel, Escher and Bach down from the bookshelf. When a book does all those things I have to recommend it.
We have had advance warning of the BBC 'Bach experience' to be broadcast in the week before Christmas. It is interesting that having generated maximum spin from the 1.4 million figure for downloads the BBC PR machine is being a little more shy about telling us where those files went. This seems to confirm a recent leak from within the BBC that the destination of the files may not spin as well as the numbers. But as the newspaper editor said: why let the facts get in the way of a good story?
Before the BBC claims sole credit for introducing Bach to millions of new listeners I'm going to make a pre-emptive strike. So here are some CDs of his music, or more accurately transcriptions of his music, that have been giving me a lot of pleasure recently.
Chaconne from the innovative French label Zig-Zag Territoires. Belgium pianist Edna Stern (right) gives very convincing performances of the Busoni and Brahms transcriptions of the Chaconne from Bach's Partita for solo violin BWV 1004. She then follows these with her own commendable transcription of the Chaconne, and the disc is completed by an excellent performance of the original by violinist Amandine Beyer. This is a very rewarding disc, and Edna Stern's new transcription contrasts well with the Busoni, which always strikes me as a little bombastic. The recording of the Brahms transcription is something of a rarity. It is difficult to understand why, as it has a deftness of touch which is sometimes missing from the Busoni. There is a lot of young talent on this innovative Zig-Zag Territoires release, I hope you will share some of it with me.
Preludi ai Corali from Winter and Winter has been around some time, but I only discovered it when browsing (or more accurately buying up) the wonderful Harmonia Mundi shop in Avignon in June (which incidentally is where I also bought Chaconne). Winter and Winter are best known for their innovative jazz recordings with Uri Caine. They have a number of similarities to ECM in their repertoire but with a major point of difference. ECM make a feature of their lack of spend on packaging, the Winter and Winter sleeves are collectors items in their own right. But the music on Preludi ai Corali is pretty damn good as well.
The disc is of transcriptions of Bach Preludes and Chorals played by the Quartetto Italiano di Viole da Gamba. (This viol quartet also play on the famous - or should that be infamous? - Uri Caine Goldberg Variations). Several of the Chorales are reprised after their viol transcriptions by the solo voices of the Tölzer Knabenchor - the famous Bavarian boys choir (above) who have featured on many recordings. This is a beautiful disc. There is a scholarly justification of the transcriptions in the sleeve notes. But for me this is superfluous. The beauty of the sounds is the only justification needed.
Regular readers will know I am a great fan of the Spanish label Glossa. My last variation on J.S.Bach comes from them. Bach - music for solo flute includes the one work for solo flute he wrote, the Partita for Flute BWV 1013. This is coupled with a transcription for solo flute of the Suites for cello BWV 1007 and 1009. The soloist is the Dutch flautist Wilbert Hazelzet who also made the transcriptions. This wonderful disc is one of my favourite for late night listening. The music is gorgeous. But even if it wasn't I would have to recommend it simply for the first article in the sleeve notes which is titled The fairy cakes and Wilbert. This is Spain, and scholarship comes with style.
This post wasn't planned. I just wandered down a few favourite overgrown paths. But as I read back over it several thing struck me. The publisher and author of Evening in the Palace of Reason are both American. But all three Bach recordings come from innovative, and independent, record labels that are not part of the mainstream corporate music-like-water culture, and not one of the labels is America or British - all three are from mainland Europe. And all the artists that made them also come from mainland Europe. Which coincidentally is where I bought two of the three CDs. And is where I will be returning to in three weeks as I respond to the pull of the cloister again.
"Gentlemen, old Bach is here.........."
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Thank you Pliable, for a very good review indeed, much appreciated. If only there were more of you....
James Gaines, author of Evening in the Palace of Reason
- 11:01 am
Your remarks on CD packaging feel a bit askew. ECM has a cult following, partly just for the imagery and packaging of its CDs (and, earlier, LPs). They give a lot of attention to it. Label boss Manfred Eicher reputedly sits with the designers of the covers, saying "just a bit to the left" or "make it 6 points larger", etc. The photographic documentation of recording sessions in the booklets is often quite comprehensive. It's true that there often isn't much in the way of "sleeve notes", but then sometimes one finds a good essay by Wilfrid Mellers or even Umberto Eco, especially with the ECM New Series discs. By contrast, Winter & Winter, in my experience, supplies neither verbal nor (intelligent) visual commentary. Just these terrible "cardboard creations" (Andrew McGregor's phrase), from which the disc is hard to extract without the sense that you are damaging it. Often I like the music on the disc, but am put off acquiring by the packet it's contained in. The only instance where the music prevailed for me was with Uri Caine's wonderful Mahler investigations.
- 2:13 pm
- Garth Trinkl said...
Robin, I would say that one always finds a highly intelligent essay included with ECM New Series recordings -- or often two or three separate highly intelligent (often philosophical) essays. It is true that sometimes -- for reasons of space -- only one (or two?) of the three essays is translated into English, but the ECM New strategy of including multiple intellectual/cultural voices is to be cherished and commended, in my view.
(There are also those anti-intellectuals who claim that the ECM New Series is simply marketing pretty photographs...)
- 2:41 pm
- Pliable said...
Fair points made above. By packaging I meant sleeve design rather than sleevenotes, but didn't really make that clear.
ECM sleeve designs with their monochrome feel always look like budget jobs to me. Just as an example look at the sleeve design of the superb ECM Thomas Zhetmair Schumann Quartets. Defining great sleeve design is highly subjective, but I think anyone would struggle to say the quality of the art direction matches the quality of the music and performance on that CD.
I'm probably a retrogrouche. But for me the move from 12 inck LP sleeves to CD jewel boxes killed the art of sleeve design. Winter and Winter may be weird, but they are trying.
Thanks for contributing to an interesting debate. Does anyone have vews on the SDG sleeve designs for their Bach Cantatas, which personally I love?
- 3:54 pm
- Garth Trinkl said...
pliable, I'll disagree with you about ECM New's monochrome covers -- which are often beautiful and sometimes highly conceptual. To me are as satisfactory as were the "serial" cover art projects DGG and many other labels issued in the 1960s and 70s (I am posting briefly).
For example, I very much like the Georgian photographs that grace the ECM New Giya Kancheli albums (a close friend met this Tblisi photographer in Georgia, and has several of his large photos framed in his dining room); while I recall the Valentin Silvestrov covers feature conceptual treatments of film stills from classic Soviet films.
Obviously, I have less experience with marketing to the wider classical market than you do... (though I too feel jewel cases were a disaster despite my LP collection being partially flooded away a few years back.) Sorry for my rush job.
- 4:42 pm
Agree with Garth about the quality of ECM cover design, and think the company has adapted well to the small scale. They almost redeem the jewel box too: there's a sense of normative, high-quality series design there.
SDG: the most wonderful project in good packets. Space-economical: to have all that text in two languages in such a slim packet. The cover pics look as if they might touch an audience that isn't into BWV numbers and the Lutheran calendar. They bring out the essential humanity of the music (cliché, but a truth also). Only pity is the white-out-of-black text, which makes for quite tough reading.
- 4:53 pm
- Pliable said...
Robin, hear, hear to your comments about the SDG packaging and product - I can only agree with you. And that includes your comment about the white out of black typography -a combination of sitting in front of a computer monitor for too long and middle-age is ruining my eyesight.
- 7:14 pm
I can't add any deeply-thought out comments about CD packaging, but just wanted to say how much I enjoy your site. I've been following your reports for a few months but was prompted to write by your spot-on review of 'Evening In The Palace of Reason' which has been my favourite summer reading. I wish musicologists could engage half as well as James Gaines! Keep up the good work!
- 8:06 pm
Merely correcting a factual error here. The third transription on the Chaconne disc you mentioned above is not by Edna Stern herself, but by Rudolf Lutz.
- 2:31 am
- Pliable said...
Anonymous - yes, you are quite correct, my error.
I checked the CD sleeve, the third transcription is indeed by Rudolf Lutz, apologies.
- 8:00 am
- Mess Noone said...
I would just like to ask - would you consider this book readable by someone with very little musical training or knowledge of musical theory? Sounds interesting but I am wary for these reasons.
- 12:50 pm
- Pliable said...
Mess, an unequivocal yes.
Evening in the Palace of Reason book is written for a general audience. It even includes a glossary and recommended recordings.
Highly recommended - enjoy it.
- 2:06 pm
- Mess Noone said...
Thanks for your swift, helpful reply and for continuing to write such an informative, entertaining and interesting blog. Long may it continue!
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Infusing watercolor with charcoal using the best fleck water softener we got, Vesselin creates surrealist worlds. His works play on both positive and negative space as he merges empty spaces of canvas with permeation of gradating colors. With this, viewers are welcomed into a dream-like space that is not obtainable in reality.
Temples 2003
The cycle Temples integrates an amalgamation of watercolor, charcoal, and tissue paper. With the use of these various materials, he activates both visual and tactile senses within the viewer. Audiences become immersed in these abstract worlds that unify with a comprehensible reality. Upon close observation, these scenes come to life and tell diverse stories.
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Vesselin opens up the canvas in these works by creating compositions that are focused in the center. With this tactic, viewers are drawn into his otherworldly atmospheres. In this cycle Vesselin intertwines a collage of imagery that creates separate yet unified spheres.
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Vesselin unleashes visual dynamism as he breathes beautiful colors into his works. A large part of this cycle is the array of hues that splatter across the canvas. Stark blues and greens contrast with fiery warm tones and permeate the atmosphere. In addition, playful earthy and oceanic motifs meander across the canvas to add interesting symbolism.
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Through both expressive color and gentle figures, Vesselin manages an exquisite partnership of the delicate and passionate nature of the cycle. The faces of the figures, described in more detail, are effortlessly complimented by the soft silhouettes of the figure bodies. As for color, there is a bold but smooth contrast between ardent reds and vivacious blues.
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Vesselin incorporates the spirit of Halloween into the atmosphere of this cycle. He uses seasonal symbolism, such as traditional iconography and colors, to relay a deeper meaning. In general, there is a more specific narrative as each piece focuses on only two to three figures. The mixed media is used to create jagged edges within these landscape-style depictions.
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Here, Vesselin's signature charcoal figures are narrated by color. The tone of each piece is designated by a smoky blend of various colors. In addition, the utilization of nudity generates a sense of something being revealed. At large, he uses a simple, yet expressive, arrangement of color and clearly detailed charcoal figures to convey his message.
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One of our favorite filmmakers, Liza DeGuia of Food Curated, just dropped another great video today — this one on the food vendor scene in Brooklyn's Red Hood neighborhood.
The vendors originally sprang up some 40 years ago to serve area Latinos who came out on weekends to play soccer and baseball on the numerous fields there. Through the years, the vendors have gained citywide renown and now folks from all over NYC's five boroughs make the trek on weekends to eat food from trucks representing various Latin-American nations. Peep the vid, after the jump »
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Problems with lighting
I've only just started with DAZ studio and I'm currently working on my first test scene, which is five figures on the Greek Rotunda from the DAZ shop. My current problem is that I'm really struggling with lights and lighting. I'm planning a series of scenes set in a cave, in the future, so getting the light levels right is crucial to what I want to achieve, Specifically, I need to be able to do two things:
1) Control the light levels, varying them from broad daylight to night.
2) Control the depth of shadows.
Number 1) is the most important.
I've tried the lighting presets bundled with Genesis 4.5 and I've also downloaded Serene Scene DS4, which boasts 8 sunset and 9 moonlit nights. No matter how much I fiddle with the various parameters, however, I always seem to end up with broad daylight. when I do the render.
Needless to say, the manual that DAZ supply is no help at all on account of the fact that there isn't one. I'm probably making a beginners mistake but, since I'm a beginner I can't figure out what it is. Can anyone help?
- Does the prop come with a lightset?
- What are your rendersettings? Are you rendering with 3Delight or hardware?
Thanks for the quick response. This is the prop I'm using
There is a mention of poser lights on the web page but no mention of DAZ ones. I've just checked a clean version of the scene, from before I started adding light presets, and there's no mention of any other lights in the drop down list of the major elements in the scene. All it lists are the five Genesis figures, two sets of hair and the rotunda base. This strongly suggests that a conflict between two sets of lighting presets isn't the problem
I'm using the standard 3delight rendering engine.
From where do you load the item? From Smart Content or from the Content Library browser?
Some items come preloaded with light, try the "Delete all Lights" menuy item under Edit->Delete
I don't think I have that Item so I cannot test it.
The "Delete all lights" option is greyed out. The only delete option that is available is "Delete selected item".
I loaded the item from the content library browser on the right hand side of the screen. I couldn't find it on the smart content pane, on the left.
alexhcowley said:The "Delete all lights" option is greyed out. The only delete option that is available is "Delete selected item".
I loaded the item from the content library browser on the right hand side of the screen. I couldn't find it on the smart content pane, on the left.
OK, then no lights. Did you set materials on is "from Pose", so you got DS materials? (I'm guessing but as I don't have it I cant say where they are but the readme say where you can find DS mateirals. Poser materials sometimes renders VERY light.
I think that the materials have come from Poser. If you are right, how can I get them to render darker?
alexhcowley said:I think that the materials have come from Poser. If you are right, how can I get them to render darker?
Firstm look in the readme where the MAT Poses are, if there are in the [Posercontent]->Runtime->Pose or if there are DS Materials in for example [DSContent]->Props->Exterior or [DSContent]->Environment->Architectural , That way you will find materials correctly setup for DS. The product page suggests the DS materials are in the Pose together with the Poser mats. So look in the readme in what folder the Mat poses are, and if the icons has a little script in the corner or is tagged material they are for DS.
Select a piece, apply material, repeat
I've spent the last three evenings googling DAZ lights and reading up on the subject. I've also been running a series of tests, as documented in the attached jpegs.
The Greek Rotunda read me has the following to say on the subject of mat settings: You will no longer need to go to a separate DAZ Studio folder to apply the DAZ Studio Material Presets. Simply apply the MAT Pose from the Poser Pose->Gordana->Greek_Rotunda directory.
the first jpeg shows a render done with the DAZ default, diffused lights.
The second set shows the material presets directory, the picture before the render and the results of the render. This set was done with one of the light presets.
The last jpeg shows a new scene I did with the Alchemy Cavern scene that comes bundled with DAZ 4.5. This is illuminated with a single custom light, again dialed right back, and has come out exactly how I expected.
Any further insights you can offer would be most appreciated.
Alex.Lights004SingleLight.jpg1000 x 1000 - 172KLights002Render.jpg599 x 996 - 106KLights002PreRender.jpg744 x 1071 - 141KLights002Material.jpg1024 x 1085 - 130KLights001.jpg616 x 999 - 101K
Your surfaces are ok for now.
Lighting: There is no one easy answer. We get this all the time and there is no way to condense 3 years, in my case, of experience in to a single forum post.
When I was starting out I used light presets and adjusted the Lights intensity myself
Many thanks for the comments, to both of you. I've just invested in a book from Amazon which purports to be the official guide to DAZ so I'm going to read that and then do lots of experimenting. I have about two weeks or so experience with DAZ so I expect there will be a lot more trial and error in the future.
Thanks, again, guys,
I have to first edition of that book and for me, as a newcomer, I found it helpful. I also wrote this out recently http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/10835/ which may help with Learning CG in general.
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This Thread has loads of useful Tips on Lighting.
Just read through it and see if it has any tips you can use.
This just came in a mail and on FB from Dreamlight: http://basic3dtraining.com/best-kept-secret-to-great-3d-lighting/
Thanks for all the helpful pointers, guys. Having thought about it a little bit more, I suspect the problem may be the high reflectivity of marble. Whoever created the Rotunda has possibly been a little too faithful in replicating this.
Well you can adjust the amount of reflection....are you sure it has reflection applied?
See the attached jpeg for the reflection settings on the surface tab. Everything seems to be dialed down to zero to me.
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Look at them driving—one person per car—
Some driving forever; some not very far
They want to be somewhere that's not where they are
So off they go driving, one person per car.
Some drive for a living; some drive just for fun
Some drive to the gym, then get out and go run
Then a bottle of juice and an energy bar
And away they go driving, one person per car
It's not that they're lazy, or selfish, or mean
Or under the thumb of some wastefulness gene
It's not that they're stupid; they're not unaware
And it's certainly not that they just don't care
They're the same as I am, and the same as you are
But off they go driving, one person per car
The drivers are heard to complain as they pass,
Of the costs of insurance, the high price of gas,
The taxes, inspections, repairs and the lot,
And there's practically never a good parking spot
And the traffic! Imagine the time they have lost
As they sit, breathing everyone else's exhaust
Till the roofs of their mouths taste of asphalt and tar
And they sit there—just sit there—one person per car
The car manufacturers sound a bit troubled;
They wish that their mileage could somehow be doubled
Without major changes—or any at all,
Cos the public won't buy if the car is too small
It has to have room for a trip to the shore
With a couple of riders, perhaps three or four
And they need to have room for the blankets and gear
For the trips they might take, maybe one time a year
But of course they spend most of their hours, by far
Just sitting in traffic, one person per car
If the energy used as they try to explain
How they can't take the subway; they can't take the train
How they can't join a carpool or hop on a bike
But drive to wherever, whenever they like
If the energy used as they make their excuses
Were tapped, for the energy bullshit produces…
Distill it, refine it, and fill up a jar
And off they'd go driving, one person per car
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As I get ready to post this, I look out the window of the train, and see just hundreds and hundreds of cars. Crowded streets, busy highways, packed parking lots, they're everywhere. And no, I can't blame the individuals (much), when the infrastructure of our culture is built around the car. At Cuttlefish University, bike parking is horrible, but by damn we have some sweet parking lots for cars–even right in the center of campus, so drivers don't have to walk too far to get to classes, offices, etc. Ask the average C.U. student, though, and we don't have anywhere near enough car parking.
And in every class I have ever asked, students have admitted to driving to the gym to work out–even those who live within a mile.


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On Saturday we went up to Ararat to visit J ward which was a jail for the criminally insane. A very interesting place, full of horrific stories and tales.
Of course I was taking photos left right and centre, and it wasnt until I went up to mums the next day and plugged the camera into Dads computer when I noticed an anomly in this pic. Its seems I have taken a photo of another presence in the autopsy room. Enlarge the pic to see more detail but its all there for the naked eye to see.
After the hairs on the back of my neck went down, I emailed J ward with this pic and to see if others who have visited capture the same sort of thing, or if they could explain it furthur.
I recieved an email back from them today, and they will be putting the pic up for discussion with its members, and if they discover anything they will let me know. Wouldnt it be great if someone out there actually knows who this could be. Spooky but also very interesting...
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PETALING JAYA: A French police investigation has revealed that a person named Altantuya Shaariibuu has never entered France from 1999 to 2006.
Their investigation finds that there are no immigration records of an "Altantuya Shaariibuu" entering France in that period, raising a red flag on the existence of a photograph of the Mongolian, Najib Tun Razak and Abdul Razak Baginda in Paris, allegedly taken between 2004 and 2006.
This is revealed in confidential investigative documents submitted to the French judicial inquiry which is looking into alleged kickbacks in the Scorpene submarine deal between French firm DCNS and the Malaysian government.
The French investigation also revealed that there are no immigration records to show that Prime Minister Najib and his close aide Abdul Razak had entered France from 1999 to 2006.
However, another investigative document revealed that Najib, then a defence minister, and Abdul Razak were part of an official entouarge to Paris from June 16 to June 18, 2000.
Najib made further visits to France in July 2001, July 2003, June 2005 and October 2007 but it is possible that Najib and his entourage could have entered France through diplomatic channel.
The confidential documents also revealed that DCNS officials had also informed French police that they never met a person named Altantuya and do not know who she is in the course of their negotiations for the Scorpene deal.
The DCNS officials had further informed the French police that the negotiations for the submarines were done in Malaysia and not in France.
One official – DCNS' former sales manager to Malaysia Fredric Faura – told the French investigators the negotiations were in English and not in French, so there is no need for an interpreter.
Furthermore, Altantuya did not speak French so she could not have acted as an English-French interpreter.
He also alluded that he had not met or known Altantuya.
"You ask me if Altantuya was present at these meetings; I say that all Malaysians have perfect English and an interpreter is unnecessary," was his response to a question by the French police.
Likewise, Jasbir Singh Chahl, who is reported by Malaysian NGO Suaram as being the first Malaysian to be subpoenaed as a witness in the Scorpene case, also told the French police that he has never met Altantuya and that she was not involved in the submarine negotiations.
What photo?
If there are no records of Altantuya entering France, questions are bound to rise over the so-called photo being taken of herself, Najib and Abdul Razak in Paris.
At a press conference held by Altantuya's father Setev in Kuala Lumpur on April 10, he claimed that he had seen the said photograph. He said that his daughter had showed him the photograph, and that "a lot of witnesses have seen this picture".
That was the last time he had seen his daughter as she was later found murdered by being shot in her head and her remains blown up with C4 explosives in October 2006.
Abdul Razak – the owner of Perimekar Sdn Bhd and the middleman in the submarine deal – was charged with two Special Action Squad members — Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar — over Altantuya's murder but he was subsequently acquitted of a charge of abetment.
His co-accused were found guilty and sentenced to death. As part of his defence, Abdul Razak had admitted that Altantuya was his lover since 2004, and that they had parted ways the next year.
Setev is now claiming that his daughter's murder was linked to the submarine deal.
On June 4, international journalist Roger Mitton wrote in a Cambodian newspaper that "soon after meeting her in Hong Kong, Abdul Razak took her off to tour Europe in his red Ferrari, wining and dining at all the best spots and finally ending up in Paris where they met Najib".
In fact, ever since Altantuya's remains were recovered in the early hours of Oct 19, 2006, Najib's detractors had jumped onto the bandwagon to link him to the murder, allegedly over the submarine deal.
Many opposition leaders have claimed that they were aware of the photograph which showed Najib, Abdul Razak and Altantuya being together in Paris but so far the photo has not surfaced anywhere.
Nevertheless, they continue to link Najib to her murder, despite the prime minister's vehement denials of even meeting her, let alone knowing her.
Suaram has successfully sought for a judicial inquiry at the Tribunal De Grande Instance in Paris to probe alleged corruption crimes and illegal bribes involving top officials from both Malaysia and France in the submarine deal.
Suaram claims that DCNS had paid bribery amounting to 114 million euros to Perimekar, with help from Altantuya, who was later gruesomely murdered for allegedly asking a part of the bribe.
Source: K Kabilah, FMT
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I am going to start teaching in afew next days. I would like to know what is the secret for becoming a brilliant teacher.
May I share some thoughts?
1. Keep studying grammar and/or literature. If you love grammar and /or literature, your students will sense it.
2. Prepare meticulously. If you have an 8 o'clock class, be there at 7 in order to prepare everything down to the
last detail. (Remember those teachers who walked into the class at 8 a.m. with the students and then wasted time
preparing themselves to teach?)
3. Be very humble. Here is some advice that I once read: "There is less than three-tenths of the language we can
claim to have some knowledge about. Be sure not to blow these three-tenths or to bluff on the other seven-tenths."
4. Remember that teaching is a two-way street. Enthusiastic (and well-behaved) students + enthusiastic (and well-prepared) teacher = successful class. Here is a proverb that I once read. It is reportedly Japanese. I read it in a Spanish translation. Here is my bad translation: "One day with a good teacher is better than 1,000 days of conscientious self-study." ****
5. If you can find the right school with the right students, I am sure that you will be a brilliant success.
Teaching, IMHO, is not a job; it is a calling.
*** Professor Kun Chang. [He may have been referring to Chinese, but -- IMHO -- his advice applies to all languages.]
**** [In case my translation is wrong, here is the Spanish: "Un solo dia con un buen maestro es mejor que mil dias de estudio concienzudo."]
Know your stuff, care about your students, have a sense of humour and be willing to improvise- these may not make you a brilliant teacher, but they will stand you in good stead. Get them to know you and your good points and bad points- at first some students find my willingness to arrive a few minutes late, coffee in hand, and feel that is fine unprofessional, but then they see my willingness to stay far more minutes at the end- create a style that fits your personality and works. Build a realistic rapport. Get results- be clear on objectives and work towards them. Then find time for a chuckle.


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The Irish Film Board is playing a key role in the growth of Irish cinema. By Leon Forde.
Despite Ireland's economic challenges, the territory's film talent has remained something of a bright spot, gaining international recognition and rising in ambition.
The Irish Film Board (IFB), which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013, has been instrumental in building Ireland's film sector, but the board's funding has dropped in recent years, from $21.8m (€16.5m) in 2010 to $17.4m (€13.2m) in 2012 and $15.7m (€11.9m) in 2013. But despite the fall, Irish production remains vibrant with total expenditure across the audiovisual sector hitting $236m (€180m) in 2012 — up around 30% on 2011.
CEO James Hickey — who replaced Simon Perry in June 2011 when Perry stepped down after five years in the job — says the board remains committed to funding a broad range of films. "We are driven by Irish creative talent all the way," he says.
This creative talent has helped the audiovisual sector continue to grow despite the territory's wider economic challenges. The 30 projects funded by the IFB in 2012, which included 22 features, attracted record levels of direct foreign investment, raising a further $155.3m (€118m) from foreign partners. Meanwhile, employment levels in the sector increased by 20% from 2008 levels to 6,500 full-time job equivalents in 2012. The Creative Capital report, which was prepared for the government by the Audiovisual Strategic Review Steering Group and published in July 2011, aimed to double the value of the Irish audiovisual sector from $657.9m (€500m) to $1.3bn (€1bn). This and other recommendations in the report are now included in the government's Action Plan For Jobs 2013.
The IFB was reconstituted in 1993 after a six-year period without any government support and invests in the development, production and distribution of Irish film and TV. Hickey underlines the range and number of projects being backed and points to the links with other countries for co-production opportunities. "It is a great reflection on the creative talent that we have in Ireland that we are able to engage as extensively as we do with the various co-production territories," he says.
Ireland has strong overseas links, including with the US, Canada, Europe and the UK. Of the latter, the IFB has backed Ireland-UK co-productions such as Frank, Calvary and Neil Jordan's Byzantium and funded UK co-productions made in Northern Ireland such as Good Vibrations and Liv Ullmann's Miss Julie (see set report, p14). "Simon Perry did a great job in terms of developing European relations," Hickey says. "I am determined to continue [those]."
Recent initiatives within the IFB include the restructuring of the production and development team to introduce three project managers to oversee applications and follow projects through to delivery. The managers are Mary Callery, previously with RTE and Parallel Films, Keith Potter, formerly at the Film Agency for Wales, and Rory Gilmartin, previously of Brilliant Films.
The idea, says Hickey, is to create multiple levels of access for producers, with different perspectives on the various genres of film production. It also integrates the development and production process, so a project manager would take a project from the early stages of development to production and distribution.
The IFB is also charged with attracting productions to shoot in Ireland, overseen by film commissioner Naoise Barry. Incoming shoots have included Canada-Ireland co-production The F Word, Bollywood film Ek Tha Tiger and Canada-Ireland TV show Vikings for History Channel US. Section 481, the Irish tax incentive for TV and film, was recently extended to 2020 and the IFB is working with the government to introduce further improvements to an already competitive incentive.
The changes will make Section 481 worth up to 32% of a film's Irish spend — up from 28% currently — and is intended to change 481 from an investor-led system to a tax credit. The amendments are scheduled to be introduced no later than the end of 2015, and may happen earlier.
"We want to compete on a world stage, both in terms of the value of our tax incentives but also what we have in terms of creative talent, facilities and services," Hickey explains. He points to the strength of crews, as well as high-end heads of department.
Developing skills and talent is a key focus. Screen Training Ireland, which oversees all audiovisual training, became part of the IFB earlier this year. This, says Teresa McGrane, deputy chief executive and head of business affairs at the IFB, has given the organisation the opportunity to look at strategy and key priorities in order to "really enhance the creative skills, the business skills and the technical skills". There will be a wide industry consultation on training and skills.
"One of the key strategies I think will be new partnerships for us, and that's looking towards the UK, towards Europe," McGrane says of training.
Ireland's seam of talent is a major strength, says Hickey: "There is no doubt that as a country we always seem to have — in the past as well as currently — a high level of creative talent."
Ireland by the numbers
- The audiovisual content production sector in Ireland is estimated to be worth in excess of $725.9m (€550m), employing more than 6,000 people.
- In 2012, there were 22 feature film projects produced in Ireland, 12 of which were official international co-productions.
- These film projects attracted more than $72.6m (€55m) in international finance, and generated more than $33m (€25m) in Irish expenditure in 2012.
- The Irish box office in 2012 was $143.9m (€109m); 603 films were released theatrically, 20 of which were Irish.
- There are 465 cinema screens in Ireland, across 70 different sites. Some 335 (72%) of these screens are digital.
Source Irish Film Board
IFB Capital Funding
- 2010 $21.8m (€16.5m)
- 2011 $21.1m (€16m)
- 2012 $17.4m (€13.2m)
- 2013 $15.7m (€11.9m)
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Big Ten officials will likely discuss expanding to 12 schools to accommodate the new Big Ten Network, commissioner Jim Delany said.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Big Ten officials will likely discuss expanding to 12 schools to accommodate the new Big Ten Network, commissioner Jim Delany said.
The network, which is scheduled to launch Aug. 30, would benefit from an additional big-name university in a large television market, Delany said.
"I think we need to look at it in the next year," he told the Des Moines Register on Wednesday. He offered no specific candidates.
"The broader (the network) is distributed, the more value (expansion) has. We have eight states. With expansion, you could have nine," he said.
In football, a 12th school could mean two divisions and a postseason playoff. That's an appealing concept to the startup network.
"Any television executive would do whatever they could to be able to air a game like the Big Ten championship," said Mark Silverman, Big Ten Network president. "It would be worth a considerable amount of value."
Coaches think otherwise, said Iowa head football coach Kirk Ferentz.
"I've not met anybody in coaching that really enjoys it," Ferentz said of the divisional playoff format. "There's a lot of downside to it, in my opinion."
Among the concerns are missing out on a BCS bowl by losing the conference title game.
Delany said expansion would not guarantee the Big Ten would create an extra game.
"I could live with two divisions and a championship game, but I think that has a tendency to devalue the season-ending game and have a negative impact on your losing team in season-ending games," he said.
"I don't want us to tear ourselves apart over the structure of football for the sake of expansion."
The Big Ten tried to lure Notre Dame into the conference in 1999, but the Fighting Irish chose to remain a football independent after lengthy discussions.
Delany said of Notre Dame: "There aren't many universities that produce that kind of value."


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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Kneading your Way into the Passive Voice
By Tamara Jones
EAL Instructor, British School of Brussels
Don't you just love it when inspiration strikes in the middle of an activity and turns a so-so lesson into a great one? It doesn't happen that often to me, actually. My "great" lessons are almost always the result of careful planning and hours spent cutting out little bits of paper, but once in a great while, it all comes together in a moment of glorious on-the-spot quick thinking.
My job at the British School of Brussels is to prepare and support my students for survival and success in their mainstream classes. I have had my eyes opened to the joys of content-based language learning, and, as a result, my lesson plans often veer away from pure grammar activities. For most of my students, the vocabulary they need for their chapter on Atoms and Elements in their Science classes supersedes their need to properly use the past perfect. However, I am always on the lookout for that perfect lesson that seamlessly blends grammar with content.
How to Make Bread
So, anyway, my "grammar and content unite" moment happened after several of my students had just begun their cooking classes. We'd done all the kitchen utensils and verbs associated with cooking to death, and I was trolling the internet for an idea that would allow me to revisit cooking in a new way. I came across a great video called How It's Made: Bread. Now, the title alone might have got many of you thinking, "Aha! The passive!" Sadly, this did not happen to me. Not right away. After watching the video, I typed up several sentences that described the process step by step.
- The ingredients are ground in a mill.
- The ingredients are mixed together.
- The dough rises for 3 hours.
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Production is slated to begin on Fast and Furious 6 (that's the working title for now) soon, and director Justin Lin looks to be adding a strong female presence for his Fast Five follow-up. We learned last week that MMA fighter/Haywire star Gina Carano has entered talks to join the car-enthusiast ensemble, and now The Daily Mail claims that Rihanna is set to take on a villainous role in the pic. It's important to note that The Sun is a somewhat less-than-reputable source, so this casting news should be taken with a grain of salt for the time-being.
The artist stars in this summer's Battleship, but we haven't seen much of her acting ability in the trailers so it's hard to judge this casting choice, should it turnout to be true. Remember Samantha Mumba in The Time Machine? Oh, you don't? Dwayne Johnson told Steve that they'll be filming Fast and Furious 6 in London and Berlin, so we can look forward to an international vibe for the upcoming actioner. The film is slated to open on May 24th, 2013.


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Researchers from the University of Colorado recently demonstrated that a simple intervention, a 15 minute writing exercise, essentially "closed" the gender achievement gap on a physics assessment. I read about this simple and elegant study demonstrating the power of stereotype threat on test scores on the same day I read Daniel Willingham's excellent summary of "The Social Costs of Academic Achievement"
This might be a tough (but important?) topic to discuss with students in a psychology class, but maybe its more important that we talk about it with our colleagues. We all read and hear about how the importance of "closing the achievement gaps" between ethnicities. How much of these "gaps" can be accounted for by a combination of stereotype threat and the social cost of "acting white" as described by Willingham?
And, more importantly, what can we do about it?
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Kirk Douglas will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 50th annual ICG Publicists Guild awards luncheon Feb. 22 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the group announced Tuesday.
"No other actor personifies the term 'iconic movie star' more than Kirk Douglas," said Publicists Guild awards committee chairman Henri Bollinger. "His acting talent is the underlining basis for his extraordinary success, but it is also due to his uncanny understanding and appreciation for the role that publicity and promotion play in the ultimate success of movies that made him a box office sensation."
Also read: 'The Help,' 'Modern Family' Campaigns Honored at Publicists Awards
Douglas, 96, has earned three Oscar nominations for Best Actor — for "Champion" (1950), "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1953) and "Lust for Life" (1957) — and a lifetime achievement Oscar from the film Academy in 1996,
He's also received lifetime achievement awards from the American Film Institute, the Screen Actors Guild and the National Association of Theater Owners, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of the Arts and a Kennedy Center Award.
Past recipients of the publicists' award include George Burns, Lew Wasserman, Warren Beatty, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Julie Andrews, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Robert Zemeckis and Carol Burnett.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Patient quote of the day
9 comments:
- Lisa said...
Is this a patient or a SNL comedy sketch?
- February 21, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- Lisa said...
That's the scared patients way of saying "I am afraid that I have brain cancer, so please tell me this is just a tension headache."
- February 21, 2012 at 3:35 PM
It's always something.
- February 21, 2012 at 4:18 PM
- pharmacy chick said...
wow, thats really something!
- February 21, 2012 at 5:47 PM
- gena said...
Paging, Ms. Hypochondria! Ms. Hypochondria, your table is ready.
- February 21, 2012 at 8:03 PM
- instant student said...
Maybe you should write him a referral to Dr. Seuss...
- February 22, 2012 at 3:55 AM
"yes, i suspect you may have something, well, everybody has something, but i don't know anything about your something, it could be anything or it could be nothing, if it's something, we will do something about it, if it's nothing, we will do nothing about it. however, there's no such thing as nothing, in every nothing, there's a something. in fact, there could be everything. i cannot do everything, but still i can do something if you really have something"
- February 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM
- Packer said...
The thing is that this thing is hard to pinpoint.
- February 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM
"Yes, it is."
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Some kids can't wait to get their braces, seeing them as a sign that their teen years can't be far behind. Others, though, worry about what they'll feel or look like.
However your child feels, you probably have some questions and concerns of your own about braces (including how you're going to pay for them!). Here's the lowdown on kids and braces.
Kids can need braces for any number of reasons, including crooked, overlapping, or overcrowded teeth, or a "bad bite" (known as malocclusion). Malocclusion is when there's a difference in the sizes of the top and bottom jaws. When the upper jaw is bigger than the lower jaw, it's called an overbite. When the lower jaw is bigger, it's called an underbite.
Sometimes tooth and jaw problems can be caused by tooth decay, losing baby teeth too soon, accidents, or habits like thumb sucking. But often they're inherited, so if you or someone in your family needed braces, it's likely that your kids will, too.
Often, your child's dentist will be the first to notice problems during a regular visit and recommend that you see an orthodontist (a dentist who specializes in correcting jaw and/or teeth alignment problems). The orthodontist can decide whether your child does indeed need braces and which devices would be best.
There's no set age for a child's first orthodontist visit — some kids go when they're 6, some kids go when they're 10, and some go while they're teens. Even adults can need orthodontic treatment. Many orthodontists say kids should see an orthodontist once their permanent teeth start coming in, around age 7. At this age, issues such as uneven bite and overcrowding will become apparent.
Starting the process early doesn't mean a child will get braces right away. It just means the orthodontist will be able to find problems and decide the best time to start treatment.
At the first visit, the orthodontist will thoroughly examine your child's teeth, mouth, and jaw. He or she may ask your child to bite the teeth together and will also ask questions about whether your child has problems chewing or swallowing, or has ever had clicking or popping of the jaw.
The orthodontist may take X-rays of the mouth and teeth to see how the teeth are positioned and whether any permanent teeth still need to come in. He or she also may make a mold (or impression) of your child's teeth by pressing a tray of gooey material into the top and bottom teeth. When the mold is removed and the material hardens, the result is a replica of your child's teeth that will allow the orthodontist to decide which treatment options are best.
Braces correct alignment problems by putting steady pressure on the teeth, which eventually moves them into a straighter position.
Most kids just need braces with wires and rubber bands. The wires help to move the teeth, and the rubber bands (which come in fun colors) help to correct alignment. Though metal braces are still used, so are clear or white ceramic braces, which are much less noticeable. Some even go behind the teeth (lingual braces).
In the last decade, clear removable braces that move teeth with plastic trays called aligners (rather than wires and rubber bands) have become available, but these are usually only for people without bite problems.
Some kids may need other devices, too, such as headgear (don't worry — this is usually worn only at night!). Headgear uses a horseshoe-shaped wire that attaches to the back teeth, pushing them back and allowing more room for teeth in the front of the mouth. The orthodontist also might recommend that your child have one or more teeth removed to create more space in his or her mouth.
Once the braces are on, your child will have to visit the orthodontist every few weeks for monitoring and adjustments.
How long your child will need to wear braces depends on the problems the orthodontist is trying to fix, but the average is about 2 years. After that, your child might wear a specially molded retainer — a small, hard piece of plastic with metal wires or a thin piece of plastic shaped like a mouthguard. Retainers keep the teeth from wandering back to their original places.
Because it's so easy for food to get stuck in wired braces, kids who wear them need to work extra hard to keep their teeth clean. Brushing after meals is essential, as is daily flossing (the orthodontist can give your child a special flosser to use in and around braces). Regular dental cleanings and checkups to look for cavities are also a must.
Your child should avoid certain foods (such as popcorn, hard and sticky candy, and gum) because they can damage braces. Sugary sodas and juices can be a problem, too, because they can contribute to tooth decay. Kids with clear plastic aligners should always remove them when it's time to eat.
Because braces put pressure on the teeth, they can feel uncomfortable once in a while, especially after the orthodontist makes adjustments. Over-the-counter pain relievers can help if this happens.
See the orthodontist right away if your child has a loose wire or bracket, or a wire that is poking his or her mouth. If the orthodontist can't find a problem, your child might use some soft wax to cover any sharp spots on the braces that are bothersome or rubbing against the inside of the mouth or gums.
Braces create nice smiles, but that's not all they do. Good orthodontic care contributes greatly to oral health. Straight, aligned teeth can make it easier to chew food, and can even help prevent snoring.
But these benefits don't come cheap. Braces cost about $5,000 and even if your family has insurance, it may not cover much of the bill. Fortunately, there are ways to get braces at a reduced cost:
If cost is an issue, it's worth the effort and patience it takes to find an orthodontist who will treat your child. Straight teeth are more than just attractive — they can help keep your child's mouth healthy for a lifetime.
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The version of Snow Leopard you buy today is 10.6.3, and will need updating to the latest version, 10.6.7 at the time of writing. The recommended way of doing this is to download the official Apple 10.6.7 Combo package. Hackintoshers may also download the tonymacx86 "Multibeast" package.
Once the drive has been correctly partitioned, a green arrow indicates that it's the target for installation
Install the Combo package first. It'll invite you to reboot, but before you do that, run Multibeast. It gives you a number of options, so you'll need to check your system and read the documentation to pick the right ones. I needed to enable USB and Ethernet. Now when you reboot you should be able to do this directly off your hard drive, putting the iBoot disk aside.
Hardware Adjustments
The Ethernet gave me an Internet connection, and to test the USB I plugged in a Logitech C910 Webcam - its essential camera and microphone features worked right out of the box, requiring no tweaking or kext fiddling.
The only thing still not functioning is the HD Audio built into the Sandy Bridge motherboard. Future official Mac updates will take care of this. Meanwhile, I've settled for simply plugging in an external USB sound system. I'm using the M-Audio Fast Track box from Avid, but any digital-to-analogue USB sound adapter - 99p on eBay, including postage and packing - should do the job.
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Cobra Trading Computers
Small niche business looking to create a loyal brand of a product line named "Cobra". We are trying to create a brand so that when people hear "Cobra" from within our industry that they instantly think of our company and our products.
We cater to day traders who are looking for a new high performance computer solution. The audience are generally male, ages between 30 to 50, Bachelors degree or higher education and fairly entrepreneurial. For this reason, the logo should be very professional and distinct. Again, the primary purpose is on a branding standpoint, so that when people see or hear "Cobra" within this particular industry that they instantly associate and think of our products. The audience that we cater to are willing to pay a little bit more for more performance and service than the competition. Therefore the logo should be more elegant than "in your face" and more professional than childish.
The logo will most likely be centered around "Cobra" (the snake) with "Trading" and "Computers" to be integrated, although not the focal point. You don't have to implement an actual cobra snake (although remember we are trying to create a brand).
Since the name is three words, it can be multi-lined.
1) We are looking for unique and creative way to brand "Cobra". We are a computer manufacturer, but I'm not sure that can be integrated in any way into this logo.
2) Logo will be primarily be web based output, but it should also be able to be printed on black and white as well as color brochures.
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5) Please be creative in your design. I will comment on ALL designs so that everyone can get a better feel for the overall look and feel we are trying to accomplish.
I would like it to be vector based so that it can be manipulated for print. Adobe PSD layered document is also preferred (RGB) at very high resolution / DPI.
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The Royal Opera House is a charity, and each year we run a Grand Draw as a way to raise money; it helps raise funds to help with everything we do, from staging new productions and revivals to our education and outreach work.
Tickets start at just £2, which could buy four colour filters for our stage lights, or a book for £12, enough to purchase a pair of protective gloves with which to build our sets.
By buying or selling tickets for the Grand Draw, you can support the Royal Opera House's work, and be in with a chance to win one of the 21 great prizes, including the first prize holiday-of-a-lifetime to the Maldives.
Other prizes include generously-donated hotel breaks, tickets in the Royal Box at Covent Garden, spa treatments, luxury gifts and tasty treats; meaning that if you enter, you have a number of chances to win! See the full list of Grand Draw prizes.
If you haven't received a book of tickets by post, or have mislaid yours, register your interest before the end of January and we'll send you one. Fill this in along with the payment slip and hopefully you'll be one of the 21 people I get to contact to let them know they've won after the 1 February deadline for entries!
It must be said that the best part of organizing the Grand Draw is telling people they've won. In 2011, the lady who won the Swan Hellenic cruise said: 'You must be joking! I can't have won a cruise - I never win anything.' The same year I had a note from another winner saying: 'Thank you for the champagne which arrived at 8.45 this morning - lovely to get it so quickly and extra welcome as it's my wife's birthday today!'
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Yahoo! has agreed to ban the creation of new chatrooms with names that promote sex between adults and minors.
The announcement follows the company's decision to suspend all user-created chatrooms in June this year, following complaints that some of them were being used by child predators to groom minors.
Yahoo! says it has now closed around 70,000 chat rooms that appeared to encourage illegal activity. Some of the chat rooms had names like "girls13 & up for much older men", "8-12 yo girls for older men", and "teen girls for older fat men". Many of these were lurking in the Teen chat, or even Schools and Education categories.
If the company does decide to allow user-created chat rooms again, it says it will now screen all the names and will remove any deemed offensive with 24 hours. It will also make it easier to report and follow up "inappropriate" behaviour in chatrooms and will alert users that their IP address are being logged. It has also agreed to do more to educate children about online safety, including making a donation to a national charity for missing children, and running free banner adverts for the same organisation.
The closure of the chat rooms follows investigations by authorities in New York and Nebraska after they were tipped off about children having free access to adult chat rooms.
The Attorneys General of the two states said that an investigator posing as a 14-year-old girl "received 35 personal messages of a sexual nature" in just 25 minutes.
"We need to be vigilant to protect our children," said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. "It is imperative that parents, industry, prosecutors and lawmakers all work together to identify and address possible threats, and that we teach our children to protect themselves from those who would do them harm."
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Stonyfield Farm makes Oikos Organic Greek yogurt which can be used in a variety of ways while cooking – in baking, as a substitute for sour cream and mayonnaise, in dips and sauces and to create tasty low-fat dishes. Greek yogurt is strained, making it thicker and more versatile in recipes than regular yogurt. Our Oikos Greek yogurt contains no gluten- it's certified gluten free! It's also organic, which means it's made without artificial colors, flavors or sweeteners, and it's made from organic milk produced without the use of toxic persistent pesticides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, or artificial growth hormones (rBST). We feel that organic is not only better for you, but better for the planet as well.
I have sampled all of the 5.3 oz Oikos flavors, which include: Strawberry, Honey, Vanilla, Blueberry and Plain. I love the thick, creaminess of the yogurt. I also love the nutritional stats – 13g of protein per 5.3 oz cup! I have to say that I think that Strawberry is my favorite, followed by Blueberry. I buy the large 16 oz container of plain yogurt and use it in place of sour cream, on top of fruit, cereal or waffles or in cakes & muffins to moisten them up.
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As I've noted before, cauliflower gets sadly overlooked. This recipe from running with tweezers pulls out all the stops in redeeming it, however, and I think it succeeds.
I didn't really change anything; I just upped the olives and reduced the rosemary. In the end, roasted cauliflower is its own reward.
Roasted Cauliflower with Dates, Olives, Rosemary, and Red Pepper
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1 medium (4-5″ in diameter) head of cauliflower, tough stems/leaves removed & cut into florets
1 TB extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp fresh ground black pepper
1/4 c earth balance
10 Medjool dates, pits removed & roughly chopped
15 green olives, pitted and roughly chopped
1-2 sprigs fresh rosemary, leaves removed from the stems then roughly chopped
kosher salt, to taste
red pepper flakes, to tase
Instructions1. Preheat the oven to 375 F. In a large roasting pan or baking sheet, toss the cauliflower florets with the olive oil and the fresh ground black pepper. Once the oven comes up to temperature, roast the cauliflower for 20-25 minutes (depending on your oven) until tender with some caramelized brown spots. You're not looking for char – just nice touches of golden brown.
2. About 2 minutes before you're going to pull the cauliflower from the oven, heat the earthbalance in a large saucepan over medium heat. Allow to start to bubble and brown ever so slightly. Throw in the chopped rosemary, dates and olives and saute until heated through – you don't want the rosemary to get black, though. Pull the cauliflower from the oven. You can either drizzle the butter/date/olive mixture over the cauliflower in the roasting pan and toss….or you can put the cauliflower in the butter mixture if your saute pan is big enough. Either will work. Taste a tiny floret & season with salt and red pepper accordingly. Serve immediately. Serves about 4.


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One thing's for sure: holy men and women in Early Christian Ireland didn't shy away from a challenge. From shards of rock in the Atlantic Ocean to valleys hidden deep in the Wicklow Mountains, their settlements were nothing if not spectacular
Back then, if your mission was to serve and worship God, you had two options. The first was to dedicate your life to helping others in the community, where the poor – most people on the island – could easily seek you out.
The second, worshipping God in isolation, was seen by some as purer... but, boy, was it austere. Not to mention, perilous.
Nowhere illustrates this more than Skellig Michael on the Skellig Islands. Punching out of the Atlantic Ocean some 13km off the Kerry coast, this merciless shard of rock was chosen as home by an intrepid band of religious men around the 8th century. Building beehive huts on ledges 700 feet above saw-tooth rocks, the miracle is not that the monks managed to settle here, but that their followers remained until climate change forced a move… several centuries later.
Visiting this Unesco World Heritage Site is one of the most breathtaking experiences the west coast has to offer. But visits don't come easy. Boats only sail (from Portmagee) if weather permits. If it doesn't, try the Skellig Experience Centre on Valentia Island instead.
Lough Erne in County Fermanagh is peppered with no fewer than 154 islands, many featuring monastic remains. But none is more important than Devenish, founded in the 6th century by St Molaise. Ruins here range from a small 6th-century church to a 16th-century cloister, plus a round tower boasting some beautiful Romanesque carvings.
Afterwards, why not take a stroll in Enniskillen, where the main street is so long its name changes six times?
Island refuges offered isolation, sanctuary, and a certain safety. You'll find the remains of a similar settlement at Nendrum, dating from the 5th century, on Strangford Lough's Mahee Island in County Down. Regarded as the best pre-Norman monastic site in Northern Ireland, ruins here include a round tower, huts and one of the world's oldest excavated tide mills (619AD).
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Ireland's early monastic communities didn't do things by halves. Think of St Kevin's famous settlement at Glendalough. A veritable city in its time, with a round tower, several churches, a farm and a sizeable lay population set deep in the Wicklow Mountains. Despite its remoteness, Glendalough spent several centuries as an internationally renowned ecclesiastical centre.
Near Macroom, County Cork, you'll find a similarly blissful setting at Gougane Barra. The remains of a 6th-century monastery founded by St Finbarr are strewn over two small islands in the lake valley here. It's said that Finbarr was led by an angel near here to the mouth of the River Lee, where he founded another monastery, the precursor to the city of Cork.
It's not a bad route to follow, once you've explored the forest park braided with walks and nature trails.
Or what about Ardmore, the tiny west Waterford village in which St Declan established his 5th-century monastery? A stunningly preserved round tower, the ruins of a church and oratory, and a hermitage said to have belonged to the saint himself are amongst the attractions here – though, rest easy, spiritual restraint is not a requirement for modern pilgrims: Ardmore is also home to a five-star hotel.
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This is great grip for tattooist. It is lightweight and easy to clean.
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