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Hard work, hard cheese
Parmesan is an Italian icon, the pride of an entire region. Today, however, one of the strange blossoms brought forth by globalization is that the delicacy is produced mostly by Indian immigrants.
A bubbling sound, steam, splashes. Milky-white trickles on mustard-yellow stone, warm moisture on tiled walls, in clothes. Gleaming metal tubs, copper pots. Broad-backed men in white overalls and blue gumboots stand stirring lakes of boiling milk, beads of sweat on their forehead, milk froth on the backs of their hands. Outside the first rays of sunlight, a mountain panorama, flower meadows, the bleating of sheep.
It's eight in the morning at the Selvapiana e Canossa dairy, some 40 kilometers south of Parma, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, which since the 12th century has been the proud home of parmesan cheese. It owes its existence to some Benedictine monks who, while attempting to preserve milk over the winter, happened to invent the Italian gold, Parmigiano Reggiano. The cheese immersed in brine for 20 days before it disappears into dark storerooms for one to two years. On reemerging from the shadows, it has acquired its characteristic salty, smoky flavor. Il migliore, as they say here: the best. The person who makes sure the cheese lives up to its reputation here is Veerendrajet Singh.
He's a powerful man, quiet, not much of a talker, but very much the hard worker. His right hand disappears into the kettle to reemerge, crushing tiny flakes of milk between his fingers. A gesture with his left hand, and his coworkers bring over the linen cloths in which the finished parmesan will rest for the first few hours. "Nearly there," says Singh.
Veerendratjet Singh is head cheesemaker at Canossa, the man with the most experience, the one who knows by the curdling of the milky brew when to let the heat out of the pots; he knows how long it takes before a mass of milk flakes becomes a single white curd. Singh, 42, left his father's farm in Punjab, northern India, 17 years ago for a new life in Italy. For a new life in gumboots and apron – and a life of Italian tradition, of 365 days a year devoted to parmesan.
The milk truck arrives every morning at 6 a.m. and at around 8 p.m., the fresh parmesan wheels, each weighing roughly 40 kilograms, are turned for the last time. The cheesemaker's craft is a physically arduous one, which is why few Italians are interested in preserving it. Too low are the wages, too great the temptations of the glittering big cities. Now others are keeping the tradition alive: Indian immigrants. Many of them, like cheesemaker Singh, hail from Punjab, the holy land of the Sikhs. The first came in the early 1990s. Italy promised good jobs, a pleasant climate, and a landscape not unlike that of their distant homeland. Meanwhile, there are some 140 000 Indians living in Italy, most of them in the north.
Asian spices and Indian jewelry are sold at the heart of the Italian countryside
Industry experts estimate that around 60 percent of the people working in the parmesan business today are from India. Drive through the countryside, through rolling green expanses, deserted country houses and sweet-smelling bougainvilleas and you spot them straight away: Indian workers in cowsheds, operating milking machines, working as unskilled laborers in dairies, driving milk trucks. Some companies have many Avinders, Singhs and Harjasans on their payroll but very few Ginos and Lucas. The general consensus hereabouts is that the Indian workers have prevented the demise of the parmesan business. Globalization is everywhere, changing the industry and therefore also changing an entire region.
Midday in Novellara, some 45 minutes east of Parma by car. A few old-town streets, arcades, ocher, deep blue, flowerpots on wrought-iron balconies, swallows swooping and diving above terracotta-tiled roofs. All very Italian. Then come the single-family houses, three to four apartment blocks, a main street and finally farmland. In the marketplace, old folks drift from café to café, while young folks sip spritz on ice. Between them, you see mothers pushing strollers, their saris billowing pale pink and pastel green, and men in bright turbans, yellow and blue, checkered shirts and loose pants. All very Indian.
Of the approximately 14 000 inhabitants of this small town, some 2200 come from abroad, one third of them from India. The situation is similar in the neighboring towns. The first restaurant you see on your way into Novellara serves Indian food. The Dhillon Center between the Pasticceria L'Angelo and the Bar Roma sells Asian spices, jingling bangles and golden nose rings. On the outskirts, where the town gives way to fields, an orange flag flutters above some flat-roofed buildings, a secular signpost and the sacred emblem of the second-largest Sikh temple in Europe. A couple of streets further along: its Hindu counterpart, only smaller. Novellara, that's garam masala with insalata caprese, a combination already commonplace in many major European cities. But here, in the provinces? In a country still racked by the financial crisis, in northern Italy, the home of the nationalist Lega Nord party?
"It's going very well," says Elena Carletti, a vigorous woman in square-rimmed glasses and black jacket with a casual tone of voice. She is Novellara's mayor. Her official residence is a grand, 12th-century mansion right on the marketplace, with dark wooden floors and colorful ceiling frescos. "Of course tensions arise," Carletti concedes. She has just reorganized the local primary school to improve the mix within the classes. Carletti and her team set up Italian courses for housewives, regularly speak with the heads of the different communities and know how to knot an Indian scarf. In March 2016, Carletti spoke before the Council of Europe about the fundamentals of good integration. "We are improving," says the 42-year-old. She talks about children who embody Italy far more than their native countries of India and Pakistan; of parents and grandparents who have been the mainstays of the region's economy, while Italians are moving away; of clubs, the Red Cross, the festival committee, and of disaster control, her pet project: 62 volunteers, 13 of them Indian. In case of emergency, they are prepared.
One of Novellara's potential rescuers is Jagjit Singh, 45 years old and not related to cheesemaker Singh, but also from Punjab. He has been living in Italy since 2001 and is now a kind of surrogate mother to ten calves presently mooing dramatically. In one hand, he holds a yellow pail of cow's milk, in the other, a calf. Both belong together, but the calf doesn't understand. Singh has been a cowhand for ten years now at Cooperativa Intercomunale Lavoratori Agricoli (C.I.L.A.), one of the biggest farming associations in the region. It has 3000 cows standing in open sheds as well as a gigantic labyrinth of straw bales and a huge fleet of vehicles. The air is filled with the combined odors of dung, cattle and hay. C.I.L.A. comprises roughly 3000 farms, which supply the milk for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Sixty people work here, nine of them are of Indian origin. Their boss is Maurizio Sassi, 55. He's the caretaker type with a tendency to give lengthy explanations. Sassi takes us past row on row of cattle. Black, white, on and on. He tells of one workmate, a Hindu, who always blesses the cows before milking them. "I'm afraid the bull got him." Luckily, he wasn't badly injured. His Indian coworkers? "They are just really good with the animals." They are reliable and friendly – and they do the stuff many Italians won't: muck out, work among the animals, do the milking, Sassi adds. He knows what that's worth.
Jagjit Singh collects up the pails. He likes his job, he likes Novellara, he feels well treated here and wants to give something back. Out of the cowsheds and into the community. That's why he is also a member of the disaster control team. He does want his son, Harjasan, to do other work later on, though: out of the cowsheds and into the office.
Harjasan, a 22-year-old psychology student, spends his days between Italy and India, between the cultures, between auditorium, student parties and religious festivals. He's the one they call, if someone is needed to give visitors a guided tour of the Sikh temple in Novellara, A low white building in an industrial zone with pillars, strings of colorful lights and arches. Harjasan Singh hands out orange triangles for people to cover their heads. He himself is wearing a turban, John Lennon glasses and the easy smile of the budding young professional. He shows us the ground floor, sinks onto the green linoleum. Old men with long beards serve Indian tea and yellow pastry sticks in metal dishes as snacks. The prayer room is upstairs. Bare walls, soft red carpet, more of a hall than a temple. Women crouch on the left-hand side, men on the right. Children play with Lego cars and dolls. Laid out in the middle is the Sikhs' holy book before which the families kneel. Talking about his father's generation, Singh says, "They were glad to be needed." About his generation he has this to say: "We were born here, speak the language and regard ourselves as Italian."
Who will take care of the parmesan when his father and all the others of his generation retire? Who will take care of the cows in the sprawling C.I.L.A. cowsheds? Who will keep a watchful eye on the milk flakes in the copper pots at Selvapiana e Canossa? Maybe then it will be the new arrivals from Syria and North Africa landing daily on Italy's beaches in search if work, security and a new home. Novellara will need them.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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Pool Break Pro play.google.com.Carrom3DFull
Pool Break is a suite of games featuring several variations of Pool, Snooker, and the popular Crokinole and Carrom board games. The full 3D graphics are spectacular and the physics are realistic and accurate. Whether you play against the computer or against other Android, iPhone or iPad users online, the action is smooth and fast paced!
Ready for some realistic pool action? With a ton of games and lots of fast paced action, Pool Break will keep the most seasoned pro playing well into the night. Its realistic 3D graphics and linear shot guides help you line up your shot, modify the shooting angle, and see where your shot is going to land, making it easy to line yourself up for your next move.
You may also play against computer or in pass-n-play mode.
- Over a dozen games packed into one app
- Supports Online Cross-Platform Multiplayer Gaming
- Supports online chat
- Play online with Facebook Friends (needs Facebook App)
- Play against the computer with four difficulty levels
- Pass-n-Play mode
- Very Realistic Pool and Snooker Physics
- Pan and Zoom and Slow Motion modes
- Free View and First Person View
- Regular or Hexagonal tables
- Allows Curve and Masse shots and full English
- Intuitive User Interface
- Built-in Help Manuals explain how to play
- Hours of fun
If you've ever thought about playing pool or Snooker on a real table, Pool Break is the perfect way to try a variety of games and pick your favorite. Use Pool Break as a recreational game, or use its dead-on, real life graphics and geometry to help improve your skills for league night. With place and play and pool drill games, this is the perfect app for tweaking your game, and practicing those tricky shots that require nerves of steel.
So what do you get with this app? Over a dozen games, including two popular board games played with discs and enough cue-games to keep you busy.
Pool Break Games Include:
- US 8-Ball Pool
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- 9-Ball Pool
- 10-Ball Pool
- 3-Ball Pool
- 6-Ball Pool
- One Pocket Pool
- Straight or 14.1 Continuous Pool
- Carom (or 3-cushion) Billiards
- Pool Drills
- Place-n-Shoot Pool
- Regular Snooker
- Snooker 6-Reds
- Snooker 10-Reds
- Carrom (three board styles)
- Crokinole board game
Feeling competitive? Choose head to head action with the pass-n-play feature, even more intense competition against the computer, or go online for some cross-platform action with other players. With 4 different difficulty levels to choose from, you'll go from a novice to a seasoned professional in no time. Don't get Snookered! Download Pool Break now rack up some serious fun! It's your break!
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Earlier this week we brought you a story about a man who is making a video game that is laid out across four spatial dimensions. It's a platformer. But what, we had asked him, about a 4D racing game?
In Marc ten Bosch's in-development 4D game Miegakure, a character can climb across what merely looks like a three-dimensional landscape of blocks. That 3D terrain is a "slice" of a 4D structure that we can't see in its entirety, a 4D structure whose dimensions ten Bosch has determined mathematically. The player can't observe the full 4D structure at once but can sort of rotate their view from one 3D slice of the structure to another, causing some of the 3D terrain to disappear while a contiguous other 3D slice of the 4D whole comes into view. Thanks to that perspective-switching mechanic, the player's character can walk through the 4D world without losing his footing. The magic is in how unseen parts of the 4D world can be brought into view by unfolding one 3D slice while collapsing the other.
So... a 4D racing game. How about that?
"It would be like you're on a highway and then there's another highway sort of above it and you're pressing a button and jumping above to it," ten Bosch said, toying with the idea during an interview with Kotaku in Boston. You'd be racing along and then suddenly your competitors would lose sight of you because you'd have made a left turn into the fourth spacial dimension using Miegakure's style of 3D-slice-switching.
Don't get too excited. There's a problem. Imagine you have disappeared into another 3D slice of the 4D race course and decide to merge back to the 3D slice where your friends are at a bad time. "There might be a car above you and you might jump into it and crash into it," ten Bosch said. "That would not be pleasant."
Riffing, ten Bosch tried to solve that problem. "Maybe you're pressing a button and you can see up and see a car and then you can move." You would see a preview of that next slice. Could that work? "It would slow down the gameplay."
That's as far as we got, and maybe as far as we should go. 4D racing game? Who wants to play it?
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As Seth Meyers prepared for his big "Late Night" debut, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and more hosts made sure to pass along some wisdom.
"The best thing Jimmy [Fallon] always said is that it's so important to have fun when you're out there," Meyers told "E! News" of the advice his pal gave him for heading up a late-night show. "When people are watching your show late at night, if you're not having fun then they probably don't want to spend their time. You're fighting against bedtime, so, you have to bring some energy to it."
Even with that advice though, the former "Saturday Night Live" star wasn't exactly calm before he stepped on his stage for the first time.
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"I was nervous," Meyers said. "I'm having more fun each night. I had a lot of fun despite those nerves, but I was less nervous this last Friday than I was Monday [when the first show debuted]."
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Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert also all reached out to Meyers, who added, "When you're taking on a job like this that's what you want more than anything is well wishes, so I was very glad to get that."
"SNL" alums Fred Armisen (Meyers' new band leader) and Amy Poehler were both on hand to help him ring in his big night, as was Vice President Joe Biden.
And it looks like all the well wishes and advice paid off.
On his debut night Feb. 24, Meyers scored Late Night's best demo rating on a Monday night in nine years, with 3.4 million viewers.
Don't forget to tune in to "E! News" Monday at 7 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. only on E!
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Drive-thru for funeral
David Kime Jr. "lived by his own rules," daughter Linda Phiel said. He considered the lettuce on a burger his version of healthy eating, she said.
To give him a whopper of a send-off Saturday, the funeral procession stopped at a Burger King where each mourner got a sandwich for the road.
Kime got one last burger too, the York Daily Record reported. It was placed atop his flag-draped coffin at the cemetery.
Phiel said the display wasn't a joke, rather a happy way of honoring her father and the things that brought him joy.
"He lived a wonderful life and on his own terms," she said.
Kime, 88, a World War II veteran, died Jan. 20.
Restaurant manager Margaret Hess said she knew his face and his order. She and her crew made 40 burgers for the funeral procession.
"It's nice to know he was a loyal customer up until the end — the very end," she said.


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Mention Digital Rights Management
and I go bug eyed with paranoia.
Why is it that no one else seems to see it as an all-encompassing
conspiracy to overthrow all that is good in human civilization
and and enslave us to evil brain-eating cockroaches?
Security is a balancing act.
We all know that computer security is a continuum, with bad choices
at either end of the scale, but have we stopped to think about the
fact that this continuum is just a mirror of the same reality we
face when we consider personal or National security?
Tech people can be very inconsistent between their views on tech
subjects and their views on social or political realities, but
these two worlds are really analogies of one another.
You might be a real "computer security nazi", but a libertarian
in "real life". Why?
What is at stake?
Before you can even think intelligently on computer security,
you need to define what it is that you are attempting
to protect. And this is where your political and social
will silently determine the outcome
of your thought processes, before you have even begun.
Nowhere is this more true than in the emotional and polarized
debate over Intellectual Property.
Whose rights?
If I have made the assumption that I rightfully own a piece of
property, all of my strategies for protecting it will flow
from that assumption. If my computer belongs to me, then I insist
on having control over the software it runs, the content displayed
on the screen, who can write to my hard drive. I may delegate
these rights to those I trust, and I may deny it unconditionally
to all others. It is my computer.
Whose computer is it?
Maybe it really isn't my computer at all. Once upon a time
not so very long ago there were no personal computers. A business
would own a powerful computer with a multi tasking multi user
operating system. They could then connect numerous dumb
terminals to this machine so that people could log on and
work. Since the company owned the computer, it, or its appointed
sysadmin decided what rights could be safely delegated to
Users were digital peons, working on the master's
The microprocessor revolution.
The availability of cheap microprocessors shattered, at least
temporarily, the digital paradise of centrally controlled
computing. People bought desktop computers and discovered the
joys of learning to write their own software. They were
empowered. They experienced the feeling of ownership,
responsibility, and rights. Bad news for the advocates
of an authoritarian concept of computing.
A gray area
Having one's own computer probably felt pretty good at first,
but people became bored and discontented with the underpowered
early PCs, and no doubt were thrilled when they became
powerful enough to run networking software, and able to connect
to the fast growing internet. But now, going from a free-standing
personal computer to a participating host on a network,
you enter a gray area, a twilight zone between the totally
decentralized, fragmented world of individual PCs, and the
authoritarian world of mainframe and dumb terminal.
Rival Computing Models = Rival Security Models
It should be no surprise that people are arguing radically
different philosophies of computer security. Their underlying
philosophies of computing make this inevitable.
The decentralized model of security says that "It's your
computer", therefore security is your own responsibility.
This philosophy favors firewalls, Anti-virus software,
Spam filters, and other user-initiated and user-maintained
measures to mitigate, but never eliminate security threats.
The centralized model advocates comprehensive and
systemic measures, built into the fundamental design
of the net, its protocols, and even the very hardware,
to make security threats impossible.
Cyberspace and Ordinary Space.
If you suspect that I'm about to make an analogy between
the digital world and the "real" world, you are correct.
The very same arguments about security are raging about our
physical security. One group says that conventional
and traditional security measures are adequate. Local law
enforcement is seen as adequate to deal with crime.
Normal and lawfully mobilized armies can defend nations.
Traditional diplomacy. Civil liberties. Constitutional
The other camp, again, wants a radical and comprehensive
solution, a "new world order", some kind of systemic
redesign that will make security threats impossible.
Utopia is Hell.
But before we can talk intelligently about security threats,
we need to ask, "Who is being threatened by whom?"
the answer to this question isn't as obvious as you think.
To you and me, this may seem simple. A security threat
is something that threatens me.
A virus. Spyware. Someone wanting administrative access
to my computer, to steal my personal info, empty my
bank account, or whatever.
But if you are the president of a monopolistic business,
head of the RIAA, the MPAA, your definition of "threat"
may seem curiously inverted, at least from my point of view.
New technologies that allow users to share files unsupervised,
the ability to inspect and "reverse engineer" software,
or to write programs that unlock copy protection. These are
"security threats" from their point of view. Things that I
do in the privacy of my own home can be viewed as threats to
their businesses.
Since it is "intellectual property" that they are trying to protect,
my discovery of their secrets is a greater threat to computer security
than some petty virus. To ordinary users, the enemy is the rogue or
criminal who releases the destructive virus or worm. To authoritarians,
it is ordinary users who are the threat, not by doing something
criminally destructive, but by obtaining hidden and forbidden
Digital Utopia would be a place where users are only allowed the
minimum privileges necessary to allow them to do their work. This may seem
sensible if you are the sysadmin at a nuclear weapons lab,
but do you want the internet run that way? Do you want your PC to be managed
remotely by the regime of Digital Rights Management?
There is a lot at stake here.
The internet is still a friendly and cooperative place.
It is not the wild wild west, in desperate need of a
gunslinging sheriff to come and impose law and order.
Security is evolving naturally, and meeting the needs of legitimate
users. The rogues and outlaws are a small minority.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.


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Sizemore makes first career appearance in right
BOSTON -- Grady Sizemore made his first career appearance in right field on Saturday afternoon against the Orioles at Fenway Park. A nine-year veteran, Sizemore has primarily played center field during his big league career. He made his left field debut on April 10 in Yankee Stadium.
Sizemore played two games in right while in the Minor Leagues -- one in 2000, his first year playing pro ball, and one in 2001.
"Both corner outfields are kind of new for me," Sizemore said. "So I'm just going to try to get in as much work as I can early and just put yourself in a good position. It's one of those things where you make the adjustments, and I think if you can play outfield you can play. I think here more than anything it's just working the walls. Left field is a different situation, and right field's a little different. So just make sure you know how the ball's going to bounce and put yourself in a good spot."
This is not about finding out what Sizemore has to offer, said Red Sox manager John Farrell.
"I wouldn't say it's about taking different looks at him," Farrell said. "Mike Carp's swinging the bat well, Jackie [Bradley] has solidified defense in center field for us. So with Grady it's a matter of pushing him over and using his range a little bit more than Mike Carp's would be in right field.
"I wouldn't say that [Sizemore is] completely acclimated to left field yet. [Friday] was the first time he's played left field in Fenway Park. So there's still repetition needed. Yet at the same time, we feel like with his athleticism he should be able to play the corners with equal effectiveness."
It's also the first time Sizemore is playing in a day game after a night game this season, a reflection on his health status.
"Very good," Farrell said. "He's responded well. There's been days when he's had an off-day where he felt like he could continue on, so all those are positive signs."
Sizemore, who joined the Sox as a free agent in January, said bouncing between the outfield spots is not difficult, despite his lack of experience in the corners.
"It's fine," he said. "[The mental] aspect is not really an issue. I kind of knew coming into the situation [with the Red Sox] that I was probably going to be used in multiple spots, so I kind of prepared for that this spring and I told them I'd be ready no matter where you put me."
Fenway Park's right field can be intimidating, though, especially in a day game with the sun.
"You can get as much work as you can get, but you still got to get game action," Sizemore said. "It's completely different. So just get in the right spot and try to just be on your toes, get good jumps and put yourself in the right position."
Sizemore didn't play right in a Spring Training game, but he did get some work there during camp.
"I think I took reps as much as I can early on in camp," he said. "And when the season starts kind of just go to your position on that day. I'll be fine."
Regular right fielder Shane Victorino, who's on the disabled list with a right hamstring strain, is starting a rehab assignment with Triple-A Pawtucket on Saturday. Sizemore said he didn't have a chance to discuss with Victorino the quirks and crannies of Fenway's right field.
"Not really," Sizemore said. "But we did all this work in Spring Training. The dimensions are the same, so it's just a matter of putting those reps into the game."


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Hologram communication - Star Wars
Since witnessing Princess Leia send Obi-Wan a holo message in Star Wars, I've dreamt of getting my hands on such a gadget. Perhaps even more so than Carrie Fisher herself. Decades later and unlike dated tech and ageing film stars, the concept of hologram communication hasn't lost its excitement. But for how long will it continue to rouse? It may have seemed completely implausible in 1977, but in this modern metropolis of machine, the construction of such tech is merely round the corner.
Technical limitations have meant holography has always been limited to pre-recorded videos, such as Prince Charles's appearance at 2008's World Future Energy Summit. This is also changing.
In an interview with The Telegraph, Ian O'Connell, director of Musion, a company specialising in real-time holography said: "This is cutting-edge stuff. One of the main uses we envisage is celebrity cameos at big conferences or concerts… It's going to need a room that can accommodate the screening and delivery technology. But I think we're five years away from holograms being a ubiquitous, affordable tool."
That statement was made two years ago. I patiently rub hands in anticipation. In all likelihood, holography would emerge as another 3D tech, widely slated, over-priced and completely unnecessary. At least you wouldn't have to wear stupidly oversized glasses, though.
Still, the day such tech becomes a commercial product small enough to fit in my pocket, is the day I sell my house, car and girlfriend to pay for one. In reverse order, of course.
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Orgasmatron - Sleeper
Time to give you a Woody. Don't get too excited, we're talking movies here.
The Orgasmatron from Woody Allen's 1977 film Sleeper, is probably the greatest sexual pleasure device ever imagined. Even the fertile Italians would want one. Blowup dolls, honeypots and phallic-shaped weapons of ass destruction would be made redundant in an instant.
The concept is hardly original, though. From Durand Durand's pleasure machine in Barbarella to the sex-ray in Flesh Gordon, instant orgasm tools have always been on people's mind, especially men. As the late great Bill Hicks pointed out, it doesn't take much for a sexual thought to arise. Therefore the concept of an instant orgasm device, has probably been around since the beginning of time.
Arousing ourselves with an electronic machine is, as you know, hardly uncommon. However, an Orgasmatron is so superior to an average sex-toy, the comparison is futile. For $3000, surgeons will insert electrodes near the spinal cord and connect you to a function generator. This medical Orgasmatron, invented by Dr. Stuart Meloy, could be used to treat sexual dysfunction in women.
Would a walk-in orgasm room be something we openly embrace, or would it be seen in the same way a vibrator is? If it was our only method of reproduction, then of course we'd unashamedly have one in the corner of our living room. However, with current mindsets, the Orgasmatron would probably need to be small enough to fit in the back of a sock drawer. It would have to be more like The Orb, a separate pleasure tool from the same film - although I'm not sure we'd be passing it round a circle fighting over who uses it next.
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I love costume jewellery, I know a lot of us do. So today I'm gonna share how I updated one pair of my old earrings. Super easy to do, I am now wondering why in the world did I not do this earlier? :)
First I got my pack of Rub On out, and also the pair of earrings I was gonna play with.
I cut the design apart to make sure they'll be where I want them to.
Then I rubbed one scalloped part onto the earrings.
There will be parts of the rub on sticking out of the earrings, just use your fingers to smooth them to the back of the earrings. Please pay no attention to the messy background. I have been shopping and shopping and didn't spend my time organizing the new stuff, that's why they're all piled up on the table, leaving me to work on a 12 x 12 space.
Then I did the same with the other earring, added some blings and voila! Got myself a 'new' pair of earrings. Now I am gonna look for more old earrings to 'refresh'! I really hope you'll try this :) Fun, trust me. Just don't worry about perfection, and you'll enjoy this. :)


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Kemp out for postseason after MRI on ankle
LOS ANGELES -- Matt Kemp's injury-plagued season came to an end Sunday, as the Dodgers announced the center fielder has been lost for the postseason with a recurring ankle injury.
"I don't know what to say except the season is over for me," Kemp said. "I'll be a cheerleader on the bench."
Kemp, a late scratch Saturday night, underwent an MRI on Sunday, which indicated swelling in the major weight-bearing bone of his left ankle. If Kemp continued to play, there was a possibility the ankle could break.
Kemp was on crutches after Sunday's 2-1 defeat to the Rockies, and team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache said the outfielder would need to avoid putting weight on his ankle for at least a month.
"Pretty bad sign when they pull out the crutches," Kemp said. "To sum it up, if I keep going out there ... I could break it, and I don't want that. It could turn out really bad for me."
Although Kemp has avoided surgery for now, ElAttrache said there's a possibility Kemp would need an arthroscopic procedure to remove bone chips from the ankle if his recovery does not go as planned.
"We fully expect that that will heal, given enough time and relative protection from weight bearing," ElAttrache said. "But he's going to be recovering from this into the offseason."
Kemp said he was "super surprised" by the diagnosis. He missed 52 games after spraining the ankle July 21 but returned Sept. 16 and played 11 games. Kemp felt fine Friday, his fourth start in as many days, then reported increased stiffness and soreness in his ankle Saturday, which led to the MRI.
"I worked really hard, I was doing well and thinking I'd be OK," Kemp said. "I was excited two or three days ago, felt real good at the plate. I got my swing back, everything I needed to perform. Then they tell me I can't perform anymore. It's tough."
Kemp's loss comes on the heels of another left ankle injury to Andre Ethier, who also might not be available to play in the postseason.
Despite the bad news, manager Don Mattingly said the Dodgers would not panic heading into Game 1 of the National League Division Series against the Braves on Thursday.
"I don't think anybody out there in that room is going to be willing to give this thing up because Matt is hurt," Mattingly said. "Without saying it in a bad way, we played all year long without Matt. We're capable of winning. We're not just going to roll over and act like something is wrong now. We're not going to be full strength. If you don't have Andre and you don't have Matt, you're not as good as you could be. But we're still good enough to win."
Kemp said he also expects to undergo cleanup surgery on the AC joint in his left shoulder. ElAttrache said a date for the procedure has not been set but estimated a recovery time of six weeks.
Kemp, who has been on the disabled list three times this season for a total of 88 games, initially injured his ankle in an awkward slide at the plate July 21 in Washington. Kemp was not hustling on the play and admitted he did not expect a play at the plate.
"You feel bad that he's not going to be out there and he's had a rough year," Mattingly said. "Physically, it's been tough, it seems like really since [his shoulder] surgery last winter. It's been a rough year. You feel bad for the guy. You know he wants to be out there. He wants to compete. But his body says he can't right now."


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USING CENSUS DATA, URBAN LAND-COVER CLASSIFICATION, AND DASYMETRIC MAPPING TO MEASURE URBAN GROWTH OF THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY, TEXAS by Eric Nathaniel Peña A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) December 2012 Copyright 2012 Eric Nathaniel Peña
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|Using census data, urban-land cover classification, and dasymetric mapping to measure urban growth of the lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas
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|The objective of this thesis is to design and perform an experimental study to demonstrate how census data, urban land-cover classifications, and dasymetric mapping may be combined together to map and measure urban growth. The experiment explored urban growth using 1990, 2000, and 2010 census population data and satellite-derived urban land-cover data. The premise of this thesis was that if the combination of these techniques is found to provide an effective method of measuring urban growth, then urban planners and city managers should be advised to use them together when measuring development patterns and forecasting growth scenarios of urban areas. Census tract population data for 1990, 2000, and 2010 and satellite-derived urban land-cover data were used for the analysis. The study areas included the Lower Rio Grande Valley, TX (LRGV) region and the Hidalgo County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) planning area. Census tract relationships were established across census years to account for changes in tract boundaries. Population counts from 2000 and 2010 were adjusted to 1990 census tract boundaries. Population change, growth rate, and the share of regional growth were calculated for each census tract to identify areas that have experienced substantial growth. Results showed that four census tracts within the Hidalgo County MPO planning area contributed to nearly 25% of the growth of the entire region. Additionally, the Hidalgo County MPO planning area accounted for nearly 70% of the growth of the entire region. Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) imagery was acquired to coincide with each census year. Landsat images where classified using a 30-class ISO Cluster unsupervised classification. Results from these classifications where used to create training samples for high, medium, and low density urban land-covers. Supervised classification was performed for each year resulting in three urban land-cover classes and one uninhabited class. Classification results were explored and plotted for each year to determine land-cover changes by urban density type. Results showed that the Hidalgo County MPO planning area has seen an increase in medium density development and a decline in low density development in the past decade. Multi-class weighted dasymetric mapping was performed using the aforementioned census tract data and urban land-cover classifications. The Dasymetric Mapping Extension (DME) for ArcMap 10 was utilized. Dasymetric population density maps were compared to choropleth population density maps. Dasymetric results where explored further for the four census tracts that contributed most to the region's population growth. Results indicate that the majority of the population resided in medium density developments by 2010, however, the areas that contributed most to population growth were still composed largely of low density urban development.
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|PFLAG Meeting - Durham
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Pilgrim United Church of Christ is located at 3011 Academy Road in Durham. For further directions, go to pilgrimucc-durham.org.
Even though PFLAG Triangle meets once a month in Durham and in Raleigh, support is always a phone call away. We have PFLAG Members who have gone through what you are going through and who would be happy to listen and talk. Call our support line or send us an email.
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|Absolute bliss, which can only be found at Khum Phucome Hotel Chiang Mai, where Lanna elegance meets modern sophistication.
The hotel is centered around our landmark all-golden-teak convention hall.
208 luxurious rooms and nine conference venues available to fit all your needs.
Immediate access to the hippest places in town, including fine dining from all around the world, the hottest nightlife, historical temples, shops with the latest fashions and styles, Olympic stadium, the Chiang Mai International airport, all within 10-minute drive of Khum Phucome Hotel.
We invite you to join the Khum Phucome family and discover the unique character and personal care that is only available at Khum Phucome Hotel.
Superior RoomThe spacious 32-square-meter Superior rooms have wooden floors, private balconies and a view of the pool from most rooms. Superior rooms are available with both king and twin beds. The rooms are located in Building A right next to the grand Khum Phucome manor, where you can peacefully enjoy our unique Lanna atmosphere and green surrounding.
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from the famous Doi Suthep with gorgeous views of the mountains, a mere 10 minutes drive to
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Derrick Rose participates in full-contact practices with Bulls
Derrick Rose has taken another step in his comeback from ACL surgery. (John W. McDonough/SI)
By Ben Golliver
Step by step, Derrick Rose gets closer to returning.
ESPNChicago.com reports that Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters Wednesday that Rose, who is rehabilitating from an ACL tear in his left knee suffered last April, has participated in "full contact" portions of practice.
"He's full-contact, yeah," Thibodeau said before Wednesday's morning shootaround as the Bulls prepared to face the Milwaukee Bucks.
"He can do all the cutting, he can do shooting, he can go off the dribble," Thibodeau said. "So it's just a matter of him getting acclimated to playing in a game situation. You have to understand that in practice you're striving to get as close to a game-like intensity as you can, but you also have to understand that you're not going to be able to get there, so that will be a whole different level. And we have to make sure that he's ready to handle that intensity."
Rose began practicing with the Central Division-leading Bulls in December, but was initially limited to running, shooting and walk-through work. He still does not have a firm timetable for his return, although it's still expected to be after All-Star Weekend, which runs from Feb. 15-17 in Houston. The Bulls have repeatedly stated that they will take a cautious approach in managing his recovery.
The 2011 MVP's return couldn't be more eagerly anticipated, and his rehabilitation from May surgery was painstakingly chronicled in a national video ad campaign from Adidas.
"I got a lot of confidence with the team that we have," Rose said in the video campaign's final episode. "They see me lifting all the time, shooting, just trying to do extra just to show them that just because I'm not on the court with them that I'm still working my butt off so that I can get back on the court as quick as possible."
a number of major NBA stars to suffer knee injuries


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Only a few months ago we wrote about our impressions of Nemo-Cassina's new products when we went to visit them in Milan at Salone Internazionale Del Mobile and now they've sent us their new 2011 product brochure to formally introduce the many new and beautiful additions to the Nemo "Classici" and "Contemporanei" lines.
As the lighting division of Cassina, Nemo has followed closely in Cassina's tradition of collaborating with some of the most influential and compelling architects and designers of the twentieth century. Their designers have been at the forefront of innovation in the use of new materials and have all produced designs that have a very particular aura of minimalist elegance.
Here in this Brochure they introduce the newest of their "Classici" series with works by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Franco Albini and Mario Bellini.
Left: Nuvola Pendant, designed by Mario Bellini, 1974 | Right: 601 Table Lamp, designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, 1968
Left: Lampe de Marseille Pendant, designed by Le Corbusier, 1954 | Right: Applique A Volet Pivotant Wall Sconce designed by Charlotte Perriand, 1962
The new additions to the "Contemporanei" series is made up of no less impressive a line up, with works by Yasutoshi Mifune, Javier Mariscal, Roberto Paoli, Agatha Ruiz De La Prada, Ilaria Marelli and Jehs+Laub.
More photos from the "Contemporanei" series …


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At 9:46 p.m., blogging on his site FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver called the presidential election for Barack Obama. The television networks followed suit about an hour and 15 minutes later after most polls in Western states closed.
Of course, Mr. Silver had a head start: he had forecast that Senator Obama would beat Senator John McCain back in March.
In an election season of unlikely outcomes, Mr. Silver, 30, is perhaps the most unlikely media star to emerge. A baseball statistician who began analyzing political polls only last year, he introduced his site, FiveThirtyEight.com, in March, where he used his own formula to predict federal and state results and run Election Day possibilities based on a host of factors.
Other sites combine polls, notably RealClearPolitics and Pollster, but FiveThirtyEight, which drew almost five million page views on Election Day, has become one of the breakout online stars of the year. Mr. Silver recognized that people wanted to play politics like they played fantasy baseball, and pick apart poll numbers for themselves instead of waiting for an evening news anchor to interpret polls for them.
FiveThirtyEight is "among the very first things I look at when I get up in the morning," said Allan McCutcheon, who holds the Clifton chair in survey science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "He helped make sense of some of the things that didn't seem sensible."
Mr. Silver has also become an in-demand analyst, appearing on MSNBC, CNN, "The Colbert Report" and Fox News.
"From a marketing standpoint, I'd rather hedge a little bit more," he said, "but we're the ones who are bold enough and are stupid enough to say what the polls translate to."
He spent election night in a small studio inside the Newseum in Washington, as an on-air analyst for "Dan Rather Reports" on HDNet. During the campaign, Mr. Silver had learned a thing or two about television polish: he smoothed his hair, ironed his jacket, applied Visine drops and dabbed on concealer before a "hit," as he had learned to call it.
This was his second television booking of the day, and a producer from "The Tonight Show" had called earlier. A makeup artist brushed on powder and a producer yelled into a cellphone as Mr. Silver sat sideways at his computer, his elbows splaying from his keyboard at angles that would alarm an ergonomist, squinting at Excel spreadsheets.
Mr. Silver has believed in numbers the way authors believe in words, as capable of expression and provocation, since he was young.
He "was a numbers fanatic," said his father, Brian Silver, a political science professor at Michigan State University.
"When we took him to preschool one time, we dropped him off, and he announced, 'Today, I'm a numbers machine,' and started counting," Brian Silver said. "When we picked him up two and a half hours later, he was 'Two thousand one hundred and twenty-two, two thousand one hundred and twenty-three...' "
By kindergarten, he could multiply two-digit numbers in his head. By 11, he was conducting multivariate analysis to figure out if the size of a baseball stadium affects attendance (it doesn't). By age 13, he was using statistics to manage a fantasy baseball team. When his parents refused to buy him computer games, he taught himself the Basic programming language and created his own.
He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2000, and was working for (and bored by) the accounting firm KPMG when he began messing around with baseball statistics. He tried to predict players' performance based on their similarity to players from the past, like Bill James, a pioneer in baseball statistics, had done. But unlike Mr. James, Mr. Silver adjusted for body type, including factors like height and weight, discovering, for example, that taller pitchers age better.
He built a predictive system called Pecota around that, and sold it to Baseball Prospectus, a statistical organization, in 2002, staying on as a writer and consultant for the company. For the 2007 season, he correctly predicted the White Sox would lose 90 games. And for the season that just concluded, he predicted the longtime basement-dwelling Tampa Bay Rays would be a top team.
"I think everybody in our field is pleased and proud to see Mr. Silver's work in political analysis taken seriously, and I'm sure that analysis is shaped to some extent by the ways of thinking that have been developed in our field," said Mr. James in an e-mail message. "It's a vicarious pride, much as one takes in the performance of the old school's football team."
Late last year, Mr. Silver, an Obama supporter, became frustrated with how primary poll results were being reported, and how sloppy polls and rigorous polls were given the same attention.
"What you heard on television was, Hillary was inevitable, she's up 20 points," he said. "She's up 20 points because people had heard of her. They hadn't heard of Obama."
Mr. Silver posted his speculations on the liberal Web site DailyKos.com, and earned attention when he projected Senator Obama would win 833 Super Tuesday delegates, which was within about a dozen of the actual vote estimates.
He began feeding a database with every poll available, from the University of Akron to Zogby International, state demographics and election results from 1952 forward. He weighted all the polls on historical accuracy, and adjusted them for whether they tended to favor Democrats or Republicans and other factors, then built a model that simulated elections.
He began to see patterns, like leads in polls over the summer should be discounted, or a shift in opinion in North Carolina usually moves with one in Virginia.
In March, he introduced FiveThirtyEight.com, and it quickly became a go-to site for readers whose interest in raw numbers had grown after the close (and miscalled) elections in 2000 and 2004. As his reputation grew online there's a Facebook group called "There's a 97.3 Percent Chance That Nate Silver Is Totally My Boyfriend" the mainstream media he disparaged for sloppy reporting came calling.
Political predictions are "big this year because of Nate Silver," said Sam Wang, who runs the rival site Princeton Election Consortium. "He loves discussing the details of the data, and his commentary is quite good. He's made this hobby mainstream."
Between his live TV appearances on election night, Mr. Silver updated his model and determined around 8 p.m., after New Hampshire went to Senator Obama, that Senator McCain had no way of winning. By the end of the night, Mr. Silver had predicted the popular vote within one percentage point, predicted 49 of 50 states' results correctly, and predicted all of the resolved Senate races correctly.
The show ended at 1 a.m., and minutes later producers outside Mr. Silver's studio were celebrating and popping Champagne corks. A crew member started to dismantle the desk where Mr. Silver was still examining data.
"You don't have to go home, but we've gotta take your desk away," the crew member said.
"O.K., just let me post this," Mr. Silver said, narrowing his eyes at the screen.
One thing Mr. Silver cannot predict: what happens now. He suspects that Nov. 4 was the height of his popularity, and that producers will not be phoning as frequently any time soon. Publishers have been calling about a book, and he will continue with FiveThirtyEight, using it to predict Congressional votes during the Obama administration if anyone cares.
"That's the paradox," he said. "You would think that you elect this guy and you want him to effect change, and then he gets elected, and people don't care about bills being passed."


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This is Amanda Ménard, Dennis Lagasse III's wife, and the mother of 12 children.
It's about time I get some recognition…
Lionel Lagasse has identified her.
He should know she's his grandmother. Lionel was kind enough to bring the old Lagasse album with him, and his son Dennis IV was kind enough to share them with me and my readers.
Amanda Ménard, who by the way is Caroline Ménard's sister, is also seen here in another picture sent in 2010 by someone else.
Amanda is not identified by a caption like Aunt Ida, Pépère, and Levi. Even the house is identified…
E. Bristol.
At first, I thought the woman standing behind little Germaine Lagasse was Amanda Ménard. That was making sense back then in 2010 since Amanda Ménard was Germaine's grandmother.
Who else could she be?
Well I was wrong. She is not Amanda, because Amanda is smiling for the photographer right behind her son Victor Philip Lagasse, little Germaine's father.
The woman behind little Germaine has to be related somehow to this family. I wonder who she is.
She's not a neighbor that's for sure.
I would take a wild guess and venture she is Marie Lagasse the eldest of Dennis III's and Amanda's children. I know Alice Myers, Germaine's mother is on the right. She's is pregnant.
I am almost 100% sure.
This is Alice Myers again with Victor Philip back in 1912.
Lovely picture…
Harry Lagasse is with his wife Anna Campbell.
This is Harry again with his son Gerard.
Déjà vu…?
How about this…?
Or this…
You should easily identify someone…


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Your freedom to swing your fist ends where someone else's nose begins.
-- Franklin Veaux's answer to Are we truly free in the United States? --
I tried this exercise at the gym called hyperextension. At first, I was not aware of the name of the exercise. Until Ravi Singh told me, that is. All I knew was people lean their bellies on waist-high surface and start doing sit-up-like movements.
I thought it would train the muscles on my stomach and started doing it, two days in a row at the gym.
... I knew better today after waking up to the most awful pain my hamstrings ever experienced. =__=
(The hamstring is the muscle on the back of one's thigh)


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For a concert by the John Butler Trio, you could dispense with a setlist and just keep a log of the different stringed instruments the leader uses to maximum effect.� Butler's two-hour show at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston Saturday night, before 2800 giddy fans, saw the 39-year old Australian veer between six and twelve string acoustic guitars, banjo, dobro, and a hollow-body electric guitar, while fingerpicking, strumming, using slide and even feedback, all with dazzling results.
For a concert by the John Butler Trio, you could dispense with a setlist and just keep a log of the different stringed instruments the leader uses to maximum effect. Butler's two-hour show at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston Saturday night, before 2800 giddy fans, saw the 39-year old Australian veer between six and twelve string acoustic guitars, banjo, dobro, and a hollow-body electric guitar, while fingerpicking, strumming, using slide and even feedback, all with dazzling results.
The JBT's latest album "Flesh and Blood" arrived in February, and this show, the last date on their American tour, included eight of the new album's eleven songs. With Butler switching around between his many instruments so often for individual tunes, the tour's setlists have been pretty consistent, but Boston got a couple of special moments, more or less by accident. Opening his encore segment, Butler has usually been playing "Losing You," but he noted that he'd played that on his last visit to Beantown, and replaced it with a lovely and tender, mostly-solo and acoustic12-string version of "Peaches and Cream," the ballad he wrote to mark the birth of his daughter. You could have heard the proverbial pin drop in the hushed arena, until some of the longtime fans began singing the chorus along with him, for a marvelously touching moment.
Earlier in the night, when Butler picked up his banjo to play the "Hoedown" intro to "Better Than," there were problems as soon as Byron Luiters hit the first note on his acoustic standup bass. The amp seemed to short out with a pop, so Luiters and drummer Grant Gerathy waited as technicians tried to fix the connection. Butler, meanwhile, just expanded his own solo banjo workout in a jaunty sprint through the melody. By the time Luiters found his electric bass and the rhythm section joined in for a rousing finish, the crowd was on its feet and roaring at the unexpected ten-minute treat. Few of us came to the show anticipating a banjo charge would be among the night's highlights, but with the multi-talented Butler leading the way, surprises like that are always possible.
The JBT has always had a sound not quite like anything else in popular music, thanks to the leader's many talents, and his sense of showmanship, honed when the expatriate American started his musical career busking on the street in Freemantle. There are certainly aspects of American roots music, from blues and soul to bluegrass, and even some harder edged rock flavors, but it is all built upon a unique rhythmic foundation. All those other elements sneak into the rhythms, but Butler's music also notably contains some echoes of Australian aboriginal music, and a definite reggae/ska flavor too. However you analyze it, Butler's music is intensely infectious, inspiring almost non-stop dancing like it did last night, while his melodic sense allows him to craft solos that are wonderfully vibrant yet cohesive.
Saturday's show began with the quiet, dreamy sounds of "Wings Are Wide," with Butler on the acoustic six-string, and Gerathy playing a drumpad that mimicked the sound of steel drums, before it pushed up into a more subtly pounding sound. The 12-string slide guitar sounds propelled the easy groovin' rumble of "Cold Wind," itself a prime example of the way the rhythm section builds tension, which was then released in Butler's spiraling slide guitar lines. The amiably onrushing melody of the older song "Used to get High" really got the crowd involved, as pockets of dance-happy couples erupted everywhere, while Butler crafted mind-bending slide accents.
The new tune "Bullet Girl" is a neat work, a sweet ballad undercut with solid rhythmic kick, but a bit of a hum in the bass end detracted from it. Butler unveiled his hollow-body electric axe for "I'd Do Anything (Soldier's Lament)" which started with chiming single notes and built into rocking muscle and its anthemic chorus. That tune could be Exhibit A for the JBT's mastery of dynamics, ranging effortlessly from delicacy to roaring thunder and carrying the audience along every step of the way.
The steel drums effect was used again in the joyous bounce of "Only One," and then Butler brought out the dobro for an inspired run through "Fire in the Sky." That led easily into the banjo showcase, with its bass malfunction, which turned out to be a sort of improvisational peak.
Butler was back on electric guitar for "Blame It On Me," from the new album, which featured some of his most brain-curdling instrumental work. The tune itself works off a kind of lumbering rhythm, even as Gerathy's surging drums hint at something more. Butler's soulful vocal and rock guitar lines are set over that foundation, and his guitar lines became more and more spacey, until the song hit a climax with Butler artfully playing a feedback/distortion segment that would've done Jimi Hendrix proud.
Okay six-string fans, if that wasn't enough for you, how about "Pickapart," where the JBT melded lightning finger-picking with heavy metal-like fire? While our heads were spinning from that, Butler took a solo turn on the 12-string, for the jaw-dropping instrumental, "Ocean."
The 19-song set moved quickly through the rock 'n' rumble of ""Don't Wanna See Your Face," to the bluesy throwback "Devil Woman," to the rockin' fire of Butler's protest against environmentally insensitive politicians, "How Do You Sleep At Night?"
The lilting reggae-like groove of Butler's 2004 hit "Zebra" ended the regular set with an extended rendition. A slowed-down keyboard segment here by Luiters didn't quite connect with the rest of the tune, but Butler's potent slide solo pulled everything back on track.
That rendition of "Peaches and Cream" that opened the encores was simply sublime, but then the band followed up with the fiery fingerpicked gem "Livin' In the City" with all its visceral power. And how else should the night have ended, but with the swirling dance romp "Funky Tonight."
Allen Stone's 45-minute opening at was a fine appetizer for Butler fans, as Stone and his sextet played a kind of hippie blues-funk that tapped into much of the same feel as the headliner. Stone's "What Kind of Hoo Doo (Do You Do)?" rode a gritty down-home groove, and if his finale, apparently entitled "Heaviness," was a bit ragged, the band's joyous delivery made it work anyway.


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This week's shared topic was suggested by Ringo Flinthammer from Flinthammer Hall. Taking on a very lore-focused approach, he invited us to speculate about what happens to us, our characters, our races, our factions, our world Azeroth after we defeat Arthas, the Lich King.
Ouch. Overwhelmed, but not one to turn down a challenge, I typed "arthas" into my google search bar. Yes, I'm coming from far. Unlike Zan and Littlebark who've shared links to their takes on the topic in the Blog Azeroth thread, I have no RP background. I find WoW lore interesting, but my knowledge of it is very limited. It just won't stick with me.
I considered writing about what would happen to me as a player after Arthas dies. It came out as: "Well, I'll do hard modes with my guild, polish up my paladin as much as possible, maybe find time to experiment with an alt or two."
Rather anti-climactic.
So what's up with this Arthas person? After scrying through WoWwiki, I summerized what I would need to know to think about after Arthas. Since I'm positive that I'm not the only lore n00b on the internet, here's what I discovered.


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Be that celebrity you've always wanted to be. Hulk Hogan is a hot costume this year. You have to say "brother" at the end of each sentence and wear a lot of self tanner. You will also need a bandana, a wig and some other materials.
- Short blonde wig (unless you already have blonde hair!)
- 2 yellow boa feathers
- False eyelash glue
- Yellow shorts. (hot pants, underwear, speedo….whatever you are comfortable in!)
- Solid yellow bandana. This also can be made from cheap fabric.
- Small piece of cardboard.
- Red fabric paint.
- Red tank top
- 2 wrist sweat bands (solid yellow or white to be painted)
- 2 kneepads (solid red or white to be painted)
- Red and yellow spray/airbrush fabric paint if you are painting kneepads and sweat bands. (I use Simply Spray.)
- Wrestling belt (can be gotten from any toy store or toy section of store like Wal-mart.)
- Extra long red or white shoe laces.
- Approximately half a yard of thick, shiny, yellow fabric for wrestling boot covers (I used a yellow pleather-type material)
- A couple pieces of newspaper.
- Self tanner…..loads
- Tape measure.
- Exacto knife
Starting with the bandana, fold it in half so that it forms two triangles. Lay the small piece of cardboard in between the fabric. With the tape measure, measure your forehead (temple to temple.) This measurement will be the space that you need to draw the word "Hogan" in at the center bottom. Use a pencil in case you mess up. Keep the letters about 1-2" in length (depending on the size of your head.
Next, take the fabric paint and paint over the drawn letters creating nice thick, even shapes. Leave to dry.
If you are painting your kneepads and sweat bands do this next.
Do this part outside or make a large mess space with trash bags on the floor.
Start with one side of each object (wrist sweat bands are yellow, kneepads are red) and spray with fabric paint according to the specific paints directions. Move on to the other side and leave to dry.
For the boot covers, take an opened sheet of newspaper and wrap it around your leg. Cut it into the shape that you want the boot covers to be. Make sure you leave enough room to tie them together and put over your boots!
Transfer the newspaper to the yellow fabric. Draw around the edges twice and then cut the shapes out.
Once you have the fabric cut out, mark 1/2-inch horizontal lines about 1-inch apart from top to bottom of each outer edge of each boot cover. With your exacto knife, cut through the horizontal lines. Individually, place outer edges of boot covers together and lace the shoe lace back and forth through the slits. Keep the lacing very loose. Voila! Now you have wrestling shoes!
Now time to put it all together.
First put on the tank top and yellow trunks.
After wrist sweat bands and kneepads are dry put them on.
While sitting down, put on your boots of choice. Gently slip on the boot covers. Tighten the laces so that they sit nicely around the leg.
Stand up and put your wig on.
After the bandana is dry put it on over the wig.
Pluck two feathers from a boa. Place a few teeny drops of eyelash glue on your upper lip. Take the small ends of each feather and center them on the glue so that the large parts of the feather are facing down. Now you have a handle bar mustache!
You can wear the boa if you like as one of the many characters of the Hulk did.
- Put your belt on and start posing!!
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Guido is no more!!!
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But i can boost that i am a great reader of his post at linuxaccra mailing list. I join my friends at Kofi Annan Center of Excellence (KACE ) and Accra linux Group as a whole to send out our condolences to his family. A Ghanaian Software guru as some friends call him.


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New one is pretty glam
New one is pretty glam fabulous!
But I miss that box you used to be able to tick that would "remember me" - just get annoyed at having to log in all the time with the new one.
Also, I had trouble finding the "ArticleReach" link - its not the easiest to locate.
Otherwise - great work guys!
I prefer the functionality of
I prefer the functionality of the older catalogue. This new one feels to me like I am getting less of the information I want and more superflous material that doesn't relate directly to my search. Hence, I still use the "classic catalogue", available at Linus.lib.uts.edu.au if anyone else is interested.
New website is great
New website is great
To be completely honest, I
To be completely honest, I actually prefer the old website... probably just cause i'm used to it but also the orange has a much warmer feel to it [even though i normally prefer blue!] This website feels a little cold... how about a light green? Functionality seems to be overall about the same as the old one...
Hope this helps [just personal opinion!]
The new website is great,
The new website is great, except for finding e-readings. It was significantly better with the previous version where all the e-readings for the subject were located on one page with the author, book title and chapter laid out horizontally. Now the only way to find it is through the catalogue search, which does not display the chapter of the book in the search results. So if you have 2 separate chapters that you need to read in different weeks, the only way to confirm it's the right one for the week is to go into each result for the book and compare it against the subject outline. Very time consuming and painfully annoying, especially if you have lots of readings for the week. Please bring back the old e-reading pages, they were so much more convenient.
Visually pleasing but not
Visually pleasing but not very practical! I find it harder to find things, 'remember me' is gone.
Loving the design and feel of
Loving the design and feel of it. Much more in line with current design trends for web and media - plus functionality is so much better.
The classic catalogue is too
The classic catalogue is too hard to find as is form for requesting interlibrary loans
I like the minimalistic style
I like the minimalistic style
There is not a massive change
There is not a massive change. The changes are in bits and pieces. The main change is in the home page and it is nice. The design has a new feel
It is very animated. The
It is very animated. The icons are very smooth and big. Its like one of the apps made by the APPLE. Love it.
agree with viola liked the
agree with viola liked the old website better. the new one sems hard to work on the back buttons at times and i end up going completely out of the site and start again and log in again.
Hi Judy Anne,
Hi Judy Anne,
Can you please provide some more details of the problem you are having?
What back buttons are you referring to?
We can try and get that fixed up for you.
Having the opening hours and
Having the opening hours and quick links clearly displayed on the home page is great.
The blue ribbon at the top should not be longer than the main page. Currently the link to home page disappears in the wilderness left of my screen.
It is so hard to find the classic catalogue I have had to set up a special bookmark.
The links in pale grey writing at the bottom of the homepage ave very hard to read especially the telephone number and the headings.
The quick links at the top right are great but should also include Library contact details.
It is very hard to find the forms to request books, articles and chapters not otherwise available.
Some of the quick links double up with the links on the blue ribbon across the top.
It is great.
It is great.
It's very intitutive and
It's very intitutive and there is not much to complain about... I like the design and that whatever I am looking for is easily available.
Beautiful, elegent, and user
Beautiful, elegent, and user friendly libray website.
I prefer the new one, it actually represents the trend of web design.
However, what makes me confused is that why the search result is still the old design?
Thanks for your positive
Thanks for your positive comments.
We are still working on updating the interface for the Catalogue. Stay tuned!