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"Sitting in", or doing a spontaneous kind of "jam" with someone else is a true art form, ad can really be used as a great learning tool. It can also make a real difference in terms of you being heard at "the right time and the right place" as far as getting more work is concerned, and as far as helping to spread your (hopefully good!) reputation! I know that for many, many years I used this kind of situation to my great advantage, especially when I was young and so needed to be heard, and so needed to spread the word about my playing abilities.
When I first started becoming a part of the Woodstock "scene" there was so much live music going on, with so many famous players. It seemed that on almost any given night, I could find myself sitting in with greats such as Paul Butterfield, Rick Danko, Happy and Artie Traum, Levon Helm and so many more. It simply behooved me to be there and make myself be seen and heard as much as possible! It always seemed to pay off, as there were many phone calls I got for live gigs, tours and of course, recording sessions all as a direct result of these appearances.
I have also found that now that I am a respected performer, and someone who a lot of people know, it has also become a wonderful time to "sit in" and help some of my friends, whether they be well-known or not with their shows, too! Also, thanks to social media such as YouTube and other entities these days, you can make one gig turn into thousands, as people get to watch it, and even comment on it. It's a great new way to essentially "have a hit", and it enables you to reach countless people. Let's face it, there have been thousands of relative "unknowns" who have "made it" on YouTube, right from their living rooms!
This week, I'll be doing two "sit in" kinds of gigs; one with my dear friend and fellow slide player Sonny Landreth, and another with a great bunch of old Woodstock cronies for a tribute to the late great Levon Helm and Rick Danko. The latter will be a slightly more rehearsed and polished situation, since an entire huge band will be involved, but both will be of equal importance and weight, to say the least! The bottom line is what a joy it is to be asked to play at these kinds of events, especially when I can think back to the times when I used to stand there, at the side of the stage, just wishing I'd be asked to join in!
So as far as you are concerned, please be sure to "sit in" wherever and whenever you can. It'll teach you so much, and as long as you use restraint and don't try to overpower the situation, you'll find that it'll always turn into something better for you later on in your career!!! Break a leg!

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This letter in response to Dave Zoglmans letter "Powers-Norrell throws first dirt in Senate race," printed in the Feb. 20 edition of The Lancaster News. I am a Buford High School senior. Neither my teacher, classmates and I quite understand the article.
As far as throwing the first dirt goes I think you just did. I challenge you to find one flaw with Mandy Powers-Norrell.
She was one of the most intelligent who ever graduated from Lancaster High School and the USC School of Law. Our district should be honored that she is representing us.
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"The Spygate thing has diminished what they've accomplished. You would hate to have that attached to your accomplishments. They've got it," Shula told the Daily News yesterday. "Belichick was fined $500,000, the team was fined $250,00 and they lost a first-round draft choice. That tells you the seriousness or significance of what they found.
"I guess you got the same thing as putting an asterisk by Barry Bonds' home run record. I guess it will be noted that the Patriots were fined and a No.1 draft choice was taken away during that year of accomplishment. The sad thing is Tom Brady looks so good, it doesn't look like he needs any help."
I guess today on the Jungle with Jim Rome he continued to rip the pats even worse - I didn't hear what he said, but I can speculate based on the responses Rome and his listeners had.
Now I am anything but a Pats fan, in fact I hate every sports organization in the Boston/New England area - but one thing I hate more is year after year, hearing about these bitter old men clinging on to an achievement that was accomplished over 35 years ago, in a world that has completely passed them by, and once the pats break this record, will virtually forget.
Not to say I don't have respect for the 72 fins' accomplishment, but for the men that annually sweat buckets until the final unbeaten team looses, I have lost complete respect. I have never heard of any person or team so protective over a record before, at least not as publicly as this team. If or when the record is broken, will they hide in their new found irrelevance and drift off into sports oblivion? Or will they do the right thing and congratulate the record breaker? My guess is a combination of the two.
As a Pats hater I almost hope than the Pats do go 19-0 and the Fins go 0-16, just so I could quit hearing about the 72 fish! Seriously rub it in their faces, and then maybe they'll learn not to live vicariously through a record set 35 years ago.
And if Shula didn't want the record to be broken, than he shouldn't have said what he did...I mean does Bill Belichick really need any more encouragement to run up the scores? To humiliate his opponents until the last second(s) of the last game(s) (regular and post seasons)? Well regardless of whether he needed the added incentive, he got it! Thanks Don!
And If the Pats do go 19-0 in this era of pro football, it will be astronomically more impressive than the measly 14-0 the Fins did in a 10 game regular season. Hell, the '05 Colts and '98 Broncos both went 13-0 through week 14.
For a second, just imagine the 72 Fins VS the 07 Pats... The pats would likely make the Fins look like a DIV. I HS JV squad - or any team of that era for that matter.
Look '72 Fins, just quit embarrassing yourselves by sounding like the old, bitter and over the hill men you likely are, quit pooping the champagne bottles, because you have given yourselves enough pats on the back- because these Pats will give you (or take) something you'll never forget and that will eventually make others forget you!


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No, Earth hasn't suddenly migrated next to the Sun, but everything else about this picture is awesomely real. This is a plasma eruption from sunspot group AR 1302, the most recent solar storm to wreak havoc on Earth's magnetic field.
Thankfully, said havoc has pretty much been limited to some especially spectacular auroras. But there's some seriously insane turbulence going down on the Sun's surface, as a NASA astronomer explains:
One of the most active sunspot groups in years is currently crossing the Sun. AR 1302 first came around the Sun's edge last week and is so large it can be seen without a telescope. Coronal Mass Ejections from AR 1302 have already caused strong geomagnetic storms including notable aurora activity around both of Earth's poles. Pictured above, plasma was left magnetically hanging above the Sun's surface after AR 1302 emitted an X-class solar flare last Thursday. Earth is illustrated in the inset for a size comparison. Although another X-class flare was emitted on Saturday, no flares from AR 1302 have been aimed directly at the Earth, as yet. The AR 1302 sunspot group will continue to evolve but likely remain visible on the Sun for the next week.
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Robert H. Jackson '12 served as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1941 until his death in 1954. In 1945 he served as the chief prosecutor for the United States in the Nuremberg Trials, which tried the Nazi Party leaders after World War II.
He is one of Albany Law School's most esteemed graduates in its 160 year history. Throughout 2012 the school has been celebrating Justice Jackson's Centennial anniversary since attending—and graduating—Albany Law School as a member of the Class of 1912.To celebrate Jackson's Centennial, the law school has hosted a variety of activities including the unveiling of a permanent exhibit, along with a series of talks from prominent experts and a student writing contest with up to $1,000 for cash prizes.
From "Albany In the Life Trajectory of Robert H. Jackson," The Albany Law Review, 2004-2005, by John Q. Barrett, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law. The quote is cited from The Reminiscences fo Robert H. Jackson 4 (Columbia U., Oral History Research Office, Harlan B. Phillips ed., 1955.
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Holding a 24-20 lead, the Chicago Bears took over on their 11-yard line with 9:48 left to play. The Green Bay Packers didn't touch the ball again on offense until less than a minute to play in the game.
Matt Forte, Michael Bush and Josh McCown led the Bears' offense on a masterful 18-play, 80-yard drive that spanned nearly nine minutes of game time to help Chicago earn a 27-20 victory over the Packers on Monday night.
The game-clinching drive for Chicago featured a gutsy call from Bears' head coach Marc Trestman to go for it on 4th and inches at their own 32-yard line. Forte gained three yards to extend the drive and the Packers defense just couldn't manage to force the Bears offense off the field. Robbie Gould's 27-yard field goal gave the Bears a seven-point cushion.
Seneca Wallace, playing in place of an injured Aaron Rodgers, had 46 seconds to attempt a miracle comeback but was sacked twice on the Packers' final possession as time expired.
McCown was efficient in relief of Chicago starter Jay Cutler. McCown completed 22 of 41 passes for 272 yards and two touchdowns for the Bears.
The Packers rushing attack and a surprise onside kick recovery helped keep Green Bay in the game as Wallace struggled in the passing game.
Trailing 17-10, Eddie Lacy broke free for a 56-yard gain down to the Chicago 1-yard line on the Packers first offensive snap of the third quarter. Lacy finished the deal on the next play to score the Packers' second rushing touchdown of the night to tie the game. Lacy had a stellar performance for the Packers with 150 yards on 22 carries. James Starks also had six carries for 40 yards and a touchdown.
The Packers then pulled out a surprise onside kick to re-gain possession of the ball. Mason Crosby's kick was lifted high into the air where Micah Hyde jarred the ball free from Blake Costanzo. Jamari Lattimore made his second major special teams contribution of the night for the Packers is recovering the loose ball. He also blocked a punt for the Packers in the first half.
Green Bay got lucky to be able to take the lead as a pass from Wallace went right through the hands of Bears' linebacker James Anderson and into the waiting arms of James Jones deep in Bears' territory. The Packers moved to the Bears 5-yard line but the drive stalled after two Wallace incompletions as Green Bay settled or a 23-yard field goal from Crosby to give them a 20-17 lead.
The Bears quickly responded to jump back on top. McCown connected with Alshon Jeffery for a 6-yard touchdown to give the Bears a lead they wouldn't relinquish.
The more pressing matter for the Packers in the health of Rodgers, who left the game in the first quarter with an injury to his non-throwing shoulder. Packers' guard T.J. Lang also left the game with a concussion.


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The continuing saga of a wannabe GM who can't get a game started ...
Participating in Jim Raggi's forum about his new game brought up some other random game design thoughts. Here is as good a place as any.
Dispense with fixed stunts. Instead, I'd adopt a house rule (which I can't find a reference for now) that allowed players to "lock" an aspect to behave like a stunt: substitute one skill for another, grant a "permanent" circumstance bonus, a new function for an existing skill, etc.
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Novels and games always show wise graceful elves and grim greedy dwarfs. Does that seem right to you?
Many worlds believe theirs is the only timeline. Even "time travelers" believe in only one real timeline; the others cease to exist when the past changes. Previous timelines become inaccessible through linear time travel, so nothing in their science disproves their theory.
Sufficiently advanced travelers have means beyond these simple "time machines". World Jumpers can identify a parallel time line in infinite-dimensional space and "jump" to it directly.
Updated 04-29-2012 at 09:16 PM by fmitchell
Time travel, as described, moves a traveler back and forth along timelines. From the perspective of a naive time traveler, there's only one timeline that changes every time the traveler changes the "past".
Some other consequences of this model:
Travel to the absolute past is impossible. Every trip backwards forks a new timeline; the original past still exists.The traveler enters a world that started identically to a particular moment, but will
The preceding hypothesis solves some classic time travel paradoxes, if we assume the following rules.
When a person travels backward in time, he removes himself from the time stream.A traveler is not "cloned" when a major event creates a branch. Rather, he follows the branch that results from his presence.When a person travels forward in time, he follows the timestream he's currently in.A traveler retains all his memories and physical possessions, even if they
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When asking this question you need to understand the use and effectiveness of viral marketing software… You see there is a reason people are talking about concepts like viral marketing software and the answer to this is quite simple yet extremely powerful!
You see viral marketing software is a quick and effective way to increase targeted visitors to your website just by promoting products related to viral marketing software! When talking about viral you talk about the effect a product or service have… It is something people talk about and want to tell their friends about! A viral effect or free promotional effect is created and this is best achieved making use of viral marketing software!
You see the main advantage that viral marketing software usually have above other types of software, is the fact that it is either free to give away to friends or has some great advantage for the user that makes his job easier so he wants to tell people about it… But the fastest way to grow viral marketing software is to have a product that is free to give away!
Now to get back to the question of what is viral marketing software? Basically it is any software product that you can create with a way to get visitors to return to your website, now the best way to do this is to make the viral marketing software free and then give it away with some kind of link embedded into the software or with a additional pdf inserted with the software package that has a link back to your website… Now obviously the best way for viral marketing software is to have a embedded link within your software though this is more difficult to achieve but has a much better return…
So you need to understand for viral marketing software to achieve its effectiveness it needs to have real value to the user, then it needs to be either free to create that viral effect or have a great reason for the user to promote it, and finally viral marketing software needs to have some kind of link that would allow users to return to your website! This is where you either want to promote a great bonus or have some kind of advantage to the user if he returns to your website!
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So to end it all – find a valuable product, if you can't start with software then make use of ebooks, education mostly trumps software, – secondly find a way to brand it with a link to your website and finally give it away at no cost to the user, this will create a perceived value second to none! So do you believe in the effect of viral marketing software?


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Proposed Canon
When an attacking force takes the Garrison of a city, they conquer that city. All remaining defending forces have shackles popped upon them, ceasing hostilities in favor of the conquering force, though commanders are able to become fugitives.
After conquering a city, an invading force can choose some of the following options:
- claim the city for their own Side
- sack it (reduce it below a Level 1 City, destroying it for the moment)
- loot the treasury and any other goods in the city
- leave the city intact and in posession of its owners
- execute the prisoners
- attempt to turn the prisoners
Even if the owning side didn't have any units in the city, they will still know the name of the side that conquered it.


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The Passionate Programmer Book Review
Chad Fowler, well-known author and Ruby on Rails community organizer, has updated and changed the title of his previous book to this 2009 incarnation of his ideas on what constitutes a passionate programmer. Read on to find out if this revised edition succeeds.
Chad's story of how he discovered his work passion is similar to many developers I know. Realizing this as both an interesting story and a revelation in what constitutes the core of outstanding star developer attributes, The Passionate Programmer: Creating A Remarkable Career in Software Development, reveals the author's personal story and his distilled discoveries along the way.
The Passionate Programmer is the second edition of sorts of the author's earlier book, "My Job Went to India (And All I Got Was This Lousy Book): 52 Ways to Save Your Job." Chad concedes in his introduction that the original book's title and cover image of a guy holding up a sign that said 'Will Code for Food' "was funny, and its title and shocking red cover were meant to play on the Western world's fears that their jobs were going to be outsourced to low-cost offshore programming teams." Chad continues, " The problem, though, is that it painted the wrong picture. The truth of the matter is, if you need to "save" your job, I can't help you. This book isn't about struggling to maintain the level of mediocrity required not to get fired. It's about being awesome. It's about winning."
Honestly, it was because of the flippant original title's shock value that I had little interest in reading the first edition. I am not much interested for alarmist, reactionary call-to-arms propaganda, and while I am certain this was not Chad's original intent, his book's cover communicated blurred intentions. When I saw the title The Passionate Programmer, I was immediately compelled to investigate, knowing how important that passion for the craft must emanate from within. Like many readers, I have met both those types of fellow employees that had 'followed the money' during the dot com heyday and those that programmed because they absolutely loved the challenge, learning opportunities and sheer joy of designing and coding innovative applications. Nearly every one of those people who originally entered the practice for money have long since moved on to a different career while those who were deeply passionate about technology creation and propagation are now senior developers and CTO's. In fact, I didn't even realize this was Chad's second edition until he disclosed it in his opening text. After reading the book, I understand now the context of the original title but also how the new title embodies the book's contents so much more appropriately.
The book consists of 5 chapters: Choosing Your Market, Investing in Your Product, Executing, Marketing... Not Just for Suits and Maintaining Your Edge. These topics somewhat remind me of Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, right down to the last chapter's title nearly equivalent to Covey's 7th habit, "Sharpening the Saw". What gives Chad's book the programmer's edge is the context for which it was written. 7 Habits is an excellent generic self-improvement guide while The Passionate Programmer kibitzes among coders, as if Mr. Covey became an application developer himself and was channeled through Mr. Fowler's writings. There are several scenarios in the book that I could immediately relate to, nodding my head in agreement of the optimal outcome recommended by the author. By the end of the book, I felt as though I had spent the day with a seasoned veteran of the software wars whose sage advice would help me avoid the snags in my own professional development while simultaneously giving me the insight to help foster the passion in like-minded peers and motivated direct reports.
Ultimately, the takeaway message from Chad's book is the same as mythologist Joseph Campbell. "Follow your bliss." When journalist Bill Moyers asked Joseph Campbell in The Power of Myth, "What happens when you follow your bliss?" Campbell responded with the obvious - "You come to bliss." The Passionate Programmer provides a guide for those who are following their bliss as well as a strong affirmation for those who have already arrived.
Title: The Passionate Programmer: Creating A Remarkable Career in Software Development
Author: Chad Fowler
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The series was officially renewed by The CW for a ninth and final season on May 19, 2011. Two days later it was announced that season nine would be the final season. It premiered on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 at 8:00 pm and aired its 13 episodes uninterrupted.
Paul Johansson and Tyler Hiltonn returned for the final season as series regulars. Bethany Joy Lenz and Sophia Bush continued as full-time regulars, while James Lafferty appeared part-time due to Nathan Scott's abduction. Chad Michael Murray returned in episode seven, after Haley reaches out to Lucas for help. Barbara Alyn Woods also returned. The series finale featured a time-jump, depicting the characters' lives five years in the future where Jamie Scott is seen as a 17-year-old playing in a high school basket ball game with his friends and family watching.
The season opened to 1.75 million viewers and a 0.9 Adults 18-49 rating, up 26% in viewers vs. its season eight finale. The final episode aired on April 4, 2012, concluding the series with 1.43 million viewers.
SummaryThe ninth and final season of One Tree Hill welcomes new hopes, challenges and dangers. Now parents of twin boys, Brooke and Julian are excited for the future. But while Brooke works on rekindling an old relationship, will Julian be able to juggle the demands of fatherhood as well as a new business venture? Though Clay and Quinn came through their past struggles stronger than ever, a different kind of demon now threatens their relationship. On "Mouth and Millie in the Morning," our favorite talk show hosts are excited to report Tree Hill's latest, only this time there is an elephant in the room. And after welcoming baby Lydia, will Nathan and Haley be able to keep their family intact when they are faced with their greatest threat yet, especially when Dan Scott returns? Here we go again, into the challenges that come with the quest for happiness, in a place called Tree Hill.
- Season Nine Blurb
The season chronicles the character's seventh year (seen as the season 8 finale shows the events of a 8-9 month period.) after returning to Tree Hill. Some of the key plots are:
- Brooke and Julian raising their twins and juggling their careers.
- Haley and Nathan deal with his increased traveling and Haley dealing with raising two children and running Karen's Cafe.
- Dan Scott causing drama when returning to Tree Hill including being arrested despite being innocent.
- Chris Keller returning to Tree Hill to help with Red Bedroom Records.
- Lucas returns after Haley reaches out to him for help.
- Deb returns to Tree Hill for unknown reasons and will be again confronted by Dan.
- Brooke's estranged father Richard Davis returned to Tree Hill.
- Xavier Daniels returns to Tree Hill, only to confront Brooke with deadly consequences.
- Mouth McFadden gained a lot of weight and Millicent is worried about him.
- A beloved Tree Hill resident will meet their end midway of the season
- A death in the episode Danny Boy.
- Nathan is kidnapped, forcing Haley to track him down.
- The final episode of the series will have:
- A 5 year time jump in the last few minutes of the episode.
- A high school basketball game in Tree Hill High with the Ravens.
- Quinn and Clay get married and then, Quinn officially adopts Clay son : Logan.
- In the final episode of the whole series, Jamie Scott, now a teenager play's basketball with the Ravens, as did his father and his uncle.
- Mouth and Millicent are married and they are expecting a baby.
Principal Cast
- James Lafferty as Nathan Scott
- Bethany Joy Lenz as Haley James Scott
- Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis
- Austin Nichols as Julian Baker
- Robert Buckley as Clayton Evans
- Shantel VanSanten as Quinn James
- Jackson Brundage as Jamie Scott
- Lee Norris as Marvin 'Mouth' McFadden
- Jana Kramer as Alex Dupre*
- Lisa Goldstein as Millicent Huxtable
- Stephen Colletti as Chase Adams
- Tyler Hilton as Chris Keller
- Paul Johansson as Dan Scott**
- *Until the episode In The Room Where You Sleep.
- **Until the episode Danny Boy.
|Know This, We've Noticed
|As Brooke and Julian begin to adjust to life with their new children, Haley and Nathan find themselves dealing with similar issues. Although they don't know it yet, faces from the past threaten to interrupt plans for all their futures. Meanwhile, a mysterious problem arises for Clay and Quinn.
|In The Room Where You Sleep
|Brooke discusses a new business venture with her father, as Julian stresses about his own investment. Quinn convinces Clay to get help, and Millie struggles to be honest with Mouth . Meanwhile, Chris Keller makes Alex an offer she may not be able to refuse and Nathan volunteers to scout in Europe, leaving Dan with Haley and Jamie.
|Love The Way You Lie
|Dan helps a struggling Haley at Karen's Café. Meanwhile, Quinn discovers that Clay is hiding something from her, and Chase tries to mend a broken heart. Brooke is let down by her lunch plans with her dad, and Julian makes a life-changing mistake.
|Don't You Want To Share The Guilt?
|Haley and Jamie anxiously await Nathan's return - As Julian deals with his guilt, Brooke helps Haley confront a new rival café, and its difficult owner. Meanwhile, Chase's new girl has a complicated secret, and Quinn takes extreme measures that help Clay realize he's worse off than he thought.
|The Killing Moon
|Nathan is missing and Haley fears the worst - As Quinn distracts Jamie, Haley searches for Nathan. Clay finally gets answers about his condition. Meanwhile, Julian attempts to get back to a normal life, while Brooke tries to give Tara a chance.
|Catastrophe And The Cure
|Dan enlists Julian to help in his search for Nathan. Mouth fills Clay in about Nathan, as Haley explains Nathan's disappearance to Jamie. Brooke gets an idea of how to bring patrons to an empty Karen's Café, and Chris Keller confronts Chase about Tara.
|Last Known Surroundings
|Haley seeks help from Lucas as Nathan makes an escape attempt. Brooke comes face-to-face with Xavier. Julian uncovers evidence that assists Dan in his search for Nathan. Clay makes a connection with another patient.
|A Rush Of Blood To The Head
|Haley receives news of a possible tragedy. Dan's search for Nathan leads him back to his dark past. Clay has a breakthrough in his treatment. Brooke and Julian deal with Xavier. Chase's concern for Chuck pushes him to his limits.
|Every Breath Is A Bomb
|Brooke and Julian take new measures to protect their family. Skills helps Mouth get to a turning point, and Chase faces consequences for defending Chuck. Clay reaches a new understanding with Logan.
|Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will
|Dan, Julian and Chris Keller attempt to rescue Nathan. Brooke's conflict with Xavier escalates. Quinn and Clay revisit the past.
|Danny Boy
|The search for Nathan becomes increasingly dangerous, and Dan's life hangs in the balance. Brooke is surprised when her father returns. And Clay and Quinn reconnect with Logan.
|Anyone Who Had A Heart
|As Haley prepares to emcee the annual Tree Hill Burning Boat Festival, Brooke uses the opportunity to process her father's betrayal, while Julian tries to breathe new life into a past idea. Mouth and Millie make a change to their morning show, and Clay and Quinn get ready for Logan's first night at the beach house.
|One Tree Hill
|In the final chapter of One Tree Hill, the tenth anniversary of Tric brings old faces and new possibilities for the Tree Hill family.
Related Episodes
- One Tree Hill: Always & Forever - Before the final episode aired, the cast of the final season were interviewed about their time on the show and their feelings on leaving including clips from the show.


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OK, that's quite enough. The room witnessed in our before shot is an utter moose and we're not just referring to the choice of horny-beast artwork; 1970s faux-timber panelling, mismatched furniture and a sofa in hiding all add up to a seriously tricky room that reeks of mock horror.
Just look at the room. And be honest. It's a shocker, huh? We remember our client referring to the space as a "cottage in the city hideaway." "Cottage in the city?" we shrieked in unison, while trying to retain at least some element of professional reserve. We're sure, however, that our crumpling faces positively reeked of disdain.
As we wiped our paymaster's brow and packed away bear-skin cushions, dozens of hockey sticks and enough clutter to occupy the most ardent home stager ad infinitum, we promised to deliver a huge transformation.
Our client's lovely wife, thankfully, concurred that her husband's "cottage in the city" utterings served a tremendous disservice to the holiday homes that she - and we - adore. A relaxed vibe suffused with mismatched furniture and precious familial mementoes is one thing (think plaid, gingham and acres of pickled timber), but a worrying assembly of life's dingier castoffs is another story altogether.
Our brief was to construct a relaxing TV room, a comfy space the entire family could enjoy. With another (more formal) living area elsewhere, the reworked space would serve as a crash zone for casual times. So where did we start? Oh that's the easy bit. With two words: gut down. Into boxes went family pictures, prints, files and, ahem, anything that wasn't nailed down.
The room clear, we pulled frantically at the faux-timber panelling. And then we did a little happy dance and moved to the next stage. Yup, we were conquering the hellish scene, one retro blooper at a time.
We erased the timber panelling - as previously described - but installed timber effect Amtico, a 21st-century update that combines commanding visual focus with ease of installation. Product like this (while designed for floor application) is perfect as it wall mounts easily with grip-type adhesive and is a joy to drill through, which makes picture hanging a breeze.
Shag? More '60s style? Who do we think we are? Austin Powers? We'll admit the textured carpet is redolent of the less desirable end of the mid-modern period but, played properly, it successfully translates into the modern idiom. Imagine padding around barefoot as those cosy fibres tickle toes. For carpeting advice, visit alliedcarpets. com.
Maps aren't just for those who've lost their way. Cartography has become popular artwork, which makes it perfect decorative fodder. Scan eBay or other online auction sites for second-hand illustrations or visit click2map. com to source - and create an image you love. Scale to size, whiz it off at the printers, frame it and you're done.
L-shaped sofas optimize seating (and are great in corners) but perform just as well to section off different functions (living/dining, for example) in an open-concept room. This one was made to order by N'Shape Design and affords loads of bum space and bags of style thanks to its long linear shape and brightly toned fabric.
When redecorating, think about where you want to position TVs, cables and speakers and factor for their inclusion - and installation - before wielding the brush. We installed wall speakers and cabling for the wall-mounted TV before the vinyl cladding went up. Sure, we had to raggle the walls and install wiring (in association with a qualified electrician), but the finished look is sleek and avoids trip-hazard cabling scarring an otherwise lovely esthetic. We've said it before and we'll say it again: "To fail to plan, is to plan to fail."
Surface-mounted track lighting is an easy way to proffer ceiling-wide illumination without having to over-drill drywall to accommodate pot lights. Many of today's systems have slide-and-lock positioning (at multiple points along the line), which means that directing light - where you need it most - is relatively simple. The upshot is that you get to change your mind on a whim; if you hang new artwork, or change the position of a chair or sofa, you can redirect light accordingly.
Our clients finally have a space that combines contemporary necessity with just a whisper of days gone by. And the journey through time, they attest, is proof perfect that even flatlined space can be paddled back to life to shockingly cool effect.
Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan are the hosts of HGTV's Colin & Justin's Home Heist and the authors of Colin & Justin's Home Heist Style Guide, published by Penguin Group (Canada).
Follow them on Twitter @colinjustin or on Facebook (ColinandJustin). Contact them through their website colinandjustin.tv
Family room goes from scary to chic
OK, that's quite enough. The room witnessed in our before shot is an utter moose and we're not just referring to the choice of horny-beast artwork; 1970s faux-timber panelling, mismatched furniture and a sofa in hiding all add up to a seriously tricky room that reeks of mock horror.


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Author Notes: This is my mom's recipe for pyrohy dough. Find any church cookbook and you will see a million different ways to make the dough. This one, in my handwritten recipe book, makes no sense on paper. No, you are not making glue. Actually, it is damn confusing when you make it too. Trust me, like the pyrohy process as a whole, take it gentle and it will all come together into your little pillows of goodness. —Cheryl Arkison
Makes: 4-6 dozen, depending on size
cups Flour
teaspoon salt
cup canola oil
egg, room temperature
cups just boiled water
cups fillings of choice
In This Recipe
- In a large bowl mix together the flour and salt.
- Combine the oil and the egg, beat together lightly. Stir in to the flour and salt. It will not combine well, but keep stirring and working at it until you have a coarse meal, like biscuit dough would be before you added the liquid.
- Pour your hot water in to the flour and egg mixture, all at once. Immediately start stirring. It won't look like it is coming together, but keep stirring it. Don't beat the crap out of it, but stir for a minute or two and it will come together into a somewhat lumpy, ugly dough. Cover with a damp tea towel or loosely cover with plastic wrap. Let it rest for at least 15 minutes, if not 30.
- While your dough is resting you can get your fillings together. Purists will insist upon mashed potatoes, perhaps with some cottage cheese or maybe cheddar. Some of us love a good sauerkraut filling (the only ones I would eat as a kid). The classic filling in this house is cheesy mashed potatoes with a crumble of bacon smack in the middle. Don't mix it in with the potatoes because the sharp bits of bacon will pierce the dough. Regardless of your filling choice, make sure it is cool or cold, not hot. You can also make dessert pyrohy with saskatoon berries, with blueberries and ricotta, or even pears and mascarpone.
- To make the pyrohy cut a good hunk from the resting dough, recovering the remainder. Then roll it out into a log, like we do with playdough. Make it about an inch around. Then cut off 1/2 inch chunks. Take those chunks and roll them into balls. You will have about 1 inch balls.
- Roll those balls flat with a rolling pin. Not too flat or your dumpling won't stay together. Not too thick or you will have very thick pyrohy and the dough may not cook all the way through. I would say it's about 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch.
- Take a heaping teaspoonful of your filling and place it in the middle of your dough. Again, not too much, not too little. After you've made a few you will be able to eyeball the perfect ratio for you. Fold the dough over one side to create a semi-circle.
- Pinch the sides together. This is where personal style takes over. My mom, for example, does a solid pinch all the way around, once. I do a soft pinch for an initial seal, then a firmer crimp. It doesn't matter how as long as it is sealed and preferably without a big flange of thin dough.
- The best way to store pyrohy is frozen. You need to freeze them individually first. I lay out tea towels, sprinkle them generously with flour, and place the pyrohy on them as I finish each one. Freeze, then store in plastic bags, containers, or even ice cream pails in the freezer until ready to use. Just remember to label them if you made more than one kind!
- Whether you cook them fresh or frozen., the technique is the same. Bring a large pot of water to a full boil. Toss in your pyrohy, not crowding them too much. Keep at a boil and stir gently every now and then. The pyrohy are finished when they float at the top. If they are frozen and particularly thick you might poke them gently to make sure the filling is soft. Drain. You can eat them straight this way, generally served with fried onions and sour cream. A lot of people fry them with the onions to crisp up the outsides. Growing up we ate them boiled for dinner and the leftovers were fried for breakfast the next day.


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Rita Ora Cast in 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' Is New Face of Rimmel
Rita Ora is going 'Grey.'
She can add another acting role to her resume. The singer and Material Girl and DKNY spokesmodel has been cast as Mia, the adopted younger sister of Christian Grey in 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' according to The Wrap, which grabbed the news from a source close to the production.
Ora had a cameo in 'Fast and Furious 6,' a role that Rihanna was in the running for.
The film is due to hit multiplexes on Feb. 13, 2015 and it's already buzzing well over a year ahead of its release, so this is just another career booster for Rita Ora, who has racked up the No. 1s in the U.K. but has yet to break through in the U.S. She tweeted the big news today.
In other Ora news, the singer is also launching her capsule collection for British makeup brand Rimmel in February of next year. She is offering up lip and nail products, which make sense, since the 'How We Do' singer is known for her red-painted mouth and head-turning manis.


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Aside from frustrations experienced when someone advocates a pretribulational rapture, I would consider myself someone who doesn't get riled up about eschatology very easily. Christ will return, and the dead shall rise (1 Thess. 4:13-18). Christ will judge all, and God will bring creation out of its bondage to decay so that all those whose names are written in the book of life will dwell there with God forever (Rev. 20:11-15; 21-22). These are central to our Christian hope. Yet, there are still interesting questions to be discussed in the ambit of the main concerns.
In reading through à Brakel's The Christian's Reasonable Service, I came across his discussion of the nature of the new creation and paused for some reflection. Will this heaven and earth be purged of sin and death and restored by God, or will God annihilate the current creation and start over completely? According to à Brakel, respectable folk can disagree on this one, but he provides some compelling reasons to hold that the 'structural edifice' or 'substance' of the current heavens and the earth will remain and simply be purged and restored to a right condition.
These reasons include: (1) Peter expects restoration (apokatastasis) in Acts 3:21. (2) Paul's reference to the 'whole creation' in Romans 8:18-25 is broader than the company of Christian believers, and the 'whole creation' is to be delivered, not annihilated. (3) The 'folding up' and 'changing' of creation in Psalm 102 and Hebrews 1 assumes that what is changed 'continues to exist in essence'. (4) Peter (2 Pet. 3) likens the destruction of creation to the perishing of the old world in the flood of Noah, which was not an annihilation of all things (4:353-5). Because of Revelation 21:1, à Brakel is prepared to allow that the sea may be omitted from the new creation, but even here '[w]hether this refers to substance or characteristics, we shall leave unanswered' (4:355). Indeed, there's quite a lot that à Brakel is prepared to leave 'unanswered': Continue reading


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Towards a China EPI - the first step in measuring environmental progress in China
A research team led by the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy (YCELP) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University completed in late 2011 the first steps in a large-scale effort to track progress in the governance and management of China's environment.[1] The effort, published in the report Towards a China Environmental Performance Index, proposed a framework for aggregating diverse environmental health and ecosystem impact data from across China's 31 provinces, and for comparing these data to the national and subnational environmental policy goals of the Chinese government.
"Given its burgeoning economic growth, its rapidly expanding industries, large population, and growing consumer class, many in the environmental field have an intense interest in how China will address its environmental problems," Alex de Sherbinin, one of the study's authors from CEISIN, noted in an introduction to the report. He called the study's framework a "first cut at assessing China's environmental management and performance at the provincial level."
The project, which stopped short of creating a final environmental index (largely because of current gaps in the quality and availability of environmental data, as well as a lack of clear Chinese environmental policy goals for 13 out of the 32 indicators) has paved the way for a longer-term effort to monitor the progress of China toward a cleaner environment and more sustainable future.
And the timing couldn't better. The last few years have seen China emerge as a world cultural leader, most famously epitomized in its extravagant hosting of the 2008 summer Olympics; an economic leader, with the world's second largest economy; and, as of 2007, a leading emitter of global greenhouse gases.[2] On a national level, addressing the growing impacts of a degrading environment has become a new priority for the Chinese government and an increasingly vocal middle class. Last fall's popular protests over poor air pollution monitoring and reporting in Beijing are a salient example from this growing trend.
The proposed China EPI, which will act as a blueprint for an index that the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection is currently working towards, aggregates environmental data across 33 indicators in 12 environmental policy categories, including air pollution, water quality, climate change, biodiversity, agriculture, and forestry.
"Globally, the move toward a more data-driven empirical approach to environmental protection promises to better enable policymakers to spot problems, track trends, highlight policy successes and failures, identify best practices, and optimize the gains from investments in environmental protection," the study authors write. The proposed China EPI, based in part on the research team's experience producing the global Environmental Performance Index (EPI), provides a scaffolding for just such an approach.
"China, like many countries, has employed performance metrics in areas such as economic, educational, and social policy," the authors write. "It is natural to extend this practice to the environmental sphere."
Next Steps – a growing Chinese effort
In response to the foundational work of the framework China EPI, Chinese academics and government and civil society leaders are now building the resources necessary for a final China EPI. This work will largely seek to address the data gaps and ambiguity of policy goals identified by the Yale and Columbia team as critical impediments to understanding China's environmental performance at the province level.
The Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning has shared with YCELP updates on a number of new governmental and non-governmental efforts to accomplish this task. These include:
- Efforts to increase government environmental performance assessments.
The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection is proposing a China Environmental Performance Assessment System for implementation of the"12th Five-Year Plan," which establishes policy goals and governs development programs for China from 2011-2015, and plans to increase the number and diversity of environmental health indicators measured at the provincial level.[3]
- Efforts to monitor the impact of Chinese corporations on the environment.
Chinese researchers, in cooperation with the government of Sweden, are developing a corporate environmental performance assessment indicator system, which will soon focus on 100 listed firms for a pilot study.
- Efforts to track and improve the quality of life in China's large cities.
The Chinese government is cooperating with the United Nations Environment Program to develop a China Pollution Reduction Performance Assessment research program, which will soon evaluate the pollution reduction performance of four pilot Chinese cities. There are, additionally, growing civil society and quasi-governmental programs seeking to assess the environmental quality of China's cities, including the Asian Development Bank's "China Environmental Livable Index of Cities," the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s Asian Green Cities Index, and The People's Republic of China Urban Knowledge Hub.
For more information see:
- The YCELP and CEISIN report, Towards a China Environmental Performance Index, available here: http://envirocenter.research.yale.edu/files/China-EPI-Report.pdf
- An introduction to the China EPI, China's Long March Towards Better Environmental Conditions, available here: http://environment.yale.edu/envirocenter/post/chinas-long-march-towards-better-environmental-conditions/
- The People's Republic of China Urban Resources Hub, available here: http://www2.adb.org/Projects/PRC-Urban-Knowledge/default.asp
[1] In partnership with the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection's Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning and the City University of Hong Kong.
[2] International Energy Agency (IEA). 2010. "China overtakes the United States to become the world's largest energy consumer." Available at http://www.iea.org/index_info.asp?id=1479.
[3] For a good review of some of the environmental measures included in the 12th Five Year plan see: http://www.wri.org/stories/2011/03/how-does-chinas-12th-five-year-plan-a...
Aaron Reuben is a research assistant at the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy, where he studies the policy impacts of environmental health indicators. He holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Yale environmental journal, SAGE Magazine.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. - The No. 14 Georgia College & State University baseball team (32-13) picked up a second victory in as many days, winning at Benedict College 9-6 today (April 22).
Senior catcher Pete Paris (Scranton, Pa.) ripped his fourth home run of the year in the winning effort.
Georgia College returns to action Friday, April 24 at 6 p.m. to face the University of Montevallo (22-28-1) in the first of a three-game set. The Falcons most recently lost to Columbus State University 12-3 yesterday, and have dropped six in a row.
Visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame. The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports.


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Versatile New Bern artist Dan Wilson is featured in a new exhibit � Icons Show � at Studio 123 at the Golden Belt in Durham.
Versatile New Bern artist Dan Wilson is featured in a new exhibit � Icons Show � at Studio 123 at the Golden Belt in Durham.
Wilson, a West Virginia native, has his studio at his home in Taberna.
He uses a variety of media. The icons exhibit works were done in egg tempera.
He has a web site: painteddoorgallery.com
Wilson is retired from the Department of Defense and lived in Europe for more than 14 years.
�I cannot remember a time in my life that I have not been interested in artistic expression,� he said. �I have, over the years, spent a lot of time observing nature and seeing nature as a series of line, shapes and colors that are naturally formed. It is through these observations and my interest in Russian icons which I have combined as a form of artistic expression. This is a continuing process and the work you see in this exhibit might not be the same in style and subject that you will see in future icons.�
Wilson is a believer that art should be a changing process.
�Many artists are stuck in a specific style and never remove or expand from that style, thus their work becomes stale, stagnant and typical,� he said. �I cannot do this because I believe that personal growth in art means to push yourself beyond what you�re comfortable doing and expand your experiences. Analyze and critique yourself with every piece and then adjust, change and where necessary.�
He said there is a wide variety of media and styles of this work over the years, ranging from photo realism.
His past shows have included such wide venues as Iowa, Ohio, Russia and Germany to local exhibits in Kinston, New Bern and coastal North Carolina.
According to its web site, Golden Belt is a fully restored historic icon itself, one of Durham�s last textile mills to be creatively reused, with artist studios, live/work loft apartments, offices, restaurants, retail, live music, events and more. It is at the corner of Main and Fayetteville streets on a seven-acre campus.
Charlie Hall can be reached at 252-635-5667 or firstname.lastname@example.com


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Parsha Shemini | Book: 2 Samuel
Chapter 6
1David again assembled all the picked men of Israel, thirty thousand strong. 2Then David and all the troops that were with him set out from Baalim of Judah to bring up from there the Ark of God to which the Name was attached, the name Lord of Hosts Enthroned on the Cherubim.
3They loaded the Ark of God onto a new cart and conveyed it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Abinadab's sons, Uzza and Ahio, guided the new cart. 4They conveyed it from Abinadab's house on the hill, [Uzzah walking] alongside the Ark of God and Ahio walking in front of the Ark. 5Meanwhile, David and all the House of Israel danced before the Lord to [the sound of] all kinds of cypress wood [instruments], with lyres, harps, timbrels, sistrums, and cymbals.
6But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out for the Ark of God and grasped it, for the oxen had stumbled. 7The Lord was incensed at Uzzah. And God struck him down on the spot for his indiscretion, and he died there beside the Ark of God. 8David was distressed because the Lord had inflicted a breach upon Uzzah; and that place was named Perez-uzzah, as it is still called.
9David was afraid of the Lord that day; he said, "How can I let the Ark of the Lord come to me?" 10So David would not bring the Ark of the Lord to his place in the City of David; instead, David diverted it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 11The Ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and his whole household.
12It was reported to King David: "The Lord has blessed Obed-edom's house and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God." Thereupon David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David, amid rejoicing. 13When the bearers of the Ark of the Lord had moved forward six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. 14David whirled with all his might before the Lord; David was girt with a linen ephod. 15Thus David and all the House of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouts and with blasts of the horn.
16As the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him for it.
17They brought in the Ark of the Lord and set it up in its place inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and offerings of well-being before the Lord. 18When David finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and the offerings of well-being, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts. 19And he distributed among all the people—the entire multitude of Israel, man and woman alike—to each a loaf of bread, a cake made in a pan, and a raisin cake. Then all the people left for their homes.
20David went home to greet his household. And Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "Didn't the king of Israel do himself honor today—exposing himself today in the sight of the slavegirls of his subjects, as one of the riffraff might expose himself!" 21David answered Michal, "It was before the Lord who chose me instead of your father and all his family and appointed me ruler over the Lord's people Israel! I will dance before the Lord 22and dishonor myself even more, and be low in my own esteem; but among the slavegirls that you speak of I will be honored." 23So to her dying day Michal daughter of Saul had no children.
Chapter 7
1When the king was settled in his palace and the Lord had granted him safety from all the enemies around him, 2the king said to the prophet Nathan: "Here I am dwelling in a house of cedar, while the Ark of the Lord abides in a tent!" 3Nathan said to the king, "Go and do whatever you have in mind, for the Lord is with you."
4But that same night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: 5"Go and say to My servant David: Thus said the Lord: Are you the one to build a house for Me to dwell in? 6From the day that I brought the people of Israel out of Egypt to this day I have not dwelt in a house, but have moved about in Tent and Tabernacle. 7As I moved about wherever the Israelites went, did I ever reproach any of the tribal leaders whom I appointed to care for My people Israel: Why have you not built Me a house of cedar?
8"Further, say thus to My servant David: Thus said the Lord of Hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be ruler of My people Israel,
9and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut down all your enemies before you. Moreover, I will give you great renown like that of the greatest men on earth.
10I will establish a home for My people Israel and will plant them firm, so that they shall dwell secure and shall tremble no more. Evil men shall not oppress them any more as in the past,
11ever since I appointed chieftains over My people Israel. I will give you safety from all your enemies.
"The Lord declares to you that He, the Lord, will establish a house for you. 12When your days are done and you lie with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own issue, and I will establish his kingship. 13He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever. 14I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me. When he does wrong, I will chastise him with the rod of men and the affliction of mortals; 15but I will never withdraw My favor from him as I withdrew it from Saul, whom I removed to make room for you. 16Your house and your kingship shall ever be secure before you; your throne shall be established forever."
17Nathan spoke to David in accordance with all these words and all this prophecy.


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Montreal, Quebec, Canada is the chosen site for the 60th birthday party of the IEEE's Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S). As the location for the 2012 International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012), with its technical conference and workshops, it will draw some of the world's top high-frequency engineers. And as the site for the industry's largest annual exhibition, industry representatives will gather in Montreal this June to catch up and learn what's new in terms of the competition. For sure, the exhibition floor will be alive with thousands of visitors exploring the many high-frequency goods and services on display.
Whenever hundreds of RF/microwave companies and their representatives are gathered in one place, it is an event, and it will be no different this year in Montreal. Although the site for the RF/microwave industry's largest annual event is outside of the United States for only the second time in its history, attendance to the technical conference and exhibition hall is expected to be strong, even with some of the industry's leading companies, such as LeCroy and Mini-Circuits, choosing to pass on the exhibition floor this year.
Among the many component and subassembly products at booth 1425, MITEQ will display its JDMW series of low-noise amplifiers for K-band satellite-communications (satcom) applications (Fig. 1). These lightweight (less than 23 g) amplifiers feature hermetic packaging, enabling them to perform reliably in the harshest environments. The amplifiers, which can cover the full 18-to-21-GHz band, measure just 1.18 x 0.87 in. with less than 75 mA current consumption from a +12-VDC supply. The input and output VSWR is 1.50:1. The amplifiers boast a noise temperature of 97 K (or a noise figure of 1.25 dB) with 30 dB gain at room temperature (+25C). Suitable for airborne satcom applications, these rugged LNAs cover a full operating temperature range of -30 to +65 with +8 dBm output power at 1-dB compression. They can be supplied with optional RF input limiters, DC power connectors, and waveguide flanges.
Weinschel Associates will show examples of their attenuator lines, including their model WA74 fixed coaxial attenuator with 3.5-mm stainless-steel connectors. Designed for use from DC to 26.5 GHz, it meets MIL-DTL-3933 environmental requirements. The attenuator is rated for 25 W CW power and 500 W peak power (with a 5-s pulse width at a 2.5% duty cycle) and for operating temperatures from -55 to +125C. It exhibits 1.25:1 VSWR from DC to 18 GHz and 1.30:1 VSWR from 18.0 to 26.5 GHz. It weighs 3.5 oz (100 g) and is available with nominal attenuation values from 3 to 30 dB. The attenuator is 2 in. long (50.7 mm) with connectors.
JFW Industries will offer a sampling of its 50- and 75-O benchtop and 19-in. rack-mountable attenuation systems. For example, Model 50PA-513 consists of four individually controlled solid-state programmable attenuators, combining to provide 0 to 63 dB attenuation in 1-dB steps, from 200 MHz to 6 GHz. Capable of being operated manually, or under Ethernet or RS-232C remote control, this attenuation system exhibits 1.80:1 maximum VSWR from 200 to 800 MHz and 1.60:1 maximum VSWR from 800 to 6000 MHz. It is designed for maximum input power levels to +20 dBm (with a +25-dBm "no-damage" level), and shows 6-dB maximum insertion loss and 5-dB typical insertion loss. True to the company's strong reputation in attenuator technology, the system delivers attenuation accuracy of 0.50 dB for attenuation settings from 1 to 3 dB, 0.75 dB for attenuation settings from 4 to 7 dB, 1.00 dB for attenuation settings from 8 to 11 dB, and 1.25 dB from 12 to 63 dB. It promises 1 s typical switching speed after a command is received and processed, with typical switching time of 3 ms when including all the processing time.
On a somewhat smaller scale, the company will be exhibiting its model 50S-1887 single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch (Fig. 2) with 0.5-dB maximum insertion loss and 0.3-dB typical insertion loss from 225 to 400 MHz. The TTL-controlled switch provides 55-dB typical and 45-dB minimum isolation and requires only 10 s maximum switching time from 50% TTL to 10% or 90% RF level.
Visitors to Agilent Technologies at booth No. 1015 will no doubt want their first look at one of the company's Infiniium 90000 Q-Series oscilloscopes with 62-GHz bandwidth on two channels and 33-GHz bandwidth on four channels. These high-powered oscilloscopes (Fig. 3) combine the power of digital measurements with a true microwave frequency range, with the capability of digitizing signals through 100 GHz and capturing the third-harmonic levels of signals through 40 Gb/s. In addition, these scopes can measure as many as four differential channels in a single acquisition, enabling accurate analysis of crosstalk issues. Based on custom indium phosphide (InP) integrated circuits (ICs), these high-speed scopes (for more, see the review on p. 148) achieve a jitter measurement floor of 75 fs with a risetime of under 7 ps. In addition, Agilent will offer examples of the modeling power of its Advanced Design System (ADS) simulation software at its IMS2012 booth.
Visitors to Aeroflex at booth No. 2305 will see the company's expanded 3000 Series of PXI signal generators, including digital signal generators with top frequencies of 3 and 6 GHz. as well as several of its SVA series vector signal analyzers for use through 13 GHz. The models SGD-3 and SGD-6 PXI signal generators each deliver +13 dBm output power from 100 kHz to 3 GHz and 100 kHz to 6 GHz, respectively, with an option for output power to +20 dBm. The typical level accuracy is 0.3 dB. The signal generators incorporate an in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) modulator with 300-MHz bandwidth to generate wide-bandwidth modulated signals. A dual-channel arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) provides high-speed signals to 250 MSamples/s, with memory options to 4 GB.
Visitors to Anritsu at booth No. 807 will have a chance to demonstrate the features of numerous benchtop and handheld RF/microwave test instruments, including the MG37020A series of fast-switching signal generators for use from 10 MHz to 20 GHz (Fig. 4). Designed for test applications requiring agile sources, these signal generators provide frequency switching speed of 100 s per point with better than +23 dBm output power at 20 GHz. The phase noise is typically -86 dBc/Hz offset 10 kHz from the carrier. The MG37020A pulse modulation option includes an internal waveform generator, capability for single, double, triple andquadruple pulse burst modes, with leveled pulse widths as narrow as 100 ns and unleveled as narrow as 10 ns.
At booth No. 1615, Computer Simulation Technology will show the latest version of its CST STUDIO SUITE of design and simulation software tools. Based on electromagnetic (EM) simulation, these software design programs support engineers from circuit to system levels. The software's latest System Assembly and Modeling (SAM) functionality provides a design environment that simplifies the three-dimensional (3D) construction of microwave systems with designed components. Using the SAM feature, a user can specify which components are simulated in 3D and which should be represented by their S-parameters or an equivalent field source. This combination of different levels of simulation helps reduce the computational effort necessary to analyze a complex model accurately. The program is supported by new enhanced multilayer models, new curved tetrahedral elements in EM Studio, and a new method-of-moments (MoM) multilayer solver for planar structures.
Those in need of simulation tools will also find them at booth No. 1514, where AWR Corp. will be showing its Microwave Office suite of software tools with linear and nonlinear circuit simulation software, EM simulation software, integrated schematic and layout tools, parametric cell libraries, and design-rule-check (DRC) capabilities. AWR will also demonstrate its Virtual System Simulator (VSS) system-level software and its AXIEM 3D planar electromagnetic (EM) software.
Last but certainly not least, at booth No. 2237, visitors in need of an amplifier will find the model 0.125-0.500-125 solid-state offering from Aethercomm capable of 125 W output power from 125 to 500 MHz. The amplifier is equipped with a noise-quieting function that reduces its transmit power by 60 dB in less than 2.5 s. Its typical efficiency is 50% to 60%.


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When I Get You Alone by Robin Thicke is featured in Silly Love Songs, the twelfth episode of Season Two. It is sung by Blaine with the Warblers at a GAP store.
With this song, Blaine professes his love for Jeremiah - a closeted gay GAP junior manager. During the performance, a jealous Kurt watches as he leans on a mannequin and walks with the Warblers, watching Blaine serenade Jeremiah. However, Jeremiah doesn't accept Blaine's feelings and Blaine is shot down.
The Warblers:
Vum Vum Vum Vum
Vum Vum Vum Vum
Blaine (The Warblers):
Oooooooh (Vara Varam)
Baby girl, where you at?
Got no strings, got men attached (Vara Varam)
Can't stop that feelin' for long, no.
Mmmm (Vara Varam) you makin' dogs wanna beg
Breaking them off your fancy legs (Vara Varam)
But they make you feel right at home, now
See, all these illusions just take us too long
And I want it bad
Because you walk pretty
Because you talk pretty
'Cause you make me sick
And I'm not leavin'
Till you're leavin'
Oh, I swear, there's something when she's pumpin' asking for a raise
Well, does she want me to carry her home, now?
So, does she want me to buy her things?
On my house, on my job
On my loot, shoes, my shirt
My crew, my mind, my father's last name?
Blaine with The Warblers:
When I get you alone
When I get you, you'll know, baby
When I get you alone
When I get you alone (The Warblers: Vara Varam)
Blaine (The Warblers):
(Ooohh ohhh) Come on (Ooohh ohhh)
Oh yeah-yeah (Vara Varam)
Baby girl, you the shhh
That makes you my equivalent (Vara Varam)
Well, you can keep your toys in the drawer tonight
Alright (Vara Varam)
All my dawgs talkin' fast-
Aint you got some photographs? (Vara Varam)
'Cause you shook that room like a star, now
Yes you did
Yes you did
All these intrusions just take us too long
And I want you so bad
Because you walk steady
Because you talk steady
'Cause you make me sick
And I'm not leavin', till you're leavin'
So, I pray to something she ain't bluffin'
Rubbin' up on me.
Well, does she want me to make a vow?
Check it
Well, does she want me to make it now?
On my house, on my job
On my loot, shoes, my voice
My crew, my mind, my father's last name?
Blaine with (The Warblers):
When I get you alone
When I get you, you'll know baby
I get you alone
When I get you alone (Vara Varam)
(Vara Varam Vara Varam Vam Vam Vam Vam Vam) Whoah oh
When I get you alone (Yeeaaahhh; Vara Varam)
- The background vocals were arranged and performed by The Beelzebubs, an all-male a cappella group from Tufts University.
- At one point, Blaine can be seen wearing pink sunglasses. Pink sunglasses are Darren Criss' signature accessory.
- All the actors in the performance got huge discounts at the GAP and they were all shopping like crazy after the filming.
- During the performance shoot of the song, there were huge lines of fans outside of the GAP.
- The original version of this song sampled the track A Fifth of Beethoven which is also used in the Pilot and Saturday Night Glee-ver.


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When Shane Salerno turned 40 last year, he decided it was finally time to let his obsession go.
The screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Michael Bay ("Armageddon") and Oliver Stone ("Savages"), had toiled for close to a decade trying to document the mysterious life of J.D. Salinger. The author of the bestselling "The Catcher in the Rye" had stopped publishing in 1965 and retreated from the public spotlight, leaving fans to wonder why — and to guess about what he had been doing in the 45 years until his death in 2010.
Over the years, Salerno had discovered juicy details about the enigmatic author — a short-lived marriage to a Gestapo informant at the end of World War II; a long-term relationship with a teenage girl that became the inspiration for the short story "For Esmé — With Love and Squalor"; a previously unknown best friend with whom he had corresponded over five decades. But the biggest revelation of all? Two sources saying that Salinger had left behind five unpublished manuscripts to be released between 2015 and 2020.
The plan was to pour all the research into an exhaustive biography co-written with David Shields and simultaneously release a two-hour film. But every time Salerno thought he had uncovered it all, new information would trickle in.
At last, he had reached his limit. "I turned 40 and I was done," recalled Salerno, sitting in his Brentwood office last week among the letters, photographs and documents that have consumed his life. "The film was sitting in my house as a finished master and I thought: 'This is ridiculous, enough.' On Dec. 3, I called my lawyer and I said, 'I want to do this now.'"
Nine months later, the result is a 698-page oral biography, "Salinger," published Tuesday, and a documentary of the same name that's arriving in theaters Friday after premiering last weekend at the Telluride Film Festival. Early reviews have described both works as engrossing as well as exasperating, and time will tell how deeply Salerno's passion project resonates with a wider audience.
"I always trusted that he had what he said he had," said Salerno's attorney, Robert Offer. "What I didn't trust was that anyone would care as much as they did."
Project's birth
The Salinger project began as a lark. Although the author's work and mystique loomed large in Salerno's household as a child (Salerno's mother loved "Franny & Zooey" while her son was partial to "A Perfect Day for Banana-Fish" and "Esme"), his quest started in 2003, when he was in a bookstore and found the cover of Paul Alexander's biography of Salinger which featured two incongruous photos of the author superimposed — a youthful cover portrait from "Catcher in the Rye" and a candid shot taken much later at the writer's home in Cornish, N.H. The images depicted a man young and old, optimistic and deflated.
"I was so taken with that image that I spent 91/2 years trying to find out what happened," said Salerno, who originally thought he would spend $300,000 and six months investigating Salinger. He wound up using $2 million of his own money.
After a privileged New York upbringing, military school as a teen and a brief stint in college, Salinger was struggling as a writer when World War II broke out. He entered the Army and was sent to Europe; Salerno said it was Salinger's trajectory during and after the war that kept him in the hunt for so long.
"The moment I said, 'No matter what it takes, I'm going to finish the film,' was when I learned that he went into a concentration camp [at the end of the war], went to a mental institution as a result and did what no other person on the planet would do: He signed up for more," Salerno said. "He joined the de-Nazification program and decided to go hunt these guys down. The minute I heard that, I was there."
Salerno made trips to Germany, Chile and many places on the East Coast, trying to piece together Salinger's back story. He says that although certain members of the author's family initially cooperated with his quest, they ultimately didn't participate in formal interviews. But Salerno, Shields and his crew, which included cinematographer Buddy Squires ("The Central Park Five"), were propelled by gets, such as a photograph of Salinger in his bedroom or a trove of letters that Salinger exchanged with author Joyce Maynard.
At times, Salerno seems to adopt a Salingeresque secrecy about his own work; ask him, for example, whether he's seen any of the actual manuscripts he says are awaiting publication and he refuses to answer. And he says he never sought to interview the man directly. Yet Salerno is happy to wax on about what he sees as the significance of the book and film.
"This was an extraordinarily difficult project. This wasn't doing Ted Kennedy or Steve Jobs, where there are 100 or 200 interviews that you can draw on," he said. "We were having to pull things out of thin air."
Teen girls
One of the most compelling — and disturbing — segments of the film concerns Salinger's predilection for teenage girls. The movie touches on Salinger's early romance love with high-schooler Oona O'Neill (who would later marry Charlie Chaplin), and describes his multiyear courtship of Jean Miller, whom he met at Daytona Beach, Fla., when she was 14 and he was 30. It also delves into his relationship with Claire Douglas, whom he met when she was 16 and who became his second wife and mother to his two children.
In the film, Miller, now 78, describes their correspondence, her trips to his house in Cornish, how they danced to "The Lawrence Welk Show" and watched Frank Capra's "Lost Horizon." She says that when she was 19, and he 35, she lost her virginity to him and he ended the relationship immediately.
It was a pattern Salinger would repeat at age 53 with the then-18-year-old Maynard, who came to his attention when she was featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine for her essay on life as a teenager. Maynard dropped out of Yale University after her freshman year and lived with Salinger for 10 months, writing her first novel at his house before he ended the relationship abruptly. Maynard attended the film's premiere in Telluride, Colo., and said she was more agitated by the movie than she expected to be.
"Salinger's interest in seeking out young girls is certainly an element in the film. But the disturbing consequences of this behavior, to the girls, is barely addressed, and the suggestion has been made that there was some kind of privilege or honor involved in having been selected as a muse," Maynard said in an interview. "It is my view that J.D. Salinger damaged the lives of many young girls, on a far greater scale than is represented in Salerno's film."
Salerno said he was bothered by what he learned about Salinger's interest in teenagers but added that he cut more information about those relationships from the film due to space constraints. (The book includes another story about a 16-year-old, Shirlie Blaney, whom Salinger had a brief relationship with when he was in his early 30s.)
"We felt after Oona, Joyce, Jean and Claire, the point had been made," said Salerno. "When we showed people early cuts of the film, they were like, 'We get it.'"
Coming to PBS
Salerno, who recently signed on to write James Cameron's "Avatar 4," has sold the TV rights to the Salinger film to PBS, and after its theatrical run, it will air on "American Masters" next year.
Salerno's only hope now is that people like it.
"I had to make this film, and I'm sure someone could have made it better, made it different, but I know that I gave it everything I had for nine years," said Salerno. "I really hope people enjoy it and feel that it honors Salinger, but tells the full story of his life. That was a really hard line. Yes, he's an extraordinary artist and a deeply complicated human being."


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Bill O'Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" More Than Actual Wars, Again
Research ››› ››› ROB SAVILLO, MATT GERTZ & BEN DIMIERO
For the second straight year, The O'Reilly Factor has devoted more than three times as much airtime to the manufactured "War on Christmas" than to actual military conflicts.
O'Reilly Factor Spent Much More Time On The Phony "War On Christmas" Than Actual Wars
O'Reilly Again Covered The "War On Christmas" More Than Three Times As Much As Actual Conflicts In Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, And Gaza. From December 1 through 18, The O'Reilly Factor spent more than 55 minutes on the "War on Christmas" but only about 17 minutes covering military conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Gaza.
In 2011, O'Reilly Covered The "War On Christmas" More Than Three Times As Much As The Actual Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan. From December 1, 2011, through December 21, 2011, The O'Reilly Factor devoted nearly 42 minutes to covering the "War on Christmas," compared to approximately 13 and a half minutes covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. [Media Matters, 12/22/11]
It's Not Just O'Reilly: Fox's "War On Christmas" Focus Continued On-Air And Online In 2012
Fox's Carlson: "We're Not Nuts, Are We? There Is A War On Christmas." Reporting (for the second consecutive year) on Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee's evolving plans for that state's "holiday tree" lighting ceremony, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson interviewed Rhode Island State Rep. Doreen Costa about the supposed "controversy." From the December 18 edition of Fox & Friends:
CARLSON: Now, a lot of people, for whatever reason, will look at this interview today and they'll say, "Gretchen Carlson and Doreen Costa are nuts, ok? They're so nuts because they think that there's this made up War on Christmas." We're not nuts, are we? There is a War on Christmas. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/28/12]
Fox Nation Website Has Posted At Least 20 "War On Christmas" Stories In The Past Month. Fox News' Fox Nation website has posted at least 20 stories tagged as part of the "War on Christmas" since the middle of November. Headlines include "Seniors Outraged Over Christmas Tree Ban," "Militant Secularists Lose Battle to Oust Nativity Scene," and "Festivus Pole Added to Nativity Scene." [FoxNation.com, accessed 12/18/12]
Fox's Huddy Refers To Concerns Over Separation Of Church And State As "All That Business." Reporting on a public elementary school's decision to remove a nativity scene as part of their holiday decorations, Fox & Friends Saturday co-host Juliet Huddy explained that a Board of Education member had visited to school to talk about "separating church and state -- all that business." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/1/12]
Not Everyone At Fox Is On Board With The "War On Christmas"
Fox's John Stossel To O'Reilly "I Can't Believe You're Wasting Time On" The War On Christmas. During a December appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, Fox host John Stossel told O'Reilly that with all of the "real problems" in the country, "I can't believe you're wasting time" covering the War on Christmas. He added, "But then, I look at your ratings and I feel ridiculous." From the December 11 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:
STOSSEL: I want to quibble with your poll question, "Is your coverage accurate or overblown?" I'd say it's accurate and overblown.
This war on Christmas, it's not a war. "Newsweek" was right. Maybe, the only thing they're right about.
O'REILLY: You can call it an assault. You can call it anything you want. But think back, Stossel, six years ago, when giant department store chains were ordering their employees not to say, "Merry Christmas," all right.
That stopped, as "Newsweek" points out. And it puts me in a stupid hat and uses a bad picture. We know their game, OK. That stopped. And the reason it stopped is because of us, Stossel, us. All right?
STOSSEL: OK. So, you won the war.
O'REILLY: Thank you.
STOSSEL: "Newsweek" is right about that.
O'REILLY: Right.
STOSSEL: We have real problems in this country. We're going broke. I can't believe you're wasting time on this. But then, I look at your ratings and I feel ridiculous.
O'REILLY: We cover the real problems as well. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. The culture war is affecting every child in this nation, Stossel. That's enormous. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 12/11/12]
Fox Business Network's Don Imus: "There's No War On Christmas ... It's Absurd."During an interview with Fox Business host Stuart Varney, Imus in the Morning host Don Imus dismissed the idea of a "War on Christmas" as "absurd." [Fox Business, Imus in the Morning,12/11/12]
We reviewed Nexis transcripts of The O'Reilly Factor from December 1 through 18 for any references to military conflicts or military action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Gaza, or the "War on Christmas." We counted entire segments focused on these topics, mentions of these topics within segments on other topics, and teasers of segments related to these topics -- even if they did not include the words "Iraq," "Afghanistan," "Syria," "Libya," "Benghazi," or "Gaza," or "War on Christmas."
We used the following search: show (O'Reilly) and (Iraq! or Afghan! or Syria! or Libya! or Benghazi or Gaza or war or holidays or Christmas or military or troops or soldier! or vet!). We also searched for mentions of the military-related charities that O'Reilly promotes on his website; for example, we included references to the Wounded Warrior Project.
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MEBANE � The Eastern Alamance boys� basketball team spent about 5� quarters playing at Western Alamance�s methodical pace.
But sometime in the second quarter of Thursday night�s game, something clicked for the host Eagles.
�We picked it up, we started rolling and that was it,� Eastern Alamance guard Lamont Robinson said.
The �it� was a 66-35 victory in the Mid-State 3-A Conference game, with the Eagles outscoring Western Alamance 34-10 in the second half.
Robinson led the way with a game-high 20 points, despite not making a field goal in the second half. But the high-flying junior guard�s favorite plays of the game were easily distinguishable.
With the Eagles (13-5 overall, 7-1 Mid-State 3-A Conference) firmly in control, Robinson finished a fast break with a rim-rocking alley-oop to Jalyn Riley in the first minute of the fourth quarter. A couple minutes later, Robinson broke down the defense and offered another alley-oop chance, this time finished by Sae�Quahn Rogers.
�Yeah, those are my favorite plays. But what I liked was that Sae got the box-out and then we started pushing and that gave him the alley-oop,� Robinson said.
That defense and pace represented the themes of Eastern Alamance�s stretch to pull away. After suffering its only conference loss against Western Alamance in December, the Eagles turned up the defensive pressure to put away the Warriors (4-13, 3-5).
�I really wanted to play a little bit faster and try not to keep it so close,� Eastern Alamance coach Jay McPherson said. �Up there, it was like they hit one, then another and another and it was like we couldn�t stop them.
�So I was hoping we could push it up a little bit.�
Defense predicated the scoring margin of the second half, with Eastern Alamance allowing just one field goal for the half until a pair of Western Alamance baskets in the last 30 seconds.
The Eagles also ballooned what was a seven-point halftime lead to a 21-point lead with two minutes left in the third quarter.
�When we create turnovers and get out, that�s a lot of 2-on-1s, 3-on-2s, 3-on-1s,� Robinson said.
Western Alamance was led by R.J. Turner�s 10 points. Warriors coach Carter Gerlach said the obvious difference was his team�s lack of offensive punch in the second half.
�I think we were 3-for-20 in the second half with well over a dozen turnovers,� Gerlach said, �so that�s not going to be the formula for a victory.
�I think we rushed things on the offensive end and it was a seven-point halftime lead and then it blew up to about 11 real quick. We felt like we had to try to push it and get it back real quick.�
WesternAlamance played without guard Davorous Graves, who suffered a concussion Tuesday night against Eastern Guilford.