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Black Friday alternative: Covered Bridge Artisans annual studio tour
The turkey's been brined, stuffed and roasted, and now you're stuffed. Time to pack up the leftovers and go for a ride, touring artists studios in the countryside.
The Covered Bridge Artisans Annual Studio Tour, Friday through Sunday, Nov. 23-25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., is a self-guided event in New Jersey's Hunterdon County. If you ignore the road signs, you can pretend you're in Vermont –rolling hills, red barns, stone cottages. A detailed map is available.
Fields of sheep, horses and chickens, and the eponymous covered bridge inspire impressionistic paintings, stained glass, hand-dyed and handspun yarn, ceramics, sculpture and metal fabrication, as well as leather work and jewelry. Inside the studios, a spicy brew may be wafting from the kettle as you watch how the artwork is made and mingle with friendly artists.
The seven artists' studios are in Lambertville, Stockton and Sergeantsville, with an additional 11 artists at the Ginny Naparano Cultural Arts Center in Sergeantsville.
Sunflower Glass Studio
Karen and Geoff Caldwell have been crafting colorful windows and accessories for 35 years at Sunflower Glass Studio, adjacent to their 1872 gingerbread Victorian in Sergeantsville. There is stained, beveled and leaded glass everywhere — even the bathroom door in the studio has a stained glass window, with blue diamond shapes against white. Creating stained glass work requires the talent, skills and design capabilities of both artist and craftsperson, and the Caldwells supply both. Beyond windows there are other treasures, from fused glass tableware to baubles. Ms. Caldwell's pastel paintings fill in the nooks.
Long Lane Farm Studio
Phoebe Wiley is one of the founding members of the Covered Bridge Artisans, and her Pottery at Long Lane Farm is a piece of paradise. To get there you drive through scenic countryside until you think you are lost, and then you take the long, long lane that lends its name. Chickens, cows and Jack Russell Terriers enjoy life on this 30-acre farm. With rambling barns and gardens, the artist's source material is right here for everything from majolica vessels to paintings.
Moorland Studios
Constance Bassett and David Cann can sometimes be seen atop Philadelphia's City Hall, doing restoration work on the 37-foot bronze statue of William Penn. When not climbing tall buildings, they do restoration for museums, including Philadelphia Museum of Art. Here in the countryside, where they live in a restored 18th-century stone house, they produce paintings, sculpture and home furnishings that reflect the region and its history.
Swan Street Studio
Katherine Hackl makes Arts & Craft pottery in her Swan Street Studio, where she also produced tile work for the Riverline station stops, Roosevelt Borough Hall's mural, and panels for at the information center at Batsto Village in the Pine Barrens and Princeton Public Library. Her murals depict the history of the region they adorn.
Growing up on a sheep farm in Stockton, Katherine's passion for ceramics flourished while she attended George School in Newtown, Pa. After majoring in European history at the University of Chicago, she returned to ceramics, entering the apprenticeship program at Moravian Pottery and Tile Works where she studied the Arts & Crafts style of Henry Mercer. Immediately following the intensive work/study program, she received a commission to work on a tile renovation project for the New Jersey State House.
Ty Hodanish Gallery
At Prallsville Mill Ty Hodanish carries on the Impressionist tradition of the New Hope School with plein air paintings that capture the region's color and light.
Annelies van Dommelen
A new addition to the tour is the studio of Annelies van Dommelen, located at the north end of Lambertville on North Union Street. She works in oil painting, watercolors and monotypes, and makes archival paper boxes with original and vintage papers and artists books that are free standing dioramas made with found objects.
Timothy Martin Fine Art
Tim Martin's studio barn is a stone's throw from the covered bridge. Martin's work is as fantastical as the setting, with whimsical scenes of chairs, sofas, love seats and pianos made up of flowers and set in a surreal natural woodland. Bear, bees, sheep and other fauna populate this fantasy world.
Virginia Napurano Cultural Arts Center
In the Virginia Napurano Cultural Arts Center, an old restored church, the pottery of Sheila Coutin is also filled with a menagerie of wildlife – horses, birds and fish. Some is intricately carved with floral detail, and other pieces are smooth vessels on which a figure or bird rests. Susan Nadelson produces hand-dyed handspun yarn; Amy Turner, hand dyed scarves and shawls with beading or tapestry; Bernard Hohlfeld, turned wood; Dakota Moon, jewelry; Maple Leather Co.; Martha Mulford Dreswick, wooden baskets; Fiona Scott, pottery and beaded necklaces; and Ron Dombrowski, wood decoys.
Ellie Wyeth creates original painted floor cloths, Sheila Fernekes makes contemporary one-of-a-kind jewelry, interweaving beads, silver, and gems, and Carole Kyle fashions one-of-a-kind, wearable art, functional handbags.
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Whether you like to watch sports or participate in them, UMass Amherst is a great school for athletics. Our varsity athletes compete in Division I, (football is in Division 1A) the NCAA's highest level of intercollegiate athletic competition, and in the prestigious Atlantic 10 Conference. In a typical year, about 200 varsity events are held on campus—and UMass Amherst students attend all home games free of charge.
If you are interested in competing as a student-athlete, visit UMass Amherst Athletics and choose your sport. Each page has a link for prospective student-athletes.
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Here we go.. the finale of the DPG CoD4 Winter League 2014! We've got the #1 seed and undefeated Blame Canada facing off against the #2 seed G-Spot Popperz.
Both teams have fought hard this season and had to overcome strong competition in the semi-finals to get here. Blame Canada beat Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies on the tie-breaker map of Toujane after losing on Crossfire and winning on Strike.
G-Spot Popperz beat Triple X in a close contest also on Toujane after winning on Overgrown and losing on Crash.
These teams faced each other in Week 6 on Vacant, with the Canadians coming away with the victory, 13-7. However, G-Spot was missing the #1 draft pick in the league, @D!M3YPOO. Will he make the difference this time and bring it home for @Hottie & Co.? Or will @Vengeance and @Sharpysharp put @Folk on their shoulders and praise him as their glorious leader?
Match time/date: TBD
Map #1 (G-Spot's pick): Crash
Map #2 (Blame Canada's pick): Strike
Map #3 (Tiebreaker): Carentan
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WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- NetScout Systems, Inc., will announce its second quarter fiscal year 2013 financial results for the period ended September 30, 2012 on October 18, 2012, at approximately 7:30 a.m. ET. NetScout Systems will host its corresponding conference call and live webcast on the same day at 8:30 a.m. ET.
The numbers for the conference call are (866) 701-8242 (U.S.) and (763) 416-6912 (international). The conference call ID is: 39732679. A replay of the call will be available after 11:30 a.m. ET on October 18 for approximately one week. The number for the replay is (855) 859-2056 for U.S./Canada and (404) 537-3406 for international callers. The conference ID is: 39732679.
A live webcast of the conference call will be available on the company's website at http://ir.netscout.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=92658&p=irol-irhome.
About NetScout Systems, Inc.
NetScout Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTCT) is the market leader in Unified Service Delivery Management enabling comprehensive end-to-end network and application assurance. For 28 years, NetScout has delivered breakthrough packet-flow technology that provides trusted and comprehensive real-time network and application performance intelligence enabling unified assurance of the network, applications and users. These solutions enable IT staff to predict, preempt and resolve network and service delivery problems while facilitating the optimization and capacity planning of the network infrastructure. NetScout nGenius® and Sniffer® solutions are deployed at more than 20,000 of the world's largest enterprises, government agencies, and more than 148 service providers, on over one million physical and 2,000 virtual network segments to assure the network, applications, and service delivery to their users and customers. For more information about NetScout go to www.netscout.com.
NetScout Systems, Inc.
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The Effect of Digital Noise on RF Receiver Sensitivity in Smart-Phones Applications
1 Hour | Webcast - enregistré | Where & When
Why this Webcast is important:
Modern smart-phones employ a mixture of RF analog and high speed digital circuitry in a very limited form factor. The routing density in these designs is extremely high compared to that of the standard PCB design like PC. Supporting multi-band and multi-mode in the same design also makes the design much more complex. Since various RF and digital blocks, such as RF transmitters/receivers, DDR SRAMs, controller ICs, and a baseband processor, co-exist on the same palm-size board, each power/ground/signal domain has to couple with each other tightly. As such, it is a very challenging design task to isolate the digital and RF circuits from each other to mitigate digital-to-RF noise coupling issues. In this talk, we will discuss the various sources of digital noise, its impact on the overall design, and finally an approach to effectively pinpoint the origin and coupling paths of the noise with the aid of EM simulations.
Who should view this Webcast:
Mobile phone manufacturer, Signal Integrity and High Speed Digital designers.
Where & When
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Ever since I heard this release, Findlay Brown has inspired great confidence in me for the promise of British folk's future. It may well be unfair to pin all my hopes and expectations on one artist, but for me at least, no-one else really matters at the moment. Separated By The Sea is a debut to be cherished – a simple, all-consuming collection of folk tracks with fragile vocals and lush instrumentation; perfectly formed and genuinely beautiful.
Before this album slipped through my letterbox, I couldn't quite pin down what it was about Findlay Brown which was so alluring. To be fair, he isn't an innovator – but that doesn't necessarily contravene good songwriting. He's a little like a humble tribute to the folk heroes of old – heavily indebted to the sound of Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and Nick Drake – yet he re-invents this sound for a new audience. I then figured that it was in the way in which he captures the essence of summer so perfectly, through the medium of sound: these songs could easily soundtrack everyone's last summer – days that never end, nights remembered as a blur of amassed memories and hours spent sitting in fields just because you can.
In both the artwork and the lyrics, Findlay Brown on numerous occasions offers out his fascination with the sea. Aside from the title track, which romantically documents his inter-country relationship with Marie Nielsen, 'I Will (Ghost Ship)' explores a perceptible lyrical link to the sea:
_"Beneath the sea
Was a golden shrine crying
And there she laid underneath the tide dying"_
His long-time girlfriend Nielsen plays a large part in the storytelling. His words, although not exactly unorthodox, are much more interesting than the romantic standard in as much as that you can feel that they are imbued with genuine emotion. Their relationship inspires some of Findlay Brown's finest lyrics – honest, romantic and heartfelt:
_"We'll be skipping over reels of rhyme
Singing like a blackbird through the night
Running through the dampened pine
Shrouded in the snowflakes lost in time"_
Three tracks from the Don't You Know I Love You EP make their way onto his debut: the ubiquitous 'Come Home', 'Separated By The Sea' and the newly re-modelled 'Don't You Know I Love You'. Although a dull moment on the EP, the latter can now be seen as a highlight in its own right: the original song is still recognisable, but an eclectic composite of sitars, drums and guitar effects have been added to its psychedelic-sounding veneer. Brown adds multi-instrumentation to other tracks on Separated By The Sea, too: an underused pedal steel sounds wonderful on both 'Come Home' and 'Tonight Won't Wait', and string sections flow effortlessly throughout what would just be standard folk fare on songs like 'Paper Man' and 'The Loneliness I Feel'. This could be Findlay Brown's Five Leaves Left.
Separated By The Sea is everything that I expected from Findlay Brown's debut album – sweet songs with underlying romanticism, subtle nods to psychedelia, and a summery production which enhances the warm glow of Brown's guitar playing. It may well be a little too early in the year to enjoy the album to its full extent, but if you have even a passing interest in folk music, give Separated By The Sea a fair listen. Findlay Brown _is_ the future of British folk music.
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Doug and Sharon Shields recently celebrated 50 years of marriage. The couple was married Oct. 27, 1962, at St. Stephen Lutheran Church by Rev. Hueschen.
They have three sons, Douglas, Jeffery (and Candy) and William and two grandchildren, Courtney and Caitlyn.
The family celebrated with a dinner at The Barn Restaurant in Archbold.


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The trustee of the LV= Pension Plan wanted to challenge the reputation that pensions are boring by creating a fresh way to engage employees with their pensions. The result was the development of a fun and surprising 'pensions village' brand, used throughout all new-look communications.View
A well planned process beginning with the analysis of employee data allowed AHC to identify the barriers to joining, and establish the most effective ways of engaging the audience. AHC adopted a unique approach which enabled the pilot group to provide 24/7 feedback on the developing strategy.View
To meet Asda's corporate value of 'Caring for our colleagues' and to help colleagues through the tough economic climate, AHC worked closely with Asda to develop a Total Package website and online Total Reward Statements. The main aim was to emphasise the total value of the benefits Asda provides to its colleagues, by making all of this information available in one easy-to-access place.View
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Well that's what was awaiting me last weekend when due to an invitation to attend a baptism, I had to bite the bullet and shut the hell up.
Our destination was Perpignan for all intents and purpose but more specifically a snoozing seaside village by the frontier of Spain called "Banyuls sur Mer".
We left at 6am and I unashamedly slept through the better,longer half of the drive awaking for a pit stop that involved croissants and a moment to re-align my spine.We made good time and got to a sunny Perpignan late morning,enough time to visit and grab some lunch.If you have never been to Perpignan and this is coming from someone who lives not far from the downtown thriving metropolis of Cannes.. it was a pleasure and a relief to get away from the showy summer crowds and get with the locals in this lovely town. I will not get technical with the history of it all,as frankly I didn't delve into that whatsoever: I looked, shopped and ate in that order.
We had lunch at a local restaurant called "VIP"...the name had nothing to do with pomp or glamour and more with some Catalan saying I didn't quite catch.We chose the "plat du jour" which consisted of a "piece de boeuf " home made mash and green beans." Saignant? (Rare)" asked the waitress. " Non. A point svp (medium)" we replied. And "saignant " it was.Now what piece of beef it was, still remains a mystery,I needed a hacksaw to cut through it and being rare...well,the end result looked like something out of the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
We were now but 40mns or so away from our final destination the "Thalacap Catalogne/Institut de Thalassotherapie" or as I fondly like to remember it as "Welcome to Shutter Island ".
Located on a cliff and over looking the sea , the building itself eerily looked very little like an "institut" and more like an institution, "Girl Interrupted "anyone? Once we got passed the basic of basic reception area ,we headed half heartedly to our cell,I mean room. To say that the decor was spartan would be like saying that Liberace's wardrobe came from H&M and I am using the word "decor" liberally here for lack of another one.Everything that needed to be there was in wrought iron,luckily the windows were spared. There was no a/c but thank heaven's for the electric fan that made enough ruckus to wake the dead and muffled the endless screams coming from the room above ...and I don't doubt the need for escape or sedation,but this came from a baby..go figure. Now this would be the right time to say that we managed a room change to one identical , one floor up from garden level. Actually there was no garden to speak of other than boulders and cigarette butts, so the partial sea/ traffic view was somewhat of a relief. We did score a mini bar..OK an empty one,but one that enabled our tepid bottle of water to cool in a day and a half.
The bathroom came complete with bathtub suffering from a mild case of mildew,but I must say it was clean,as was the sterile room. There was not one single product ,no bar of soap,no plastic shower cap,no mini shampoo or conditioner...nothing. What was left by the side of the sink was a tiny plastic bottle with a liquid soap that was labeled "for hands,face and body" as well as floors and walls.The toilet was the piece de resistance, it was in a separate room with a rather large water boiler suspended ominously above it.Luckily we are not tall but even in sitting positions:knees hiked cheek to jowl , our heads barely skimmed the top of that blasted contraption. I can honestly tell you that when nature called,one went in with his life in his hands,heart aflutter.
The spa was surprisingly packed, with old and young folk alike,all could be seen shuffling to breakfast and all hours of the day in their "Thalacap"bathrobes and blue rubber slippers.Now if we were really lucky ,we would be regaled by the sight of full regalia including the rather fetching blue and white stripped cotton swim cap.Like that is a look anyone can get away with. We were given our kit on arrival: bathrobe,towels,swim cap and rubber slippers...and we returned it half an hour later.The clincher,like I needed one, was that men were not allowed to wear swim shorts but had to sport the rather fetching speedo/banana hammock ...now add a gold chain to that and a pompadour and one can almost picture me with a rather shorter version of Elvis.
You must be puzzled as to why we would book in a spa and so readily give up our rights to all facilities and treatments... because couldn't find any other place to stay.
On plus side , breakfast was included ...Joie de Vivre: not.
Outside of spa,the weekend was a blast!


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Taking License
This story appears in the October 1998 issue of . Subscribe »
Got a great idea??? but don't have the time, energy, experience or resources to manufacture and market it? Don't give up. Another option is to find a manufacturer who will license your idea. This way, you get a royalty without having to do any additional work to promote, manufacture or sell the product. Licensing can be ideal if you're the type who prefers to keep inventing rather than actually run a company.
I'm often asked "How do manufacturers decide what products to license?" There's no one answer to this question; manufacturers license products for a variety of reasons. However, John Lisle, president of Clarinda, Iowa-based Lisle Corp., a manufacturer of specialty automotive products, offers some insights.
Unfortunately, most manufacturers don't actively seek out inventions, nor do they bend over backward to treat inventors fairly. Lisle Corp. takes a different approach: The company actively seeks out inventions, has a formal invention submission program that attracts around 600 to 700 applications per year, and launches six to 10 new licensed products annually. In general, Lisle pays a royalty to inventors on 25 percent to 30 percent of the 300 or so products his company sells.
What They Want
Why do manufacturers like Lisle look for products to license? Often, it's because inventors provide new approaches to common problems that others in the industry can't solve. For example, a frequent problem for mechanics is that the "hood shock," which holds open a car's hood, has pneumatic seals that often fail with use. When that happens, mechanics typically resort to makeshift devices like a steel rod to hold up the hood. Dissatisfied with this solution, mechanic Fred Fink of Huntington, New York, invented a simple clamp with an adjustable screw that attaches to the hood shock and holds it in place. Fink's concept was a new solution to a longtime problem.
Similarly, when I worked with a dental products manufacturer, we kept a list of products on the market that didn't adequately solve our customers' problems. This didn't mean we had better solutions in mind, but it did mean we were willing to listen to inventors who claimed to have innovative solutions to those problems. Manufacturers are also likely to consider product categories in which there's been little change for several years.
Lisle considers several other criteria when evaluating a product for possible licensing:
- How difficult is it to solve the problem?
- How good are competing products on the market?
- Can the product sell at least 3,000 to 4,000 units per year?
- Does the potential sales volume justify the cost of tooling?
- Can the product be made and sold at a reasonable price?
- Will the product operate reliably for consumers?
The first two criteria are the most important for Lisle. The last four can often be worked out if an invention addresses a difficult problem and if competitive products don't provide an effective solution.
How They Want It
Do you need a finished product in hand to approach manufacturers about licensing? That depends. Lisle accepts inventions in most stages of development, from drawings to products that are already on the market. In fact, he actually prefers to get products that aren't yet on the market, since his engineers perform quality and cost engineering on all products prior to manufacturing.
Lisle is willing to accept unfinished products because he has the engineering resources to devote to perfecting each accepted idea. This isn't the case for manufacturing companies that don't have an aggressive licensing strategy. Such companies typically don't have extra engineering time available or won't devote it to an inventor's product. If you're approaching a company of this type, you'll need to finish developing your invention before you show it to them.
Patent Protection
Should you patent your product before approaching manufacturers about licensing? Look at it this way: Since Lisle relies on inventors for much of his product lines, he goes to great lengths to treat them fairly. But not all companies do, and without a patent, you risk losing your idea unless you have the manufacturing company sign a Statement of Confidentiality and Non-Use.
Lisle will look at both patented and nonpatented ideas. If an idea is not patented, Lisle may choose to patent it if the idea is unique and innovative, but he also pays a royalty on ideas neither he nor the inventor has patented.
Typically, Lisle pays royalties of 3 percent of net sales for nonpatented ideas and 5 percent of net sales for patented inventions. Often, he splits the royalty between two or more inventors who have submitted the same idea.
Getting in the door to explain your product idea to manufacturers is a challenge. To improve your odds, take Lisle's advice: Emphasize that your idea is a new approach to a well-known problem. Not all manufacturers will want to work with you, but you'll have greater success setting up appointments with them if you tailor your approach to manufacturers' needs.
Starting Points
Q: I'm a housewife who gets ideas all the time. I've never done anything with my ideas, but now I have one that everyone tells me is just great. Do I have any chance of succeeding?
A: As this month's column points out, companies and markets are open to novel ideas that clearly provide a better solution. If the idea is right for the market, it doesn't matter who the inventor is. To get started, follow these steps:
1. Draw your invention. Don't expect people to fully understand your idea from a verbal description.
2. Produce a rough ad layout. This should clearly explain why people will purchase your invention.
3. Decide who can help you sell your idea. Consider manufacturers' sales representatives, distributors or others involved in the market you want to penetrate.
4. Use your personal network. Ask everyone you know if they have any contacts in that market.
5. Once you find people, ask them to meet with you. If you want to market the idea yourself, ask if they believe your idea will sell and what steps they recommend you take next. If you want to license the product, ask the people who like the idea if they are interested in being partners with you.
If your product is as innovative as you indicate, people will go out of their way to help you. Of course, this all requires hard work on your part. But the fact is, anyone can introduce a product--as long as they keep pushing until they succeed.
Don Debelak, author of Bringing Your Product to Market (John Wiley & Sons, $19.95, 800-225-5945), is a marketing consultant specializing in bringing new products to market.
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Lisle Corp., (712) 542-5101, fax: (712) 542-6591


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Event produced by Josh Wood Productions
Since its inception in 2010, the Inspiration series has grown to include
Galas in five cities around the world: New York, Paris, Los Angeles, São
Paulo, and Miami, with each year featuring a different design
"Inspiration." In 2013, two additional cities—Toronto and Rio de Janeiro—will be added to that list. Performers at past events have included Grace
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I'm quite new to Mathematica, I have version 9. I need to use it to simulate some physical problems. I know the equations (like Maxwell's equations and Newton's laws and so on), but I have no real idea on how to get some nice visual simulating output.
Maybe let's start with some example:
If I have two stars rotating around each other, what is the best way in Mathematica to simulate and display the gravitational vector field of this problem (dynmically depending on the location of the stars)?
Or if I have some charges (not just points, but spheres, for example, ideally with some properties like polarity and permitivity) in an external electric field, how can I calculate and visualise the resulting field and the infleunce of movements and positions of the charges?
Where do I have to start here? Just by hacking the genereral equations that I have on paper into Mathematica I won't get some dynamic output.
I know the basics about
Manipulate and on how to enter equations and on how to do some basic calculations (like
DSolve). But I have no idea on how to get these things dynamical and visual so that I can just "move around" my stars and charges and see the resulting fields visually and in numbers.


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A Literary Provocateur Gets 'Smothered In Hugs'
Dennis Cooper's likes and dislikes are on display, rendered with dogged passion or swift, condemning vigor.
Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and ObituariesPublisher: HarperCollins
Length: 377 pages
Author: Dennis Cooper
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Publication date: 2010-06
Critics are shaky cartographers, experimental scientists, evangelical missionaries and psychoanalysts of the artistic id. We forge a map of our tastes — roads in the cultural landscape and through our own dark aesthetic woods. We make leaps of faith, hypothesizing an artist's meaning in a remarkably limited context. We swagger up to the craps table and play with the thrill of risk flushing our faces. Occasionally, we are blessed with a work that's undeniably a classic; bless that rare visitation from the heavens above.
In his essay on Quentin Tarantino, originally published in 1995 in Artforum magazine, literary provocateur Dennis Cooper analyzes the work of "the quirkily brilliant minor director" with a hustler's eye. His reading of Tarantino, then the grinning poster boy for independent film a year after the release of his still-most beloved work, Pulp Fiction is an icily acute dissection of strengths and failings. Cooper delivers with the unswerving faith of someone who lives and dies by his gut reactions but also with the methodical intelligence of someone who parses those reactions so he can articulate them to the sharpest degree.
In one of the essay's typically heated sentences, Cooper writes: "Tarantino does one thing with absolute brilliance: he boxes talky, neurotic, bright but half-articulate, schlumpy characters into parallel orbits around an agreeable, slightly flammable, usually trendy topic... The conversations he constructs are so superficially systematic that when one character grows frightened of a commitment to the interchange, separates, and unleashes some private insanity on his or her companion, the effect is nightmarish."
He goes on to uproot what he sees as Tarantino's failings — a lazy visual sense, a lack of true transgressive resonance in his characters — in one of the best essays in Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries, a title cribbed from one of Cooper's favorite bands, Guided by Voices.
Wimpy transgression is a damning critique coming from a writer who habitually communes with what's typically considered the perverse. All sorts of NEA-jeopardizing wickedness pervades his work, such as in the interconnected George Miles novels or his recent stage production featuring violent, sexualized puppets based on his 1993 novella, Jerk.
For a guy permanently fixed on the edge, Smothered in Hugs has the sweetness of a time capsule buried in a schoolyard.
Nearly all the work is from the '90s, some of it already excerpted in his 1999 collection, All Ears. Furthermore, only the last quarter or so of Smothered In Love was written in the new millennium, with the last work originally published in 2004. Nostalgic, now-impossible media moments emerge: In the halcyon days of 1990, a writer could sit with pretty-boy weirdo Keanu Reeves and ask him, "Are you gay or what?" and get the answer "no ... but ya never know" without a publicist stepping out from a dark alley with a crowbar.
Cooper's likes and dislikes are on display, rendered with dogged passion or swift, condemning vigor. For the most part, he favors artists working on the radical fringes in overt but intellectual ways — gay rocker Bob Mould of Husker Du, druggy brogue-writer Irvine Welsh, the visionary filmmaker Robert Bresson, whose work he credits with constructing his literary sensibility — but it's not always the accepted icons. He shoots a poison dart at William S. Burroughs, who, Cooper writes, is "so ubiquitous, he's practically the Beat Generation's Angelyne."
Sometimes, these sneak attacks delightfully surprise — Cooper has a knack for zingy one-liners — and at other times, they read like peckish dashes of partisanship. At the end of his postmortem on River Phoenix, he separates the "marginalized wackos with integrity... Crispin Glover and John Lurie" from the "hipster sellouts, like Christian Slater and Robert Downey, Jr." He could've made his point without naming names, though the bravado is appealing.
It's refreshing when someone who knows his own artistic predilections as well as Cooper details a change of opinion, like in his essay on avant-garde filmmaker Derek Jarman. In fact, his conversion is so wholehearted that were he to have the same experience with Downey Jr., for instance, he'd probably be more than happy to write the story of his about-face. Cooper seems to enjoy few psycho-artistic moments more than capturing exactly how and when an artist affected another; the specific machinations of frisson, the sudden fever of a message received.
That generosity is also on display in "Too Cool for School", though in a different way. The essay written for Spin in 1994 — an assignment that would never see the light of day today — follows a group of students in UCLA's highly regarded fine arts program at that anxious time when some have been picked up by hotshot galleries and others are nervously contemplating Plan B. Cooper seems to be rooting for them all, simply because he's a sucker for young artists, though, in a rare turn, it's unclear whose work he likes best.
His advocacy is gentle, flowing just underneath the text, and it ends on a note of rock 'n' roll delicacy. "Tonight they're just interchangeable pieces of a wacky extravaganza," Cooper writes, recalling a particularly raucous costume party thrown by the fledgling artists. For that moment, their imminent success or failure "is no big deal necessarily."


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MANCHESTER, NH – The chair, a commonplace object that can be found in some form or fashion in virtually every American home. Yet this functional object can take many different forms, each a reflection of the vision of the individual designer or maker. The New Hampshire Furniture Masters explore the appeal of this versatile object in their newest gallery installation, "Just Chairs: A Survey of Side Chairs," an exhibition of over 20 chairs created by current and former members of the NH Furniture Masters as well as by a number of invited chair makers. The exhibition will be on view at the Furniture Masters' Gallery, located at 49 South Main Street in Concord, NH, from April 12 through June 11, 2013. An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 19 from 5:00-7:00 p.m., in conjunction with Art Concord/Art Walk.
"The chair is obviously not a new type of furniture. It probably came into being when an unknown cave person decided to dovetail a stick on to a rock to make a backrest," NH Furniture Master and Gallery Director Ted Blachly jests. "Yet a chair is one of the more challenging pieces of furniture that a maker can build. The knowing craftsman understands the stresses that will be imposed upon it during its life and strives to address these structural concerns in an elegant way."
"Just Chairs" includes work by current Furniture Masters Ted Blachly, Jon Brooks, Garrett Hack, Howard Hatch, David Leach, Tom McLaughlin, Terry Moore, Jere Osgood, and Thom Walsh as well as former members Brian Braskie & Lenore Howe (two of the group's founders), Omar Clairmont, John McAlevey, and Jon Siegel. The Furniture Masters are also delighted to include works by invited chair makers David Friedline, David Masury, Tim Rousseau, Walker Weed, and Brian Weir as well as historical examples by renowned designers George Nakashima, Duncan Phyfe, and Hans Wegner.
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London's Heathrow Airport opens new-look Terminal 2
By Barry Neild for CNN • Updated 5th June 2014
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London Heathrow's gleaming new passenger terminal has opened to its first passengers in a soft launch designed to avoid the glitches that plagued its last major terminal launch.
CNN had a preview earlier this year of what its chief architect says is a "cathedral for the 21st century" that'll change air travel for good.
Terminal 2, otherwise known as the Queen's Terminal, features vaulted ceilings filled with natural light that are designed to guide up to 20 million passengers a year exactly to where they want to be.
Disappointingly, it still looks like an airport building anywhere in the world.
That's not to say it doesn't have its merits -- as airport buildings go, Queen's Terminal will certainly be among the most pleasant.
It'll also help ease some of the air traffic congestion that has left Heathrow struggling to maintain its former status as Europe's chief aviation hub against rivals serving Amsterdam and Frankfurt.
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The terminal was first showcased when journalists were invited to the unveiling of a gigantic airborne sculpture of twisting metal.
'Cultural capital'
Chef Heston Blumenthal explains how he's making fantastic food fast for Heathrow's new Terminal 2.
The 78-meter aluminum work entitled "Slipstream" was created by artist Richard Wilson to fill a wide atrium that passengers will cross when connecting to road and rail networks.
Inspired by the turbulence of a tumbling plane, it hangs from a series of pillars and resembles the riveted fuselage of a muscular vintage aircraft -- and a whale.
"It is a statement that says you've arrived in the cultural capital of the world," says Wilson.
Moving on through the airport, travelers pass through a broad hall filled with rows of security gates and into a huge central atrium that contains the lounge, shopping and dining areas.
There's more sculpture here, although on a less impressive scale -- one artwork resembles a tangle of windshield wipers.
Overhead, the undulating steel-framed roof is illuminated by glass skylights and LEDs that lead architect Luis Vidal says will change color "to accommodate the mood of the passenger."
The lounge is bordered on one side by vast windows that look out onto the airport canopy, with most gates within just a few minutes' walk.
MORE: World's biggest airport planned
"It's a very legible building," says Vidal, who describes his Terminal as a "piazza" to rival London's Covent Garden that will become a destination in its own right.
Soft launch
"Passengers can understand it very easily," says Vidal. "You can see how far you are from your plane, which makes you more relaxed."
The $4.2 billion building is certainly an improvement on the oppressive low ceilings and cramped quarters of the old Terminal 2, which closed five years ago after more than 50 years of service.
It will accommodate 26 airlines, including United, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, Singapore Airlines and others among the global Star Alliance, and connect to more than 50 destinations.
"Nowhere else in the world do you have as many airlines flying to a single airport as you do in London," says Mark Schwab, Star Alliance's CEO.
Heathrow officials hope by easing the new terminal into operation they will lessen the risk of repeating the chaos that engulfed the 2008 launch of the airport's prestigious Terminal 5.
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The new terminal arrives amid a campaign, led by London mayor Boris Johnson, to close Heathrow and build a new high-capacity airport in a river estuary on the other side of the city.
It's a plan unlikely to derail Heathrow's $18.5 billion long-term plan to remodel the airport along the lines of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport -- the world's busiest.
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Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
The Church commemorates Saint John on this day because of the annual pilgrimage to his grave.
When Saint John was more than one hundred years old, he took seven of his disciples and went to a spot outside the city of Ephesus. There he told them to dig a grave in the form of a cross. Then he climbed into the grave and told his disciples to cover him with earth. Later, the grave was opened and the saint's body was not there.
Each year on May 8 a red dust would arise from the grave which the faithful collected in order to be healed of their illnesses.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose Earthquakes forward Chris Wondolowski is starting to rival Forrest Gump with his ability to appear at just the right place and time.
Wondolowski did it again Saturday against Seattle, when he turned Bobby Burling's aborted header into his fifth score of the season—the only goal in the Quakes' 1-0 win over the Sounders.
"That was the difference: A clinical finish by Wondo and great defending by everybody," Quakes coach Frank Yallop said. "That's a striker. It's instinctual. It's not something he thinks about. Quite a few strikers, they're all able to dig the ball out and get a good finish, and Wondo's no different. He's finishing very well right now."
When Joey Gjertsen sent in an 11th-minute cross from the right wing, Wondolowski headed to the left post. It didn't seem like much of a run at the time, especially when the pass went short to Brandon McDonald.
But McDonald gave the ball a solid flick towards goal, forcing Wondolowski's marker, James Riley, to abandon him in order to prevent the 6-foot-5 Burling from getting an unchecked header on goalkeeper Kasey Keller. Riley got enough of a bump on Burling to force a miss, but Wondolowski cleaned up with a flourish.
"I think [Riley] undercut him a little bit, so it knocked him off balance and sent the ball my way instead of on goal," Wondolowski said. "Which I'm thankful for."
For Burling, who elected to shoot unsuccessfully instead of passing to Wondolowski in the Quakes' scoreless tie at New England on May 15, it went down as an assist. Even if it wasn't quite deliberate.
"No, I did not intend to flick that on, but I'll take it any way it comes," said Burling, who allowed that the ball probably caught more of his left shoulder than his head. "They kind of did well to undercut me, get me off balance so I couldn't get a clean header on it, and Wondo's been in the right place at the right time with huge goals, and that's what goal-scorers do. Credit to him for burying it."
Wondolowski made sure to put his right-footed shot, taken off the bounce, was on target, slipping between a diving Keller and the near post.
"I think that [my eyes] were about as big as the moon," Wondolowski said of his reaction to seeing the ball drop in front of him. "As a forward, I don't think that [missing the net] can ever cross your mind. No matter whether I'm shooting from 45 or 2 yards out, I have to believe that I'm always going to make it."
Geoff Lepper covers the Earthquakes for MLSsoccer.com. He can be reached at email@example.com. On Twitter: @sjquakes


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All-Star voting is underway – jump for joy
In case you've missed it, fans are now able to vote for the All-Star Game here and the Dodgers certainly have some worthy vote recipients. I believe the first batch of results will be coming back soon and I'd imagine that Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp will be among the top outfield vote getters, but it's up to you guys to vote for your favorite Dodgers over the next few weeks.
As a kid, my brother and I would wander around the Dodger Stadium and get as many ballots as we could from the ushers and fill them all out for every Dodger. I'm pretty sure that somewhere at my parents' house, I have an All-Star ballot from every year of the 80s and 90s and somewhere in my own home, I've got all of them since I started working at the Dodgers inthe mid 90s.
But now that the All-Star teams are primarly decided by the online vote, we can't rely wholly on our fans in-stadium to stuff the ballot boxes! Remember, you can vote up to 25 times so show your support for your team.
Anyone have some fun stories of All-Star balloting over the years? Share them here and we hope you'll take part in a longtime tradition throughout baseball.
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I vote for boss, remember he's the true star here. After all, as he once said, McCourt is the brand, the Dodgers follow.
Josh, you are absolutely right about not relying on in-stadium voting, since no one is going to games right?
Can I write in a vote for Peter O'Malley?
I vote…..GID RID OF FRANK AND NED.
and Bunnynuts and Conte, too!
I'll second that!
I'll vote for Kemp and Ethier.
Yeah Josh I started 2 weeks ago and I posted about this and said is it too early to vote.
Fortunately MLB won't allow any ballot stuffing when it comes to the owners voting Frank OUT. 29 to 1 should be rather decisive.
Break the bastard!
Keep those EMPTY SEATS at DS.
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My funnest phony All-Star ballot memory is asking an usher for a ballot. He handed me about 40 of them. Ron Cey's chad was already punched out of all of them.
Personally, I can't stand the All-Star Game as it is now, especially since the winner gets home field advantage in the Series. This ballot box stuffing stinks as much as the owner's box in Dodger Stadium.
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Whatever happened to getting to the all-star game on merit?
If you want Matt and Dre to get in, why don't you just contact the DNC and ask how they did it.
I'm disgusted.
How about voting for Uribe, Guerrier and Lilly? 3-Year multimillion dollar contracts from Ned must mean those guys are All-Stars, right?
How about Manny, Pierre, Andruw, and Schmidt? We're still paying them 7.7 mil, 3.5 mil, 3.4 mil, and 1.5 mil
Gwynn lf
Miles 2b
Ethier rf
Kemp cf
Uribe 3b
Loney 1b
Navarro c
Carroll ss
Garland p
X-man leading off for the Pirates. X-man says "Bite me, Ned".
The Beav says, "Bite me Ned" too.
"Whatever happened to getting to the all-star game on merit?"
By enchantedTheBeav on May 12, 2011 12:35 pm
Earning things on merit has gone the same way as taking responsibility for your actions. Out the window, not in fashion. Sad, ain't it?
It is very sad, indeed. The only way the AS game would be played by merit is if the players voted. The fans don't know shit (excuse me, merit)!
Does Carroll have a chance of making it with all those hits if he can keep it up?
Is getting your money through litigation the same as earning it on merit?
Is saying you're sorry but not being specific the same as taking responsibility?
I say it is. 🙂
Frank – it would be better if you had
Tammy Faye I mean Jamie by your side crying crocodile tears and running her mascara down her face. Its just not the same when its Soboroff.
Why is Jamey Carroll hitting in the 8-hole with a .308 batting average? Don't say its the right-handed pitcher, because Jamey is hitting .330 against righties.
I don't get it either, STT.
I don't know why they think so much of Navarro….liked Ellis much better.
lol you know the answer to that one.
If Ellis is the catcher of the future I'd rather give up alot of AB's instead letting him sit on the bench. I'd rather have Ellis starting and Barajas didn't resign. It would be a no brainer if Santana was here and Ellis sitting on our bench.
Hey, Stat Man, how many double plays have we hit into so far this season?
That one makes 30, with Matty Kemp leading the way with six, Uribe next with five.
Thanks 😉 I knew it was a bunch.
Looks like 32 so far not counting the one Kemp just hit into. So 33 with Kemp leading the team with 7.
🙂 🙂 ))
Maybe Donny should do this with Loney everytime he goes 0/4.
Shad ~ It makes me respect Hurdle a lot to bench one of his star players because of a lousy attitude.
Stop the presses – Loney got an extra base hit!!!!!!!
Loweeney popped out!!!
Stupid me – Yahoo! had it wrong. Loney should go sit on the bench.
Loney popped up
Make that flied out to center.
Jamey with the RBI from the second cleanup position!
Garland got the rbi.
Okay, now I'm benching Yahoo! – it's all messed up this year.
Yahoo was mess up yesterday and you should've seen the lineup and had Loney and Miles playing 1st and 2nd bases.
Yeah Garland
I really love it when pitchers help themselves with their bats.
Rats, rain delay!!
Where is Weaver when you need him? I hope this isn't a long rain delay because I have a bad feeling Cormier is going to be around again which would suck.
Wow Royals prospect Hosmer already have 2 HR's since his called up and is now Sands turn to get his 1st but he's ranked 2nd in doubles by a rookie.
I still can't believe the Rays signed Manny and look at the turnaround. The Rays are 21-7 overall following a 1-8 start.
According to The Weather Channel, this is going to be one very long rain delay. There's a bunch of rain cells in the immediate Pittsburgh area.
Oh, NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I wonder the other reason for Carroll to bat 8th is to drive in some runs with the obvisiously turning the lineup around.
RBI/LOB/Pct thru yesterdays game:
Ethier 16/53/30.2%
Sands 9/30/30.0%
Kemp 18/74/24.3%
Uribe 14/65/21.5%
Miles 8/42/19.0%
Loney 11/72/15.3%
Barajas 7/60/11.7%
Carroll 3/38/ 8.0%
This is not counting HRs.
The problem with this rain delay that even with a normal game, they were expected to arrive in LA at 2am (pst) only to have to play tomorrow night at DS. Who in the hell makes up the schedule? Why didn't they play a day game? Idiots!!!
Exactly what I was thinking! So freaking unfair!!!!!
That to bad Garland is still going to be 0 for something for the season with no rbi's.
Also take Navarro double away also and that would suck if Loney had one lol.
Finally….game cancelled! Now, come on home boys and get ready for the Dbacks!!!!
Oh well, better this way since the delay was so long!!!
At least we wasn't up 7-0 like the Rangers.
Longest Streak, Times On Base, By A Dodger 1919-2011
Duke Snider
Shawn Green
Ron Cey
Len Koenecke
Zack Wheat
Augie Galan
Eric Karros
Babe Herman
Steve Sax
Billy Grabarkewitz
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Jim Gilliam
Jeff Kent
Jackie Robinson
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Andre Ethier
Mark Grudzielanek
Gil Hodges
How is that Willie Davis not on this list?
I could make a strong argument that loney has been the worst hitter in baseball so far this season
lol why waste your time at it? He's by far the worst hittinh 1st baseman in the league. I thought he was suppose to be a Mark Grace type or player. Dang I wanted the Sharks to choke.
There is no argument. Here is a list of all hitters with at least 100 PAs broken down by Value Over Replacement Player (VORP). Loney is dead last.
I notice Juan Uribe's not much further up the food chain than Loney. And Little Joe has batted them 5-6 all year. Any wonder why this team can't score?
No mystery there except for Little JoJo!!!
Also, here is the Phew(Juan Pierre) Line.
Pierre .248/.325/.276/.601
Loney .226/.265/.255/.520
Pretty damn pathetic!!!!
But Loney's such a hard worker and gets to the ballpark early and… oh wait…
LOL!!!!!!!!!!! Then he's got plenty of time to clean up the clubhouse and do the janatorial duties. What he really should be doing!!
Great. So Ned should be selling peanuts and Loney should be sweeping them up.
Nice sign in Uribe too, but then, we told you so Ned.
And here is the VORP of all the players in baseball, including pitchers.
Again next to last out of 585 players.
And here are the numbers for just the Dodgers!!!
I notice mid to high 20% range is about as high as you get for OBI. Interesting…
Yep. Here is a list sorted by OBI% for all players with at least 80 PAs.
Some pretty surprising names on the lower end of that list. Not so surprising that the first Dodger you see is #86. And what's Carroll – #248 out of 251? An argument could be made he should bat #2 since he can't drive anyone in, but can get on base.
But alas, no one in the entire organization pays any attention to stats.
But alas is right!!!
Let's face it Ned and Donny, The Loney Dog won't hunt.
What's Ned's SHAFT percentage?
Make that 99.9%…we did get Dre 😉
Roll your cursor over shaft Tru.
I had a momentary lapse 😉
I don't know why Schieffer seems so perplexed by the Dodgers' financial complexity. Frank is the ultimate shill artist. It used to be that the carnival shills practiced the pea and shell game and had you guess which one had the pea, but they only used three shells – Frank has brought up the shill standards to no less than 26 separate entities involved with the Dodgers. However, his sleight of hand is so superior that there isn't a pea (nor dollars) among any of them. This has just been a subterfuge to create the maximum borrowing opportunities, all excercised to the limit, until there's nothing left to pay the bills. All of you lenders have been HAD.
Bear – Lest we forget the IRS. How can Frank McCourt be pulling out over $100 million from the Dodgers organization into his own accounts without that counting as income that accrues to Frank McCourt? The IRS should be doing some serious audits to determine why the McCourts have not paid any income taxes in years.
I wish no Dodger would make it to the all star game this year. Have you noticed that any Dodger playing in the game over recent years comes back to play far under-achieving ball during the second half of the season? The latest being JB.


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Node template with Deployment tasks
I want to automate Windows HPC Setup for Compute nodes which involves tasks like joining to domain, Installing HPC Pack, restart the instance.
I understand from Node Template , we can add these tasks to a node template and apply the template to a server instance and perform the actions automatically.
But my question is how do I apply this nodetemplate to a plain instance which only has OS installed ( not a bare metal setup ) .
Are these tasks apply only for deployment types for bare metal setup ? or Can these be applied to the other category as well ?
Any samples towards this tasks usage in node templates will be helpful.
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If i understand you correctly, you want to apply some node template to nodes that are already preconfigured. If so, you can apply them - simply don't set OS image in template settings and then apply. Please give some feedback if i don't understood you.
I understand the same, but I created a node template and included a deployment activity to Install HPC Pack in Compute Node.
When I applied the node template , the provisioning log says 'Initiating deployment operations for template: ComputeNodeTemplate3' but no activity has been observed on both head node and the compute node and HPC Pack Installation is not happening as well. Am I missing anything here?
Note: I have copied the HPC Pack Installer to the location as defined in the task in Compute Node as well as in Head Node.
Do I have setup anything specific towards Windows Deployment Services on the head node as well as on compute nodes, if so please provide the details on the same.
How can I track on the activities happening when I assign the node template to a specific node.
Any logs that we can refer to?
Thanks in advance
- Edited by Aravindakumar.V Wednesday, February 22, 2012 12:03 PM added few lines
When creating compute node templates, Provisioning, Configuration, and Deployment deals with tasks that have to do with bare metal.
For anything that has an OS installed, you need to use the Maintenace section.
So for instance, if you wanted to install HPC Pack, you create a "Post Install Command" from "Mainetnance" and from there you carry out the HPC installation using the quiet mode. In other words, you specify how to install the node.
Hope this helps,
Christian from ScorpioTek
Hi Christian,
Thanks for your response.
I tried to include the HPC installation task in Silent mode as you mentioned in Maintanence activity. It didn't perform the task as well.
Then I tried to put a simple notepad.exe command in the Maintanence activity, even that didn't execute. Provisioning logs says the following stack message
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2/23/2012 5:17:58 PM Could not contact node 'Compute1' to perform change. Connection Failed. A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 10.237.247.17:6730
2/23/2012 5:17:37 PM Checking the configuration of node Domain\Compute1
2/23/2012 5:17:37 PM Associating template ComputeNodeTemplate3 with node Domain\Compute1Also I am wondering why the Deployment tasks are restricted only for bare metal setup, since it is very much applicable for servers with OS installed as well and none of the documentation mentions the same..
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Nicole Henry & James Bryan - Summer Sessions
- 01. Never Give Your Love Away
- 02. Let It Be Me
- 03. Joy
- 04. Magic
- 05. Baby Can I Hold You
- 06. My Love Is Your Love
- 07. How Insensitive
- 08. No One Is To Blame
- 09. Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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- 01. Stuck in the Middle With You
02. So Good, So Right
- 03. Neither One Of Us
04. Big Yellow Taxi
- 05. Waiting in Vain
- 06. Use Me
- 07. Fire and Rain
08. Love Don't Live Here Anymore
- 09. Spirit in the Dark
10. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- 11. Home
- 12. Sweet Love
- 13. Landslide
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Nicole's Notes
Now this was another level of production for me!! What a blast...strings, horn sections, arrangements by people I was meeting for the first time...very different and exciting! The production included an all-star cast of twenty-one musicians and a fabulous producer at the helm. However, it's hard to make 'Artist Notes" about this album because it's such a recent production. Memories aren't 'memories' yet :O) Still feels like everything I've said about this album I've said to the press, so give me a little more separation, I'll have something more interesting to say :) But for now: this album allowed me show a more soulful side of my voice, which I had been anxious to do. The entire production, minus many rehearsals with my Miami band, happened in New York City. And, the release parties were the awesome, including sold out shows at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca Cola where some long-time friends were able to join me and celebrate; and the listening party in Miami, where Commissioner Gongora gave me a Proclamation making the release date, August 31, 2011 "Nicole Henry Day" in the City of Miami Beach.
Arranged by: John Stoddart (1,3,4,6 (strings),10,11); Oli Rockberger (5,6); Gil Goldstein (7,8); Piano: John Stoddart (1,3,4,10,11,12); Gerald Clayton (2,9); Oli Rockberger (5,6); Gil Goldstein (8); Keyboards: John Stoddart (3,4); Organ: Shedrick Mitchell (1,4,5,6,11); Fender Rhodes: John Stoddart (7); Harmonica: Gregoire Maret (1,7); Tenor Saxophone: Kirk Whalum (4,11); Aaron Heick (4,11); Alto Saxophone: Andy Snitzer (4,11); Electric Guitar: Jef Lee Johnson (1,4,7,11); Julian Lage (2,9); National Reso-phonic Guitar: Larry Campbell (5); Acoustic Guitar: Larry Campbell (3,6); Acoustic Bass: Larry Grenadier (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11); Drums: Eric Harland (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11); Percussion: Bashiri Johnson (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11); Violin: Entocho Todorov (3,6,10,11); Viola: Lois Martin (3,6,7,8,10,11); Louise Schulman (3,6,10,11); Cello: Richard Locker (3,6,7,8,10,11); Trumpet: Tony Kadleck (4,11); Trombone: Michael Davis (4,11); Flute: Lou Marini (7,8); Bass Flute: Aaron Heick (7,8); Background Vocals: John Stoddart (3,11); Nicole Henry (3,11); Kirk Whalum appears courtesy of Mack Avenue Records, Inc. Gerald Clayton appears courtesy of EmArcy Records Julian Lage appears courtesy of EmArcy Records Produced by: Matt Pierson Recorded at: Sear Sound, NYC by Chris Allen Assistant Engineers: Ted Tuthill and Ed McAntee Additional recording by: Meredith McCandless at Flux Studios, NYC and Kirk Whalum at The Comforter, Memphis, TN Mixed by Fab Dupont and Flux Studios, NYC Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, NYC Art direction and design: Christopher Drukker Photography: Matthew Murphy Assistant Photographer: Kevin Thomas Garcia Hair and Makeup: Rob Harmon
01. Just a Little Lovin
- 02. Like Someone in Love
- 03. Anything For You
- 04. Since I Fell For You
- 05. Trouble in Mind
- 06. Hush Now
- 07. Waiting in Vain
08. Embraceable You
- 09. A Day in the Life of a Fool
- 10. Even While You're Gone
11. A Little Time Alone
- 12. Save Me From Myself
- 13. Everything Must Change
Artist Notes
Nicole's Notes
The most ironic thing about this CD is that we recorded it in Japan where Christmas isn't truly celebrated. The most difficult thing was finding a way to put new spins on holiday tunes. But it wound up being the most fun thing too. This 4-night and 8-concert appearance in December 2010 marked my eighth visit to Japan and the first time I was fortunate enough to bring my entire band with me. So we were really having a great time on stage. I was about to try to say what my favorite songs were on the CD, but then I started listing all of them for various reasons. So in short, my favorite adaptation is the last verse of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. My other favs are David Civerton's drumming on "My Favorite Things"; my first, ever recorded duet with bassist James McCoy on "Baby, It's Cold Outside"; and then, getting to sing "O Holy Night"- I just never get tired of singing that song. "I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water"...a Christmas Song? Not really...it talks about NOT wanting to break up a relationship. Nobody likes breaking up over the holidays...so how about that for a reason?
Piano: Pete Wallace; Bass and Vocal on 5: James McCoy; Drums and Percussion: David Chiverton; Produced by Nicole Henry & Matt Pierson; Recorded Live at the Cotton Club, Tokyo, Japan in December 2009 Mixed by Chris Allen at Sear Sound, NYC Mastered by Paul Zinman, Soundbyte Productions, NYC Art direction and design by Mark Larson Photography by: Hans Blossey and Maria Rul
Set for the Season: Live in Japan
01. My Favorite Things
- 02. Christmas Time is Here
- 03. Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- 04. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
05. Baby, It's Cold Outside
- 06. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
07. O Holy Night
- 08. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
- 09. I'd Rather Drink Muddy Water
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Nicole's Notes
This CD took the longest ever to create! Oh my goodness, I could've birthed three babies from conception to release of this CD! Being busy balancing so many new things on both the record label side and an expanded touring schedule, I just couldn't get to the studio! And maybe, to a certain degree, I over-thought the CD and its material. The CD's songlist started in late 2005, but it wasn't until late 2006 and 2007 that I actually finished the process of getting the songs arranged, rehearsed, and recorded. This also included recording the vocals twice. Winds up, the microphone and pre-amp settings we used the first time for vocal overdubs just wasn't best suited for my voice. To date it was the most involved I had gotten with producing a CD, including that it involved four studios, three pianists and drummers, two bassists and guitarists, two engineers and a horn player. I also came close to partnering with a local Miami label to assist with the marketing and distribution, but in the end it just made sense to release it through my label, Banister Records which handled The Nearness of You. Looking back, I remember my own internal battle of trying to capture one cohesive statement spanning three years, but when I listen to the CD, it is ME. And ME being ME is cohesive enough!! :O) This CD, brings back some swinging times in my musical career. I can remember the energy of the stages I sang on in those years and how certain arrangements came to be. I remember the rehearsals in Howie Schneider's apartment, Mike Orta's house and the South Florida Rehearsal Studios. I remember the photo shoot and the idea of having this hot pink backdrop; as well as shopping for that white dress and the -"A-ha" moment Melanie (my office manager at the time) found it in Coral Gables' Merrick Park. I also remember the all-important sequencing of the album's songs and selecting the cover shot with help from my then consultant Don. It was like building a house, and it's collaborative effort was meaningful to me. I'll never forget the week or two that "That's All" was in the top 10 downloaded jazz tunes on iTunes. Wow...
Piano: Brian Murphy (1,2,9,10); Mike Orta (4,6,7,11,12) Jaui Schneider (3,5,8); Keyboard: Brian Murphy (1,10); Mike Orta (4,6,7,12); Upright Bass: Jaime Ousley (1,3,4,5,6,7,8,12); Paul Shewchuk (2,9,10); Guitars: Aaron Fishbein (7); Manny Lopez (6); Mariana Martin (4); James Brian McCollum (7); Drums: Danny Burger (1,2,9,10); David Chiverton (7); Orlando Hernandez (3,4,5,6,8,12); Percussion: Sammy Figueroa (4); Produced by Hal Batt and Nicole Henry Executive Creative Producer: Don Mizell Executive Producer: Nicole Henry Associate Producer: Rachel Faro
The Very Thought of You
- 01. That's All
- 02. Almost Like Being In Love
- 03. I Can't Be Bothered Now
04. Waters of March
- 05. What'll I Do
- 06. I Found You
07. All That I Can See
- 08. All The Way
09. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart
- 10. At Last
- 11. The Very Thought of You
- 12. Make it Last
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Nicole's Notes
I was introduced to Venus Records of Japan in 2004 by way of piano great Eddie Higgins. Eddie and I had worked together a few times, particularly on my October 2002 debut at the Van Dyke jazz club on Miami Beach. I explained to him how well The Nearness of You was selling in Japan. Norma Records, another label in Japan, had started importing my CD after finding it on CDBaby.com and it had worked its way up to #6 on the vocal jazz charts...in Japan!!!? Well, Eddie had toured in Japan a bunch because of his album releases through Venus Records. So after introducing me to his booking agent, Yoshi, I was introduced to Venus Records who commissioned me to collaborate with Eddie Higgins and his NY based rhythm section for Teach Me Tonight. I recall staying at NYC's Park Central Hotel in midtown, jogging in Central Park, and recording at Avatar Studios with producer, Todd Barkan. Venus Records provided me with a list of tunes to choose from - which was exciting since I was SO into learning new music. When I listen to this CD, I hear the collaboration of two varying styles between Eddie and I, and I can personally hear the thrill in my voice from the challenge of 'being NICOLE HENRY' inside this different musical context. Nearness wound up reaching #2 on the sales charts in 2004, and Teach Me Tonight wound up reaching #1, earning the CD a title of "Best Vocal Jazz Album of 2005" by HMV Japan. Both the late Eddie Higgins and Yoshi Nishikage, Tetsuo Hara of Venus Records, and this CD's release allowed me to continue of my love affair with the country of Japan, which started with my forever friend, Shuichi Iwama of Norma Music who truly gave me my first introduction to Japanese markets.
Piano: Eddie Higgins; Bass: Jay Leonhart; Drums: Joe Ascione; Produced by Tetsuo Hara and Todd Barkan; Recorded by David Darlington at Avatar Studio, NYC on October 14, November 2 & 4, 2004 Assistant: Peter Doris Mixed and Mastered by Venus 24bit Hyper Magnum Sound: Shuji Kitamura and Tetsuo Hara Designed by Taz
Teach Me Tonight
- 01. Lover Come Back To Me
02. Blue Skies
03. Teach Me Tonight
04. Blame It On Youth
- 05. I've Got You Under My Skin
- 06. Angel Eyes
- 07. Summer Wind
08. Cry My A River
- 09. Night And Day
- 10. You Don't Know What Love Is
- 11. So Wonderful
- 12. Young At Heart
Artist Notes
Nicole's Notes
Very often people ask me "Which is your favorite CD out of your catalogue?" I often reply "I think that's like asking a parent 'Which is your favorite child?'" Each CD has its own place in your heart of course, and you love them all (hopefully) for different reasons. And well, this CD being my first, certainly has that special 'first' place. This CD was recorded in Miami Beach in 2003 barely 11 months after I started singing 'jazz' music. The beautiful, fun-filled memories of that time for me reminds me of how carefree and experimental I was. All I could do was learn more music for the next show, because it was so fun having my amazing band RIGHT there to support me in learning. This CD certainly brings back the best memories of making a CD because nothing mattered and there were no rules, no worries and only unchartered territory. I think you hear that in the music as well. I originally released The Nearness of You for South Florida audiences in July of 2003 in time for a Sunday Riverwalk Jazz Concert performance I had with my pianist and bassist in Fort Lauderdale. Within four months or so, I sold about 2000 CDs and thought FOR SURE I could get a national distribution deal for it...or a record deal...or...? :O) Thus began my own Banister Records and my introduction into the record label business by default. The CD did well at press and radio and had its largest sales success in NYC, where, after an in-store performance at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square, that store kept Nearness playing in rotation in the jazz department for about three years. I'd receive emails from tourists who found my CD as a direct result!
Piano: Mike Orta; Upright Bass: Paul Shewchuk; Drums: Danny Burger; Executive Produced & Produced by: Nicole Henry Produced and Engineered by: Will Edwards at Sprockets Music, Miami Engineered by Ivan Zervigon liva at Upstairs at the Van Dyke, Miami Beach Mixed by: Ron Taylor at The Clubhouse, Cooper City, FL Mastered by Mike Fuller at Fullersound, Miami Photos: Mark Duncan & Robert Ziehm Design: Gérard Vachez
The Nearness Of You
01. Summertime
- 02. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine
- 03. Old Black Magic
04. The Nearness of You
05. Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
- 06. Get Here
- 07. You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
- 08. You're Looking at Me
- 09. My Love
10. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- 11. Cheek to Cheek
- 12. Imagine