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Common Sense (Plus Infographic) Explain Why Microkia Symbiosis Will Work Out
If you're still scratching your head and asking yourself how this Nokia-Microsoft partnership could benefit the two giants, rest assured you're not the only one. Here at BSN, we too are split over the unusual Microkia symbiosis. One camp is adamant the deal spells doom for the Finnish cell phone giant, sharing the skepticism with Asymco's Horace Dediu who summarized eight similar Microsoft alliances that went wrong. The other camp is positive that Windows Phone will help Nokia dig themselves out of the platform hole and is keeping their fingers crossed for awesome new devices, like an amazing Nokia Windows Phone concept smartphone that could fight off the black rectangle syndrome.
From what we know so far, Microsoft is bringing its mobile operating system and services to the table. Additionally, we've learned recently that the software behemoth pledged to invest billions in engineering help, helping Nokia reduce their R&D spending spree to a sustainable level. The Windows maker sings praises for Nokia's expertise in hardware design, imaging, mapping and location services.
When you think of it, each partner has what the other lacks. Nokia needs an advanced software platform – and Windows Phone is certainly way more capable than Symbian. Nokia fans will only benefit from deep Office, Xbox Live and Bing support baked right into the bowels of the operating system.
Nokia's app and content store called the Ovi Store will be phased out and its content moved to Windows Marketplace where Microsoft carries free and paid Windows Phone apps. That's a good thing because the Ovi store has been a dud. In turn, Microsoft gets to improve its Bing search engine and maps by using Nokia's world-class GPS data obtained through their $8.1 billion Navteq acquisition in October of 2007. Comments like "That's it, I'm out" or "It was good while it lasted, but I'm switching" still confuse me. Nokia fans, don't be nuts – this could be the best thing to have happened to your ailing platform. Included below is a slide Nokia's new boss Stephen Elop showed last week at an investor meeting in London. See that? It's the resulting ecosystem of the Nokia-Microsoft alliance.
Will that be a strong enough ecosystem to take on Apple's iTunes empire or Google's cloud-everything Android approach? Only time will tell. But if Microsoft's persistence and financial backing plus Nokia's brand and global marketing are an indication, it's a win-win. Global reach matters in this game and boy is Nokia an undisputed leader in this respect. The firm has sales channels and retails partners in the strangest places where Apple and Google will lack street presence for a long time. Another slide below, this one from Microsoft, summarizes the respective firm's numbers and achievements to an easily digestible table.
Let's not forget both companies have built world-class brands that are instantly recognizable everywhere. Nokia is the number one phone vendor in the world and Microsoft with the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live gaming service beat Sony to the console punch, its Kinect controller is leading the charge in motion-based gaming and Office is still (and by a large margin) the de facto corporate standard. So, how is the Nokia-Microsoft marriage going to pan out? As always, it depends on the synergy effecs. If the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts, they'll be just fine. Matter of fact, if that's what's at play here than Nokia and Microsoft have already created a three-horse race here, like Elop suggested. Beg to differ? Meet us in comments.
Original Author: Christian Ziberg
This news article is part of our Archive, if you are looking for up-to date articles we would recommend a visit to our computer news section on the Bright Side of News frontpage. Additionally, we take great pride in our Home Office section, as well as the best VPN one, so be sure to check them out as well.


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Just opened here in Galax VA.
Allen's Moped & Power Sports.
We keep a wide variety of parts in stock for the do it yourself person, and if we don't have it here we can special order for you.
We are also a full moped, scooter, atv mechanic shop.
We offer affordable prices on parts and labor.
All MRA members get a 10% discount on total purchase.
To get the MRA discount you must tell the cashier your MRA name so we can check it on the members list.
We mainly focus on parts and repair, but if you would like to purchase a bike from us we can special order it for you as well.
Wednesday is called Wacky Wednesday .
Full service is
Oil Change, Gear Oil Change, Check Brake Fluid, Check and Clean Air Filter, Check that all lights work, Check Tire Pressure, and Check Tire Tread.
Normally this is a $20.00 Value up to 2 quarts of oil, but on Wacky Wednesday $12.00 up to 2 quarts of oil.
Visit us on the Web at www.allensmopedpowersports.weebly.com,
Facebook at www.facebook.com/allensmopedpowersports
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10083 Grayson Pkwy Unit 20
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Cheese and mushroom casserole with chicken
This casserole is simple and delicious, and makes a perfect snack during a picnic (bento anyone?)—you should use it as a basic idea for a casserole, since the pasta sauce is the stable and the most important piece of the meal. It's also a very tweak-able recipe! :-)
Perfectly juicy chicken
With all the sugar I'm processing lately, I need to take some precautions to keep my diet balanced. This recipes is the bomb not only for people on the diet, but also for anybody else, who loves the aromatic, juicy aroma of a chicken breast. All of that awesomeness without any extra oil or fat, which makes this recipe gold! :-) ---|
It's also a great cooking technique for almost any meat or vegetable that tastes better when cooked with own juices, keeping the moisture, aroma, and all vitamins inside. It's easy to use, makes great-tasting meal, what's not to love?!
Creamy scrambled eggs
I love the creamy texture of scrambled eggs, but I strongly dislike the idea of eating eggs raw, so I hacked a scrambled eggs recipe to be both completely set, creamy, and pack a crunchy punch as an extra. It's so delicious with fresh bread or toast, and the consistency makes it spreadable like a cottage cheese! I come back to this recipe quite often, because it's simple, fast and feels luxurious ;-)
Salami frittata
Hot, savory and full or aroma, that's literally an omelette on steroids that smashes my hunger during dark, cold autumn days :-) It's also extremely easy and pretty fast to cook!
Red bean and pepper meatballs
This is my favorite meatballs recipe to date. It's spicy, it's rich, it's deliciously thick and serves as a complete meal on it's own. It's one of my never failed meals, because it's impossible to make it taste bad, it can even survive burning (a bit :P), wrong order of cooking, missing ingredients and virtually any cooking disaster you can imagine ;-)


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Nikon 1 J2 Review
The Nikon 1 J2 has a better screen, some new creative effects, more colours, a textured grip on some models, and a slightly lower price tag, but otherwise it's purely an incremental upgrade of last year's J1 rather than a full-blown replacement.
The Nikon 1 J2 offers most of the key features of its more expensive and bigger, the V1 model, in a smaller, lighter and cheaper package that is even more clearly targeted at people upgrading from a compact. It also shares the same idiosyncracies, however, regarding its low-light focusing and user interface, and it suffers in direct comparison to the V1 by not having an electronic viewfinder, accessory port, mechanical shutter and longer battery life. Still, in our view the J2 is a better fit in many ways for its intended audience who will perhaps appreciate the built-in flash, simple control layout, stylish looks and svelte dimensions rather more than some of those so-called "missing" features.
Just like the bigger and more expensive V1, the J2 is perfectly capable of keeping up with the action thanks to its hybrid AF system and ultra-fast continuous shooting modes. In good light, the Nikon J2 is indeed as fast as anything out there when it comes to auto-focus speed. Its headline-grabbing 60fps burst mode might not be quite as useful as it may sound, but the fact that it can shoot at 10fps and keep the subject in focus is still sensational, especially if you consider that we are talking about a camera that's quite a lot smaller than a typical SLR. On the other hand, low-light focusing is less than stellar, and there are some other areas of performance where there's still room for improvement. Also, whether the intended beginner audience actually want interchangeable lenses - and if so, whether they are ready to pay the rather high price that price Nikon is asking for the J2 and its assortment of optics - is an entirely different question.
While the Nikon 1 J2 is a good camera for beginners, it's not so well-suited to serious amateurs. The J2 is a very small, high-quality, discreet and generally fast camera but its interface is quite clearly not geared toward users who like to take full control of the picture-taking process, despite the addition of the new Creative shooting mode. Most of the features these photographers want are there, but too many of them are buried within the menu, which is bound to be a source of frustration to any power user. Small firmware changes, such as making the "F" button customisable and/or the self-timer button reprogrammable could make the Nikon J2 more appealing to this group, but the J2 will never be able to overcome its reliance on the LCD screen for image composition or the lack of an accessory port for some of the more interesting extras like a powerful external flash or the GPS unit.
The J2 may only be the junior member of the Nikon 1 family, but its significantly cheaper price and more targeted approach make it a better choice than the V1 for compact camera users looking to upgrade to a more advanced system. It is still expensive though compared to rivals like the Sony NEX-F3, Olympus E-PM2 PEN Mini, Samsung NX1000 and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF5, so you'll need to decide if the out-and-out speed and beginner-friendly approach are really worth the price of admission.
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Highlighted Class Note: EMP Collective
Category: WebExtras
Short movies. Theater pieces. Gallery shows. Writing workshops. You could call it artistic manifestation in every form. But for the EMP Collective, it's about not only quality work, but also what the group hopes to inspire in other area artists of all kinds.
We spoke with the organization's founders in October to find out more about the impact this quirky, all-volunteer team of actors, artists, writers, filmmakers and musicians has had on the local arts scene.
UB: Tell me about EMP Collective. When and why did you decide to found it?
Cartwright: Several EMPs (a term Cartwright uses to describe the group's members and friends), including Maggie, Carly [J. Bales], Ken [Jordan], Nolan [Cartwright, Brad's brother] and I, all met in Tallahassee, Fla., where most of us [had] earned undergraduate degrees at Florida State University. In 2007, we put on an evening of short plays that we had written called Half Pint Night. We were all about mixing media from the start. The show was emceed by our spiritual guru of sorts, a radio personality named Hearty White. We performed at our friend's art gallery in Railroad Square and had local bands play the after-party (including my band, Kid Hart).
Shortly after our first production in 2007, Maggie was offered a job at [the] Baltimore Opera Company, so we moved up to Baltimore.
Villegas: Which is where I met Katy. She was the box office manager, and I was the assistant stage and production manager. The opera company folded after the fall season in 2008, and Carly had just moved to D.C. We'd been talking about producing another show together, and finally our stars were starting to align.
In January 2010, we produced our first event as EMP—We're All Gonna Die!—at the Lumberhaus in Station North. After the last performance, we all sat around in a circle and asked each other, "What's next?" That's when we decided to form a nonprofit.
UB: Does it fill a particular niche you felt was missing in Baltimore?
Villegas: I've always felt that Baltimore was so alive artistically, so it's tough to say. The awkward "we want to do everything" niche, maybe?
Cartwright: EMP's niche is everything. From the beginning, we enjoyed testing ourselves by going outside of our disciplinary comfort zones. We really wanted to focus on creating those same opportunities for young artists.
UB: Describe the artistic experience you provide. What genres does the organization cover—or, perhaps more appropriately, what genres doesn't it cover?
Villegas: We're up for anything. A lot of our projects start with "Wouldn't it be cool if ... ?" and "Yes." We produce films, writing, theater, music, gallery shows and everything in between. And the bulk of our programming to date has somehow [involved] integrated media. We're big fans of keeping our shows as experiential as possible, from the moment you walk in to the moment you leave; we like to put you in that world from the get-go.
Dubina: We have a couple goals whenever we sit down to think about what we're going to do next. We want to collaborate and learn from each other. We want to make sure that we're giving young artists the chance to experiment, develop and show new work. And we want to give artists the chance to work in mediums that they wouldn't ordinarily work in.
UB: What have been your most successful EMP Collective endeavors so far?
Villegas: Yikes! Hard to say. I'm proud of us for running a venue. We're all volunteers and we do a lot of programming, and I think we've done a really great job of working together to make things happen—even if some of it has involved a fair share of nail-biting.
Cartwright: Prior to having a permanent home, too much of our energy and overhead went into scouting and renting locations. Creatively speaking, finding a home freed us up to focus on our crazy ideas. We've all worked really hard so that no matter the event, the audience has a quality experience. We like to keep them guessing, anxious to see what sort of fun they'll walk into the next time they visit EMP.
UB: The City Paper recently named EMP Collective the "Best Collective," you've been featured everywhere from the Urbanite to Baltimore magazine and WJZ, and you also mentioned receiving an award from the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore Oct. 4. Why do you think you've been so successful in the relatively short time since you started this organization?
Villegas: We work really hard and are generally nice to people. I think that our inclusionary approach to things is appealing. We say "yes" a lot.
UB: You've made a point to partner with other local organizations and with local and visiting artists. You even solicit project proposals on your website and offer free workshops. What's your goal in doing so? Is this an unusual effort for an organization like yours?
Villegas: We want people to create. That's a big deal to us. So we want to give as many opportunities to do so as possible. Why don't people write half the time? They don't have a deadline. Give them the chance to be in a workshop that doesn't cost them anything, and they'll write.
Cartwright: We know how hard it can be to work with others who have a vision, and we know how logistically difficult and expensive it is to find a location for an event. We do our best to show our appreciation with collaborators, and we go out of our way to accommodate our guests' needs. We'd hope that these efforts aren't considered unusual.
UB: What do you see as your role in the continuing redevelopment of Baltimore's west side?
Villegas: Our hope is to continue to build relationships in the community and collaborate with other local arts groups to grow the west side as a destination.
We acquired our space on the west side through the Downtown Partnership's Operation Storefront project back in October 2011. It was an initiative that placed small, startup businesses in temporary vacant [buildings] to help activate the streets downtown. Our storefront was the only thing open on our block.
Since then, there have been a lot of exciting developments in the neighborhood. The west side recently received arts district designation [as] the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District. [There's also] a mural project called "Articulate Baltimore" along Howard Street this October. We want to help keep that momentum going.
UB: What's next for you and for EMP Collective?
Dubina: On Oct. 1, we moved into a new space at 307 W. Baltimore St., the first floor of our previous location. We're hosting our third round of the Cans n Drafts writing workshop, which starts Oct. 15, and we're hosting our grand opening of the new space Nov. 2.
Our first show in the new space will be a large-scale, 20-artist wall execution of the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse.
Villegas: I'm very excited because we'll be collaborating with both new and previous artists to help create the new space over the course of this month.
Long term, we want to grow the organization into a more sustainable model. We've got the supplies, we've got the space, now we want to work toward relieving the financial barricades artists face by increasing our ability to compensate them for their good work.


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Mayor's Office
A private company today took full responsibility for phone calls that were made overnight to many Lincoln area residents. The City contracted with FirstCall, an emergency notification system based in Louisiana, to notify residents by phone in the case of parking bans and emergencies. The FirstCall system was activated about 2:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon to notify residents that Mayor Chris Beutler had declared a snow emergency effective at 4 p.m.
"We understand that receiving a call in the middle of the night can be alarming, and we sincerely apologize to all those affected," said Matt Teague, President of FirstCall Networks. "About 90 percent of the calls were successfully completed in 90 minutes. Our staff is trained to stop all non-emergency calls at 10 p.m., and in this case, that did not occur. We take full responsibility for this and will make sure this does not happen again."
Teague said residents can call FirstCall at 800-653-9232 for an explanation. He said it was the first time the company had experienced a problem like this in its 13 years of operation.
It was the first time the City used the system to notify residents of parking bans. When the system is activated, about 53,000 calls are to be made to all land line phones in the Lincoln area and to the cell phones of those who have pre-registered. The FirstCall system can make 3,000 calls per minute.
"This service is intended to be a tool to help residents stay informed on parking bans and avoid the cost of tickets and towing," Mayor Beutler said. "We also plan to use the system for severe weather and other types of emergencies."
Lancaster County Emergency Director Doug Ahlberg said FirstCall was used successfully in July to notify about 2,400 residents in the area of the Lincoln Regional Center about an escapee. FirstCall was selected through an bidding process, and the City is paying the firm $28,000 for 157,000 minutes of service. The City will not be charged for yesterday's snow emergency notification.
Ahlberg said many residents may not have answered their phones because their caller ID systems displayed an unfamiliar area code (225 for Baton Rouge). In the future, the caller ID will be changed to indicate it is a call from the City of Lincoln.
The City remains in a snow emergency, and parking is banned on both sides of emergency snow routes, arterial streets and City bus routes. The City can issue two other types of parking bans:
In addition to the FirstCall system, the City also sends information to the new media and posts notices on the City website (lincoln.ne.gov) and government access cable channels 5 and 10. Some residents also have signed up to be notified of snow operations through Twitter (twitter.com/lincolnsnow).
Vehicles parked illegally during snow emergency, snow removal district or residential parking bans are subject to fines, towing and storage costs at the owners' expense. Vehicles parked in a way that does not allow emergency vehicles to pass may be ticked for obstructing a public street.


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The last few weeks in Washington, D.C., have provided yet another stark reminder to independent financial advisors and executives at financial services firms of the critical role FSI plays as our industry's "rapid response" team on Capitol Hill and with regulators and legislators across the country.
On February 7, during the Senate Finance Committee's review of a massive new highway bill, committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) added a provision that would have ended tax-deferred "stretches" of inherited IRAs for beneficiaries other than spouses, minor children or the disabled. Under the provision, most beneficiaries would have been forced to pay taxes on inherited IRAs over a drastically shortened five-year timeframe, rather than being allowed to defer the taxes over the beneficiary's lifetime, as is currently permitted
This proposed new restriction on IRAs would have hurt small investors and financial advisors all over the country. If left unchallenged, it would have created a major deterrent against saving at a time in our nation's history when saving is already strained, to say the least—all to fill the coffers of a government that refuses to make the difficult decisions needed to get its own fiscal house in order.
FSI—and our growing community of highly engaged financial advisors—were not about to allow investors' IRAs to be targeted without a fight. On February 15, we issued a last-minute Call to Action to our members, urging them to write to their senators to oppose this troubling provision.
Within a few hours, over 2,000 FSI members responded, telling their senators loud and clear that increased taxes on inherited IRAs should not be used to pay for the highway bill or any other governmental spending for that matter.
I'm pleased to report that the legislators heard our message.
Two days after issuing our Call to Action, an amendment to the highway bill by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) eliminated the tax on stretch IRAs. We applaud Leader Reid for his decisive action. With the daunting challenges small investors face in this economy, it is encouraging that our leaders understand the importance of upholding retirement savings in America.
For independent financial services firms and the financial advisors affiliated with them, though, there is a clear takeaway from the experience of the last several weeks: New legislative and regulatory proposals that potentially impact our industry and Main Street investors can arise at almost any time, and from any number of sources.
Whether it's a financing provision inserted in a highway bill in Washington, D.C., a proposal from the Department of Labor (DOL) redefining the term "fiduciary" and banning commissions from being earned on IRA advice, or state legislation in California that would place new restrictions on financial advisors operating as independent contractors, our industry today is subject to an unprecedented number of regulatory and legislative initiatives.
These initiatives, if left unchallenged, could fundamentally alter the way our members do business, and could impede their ability to provide cost-effective professional financial advice to their clients on Main Street.
Fortunately, though, our industry has a voice on these issues and, as our track record shows, FSI knows how to make it heard.
When the DOL launched its "fiduciary" proposal, we responded quickly and decisively, beginning with our comment letter to the agency and continuing with a Call to Action to our members that resulted in over 5,000 letters from our financial advisor members pouring into the White House. The DOL withdrew its proposal for further review in September, and we remain more engaged in the issue today than ever.
As FSI and our community of highly engaged financial advisors continue to grow, our "rapid response" capabilities toward new legislative and regulatory threats to our industry will only get stronger. Our advocacy activities on the Senate highway bill underscore this fact and, we hope, grows our credibility and trust within our industry.


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Curriculum Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies Grade 7 PDF Grade-Set: k-9
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Design can be responsive to identified needs.
Complex tasks require the acquisition of additional skills.
Complex tasks may require multiple tools and technologies.
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Students are expected to be able to do the following:
Applied Design
Understanding context
- Choose a design opportunity
- Identify key features or potential users and their requirements
- Identify criteria for success and any constraintsconstraintslimiting factors such as task or user requirements, materials, expense, environmental impact, issues of appropriation, and knowledge that is considered sacred
- Generate potential ideas and add to others' ideas
- Screen ideas against criteria and constraints
- Evaluate personal, social, and environmental impacts and ethical considerations
- Choose an idea to pursue
- Identify and use sources of informationsources of informationincluding seeking knowledge from other people as experts (e.g., First Peoples Elders), secondary sources, and collective pools of knowledge in communities and collaborative atmospheres
- Develop a plan that identifies key stages and resources
- Explore and test a variety of materials for effective use
- Construct a first version of the productor a prototype, as appropriate, making changes to tools, materials, and procedures as neededproductfor example, a physical product, a process, a system, a service, or a designed environment
- Record iterationsof prototypingiterationsrepetitions of a process with the aim of approaching a desired result
- Test the first version of the product or the prototype
- Gather peer and/or user and/or expert feedback and inspiration
- Make changes, troubleshoot, and test again
- Identify and use appropriate tools, technologies, and materials for productiontechnologiesthings that extend human capabilities
- Make a plan for production that includes key stages, and carry it out, making changes as needed
- Use materials in ways that minimize waste
- Decide on how and with whom to sharetheir productsharemay include showing to others, use by others, giving away, or marketing and selling
- Demonstrate their product and describe their process, using appropriate terminology and providing reasons for their selected solution and modifications
- Evaluate their product against their criteria and explain how it contributes to the individual, family, community, and/or environment
- Reflect on their design thinking and processes, and evaluate their ability to work effectively both as individuals and collaboratively in a group, including their ability to share and maintain an efficient co-operative work space
- Identify new design issues
Applied Skills
Demonstrate an awareness of precautionary and emergency safety procedures in both physical and digital environments
Identify and evaluate the skills and skill levels needed, individually or as a group, in relation to a specific task, and develop them as needed
Applied Technologies
Select, and as needed learn about, appropriate tools and technologies to extend their capability to complete a task
Identify the personal, social, and environmental impacts, including unintended negative consequences, of the choices they make about technology use
Identify how the land, natural resources, and culture influence the development and use of tools and technologies
Students will experience a minimum of three modules of Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6-7 in each of Grades 6 and 7. Schools may choose from among the modules listed below or develop new modules that use the Curricular Competencies of Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 6-7 with locally developed content. Locally developed modules can be offered in addition to, or instead of, the modules in the provincial curriculum.
Students are expected to know the following:
Computational Thinking
- simple algorithmsthat reflect computational thinkingsimple algorithmsfor sorting, searching, sequence, selection, and repetition; specific statements to complete a simple task; cryptography and code breaking (e.g., cyphers)
- visual representationsof problems and datavisual representationsgraphs, charts, network diagrams, info graphics, flow charts, lists, tables, or arrays
- evolution of programming languagesevolution of programming languageshistorical perspectives, evolution (e.g., Ada Lovelace, punch cards, Hollerith, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Enigma, cyphers)
- visual programmingvisual programmingfor example, Kodu, Scratch
Computers and Communications Devices
- computer system architecture, including hardware and software, network infrastructure (local), intranet/Internet, and personal communication devices
- strategies for identifying and troubleshooting simple hardware and software problems
- function of input and output devices, including 3D printing and adaptive technologies for those with special needs
- ergonomics in use of computers and computing devices
- effective and efficient keyboarding techniques
Digital Literacy
- Internet safetyInternet safetyincluding privacy and security (secured connections, passwords, personal information), digital footprint and dossier, cyberbullying, online scams, and cybercrimes
- digital self-image, citizenship, relationships, and communication
- legal and ethical considerations, including creative credit and copyright, and cyberbullying
- methods for personal media managementpersonal media managementfor example, personalization and organization, bookmarks, content management
- search techniques, how search results are selected and ranked, and criteriafor evaluating search resultscriteriaaccuracy, timeliness, appropriateness, credibility, and bias
- strategies to identify personal learning networkspersonal learning networkspersonalized digital instructional tools to enhance learning and engagement (apps, websites, videos, tutorials, games)
- technical drawing, including sketching techniques and manual drafting techniques
- elements of plans and drawings
- simple computer-aided drafting programsdrafting programsfor example, SketchUp, 123Design
Entrepreneurship and Marketing
- role of entrepreneurship in designing and making products and services
- market nichemarket nichea subset of the market on which a specific product is focused, created by identifying needs or wants not provided by competitors
- branding of products, services, institutions, or places
- pricing product/service, including decision to seek profit or break even
- role of basic financial record-keeping and budgeting
Food Studies
- basic food handling and simple preparation techniques and equipment
- factors in ingredient use, including balanced eating/nutrition, function, and dietary restrictions
- factors that influence food choices, including cost, availability, and family and cultural influences
Media Arts
- digital and non-digitalmedia, and their distinguishing characteristics and usesdigital and non-digitalfor example, video production, layout and design, graphics and images, photography (digital and traditional), emerging media processes (performance art, collaborative work, sound art, network art)
- techniquesfor using images, sounds, and text to communicate information, settings, ideas, and story structuretechniquesfor example, crop, print, record/capture, sequence
- media technologies and techniques to capture, edit, and manipulate images, sounds, and text for specific purposes
- influences of digital media for the purpose of communication and self-expression
- characteristics and uses of metals
- metalworking techniques and processesusing hand toolstechniques and processesfor example, bending, cutting, filing, drilling, soldering (with fume extractor)hand toolsfor example, cordless and corded drills, rotary tool, hammer, screwdriver, backsaw, coping saw, nail set, square, clamp and vise
- metals as a non-renewable resource
Power Technology
- power is the rate at which energy is transformed
- forms of energyforms of energysound, thermal, elastic, nuclear, chemical, magnetic, mechanical, gravitational, and electrical
- energy is conservedconservedthe law of conservation of energy — energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed
- devices that transform energytransform energyfor example, electrical to mechanical, elastic to mechanical, chemical to electrical, electrical to light
- a robot is a machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically
- uses of robotics
- main components of robots: sensors, control systemssensors"sense" — the parts of the robot that allow it to gather information about its environment that guides its behaviour, and effectorscontrol systems"think" — the part of the robot that determines the robot's behavioureffectors"act" — the parts of the robot that do the work
- various waysthat objects can movewaysstraight line, back-and-forth, round-and-round, zigzag, fast and slow, fixed distances in set patterns
- programming and logic for robotics components
- various platformsfor roboticsplatformsfor example, VEX IQ, LEGO Mindstorms/NXT, Cubelets
- range of usesof textilesusesconstruction (e.g., sails at Canada Place), automotive, apparel, function (e.g., fire blanket), ceremonial (e.g., regalia)
- variety of textile materialsmaterialsfor example, leather, cedar, wool, cotton, felt, embroidery thread, yarn, grasses and reeds, pine needles, sinew, plastic, used items and fabrics (e.g., food wrappers, old clothing)
- hand construction techniquesfor producing and/or repairing textile itemshand construction techniquesfor example, hand sewing, knitting (needles, arm, spool), crocheting, weaving, darning, up-cycling (e.g., turning an underused item into something else), embellishing existing items
- consumer concerns that influence textile choices, including availability, cost, function (e.g., waterproof), and textile care
- ways in which wood is used in local cultural and economic contexts
- characteristics of wood as a material
- woodworking techniquesand basic joinerywoodworking techniquesfor example, cutting materials according to plan, layout, sanding methods, abrasive applicationsusing hand toolsbasic joineryfor example, butt joints (with and without dowel), rabbit joints, gluing, nails and screwshand toolsfor example, cordless and corded drills, rotary tool, hammer, screwdriver, backsaw, coping saw, nail set, square, clamp and vise
Note: Some of the learning standards in the PHE curriculum address topics that some students and their parents or guardians may feel more comfortable addressing at home. Refer to ministry policy regarding opting for alternative delivery.


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The Geolocation object is used by scripts to programmatically determine the location information associated with the hosting device.
Only notes about the BlackBerry WebWorks implementation of the standard HTML5 Geolocation API are provided here. For a complete description, see the Geolocation API Specification on the w3 website.
The standard HTML5 version of the Geolocation API requires less overhead than the Cordova Geolocation API. You should use the Cordova version only if you are doing cross-platform development for platforms that do not have built-in geolocation support.
Learning Resources:
Maps Sample This sample demonstrates how to integrate mapping services into a BlackBerry WebWorks app for BlackBerry 10. This sample uses the geolocation API [BlackBerry on GitHub].
This object is part of standard HTML5. No special installation is required.
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To use this API, you must declare the permission element below in your www/config.xml file.
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Having tried long and hard to tell you of such wonders, I'll quit with the 'I told you so' mentality at least for this piece. Tuesday night, at Headliners, Alt-J and Hundred Waters delivered magic to the sold out crowd. As all of you should by now, since I have such a vast loyal following which I greatly appreciate, I'm not the biggest fan of 'electronica'. There is just something about a couple of dudes banging and grooving while standing over laptops that I just can't dig on. That being said, Hundred Waters were surprisingly pretty dang strong. Lead singer Nicole Miglis has some pipes, switches from keys to jazz flute like nobody's business, and the sound they put out is huge. When the others all played instruments, rather than laptops and drum machines, they were much better but overall Hundred Waters was a great warm up, moved the crowd, and put on a great show.
By the time Alt-J came on the crowd was loose and may have been one of the loudest I've ever heard at Headliners. As expected, they flawlessly mixed up songs of their album An Awesome Wave and hearing them live felt indeed like being swept away by exactly such an awesome wave. Their quirky melodies flow like something I've never really heard, mixing a light reggae flow with some sweet vocal inputs and some badass drumming. A random fan I spoke to, who may or may not been slightly hammered, made an observation that 'the drummer is like an autistic genius who's a bit all over the place but jams!' Well I'm not so sure about the autistic part, but he certainly fits the genius bill as the overall harmony of Alt-J is just really intoxicatingly amazing. Be sure and catch them this summer as they're really worth it and Gwil, and the band, are really excited to be touring the US.
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Awesomeness Show Photo Credit: Brandie Story (penalty for thievery is a can of female whoop ass)


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Doesn't a creme-filled chocolate cookie sandwich just put you in the mood? Eh, never did before, but now that Flickr user paulandstorm mentions it, maybe the Double Creme Betweens wrapper should include a "Parental Advisory" sticker.
Shoot, no wonder kids these days are growing up so fast. Think of all the other double entendres in the snack aisle: Skor, Lays, Corn Nuts, Poppycock.
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A Sandwich a Day: Pork Loin Sandwich at Table, Donkey and Stick
Reviews of Chicago sandwiches.
Several friends suggested that I check Table, Donkey and Stick out, saying that it would remind me of my days in Germany. While I've heard great things about their charcuterie and cheese plates, I was in the mood for something a little heartier and preferably served warm for abendbrot.
There are a couple interesting sandwiches on the menu, and I chose the pork loin sandwich ($13), which features several layers of sliced pork loin with Taleggio cheese on a housemade buckwheat baguette, the same bread the charcuterie "wanderteller" is served with. I loved the pork flavor and how the meat seemed to fall apart in my mouth. There were plenty of fatty bits and the sandwich was definitely a little greasy, but not too much. Let's just say I was careful to Instagram before picking up the sandwich and taking a bite. A little dijon mustard and thin pieces of pickled rhubarb cut through the pork fat nicely. Alongside the sandwich was a marinated kale and white bean salad, which added nice texture and nutrients.
Much as I liked the pork loin, I think I liked my friend's smoked chicken sandwich ($13) even more. Pity I didn't take a photo. We ended up going halfsies on our sandwiches and I'm glad we did. I loved the sunflower oat bread, which reminded me so strongly of the Sonnenblumenbrot and Dreikornbrot I adored so much as a student studying abroad in Hannover. I used to love eating these breads once they'd been sitting out for several days and started hardening. Table, Donkey and Stick achieved the same crunchy but toothsome effect by toasting their sandwich bread. The best German breads give my jaw a good workout. Here, smoked chicken was topped with pickled sunchoke for a sour crunch, and the bread was smeared with sage pesto , definitely not something I might find in Germany or Vienna.
I think Table, Donkey and Stick is doing great things with traditional German and Austrian flavors and dishes, but adding their own flair to create a type of cuisine that is unlike anything else I've had in Chicago. They have created a strong identity for themselves and I'm looking forward to returning soon.
Table, Donkey and Stick
2728 W Armitage Ave., Chicago, IL 60647 (map)
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Five Stars, May 2004, 26.95, 374 pp. ISBN: 1594142033 In 1882 New Mexico Territory, traveling nuns from the Sister of Charity accompanied by a novice find the near dead body of half-breed Christian Ladino lying next to a corpse. The women provide aid to Christian taking him to their St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe. However, when Christian holds a sister as hostage, the novice Adela Fremont bravely intercedes. As Christian heals, he and Adel...


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Thanks for the explanation. I made the modifications as described. TWP booted properly and the web remote appeared. However, when I used the remote it did not work. As an example, when I pushed the mute button, I got the following:
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action_sendkey '/mute' ''
couldn't execute "/devbin/sendkey": no such file or directory
while executing
"exec $env(TIVO_ROOT)/devbin/sendkey -wait -waitTimeOut 2500 $evrc($key)"
(procedure "SendKey" line 8)
invoked from within
"SendKey $key"
(procedure "MOD::action_sendkey" line 25)
invoked from within
"$cmd $p1 $p2 $p3"
(procedure "do_action" line 19)
invoked from within
"do_action $action $chan $part $env 1"
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The one edit I made to TWP libs/sendkey.itcl that I wasn't certain of was the instruction to add "}" just before the SendKeyAndWait proc. I added a line with "}" just above the line that reads "proc SendKeyAndWait { key } {".
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Aortic rupture (a tear in the aorta, which is the major artery coming from the heart) can be seen on a chest x-ray. In this case, it was caused by a traumatic perforation of the thoracic aorta. This is how the x-ray appears when the chest is full of blood (right-sided hemothorax) seen here as cloudiness on the left side of the picture.
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It's been a rough couple of weeks for you Courtney Love fans out there — how about a break from embarrassing news of Muppet feuds and Twitter tirades? This past weekend, following a screening of the documentary Hit So Hard: The Life & Near Death Story of Patty Schemel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, all four members of Hole reunited for a short set for the first time since 1999.
Sounding pretty good there, Ms. Love.
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Welcome to the behavior support home page. This site will provide you with an overview of Positive Behavior Support initiatives in our schools as well as the role of the Behavior Support Specialists in the District. In addition, you will find links to research based practices such as Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. Check back soon for more information on:


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Herbalshop.com was born from my love of herbs and acupressure. It's been quite a journey for me and my family!
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"
– Buddha
Hi, my name is Grace Chen. I'm enthusiastic about Traditional Chinese Medicine, natural and holistic healing. I created the HerbalShop.com to share my passion, research findings, and my grandfather herbal formulas with everyone in 2000. I believed through the knowledge of the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupressure Massages, we can help ourselves stay healthy and happy at no or little cost.
Wish you have a happy holidays!
-Grace Chen
(Re-posted from my original story… )
Hi, I'm Grace Chen, I'd like to share my story with you, and hope you never give up the hope of having a child of your own.
My husband and I always wanted to have a child of our own, after two years of trying, no any luck! At the age of 39, my doctor told me that my chance of getting pregnant was very low, less than 5%, I needed to take intensive fertility treatments to boost my chance. Since each treatment costs more than $2,000 (several treatments were expected), and our health insurance only covered one treatment, I decided to go for my grandfather's fertility formulas, MOMMY.
My grandfather, Dr. Sher Chen, was a very famous Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) doctor in Taiwan. He had a passion for improving the classic Medicinal Herbal formula, because he was eager to help his patients getting well fast and staying healthy. During the 40 years of his practice; He continued researching treatments for many diseases such as infertility, cancer, central nervous system injuries, polio….and the results were great.
My dad also suggested me to try MOMMY, so I did. After 3 months of taking MOMMY, I felt something different. I felt better myself, and I have more energies in life both physically and sexually. Few weeks later, I went to see my doctor and took a pregnancy test; I couldn't believe myself I finally got pregnant.
Thank you MOMMY, it helped me to get pregnant in about 3 months. Thank you my grandpapa who developed this formula during his 40 year of practice in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine).
Here I am, my son is 4 months and 10 days old now. He can stand up by himself with a little support. He is such an angle! Our marriage is full of happiness with this little guy. I'm really happy that I didn't give up the hope of having a child of my own. I really want to share my joy with you! MOMMY worked incredibly for me!!
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By Stuart Cleland, RI Senior Video Producer. From 1987-2003, Cleland worked with film critic Roger Ebert on the television programs "Siskel & Ebert" and "Ebert & Roeper." Ebert, who died 4 April, was a Rotary Scholar to South Africa in 1965 and taped a tribute to Rotary in 1998, portions of which are above.
I started reading Roger Ebert in the 1960s. I started watching him in the 1970s. And much to my surprise, I started working with him in the 1980s.
I was lucky enough to join the "Siskel & Ebert" show during its golden age. With their trademark "Two thumbs up/down" reviews, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert were certainly the most well known and arguably the most influential film critics in America. The show appeared in almost 200 markets. Gene and Roger were quoted in newspaper and television ads, and regularly appeared on Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" and David Letterman's "Late Night."
In person they were a bit daunting. Gene was tall and constantly in motion: taking phone calls, meeting people about stories, rushing off to his office at the Chicago Tribune. Roger was chubby and more laid back, but equally driven. They could be acerbic; neither suffered fools gladly. But both of them were dedicated to the show, and both of them loved the movies.
People ask, did they like each other or hate each other? The answer is that they liked each other and hated each other. They gloried in their fame and influence but resented being lumped together as "Siskel and Ebert," or worse, "Siskbert." In other words, they were human.
Gene had plenty of friends, but he could be standoffish, and sometimes seemed wary of letting people get too close. Roger, on the other hand, was gregarious to a fault. A born raconteur, he loved being the center of attention, and surrounded himself with friends and colleagues. A small-town boy, he was well grounded and never forgot where he came from. But he wasn't afraid to try new things, and believed that new experiences were essential for growth and happiness. These qualities made him an excellent candidate for study abroad, and in the video he taped for Rotary he talks about how his year as an Ambassadorial Scholar helped give him a "global outlook" and even encouraged his love of film. He praises Rotary for creating programs that encourage young people to "speak up, get involved, and widen their horizons," and for making it possible for them "to see the world from more than one point of view."
Roger Ebert wasn't a Rotarian, but at his best he exemplified Rotary's ideals: honesty, friendliness, an open mind, high ethical standards, and a kind, generous spirit.
He set an example for me and others who were lucky enough to know him, and for millions more who cherished his love of movies, and of life.


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Company Overview First Watch - Daytime Cafe is a breakfast restaurant that thrives on 'fresh, new concepts.' We cater to people who are looking for a Breakfast, Brunch and Lunch restaurant that serve more than just your steaks and food fit for later in the day. NO NIGHT SHIFTS. EVER. OPEN DAILY FROM 7:00 AM -- 2:30 PM Yeah, it's true. We love our employees more than bacon. Together, we enjoy a fun, fast-paced environment in each of our restaurants. Job Overview The purpose of this position is to interact with our guests and ensure they have a great experience when dining at the restaurant. Restaurant Servers are responsible for positive guest interactions while serving guests in a friendly and efficient manner. At all times, servers are expected to be attentive to our guest needs and making them feel welcome and comfortable. General Responsibilities •Maintaining proper dining experience, delivering items, fulfilling customer needs, offering desserts and drinks, removing courses, replenishing utensils, refilling glasses. •Staying updated on current menu choices, specialties and menu deviations, knowing if the kitchen staff is running out of any items…etc. •Handle the table bookings, direct customers to their tables, presenting menus, suggesting dishes, assisting in drink selection, informing customers about food preparation details, communicating specific and accurate customer needs to the cooks. •Prepares the tables, laying out napkins and utensils, making sure the condiments are refilled, performing all other preparation tasks. •Prepare drinks for service to your customers table. •Obtaining revenues, issuing receipts, accepting payments, returning the change. •Performing basic cleaning tasks as needed or directed by supervisor. •Filling in for absent staff as needed. •Assisting with special events as needed. •Greet all guests and owners warmly with an appropriate greeting. •Adhere to grooming and appearance standards consistently. •Understands and can communicate products and services available at the resort. •Must have some familiarity with basic cooking skills.Requirements:
Job Qualifications Education: High school diploma or equivalent preferred. Valid Food Handler Certificate required. Experience: Previous serving experience required. Excellent oral communication skills required. Positive interpersonal skills required. Must speak English fluently and be able to write in basic English.Additional Info:
-Health, made from scratch menu -You First' culture -Insurance Benefits/401k -Growth opportunities *Meal discounts Full-Time and Part-Time positions available EOE/M/F/D/V MH (FW) Restaurants LLC - Franchisee of First Watch


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In a rush to get dinner on the table? BeWell from Giant Eagle suggests you turn to your freezer for help. Keeping it stocked with healthy frozen foods (think vegetables and fruits, fish fillets) and other essential ingredients that store well in the freezer will make it easy to whip together healthy meals—ones that represent the USDA's MyPlate model of eating: whole grains, lean proteins, lots of veggies. Plus, filling your freezer with nutritious options makes it less enticing to run and get takeout. Here are some healthy ingredients to keep in your freezer.
Whole-Wheat Pizza Dough: With as many topping options as your imagination can dream up, it's nearly impossible to tire of pizza—and with whole-wheat dough at the ready, it's a quick, nutritious meal to pull together. Just transfer the dough to the fridge 24 hours before you want to use it. Top with lots of your favorite veggies, some lean protein (chicken sausage, anyone?) and a sprinkling of part-skim mozzarella or other lowerfat cheese.
Fish Fillets: Keeping frozen fish on hand is a great way to help boost your seafood intake, as recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Versatile, easy-to-find picks include wild salmon and farmed tilapia, and fillets in individually vacuum-sealed packages are less likely to get freezer burn. Pull out what you need the night before you're going to cook it and put it in the refrigerator. A 5-ounce fillet takes 8 to 10 hours to thaw in the fridge.
Whole-Grain Bread: Bread spoils easily, especially if it's kept on the counter in plastic. Fortunately, breads (and bread products like wraps and hamburger buns) freeze beautifully and don't take much time at all to thaw. In fact, slices of bread go from freezer to toaster without a problem. Or just pull out what you need and let it thaw in your fridge for an hour or two.
Chicken Tenders: Why chicken tenders? Like conventional chicken breasts, they're a great source of lean protein but they're much smaller so they thaw quickly. Their smaller size also makes them easy to add to a soup or stir-fry without having to commit to thawing and cooking a whole breast. Pick up a big package of tenders and repackage them in quart-size zip-top bags for convenience. Just transfer them to your fridge to defrost the night before you're ready to use them.
Nuts: Nuts are full of good fats. They are also great for baking, topping a salad or just plain snacking. And, as it turns out, storing nuts in the freezer is actually better than storing them in your pantry: it prevents the oils from going rancid. They don't take long to thaw— 10 minutes or so on the counter and you're ready to go.
Fruits and Vegetables: There are many advantages to keeping frozen vegetables and fruits on hand. For starters, many come chopped, which cuts prep time. And depending on the season, frozen fruits and vegetables actually may be better for you than fresh: they're picked and frozen at their prime, so they often have more flavor and nutrients than their out-of-season counterparts. Most don't have added sodium. If you thaw frozen fruits and vegetables, drain off any water that has collected in the bag or thaw in a fine-mesh strainer over a bowl. Depending on your recipes, you may not have to thaw them at all. Versatile, nutrient-rich picks: peas, spinach, vegetable medleys, berries.
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The fast and easy way for Baby Boomers to protect their financial future
Are you nearing (or already basking in) retirement? This helpful guide addresses the unique financial opportunities and challenges you'll face as you enter your golden years.
Personal Finance For Seniors For Dummies empowers you to chart your financial course for the decades to come, guiding you through the basics of creating a budget for retirement, investing accrued assets, taking advantage of governmental and nongovernmental benefits and planning for your family's future. You'll get trusted, practical information on reexamining investment strategies and rebalancing a portfolio, long-term care options, pension plans and social security, health care, Medicare, and prescription drug costs, and so much more.
- Advice on how to invest, spend, and protect your wealth
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Personal Finance For Seniors For Dummies is basic enough to help novices get their arms around thorny financial issues, while also challenging advanced readers to identify areas for improvement.


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One outlet. Endless possibilities. The Crock-Pot® Hook Up® Connectable Entertaining System is designed to be fully customizable and work the way you need it to. You can build your own system or create a spread at parties and gatherings with everyone connecting their own individual Crock-Pot® Hook Up™ unit. Up to 6 units can plug together using one outlet. This unit features one 2-quart round crock which is perfect for a soup, chili and side dishes. HIGH, LOW and WARM settings provide cooking options to accommodate your party needs. Removable stoneware and glass lids are dishwasher-safe. Units stack for easy storage.
- 2-quart capacity
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Hi guys.
I have a custom initramfs I'm working on for a Debian installer.
At times I need to install some packages to it. For example I needed the blkid command so downloaded and extracted the needed files from a util-linux deb. But I was doing this by hand and had to manually put in dependencies once I found what else it needed.
I like to know if there is some tool that is designed to install commands or packages for use in the installer? That only extracts the minimum required for that package and leaves out the "naughty" stuff. As well as installing depends.
For both cases of a standard deb as well as a udeb. Using apt-get would be useful but all I read about it says you can't specify an alternate root. But with dpkg you can.
However, I'm thinking of using apt-get to download packages. Then use dpkg and specify my initramfs as root. This may work but I haven't tested. And AFAIK dpkg can't be told to install mimimum. And what's more how would it know what depends are already installed in the installer?
I looked on the net and read tutorials about customising the installer. But nothing about exactly what I need. Or about a tool that can install packages and depends into an installer initramfs.
I do realise the installer sets itself up at run time by installing udebs. And it would be useful to create udebs and add them in. But I'd like the files I need to be present so they just work and with minimal fuss.


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Maybe you haven't been to church in decades. Maybe you've moved and are stuck in the oh-so-frustrating time of "church shopping." Maybe you never thought you would set foot in a church again. Maybe you spent your whole life in church and you are so thrilled to come visit this one.
Whoever you are and whatever your reason, we're so excited meet you!
We want everyone to know that because Jesus died and rose again, we have freedom from the sin and guilt taking power over our lives. Because of Jesus' promises to us, we are free from the fear of the future.
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Worship as a Christian community is core to our faith. We invite you to experience it fully at St. Paul's.
There are many ways to grow closer to God and the St. Paul's family.
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Weekender content coordinator Bob Goepfert offers his entertainment picks: This could be the best weekend to enjoy holiday entertainment. Not only will it be filled with happy choices, but it is one of only two weekends left before Christmas. (Sorry to be the one to point that out.) But look on the positive side of things. There is a lot to do. Some things are holiday-oriented and others are just good shows offered during the holiday season. Jovial ballet This weekend there will be several performances of "The Nutcracker" ballet. Saratoga City Ballet will perform the work at the Skidmore College Dance Theater in Saratoga Springs at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with matinee performances at 2 p.m. Saturday and at noon and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are available at the door, but even with five performances, tickets are scarce. There will be another chance -- actually two chances -- to see "The Nutcracker" Monday at The Egg in Albany. The Albany-Berkshire Ballet will perform the classic work at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. For tickets, call (518) 473-1845. Holiday traditions The Egg will be filled with holiday cheer all weekend. The folksy "Mountain Snow and Mistletoe" show will come to the venue Friday and Saturday. The choral group The Mendelssohn Club will offer its holiday concert, "Let It Snow," Friday night. Theater treats Should you like your holiday cheer spiced with irony, Home Made Theater is offering "The Santaland Diaries" at 7 tonight, at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Spa Little Theater in Saratoga Spa State Park. You may have noticed there will be no performance of "Santaland" on Friday night. That's because in the same theater, Home Made is also offering "The Wizard of Oz" over the weekend. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, at 1 and 4:30 p.m. Saturday and at 1 p.m. Sunday. Another great show for the kids is the musical "Willie Wonka," produced by the Theatre Institute at Sage. It will play at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Schacht Fine Arts Center on the campus of Russell Sage College in Troy. For tickets, call (518) 244-2248. It has absolutely nothing to do with the holidays, but "A Chorus Line" is one of the most successful Broadway musicals of all time and a touring production of the show will be at Proctors Theatre this weekend. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a 2 p.m. show on Sunday. Call (518) 346-6204 or go towww.proctors.org
. Or you can go to Capital Repertory Theatre to see "This Wonderful Life," a one-man version of the film "It's a Wonderful Life," which has everything to do with Christmas. Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays through Dec. 22. Call (518) 346-6204. Christmas concerts A couple of major talents will be at local venues touring with their holiday shows. Contemporary country singing star Martina McBride will bring her "Joy of Christmas Show" to the Palace Theatre in Albany on Friday. To make the act a little more local, she has invited students from Isabelle School of Dance in East Greenbush to perform with her. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Call 1 (800) 745-3000. "A Celtic Christmas" is the name of Cherish the Ladies' holiday special at Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Saturday evening. Meanwhile, the biggest, loudest and most glitzy holiday offering will transpire Thursday night, Dec. 13, when Trans-Siberian Orchestra rocks the Times Union Center at 7:30 p.m. Call 1 (800) 745-3000.


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Mrs. Nesbitt's ABC-Wednesday
Round 20-E
My 129th entry – bijdrage
Started-Gestart: 28-08-2014 : 15-G
Hello and good morning, -afternoon, -evening, dear people who all participate is this wonderful photo-meme, which is a joy to me, week after week, after week. I'm always curious to what you come up with!
The challenging letter of this week is E and I chose Euphonium
My most favorite instrument by far is the Euphonium, which I've played for several years untill my health no longer permitted it and I had to stop with lots of sadness ofcourse.
After the accordion, a bugle, a trumpet, a s-bas I switched to the Euphonium, which I always wanted.
This instrument has the most beautiful sound of all windinstruments if you ask me.
To introduce you to the specific sound of it…. Watch and hear video beneath:
Father Robert and son David Childs with orchestra:
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Have a nice ABC-Wednesday-day / – week ~
♫ M e l o d y ♫ (ABC-W-team)
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I did it!! And, it didn't even take two years. I changed my banner. These are three of my paintings.
The middle pastel is of a lady I saw in Seattle. I used to travel across the U.S. to place my art in galleries, exhibit at sales and enter art competitions.
While I was in Seattle, many years ago, I went to the mall for lunch. While I was there, a dance for senior citizens started on the main floor. As I watched from the balcony, I became entranced by this lady. I went downstairs to talk to her and she was just as enchanting close up. She loved life and it showed. She allowed me to photograph her and I promised to send her copies of the photos, but somewhere on the trip home, I lost her address. I've always felt bad that I didn't get her copies because she is just so beautiful.
The work on the left is an oil painting I created many years ago. It's of a dear friend of mine from northern Indiana, Gerrie Govert. She is a wonderful painter, teacher and friend. Another student of hers took the photo but gave me permission to paint from it. People continually ask if it's a self-portrait.
The photo on the right is of a woman doing quill work at a Revolutionary war recreation. Much of my subject matter came from the Native American community and re-enactors. I loved to exhibit at Pow Wows. I had a permanent sign for my both that said, "I paint with respect." The Sandos, from the east, were particularly interesting and I have painted grandfather, father, son and daughter.
My second sign read: 'If you see me photographing and you do not wish me to, please let me know and I will be careful not to include you. If you do not mind my photographing, please give me your name and address and I will send you a copy of any photos of your family.'
My favorite thing was to go to sleep to the sound of the drums. It is a part of the leaves rustling in the trees and the whisper of voices on the wind.
I love living in a tent. I do not normally do much cooking but love cooking over the open fire, with simple main ingrediants. The other benefit of the fire is sitting around the campfire at night. We had a friend who played guitar and knew every Jim Croce song.


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To my great amusement both my wife, Sophie Adams and I have been working in cellars today…I have been digging a Georgian cellar out, while Sophie had been researching in Maidstone Museum's cellar…do read her dayofarch post!
For the last week the Shorne Woods Archaeology Group and the North Downs YACs have been assisting me in the excavation of an old cottage in Cobham Woods, Kent.
This work is taking place as part of a new 3 year Lottery funded project, Cobham Landscape Detectives. Beginning this Spring, the project will aim to tell the story of the varied and fascinating landscape, centred on Cobham Parish, Kent.
We have already spent many hours walking through Cobham Woods, with LiDAR printout in one hand and GPS receiver in the other! The LiDAR results have guided us to old trackways through the woods and many a mysterious lump and bump…not to mention the most amazing trees!
Medieval trackway running through Cobham Woods
We have participated in the annual Park open day at Shorne Woods to spread awareness of the project…
Our work in Cobham Woods led us to one site that seemed very suitable for the first community excavation of the new project…a demolished cottage that once stood in the SE corner of the old Cobham Hall estate…
Volunteer with window frame from the Cottage
With permissions in place from Natural England and support from the National Trust who own and manage the land, we set aside 2 weeks to examine the layout of the cottage site and recover dating evidence….
First day on site with the amazing North Downs YACs
I am writing this at the end of week one, after seven brilliant days on site, with the hardest working and most dedicated volunteers I have ever met (and in some cases now worked with for over 10 years!)…
We have identified the layout of 2 buildings on the site, the first is a Georgian building dating to the 1780's:
The second is an additional building added in the later 19th century:
This second building survives much better than the first, with intact internal and external surfaces, full of finds!
The first building has suffered from the full force of the demolition crew that tore apart both buildings in the 1950's, leaving a gaping hole in the north wall.
Newspaper article showing the cottage pre-war
Amongst the many interesting finds from the site is one rather special mug fragment:
It appears to depict a kangaroo holding a cricket bat! This is an incredible link to the wider Cobham Hall estate, as one of the owners captained the first Ashes winning cricket team in the 1880's…could this be a piece of memorabilia depicting this event…celebrated on the estate by the estate workers?
We have another week to further puzzle out the mysteries of the cottage. Does the Georgian building's cellar have an intact floor? What will other finds tell us about the owners of the cottage and the wider estate? What is the function of the enigmatic brick structure in building 2?
In a finale fitting to the day of archaeology, a spot of further research on-site today produced a lovely drawing of the cottage, presumed to show it in the first half of the 20th century….
Image from the Cobham and Ashenbank Management Scheme Report
To keep up to date with the dig and the Cobham Landscape Detectives Project, follow @ArchaeologyKent on Twitter and ArchaeologyinKent on facebook, as well as our dedicated, volunteer-run website!
I always end my day of archaeology posts by thanking the volunteers, both local and further afield, who make every project we put together possible through their dedication and hardwork…thank you 🙂
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"Chispa Mountain Ranch" is located and easily accessed only 14 miles south of Interstate I-10 and Van Horn, Texas and one mile off Highway 90 South leading to Marfa, Texas. Chispa Mountain Ranch is one of the very few ranches encompassing almost 75%-80% of a scenic volcanic intrusive mountain range. The range offers a diversity of terrain and habitat ideal for both livestock and wildlife. The ranch is considered a good combination livestock ranch for crossbred mother cows and yearlings. Hunting is excellent for trophy Mule Deer, Aoudad Sheep, Blue Quail and Dove. Rocky Mountain Elk have been introduced to the mountain ranges to the north and east and elk have been cited numerous times on Chispa with num- bers expected to grow. The rewards of ranch ownership are no longer measured by livestock operations but more recreational purposes. The Chispa Mountain Ranch offers something for everyone that gives pride in ownership. This is absolutely beautiful, gentle and rugged mountain country with panoramic views. You must see to appreciate!
Location and Access
Chispa Mountain Ranch provides easy access for those traveling Interstate I-10 and by traveling south from Van Horn, Texas on US Highway 90 only 14 miles to Chispa Road. The ranch begins approximately 1 mile from Highway 90. The ranch has 20+/- ranch and hunting roads. Van Horn, Texas has a county airport with limited services.
At the headquarters, you will find a comfortable older ranch owner's home with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, kitchen, dining and living area, and a large unfinished addition. The headquarters also has a nice set of shipping corrals along with several auxiliary ranch barns and sheds.
There is also a foreman's home with 3 bedrooms and 2 baths.
The ranch has a hunter's camp house made of steel frame construction with one large open room for bunk beds, kitchen, dining area and one 3/4 bath. It is located just after entering the ranch and approximately 3 miles from headquarters.
Terrain and Vegetation
Elevations vary from a low of 4,050 feet to a high of 5,200 feet at the peak of Chispa Mountain. Several other surrounding peaks on the ranch range from 4,700 feet to 4,900 feet in elevation.
Approximately 70% of the ranch is rolling to rough volcanic mountain country with high moun- tains, broad canyon grass covered valleys, deep and shallow canyons with colorful volcanic out- croppings. The balance of the terrain at the 4,100 feet to 4,300 feet is mix of calcareous and shal- low gravelly soils and broad flats with deep soil.
The deeper soil flats have a heavy turf of tobossa grass with scattered areas with blue and hairy grama as well as some bluestem. The gravelly more shallow soils and draws have creosote bush, tobossa grass, and sparser covering of the grama grasses, fluff and burro grasses. The slopes of the rolling and high mountains have a heavy growth of love grass, black, hairy, blue and sideoats grama and tridens. The lowlands and mountains abound with the Chihuahuan Desert flowering plants with octotillo, sotol, dagger and yucca.
Wells and Water Systems
Chispa is considered fairly well watered by a total of 6 good water wells from 325 feet to 400 feet in depth. These wells are equipped with four solar pumps, one submersible pump near headquarters and one operating windmill. Water is stored in con- crete and steel reservoirs with water distributed via pipelines and concrete and steel water troughs. There are also several seasonal dirt tanks scattered over the ranch and overflow ponds by the wells for both livestock and wildlife.
The Chispa Mountain Ranch is located on the eastern edge of the Lobo Valley and Wildhorse Draw which has an abundance of irrigation water. The property is bordered by one of the largest pecan groves in far West Texas and other bordering farms currently growing chili peppers and cotton. One sizeable area of land within the northern portion of the Chispa Mountain Ranch could possibly have irrigation water and be farmed.
Pastures, Traps and Corrals
Chispa Mountain Ranch has seven pastures and two traps fenced mostly with cedar post and five strand barbed wire. There is a large set of pipe corrals with loading chute at the headquarters. There is also a large set of shipping corrals with loading chute and "scales" as you enter the ranch, and two other sets of pipe holding or transfer pens (one on the north end of the ranch and the other on the south end).
The mountain ranges in Culberson County historically produce some of the heaviest and largest trophy size mule deer in the State. The wide variety of vegetation and diverse terrain make this ranch ideal for Desert Mule Deer, Aoudad Sheep, Javelina, Coyotes, Mourning Dove and Blue Quail. The Chispa Mountain Ranch routinely produces trophy size bucks that any hunter would be proud of. The ranch also provides excellent hunting for trophy Aoudad Sheep. The ranch takes from six to ten paid hunters early in the season and reserves that latter part of the season for their own large family. This ranch is also a paradise for avid Blue Quail hunters.
All fee minerals were reserved by a previous land owner years ago. Approximately 7,500 acres of the ranch is State Mineral Classified Land where the land owner acts on behalf of the State of Texas when leasing the land and the surface owner receives 1/2 of the bonus and rentals payments as well as participated in the royalty if oil or gas is found. Minerals under State Mineral Classified Land may not be reserved.
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$655 Per Acre * Total $9,446,082.50
In 2016 the taxes totaled close to $6,505.50 a year
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Google quietly added check-ins to Google Latitude, taking on Foursquare in the local check-in game.
Currently Google Latitude users can check-in via their iPhone and Android apps, and view check-ins via their Google Latitude web app and dashboard.
I went through the Google Latitude API to see if an endpoint was added for check-ins, but currently you can only work with a users current location as well as location history.
So for now its just an application feature, but I'm sure its only a matter of time before recording check-ins and pulling a users historical check-ins will be available via the API.
Foursquare has dominated when it comes to local check-in, even remaining on top when challenged by Facebook check-ins.
I'm curious to see what the new Google Latitude feature will do to change Foursquare's game?


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Now I will never forget how to draw Mario. I will never look at this mushroom head, his coin eyes and his rising sun hat ever the same again.
The clip was done in DSiWare title Flipnote Studio, but the song? That's from the depths of catchy jingle hell.
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OUTSPOKEN billionaire and LNP donor Clive Palmer has compared members of the party's hierarchy to Nazis in an insult likely to inflame an already tense situation.
Internal divisions in the LNP deepened yesterday as the mining magnate took aim, and Gold Coast MP Alex Douglas dragged Premier Campbell Newman into the fray by demanding he intervene in a dispute between MPs.
Mr Palmer's LNP life membership was suspended on Friday following a blistering attack in which he called for the removal of Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney and Treasurer Tim Nicholls and claimed "crooks" in Cabinet had cooked the books to exaggerate the state deficit.
Mr Palmer said his suspension was punishment for lodging a complaint with the LNP just hours earlier against Mr Seeney.
The entrepreneur, who has lodged legal action against Mr Seeney and the Co-ordinator General over the rejection of his Waratah Coal project as a preferred tenderer for a multibillion-dollar mine/rail/port development in central Queensland, accused Mr Seeney of bullying by ordering an audit of his mining operations.
He described the action as a misuse of power comparable to the disregard Nazis held for the courts in the lead-up to World War II.
"It was extraordinary to me that any government in Australia would use stormtrooper tactics to get at a person just because they have gone to court to get a decision," Mr Palmer said.
"By suspending me, they don't have to deal with the issues I've raised."
It also prevented him from lodging further complaints that the Newman Government was introducing policies that had not been passed by the party conference.
"I support the LNP and its policies, but not policies which have not been endorsed by the party. I did not join the Campbell Newman Party."
The decision to suspend Mr Palmer with immediate effect was made by the LNP's four-member president's committee, pending a final ruling at the party's executive meeting on November 23.
The entrepreneur yesterday said he had no regrets over his actions and said his phone had not stopped ringing with calls of support, including from two Government ministers and 17 backbench MPs "expressing outrage at how I've been treated".
He said his intention was "not to split the party, but fix it" and encouraged the "10,000 good people in the LNP" to make their feelings known to the state executive.
A spokesman for Premier Campbell Newman dismissed the comments, saying: "I will not be distracted by a billionaire's media antics" and would focus on "serious issues like rebuilding the economy and creating jobs for families."
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Archive for the '60s' Category
Beatles take top 5 positions in Billboard 100 chart
It was fifty-one years ago today, give or take a few days. In the week of 4 April 1964, The Beatles were solidly encamped at the top of the US Billboard Hot 100. They occupied slots #1 – #5 with a further seven songs scattered lower down the chart. Can't Buy Me Love was their third consecutive US No. 1, a feat which remains unique in the history of the chart. The following week, two more Beatles singles entered the list.
On April 5th Billboard ran a story "Chart crawls with Beatles". Written by Jack Maher and Tom Noonan (who had launched the Hot 100 six years earlier) its opening words were "Just about everyone. is tired of the Beatles."
"Disk jockeys are tired of playing the hit group. The writers of trade and consumer publication articles are tired of writing about them and the manufacturers of product other than the Beatles are tired of hearing about them. Everyone's tired of the Beatles – except the listening and buying public."
I remember that time very well. Like many another Beatle-inspired teenager I'd been given a guitar for my fourteenth birthday and was learning to play it. It was an old acoustic finished in shiny red lacquer. Its metal strings cut my fingertips to pieces, but the pain was nothing compared to the pleasure of being able, after laborious practice, to shape chords, change from one to another without long pauses in between and hold each in turn down long enough to strum a semblance of a Beatles song.
Here are the songs that so delighted us half a century ago. Click the labels to hear them.
The famous opening chord of A Hard Day's Night
George was playing his Rickenbacker 360 12-string. John was on a Gibson J-160 6-string acoustic. Paul used his Hofner violin bass. The notes they struck simultaneously from these three instruments became one of the most instantly recognisable sounds in rock music: the mysterious opening chord of A Hard Day's Night..
'We knew it would open both the film and the soundtrack LP, so we wanted a particularly strong and effective beginning. The strident guitar chord was the perfect launch.' GEORGE MARTIN
A chord struck fifty years ago, and people are still arguing about what it was.
Many quote Dominic Pedler's 800 page The Songwriting Secrets of The Beatles which lists 21 possibilities, these being but a few of the exotic and extravagant ideas he encountered during his research. Here's an attempt to reconstruct some of them. The mistakes are mine, the guitar is a Gittler.
"A dominant 9th of F"?
"C-Bb-D-F-G-C in the key of C"?
"A polytriad ii7/V in Ab major"?
or ??
"G7sus4" (open position)?
"D7sus4 (open position)"?
"G7 with added 9th and suspended 4th"?
"A superimposition of Dm, F, and G"?
"Dm11 with no 9th"?
My own guess (no idea what you'd call it)
Joe's chord F6/9
Thanks to Joe Atkinson and everyone else who commented and offered suggestions.
Professional musician and educator David Wilkens (wilktone.com), in a long discussion of the chord, mentions that in 2008 a mathematician, Jason Brown, tried to obtain an accurate transcript of the notes using a Fourier analysis (basically a set of waveforms).
However the frequencies thus obtained didn't match the instruments known to have been played on the song. Brown hypothesised that George Martin had played some notes on the studio's Steinway grand, these accounting for the anomalous Fourier frequencies.
According to Brown, George Harrison's 12 string contributed a2, a3, d3, d4, g3, g4, c4, and another c4; Paul McCartney bass added a d3, George Martin struck d3, f3, d5, g5, and e6 on the piano, while Lennon 'played a loud c5′ on his Gibson J-60'.
Wilkens says, 'For fun I took the pitches in this chord and used them to compose a melody and then wrote a short fugue using that melody as a subject (because composing fugues are what I do for fun). It's in the style of Hindemith, not a baroque style fugue, so I had some fun with dissonance. Listen for the Beatles quote near the end.'
[Thanks to Dave Wilkens for this material, for his full account of the magic chord, visit his article.]
Here's a video which appears to illustrate Brown's Fourier analysis:
Why am I not convinced?
Perhaps because Randy Bachman (remember Bachman Turner Overdrive) got a listen to the original sounds. The video below tells his story of being invited to the Abbey Road studio by George Martin's son, Giles, who offered to play him any Beatles track he wanted to hear.
According to Randy (all this is on the video below) Paul played a D note while John played a Dsus4, and as for George with the all-important 12-string, 'it's an F chord but you put a G on top and you put a G on the bottom and you put C next to that G'.
This last chord is beyond me. As far as I can tell it would be pretty much impossible for anyone with fewer than six fingers, especially on a 12-string. If you know better, please tell me how. (Chord below has impossible C in green.)
"Randy Bachman chord"
Randy and his friends try putting all this together and presto, the magic chord hangs shimmering in the air. But listen for yourself.
Finally, here's what George Harrison himself had to say during an online chat on 15 February 2001:
Q: Mr Harrison, what is the opening chord you used for A Hard Day's Night?
A: It is F with a G on top, but you'll have to ask Paul about the bass note to get the proper story. (According to The Beatles Bible, 'Paul added a D note, played on the fifth fret of the A string on his Hofner violin bass. This note is an octave lower than an open D string on a six-string guitar, and had a crucial effect on the overall sound of the chord.')
Nowhere, note, does he mention Bachman's bottom G nor the C next to it .
"George's chord, Fadd9"
Note added Feb 26:
Just found this video of the Beatles playing the song live in 1964. Very blurry as with most of the surviving footage from those days, but John clearly kicks the song off with the chord described by George, the Fadd9. He is using his thumb to play the bottom F.
The following information is courtesy of The Beatles Bible (Not Quite As Popular As Jesus).
Recorded: 16 April 1964
Producer: George Martin
Engineer: Norman Smith
George Harrison: Rickenbacker 360/12 guitar
John Lennon: Gibson J-160 6-string acoustic guitar
Paul McCartney: Hofner violin bass
Ringo Starr: snare drum, cymbal (in there somewhere)
George Martin: Steinway grand piano
Norman Smith: bongos
Released: 10 July 1964 (UK), 26 June 1964 (US)
A Hard Day's Night was recorded at EMI Studios in a session taking place from 7-10pm. It took nine takes to record, and completed the number of songs needed for the film soundtrack.
The backing track – two rhythm guitars, bass guitar and drums – was recorded onto track one of the four-track tape, and Lennon and McCartney's lead vocal were recorded live on track two. They added more vocals on three, along with percussion, more drums and acoustic guitar; and George Martin's piano and the jangling guitar that ended the song were on track four.
Just five of the nine attempts were complete performances. Take one was complete, and had slightly different lyrics ("Feeling you holding me tight/All through the night"). However, it was unusable due to mistakes in the bass guitar part during the second bridge.
Takes two and three were both false starts, but take four – began before engineer Norman Smith could announce it on the talkback – was complete. However, George Harrison's guitar solo was poor, and it was decided that he would overdub it once the backing track was complete.
Take five, wrongly announced as take four, was also complete, but six broke down during the third verse. Paul McCartney was the culprit, getting some bass notes wrong. Some studio chatter followed in which Ringo Starr was told to tap a beat on the hi-hat between the opening chord and the first verse.
Take seven was complete, but John Lennon broke a guitar string during the performance and McCartney was still having trouble in the middle section.
Lennon counted in take eight, but McCartney put a stop to it in order to practice the middle eight once more. There followed take nine, which was perfect, and became the basis for the released song.
Track three of the four-track tape was filled with acoustic guitar, bongos played by Norman Smith, more vocals by Lennon and McCartney, and cowbell. The recording was finished with a solo, played by George Martin on piano and George Harrison on guitar, on track four, plus an extra bass guitar part after the solo, underneath the line "so why on earth should I moan".
Gittler Instruments [more on this coming soon]
60s pop group squinty man with toothbrush moustache
In my piece about Paper Sun, Traffic's debut single from May 1967, I noted that the song might have climbed higher than #5 had it not been for Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale, which hogged the top spot for several weeks and could not be budged.
As part of my Paper Sun research I looked for Procol Harum's original performance on Top of the Pops.
Watching this old black and white footage, a faint and disturbing memory stirred: another group of the era, late sixties or early seventies (despite Sergeant Pepper, this was before groups started being called 'bands'). Probably, like Procol Harum, they had been pushed into the limelight by an unexpected success, because I only remember seeing them on TOTP once or twice.
I couldn't name the group, nor the song. What I remembered about them was not their standard shaggy haircuts and pop star flamboyance, but their keyboard player: a gaunt man with a strange little toothbrush moustache and slicked back hair. He wore trousers hitched well above the waist, a white shirt and tie, and apart for his hands on the keys never moved at all. He stared straight ahead, oblivious to the beat and the capering of his band mates. Whenever the cameras found him he would give the TV audience a creepy leer.
Who was he and what was the group? I asked my wife if she remembered anything like that. It rang a bell, she said: someone who looked as if he had stepped out of a Monty Python sketch. Why didn't I look on the internet. Yes, but where to begin?
This note takes its title from the search terms I typed into Google – 60s pop group squinty man with toothbrush moustache.
This brought up a great many references to Hitler, Charlie Chaplin and moustaches. I tried an image search. Bingo!
My man was in five of the first fifteen images! His name is Ron Mael. He and his brother Russell founded the band Sparks. The song was This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both of Us, written by Ron and sung by Russell. It was #2 on the UK singles chart on 5th May 1974. Here they are as I remember them off the telly.
Coming soon: THE STRANGE GENIUS OF RON MAEL
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September may be upon us but summer is no where near over here...yet!
What us locals can now enjoy are the very pleasures that had our summer guest occupied during the height of the season.
"La Guerite"is a restaurant/beach/haven across the bay from the Palm Beach on the lovely lush island of Sainte Marguerite (which is part of the Isles de Lerins).
The castle that looms overhead is the very one that housed the "Man in the Iron mask" but there is no sign of malevolence on this quiet,dreamy island. It is all white sand, laid back vibe and some fine food and wine.
And as the sign indicates:...you are miles away from trouble and strife.
All the negative vibes, body issues and those pesky mozzies....are to be left on the wayside...La Guerite will sooth your soul, nourish your belly and calm your frazzled nerves.
The food is excellent only exceeded by the service which is hands on.
You can only access this little piece of paradise by boat, La Guerite actually runs a pick up service that can pick you up from the port. Call in advance ...it is well worth the short ride.
"La Guerite": Ile Sainte Marguerite- Cannes