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Yo-Yo Ma opened his recent Tiny Desk concert with the gently rolling "Prelude" from J. S. Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1. It's music Ma has lived with nearly all of his life.
"Believe it or not, this was the very first piece of music I started on the cello when I was four years old," he told the crowd, tightly squeezed between the office furniture on NPR's fourth floor.
Ma and Bach's six Cello Suites have remained constant companions. The music — two-and-a-half hours of sounds that map humanity in all its triumphs, joys and sorrows — has become a lodestar for the celebrated cellist. Ma's first recording of the complete set won him a Grammy in 1984. He released another set in 1997, the result of collaborations with architects, ice skaters and Kabuki artists. And now, a third cycle of the suites has arrived, an album Ma calls Six Evolutions – Bach: Cello Suites.
What could Ma be looking for in Bach's Suites now that he's reached his 60s?
"You go for content," Ma tells NPR's Mary Louise Kelly in an interview held in front of Tiny Desk attendees immediately following his performance. "You try and transcend technique to get to what you think is there. Instead of saying, 'Here are these notes and this is difficult and I'm going to try and nail it,' you try to express it."
The most expressive music Ma played during his all-Bach Tiny Desk was the "Sarabande" from the Suite No. 6. It's music that both soothes and celebrates, and Ma says he's played it in wildly divergent settings. "I've played this piece at both friends' weddings and, unfortunately, also at their memorial services."
Ma, always curious, says that in returning to Bach he's also after perspective. "If you look at a statue from a different angle you'll see a different view," he explains. "I feel that's exactly what a musician, or a scientist — and I think of Bach as a scientist-musician — and what a news organization could do to bring all of the different perspectives of a globe together so we can actually make better decisions."
One decision Ma has made, in conjunction with his new album, is to take the Suites on a two-year, worldwide tour, offering himself yet another set of adventures with the music that seems to soundtrack his life. "We go through these different evolutions," Ma says. "Each time you go through an evolution you're using all of what you learned from a previous evolution and applying it to your present state. So it's an additive thing, and I think that's what culture does."
Bach's suites have undoubtedly played an important role in Ma's own evolutions. "Music," he said, "actually was invented, as all of culture was invented — by us — to help all of us figure out who we are."
YO-YO MA: (Playing cello).
That is the sound of a spontaneous masterclass with one of the world's great musicians.
MA: (Playing cello).
KELLY: It's a hot, summer day. We are deep inside the NPR newsroom. Staffers, including me, are crammed into our music department for a performance, part of NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series. Musicians drop by, they play us a few songs or the Bach Cello Suites.
MA: Believe it or not, this was the very first piece of music I started on the cello when I was 4 years old. One measure at a time.
MA: (Playing cello). First day.
Second day. (Playing cello).
KELLY: That is Yo-Yo Ma.
MA: Third day.
MA: You get the idea. Now, all of you do homework - have done homework.
MA: Some days, it's easier than others. So it's actually not painful to learn something if you do it incrementally. (Playing cello).
KELLY: Yo-Yo Ma is out with a new recording of the Bach Cello Suites titled "Six Evolutions." He swears this is the last time he will record the complete suites.
MA: I lived with this music for 58 years, plus four, that's my age.
MA: You probably figured it out. So actually embedded in the way I play is, actually, everything I've experienced. So the next piece I'm going to play for you is Sarabande from the Sixth Suite. I play this piece at both friends weddings and, unfortunately, also at their memorial services. So it has a dual purpose. So think about that. (Playing cello).
KELLY: When he was done playing, as the notes faded and his hands stilled, I got to slide into the chair beside Yo-Yo Ma and ask him a few questions - an honor, but I also had to force myself.
KELLY: That was so lovely that I kind of hate to interrupt with any words or questions.
MA: No, words are good.
KELLY: I feel like we all just want to wander out and stay under that spell as we go about the rest of our day. Thank you. It's beautiful.
MA: Oh, it's so great to play for all of you, even though the room is a little hot.
KELLY: It's a little hot. We've got the sun coming.
MA: Yeah, yup.
KELLY: I'm so interested by what you said about how you first played these particular Bach Suites when you were 4. And they've informed your life, and your life has informed the way you play them. It struck me as something we can all relate to. When I read a book in my 40s, now I find things in there I didn't find in there when I read it in high school. Is it the same for you when you play this?
MA: Totally, it's exactly the same thing. And it's finding riches that a different perspective which age, obviously, brings. And I feel like that's exactly what a musician or scientists - and I think of Bach as a scientist musician and what a news organization could do to bring all of the different perspectives of a globe together so we can actually make better decisions.
KELLY: So if you listen to a recording of playing this today, and in the '90s and in the '80s and when you first started, you could hear a - you could...
MA: I can tell you exactly what the person that's playing is going for. And I think, you know, language is a form of technique. But what you try and look for is not just to appreciate the technique, but the content.
KELLY: So what are you going for now in your 60s?
MA: So it's - you go for content. You try and transcend technique to get to what you think is there. So instead of saying, oh, here are these notes and this is difficult and I'm going to try and nail it, you're trying to express it. And I think we go through these different evolutions, as obviously you have. And each time you go through an evolution, you are using all of what you learned from a previous evolution and applying it to your present state. And so it's an additive thing, and I think that's what culture does.
KELLY: And the second piece you played, that you played at a friend's wedding and then...
MA: And at the airport...
KELLY: ..Very sadly at the memorial service..
MA: Yeah.
KELLY: ...You must've played it in a really different way - same notes, same music.
MA: Same notes. I played it, I think, after 9/11. I've played it for really celebratory occasions. That's what something multi-dimensional can do. (Playing cello).
KELLY: These particular six suites, you've recorded three times?
MA: Yeah, I'm trying to get it right.
KELLY: You're saying this is...
KELLY: I think you're doing all right on that front.
MA: Well, some people say, yes, and....
KELLY: But you've said this is the last time. Why? Are you done?
MA: Well, because I'm old. No, well...
MA: No, because I'm trying to think of these as - you know, trying to name them as six evolutions because I've gone through - what?- you know, I was an immigrant. Once you're an immigrant, you're always an immigrant, right? And once you go to college, you've always gone to college. And I've benefitted from all the things I learned there. I have a family. I have a wife. And so this is the evolution that I want to kind of stay with. And to think that music actually was invented, as all of culture was invented, by us to help all of us figure out who we are. (Playing cello).
KELLY: Thank you.
MA: Thank you so much. It's great to talk with you.
KELLY: Pleasure. Thank you.
MA: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. (Imitating music). I'm done now.
KELLY: All right. He's going to play us out on the ATC theme tune.
KELLY: You can see the video of his Tiny Desk Concert at nprmusic.org. And lest you doubt, Yo-Yo Ma is a man of his word.
MA: (Playing cello). Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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After 11 years, it appears the mystery of the Beagle 2, the European Space Agency's attempt to land a rover on Mars, has finally been solved.
On Dec. 19, 2003, the Mars Lander was ejected from the Mars Express to land on Mars. But after the Mars Lander reached the surface, communication ceased. No one knew what had happened, and the mission was considered lost.
It has now been announced that images taken by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have identified a partially deployed Mars Lander on the surface of Mars.
The images appear to show the Lander and key entry and descent components within the expected landing area.
Members from the Beagle 2 team and NASA analyzed the images that appear to show the Beagle 2, along with the main parachute and what looks like the rear cover.
The images are consistent with the size and shape of the Lander, and light reflections suggest the object is metallic.
So this 11-year-old mystery now appears to be solved.


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TNT is close to renewing its Southern-flavored cop show "Memphis Beat" for a second season.
Series stars Jason Lee as a brilliant police detective who has an intimate connection with the city he serves and a deep love of its musical history.
The Warner Horizon Television series has performed respectably for TNT, picking up steam since its June 22 debut. It's the second original frosh series of the summer to earn a sophomore year pickup from TNT, following on the heels of the breakout hit "Rizzoli & Isles."
"Beat" hails from George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures banner. Skein was created by the husband-and-wife team of Liz Garcia and Josh Harto, who exec produce along with Clooney, Heslov, John Fortenberry and Scott Kaufer.
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Communicating Diagnostic and Risk Information to People with Mild Cognitive Impairment
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has become a concept widely used to define the state between normal aging and early Alzheimer's disease, and may soon transition from a research category to a formal clinical diagnosis. MCI represents a growing population at risk for AD, with prevalence likely even greater than the 4-5 million in the U.S. currently thought to be affected by dementia. Although many studies document conversion rates from MCI to AD, we know little about how to communicate AD risk information to MCI patients and their family members.
Study Aims
The goal of the MCI Risk Communication Study is to develop and evaluate a risk communication protocol to convey diagnostic and risk information to MCI patients and family members. A multi-step protocol will be created, taking into account principles of health risk communication, patient and provider preferences, and ethical issues involved in working with cognitively impaired populations. The protocol will be delivered by health care professionals with risk communication experience and tested on 10 patient/care-partner dyads recruited from Alzheimer's Disease Centers at the University of Michigan and Boston University. The results of this pilot study will help inform the fourth trial of REVEAL.
Funding Source
The MCI Risk Communication Study is funded by a grant from the Alzheimer's Association.
Key Personnel
J. Scott Roberts, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Wendy Uhlmann, MS. C.G.C., Genetic Counselor
Lindsay Zausmer, B.A., Study Coordinator
Robert C. Green, M.D., M.P.H., Co-Principal Investigator
Jason Karlawish, M.D., Consultant, University of Pennsylvania
Ron Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Consultant, Mayo Clinic


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When You Wasn't Famous by Bromheads Jacket
Cos this ain't a topic I'm particularly well versed
On girls going loopy in the front row showing you a thong
Cos for some reason I don't seem to grab much attention,
The other two get more offers than I'd care to mention
But, a girl did show me her boobs in Frog once
But she had the beer goggles on she didn't know what I was
Perhaps in time this totty will endeavour
Or maybe they'll never get past my face like chamois leather.
When you are famous boy, it gets really easy to get girls
It's all so easy that you get spoilt
But if you try to pull a bird, who is also famous too
Then it's just like when you wasn't famous
The closest I've been to pulling a celeb yet
A dream I had when I was 12, I shagged Alannis Morrisette
But seriously though don't even bother to rip it
If I had the chance again I probably wouldn't have gone through with it
Once I did bump into Natalie Imbruglia
She weren't really doing it for me, I didn't like her new hair
So all I'm saying is I have no set of expertise
You're probably listening to your CD thinking who the fuck is this?
When you get famous boy, it really easy to get girls
It's all so easy that you get spoilt
But if you try to pull a bird, who is also famous too
Then it's just like when you wasn't famous
Dede dededede dededede dededededededoo
Am I the only one who thinks this is out of control?
People getting famous and for sweet f-all
Whatever happened to talent, serving the community
Like Elton John or Sir Paul McCartney?
Cos nowadays, everybody wants to be
A someone much rather than a nobody
If I'm entirely honest it's the quiet life for me
I'm quite happy to still be flipping burgers in Fleet service Maccy D's
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One of the most useful ingredients that we all have at home is honey. This amazing nectar is abundant in anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties and it's also used as an antiseptic.
Honey is a natural product which is abundant in nutraceuticals. They are the ones that can help us remove removing free radicals from our body.
Honey is extremely useful against various health problems and it's especially helpful when it's combined with some cinnamon.
We all know this amazingly sweet spice that is mostly used to prepare sweet delicacies.
Many people use cinnamon to help them make their process of losing weight faster as well as improve their sleep.
This very healthy spice which is abundant in health benefits can be used every day so that it can help you in plenty of health problems.
When you mix cinnamon and hoHoneyey, you obtain an amazing mixture that can be extremely effective in conditions like: high blood sugar, cholesterol, flu, colds, viruses etc.
Both of these amazing ingredients, cinnamon and honey are very cheap and can be found in any place worldwide.
Here are some health conditions that you can use this mixture against:
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Mix 1 tablespoon of honey with 2 tablespoons of cinnamon into a glass of lukewarm water. Drink this every day. It will help you remove all of the bacteria found in your gall bladder.
This amazing mixture will decrease your levels of cholesterol by 10% in only 2 hours. Just mix 3 tablespoons of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of honey into a big cup of tea. Drink it as you usually do.
Heart diseases
Prepare a pasta made of honey and cinnamon. Spread it on a piece of bread and take it for breakfast every morning. It's amazing to help you decrease the level of cholesterol in your arteries and it can also help you against various health problems, like for example heart attack.
Prepare a mixture with 1 tablespoon of cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of honey. Take it in the morning and also at night to help you against chronic arthritis. Consume it regularly and it will even help you treat cancer!
Immune system
Consume this mixture regularly to protect your whole organism and improve your immunity. It will defend you from all viruses and bacteria.
Cold and Flu
Mix ¼ of a tablespoon of cinnamon with 1 tablespoon of honey 3 days in a row to help you cure a sinus obstruction, chronic cough or colds!


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2 Tacitus tells us (Annals VI. xvi.) that the twelve Tables had forbidden a higher rate of interest. If so, the tribunes were merely reviving an obsolete enactment. The words unciarium fenus clearly mean a rate of one twelfth but just how that rate was applied is very doubtful. It may be 1/12 of the whole principal or 1/12 of 1 per cent.; the period may be one month or one year; and, finally, the year may be 10 months or 12. The rate in modern terms may then be 1 per cent. (as translated here), 8 1/3 per cent. as assumed by Frank, Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, I. 282), 10 per cent. (cf. Weissenborn ad loc.) or 100 per cent. (so apparently Last, Camb, Anc. Hist. VII. 476).
4 Within a distance of one mile from the walls a citizen might appeal from the decision of a consul, but beyond that point the consul's authority was absolute.
5 From his paternal authority.
6 By the Licinio-Sextian legislation of 367 it had been forbidden that anybody should hold more than 500 iugera. cf. VI. xxxv. 5.
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Fans of one of the original ghostbusters and his most recent TV incarnation would be wise to scare up a copy of the new Night Stalker DVD boxed set hitting stores today, as it offers up not only four episodes never broadcast during the series' fall 2005 ABC run, but also revealing commentary from creator Frank Spotnitz. TVGuide.com seized this opportunity to ask Spotnitz about his Stalker's unfortunate fate, the frightfully fun show he's working on now and the next X-Files film.
TVGuide.com: First, I want to thank you for blogging for our Insider column last fall.
Frank Spotnitz: Oh, it was fun!
TVGuide.com: Night Stalker is certainly the type of program that benefits from such added insight.
Spotnitz: Yeah, that was good.
TVGuide.com: In retrospect, did the series accomplish creatively what you set out to accomplish?
Spotnitz: Yeah, I feel really proud of the work that we were able to do. I had so much more in mind and mapped out that I wanted to do. I talk about that a lot on the DVD commentaries, about what seeds we were planning for the mythology, and I answer a lot of the questions about what the mark was on Kolchak's hand and whether he killed his wife and so on.
TVGuide.com: Is there anything you could have done different to extend its longevity?
Spotnitz: The truth is I fought every battle I knew how to fight at the time to keep the show on the air. I was aware we were struggling from Day 1, because we were given such a tough time slot. And then over the summer [of 2005] I saw we weren't going to be getting any paid advertising. [Laughs] When we debuted, our one source of hope was that we had this lead-in of Alias, but their numbers were so disappointing. The research showed that their audience was not compatible with ours. We had a number of tough breaks, so I was making the case that this was a really good show and [the problem] wasn't the show but the time slot, the lack of promotion and an incompatible lead-in. I had a lot of supporters, at the studio and the network, who agreed with me, so I was really optimistic until the day we got canceled that we would find a way to prevail.
TVGuide.com: Do you feel that Supernatural, which also debuted last fall, or all the guys watching CSI were liabilities?
Spotnitz: I don't think Supernatural was; there's room for more than one like that, and their audience is slightly different than ours. But the same research showing that Alias' audience was completely different from ours showed that CSI's audience was exactly our audience. It was the worst possible place to be! [Laughs] A brand-new show up against the No. 1 show, going for the exact same audience.
TVGuide.com: What would have been a better ABC companion show for Night Stalker?
Spotnitz: I don't know their programming well enough. But it was telling to me that what they replaced us with in January was Dancing with the Stars. That is what you do to counterprogram CSI.
TVGuide.com: What was series star Stuart Townsend's reaction to the cancellation?
Spotnitz: Everybody was really shocked. Even though you know you're struggling in the ratings, when you feel the work is as good as we all felt it was, you can't believe somebody is going to cancel it. "How could they?"
TVGuide.com: Kolchak was the sort of rich character an actor like Stuart could really get immersed in.
Spotnitz: Yes. Being a feature actor, in the beginning he was a little taken aback by how heavy the workload was, but by Episodes 8 and 10, he was really enjoying the challenge. Especially Episode 10, which you can see for the first time on the DVD. It's all Stuart. It's a tour de force for him.
TVGuide.com: Then again, he goes home to Charlize Theron, which puts this setback in perspective.
Spotnitz: [Laughs] Right. How bad can it be?
TVGuide.com: This DVD set has four episodes that have never been seen?
Spotnitz: They will be seen on Sci Fi Channel this summer, but they have never been broadcast. I have to say, we shot the show using this new Genesis camera, which is state-of-the-art, high-definition video camera, and it looks gorgeous, especially on DVD. I'm really excited for people to see it this way.
TVGuide.com: Sounds like Night Stalker is begging for an HD-DVD/Blu-ray release as well.
Spotnitz: It's meant for it. The quality is spectacular. The first time our director of photography looked through the viewfinder of this camera, he came away with tears in his eyes. It was so beautiful.
TVGuide.com: What can you say about your and Vince Gilligan's new TV series, Amped?
Spotnitz: Amped is a scary, funny show, with a large ensemble cast, set in a police precinct. The idea is you follow these cops as they go out into the field every day, but the world around them has "changed."
TVGuide.com: What, dare I ask, has changed it?
Spotnitz: A few years prior, a virus swept through the entire planet everybody got sick, then everybody recovered, and now what's beginning to happen is a certain percentage of the population is starting to mutate, in all different ways. So when these cops go out, they literally might be encountering monsters. We're shooting the pilot this summer for Spike TV.
TVGuide.com: A lot of fans feel you do some of your best work with Vince.
Spotnitz: I love working with Vince. I had to twist his arm to get him to go back to TV. That last episode [of Night Stalker]? He wrote it.
TVGuide.com: What's your involvement in the remake of The Star Chamber?
Spotnitz: I'm producing it. It's one of those movies that had a great idea but really wasn't as good as it should have been, so to me it's the perfect movie to remake.
TVGuide.com: Michael Douglas starred in the original. Is there any casting news yet?
Spotnitz: Not yet.
TVGuide.com: Lastly, is there anything new and exciting going on in the X-Files-verse? Any rumors or truths to discuss?
Spotnitz: The truth is always out there. [Laughs] It's sort of the status quo. We all have our deals but there are legal issues between Chris Carter and 20th Century Fox that are still unresolved. I'm hoping they can be resolved soon and we can still get to work on another feature.
TVGuide.com: But David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are still on board if it happens?
Spotnitz: Yeah, everybody wants to do it. The studio wants to do it, too, but there's this other issue that has to get taken off the table first.
Frank Spotnitz, Stuart Townsend and Gabrielle Union will be signing Night Stalker DVD sets tonight at 7 pm/PST, at the Best Buy in West Hollywood, California.
Additional reporting by Daniel Manu


text: Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes: > > Excuse me, but I can't see a scheme that encodes bytes as Unicodes but > only sometimes as a "clean separation". Yet it is. Filenames are all unicode, without exception, and there's no implicit conversion to bytes. That's a clean separation. > So what you'll get here, AFAICS, is a new situation where many > Windows-centric programmers will produce code that's incapable of > dealing with non-Unicode input because they don't have to care about > the distinction between Unicode and bytes. I don't understand what you're saying. py3k filenames are all unicode, even on POSIX systems, so where is the problem with/for Windows programmers?


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Dimensional analysis has potential to help explain and predict physical phenomena, but has been used very little in studies of wildland fire behavior. By combining variables into dimensionless groups, the number of variables to be handled and the...
Alaska Reference Database
The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Got a great idea for an app? FundedApps wants to pay you for it
If you regularly browse the pages of our Apps section thinking "I could do better than that", here's your opportunity to put that to the test. FundedApps is a service that lets you submit your own app ideas and earn money from them without having to do any of the development work yourself.
Taking the form of a simple iOS app, you submit a title and description for each idea that you have. Submissions are then reviewed by a team that presents any they think are commercially viable to an investment board. If it gets the green light to be built, you immediately earn £250 for your idea. Once the app's on sale, you'll get a 25% cut of net revenue.
FundedApps, which launched this week, is a product of Offficial – a UK-based investment funding company in the mobile sector. The company says that there's no 'catch' to the process and indeed, a length set of terms and conditions lay out exactly what you should expect when you submit an idea. There's a fee of £1.19 each time you submit an idea although this seems largely designed to disuade people from submitting ridiculous app suggestions for the fun of it. Foursquare for dogs, anyone?
By crowdsourcing and cherry-picking ideas from the public and paying for the best, FundedApps is probably giving quite a fair deal to anyone with spark of inspiration but no ability or inclination to see it through themselves. It remains to be seen exactly how Offficial handles the submitted ideas and their creators but we'll be watching closely to see how the concept plays out.
FundedApps is free to download from the Apple App Store now.
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The next time you are in Sacramento, you should stop by the California State Railroad Museum in Old Town Sacramento. The museum is part of a huge area that looks and feels like the wild west.
The museum was able to aquire on consignment, the lost golden spike of the Transcontinental Railroad... It was thought to not exist, but after five generations, the Hewes family had it for five generations. The original spike is housed at Stanford.
This picture is of May 10th, 1869 in Promontory Utah... Where the symbolic spike was driven into a polished cross tie. The painting is by Thomas Hill, and oil-on canvas painting titled, "The Last Spike"
This is a picture of the two locomotives meeting... Again in Utah. At the ceremony of the joining of the transcontinental railroad.
And here it is, in all of it brilliant glory. Shiny and polished... Greeting you as you end your trip in the museum. The LOST Golden Spike of the Transcontinental Railroad
Have a great Wednesday!
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Browser-specific configuration is required to access SUL's restricted databases, electronic journals, or e-books from off-campus locations. These pages offer instructions for various operating systems and web browsers.
Windows - Internet Explorer
Configuring Internet Explorer 8.x / 9.x on Windows for off-campus access
IE 8.x - Click Tools in the browser menu bar.
IE 9.x - Click on the gear icon in the browser toolbar.
- Click on Internet Options.
- Click the Connections tab.
For DSL or Cable Modem Internet connections – Click on LAN Settings.
For Dial-up Internet Connections – Select your Dial-up Setting, then click on Settings.
- Select the Use automatic configuration script checkbox.
Enter this URL in the Address box. (This URL must be copied exactly with no spaces):
- Uncheck all other checkboxes in this window.
- Click OK, click Apply, then close all configuration windows.
Note about on-campus access
With your browser configured as described above, you will be prompted for your SUNet ID and password each time you access a licensed resource, even when you are on campus. If you would prefer to avoid this, revert your browser settings as follows:
- Return to the Automatic Configuration window as described above.
- Uncheck the Use Automatic Configuration Script checkbox.
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In The Paranoid Style in Hiphop's Super-Slave Economy: A Study in Beef (Routledge, 2009), Siadya Rose-Hampton Sharise writes, "So this is where we at Black people? Shooting each other down in the streets like mad dogs? Over battle rhymes? Are you flucking kidding me?" Earlier Rose-Hampton Sharise writes, "Hiphop been dead as a folk culture but that's OK. Because while that death by hypercapitalism signifies a loss of masscultural access to the best poetic and political imaginations of the current twentysomething generation, that death also points us to exactly where we want to go: right on top of 50 Cent's ass. I swear Boo, in some of those videos 50 looks like a homo-thug and that's OK too."
Now I'd go a step further and say 50 more resembles a homo-thug dyke. Because generally speaking the girls flip the homo-thug look in public with more flair than their male counterparts. The wifebeater, the Tyrolean hat, the brown Popeye biceps, and the white silk pants? Yall all know yall more likely to see that girl strolling around Bed-Stuy dragging her supermodel than that guy so don't you even try and test me. Now this might all seem rather provocative until you check out The Massacre and 50 has homoerotic musings of his own, as in, "I read somewhere I'm homophobic/ Shit, go to the hood/There's mad n*gg*s on my dick." The Massacre is unlikely to decrease 50's bounty of swarming Y chromosome carriers. It is hands-down the most diabolically sensous collection of baby-making gangsta music since Pac's All Eyez. Like Pac, 50 is a ruffian who knows the value of a good pop hook; he embraces the hook, caresses the hook, is married to the hook. He also respects the ancient pop rule that if you get the women the men will come. Every lyric on The Massacre that's not about violating a nigga is about sexing pimping or mindfucking a babe—or, in the most notable instance, about 50's pique at being sexed pimped and mindfucked by Viveca.
Be all that as it may, if you need real MC'ing the way 50 needs real love then you got to love 50 no matter what dumb sheet he's going on about now. Mostly for the dry wit of his richly melodious country con-man flow alone. On The Massacre 50 remains the definition of laconic, sardonic, harmonic, and moronic. More than his Elegba-Eshu revolving-door intimacy with the crossroads, his off-the-cuff artistry is his badge of Black Esthetic authenticity. The point being to make the difficult appear frighteningly easy. The real difference between 50 and The Game is that 50 always sounds like he singing himself to sleep waiting for the money and the dime pieces to roll in. The Massacre comes out the gate guns blazing and manufactured beef tossed into the wind, those whatever attempts to taunt Nas, Jas, and Fat Joe to battle and such. But by the time you get to the suite of instant club hits in the album's gooey middle you know 50's more a lounger than a fighter.
Now the whole project of Afro-diasporic culture may be the triumph of obsessive African stylin over oppressive European savagery, but gangsta rap likes to keep its savagery close and its savages even closer. The mad drama, the bored and restless demographic, and the trigger-happy entourages come together to form a chain of dividends that keep on giving after the beef has gone. Gangsta realness is the relationship between the artist, actual murder attempts, and ch-ching. It doesn't matter whether this week's Game-50 rivalry/truce was a publicity stunt; what matters is that Interscope, Viacom, and Hot 97 can't lose no matter who gets blasted or lays down their swords. Especially since, as Chuck D recently remarked, the same conglomerates that own the record companies and radio stations also own industrial-complex prisons and are now investing in cemeteries too. Maybe what's truly real is who has power of attorney over a dead nigga's investment portfolio. Or how only in coonshow-loving capitalist America could two ex-thugs who fought back death hustling for pennies on the street be ready to die for the pop charts. Corporate hiphop understood as a Blackmale suicide pact? Sheet, tell me something I don't know.
Ain't nothing more real in this wirld than American power, but increasingly that means the power of American illusionism. Sadly, Black people in politics and entertainment are coming to appear just another figment of the white man's imagination—dreamers within a dream. Hiphop as extremist and repugnant as N.W.A.'s or 50's was a benevolent trickster god's way of pinching us to make sure we were still awake. Now it's one more trick of the devil, his way of keeping us compliant, complacent, and comatose. If the creators of The Matrix had read Ralph Ellison they wouldn't have romanticized Black people as too worldly to fall for a virtual reality. Nobody's sense of reality is more absurd. Because at the heart of African American Being and Nothingness sits a paradox of unbelonging and unbudging—the double consciousness of They Don't Like Us Much Around These Parts and We Ain't Going Nowhere. The edge in Black music has always come from mixing up alienation and militancy. It's the sound of us marching where we know we're not wanted and planting a flag. Some call it revolutionary, some call it gangsta. Right now I'd call it about dead asleep.
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Toy With Me is the first of two stories published in Darkwing Duck Annual #1. Later reprinted as bonus content in the "Campaign Carnage" trade paperback, it is notably the only story in Boom! Studios' Darkwing Duck comic that was not illustrated by James Silvani.
The story opens in the home of Aloysius J. Mandelbaum, inventor of the Molecular Digitizer with which he created the Whiffle Boy series of video games. Having since been let go, Mandelbaum idly speaks of his past successes to a visiting houseguest, and how the company's new "World of Whifflecraft" MMORPG essentially drove him out of his old job. His guest, however, turns out to be the villainous Quackerjack, who turns the Digitizer on Mandelbaum and turns him into a wooden toy. After sharing a brief conversation with his recently-built doll "New NEW Mr. Banana Brain", Quackerjack cackles in anticipation of his plan to reintroduce Quackerjack Brand Toys to the world, at the expense of the video game-addicted residents of St. Canard.
Later, Darkwing Duck and Launchpad McQuack find Mandelbaum's wooden remains and take him to the tower lab for study. Darkwing muses that ever since his return, Quackerjack's crimes have been getting more ruthless and needs to be stopped before he can cause havoc with the Digitizer. Darkwing wonders if he could find someone who knows of the villain's whereabouts, but Launchpad points out that about the only thing Quackerjack spends time with is his favorite doll, whose name currently escapes Darkwing. After some time spent trying to remember its name, Darkwing finds Honker bidding on an online auction, where the original Mr. Banana Brain (rebuilt after Negaduck tore it up) is up for sale. Though Darkwing doesn't win the bidding, Honker finds him the location of the winner's home in St. Canard.
Elsewhere, a package has just arrived at Whiffle Boy Entertainment, and Quackerjack wastes no time in bursting out of the box and turning the Whifflecraft employees into toys. He then boasts his plan to those who remain: to hook up the Molecular Digitizer to the building's servers and turn every hopelessly-addicted Whifflecraft player into his new line of Quackerjack Toys. Should the staff refuse, they will be the ones transformed instead, and so they are forced to bring Quackerjack the servers.
Darkwing and Launchpad pull up to the house of the doll's winner, a young woman named Claire who invites them into her house for cake. Darkwing explains the situation to Claire, and she admits that she bought Mr. Banana Brain for her boyfriend, who is actually Quackerjack. While Darkwing is appalled, Claire explains to him that "Jacky" is actually a nice guy, or at least used to be. She then recounts the story of Quackerjack's time working for Quackwerks' Toy Department. At first he was excited for the job, but over time, he started feeling underappreciated for his work and began slipping into depression and anger over his ideas getting rejected and his co-workers getting all the attention. Unable to take the constant rejection, Quackerjack eventually snapped.
When Mr. Banana Brain arrives, Claire explains that she had hoped to reunite Quackerjack with his old friend so that he would remember who he used to be. Gosalyn then calls Darkwing and informs him of what is happening at Whifflecraft. Inspired by Claire's story, Darkwing agrees to help save Quackerjack from his own anger.
Back at Whifflecraft, Quackerjack is getting impatient for his servers and decides to zap a few employees to speed things up. As he chats with New New Mr. Banana Brain, Darkwing arrives with his usual introduction before suddenly pulling the old Mr. Banana Brain out. At first, Quackerjack calms down enough to put his newer doll aside, but the servers then arrive and he immediately throws "Grandpa Banana Brain" to the ground. While Darkwing is incapacitated by the toy-transformed employees, Quackerjack hooks up the Digitizer to the servers, unaware that the two Banana Brain dolls are sitting on the wiring and are being exposed to the electrical current.
The two Banana Brains suddenly grow to giant size and begin arguing and fighting with each other over Quackerjack's attention, with Old Banana Brain trying to get Quackerjack to remember how things used to be and New New Banana Brain driving the villain to continue with his plan. During the struggle, Darkwing takes the Digitizer and zaps the dolls back to normal, knocking Quackerjack out of the building in he process. However, he is nowhere to be found outside when Darkwing comes out to look.
With Whifflecraft safe, Darkwing talks with Launchpad about what he would have liked to say to Quackerjack: that it's not good to be a toy to your own anger, not when there's people thinking of you. At Claire's house, she is shocked to see a Quackerjack doll sitting on her doorstep. Having turned himself into a toy with a miniature Digitizer, Quackerjack sadly admits to Claire through an attached note that "This is the best I'll ever be."
- The cover art for the comic is based on the cover for the Batman comic Batman: The Killing Joke.
- This issue has a dark ending. Quackerjack turns himself into a toy, this would also count as committing suicide.


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Black Panther Is The MCU's Most Socially-Aware Film To-Date
Before even going into production there was a lot riding on the highly anticipated release of Black Panther.
Introduced in 2016's Captain America: Civil War it was clear from the jump that Chadwick Boseman was the right fit to wear the crown as King T'Challa, ruler of Wakanda, and the cowl of the Black Panther.
This solo movie not only reinforces that statement but is also up there with the best Marvel Cinematic Universe movies to date in terms of content and quality. It also serves as a welcome – and much needed – vehicle for change and progression for Marvel.
Watch the trailer below:
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As stated in the title Black Panther is Marvel and Disney's most socially-aware solo film since Civil War, it's also a landmark achievement for the studio due to the sum of its many parts.
Black Panther's story takes off nicely following the events of Civil War, King T'Challa has just laid his father to rest and now must assume the responsibilities of leading his nation into brave new world where a man can turn green, Norse Gods and magic exist, and alien armies seem to fall from the sky at will.
However, his leadership is soon contested by the film's main antagonist Erik Killmonger, played by a captivating Michael B. Jordan, and so the King of Wakanda must search deep within himself to find out what it means to be a benevolent and just ruler.
From the minute Black Panther kicks off the audience is thrown into the beautiful world of Wakanda, which is steeped in African culture and lore. Director Ryan Coogler shows his skill as he weaves a story of cultural identity and responsibility, as well as breathing life into a fictional nation plausible in the real world.
Furthermore, the conflict presented between T'Challa and Killmonger is as intriguing and poignant as Kenneth Branagh's effort in Thor, with Coogler showing his skills which were evident in his last directorial outting Creed. While there is a greater sense of seriousness in the film, it still manages to maintain the same charm and humour that's made the MCU such a success story.
It's also helped by the performances from the cast – Boseman and Jordan in particular are in fine form. Boseman's portrayal of the royal superhero was one of the many things which made Civil War so great and he continues his fine performance as the lead character. He's convincing as a leader who bears the responsibility of an entire nation on his shoulders but still clearly has a lot to learn about what it means to lead.
Jordan provides the perfect anthesis to Boseman, you sense his anger and pain behind his true motives making for not only one of the most interesting villains in the MCU but perhaps the best since Tom Hiddleston's Loki in Thor and the first Avengers film.
There's a certain pathos Jordan brings to the table as Killmonger, making the audiences sympathetic to his goals no matter how destructive. It's a testament to the chemistry Coogler and Jordan bring out of each other which has been evident since the two started working together in 2013's criminally overlooked Fruitvale Station.
Standout performances from Danai Gurira and Letitia Wright give the guys a run for their money. If you thought Gurira kicks ass as Michonne in The Walking Dead, you'll love her even more as Okoye, T'challa's steadfast no-nonsense elite guard general, and the closest thing to a mentor to T'Challa. Wright is brilliant as T'Challa's younger sister, Shrui, often adding humour and a sense of humanism to the film's overall grandeur.
Academy award winner Lupita Nyong'o shines as Nakia, while Okoye represents traditionalism, acting as the perfect counter-balance encouraging T'Challa to branch out and progress further than his father (played by John Kani) and his other royal predecessors.
The film does have its setbacks; more could be done with the talents of Andy Serkis (Ulysses Klaue) and Angela Basset (Wakanda's Queen Mother, Ramonda). That being said Forest Whitaker (Zuri), Martin Freeman (Everett K. Ross) and Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya (W'Kabi) are all fine in their roles. The integration scene between Serkis and Freeman is pretty cool as it offers a nod to their scene in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
While the acting is near-perfect the action scenes – and there are quite a lot – are absolutely flawless, the car chase in South Korea is particularly exhilarating and one of the best looking in the collection of standalone MCU films.
Black Panther is one Marvel's most important films in terms of social awareness, while it provides an intelligent, thought-provoking and oft-times visceral commentary about heritage and tradition it's also accessible enough for a wide range of audiences to enjoy and embrace.
That being said I am really looking forward to seeing how they develop the story of T'Challa and the sprawling Mecca that is Wakanda in May's Avengers: Infinity War and further Black Panther sequels.
Black Panther is out now in cinemas across the UK, and in the US from February 16.
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Earlier this year, style connoisseur and in-the-know blogger Dana Al Khalifa of The Overdressed shared her recommended go-to spots in Bahrain. Today, Savoir Flair turns to another stylish resident of this island nation, fashion designer Amal Al Mulla, for a taste of Bahrain's best.
The womenswear designer shares, "As far as shopping spots and hidden gems are concerned, it's best to visit Manama Souq for traditional gold and local finds. There is also a shopping center called Riyadat Mall, where you can find local businesses, such as Amina Gallery. Owned by artist Amina Al Abbasi, this is a place where you can not only revel in beautiful artworks, but also shop for one-of-a-kind pieces to add to your wardrobe."
Indeed, Amina Gallery isn't your average art gallery. With the intention of raising brand awareness, Al Abbasi turned her bespoke artworks – which beautifully showcase past traditions – into collectable fashion items. What started out with phone cases now spans accessories such as clutches, bangles, coin purses, and even homeware. More recently, the gallery included pieces from Al Mulla's recent collaboration with Al Abbasi. These can also be purchased at the gallery's second (and bigger) branch in Seef Mall.


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I know right now it seems like warmth will never happen, especially if you live on the west coast of Canada right now. I'm currently typing this out with a turtleneck, button up, blazer, jacket and blanket scarf on... The chill is real.
But to entice people and get you all ready for the burst of warmth that will hopefully happen soon, here's a bit of Spring/Summer inspiration for you all, courtesy of SSENSE.
For women, i've really fallen in love with muted primary colours. So I decided to focus the outfit around that with pops of white throughout. We're starting things off with this Thom Browne bucket hat ($335CAD) and then tying in the white with a Loewe asymmetrical white button up ($1175CAD) to add some levels to the outfit. I'm all about button ups buttoned improperly. I think it looks so effortlessly lazy but so perfect. I've definitely been doing it with jackets. Next up we're bringing in some Stella. I love the look of these trousers and I think they'll fit in perfectly with my primary idea. Check out the Stella McCartney Buttoned cuff stitching trousers ($950CAD). Loving the ballerina flat look coming round, so I thought I'd add that in with one of my favorite brands right now. I'm talking about Jacquemus. I honestly need more. So here's the Jacquemus Les Chaussures Lacees Loafers ($710CAD). Of course no look is complete without a bag. I know I've never really been one for the 'It' bags, but I am honestly obsessed with the Chloe Faye bag ($2500), and I think this colour works perfectly with our look.
Now moving onto menswear. Weirdly I've been obsessing over a lot of the less normcore, 90s mess menswear (unlike the rest of the world). So i'm officially putting a ban on featuring Vetements or Gosha for Spring. Also don't bring up the LVxSupreme collaboration cause it makes my eyes bleed. (#UnopoularOpinion)
Thom Browne Gold TB 903 shades ($875CAD). Perfect pop of colour to start it off. I decided to bring in some fun with the Dolce + Gabbana Sax and Cello player pouch ($875CAD). Next up is some of Stella McCartney's brand new menswear line! I'm pretty sure SS17 is it's first season, and I'm really excited to hear about it! So in honour of that, I decided to include this ver Missoni styled knit. Check out the Stella McCartney stripe knit sweater ($1320CAD) here! Obviously you need to layer a crisp white button up under such a great sweater, so we're keeping it simple with Thom Browne ($560CAD). I've also decided go big or go home, so I'm feeling like these Pink Gucci trousers ($1065CAD). And to tie in the yellow throughout, we'll finish off with these Valentino Sneakers ($790CAD)
Hopefully I've given you some ideas for the Spring/Summer2017 season! I know I'm definitely looking forward to fall/winter. So lets hope for some good shows!


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Elizabeth Taylor: I'm Not Like Anyone. I'm Me.
In the 1950's, Elizabeth Taylor was part of the new type of Hollywood actor, the female parallel of Paul Newman, James Dean and others, who in Suddenly Last Summer, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Butterfield 8, gave us a screen full of vulnerability and grit and beauty all at once. And never was she shy or coy about stating what she wanted.
Among her talents was the ability to present her figure at its most lusciously female while keeping the audience fixed on what she was saying, whether she was crossing the room fully clothed to light a cigarette or simply walking down the street. If you're not convinced, watch her move about in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or, better, Butterfield 8. She was cute as hell in Giant, and displayed a much softer side in A Place in the Sun, especially in her scenes with Montgomery Clift.
From Butterfield 8:Laurence Harvey: "You're all alike, aren't you? Play tough. Elizabeth Taylor: I'm not like anyone. I'm me."
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I have awoken with a raging sore throat and a vague recollection of dreams happening in Dallas, Texas. I have never been there in real life, not sure why or even how I would recognize Dallas in my dreams.
My boyfriend has left to begin the running around preparations in order for him to be able to fly west on Wednesday. I likely won't see him again before he goes. So I am a bit melancholic this morning. It will be okay once he gets there and we settle into our routine. He likely won't be gone long because it is just a shut-down. The only reason he is going is because it's an opportunity to get his feet in the door with a new company other than the one he usually works with. Can't have too many contacts.
I am trying out my free products this morning. The meal replacement bar was pretty good and very filling … but that energy drink … BLECH!! Tastes and smells like crap! Tomorrow morning I will not dilute it as much so I have less liquid to pound back. Still, if it gives me energy, perhaps it will be worth it.
Last night I roasted a chicken for supper and I made Mac & Cheese from scratch. It was the first time I ever made a real homemade Mac & Cheese. In the past I have done vegan versions, which were okay at the time. But Oh my God! Was this recipe ever good! It was a bit labour intensive. A lot of whisking. And I made a couple of mistakes like forgetting the parm cheese in the sauce and losing a bunch of my macaroni in the sink when I was straining. But overall I would say it was quite the successful venture. The boyfriend didn't seem to enjoy it very much though. I guess he's not a Mac & Cheese person. So now I have all these leftovers to eat on my own … and this is the week I'm supposed to be getting my diet back on track.
Oh well. First the leftovers, then back on track. Because damn! Those leftovers are too good not to eat!
I didn't do so well with my steps on the weekend. Apparently the boyfriend and I lay around a lot watching tv and sleeping. Even a big day of shopping didn't help get many steps in. Which made me wonder if the tracker measures differently depending on where I wear it. At home it is usually on the waistband of my stretchy pants. When I go out I put it on my bra. At home I seem to easily accumulate all these steps without even realizing I'm doing it. When I go out and walk around the stores, it feels like I should be getting way more steps than I end up accumulating. I will check on the computer when I get home and be surprised, thinking I should have another 500 or so more steps. So maybe I need to start wearing the thing in the same way regardless of where I am.
Jeeze! I think the energy thing is kicking in. Suddenly I feel wide awake. My throat is no longer sore. And I want to get up and run around and do things. Off I go!


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Discovr: A beautiful music discovery app for iOS
There are a variety of iOS apps that will enable you to discover new music through friend recommendations or tracks that you or your friends have downloaded. The problem is, it doesn't always find music that sound like your favourite artists.
Discovr is a gorgeous music app that brings users a new way to discover bands and artists through the use of interactive maps.
To discover new music, users simply input a band or artist name which generates an interactive graph that displays similar musicians. It's presented in an interesting way by placing the recommendations in bubbles that surround the artist that was searched. By tapping on any of the similar sounding artists, the artist map will continue to grow, creating more clusters around each selection.
It's not just about discovery. Users are able to listen to tracks, watch videos and learn more about the artists they've found. To learn more about an artist, just double tap on the musician from the map to gain access to biographies, music videos, playable songs, reviews and related links and articles about the music.
The artist pages are beautiful and provide users with a great deal of information about each artist. Discovr sports a built-in browser so browsing related articles about the music happens within the app without the need to exit the screen. Artist pages can be saved to a favourites folder and shared with friends via Facebook, Twitter or email.
Should you want to share or buy an individual track found within an artist page, Discovr also includes a direct link to purchase songs via iTunes and an option to share the song with email, Twitter and Facebook.
The Australian-based startup behind the app tells us that Discovr for iPad has taken the number one spot for music apps in 12 countries including Japan and Austrailia. The company also recently released an iPhone version of the app during SXSW.
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The Ballad of Matthew's Begats
Over at Russell Moore's blog this past weekend, he posted an article entitled Andrew Peterson's "The Good Confession." The article is about the impact that the song had on Dr. Moore while he was on vacation. I am always interested in finding new artists, so I opened Itunes and looked him up. I enjoy his music and downloaded several of his CDs, but there was one song from his Christmas CD that really struck me a fun, so I thought I would share it with you.
The name of the song is The Ballad of Matthew's Begats. The song cleverly recounts the genealogy of Christ from the gospel of Matthew. Here are the lyrics:
Abraham had Isaac
Isaac, he had Jacob
Jacob, he had Judah and his kin
Then Perez and Zerah
Came from Judah's woman, Tamar
Perez, he brought Hezron up
And then came
Aram, then Amminadab
Then Nahshon, who was then the dad of Salmon
Who with Rahab fathered Boaz
Ruth, she married Boaz who had Obed
Who had Jesse
Jesse, he had David who we know as king
David, he had Solomon by dead Uriah's wife
Solomon, well you all know him
He had good old Rehoboam
Followed by Abijah who had Asa
Asa had Jehoshaphat had Joram had Uzziah
Who had Jotham then Ahaz then Hezekiah
Followed by Manasseh who had Amon
Who was a man
Who was father of a good boy named Josiah
Who grandfathered Jehoiachin
Who caused the Babylonian captivity
Because he was a liar
Then he had Shealtiel, who begat Zerubbabel
Who had Abiud who had Eliakim
Eliakim had Azor who had Zadok who had Akim
Akim was the father of Eliud then
He had Eleazar who had Matthan who had Jacob
Now, listen very closely
I don't want to sing this twice
Jacob was the father of Joseph
The husband of Mary
The mother of Christ
I think the song is clever and a great memorization technique if you're interested. It's also quite catchy. That said, it was the title that drew me to the song originally, and specifically the word "Begats." When I was in elementary school (4th or 5th grade – I don't recall), we had a Bible study during school. Yes, it was a public school, and yes you could get away with that way back when. During that bible study they gave us a small New Testament binder. Mine was red. I still have it. It was in the original King James language. I remember trying to read it a couple of times, but I never got very far past Matthew 1. The begats!
Here's the you tube video if your interested (the rest of the CD is also good, and I would encourage you to buy it!):


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An extract from OMEGA Lifetime Winter Edition
ByROBERT RYAN
Photographed by ANDY BARTER
Tried and tested under sub-zero conditions where electronics would often falter and freeze, a mechanical Omega watch remains a testament to time.
For added authenticity, both teams would be wearing the same clothes and using identical equipment, right down to back-breakingly heavy sleds, as did the brave men who went south to the white continent in 1910 for the assault on the Pole late the following year. There was one big difference, however – the venue. Dogs are no longer allowed to set paw on Antarctica, so a similar course was mapped out in Greenland. The teams differed markedly in their approach to the race. The night before the outset, the Norwegians checked their gear, fed the huskies, re-sharpened the runners on their sleds and got an early night. The British stayed in the bar. As ex-commando and team leader Bruce Parry recalled, they relied heavily on medic Rory O'Connor's antique timepiece to make sure they were up in time: "Our wake-up normally consisted of Rory's 1911 alarm clock's 10-second ring waking him up. The actual race started at 8 a.m. and we set the alarm for 5 a.m. to get ourselves ready for a push-off on the second of race start time… but a lie-in was the order of the day as Rory's alarm froze at ten past midnight." They had overslept: the bitter cold had scored its first victory over the humans. It wouldn't be the last. (Incidentally, the Norwegians won. Again.) The incident demonstrates the perils of explorers and adventurers to the Poles (or indeed anyone venturing above the snow line or to extreme latitudes in winter) relying on any machinery, even a humble clock, which is not designed to operate at low temperatures. Had Team GB used a digital clock, or even a quartz watch, one could understand the malfunction, as electronic circuits are notoriously susceptible to the cold. Cameras, computers and mobile phones are equally upset by a sudden chill. The complex array of components of varying materials, in even a single circuit, all expand and contract at different rates, setting up stresses, plus some components' resistance – including Lithium-Ion batteries – increase dramatically as the temperature drops. A battery that provides 100 percent capacity at 27°C/80°F will typically deliver only 50 percent at -18°C/0°F. Polar explorer Ben Saunders walked Scott's route to the South Pole in 2013-14 and he found that electronics and cold aren't happy bedfellows. "The polar regions are so extreme that a lot of electronic gadgets can be unreliable, certainly things with LCD screens," he has said. "On very cold days, we had problems with GPS units."
"This is partly because most semiconductors used in circuits have what is known as a 'freeze out' temperature, below which they simply don't work."
Components inside smartphones, laptops and GPS units can be permanently damaged, possibly even physically cracking (plastics become very brittle at low temperatures) and these devices are highly vulnerable to condensation if they experience a broad range of temperatures, which again could be fatal to the functioning of the device. This is why mobile phone companies have a range of recommended operating temperatures – Samsung says its mobiles are good for -20°C/-4°F to +50°C/122°F and Apple says that its iPads should stay in their comfort zone of the 0-35°C/32-95°F range. This is partly because most semiconductors used in circuits have what is known as a 'freeze out' temperature, below which they simply don't work. According to the website extremetemperatureelectronics.com (which is aimed at engineers/technicians working at the far ends of the temperature range), decomposition of the semiconductor material is also a risk, again leading to irreversible damage. But shouldn't an old-fashioned wind-up alarm clock behave better than that? Was it possible that, at the low temperatures prevailing in the GB team's tent, it could have ground to a halt because the lubricant oil in the movement became too viscous? After all, the points of contact with oil are the most vulnerable part of a watch movement. The freezing point of most watch lubricants is -30°C/ -22°F. But it is well known that thickening can be expected from -20°C/-4°F. This is why for special edition watches OMEGA uses a specific type of oil that does not freeze until between -40°C/-40°F and -55°C/-67°F. Another possibility was that the contraction of metal components might have caused distortion. Cogs that turn with low torque could stop more easily than those with stronger torque. Whatever the reason, as Bruce Parry found out, a stopped clock can spell disaster.
To qualify as a Master Chronometer this model must pass a stringent series of tests approved and certified by the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS), which interrogates the timepiece for resistance to variables including magnetic fields, temperature and water resistance, as well as testing average daily precision. Before that, during internal homologation, the movement is taken down to -20°C/-4°F. Once METAS certified, the Seamaster was inserted into a special cooler which took the temperature down from room temperature to -70°C/-94°F in increments of -5 degrees Celsius. A microphone was attached to the watch head to monitor the function as the temperature plummeted. After four hours at -70°C/-94°F, the watch was brought back to room temperature. It was no surprise that the watch stopped working at the lowest extreme. As expected, the oil coagulated and then froze well before -70°C/-94°F (the detailed data is still being analysed and processed as we go to press). But what the observers were also interested in was whether the effects of such a low, highly unnatural temperature were reversible. The results confirmed that the oil used in the watches did not deteriorate and functioned normally once it was back within its recommended operating temperature range. Furthermore, even though the watch had been subjected to such an extreme environment, once re-warmed it still passed the exacting METAS tests. This whole process was repeated with other Seamaster Master Chronometers and the result was always the same – life in the freezer did not permanently damage the mechanisms, which, as we know, is not a given for electronic systems. Another victory for the analogue world. But this isn't the first time OMEGA has done this sort of work, because for many years OMEGA ran a secret cryogenic testing programme that for decades was shrouded in mystery and half-truths: the Alaska Project, horology's very own Area 51.
"For many years Omega ran a secret cryogenic testing programme that for decades was shrouded in mystery and half-truths: the Alaska Project, horology's very own Area 51."
In 1964, a young NASA aerospace engineer called James H. Ragan was tasked with designing a programme for testing a range of watches for performance under the extreme conditions that they might encounter during spaceflight (and, ultimately, a lunar landing). Ragan asked several companies to supply chronograph watches, including, through its US distributor, OMEGA.
Ragan's interrogation of the watches included a series of "Environmental Test Conditions", including subjecting the timepieces to high temperatures, extreme pressure, high humidity, total oxygen atmosphere, shock, acceleration, decompression into a vacuum, vibration and acoustic noise, as well as low temperatures (very often in conjunction with another variable, such as high pressure). The cold tests involved taking the watches down to -18°C/-4°F for four hours, then warming them back up and testing and re-inspecting (not unlike the more rigorous tests commissioned by OMEGA Lifetime above). A parameter of -18°C/0°F might not seem that low compared to OMEGA Lifetime's tests. After all, the temperature on the Moon's surface can plummet to -200°C/-328°F; at the equator of Mars it can plunge down to -90°C/-130°F (-125°C/-193°F at the poles) and even the shaded side of an orbiting space vehicle can be -100°C/-148°F. For comparison the lowest temperature recorded in Antarctica is -89.2°C/-128.56°F; in January the inhabitants of Verkhoyansk in Siberia have to live with a bone-chilling average of -45°C/-49°F; in the same month, the Everest summit averages -36°C/-33°F, but can drop to -60°C/-76°F. (Remember, though, that a watch is unlikely to experience these excessively low temperatures in the real world – body heat and clothing modify the environmental conditions, so even if the mercury is way down, the watch is probably considerably warmer.) In fact, the Speedmaster had already shown it was capable of withstanding -18°C/0°F. In 1956, one of the watches was strapped on the outside of a Canadian Pacific Air line's Douglas DC-6B that was flying the Polar Route to Amsterdam from Edmonton. After nine hours of exposure to the elements at up to 5,300m/17,500ft, including temperatures lower than -18°C/0°F, it was checked at Schiphol Airport by the captain and ground crew and found to be working perfectly. We'll probably know the answer to the question about the choice of low temperature parameters decided for the NASA tests next year, when OMEGA and the Smithsonian release the results of their research into those pioneering watch trials in the early sixties. What we know for sure is that only the OMEGA Speedmaster passed all the Ragan tests with flying colours and it was designated "flight-qualified by NASA for all manned space missions" on 1 March 1965.
Yet even before 1969's Apollo 11, when the Speedmaster became the first watch worn on the moon when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made their first steps on the lunar surface, Omega was determined to improve on their official NASA watch and to create the ultimate space timepiece. So, working directly with James H. Ragan, the engineer who oversaw all of the qualification procedures and tests at NASA, it created the top secret Alaska Project, a name that has created some confusion over the years. Space is cold and so is Alaska, but that is not why the name was chosen. It was simply a code name that Omega used internally at the time (and for all secret projects, even beyond the scope of NASA) in order to maintain confidentiality. It was designed to ensure the complete secrecy of the projects, as it was of utmost importance that its competitors (especially in the USA) would never know that OMEGA was working directly with NASA towards special projects and unique bespoke space watches. Furthermore, there was never one single Alaska Project, but a series of them, beginning in 1969, and numbered I-IV. The first phase took place during the era of regular Moon landings (and of NASA's oft-stated ambition to land on the far, dark side of the Moon) and produced the world's first watch with a polished titanium case. In 1970, the prototype Speedmaster Professional space watches gained a striking new edition – an oversized red aluminium 'doughnut' cover. The aluminium, with its low thermal conductivity, was designed to act as a shield against low and high temperatures and the red cover colour protected against certain wavelengths of radiation. With the dome in place the watch could stand ambient temperatures of -148°C/-234.4°F to +260°C/500°F, an astonishing functional range of more than 400 degrees Celsius. These watches also had a white dial to reflect radiant heat and a long white strap with Velcro fastening for fitting over a bulky spacesuit.
In 2008, however, OMEGA introduced the Speedmaster Professional Alaska Project calibre 1861, with only 1970 pieces produced – in honour of the year of its design – and, as with the original model, this Alaska Project Limited Edition came with a red outer casing and an additional long white strap. It is now a much sought-after collectors' piece. NASA had a slate of new missions that required accurate timings, including one that looked back at our own planet. Skylab (1973-79) was the first orbiting space station and as part of its scientific mission it housed the ETC (The Earth Terrain Camera), which consisted of a single high-resolution camera which used five-inch film and an 18-inch focal length lens designed to produce images (black and white, colour and infra-red) of our world. So part of the next NASA/OMEGA cooperation, which became known as Alaska II (1972 onwards) involved the design and vigorous testing of special OMEGA timing devices with a mechanical tuning fork movement, used to time code the ETC's photographs. In fact, you can spot the OMEGA logo on the superimposed clock present on all official ETC photographs. At the same time, covert work continued on prototype space watches, still based on the Speedmaster Professional. Skylab gave way to the re-usable Space Shuttle and OMEGA was on board with that project, too. After all, the Shuttle programme called for EVAs or spacewalks to be a routine part of operations. An accurate, easy-to-read and operate chronometer was an essential requirement for those astronauts, so OMEGA produced another batch of innovative prototypes for NASA, including ones using the chronograph tuning fork movement used in the ETC. Under the Alaska IV project OMEGA worked on modifying Speedmasters with LCD displays, at one point supplying NASA with twelve "space-proofed" Speedmaster Professional Quartz reference ST186.0004 for testing in training on the shuttle. However, NASA had re-evaluated the Speedmaster Professional and once again it trounced the opposition. It was re-certified for the Space Shuttle and the first 56 were delivered to NASA in late 1978. It was difficult, it seemed, to improve on a classic.
"NASA had a slate of new missions that required accurate timings, including one that looked back at our own planet."
Difficult does not mean impossible, though, and research is still ongoing. In 1998, OMEGA gave us the titanium Speedmaster X-33 with quartz movement, a watch that is still a regular visitor to the International Space Station, and which drew directly on knowledge and techniques gained from the Alaska I-IV projects. When it was launched it was nicknamed the "Mars" watch, after NASA's next big goal. After all these years in space, though, the Speedmaster Professional remains the only watch certified by NASA for use on Extravehicular Activity (EVA). That doesn't mean the X-33 or something like it won't be braving those 110°C/ 198°F temperature shifts (+20°C/68°F during the day, -90°C/-130°F at night is not uncommon) and savage dust storms of the surface of Mars. After all, none other than James H. Ragan, the Group Leader responsible for the original NASA tests which gave us the Moonwatch, has said: "I believe there will always be a requirement for a personal chronograph on all future manned missions. I also believe that when the first astronaut sets foot on the Martian soil the chronograph that will be worn will be an OMEGA." Given this was the man who selected the Speedmaster for space all those years ago, you certainly wouldn't bet against him being right.


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Spotify Premium allows users to enjoy many features (offline playing, high-quality sound). Since quite a time, Spotify offers Family Premium that allows you to have up to 6 members for a fixed rate. I will share with you all a tip I figure out to save more money and keep Spotify Familly Premium working.
You should be an Immigrant
Not necessarily, but you should have the following requisites (almost all immigrants have them):
- Have a verified Paypal account, Debit Card or Credit Card from a country of a soft currency. I define a soft currency as the one who has depreciation and variation. In my specific case Mexican Peso.
- Live in a country with a hard currency. I define a hard currency as the one who has low depreciation and almost no variation. American Dolar, Canadian Dolar, Euro, Pound are good examples. So you should be living in one of the countries with those currencies.
- Your Spotify account must be set to the same country of your Paypal account, Debit Card or Credit Card you are going to pay. You can use the Hola VPN plugin from Chrome store to do this.
- Spotify Account must be linked to Facebook (according to my tests, using the Spotify account username won't work)
- All members in the Spotify Familly Premium package must be in the same country setting (use Hola plugin to change this)
Saving Money
Follow these steps for the family account holder:
- Log on to your account using the Facebook Integration
- Subscribe to the Spotify Familly Premium package, you will be billed according to that country fee. For example, in Mexico Spotify Family Premium package is 149 MXN (approx 6 CADS, 5 USD)
- Send the email or link invitation to your Family
The people who are getting your invitation must do the following:
- Change your country profile setting to the same of your sponsor.
- Link your account to Facebook and log out
- Log in using Facebook sing-in
- Redeem the invitation code
Now, let's do some maths to back up this. Spotify Family Premium cost is 149 MXN in Mexico, its cost in Canada is 14.99 CADs. Converting all to my local currency (CAD), 149 MXN = 10.41 USD (using current rate 1 CAD = 14.31038 MXN). So, from the very start, you are saving 4.58 CADs. The good thing about Family that some members can be non-family members, Spotify verification runs on checking all accounts belong to the same country. In my specific case, my friend Jessica is joining me in this (and hopefully her boyfriend will join us). She is helping me out with 40 MXN (2.80 CAD) for her account. This means me, as the tenant of the family membership, it really costs me 109 MXN (or 7.62 CADs).blog comments powered by Disqus


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Hmm... wondering what to do with a lazy Sunday afternoon? Why not build a volcano that can erupt? Have fun and make a mess, all in the name of science!
You Will Need:
• 6 c. flour
• 2 c. salt
• 1 c. water
• Small plastic bottle
• Baking sheet
• Acrylic paint
• Paint brushes
• 1/2 c. vinegar
• 1 tsp. red food coloring
• Dishwashing detergent
• Tissue
• 3-4 tbsp. baking soda
• Cardboard (optional)
• Glue (optional)
• Toy trees (optional)
Step 1: Make clay
Make homemade clay by mixing the flour and salt in a bowl, and then adding water until the mixture is smooth in consistency.
Step 2: Center bottle
Center the bottle on the baking sheet.
Step 3: Shape volcano
Shape the clay around the bottle to make it look like a volcano. Start at the bottom, creating a wide base, and work toward the top. Make sure to leave the mouth open.
Step 4: Paint the volcano
Paint the volcano with the acrylic paint to make it look more realistic.
Step 5: Add liquids
Pour the vinegar, red food coloring, and a few drops of dishwashing detergent into the bottle.
Step 6: Add baking soda
Fold the baking soda into a tissue and drop it into the bottle, and watch in wonder as your volcano erupts.
Trivia: When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the eruption caused the mountain's elevation to drop 1,314 feet.
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In this title, Neville offers alternative approaches to developing ideas, specifically for character concept development. There are times you want to approach a project with great specificity and then other times you want to put aside presumption and allow for "it" to happen to you. This demonstration explores a few approaches to fostering "happy accidents" and ways to efficiently "see" quickly. Neville begins in Photoshop, very quickly sketching random shapes and areas of value to "find" an image within. After discovering an intriguing image, he takes it to near completion, revealing the importance of staying open to new ideas as he develops a creature. From there he explores the same ideas for head and creature development using software: ZBrush's mirroring tool. Finally, he finishes with a sculpted ZBrush "sketch" showing ways to keep creativity alive while working in 3D.
Duration: 160 minutes
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text: Here is another gem from Burma. Basic Pariccasamuppada – Nataparinna Stage is is meant as a direct delivery of the meditative tools and means that will pave the way out of suffering and enter Nirbana. This doctrine is called Pariccasamuppada and it deals with the laws of cause and effect, also known and as karmic laws. Through the study and practice of Pariccasamuppad, the student will find that nothing is permanent in this world. When you know that what you think or regard as permanent is not permanent, you will eventually try to find the way out of this impermanent world. When that urge comes to live, this book has accomplished what the authors aimed at. Download the book here (144 pages):


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Media Contact: Gino DiCaro (Office) 916-498-3347 or (Mobile) 916-730-3443
Lieutenant Governor Newsom, Manufacturers, and Correctional Peace Officers to hold historic California Manufacturing Summit
June 28, 2011 Sacramento, CA -- California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, the California Manufacturers & Technology Association (CMTA), and the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) will hold a historic "Everything Grows with Manufacturing" Summit tomorrow, June 29 at 9:30 a.m. at the Sacramento Convention Center, with a live webcast starting at 10:00 a.m. (seen at www. cmta.net).
The Summit has brought together key, often divergent, figures to share information and visions about California's economy and the crucial role manufacturing will play in our future. Moderated by political columnist, Greg Lucas, the Summit will provide a spirited discussion on the following:
The importance of manufacturing
Outlook of manufacturing
Manufacturing in California: Tale of two companies
Summit co-chairs on the Summit:
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom: "We should restart the engine of economic development in California, and signal to all potential job creators that our great state is open for business again."
(Lt. Gov. Newsom will describe his efforts to promote private investment and job growth in California, including his work on a new economic development plan that includes manufacturing as a key component.)
CMTA president Jack M. Stewart: "California has rested on its natural laurels far too long. We�ve chosen winners and losers, taken our eye off the ball, and been too complacent while other states have created inviting climates to grow every type of manufacturing. We can�t afford to lose the race for new investments in existing and new manufacturing firms. We are going to start to turn this around."
CCPOA Mike Jimenez: "Our correctional officers put themselves at risk everyday. We understand well that California must grow its private sector job base to sustain minimum public sector funding for crucial and often dangerous services. We also know that a job is often the difference between an inmate and a productive citizen. It all starts with making sure our largest wealth creator -- manufacturing -- can flourish and support other industries in California."
The Summit will be broadcast live at 10:00 a.m. via webcast at cmta.net. No registration is required.
You can also register to attend the event and get details here. Journalists just need to check the box for "media" at the end of the registration process.
If you tweet or follow the Summit through twitter, the hashtag is #mfgsummit.
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The Health and Wellness Team should have three to five members. They will oversee the programs of blood pressure screening; CPR, first aid, and driver safety training; Prayers and Squares Quilt Ministry; and any health fairs and study groups related to health and wellness issues.
2014 marks the tenth anniversary of the Prayers & Squares ministries which provides lap quilts and pillows for seriously ill parishioners and acquaintances.


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Elisabeth Brockmann
MAKK _ Museum of applied art Cologne | Freedom, Space and Light
From February 24 to April 8, the MAKK_ Museum of Applied Art presents a solo exhibition with current works by Elisabeth Brockmann.
Elisabeth Brockmann will be talking to the artistic director of the COLLUMINA project Bettina Pelz on March 1 from 6.30 pm to 8 pm. Topics for discussion are the artistic practice and the associated way of thinking and working, light as a material and medium of art and art in public space as well as about selected works from the current exhibition.
MAKK _ Museum of Applied Art
Elisabeth Brockmann is dedicated to work site- and context-specific for architectural and stage spaces. She refines her artistic vocabulary working on pictorial promises, icons and myths as well as ephemeral materials such as light, steam and water. She develops walk-in pictorial spaces and luminous fields of vision in which she integrates the gaze of the beholder by means of light. This corresponds to the choice of her pictorial motifs, in which she prefers the painted portrait and the photographic detail.
Bettina Pelz: "In her studio she experiments with material and form, space and light, scaling and perspective as in an alchemical laboratory. With the camera, she follows these analogue improvisations and generates her photographic source material, which she processes on the screen." > > .
Since 2009 | Duesseldorf [de], House of Architects
Since 2007 | Mannheim [de], REISS-ENGELHORN-MUSEUM
Since 2002 | Dresden[de], ALBERTINUM
2017 | Munich [de], Gallery Wittenbrink
Since 1981 | Regular exhibition practice, mainly in Germany
1974 – 1981 | Duesseldorf [de], Academy of Fine Arts
1955 | born in Unna [de]
Lives in Düsseldorf [de]


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Suddenly, there is barbecue galore on West Davis. OK, two new spots, but still. That's two more than before. Luckie's Smokehouse is renovating a building at Davis and Clinton, near the Kessler Theater.
And now a central Texas barbecue legacy is coming to the space at Davis and Bishop, which most recently housed Casa Blanca.
In other restaurant news, restaurateur Monica Greene has leased the former Quinn building on West Davis near Zang for a new concept called BEE.