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Save 'N Share is hosting a silent auction for unique and valuable donated items.
Save 'N Share is hosting a silent auction for unique and valuable donated items.
The auction, which began Feb. 19 and ends March 9 at noon, is in celebration of the store's first year at its new location at 209 S. Main St. Those who wish to bid must come into the store and ask for a manager.
Proceeds from the auction will go to Churches United in Ministry, the store's organizing entity that aids community members in need. Auction organizers anticipate it will raise several hundred dollars.
There are several items for bid, which include local artists' paintings, as well as rare shoes and old irons.
"You can see from the store that we get a lot of items that are pretty ordinary," Churches United in Ministry President Donna Bagley said. "Certainly with the prices we charge, it's fantastic what the community contributes to us. These items are things that came in and caused us to go, 'Oh.'"
Many of the items were received months ago, but were saved for an event such as this.
"Our prices are so low on most things that, rather than pricing them and letting the lucky person who happens to get here first get the treasure, we decided to do this auction so everyone would have the opportunity," Bagley said.
Among the paintings are three untitled original watercolor works by the late Ellen Groves, a former McPherson resident. The largest, hung without a date, is 19-inch by 27-inch piece illustrating fall leaves in hues of brown, red and green. Paula Allmon, Save N' Share volunteer and former USD 418 art teacher, said this piece stood out above the others.
"It's exquisite," Allmon said. "Ellen was a wonderful artist and did so many different techniques, but there's just something about this piece that's got so much movement, beautiful limited coloration, beautiful technique, and its nicely framed as well."
Two others by Groves are a 1989 7-inch by 9-inch piece featuring sunflowers with a windmill in the background and an 8-inch by 8-inch painting of a vase of orange flowers.
Hannah Swensson is represented in the auction by one block print entitled "Lone Pines." It is a 7-inch by 4-inch painting from 1943. Swensson is a McPherson High School graduate who was influenced greatly in her art by Lindsborg artist Birger Sandzén.
Bids also will be placed on a print by Maleta Forsberg, a current McPherson County resident. "Prairie Plums" is 14-inches by 10-inches.
"These are wonderful examples of our area fine artists," Allmon said. "We have a treasure trove of wonderful artist in our area."
A Japanese hand-painted silk four-panel screen with a black enameled frame is also in the auction. It depicts birds and shrubbery but has no known date or purchase price.
In addition to the local art, two rare items also will be sold.
The first is a pair of knock-off Christian Louboutin red sole black pumps. Second is a pair of Pagoel cast irons from the early 1800s.
There will be reserved prices for each of theses items, and if that price is not reached, the items will be re-listed in a future silent auction, which co-manager Jalayn Stieben said was very likely.
This event is in some ways a cumulative event for the success of the store's first year in its new location. Bagley said sales for 2012 were 25 to 30 percent more than sales in 2011 — a record sales year. And things are looking good for another banner year for 2013.
"Last year, because we had this new store, we had the best year ever," Bagley said. "The store really came through and allowed us to help many more people (1,093 total). I kind of see Churches United in Ministry as the hands and feet of Jesus in McPherson."
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As for the two points you raise above. I think there is a tension here. On the one hand you seem to argue that ethics do not have any objective truth vlaue (a fact I entirely agree with you on - see below); on the other hand you do seem to want to claim that their subjective existence as instantiated in our behaviour is sufficient to attain our belief.
I don't actually think this is coherent. Of course we are ethical creatures and so behave in ethical ways. So we are entitled to describe actions as either ethical or non-ethical, or say egoistic or altruistic. What you do not allow for is the capacity to say this action is better than that action or that this person is good and that person is bad.
You can. To be honest, you just need to include, or have it understood that you are assuming, a particular standard against which that judgment is made. Include the goal.
If we follow your reasoning when I say such things I am only stating my subjective preferences. This means that just as I can say "religions exist" I can say "ethics exists"; but just as the former does not entail "religions possess truth" so the latter does not entail that "ethics possess truth".
In other words it seems to me that you are advocating a moral relativism where any ethical judgement is equally valid (or if you prefer equally invalid).
My own view is that there is a middle way. Just as there are better and worse ways to perform any activity (eg playing an instrument, playing a sport) so to there may be better and worse ways to behave ethically.
There is no objectively correct way to play football, but the teams that are disciplined, practice regularly, have a good esprit de corps etc.. will tend to get the best outcomes.
Thus as long as we can find rational aims (see my response to screwtape on this topic - reply #26) it seems to me we can develop an ethical system which, while not being objective in the way the laws of mathematics are, is still not completely relativist.
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Sorry if there was a misunderstanding, but EvoInt does argue that we owe ethical preference to ourselves, then kin, then friends, then other members of our society (that is to say, people we interact with and depend on). This Zamulinski calls desire-dependence. For the sake of clarity I will preserve his nomenclature.
I deny that the problem exists as you describe it because EvoInt leads to the conclusion that it is prohibited to sacrifice other people's lives for our own benefit. Tell me if I should go in more detail on that.
How it is "far too reductionist"? We do make instinctual judgments of esthetics, and these instinctual judgments are similar to those which we make about perception, an act's rightness, a logical process, etc. Are you saying this is incorrect or incomplete?
It is not at all clear to me why you both claim that there is no objective ethical standard. This claim seems to me prima facie false: the very fact that people on this forum debate (if only regarding Biblical rules and God's conduct) which actions are good and which are not, which actions are just and which are not, which actions are fair and which are not, shows that people on this forum really do believe in an objective ethical standard. Unless you want to argue that this is not really what we mean by having these arguments with Christians, that we're really deluding ourselves into believing that we're arguing right, justice or fairness, and that we're really arguing that X (whether an action is culturally accepted, for example), I don't see how you can get out of it.
In short, saying that it is wrong, unjust or unfair for God to heal some people and yet refuse to heal amputees implicitly assumes some objective standard of judgment.
Sorry I don't think I made my point clearly enough. I accept that we can talk of ethical preferences, but that is not necessarily the end of the story. So kippers vs eggs, my preference is one that relates to taste; which is mutable and personal. However there are other preferences where one preference is better than another. For example; if I have an aim (x) and two possible ways to attain it (f and p) then I can compare f and p to see which best attains x.
I won't re-run the example in the OP but will look at the classic example of the prisoner's dilemma. Two people are arrested for taking part in a crime and kept seperate. (a) If both confess they will both get 2 years in prison. (b) If only one confesses they will go free and the other will 3 years. (c) If neither confesses they both get 1 year.The totals for the outcomes are (a): 4 years(b): 3 years(c): 2 yearsThus (c) is clearly the best outcome for both. However if we follow EvoInt each owes a greater duty to themselves than to the other. For each individual it is better to confess as at most they will get 2 years and could walk free. Moreover they can work out that the other prisoner will be acting in their best interests. Thus following EvoInt they will both confess (option a). EvoInt thus excludes the best outcome.
This problem is the basis for the Private education and global warming examples given above. It is, to my mind, philosophically unsatisfying for an ethical system to exclude the best outcome which is why I think it is, at best, a weak ethical system.
Please do!
A judgement has to be by some standard.
In ethics we tend to use the standard of 'good'. Intuitionism claims that 'good' is a simple (non-analyzable) term - it is something we just know. However it seems to me that there are many different uses of 'good'. That the 'good' of aesthetics is a different 'good' to the good of behavior and different again from, say, the 'good' of childbirth. If we accept that there are different 'goods' then 'good' must be analyzable and thus not a simple term.
"Bill is looking at Mary, Mary is looking at George. Bill is married, George is unmarried. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?" Most (about 90%) of people will answer "can't tell". In fact if we take the time to analyse this problem we find that the answer is "yes". Just because a judgement is intuitive does not make it correct! It only does so for ethics if we accept Moore's contention that ethics can only be looked at intuitively - which in turn relies upon the claim 'good' is simple.
We're speaking from the standard of our own moral values. These are usually shared, at least in part. Broadly speaking moral arguments are a dance of trying to employ our overlap of values to put pressure on our divergence of values. When values[1] are shared, they can be treated in formal logic as though they have an objective truth-value. This allows moral arguments to carry weight among those who disagree: At least some of their values will be shared. 1. By this I mean anything with a normative component to its meaning.
No it doesn't. It just assumes a standard of judgment - one's own, which is hopefully similar enough to that of one's audience that it will successfully carry weight.
Again, you are not stating anything relevant to the objective/subjective ethical principles issue. My point is that this standard of judgment, your own standard, is assumed to be objective, otherwise you would not be positing it. When you say, for example, "it is wrong, unjust or unfair for God to heal some people and yet refuse to heal amputees," you are asserting it as a matter of fact, not as a preference. It makes no sense for you, an atheist (I presume), to say "I prefer for God not to bring into existence a state of affairs where he heals some people and yet refuse to heal amputees," because you don't believe in God in the first place. You are stating a logical fact, the logic of which you hope will convince others, not a personal preference.
Do you say "In my opinion" each time you state your opinion, or say "I believe" each time you state one of your beliefs? Do you say "except in self defense, or for food" each time you say "killing is wrong"?
Quote from: Razel on April 17, 2013, 06:06:04 AMDo you say "In my opinion" each time you state your opinion, or say "I believe" each time you state one of your beliefs? Do you say "except in self defense, or for food" each time you say "killing is wrong"?Well, I would rather be precise, so I do try to specify things like that, yes. But again you keep diverting the topic; saying that some proposition is your opinion does not make it objective or subjective. If you want to talk about opinions instead, that's fine, but what's the relevance to the topic?
Okay, but that's true of any area or discipline. You're speaking in generalities, and what you say could be true from either perspective. Of course people will agree on certain point and disagree on other points, and we want to use logical argumentation to leverage agreement. This is true in science, in religion, in daily life, as much as anything else. So what?
Again, you are not stating anything relevant to the objective/subjective ethical principles issue. I could say the same thing about epistemology, for instance. I only assume "a standard of judgment" about truth, my own, which is hopefully similar... etc. Yet epistemology is clearly objective. There are definitely better ways of achieving knowledge. I assume you agree that e.g. science is a better way of achieving knowledge than religion.
Furthermore, consider that when you say, for example, "it is wrong, unjust or unfair for God to heal some people and yet refuse to heal amputees," you cannot be asserting it as a preference; it makes no sense for you, an atheist (I presume), to say "I prefer for God not to bring into existence a state of affairs where he heals some people and yet refuse to heal amputees," because you don't believe in God in the first place. You are stating a logical fact, the logic of which you hope will convince others, not a personal preference.
"So what" is that on the topic of moral values, it's all we can do. In science, we can make observations and falsify statements against objective reality. This cannot be done with normative claims.
I would think that saying some proposition is my opinion is admittance of its subjectivity.
Well, I believe in objective ethical facts, so no. I don't think you are correct in saying that.
There is an objective reality, which is a result of evolution, against which we can check our ethical statements. For example, given what I've already stated, I believe it is an objective ethical fact that we should not sacrifice other people's lives for our benefit unless our own life is threatened otherwise. As for any other statement of fact, I am open to refutation from contrary evidence, but it's an objective statement.
This, too, amounts to nothing more than "I believe in X, therefore X". Do you actually have an argument to bring?
Well, it is very late for me, so I will make it short... EvoInt is founded on the premise that: * I am essentially of objective and independent intrinsic value throughout my existence, and so are other human beings with foundational attitudes (ethical intuitions). This is called value*.I will not go into the evolutionary aspect of it, but basically it is argued that this premise is a by-production of evolutionary adaptations which make long-term cooperation possible. Based on this, we have a prima facie obligation to minimize the loss of what we are committed to take to be of value*. And based on desire-dependence, no one is obligated to suffer injury.
No, no, no. I need to make this clear from the onset, intuitionism is not a theory of how we get an ought from an is. That is logically impossible.
Intuitionism holds that we start with intuitions, which are judgments (oughts), and then we get to the facts (is).
We start with epistemic intuitions, ethical intuitions, esthetic intuitions, etc. and then figure out reality.
Glad we agree that oughts are not a part of objective reality, then.
I emphasized the key part. We start with intuitions. They are ours, and we hold them. Maybe they're because we're hardwired to. Maybe it's a matter of conditioning of some sort. But as you've agreed, these oughts are not derived logically from observation of reality. Rather, they are held subjectively (albeit perhaps widely).
So, you're against science as a method of gaining knowledge about reality, then? Because that's what I got from this sentence. I'm guessing that's not what you meant. But you packed a lot in there without explaining any of it.
What? No... that's not at all what I said. How the hell would you ever get from what I said to this?
What I said is "you cannot get an ought from an is." But of course oughts are part of objective reality. They are part of our objective reality as moral agents.
No, I never made any claims of subjectivity. Intuitions are a priori, evolutionary, and do not proceed from our minds.
Again, I have no idea how you get from here to there. I never said anything about science or any other method, merely about intuitions being their prerequisite.
You cannot have science without perception, and you cannot have perception without the a priori intuition that first appearances are valid unless they are contradicted. Without such an intuition, we'd all be born nihilists and no science would ever be done.
Of course science is a method of gaining knowledge about reality. Why would you even think otherwise?
Quite directly. "Is" statements are a class of statements that are descriptions of the state of reality. Since "oughts" are not and can not be founded on "is" statements, they are not descriptions of reality.
See, here you contradict yourself. An objective reality is not "ours". It does not depend on whether or not we are moral agents. It doesn't depend on our thoughts in any way.
As I said, perhaps hardwired. That doesn't make it any less subjective.
I hate to use preferences as an example to demonstrate a point like others have done, but here it's appropriate: A subjective preference is no less subjective when one's biological setup makes it inevitable. The preference is still a quality of the organism, rather than a universal constant.
But this is a simple category error. Ethics is not a "description of reality." It is a method by which one makes judgments (right/wrong, good/evil, just/unjust, justified/unjustified, etc) about human action. Ethics is supervenient on the state of reality.
And yet you are still a moral agent and an epistemic agent. Of course reality is not "ours," but we have no understanding of reality apart from that given by "our" faculties.
It doesn't make it any more subjective, either.
You are setting up a false dichotomy between a "quality of the organism" (which really describes all knowledge, since we all acquire knowledge in accordance with our faculties) and "universal constant," which describes very little apart from, you know, actual universal constants like g or c.
This is not a false dichotomy. For an ethical standard to apply universally across time and space, it would have to be a universal constant.
Obviously I don't think an ethical standard needs to be a universal constant in order to be objective. That's a pretty silly criterion, because that would make science, amongst other things, subjective as well. Our scientific principles cannot be, by definition, unchangeable across time and space.
What I mean is that to be an objective standard, its contents cannot be determined by variations among individuals. A human being must refer to the same ethical standard as a dolphin, or a computer, even if that standard includes provisions that dictate different things based on whether one is a human, dolphin, or computer.
1. to be an objective standard, its contents cannot be determined by variations among individualsThis is obviously wrong, because our knowledge constantly changes, including because of variations amongst individuals, cultures, etc. That doesn't mean it's not based on objective facts. Do you deny that evolution is a fact because our understanding of evolution has changed in the 130+ years we've been studying it?
2. A human being must refer to the same ethical standard as a dolphinWhy? Why should we expect a human being to have the same ethical standards as a dolphin? Human beings and dolphins obviously have different needs, societies, etc. If a dolphin referred to the same ethical standards as a human being, we should be extremely puzzled (in fact, this would be pretty much conclusive evidence against intuitionism, although not against moral realism).
I guess my first question would be, which one is it? Second, why should we believe either point? They both seem plainly wrong to me.
This doesn't seem to follow from what I said. To respond to what you said, our knowledge is not an objective standard. Physical reality is an objective standard for which we form predictive models.
To clarify my original point, if the actual contents of physical reality changed relative to perspective[1], then physical reality would be subjective 1. Not one's knowledge of reality, but physical reality itself.
just like values are.
I didn't say that the ethical standard would dictate the same things to humans as it would to dolphins.
Take your rules-of-football analogy earlier
A single set of rules of football (ethical standard) does not dictate the same actions to every player on the field. Individual differences (such as one's position on the team, and for which team one is playing) determine how the rules dictate one to act. Just as the differences between a human and dolphin would cause the same ethical standard to yield different imperatives for each. This shouldn't be controversial, as it is already a part of your intuitionist approach - there, the same ethical standard yields different priorities for different people. Self-preservation is the best example of this - preserving Joe Schmoe doesn't get the same priority for you as it does for Joe Schmoe. This is not due to a difference in the standard for each of you, but to the details of the standard in application.
But you have no way to know physical reality but through your own faculties, therefore stating that "the contents of physical reality cannot be determined by variations..." as distinct from knowledge, is irrelevant. I believe that correspondence theory is fundamentally incoherent. We do not form "predictive models" from "physical reality"; we form "predictive models" from "our perception of physical reality." Therefore I don't think "physical reality" can be a "standard," let alone an objective one.
Again, you don't know "physical reality itself as distinct from our knowledge of reality." You know "our knowledge of reality," which we know is our perception of external reality, but we only know external reality through that knowledge.
Again, only intuitions can lead us to realist perception: logic alone leads to nihilism.
Values are not subjective.
QuoteI didn't say that the ethical standard would dictate the same things to humans as it would to dolphins.No, I am saying that they wouldn't even have the same standards, period. They would not have the same intuitions, values, etc.
Not my analogy, but okay. I prefer hockey myself
Your hypothetical is all well and good, but you're not explaining why one should expect a dolphin to be subject to the same intuitions as human beings.
Of course standards do not dictate how to act, otherwise there'd be no ethics in the first place (God-style or law-style "don't do X" are not ethical standards, in my view, because we still need some internal standard that leads us to accept them in the first place).
So you do not believe that there is an actual, physical universe out there to which our senses react. I don't know if we can continue this discussion meaningfully in light of that.
The very idea of values holding objective truth-value is incoherent.
Different intuitions & values, being subjective, are held by humans and dolphins. That. Is. What. Makes. Them. Subjective! You just acknowledged it right here. If values are different for different people, then that makes them subjective.
I was arguing against a value-objectivist position, which apparently you do not hold after all.


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TW: Horror plays a big role in your books. Where did you get this wild imagination?
SS: I don't know, man. I feel like I watched too many horror movies as a kid. Growing up in Manhattan on East 23rd Street, there was a video store called the Video Stop on 26th Street on 3rd Avenue. They wouldn't let a kid rent R-rated movies, but if you ordered them to your house, they would deliver them. So I used to watch "Friday the 13th," "A Nightmare on Elm Street," "Halloween," "Pumpkinhead," all those "Night of the Living Dead" movies, everything. I was just a huge fan. I don't know if it was just watching the popular kids get killed, or I was just into special effects for a while — all the Rick Baker stuff. I've always grown up with horror stories in my DNA, I guess.
For the most part, and I've been thinking about it a lot lately because now I have kids, when I see something scary for them or when I read something about kids getting hurt, I can't even really deal with it. When I write it, I can easily write about somebody eating a kid. No problem at all when I'm doing it. I've been thinking about it, and for me, really, really good horror is a character being challenged by sort of their greatest fear as it manifests itself in the form of either a monster or just a challenge. It really cuts to the heart of what that character is just afraid of. The story matters in that way, especially in comics, where you are taking these characters that are so heroic and have so many amazing qualities, and then going for something that you think is a great quality but also going for the weak side of that thing.
TW: Can you give us some examples from the superhero world?
SS: For Superman, it's almost like the fact that he's a god, or almost a god, in terms of his limitless power can also be something that you could write a story about in a way that really frightens him about being completely alienated and lonely and turned upon by everyone. Or, for Batman, his knowledge of Gotham, his pathological and obsessive needs to not have connections to people and just be the best there is. You could easily do a story where that's thrown in his face by somebody like the Joker who's calling him crazy and saying, "You should live in the Asylum with us." At that point the Bat-world is like Stephen King; it puts you in a situation where you face your fears, where there are terrible things you did … or the things that you don't want to tell anyone about, but that you're frightened of that are coming from life and coming for you in some way. In that way, I've always been a big fan of psychological horror. Or, it might just be that I watched too many of those slasher films in the '80s.
TW: Did Stephen King influence your writing?
SS: Yeah, he's a huge influence. When I was a kid, my folks sent me to a sleep-away camp for eight weeks, pretty much every summer for a while. But the first summer I went — I guess I was 7 or 8 — it was sort of an athletic camp, and I was sort of a chubby arts-and-crafts kid. I wasn't particularly thrilled. Wasn't quickly picked for teams and stuff like that. The counselor I had there in our bunk would read us a section from Stephen King's fantasy novel, "The Eyes of the Dragon" every night. And he started on the first night of camp and ended on the last night of camp. That was the highlight of my day all through that summer. I'll never forget. It was just magic listening to that story little by little unfold, with Flagg and Roland and all those characters. Stephen King played a big part in my wanting to become a writer, and he's one of my favorite writers now too.
TW: What was it like working with King on "American Vampire"? How did that collaboration come about?
SS: Working with him is a joy. How that came out was really weird. He read some of my stories and wrote a blurb for my short story collection after he had read them. I was just incredibly honored and thrilled. And then when I got "American Vampire" through at Vertigo and it was greenlit, they basically asked me if I would be willing to ask Steve King to do a blurb. After sending him the outline, he said, "Well, I'll do you one better. I'd love to write an issue sometime, because I really love that character Skinner." And I was like, "Well, if I tell them you want to write an issue they're going to want you writing." He was like, "Nah. They probably won't because I never wrote a comic, and I don't know if I'm any good. I don't think they'll really want me to do it." I was like, "They'll definitely want you to write that comic. I promise." So, I called them on like a Friday and left a message: "I think Steve's going to want to say he's willing to write an issue." Monday morning it was a call from the whole office: "Did you say Stephen King said he would be willing to write a whole issue of 'American Vampire?'"
I wrote him a real tight outline — I thought with "Under the Dome" coming out and all this stuff that he would be really preoccupied. And one of the most inspiring things about working with him was that when he got on the book, he immediately began to outgrow that outline and didn't really want to work from it, but worked from the bible of the characters. He didn't do anything that was antithetical or at odds with what we had set off for the character. But he took those characters based on what we had said about them, and they were much richer and farther along, much more extreme in the best way and pushed them to their limit. It was so exciting to see.
TW: He ended up writing more than one issue.
SS: King would email me saying, "I wrote a little bit more," and "I wrote a little bit more," and "I wrote a little bit more." And I was realizing that he must have had two or three issues at that point. Then, when I saw he had three issues, I told him, "Why don't you just go five. I mean, you have more to say. It's all crammed in there." And so he did five issues, and I did five issues and we just set them up back to back. That's when I had this panic attack where I was like, "What have I done? I had just invited one of the best writers of all time to write next to me on my very first comic book. I have completely torpedoed my whole career. How could I have been so stupid?" I did so many drafts of my early stuff on "American Vampire" just to be able to approximate the quality of what he was doing. It was a huge honor and a thrill, and he couldn't be a nicer guy. He always has an open door on "American Vampire," obviously. We're eternally grateful for him contributing so much to the series.
— Travis Walecka
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"THE HISTORICAL KEYBOARD SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA is a United States-based non-profit organization comprised of members who love and promote early keyboard instruments like those pictured here, and the music written for them.
Formed in 2012 by the merger of the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society (MHKS) and the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society (SEHKS), its members include instrument builders, players, teachers, and scholars, as well as many who merely love the looks and sounds of these beautiful instruments.
HKSNA also sponsors an international harpsichord performance competition for young performers (the Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition) and a composition competition, promoting new music for early keyboard instruments (the Aliénor International Harpsichord Composition Competition). Many members also attend our Annual Meeting/Conference, held in the spring of each year in various locations around the USA. These exciting events feature concerts, lectures, scholarly paper readings, and exhibits of scores, books, recordings, and beautiful early keyboard instruments, as well as much convivial collegiality."
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"earlymusica is a site devoted to early music events administered by Micaela Schmitz of Early Music in the Vale. ..."
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""Il Canto delle Muse" is a non-profit cultural assosiation based in Rovigo (Italy); its aim is to promote musical and artistic activities in collaborations with public administration and privates, in order to spread knowledge of XVI, XVII and XVIII music, with the help of renown team of professional in the cultural and musical field. The association organizes activities such as courses, Masterclasses, internships, musical laboratories and schools, concerts, music festivals, opera productions and cultural events in addition to the production of documentary material (musical transcriptions, lecture verbals, musical studies, CDs, DVDs…). ..."
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"Early Music DC is your source for information about upcoming early music and baroque concerts in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
Early Music DC provides information about upcoming early music performances in the Washington, DC area."
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"Founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Jessica Gould as an alternative to the conventional concert hall, Salon/Sanctuary Concerts offers the special chance to hear acclaimed artists performing pre-Romantic music in intimate venues that complement the historical context of the repertoire. We present compositions intended for the domestic salon in the Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium of the Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, built in 1799, where Salon/Sanctuary is the concert series in residence. Sacred music is performed in sanctuaries appropriate to the religious context of the music. …"
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WHAT DOES Huismuziek do?
- Offers a variety of courses each year; 40 music courses with 1000 students! for young and old, beginners and advanced students of classical music, early music, world music, light music and customed arrangements by our teachers. These courses are about playing together.
- Allows member access to the Players Contact Bank , the Teachers Contact Bank and Musicians Bulletin Board . (Click here for more information about memberships).
- Allows Access to the Huismuziek Music Library that houses up to 8000 polyphonic music pieces. Members can borrow music against expenses (postage), but non-members can also borrow music from the library.
- Publishes the Huismuziek Newsletter, which is published twice a year, is packed with information on such matters as courses, teachers and ensemble events.
- Publishes the Huismuziek E-News; our monthly newsletter containing date information of the courses, ensemble projects and tips for the amateur musicians and singers.
- Publishes the 250 Music Annex (sheet music) that appears in each issue of the journal. This music is copyright free and free for download/print for members.
- Offers a discount for instrument insurance to Huismuziek members from the insurance company Zicht BV (ex Zuidstaete)..
- There are 25 independent regional Huismuziek associations across the country. Each "department" are connected ensembles, varying in shape and composition. Membership in a regional association is independent of the national membership.
- Contact Builder, is an important part of Huismuziek. The "Contact Builder" lists about 600 amateur builders, their knowledge and experience about building, sharing of their knowledge of maintaining and repairing musical instruments, and has its own building in Arnhem. Contact Builder organizes six annual building workshops. Contact Builder members information is published four times a year through the Construction Letter.
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"Association Ensemble 900 is a well established activity around the regional, interregional and national culture.
In fact, it is often involved on the organization of major events, in favour of the cultural heritage of our region and the dissemination of it in a national field.
Ensemble900 for the first time in Abruzzo, held a luthery workshop taking the important international school "Antonio Stradivari" of Cremona in the region. Some years after led another event: two first absolute musical executions of the famous Roman composer Sylvano Bussotti with a live record at the Teatro Comunale in Atri.
Ensemble' 900 combines the live musical events with a musical research and protection: not only a concert but an interactive relationship with the public.
For over ten years, Ensemble900 is dedicated to the Organization of the International Festival of ancient music "Seicentonovecento" with vintage instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, with important awards at a national level:
- Medal from the Italian President of the Republic C.A. Ciampi on 12th of May 2005;
- Two silver plates from the Italian President of the Republic G.Napolitano on 2007-2008;
- Silver plate from the Presidency of the Council (F. Marini) on 2008;
- Honorable Mention from the Italian President of the Republic G.Napolitano on May 2009.
This manifestation has an high historic and musicologic relevance, often using historical organs and instruments found within theinstrumental panorama of our region. The on-site festival combines the rediscovery of the palaces, churches and the ancient crafts from the 500th."
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" … As the only presenter in the entire state that focuses exclusively on historically informed, period instrument performances of Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music, EMN aims to ensure the continued vitality of the arts in Wisconsin. Other presenters may offer some early music programs, short-term festivals, or modern-instrument adaptations of this special repertoire. But no other presenter carries this banner consistently, or maintains EMN's intense and exclusive focus on early music. …"
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"The Associazione Hendel* is a non-profit organization that seeks to combine musicological thinking with practical performance projects of Handel's music. We are presently supporting an ambitious recording and performance project by the Italian orchestra La Risonanza to perform and record all of Handel's cantate con strumenti (i.e. the cantatas accompanied by continuo and additional instruments) dating from the composer's time working across Italy. In co-operation with the Spanish early music label Glossa, we aim to complete the project before the end of 2009, the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Such a project has never been envisaged before, and has so far been met with enormous critical success. .."
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"The American Nyckelharpa Association is a non-profit corporation for the preservation and fostering of the nyckelharpa (sometimes called the Swedish Key Fiddle). We will conduct educational programs and activities to promote knowledge of and interest in the nyckelharpa and the traditional music of the nyckelharpa. We shall endeavor to provide competent instruction in playing the nyckelharpa, in the traditional music, and in the traditional dance associated with the music."
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"La Fundación Camerata de Caracas is a non-profit institution whose mission is to bring all the groups that make up a high level of artistic excellence, to educate all those involved in its activities through a new experience and a wide cultural activity and comprehensive education of music students specializing in international early music and of Latin America. …"
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" OPERA America is dedicated to supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
OPERA America draws on resources and expertise from within and beyond the opera field to advance a mutually-beneficial agenda that serves and strengthens the field through programs in the following categories:
- * Creation: Artistic services that help artists and companies increase the creativity and excellence of opera productions, especially North American works;
- * Presentation: Opera company services that address the specific needs of staff, trustees and volunteers;
- * Enjoyment: Education, audience development and community services that increase all forms of opera appreciation.
The association provides members with an array of publications and online resources, regional workshops, an annual conference and network-specific services such as conference calls, e-mail listservs and direct contact with staff with expertise in opera production, administration and education. OPERA America provides members with tools to maximize the effectiveness of financial and human resources, expand the scope of repertoire and programs, and extend their reach to new and diverse audiences.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America has an international membership that includes nearly 150 Professional Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and over 16,000 subscribers to its electronic news service. "
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"THE LUTE SOCIETY, founded in 1956, exists to promote the lute and its music. Even if you can't make it to our meetings and recitals in London, joining the Lute Society is an excellent way of building up your music library, and of keeping in touch with news in the Lute world. We are happy to retail our publications to non-members. The Society currently has around 730 members (2006, May). " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"… The Bach Society was founded at Christ the King Lutheran Church under the initial leadership of Carroll and Dorry Shaddock, inspired by the example of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan, which presented cantatas on a weekly basis at Sunday evening vespers services. Dr. Robert Lynn, professor of musicology at the University of Houston (now emeritus), was engaged as Music Director, and together they worked to establish an ensemble which reflected the latest research and scholarship of historically-informed performance practice. A series of Bach Vespers was the Society's first offering; the response of the public was overwhelming, and attendance remained at capacity over the years as the number of presentations steadily increased. …"
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"The Collegium Pro Musica Association has its premises in the city of Genoa and promotes activities aimed to regenerate and enliven the art and culture, with particular reference to the classical and ancient music.
Since 1990 until now, the artistic direction of the Collegium Pro Musica distinguished itself for having supervised the artistic coordination of many concert events. As far as its first years of activity are concerned, we can mention: Musica Antica nei Chiostri (Ancient Music in cloisters, Genoa, 1990), the baroque music section of The International Festival of Baroque Arts (Rome, Genoa and Siracusa, 1991) and the classical music section of the Mediterranean Festival (Genoa, 1992, 1993 and 1994). In 1993, the Association has finally been founded and from that time on, it has fully managed both the organizational and the artistic aspects of the events promoted.
The International Festival of Chamber Music (formerly named as "I Concerti dell'Ateneo" and then "Genova Musica Antica") is the concert event that the Collegium Pro Musica Association has been promoting for many years: launched in 1994, dedicated to the great chamber music with a special predilection for the baroque and classical repertoire, it is the most important summer event of classical music in Genoa. Since the 2000, the Festival takes place also in the town of Savona. …"
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"Designed to highlight the opening events of New York City artists and presenters specializing in historically informed performance (aka 'early music"), Celebration '07 will encompass a six week period in the fall, a veritable cornucopia of activity spanning the gamut from medieval to classical repertoire, performed by individual artists to baroque orchestras, in chamber concerts to symposia, including professional, recreational and educational events. " ...
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"The Renaissance Society was founded in 1944 to promote the understanding and appreciation of plainchant, Renaissance polyphony and other types of vocal and instrumental music from the period. The founder was Michael Howard who was later to achieve distinction as the Organist and Master of the Choristers at Ely cathedral before holding other prestigious posts in the musical world.
The Renaissance Singers was formed at the same time as the performing arm of the Society, and apart from a period of silence in the 1980s has maintained an impressive schedule of concerts. Many recordings have been made-the last in February 1998.
The success of the Singers is evidenced by the detailed and fascinating archive dating from July 1944, but it took 55 years for a wider role for the Society to emerge.
In 1999 Saeculum was launched as a festival of early music and is the first major activity undertaken by the Society other than the running of the Renaissance Singers. The immediate success of Saeculum meant that in 2000 the scope was broadened beyond the running of a single annual weekend event and now Saeculum events take place throughout the year. They include cultural events beyond the staging concerts and include workshops for musicians and the appreciation of wine and art. …"
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"Welcome to the award-winning National Centre for Early Music - a centre of excellence for music making of all kinds - and an established conference and recording venue.
Image of the National Centre for Early Music Interior: Click to ZoomThe National Centre for Early Music, situated in St Margaret's Church York, is the home of the internationally renowned York Early Music Festival and the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival. The Centre also attracts some of the world's finest artists in the fields of jazz, folk and world music.
The National Centre for Early Music is a high-tech, modern facility based within an historical setting. It runs a year-round community and education programme and offers first-class conference and recording facilities. " (See site for various programs such as Festivals; concert series etc. ... ed.)
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"Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, just off NYC's famous Lincoln Square, invites you to engage in the unique historic experience of hearing full Bach cantatas in the setting for which they were written. Each Sunday through the end of April, 2012, cantatas will be rendered on their appropriate liturgical Sundays following the practice of J.S. Bach himself in 18th Century Leipzig. These candlelit vespers services also feature organ works, choral motets, chamber music and exciting hymn singing with the renowned Bach Choir and Bach Players on period instruments under the direction of Cantor Rick Erickson. The assembly gathering each week is a diverse community of people in age, lifestyle, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and nationality. All are welcome. Bach Vespers requests a free-will offering during the service and encourages everyone to give generously. Annual contributions and weekly offerings fully support this series and its team of professional artists. "
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"The Manitoba Early Music Festival, Inc. was founded on July 18th 2012. Since then, we have produced shows with an early multi-arts trio, Damsel & Swains. We are planning to produce a full scale 3-day festival in Saint-Norbert, Manitoba, in the Fall of 2015 in partnership with other organizations and artists. Artistic fields included will be visual, dance, music, and theatre.
We are a new registered non-for-profit art organization in Winnipeg : The Manitoba Early Music & Arts Festival,
Incorporated. Our mission is to offer the Winnipeg public access to their historical roots in medieval,
renaissance, and baroque times. Using the arts as an educational tool to reconnect the public with these ancient
roots, we hope to help them figure out which direction we would like to take in our cultural development together.
We would love to include artists from our First Nations communities as well, as they did exist back in what we
call medieval times.
To hire local artists and personalities for our events is very important to us. The Manitoba Early Music & Arts
Festival, Inc. has only been in business since 2012. We do not have paid staff. All our work is done by a board of
5 dedicated members : Heather Ann Dixon (lawyer), Daniel Donahue (recording producer), James Maiello
(university professor - University of Manitoba), Julie Mongeon-Ferré (Bureau de l'éducation française - Education
Manitoba), and Josée Vaillancourt (stage artist, freelance teacher-administrator-organizer-etc.) ..."
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"Early Music West Midlands is a consortium of promoters and performers committed to supporting and advocating medieval, baroque and early classical music, particularly through historically authentic performance.
EMWM produces a regular diary of events with details of performances and workshops throughout the region. We also offer advice and support to local music promoters and work to increase audiences for early music, through our mailing list promotions, and presenting performances at events such as ArtsFest in Birmingham. We are also working on education projects to introduce children and young people to early music. " ...
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"The mission of the Handel and Haydn Society is to perform Baroque and Classical music for chorus and period-instrument orchestra at the highest level of artistic achievement. Founded as a choral society in 1815 by a group of Boston merchants, Handel and Haydn is among the oldest continuously performing arts organizations in the country. From its earliest years, the Society established a tradition of innovation, performing the American premieres of Handel's Messiah in 1818, Haydn's Creation in 1819, Verdi's Requiem in 1878, and Bach's B Minor Mass in 1887. The Society began performing Handel's Messiah annually in 1854. Throughout its history the Handel and Haydn Society has brought the world's most beautiful music and its greatest artists to local audiences, setting a standard for orchestral and choral performances that remains unparalleled. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"NFA Core Values
- Honors, values, and respects the contributions of all members equally.
- Promotes collegiality and embodies integrity.
- Draws strength from our local roots and provides meaningful benefits.
- Promotes flute performance, pedagogy, and development by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas.
- Enriches the repertoire for the flute through commissioning, special publications, and related activities.
- Inspires and cultivates personal, professional, and artistic excellence.
- More than 6,000 members, from all 50 states and 50 countries
- Thirty-six conventions and counting
- NFAMusic Library—the largest lending library of flutemusic in the world, where NFA members have access to a collection of more than 15,000 works
- Networking of flutists and exhibitors for more than 36 years
- Cultural outreach scholarships in 15 cities
- Extensivemusic commissioning activities, including new works annually for the Young Artist and High School Soloists and biennially for the Piccolo Artist competitions
- Liaison with more than 200 U.S. flute clubs"
The NFA does include early flute in their support list.
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" ... Min-On literally means "the people's music," and it is Min-On's aim to return music to the people, offering everyone the opportunity to enjoy the world's finest performing arts, as well as promoting international cultural exchange and peace by introducing music and performing arts from every country around the world.
The Min-On Concert Association was founded in 1963 at the initiative of Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International. As a nonprofit, independent, nondenominational organization, Min-On promotes the global exchange of musical culture with the aim of developing mutual understanding and respect among people of different races and nationalities. In 1965, Min-On was registered as a legally incorporated foundation, and today it is possibly the largest private, nonprofit performing arts promoter in the world, supported by more than a million sustaining members throughout Japan. ..."
Visit the Min-On website for more information. Note their wonderful keyboard collection (photos) on their site. (Admin)
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"We come together to discuss the life, times and works of the author, to visit places important in her life; sometimes to dress in Regency finery, and to perform her music and dances! We meet or go on expeditions every couple of months, the meetings normally in North Oxford.
The Austen family had links to the city and University of Oxford: we are engaging in research to find out more about Jane's schooling here, and the family's association with Brasenose and St John's College. The group was founded in October 2009 as Oxford's first and only Jane Austen Society for many decades (so far as we have been able to find out!).
We also have strong interest in the music of the period, and the historical aspects of domestic performance: Jane pulled together a large corpus of contemporary and traditional works, adding her own embellishments and arrangements for performing them at home."
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If you don't yet have final results, you can either include any preliminary results that you do have, or you can briefly mention the results that you expect to obtain.preliminary results expect
Similarly, unexpected or negative results occur often. They can still be useful and informative, and you should include them in your abstract. Talk with your mentor to discuss how such results are normally handled in your discipline.unexpected negative
In any case, whether you have complete, partial, projected, or unexpected results, keep in mind that your explanation of those results – their significance – is more important than the raw results themselves.explanation significance
Be straightforward . Don't worry about making your abstract "flow". Don't worry about writing a long or elaborate introduction or conclusion, and as we suggested above, don't include too much background information on your project's general topic. Instead, focus on what you have done and will do as you finish your project by providing the information we have suggested above .straightforward
If your abstract is still too long, look for unnecessary adjectives or other modifiers that do not directly contribute to a reader's understanding of your project. Look for places where you repeat yourself, and cut out all unnecessary information.unnecessary
Re-examine the work you have done so far (whether it is your entire project or a portion of it). Look specifically for your objectives, methods, results, and conclusions.
After re-examining your work, write a rough draft without looking back at the materials you're abstracting. This will help you make sure you are condensing the ideas into abstract form rather than simply cutting and pasting sentences that contain too much or too little information.without looking back
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Avoid jargon . Jargon is the specialized, technical vocabulary that is used for communicating within a specific field. Jargon is not effective for communicating ideas to a broader, less specialized audience such as the Undergraduate Symposium audience.Avoid jargon
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In any criminal or traffic case a defendant has certain basic post-trial rights according to Maryland Law. All of motions for post-trial relief (requesting a change in the outcome of your case) have time limit deadlines and must be done in writing. The following is a brief summary of these rights:
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL – Pursuant to the Maryland Rules of Procedure you have ten (10) days to file a Motion for a New Trial from the time that you plead guilty or are found guilty by the Court. This date starts the day of the guilty finding and expires at the end of the tenth (10 th ) day. If you do not file a Motion with the Court in writing pursuant to the Rules you will be forever barred from requesting same. A new trial request may include any legal or factual issues relevant to requesting a new trial.MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL
APPEAL – You have the absolute right to appeal your case to the next appellate level within thirty (30) days of the date of your sentencing. Failure to do so in writing will forever bar you from filing same. If you appeal a Maryland District Court criminal case, you get a Trial De Novo (new trial) in Circuit Court. If you tried the case in Circuit Court either by judge or jury then you can appeal the case based on a factual basis, legal issues or a combination of both that you believe may of violated any law, your constitutional rights and/or procedural matters. If you were granted Probation Before Judgment, you have waived your right to appeal as there is no conviction to appeal.APPEAL
MOTION FOR MODIFICATION – You have the absolute right to file a petition for a modification of your sentence within ninety (90) days from the date of the sentence. Failure to do so will preclude you from filing or having your sentence modified at a later time. You may also request that any probationary issues be modified thereto. In some cases you are able to modify "probationary issues" after the ninety (90) day time period. However, you should not assume that and ultimately, it is at the discretion of the Court.MOTION FOR MODIFICATION
3 JUDGE PANEL – In some circumstances you have the right to request a 3 Judge Panel in the Circuit Court only. The Judges may reduce, keep the sentence and conditions the same or modify your sentence. This must be filed within thirty (30) days in writing to the Court.3 JUDGE PANEL
OTHER POST TRIAL RIGHTS – Depending upon your case you may have other post-trial rights pursuant to Maryland law. This list is not a total complete list but only to advise that these and others exist. As stated above you should not hesitate because an untimely motion may disqualify you. TBHE criminal attorneys are experienced in handling post-trial criminal and traffic matters.
Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefit.
Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose. It exists in two forms:
Shared workspaces are among the most visible entries in the collaboration space. Aimed at rolling document and application sharing up with chat and perhaps versioning and other auditing capabilities, they may have more or fewer features, and may be available either for license or on a syndicated basis "in the cloud," as they say. Google Docs is a notable example of the latter, Microsoft SharePoint and EMC Documentum eRoom of the former.
Wikis are perhaps best thought of as online encyclopedias or "how-to" manuals. They are applications that let users freely create, edit, and reorganize content using a Web browser. Perhaps the most visible example of this breed is Wikipedia, and variants exist throughout enterprises of all kinds and sizes.
The plus and the minus of wikis are that more or less anyone can enter anything into the resource – so while they're a great way to capture and share what people know, they also must be vetted to ensure nothing erroneous gets planted within (intentionally or otherwise). The good news is that, over time, active wikis tend to be of fairly high quality due to the self-policing nature of an engaged user base.
Collaboration at the conceptual level, involves:
Collaboration relies on openness and knowledge sharing but also some level of focus and accountability on the part of the business organizations. Governance should be established addressing the creation and closing of team workspaces with assignment of responsibility for capturing the emergent results of the collaborative effort.
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/10/09/drakengard-3-producer-long-taro-yoko-square-enix-can-make-drakengard/Hm, no mention of if they'd keep doing them even if they sell below expectations, considering some of their high profile games.
So I'm kind of digging the look of this game and there aren't a whole lot of games I'm looking forward to so far next year, but... Anyone know if I'd be totally lost plot-wise if I picked this up?
The fifth ending transports the game from its medieval world to the modern one! Where you play a bad rhythm game with some horrific statue woman. After that, you get shot down by the military.... and that's it. What this does for NieR is the destruction and magical properties (IIRC, it's some sort of weird biological 'hocus-pocus') of the giant statue lady and your dragon cause some sort of awful disease that kills of most of the human race and leads into NieR's post-apocalyptic world. Even if this does sound "interesting" it's barely touched on in NieR besides a piece of DLC content that barely explains the connection well and the initial setting of NieR which is more "show, don't tell".http://youtu.be/B09qyRzXU_4Here's that final battle in the infamous "E ending"http://youtu.be/G80XpHACiuwHere's the ending-ending for E Ending
One thing that should be pointed out is that Drakengard 2 is the only game not put together by the team that made Drakengard 1, NieR, and this game soon enough. As such it's by far the weakest of the games by far in terms of writing and plot (not that Drakengard 1 was that much stronger, but it had other batshit crazy shit going on that Drakengard 2 doesn't have), although technically it is the best mechanically speaking (although NieR's still the better game due to Zelda-like > Dynasty Warrior clone).Basically, of all the games thus far only NieR is really worth playing, but Drakengard 1 makes for a great LP read if you can find one and will probably be the most useful in getting a grasp on what's going down in Drakengard 3 (and Drakengard 2 is probably the safest to disregard).
I kinda liked Drakengard 2 more, plot-wise. I admire D1 for setting the world up -- but fuck!! When things take a turn for the worst they turn into shitty, fucky, ninth circle of hell BAD. As if the fact you're fighting to rescue your SISTER who's in LOVE with you wasn't "icky" enough to deal with (only to end in a Nightmarish version of 'Romeo and Juliet'), but you later go full-crazy with giant babies trying to eat you with a full set of molars, hysteric Goddesses, deranged party members, and a game where the "best" ending is merely 'bittersweet' at best. Sure, few games ever venture to the same level of 'twisted', evil-Mothergoose story telling... but for me, once was enough, I have no desire to revisit that. I thought, for the most part, D2 was a much more positive experience.
The Final D ending boss fight has one of Emi Evans' songs, and each attack is seemingly done to the music.It looked like a rhythm game, almost.Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGD4FEu02oM
Apparently, the sisters have no character development in-game. You really need to read the promotional material and books onthem to understand their motives and personalities.
There's a movie with the ending D boss fight out already. It's really neat. I didn't watch the endings myself because I prefer to keep spoiler-free, but. . .Code: [Select]The Final D ending boss fight has one of Emi Evans' songs, and each attack is seemingly done to the music.It looked like a rhythm game, almost.Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGD4FEu02oMAlso, not really spoilers, but this is something that should be known before playing the game:Code: [Select]Apparently, the sisters have no character development in-game. You really need to read the promotional material and books onthem to understand their motives and personalities.
Meanwhile, it seems that fact One looks like Manna/Seere is also relevant to the plot and "the Watchers Cult" as well... but I understand that part of D3's story as much as I understood it back in D1's, so.... eh, whatev.


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Is it too late, America? Another slaughter of innocentsEDITORIAL
February 18. 2018 1:29AM
Why the repeated instances of mass shootings in our schools? Why the horrific stories of entire families of children being half-starved and held in chains by their so-called parents? Why the increasing murders of law enforcement officers?
There is no one answer. There has always been evil in our world and always will be. But the moral code (dare we say the 10 Commandments?) that previous generations of Americans were taught is little in evidence today. A God-fearing people was once respected in the public square. Now it is the subject of scorn and derision in popular culture - when it isn't being attacked outright in our public institutions.
The coarsening of American life began decades ago and is now acceptable. Vulgarity, pornography, immorality are no longer winked at, they are held up as "freedom of expression.''
Abortion, at any stage and in any form, is routine. "Assisted suicide'' advances. Politicians who shrug off their own moral looseness as "locker room'' hijinks are cheered. The family unit, traditional marriage, and Judeo-Christian values are mocked.
And we still wonder why impressionable teenagers become depressed and see no future? We wonder why they turn to drugs or pick up whatever weapon is at hand and massacre their fellow or former students?
It may simply be too late for America. We pray that it is not so.


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Band Of Outsiders Uses Scavenger Hunt to Present FW '13 Lookbook
In case you missed it, clothing brand Band Of Outsiders took Mercedez-Benz Fashion Week by storm with an interestingly clever scavenger hunt as an alternative to the typical runway show.
(See: Band Of Outsiders Prepares 'Matt Vs Miles' Scavenger Hunt For NYFW)
Throughout the day-long, citywide adventure, the brand snapped images at each pitstop to include in their Fall/Winter 2013 Lookbook. The use of neutral colors and variety of materials—ranging from tweed to wool—make these definite winter essentials for the final patch of cold weather.
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It's often said that the rich have the world at their fingertips.
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When it comes to shopping, however, it seems they prefer to use their legs.
Sixty percent of wealthy smartphone owners say they rarely or never shop on their mobile phones, according to a new survey released by independent research firm The Luxury Institute. The survey polled individuals who earn $150,000 or more a year and reported an average net worth of $2.8 million.
While the respondents cited several reasons for not indulging in mobile shopping, the biggest reason by far was a preference for the in-store shopping experience. Fifty-one percent said they prefer to touch and feel the products they're buying than swipe through products on their smartphones.
"They love the in-store experience; some even see it as entertainment," says Milton Pedraza, CEO of the Luxury Institute.
Twenty-nine percent of respondents cited privacy and security concerns as their main reason for not shopping on their smartphones, while 22% said they prefer shopping on devices with larger screens, such as their computers or iPads. Eleven percent said they don't know how to shop on their phone and another 7% said the process seems complicated. Only 5% said that the brands they favor don't offer options for mobile shopping.
While the majority of wealthy consumers aren't keen on using their mobile phones to shop, 40% of them do so frequently. Fourteen percent of respondents said they make purchases from their phone "regularly" and 26% said they do so "occasionally."
As true luxury customers, it's not surprising that those who shop on their phones are spending quite a bit of money. One out of every four wealthy individuals who shopped from their phones – even those who shopped "rarely" – made purchases totaling $1,000 or more over the last 12 months. The majority of respondents (34%) spent somewhere between $100 and $499. Tickets to events (sporting events, concerts, etc.) represented the biggest portion of mobile purchases, followed by gift cards, food and personal electronics.
Perhaps one of the most interesting findings in the survey is that, when it comes to mobile entertainment, the wealthy aren't any more sophisticated than today's bored, broke teens. The study found that Facebook, Angry Birds and Words With Friends are their apps of choice. (Alec Baldwin could have told us that!)
"I guess they're just as human as the rest of us," says Pedraza.


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I can't see the novelty of this. Home dvileery in Argentina has been available from all major supermarkets for the past 10 years You do your shopping on their websites (from any device with Internet access), you account can store your past purchases, your usually preferred products, and it makes it a lot easier because you can customize the online supermarket to show only the products you like or usually purchase. We never ever go to a supermarket.
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ITJB - Round 2 - Week 6 - Vienna Bread (pg. 89) 6/2/12 - 6/9/12
We 3 sisters, couldn't wait any longer to get this posted. This week Vienna Bread! Never had it before, but will again, and again. This bread is AMAZING. The ease of the recipe could make this bread every baker's Daily Bread. Wonderful texture. The dough is light and easy to handle. We are all convinced that the diastatic malt is the wonder ingredient. Below are our pictures and some comments. Again, Thank you Kendra for the great choices you made in this semesters schedule!
Helen, gmabaking2, finished her loaves first and they look as amazing as they taste. She also sent a picture to me a few minutes later, and one loaf had disappeared when her daughter, and grandchildren came by. It goes that fast!
I baked mine in two different manners, since I was curious about baking bread in my clay romertoff... so you will see a definite different look of the crust and textures here.
I baked them with the lid on the romertoff... Even now, a few days old, this bread is moist and very good.
Now, here are Barb's, gmabaking, loaves, she put dried apples and fruits into hers... they sound and look amazing!
She said in her text to me that you could not see the fruits, but if you look closely you can see them. Her husband, the official bread taster, pronounced this bread very, very, good. All of our families and friends agree... This will become my standard sandwich bread. We all commented while texting and chatting and enjoying our sisterly day of baking that this dough would also make great rolls. It makes great toast too... Did I mention that it is amazing? Love it! Again, we are enjoying spending our baking day together and reminiscing about breads and rolls gone by ;-)... See you all here next week for Sandwich Cookies... HAPPY BAKING!


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Meet Dosa Temple Chef Siva Kumar
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In 1997 Siva moved to Chennai to attend culinary school. After graduation he worked for a few years in five-star hotel in the city, the Taj. In 2000 he moved to Bombay, where he continued to work at the Taj. Eager to expand his culinary experience, he moved to the United States in 2004.
In the U.S. Siva had the opportunity to work in a number of cities and learn about different cuisines. He discovered that he has a special passion for vegetarian and vegan foods. He helped start a vegetarian restaurant and he found that he loved combining healthy, local products to create tasty and hearty meals with vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free products. When his longtime friend Gopala Krishnan opened Dosa Temple, he called upon Siva to join him. Dosa Temple has been very successful, and Siva is planning to open his own restaurant very soon.
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America's elderly continue to defy negative stereotypes that aging is synonymous with increasing decline and disability. According to new findings from the National Long Term Care Surveys, disability rates among older people in the U.S. are falling dramatically, and the reduction in disability is gaining momentum.
Researchers at Duke University estimate that 1.2 million fewer older people were disabled in 1994 than would have been expected based on disability rates observed in 1982. The number of older people with functional problems in 1994 stood at 7.1 million, not the 8.3 million who would have been impaired if health had not improved over the last few years.
The report by Kenneth G. Manton, Ph.D., Larry Corder, Ph.D., and Eric Stallard, A.S.A., M.A.A.A., of Duke University appears in the March 18, 1997, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It follows a groundbreaking April 1993 analysis by the same team, which discovered a surprising fall in disability rates during the 1980s. Both surveys and analyses were funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA).
"This is one of the most important findings in demography that I've seen in many years. The trend is very powerful," Richard M. Suzman, Ph.D., director of the NIA's Office of the Demography of Aging, said.
"Many factors, including better public health measures and nutrition, higher levels of education, improved economic status, and medical advances, may be involved in the decline in disability. Now, in order to maintain and accelerate the decline, we need to pinpoint how each of these factors is contributing to the improved health of older people."
The researchers looked at disability among people 65 and older between 1982 and 1994. The data come from the National Long Term Care Surveys, which followed the health status and disability in national samples of approximately 20,000 people in 1982, 1984, 1989, and 1994. The number of disabled people in 1994 was compared with what it would have been had 1982 disability rates remained unchanged. The calculations were adjusted to account for the growth in the older population and the increasing age of the elderly over that period.
It was expected that some 24.9 percent of older people would have been disabled if rates had remained at 1982 levels. Instead, the proportion of older people chronically disabled in 1994 was 21.3 percent, a reduction of 3.6 percentage points, or 1.2 million fewer disabled older people than would have been expected without better health. That represents a relative decline of some 14.5 percent.
In addition, Manton found, the decrease in disability is accelerating. About 47 percent of the reduction occurred in the 5 years between 1989 and 1994, while 53 percent occurred in the 7 years from 1982 to 1989. By this measure, the annual declines in disability between 1989 and 1994 were greater than those of the 1980s.
Disability among older people with functional problems also may be less severe. The researchers assessed how many problems people had with "activities of daily living (ADLs)" such as eating, dressing, or bathing and "instrumental activities of daily living" like shopping or using the telephone, for 3 months or more.
The proportion of people who had problems with 3 or more activities of daily living, for example, dropped 1 percent for people ages 65-74, 2.5 percent at ages 75-84, and 2.4 percent for those age 85 and older. Such '3+ADL' impairment is often required before many older people can receive benefits from private long term care insurance, the scientists pointed out.
Manton offered some possible explanations for why older people are doing better. Improvements to date are likely due to better nutrition and public hygiene, coupled with lifestyle changes such as reduced cigarette smoking. In addition, he notes, the public is better educated than it has ever been, and higher education levels have been associated with better health.
The research was conducted by Duke University at its NIA-sponsored Center for the Demography of Aging. The Duke center is one of nine across the U.S. established in 1994 to improve and promote demographic research on health, economics, and aging. The NIA, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funds and conducts research into the biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of aging.
The 1982 and 1984 waves of the surveys, and components of later waves, were supported by the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation and the Health Care Financing Administration, which, along with the NIH, are part of the Department of Health and Human Services.


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|Nationals | Henry Blanco added to Washington's staff
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The Washington Nationals hired Henry Blanco as their new bullpen coach after he spend the least three years working alongside new manager Dave Martinez for the Chicago Cubs as the quality assurance coach under Joe Maddon.
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Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen coach Henry Blanco has agreed to join the Chicago Cubs coaching staff as the quality assurance coach.
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|Diamondbacks | Team makes several coaching changes
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The Arizona Diamondbacks have hired Andy Green to serve as the third-base coach, with former third-base coach Glenn Sherlock now serving as bench coach. Pitching coach Mike Harkey, first-base coach Dave McKay, bullpen coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr., hitting coach Turner Ward and coach/bullpen catcher Henry Blanco have been retained for the 2015 season.
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Arizona Diamondbacks C Henry Blanco has accepted a position on the team's coaching staff this year.
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The Texas Rangers may consider trading SP Michael Kirkman, who is out of minor league options, for another backup catcher with C Geovany Soto (knee) out. The Rangers could eye New York Yankees Cs Francisco Cervelli or Austin Romine or Arizona Diamondbacks Cs Henry Blanco or Bobby Wilson. The Rangers have also discussed Kansas City Royals C Ramon Hernandez, who is unlikely to make the active roster.
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|Diamondbacks | Henry Blanco signed
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The Arizona Diamondbacks have signed free-agent C Henry Blanco (Mariners) to a minor league contract. He will battle Tuffy Gosewisch in spring training camp for the backup catching role to Miguel Montero.
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|Mariners | Henry Blanco cut
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The Seattle Mariners designated C Henry Blanco for assignment Tuesday, Oct. 8, and claimed OF Travis Witherspoon off waivers in a corresponding move.
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|Mariners | Humberto Quintero to join team
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The Seattle Mariners will sign free-agent C Humberto Quintero (Phillies) to take the roster spot of C Mike Zunino (hand).
Fantasy Tip: It was initially believed that Jason Jaramillo would come up from the minors to provide catching help, but that's not the case now. Quintero should split duties with Henry Blanco behind the dish.
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|Mariners | Jason Jaramillo coming up
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:51:02 -0700
The Seattle Mariners will bring up C Jason Jaramillo from Triple-A Tacoma to take the roster spot of C Mike Zunino (hand).
Fantasy Tip: Jaramillo will likely split the catching duties with Henry Blanco. Of the two, it's unclear who will be playing more often, but Jaramillo should be your first target if you're desperate for a catcher in AL leagues or cavernous deep mixed universes.
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|Mariners | Mike Zunino to DL
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:36:47 -0700
The Seattle Mariners placed C Mike Zunino (hand) on the 15-day disabled list with a fractured hamate bone in his left hand Friday, July 26. Zunino will have surgery on his hand and miss six weeks.
Fantasy Tip: It's unclear what the corresponding move is for Zunino. Right now, Henry Blanco appears to be the beneficiary of playing time thanks to Zunino's injury. Blanco should only be considered for the desperate in AL-only formats. Zunino probably won't be back this season.
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Gmrun is an application launcher similar to gnome-run, xfrun4 etc.
- GUI apps can just be typed in and run by pressing enter, terminal apps can be run by using ctrl-enter. Entering ctrl-enter with a blank input box will open up a blank terminal.
- Gmrun features tab completion, entering tab will bring up a scrollable list of possible matches.
- Web addresses entered into Gmrun will launch a web browser automatically.
- The same goes for email addresses, using the 'mailto:' prefix e.g. mailto:email@example.com, will launch your email client.
- More shortcuts can be added to ~/.gmrunrc (covered below) or you can modify the system-wide file at /usr/share/gmrun/gmrunc.
- You can enter search mode by entering '!' as the first letter, the title should change from 'Run program' to 'Search', letters you input will then automatically come up with suggestions from your command history.
- Ctrl-r will allow you to search backwards through that history.
- Ctrl-s will search forward through the history.
- Ctrl-g will cancel a search
- If an extension has been defined in the configuration file, files can be launched by the correct program just by typing the file name.
- Press escape to exit, without running anything.
The configuration file is located at /usr/share/gmrun/gmrunrc but you can create a per-user configuration in ~/.gmrunrc.
Please note that '%u' is expanded to the full command entered, '%s' is the last part after the shortcut, e.g. if you enter the URL:
%u would expand to
and %s would expand to
Here is an example configuration file.
# gmrun configuration file # gmrun is (C) Mihai Bazon, <firstname.lastname@example.com> # GPL v2.0 applies # Set terminal Terminal = urxvt TermExec = ${Terminal} -e AlwaysInTerm = ssh telnet ftp lynx mc vi vim pine centericq perldoc man # Set window geometry (except height) Width = 400 Top = 300 Left = 450 # History size History = 256 # Shows last history line selected when invoked ShowLast = 1 # Show files starting with '.' # Default is 0 (off), set it to 1 if you want "hidden" files to show up # in the completion window ShowDotFiles = 0 # Timeout (in milliseconds) after which gmrun will simulate a TAB press # Set this to NULL if do not like this feature. TabTimeout = 0 # URL handlers # If the entered text is "http://www.google.com" then: # - %u gets replaced with the whole URL ("http://www.google.com") # - %s gets replaced with "//www.google.com". This is useful for URL-s # like "man:printf" --> %s will get replaced with "printf" URL_http = firefox %u URL_mailto = firefox -remote "mailto(%s)" URL_man = ${TermExec} 'man %s' URL_info = ${TermExec} 'info %s' URL_pd = ${TermExec} 'perldoc %s' URL_file = pcmanfm %s URL_readme = ${TermExec} 'less /usr/doc/%s/README' URL_info = ${TermExec} 'info %s' URL_sh = sh -c '%s' # extension handlers EXT:doc,rtf = AbiWord %s EXT:txt,cc,cpp,h,java,html,htm,epl,tex,latex,js,css,xml,xsl,am,php,css,js,py = gedit %s EXT:mpeg,mpg,avi,mkv,flv = vlc %s EXT:ps = gv %s EXT:pdf = epdfview %s
Some of the above modifiers are explained below.
- 'ShowDotFiles' Whether to show dotfiles eg .gmrun in the autocomplete menu, 1 = true, 0 = false.
- 'TabTimeout' Whether to show the tab complete menu automatically when something is inputted, 1 = true, 0 = false.
- 'Terminal' The command to run when Ctrl-enter is entered without other input.
- 'TermExec' The command to run when running a specific command in the terminal eg 'ls ~ (Ctrl-enter)'.
- 'URL_http' The command to run when a web address is entered.
- 'URL_mailto' The command to run when an email address is entered.
- 'EXT:html' command to open html files with, based on the file extension, another might be 'EXT:txt = gedit %s'
- 'Top' & 'Left' The placement of the window, in pixels from the respective edge.
- 'Width' The width in pixels of the window.
- 'History' Length of command history that is stored.
Adding Custom Shortcuts
Shortcuts can easily be added. See the examples below.
Search Google
URL_g = firefox 'http://www.google.com/search?q=%s'
Which is used like this:
Would search Google for 'Arch'.
You can use your Desktop Environment's or Windows Manager's keybinding settings to set one for gmrun.


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Use the Grades tool to check your grades on assignments and tests. You can see your individual grades and comments, as well as class averages and feedback. You can also view your final grade and the grade formula used to evaluate you if your grades are released.
Click the Grades link on your course navigation bar.