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Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-18 00:36
Hello, I am interested in a clarification of Sherman Friedland's comments in the Karl Leister thread. Mr Friedland used the words "shaking trills". I thought trill and shake to be synonymous. Is a shake an extremely rapid trill? If this is the case where is this documented? "Trills are simply not made to be shaken" This sentence falls into the same category for me. I just am not familiar with the word "shake" in this usage. The one (and only) dictionary on my shelf is the New(old now) College Encyclopedia of Music( more than a dictionary) by two Oxford University profs. Shake is listed as an old English term for trill. Under trill there is mention of an older term which is trillo (English "plain shake" ) In any case it is quite obvious I am not a scholar on ornamentation but would like to know why Mr Friedland uses the term shake the way he does. Respectfully....John Price
Freelance woodwind performer
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-18 02:06
Recently there had been a UTUBE recording of Karl Leister playing the Weber Quintet final movement, and a call for replies to the performance.
I found the performance quite wanting, for Mr Leister used a way of trilling which I have always called a shake which leaves this ornament rather screamingly executed, while a simple trill is actually much easier, even on the Oehler clarinet and especially with a performer of the quality of Karl Leister, perhaps the finest clarinetist of his time. I felt my attention was called to the shake itself, rather than it's function, which is simply an accent.
During the Baroque period in Music History, "shake" was used to mean trill, but this was prior to the actual codification of what is meant by a trill played in time, for instance in the slow movwment of the Pastoral at the cadential point in the long clarinet solo.
Nowadays a trill is a trill, and I use the word "shake" meaning a very rapid movement of the appendage more than the fingers, for instance in Capriccio Espagnol, first movement during the opening clarinet solo. The clarinetist can execute the trills on G rapidly(shaken) with either the correct fingering or the first trill key, and because it is so short, no problem is discerned, and in addition, the trill is notated with a stong (rinforzando ) accent.
In the performance of new music, I have often been asked to play trill utilizing the shake,the result usually being a frenetic , rather hysterical quality, which is what I heard on the UTUBE Weber, and really couldn't believe or accept it.
I performed La Quatour Pour La Fin du Temps, by Olivier Messiaen last summer at Festival Alexandria.
There is a 7 minute clarinet solo called Abime des oiseaux, really called the end of the birds. The movement is full of trills and one cannot play one of these shaken, simply not permitted. Why? distastful and not in the spirit of the composer's meaning.
Hence my point. All of this is dependant on the dictates of the music, the period in which it was composed and the intent of the composer.
I hope this provides clarification.
Sherman Friedland
Post Edited (2007-01-18 02:34)
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-18 14:58
Hmmm....highlight and "copy" doesn't work. With all due respect, Sherm, the clarification doesn't help. Are you objecting to his appendage i.e. "hand" moving?
Bob Draznik
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Re: Shaking trills
Tony Pay
Date: 2007-01-19 08:01
Arnoldstang wrote:
>> Is a shake an extremely rapid trill? >>
Mr Friedland is using the term to indicate a trill performed using the larger muscles of the wrist, forearm or even the whole arm. It's possible to do this for some trills, though obviously not all.
Using these larger muscles makes faster trills easier, probably because the muscles involved are stronger than finger muscles in comparison with the mass they have to shift. There is nothing inherently wrong with the method, though of course it's true that a too-fast trill can appear wrong in context. (If this is the case, the solution is to do it SLOWER, of course, which is perfectly possible.) The method also probably gets a bad name because you can use it on some 'fake' trills, like the one Mr Friedland mentions, from G to A using the side Bb key, that are not quite in tune.
For a beginner, the most sluggish trills are usually the ones involving RH and LH ring fingers, and the conventional method is unavoidable in these cases.
It's probably best to consider Mr Friedland's criticism as of Karl Leister's judgement rather than of the method itself.
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-19 11:40
Thanks Tony as my prior understanding was that shake and trill were the same thing.
Bob Draznik
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-19 13:36
Hostorically, the origin and evolution of the two words are different.
Sorry for not being clearer.
best, sherman
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-19 13:46
Sherman, in Shostakovich 5th symphony 2nd movement: beginning of the Eb-clarinet solo 2nd bar, bar 14 in the piece, I usually "shake" that trill (G#-A) with the first side key. You understand my reasons for doing that. I have chosen to do so because I believe it corresponds well with the character Shostakovich has intended. It's a heavy Scherzo-Allegretto and I try to avoid an accent on the critical note but I want the trill really fast. Would I be a victim of your criticism if you saw me doing that in a concert? In that case, can you develop why I shouldn't do so according to your judgment?
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Date: 2007-01-19 15:33
It is perfect, and you have my total agreement. I would do it, love the piece and if asked would play it that way in a nanosecond.
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-19 17:48
Yes, I like Alphie's example. I was wondering though, historically speaking, whether the execution of a turn at the end makes any difference in whether an ornament is termed a trill or a shake. Or, for that matter, whether the shake involves a smaller number of oscillations between pitches where the trill lasts the whole duration of the note. Any historical performance-type people care to comment?
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-19 21:04
I have had a brief life as both a recorder player and a player of the Classical Clarinet. I had a lovely set of clarinets that started as the original three keyed model, then added a section which converted it to A, then kept adding keys until I had 13. And recorders were a part of every recital I played, a Sonata of Wanhal to begin, continuing with a Handel for Recorder, intermission, then either Brahms f minor or Hindemth.
Along the way one has to learn about the historical aspects of playing ornaments and trills and/ or shakes.
Learning this takes you to a place where the execution of the ornament
depends upon the time of the composition.
For instance and only as an example, for this is a long topic to start on, the execution of any ornament during the Baroque period was always done with an appogiature above the note in question on the beat, that iis to say, taking the melody note of G, one will play first the A above it for half of the time written, with an accent on the appogiatura.Playing it on the beat is difficult for many players and it is frequently played incorrectly, or before the beat.
If this precedes a note that is marked trill, the letters "tr"not coming into fashion for a while, it is played differently, and frequently, it is up to the performer to execute the ornament or the trill in the proper manner, and it is frequently argued as to which particular execution is correct.
What is terribly interesting about all this is that there are no recorded examples floating around.
There are treatises that go into the execution, however they are subject to opinion and discussion.
Actually, we are talking about a time when there was both much ornamentation and improvisation used in performance. More improvisation than there is in Jazz, using similar principles, and more different ways of executing the famous dotted eighth and sixteenth than hens teeth.
So, to conclude, yes I am or have been a performer of early repertoire and the above in general is part of the understanding I have come to know about it's execution.
As early as the Mozart Concerto there is still much discussion concerning the execution of trills, whether on the note or prior as an appogiatura.
Sherman Friedland
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Re: Shaking trills
Tony Pay
Date: 2007-01-20 15:58
clarinetwife wrote:
>> I was wondering though, historically speaking, whether the execution of a turn at the end makes any difference in whether an ornament is termed a trill or a shake. Or, for that matter, whether the shake involves a smaller number of oscillations between pitches where the trill lasts the whole duration of the note.>>
The answer to both of these questions, I find, is no. The terms 'trill' and 'shake' are synonymous, the latter falling into disuse with the passage of time.
Mr Friedland is coining his own usage of the word 'shake' and applying it not to the musical effect but to the physical execution of the effect, which of course he is perfectly entitled to do.
>> Any historical performance-type people care to comment?>>
My being a 'historical performance-type person' in this regard consists entirely of my having bothered to look up (and marvelled again at the pages and pages of) what the scholar Robert Donington writes in his article on 'Ornamentation' in (not the latest) Grove. Incidentally, he hints there that the dropping of the term 'shake' is perhaps mildly to be regretted, as there is another earlier use of the word 'trillo' that refers instead to vocal vibrato -- though the confusion is obviously minor.
I should say that if it should turn out that some other scholar finds some text in which some past author uses the words differently, then I'm sorry to have misinformed you -- but the discovery will clearly make about as much difference in both of our lives as Mr Friedland's different usage of the word 'shake' does.
On the other hand, knowing the different possibilities offered by trills/shakes does make a difference; for example, realising that some trills/shakes are 'prepared' (usually for harmonic reasons) and others 'unprepared' (for usually melodic reasons) is an important musical insight that impacts performance -- and more importantly, impacts the EFFECTIVENESS of performance.
In passing, not related particularly to this thread, there is an acronym, HIP, which stands for 'Historically Informed Performance'. I think it should lose the initial 'H', and come to be just 'Informed Performance'; and then the 'I' and the capital, and come to be just 'performance': that is, what we expect of performers in general, as a matter of course.
Consider the following analogy: anyone who wants to learn something about topography (or something else) from ANY map, of ANY period, would obviously be foolish not to bother to investigate the conventions of map-making being used by the person who drew it. I see no reason why we shouldn't take the same attitude to musicians who read the scores of composers, past or present, without similarly 'informing' themselves.
There is a difference between deciding to do something different from what's written in a score because you CHOOSE to, and doing something different from what's written by accident, because you simply can't be bothered to ask yourself and then investigate what it originally meant.
Phrase marks in Beethoven are another example of that, whatever Mr Dow thinks.
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D Dow
Date: 2007-01-22 12:45
A more authorative place for info to go is:
and on trills etc
David Dow
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-22 13:00
I found and viewed the YouTube performance cited and Leister's body movements were far more obvious than his shakey trills. Given that the other members maintained normal body movement I wonder if Karl forgot to apply his Preparation H.
Bob Draznik
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Re: Shaking trills
Date: 2007-01-22 15:06
Tony Pay wrote: >On the other hand, knowing the different possibilities offered by trills/shakes does make a difference; for example, realising that some trills/shakes are 'prepared' (usually for harmonic reasons) and others 'unprepared' (for usually melodic reasons) is an important musical insight that impacts performance -- and more importantly, impacts the EFFECTIVENESS of performance.<
I learned most of what I know about ornamentation in piano lessons. Once I had the basic outline of performance practice for a particular time period, most of what we focused on was context and interpretation. That is the background upon which I draw the most when working out pieces on my own or playing with others.
Thanks for the link, David D. That's a good overview.
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Danielle has two wonderful spaces to share with us today: her daughters' "Waldessori" playroom and their artsy sunroom: Ada, our little one, is on the move. Today I turned my back and found her in the middle of a large pile of tiny slobbery bits of paper and decided it was time to re-think the playroom - shift everything up a level and create some inviting play spaces for both girls.
I'm by no means an expert when it comes to designing learning/play environments for young children. I don't have a teaching background or an unlimited budget to go wild with. I have, however, read a lot, browsed many inspiring internet sites, become a pro at thrift and yard sale shopping and gained some experience through my first child.
I call our playroom style "Waldessori" because I've borrowed a lot of ideas that are both Montessori and Waldorf inspired. Mostly though, it's what has come together through trial and error and thrift store karma.
The "Enchanted Sunroom" is our messy, artsy, colorful, light-filled playspace. Our beautiful sunroom was nothing but a lovely place to store firewood until we decided to turn it into a playspace for our two girls.
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Frank James on his NPR blog had a similar view but used a less condemnatory tone. On the "It's All Politics" blog, he said that although people may be reading "too much into President Obama's trip to Ireland" he sees the political advantages of the trip. He said the advantages do not lie in wining Irish American and Catholic votes as these "voters cut across the political and ideological spectrum."
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This is something I've been wondering about for a while. If someone in Japan starts dating someone who they'd normally refer to as "senpai", is it proper to continue to refer to that person as such, or is this an anime-only thing?
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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How they would address each other depends on who else is involved in the conversation and where they are at. That would dictate the formality of suffix.
Honorifics are contextual.
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Any large multi-million-population cities out there with privatized garbage removal services?
I've been kind of out-dated with Toronto and just found out it's converting to private services. Looks great on paper, especially compared with past experiences with city-run services but it would be cool to look at a city that already adopted such a system.
|2012-08-08, 09:33
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The land of tempura
Btw have you tried to completely uninstall Java? Unless you have a specific usage for it there's no good reason to keep it around nowadays. Unless you deal with some bank or government website that still uses it or you play minecraft there isn't much reason not to get rid of it.
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Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
|2012-08-08, 10:36
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The employers would lose their profit when they don't deliver their services. Where the current public-sector system gets paid through our taxes without having to work according to any schedule or meet a quota.
Because private garbage removal service was illegal, every time they go on strike, we literally have 0 options to dispose of garbage ourselves. It's also a hefty fine for illegal dumping ($2000). People resorted to feeding their garbage into lawn mowers and pour it down their toilet to get rid of the garbage. This isn't like bus services where we can at least walk to our destinations. The city seems to stop functioning once there's a strike.
I also heard that one of the major things the current mayor promised that got him to being elected. It seems like everyone is sick of it. I actually don't live in Toronto but it's right on the other side of the street. So I never had the full experience of their garbage frustrations.
When a garbage strike happens here, many public services close because they don't want to create more garbage. And then we start zoning parks, sports fields and playgrounds as temporary landfill. Then we get disease/infestation problems.
I haven't witnessed any failures with privatization. Telecommunication for one is a huge industry that I am glad isn't part of the public sector. Another is construction/design that I am a part of.
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Location: hahahahahahahahaha
Age: 29
I will be away for 16 days starting from the 1st of September to embark on an European tour. What worries me most is my passport and my credit card. Please suggest to me the best way to keep them safe. Some of my friends suggest a pouch, but is that safe enough?
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
Either that, learn self-defence or don't carry a wallet/pouch to keep it incouspicious. Just stuff them in your pockets.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
If you think 2-3 weeks out of service a year is bad, then you'll be in for treat with privatized crucial infrastructure.
The politician that seals the deal gets a nice bonus and can retire in the pricate sector afterwards. The company that buys the stuff uses the tax paid infrastucture for moneyprinting until its run down, so that it does not work anymore, then gets out of that business.
After that it's just an endless chain of companies, trying to make a quick profit leeching off the tax players money. They can do this, because the infrastructure is important. They got a local monopoly as soon as they own the stuff... They can then ask for whatever they want from the city.
Privatizing infrastructure and crucial services.
Don't do this! Worst idea ever.
In some countries, there might be pickpockets at famous tourist spots. In that case, just put yout values into a pouch that you can wear around the neck, or use any pockets on the inside of clothes.
There shouldn't be any need for weapons. *lol*
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Average salary for the garbage truck driver or the loader (they're positions are interchangeable) is $25.11/hr Canadian. The starting base is $19/hr. Which is approximately 1:1 ratio.
Their work hour is 10 hours a day, 4 days a week.
So $4017.6 a month, $52,228 /year. Keep in mind that's with full benefits. I don't know about this part of the public sector but many of the city workers of Toronto have 24 days of paid holidays a year. (2 days a month, but it compounds each month and each year).
I'm paid $30/hr. But I don't have my engineers license yet. I need to graduate first. I'll probably make $35~40/hr when I'm a full fledged p.eng. I don't care about how much they're paid.
I don't like the idea of 'give me a raise or I will stop working'. If I want a raise, I suck up to the boss and ask for one. I can't just not show up to work and expect a raise while being paid for not showing up.
The data was the result of the negotiation from their biggest strike in 2009. I moved to another city a few hours away so I don't know much of what goes on in Toronto anymore.
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Hail the power of Fujoshi
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: hahahahahahahahaha
Age: 29
I will be going to Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. My friend was once "bewitched" to hand over her travel money and passport. I am kinda afraid that might happen to me. At the very least, I am going with a large group of people.
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The Interstellar Medium
Join Date: May 2008
Location: [SWE]
Age: 29
Speaking for Sweden, depends on the city. I'm assuming it might be Stockholm or Gothenburg, so yea, inner pockets and the like should be enough at the tourist attractions. For other cities, just common sense. It is quite rare outside the big ones.
|2012-08-08, 15:50
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Love Yourself
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Northeast USA
Age: 33
The problem with privatizing utilities is that they're essential. Who isn't going to pay for garbage disposal? That company is going to get paid even if they do a crap job, simply because there's no true alternative. Worse, because they're a private company (profit-driven), they can raise the prices and get away with it.
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If any, you can uninstall java and reinstall it...
|2012-08-08, 21:45
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Uncountable rationality
Going by http://www.quora.com/What-programmin...ed-at-Facebook, Java is used by Facebook, but it's entirely backend so it shouldn't affect the user. Maybe you were referring to Javascript?
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Budget cuts have caused Nicholls State University's scholarships to shrink slightly, but school officials said there's still ample opportunity for hard-working students to get help paying for school.
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How do you mount an elephant? It is not, as you might imagine, a conundrum I've often considered, but as I survey the vast acreage of a 3,000-kilogram female at an elephant camp in Phang Nga, Thailand, I realize this is not going to be a walk in the park. In fact, it's supposed to be a 90-minute-long ramble along a dirt and gravel road threading through a rubber plantation a few kilometres inland from Thailand's famous golden beaches in an area of the country far removed from the flooding that has been in the news recently.
A mahout - as the elephant guides are known - makes it look easy, of course. Using the animal's bended knee as a step, he'll swing himself up, Tarzan-like, with a rope. Fortunately, for greenhorns like myself, Sairung Elephant Camp - where half a dozen mahouts squat in the shade of primitive huts, their laundry flapping damply in the humid breeze - provides a wooden platform the approximate height of the elephant, allowing you to step right on to the back of your ride.
My husband, Scott, sensibly ensconces himself on a bench strapped upon the back of our lumbering beast, Boa-Thong (which I believe is Thai for "tiny underwear"), and while it would easily accommodate two, I've decided I want the "real" experience, riding on Boa-Thong's neck. Gingerly, I scoot forward until I'm planted just behind her ears - and instantly regret it. I'm a long way up, and there's nothing to stop me from pitching forward, except my own sweaty palms gripping the animal's forehead, which is firm, spongy and unexpectedly bristly - a bit like a porcupine buttocks (if indeed porcupines have buttocks).
Then we're off, Boa-Thong's shoulders rolling rhythmically beneath me with each step, as our mahout, Leim, follows on foot. Every so often, he pauses to gather Boa-Thong's cannonball-sized dung deposits, using the soles of his plastic flip-flops to fling the droppings into the foliage. (Not for a million dollars would I walk a mile in his shoes - literally or figuratively).
On the left, tall, straight rubber trees line up in orderly rows, tapped low on their trunks to gather sap. On the right, fields stretch out towards a tangled ridge of jungle. It feels like a world lost in time, rooted in some past century, an impression that's reinforced when we approach a humble home topped by a rusted tin roof behind a twig fence.
An old man in a sarong, as lean, dark and knotted as a sapling tree, reclines outside on a bench made of bleached planks, clutching a mobile phone. It's almost as disconcerting as discovering Gilligan punching up Google Maps on his iPad to find his way home.
At the end of the road, we dismount via another tall platform and hike a short way for a gander at a modest waterfall, with a sign in English emphatically, albeit politely, requesting "Please Do Not Swimming!!! (This water for water supply.)" Then we climb back aboard Boa-Thong, with Scott on the elephant's neck and me feeling much more secure in the seat.
Returning to the camp, we reward our leathery steed with small green bananas, which Boa-Thong plucks delicately from our hands with her long, prehensile snout, shovelling them into her mouth peel and all. "Jaew" Thanita Kumphetch, a petite, soft-spoken woman who runs the elephant camp with her father, tells us that the animals eat up to 250 kilograms per day.
Having grown up around elephants, Kumphetch clearly harbours a great affection and respect for them. She recalls the day her grandfather died, and someone had to break the news to his favourite beast.
"The mahout go to talk to the elephant, and the elephant make a noise and he cry, because he know," she says. She worries that, when her father retires in a few years, she'll have to give up the camp, along with the two elephants that her family still owns.
"But if I can't take care of them anymore, I can take them to the king in the north of Thailand," she says, her face brightening. "He has a hospital, free for every elephant." Surgeons at the hospital even designed a prosthetic leg for one unfortunate juvenile, which lost a limb when it stepped on a landmine.
Looking into Bao-Thong's tiny brown eyes, blinking contentedly as she snarfs yet another banana, I'd like to think that one day she'll enjoy a leisurely retirement at the pleasure of the king, knitting afghans, playing canasta, and complaining about arthritis in her trunk.
Amy Laughinghouse is a London, England-based freelance travel writer.
Getting there: Fly into Phuket International Airport.
Riding: Sairung Elephant Camp, in Phang Nga (about 90 minutes north of Phuket) can be reached at 089-773-5238 (once in Thailand). A 90-minute ride for two people costs 1500 Thai Baht, or about $48.
The Sarojin in Phang Nga (about 90 minutes north of Phuket) is the place to come for peace and relaxation, with 56 cottages scattered across 10 acres. Some include their own pool, but many guests prefer to stroll through the bar to the white-sand beach beyond or laze in one of the curtained pavilions that seem to float atop the swimming pool. Rates start at about $215 with minimum two-night stay through Oct. 31.
Farther south, Anantara Phuket, in Phuket, Thailand, features 83 villas, each with a spacious pool, surrounded by tall walls that ensure plenty of privacy, making guests feel like honeymooners whether they've been married for two days or two decades. At night, unwind in the Tree House bar and watch the sunset while sipping a lemon grass martini. Rates from about $340 a night through Oct. 31. See phuket.anantara.com.
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Do you ever consider where you will go when you depart this life? Some people think that when you die, that's it. The Bible says something quite different, that we will either go to be with God in heaven, or go away to eternal punishment in hell. The Gospel also states that the way to God is through his Son, Jesus, and the way to hell is by living your life in rebellion against God.
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This week Jesse Ryder made the news not just for his mega-wicked 46 from 17 balls and two wickets that single-handedly (with some help from other hands) put Wellington into the final of some tournament, but because he may be back. Back, really back, not just Wellington and IPL back.
Jesse has a meeting with Magic Mike Hesson. That's pretty rad, isn't it kids? Jesse's maternal manager, Aaron Klee, was quick to douse the flames of this comeback against England. But, let's be honest, this meeting means that Jesse is at the very least looking for something a bit more substantial to dine on than New Zealand domestic cricket where he destroys daily like a Kiwi Godzilla stomping on attacks and breathing death rays onto unsuspecting batsmen.
The problem with all this is that Jesse's meeting is with Hesson, and well, who knows if Hesson will stay. Hesson was under attack from everyone this week, even including those who were trying to help him. John Buchanan (who must officially be the luckiest man to be employed in world cricket) tried to defend Hesson's coaching by saying, "He's a young coach, he's learning." The work experience coach is probably exactly how Hesson wants to be known at the moment.
That is why it was such a shame that Shane Bond ruined that with his secret letter to the NZC about the Taylor termination which in no time became public.
Bond's letter said:
I can't stand it, I know you planned it
But I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate
I can't stand rocking when I'm in here
'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear
So while you sit back and wonder why
I got this f****** thorn in my side
Oh my God, it's a mirage
I'm tellin' y'all it's a sabotage
Or words to that effect.
He also said: "I believe the coach has been dishonest in his assertion around the miscommunication of the captaincy split with Ross… it was clear to me that Ross Taylor was to be removed as captain from all three formats."
And, if that wasn't damning enough of Hesson's supposed accidental axing, he went on: "I stated (to Hesson) that the timing was completely inappropriate and he had most likely affected the ability of the captain to perform and it seemed like sabotage". Shane Bond is currently in South Africa with the New Zealand team. Oh to be a piece of toast with ears at breakfast the morning after this broke.
India and England are currently taking a break from their ODI series to hold an elaborate party for MS Dhoni. If this ODI series has proved anything so far, it's that even with the two biggest cricket teams on earth locked at one-all, an ODI series can be so dull you want to learn the lyrics to Enya songs rather than take any real interest in it.
Australia and Sri Lanka have managed to make their series less dull by trying to bowl each other out for 70. Australia were bowled out for 74.
They were 9 for 40. That and the fact that Australia managed to take six wickets in Sri Lanka's uninspired chase is enough for the Australian media to call this a moral win that will help in character building.
It was all the more embarrassing as it was the proper best Australian side, not the one with random guys you can't remember how to spell the names of, like Steve Smith. This proper side was fully of rested players thanks to all that rotation. Sorry, rotation is not the right word according to Cricket Australia, as agency writing sexpot Greg Buckle found out when he tussled with the Inverarity:
Greg Buckle: Just with the rotations and the constant fast…
John Inverarity: Presume you mean informed player management? Is that what you mean, or not?
Greg Buckle: Well, I try to keep it short for our readers.
John Inverarity: Yeah, but I mean, that's what you mean.
After the ODI score, Cricket Australia might want to change the word collapse to "unfortunate performance deficit".
The problem with coming up with stupid new names for things that have existed for over 10 years is that it draws even more attention to the word you are trying to stop. And that people can't remember what you changed it to. Michael Clarke after Australia's shocking unfortunate performance deficit: "My opinion hasn't changed on, let's call it once again, the rotation policy."
The rotation policy (Clarke's word is final in Australian cricket) was to blame for George Bailey attacking Channel 9 this week. Bailey suggested that Channel 9 might have been talking up the rotation angle as a way of paying less in the next rights deal. Former New South Wales allrounder Brad McNamara, now Channel 9's network executive producer of cricket, hit back by saying that Bailey could be "working in a coalmine or flipping burgers at McDonald's" if it were not for Channel 9's money.
Whoa, Brad, I think you've got this wrong. Without Channel 9 money, another TV company would pay Cricket Australia a lot of money, which George Bailey would see a percentage of, seeing as he has been a consistent ODI performer of late and is Australia's T20 captain. Plus Bailey would also make money from being a professional cricketer in the Big Bash, which is not funded by Channel 9, and by playing in Scotland, Hampshire and this little thing called the IPL.
In fact, Brad, the person who would most likely be flipping burgers or not being a TV executive if Channel 9 didn't have the cricket would most likely be you. Having seen both players in action, there is no doubt that Bailey would be a better coal miner and burger flipper than McNamara, or even better at other jobs that McNamara doesn't see as denigrating.
It should be pointed out that, inspired by Cricket Australia, Channel 9 also rotates its commentators. And Cricket Australia is shortly selling its TV rights, which means that Channel 9 could be rotated right out of cricket.
Shane Basile might be the latest Aussie to get a surprise ODI cap under the rotation system after he smacked 126 off 27 balls for Coomera-Hope Island Cricket Club sixth-grade side against Burleigh Heads. Sixth grade Gold Coast cricket is pretty weak; it's like the BPL without Pakistani players.
"Big Bash Basile", as no-one other than newspapers are calling him, said, "I also have a few other mates in Burleigh's side, but I guess we're not such good mates anymore." His hundred was from 21 balls, meaning he wasted four of the balls he faced. At one stage he hit six sixes in an over, but it seems like he could have done it twice. Basile presumably got to his hundred something like this: 666.666..66666666.666. The last dot was a full stop. Stephen Best, in perhaps the last spell of bowling in his entire life, went for 60 runs from his two overs.
Of course, Sarah Taylor would have scored her hundred off 20 deliveries had she faced bowlers like Stephen Best. And maybe playing for Sussex 2nd XI she will have her chance. the Guardian plastered this all over their front page a few days back, saying how she was only inches away from playing 2nd XI county cricket. Sussex were quick to distance themselves from that claim.
I love Sarah Taylor. She is currently the best women's cricketer in the world. That's pretty good, no? But I have no real interest in her suddenly being the world's 374th best cricketer overall. She's the best in the world at what she does, and that's ok for me.
I understand that she wants other challenges, I get that, but I am a massive women's cricket fan, and when I hear a women's cricket legend say she wants to move into men's cricket, I can't help but think that she doesn't think being the best women's cricketer in the world is good enough. And then I think, well why do I love women's cricket if the best player would rather move into men's cricket? Then I get a headache and start dreaming of Mithali Raj cover drives.
This Taylor news also massively overshadowed Beth Morgan's retirement from the English team. I was there when Morgan and uber super batting god Claire Taylor smashed Australian in the World T20 semi-final with a partnership of 122. And I also saw when the ground screen showed Eoin Morgan's face instead of Beth's. Morgan also dilscooped a ball into her face in that match. It would have been a pretty embarrassing day had she not won the match for England.
Ellyse Perry, who took 1 for 32 in that match, has made the decision this week to put a semifinal for her soccer team, the Sky Blues, ahead of a T20 final for the NSW Breakers. Perry, who is way too talented for her own good, has been trying to juggle the two sports as best she can. Now that she has chosen football over cricket, it's up to some Lalit Modi-type women's cricket fan to make sure these women are paid enough money not to pick soccer semifinals over cricket.
Perhaps the worst cricket news story of the week was the threat, apparently set off by an mystery BCCI letter, which said the Pakistani women's team may not be able to play in Mumbai during the Women's World Cup. Shiv Sena, the political group that hates cricket (I'm sorry, but anyone who doesn't want Misbah Ul Haq in their country is against cricket), was yet again the catalyst for this nonsense. That issue has now been looked after by the ICC and BCCI as the Pakistani team will play in Cuttack. The finals are still in Mumbai, but having seen the Pakistani women's team play, I can't see that being a big problem.
In Pakistan, cricket politics came to a head when, as a punishment for Bangladesh pulling out of their potential Pakistan tour, Pakistan pulled out each and every one of their players from the Bangladesh Premier League. The league, which is not premier, nor super, was using Shahid Afridi and Umar Gul in their promotions. The Khulna Royal Bengals (stand and applaud that name) who had seven Pakistanis on their list, and Riki Wessels, were left with only 11 players on their roster for the first game. They got smashed by Dhaka, who had Chris Liddle in their side.
The tournament that sounds almost identical to the BPL when said in acronym form, the Big Bash League, had an interesting semifinal stage when the top team and bestest team, the Melbourne Renegades, were thrown out of the tournament by the Brisbane Heat. And then the Melbourne Stars were thrown out by themselves.
The Stars had picked James Faulkner as captain so that neither Cameron White nor Shane Warne would be suspended from the final for slow overrates. And it all came down to the new skipper Faulker as he had to bowl the final ball of the match with the Scorchers needing three runs to win, or two runs to go into the golden over.
Faulker, the current skipper, stood with Warne, the real skipper, and White, the former skipper, and they discussed all the tactics and things you discuss when you have three skippers together and you are not worried about overrates and just want to win to go into the final. Eventually James Faulkner bowled Voges a near-unplayable yorker that only went for one bye. The Stars win.
Well, no, because the ball was a no ball, twice. Faulker had overstepped and even with all those captains out there, they had failed to have enough players inside the circle. From the real last ball, Mike Hussey smashed it and the Scorchers win.
Colacian Aaron Finch, who despite both Melbourne teams stuffing up, still managed to be named the best Big Bash player of the tournament. Mark Higgs was probably voted second best.
If you've got anything you think should be in next week's cricket news hurl, email cricketnewshurlatgmail.com or tweet #cricketnewshurl. If you are a coal miner or burger flipper who is insulted by McNamara's quotes, please feel free to send week old burgers, with mayonnaise, to Channel 9.


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Simple & Stylish: 10 Solid Color Quilts & Coverlets
One of the best impulsive decisions I made at the beginning of the year (while perusing Anthropologie.com in bed just before midnight) was buying a good quality solid color coverlet. Now that the weather's cooling down again, it is back on my bed, where I can appreciate its good looks and perfect weight.
In my case, I opted to buy number 4 from this list. My husband and I both love it, because it's colorful without being overwhelming and warm without being hot. (We live in Baltimore and use the coverlet in every season but summer.) I also think I'll be happy with the solid color longer than I would a pattern. Here's a list that includes our choice, plus nine similar options.
1. Braid quilt from West Elm (twin, full/queen, and king), $129-$169
2. Pick-Stich quilt from Pottery Barn (twin, full/queen, and king/cal. king), $79-$179
3. Mahalo quilt from CB2 (full/queen and king), $179-$199
4. Marseille coverlet from Anthropologie (queen and king), $198-$228
5. Navy Pickstitch matelasse from Serena & Lily (twin, full/queen, and king), $230-$350
6. Flip-Side quilt from Garnet Hill (twin and double/queen), $148-$168
7. Rosette quilt from Anthropologie (twin only), $129.95
8. Real Simple Dune sea glass coverlet from Bed Bath & Beyond (twin, full/queen, and king), $79.99-$129.99
9. Trina Turk Santorini turquoise coverlet from Bed Bath & Beyond (twin, full/queen, and king), $99-$149
10. Martha Stewart Collection Cornice quilt from Macy's (twin, full/queen, and king), $99.99-$149.99
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School project grows into 5K for Camp Good Days
The 5K race scheduled for Sunday in Delaware Park has an interesting story behind it.
The race – which benefits Camp Good Days & Special Times – evolved as a City Honors High School project for 16-year-old Madeline Caywood of Buffalo.
It began last fall when Maddie, a sophomore, was considering ideas for a project in the school's Middle Years Program, which teaches students the skills to be active, responsible citizens in today's changing world.
After Maddie – a member of the school's crew program who runs to stay in shape – ran a 5K, she decided to take it another step.
"What if I host a 5K and donate the money to charity?" Maddie asked her mother, Lisa.
"You should do it," her mother said.
So she did.
As her project, Maddie organized "Your Own 5K," a race that allows participants to run in honor of someone special to them.
Maddie and her father, David, measured the distance around Delaware Park's Ring Road. She went to City Hall to get the necessary permits. She solicited sponsors, tapped volunteers, hung fliers and approached Camp Good Days about the idea.
All the proceeds will benefit the summer camp for children and families touched by cancer.
"Maddie called me herself and said, 'What do you think about this?' " said Lisa Donato Booz, regional director of Camp Good Days.
"I was really happy she wanted to do this and took the initiative," Donato Booz said. "She's a very mature young lady and very professional about it. She's doing a lot of work and giving it 110 percent."
Maddie said her goal is to get several hundred runners participating in Sunday's event, but she would be happy with 50.
Tackling a 5K as her project was a good learning experience – and a stressful one.
"I had no idea that this much goes into planning something like this," Maddie said. "But through the process, I really enjoyed event planning, and maybe I can do this in the future."
The race will begin at 10 a.m. Sunday – rain or shine – on Delaware Park's Ring Road, near Nottingham Terrace and Meadow Road in front of the Sweet Spot Juicery.
Cost is $20 per runner.
For more details or to register online, check out www.campgooddays.org/store and click on "Your Own 5K."
Registration begins at 9:15 a.m. Walk-ups are welcome.
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TMW Development Team (see AUTHORS file for a list)
The Mana World (TMW) is a serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG. TMW uses 2D graphics and aims to create a large and diverse interactive world. The project has existed for about one and a half year now, and it is in a stage of increasingly functional walkaround demo.
One big part of this project will be the game server. We're still working with the open source Ragnarok Online server eAthena, but we have started building our own distributed server.
0.0.23 (3 June 2007)
- Added a particle engine along with some particle effects
- Added a cursor to indicate targeted enemy
- Added new program icon
- Added a man page for UNIX like systems
- Added the --version command line parameter
- Improved MacOS X release
- Screenshots are now saved in the .tmw directory on UNIX like systems
- Magic pink is no longer used for transparency (fixes issues with that on Mac)
- Fixed difficulties with resizing windows
- Fixed misleading error message when connecting fails
- Fixed wrong error message when account name already exists
- Fixed crash when deleting a character
- Fixed error message when creating a new character fails
- Fixed updating problem when using scrollwheel to change shop selection
0.0.22.2 (17 February 2007)
- Updated to work with Guichan 0.6.1
- Changed to new default server (server.themanaworld.org)
- Changed custom mouse cursor
- Fixed the issue where _M or _F is appended to the username
- Fixed problem with Cancel button in update dialog
0.0.22.1 (15 January 2007)
- Updated to work with Guichan 0.6.0 (older versions no longer supported)
- Fixed mouse coordinates in debug window
- Fixed clicking on GUI to cause the player to start walking sometimes
0.0.22 (24 December 2006)
- Added support for female-specific equipment graphics
- Added support for monster sounds
- Added item icons to buy/sell dialogs
- Enhanced character select dialog to show equipment
- Changed to new update host (http://updates.themanaworld.org)
- Worked around a Guichan exception thrown for mice with many buttons
- Changed mouse walk to keep following mouse while button is held down
- Extended font support for å and Å
- Disabled RLE compression on all surfaces in software mode
- Fixed joystick setting not to show disabled when it's actually enabled
- Fixed money field to no longer hide below the bottom of the window
- Fixed pathfinding to allow walking through beings when they block your path
- Fixed an issue with NPC dialogs staying open after player respawn


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On Thursday 15 January, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain will meet the media at ESA Headquarters in Paris. The gathering will start at 08:30 with breakfast, followed at 09:00 by a press conference to take stock of the Agency's activities in 2003 and announce those planned for 2004.
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Amazon Wants To Sell Fan Fiction With It, Originator And FanFic Author All Sharing Profits
from the interesting-move dept
There may be some concerns about this. The "ownership" of the new work belongs to Amazon, as you're basically signing a publishing agreement with Amazon, who then controls the work. Given the situation, that might not be that much of an issue for most fanfiction authors, but some may be concerned (for example, imagine if this had happened with 50 Shades of Grey, which originated as Twilight fanfic, before becoming a monstrosity of its own). Also, there's no guarantee that Amazon will agree to sell the work, but it claims it will publish "as many as possible." It basically sounds like they reserve the right to reject ridiculously bad works.
In some ways, though in very different circumstances, this reminds me of some of the cooler aspects of YouTube's ContentID program, in that it sets up a way for people to reasonably monetize what might be considered infringement under the law, but which most people realize isn't what copyright law should be destroying. Once again, if you just make it so that innovation can occur, people quite frequently figure out business models that build on what maximalists consider "piracy" if they give it time and let the business models shake out.