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Pastel, 12" x 9"
copyright Katherine Tyrrell
Somebody asked me recently how I manage to find things to blog about. It immediately struck me as a good subject to blog about - and therein lies the nub!
So - here are my suggestions for.....
6 great ways to find different subjects to blog about
1. Blog on a regular basis
If you blog on a regular basis, you'll find that it gets much, much easier to identify subjects for blog posts. The more you do it, the more you think about potential options - and the more often they just seem to turn up with no effort on your part. Like the subject of this post!
I find that having a routine and regular time of the day when you write your blog posts also helps. I try to get mine done before breakfast if possible.
You certainly don't need to blog every day, but blogging frequently makes it much easier to write the next blog post. Leaving long gaps between blog posts only seems to make it more difficult to post. And don't worry if you don't like blogging - not everybody does. The vast majority 'die' within the first 3 months. Reading blogs and commenting is good too!
2. Don't blog all you know in one go
People new to blogging often want to start downloading all their knowledge or thoughts in a few blog posts and then feel like they've got nothing left to say.
So - slow down! Think about what you know (or want to know more about) and what you're interested in and then how you might talk about your subjects. In particular, think about ways in which you can separate out your potential content into digestible chunks.
Here are some ways you can 'chunck up' your content:
- do a work in progress - show people how you arrived at the end image from your initial thoughts and finding reference material,through selecting materials and the different stages of development all the way to the end product.
- think about things you do on a routine basis which you can maybe teach to other people
- think about things you use on a routine basis which maybe others don't know about
- write a review of a book you have which have read or studied which helped you with your work. Then look at the rest of the books on your bookshelves and remember it's as helpful to know the ones which didn't help a lot as well as the ones which really helped your work rise to another level.
- blog about all the different aspects of a project you are undertaking. For example, if entering work for an exhibition you might have the following as potential blog posts - spread out over time:
- research - deciding whether to submit and what sort of work might be suitable
- producing work - and maybe showing it as a work in progress
- getting work framed and well presented
- if a competitive entry getting the results
- going to the Private View/Exhibition
- maybe do a series or a project (see below 4 and 5 below).
Do you like taking the fastest route between two points or do you like the scenic route? Do you surf the internet or do you go straight to what you want to know about and then switch off? Being curious, having an interest in various topics and wanting to learn more are all attributes which are enormously helpful to blogging.
I'm very curious and always very much enjoy learning more about the things which interest me - so I'm usually prepared to do the virtual equivalent of "look round the corner". I click that extra link - just to see what's there. In this way I've found some great material for blogging purposes.
If you find things interesting, you'll also find that this communicates itself easily to readers. If readers are also interested you'll find that this then tends to get them looking and they'll come back and offer you some great links for you to visit! I've really enjoyed doing my projects with Fine Line Artists and others who have joined in like Rose Welty (Rose's Art Lines) who always digs up great links!
4. Have a focus - try doing a project
Being interested in lots of things can make things very messy. It helps if you can also introduce a bit of structure and have some way of organising your thoughts.
Two ways of doing this are a project and a series. Both also mean that you have a way of sharing what you know or what you are learning about with others in a more accessible way.
A project is a great way of blogging for people who want to develop their skills or learn more about a topic. I've been doing a project each month since the beginning of this year and it's had a big impact on the way I blog. Mine are mostly art history related in one way or another but they don't have to be. I first got the idea from Laura Frankstone (Laurelines) who had a different topic for each month of the year last year (look down the left hand column to see the different subjects she tackled) - and it was fascinating to see how her work changed and developed as the projects progressed. I know that most of the projects I've been involved in have helped me enormously with my perspective on the art I produce and how thta might develop in the future.
I'd say about a third and a half of the blog posts each month are related in some way to the project. It makes me very focused about:
- identifying resources for the project
- thinking about one or more artists I want to focus on
- finding information about the artists or subject matter - how people have painted in the past
- working out what sort of art I want to produce as a result
- saying what I've noticed as I've studied the art and the artist(s).
5. Have a focus - develop a series
You can do a series about absolutely anything which has the potential for a series - whether it's a weekly round-up post or maybe developing a batch of posts about all the art supplies you use. Whatever interests you and has sequential possibilities - consider a series. Once you've got a series, you'll be amazed about how you suddenly find you do have something to say about an item or subject which you previously might not have thought worth blogging about. If you do want to develop a series then do also develop a label for that series - which then helps people to easily find earlier posts in that series.
These are also posts which you can develop in advance and have ready for days when you want to goof off or are far too busy with other things. Although I do sit down almost every morning to write a blog post, I also have mornings when I need to be doing something else - and the series post is a great way of keeping up my frequency of posting.
6. Develop and maintain a list of draft blog posts.
Everytime you see something, and you think it might have some potential as a blog post create a draft. I've got a long, long list of draft blog posts - some are related to things I know I will blog about later in the year, some are just ideas - and not all will see the light of day on my blog.
Here's an example. If I know I want to visit a particular exhibition, I create a blog post with title and time it for when I expect to visit. Thus when I get to that time of the year it reminds me to go and already contains some of the basic details.
My "who's made a mark this week?" partly grew out of the fact that my list of draft posts was getting longer and longer and it looked like some of my ideas/information would never ever get posted - so I now use them in the weekly thread.
Don't forget to change the date of the draft thread (as I've just done!!!) to make it the date you are posting on rather than the date you started it!
A final comment - everybody's blog is different and what works for me might not suit you. The main thing is to work out some strategies and routines which make blogging enjoyable for you rather than hard work.
I hope you've enjoyed reading my suggestions for finding things to blog about. Do please use the comments function to add any thoughts you have or suggest any additional ways which you have personally found helpful.
Gardens in Art Project - Note:
"Red Hot Pokers" is a pastel painting of part of the garden of a favourite cottage in Dunwich in Suffolk where I used to stay a lot some 25 years ago. It has a fabulous view over the marshes and flood plain between Dunwich and Walberswick/Southwold. This is very definitely an example of portraying a garden because you want to remember the place - and this pastel painting hangs in my home and is not for sale.


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2004 Dale Unger American Legend
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Body size at lower bout: 17" Body Depth: 3" Scale length: 25" Nut: 1 3/4"
Materials: Solid hand carved bookmatched German spruce top, solid carved European flame maple back and sides; 3 piece tiger flame maple neck; solid ebony fingerboard; graphite nut.
Hardware: Solid ebony hardware includes contoured tailpiece, finger rest, and compensated adjustable ebony bridge; Schaller 16X1 tuners with ebony keys; Handmade Armstrong floating pickup with volume and tone controls, endpin jack.
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Ceremonial Hall of Country Residence
Palatial interiors boggle imagination with the abundance of décor, magnificent furniture, iconic elements, and attract attention for centuries. Come to think of it, this is not the merit of kings and emperors, ancestors of noble families, but talented architects and artisans who created harmonious masterpieces. Majestic Classic-style Interior of the country residence may become the proof that in our time "talents in Rus have not died out still". Without exception, all items of décor and Interior have been made by modern masters.
Palatial Grandeur in Its Purest Form
This Interior cannot be attributed to the style of kitsch, it is not raising insipidity.
Everything is built in logical decorative range and performs the single selected compositional idea. The Interior does not contain bright color spots. However, subtly drawn up mural paintings, competently performed gilding of wooden items and stucco moldings, perfectly matched pattern of the marble floor, usage of decorative elements has made the hall a true masterpiece.
The colors complement each other: beige and gold, subdued blue and brown have done their work. The Interior does not repel by the abundance of décor. This was made possible through the hard work of artists while creating mural paintings and stucco moldings, gilders, cabinet-makers and masters of other areas of Classic-style decoration.
Overhang of the balcony does not overload the Interior, decoration is performed in such a way that it gives the impression that this architectural element was specifically designed to create exactly this image. Two-color space has acquired extraordinary lightness. Due to this, the height of the hall has not been affected.
The stated objective to make the Interior inimitable, unique in its own way, was carried out due to the knowledge of all subtle aspects of the Classic style, talents, great experience, specialized training of masters. Unambiguously, you can say: this Interior is the anthem to skill worthy of applause. At the time when many areas of applied art die, acquired masters' skills have been turned into the craft at the highest level. The masters apply them in order to implement projects on decoration of complex and beautiful interiors.


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RSS, OPML and the XML platform.
Copyright 2003-5 Randy Charles Morin
Two weeks ago, I described in very generic terms how to redirect your RSS feed. Funny enough, this week, Nathan Weinberg of Inside Google is struggling with just this problem. He asks...
I moved my site to a new host, which screwed up the way Wordpress handles URIs. While it didnât break any of my post links, it moved my RSS feeds URI from site/index.php/feed/ to site/feed/, and a lot of readers arenât getting the feeds anymore. What can I do to redirect them to the new feeds, without having access to the URIs of the old feeds?
This problem requires a little bit of Apache knowledge. I can think of three ways to fix this problem.
Any other ideas for Nathan?
Update from Nathan...
Hereâs what worked for me: I added a permanent redirect in the .htaccess of my blog root pointing the relative URL of my old RSS feeds to the absolute URL of the new feeds. For example, one line reads:
Redirect permanent /index.php/feed/ http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/feed/
In my extreme case, I had to find every variation on my RSS URL (since WordPress uses virtual addresses for the feed), and redirect each one separately to the new one.
Thanks a ton for the help, Randy!


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6) Start application on hair with an applicator brush. Apply treatment close to scalp or from scalp. Application should be continued on both sides simultaneously (Thicker the hair thinner the section Thinner the hair thicker the section) Starting from Nape area, leaving half inch from roots, apply till hair ends. Emulsify & comb evenly. Maintain neatness while application and make sure to take enough product so that it does not dry o_ quickly or starts to drip. Hair should be visible while product is applied.
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NHL Playoff Game Day 15: Penguins-Senators; Sharks-Kings
Why Pittsburgh won: The Pens might have been nervous after goalie Tomas Vokoun allowed a weak goal that tied the score early in the first. But they settled in after that, played a physical game (outhitting Ottawa 40-26 on the night) and made the most of their special teams (scoring on two of four power plays and killing off all five Senators man advantages) to set the tone in the series.
Why Ottawa lost: The Senators usually could count on Craig Anderson to bail out their mistakes, but their star goalie was only ordinary and his defense didn't give him any support. It was only the third time all year that Anderson gave up four goals in a game and was a direct result of an entire Sens team that wasn't in sync and didn't look willing to pay the price to win.
Play of the game: The physical toll the Penguins exacted on the Senators all night long was best exemplified by Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik's thundering, clean, open-ice check on Senators blueliner Eric Gryba. The 6-foot-4, 222-pound Gryba – infamous for his borderline check on Montreal's Lars Eller in the first round – was rocked as he brought the puck in across the Pens blueline and he left the game with a suspected concussion. It was an indication Pittsburgh intends on making the Sens earn their ice far more than they did against the Canadiens.
Three stars
1. Evgeni Malkin: The big Russian stepped up with a goal and two points, moving into a tie with Boston's David Krejci for the playoff points lead. On a night Pittsburgh lost 31 of 57 faceoffs, Malkin won 8 of 13 draws. He's as big a threat as anyone on the ice right now.
2. Tomas Vokoun: The Pens goalie fought the puck at times and was aided more than a bit by his teammates, but still stopped 35 of 36 Senators shots. Marc-Andre Fleury will continue riding the pine as long as Vokoun produces as he did in Game 1, even if it's often not anywhere close to pretty.
3. Chris Kunitz: He played only 17 shifts, but Kunitz was a force in his 13:05 of ice time: he scored once and finished with two points, but just as importantly, he finished tied with Matt Cooke and Chris Neil with a game-high five hits. Kunitz was exactly the physical buzz-saw around the net the Senators didn't have.
What's Next: Once again, the Penguins demonstrated they have more than enough talent with which to win even if Sidney Crosby isn't his usual dominant self. The Senators, on the other hand, have a couple days to regroup before Game 2 is played Friday night. They need more discipline, fire in their bellies, and better showings from youngsters such as defenseman Jared Cowen and winger Cory Conacher – but if their special teams don't improve, the rest is likely to be for naught. – Adam Proteau
Why the Kings won: Jonathan Quick has turned his game on to the special level that wins Conn Smythes and Stanley Cups. And that's a scary thing for Los Angeles' opponents. The Kings didn't play much better, if at all better, than the Sharks through two periods, but held a two-goal advantage. Los Angeles fell back in the third and couldn't deal with San Jose's speed well enough, which is where Quick came in to save the day. When your goalie solidifies wins like this, you win series.
Why the Sharks lost: They could not solve the riddle of Quick after falling behind by two, even though they piled on shots just as they did in Round 1. The Kings bring a size and presence the Canucks don't have, so the Sharks can't afford to fall behind – it's unlikely they'll win three come-from-behind games as they did against Vancouver. But they put up one heck of an effort in the third period, applying all kinds of pressure and not allowing the Kings offense a whiff.
Play of the game: Slava Voynov created both Kings goals, but the one he got credit for was on was a perfectly placed shot in the top-right corner. Voynov is an improved defenseman over last year's run and is coming on as a key offensive contributor.
Three Stars
1. Jonathan Quick: These are the types of performances that won him the Conn Smythe last year. Quick made 16 of his 35 saves in the third period, holding off a late San Jose surge.
2. Slava Voynov: His 23:54 of ice time was the most on either side – even more than Drew Doughty. Voynov's goal is highlighted above, but he also got an assist on his tipped shot from the blueline.
3. Mike Richards: A goal and an assist for the proven playoff performer who leads the Kings with seven points in seven games.
What's next: San Jose had the worst road record among playoff teams, Los Angeles had the best home record and if this series is going to have a different outcome than Game 1, the Sharks are going to have to win at least once at Staples. Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau have five shots between them and didn't generate enough opportunities, but the Sharks are about more than just their Big Two now. Joe Pavelski and Logan Couture, so good against Vancouver, had four shots between them. Los Angeles is a different beast to create successful offense against, but the Sharks have to figure it out fast. – Rory Boylen


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Dear Athena,
I am a trans man. I thought I had struck gold when I found a sexy, talented-in-the-bedroom trans woman. But she held from me the fact that she had a partner early on, and then underplayed the nature of their relationship. She thinks she can stand me up on engagements. We had sex all the time to begin with, but now that the thrill of her first trans female-to-male has worn off, we haven't had sex in months. Do you think she treats me like a toy and was only lying when she said she loved me, so she could get what she wants? Or is she retreating into the relative comfort of a practically sexless, perfunctory relationship with someone who helps pay the bills?
Feeling Down and in the Dust
Dear Feeling Down,
The question shouldn't be how she feels but how you feel.
It's not easy to find someone to click so well with in the bedroom. If you do, it's hard to let go. But it's unacceptable that your lady kept another partner from you, and it sounds like she really hurt you. Even worse: that she seems unaware of or doesn't care about your time and feelings.
Other than sex, you haven't mentioned what else you value about her. Is your relationship just about getting physical? Do you want to be a sex toy and have her be yours in return? Or are you looking for a serious commitment?
Do some soul searching and ask yourself what you desire. Then tell her either that you want to resume your sex life at its previously hot level, or that you'd like to spend more quality time together that might evolve into something serious. Then you'll find out what she wants and know where you're headed.
If she's willing to go where you want to go, great. But before you do, you must also address how it made you feel that she kept her other partner a secret. Based on your letter, it sounds like that still stings.
Don't waste any more time wondering why this woman behaves as she does. Just sit down and have a direct conversation with her. Tell her that you expect respect and honesty — even if the relationship is just about sex.
No matter what your status with another person, you don't deserve to be mistreated. Stick up for yourself, get some answers and then move forward — or move on.


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Here you will find tons of information about healthy eating and incorporating the principles of healthy nutrition into your daily life. Built around Dr. Cederquist's nutritional foundation for healthy weight loss, these articles place a wealth of information right at your fingertips.
Food has different meanings for different people - one might formulate schedules around food while others may not even notice missing a meal. Either way, developing a healthy relationship with food is immensely esteemed for best nourishing the body.
Food has different meanings for different people - one might formulate schedules around food while others may not even notice missing a meal. But whether it be an extreme fixation or avoidance of mealtimes or snacks, developing a healthy relationship with food is immensely esteemed for best nourishing the body.
Practice Mindful Eating
Mindful eating is a rising approach to strengthen food relationships, even showing significance in the treatment of eating disorders, obesity, and diabetes. Practicing mindful eating is simply learning to pay attention to thoughts, feelings, and sensations during meal and snack times. Eating intuitively urges the recognition of smells, flavors, and emotions tied to foods, ultimately aimed to connect us on a deeper level regarding food experiences. Find more information on mindful eating at The Center for Mindful Eating website.
Listen to Hunger and Satiety Cues
While food certainly can be relished and enjoyed, it is important to differentiate between hunger and temptation. Further tagging on the concept of eating intuitively, listening to your body's hunger and satiety cues can build a healthy relationship with food. Consuming foods strictly based on hunger strikes food appreciation, as it helps its recognition on how it nourishes the body. Slowing down mealtimes also allows satiety cues to surface, as it takes approximately 20 minutes for the brain and stomach to connect the "I'm full" feeling.
Eat for Health
Supplementing the recognition of hunger and satiety cues, start to eat for health. Instead of reaching for a convenient bag of chips during bouts of hunger, seek out nutrient-rich foods in its place. Begin to identify how colorful foods offer vitamins and minerals and how each benefits the body - vitamin A (carrots) for eye health, vitamin C (citrus fruits) for immune health, and calcium (milk) for bone health, just to name a few. When you start to better understand the nutritional ties to food, you may be more apt to include them within your diet. Additionally, it is important to not award yourself with food. Rather than validating a large brownie following an intense workout, nourish the body with healthful foods required for optimal recovery.
Focus On Ingredients
In addition to centering on the senses involved while eating foods, start to focus on the ingredients used to create them. Preparing meals from scratch allows you to better understand their intricate assembly, further raising the appreciation on how simple components can transform into flavorful dishes. Continuously preparing your own meals will naturally drive you away from those convenience foods commonly known to be loaded with unnecessary, less healthful ingredients.
Avoid Large Packages and Bags of Foods
Individuals with a healthy relationship with food tend to stray away from sitting down with a large bag of chips or a carton of ice cream. Though such foods can fit into a balanced diet, the key word is balance. After identifying the desire or need for food products, stick to recommended serving sizes. To further keep snack intake in check, purchase single-serve products and scoop or count out the identified serving size in the kitchen rather than bingeing on the whole package in front of the television.
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Though value holds to embrace various foods, it may be worthy to eliminate those so-called "trigger" foods that tend to be sought out following a long day and subsequently over consumed. Ultimately, seeking out foods solely based on emotion is highly discouraged, as it can foster an unhealthy relationship towards it. The bottom line: if consuming the entire package of chocolate chip cookies is inevitable following a stressful day at the offer, simply halt their entry from your kitchen pantry.
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Gaspare Aselli, Aselli also spelled Asellio, (born c. 1581, Cremona [Italy]—died Sept. 9, 1625, Milan), Italian physician who contributed to the knowledge of the circulation of body fluids by discovering the lacteal vessels.
Aselli became professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Pavia and practiced at Milan. His discovery of the lacteals (lymph vessels that take up the end products of fat digestion from the intestine) occurred in 1622 during the vivisection of a dog that had been richly fed just prior to the operation. On opening the abdomen, he noticed whitish cords that exuded a creamlike liquid. Upon careful repetition of the experiment, he described these new vessels as venae albae et lacteae ("white and lacteal veins"). He described them in De Lactibus sive Lacteis Venis, published posthumously in 1627, just before the De motu cordis of the English physician William Harvey, who appears to have been unaware of Aselli's work.


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I was wondering what people thought of the suggestion that climate scientists could make a difference by not flying. It's from a paper by Corinne le Quere which starts with
As experts in a field that is of profound importance to the wellbeing of future societies and ecosystems, it matters what climate scientists say and do.
To be honest, I'm in two minds about this whole idea. That we should consider reducing flying and using alternative ways of travelling, or alternative ways of holding meetings, seems quite sensible. Of course, there will be some occasions where it isn't possible to find an alternative way of travelling, or where a face-to-face meeting would be much more effective than some kind of conference call. However, I'm not sure about the whole idea that climate scientists should be setting some kind of example.
To be clear, I'm all for climate scientists speaking out more, and if some decide that they should fly less, or should change their behaviour because of what their research is suggesting, that's absolutely fine with me. I'm just not convinced that it's really their place to set an example, or that they should feel obliged to do so. There's also the problem that some argue that scientists who advocate are losing their objectivity and hence can no longer be trusted. So, any kind of collective action could be used against them. Admittedly, this may be something that is mainly found in the online climate debate, so may have no actual wider infuence.
On the other hand, this is – IMO – a serious issue, and if what climate scientists choose to do publicly could have some positive impact, then it may well be worth considering. I can certainly see that people might respond positively if they became aware of such endeavours. However, I do still worry that we're expecting an awful lot from those who are really just the messengers, not the decision makers. What might be better is if we aimed to make these kind of changes more generally, rather than just in climate science.
I really don't, however, have particularly strong views about this, so would be interested in what others think. I'm quite pleased to see some climate scientists speak out, I'm just not convinced that we should be expecting climate scientists specifically to publicly change their behaviour. This is a global, societal issue and we should all be considering how we can help to both highlight the issues and reduce our emissions. We shouldn't be leaving it only to climate scientists, simply because their research is most closely related to the topic. It's not that hard for the rest of us to understand the significance.


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GOLF TIPS: Doing Your Homework
Remember, my job is to educate you as a golfer to help you move forward. Then it's up to you the golfer to focus on the difficult characteristics of your swing and repeat certain moves until it feels more natural. It's important to provide you with a solid foundation of the basics and to motivate you to such an extent that you take on the responsibility to work on your game. In practical terms, that involves designing drills and exercises. That's the best thing about drills and exercise, they not only spice up your practice time but they amplify that obscure component of "feel" and so speeds up your improvement.


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People around the world believe that owning talent alone is enough to guarantee a musician success in the music business. Nothing could be further from the truth. In a faultless world, the best musicians the best guitarists would be thoroughly rewarded for their capabilities. However, the business of music is far from perfect and to achieve success you have to practice day in and day out to stay competitive.
Talent is the most important thing for any artist, but whether you are a fingerpicker or a two handed tapper, in order to continue your musical journey, you have to distinguish yourself from rest of the world. You do not have to be a Jimi Hendrix at the beginning of your guitar playing stage, just learn the basics and be good at what you are learning. To be a good guitarist you don't have to compete with each and every guitarist in this planet, you just have one competitor to compete with and that one competitor is yourself. Compete with yourself, try to be better than yesterday and I bet you will be better than the best.
Some of the basic things which you should know when you run your fingers across those strings of a guitar, things that probably no one would have told you when you start learning guitar or as a matter of fact if you are a guitarist so that you can be good at it.
Feel good about your guitar as your guitar is your asset, respect your guitar, and treat it like your friend. Let's face it if you don't feel good or don't have the passion for doing something you will always fail. So, feel good about your step forward towards music, love it, feel it and be passionate about playing guitar. This would help you to lock in with the rhythm section and produce a track that grooves. Pay attention to the legendary guitarists to absorb how grooves should be played, everyone from rock Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love to blues shuffle Pride and Joy by Vaughan to Sex Machine by Brown. Practice, practice and practice to make yourself perfect, remember you are your toughest competitor.
Pay attention when you listen to guitar as this is one of the most important areas which you should develop if you want to be successful. Great legendary guitarist had already done half of the things for you so all you have to do is listen to their guitar. Also, if you are already a stage performer or if you are in the studio, do not just be in your own world, try to listen and engage with the other musicians you are working with. React to what they are playing.
Practice, practice and practice, well everyone says it but this is the best way to learn guitar. Hard work always pays off. Only practice can make you better, can make you perfect. And there is no right or wrong time or place to practice, if you feel like practicing at mid-night then practice at that time don't stop your inner you, but make sure you don't wake your neighbours.
These are my all from my own personal experience; I learnt to play guitar on an acoustic guitar. I have over 40 years of experience as a musician, music instructor, arranger and performing artist. If you want to add guitar to your life by learning to play, then just visit my website guitarconfidence.com and give me a call. I have been doing mobile guitar lessons for many years. I will come to your home and give you private guitar lessons at your home. Guitar Confidence covers over 30 cities in the East Bay and South Bay areas; including Danville, San Ramon, Dublin & Pleasanton.


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[JURIST] Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] could face a third corruption trial based on new information that recently surfaced, according to Saturday reports. Berlusconi, who is already facing two separate trials on charges of corruption and bribery, is accused of embezzlement and tax fraud related to his television company Mediaset [official website, in Italian], though his lawyers have dismissed any substance to the charges [Reuters report]. Berlusconi's son and 11 other members of Mediaset's board are also implicated [Times report]. A Milan judge will decide if there is enough evidence to hold a trial, which could begin as early as February [AFP report].
In October, the Italian Constitutional Court [official website, in Italian] struck down a 2008 law granting immunity [JURIST report] to Berlusconi and four others, allowing charges to be reinstated. Earlier this week, the Italian Senate approved a bill [JURIST report] to place time limits on the trial process, which would have the effect of dismissing charges against Berlusconi. Last week, Italian judges postponed [JURIST report] Berlusconi's corruption trial at his lawyers' request. He is charged with paying his British lawyer David Mills [JURIST news archive] to provide false testimony in two trials involving Mediaset. Berlusconi's tax fraud trial has also been postponed [JURIST report]. Berlusconi has been previously acquitted of false accounting and bribery [JURIST reports], and has had some other charges against him dropped [JURIST report].


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The Juvederm® family is one of the safest and most widely used brands of dermal fillers in the world. The key active ingredient in each of these FDA-approved fillers is hyaluronic acid.
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Ultra is used for adding volume to the lips, giving them a fuller, plumper look that can last up to a year. This is ideal for patients who have either had thin lips their entire lives or who had more voluminous lips that have thinned with age. Ultra Plus is essentially the same, but the formula is a bit thicker, making it effective for treating nasolabial folds (parentheses lines) and marionette lines.
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text: Discussions on the future of journalism are happening so often now that they're almost trite. But Robert McChesney, John Nichols, Tracy Van Slyke and Kate Giammarise are not only interested in saving journalism; they're interested in having all of us have a say. Nichols and McChesney have a new book out, The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again that documents the decline of the commercial press and makes the case for publicly-funded media, and Van Slyke has a book out as well, co-authored with Jessica Clark, Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics, documenting the rise of a new media culture. Giammarise is featured in Nichols and McChesney's book and since being laid off from the Toledo Blade has founded Rustwire.com.


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Richard Mylan plays the role of Ben, a son to Bob and Fran and a brother to three siblings Mark, Pip and Rosie.
Watch Richard's Digital Theatre interview about his role in Things I Know To Be True
'THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE' toured theatres between 10 Sept - 26 Nov 2016 in:
LONDON, OXFORD, WARWICK, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER and CHICHESTER.
A thing of beauty. Exquisitely observed. An absolute gem
★★★★★ Daily Telegraph
Genuinely haunting and fervently recommended
★★★★ The Independent
Beautiful and devastating. Frantic Assembly brings its signature magic to a beautiful evocation of family life
★★★★ The Stage
(This) family drama is tender, physical and deeply relatable - set in Adelaide, but looking towards the world
★★★★ The Guardian
An intricate, inventive study of family life. The staging is fluent - inventive without being grandiose, and at times genuinely beautiful
★★★★ Evening Standard
The subtle nature of the production and its kinetic appeal make for an impressive and gripping domestic drama that resonates deeply
★★★★ London Theatre
This show perfectly nails the affection, the humour and the excruciating anguish of a family's relationship
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10 Ways to Use Images for Link Building
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Images have been a huge part of the web for the past decade, as this type of content have evidently added more value to the overall web usage through enhancing visual experience as well as in helping give more definition to information/web-based content.
The great thing about using images for marketing is that it's one of the most efficient ways to build brand recognition and acquire natural mentions/links to a website, seeing that it can easily stimulate interest to its audience (particularly if the image is really compelling and/or visually appealing), and is very easy to disseminate.
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…to rally our family together in solidarity, hope, and faith by taking a vacation wherein the destinations were dictated by AMC flight availabilities. We are grateful that we had the privilege to prepare our family for a new life through a family retreat set wherever and nowhere we expect. It was a vacation of a lifetime!
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I apologise if this blog seems to be rather right brain obsessed of late but much of my focus has been in that area as I've been trying to decide which is the best place to send my kids. It seems excessive to send them to two places, but I haven't been able to decide which is the better school for them. One of the best ways to clarify my thoughts is to write about them, so here we go…
The more I explore the right brain education programs available out there, the more questions I have. The disparity is basically between Shichida/Heguru and TweedleWink. Having been born from the same master, I think Shichida and Heguru classes are bound to be similar (even if I have yet to attend a Shichida class). Any minor differences I think would likely be negligible in its impact upon the children. That said, I've decided not to pursue classes at Shichida for several reasons (all of which have nothing to do with their program):
1. I can't afford the time required to take the compulsory parent's course.
2. The waiting list at Centerpoint is too long for me to bother with them. It would be too disruptive to start Gavin and Gareth elsewhere and shift them to Shichida if and when a slot becomes available.
3. I dislike the branch at Wisma Lim Foo Yong because it's in the heart of the city and the traffic will kill me. Not to mention Gareth would never tolerate the stop/start driving. I also dislike it because the carpark is dingy and too quiet – not very safe for a Mum and young child.
So that leaves me with Heguru and TweedleWink…
One of the reasons why I considered the move to TweedleWink was because the program seemed gentler and less intense. My first class at Heguru left me breathless. I did wonder if it might be too intense for a child, let alone a baby. One of the philosophies of TweedleWink is that you should flash your cards at the rate of your child's heart beat. They believe that the flashcard rate at Heguru (3 cards per second) was potentially harmful to a child and could lead to difficulties in concentration later on.
Initially, I was concerned. But my thoughts have been running over time and after a recent conversation with Yuly (the person who runs Heguru in Malaysia) I feel more at ease. I felt it was only fair hear Yuly's out since I'd already listend to Wennie's views. Yuly approached me after class on Thursday after reading what I'd written about Heguru on this blog. I had a good, albeit brief, discussion with her about Heguru, Shichida and TweedleWink. She was prepared to share more but with Gavin scaling the walls and my MIL waiting at home with Gareth, I had to take my leave before I was ready to.
Anyway, here are the counter-arguments to the TweedleWink philosophy – both my own thoughts that have been floating around in my head for some time now and some of what Yuly has shared with me:
1. Shichida and Heguru have been around long enough for several generations of children to have gone through the program. If there were harmful effects to be associated with such rapid flashcard rates then surely we would have seen it by now.
2. Additionally, if the rate of 3 cards per second is harmful, I can't imagine what cartoons would be doing to children since they are essentially the flashing of thousands of pictures at a far more rapid pace.
3. At home, I do the Doman reading and Math programs with Gavin and Gareth. I find that if I flash the cards too slowly, I cannot maintain their attention. By increasing my pace of flashing (definitely faster than one per second), I find Gareth, especially, will keep his gaze riveted on the flashcards. In Gareth's case, faster was definitely better.
TweedleWink also talked about the Linking Memory program drawing out the left brain too early if the children are exposed to it prior to the emergence of the left brain. Now this is the part I haven't been able to consolidate in my head until now. Linking Memory may be targeting the left brain but isn't speech also a left-brain function? If you don't want to draw out the left brain too early then you should also discourage your child from reading and speaking early because these are both left brain activities. Yet, if you follow Doman and the Montessori philosophy, you should begin teaching these as early as possible – or, as the Montessori approach says, when your child is in the absorbent state – because that is when it is easiest for your child to learn.
So that dispels the concerns I might have had against continuing Gavin and starting Gareth at Heguru. Now that Heguru is back under consideration – which school?
I realise that I am the one who was more comfortable with the approach at TweedleWink. However, just because I prefer it doesn't mean my kids agree. Gavin loves his class at Heguru. When I told him I was going to stop his class, he was actually upset. One of the things he loves best – which he told me – was his sensei. His favourite activity is linking memory.
At the end of the day, the best school for the kids is the one that they enjoy most. The fundamental principle of right brain development is positive emotion. The children need to be happy where they are. If they aren't happy, they aren't learning.
I was initially reluctant to continue Gavin on Heguru and start him on TweedleWink because he's already got a music program as well. But when I talked to Gavin, he told me he doesn't like music class and that he wants to drop that instead. He pleaded with me to let him continue Heguru. So I guess the child has spoken…


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Track payments or refunds made on an invoice to see the transaction ID, type of transaction, transaction date, and whether or not the transaction was successful. This can help you get more accurate analytics from your invoice data. It can also indicate when there is an unusually high number of refunds, which could signal a problem worth addressing.
Get a list of subscriptions that ChartMogul has automatically generated from invoice data. This endpoint returns several IDs - including subscription IDs, customer IDs, plan IDs, and data source IDs - that will help you to more easily track and integrate data between any of those parameters to create deeper, more accurate business analytics.
Use tags to track terms that are associated with a customer so that you can segment or monitor them more specifically. For example, you could tag a particular customer as "high priority," "returning" or anything else that is relevant to your business, and then retrieve a list of customers who have been tagged with those attributes in order to analyze them as a segment.
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One of the highlights of Montreat Conference Center's year-round programming is the summer worship series in which leading preachers from across the country join with visual art professionals, musicians, and volunteers in a service of worship open to the surrounding community. All are welcome and all are invited.
The 2019 Sunday series continues on July 7 with the Rev. Dr. Patrick Johnson as guest preacher. Dr. Johnson is pastor of First Presbyterian Church in neighboring Asheville, NC. Prior to his call to Asheville, he served as pastor of Frenchtown Presbyterian Church in Frenchtown, NJ, and as adjunct faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary in the area of preaching, speech communication, and worship. Dr. Johnson's sermon is titled "Deep in the Muddy Water" which draws on 2 Kings 5:1-15 and Luke 10:1-11 and 16-20.
Each Sunday worship service throughout the summer is planned by Montreat Conference Center's worship committee, which includes the leadership of the Rev. Carol Steele, vice president for program; the Rev. Dr. Ann Laird Jones, arts ministry director; Hannah Garrity, summer liturgical artist; Eric Wall, conference center musician; Andrew Frazier, liturgy writer; and Alexandra Mauney and Brendan McLean, summer ministry interns.
The series continues on the following dates:
July 14 – Rev. Dr. Amy Butler
July 21 – Dr. Peter Enns
July 28 – Rev. Dr. Alice Ridgill
August 4 – Rev. Dr. Steve P. Eason
All of the summer Sunday services in the series are at 10:30 am in Anderson Auditorium, just off Assembly Drive in Montreat. Child care is available for children six months through kindergarten at the Updike Child Care Center on Texas Road.
As is the summer tradition, the community is invited to the lunch buffet at 11:45 am in the Assembly Inn's Galax Dining Room following worship. Lunch tickets can be purchased at the Assembly Inn front desk.
For further information or to learn about other worship, educational, and recreational opportunities at Montreat, visit www.montreat.org, or call 828.669.2911.


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World chess champion Magnus Carlsen REFUSES to say if he believes American teen opponent used anal beads to cheat and beat him… and offers withering praise of rival's game and coach
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has laughed-off claims that US teen opponent who beat him in a shocking display used vibrating anal beats to cheat – and also appeared to make a sarcastinc comment about his rival's coach.
Magnus Carlsen, 31, stunned avid chess fans when he resigned from a rematch against Hans Niemann, 19, after just a single move in the online Julius Baer Generation Cup on September 19.
Niemann unexpectedly beat the world champion in a real-life battle for the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis a month before the online tournament on Chess24.
The teenage chess starlet sparked rumors that he was cheating by using remote-controlled vibrating anal beads to communicate with his coach, Maxim Dlugy.
Dlugy was banned from Chess.com in 2017 after allegedly cheating on one of the Titles Tuesdays, and was the first to suspect Borislav Ivanov of cheating with a device in his shoes in 2013.
Former chess prodigy Dlugy was also jailed on charges of attempting to embezzle $9million, but he was later cleared of all charges.
Carlson was interviewed by a reporter in Oslow, and quizzed on his thoughts on the bizarre claims of cheating.
The chess genius said: 'Unfortunately, I cannot particularly speak on that but people can draw their own conclusions and they certainly have.
'I have to say I'm very impressed by Niemann's play and I think his mentor Maxim Dlugy must be doing a great job.'
Magnus Carlsen, 31, stunned avid chess fans when he resigned from a rematch against Hans Niemann, 19, after just a single move in the online Julius Baer Generation Cup
He has now refused to say if he believes that Niemann was cheating during both of their games in an interview
Chess genius, Niemann, 19, has been accused by fans of cheating in a slew of different and imaginative ways
He added that he thought cheating in the sport was 'easy' to do, but he 'wouldn't recommend it' no matter how 'tempting' it might be.
Carlson also said that he would 'probably' say a bit more on the entire situation when the entire tournament comes to an end.
During a preliminary round in the online tournament, Carlsen caught announcers by surprise when he made a single move with black, and then conceded defeat and logged out of the match.
Announcer Tania Sachdev said during the Carlson vanishing act that it was 'unprecedented', saying he was 'making a very big statement' by refusing to play Niemann.
It follows San Francisco-native Niemann's victory over the Norwegian Carlsen – while the teen was playing black – at the Sinquefield Cup on September 4.
Dlugy, en la foto, was banned from Chess.com in 2017 after allegedly cheating on one of the Titles Tuesdays
Carlsen made a snarky comment about his opponents coach, who has previously been accused of cheating, saying he's doing a 'good job' as he laughed
When Carlsen dropped out of the St. Louis tournament without explanation, he posted a cryptic Tweet saying: 'I've withdrawn from the tournament. I've always enjoyed playing in the @STLChessClub, and hope to be back in the future.'
Along with the Tweet, he posted a cryptic video of football manager Jose Mourinho saying: 'If I speak I am in big trouble'.
Mourinho had been speaking at a news conference after a game in which his team is believed to have lost because of some questionable decisions by officials.
Carlsen had played 53 classical matches without a loss and had won the cup twice before in the last decade, but had never withdrawn from an ongoing event.
Chess.com has declined to invite Niemann from Chesscom Global Championship, a $1million event starting with online qualifiers and culminating in an 8-player final in Toronto, after the controversy.
Niemann has furiously denied using vibrating anal beads to received tips on how to play – saying that he would 'strip naked' if needed
Carlson also said that he would 'probably' say a bit more on the entire situation when the entire tournament comes to an end
Niemann has furiously denied using vibrating anal beads to received tips on how to play, with fans launching a slew of theories as to how he could have won.
The teenage star said: 'I have never cheated in an over-the-board game. If they want me to strip fully naked, I will do it.
'I don't care. Because I know I am clean. You want me to play in a closed box with zero electronic transmission, I don't care. I'm here to win and that is my goal regardless.'
But critics note that his Elo rating, which gauges the strength of chess players, shot to 2701 after his victory over Carlsen, up from just 2484 in January 2021, a staggering rise that some find unlikely.
And Niemann has admitted to cheating in online chess tournaments when he was a child, saying that he deeply regrets it.
In one online match when he was 12, he says one of his friends brought over an iPad loaded with a 'chess engine' program that offered the most likely route to a win.
The person Niemann was playing couldn't see him, and so was unaware of what was unfolding.


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What Makes Them Cry – By Frederick James Smith (PHOTOPLAY 1923)
What Makes Them Cry – By Frederick James Smith (PHOTOPLAY 1923)
PHOTOPLAY Vol. XXIII May, 1923 No.6
What Makes Them Cry
By Frederick James Smith
What Moves the Stars to Tears
- Mary Pickford by Massenet Elegie
- Pola Negri by Grieg's Lament
- Bill Hart by "Sweet Bunch of Daisies"
- Theda Bara by Gabriel-Marie's "La Cinquantaine"
- Betty Compson by "Aloha"
- Dorothy Dalton by "Kiss Me Again"
- Mae Busch by "Home Sweet Home"
SINCE Blanche Sweet wept the first sensational real screen tear, as Judith in David Wark Grifiith's "Judith of Bethulia," many a tear has been shed before the remorseless film lens. Unfortunately the public has come to look upon most of them as a matter of glycerine. That is a part of the film fan's general present suspicion of all things cinematic. In reality, most of the studio tears these days are real. It is no longer a matter of emulsion rather than emotion. After all, why shouldn't the tears be the genuine thing? The average star has only to think of what the papers say about that last picture, or the sad fashion the studio staff receives his—or her—flashes of genius. Any one of these things is guaranteed to open the ocular sluice-gates.
Seriously, tears are largely a matter of temperament. They come comparatively easy to stars like Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish. Just a suggestion can make Jackie Coogan weep giant tears. Pola Negri, on the other hand, approaches her tear duct interludes from an emotional angle, rather than from the path of pathos. She must come to the tears logically as the climax of carefully developed emotional scenes. And she must have music. Indeed, it is surprising, when you come to consider the sob moments, how important a part music plays in the "shooting" of our photoplays. It is impossible to say definitely just when and where music entered the silver-sheet field as a tear persuader, but legend has it that Grifiith called in a violinist at the old Biograph studio, away back in 1909, to play for Florence Lawrence. Maybe the honor is deserved elsewhere but, since "D. W." created most of the innovations which in time became part of the technique of the photoplay of today, we pass the wreath to Griffith and move on. True, Griffith uses music less than any director we know.
He has found that mobs in big scenes are especially responsive to music and, in "Intolerance," he used a military band for three days during the filming of the battle scenes. Archaeologists would have been surprised to see the legions of Cyrus repulsed from the walls of Babylon to the stirring strains of a Sousa march or "Tipperary." In the scenes of Belshazzar's feast in "Intolerance" the dancers received their cues from music of this same hardworking band. In the intimate scenes of his productions, however, Griffith uses no music. Indeed, Griffith has told me that he would never employ a player who could not feel a role enough to weep at rehearsals. Right here let us say that Griffith himself will not do a story that does not move him to the point of tears at the mere telling. More than once we have watched tears come to Griffith's eyes as he merely outlined the details of a screen story. This reveals something of the Griffith method of making a photoplay. He will work over his story until he achieves at least one or two big moments. Then he will turn and twist the synopsis—indeed, throw the story out the window—to get the most out of these few seconds. These moments develop at the extended rehearsals of the entire story which always precede the "shooting" of a single foot of film. Usually they come forth as a player reveals an unusual touch of feeling. Think back over any Griffith drama and you will instantly recall certain moments that stand out with cameo clarity.
Consider the slavey's hysterical fear in the tiny closet of "Broken Blossoms," the broken Yellow – Man hovering tenderly over the figure of the girl in the same classic, the death of the baby in " 'Way Down East," or the moment when Henriette hears the distant voice of the lost and blind Louise in "Orphans of the Storm." All immortal celluloid flashes of genius—and all achieved in this careful fashion.
The Griffith method of developing these scenes is essentially unique. It can honestly be described as savoring of hypnotism. Griffith has a voice of odd dramatic timbre. On the stage it may sound forced and theatrical but in the studio it becomes a musical instrument to play upon an actor's emotions. The very qualities that made Griffith an indifferent actor seem to make for directorial greatness.
Griffith approaches a big scene carefully. Mellowing preliminary—or "working up"—scenes are shot for days preceding. Then the day comes. Someone has said that a cathedral hush settles upon the studio. Griffith goes to his room and rests for an hour. The player goes to his or her dressing room and rests. Then the moment arrives. Stage carpenters' hammers are stilled. Griffith begins to talk to the player. He gives emotionally in direct ratio to the actor's response. Lillian Gish could reach an emotional climax easily. When the "Broken Blossoms" scene in the closet — still the screen's highest example of emotional hysteria—was shot in Los Angeles the screams of Miss Gish, alternating with the cries of Griffith, could be heard in the streets outside. It required most of the studio staff to keep the curious from trying to invade the studio.
Grifiilh's directing becomes a veritable duel of emotions. Mae Marsh was—and is—almost as responsive as Lillian Gish under his direction. Carol Dempster is not of the same temperament. Griffith once worked steadily from eleven to five o'clock, during the making of "The Girl Who Stayed at Home," before he evoked a single responsive tear from Miss Dempster. But, since he refuses to resort to glycerine, he kept on. These scenes are highly wearing for the actor, naturally. Yet we never saw a player respond to emotions so easily and recover herself so quickly as Lillian Gish. She has a curious knack of resting—of completely relaxing—in every spare moment. She conserves herself with the greatest care. Miss Gish once told me that she long ago learned that she could do anything if she rested properly. "Resting properly," she went on, '"is relaxing every muscle." Try it sometime. A curious instance of Griffith's studio magnetism is told of the filming of the old fashioned revival scenes in "True Heart Susie." The director had secured an evangelist for the scene, but somehow the crowd of extras remained cold and unmoved. The scene threatened to collapse when Griffith took the revivalist's place on the platform—and began to really preach. He kept his place on the platform for six hours—and obtained the most remarkable shots of a revival under stress of religious fervor ever filmed. They say one could hear the extras singing "Nearer, My God, to Thee" two blocks from the California studio. Indeed, a half dozen ten-dollar-a-day extras hit the sawdust trail in reality.
Mary Pickford throws herself wholehearted into a scene. "Glycerine tears and counterfeit money are in the same class;" Miss Pickford has told me. "If I can riot feel enough to weep real tears I believe I am not honest with the public." Which, somehow, sums up the reason for Miss Pickford's continuous leadership of the screen for so many years. She is true to her audience. Miss Pickford frequently uses music to stir her emotions. It may interest you to know that the Cadman Indian lyric, "From the Land of the Sky Blue Water," is one of the numbers she frequently uses. And Massenet's Elegie. She utilized the Elegie when she created that famous scene before the mirror in "Stella Maris," when poor little Unity realized her own ugliness. On the other hand no music was required for that tender moment in the revival of "Tess of the Storm Country," where the little waif stands before the judge. Miss Pickford says that it was the moving voice of Forrest Robinson, the old player who acted the judge, that stirred her to tears. John S. Robertson, the director, tells many stories of Miss Pickford's quick response to sentiment. He relates an interesting story, too, of the way he achieved some of the touching moments of "Sentimental Tommy." Remember the brief—but telling—second where May McAvoy as Grizel fought off a show of emotion although her eyes were welled with tears. Robertson achieved it with a trick. "It wasn't honest and it wasn't fair," says Robertson, rather shamefacedly. "We tried the scene for some time with little success. Then the lunch hour came. When the players returned, Miss McAvoy was four minutes late. I surprised her by turning pretty harshly and demanding to know what she meant by being late. Miss McAvoy is a sensitive little person and I saw her fighting back her emotions. So we went on with the scene—and I had just what I wanted. I saw Miss McAvoy creep behind some scenery afterward to cry and I felt like a rotter. Later on, however, I told her and asked her forgiveness." During the recent shooting of "The Bright Shawl," the romantic story of Havana in which Richard Barthelmess starred, Robertson utilized three orchestras. One, a Spanish string orchestra, was used for the dance moments, a native negro orchestra for the Cuban dance hall scenes and a theater orchestra for the theater shots. Once or twice the Spanish orchestra was called upon lor certain emotional moments. Yet neither Barthelmess nor Robertson believe much in the use of music. The temperamental Pola Negri has a very discriminating taste in music. She uses a piano and cello and calls upon her two musicians for Tschaikowsky, Beethoven and sometimes, Wagner. Rachmaninoff's famous prelude is one of her favorites. In achieving the highly tempestuous emotional scene of "Bella Donna," she used the restless and moving lament of Grieg.
While Chaplin uses no music in the actual making of scenes, he often slips away to a deserted comer of his studio. There he plays upon an old violin, while he works out the details of a scene. Never does he approach one of those superb scenes—where comedy is shot through with pathos—without resorting to his faithful violin. No glycerine tears for Jackie Coogan! His childish imagination needs only to be touched. We have seen him weep copiously during a mere recitation. There was a tearful scene in "Oliver Twist," if you remember. The director merely called Jackie's attention to a little kitten that had wandered on the set. It was a scraggly little feline waif. "That kitten's hungry, Jackie," said the director. "Poor little thing." In an instant, tears were streaming down Jackie's cheeks. They tell an interesting story in Hollywood of the night Jackie attended one of the American Legion fights given for charity. Little Jackie got into the ring and shook hands with the pugilists and, as the crowd cheered enthusiastically, his father stepped into the squared circle. Papa Coogan asked Jackie to do a little scene. "You're just a poor little boy, Jackie," said his father kneeling beside him on the canvas, while the great arena hushed under the glaring lights. "You're earning a httle money selling papers but you're tired and cold. When you come back to your little home, you find your baby sister is very sick. When you count your pennies, you realize you haven't enough money to buy the medicine the doctor ordered. You go to her bedside. . . . Now, Jackie, do it."
Without music, atmosphere or props, Jackie walked to the side of the imaginary cradle and, after trying to smile and count his fancied pennies, burst into a flood of real tears, burying his shaking head in his arms. Yes, the audience cried, too. Norma Talmadge uses music on her sets during emotional scenes but she says she does it as a screen from the studio atmosphere. Music blots out distracting things, she says. Miss Talmadge, too, insists upon absolute quiet. Tears come to her gradually, only after she has concentrated completely upon her role. Do you remember the scene in "The Miracle Man" where Thomas Meighan came to realize that he had bartered everything worth while for a handful of gold and breaks down in tears? Meighan always was a competent actor but he hadn't cried. Somehow it seemed unmanly to him and he simply couldn't. At least, so runs the story as George Loane Tucker once told it. For two days and two nights. Tucker kept Meighan practically without sleep and food by rushing work at the studio. By that tune Meighan's nerves had been worn to an edge. So the two, the director and the future star, went on a long walk. Tucker talked long and earnestly of the scene. When they returned to the studio, Meighan had hardly faced the camera when he broke down and wept. The result was the scene as you saw it on the screen. Alice Terry's tears, obtained under the direction of her husband. Rex Ingram, are earned in strenuous fashion. Miss Terry is very slow to arrive at the lachrymal moment. Some times it takes a day or two of continuous work, pressure and almost friction, before the tear comes. Larry Trimble tells an interesting story of the way he obtained tears from Rubye de Remer during the filming of "The Auction Block." Like Miss Terry, Miss de Remer responds slowly. But Trimble resolved not to use the glycerine bottle. He told the wardrobe woman to give Rubye a pair of shoes one size too small. The desired scene was to show a young wife, heart broken by her husband's actions, sitting on the edge of her bed in tears, sobbing, "I can't stand any more." Mr. Trimble kept Miss de Remer standing for hours. He had sandwiches sent in for lunch—and kept her standing to eat them. This continued all day, although Miss de Remer never realized the plot. Work continued into the night. Finally 11 o'clock came. Miss de Remer was on the edge of breaking. Her feet aching and her nerves worn out, the actress collapsed on the edge of the bed, wailing, "I can't stand any more." The cameraman caught the scene and Trimble explained his ruse. But they had to cut off Miss de Remer's shoes. However, the scene established her as an actress. The use of music in the western studios was introduced at Lasky's by Geraldine Farrar. The music of Bizet's "Carmen" was played during the filming of that opera. When Miss Farrar did "Joan the Woman," the Marseillaise was used as the theme of the filming music, just as it was later utilized in the incidental music written to accompany the production. For her love scenes, notably the one with Wallie Reid in this production, Miss Farrar always called for Charles Gardner's "The Lilac." Old fashioned tunes were popular with Bill Hart in emotional scenes, particularly an old timer called "Sweet Bunch of Daisies." Theda Bara used to always insist upon a harpist during her tense scenes. During the shooting of "Cleopatra" and "Du Barry," the harpist always used the same theme, which was described by the studio forces as " an Egyptian chant dug up in an orient tomb along the Nile." A musician happened to visit the studio one day, however, and identified the haunting melody as Gabriel-Marie's "La Cinquantaine," otherwise "The Golden Wedding." Imagine Cleopatra using her wiles on poor old Marc to the tune of a golden wedding melody! Miss Bara was highly partial to Verdi, too, and also to Massenet's Elegie Among the directors who always employ an orchestra is Marshall Neilan. Micky has a four piece orchestra on his pay roll all the time. Here it is interesting to note that Micky is an excellent musician, although he never took a lesson. When Neilan was in New York recently, he met Irving Berlin at a party. Micky sat down to a piano and played Berlin's "Say It With Music." "Remarkable," exclaimed the king of popular music. "You have the real feeling of jazz—that's the number as I really fancied it." On the other hand, Rupert Hughes, although he likes to play between scenes, banishes all musicians during actual shooting.
It is possible to go on endlessly enumerating melodies that stir certain stars to tears. Betty Compson, for instance, can sob graphically for the camera if she hears "Aloha." Dorothy Dalton, for instance, needs "Kiss Me Again." Mae Busch wants "Home, Sweet Home." And so it goes. Anyway, the reign of the glycerine bottle is ended. The motion picture camera is relentless in disclosing the real along with the artificial.