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Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots
Gennett Records produced thousands of records and debuted such stars as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Bix Biederbecke, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charley Patton, and Gene Autry.
Excerpted from Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy, Revised and Expanded Edition: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots by (footnotes omitted) by Rick Kennedy © 2013. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Indiana University Press. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or printed without permission in writing from the publisher.
Chapter 1: A Music Dynasty in Victorian Indiana
The rise of the formidable Starr Piano and its fabled Gennett Records label from the small Quaker town of Richmond, Indiana, smack in America's heartland, sounds improbable today, if not fantastic. Yet it wasn't unusual. Richmond was among several small towns in Indiana and Ohio that gave rise to nationally prominent manufacturing companies during the decades after the Civil War. From the late nineteenth century up to the stock market crash of 1929, a plethora of industrial innovations sprang from the region – the mass production of pianos and lawn mowers in Richmond, farm implements in Springfield, Ohio, the Wright brothers' revolutionary airplanes and mechanical cash registers in Dayton, and the ornately crafted Cord and Duesenberg luxury automobiles in the small Indiana cities of Auburn and Connersville.
In each of these industrial towns, similar social dynamics were at work. European entrepreneurs and skilled tradesman flocked to the Midwest, a region bolstered by untapped natural resources and growing populations. The cultural traditions of Old World craftsmanship were being meshed with America's emerging, mass-production technologies. Finished products, distinguished by handcrafted workmanship, rolled off the assembly lines of the Midwest in large quantities. Because of the nation's newly established railroad network, products from the small industrial towns of the Midwest could reach virtually every market in America and overseas. Often capitalizing on cheap labor costs, the families who owned these manufacturing firms made huge fortunes as evidenced by their grand mansions in these towns, where they exerted considerable influence as civil leaders and cultural patrons.
It was amid these social and commercial dynamics that Richmond developed into one of Indiana's first industrial centers. Settled primarily by Quakers beginning in 1806, Richmond was founded along the Whitewater River in east-central Indiana. On the eastern fringe of America's grain belt, close to the Ohio border, Richmond is sixty-eight miles east of Indianapolis and seventy miles north of Cincinnati. Richmond's transportation channels enabled the village's industrial base to develop quickly. The Whitewater Canal along the Whitewater River helped link Richmond with the Ohio River valley. Among Richmond's first manufacturers were cotton and wool mills that utilized the river for power. During the nineteenth century, the National Road (now U.S. 40) was routed through the heart of Richmond. The National Road became a primary passage for wagon trains crossing the central states to the West. By the Civil War era, the small, self-sufficient village had its own paper mills, tanneries, foundries, iron factories, and a neighborhood German brewery, as well as farm implement and carriage manufacturers.
The exhaustively detailed History of Wayne County, Indiana, published in 1884, proclaimed that Richmond "stands without a rival in the beauty of her location, the wealth of her surroundings, the solidity of her growth, and in the refinement, culture, and hospitality of its citizens." The proud authors describe Richmond as a frontier-style Garden of Eden, attributing its low death rate to the pure air, which "gave energy to a man and elasticity to his steps," and to an absence of "stagnant pools and miasmatic bottomlands." Within a few years, however, it wasn't pure air, hospitality, and solidity of growth that gave the small community of ten thousand people a growing reputation for excellence with consumers well beyond its rural Indiana borders. Rather, it was a booming piano manufacturing complex along the banks of the Whitewater River.
The Rise of Starr Piano Company
Piano making began in earnest in Richmond in 1872 when an Alsatian craftsman named George M. Trayser partnered with two business leaders in town, including a scion to one of its founding Quaker families, to establish a modest manufacturing company.
The middle-aged Trayser arrived in Richmond with an impressive resume. He had apprenticed in piano building in Germany and France, and then had traveled across the American frontier to open a storefront factory in 1849 in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. It is believed to be the first piano manufacturer west of the Allegheny Mountains. He built pianos and melodeons, the forerunner of the pump organ. In the 1860s, the U.S. Patent Office awarded Trayser patents for piano technology, which, he claimed in newspaper advertisements, enabled his pianos to stay in tune longer than those of his competitors. Later that decade, he moved his operations 165 miles southeast to Ripley, Ohio, east of Cincinnati. Situated along the Ohio River, Ripley was a tobacco-trading town of five thousand people where Trayser partnered with Milo J. Chase, a piano maker of considerable financial means from New England. They formed Trayser Piano Forte Company in a building two blocks from the river, a major commercial route for steamboats. Even though the piano company took Trayser's name, Chase was its president and general manager, and he established a second location across the river in Maysville, Kentucky.
In 1872, Trayser moved to Richmond, 125 miles northwest of Ripley, after securing backing from James M. Starr and Richard Jackson. Starr was from one of Richmond's most prominent families; his father, Charles Starr, was a wealthy Quaker importer from Philadelphia who had helped to develop the town. In 1818, Charles had journeyed alone on horseback through the territories west of the Allegheny Mountains and connected with an enclave of Quakers in the new village of Richmond. He and his wife Elizabeth eventually settled there in 1825 when the population was less than seven hundred people. He purchased 240 acres in the heart of the village for $6,000 and sold off parcels at $100 per lot, on which homes and factories were built. He constructed Richmond's first hewed-log house. He also established a cotton factory and further developed the downtown. In 1853, he was a prime driver in incorporating the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie Railroad and provided land for the town's first railroad depot at North Tenth and E streets. It gave Richmond greater access to large urban markets with direct routes to Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
James Starr was the third of his parents' seven children to reach adulthood. He was nine months old when the family settled in Richmond. His early jobs included traveling book merchant and downtown grocer. As a young man, he was no stranger to heartbreak. In 1850, his wife of three years and a nine-month-old daughter both died. In 1853, he married Sarah King, and they became one of the town's prominent couples. After Charles's death in 1855, James managed his father's considerable holdings in town and continued developing the residential and business districts. Described as a handsome man with a strong personality, James in 1863 bought controlling interest of the Richmond Gas Light Company, which, by 1868, illuminated 228 street lamps and 1,000 buildings.
Starr's business associate in the piano enterprise was Richard Jackson, a hard-driving Irishman who arrived in America in 1843 as a teenager and soon moved west. By the 1850s, the young Jackson operated a dry goods store in Richmond, considered the town's first to operate strictly on a cash basis. He made a comfortable living and expanded his influence in town by financing the construction of several downtown buildings. After the Civil War, he operated a mill in Richmond, which burned to the ground in 1871.
The following year, the Trayser Piano Company opened on property Jackson secured on North Fifth Street, near the railroad depot. Trayser served as president and Jackson as secretary-treasurer. The Trayser and Jackson households, as well as the factory, were all situated within a couple of street blocks of each other. Richmond proved an excellent location for the new enterprise as a growing village with numerous European wood craftsmen, especially from Germany. Trayser Piano sold the highly ornate pianos directly to consumers from the factory. In its literature, the firm offered a five-year guarantee on its pianos and claimed to have developed a sounding board that produced a beautiful tone, especially on the high keys.
In 1878, the piano company reorganized and expanded. With Trayser well into his 60s and retiring, his former partner from Ripley, M. J. Chase, took over the factory operations. The firm, renamed Chase Piano Company, was recapitalized with a $100,000 stock issuance. James Starr rose to company president, with Jackson as secretary-treasurer. They established a sales room downtown at 710 Main Street. After the stock issuance, the owners purchased twenty-three acres of land on First Street, along the bottom of a vast gorge formed by the Whitewater River. They constructed a six-story brick factory on the east bank of the river, which supplied critically needed waterpower. While just a stroll from Richmond's central business and residential neighborhoods, the factory was isolated from view in the gorge. As the company grew from one factory into a mammoth complex, this stretch of the Whitewater gorge came to be known in Richmond as Starr Valley. (During the 1920s era of Gennett Records, it also assumed such nicknames as Banjo Valley and Harmony Hollow.)
In 1880, Jackson became seriously ill from an undiagnosed brain ailment, which "baffled the skill of some of the ablest physicians in Richmond and elsewhere." He died a year later at age fifty-four. James Starr's youngest brother, Benjamin, a thirty-eight-year-old Civil War hero, replaced Jackson and became a company owner. Born in 1842, Benjamin was nineteen years old when he answered President Abraham Lincoln's call for three hundred thousand volunteers to join the Union Army. On August 21, 1861, Benjamin and another of his brothers, Joseph Starr, enlisted in the Second Indiana Cavalry. A year later, Benjamin suffered a near-fatal head wound in battle, followed by a bout of typhoid fever. Joseph was briefly captured but escaped from the Confederates. Returning to Richmond, Benjamin partnered in a stove retail store, and then joined his older brother James as a part owner of Richmond Gas Light Company. Like brother James, Benjamin was widowed before age thirty in 1868. He remarried in 1873. By the time Benjamin joined Chase Piano Company, he was also highly visible in town, having served as a local school trustee and as a city council member.
The piano company expanded along the Whitewater River. New buildings were added, and employment grew to 150 employees by 1883. However, Chase, who also obtained piano technology patents, had other plans. In the mid-1880s, he and his sons pulled up stakes in Richmond and established a piano factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (The Chase family became leading piano makers in Michigan for several decades.) His departure prompted yet another company reorganization in Richmond, and the Starr brothers further asserted themselves. The company was renamed James Starr & Co., with James as president and younger brother Benjamin as factory general manager. For several months, the factory continued to produce Chase brand-name pianos using the existing inventory of materials. Then the Starr brothers briefly produced the Queen brand piano, but by 1886, the pianos bore the Starr name.
For James Starr & Co. and other American piano manufacturers, opportunity abounded in the late nineteenth century. For America's emerging middle class, the piano embodied a respectability and civility to which many people aspired. While the wilds of the American frontier captivated Europe, Americans, on the other hand, sought to emulate the values and cultural refinement associated with England's Victorian lifestyle. In photographs of American homes in the nineteenth century, the piano was a central element in rooms elaborately decorated with furniture, rugs, and draperies. Before the age of phonographs and radios, the piano was a fixture in the parlors of America's middle class, a social centerpiece, particularly for women, who were expected to master the instrument out of what seemed to be a sense of cultural duty.
A common image of courting in nineteenth-century advertising literature was the woman seated at the piano, playing sentimental classics to her anxious male caller. Certainly, the minds of these young couples were on other things besides Chopin nocturnes, but the piano stood as a moral institution. To a people who embraced a Protestant work ethic, the piano symbolized its virtues.
Enter the Gennett Family
By the early 1890s, the Starr brothers' enterprise would be transformed once again when their handcrafted pianos were shipped in great numbers to outlets of the Jesse French Piano & Organ Company, based in St. Louis. Founded in 1873, the Jesse French company was a pioneering piano retailer in Middle America, with a chain of stores throughout the Southern states. During the 1880s, French's retailing base expanded rapidly by selling several brands of pianos including the respected Starr keyboards. The tie between French and James Starr & Co. soon proved lucrative to both the retailer and the supplier. That relationship radically altered Starr's position in the industry, after two associates of Jesse French company, John Lumsden and his son-in-law Henry Gennett, began merger negotiations with the Starr brothers in 1892.
Born in 1852 as the eighth child in a family of nine children, Henry Gennett was the son of a prominent Italian entrepreneur in Nashville, Tennessee, who had operated a wholesale grocery business in the city since 1833. Henry was four years old when his father died. As a young adult, he joined his older brothers in the family business. At age twenty-three, he married Alice Lumsden, a member of a prosperous Nashville family. Her father, the England-born John Lumsden, had established a successful tannery business in Nashville, operated an insurance company, and held extensive land assets. For a brief period, Henry and Alice Gennett lived with the Lumsdens in their Nashville mansion. Lumsden's other sons-in-laws happened to be Jesse French and Oscar Addison Field, French's partner in the piano retail business. Through Gennett's personal relationships with these three men, he also became involved in the retail piano operations. In the late 1880s, Gennett teamed with Lumsden in operating a chain of retail music stores in the South. By 1891, Gennett moved his family to St. Louis, where he became vice president of the Jesse French company.
Lumsden stayed in Nashville, but he maintained significant holdings in the Jesse French Company, despite his expressed concern with French's aggressive, and potentially unsavory, method for retail markup. In a revealing letter to Gennett in the 1890s, Lumsden warned of price gouging in a French retail store. "We have in the store a good stock of cheap pianos," Lumsden wrote. "Mozarts cost $83, Waverlys $100, Majestics $100, so you can see we have a house full of trash. And these pianos are priced from $250 to $350. The better grades only come in when these can't be forced off. I want to give you the facts so that you may see the drift of the business."
By 1892, the Jesse French executives sought to align with a piano supplier closer to its southern operations. A primary supplier, James Starr & Co. had continued to build upon its solid reputation, winning awards at the Chicago World's Fair of 1892. Back in Richmond, Benjamin and James Starr were eager to establish an alliance with the French executives. Gennett and Lumsden soon began merger negotiations with the Starr brothers.
On April 7, 1893, the new Starr Piano Company was organized and significantly recapitalized with a $100,000 stock issuance. Gennett and Lumsden acquired about half ownership in Starr Piano, and along with French, joined the Starr brothers on the company's board of directors. Benjamin Starr, Lumsden, and Gennett were the newly organized company's primary officers, with Lumsden as president. French never actively participated in Starr Piano, but he remained a director for several years.
While the company reorganized, the white-bearded James Starr, now seventy years old, continued to slow his business activities. He removed himself from the day-to-day operations of Starr Piano and sold his holdings in the local gas company. (Two years earlier, his and wife Sarah's adopted son, Edward, had died at age twenty-eight.) He continued to serve on several boards and remained a beloved local philanthropist in town, financing the public Starr Park near his mansion on North Tenth Street. In 1895, he financed the construction of a small Baptist church for local African Americans. After Sarah died in 1897, James Starr took a second residence in Washington, D.C.
Initially, the Starr brothers must have felt jinxed by their new Southern partners. In early 1894, a huge fire in Starr Valley nearly destroyed the entire manufacturing complex and halted production for several months. Not long after the facilities were back up and running, a Whitewater River flood shut them down again. With the demands of putting the operations in Starr Valley back on solid footing, Gennett sold his interest in the Jesse French operations in St. Louis and moved his family to Richmond. After Lumsden died in 1898, Gennett assumed the presidency of Starr Piano.
Despite the setbacks and leadership changes, Starr Piano had made strong progress in a booming industry. By the 1890s, the rate of U.S. piano production was five times as fast as the nation's population growth. More than a hundred firms manufactured pianos in the United States. Many American piano manufacturers evolved into full-blown corporations fueled by high levels of capitalization and expanded distribution networks. Through its alignment with French's established retail network, Starr Piano was positioned to become one of the industry's major players. The manufacturing plant in the Starr Valley rapidly expanded as the owners poured money into the company; in 1897, the capital stock of Starr Piano was doubled, to $200,000.
In the new century, the Gennett family assumed full control of Starr Piano. In 1898, Henry Gennett's eldest son, Harry, became a vice president at the mere age of twenty-one after having been mentored in the factory by Benjamin Starr. Under the tutelage of the factory craftsmen, Harry also became a capable piano builder. In 1900, the grand old man of Richmond's piano heritage, James Starr, died at age seventy-six. Three years later, brother Benjamin died at age sixty-one after having recently been sworn in as a state senator. The brothers were both buried in Earlham Cemetery next to Earlham College on Richmond's West Side. No Starr family members were now involved in running Starr Piano. In 1905, Henry Gennett appointed his second eldest son, Clarence, twenty-six, as treasurer of Starr Piano, and his third son, Fred, nineteen, as secretary. Henry's wife, Alice, possessed a strong personality and continued to be closely involved in the piano company that her father had greatly influenced.
Jesse French, brother-in-law and long-time business partner of Henry Gennett, questioned the business ethics involved in the Gennett family's swift and complete control of Starr Piano. French had introduced his brother-in-law to the piano business and was a principal investor in the reorganization of Starr Piano Company in 1893. Yet in a deposition filed in 1908, French, sixty-two years old and living in St. Louis, claimed that Henry Gennett "determined to secure the entire control of the Starr Piano Company by depreciating the value of its stock, declining to pay dividends, increasing the salaries [of Gennett family members] to such an extent, keeping the business secret, that we felt it was an uncertain quantity." French claimed that company founder James M. Starr was afforded the same ill treatment, "until he was forced out of the directory and sold his stock."


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(AP) PHOENIX - Louis Taylor was just a teenager when he was convicted of starting a Tucson hotel fire that killed 29 people. He has since spent more than four decades in prison, consistently maintaining his innocence.
On Tuesday, Taylor is expected to be released as part of a deal with prosecutors that forces him to plead no contest in the case, but sets him free about a month after his 59th birthday.
Taylor was sentenced to 28 consecutive life sentences in the December 1970 fire at the Pioneer Hotel, where employees of an aircraft company were celebrating at a Christmas party.
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Holmes said the new findings by Taylor's defense experts are based on incomplete information, noting much of the evidence was destroyed in the 1990s or disappeared after civil attorneys took possession when they sued the hotel.
He also added, "They didn't spend two full days digging through that place."
Holmes acknowledged he didn't find any accelerants, but said it was clear the fire was started in two places. His findings of arson were based, in part, on bats that were found in the hotel hallways, and the patterns in which they were burned.
Holmes defended his comments at the time profiling a potential suspect, some of which are now being used to accuse authorities of racism in the case.
He said he told the City Council after the fire, "He's probably a negro, and he's probably 18," basing his theory on years of experience investigating arson cases, Holmes told the AP.
"But that statement had nothing to do with Louis' prosecution," Holmes said. "I wasn't part of Mr. Taylor's guilt. I was just involved in determining whether or not the fire was arson."


text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Korea or Taiwan? Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Korea or Taiwan? Goto page 1, 2, 3 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> FAQ View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message BubblieeJoined: 03 Jul 2003Location: Kelowna, BC Canada Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:11 pm Post subject: Korea or Taiwan? Hi, I will be coming either to Korea or Taiwan in the end of August or beginning of September. I am having a hard time deciding where to go. I teach ESL privately here in Canada and have taught many Korean students in that time. I really like my Korean students much more then all the others (Japanese, Chinese, Peruvian, Brazillian, Ukrainian). Many of my students who have gone back to Korea really want me to come to Korea, they have all offered to give me any help or assistance I may need. I don't have this sort of support network or familiarty with Taiwan. Many ESL teachers I have talked to who have been to both usually reccomend Taiwan. I would really appreciate any advice that anybody gives me. Thanks so much, Bubbliee Back to top bucheon bumJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:52 pm Post subject: so tell us why you're interested in taiwan then. I think a lot of teachers that have been to both were burned in Korea, so they went to Taiwan, hence their like for Taiwan more. Just my theory. Also, what are you looking for? Would help so we could tell you if you can find it in Korea or not. Back to top William BeckersonGuest Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 5:38 am Post subject: Taking into consideration everything I've read, or have heard about working in Taiwan and my experiences in Korea, I'd suggest Japan. Back to top gypsyfishJoined: 17 Jan 2003Location: Seoul Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:18 am Post subject: I prefer Korea. In Taiwan, you can pretty much count on teaching kids. I had heard the money was better, but didn't find that to be the case and I taught many hours. The climate is very oppressive - hot, humid and rainy most of the year. In Korea, you can pretty much choose to teach adults or kids. On the other hand, Taiwanese people were friendly enough and, at the time(three years ago), I felt Taipei was more cosmoploitan than Seoul, at least as far as restaurants and bookstores. I liveed right outside of Taipei and it was a hike to get to the subway. The subway was good, but not as all inclusive as Seoul's. My quality of life is better in Seoul. Now, there is a nice mix of non-Korean restaurants in Seoul and the bookstore situation has improved - still not as good as Bangkok or Singapore - but a vast improvement over seven years ago. Seoul's weather can suck in the summer, but Fall and, especially, Spring are beautiful. The Taianese didn't seem to care much about their history and culture - things I am interested in - and I learned more about Korea in the first three monthsthat I lived in Korea than I did about Taiwan in thirteen. Back to top BubblieeJoined: 03 Jul 2003Location: Kelowna, BC Canada Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 9:57 am Post subject: Good Point Bucheon Bum. I guess it would help if everybody knew what I was looking for. Probably would help if I knew the complete answer to that one myself! Here are some of the things I know I am looking for. Firstly an adventure. I was born and raised in a really small town in British Columbia Canada. I moved a couple of years ago to the middle sized city of Kelowna. I have never been overseas, the only stamps in my passport are Mexico and America. I also really enjoy teaching, I have been doing so for two years with no real regrets. I love people in general I am incredibly social. I also have to pay of a monster student loan. Who knew getting a degree in Psychology and English would cost so much? I'm also pretty interested in History and culture. Since Canada is such a young country we don't have a lot of that here. I also should mention that I do have a job waiting for me in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I did not sign any contract. Any contract signing and negotiation is to take place after I arrive. I'm just having major second thoughts about Taiwan. Back to top GhostinthemachineJoined: 22 Jun 2003 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 6:53 pm Post subject: Bubbliee wrote "I teach ESL privately here in Canada and have taught many Korean students in that time. I really like my Korean students much more then all the others...........Many of my students who have gone back to Korea really want me to come to Korea, they have all offered to give me any help or assistance I may need." Change Canada to Ireland in the above quote and you have the reason why I came to S.Korea. But.. I have really come to regret since coming here keeping in contact with the Korean students I had in Ireland...It's caused me so much hassle and stress. In fairness it has to be said that by and large it isn't really their fault..most of the time they are well meaning. However there are huge cultural differences and I found those students had changed greatly when they returned to S.Korea (atho' it's probably more accurate to say I didn't know or understand them as well as I thought I did). Also bear in mind that you will probably be providing the only opportunity they have of speaking English with a native speaker when you come to S.Korea and this can become really burdensome. I can't help in your choice between S.Korea and Taiwan but you did say "I would really appreciate any advice that anybody gives me." ......and so for what it's worth i don't think you should factor in the fact that you already have many ex-students as contacts already here when making your decision. Be extremely selective about who you keep in touch with. It's a lot harder to drop people after you've re-established contact. If you do come here you'll find that you get much better support and advice from the foreign teachers already here than you will get from those students. Again ...koreans living here have a much harder life than they do when they are studying abroad and so they do act differently! sorry if this sounds like scare-mongering but I have had quite a bad experience in this regard. And.. the best of luck whatever you decide to do. Back to top bucheon bumJoined: 16 Jan 2003 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 7:28 pm Post subject: well i don't know much about taiwan, so can't give you a comparison. What I can tell you is this: 1)if you're outgoing, which you claim to be, there is no way that coming to korea WON'T be an adventure. You're guaranteed to meet some "interesting" people, both korean and foreign, while you're here. If you're not really into drinking, you might find your life to be a bit dull if you get a job outside Seoul and Busan. On the other hand, if you're into hiking, then perhaps you won't be. 2) Be wary of what kind of job you take here. I'm sure you know this one already. If lots of questions and doubts are poping into you head about a certain job, its a sign that it is a bad job. talk to the teachers there. If they give vague answers or don't seem too excited to be talking to you, you know somethng is up. Anyway, just my 2 cents. Back to top BubblieeJoined: 03 Jul 2003Location: Kelowna, BC Canada Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject: Thanks for all your advice so far. Ghostinthemachine sounds like you understand the situation pretty well. I will try and make my decision sometime next week as I have my last final exam on Tuesday. Then I am free of university! I just want to make the best decision I can of course. I have to admit I am a little freaked out about going somewhere and not knowing anybody at all. I make friends easily, but I still get a wee bit freaked in new situations. Again thankyou all this advice is appreciated. Bubbliee Back to top chi-chiJoined: 15 Jan 2003 Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 11:46 pm Post subject: mods you may deleteLast edited by chi-chi on Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:14 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top mokpochicaJoined: 21 Jan 2003Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject: This page has been posted here a few times and it gives a good run down of different aspects of Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. You might also want to go to the chat here at the cafe and find some teachers that are in these countries. A lot of people that teach in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan (sometimes all three!) chat there and are usually happy to give you info about working in those countries. Back to top AndaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: South Korea Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 2:38 am Post subject: Um Um, depending on your age etc, I think I'd try to get on the JET program in Japan. JET would give you a soft landing in Asia. Taiwan is fairly hard to get enough hours at any one place and the food sucks however students are great. Korea you can generally get a better deal on accommodation and the food is good. Japan has less character and is all so clean but not as friendly as Korea or Taiwan. Oh Taiwan is also a bit of a pain to have to deal with immigration. Japan is the best for immigration. Back to top waterbabyJoined: 01 Feb 2003Location: Baking Gord a Cheescake pie Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 3:27 am Post subject: Bubbliee, Here are some links to some threads that compare Korea to other countries in Asia, mostly Japan and Korea. Should I Move to South Korea? Korea vs Japan vs Taiwan Stay in Korea or flee to Japan? Coming Back to Korea from Taiwan - Advice Korea compared to Japan Good luck! wb Back to top The Great Wall of WhinerJoined: 24 Jan 2003Location: Middle Land Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 6:16 am Post subject: I've done Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. Personally, I choose Korea for oh-so-many reasons. If you want to actually know all those reasons, feel free to PM me. Back to top BubblieeJoined: 03 Jul 2003Location: Kelowna, BC Canada Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 9:46 am Post subject: Just for the record I am 25. I would like to go to Japan, but unfortunately I can't afford it right now. That is another reason why Korea is on the appealing side, I need very little start up money. You guys have been really great so far. Please keep any advice you have coming! Bubbliee Back to top AndaJoined: 16 Jan 2003Location: South Korea Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 10:24 am Post subject: Um Your age the JET program is open to you in Japan. They pay the costs for you. 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I am having a very difficult time right now. I feel almost as if I have hit some sort of spiritual plateau. I am an observant Jew who didn't grow up in a religious home. I spent a year learning at a seminary in Israel, came home and got married. And now I am the lucky mother of two. While I love my children more than anything, I can't help but wonder about my new role in life. I feel like I just don't know who I am anymore, or what I am supposed to do. I used to enjoy praying; now I struggle every morning just to recite the morning blessings. I feel very discouraged, and I feel like I am failing as a Jew. And I don't feel like I am all that successful at being a mother either. I do not understand how a busy mother can still have a close relationship with God. I know the woman has a special role in Judaism... but right now I am struggling greatly in understanding it. Please help.
One of the occupational hazards of the "seminary experience" or any extensive and intense learning endeavor is that it is often difficult to translate it into day-to-day living. It is wonderful to study and expand the horizons of one's mind, but ultimately it comprises only a small piece of the resources required to cope with life situations effectively. Intellectual pursuits, of the exclusively theoretical kind, can often create the illusion of being an end all and when the opportunity to pursue it further isn't there any longer, disenchantment and low feelings result.
There is a season for everything in life. Your years at school, the privilege of an accelerated education, certainly contributed substance to the person that you have become. The Mishna teaches, "An ignorant person cannot strive for an exalted status." At the same time, the sages warn us that, "It is not the learning that is the main goal; the primary objective is the doing." Learning and studying are valuable only to the extent that they inform our life's experience. Life on this earth is referred to as "the world of deeds." Hence, information which cannot impact on our day-to-day behavior is of limited value.
The transition from the halls of study, from the enchantment of dreams and aspirations, to the reality of never ending mundane tasks and responsibilities is, as you describe it, a very rude awakening. It is a most daunting challenge to find coherence, congruence and cohesiveness between the lofty halls of spiritual learning and the pragmatic, less than inspired existence that a young mother finds herself struggling with daily.
I cannot offer you a panacea, but I can tell you that what has to drive everything we do in life must respond to the simple question, "What does the Almighty want of me?" Much of what we struggle with masquerades as frustrated and lofty aspirations, when in reality they are no more than whisperings from the lesser part of ourselves, our ego.
In our narcissistic society, establishing a happy home is the hardest job.
Transitioning into the nurturing role of wife and mother, creating a home where the focus is on the thriving of others, requires a total paradigm shift - from the focus of "me" to "them." The adjustment can be quite traumatic and might feel as though one is losing themselves and their identity in the process. Compared to the productive pre-family days, our mundane oriented days may feel like a waste of time and, as some women report, like a softening of their brain power. Indeed, the legitimate question is, "What did our glorious education prepare us for? Diapers? Dishes? Vacuuming? Sitting home as our men walk off into their daily spiritual horizons and leave us behind?"
Establishing a happy home is the hardest job. It is a counterculture move in a narcissistic society. A contemporary thinker put it this way, "How do we access the nature of essential obligation in a society that sees only personal freedom?" Focusing on home and family requires a paradigm shift from the ideal to the practical, from the talk to the walk. It requires mobilizing all of the inner strength and resources available to consciously and deliberately, with unflinching determination, make every day a good day. When we succeed (and nobody is successful all of the time), in spite of the resistance of both the culture's alien values and the treachery of our inner ego, we will feel the exhilaration and the true joy that can only come of being in the right place and doing the right thing.
I suggest, my dear reader, that you consider the following:
1) "Grow where you are planted." Recognize that the life you have is not arbitrary, but orchestrated from above and hence is, at this moment, the context to which you must bring your finest efforts. Conversely, we must recognize that there are others who don't find themselves blessed in a similar way, who need to find their own unique contribution in the specific contours of their circumstances.
2) Make a list of the blessings in your life and post them where you can see them. They will help you gain perspective in your low moments.
3) Think in your mind's eye of how you would attend to your given role if you loved it and try to behave that way. Invoke the never failing principle that "internal feelings are shaped by external behavior."
4) Join a study group consisting of women like yourself and continue to learn. It will energize and invigorate you and provide the balance that we all need.
5) Long sessions of prayer may not be in the cards for this season of your life but you can fill your abbreviated encounters with feelings and concentration. Be assured that all the Torah authorities unequivocally state that the mother of young children fulfills her formal prayer obligation with the recitation of the morning blessings. Carrying on your own extemporaneous dialogue with the Almighty throughout the day is a wonderful means of connection. "Know Him in all your ways" has been rendered to mean, "connect every step along the way -- while diapering the baby, baking a cake, vacuuming the living room, shopping for clothes, food marketing, etc." Any and every moment is an opportunity to connect.
6) Take care of your self physically. Eat well and set aside time for some form of exercise, a walk around the block, etc. Breathe fresh air. Align yourself with the beautiful world of nature around you. There is indisputably a mind, body and spirit connection. If the body is tended to and healthy, the mind and spirit function is enhanced as well.
7) Credit yourself for all the victories, big and small. "The task of building eternity in the medium of fluid transience" is a mega-huge challenge. In order to maintain our perseverance, given all the stresses along the way, we must give ourselves credit for the daily victories even if they appear miniscule in our sight. Keep a list of all the times you are able to get a momentary clear glimpse of what will ultimately matter despite all the factors that work overtime to cloud your vision.
8) Take it from someone who's been around the block a few times, enjoy and make the most of these wonderful years. They go by so fast. Before you know it, you'll be revisiting this stage, these young formative years in your family's life in picture albums alone. Your heart will ache with nostalgia for the "good old days," days where you can be everything to your children, the smartest, the best, the most beautiful, etc.-- times when "my mother says so" makes you an authority on everything. As you know, we can never turn the clock or the calendar back. Despite the demanding intensity of your current household, do your best to relish the moment. Keep a notebook handy to record the cute and often insightful remarks of your children. Share them with your husband, and take delight together.
9) I guarantee you that, with God's help, there will be seasons in the future that will allow you to do all that which attending to your first priority now does not allow for. Be careful not to squander the "now" of your life. It can never be replaced.
In conclusion, I'd like to leave your with two thoughts. A noted authority remarked that situational depression is a product of when "time is passing and the journey is not progressing, the soul feels the cold hand of death. Depression is no less than a minor experience of death itself. That's why it is so painful." Recognizing that you are making the right choices and engaging the appropriate journey is the only effective antidote.
Secondly, the Zohar, the classic kabbalistic work, offers the following guiding insight. Commenting on the verse in Genesis, "and He called the light day," he suggests that all of us can choose to transform even darkness to "day" by the light that we infuse it with. The challenge for all of us is to bring the light of joy and positive affect to whatever season of life we find ourselves in. Let us try our utmost not to give darkness any claim to the precious moments of our life.


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Temple Street Night Market
When the sun goes down, the traders have already laid out their wares and the opera singers and fortune tellers begin to emerge. Welcome to the Temple Street Night Market, a popular street bazaar, named after a Tin Hau temple located in the centre of its main drag, and a place so steeped in local atmosphere that it has served as the backdrop to many a memorable movie.
Trinkets, tea ware, electronics, watches, menswear, jade and antiques are scrutinised and haggled over, while claypot rice, seafood, noodles and other treats are consumed with gusto.
Temple Street Night Market is an enduring example of the theatre and festivity of a Chinese market. And it's on show nightly.
- MTR Yau Ma Tei Station, Exit C, turn onto Temple Street at Man Ming Lane; or,
- MTR Jordan Station, Exit A. Turn right onto Jordan Road and then take another right onto Temple Street.
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The seventh-generation Apple iPod Nano is a fun, cute, capable MP3 player. With it, you can take virtually all of your iTunes media on the go -- your music, videos, audiobooks, podcasts, and even photos.
Priced at $149 and outfitted with 16GB of storage, the iPod Nano offers most of the amenities we've come to expect from an iPod, and strikes an interesting balance between the simplicity of the iPod Shuffle and the smartphonelike operation of the iPod Touch. Unfortunately, there's nothing balanced about the iPod Nano's price. With the 16GB iPod Touch out there for $199, and the iPod Shuffle available for just $49, the Nano's compromise between the two isn't very compelling.
A closer look at Apple's new iPod Nano (pictures)See all photos
The Nano has seen some radical design changes over the years. This time around, Apple has fashioned it to look and behave like a tiny iPod Touch. It has a 2.5-inch touch screen, complete with a small home button beneath it and a volume rocker switch on the left edge. A sleep/wake button is located on the top edge, while a headphone jack and Lightning port are found on the bottom edge. The back of the Nano is a single piece of colored aluminum (eight colors are available) that gives way to a glass panel on the front.
The whole thing measures 3 inches tall, 1.5 inches wide, and an impossibly skinny 0.21 inch thick. It looks comically small in an adult hand -- like an iPhone made for a teddy bear. But to my surprise, the touch-screen controls are just large enough to work well with full-size fingers. Apple was smart enough not to squeeze in any features that would require an onscreen keyboard or small buttons or menus.
The most significant success in the Nano's design is a unique volume rocker design on the side that includes a center button that works as a Play/Pause and also functions for VoiceOver navigation, similar to the iPod Shuffle. With some practice, you can use this button to browse your music collection without even setting eyes on the screen.
That said, one of the frustrating missed opportunities with the iPod Nano is that Apple neglected to bundle headphones with an integrated remote, which would have made it possible to quickly play, pause, and browse music right from the headphone cable. It's one of those extras Apple tosses in with the iPhone, but omits with iPods even though they are all compatible with headphone remotes. It's a disappointing omission, but I guess it saves Apple a few nickels.
The included headphones are Apple's latest EarPod design, which I personally prefer to the older earbud-style headphones, though not by much. The all-plastic design of the EarPods hurts my ears during extended listening and the sound quality is still humble, though improved.
The iPod Nano retains all of the software capabilities of last year's clip-on model, including dedicated menus for music, Podcasts, Clock, Radio, Audiobooks, iTunes U, Photos, Fitness, and Settings. The big new features of the seventh-generation Nano are the reintroduction of video playback, and the addition of wireless Bluetooth audio.
Pairing the iPod Nano with a Bluetooth speaker or headset couldn't be much easier. After tapping on the Settings icon, you'll see an option for Bluetooth prominently shown at the top of the list. After I switched it on and chose a Bluetooth speaker from the listing of nearby devices, the Nano simply connected within seconds.
As with any of Apple's iPods, you'll need to load your media using Apple's iTunes software on your PC or Mac. Fortunately, iTunes is widely regarded as the best program around for organizing and syncing your media. It's the powerhouse behind the iPhone, the iPad, and every iPod ever sold. For the uninitiated, iTunes can be a beast of a program to navigate, but once you learn your way around, routinely syncing your iPod Nano is a mostly automatic process. Compatibility with iTunes also brings along one of the best and most convenient ways to download and manage podcasts and audiobooks.


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NYC Resistor's Trammell Hudson is playing around with creating 3D images out of sliced .STLs from Thingiverse. Love it!
While uploading a model to thingiverse, I noticed an ultra cute Cthulhu and had to print it immediately on the Makerbot at NYC Resistor. Then I had an idea that the same process that generates the gcode shells for the makerbot could be used to generate slices that could be cut on the laser cutter.
Trammell sized the design in ReplicatorG, then used Skeinforge to slice the STL into layers, setting the slice thickness to match the 3mm acrylic.


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My package isn't due to arrive until Monday, but I'm curious if the game even allows for screenshots. Taiko V didn't allow them, but I think that's due to licensing.
There's plenty of footage on this channel if you want to watch.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc3IwZRMiLaGZzbHlfleB7Q
Has anyone figured out how glowsticks work exactly? What's the difference with the top one Ultra Orange that's so cheap? What do I get by having them activated? They aren't running out at least it seems. Just what do they do? Yes I registered just to ask this but I'll try to join the community as well!
Has anyone found a way to turn off the drum sounds?
Weird I just checked myself and didn't see an option to lower drum sounds. I thought there was something similar to shiny festa where you could lower either just bgm or sound. I'll try to look some more but I'm at work, that'll have to wait for lunch!
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The LFS Project
If you have heard me (Kat) refer to a "Project Genesis" over the past few years, you should know that it is on going and is a series of micro projects that over all, form a whole. It's purpose dates back to our founding. To our foundation. It is now time for us at Liberty3d.com to take the next step in this series of micro projects. This one in particular being the last that Larry Shultz was directly aware of. The LFS Project is now activated as part of "Project Genesis" and today it will serve as a vehicle forRead More


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Will Miles & Co. really be able to rescue Danny?
As Revolution's ragtag group prepares to head into Philadelphia to find Danny, Miles (Billy Burke) begins to question whether they will actually make it out alive. What's worse: What will happen if he actually has to go face-to-face with Monroe (David Lyons)? Could he actually kill someone who was once practically his brother?
Check out the exclusive first look at Monday's episode to find out whether Miles could handle it:
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YANKEES: Seattle Mariners rout New York Yankees
NEW YORK >> Raul Ibanez again treated Yankee Stadium as his personal playground, hitting a grand slam and two-run homer Wednesday night to help the Seattle Mariners rout New York 12-2.
Ibanez's slam came during a seven-run first inning. Yankees backup shortstop Alberto Gonzalez got the final out in the ninth inning in his first professional pitching appearance.
Every Seattle starter had at least one of its season-high 16 hits and Jesus Montero was the only starter who failed to score a run in the Mariners' best output this year.
The Mariners chased Phil Hughes after he got only two outs in the first. Trying to preserve his bullpen, Yankees manager Joe Girardi had Brett Marshall throw 108 pitches in his big league debut, then brought in Gonzalez.
Ibanez has connected three times in the first two games of his return to the ballpark in which -- last year at 40 years old -- he electrified crowds in late September and October with several key homers in the Yankees' run to the AL championship series.
This time, the cries of "Ra-uuul!" were replaced by boos for Hughes (2-3) when Ibanez connected for his 11th career slam. Ibanez homered again in the fifth inning off Marshall.
Kendrys Morales, Michael Morse and Michael Saunders each drove in a run in the highest-scoring first inning at the stadium that opened in 2009.
Kyle Seager added a three-run shot off Marshall in the sixth.
The first inning outburst made it easy for Japanese right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma (5-1), who came in with a 1.74 ERA. He gave up solo homers to Vernon Wells -- his 10th -- and Chris Stewart.
Delivering dastardly breaking pitches with a motion that has a lengthy pause when he reaches the top of his high leg kick, Iwakuma kept the Yankees off-balance. He gave up a season-high eight hits and two runs without walking a batter for the second straight start. Iwakuma struck out four.
After getting Saunders to lead off the game with a fly to left field on the second pitch of the game, nothing was easy for Hughes in the shortest start of his career.
Dustin Ackley walked and Seager singled before Morales had an RBI single. Morse followed with another RBI hit before Hughes walked Justin Smoak to load the bases ahead of Ibanez.
Former Yankees prospect Montero singled and, after a forceout, Saunders, the 10th batter of the inning, doubled in a run to make it 7-0 and chase Hughes. The right-hander never failed to make it out of the first in his 110 previous starts.
Ibanez hit an opposite-field drive to left field in the fifth and Seager's long ball came in the sixth to make it 12-2. The Yankees bullpen remained empty, leaving it up to Marshall to pitch deep into the game.
With a chance for his first career three-homer game, Ibanez popped out foul in the sixth to David Adams, another Yankees player making his big league debut -- on his 26th birthday.
Ibanez flied out in the eighth. He has 17 career mulithomer games. His previous came in the Bronx against Oakland on Sept. 22 for the Yankees against Oakland.
Gonzalez, acquired last week from the Chicago Cubs, moved from shortstop to the mound with two outs in the ninth and runners on first and third. He retired Robert Andino on a routine flyball.
NOTES: Adams got his first career hit in the sixth. ... Mariners manager Eric Wedge said LHP Felix Hernandez was "pretty sore this morning" but the ace should be fine after tweaking his back Tuesday night. Wedge said he doesn't think there will be any alteration of his routine between starts. ... Seattle OF Franklin Gutierrez (strained right hamstring) ran Tuesday and could begin a rehab assignment Thursday or Friday. ... The Yankees designated 3B Chris Nelson for assignment.


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Mammals 'thrived despite dinosaurs'
Toothy mammals Mammals did not need the dinosaurs to die off in order to thrive, new research on fossil teeth suggests.
Evolutionary biologist Dr Alistair Evans, of Monash University in Melbourne, and colleagues, report their findings today in the journal Nature.
Until now, most scientists believed it took the extinction of the dinosaurs, around 66 million years ago, before mammals were able to develop, says Evans. But his latest research suggests this is not the case.
Before the death of the dinosaurs, the most common mammals were multituberculates - so called because of their teeth.
"Many of the multituberculates have very bumpy teeth and each of the bumps are called a tuberculate," says Evans. "It's a very long name for 'bumpy teeth'".
Evans and colleagues carried out a comprehensive survey of teeth from about 48 multituberculate species held in fossil collections around the world.
They used software normally used to analyse land topography to create high-resolution 3D images of the teeth.
By analysing the complexity of the teeth bumps, Evans and colleagues were then able to map the evolution of multituberculates.
170 million years ago, their teeth were very simple but about 90 million years ago - long before the dinosaurs died off - their teeth started getting more complex.
Previous research has shown that increasing complexity in teeth enables animals to shift from eating insects and other meat to plant material.
Plants are easier to come by, but they also take longer to digest so a shift to herbivory is also generally associated with an increase in body size. Larger animals have a lower relative metabolic rate and have the time to digest slowly.
Significantly, Evans and colleagues found the increase in multituberculate teeth complexity coincided with the evolution of flowering plants.
"There's a nice correlation there between the ecological dominance of flowering plants and the rise of herbivory in multituberculates," says Evans.
At the same time multituberculates increased in size from that of a mouse to a beaver, also supporting the move to herbivory.
Evans and colleagues think these changes gave multituberculates a way of thriving even during the time of dinosaurs.
"We think it might be because they were exploiting this new food source that perhaps dinosaurs weren't using as much as they could have," says Evans.
These changes also gave multituberculates an evolutionary head start compared to other mammals, meaning they were able to do better than others once the dinosaurs did go extinct.
Multituberculates maintained an edge over other mammals for another 30 million years after the dinosaur extinction, and only died out 35 million years ago, due to competition from primates and rodents.
Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museum Victoria, Dr Tom Rich describes the research as "a new and imaginative approach" to quantifying the adaptation of the multituberculates.
"The authors show quite persuasively that the widely held conventional view that mammalian evolution was 'held back' until the non-avian dinosaurs became extinct is a generalisation that does not hold in detail," he says.
Rich says although there are literally thousands and thousands of multibuerculate fossils in museum collections from sites in the Northern Hemisphere, there is just one specimen known from Australia.
"But we've got one so we know they were here, too! That's all it takes," he says.


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If your healthcare provider thinks you might have breast cancer, you will need certain exams and tests to be sure. Diagnosing breast cancer starts with your healthcare provider asking you questions. He or she will ask you about your health history, your symptoms, risk factors, and family history of disease. Your healthcare provider will also give you a physical exam, including an exam of your breasts.
You may have one or more of the following tests:
Breast MRI
Nipple discharge exam
Mammogram. A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast. It's done to look for and learn more about unusual breast changes. These may include a lump, pain, nipple thickening or discharge, or a change in breast size or shape. A screening mammogram checks for changes. A diagnostic mammogram uses more pictures to look more closely at changes that were seen on a screening mammogram.
Ultrasound. This test uses high-frequency sound waves to make images of body tissues on a computer screen. This exam is often used along with a mammogram.
Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This test uses large magnets and a computer to make detailed images of tissues inside the breast.
A biopsy removes tissue or cells from the breast to check them under a microscope. A biopsy is the only way to know if cells are cancer.
A breast biopsy may be done with local or general anesthesia. Local anesthesia uses medicine to numb the area of the breast where a needle will be inserted. General anesthesia uses medicines to put you into a deep sleep while the biopsy is done. There are several types of breast biopsy. The type of biopsy done will depend on the location and size of the breast lump or change.
Types of breast biopsy include:
Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy. A very thin needle is placed into the lump or changed area to remove a small sample of fluid or tissue. This type of biopsy may be used to help find out if a breast change is a fluid-filled sac that's usually not cancer (a cyst) or a solid lump.
Core needle biopsy. A large needle is guided through the skin into a lump or other area to remove small cylinders of tissue (cores).
Surgical biopsy. This is also called an open biopsy. A surgeon removes part or all of a lump or other area through a cut (incision) into the breast. There are 2 types of surgical biopsy. During an incisional biopsy, a small part of the lump is removed. During an excisional biopsy, the entire lump is removed. If the lump is very small and deep and hard to locate, the wire localization method may be used during surgery. This is when an X-ray is used to put thin wire through your skin and into the lump. The surgeon then follows this wire to help locate the breast lump.
Lymph node biopsy. If lymph nodes under the armpit are swollen or look enlarged on imaging tests, the doctor will want to check them for cancer cells. A needle biopsy may be done to take out and check cells from the lymph node.
Special tools and methods may be used to guide the needles and to help with biopsy procedures. These include:
Stereotactic biopsy. This method finds the exact location of a breast lump or area by using a computer and mammogram results to create a 3-D picture of the breast. A sample of tissue is removed with a needle.
Vacuum-assisted biopsy. A small cut is made in the skin, and a thin, needle-like, hollow tube is inserted into the breast lump or mass. An imaging test is used to guide the tube to the right place. The breast tissue is gently suctioned into the tube, and a small rotating knife inside the tube removes the tissue.
Ultrasound-guided biopsy. This method uses a computer and a small handheld device (transducer) that sends out ultrasonic sounds waves to create images of the breast lump or mass. The images help to guide the needle biopsy.
Fluid may be collected from nipple discharge and then sent to the lab to look for cancer cells. Most nipple secretions are not cancer. An injury, infection, or noncancer (benign) tumor may cause discharge.
When your healthcare provider has the results of your biopsy and other tests, he or she will contact you with the results. Your provider will talk with you about other tests you may need if breast cancer is found. Make sure you understand the results and what follow-up you need.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ambitious Tanweer has closed a slew of acquisitions led by Big Eyes and St. Vincent from The Weinstein Company for India and Turkey and Laggies and The Forger from The Solution for India and Greece.
Elsewhere Tanweer has licensed rights to Survivor for India and Hercules 3D for Greece from Nu Image, King Of The Kastle for Turkey and Greece from fledgling International Film Trust and Chef and X06 for Turkey and Greece from Aldamisa.
The Kidnapping Of Freddy Heineken will open in India, Turkey and Greece following a deal with Embankment, while Superfast! from K5 will open in Greece, Turkey, India and Poland and Ballerina 3D from Gaumont will open in India.
Tanweer has also acquired a slew of product for the Middle East pursuant to its recent pact with the fast-rising Middle East theatre chain VOX Cinemas to set up the Dubai-based joint venture TM Pictures.
New titles include Queen Of The Night from eOne, And So It Goes from Foresight Unlimited and the Gaumont trio of Belle And Sebastian, Turning Tide and Magic Snowflake.
"We have been meaning to move into distribution for some time," said VOX Cinemas senior marketing manager Michelle Walsh. When we met Tanweer and with their experience of more than 25 years in distribution and their desire to expand into the Middle East, everything aligned."
"We will buy whatever we like and think is appropriate for the territory," added Tanweer marketing and operations manager Eliana Eliopoulos.
Pictured are Tanweer Group president Joseph Samaan at left; VOX Cinemas CEO Cameron Mitchell at right. Photo by: Ali Hamzah Virk.


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Curious Nature: Once in a lifetime plant
Vail, CO Colorado
With summer winding down in the valley, we often reminisce of the monumental events of the past season. Hiking our first fourteener, seeing a black bear in our backyard, watching the meteor showers from the top of a mountain. Though these events will always remind us of the summer of 2012, they do not represent the last moments of the season. Before the cold sets in, I encourage you to get out, hike around the area and keep your eyes peeled for the green gentian (frasera speciosa), commonly known as the monument plant.
What makes this gentian so "monumental," you might ask? What you are looking at is 20 to 80 years in the making. Yes, a plant that has been growing in that exact spot for longer than you may have been alive.
This is an example of a monocarpic perennial, when a plant grows for many years, flowers once, and then dies. Consider yourself lucky if you get to see the flowering of this individual plant because it is the only time it will do so.
Common in mountain meadows, the green gentian spends the early decades of its life as a cluster of long, narrow basal leaves. This gives the plant its alternate names of elkweed and deer's ears. It produces one stalk, up to 5 feet tall, with around 600 flowers growing denser from the bottom up. Six hundred flowers, each with about 60 seeds. No wonder this plant gathers energy for so long in order to bloom! Its flowers are star-like and quite symmetrical, but only measure 1 to 11⁄2 inches in diameter each. Like its name implies, the petals are a yellow-green, causing the flowers to be nondescript until you see them up close. A closer look reveals purple spots, making them all the more a sight to see.
With a new idea of what the flower looks like, imagine you are taking an end-of-the season hike and come across an entire field full of this immense plant. That is the trend with the green gentian.
It tends to flower in a synchronized, picturesque pattern of hundreds to thousands at a time.
One year may consist of never-ending, thick, stalky growths, while the next year the stalks may be scarce all together. And as much as seeing an entire field of flowers as tall as you would be a monumental moment to end your summer, it is not the most shocking fact about this plant. What determines the sprout of the stock and bloom of the flowers happened four years ago!
The environmental cue that says "hey plant, get to work" is actually the amount of precipitation in July and August four years before the bloom.
This begs the question of, with the current climate conditions and therefore lack of precipitation, will we see any monumental green gentians four years from now? Mother Nature is telling us that it might be a while before we see these beautiful flowers again.
Janelle DeSanto is a summer naturalist at Walking Mountains Science Center, open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Join them on a free guided nature hike, offered daily at 2 p.m. and explore what the valley has to offer.
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We DROVE to Indiana to spend Thanksgiving with Aunt Anna and Aunt Bekah. The drive out went pretty smoothly and quickly, despite 2 kids getting car sick in the mountains of West Virginia.
We love spending time with Anna & Bekah. Here are some photo highlights:
Breakfast with Aunt Anna's crew at Carmel PD.
Lots of snuggle time.
We met some sweet friends, The Wetterlund's, for lunch on Saturday.
We visited a friend's farm. Currently, Ella wants to be a horse rider so this was great!
Decorating Aunt Anna's home for Christmas, while watching White Christmas.
Pulling his weight.
We had such a fun time in Indiana. Thanks for having our crew, Anna.
The drive home was LONG, but we made it home safely Sunday night. We're planning to stay home for a while. No future road trips planned, yet.


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RealChat offers free online chatrooms with video and sound where real people from around the world come for fun and to meet someone new. While RealChat was originally a chat server, we have expanded it to include a full featured video chat application/plugin which can be embedded into any website or blog. With thousands of online chat sites out there, what makes RealChat different is that there are multiple theme based chatrooms where you can video chat with up to four people at once, and then invite someone you like for a cam to cam private chat.
Embedding RealChat in your website or blog is very easy. Just click on the Embed </> button at the top of the online chat app, and copy the embed code by clicking on Ctrl-C. Then find a good spot for the chat anywhere on your website or blog, paste the embed code there in the HTML source, and save changes. The minimum width of the section where you would like to place your online video chat should be at least 1000px wide. There are no fake profiles, IM chatbox ads, 3rd party site upsells, popups or other annoying ads on RealChat, just real people having real fun!