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The Seventy-Second General Assembly
by David K. Thompson and Danny E. Olinger
The opening day of a general assembly is typically a joyful one. Commissioners are eager to renew old acquaintances and to make new friends of first-time attendees. An assembly is always an occasion to rejoice in the sweet fellowship that binds the church together in love.
Such was the case when representatives from the sixteen Orthodox Presbyterian presbyteries made their way at the beginning of June to the wooded campus of Reformed Bible College, just northeast of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the host institution for the Seventy-second General Assembly of the OPC. Greeting them there were OP pastors from the area (Stephen W. Igo and Robert M. Van Manen) and volunteers from local OP congregations who handled arrangements. Read more
How Could I Ever Be a Pastor's Wife?
by Patricia Clawson
When my husband left the pastorate three years ago to become the associate general secretary for the Committee on Foreign Missions, I never imagined that I would miss being a pastor's wife more than anything else. You could have knocked me down with a balloon.
After fifteen years at Grace OPC in Hanover Park, Illinois, I missed our dear congregation, my sister who lived nearby, my job, and even Chicago. But the hardest thing to give up was the very thing I never wanted to be-a pastor's wife. Read more
Turning Points in American Presbyterian History
Part 8: Confessional Revision in 1903
by D. G. Hart and John R. Muether
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, industrial development and technological progress promised to usher in an age of unprecedented opportunity for America. Northern Presbyterians, recently reunited, were prepared to serve the spiritual needs of the nation with a spirit of self-confidence.
The greatest apostle of Presbyterian progress was Charles A. Briggs (1841-1913). As professor of Hebrew and cognate languages at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Briggs actively promoted higher-critical approaches to the Bible. He was also a leading advocate of Protestant church union. Both of these causes were in the interest of religious progress. "Progress in religion, in doctrine, and in life," he wrote, "is demanded of our age of the world more than any other age." Read more
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Here is the first picture of the all new ThinkPad X230:
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Hmm. Not sur ei like the keyboard... too bad it still has that terrible "clickpad"....
I'm more interested in the specs... Any leaks yet?
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I think the only thing that would make me upgrade from my X220, if they offer a higher resolution screen. While 1366x768 is not BAD on a 12.5" screen not like on a 15.6" monstrosity, but I want more vertical pixels...
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Other then the keyboard nothing new here.I can't imaging the keyboard on the X230 being as comfortable and excellent as the one currently being used in the X220.Is this a cost cutting measure or does it really not affect the ergonomics of the keyboard???And why? why? Lenovo did you get rid of the seventh row of keys:smileysad:Anyone from Lenovo care to explain there keyboard choice?P.S.And when i'm whining about design choices; why didn't you leave the return or enter key blue i like it used to be on the X220 it's thinkpad heritage:smileywink:.
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And why? why? Lenovo did you get rid of the seventh row of keys:smileysad:
And why? why? Lenovo did you get rid of the seventh row of keys:smileysad:
Wait until the display manufacturers switch to 21:9 displays the the same argument as from 4:3 to 16:10: "The customers requested it" :smileyvery-happy:
Then the keyboards will get rid of two more rows and if you are travelling with your Thinkpad under your arm you will look like somebody with a burnt Baguette under his arm:D
With the loss of the Clam-shell, Thinklight, hook closure, matte display (some models), keyboard - rows and -mechanics and status-led bar more and more typical "Thinpad" idendity gets lost. What's coming up next? - No trackpoint, no black case, no Ultrabay?
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That keyboard - disaster...
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Not that I am planning on buying one, because my x201 works fine.
Here are some things that I feel about the line myself.
Item 1:
It would be nice to be able to turn off the touchpad. My x201 does not have a touchpad at all by customization choice. From what I understand, the touchpad is standard now. I still prefer the trackpoint. When I play with one of my relatives Thinkpad Edge, I get annoyed when my palm triggers off mouse pointer movement.
I do not see anyway this can be fixed through software or hardware other than being able to turn off the touchpad.
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Component Indicator lights are nice as include option. Going back to the Thinkpad Edge, which has no component lights for the hard drive, wifi, and bluetooth. It would be nice to have the option still available. I understand that there are some battery and hardware cost saving to not include them at all. Maybe it can be an option on the website store, because it does come in handy when I put my laptop to hard work. It just shows me that the laptop is still working well, when the software does not provide indicators of its own.
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Thunderbolt Technology & USB 3.0. The number of ports to provide is optional.
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Docking stations are nice.
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VGA, DVI, HDMI, Displayport, and Thunderbolt Again. Displayport only seem to catch on for Macs, which does not seem to use full size ports either. I guess what I am trying to say is that displayport monitors are not very prevalent in the United States as least. I understand that at one time that displayport was the plan. It does not seem to me that it worked out in practice though.
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Thunderbolt one more time vs Expresscard. I think that originally will say Expresscard's ancestor PCMCIA was created, so people could use a network via cellular technology addons in addition to network card addons. Basically, these things at that time were not included in the laptop. USB 2.0 ports is also an example of something that came out later. Today it seems to me, Thunderbolt and Expresscard have a new meaning now. In addition, I would say that either one is directly related to how much hard drive space you have in some fashion. Having a low capacity (less than 130GB) hard drive would probably negate the need for high speed external devices in a practical fashion. Windows programs usually are installed to a local hard drive of the machine. Running Windows programs from removeable devices probably would not work out for every conceivable program that could be installed. Anyways, Thunderbolt due to form factor with a good hard drive would probably not be a bad idea.
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Black color is still a nice option.
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Keep the backup and restore software is a must. I have not found a better one that is included in a laptop.
These are a few of my favorite things.
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Adventure games have had sort of a spotty history. Early ones, like the Sierra
Quest series and many of the Lucasarts games, are considered true gaming
classics. But as time went on, the clever puzzles and witty dialogue were replaced
with full FMV scenes and spoken words. Although not all adventure games with
this "new technology" were ruined by this onset (case in point: Gabriel Knight
2), others were harmed immensely (like King's Quest 7) .
action/adventure wave didn't help much either, making people think of such games
as King's Quest 8 and Tomb
Raider when they heard the word "adventure." The Longest Journey
hearkens back to an age of simple puzzle solving, clever speech and beautiful,
atmospheric graphics which don't require the latest video cards to run.
You're April Ryan, a regular girl vying for a position in an art college.
In a twist of fate, you discover that a world of magic and mystery called Arcadia
exists parallel to our own (called Stark). With the help of a very diverse cast,
it falls on your shoulders to save the world (as always).
For those of you who've played recent adventure games like Escape
from Monkey Island, the interface will look familiar. You use a point-and-click
system to interact with the world. When you click on an object, you can select
if you want to look at it, use it, or speak to it (or eat it, if you're so inclined).
The right click brings up an inventory, where you can combine and toy with the
items you hold. This interface takes barely any time to get used to and becomes
more intuitive as time goes on. Most importantly, it never gets in the way of
the game.
As is standard these days, the game uses 3D characters overlaid on 2D pre-rendered
backgrounds. Every background is beautifully rendered, from the idyllic forest
scenes to dirty back alleys, and preserves the atmosphere of the game amazingly.
Top that with some spectacular cutscenes that meld almost invisibly with the
game itself and you wind up with a very pretty picture.
the game is one of the prettiest of its kind, it really shines when it comes
down to the story. Although my glib summary of the plotline may make it seem
like another simple "save the world" affair, it really is anything but. The
characters are so well created and seem so realistic that the incredulous events
of the story seem to be that much more real. Your experiences in Arcadia involve
many Tolkienesque creatures such as cute mole-people, the Alatien (a race of
strange winged creatures) and the Venar (who have no notion of the past or future).
Each of these races has their own culture, history, and behavior, which really
fills out the story.
The dialogue is simply some of the best around. It sounds real. It's difficult
to describe, but the things that people say are almost exactly the things you'd
expect them to say. This is especially true of the main character April. Her
fairly normal life is shattered by all sorts of unbelievable, fantastic experiences.
You can tell by the way she speaks and acts that she never quite copes with
what's around her, giving The Longest Journey a believable, gritty realism
that's so often lacking in adventure gaming.
The voice acting is very appropriate and lifts the quality of the game. Although
you'll find the standard comic relief, most of the characters have very non-stereotypical
voice types and often cover a range of emotions. April's voice personifies an
insecure teenager and has the depth to take her through all the twists and turns
of the game. There's lots of improvisation going on as well, probably most apparent
in Burns Flipper, a hilarious psycho hacker.
The game is also pleasing aurally. There isn't that much music (except in cutscenes) but every area has an ambient soundtrack. From birds in a forest to congested traffic, the background sound makes the scene seem that much more real.
The Longest Journey is a masterful adventure game. Although not incredibly
impressive technologically, it encapsulates all the elements of a good adventure
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Black Olive-Feta Cheese Pogaca
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1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup (125 ml) unsalted butter, room temperature
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1 tsp baking powder
2 2/3 cup flour, all purpose
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3/4 cup feta cheese, crumbled
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First, pre-heat the oven to 375 F (190 C). Put all the main ingredients in a deep plastic bowl. Mix well using your hand. Take a small piece of dough (about the size of a plum), make a little hole in it and then put 2 tablespoon full of the filling inside. Close it up, giving it a half-moon shape.
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SMTC Announces Exclusive 'Military & Veterans' Performance, 12/30
In addition to continuing its tradition of bringing Broadway musicals back to life, Scottsdale Musical Theater Company also continues its special relationship with Valley veterans and military personnel. SMTC will partner with American Express, Henkel, Chase, Wells Fargo and Desert Hills Credit Union to provide FREE tickets to veteran and military personnel for Man of La Mancha.
On Sunday, December 30th at 7:00PM, SMTC will add a special performance of Man of La Mancha exclusively for veterans and active military personnel. For every two tickets purchased by employees of our proud partners for regularly scheduled performances, SMTC will donate one ticket to a veteran or an active military member. Employees of the partner companies may designate their ticket recipient if they choose, or SMTC will donate the ticket anonymously through local veteran and military organizations. The "Giving the Gift of Theater" program ends December 17th, 2012.
Performances will take place at the intimate 300-seat Dorrance Auditorium on the beautiful campus at Phoenix Country Day School (3901 E. Stanford Drive, Paradise Valley, AZ 85253).
Man of La Mancha is the inspirational story of the knight errant, Don Quixote, who believes chivalry is not dead and fearlessly goes into battle to defend his beliefs. The show features many memorable songs, including its most famous, "The Impossible Dream."
The show stars AaRon Jacobson as Don Quixote, Hector Coris as his sidekick Sancho and Alexus Poulette as Aldonza/Dulcinea. The production will feature a cast of some of the Valley's best performers and is being directed by stage veteran David Hock. The live 18-piece orchestra will be conducted by Tim Verville.
Regular performances are Thursday, December 27th @ 7:30PM, Friday, December 28th @ 8:00PM, Saturday, December 29th @ 8:00PM, and Sunday, December 30th @ 2PM
Reserved seating tickets are now on sale for $24.50 with senior and student discounted tickets available for $19.50. Veterans and active military can also purchase tickets to any performance for $12. Special ticket pricing is available for groups of 15 or more. Tickets can be purchased on-line at the company's website, www.scottsdalemusicaltheater.com or by calling (602) 909-4215.


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As technological developments increased farm yields over the last two centuries, the share of the US population employed in agriculture fell from around 90 percent to around 2 percent.
The lay American public supposes that when workers lose their jobs, we become worse off — they suffer from what economist Bryan Caplan calls the 'make-work' bias. But would anyone prefer to live in a society in which many went hungry and no one enjoyed the wealth, financial security, job growth, and innovation created as all those workers lost their farm jobs?
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Toronto hits three homers in first three innings against Rays ace Price
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays' second half of the season started the same way the first half began: with a loss.
On Friday at Rogers Centre it was a rare hiccup by the team's bullpen that sealed Toronto's fate.
The usually dominant duo of Brett Cecil and Steve Delabar allowed a pair of two-out clutch hits, scoring two runs as the Blue Jays fell to the Rays, 8-5.
"Can't be perfect all year long," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Of course, they get the leadoff hit and then a couple of hits off Delabar, you don't see that too often."
The decisive runs for Tampa Bay came in the eighth. Cecil allowed a leadoff single to ex-Jay Kelly Johnson. Delabar came in and got two quick outs, including a sacrifice bunt that moved Johnson to second.
However, Rays second baseman Ryan Roberts hit the first pitch he saw into left field, scoring Johnson and giving Tampa Bay its first lead of the game, 5-4.
"The ball was up, and he just came out swinging," Delabar said. "It was right over the middle, and he just came out, first pitch, hacking, and got on top of it."
"I saw that he was throwing a lot of strikes, throwing a lot of fastballs, so I just tried to prepare to jump on the first one instead of trying to see one," Roberts said.
Delabar then allowed a double to Desmond Jennings, scoring Roberts in what proved to be the decisive run.
It was only the second earned run the All-Star reliever has surrendered since May 28, a stretch that included a streak of 13 games without allowing a run.
"We know we're not going to be perfect every time," Delabar said. "You're going to have nights like tonight."
The runs allowed by the bullpen capped a Rays comeback. Tampa Bay trailed by three runs early, but launched four solo home runs against Toronto starter Esmil Rogers.
Ben Zobrist, Wil Myers, Evan Longoria, and Johnson all cleared the fences against Rogers, who has now given up seven home runs in 11 2/3 innings against the Rays this season. Two of those long balls came in the sixth, tying the game at 4.
"He never really got into trouble, it was just the solo home runs," Gibbons said. "That was kind of a funny game for him. When he was on, he was dominating."
Despite it all, Rogers walked away with a no-decision, allowing four earned runs on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings, with four strikeouts.
"Any count I can throw anything I want, but just a couple of mistakes," said Rogers, whose four home runs allowed were the most by any Blue Jays starter this season. "Every one of my pitches today was good.
"Guys are too comfortable at the plate. People like that, you have to throw something to move their feet. I'm going to work on that and be ready for the next start."
The Rays' comeback spoiled a night that the Blue Jays also had a comfortable grasp on the long ball. Toronto hit four home runs of its own, the most that it's posted since May 12 against Boston, and more than it had over the previous six games.
Edwin Encarnacion started it off with a bang, hitting a solo shot into the second deck in left field to give his club a 1-0 lead in the first.
After Zobrist tied things at one in the third, the Blue Jays responded with a pair of home runs in the bottom half of the frame. J.P. Arencibia got the lead right back, hitting an 0-2 cutter over the wall in straightaway center field. Then, Jose Bautista hit a two-run home run three batters later, giving Toronto a three-run lead.
Brett Lawrie accounted for the final margin with a solo homer in the ninth.
With the loss, the Blue Jays are 7-14 since the Rays snapped their 11-game winning streak on June 24 in Tampa Bay.
"We have to put the foot on the gas pedal and make something happen, or else everybody's going to run by us and we're going to stay where we are," Delabar said. "We just got to do something, and got to make it happen. You can't look too far ahead. You can only play one game in a day. We played today's game. It didn't end up on our side. Come tomorrow. Play tomorrow's game and move forward from there."


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You wanted it. You got it. OK, so it's been a few days since I wrote and hopefully I'll have some official news on Randy Wolf tomorrow. For now, I have to say that one of the funniest things I've read in a long time is the reference to Borat on this blog.
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I'll write more in the morning.
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Let Colletti know that its better to wast-… i mean, spend McCourts money then to give away Logan White's draftees.
say no to deals involving billingsley, broxton, kemp, laroche, loney, meloan, elbert and kuo.
Martin is implied. Thats all i ask. I want to eventually root for homegrown stars. Be patient LA fans, and stick to the plan Ned.
Hey Josh,
Randy Wolf a Dodger? How about that. I think we both remember him wearing blue 12 years ago at DS except he was pitching against us. Now he is a Dodger! I guess we'll need to start a Wolf Pack of our own. Hope all's well and GO BLUE!!
i like the deal, if wolf flops, at least its only a one year deal.. but where is our stud pitcher?.. where is zito or schmidt?..
Hoping for Schmidt next. It would stop him from BEATING the Dodgers 3-4 times/ yr.
Anyone check Wolf's 'splits' ?
Looks tough against lefties….
53 Not sure if you are gone yet. We will cover you and protect the kids, at least in our minds and posts. Breaking news 53 – Pamela Anderson announced yesterday she is seeking a divorce from Kid Rock.Is it just a coincidence that you are going away for a week? The Borat connection to Scott Boros and Pamela Anderson yesterday was rather ingenious. Hopefully soon more good Dodger news. Hi Ray.
Ray I think Schmidt and Zito will wait to see what kind of money Matsuzaka pulls in before getting serious about negotiations. I like the Wolf signing and favor Schmidt for shorter contract. Although we can never have too many lefties, Kuo and Wolf give us two. Zito will want a six year deal worth a billion dollars so not so hot on him. Those things just never seem to work out, even though he has been durable. Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
Will let the Ramirez thing go now. Steve Hensen's article in the Times says the Sox asking price for him is too high in terms of Dodger prospects. Since the Sox are trying to dump him, one would think the price would go down a bit. Stick to your guns Ned. They need him out. We don't need him in. Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
I would pass on Ramirez even if the trade demands are lowered. Also, rather than pursue Maddux at his two year contract asking level, let's concentrate on getting Schmidt, which will probably take a three year contract – maybe around $30 million. I would then consider Schmidt as a replacement for Penny and use Penny for a trade to get a power bat on the way up in his career rather than on the way down, which I figure that Ramirez will be.
It's never the team with the best pitching that wins, and it's never the team with the best hitting that wins, it's usually the team with the best balance of the two. Right now the Dodgers need a front line starter and a big bat. If Ned can pull off those two things , the Dodgers should do just fine.
I'm starting to not like the idea of trading Penny. Work hard on signing Schmidt and Maddux. Benny mentioned this rotation yesterday and I have to say it looks pretty good.
I promise this will be my last '88 reference, but what lineups our Dodgers defeated during that postseason. Orel and crew took names. Pitching boys, pitching.
we most defintely need jason schmidt thats a fact…..maddux on the other hand i think is asking too much for going 15 and 14, i mean the guy throws a gem and then gives up 6 runs in 3 innings….get schmidt, trade penny for a bat and i dont want anything else for christmas besides a dodgers manny ramirez jersey.just kidding.
Another lineup option that could be very productive.
Keeping CB down in the rotation might take some pressure off of him. I'm not always thrilled with Penny's attitude, but that might be a big hole to fill in the rotation. Bats are glamorous and bring certain endorsements/contracts. However, pitching brings titles. I would love to see a big bat in the middle, but let's not give up too much to get one.
first off you have made no mention of Kuo starting, he was dazzling at the end of the season who knows if we make the playoffs without him and the game he pitched against the mets.I also think Eric Stults can be a valuable trading chip to a team in need of a lefty starter/long reliever.Heres the rotation if Kuo is healthy.
Hey Josh,
It's going to be very strange watching Wolf pitch on a regular basis. He's had a lot of success at Dodger Stadium, not to mention he's had the pleasure of beating us TWICE on that field. He's a good pick up for the Dodgers. He's a great competitor, he's smart, he's got a great cureve ball and one thing people tend to forget is that he's a good hitting pitcher. He'll be nice additon to the rotation. I predict he'll win 12-15 games.
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graffiti, you're right. Thanks for the correction.
graffitigenius- like your pitching projections. As Vinny would say . "..the deuces are wild…" 2 lefties, 2 kids, 2 successful arm surgeries, 2 homegrown guys, 2 200 inning guys, no old guys. Now about that Manny jersey?
Graffiti… I think we'll be very sorry if we get rid of Eric Stults. Solid Lefties are a hard commodity to come by and from what I've seen so far, the kid is very good. With the way our luck has been with pitching of late I say hold onto Stults, Bills, Kuo. Stults may need more seasoning in AAA but he CAN pitch.
Yeah Wolf in Dodger stadium is looking like it has the makings of becoming one of those steals. Pitcher's park, good defense I agree Jeremy i think he could win 15 games as well. I understand all of our past dealings with Tampa but how did we seem to not grab Crawford? I hear they are looking to deal him and or Baldelli.
i really like stults as well…i think he has the make-up to become a decent starter…I just think he has some value and we are pretty deep. I just dont think Manny is as bad defensively as he is made out to be….sure he will have to make some plays but I like that star bat he could bring…i could see him hitting 50 like Sheff did if hes healthy.High 480's OBP, 330. average..cmon guys plus all his old pals if you will…
Pitching, pitching, pitching. Of course that's a great way to win ball games. The White Sox dominated the playoffs last year with their clear abundance of great pitchers. Problem is……we don't have an abundance of great pitchers. We have an abundance of pitchers. We also have an abundance of young talent. The Vegas dugout is gonna be really crowded next year if we don't move some of these kids. Crowded minor league dugouts are wasted resources.
We are pitching deep??? When? Didn't the season like uh, end! only 7 weeks ago? And if I remember correctly, Stults was nowhere to be seen on the playoff roster to replace Beimel. I for one do not think this team is deep in pitching… which reminds me…
It's now official and please allow me be the first to welcome Randy Wolf to the Dodgers! Randy, we're excited to have you here and wish you much success in LA!!
Go Big Blue!! Go Ned!! Go Dodgers!!
I just read on ESPN Rumor Central that the Cubs offered Schmidt a 3 year $44 million deal. We may now know what we need to beat.
Go Dodgers!!!
Nov 28 – According to The San Francisco Chronicle, the Cubs have offered free-agent starter Jason Schmidt a three-year deal worth $44 million.
Oh oh… Ned, let's beat out the Cubs again, just like last year with Furcal. C'mon, bring Schmidt to LA!!!
13.66 million/year for Schmidt??? What is this world coming to? He's good, but he's not indestructible. I thought at most he'd go for $12 million, with 11 being more likely. But, he does want to play on the West Coast, so we could probably get some small discount.
yeah i agree thats a little high for him but supply and demand is tough
Did the Cubs win the Illinois lotto or something?
I think the Tribune is liquidating all of its assets to get these guys. whatta??!! Let's go Ned! Get us a Schmidt!


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Is Pixar getting it wrong?
This week, Disney/PIXAR released images of 'Brave,' Pixar's 13th animated film. Much has been made about the 4 images, and the fact that this is Pixar's first 'fairy tale' story, first with a female heroine and first to be co-directed by a woman. And these are all very important aspects to Pixar's evolution as a creative company. My question is, what's it missing?
Those of you who know me, know I'm a Pixar fan. Their films contain more love, heart, character and story than virtually any other modern movie, be it live-action or animated. Plus, my love of animation is well-known. I grew up on Disney, Hannah-Barbera, Warner Bros. and whatever my mom could check out of the local library for me to watch on a FILM PROJECTOR! That's correct, there was a time when you could check out actual films from a library, including 'The Point,' 'Wizards,' the first version of 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' and so on. You've seen these, right? If not, go to Netflix and get 'em. Have a look at 'The Last Unicorn' too.
So, with that said, what does this have to do with a film that's not even finished yet? I have to confess: I'm getting weary of CGI. There I said it. I've spent years critiquing the use of CGI and who does it better. Blue Sky Studios ('Ice Age') has always had the best water and flame effects; Dreamworks (Shrek), the best props and backgrounds and Pixar for everything else, but are we pushing the computer as far as we can as artists? It takes immense computing power to render an object as life-like; even longer to simulate fabric and hair. There are so many CGI family films that look amazing: 'Horton Hears a Who,' 'Rango,' 'Kung Fu Panda,' 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,' 'How to Train your Dragon' and so on. But there's so much more filmmakers could do with all that power.
When I see designs, sketches and storyboards for an upcoming CGI movie, I often think, 'Wow, a movie that looks like that would be awesome.' Then the movie comes out and it's all 3-D-y and shiny with an enormous amount of attention to details such as whether or not the light reflects off of a steak properly (for clarification, watch the extras from 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs'); but it looks nothing like the sketches. So, when I saw the new 'Brave' pics, I thought the same thing, and quickly came to the conclusion that while this film may be absolutely wonderful, I bet it looks more like 'Tangled' than 'Lilo and Stitch.' 'Brave' will be co-directed by Brenda Chapman (The first American woman to direct an animated film: 'The Prince of Egypt') and Mark Andrews (Pixar's 'One Man Band'), so quality story-telling is not in doubt as far as I'm concerned.
And I know 'Lilo and Stitch' was hand-drawn, not CGI. But those watercolor backgrounds were outstanding. Under Chris Sanders's direction, the animators went to great lengths to use watercolor to capture the real Hawaii. Were you turned off that the trees didn't sway in the wind just so, with dozens of individual leaves computer animated for your pleasure? Sanders directed 'How to Train Your Dragon' and worked on both 'Mulan' and "Hercules' for Disney. He worked on other films as well, but these two along with his modern films show a highly stylized form of story telling. Look at the clouds and smoke in 'Mulan' and the hair in 'Hercules.' It's not life-like, but it tells the story.
Have you seen 'The Secret of the Kells?' How about 'Lemony Snicket?' Or those new 'Fruity Pebbles' commercials with claymation Fred and Barney? Computers rendered these. Artists used the computer to simulate clay and models and ancient Irish tapestry design, with beautiful results. So how fantastic would it be to have a movie animated to look like pastels, colored pencils, watercolor or even tiles? Or even a movie that looks like the end credits of 'Lemony Snicket'? Last year, 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One' used striking animation involving shadow puppets to tell the story of the Three Brothers. I want an entire movie that looks like that!!! As much as I love 'Monsters, Inc' I always wanted to see it in the style of the original story boards, sort of a mid-century children's book style.
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'The Secret of the Kells' works so well, I amazed more studios don't pay attention. The story is told through animation that mimics Renaissance tapestries and monk-produced books. Everything is flat and the film goes so far as to frame a lot of scenes in what would have been considered decoration at the time. I felt it worked perfectly.
There was a time when animators took huge risks. Ever seen 'Yellow Submarine?' Can you imagine selling that story in that style now? No, you can't. Robert Zemeckis tried to, pitching it using that same bizzaro-world MoCap animation that he seems so fond of, and Disney would have done it too if not for that meddling 'Mars Needs Moms.' It's one of the few things for which we can be thankful, from what's turned into quite the debacle for the Mouse. Ralph Bashki took great big, giant chances in his films, intercutting and superimposing live action footage on top of animation for dramatic effect. Seeing a real Fred Willard in 'Wall*E' shocked a lot of die-hard Pixar fans, are we really that far removed from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'
And all this leads me to my point. With the sheer amount of artistry in the modern animated film business, the time seems ripe for a movie lauded not for its amazing life-like skin tones, but its remarkable use of using Matisse-style cutouts to tell the story of a little girl's love for her favorite pet and their journey of discovery after surviving a catastrophe. Or something like that. You get the point. Look at the photos from 'Brave.' All that rich, textured, vibrant pastel color. I'd rather see Princess Merida's hair look like that than wonder how many processing hours it took to render every individual strand of hair. Yes, it's pretty to look at, but is it pushing the story forward? Would 'Tangled' have been any worse if her hair hadn't looked real? Filmmakers tend to forget that if the story is good enough, people will accept almost anything. ('Um, we want to make a movie about talking toys that get lost. And we'll do it on a computer…'; see what I mean?) Walt Disney valued true craftsmanship in his animators and encouraged taking chances. There are any number of animated films from other countries that are pushing boundaries in form and aesthetic. I wonder if one of the big three U.S. animation studios will ever take the leap? Will I have to produce my own?
Many, many thanks to my dear friend Fay 'The Fotini' Salvaras for her help with proofing and editing this.
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by Lang Whitaker | @langwhitaker
"Well, we knew this day was coming, and it's finally here."
It was Monday, April 23, and New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson was addressing the media 90 minutes before his team hosted the Philadelphia 76ers. It would be the Nets final game of a forgettable season, but it was a memorable and historic night in that it would be—after 36 years—the final Nets game in New Jersey.
Johnson was in an unmemorable room in the bowels of the Prudential Center in Newark, which has been the home of the Nets for the past two seasons. The Prudential Center, aka The Rock, has been a fine, if transient, home, a state-of-the-art arena with a built-in move-out date since the Nets arrived in '10. And after seven years of idle chatter and promises that at times seemed empty, the Nets' time in Jersey was about to run out.
The Nets have marketed the idea that they're on their way to building something big—as Johnson noted, "We knew this was a product that we need to grow, and was going to take some time, and we're still growing this product." Perhaps a clearer future will emerge in Brooklyn, because as Jersey sports fans have watched over the last three decades, the Nets have mostly dwelled in a murky present. As Dave D'Alessandro wrote in the Newark Star-Ledger: "Make no mistake, some extraordinary athletes passed through here—brilliant players such as Jason Kidd, Buck Williams and Drazen Petrovic, who all led some inspiring Playoff runs—but rarely has a sports franchise presented such a rigid challenge to your loyalty, your patience and your precepts about fair play, sound management and dumb luck."
The Nets franchise was started in the late '60s as an original ABA team. They were supposed to be based in Manhattan, to compete with the Knicks, but as has happened to many home shoppers, they couldn't find suitable real estate and instead found space in the 'burbs. They landed in Jersey, then moved to Long Island, where the Nets won two ABA championships with Julius Erving during the '70s. The Nets were one of four ABA franchises to join the NBA when the leagues merged in 1976, and the cash-strapped team marked the occasion by selling Dr. J to the Sixers to help make ends meet.
In '77, the Nets moved back to Jersey and set up shop at Rutgers, and in '81 they moved into the brand-new Brendan Byrne Arena, which would become their home—under a variety of different corporate names—for the next 30 years. Under Larry Brown they put together their first NBA winning season in '81-82. Brown was fired at Newark Airport during the next season when the Nets discovered he'd secretly talked to Kansas about their coaching job. In '83-84, the Nets made the Eastern Conference Semis, but would not make it past the first round again for nearly two more decades. In '86, their All-Star guard Micheal Ray Richardson became the first player banned for life for violating the League's drug policy; two other Nets would be suspended for drugs the next season. Their magnetic center, Darryl Dawkins, had his career cut short after injuring his back when he slipped in the shower. In '87, the Nets drafted Dennis Hopson just ahead of Scottie Pippen and Reggie Miller. In the early '90s, the Nets put together a fresh and invigorating team, centered around Kenny Anderson, Derrick Coleman, and an electrifying guard from Europe named Drazen Petrovic.
"Drazen comes, Kenny comes, I'm rebounding," Coleman remembers. "I thought the team that we had and where we were going, it changed the whole Nets franchise."
That excitement was tragically snuffed out in the summer of '93, when Petrovic was killed in a car accident in Germany. "When that happened, it kind of turned the organization back a few years, maybe even longer than that," Anderson says. "I just thought we was right there, we was on the cusp. Even though it was the Chicago Bulls/Michael Jordan era, we could have competed.
"I think that was the problem with the Nets: They always settled for mediocrity," KA continues. "They didn't want to bring in a big-time coach. We joke around, me and Derrick, you know we used to practice at APA Trucking facility. You know, had to share a locker next to a trucking guy."
The team was popular enough at the time—or at least, good enough at stuffing ballot boxes—that DC and Chibbs were both voted to start in the '94 All-Star Game. Yet less than a year later, the situation was toxic enough that Nets forward Chris Morris asked to leave Jersey by writing TRADE ME on his sneaker. (He tempered the expression somewhat by writing PLEASE on the other shoe.)
In the late '90s, the Nets found relevancy again, with an exciting team anchored by Sam Cassell and Jayson Williams that warranted the cover of SLAM 25 in '98. Just as quickly, Williams was forced to retire due to injury, and Cassell was involved in a three-team trade for Stephon Marbury. In 2000, the Nets drafted Kenyon Martin and hired Byron Scott to coach, and appeared again to have one of the most exciting young cores in the NBA. I wrote the SLAM 48 cover story on Starbury, and he told me at the time, "I just want to win. I'm not worrying about the All-Star Game, nothing. All I want to do is win. Because if we win, I know we're playing well."
They only won 28 games, and when the season ended, GM Rod Thorn traded Marbury to Phoenix for Jason Kidd. Before long, the Nets were pushing the ball in transition and playing a Princeton-style halfcourt offense, and they covered SLAM again during the '01-02 season.
"Jason Kidd, being backcourt mates with him for three years, that was a phenomenal experience," says former Nets wingman Kerry Kittles. "It was fantastic."
From 2001-10, the Nets finally made up some ground on their cross-river rivals. The Knicks didn't win a single Playoff game during that stretch while the Nets had six straight winning seasons and made two trips to the Finals. But even with success and a fun brand of play, being a Nets fan was no easy task. While most NBA franchises built shiny new hoops palaces, the Nets' arena, sitting forlornly in the hard-to-reach Meadowlands of East Rutherford, just got new names. Former SLAM Editor-in-Chief Russ Bengtson once said that Brendan Byrne/Continental/Izod had the same vibe as the inside of a refrigerator.
In '04, the Nets were sold, and the new ownership group, a partnership including Jay-Z, announced plans to move the franchise to Brooklyn. Yet the economic downturn soon after made the move seem less certain. The Nets devolved to the point that they began the '09-10 season with 18 consecutive losses and finished with a record of 12-70.
As the Nets moved to Newark in the summer of '10, they finally caught a break. A controlling interest was sold to Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, a man who could realistically be confused for the most interesting man in the world. The Nets would be moving to the long-gestating arena in Brooklyn, and Prokhorov promised big things, saying he was, "pretty sure I can convince the best of the best the Nets is where they need to be. Add team spirit. Little bit luck, little bit money, we go straight to top."
Yet with the move to Brooklyn looming, despite public flirtations with the likes of Dwight Howard and Carmelo Anthony, the Nets had leveraged several Draft picks into just one superstar, Deron Williams, and he has not committed to the team long-term.
Their future may have been in doubt, but for the game against Philly, the focus was squarely on the past. The halftime show featured many former Nets, from Richardson to Dawkins, Anderson to Coleman, Kittles to Todd MacCulloch. The fans in attendance were vocal in their support of the home team, as though they honestly hoped to see the Nets win. When the Nets cut Philly's lead to 8 on a Johan Petro 18-footer with 5:30 remaining, the Nets players exploded off the bench and the crowd rose to its feet. Yet, as has happened many times over the last 36 years, the Nets just didn't have enough to get the W. As MarShon Brooks said: "It would have been nice to go out with a win. We fought hard, we fought back, we didn't let the game get out of hand, it's just, we can't get over the hump."
"[The move] might help, better attendance," posited Anderson. "I think the bad thing about this, even when we had good teams, they didn't sell out. Even when they went to the Finals. Now they're gonna be in Brooklyn with mass transit, they're gonna have a lot of walk-ups. I guess New Jersey is a basketball state somewhat, but New York is New York. We had some good teams and we never could climb the Knicks because of the tradition."
So the Nets find themselves, after 36 years, moving about 15 miles east and finding a clean slate. Will this move make the difference the franchise has been longing for forever? Only time will tell. After all, if there's anything we've learned from the Nets, it's that anything can happen.


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NEW YORK (AP) - Grammy nominee Ryan Truesdell felt like a "jazz archaeologist" as he sifted through thousands of pages of manuscripts in a safe in the apartment of renowned jazz composer-arranger Gil Evans, best known for his collaborations with Miles Davis.
NEW YORK (AP) � Grammy nominee Ryan Truesdell felt like a "jazz archaeologist" as he sifted through thousands of pages of manuscripts in a safe in the apartment of renowned jazz composer-arranger Gil Evans, best known for his collaborations with Miles Davis.
"It was like being the Indiana Jones of jazz, only without the boulder coming out after you," said the 32-year-old Truesdell. "I was sitting in a dusty room and going through papers from the '40s and all of a sudden finding all these gems."
Truesdell's two-year odyssey would take him to university music archives and the personal collections of musicians who worked with Evans, and he eventually discovered more than 50 previously unrecorded arrangements by Evans who died in 1988. Truesdell's mentor, jazz arranger-composer Maria Schneider, Evans' former assistant, likened his find to buying an old house only to "discover a box of lost Beethoven manuscripts in the attic."
Schneider encouraged him to bring the arrangements to life. He self-financed and self-produced his debut album as a leader, "Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans," released on May 13, 2012, Evans' 100th birthday.
"Centennial" includes 10 previously unrecorded Evans arrangements ranging from "Beg Your Pardon," written in 1946 for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra, to a 19-minute medley of three Evans tunes that the arranger wrote in 1971 for his 24-piece "dream band" that included instruments not typically found in a jazz big band such as oboe, bassoon and English horn.
Now, "Centennial" has been nominated for three Grammys at Sunday's awards show in Los Angeles. Truesdell is up for best large jazz ensemble album. Evans was posthumously nominated for best instrumental arrangement for "How About You" and instrumental arrangement accompanying vocalist(s) for "Look to the Rainbow," performed by Brazilian singer Luciana Souza.
"I was speechless when the nominations were announced, but I was mostly thrilled that Gil got nominated for arrangements that would have remained in filing cabinets had we not played them," said Truesdell, interviewed over lunch. "I wanted to bring Gil's name back into the limelight ... and show how much more there was to him than those amazing records he did with Miles Davis."
During a career that spanned five decades, Evans "was always looking for something new and exciting," from the '40s when he wrote arrangements for the innovative Claude Thornhill Orchestra to the '80s when he collaborated with Sting and David Bowie, said his son, Miles Evans.
Evans won a Grammy in 1988 for best big band jazz instrumental performance for "Bud and Bird," and shared a Grammy with Davis for best jazz composition in 1960 for the groundbreaking "Sketches of Spain," a symphonic jazz interpretation of Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez."
Truesdell discovered the 1947 arrangement for "How About You" in the Thornhill archives at Drury University. His search was triggered by his composition teacher Bob Brookmeyer, who said it was his favorite piece from his days in the Thornhill orchestra. Half of the arrangements on "Centennial date to Evans' formative years with the Thornhill band in the late '40s and early '50s when he experimented with adding instrumental colors such as a flute/piccolo section and introducing classical music influences into large ensemble jazz.
"Look to the Rainbow" is an arrangement originally written for Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto's 1965 album of the same name, but never used. It was among the treasures found in Evans' archives in his apartment in the Westbeth Artists Community in Greenwich Village.
Truesdell's became infatuated with Evans' music as a Madison, Wis., high school student when he came across Davis' "Porgy and Bess" album while searching for recordings by saxophonist Cannonball Adderley.
After receiving his Master's in jazz composition at the New England Conservatory of Music, Truesdell began immersing himself in Evans' music for "selfish" reasons to hone his composing and arranging skills. His search for original scores led him to Evans' widow, Anita, and her sons, Miles and Noah.
Miles Evans, who now leads the Gil Evans Orchestra, said Truesdell's passion for the music led the family to make him the first person to receive full access to the archives.
"There were a lot of people that wanted an all-access pass to GIl's work, but it turned out to be Ryan because I thought that he had something special within him, and I was right," Miles Evans said in an email. "He did such a great job with the orchestra on 'Centennial.' The sound is so emotional, tight and yet loose.
Truesdell, who co-produced Schneider's Grammy-winning 2007 album "Sky Blue" through ArtistShare, decided to use the fan-funding platform so he could retain artistic control and perform Evans' music "exactly as he intended it to be played." He took the biggest liberty on the Indian-inspired "Punjab" by adding a tabla drum because Evans' score lacked rhythm section parts.
Many of the featured soloists � such as saxophonists Steve Wilson and Donny McCaslin, clarinetist Scott Robinson and pianist Frank Kimbrough � are musicians Truesdell worked with in Schneider's orchestra.
"I wanted musicians who would be very respectful of Gil's music but yet have a modern twist to it," said Truesdell, whose next album will feature his own compositions and arrangements.
Truesdell says at times he was ready to throw in the towel, but Evans' spirit kept him going.
"I brought a picture of Gil conducting in the studio with Miles and taped it on my conductor's podium, so I always had Gil right there," Truesdell said. "You can't play this music live without having Gil present."


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On the Day of Archaeology 2014, AOC Archaeology Group is working once again with London Borough of Hillingdon (LBH) and the Friends of Eastcote House Gardens (FEHG) to deliver an exciting programme of public archaeology in this lovely park. I'm Charlotte, AOC's Public Archaeologist. AOC first worked at Eastcote House Gardens in 2012, when we ran a smaller evaluation excavation as part of the development phase of this project. You can read our Day of Archaeology 2012 post at: http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/community-excavations-at-eastcote-house-gardens-hillingdon/.
The excavations at Eastcote House Gardens form just one part of a larger project, which is being supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund, through their Parks for People programme. This project, led by LBH and FEHG, will see significant changes to the Park including the repair and re-use of the historic buildings, the building of ancillary facilities, with a cafe, toilets and manager's office, and the improvement and upgrading of the Gardens for educational and community use. The archaeological programme includes public excavations, training workshops, an open day, and a schools programme involving hundreds (literally!) of young people from local schools (primary, secondary and special), uniformed groups (Guides, Cubs and Beavers) and one youth charity. FEHG has a small army of volunteers who are passionate about the park and its past, and they play a key role in the school visits, giving learners a tour of the historic dovecot and stables as well as the smaller trenches current being excavated. Most days onsite are very busy, with lots of volunteers and young people working to explore the past at Eastcote House Gardens.
The Gardens, and its historic buildings, are all that have survived from Eastcote House and its outbuildings, which were demolished in 1964. Eastcote House was a big white stuccoed house of many different periods, part of which dated from the 16th century. However historic records suggest that there was previously an even earlier building on the site, known as Hopkyttes. During the evaluation excavations in 2012 we opened only small trenches, confirming the location of the remains of Eastcote House, establishing the condition of any archaeological features, and assessing the value of any future work. This year, we have opened a much larger area, so that we can gain a better understanding of the layout and phasing of the house. We are very excited to have found (we believe) the remains of Hopkyttes, overlain by the Tudor structure.
However, on to our activities on the Day of Archaeology! As well as our lovely, ever-cheerful project participants – some old hands and some newbies – today we welcomed to site three classes from a local primary school, and a group of young people from The Challenge, a charity aimed at building a more integrated society. The primary schools and The Challenge group concentrated today on excavating the remains of Eastcote House and washing some of the finds, and we also focussed on the site's funniest feature – the ha-ha.
Les, who is directing excavations onsite, informs me that his Chambers dictionary defines 'ha-ha' as a representation of a laugh. The second definition is 'a ditch or vertical drop…between a garden and surrounding parkland'. We have one of these features in one of our smaller trenches, which is placed to investigate the southern end of a sunken flint wall with a steep sided ditch dropping towards it.
The upper levels of soil that had collected in the ditch contained 20th century finds, as we might expect. We have a Tizer bottle with 3p due on return, a bottle which contained a chocolate milk drink – the ingredients include shagreen (sharkskin) – a stoneware mineral bottle, and smaller, broken pieces. Some of the finds are the result of accumulation, while others are probably from people seeing a handy ditch to throw rubbish, rather than recycling or taking it to the nearest bin. Fizzy drinks seem to be a theme on this site: last week we found a bottle marked 'Eiffel Tower Lemonade'. After a bit of online research, we've discovered that this was a lemonade powder – tasty!
It looks as though our ha-ha ditch was originally 2m wide and 1.5m deep, and was probably a grassy slope. Some of the local historians think that this may be less of a ha-ha and more of a drainage ditch. At the moment, we think it may be both. In our excavation is a flat slab with flint blocks on top of it. This may be a secured entry to a drain inserted into the ditch: it looks later. We do wonder whether the slab may have been placed over the burial of a favoured pet though. We will know tomorrow.
This is just a small taster of everything we've been discovering at Eastcote House Gardens. Please do head over to the project website to find out more about the excavations: www.aocarchaeology.com/eastcote


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The first step is to decide whether you want your curtains to hang from, whether you go for a curtain track or a curtain pole, both of which should be positioned 15cm (6 inches) above the window and extend 15-20cm (6-8 inches) either side.
Measuring the Width of your Pole or Track
You want to measure the total width of the track or pole, excluding the finials as these will not be covered. Then add a small amount on to allow for an overlap of your curtains.
Measuring from the Drop of the Curtains
When you are ready to measure, you have to make a decision about where you want the curtains to finish. The choices are whether to go to the sill, below the sill or to the floor. We suggest that:
- Sill length curtains finish 1.25cm (1/2 inch) above the sill.
- Curtains that fall below the sill should finish 15cm (6 inches) below or just above the radiator to stop heat loss.
- Floor length curtains finish 1 - 1.5cm (1/2 inch) from the floor (although you can create a shappy sheak look by having them puddled on the floor, but that is personal preference).
Double / Triple Check Your Measurements
It is essential that you double and triple check your measurements as if you have measured incorrectly your curtains will not fit properly and if they are made to measure / custom drapes they cannot be changed.
Measure the exact width of the recess in three places; at the top of the recess, in the centre of the recess and near the bottom - then take the smallest size.
Measure the exact drop of the recess in three places on the left hand side of the recess, in the centre of the recess and on the right hand side of the recess - then take thesmallest size.
We will take one cm (half an inch) off the finished width size you have given us, to allow for the blind to pull up and down easily. The amount of fabric required will be more than this finished size, This is to allow for fabric hemming.
Measure the width of the actual recess plus an additional amount – Usually from 7cm-15cm (3" - 6") whatever you think looks appropriate.
Measure the exact drop of the recess. The blind would be fitted above the recess, so check the space above and add an amount on to the drop – usually from 15-20cm (6" - 8")
These sizes you have taken will be the size of the finished blind. The amount of fabric required will be more than this finished size this is to allow for hemming.
Curtain Fullness Calculation
Curtain fullness is the amount of pleating that will be in your curtain. This is based on the width of the space you wish to cover. For an example we can use a track width of 200cm. If you wanted a heavily pleated curtain then you would use 2x the track width rounded to the nearest width of fabric. As it is a waste not to use the full width.
Track width 200cm, Pencil Pleat Heading = 200cm x 2 = 400cm. Divide by the fabric width eg, 140cm = 2.85 widths. We therefore use 3 widths of fabric and 1.5 widths per curtain.
For Pinch pleat curtains you have to use 2.5x fullness for the finish otherwise with the pinches there will not be enough fullness for the finished width of the curtain
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Our made to measure curtains are produced by our trained seamstresses who produce the very finest curtains for both commercial and domestic environments. All our curtains use the finest tapes and linings and this means you get a super finish to your window dressings. Our custom made drapes use double fullness for pencil pleat and 2.5x fullness for pinch pleat. We round up to the nearest full width for all our curtains as we don't like skimped windows. We offer a pulling and hooking service so all our curtains are ready to hang so you get the perfect pleats in your curtains as they are already pulled up to the track width you specified.
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Close to Belterra, Sparta speedway, I71. Chance to buy one or several lots. Great rustic lots, would make good recreational sites, great timeshare sites, plenty of privacy. Wooded with lots of places for homesites. Chalets, log homes, and more would fit nicely here. Single and Doublewides permitted on full foundations, call for restrictions. Many other parcels available.
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Sparta's original name was Brock's Station, named for a landing on Eagle Creek. But the town's name evolved after grist mills using the power of Eagle Creek began to populate the area; the largest mill was named Sparta and residents quickly adopted it as their new name.
Located 41 miles from Cincinnati in the golden triangle of communities connecting Cincinnati, Louisville and Lexington, Sparta straddles two county lines, Gallatin and Owen Counties. Small but mighty, the village's population of 230 grows large whenever there are events at the nearby Kentucky Speedway. Primarily a farming community, the lure of picturesque country roads and wide open spaces mixed with plenty of friendly faces explain why residents love to come home to Gallatin County.
I71 is the main transportation hub of this county, with Ky. Rt. 35 (Sparta Pike) and Rt. 467 the primary access through the village.
St Elizabeth Medical Center's Grant County Hospital is 16 miles away in Williamstown, and Carroll County Hospital is 20 miles away in nearby Carrollton.
The Sparta Store and Deli provides for the town's daily needs, but bigger trips will need a jump in the car to either Cincinnati or Louisville.
Most residents enjoy the great outdoors either boating on the Ohio River or enjoying a day at nearby General Butler State Park. Motor sports enthusiasts of course attend events at the nearby Kentucky Speedway. The Belterra Golf Course and Casino are just across the Ohio River in Switzerland County.
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Grandma's book 'disrespectful' of Whitney
Whitney Houston's daughter has urged fans to boycott her grandmother's book.
The late singer's only daughter Bobbi Kristina, 19, has revealed that she and her boyfriend Nick Gordon, who was also raised by the star, don't support her grandmother Cissy Houston's new tell-all Remembering Whitney and believe it is "disrespectful".
Writing on her Twitter page, Bobbi said: "Anything concerning my grandmother's book, I and @nickgordon of course personally have nothing to do with.
"I haven't read and won't ... I find it to be disrespectful to my mother and me being her daughter won't tolerate it (sic)."
Whitney's mother, 79, claims her life was "shattered" after the superstar was found dead in the bathtub of her hotel room last February.
In an extract from the book, she said: "That was the moment my life shattered. I don't know what I did or said after that.
"I was told later that I screamed so loudly that the whole building must have heard me, but my mind was absolute blank, except for one thought - that my baby had gone.
"Even now, nearly a year later, I sometimes just ache, wishing I could hug my Nippy one last time.
"I never ever thought she would go before me. The first days after the news blurred into a terrible haze.
"I would fall into a fitful sleep and wake up and realise an hour or two later that my greatest nightmare was real."
Cissy appeared on Oprah's Next Chapter recently to promote the book and admitted her relationship with Bobbi is strained at the moment because she didn't want her to write the book.
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Effects of seating position and appropriate restraint use on the risk of injury to children in motor vehicle crashes." Pediatrics. 2005;115(3):e305-9."
Injury risk to restrained children exposed to deployed first- and second-generation air bags in frontal crashes." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159(4):342-6."
Acute healthcare utilization by children after motor vehicle crashes." Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(4):507-11."
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Belt-positioning booster seats and reduction in risk of injury among children in vehicle crashes." JAMA. 2003;289(21):2835-40."
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Shifts in child restraint use according to child weight in the United States from 1999 to 2002." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2003;47:313-28."
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CW's Tape-delayed Broadcast of RSL-Chicago Fire Clash at 9:00 p.m. MT
SANDY, Utah (Tuesday, May 8, 2012) – After moving into a tie with the San Jose Earthquakes atop the Western Conference with a 2-1 home victory Saturday,Real Salt Lake (7-3-1, 22 pts.; t-1st in West) heads to the Windy City to face the Chicago Fire (3-2-2, 11 pts.; t-4th in East) on Wednesday, May 9 at Toyota Park. The middle contest of Real's three-game week begins with a 6:30 p.m. MT kickoff in Bridgeview, IL, with tape-delayed television coverage on CW30 at 9:00 p.m. Fans can also catch the action via the team's official radio partners: ESPN 700/ESPN700Sports.com and La Gran D 102.3 FM, and by live Twitter updates on Twitter.com/RealSaltLake.
Due to a red card suspension received Saturday versus New England, the Claret-and-Cobalt enter Wednesday's match without the aid of MF Will Johnson, a former 2005 Chicago Fire sportsman and Woodridge, Ill. native. Other RSL personalities, including MF Ned Grabavoy and DF Chris Schuler, along with GM Garth Lagerwey, also have ties to the Chicago area.
However, no one in the RSL family has stronger ties to the Fire than RSL Assistant Coach C.J. Brown – an original Fire defender – who will be inducted into Chicago's "Ring of Fire" during a halftime ceremony. Brown's former team will celebrate his entire 13-year playing career as a Fire centerback, in which he won the MLS Cup in '98 and four Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup titles. Brown holds the club record for most MLS regular season appearances (296), MLS Cup playoff appearances (35) and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup appearances (25).
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Overall, RSL is 3-6-6 all-time against Chicago and had not lost to the Fire between August of 2009 and last September's home debacle, RSL losing 0-3 to the Fire at Rio Tinto Stadium in a game most remember for Captain Kyle Beckerman's 10th-minute red card, Chicago's only win in the last eight meetings between the teams ...
RSL fans surely have fond memories of Toyota Park – where RSL has not lost in the last three visits – including the 2009 East Final at Chicago where RSL won a PK shootout after 120 minutes of scoreless action and earned a trip to MLS Cup 2009. This deserved trip to Seattle resulted in RSL defeating Los Angeles to win the state of Utah's first major-league professional championship in nearly 40 years.
Last September's game in Sandy snapped a streak of more than four years and eight meetings since a team in this series scored multiple goals against the other, with only 26 total goals scored in 15 all-time games between RSL and the Fire.
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It is a Friday night just like any other in Lincoln Park, a server walks across the dimly lit bar, bringing a beer to a tourist visiting from Belgium sitting at a booth with her date. Suddenly, the server makes a request of her unlike any other you're likely to hear anywhere.
Open this beer, he instructs her, using my leg.
Come again?
"This is my first time, that's for sure," Tatiana, who declined to give her last name, said laughing. "Everything happens in America, apparently."
It's all in a day's work for Levi Kane, a server at Tommy Knuckles who has a prosthetic leg with a bottle opener attached just off the side of the kneecap.
"People go out to eat to be entertained," the 24-year-old server said. "They don't go out there to be dull and in the corner--although some do for some reason--they go out to be entertained so why not entertain them and what better than to open up a bottle of beer on my prosthetic leg."
And surprisingly enough, his boss is totally cool with him asking patrons to do just that.
"He's one of those types of people that goes above and beyond to service people and show off our brand the way it should be," said Carlos Guerra, a 39-year-old Lakeview resident and one of the owners of Tommy Knuckles.
Kane lost his left leg in a horrific motorcycle accident back in 2009 when he was 20 years old.
"(My buddy and I) were at a bar drinking underage," the 24-year-old Lakeview resident said. "We weren't drunk by any means. We had a few though. We took off on my motorcycle."
Nearly four years and one month to the day later, he can rattle off what happened next almost as though it happened yesterday.
"I was going 80 mph when an oncoming car--they were from out of town--they were looking for a place to change their baby's diaper," the Lakeview resident said. "Their TomTom [GPS unit] told them to turn left. They turned left, and I didn't T-bone them, but I hit them head-on. The guy's wife saw me, but he did not. It was severed at the scene."
"(My buddy) ended up flying pretty far, and he got paralyzed from the waist down."
Rather than let that devastating accident define him, Kane decided to define his newfound status as an amputee with a personal touch.
"I like being original," he said.
And as you can imagine, a prosthetic leg with a bottle opener attached isn't something that's mass-produced or readily available. Kane had to take matters--or in this case, his leg--into his own hands.
Naturally, this wasn't the first time he had tried modifying his prosthetic leg.
"I used to always have one magnetized on it, and I kept on gluing the magnets on, and it would always fall off," he said. "It was just big and clunky and annoying, so it started out with a really makeshift wooden bottle opener until I finally found this perfect wall mount, and I bolted that bad boy on there."
So bolt that bad boy on there, he did, choosing to affix it just off the kneecap for two reasons. There's the convenience factor of being able to simply lift his leg up and angle his knee for easy opening. There's also the fact that he didn't want to destroy his entire prosthetic leg.
"There's a plastic guard that goes over the knee joint that protects it from getting broken," he said. "That's the only hardware that I'm OK with drilling into. I don't want to drill into any actual components and screw everything up. It's just a plastic guard."
It's an idea that was born when he was on vacation with his dad.
The two had just plopped down on the couch with a beer as they had done countless times before when they realized they had a major problem.
"We both grabbed a beer and sat down on the couch and then we were like 'Oh, we forgot to open it. Now we've got to get up to open it. Are you kidding me? That's horrible,' " Kane recalls.
This time, dear old dad had an epiphany.
"He was like 'We should just bolt one on there.' "
His doctor is reportedly fine with him having bolted a bottle opener onto the side of his prosthetic leg. Kane said having it there has saved him a ton of time over the years in addition to helping him out at his job.
"Tips definitely seem to skyrocket when I let them open the bottle of beer on my leg," he said.
"It's quite shocking at first because you don't know how to take it," Guerra added. "With someone that's confident within himself, it makes it a lot easier to enjoy moments like that."
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Of course, the bottle opener attached to his main prosthetic leg isn't the only homemade creation Kane has in his collection designed to make drinking both easier and more fun.
"I also have a pegleg--a pirate's pegleg for Halloween when I want to dress up as a pirate," he said. "I built myself a pegleg, and I attached a road beer holster on the side of it and lined it with koozie foam and everything. It's pretty badass."
So would he recommend other amputees follow his lead and modify their prosthetics in the name of having a good time?
"I'd say go for it," Kane said. "Work like a captain, drink like a sailor, party like a pirate."


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Pena learned plenty as Jeter's understudy
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- While spending the first eight years of his professional career with the Yankees, Ramiro Pena found his path to the Major League level blocked by Derek Jeter's presence. But as he prepares to enter his second straight season as Atlanta's primary backup infielder, Pena continues to count himself fortunate to have benefited from Jeter's tutelage.
Whether during Spring Training or those stretches he spent with the Yankees at the big league level, Pena could also count on Jeter to provide him guidance in the clubhouse, on the bench or simply while they were taking turns fielding ground balls at the shortstop position.
"He was helping me a lot," Pena said. "I didn't have much of a chance to play there. But at the same time, he was teaching me a lot, too."
Given a chance to play much more frequently when he was introduced to the National League style of play last year, Pena thrived through the first two months he spent with Atlanta last year. The versatile infielder proved dependable in the field and hit .278 with a .773 OPS in the 107 plate appearances he tallied before undergoing season-ending shoulder surgery in June.
Pena has not been restricted from any activities during the early portion of Spring Training. The lingering shoulder discomfort he has felt has come after he has reintroduced his arm to the various slots from which he will have to throw, accounting for things such as turning a double play or making a diving stop that requires a sidearm delivery.
"Every once in a while, my arm gets sore," Pena said. "But as soon as I get treatment and a massage, it's fine."
Along with having the ability to play each of the infield positions, the 28-year-old switch-hitter also gives the Braves offensive versatility. But Pena will likely be used primarily off the bench against right-handed pitchers.
Pena batted .313 (25-for-80) and hit each of his three home runs against right-handers last year. He notched two hits, while recording just 17 at-bats, from the right side of the plate.