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Acoustic characteristics of vowel sounds in patients with Parkinson disease
Young Im Bang, Kyunghoon Min, Young H. Sohn, Sung Rae Cho
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
The purpose of this study was to define the acoustic voice and speech characteristics of patients with Parkinson disease (PD). Seven female patients with PD and seven female healthy controls participated in this study. Each subject was instructed to vocalize extended corner vowels (/a/, /e/, /i/, /u/) three times for at least 5 seconds at a comfortable voice loudness and tone. The voice was analyzed using the Praat program. As a result, female patients with PD showed a significant increase in jitter and noise-to-harmonics ratio (NHR). In addition, F1 and F2 among the PD patients demonstrated asymmetric centralization of unrounded vowels (/a/, /e/, /i/) in high/low/front/back positions of the tongue, consequently leading to a significant decrease in vowel space area, compared to healthy controls. This study showed the acoustic characteristics of vowel sounds not only by laryngeal variables such as abnormal jitter and NHR, but also by articulatory variables such as asymmetric centralization and reduced vowel space area in female patients with PD. Therefore, it is important to use these objective and sensitive variables to evaluate the status or severity of hypokinetic dysarthria in patients with PD.
https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-130887
Published - 2013 Aug 27
Speech Acoustics
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Bang, Y. I., Min, K., Sohn, Y. H., & Cho, S. R. (2013). Acoustic characteristics of vowel sounds in patients with Parkinson disease. NeuroRehabilitation, 32(3), 649-654. https://doi.org/10.3233/NRE-130887
Bang, Young Im ; Min, Kyunghoon ; Sohn, Young H. ; Cho, Sung Rae. / Acoustic characteristics of vowel sounds in patients with Parkinson disease. In: NeuroRehabilitation. 2013 ; Vol. 32, No. 3. pp. 649-654.
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The quickest way to fail a tech interview
What's the quickest way to fail a tech interview?
No it's not a wrong answer or floundering with algorithms. Not even being nervous or shy or having a language barrier. Culture fit is the least of your worries if you make this mistake.
The fastest red flag I've seen is when you're confidently wrong.
We had a candidate recently. Great guy, oodles of talent, gritty as heck. Had a couple of fantastic interviews, even taught me about datalist. Clearly self-taught and not ready to be senior, but so much potential. My favorite trait in a not-yet-senior. I'd give him a chance any day.
But his system design 😬
Swiz: "Hello again", I interviewed him twice, "today we're going to design a system. You'll build a schema, write a few SQL queries, and sketch out a system architecture. Here are the requirements"
Our prompt includes user numbers, traffic patterns, and a problem where everything connects. This is important.
Him: "Okay first I would shard the database"
Swiz: "Ok ok let's back up. Why don't we start with the schema, look at the traffic numbers again, and talk about scale when everything's in place"
That helped. He designed the system, wrote the queries, and struggled with the scale question. Which is fine, not everyone is an expert in scaling databases.
I thought he'd make a fine addition to the team. The hiring manager felt strongly about the confidently wrong red flag and we passed. 💩
Why sharding was the wrong answer
Sharding is a last resort scaling strategy for relational databases. You reach for sharding when you have a lot of writes and don't care about relations across shards.
Gaming worlds are shards, for example.
Diablo has separate servers (and databases) in Europe and in North America. You can't use the same character on both. Your friends don't translate. Even your username doesn't. When I play these days, I have to use the European servers even though I'm in San Francisco. I don't exist on the North America shard. 💩
There's many scaling strategies like indexes, better queries, partitioning, vertical scaling, and read/write replicas you should try first. Sharding comes with lots of drawbacks.
Yes social networks like Twitter have solved this problem. But they have tens of thousands of writes per second. And it took years of engineering effort to fix. I think several academic papers came out of the effort.
You don't need sharding. I once had to push Postgres and Rails pretty far and it worked fine.
To all my over-engineerers and overthinkerers 👇
We are currently logging over 500,000 events per day to a PostgreSQL database running on a single Heroku instance. The table has over 300,000,000 rows.
Don't worry about scale. Stuff scales.
Why "confidently wrong" is a red flag
Being wrong is fine. Being confidently wrong is not.
To paraphrase the hiring manager:
We need to trust our engineers to ask questions when they're out of their depth. We don't want to babysit.
How to avoid being confidently wrong
It's hard. I struggle with this a lot.
Like when I failed my Google on-site interviews because I read about tries the week before, got excited, and told every interviewer that accessing a hash map is O(key length) because you'd implement it with a trie. Every person gave me a chance to catch my mistake. I confidently did not.
The best solution I've found is to do your research and ask why.
"Here is my answer and this is why" 🤔
"Wait a minute, that makes no sense, that's a terrible why. Let's try this other answer ..."
Iterate until your reasoning makes sense. Because X said so in a blog or book is never the right why.
And yes going through that chain of logic will impress an interviewer. And your peers.
PS: missing the why behind their answer is the quickest way to spot someone how has book knowledge but doesn't understand. Or as Feynman liked to say "Knowing the name of a thing is not the same as knowing the thing"
Published on January 11th, 2022 in Mindset, Lesson, Interviewing
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Paris Junior College's Beta Zeta chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the two-year college honor society, came away with several awards and recognition from the PTK Texas Region annual convention held recently in Houston.
Beta Zeta members John Martinez, Joseph Lukula, Trinity Davis, Sophia Cunningham, Shannon Shepherd, Kareyn Hellman, and Jayla Oldfield received official recognition of their service. Joining Hellman, Shepherd, and Oldfield at the convention were members Tabitha Kelly, Kate Flores, and Emily Nance.
PJC President Dr. Pamela Anglin was inducted into the Texas Hall of Honor for Chief Executive Officers for the Texas Region of Phi Theta Kappa.
College presidents are inducted into the Hall based on their outstanding efforts made toward promoting the goals of PTK to recognize academic achievement of college students and to provide opportunities for them to grow as scholars and leaders.
PJC Geology Instructor and chapter advisor Trina Lubbe received the Horizon Award for new advisors who complete the Five Star Advisor Curriculum.
Beta Zeta was honored with the Five-Star Chapter Award for building a strong, active chapter, attaining chapter goals, and enhancing the working relationship with the college administration by becoming active on the campus and in the community. The chapter also received an Honors In Action participation award. Honors in Action is an in-depth project based on a theme of the current Honors Study Topic.
The "Food for Thought" project was part of both the Five-Star Chapter Award and Honors in Action. Beta Zeta tackled student food insecurity this year, manning information booths in the fall and distributing flyers on campus this spring.
The goal was raising awareness that the Paris Metro bus and the Downtown Food Pantry were on the local bus route. Bus passes are available from the PJC Business Office and federal financial aid may be used to pay for the pass. At the fall information booths, maps of bus routes and information brochures on the food pantry and the Paris-Lamar County Health District services directory were handed out. The Downtown Food Pantry welcomes PJC students who bring their IDs on Tuesdays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
For more information about PTK, contact club sponsor Melissa Arnold at marnold@parisjc.edu.


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Lukáš Hruška (born 2 March 1992 in Prešov) is a Slovak football midfielder who currently plays for club ŠTK Šamorín.

Career
Hruška made his official debut for 1. FC Tatran Prešov on 16 May 2012, playing the last 13 minutes in a 0–2 away lost against FK AS Trenčín.

On 29 January 2019, Hruška joined NKP Podhale.

References

External links
 1. FC Tatran Prešov profile

 Ligy.sk | Lukáš Hruška

1992 births
Living people
Association football midfielders
Slovak footballers
1. FC Tatran Prešov players
MFK Skalica players
ŠK Odeva Lipany players
FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín players
Slovak Super Liga players
2. Liga (Slovakia) players
Sportspeople from Prešov

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Paul Vaughan lives in Yorkshire with a sneezing cat. Work has appeared or is forthcoming in Agenda, Bunbury, Message in a Bottle and The Open Mouse, among others. When not writing he moonlights as editor of Algebra of Owls.


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"Segne den Becher, welcher überfließen will, daß das Wasser golden aus ihm fließe und überallhin den Abglanz deiner Wonne trage!" – Nietzsche
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Rings of Power: Wagner and Tolkien
Siegfried Slaying the Dragon
When the Swedish writer Ake Ohlmark suggested that the Ring of Power in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings bears a certain resemblance to Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, Tolkien impatiently replied that "Both rings are round, and there the resemblance ceases." (1)
Within Tolkien's correspondence and notes, this is the only direct reference to the Nibelungen Ring that I've been able to find. This is perplexing, given how obvious it is that Wagner exerted an immense influence over Tolkien's creative work.
Perhaps this is a case of what Harold Bloom called the anxiety of influence; in which an artist goes to great lengths to disavow an obviously-influential predecessor, such as when Freud claimed that he never read Nietzsche. Or perhaps, as a friend of mine suggested recently, when it comes to an artist like Wagner, acknowledging influence is sometimes impossible, because their conception is too vast, and any artist would drown in it.
Whatever the case may be, many of the important characters, themes, and episodes in Tolkien's trilogy have close counterparts in Wagner's cycle. In what follows, I'd like to excavate some of these instances by comparing motifs from both works. There will be many spoilers.
The most obvious point of comparison between Lord of the Rings and the Nibelungen Ring is that both works feature magical rings, and, contrary to Tolkien's objections, the two rings are identical in nearly every way.
Both rings are powerful magical artifacts associated with command and control, forged by demonic beings who renounce love in favor of hate, anger and dominion. Both excite an ungovernable lust in people to possess and wield the ring, which acts as a profoundly corrupting force that incites fratricide or its equivalent, bringing heroes to conflict and moral crisis. The struggle for possession of both rings sets in motion the central actions of the plots, leading to a titanic conflict and shift of the world-age.
It is sometimes pointed out by Tolkien's defenders that he utilized many of the same sources as Wagner, and, as a philologist with a genuine command of the languages in question, he frequently knew them better than Wagner did. For example, both artists made extensive use of medieval German and Icelandic sagas and legends, such as the Eddas, the Volsung Saga, and the Nibelungenlied.
However, the Ring of Power is purely a creation of Wagner's imagination. As Deryck Cooke wrote in I Saw the World End, a key work of Wagner scholarship:
The whole importance of gold in Wagner's work, of course, is its potentiality for being made into a ring conferring absolute world-power; and again, this element is absent from the mythology…. [T]he power of Wagner's ring is ultimately the power of the ring of the Scandinavian sources to multiply wealth; but in making this power an absolute dominion over the world, he added a crucial element of his own, which these sources do not contain. Nor do the German sources contain it: a ring of this kind is entirely absent from the Nibelung hoard. (2) [emphasis added]
Although various enchanted rings exist in the old mythology, the Ring of Power as a tool and symbol of dominion is Wagner's invention.
Fafner and Fasolt
In Scene 4 of Wagner's Das Rheingold, the brothers Fafner and Fasolt, under the spell of the ring's corrupting power, abruptly turn on one another:
Fasolt: (hurls himself upon Fafner, who has been busily packing away.) Stand back, you robber! Mine is the ring; I won it for Freia's glance! (He snatches hastily at the ring. They struggle)
Fafner: Off with your hands! The ring is mine! (Fasold wrests the ring from Fafner.)
Fasolt: I have it, I shall keep it!
Fafner: (striking out with his staff) Hold it fast, else it may fall! (He fells Fasolt with a single blow and then wrenches the ring from the dying giant.) (3)
Compare to Gandalf's account in Fellowship of the Ring:
'"Give us that [ring], Déagol, my love," said Sméagol, over his friend's shoulder.
'"Why?' said Déagol.
'"Because it's my birthday, my love, and I wants it," said Sméagol.
'"I don't care," said Déagol. "I have already given you a present already, more than I could afford. I found it, and I"m going to keep it."
'"Oh, are you indeed, my love," said Sméagol, and caught Déagol by the throat, and strangled him, because the gold looked so bright and beautiful. (4)
Like Wagner's cycle, Tolkien's story depicts a ring that inflames lust for ownership. Once under its spell, owners of the ring will never willingly give it up, and, should they lose it, they become obsessed with its recovery. Like the dwarf Alberich, Gollum conspires secretly and treacherously to win it back from the hero who has taken it.
Like Biblo and Frodo Baggins, Siegfried is shielded from the dark power of the ring by his innocence. Alberich observes "But [Siegfried] that boldest of heroes is safe from my curse; for he knows not the might of the ring; he makes no use of its magical power." [283]
Both rings were forged by sinister beings who renounce love in favor of mastery and dominion. Both stories end with the rings being unmade. The Ring of Power is cast into the lava of Mount Doom, where it was forged; the Nibelungen Ring is cast back into the Rhine, from whence its enchanted gold was stolen. The return of each ring to its source touches off a cataclysmic eruption.
There are too many additional points of similarity to be cataloged, so I will only briefly review some of the most obvious.
Smaug will remind any Wagner fan of Fafner, who takes the form of a dragon and sleeps in a cave atop his pile of magic treasure. The slaying of both dragons is tied to crucial advice given to the hero by a bird, whose song can be understood.
"As 'Wanderer' am I known to the world, wide have I fared, and far have I traveled over the earth's broad back," says Wotan in Siegfried. Gandalf's "gray pilgrim" is exceedingly similar. Like Wotan, he is viewed warily by provincial folk, who may greet him as Mime greets Wotan, with the words "Ill fortune dwells with me already; why do you add to it?" We hear the echo of Grima Wormtongue: Wotan Stormcrow!
The line of Aragorn, heir of Isildur and Elendil, shows pervasive similarities with the family of Sigmund and Siegfried. Here, I grant, both authors probably worked under the strong influence of the Saga of the Volsungs, but I doubt anyone who knows their Tolkien will not be startled by the similarities as they experience the Ring Cycle.
Both stories feature heroes who are of kingly lineage, but who are forced into a life of obscurity, living in the forest as masters of woodcraft, performing heroic but unsung deeds to protect the innocent.
Aragorn's ancestor Isildur fell in battle with Sauron, during which his blade was broken, and its pieces bequeathed to the lineage, to be kept against the day that it should be reforged and the line renewed. Siegmund fell in battle with Hunding, during which his blade was broken, being given into safekeeping against the day his son, Siegfried, would finally reforge it, and begin his own adventure.
To any reader who is armed with a familiarity of Hobbits but lacks acquaintance with Wagner's great work, I urge you to check it out. Wagner's Ring is a vastly entertaining work that Tolkien never equals. Wagner's Ring is substantially more original, and also evidences psychological and political sophistication that dwarfs Tolkien's vision.
The Lord of the Rings has been rightly criticized for its tone-deaf treatment of adult sexuality and politics. Tolkien's races of swarthy, primitive, evil peoples living to the south and to the east have been criticized; likewise his mythopoetic glorification of the West, which represent civilization, art and beauty, and is contrasted to the dull, dumb, violent lands off toward the Turkey and North Africa. Er, I mean, toward Mordor.
Tolkien is also ham-fisted with his pre-modern treatment of women. His heroines are beautiful but aloof; they are enigmatic, otherworldly, and without personality. They are, indeed, frequently inhuman; the two great love stories of Middle Earth, Beren and Luthien, and Aragorn and Arwen, tell of the love of humans for elvish maids.
There is, no doubt, something of the Troubadour's ideal at work here, and, more importantly, we detect the queens of the Tuatha Dé Danann, beloved by many an Irish hero. But this vision pales in comparison to the vibrant, brilliant, intense heroines of Wagner's saga – not only Brünnhilde, who emerges as the great personality of the cycle, but Ficka and Erda as well.
And this treats only Wagner's libretto, leaving aside the revolutionary music of Wagner's gigantic cycle, which is by far the largest composition in the standard repertoire. Wagner's work is simply of a different magnitude, belonging in the company of Shakespeare and Homer.
Addendum (Dec 29, 2012): I've had some discussions about this post with friends, and they've persuaded me to make a couple of disclaimers. First of all, the topic at hand is so vast that inevitably my consideration is cursory and a great many relevant points were left on the table. I would especially note that it may have been salient to note Wagner's obvious and reprehensible antisemitism in the context of contrasting the politics of LOTR unfavorably with the Ring. The short response to this is that I was not intending to contrast Tolkien to Wagner, but rather compare these two specific works, and Wagner's personal failings aside, his Ring contains little mark of antisemitism, if any, while his extremely progressive political attitudes are central themes (see George Bernard Shaw's The Perfect Wagnerite for a classic elucidation of this aspect of the work.)
The second point I want to make explicit is that I love Tolkien and his work. I've read Lord of the Rings and numerous other works of his many times, and will undoubtedly re-read it in the future. It was primarily my enthusiasm for encouraging readers to explore Wagner's work, which I assume has a smaller audience, that led me to praise the former at the expense of the latter. While I do regard Wagner as the far greater artist – and indeed, one of the greatest composers who ever lived – I have no quarrel with Tolkien. That said, his limitations should, I think, be acknowledged, even by his fans.
1) Carpenter H. and Tolkein C. (ed.s) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1981. p. 306.
2) Cooke D. I Saw the World End; A Study of Wagner's Ring. Clarendon Paperbacks. Oxford University Press. 1979. p. 137.
3) Wagner R., trans. Andrew Porter. The Ring of the Nibelung. W. W. Norton. 1976. pp. 67-8.
4) Tolkien J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. Ballantine Books. 1965. pp. 84-5.
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Creative Misinterpretations: SF Opera's Ring Cycle
The San Francisco Opera production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen gets many things right, and a few things very wrong.
Note: This post contains spoilers.
It is perhaps a quixotic gesture at this late date to criticize non-traditional productions of Wagner's mighty Ring, but the San Francisco Opera's current production illustrates the pitfalls of such an approach. The production is superb in many aspects. Under the commanding baton of Donald Runnicles the orchestra offers a dynamic and bracing interpretation, and a dazzling collection of vocal and acting talents includes not one but two superb Siegfrieds in Jay Hunter Morris and Ian Storey, as well as audience-favorite Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde, and David Cangelosi in a surprisingly engaging turn as Mime, a character I never thought I could love.
So with all due respect, and much is due, let us turn to the staging.
Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Boulez caused a scandal when they set the opening of Das Rheingold at a hydroelectric dam in their 1976 Bayreuth production. Today the action of The Ring is transposed to different times and places so often, it has become the norm. The LA Opera recently offered an abstract version with design elements suggesting a "Star Wars" influence (video here), and the New York Met is currently staging a version set around a large contraption of moving planks (video here). Seattle remains a holdout of traditional stagings and costumes.
Director Francesca Zambello has set the San Francisco Opera's current production in a landscape evoking urban decay and ecological catastrophe. The corrupting influence of this Ring is measured by anthropogenic contamination that chokes the land with pollution, steadily worsening over the course of the four operas.
Das Rheingold sets the wheels in motion in the Industrial Revolution. Signs of trouble are clearly visible on the horizon when Walküre shows plutocratic gods in a corporate boardroom Valhalla. By the time Siegfried opens the world has been overrun. We find our hero living with Mime in a trailer parked in a squalid urban waste land strewn with rubbish. One wonders if Siegfried purloined his bear from a nearby zoo. By Act III of Götterdämmerung, the weary, land-bound Daughters of the Rhine heap bags of trash into piles.
The Industrial Revolution was well underway in Germany when The Ring was written, so it goes without saying that if Wagner had wished to tell a story about pollution and decay, he would have done so. Indeed, many of the core themes of Wagner's musical drama are strikingly contemporary in resonance, such as his criticism of the exploitation of labor.
The interpolation of the environmental theme, then, is without question an addition to Wagner's work. To get a sense of why The Ring is uniquely unsuited to the superimposition of extraneous themes, let us briefly review what Wagner had in mind when he wrote the work.
Wagner's Theory of The Ring
Wagner wrote the music and the libretto for The Ring over a period of some twenty-six years, and no other work in the standard repertoire has been so thoroughly documented by its composer. Wagner left copious writings behind in which he clearly set out his compositional theory. One of the great miracles of The Ring is the degree to which he succeeded in reaching his stated goals.
Wagner's central conception was to present an experience of music and drama united into a coherent statement that operates simultaneously on the levels of story, imagery, and music, with each level interacting with the others. In the service of this vision, he employed the leitmotif for which the work is famous — a device that he did not invent; but developed far beyond all precedent.
A leitmotif is a musical theme that is paired with a corresponding image, action, or idea. Wagner used leitmotifs to organizes and bind the musical structure of this colossal composition, and to constantly translate the the language of the libretto into the emotional and intuitive register of music. This interaction creates a synergy between the dramatic meaning of the opera and its expressive musical themes. The aggregate effect over the course of this long work is so powerful that certain motives become drenched with meaning, sometimes to such an extent that it seems impossible to remember a time when the motives did not clearly signify their particular resonance. They become as ingrained as the melody of "Happy Birthday."
Wagner described The Ring as a unified art work, or Gasamtkunstwerk. He probably did not invent this concept, but raised it from a state of obscurity to a term in universal parlance by the success of The Ring.
In his influential essay "The Artwork of the Future" Wagner describes his conception of a unified art work:
Just as the joinery of my individual scenes excluded every alien and unnecessary detail, and led all interest to the dominant chief mood, so did the whole building of my drama join itself into one organic unity, whose easily surveyed members were made out by those fewer scenes and situations which set the passing mood: no mood could be permitted to be struck in any one of these scenes that did not stand in a weighty relation to the moods of all the other scenes, so that the development of the moods of all the other scenes, the constant obviousness of this development, should establish the unity of the drama in its very mode of expression. (1)
Wagner laboriously composed The Ring to produce a specific effect, based on the meticulously-designed concord of all of its various elements. We need not speculate, then, on how he would have felt about the interpolation of a foreign layer of symbolism on his work. Any extraneous element or theme a director adds to The Ring not only introduces new elements into a work that is already extremely dense with musical and dramatic ideas, but disrupts its carefully conceived unity.
This has a direct and predictable dramatic effect. Throughout the San Francisco production I found that when the scenes were set in a traditional vein, I was completely absorbed in what I was experiencing. When foreign design elements were at play, the spell was broken, and I was put into a intellectual relationship with the material. I would think about what was being shown and why, instead of feeling like a part of the world.
Image Confusion
Let us consider the San Francisco Opera's program cover (pictured left). We have an image of a Valkyrie, possibly Brünnhilde, in silhouette, holding a spear. Around the base of the spear coils a sinewy vine, suggestive of the Ash Tree.
This image is an amalgamation of some of the important symbols in the drama, apparently chosen at random and assembled into an incoherent form. The spear belongs to Wotan; Brünnhilde does not wield it, nor can she be coherently associated with its many meanings. The spear, carved as it is from the wood of the cosmic Ash Tree, symbolizes the process by which spontaneous natural forms are perverted when harnessed, such as when the Rhine Gold is forged into a ring. That makes it an ill fit with the new growth suggested by the seedling, about which I'll have more to say later.
These points are not important in themselves, but they are typical of the production. The creative team sometimes seems to either not know or not care what the images mean and how they function. But The Ring was designed as a unified work of art organized by ideas and meanings, so the symbols are integral to the structure.
Perhaps the most disturbing dissonance in the production is the contradiction that sometimes separates the lyrics from what we are seeing. When Siegfried travels through the forest, he sings about the forest setting, but those references are stricken from the supertitles. Likewise, when we we meet the Norns in the prelude to Götterdämmerung, they are laying cables instead of weaving threads. The lyrics describe weaving while the supertitle translations refer to "laying cable," which is a jarring dissonance. Presenting the audience with a contradiction pushes them out of the scene, and arbitrarily falsifying the translation of the libretto strikes me as a cheap tactic.
But something deeper than dramatic effect is at stake. Wagner has something to say about the relationship between the human spirit and nature. In his Siegfried, we get to know a hero who is a spontaneous man of action, unburdened by the corrupting influences of political entanglements or social bonds. His qualities of character are rooted in his love of the forests in which he dwells. We travel with him through that landscape and pause together to hear beautiful motives that have been described by musicologists as the "song of the birds" and "forest murmurs."
In Götterdämmerung Siegfried at last wakens from the dark spell that has made him forget who he is and has turned him into a monster. He returns to his true self when he returns to the woods, and remembers the song of the bird. It is a song to which he had ceased to listen, and a song that closely resembles that of the Rhine Daughters, the charming agents of uncorrupted nature. His memory of what the bird taught him reminds him of his own identify, his love, his passion, and his commitments, which had been displaced by the bargains and deceits of the Gibichung court.
This beautiful relationship between Siegfried's character and nature is all but destroyed when he is moved to a junkyard, and when his references to the natural world are blocked from his dialog. Ironically, this is apparently in the service of an environmental message. Which environmental message will resonate more deeply with audience members: Wagner's carefully interwoven themes of nature developed throughout The Ring in mutually-reinforcing dialog, music, character, and action, or Zambello's image of the Rhine Daughters heaving sacks of rubbish?
Zambello's final revision in the last moments of The Ring is the great interpretive blunder of the cycle, one that shows her to be tone deaf to Wagner's work and to tragedy as a whole. The apocalyptic image of the world-ending fire — a fire lit by the funeral pyre of the two principle characters — sets up a tepid scene of a child bearing a new sapling onto stage and planting a new World Tree as the drama's final gesture.
Surely if there is one thing that any director of tragedy must know, it is Aristotle's concept of catharsis. Tragedy functions by inviting the audience members to participate in the action on the stage through their identification with the the characters, and to undergo thereby a symbolic death of tremendous psychological power. Zambello's sapling is a facile gesture that disrupts the climax of Wagner's towering tragedy and robs the audience of catharsis.
In Wagner's conception, a legendary love has led to dreadful death, and the feeling of these events is of such magnitude that it is mirrored in the destruction of the heavens. The world itself breaks apart under the strain of its own contradictions. All things are consumed in fire and are washed back into the great primordial waters of the overflowing Rhine, from which all things arose in the very beginning of Das Rheingold. We have a classical depiction of the human heart exploding past the bounds of limit, rupturing the very power of form to bind the world into shape. This puts us squarely in a line with Aeschylus and Aristotle, by way of Schopenhauer.
The cute little girl with the tree could not be more counter to that effect, and by capping the gargantuan climax with that moment, its force is compromised and its message rejected. It disrupts the catharsis of The Ring and robs the audience of the payoff to which the entire opera has built, replacing it with a gesture of that is merely sentimental.
The fact that re-interpretations of The Ring have become commonplace does not give directors license to use them without care. Directors should ask themselves if their changes will add more than they subtract, and with a work as carefully composed as The Ring, they rarely will.
1. Wagner, Richard. ed. by Goldman, Albert and Evert Sprinchorn. On Music and Drama. Da Capo Press. 1964. pp. 227-8.
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acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal.  The acl relation
contrasts with the advcl relation, which is used for adverbial clauses
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The victim and two friends drove to the gas station to buy marijuana from strangers on Monday night, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
A black car with tinted windows pulled up to the meeting with two unknown men inside. Another was hiding outside of the car behind an electrical box.
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Deputies responded and found the victim in the back of his car, conscious and alert, with a gunshot wound on his left side. He was flown to Lee Memorial Hospital for his injuries.
Later, the victim's friends, who are juveniles, told deputies they ran away when the shooting occurred and were picked up by one of their mothers.
The victim's mother, who is the owner of the car her son was driving, also went to the gas station and gave investigators permission to process the car.
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Q: how to make track user location while going in destination in android Friend I want to make an app which show the user location or track the user location Real Time.
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we just want to track the user until reached in destination.
while user follows in route for destination.
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A: You can use a location change listener as shownl in this link here
also if you are able to get the lastKnownLocation(), then you can simply use a timer to get the location after specified time
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General Characteristics of Carbon Steels 1029 and 1030
These are steels which are effectively on the boundary of low and medium carbon steels, and as such may be classified as direct-hardening grades as opposed to carburizing grades.
Chemical Analysis 1029
C Carbon
Mn Manganese
P Phosphorus
0.040 max
S Sulfur
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These grades would be normalized at around 1700ºF (925ºC,) and prior to tempering or to hardening and tempering.
These grades would be austenitized at 1550-1600ºF (845-870ºC) and water quenched.
Tempering would be carried out at temperatures based on past experience, to provide the required mechanical properties.
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Best machinability is obtained on these grades following an annealing treatment that will give a microstructure of coarse pearlite with minimum ferrite. See annealing above.
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Welding of these grades may be carried out by all normal fusion methods, preferably using low-carbon electrodes.
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My cousin Dave worked in employee relations to ensure customer satisfaction and prevent any possible complaints from a potential buyer.
Having good employee relations will keep up the morale at your office and help you get the most out of your employees.
The employee relations were of vital and paramount importance to fostering a healthy and effective work environment for the team.


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Homosexual War Memorial Stands while Cross Cannot
28 August 2018 JD
According to the homosexual website the Advocate, California has become the first state to have a homosexual war memorial [emphasis added]:
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill Monday designating the LGBTQ Veterans Memorial at the Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City as the state's official LGBTQ veterans memorial…
It consists of an obelisk of mahogany granite from South Dakota with the logo of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Veterans of America (the group is now known as American Veterans for Equal Rights).
So let's get this straight (no pun intended):
If a town raises a monument with the names of all of its war dead and uses a cross, said town will be sued all the way to the Supreme Court with demands the monument be destroyed or have the cross-bar cut off so it no longer looks like a cross. The reason? A group of atheists will claim the shape does not represent "all" it was supposed to memorialize. (That's the Bladensburg Peace Cross, among others, if you haven't been keeping up.) The memorial cannot even have had a Christian symbol on it — in the past. That's Boone County, by the way.
But if a State designates a war memorial for only those who had sexual relations in a certain manner — complete with symbology to that effect — that's ok.
This world is not my home…
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I have three personal e-mail accounts and one office-assigned address. I check my main personal e-mail with Gmail as soon as I wake up and upon reaching the office � from then, the browser isn�t closed until I leave the newsroom. When I get home, I check my mails again if I decide to go online.
I check my office-assigned address � online_editor (at) sunstar (dot) com (ph) � only twice a day � as soon as I reach the office and shortly before I go home. As a result, my Sun.Star e-mail address is clogged with press releases, questions from readers and personal communications that are left unanswered sometimes for weeks.
I knew it was time for an inbox makeover. Merlin Mann, in his article in Macworld, suggests re-organizing your e-mail folders according to required action on messages. He says that as soon as you receive your mails, evaluate what type of actions are needed and sort these out in appropriate mail folders.
Mann suggests reorganizing your e-mail folders into 1.) inbox for unprocessed mails; 2.) respond for mails requiring only short responses; 3.) action for mails that require detailed answers; 4.) hold for information you need to be close by in the next few days; 5.) waiting for emails that require action when the recipients send back their answers; 6.) trash and; 7.) archive for sorting of mails according to your different projects or interests.
Mann rightly points out that most people organize their email folders based on projects or topics. His suggestion offers computers users a more productive way to sort through their e-mails, by forcing them to evaluate each message based on which actions to take.
I decided to try out Mann�s suggestion last week and came up with this mail folders organization: 1.) inbox for unprocessed mails, 2.) today for e-mails that need to be acted on before I leave the newsroom. After each e-mail is acted on, the message is then transferred to the appropriate subfolder in the archives folder. 3.) this week for e-mails that need to be dealt with by Friday (the last day of my workweek); 4.) info for e-mails either containing information that I need in the next few days or data that I need to check; 5.) standby for communications that are task-related and do not have specific timeframes; 7.) archive for sorting of mails according to my different projects or interests.
In the next few days, I hope to recreate my folders organization in GMail, this time using labels. GMail does not allow users to create mail folders. Instead, it offers users an interface to put labels into e-mail messages.
Nice passage, I always have trouble management emails. I just manage the email in ways most people do, sort according to projects. Most of the time, tons of emails are left in the inbox unread or unprocessed. I will try to workout this new scheme of email inbox managment.
For the Mac users out there I recommend MailTags, a Mail add-on that does just what its name suggests: tagging your mails.
The good thing is that you can use the "smart mailboxes" feature of Apple Mail to create folders that automatically organize your messages according those tags.
It fits very well with this arrangment.


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Q: Start cmd, run exe and after the program ends run command pause and then exit How can I open a new command promt and run in there an exe and after the program (exe) ends run command pause and then exit
Exe is running by:
start cmd /k bla.exe

After bla.exe is done, I want to run a pause command. I tried:
start cmd /k bla.exe & pause

but pause is running in the initial console.
How can I fix this?

A: The solution is:
start "titel" cmd /k "bla.exe & pause & exit"


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Prograis angry about Chisora disrespecting him & Josh Taylor at press conference
Andy Brooks - September 12, 2019
Regis Prograis is unhappy with the way heavyweight fringe contender Dereck Chisora disrespected him and Josh Taylor during last Monday's press conference. Chisora (31-9, 22 KOs) felt that he and his opponent former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (26-2, 20 KOs) should be the headliner on next month's Sky Box Office card on October 26 at the O2 Arena in London, England.
Prograis unhappy that none of fighters helped him argue with Chisora
Josh Taylor didn't utter a peep when Chisora was going on a rant during the press conference. Prorais was the only one that spoke up, and Chisora said he would "squash him."
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"I'm the only one that said something," said Prograis to Fighthype about Chisora. "I said, 'we're #1 and #2.' Supposedly he said something about me, and I didn't hear. I was still going back and forth with him. I'm not scared of him. I don't care if he's heavyweight. I'm the only that said something during the whole press conference. I'm the only one. I heard he does that during press conferences, and that he threw a table. He does all kinds of s—. He walked out. I didn't know nothing about him. I didn't know nothing about his record, and he's got nine losses or something like that," said Prograis.
Chisora looked like he was ready to make things ugly if Prograis had continued to talk back to him on stage. It would have helped if Taylor had joined Prograis in confronting Chisora, but he wasn't saying anything. Taylor looked like he was in shock.
Here's the conversation between them:
Prograis: "We #1 and #2.
Chisora: "Nobody cares about you, bro. To be honest."
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Chisora: "Don't get me started, bro, or I'll squash you. I'm not going to be chief support to these guys. We're going to need to change that. I'm not going to be chief support. It's as simple as. These guy wouldn't sell Box Office by themselves. So you either give me main event or pull me out of the show. You want to put these little guys. Nobody knows about them on my show, and try and mug me off. You know this is not right. The Muhammad Ali Trophy, nobody gives a f—k about it no more. Nobody gives a f— about little guys anymore. They only give a f— about the heavyweight game. The big guys in the top 10. The big guys. Boxing is thriving on the heavyweights. So for you to try and give me the chief support on my own bill, that's b—-."
Chisora should have spoken to Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn in private about his issues with being in the co-feature bout. Waiting until the press conference took place for Chisora air his views was out of place. If Chisora is going to continue to disrupt the press conferences all the way up to the fight, it's going to put a real damper on the card.
"Chisora, he thought he deserved the main event. He kind of went off. It was definitely unexpected for me," said Regis Prograis to Fighthype in talking about Chisora's angry rant during Monday's press conference. "I didn't know nothing about Chisora. I'd heard his name, but I'd never seen him fight. I didn't even know who he was. I knew who Joseph Parker was, and I heard Chisora's name. It was a pretty good fight. He was like, 'I should be the main event. I should get more money. I understand that, and it's cool, but you don't have to disrespect me and Josh Taylor.
"Come on, bro. I understand what you're saying. It's cool that you want more money and all that, but you don't have to disrespect me and him," said Prograis. "We're fighting for a lot of stuff. WBA, IBF, Ring Magazine and Muhammad Ali Trophy. He kind of disrespected all that. It was kind of a slap in the face to me. I felt like it was my fight to be in the main event between me and Josh Taylor. That's why I stuck up for myself. I don't care how big you are. The thing is, I only said #1 and #2, because that's the only thing I knew. I didn't know who he was. Then I found out he's got nine losses, and he's not even a top 10 heavyweight. I wish I'd known all that, because I could have brought all that stuff up.
Chisora is just a good fringe contender, and the same applies for his opponent Parker. Both have been exposed at the world level when they've tried stepping it up. Chisora on the brink of being pushed out of the top 15 altogether. If Chisora loses to Parker, he could slide out of the top 15. Prograis and Taylor are both world champions at 140, and considered #1 and #2 in the division respectively. Whether they have the same following as Chisora is is unknown. Chisora is popular in the UK, and he's been involved in a lot of fights, many of which he's lost. He's like a high level journey. You can argue that Chisora is like another Matt Skelton. He's a good fringe contender. If you put him in with flawed guys like Artur Szpilka, he'll beat them. But when he gets put in with better guys like Dillian Whyte, Kubrat Pulev and Agit Kabayel, he loses every time.
The dude wants more money, that's cool, but don't disrespect us," said Prograis about Chisora. "I don't think he's ever been a champion before. We got belts for a reason. We're world champions. And we're not only world champions.. We're number 1 and #2 at our weight divisions. We're not just world champion. They've got world champions, but they're not ranked as high as we are. Me and Josh Taylor are #1 and #2 fighter in the super lightweight division, and we're undefeated champions. He never accomplished that stuff. So don't try and play us," said Prograis.
"If you saw me at the press conference, steam was kind of coming out of my head," said Prograis. "What really pissed me off is no one even said anything. I was the only one sticking up for myself. It caught me off guard, because I thought I was going to have a good press conference. I had a lot to talk about, but when that happened, it kind of changed my mood all the way. If the dude more money, I understand.
The way that Chisora told Prograis to pipe down by saying, "Don't get me started or I'll squash you," he wasn't showing him any respect. Chisora sounded like he wasn't going to waste time arguing with Prograis.
You're a prize fighter, and you want to fight for prizes and money," said Prograis. "That's cool, but don't come up here and disrespect us. If you want more money, then talk to Eddie [Hearn], and talk to a person from Sky Sports. But you don't have to disrespect the fighters. We're fighters just like you are, and we've accomplished more than you've accomplished. Most fighters don't get this chance in their lifetime. This is a chance of a lifetime that I'm fighting on, me and Josh Taylor. All these things are on the line, and he never had that chance. He never had that opportunity. So don't try and play us," said Prograis.
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This is the second part of touring my dads vacation house. Next to their house is this old Dairy. Their dream is to fix it up, gentle and to open a café. Let's cross our fingers.
I wonder what was going on here back in the days?
Chairs I painted in one of my Tv-shows. All roads lead to dads house.
I hope they are able to save it in the end.
This a advent candle holder my dad made a long time ago. Suits the place and I love it!
See his whole house right here.
And old smaller images of this dairy here and even more from the silver fox dad on this link.
So wonderful! I love the old doors, I love the patina in these rooms and I love the atmosphere. Looks like "born" for a café.
Det er virkelig et sted med potentiale din far har der. Jeg elsker det sted, virkelig perfekt til en cafe.
Men åh!! Det är så förbaskat fint!
This is so awesome. The place it self and also your photos.
You know, I would pay for a packed picnic and coffee to take and sit in thereand explore just.as.it.is.


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According to the market research agency OnePoll, women spend about 140 hours each year shopping for clothing, shoes, and accessories. That's over one whole week shopping each year!
Whether you're hitting boutiques every chance you get, or you shop occasionally for key pieces that will become staples of your wardrobe for years to come, we're here to help you make the most of your closet with some sage female fashion advice.
Between career, home and family life, making time for friends, and trying to handle the thousand and one things that are sure to arise on a daily basis, it's harder than ever to take time for yourself. Making sure I look my best? Ha, that's practically out of the question altogether.
But, these ten little tips can help you get the most out of your wardrobe and help you look like you've spent hours getting ready, even when you have to put yourself together in a matter of minutes.
Basics is such a dirty word; it conjures up images of the most boring and bland aspects of our wardrobes. But, the truth is, basics are the foundation of every stylish woman's wardrobe, and quality basics can instantly help you to be more fashionable.
When shopping for basics, focus on fit first. Everything else should be a secondary concern. By amassing a modest collection of beautifully fitting basics, you'll always have a handful of wardrobe staples to rely on for any occasion.
Every fashionista on planet earth knows how to harness the power of a bold and beautiful cherry red lipstick, and it's one women's fashion staple that never goes out of style.
But, before you go swiping whatever you have in your purse across your lips, take some time to find the perfect shade for your skin tone. A bright red lip is an easy and immediate way to add a pop of color to your outfit and give the illusion that you took time for yourself today, even if you didn't.
Who's That Girl in the Colorful Shoes?
Everyone knows a pop of color can go a long way in waking up an otherwise tired outfit. But, did you know that extends to your feet as well?
Whether you're wearing flats, boots, or some sky-high heels, a colorful shoe is a great way to take your outfit from 0 to 100 real quick.
Nothing can ruin a day quicker than a fashion emergency that you aren't prepared for. Whether it's a stain, a rip or a tear, or a huge blister causes by those heels you loved but swore you'd stop wearing, a fashion emergency can put a huge damper on your day.
Be the girl with the emergency kit full of bandaids, a stain stick, and a needle and thread at all times. Not only will you be able to tackle your own fashion emergencies, but you'll be able to help the less fashionably fortunate with their mishaps as well.
Nature is all around us, and it can be a great muse for your wardrobe. Incorporate more earth tones into your wardrobe, or, reach for an accessory that provides a pop of natural beauty, like our geode earrings. However you do it, incorporating nature into your style is one piece of fashion advice for women you can't live without.
If you're anything like me, you've spent plenty of time agonizing over how you should dress for an occasion. Who else will be there? What will they be wearing? Before you know it, you're on your ninth outfit change, and you still can't figure out what to wear.
Always dress to impress, and remember that every occasion is an opportunity to look your best. Besides, you don't want to be the only woman there in jeans, do you?
Turn Sunday evening into your official time to plan each week. You'd be surprised how much stress you're able to eliminate when you know what you'll be wearing each day the following week.
Take a peek at the weekly forecast, and plan your outfits out in advance. You'll save tons of time in the morning, and you'll never have to worry about having nothing to wear.
Some of the best female fashion advice I ever received was to make the time you spend on social media work for you. Seek out women at the forefront of women's style and follow them, especially on Instagram.
Use their style as inspiration to create your own looks. In no time, you'll have plenty of exciting new ideas that you can begin incorporating into your own wardrobe.
Every woman has days where they need to dress to impress, and that's when you reach for your style secret weapon: that one show-stopping piece you know is sure to turn heads.
Maybe it's a designer piece you couldn't live without, or a vintage dress you picked up at a second-hand store. Whatever it is, reach for this piece when you need to look for your best.
Whether it's a pop of color from a beautiful scarf, a necklace you couldn't live without, or a broach that your grandmother left you, always aim to have at least one accessory. Accessories are a great way to make otherwise pedestrian outfits pop off the chart, and they can make great conversation pieces, too.
There's no shortage of exciting new trends you can incorporate into your wardrobe this year. You may already be seeing these hot new looks around town, and every woman is sure to find at least one exciting style they can add to their wardrobe.
If you so much as opened your Instagram last summer, you surely saw some stylish women in big, beautiful hats. While it may have seemed like a flash in the pan at first, big hats are back in a big way, and designers everywhere are vying to add their signature touch to this hot trend. You'll be seeing these everywhere this Spring and Summer.
Designers and tastemakers alike have been awash in a sea of pastels for several seasons now, and 2019 is shaping up to be the year of the major course correction. From dresses to tops to bags and accessories, neon is back in a big way this year.
If you're feeling especially adventurous, dive right in and go for a full neon ensemble. Or, if you're a bit more reserved, dip your toes in with a neon clutch or bracelet to give a subtle nod to this fun and vibrant trend.
When it comes to dresses, S/S 2019 has had no shortage of bold looks. One constant across many designer collections has been the puffed shoulder. While big shoulders are nothing new, this year's take forgoes a boxier look in favor of puffiness, with many designers aggressively gathering their shoulders to create a dramatic, puffy look.
This look will also be everywhere in tops, too. So you can incorporate this trend into your wardrobe even if you don't have any weddings or occasions on the horizon.
Fringe is back, baby! Everyone from Tom Ford to Coach to Oscar De La Renta served up bold, fringe-heavy looks at their S/S 2019 shows. Fringe is a great way to add bold, whimsical style to your wardrobe, and it doesn't have to be over the top, either.
Many designers and fast fashion retailers alike have taken to adding small hits of fringe on their clothing and accessories, which is a great way to get involved with this trend without worrying about taking it too far.
Year after year, hoop earrings are one of the most popular accessories on the runway, and in real life. This year, designers are offering a fun new take on the traditional hoop, replacing it with a bold crescent.
Reach for a thick pair of these bold crescent earrings to take your Spring and Summer style up several notches.
Orange You Glad This Shade is Back?
Beyond the bold neon shades you'll be seeing everyone, one other bold color is experiencing a renaissance of sorts this year as well: orange.
From Tory Burch to the recently re-established Escada, shades of orange dominated runway shows this year. If those designers cosigns aren't enough to make you a believer, Pantone also weighed in on the issue, suggesting that several shades of orange are poised for a big year in women's fashion.
Pleats made their successful return to the runway in 2018, and in 2019, designers doubled down, incorporating tighter and more dramatic pleating into some of their most exciting looks.
Micro pleats, in particular, are on the rise, and we couldn't be happier for it. They create a dramatic, flowing silhouette that's sure to flatter any woman, regardless of their body type.
One hot trend that's set the internet into a frenzy has been the open cuff necklace. While chokers have been having their moment in the sun for quite some time now, the open cuff necklace offers a more sophisticated alternative.
Models graced the runway at this year's shows in everything from gold and silver varieties to brightly colored enamel versions, so there's surely something for every woman's style when it comes to this fun new jewelry trend.
Often thought of as the official uniform of Grateful Dead fans, tie-dye clothing is back in a big way in 2019. Thankfully, we're looking at a much more subtle and chic take on the 60's classic than what you're probably envisioning in your head.
You could choose to throw caution to the wind in a bold two-piece tie dye ensemble, which was a popular look at Stella McCartney's latest show. Or, opt for a more subtle and subdued maxi dress for days at the beach. Either way, you'll be seeing tons of this fun print in 2019.
Last year was the year of the bike short, and while that trend was fun while it lasted, we're happy to see it go in favor of some more sensible and practical shorts. Shorts of all kinds will be having a renaissance this season, and you can expect to see everything from beautifully tailored classics to micros and knee length styles as well.
Flats have developed an unwarranted reputation as the favored shoe of the sartorially boring. But, there's no reason why you can't spice up your flats and make them one of the focal points of your outfit.
Thankfully, many designers seem to agree, and this year you'll be seeing tons of stylish and bold new flats that are perfect for any occasion.
Prints will have a big impact in 2019, and they can be a great way to add bold style to your wardrobe. Prints of all styles appear to be having a moment, and no print is better positioned for a big 2019 than snakeskin.
Snakeskin, in particular, can help you get some extra mileage from your wardrobe pieces, as few prints can get you from day, to night, to the weekend, to anywhere in between quite like snakeskin can.
That just about wraps up our top tips and female fashion advice for 2019. It may seem like a lot to take in, but achieving a more stylish you this year is easier than you may think. Consider our tips above, and keep an eye out for the latest trends, and you'll be sure to turn some heads with your stylish wardrobe choices!
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Their Lives. Their Travels. Their Union.
Charles Storrier Stearns and Ellamae Sheppard were married in 1931 and started their life together in one of the grand homes that proliferated in the South Orange Grove area of Pasadena at that time. Theirs was a three-story Georgian mansion built in the early 1900s. It was situated on an estate covering over seven city lots, extending almost an entire block on Arlington Drive between Orange Grove Avenue and Pasadena Avenue. Charles was 61 years old and Ellamae was fifty-nine. It was his second marriage and her third.
Charles was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1868. His father was a distinguished physician of some renown, with a number of published works on the treatment of the insane. His portrait hangs at Yale University. In 1917 Charles took up residence in France, with homes in both Nice and Paris. When he renewed his passport in 1922 he described himself as a retired capitalist. In 1928 he was knighted by the French government in recognition of his humanitarian work helping refugees of the Russian Revolution. A few years later, in June 1931, articles in major newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times reported that he was decorated with the Order of Legion of Honor at a ceremony conducted at the Louvre in recognition of gifts of art works to French museums.
Less is known of Ellamae than Charles. She was born in 1872 in San Francisco, Ellamae Goodale, and was described by her great nephew as ravishingly beautiful when she was young. She lived in Hawaii during her first marriage to a Dr. Camp, which ended in divorce after three years. In 1913 she married for a second time in London, England to William B. Sheppard. She was 41 years old. In 1920 they were living in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and were listed in the Philadelphia Social Register. The marriage lasted until Sheppard's death sometime in the 1920s.
Ellamae, like Charles made a number of ocean crossings, both to Europe and the Orient, and like Charles she held dual passports, for the U.S. and France. It appears likely that they met either in France or on shipboard during one of their many ocean voyages. Until 1930 Charles was always accompanied on his travels by his first wife, Marian Weed Stearns. But on the November, 1930 passenger list for the Statendam traveling from Boulogne Sur Mer, France to New York, Charles was traveling alone as a single male (by this time Marion Weed had died though the date is uncertain). The next year, he and Ellamae were married.
Charles died in 1944 and Ellamae five years later, with no children or any known heirs.
In the 1930s Ellamae and Charles made several trips to Japan which probably served as an inspiration to create the Japanese-style garden at their Pasadena home.
About this time, according to Judy M. Horton, Pacific Horticulture Fall 2007, many of the great estates installed Japanese gardens. Some were small tea gardens, consisting of a Japanese teahouse, often authentic, set in a naturalistic landscape; others were opulent creations featuring large ponds crossed by bridges.
The Depression put an end to grand estates, and the vogue for Japanese gardens cooled in the late thirties as American relations with the Japanese government became strained. Shortly after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, all persons of Japanese ancestry in the western United States were sent to internment camps for the duration of the war.
Entwined with the history of Japanese-style gardens is the social and labor history of these immigrants. A paradox of Japanese-style garden making is that it flourished in the early twentieth century at a time when Japanese immigrants were faced with racial prejudice and legal discrimination, barred from becoming citizens and, in California, owning land. Garden making became one of the few occupations open to them.
In 1935 Charles and Ellamae hired Kinzuchi Fujii to design and create their new garden. It was the one great commission of Kinzuchi Fujii's life. Born in Japan in 1875, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1903 and although an enterprising and capable person with a background in carpentry and landscaping, he faced the barriers and discrimination that were the lot of immigrants from the Orient at that time.
By 1930 Kinzuchi was employed in building several small gardens in Ojai and Santa Barbara. On the basis of a letter seeking prospective clients, accompanied by impressive recommendations, he was hired by the Storrier Stearns'. Kinzuchi devoted the next seven years of his life to creating the garden. In 1942, shortly after the outbreak of World War II, he suffered the fate of other Japanese residents and was sent to an internment camp for the duration of the war. Kinzuchi considered the Storrier Stearns garden his masterpiece and carried the photographs and plans documenting the creation of the garden with him, in the single suitcase allowed by the government, into internment. Kinzuchi never saw his beloved creation again.
With the garden thus constructed it will present the spirit of the real simplicity and quaintness inherent to the Japanese gardens without losing the Oriental elegance.
Shipped from Japan in June of 1938 for the grand sum of $174.75.
for the original garden teahouse.
to create this masterful work.