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Chinese intelligence and spying (catch all)
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The Chinese Espionage Threat
TimesOnline, 20 Jul 08: Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents
.....Downing Street yesterday confirmed that a member of the prime minister's office had lost a BlackBerry during an evening event on the January visit to China. However, it played down the affair, stating that an investigation had established that there was "no compromise to security".
Last week it emerged that US intelligence and security officials were debating whether to warn business people and other travellers heading to the Beijing Olympics about the dangers posed by Chinese computer hackers.
Joel Brenner, the US government's top counter-intelligence official, warned: "So many people are going to the Olympics and are going to get electronically undressed."
JF's China Brief, 17 Jul 08: The Evolution of Espionage: Beijing's Red Spider Web
.....What we know thus far about China's espionage activities against U.S. weapons laboratories and other technology development programs is cause enough for concern. The U.S. intelligence community's official damage assessment of Chinese espionage targeting America's nuclear technology secrets tells us this much:
What we know:
• China obtained by espionage classified U.S. nuclear weapons information that probably accelerated its program to develop future nuclear weapons. This collection program allowed China to focus successfully on critical paths and avoid less promising approaches to nuclear weapon designs.
• China obtained at least basic design information on several modern U.S. nuclear reentry vehicles, including the Trident II (W88).
• China also obtained information on a variety of U.S. weapon design concepts and weaponization features, including those of the neutron bomb.
What we don't know:
• We cannot determine the full extent of weapon information obtained. For example, we do not know whether any weapon design documentation or blueprints were acquired.
• We believe it is more likely that the Chinese used U.S. design information to inform their own program than to replicate U.S. weapon designs.
Yet there is much more to China's quest for U.S. technology. China has obtained a major advantage that the former KGB did not enjoy during the Cold War: unprecedented access to American academic institutions and industry.....
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In a nation that is up in arms about the NSA tapping into every single conversation and data packet people are pretty sanguine about going to China. China, a totalitarian communist regime with a state owned/controlled telephone and data network with some of the most sophisticated snooping technologies on the planet. Go ahead and complain about limited snooping in the US by the NSA with over sight, and then go to China for vacation. I'll never understand.
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Once upon a time, someone translated a Mossad mnemonic for the espionage recruiting basic approaches; it was three words (alliterative in Hebrew) and I'd swear one of them was sex...
I think the bigger story than "OMG! China does espionage!" is "Jeesh, look at the caliber of aide our senior ('our' in the NATO collective, I'm U.S. but it still applies to U.S. leadership) civilian leaders pick for themselves." The guy can't keep his britches zipped in the middle of a counter-intell threat that is off the scale. What a winner.
Is it a bad thing if I laugh my butt off when it turns out the girl was a minor and someone has some 'happy snaps'?
Originally Posted by Van
If they were going to coerce him through blackmail into a productive source, they would not have compromised him at the outset by taking his Blackberry. Poor tradecraft, and the Chinese aren't such amateurs that they'd set him up for one and ruin the effort by doing the other.
they'd set him up for one and ruin the effort by doing the other.
I was being facetious, but...
A multipexed operation to maximize options and create deniability and media confusion? Use a girl just under the legal age, so if the pigeon complains about the stolen gadget, they can charge the victim of an intell op with statutory rape. If he doesn't report the theft, they can go with extortion. Deniability, as they can point out that she's a minor, and they'd never use a minor like that (wink, wink, nudge, nudge). If the target tries to make a stink in the media, they make a bigger one?
But I'm just thinking out loud, and I was joking in the first place.
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For a detailed commentary: http://www.spyblog.org.uk
Why do we assume it was the Chinese government?
No, joking is fine - but I do think it is important to understand the nature of the threat, and I appreciate your throwing out the examples.
Recruiting a source - whether willingly or through coercion - is best kept as simple as possible. Complexity = risk and putting too many layers on it - especially with the risk of image blowback through the use of a minor in a sexual situation - is not something that would be used by the Chinese against a target at that level (especially just prior to the Olympics).
Deniability in this case is also simple - being rolled by a hooker is something that occurs often enough everywhere in the world for the Chinese simply to pass it off as common theft as opposed to a targeted lift.
Coercion to keep someone quiet about a theft is not that common in espionage (much more common in the criminal world). Even without the individual's confession, the outright theft of an item desired by a hostile intelligence agency would usually be noticed. Coercion is more commonly used to obtain information/items that the source has access to, and that can be obtained and delivered by the source in a manner that won't compromise his position.
Video: "Spies Among High-Ranking Officials" (PRC scandals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=2SA4WMO3jJs
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Chinese telecom firm tied to spy ministry
A U.S. intelligence report for the first time links China's largest telecommunications company to Beijing's KGB-like intelligence service and says the company recently received nearly a quarter-billion dollars from the Chinese government.
The disclosures are a setback for Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.'s efforts to break into the U.S. telecommunications market. The company has been blocked from doing so three times by the U.S. government because of concerns about its links to the Chinese government.
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They are at war!
Not physical, but benign.
They want to be Numero Uno!
It is by hook or by crook.
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I've been following on and off over the past year, developments in regards to the PRC's intelligence activities. Especially, since there has been alot of converge about the People's Republic's cyber espionage operations(breaking into secure systems & databases; attempting to put back doors into Chinese made electronic products etc).
Both successful and failed attempts to commit industrial espionage against a number of private sector companies around the globe. As well as the PRC's attempts both real and accused of trying to solicit information from foreign nationals both in mainland China it's self/in other countries, and from the large Chinese diaspora abroad.
I've heard some say that the PRC's intelligence operations against the US exceed those of Russia and even the USSR(in it's later years). I've also read that some nations that have dealings with China such as Canada have had both their prominent private and public institutions thoroughly infiltrated by Chinese intelligence.
However, despite all these instances that are cited both proven and rumored; how big a problem is Chinese espionage actually?
I mean from what I can tell it's well documented that the PRC's intel collection abilities thorough cyber, open-source, and other means appears quite extensive. Not to mention the numerous Chinese communities throughout the world which provide a good resource pool.
I'm also skeptical from all I've been hearing about in terms of the PRC's espionage efforts. Since they seem limited in their ability to infiltrate/subvert organizations. Because the Chinese diaspora and cyber intel collection amongst others only goes so far IMO.
I'd be interested in hearing the opinions of those more knowledgeable then me on this subject. So does the PRC really have that big of a global/western spy operation or is it being hyped to be something larger then it really is?
Here is an article from the Diplomat on these issues.
http://the-diplomat.com/2011/09/19/c...ng-spy-threat/
Originally Posted by Kevin23
Massive. The cyber-warfare issue may or may not be hyped or exaggerated; the cyber-espionage issue is not being exaggerated.
These people invent nothing these days and steal everything. It is the greatest transfer of wealth in history – the director of the NSA has said as much.
Don't be. They have money and they know how to use it; the PRC money has been pumping money into our political system for years to both parties.
Cyber-espionage can go pretty damn far if you stop and think about it. We might be better off printing out every government and corporate secret that we have and just dumping it all into China, just to confuse the SOBs. The NSA has come out and said that some form of computer compromise is the new normal, and that no system is secure – even their own.
Also the US gives the nation of Israel the right to steal whatever the hell it wants in our country; and since the nation of Israel exports little of value other than military technology, Israel inevitably sells its stolen technology to China.
So does the PRC really have that big of a global/western spy operation or is it being hyped to be something larger then it really is?
I think we are only now seeing the tip of the iceberg. The full ramifications wont be seen for decades to come.
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I'd say both real and hyped. No doubt there's a threat and an issue, but I also have little doubt that the threat has been oversensationalised. It's also fairly obvious that the same things are being done in the opposite direction, along with various other countermeasures (such as setting up defective or erroneous data for theft). The Chinese are neither omniscient not omnipotent, and the people on the other side are not entirely inept.
Given that as a general rule the most effective intel operations are the ones that remain unknown, it's very difficult to say what's bigger, better, most extensive or most effective.
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I'd say both real and hyped. No doubt there's a threat and an issue, but I also have little doubt that the threat has been oversensationalised.
A previous comment of yours in a thread about cyber-espionage demonstrated that you have a poor understanding of information security concepts. Combine that with your reflexive apologizing for China, and I'm not sure your opinion alone on this matter is worth a damn.
It's also fairly obvious that the same things are being done in the opposite direction,
So what? China hardly has significantly s&t worth stealing for commercial or military industrial purposes; they invent nothing, they innovate nothing – all they do is copy and steal.
The operations uncovered so-far are pretty damned impressive and were pretty effective.
Only two small stones to throw into this pond.
I have seen a reference to more PLA officers studying at US universities than US military, less certain was this was at Ph.D. level.
Universities here found now a few years ago that virtually all Chinese technical and scientific students made incredible use of the then free university photocopiers.
Photocopiers are so last century!: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/chinese-students-steal-secrets-inventor-james-dyson/story-e6frg6so-1226028900686
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Bourbon: Is the whole of this Red Chinese effort centrally coordinated or is it encouraged in a general sense or do they give out equivalents of letters of marque or what? How do they control something so big or do they even truly try?
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Originally Posted by bourbon
Well, "nothing" is obviously an exaggeration, as is "everything".
Aside from the unnecessary exaggerations:
Let's assume you were correct about the "nothing" and "everything". We have a historical precedent for the total exploitation of a country's intellectual property: Germany 1945. All patents, all high profile blueprints - gone to the victors.
What did it mean? Actually, very little.
The real transfer was in the captured or hired technicians and scientists.
Blueprints with no or only minor captured technicians regularly led to minimal or no success.
The German economy had to be rebuilt, but lack of intellectual property was not among the big problems. Not a single major industry collapsed for this reason. The only key industry that shrank badly was the aviation industry, and that had obvious different reasons in both West and East.
The real challenge is to make good and timely use of documents, not to get them in the first place.
Besides; the U.S. isn't that innovative, either.
The majority of American innovation announcements I know were no innovations, but rather revivals of failed ideas or revivals of European innovations. Now imagine how many of the others were no innovations either and I just didn't know their roots!
There's a lot of show aptitude involved that deceives many people.
Combine that with your reflexive apologizing for China, and I'm not sure your opinion alone on this matter is worth a damn.
Since when did failure to panic constitute an apology? Given the nature of the subject, I doubt that any of us is in a position to accurately assess the threat level, and if we were we would not be allowed to post on the subject.
What I said was that threats don't have to be real or hyped, they can also be real and hyped. Virtually all real threats we face are over-hyped, often by people in some way invested in trying to sell us their particular "solution" to whatever threat is in question. That "solution" may be an ideology, a policy, a product, or any number of other things, but if someone needs to invoke fear in order to sell it, there's a good chance that they think the suspension of rational thought is a necessary element of making the sale. Fear is right up there with greed as a marketing strategy.
As a general rule, whenever you read something written by someone who wants you to be afraid, it's time to start taking out grains of salt. That doesn't mean there are no threats, it means that the threats are almost invariably less than what they are hyped up to be.
Strange how people so incapable of innovation seem, at least according to some, to be so remarkably capable of inventing ways to steal information. How did a bunch of bonehead copycats morph into the omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent masters of the information universe before whom we must tremble in fear?
Our espionage efforts, cyber or otherwise, don't have to be aimed at stealing their innovations. We'd have our own set of goals, like getting a handle on what they've got, where they got it, what they've done with it, and to what extent what they've done with it actually works. Obviously whatever information is gained from these efforts is not being made public.
We know that they spy on us. We also know that we spy on them. We also know that they will be trying to fool us by leaking wrong information to confuse our spying efforts, and that we are doing the same. It's actually a bit reassuring that we don't hear much, if anything, about the efforts on our side. If they were in the headlines, that would be evidence of failure.
It would be more impressive if they hadn't been uncovered. Is it not an axiom in the intel world that failure is public and success remains unknown?
That is an all purpose good for whatever ails you argument, I don't know and I know that you don't know because if you did you couldn't say but you did so you don't so what I say is just as good as what you say.
And to answer your question, since legitimate concern became hysteria and panic.
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Friday NBA Playoffs: Atlanta Hawks vs. Miami Heat Game 6 Preview and Pick – 5/1
Game 6: Boston Celtics vs. Chicago Bulls Preview
Wednesday: Miami Heat vs. Atlanta Hawks Game 5 Preview and Pick – 4/29
Tuesday NBA: Chicago Bulls vs. Boston Celtics Game 5 Preview and Picks – 4/28
Monday NBA Playoffs: Denver Nuggets vs. New Orleans Hornets Game 4 Preview and Pick – 4/27
Friday: Portland Trailblazers vs. Houston Rockets – 4/24
Thursday: Chicago Bulls vs. Boston Celtics Game 3 Preview and Pick – 4/23
Wednesday: Philadelphia 76ers vs. Orlando Magic Game 2 Preview and Pick – 4/22
Tuesday: Houston Rockets vs. Portland Trailblazers: Game 2 Preview and Pick – 4/21
Chicago Bulls vs. Boston Celtics Game 2 Preview and Pick
Dallas Mavericks vs. San Antonio Spurs – 4/20
Award: The NBA named Cavs coach Mike Brown as coach of the year. – 4/20
The East: 2009 Eastern Conference Playoff Preview – 4/16
The West: 2009 Western Conference Playoff Preview – 4/17
The NBA's Second Season: 2009 Playoff Preview – 4/15
AI: Rumors are swirling that Piston Guard Allen Iverson has
been banned from many Detroit area casinos due to poor behavior. One popular
internet forum poster said "It is has been well reported that AI is nothing
but trouble in a casino atmosphere. This has been documented on many other
forums from posters who have seen if firsthand. One individual saw him pissing
in a plant at the Borgata, and was caught and asked to leave." – 4/17
Tax Day NBA: New Orleans Hornets vs. San Antonio Spurs – 4/15
Tuesday: Utah Jazz vs. Los Angeles Lakers – 4/14
Monday: Chicago Bulls vs. Detroit Pistons – 4/13
Sunday: Passing.
Saturday NBA: Take the Minnesota T-Wolves at +2 – 4/11
Friday: New Orleans Hornets vs. Dallas Mavericks – 4/10
Thursday: Philadelphia 76ers vs. Chicago Bulls – 4/9
Wednesday Utah Jazz vs. Dallas Mavericks – 4/8
Tuesday: Orlando Magic vs. Houston Rockets Preview and Pick – 4/7
Monday: No games scheduled. – 4/6
Saturday: Milwaukee Bucks -6.5 – 4/4
Friday: Atlanta Hawks vs. Boston Celtics – 4/3
Thursday: Utah Jazz vs. Denver Nuggets – 4/2
Wednesday: Houston Rockets vs. Phoenix Suns – 4/1
Tuesday: Utah Jazz vs. Portland Trailblazers – 3/31
Monday: Orlando Magic vs. Miami Heat Preview and Picks – 3/30
Sunday NBA: Take the Spurs -1.5 – 3/29
Thursday and Friday: Passing
Wednesday: Orlando Magic vs. Boston Celtics – 3/25
Tuesday: Houston Rockets vs. Utah Jazz – 3/24
Monday: Denver Nuggets vs. Phoenix Suns – 3/23
Sunday: We like the Houston Rockets at +3. 3/22
Saturday: Chicago Bulls +4! – 3/21
Friday: Boston Celtics vs. San Antonio Spurs – 3/20
Thursday: Dallas Mavericks vs. Atlanta Hawks – 3/19
Wednesday: Miami Heat vs. Boston Celtics – 3/18
Tuesday: Orlando Magic vs. Cleveland Cavaliers – 3/17
Monday: Houston Rockets vs. New Orleans Hornets – 3/16
Sunday: Passing
Saturday: Take the Hornets at -2. 3/14
Friday: New Orleans Hornets vs. Milwaukee Bucks – 3/13
Thursday Game: Los Angeles Lakers vs. San Antonio Spurs – 3/12
Wednesday NBA: Dallas Mavericks vs. Portland Trailblazers – 3/11
Tuesday: Take the UNDER 214.5 in the Utah Jazz game. – 3/10
Monday Pick: Orlando Magic vs. Detroit Pistons – 3/9
Sunday NBA: Passing!
Saturday's Pick: New Orleans -13 – 3/7
Friday: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Boston Celtics – 3/6
Thursday: Portland Trailblazers vs. Denver Nuggets Preview and Pick – 3/5
Tuesday: New Jersey Nets vs. Milwaukee Bucks – 3/3
Monday: Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Miami Heat Preview and Pick – 3/2


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Tim Cook talks China's influence on product design in new interview
China plays an increasingly important part in Apple's business decisions, including in some product design elements, according to a new interview with Tim Cook.{.intro}
In an interview with the Chinese edition of Bloomberg Businessweek, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that the company takes the tastes of Chinese consumers into account with many its product designs. For instance, when Apple debuted the gold iPhone 5s in 2013, the Chinese market played a major role in the decision to offer a device in that color, according to Bloomberg:
The decision to offer a gold iPhone last year reflects in part the popularity of that color among Chinese users, he added. Greater China, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong, is now Apple's second-largest market and has become a battleground for the company as it vies with Samsung Electronics Co. and Xiaomi Corp. for smartphone supremacy.
Since the release of the gold iPhone 5s, Apple has also launched newer phones, iPads, and even their latest MacBook in gold.
Cook also said that Apple would putting resources into a mobile technology education program in China, which features lessons on how to use apps like GarageBand, as well as courses to teach hearing-impaired students operate phones.
China is now Apple's second-biggest market. In the last financial quarter, the company was up 71% in China over the same quarter in 2014. This included 70% growth in iPhone sales, as well as a 31% jump in Mac sales.
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Takayo Siddle was an assistant to Kevin Keatts with the Seahawks for three seasons, helping the team advance to the NCAA Tournament twice
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Takayo Siddle cuts down the net after helping UNCW win one of its two CAA championships during his three-year stay as an assistant with the Seahawks. (UNCW photo)
UNC Wilmington had three of its most successful basketball seasons ever under the direction of Kevin Keatts, including two straight trips to the NCAA Tournament.
So when it came time for the Seahawks to find a new coach, it went back to Keatts to fill the opening created when C.B. McGrath was fired on Jan. 13 in the midst of an 11-game losing streak.
Since it couldn't have Keatts himself — he's currently employed by NC State — UNCW settled for his top assistant. Takayo Siddle, who worked on the Seahawks' staff during those three seasons between 2014-17, was hired as the school's 13th head coach on Friday.
"We're thrilled to welcome Takayo back to UNCW and the Wilmington community," UNCW athletic director Jimmy Bass said. "He's been successful everywhere he's been, and we're confident he will get our program back to the level our student-athletes, alumni, fans and community are accustomed to. He already has two CAA Tournament championship rings, so there's plenty of room for more."
Siddle, 33, has followed Keatts from Hargrave Military Academy to UNCW to State, with a stop at his alma mater Gardner-Webb in between. In addition to his work on the sideline and at practice, he earned recognition as the nation's No. 4 recruiter earlier this season after helping to put together a top-10 class for the Wolfpack.
While with the Seahawks, he recruited five All-Colonial Athletic Association selections — including current State star C.J. Bryce — while helping the team to a 72-28 record with three straight conference regular season championships and two postseason tournament titles.
A native of Eden, N.C., Siddle was the starting point guard on the Gardner-Webb team that upset Kentucky at Rupp Arena in 2007.
This is his first college head coaching assignment, although he briefly served as interim coach after Keatts left for Raleigh.
"I'm honored to be named as the head coach of this proud program," Siddle said. "This is and has always been a dream job for me. I can't begin to tell everyone how excited I am."
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Twofer Tuesday: Comp Titles
For the uninitiated, "comp titles," or "comparison titles" are titles of books that you or your publisher think are similar to your manuscript in some way. For a couple of great posts on comp titles, check out this post on Pimp My Novel and this post on Taryn Albright's blog.
I'm always on the lookout for comp titles–partially because I like to read what I like to write, but also because I don't want to suffer the agony of finding an already-published book just like mine out there after putting all the effort into it. I recently read two great comp titles. They couldn't be more different from each other, but that's fine because they'e for two different manuscripts. One is a comp for my completed ms I'm shopping (see Currently Querying) and the other is a comp for my current WIP (see this blog post).
The idea of the first book, a YA novel called RADIANT DAYS by Elizabeth Hand, captured my attention before I even read it. An art student in the 1970s whose life intersects with 19th Century poet Arthur Rimbaud? Yes, please!
Once I began reading, I was swept away. Told in alternating POV chapters (1st person for the art student Merle, and 3rd for Rimbaud), the reader is immediately drawn into each character's passion to create art. I particularly loved the lyrical voice Hand uses to bring the two worlds of these characters together through their art:
I closed my eyes, and for the first time realized how a poem might be like a painting, each word a brushstroke, a color or flash of motion: words combined the way I mixed pigments, or slashed a sun across a wall in arcs of neon below.
Another brilliant character in the manuscript is the vagrant fishing at the edge of the river on both character's worlds–an Orpheus-like character whose presence brings Merle and Rimbaud together. Merle, who's lost her home, her girlfriend, and her collection of sketches, doesn't know where to begin again since she's lost everything. The vagrant's response?
"Screw that, Little Fly. You lost everything? Big fucking deal. Boo hoo. You said you were an artist, right? Well, this is where it starts to get interesting."
The second didn't really end up being a comp title after all, but I had to read it to find out–and I'm glad I did. VOICES by Arnaldur Indridason is a police thriller for adults set in Iceland. Basically, a thriller set in Iceland? My kind of book.
It was a total page-turner, but was set in a hotel in Reykjavík and didn't have the MC getting out all that much. However, it was pretty cool to see all the awesome Icelandic names and drool over the buffet meals.
He walked past the table and admired the herring, smoked lamb, cold ham, ox tongue and all the trimmings, and the delicious desserts, ice cream, cream cakes and chocolate mousse, or whatever it was.
While it didn't turn out to be a comp title for me, it's always great to read a master at setting up mystery and suspense. We weren't sure until the end who had committed the murder in the first chapter–tons of twists and red herrings. And lots of cool woolen sweaters.
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6 thoughts on "Twofer Tuesday: Comp Titles"
Tracey Joseph says:
Cool post, Kip. It's always really hard finding good comp titles, but those books do sound really good. 🙂
It is hard! But it's definitely fun reading something that *might* be a comp, even if it doesn't turn out to be one in the end.
Mirka Breen says:
I swear it seems that some titles or themes have a flashlight shone on them at times, or there's a mysterious synchronicity out there. Wise thing that you can't copyright titles.
As to similar books, stories have been told and told again. I wonder if it's small mindedness or real life experience that marketing will turn down a story because it's been done ad nauseam. Great stories just are.
Good points! I agree that great stories just are.
mclicious says:
It's totally scary to think that someone else has written your book first! I swear it keeps happening to me when I'm just in idea stage, not even WIP. Though I guess that's a silly time to be worried, since final products are so wildly different from ideas.
It can be scarier at the idea stage! It's hard to know what your own ms will be like in the end when it's not yet written. But you're right that some things that sound so similar could be drastically different on paper.


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Sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist (b at Brantford, Canada W 22 Dec 1861; d at Ashstead, Eng 22 July 1922). Duncan's notable career as a journalist in the 1880s testifies to her determination and ability.
Sara Jeannette Duncan, journalist, novelist (b at Brantford, Canada W 22 Dec 1861; d at Ashstead, Eng 22 July 1922). Duncan's notable career as a journalist in the 1880s testifies to her determination and ability. The first woman employed full time by the Toronto Globe 1886-87, she also worked for the Montreal Star 1887-88. In the fall of 1888, Duncan embarked upon a round-the-world tour which resulted in her first novel A Social Departure (1890). While in Calcutta, Duncan met her future husband, Everard Cotes. After her marriage, Duncan lived in India for the next 25 years, subsequently moving to England. Only 2 of Duncan's 22 books have Canada as their focus. The Imperialist (1904) is a brilliant study of a small Ontario town in which an idealistic young man is thwarted in politics and love. Cousin Cinderella (1908) deals with the disillusionment that a similarly idealistic Canadian brother and sister experience in English aristocratic circles. One of the most penetrating observers of Canadian society in her time, Duncan combined shrewd analysis with a vivid, personal style.
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"Rmoney": Mitt Is The Lobbyists' Candidate
When you think of Mitt Romney, you probably think of a tall, robotic fellow with no discernible strong beliefs or stances (at least, none that can survive longer than a week at a time). That's terribly unfair, and you should be ashamed for thinking it. He may have started out as an empty husk devoid of strong personal beliefs, but thanks to a crack team of industry insiders, he now is quite filled with opinions. Coincidentally, they happen to be the opinions of an army of top lobbyists in Washington, and the companies they lobby for. Funny how that works.
[Mitt Romney's] kitchen cabinet includes some of the most prominent Republican lobbyists in Washington, including Charles R. Black Jr., the chairman of Prime Policy Group and a lobbyist for Walmart and AT&T; Wayne L. Berman, who is chairman of Ogilvy Government Relations and represents Pfizer, the drug manufacturer; and Vin Weber, the managing partner for Clark & Weinstock. […]Other lobbyists serve on one of Mr. Romney's policy advisory teams, have hosted fund-raisers for his campaign or have joined the many influential Republicans whose endorsements Mr. Romney's campaign has hailed.
Want to know what Mitt Romney's true policies are? Well, you should have attended Mitt Romney's $10,000-and-up policy round table, where industry lobbyists led "discussions" on what his policies towards those industries should be:
Mr. Romney's campaign held an elaborate "policy round table" fund-raiser at a Washington hotel, featuring panel discussions run by lobbyists and former cabinet officials or members of Congress.James Talent, a former senator who runs the lobbying and public affairs firm Mercury Public Affairs, led a panel on infrastructure, according to an invitation. William Hansen, a former deputy secretary of education who is president of the lobbying firm Chartwell Education Group, led the education panel.
Wow. I can't imagine why anyone would be cynical about American politics these days, can you?
The entertaining thing about this story is just how many large companies are represented. Among those specifically mentioned (and kudos to the three reporters for linking the lobbyists with actual clients, which is rather important information for readers) are Walmart, AT&T, Pfizer (drugs), Microsoft, Altria (tobacco), General Dynamics, Dominion (power), Barclays (finance), Allegheny (steel) and Peabody Energy (coal). Lobbyists are cutting the checks; lobbyists are bundling other people's checks; lobbyists are holding the panel discussions about how the candidate can best serve the specific industries they represent; lobbyists make up the inner circle of "policy makers," advising the candidate as to what his own core positions should be.
As for the candidate himself, he's almost irrelevant at this point. You might as well nominate a bunny named Mr. Buttons: If you surround it with the exact same lobbyist-advisors, you'll end up with the exact same policies. Sigh, if only we could teach that bunny to hold a pen—but for now we'll have to settle for our current crop of Republican candidates, all of whom have near-identical policy prescriptions, all of which favor the exact same subset of people and the exact same handful of industries. Go figure.
I've given up on the notion that we can keep lobbyists from capturing our politics. I've also given up on the notion that we can prevent interests like the oil sector or our current handful of top financial companies from tailoring the American government specifically to serve their needs. Want more profits? Want less environmental protections? Want to crush some emerging industry that threatens to make yours less profitable? Just buy a few congressman, or a senator, or a president. At a few million here and there, it's cheaper than advertising, and the results are far more secure.
So I'm in the Bill Maher camp on this one. Lobbyists and industries want to buy our politicians? Fine, I give up, let them. Just pass a law saying the candidate has to wear those corporate logos on their jackets whenever they appear on the campaign trail or when they are in office. The more money is contributed, the bigger the logo has to be. Top presidential candidates will look like military dictators-in-training, with badges and medals and ribbons sticking out from them in every direction, and just from looking at them we'll be able to tell who they serve, and in what proportions. That would certainly be more educational than any rhetoric coming from the candidates themselves.
By: Hunter, Daily Kos, February 15, 2012
February 16, 2012 Posted by raemd95 | Campaign Financing, Election 2012, GOP Presidential Candidates	| Corporations, GOP, Lobbyists, Mitt Romney, Political Corruption, Politics, Republicans | Leave a comment
"Drug-Addled Wrong": Mitt Romney Condemns The Auto-Industry Rescue
Looking back over the last three years, there's arguably no better example of a policy Republicans got wrong than the rescue of the American auto industry.
When President Obama launched his ambitious policy in 2009, he was taking a major gamble — not only with the backbone of American manufacturing, but with his presidency and its ability to use the power of government to repair a private industry facing collapse. As First Read noted at the time, "As the GM bailout goes, so goes the Obama presidency."
We now know the gamble paid off. Chrysler has posted its first profit in 15 years; GM is building new American facilities; and plants are operating at a capacity unseen in a long while. General Motors went from the brink of total failure to reclaiming its spot as the world's top automaker, and as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month, "The auto industry hasn't just turned the corner. It's starting to accelerate."
Had it not been for the Obama administration's policy, these heartening headlines would have been impossible. And yet, Mitt Romney still isn't happy.
In a new Detroit News op-ed, the former Massachusetts governor says he's glad the industry still exists, but proceeds to complain anyway about the way in which Obama rescued GM and Chrysler from an imminent collapse.
Three years ago, in the midst of an economic crisis, a newly elected President Barack Obama stepped in with a bailout for the auto industry. The indisputable good news is that Chrysler and General Motors are still in business. The equally indisputable bad news is that all the defects in President Obama's management of the American economy are evident in what he did.
Instead of doing the right thing and standing up to union bosses, Obama rewarded them…. By the spring of 2009, instead of the free market doing what it does best, we got a major taste of crony capitalism, Obama-style.
It takes a fair amount of chutzpah to face a crisis, get it wrong, then whine about the way in which the other guy got it right.
This is a subject Romney would be better off ignoring. After all, in 2009, he famously urged policymakers to "let Detroit go bankrupt." Romney was so certain Obama's policy would fail, he said Americans could "kiss the American automotive industry goodbye" if Obama's policy moved forward in 2009. Indeed, at the time, Romney called the administration's plan "tragic" and "a very sad circumstance for this country." He wrote an April 2009 piece in which he said Obama's plan "would make GM the living dead."
With the benefit of hindsight, we now know all of Romney's warnings were wrong. For him to double down today on the virtues of letting Detroit go bankrupt is just bizarre.
I'm reminded of this clip, which Democrats gleefully put together last summer.
Of particular interest is the last quote in the clip, in which a Chrysler executive responded to a Romney quote by saying, "Whoever told you that is smoking illegal material. That market had become absolutely dysfunctional in 2008 and 2009. There were attempts made by a variety of people to find strategic alliances with other car makers on a global scale and the government stepped in, as the actor of last resort. It had to do it because the consequences would have been just too large to deal with."
In other words, Romney wasn't just wrong; he was drug-addled wrong.
To be sure, the former governor wasn't the only Obama critic whose predictions now look foolish, but Romney is the one who still likes to pretend he was right.
Even the complaints themselves are strange. As Marcy Wheeler explained, Romney's "basically complaining that the bailout preserved the healthcare a bunch of 55+ year old blue collar workers were promised. He's pissed they got to keep their healthcare. He's also complaining that banks took a haircut."
I haven't talked to the White House about this, but I suspect if 2012 comes down to a debate over who was right about the auto-industry rescue, Obama likes his chances.
By: Steve Benen, The Maddow Blog, February 14, 2012
February 16, 2012 Posted by raemd95 | Auto Industry, Economic Recovery	| Detroit, Jobs, Michigan, Middle Class, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republicans, Workers | Leave a comment
"Bad History And Undisciplined Demagoguery": Rick Santorum Mangles The Founding Fathers
Each time presidential candidate Rick Santorum rears his righteous head, it is to exploit a social issue that is of no import in a national election. But he knows that the way to keep the cameras pointed at him one more day is to manufacture a new bit of hysteria.
Last Thursday, Joan Walsh reported on Santorum as he clamored to punish non-Catholics by limiting their access to contraceptives if their workplace was in the hands of the Catholic Church. She rightly pointed out that he "absolutely mangles" what the founders said about religion. Raising the specter of the atheistic French Revolution and its notorious use of the guillotine, the former Pennsylvania senator planted a seed in the minds of his hearers: A left-driven tyranny was where the anti-Christian Obama administration would be heading next.
The fear-monger tosses out familial metaphors with devilish glee. At once subverting patriarchy within the home and turning the federal government into Big Brother, the sitting president stands in moral opposition to all that is good. And only the moral policeman Rick can stop him.
"They are taking faith and crushing it," Santorum howls at the political left. "When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what's left is the French Revolution…. What's left are no unalienable rights. What's left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you'll do and when you'll do it. What's left in France became the guillotine."
This is a combination of really bad history and undisciplined demagoguery. What we'd like to focus on is not the fractured logic of the demagogue so much as the perversion of history by the two-term senator. We consider it quite sad that a presidential candidate in 2012 should be resurrecting the same dirty campaign tactic that accompanied the charge that Thomas Jefferson, for five years U.S. minister to France, would, if elected president, shut down churches and burn bibles.
Start with the fact that in his superficial evocation of the 1790s, Santorum was referring not to the French so much as he was unconsciously reviving the propaganda used by New England Federalists against the "atheist" Thomas Jefferson, who championed freedom of conscience and refused to wear his religion on his sleeve. From 1793 on, conservative Yankees predicted that the social chaos of Paris would wash ashore in America. Indeed, conservative academics of our own time view the French Revolution as the first step toward the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union–all of which fits neatly with the crack-brained Tea Party narrative in which President Obama is a sworn socialist and enemy of capitalism.
Mitt Romney is not beyond indulging in the same polemical game, associating Obama with European social programs. Yet Santorum does what the Mormon cannot, by playing the "Catholic card" in his effort to "other" the president. It is an especially bizarre move in historical relief, because the Federalist critics who most loudly warned of the French-tainted Jefferson were New England Calvinists who feared Catholics as much as they feared French anarchy.
Federalists termed the French Revolution a "contagion," a violent, sickening, uncivilizing process. If Santorum sees the metaphorical blade of the guillotine hanging over the heads of the Catholic bishops, it is well worth noting that eighteenth-century conservatives were so carried away by their own outlandish predictions that their panicky congressional majority passed a series of repressive laws, the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, which first targeted French émigrés and then U.S. citizens who needed to be silenced. The Sedition Act authorized the imprisonment of journalists and politicians who criticized the president. The main purpose of the legislation was, as James Madison observed, to shut down free and open political debate–to derail democracy. Cleverly drafted, the Sedition Act allowed the government to punish critics of the president, but not the vice president. Why the omission? Because in 1798, John Adams's vice president was the unAmerican Thomas Jefferson.
It certainly seems that Rick Santorum reads the First Amendment just as the Federalist Congress of 1798 did. As we all know, though, the First Amendment was intended to uphold religious freedom, protect speech, and ensure liberty of conscience. Madison, who conceived the First Amendment, defended the last of these three principles as a deeply private, individual right shielding citizens from the coercive, invasive force of a church or state government.
It is Santorum, not President Obama, who is waging a war against religion. It is the fear-mongers who endanger religious freedom. Why should the Catholic Church impose its doctrines on employees who are not Catholic? Why should any who are not Catholic be deprived of access to a health insurance benefit solely because they are employed by a Catholic hospital or university? Why should the Church be permitted to impose its doctrines on an individual who not a member? The First Amendment does not grant any church the power to deprive individuals of rights.
Santorum is waging a war not only on religion but on all Americans who do not share his faith. The Catholic Church has every right to impart its doctrines; its members can accept or reject them. The majority of Catholic men and women have rejected the particular doctrine prohibiting the use of contraception. Employees possess the right to insurance and the right to adhere to their own religious beliefs.
As Madison argued in a 1788 letter to Jefferson, religious fanaticism was as serious a danger to religious liberty as excessive state authority. In his words, "rights of conscience" were undermined by "overbearing majorities" who were intent on advancing the interests of a particular "religious establishment." In plain and simple terms, the founders meant to protect individuals against excessive encroachments by church as well as state.
We might all wish to heed Madison's further warning: "It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the Government has too much or too little power." Religious liberty required the protection of state authority, in creating a barrier around the individual and guarding against intrusions from religious institutions.
The fact remains that President Obama is no more a French Revolutionary Jacobin than Jefferson or Madison. It appears, in fact, that the president has a very clear understanding of religious liberty, appreciating the boundaries between church and state just as Madison intended. His promptly conceived compromise solution, respecting religion without restricting rights, fits the balanced, reasonable approach our founders prescribed when they fought, state by state, to eliminate state funding and sanctioning (i.e., disestablishment) of privileged sects.
If the last three years tell us anything, 2012 will not usher in a new Age of Reason. Fanaticism will continue to seize the news cycle. Rick Santorum has learned (perhaps from Donald Trump and birther mania) that the best way to grab the headlines is to ramp up the epithets, bark the loudest, and fantasize a history that never was.
By: Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg, Salon, February 14, 2012
February 16, 2012 Posted by raemd95 | Election 2012, GOP Presidential Candidates	| Catholic Church, Contraception, Founding Fathers, Mitt Romney, Politics, Religion, Rick Santorum, Teaparty | 1 Comment
"Pastor Rick": Santorum Fine With Shaming Women In Certain Situations
When it comes to the life choices married women make, Rick Santorum does his best to portray himself as a crusader for tolerance. A passage in his 2005 book It Takes a Family — supposedly co-authored by his wife, although we have our doubts — famously blames "radical feminists" for shaming women who decide to raise their children full-time instead of pursuing a career. "All I'm saying is both decisions should be applauded and affirmed, based on the choice the woman wants to make," he said in a primary debate last year. "That's the point I made in the book."
But Santorum has no problem calling out married women (and married men, and unmarried people of both genders) who make choices in their private sexual lives that Santorum doesn't personally agree with.
As he told the "Evangelical blog" Caffeinated Thoughts last year:
One of the things I will talk about that no President has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea. Many in the Christian faith have said, "Well, that's okay. Contraception's okay."
It's not okay because it's a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They're supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act. And if you can take one part out that's not for purposes of procreation, that's not one of the reasons, then you diminish this very special bond between men and women, so why can't you take other parts of that out? And all of a sudden, it becomes deconstructed to the point where it's simply pleasure. And that's certainly a part of it — and it's an important part of it, don't get me wrong — but there's a lot of things we do for pleasure, and this is special, and it needs to be seen as special.
Again, I know most Presidents don't talk about those things, and maybe people don't want us to talk about those things, but I think it's important that you are who you are. I'm not running for preacher. I'm not running for pastor, but these are important public policy issues. These how profound impact on the health of our society.
In a nutshell, Rick Santorum is promising to use the platform of the presidency of the United States to tell people who use contraception that they're wrong, because they're not treating sex the way it's "supposed to be" treated, according to the personal religious beliefs of Rick Santorum. As Time's Michael Scherer notes, Santorum is denigrating the sexual morals of about 99 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44, according to the Guttmacher Institute. As far as politics goes, it's a rare thing to see a major presidential candidate so out of touch with popular opinion.
Not to mention so wrong in terms of policy. Santorum claims that the use of contraception has a "profound impact on the health of our society," and he's right, unintentionally: Contraception prevents STDs and unwanted pregnancies, and in the process, lowers government health-care spending and cuts down on those abortions Santorum is so dedicated to stopping. Because people are going to have sex — hedonistic, non-procreation-y sex — whether Father Santorum approves of it or not. A president who doesn't accept that has lost touch with reality.
By: Dan Amira, Daily Intel, February 15, 2012
February 16, 2012 Posted by raemd95 | Birth Control, Women's Health	| Conservatives, Contraception, Feminist, Marriage, Politics, Rick Santorum, Women's Rights | 1 Comment
"A Detroiter In His Own Mind": Mitt Romney And The Automobile Industry
One of Mitt Romney's problems is that he lays it on too thick. He's not just a conservative, he's a "severe conservative". He feels your pain because he too is "unemployed". And he understands America's car industry because he's a Tigers-cheering motorhead, a true "son of Detroit".
That last assertion comes in an op-ed Mr Romney wrote for the Detroit News today. And it's not untrue, per se. The candidate was born in Detroit, though he grew up in Bloomfield Hills, one of America's wealthiest cities. He probably cheered for the Tigers as a kid, but his position has since evolved. And cars may really be "in my bones", as he claims, but he advocated letting Detroit go bankrupt in 2008.
The purpose of Mr Romney's op-ed is to clarify his position on the auto bail-out ahead of Michigan's primary on February 28th. And the piece rivals Cirque du Soleil in its display of contortions. Mr Romney seems loth to gush about the success of the bail-out, noting only the good news that "Chrysler and General Motors are still in business". He certainly doesn't mention that 2011 was the best year for America's carmakers since the financial crisis, with each of the big three turning a solid profit. But he does imply that this achievement is a result of his own advice. "The course I recommended was eventually followed", Mr Romney writes.
As with much of Mr Romney's excessive rhetoric, there is some truth to this statement. Following the bail-outs, the president eventually forced Chrysler and GM into bankruptcy, a step Mr Romney thought should occur naturally. And the government oversaw painful restructurings at both companies, which were largely in line with Mr Romney's broad suggestions. But the course Mr Romney recommended in 2008 began with the government stepping back, and it is unlikely things would've turned out so well had this happened.
Free-marketeers that we are, The Economist agreed with Mr Romney at the time. But we later apologised for that position. "Had the government not stepped in, GM might have restructured under normal bankruptcy procedures, without putting public money at risk", we said. But "given the panic that gripped private purse-strings…it is more likely that GM would have been liquidated, sending a cascade of destruction through the supply chain on which its rivals, too, depended." Even Ford, which avoided bankruptcy, feared the industry would collapse if GM went down. At the time that seemed like a real possibility. The credit markets were bone-dry, making the privately financed bankruptcy that Mr Romney favoured improbable. He conveniently ignores this bit of history in claiming to have been right all along.
In other areas of his op-ed Mr Romney is more accurate. Unions did win some special favours in the bail-out deals, though they are not as egregious as the candidate claims. For example, a health fund for retired workers was unfairly favoured over secured bondholders at Chrysler. But an issue like that is unlikely to resonate in Detroit. So Mr Romney must find a way to re-write history, lest he fall further behind Rick Santorum in his state of birth. Mr Santorum didn't support the auto bail-out either, but he evinces a genuine compassion for blue-collar workers. And he didn't pen an op-ed predicting, "If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye." That's a difficult statement to walk back.
By: The Economist, Democracy in America, February 14, 2012
February 16, 2012 Posted by raemd95 | Automobile Industry	| Chrysler, Detroit, General Motors, Jobs, Michigan, Mitt Romney, Politics, Republicans, Rick Santorum | Leave a comment


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Photo Booth Billings was stated in 2012 as a part time fun adventure. The business quickly began to take off. In 2017, Cindy and Kevin attended a photo booth expo in Las Vegas. After meeting fellow "photo boothers" from all over the world, they quickly realized this business was their passion. It became a full time business that they both enjoy. The company has grown from one photo booth to a variety of different styles. Photo Booth Billings is continually learning, attending more expos and trade shows and growing to keep bringing the most up-to-date and state of the art photo booth experiences to the Billings area.
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While using Cloud9 IDE, you have access to the Python runtime. Accessing the command is no different than the way you'd use Python on your computer; just open the command line and type python.
When you hit the Run button in the menu bar, the console will print out Hello World!.
The default Python version used in workspaces is 2.7.6. To use Python3 as your default runner, simply go to your workspace settings then go to Run > Run Configurations > Manage and set Python Version to Python 3.
Currently there is no built-in Python debugger. Though there is no ETA on this, it will likely be possible in the future. To build a python debugger of your own, check out our SDK documentation.
When will the python debugger be available?
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@bradydowling are there any news about a working Python debugger? Thanks!
Please this features is really needed. I will migrate my team (small) from pycharm environment to cloud9 when the it's ready!
I have been trying to get the debugger to come alive with my Python code, and no luck. Is it still unreleased, or is there some switch I need to turn on?


Last week, we showed you a poster and some brief footage from the upcoming animated TV series, TRON: Uprising, and now a new TV spot and image have gone online. The series takes place between 1982's TRON and 2010's TRON: Legacy. In the animated series, the protagonist, a program named Beck (voiced by Elijah Wood), starts an uprising (the title isn't misleading!) in the fight against Clu and his second-in-command, General Tesler (Lance Henriksen). Beck was previously trained to fight by Tron (Bruce Boxleitner), but then Tron disappeared.
TRON: Uprising will have to carry the TRON brand while Disney mulls giving the greenlight to TRON 3, but I don't know how interesting the series can be since Beck's "uprising" clearly didn't do much to stop Clu. Then again, Star Wars: The Clone Wars is ridiculously popular, and everyone knows how that story ends. TRON obviously has a lot more work to do to build up that kind of audience, but at least there's a precedent. Hit the jump to check out the TV spot and image. The show also features the voices of Emmanuelle Chriqui, Mandy Moore, Paul Reubens, Nate Corddry, and Reginald VelJohnson. TRON: Uprising premieres on Disney XD in June.
TV spot and image via USA Today.


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Most Popular Designer Eyewear Types By Gordon Wong, OD on November 26, 2019
Eyeglasses used to be seen by many as a burdensome and unattractive accessory, but in more recent years, prescription lenses have become a fun way for people to express their individual style.
At Gordon Wong Eye Designs & Optometry, we offer our Del Mar, CA, and La Jolla, CA, patients a wide range of frame and lens options. We can provide designer eyewear that addresses vision needs, while enhancing style and appearance. We keep up on the most popular designer eyewear types so that our patients always have a wide selection of attractive lenses and frames to choose from.
Clear and Translucent Frames
One of the most quickly growing trends in eyewear is clear frames. More people are gravitating toward clear frames that work with any outfit, and make a subtle statement without detracting from other style choices.
While clear plastic lenses are highly popular, many choose to alter the trend slightly by adding a little color to their frames. Colorful translucent frames have also seen a rise in popularity. Colored translucent frames can add a punch of color without the appearance of a heavy, bulky frame.
Colorful and Patterned Frames
Although clear and translucent frames are seeing a rise in popularity, colored and patterned frames are not going anywhere. Many of our patients like to make a bolder statement by selecting a noticeable frame. Bright colors and patterns are a good way to draw attention to glasses and create a distinct look. Tortoiseshell frames are particularly popular, but solid colors, animal prints, stripes, and other patterns are also highly requested.
Shapely Frames
Color is not the only way that people can express their personal style when it comes to glasses. Shape is another way that eyeglass wearers can play around with their look. Oversized lenses remain a popular choice. Large squares, rectangles, and ovals all draw attention to the face and create a bold frame for the eyes.
The cat eye is another shape that has remained a popular choice, as are aviators. The shape that is best for each of our patients depends largely on the natural shape of the face. We always recommend that patients try on a variety of different shaped frames so that they find the one that best suits their facial features.
Color and shape are two of the most distinctive features of a pair of eyeglasses, but many people are also interested in representing a certain brand. Each designer brand has its own style and reputation in the fashion field, and people often want to wear a brand that they feel represents them. At our practice, we carry the most popular designer brands, including:
MYKITA®
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At Gordon Wong Eye Designs & Optometry, we offer a wide range of frames and lenses to meet each of our patient's unique fashion and lifestyle needs. If you would like to see our designer selections, and find a frame that is right for you, call (858) 454-4699 to schedule an appointment at your earliest convenience.


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Max Reger: "Mozart" Variations for Two Pianos; Bach-Reger; Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 & 5 for Two Pianos
"…these pieces (Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart) have been recorded fairly often though never in better performances than this…the real surprise comes from Reger's transcriptions of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos No. 3 and 5. This performance establishes the value of these transcriptions as substantial art in their own right. It has the special fascination of familiar music heard in an unfamiliar form, and it almost convinces one that Bach might have first imagined this music played on two keyboards…"
—Joseph McLellan — The Washington Post
Peter Rösel and Santiago Rodriguez, pianists
SKU: 2240 Category: Santiago Rodriguez Tags: Bach, Brandenburg, Concertos, Max, Mozart, Piano, Reger, Variations
Original Release Date: June 12, 2010
Label: Elan Recordings
Copyright: ℗© Elan Recordings
Total Length: 55:44
Sample this album
http://elanrecording.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2240_01.mp3
01. Bach-Reger: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major BWV 1048- Allegro Con Spirito Adagio
02. Bach-Reger: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major BWV 1048- Allegro
03. Bach-Reger: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D Major BWV 1050- Allegro
04. Bach-Reger: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 In D Major BWV 1050- Affetuoso
06. Reger – Variations And Fugue On A Theme Of Mozart Op. 132A For Two Pianos- Theme
07. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation I Listesso
08. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation II Poco agitat
09. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation III Con moto
10. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation IV Vivace
11. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation V Quasi Presto
12. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation VI Sostenuto
13. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation VII Andate gra
14. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Variation VIII Moderato
15. Reger – Variations and Fugue on a theme of Mozart Op. 132a, for two pianos- Fugue Allegro grazioso
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BLONDE BOMBSHELLS BLITZ PITLOCHRY THIS WEEK
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You'll hear the strains of the big band music and the sound of swing rising from Pitlochry this week, as Alan Plater's Blonde Bombshells of 1943 - the third show to open at Pitlochry Festival Theatre (PFT) this Summer Season – launches Thursday, 13 June with the first preview performance at 8pm. A sparkling wartime comedy brimming with live music – expect nostalgic fun and games in iconic 1940's style.
Following the 1960's happiness injection of Summer Holiday and supernatural marital mayhem of Blithe Spirit, this Thursday's opening presents a step back in time to period comedy, and a return to wonderful, feel-good music.
Betty's glamorous 8-piece band introduces a world of the blitz spirit, destined for a long sought-after BBC recording in Hull. But, as with every other time they've played for the Yanks, her ranks have been depleted by the predatory GIs. Betty, and remaining bandmates Grace, Vera and May, have just one day to regroup, and audition new members at the double!
Enter a naive schoolgirl clarinetist, a nun with a ukelele clipped to her crucifix, a snooty soldier saxophonist and a fella happy to don a sparkly frock to dodge the draft. Will Betty manage to recreate the Valentino Sisters in double-quick time?
Director Ben Occhipinti tells us:
"I fell in love with Blonde Bombshells of 1943 because it's a memory play that celebrates music. Much of my career I've worked with music in theatre, and I have seen the power that songs have to help people in times of great trouble. This play articulates that beautifully."
It's also a play, unashamedly about strong women and celebrating difference. Ben continues:
"For so many generations women have done 'the jobs of men'. However, what Blonde Bombshells so brilliantly demonstrates is how women have always been as capable as men. We have always been, and will always be, communities of people trying to make our way in the world together. The Blonde Bombshells group powerfully illustrates how a community can be comprised of many different souls, but in the end still be united behind a shared goal… and inspire us to love others who may be different from ourselves."
Based on the BAFTA award-winning film starring Judi Dench and Ian Holm, this musical comedy is guaranteed to raise spirits, jam-packed with live performances of hits by George Formby, Glenn Miller, The Andrews Sisters and more, with all the glitz and sparkle war-torn Britain needed.
2018 Season Leon Sinden Best Supporting Actress award-winner, Fiona Wood, takes to the stage for the first time this Season, as Lily, the nun who plays a mean ukelele, with Emilie Patry a seasoned Bard In The Botanics performer, returning with her saxophone from Summer Holiday, to play Band-Leader Betty. Alexander Bean is draft-dodging drummer Patrick, Wendy Paver, last in Pitlochry in the hugely-acclaimed Hello, Dolly! (2013), also from the West End's Dreamboats And Petticoats, brings along her double bass as Grace. More of the consummate musicians from Summer Holiday join the band: Alicia McKenzie as May, Tilly-Mae Millbrook as snooty soldier, Miranda, and Lynwen Haf Roberts, as Liz, the innocent schoolgirl about to take her first musical steps to stardom - a musical step-change from 1960's Shadows music to World War II hits!
So, make sure you book your tickets in time to roll up your victory rolls, get out that sharp trilby, and join in a night of sparkling comedy!
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