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Now, as she is recounting her time line, you learn that at some point around 2006, she found herself sitting on a couch alongside Bert Jansch, the Scottish folk singer and acoustic-guitar master. “Pretty much the week my last album was released I found out I was pregnant,” she recalled. “And then at five and a half mon... |
Parenting, unless outsourced, offers little time for anything beyond parenting, and when she found herself writing music in the few nighttime minutes she had to herself (“in the hours when spiders mend their webs,” as she sings in her lullaby to her daughter, “See Through Blue”), she began to realize that that a career... |
Orton recorded “Sugaring Season” last winter in Portland, Oregon, where most of it was done in just a few takes: she’d been inspired by Roberta Flack’s album “First Take.” (Marc Ribot added some guitar in his apartment in Brooklyn, and some strings were added in Manhattan.) As it happens, “Sugaring Season” was worth he... |
As is perhaps telegraphed by the titles (“Call Me the Breeze,” “Poison Tree,” “Magpie”), “Sugaring Season” is a bluesy, indie-rock eclogue, full of mystical chords and sometimes even jazz-like rhythms. The title refers to that time in New England’s cold months when warm days run the sap up in a tree: a moment, she note... |
Arthur interrupted with a call for broccoli. |
“And people were always talking about sugaring season,” Beth said. |
“It’s like Vermont!” he offers. |
“No it’s very flat,” she says. |
The husband is relishing his wife’s biography, anyway, as is sometimes a husband’s wont—especially when the husband was himself raised almost entirely on traditional music: shape-note singing permeated Amidon’s mosh pit-free Brattleboro upbringing, his parents folk singers. |
Eventually the conversation circles back to Bert Jansch, who died of cancer last year, after a comeback; he was the British guitar player’s guitarist, hailed by everyone from Jimmy Page to Johnny Marr. |
“Much of ‘Sugaring Season’ is in alternate guitar tunings,” says Amidon. |
“Is it?” she looks hard at her husband. |
“Yeah?” he said sitting up a little. |
Onstage, Orton and Amidon perform separately, dueting only on occasion, such as for “Call Me the Breeze,” a song that Orton co-wrote with Tom Rowlands, of Chemical Brothers, with Amidon on banjo. They wrote it years ago, and Orton kept it alive, which is part of her point these days, that her spirit remains. |
Actress Barbara Barrie is 78. Actress Joan Collins is 76. Actor Charles Kimbrough (“Murphy Brown”) is 73. Singer General Johnson of Chairmen of the Board is 66. Actress Lauren Chapin (“Father Knows Best”) is 64. Country singer Judy Rodman is 58. Comedian Drew Carey is 51. Country singer Shelly West is 51. Actor Linden ... |
The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 is a Micro Four Thirds camera that offers a plethora of features for advanced photographers to play with, but it also has an automatic mode so that inexperienced users can also get in on all the fun. Its image quality is great and so is its build quality. It has a touchscreen as well as plen... |
The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 is a digital camera that has it all. It can shoot high-quality stills, it performs well as a high-definition video camera, and it offers you the luxury of using both a touchscreen and physical buttons. It's very much a camera for the enthusiast photographer who likes to have a lot of switche... |
The GH2 is a Micro Four Thirds camera and it can accept different lenses in Panasonic's G Vario lens line up. We used a 14-140mm, 10x optical zoom lens for our tests, which equates to a focal length of 28-280 in 35mm speak. The sensor in the GH2 is 14 megapixels, which is a 2-megapixel improvement over 2009's Panasonic... |
The Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 GH2 has a slightly different control layout to the GH1. Primarily, the control dial for changing exposure settings has been moved to a thumb position from an index finger position, and the dedicated movie recording button has been repositioned from the rear of the camera to the top of the ca... |
We love the inclusion of multiple dials and switches on the GH2's body, which allow you to quickly make changes to focus and shooting mode settings. The left side has a dial and switches so that you can quickly change focus modes, while the main mode dial has a switch encircling it that allows you to quickly select the... |
Conventional menu buttons are located on the back of the camera, and the top of the camera has a Fn button that can be programmed with your favourite function. By default it makes the camera switch to Intelligent Auto mode, which is quite handy when you want to quickly change from a manual mode. |
To frame your photos, you can use the high resolution (460K dots) 3in LCD screen, which is hinged so that you can also take shots from weird angles or self portraits. There is a built-in electronic viewfinder (EVF) that gives you the same view and on-screen information as the LCD screen, and it automatically switches o... |
As for the GH2's image quality, there is very little to fault. Coupled with the 14-140mm lens we used for testing, the camera produced very crisp images with very little noise and no noticeable chromatic aberration. When using manual mode, the exposure meter on the screen shows you if you've got the exposure spot on, o... |
When shooting in dim light you'll get good performance up to ISO 800, and even ISO 1600 will good unless you view the images at their full size, but anything higher will have noticeable feathering and discolouration. Image stabilisation is built-in to the lens, and you can take quite crisp handheld shots down to 1/10th... |
Video footage is jittery if you move the camera while shooting (this is pretty much the same as every other digital camera on the market), but images are crisp and focusing performance is excellent. When you zoom in and out of scenes, the autofocus only takes a couple of seconds to readjust. |
The bottom line is that the Panasonic LUMIX DMC-GH2 Micro Four Thirds camera is an excellent product. Its combination of manual and automatic features make it ideal for any type of user and if you want to make the most of its manual features the learning curve isn't too high -- all the manual features you'll need to ch... |
In late 2005, the booming U.S. housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgage securities. The housing bubble, which had propelled a historic growth in home prices, seemed poised ... |
Boeing Co. has won a contract from the Marine Corps to send a pair of ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle mobile deployment units to Iraq, the company said. |
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The First Marine Expeditionary Force will use the ScanEagles for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance during operational missions. |
Each mobile deployment unit includes several UAVs, plus the necessary computers, communication links and ground equipment necessary. The ScanEagle is a joint development project between Chicago-based Boeing and The Insitu Group, Bingen, Wash. |
"ScanEagle's ISR capabilities will give the warfighter an immediate, clear picture of the battlefield," said Kim Michel, director of Boeing's advanced unmanned systems division. "Additionally, its communications relay technology will allow Marines on the ground to more easily receive and share information." |
Company officials said the ScanEagle is a low-cost, long-endurance UAV that is designed to operate for more than 15 hours. It is four feet long and has a 10-foot wingspan. Future models will go for more than 30 hours, Boeing said. |
The ScanEagle UAV first flew in 2002 and recently participated in the U.S. Joint Forces Command's Forward Look exercises from December 2003 to June 2004. Forward Look was a series of demonstrations and experiments to improve interoperability among multiple UAVs in operational scenarios. |
With 2003 prime federal IT revenue of $3.4 billion, Boeing ranked No. 4 on Washington Technology's 2004 Top 100 list, which measures federal contracting revenue. |
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