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Finally an Austen we Love!

Starting this Sunday, the Jane Austen Series on the Newly Titled Masterpiece CLASSIC! is showing the "definitive" version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Thank goodness!  After these past few weeks of tomfoolery with the plots and subplots and what have you … Continue reading

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Oh,to be in London!

Penelope Keith as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest at the Vaudeville Theatre in London Review from The Telegraph\ THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST Vaudeville Theatre(22nd Jan to 26th April 2008) Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest … Continue reading

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NY Phil to broadcast North Korea Concert

February 7, 2008 PBS Will Broadcast Concert From North Korea By DANIEL J. WAKIN, New York Times The New York Philharmonic’s concert in North Korea on Feb. 26 will be broadcast that evening on WNET, Channel 13, and distributed two … Continue reading

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cleaning up: email

A week ago I decided to clear out my inbox.  I have several email accounts – my first Internet email account (over 10 years) and then yahoo and Gmail.  So I decided to take all the “newsletters” and merchandise offering … Continue reading

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Finally an Austen we Love!

Starting this Sunday, the Jane Austen Series on the Newly Titled Masterpiece CLASSIC! is showing the “definitive” version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. Thank goodness!  After these past few weeks of tomfoolery with the plots and subplots and what have you … Continue reading

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Hugh Grant does Dalgliesh

This week’s BBC 7 newsletter arrived today with this interesting bit of scheduling: Cover Her FaceHugh Grant stars in this 1993 adaptation of the PD James thriller, first published in 1962. Called in to investigate a murder at an Elizabethan … Continue reading

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What’s your birth opera?

IL TROVATORE Giuseppe Verdi–Salvatore CammaranoManrico……………..Carlo BergonziLeonora……………..Antonietta StellaCount Di Luna………..Robert MerrillAzucena……………..Fedora BarbieriFerrando…………….Nicola MosconaInes………………..Maria LeoneRuiz………………..Charles AnthonyMessenger……………James McCrackenGypsy……………….Calvin MarshConductor……………Max RudolfFind YOURS And, yes, I know those are not photos from this opera    

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Dolores for President

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Ravelry Progress bars

My first venture into API and coding … see the side bar! Actually Casey did all the work in writing the code.  It's easy for Typepad bloggers. There is a Ravelry group to help

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Windows Live Writer

Today, we’re proud to announce that Windows Live Writer 2008 is now available! Windows Live Writer 2008 (version 12.0.1366.1026) Writer Zone: Windows Live Writer: Out of Beta I started using this program this week. It is a very user friendly … Continue reading

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