Aethelwine

RIP David Soul

RIP Les McCann

For Garnet

I don't recall ever removing anyone as a friend. I rarely ask anyone to be a friend either, but have accumulated over 600 so far. I know some people do tidy up their friends lists because they like to keep it small (or that is what they have told me) and it has never bothered me when they have I normally find people through group lists rather than friend lists anyway. The only time I need someone to be a friend (I think) is when I am giving them edit rights to my stuff. So in answer to the OP, no. If someone had unfriended me and I wanted to be friends with them, then I would act like a friend around them until they agreed.

"Duke next decided to dust off a pair of 1937 blues tunes that appeared on both sides of a 78-rpm record: “Diminuendo in Blue” and “Crescendo in Blue” (almost antonyms) and told the audience they were now being linked together with an improvisation by one of his sidemen to form Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue – a performance that changed the jazz world … and the fortunes of Duke Ellington and his Orchestra for the rest of his life. Interestingly, the choice of tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves (photo right, below) was not one of Ellington’s featured sidemen; the announcement of his name did not bring forth a loud response. But there was some response, and for a very appropriate reason. Paul Gonsalves was a native New Englander (born in Brockton, Massachusetts) and, like the pianist Horace Silver: was the son of immigrants from Cape Verde – an African island nation colonized for centuries by Portugal – so he often performed at clubs in Rhode Island, New Bedford and Fall River, which had a notable ethnic Portuguese and Cape Verdean population. Thus, Gonsalves had family and friends in attendance; seated in rows just behind the box seats of Newport socialites. But in a sign reminiscent of the first-set troubles: when it came time for Gonsalves’ tenor solo, he actually blew not into the Columbia microphone, but into the alternate Voice of America microphone – which had only recently begun to feature a nightly “Jazz Hour” for broadcast outside the United States (which I profiled in a previous Top Comments diary) – which would affect the recording of the show for the subsequent Columbia release. But not for the show itself: because Gonsalves delivered a tour-de-force blues in-the-key-of-D that stood out for three major reasons: One was that – instead of playing a smooth, big-band style of playing – he played in a deep Gospel, R&B honking style that was more suited for juke joints and church revival meetings … not what sedate, wealthy audiences were expecting. The second was that the rest of the horn/reed players (on cue) “laid-out” (stopped playing) so that all Gonsalves had as back-up was bassist Jimmy Woode, drummer Sam Woodward and Duke himself on piano – lending the sound more toward a rocking small quartet. Actually, there was a fifth performer: at the foot of the stage was Jo Jones – the former drummer for Count Basie, now appearing with pianist Teddy Wilson – who was serving as another percussionist by banging a rolled-up copy of the Christian Science Monitor – whose offices are in Boston – on the stage, and shouting more encouragement. The last reason was that – in normal big bands – a soloist on a blues tune might expect to play two, perhaps three choruses. Later musicians (such as John Coltrane) were used to playing extended solos in small groups – just not in big bands. Gonsalves, though – egged-on by Duke Ellington, urging him to “wail” – played for twenty-seven choruses – over six minutes – until he could no longer blow. And by the sixth-or-seventh chorus, his wailing had led a 32 year-old socialite (the wife of a clothing manufacturer) in a black dress who was so moved by the music that she got up and …. started dancing. And a (partially obscured) photo of her appeared on the album cover months later. That opened the floodgates: a couple started jitterbugging and others stood on their chairs, roaring their approval. When the rest of the band came back to finish with the “Crescendo in Blue” portion, the ovation the band received at song’s end was described as one of the loudest in jazz history and the post-midnight commotion had the Newport security police on alert. On the audio recording embedded below, you hear Duke saluting his band and calling out “Paul Gonsalves ….. PAUL GONSALVES!” to a delirious audience. The band completed its set – including the triumphant return of alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges after a five-year hiatus – to play a spirited version of “Jeep’s Blues” to a still-animated audience. In fact, Duke needed to play a subdued version of “Mood Indigo” to bring the audience down at the set’s conclusion." Source

Frostar to Barney's Bay would be a pretty epic journey. You can't get there by water alone, you can switch to road at Lordshore but the last regions you would be sneaking across parcels hoping you don't encounter an orb.

Some music from the Basque Country

There is a banline to the West of the parcel the boat was returned from. It is currently protecting an otherwise empty water parcel at ground level, which may seem pointless, but as you are finding out something they can do. You are frustratingly close to a route up West Nautilus recently opened up by cooperation of land owners, but if you have to traverse the parcel with the banline to get there, unfortunately because of parcelling you are quite a few parcels from that safe passage. In time the area might open up further as landowners cooperate to benefit from shared passage, but unfortunately the way the policies work on mainland it only takes one person with a parcel in the wrong place to spoil it for the rest. I had a brief look flying around and I couldn't see a safe route from there. Orbs and banlines, some like the one it seems you are hitting over otherwise empty water parcels spoil it. A rental in the Fairchang Estate to the South West of where you are (that enabled that passage up West Nautilus) will give you protected water at a reasonable rental cost. If it was the abandoned land kicking you, then you could put a ticket in for the Lindens to adjust the settings, if set wrong. But on this occasion I think the message you are getting is the last place the boat was allowed to be before it hit the banline and was returned.

Rosedale left Linden lab to make Hi Fidelity, but is now investing in Second life so how about "infidelity"

I was trying to think of other historic examples. the reception to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in 1913. But I came across the Peekskill Riot in 1949 against Paul Robeson of old man river fame. This gives a brief view of what happened..

From the Frank Zappa album recorded in 1967\70 released this year. It has that great hot rats sound, recorded just afterwards amazing still releasing great music unreleased before.

ohh noesss

I rather like the Chalet I got, but I got lucky with the location... nothing between my back yard and the main waterway and not too far to walk to a rezz zone. The house style works for me with open downstairs kitchen\ diner\ lounge space and two rooms upstairs a bit of trelacing outside the side door makes for a nice flow to a little quiet back garden area overlooking the water. I am not one for clutter so I don't get close to using all the Prims I have available. My log cabin is bigger and I think when I had the Victorian that was too. So I don't think house size or layout or the buildings themselves have anything much to do with their perceived unpopularity. I think if they are less popular it has more to do with them being released after the other styles. For me access to water for rezzing is my main criteria for picking a home. The exception being my log cabin, where I rather like the sense of rural isolation even though the region is fully occupied. I quite enjoy the 10 region horse or bike ride to the coast. Whilst the Chalets do have some rivers and water edge parcels . In a lot of places houseboats have been put in there. Trads seem to have it better for riverside parcels. And the South coast Victorians can be lovely. All in all I think Chalets aren't so bad just victims of being late in the release cycle.

I see the attraction for us, just not for the Linden's having to police the resale and rental market. It would also damage existing revenue streams.

I don't see the benefits of making the land free to purchase, outweighing risks. More realistic perhaps than a mainland 2.0 would be to complete Zindra, and add in a Horizons 2.0 perhaps with a more restrictive covenant in terms of what can be built and security systems. The value of land and occupancy rates there indicate demand for that sort of development remains.

There is a bit of art to it. On each side you need a prim that extends about one third its length across into the neighbouring region. So say you take a 6m prim push it two meters into next region and then in the adjacent region have another 6m prim extending 2m back into the other prim. you can make them invisible so you don't get glitching textures. Then test it and if it doesn't work try something a bit bigger and minor tweaks but I think that should work. It has been quite a few years since I was building roads across region boundaries.