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September 5, 2006
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, RESPONDENT,v.AZEM ALBRA, APPELLANT.
Accepted for Miscellaneous Reports Publication
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, November 22, 2006
{**13 Misc 3d at 65} OPINION OF THE COURT
Judgment of conviction affirmed.
Defendant contends that the information was defective because of an allegedly defective supporting deposition. However, defendant refers to the original information that was superseded by a second information (CPL 100.50 [1]) which specifically stated that it was based on the personal knowledge of the complainant Sergeant Hurley. Said superseding information was jurisdictionally sufficient to charge defendant with disorderly conduct (Penal Law § 240.20 [4]) and trespass (Penal Law § 140.05).
At a Town Board meeting, defendant, as well as the other members of the public present, were informed that they would be allowed to speak regarding designated topics on the agenda. However, defendant incessantly raised nonagenda items thereby intentionally inconveniencing and annoying those in attendance at the Town Board meeting, a "lawful assembly or meeting of persons" (Penal Law § 240.20 [4]). Despite the Town Supervisor's warnings that he would be asked to leave if he did not address the topics at hand, defendant persisted in asking questions and making comments as to matters not on the agenda, ultimately antagonizing the Town Board and provoking them to engage in heated discussions, thereby disrupting the meeting. Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the People (see People v Contes, 60 NY2d 620 [1983]), we find it was legally sufficient to establish defendant's guilt of disorderly conduct beyond a reasonable doubt (see People v Malone, 156 App Div 10 [1913]).
As a result of defendant's disruptive behavior at the Town Board meeting, he was ultimately asked to leave by persons with authority, the Town Supervisor and Sergeant Hurley. Defendant{**13 Misc 3d at 66} refused to leave and continued to remain unlawfully at the public meeting, despite the fact that his license and privilege to be present thereat had been revoked (see Penal Law § 140.05; People v Leonard, 62 NY2d 404, 408 [1984]). Thus, the evidence adduced at trial was legally sufficient to establish defendant's guilt of trespass beyond a reasonable doubt (see People v Leonard, 62 NY2d 404 [1984], supra; People v Taylor, 164 Misc 2d 868 [App Term, 9th & 10th Jud Dists 1995]).
We note that the government has a significant interest in controlling the agenda and preventing the disruption of public meetings of governmental bodies (see Jones v Heyman, 888 F2d 1328 [11th Cir 1989]; see also Madison Joint School Dist. No. 8 v Wisconsin Employment Relations Comm'n, 429 US 167, 175 n 8 [1976] [governmental bodies "may confine their meetings to specified subject matter"]). Although the Court in People v Dupont (107 AD2d 247, 255-256 [1985]) stated that "[t]he fact that certain modes of expression may be 'annoying' to others does not require an individual to forfeit his rights under the 1st Amendment to make those expressions . . . ," it has been held that "a City Council meeting is . . . a governmental process with a governmental purpose . . . Public forum or not, the usual [F]irst [A]mendment antipathy to content-orientated control of speech cannot be imported into the Council chambers intact . . . in dealing with agenda items, the Council does not violate the [F]irst [A]mendment when it restricts public speakers to the subject at hand . . . While a speaker may not be stopped from speaking because the moderator disagrees with the viewpoint he is expressing . . . it certainly may stop him if his speech becomes irrelevant or repetitious" (White v City of Norwalk, 900 F2d 1421, 1425 [9th Cir 1990]).
In the case at bar, defendant's questions were irrelevant to the purpose of the meeting and inappropriate for the time and place, as the public was only privileged to discuss topics set forth on the agenda. We are of the opinion that the Town Board's actions were narrowly tailored to a significant interest, to wit, addressing matters on the agenda in an orderly and efficient manner. Furthermore, rather than restrict defendant's speech completely, the Town Board merely directed him to discuss agenda-related matters.
In view of the foregoing, the judgment of conviction is affirmed.{**13 Misc 3d at 67}
Tanenbaum, J. (dissenting and voting to reverse the judgment of conviction and dismiss the accusatory instrument). At the Town of Fishkill Town Board meeting, which was open to the public, defendant Albra was recognized to speak. At the very beginning of defendant's question, Town Supervisor Pagones stated, "no, the lies are not going to continue," and later stated, "the Pagones family, of all families, are used to dealing with big time liars. [You] are in the little bit into the small time lying routine. I will tell you this." Thereafter, defendant's questions precipitated a tongue lashing by Supervisor Pagones and hostile comments by Councilman Zack, who asserted that defendant made false statements at a prior meeting. He was directed to leave the meeting but refused citing his "[F]irst [A]mendment rights." The supervisor then directed his removal. He again declined stating, "I am going to have to be arrested then." He was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in violation of Penal Law § 240.20 (4) and trespass in violation of Penal Law § 140.05.
This is a transcript of the minutes of the meeting: "Motion made by Councilman Zack to go into privilege of the floor for agenda items. "Seconded by Councilman Ferguson "All Ayes "Motion carried "Azem Albra asked about the aquifer, it appears that the Toll Brothers is building houses right on top of the aquifer, can you confirm or deny that? "Supervisor Pagones asked if Town Engineer, John Andrews wanted to handle this on truth here? "Azem Albra stated that is what he is asking. "Supervisor Pagones stated no, the lies are not going to continue. John, do you want to address this for the public? "Town Engineer, John Andrews, answered, point in fact Toll Brothers was and originally reviewed way back when it was Merritt Park Realty Development, the extent of that aquifer was well studied, the design of that project has incorporated all the necessary features into it, and was actually a significant study which exists in the environmental documents, and what we see today is consistent with the recommendations that were made for that development in that area.{**13 Misc 3d at 68} "The extent of the aquifer in that area is slightly different than other areas, it is relatively shallow, there are a few other issues related to it, they all have been incorporated into the design of the project as we see it today. Nothing that is being done is inconsistent with the protection that needs to be in place for that. "Supervisor Pagones asked if there were any other questions. "Azem Albra stated that his question is, is it being built on top of the aquifer, yes or no? It is a simple question. "Town Attorney, Ronald Blass, advised the Supervisor that she did not have to answer that question. "Supervisor Pagones replied to Mr. Albra by saying, the Pagones family, of all families, are used to dealing with big time liars. [You] are in the little bit into the small time lying routine. I will tell you this, "Azem Albra: you are slandering a public officer. "Supervisor Pagones: No, you are lying.
"Azem Albra: You are calling me a liar, you cannot call me a liar without evidence. Where is your evidence? You have no evidence.
"Councilman Zack: The July 7th meeting, you made a false misleading statement. You have no evidence to back it up.
"Supervisor Pagones: That is correct, that is a lie. You have lied repeatedly to this board. It will not be continued, we will go head to head with you.
"Azem Albra: Lied to court?
"Councilman Zack: She said Board, not court.
"Supervisor Pagones: Yes, this Board. We are not going to consider your comments. One more out-burst, and Officer Hurley will have you out of here. What other questions do you have? "Azem Albra: On the map, the guy over here of the Waterfront with the water access, I noticed there were 92 homes, 92 slips for the people that live there, I don't see any storage areas for those boats, I don't know if you are aware of that or not, where are they going to put those boats, in the driveways or are they going to ...
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Busy, Busy, Busy
I have not had a spare minute to myself….with the semester in full swing, I've been attending meetings, writing papers, applying for internships, and all sorts of other things. My technical training has taken a hit due to this business, but I have still been playing soccer every week. In addition, I've been running training sessions for gaelic football and hurling with the BCGAA, keeping me pretty well fit.
The intramural season is off to a rocky start. We lost the first game 3-1 and drew the second 1-1. I've played pretty well, but the problem has been a team-wide issue with possession. We give up the ball on stupid passes way too many times, missing out on a lot of would-be goal scoring opportunities.
My footballing world has been further upset by Arsenal's continuing spiral, topped off by a loss to Sp*rs this weekend. Let's not talk about it.
Promise I'll be posting more frequently as London draws closer…Cheers.
4 Sports Day
Training goes on, and today my fitness was really put to the test. From 2-3:40, I ran a hurling/gaelic football practice with the BCGAA, teaching some newcomers how to play the sports as well. Then from 4-6, I had an intense soccer scrimmage with the intramural team. Finally at 7:30, I had an intramural softball game, which got out around an hour later just in time for me to head to work.
Soccer went well, and the team is coming together nicely. Our first game is this Wednesday night, in what looks like our hardest match of the regular season.
The Season Begins
On the BC practice football field, my intramural team had its first training session yesterday. Though I had to leave a bit early, I have to say it went fantastically. There was lots of inventive play, good passing, and a great level of general fitness. We also have solid players at every position – including goalkeeper, a rarity on the intramural circuit.
More info. to come later.
More Success
Another scrimmage, and more good news to report. My footwork and crosses were dead on, which helped me net several goals and assists while playing man down (4 vs. 3) on a small field. Playing today after moving out of my apartment (back home for a week and 1/2 until my new lease), I'm pretty exhausted, but it's the good kind of exhausted where you know you accomplished some things.
On a sadder note (but good riddance nonetheless), Arsenal sent Samir Nasri to Manchester City today. I didn't care for his attitude of late, but his presence will definitely be missed in the midfield.
Cesc gone? Arsenal plays well and takes down Udinese. I've been playing poorly the past few games? I snapped out of it in style. In a 4 v 4 match, I stepped up and my game came together beautifully. My footwork kicked in perfectly, my passes were dead on, and I made several key defensive plays. I also scored several times and stacked up a few assists as well.
Frankly, I'm just glad to have some positive things to report. I had been pretty discouraged lately, but things seem to be picking up again.
Second game in a row that I just didn't play well at all, and I'm pretty discouraged. Granted some of the time it wasn't entirely my fault, but still I have to be accountable where necessary. All the progress that I'd been having seems to have trailed off in the past two weeks.
What's different? A few things. First of all, we haven't had enough people to play full field games, and this means short-sided, small field games. My style of play is to work the long ball and the wings – something you can't do too well on a short field. Does this mean that I have a speciality? Maybe…but the trouble on short-field play also suggests I'm not too versatile a player. Is it a problem with touch? I don't know. I mostly am getting a good first touch, but I seem lost with the ball on a short field. I just don't know where to go with it…passes aren't as available, and there's less room to work around. So maybe it's a footwork issue. I'm not sure.
The biggest problem might just be my own negativity. Today's game started out alright for me, but after one or two mistakes, I just fell apart. I think I'm just far too down on myself…even tonight, not EVERYTHING was bad. I had several good passes and one particularly good shot on net (just glanced wide).
And if my soccer world couldn't be crumbling down around me any more, Arsenal is set to lose Cesc and Samir in the next few days. With van Persie and Wilshere already having injury problems on top of this, it looks like it could be a long season for the gunners.
Hopefully the upcoming intramural season (with its full-field play) will bring me back some confidence. Until then, I'm just going to keep training.
Abysmal Performance
Last night's twice-a-week scrimmage went awfully for my team and me. As a team, we couldn't finish well, our passes were always a step off, and we made a series of stupid mistakes. Personally, I ended up with three goals in our 11-5 loss, but only one of them is worth noting (a volley off my left foot). I blew way more opportunities to score, and was frustrated throughout the whole game by my lackluster performance.
The one good thing I took from the game was my speed. I was the quickest one out there by the end of the game, able to put on a quick burst in the final minutes when everyone else lagged back. I'm taking the day off from any type of workout today, trying to give my legs a break. I had been hitting the gym with a lot more vigor leading up to last night, and I think tiredness may have contributed to my bad night.
After a long day at work looking forward to my game tonight…thunderstorm. Oh well, at least it's sharkweek.
End of July Update
With August starting up, the summer is coming to a close. Work is slowing down, the days are getting shorter, and people are getting ready for the academic year to kickoff. As I get closer to London, I'm starting to pick up my training. I've begun going to the gym early in the morning before work three days a week and doing football drills in the afternoon. I still play matches Tuesdays and Thursdays as well.
Status? Things are coming along well. For example, I netted a hat trick and an assist in last Thursdays 7v7 match. We played on little nets, but I still managed to score two volley goals. My other goal was a bit more special, finding the upper 90 on-the-fly from twenty yards out.
My left foot touch is progressing nicely, but I feel my weakest point is still shooting from the left. It's something I'll be focusing on a lot this month. One helpful exercise I've been doing for this uses this setup:
I dribble through the cones starting on the right hand side, and at the end, shoot with my right foot. The two tackling dummies mark the middle zone of the net where I cannot put the ball (that makes me hit the corners, out of the imaginary keeper's reach). I then turn, run back through the cones this time starting on the left, and at the end shoot on another goal (not pictured, but on the other side) with my left foot. Then repeat.
With the fall term comes the intramural soccer season. We take it pretty seriously here. For example, here's the crest (photoshopped by yours truly) and uniform from my Freshman year team:
This year, three buddies and I were invited to join a new team (name TBD). It should be a higher level of play than previous years, which I'm looking forward to. I will keep you updated on these developments.
On a closing note, I'm pretending the Emirates Cup didn't happen. I know it's just a preseason tuneup, but come on Arsenal…

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I left the BootsnAll office at 5:40 last night after talking to Chris and finding out we had no power. I heard I-5 South was a parking lot from 405 to 205 (in other words, the entire length of what I'd need it for, and then some), so I opted for what is normally a reliably quicker back road. Silly, silly me. I forgot that "back roads" have stoplights. And stoplights need electricity. So, almost the entire drive home was completely jammed.
Oh, and to top it all off, I started the journey with only a quarter tank of gas, and the "empty" light came on when I was stuck in the middle of nowhere with no gas station in sight. Lovely.
I made it to a gas station by detouring slightly from what I thought was going to be the least tree-ridden way, and it turned out to be the quicker way home, I think. As it was, I didn't pull into my garage until nearly 7:30 - and this is a drive that normally takes me 25 minutes. Egads.
I came home to a well-lit house, so the power had come back on. Hurray! I got to heat up some leftovers in the microwave for dinner. Hurray! We settled in to watch some television programs we'd recorded when - just like that - the power went back out again, and stayed out for the duration. We lit candles all over the living room, and read magazines by flashlight until bedtime. Thankfully the power came back on sometime in the night.
15 December 2006
When candles aren't just for romantic dinners
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Under the sign of Sandy - the Bailey backdrop
BBC4 screened highlights on Friday from the Barbican concert The Lady: A Homage to Sandy Denny which took place on 23rd May this year. During the introductory summation of Sandy's musical life, I was immediately startled to see footage from a TV performance of White Dress from Sandy's belated stint with Fairport Convention circa their 1975 Rising for the Moon LP. I had assumed that the three songs from her first solo LP The North Star Grassman and the Ravens which she sang on the 1971 TV show One In Ten, included on the Sandy Denny at the BBC box set, was the only extant evidence of Sandy caught professionally on film. This tantalising glimpse proved that this was not the case, and it would have been great to see more of this recording (although only a fragment has appeared on line, suggesting that it no longer exists in complete form), and to find out if any more has been unearthed. A still photo was shown to remind us of Fairport Convention's 1969 appearance on Top of the Pops singing Si Tu Dois Partir, a whim of the moment translation (both musical and linguistic) into French Cajun of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes ditty If You Gotta Go, Go. This piece of folk dada, which saw the band adopting pantomime French costume and odd instrumentation, has fallen victim to the BBC's cost-conscious recycling of video tape, as have so many classic performances from the era. The paucity of recorded footage of Sandy makes such a loss all the more regrettable, even if this shows the more lighter, throwaway side of her musical persona (the side which saw her including rock 'n roll and Ink Spots numbers on her solo albums, which tended to break the overall mood). The riveting intensity of her three Northstar Grassman and the Ravens songs on One in Ten (Northstar itself, Crazy Lady and Late November) shows us just what we missed.
The opportunity to hear her songs in concert was a welcome one, even though, as Jerry Donahue, the guitarist who worked with her in Fotheringay, Fairport Convention and on her solo LPs, pointed out, it was not about recreating trying to recreate the sound of her music. Such an attempt would be a self-evidently futile undertaking, an imitation of the inimitable. Rather, this tribute was an attempt to give the songs renewed life through the individual voices of their interpreters. The strength of good songs, their ability to endure, comes through in the manner in which they can be adapted by wildly diverse singers, whilst still retaining their essential character. Nothing can match Sandy's singing of her own songs, which she evidently invests with a great deal of personal feeling through the unique power of her voice (with its deep English folk soul). But her songwriting also has both a universal quality and an individual sense of melody and harmony, which makes it ripe material for adventurous singers to explore, its mysterious lyrical depths also offering rich seams to be mined.
There was a certain dynastic cast to this show. Jerry Donahue and Dave Swarbrick, who played with Sandy in her Fairport, Fotheringay and solo phases, were present, as was her contemporary in the 60s and 70s folk rock world, Maddy Prior, who knew her but never sang with her (her chosen partner for musical duets being June Tabor). Providing solid support in the band was Benji Kirkpatrick on guitar and bouzouki, a member of contemporary folk 'supergroup' Bellowhead as well as a solo artist in his own right. He's also the son of John Kirkpatrick, who squeezed his boxes on many a folk album in the 70s, Albion Bands and Steeleye Span included. Blair Dunlop was one of the singers, the spitting image of his father Ashley Hutchings in the early Fairport days, when he first discovered his native folk traditions alongside Sandy. Blair is now the head of the ever-evolving Albion Band which Hutchings initiated after leaving Fairport and, good-looking young chap that he is, also has a parallel career as an actor (playing the youthful flashback version of Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka in Tim Burton's film of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). The broad appeal of the 60s and 70s British folk revival, and its ability to transcend artificial generational divides, is reflected in these continuities. The fruitful co-existence and collaboration between youth and maturity is one of the appealing aspects of the folk world, one of the aspects which distinguishes it from the rock world, with its increasingly embarrassing obsession with being 'forever young' (no matter how much hair dye it takes). There was a wide range in the ages sharing the stage, which was also a testament to the continuing influence of Sandy's music. The charming participation of Thea Gilmore's five year old son during one of her songs, clutching his half-size fiddle with solemn intent, pointed to a furtherance of the line into new folk futures.
Lavinia Blackwell - The Quiet Joys of BrotherhoodThe concert started with Lavinia Blackwell, singer with Trembling Bells, one of the best of the new generation of bands drawing on the 60s and 70s folk rock legacy, singing Late November from the North Star Grassman and the Ravens LP (quite possibly my favourite record depending, as with all best ofs, on which week you happen to ask me). She talked about the pleasure and challenge of singing songs which move through such offbeat, non-standardised harmonies. Late November is one of Sandy's dark, penumbral songs, suffused with a sense of oppressively portentous mystery and shot through with intimations of mortality. There's a pleasurable atmosphere of autumnal melancholia about much of Sandy's music – it's definitely her favourite season. Lines showing an awareness of mortality and the brevity of life ('our lives they are not long' from Nothing More, 'death comes too soon for all' from John the Gun and 'you will be taken, everyone, you ladies and you gentlemen' from The Sea) become all the more poignantly prominent in the light of her own tragically early death at the age of 31. Lavinia's version of Late November was fine, but her pure, classically soaring voice was ideally suited to a largely a cappella rendition of the Richard and Mimi Farina song The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood, with Thea Gilmore and Maddy Prior providing supporting harmonies, replicating Sandy's own double-tracked self-harmonisation on record. This is a song which has bewitched me ever since I first heard it as a teenager on my battered copy of Sandy, her second solo LP, released in 1972. Not even the scratch which rudely edited Dave Swarbrick's echoing solo violin coda could break the spell. Indeed, I became so used to it that when I finally heard it on CD with pristine digital sheen, the very lack of a jump cut was initially jolting. Lavinia did the song, and Sandy's singing of it, full justice, unerringly hitting those keening high notes, and this moment captured the spirit of Sandy above all others for me. As a purely incidental detail, she also sported some incredible earrings. Dave Swarbrick was on hand once more to provide an instrumental coda, as well as a subtle underlying drone which hummed beneath the final verse. Diminished in mobility by serious bouts of ill-health, which means he now plays seated, but not in impish energy and humour, his solo was full of restless, flickering motion, a joyful singing of a sad song. He transformed the exquisite lament of his solo on the LP into a dancing celebration of life, a perfect invocation of the mood of the evening. Swarb also lent his elfin fiddly accompaniment to Sam Curtis' singing of It Suits Me Well, Sandy's paean to the traditional traveller's life. Carter's percussive, Martin Carthyesque guitar blended with Swarb's darting fiddle in a way which brought to mind the long-lasting Swarbrick and Carthy partnership. His original duets with Carthy predate his induction into the world of Fairport and his collaborations with Sandy, as do the accompaniments he provided for A.L.Lloyd, one of the key figures in the folk revival, on his 60s Topic Records LPs. His presence here tonight thus provided a connection with the very fount of the music.
Watching the maestro - Maddy Prior, Lavinia Blackwell and Dave Swarbrick's fretting handMaddy Prior offered another direct link with the past, lending a regal air of noble folk lineage. She sang Sandy's anti-war song John the Gun with a rock-edged rawness, a ragged roughness burring her usual folk clarity. For Fotheringay, the early Fairport song about the last days of Mary Queen of Scots which presaged Sandy's naming of her short-lived post-Fairport band, she was accompanied by some lovely acoustic guitar picking from Blair Dunlop and Benji Kirkpatrick, and wafted through a few courtly dance steps and bows. Her warm voice was well suited to a sympathetic reading of Solo, Sandy's declaration of female independence and self-sufficiency (more imaginary ideal than self-portraiture), sorrowful and affirmative at the same time. She blended beautifully with Lavinia Blackwell's high harmonies on the chorus, conveying the song's complex, clouded emotions.
Green Gartside - the working singerSandy tends to be categorised as a folk singer, but her music drew on influences from beyond the world of traditional folk, and there were artists on the bill who reflected its broad range and appeal. Green Gartside, lead singer and songwriter of Scritti Politti (if such hierarchical distinctions are appropriate for a group with anarchist communal origins). A tenuous connection can be drawn through the caustic citation of Scritti Politti in A Bone Through Her Nose, one of ex-Fairport singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson's bitter 'rant songs', recorded after the breakdown of his musical and personal relationship with his wife Linda. But Gartside related his own surprising early folkie tendencies. He rather touchingly reminisced about the first LP he bought with his carefully accumulated pot of pocket money – the Island Records compilation Nice Enough To Eat, the first track on which was Fairport's Cajun Woman, which afforded him his introduction to Sandy's singing (albeit in a supportive context on this number). He later heard Liege and Lief, on which Sandy and Swarb's knowledge of English traditional music came to the fore, and says it changed his life, setting him on an early musical path singing in folk clubs. It was only some years later that he came across punk and became an integral part of its musically adventurous afterlife. In a sign that the leftward leaning political affiliations of the early Scritti days may have found their derivation in his folk apprenticeship, he dressed in Dylan as Woody denim, the uniform of the musician as working artisan. His vocals still have an airy, slightly feminine delicacy, which lent a lightness to his version of North Star Grassman and the Ravens, and later Nothing More (which turned up on the second Island Records sampler, El Pea, which he may or may not also have purchased). Both show Sandy at her most darkly sibylline and poetically allusive, and perhaps needed a more forcefully demonstrative delivery than Gartside's mellifluously soulful voice brought to them.
Lost in music - Sandy at the pianoJoan Wasser, aka Joan as Policwoman, the Maine-born singer-songwriter, violinist and arranger, sat down at the piano to sing the ballad The Lady from Sandy, the second solo LP. The recorded version was one of the songs slathered in strings, arrangements which have proved divisive, many seeing (or hearing) them as a dilution of Sandy's writing. It's as if the producer's didn't feel that the songs were strong enough to stand on their own merits, and requiring further decorative enhancement. Personally, I quite like some of them, particularly the orchestration for All Our Days, which turns it into a miniature tone poem. Later songs such as Like An Old Fashioned Waltz and I'm A Dreamer seem, in their unabashed romanticism, to be positively written to be illuminated by shimmering strings. Fortunately, we now have numerous demo and live recordings so that songs like The Lady, No End and The Music Weaver can be heard in more unadorned settings, their baroque fixtures stripped out. Wasser sang The Lady with minimal accompaniment, and followed it with a completely solo version of No More Sad Refrains, just one woman alone at the piano. This was much more in the spirit of Sandy's live performances, as seen on the One In Ten show. In these, she seems wholly absorbed, transported by the song she is living, eyes closed and brow furrowed in rapt concentration. Perhaps it was this very intensity, the naked isolation of the singer alone with her song, which led to her preference for surrounding herself with a band of fellow musicians, and for including song by them, or cover versions of lighter songs on her LPs and in her concerts.
Lost in music - Joan at the pianoJoan Wasser brought something of an old-fashioned New York nightclub mood to her interpretation of The Lady and No More Refrains. She too was utterly lost in the songs, her face wracked with emotion, feeling every word as she enunciated it. She made them her own, getting right inside them to translate them into her own vernacular, and her performances were a real standout. She highlighted the torch song element of Sandy's music, which was also brought out by Marc Almond in his renditions of The North Star Grassman and the Ravens and All Our Days in a previous Sandy tribute concert which took place in 2008 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Almond evidently has a more than passing interest in British folk from the 60s and 70s, having also covered Richard and Linda Thompson's The Great Valerio and Bill Fay's Cosmic Boxer in concert, a taste perhaps picked from time spent in the company of David Tibet and his musical cohorts. He's also covered Dusty Springfield's I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (in duet with Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell), and a connection can certainly be made between Dusty and Sandy (dry particulate Christian names apart). Sandy's later records veered increasingly towards lushly orchestrated balladry, with a Dustyish sense of emotional drama. Indeed, she covered Silver Threads and Golden Needles, a 1962 hit for Dusty in The Springfields, on her 1977 LP Rendezvous. Dusty herself started off with the pop-folk of The Springfields, alongside brother Tom, and reconnected with her Irish roots on a lovely rendition of My Lagan Love on her TV show (a song also recorded by Kate Bush and released as a b-side to the Cloudbusting 12"). Summer Is Over, written by brother Tom Springfield and Clive Westlake and released as b-side to Losing You in 1964, is very Sandy in its celebration of autumnal atmospheres, its shifting and modulating harmonic and melodic complexity and its sweeping orchestration. I always play it in conjunction with Sandy's Carnival (from the Like An Old Fashioned Waltz LP) when the first smoky hints of autumn tint the air – it makes for a perfect seasonal segue.
PP Arnold is an American born singer who lived and worked extensively in the UK in the 60s and 70s, having initially travelled over in the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. She turned up on a diverse range of records by the likes of The Small Faces, Nick Drake (she provides 'ooohing' backing vocals on Poor Boy) and, later on, Steel Pulse, as well as recording under her own name. She emphasised the soulful gospel yearning at the heart of the late songs I'm A Dreamer and Take Me Away, the latter providing a suitable opportunity for communal testifying on the lengthy fade out chorus, which brought the concert to a rousing and uplifting close.
Thea Gilmore released an excellent album, Don't Stop Singing, earlier this year, on which she took some of Sandy's lyrics which had never been developed into fully fledged songs and set them to her own music. Her songs on the album are imbued with Sandy's spirit, whilst recognisably remaining the product of her own musical imagination, effortlessly encompassing her pastoral moods, introspective self-analyses and moments of rock-extroversion. It's a perfect collaborative meeting of minds, with Thea's phrasing and melodic sense conjuring the spectre of Sandy's voice without resorting to mere imitation. This is particularly so on the wordless vocalising which introduces Sailor (another expression of Sandy's recurrent lyrical obsession with the sea and the maritime life). It uncannily echoes the wordless crooning in the chorus of Sandy's song Listen Listen from the second solo LP. Thea sang beneath the backdrop of a glamorous shot of Sandy from the David Bailey photo session for the cover of that LP (as did everyone else), which emphasised their physical similarities. In this context, Thea really did seem to be Sandy reborn. She sang London and Don't Stop Singing, both vivacious songs which served to celebrate Sandy's love of life. As Swarb reminded us, she was no delicate, waif-like folk fairy, but an earthy woman with a bawdy sense of humour, quite capable of drinking the Fairport boys under the table and enjoying a night out on the town with Pete Townshend or Robert Plant. She always made him laugh, he chuckled, but he couldn't repeat most of what she said. The fact that she left such a stash of unrecorded lyrics (bringing to mind Woody Guthrie's lyrical archive, later brought to musical life by Billy Bragg and Wilco) suggests that music and songwriting was a compulsive process for her, a natural means of self-expression. Thea's Don't Stop Singing (till you drop), with its irresistible singalong chorus, stood as an anthem for the whole evening, a joyous affirmation of brimming creativity.
The male singers didn't have the same impact as the women, for me. Perhaps Sandy's music just wasn't an idiom which suited them, but Sam Carter's flatly demonstrative singing of the more traditionally folkie It Suits Me Well and Bushes and Briars failed to capture their wistful romanticism, rendering them as narrative reportage rather than poetry. Blair Dunlop's version of The Sea, from the Fotheringay LP, similarly didn't quite manage to evoke the song's hypnotic oceanic swell. Jerry Donahue's delicately filigreed Fender Telecaster decorations were lovely however, recreating the sound which was such an important component of Sandy's records, as he did throughout the evening. Who Knows Where the Time Goes is perhaps the song for which Sandy is best known – her signature song. It was included on and formed the title of a 1968 Judy Collins LP, at a time when Collins was a major folk luminary, interpreter at the court of Sir Bob and early champion of Leonard Cohen. Sandy's song holds its head up in the company of Bob Dylan's I Pity the Poor Immigrant and Leonard Cohen's Bird on the Wire and Story of Isaac. The inclusion of Robin Williamson's Incredible String Band song First Girl (or here Boy) I Loved showed that Collins had her eye on what was going on over the Atlantic, possible through the auspices of Joe Boyd, who provided a link between Elektra (for whom Collins recorded) and Island Records (home of Fairport, Sandy and ISB, all of whom he produced). Swarbrick points out that Who Knows Where the Time Goes was written very early on for such a defining song. It's outlook, with its perspective on the passing of time, is very mature for someone barely out of their teens (shades of Kate Bush and The Man With the Child in his Eyes). It was first recorded before she joined Fairport on the record she made with the Strawbs in 1967, although it first saw light in a more definitive form on Unhalfbricking, her second LP with Fairport. Here, it was given a valedictory group rendition, everyone crowding together on stage, taking a couple of lines each and all joining in for a rousing chorus. Whilst it will always be Sandy's song, it has attained the status of a standard, with the attendant sense of communal ownership. It offers new opportunities for collective folk singing, the gathering around a song which everyone knows, and which has a personal meaning and listening history for every participant.
Communal singing - Who Knows Where the Time GoesIt's bound to be the case with an evening like this that a few choice songs are left out. The selection was fine and wide-ranging, touching on most aspects of Sandy's manifold musical character, and included all one could hope for. There were a few more obscure favourites which were absent: The Optimist, Crazy Lady Blues and Wretched Wilbur from the brighter side of North Star Grassman and the Ravens; the sunny pop of Listen, Listen; the swirling nostalgic romance of Like an Old Fashioned Waltz; the end of Summer song Carnival; and the gorgeous seasons of life litany All Our Days. The guitar and electric piano driven Dark the Night would have been perfect for Thea Gilmore had she not been singing her own collaborative songs. It's intriguing to think who else might lend their voices to Sandy's songs, too. Norma Winstone, whose own writing shows a great sensitivity to seasonal mood, tending like Sandy towards the wintry and autumnal, would bring her own unique blend of jazz and folk voicings. Diamanda Galas would amplify the doomy gothic drama of some of the darker songs. Marianne Faithfull should surely sing Who Knows Where the Time Goes at some point in her musical career. And Polly Harvey could certainly transfer some of the spirit of Let England Shake to Sandy's songs, John the Gun or Wretched Wilbur seeming particularly good choices. Low could lend their hushed and heavenly harmonies to the Quiet Joys of Brotherhood or Like An Old Fashioned Waltz. There's certainly scope for Sandy's songwriting to find further stylistic expression, testing the material by casting it into new forms. Meanwhile, the artists performing at this tribute evening ensured that the songs remain vital, alive and in good voice.


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Kevin Abstract has been busy sharing a few one-off tracks to tide us over until he drops his highly anticipated second album, Death of a Supermodel, offering us a different side of him with each subsequent track. The third in the "NOT ON DOASM" series is perhaps the most far removed from his previous output we've heard yet, taking an almost folk-like approach with its melancholy acoustic instrumental.
Produced by Albert Gordon, "NOT ON DOASM 03" is one of the prettiest tracks Kevin has ever released, and that means a lot when you consider we're talking about the same guy who wrote "Heroina" and "Tame Cab." Who knows what to expect from Death of a Supermodel at this point? Whatever we end up getting, it's pretty clear that we're due for a treat when it releases later this year.


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I have been doing some knitting since the holidays. Here's what I've done so far.
Some mittens, using Elizabeth Zimmermann's pattern and my own handspun yarn.
A scarf using a traditional Estonian Stork's Nest pattern and a Merino/cashmere yarn.
And this little sweater that is on it's way to a new home next week. The blue yarn is recycled blue jeans and the sleeves are a self-striping sock yarn. The pattern is called Avery from Holli Yeoh.
Friday, February 18, 2011
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Addition to Knitting Resume
I can now say that I knitted a hat that attended Super Bowl Media Day! This is a picture of my brother-in-law, a photographer, wearing the hat I knitted him for Christmas. It's good to have a famous hat... (Oh, I think there are some football players in the photo as well.)
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The ability to see details on an object ultimately depends on how far away it is and how big it is. Stars are so very far away that they will never show a real disk or ball shape in a telescope.
Planets, the Moon, and the Sun are much closer and will show discernible disks and details even at low or medium powers in most telescopes. Nebulae and galaxies are also very far away, but are so enormous they will also show details in many telescopes.
What you will see looking at stars at high magnifications (assuming a steady atmosphere that will allow this) is an optical pattern known as the diffraction pattern. It's a bull's-eye with a bright central area or disk surrounded by one or more concentric rings. It is not the actual disk of the star you are seeing. The diffraction pattern is due to the way the telescope's circular lens or mirror acts on light from a pinpoint source like a star.


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The new RA-140 will not reset. Passes function test with empty chamber and no magazine:
Charge bolt.
Set switch to safe and pull trigger. Hammer does not fall. Passes with no trigger movement.
Position switch to fire and pull trigger and hold trigger rearward. Pass. Hammer falls.
Charge bolt again while continuing to hold trigger rearward.
Slowly release trigger and listen for / feel of trigger reset. Pass. Trigger resets.
Pull trigger. Pass. Hammer falls
Info: Installed new trigger with new KNS anti-rotation pins. Just snugged them.
Did not adjust set screws of new trigger module.
Fired 10 rounds. 9 of 10 extracted and fed new round. 1 firing extracted and failed to feed new round.
During installation of new trigger module, its hole aligned easily with lower rcvr holes. It's not like there's a bind due to misaligned trigger / hammer pins / openings.


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This is the largest budget deficit we have faced since the late 1970s and has the potential to erode many of the programs, supports and services students are currently receiving. Closing the $74 million gap will be the most difficult challenge we've faced in decades. Right now there are many unknowns. These unknowns will cause challenges and disruptions to the good work that our schools, educators and central office staff are doing.
We want to thank our Seattle Legislative delegation for their continued support to provide ample and sustainable funding for K-12 education. They have been extremely helpful partners in supporting our next generation of learners.
First, the state has not fully funded education as it is constitutionally required to do. While the Legislature has started to address their obligation regarding all-day kindergarten, class size, Maintenance, Supplies and Operating Costs (MSOC), and transportation, the state has been underfunding compensation for school district staff for more than 30 years.
Second, the Legislature has also made it impossible for our community to make up the difference by restricting how much we can collect from our voter approved levies. This has increased our 2017-18 budget gap by 30 million dollars and is known as the Levy Cliff. The Levy Cliff will happen, unless State Legislators take action by April 2017 and make adjustments to House Bill SHB 2893, an act relating to school levies passed in 2010.
The district is actively lobbying our legislature to fully fund education. However, we are legally prohibited from encouraging the public to lobby on our behalf.
Learn More
Learn more and support the Seattle School Board's resolution to ensure full funding of public education by visiting the Network for Excellence in Washington Schools' website.


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May 12, 2014
So Fetch!
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I am making a change because I am boring myself to tears on my 365. I am going to make a decent effort to photograph something other then my children. Unless there is a "cuteness emergency" you will not be seeing as many photos of them. It's time to get my creative on. We'll see how long I last...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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How about some great Colorado landscape shots??ReplyDelete
I love seeing pics of your kids, but I'm excited to see what new and crazy stuff you'll come up with!ReplyDelete
For me personally i do feel that my kids are the most interesting thing around. But i know what you mean, sometimes the kids just make it too easy and you've got to go looking for something beautiful and interesting.ReplyDelete
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As a freelance photographer I have been taking pictures or photo's for most of my life.My first camera was a box type brownie my parents brought me as a young boy. This was my start to Photography and going on to complete a four year course at one of Philadelphia's top rated Photography School's.And today I enjoy the outdoor world where my lens takes me to produce beautiful imagies that surround me.Landscape,seashore, pets and family portraits are my enjoyment, thank you.
Monday, February 21, 2011
The Outside World of Photography by Abby- Rose Photography
This swinging gate to a family farm in West Virginia was a
photo I could not pass up. As you may see the family had
a family member serving in the military and the porch and
fench were decorated. This young man we call nephew and
are very proud for his service. Thank you Bob
Snow covered bird feeder after a overnight snow storm. The trees were so covered with snow that after taking this photo the morning
sun came out and the moment was over. You had to be there to be
part of a change that only my lens could capture in time.
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Nice house! LOL Great pics and I love your new blog! So thankful that our son Bob is home! We are really enjoying his company around home again!ReplyDelete
Blessings, Shirl and Ed
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Ideas with Legs, 30 second video can win over 10k in prizes


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ron paul: no tax on tips
Waitpersons of the world unite.
ridikulus! edwards and family and pansification
John Edwards answered a question about exposing children to gay and lesbian families by saying that his children and wife were accepting of gays, and that was okay, because even though he wasn't particularly thrilled about gays he didn't believe he had the right to impose his own worldview on his children.
Then why ought we trust him to impose his own worldview on the world? As, you know, president or anything?
Maybe he's being "conservative" about gay rights because he's trying to distance himself from Coulter's sad "fag" appellation. But the strategy has clearly backfired. Now he seems more a pansy than he ever has before. Coupled with the possible self-identification with Christ (his favorite Bible verse "…you do unto me"), and the testy self- martyrdom ("No! Look what I've done!" for Katrina victims), he's looking kind of… ridiculous.
He remains way too slick for his own good. And just to be very very clear: it is Edward's attempt to shift away from gays and lesbians that is the pansy move.
Here's James Kotecki's recap of the debate:
richmond's confederate woes
Tim's take on Richmond's identity crisis.
Yet, because of its hive-like pre-possession of a defeat that happened 150 years ago, the citizens of this area can't seem to let go of an identity that hasn't been theirs for nearly fifty years.If you wonder why nothing ever gets done in this city, this is a big part of it. You can't build a future for a city, if you won't let go of the past.
I went out to Vicksburg with Dad and Granddad this last Summer. It's still so thorny and complex for Southern white men. It breaks down a lot easier for me than it used to: how can any freedom loving man (or woman) (of any race) support these creepy vestiges of a feudal confederacy? The South Will Rise Again? And you'll be a share-cropper again? Breaking your back, just like Freemen and before them the slaves, to grow the Big Man's crops? Why? Being white don't keep you from being poor and hungry and sick, mofo.
No, no. America isn't a feudal system — and even strong State's Rights agrarian idealists have to admit that its no fun to live and die sweating over someone else's capital on land you don't own in the hopes that you'll remain in his good graces long enough to keep catching the fatty scraps that fall from his table.
Tim's right. It's keeping plenty of Southern towns icily still. I'm tired of this "complexity"; it's not glamorous or patriotic — it's bunk and it's boring and it's fueled by "paper integrationists" that pretend they wouldn't want a sharp right turn back to Jim Crow. But it's easy to see through the pretense when they play their mouth-music through iron gates out at the edge of town — where all the whites fly to at night.
see also: Noel Polk's non-Faulkner writings.
see also: these 6 kids still in jail for
scaring the whites reminding the whites that they won't be coerced with fear anymore.
dharma talks audio
Good sources for audio talks about practice.
San Francisco Zen Center (Blanche Hartman, Reb Anderson, others)
World Community for Christian Meditation (after John Main and Bede Griffiths)
Some talks by Stephen Hoeller (esoteric Christianity, Wester Hermetic traditions, etc.)
spook country: google cse
find yourself exhausted in the search for archival sources reporting government sub-contractor's activities in particular black ops? need authoritative analysis of de-classified documents? want to know what your representatives in congress say about anti-grav propulsion technology?
maybe you just wonder who-knows-who between the Blackwater bunch and the Rendon Group.
you need you some [spook country research]
google cse: silversword
find yourself exhausted in the search for quality commentary on the grimoire of Pope Honorius? don't fret. here's a tool for those hard to reach "occult" places, when you get tired of stumbling over flaky sites selling chintzy trinkets:
'silversword occult search'
sec. def. cheney: don't go to baghdad
Back when things made just a little more sense.
independent state of caledon
UPDATE | I haven't even seriously started looking at all the funked-up sociocultural perversions in SL. Plenty of folks have been looking anecdotally for a while now. I guess I won't really be interested until I can see culturally distinct groups using it then expressing their own subcultures (as opposed to a dominant culture's subculture's uses of the space). Also, interested in SL searching and info-literacy in different communities. Must come back to all this sometime soon. |
Steampunk enclave in SL:
while i was out: gibson in sl
From earlier in the Summer:
Short feature about William Gibson's SL appearance. "If you ever run into me in Second Life, I hope I won't look quite so much like Quentin Tarantino. Thank you."
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Doctor Who fans hungry for news on series 10 can sate their appetite with this factoid - two new writers will be joining the show.
Steven Moffat, showrunner on the sci-fi series, made the announcement last night (December 16) at a screening of this year's Christmas special, 'The Husbands of River Song'.
"We're already moving [on the next series] - we've had meetings today with two writers who've never written Doctor Who before," he confirmed.
"If I told you their names, your brain would explode," he added - though Moffat did at least identify the newbies as "brilliant, prominent and amazing writers".
New writers to Doctor Who this year included Catherine Tregenna and Sarah Dollard - who wrote, respectively, the acclaimed episodes 'The Woman Who Lived' and 'Face the Raven'.
Here's hoping this new pair have some similar stunners up their sleeves…
'The Husbands of River Song' will air on Christmas Day (Friday, December 25) at 5.15pm on BBC One.
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First off I feeel I should apologise for a complete lack of posting in the last week and a half - I blame this entirely on two things: Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword and Lego Harry Potter Years 5-7. What I can promise however, is that December will be seeing a fairly hefty post count. For the month of christmas I am undertaking two challenges. The first is a standard ani-blogger thing: I'll be doing my own "12 Days fo Christmas". So, from the 12th - 24th of December I will be posting about various christmas anime and manga in whatever way feels vaguely appropriate at the time.
My second challenge is somewhat larger and will be my main focus in the upcoming month. As a christmas present to Anime-Planet, I am doing "25 Days of Manga" in which I will be adding at least one manga synopsis to the database a day based on suggestions from community members in this thread. As a companion to this, I have decided that every five days I will be posting my thoughts on each manga since I will be picking up series I may never normally have touched. So, stay tuned for more posts from me in December!
One thing that I have noticed however, is that from looking at the list of suggestions in the "25 Days of Manga" thread, I started to think more about genre preferences when it comes to anime and manga. Having taken on this challenge, I will be reading manga that both appeals to me (some I had already marked as wanting to read, others are series from some of my favourite mangaka that I didn't know existed), as well as some that I would never normally have even looked at, let alone considered. It made me think that really, doing this will be a good experience, as it will expose me to genres I'd never normally bother with too much. Now, we all have certain tastes when it comes to any form of entertainment, but I can't help but wonder, should we stubbornly stick only to those which we like, or should we occasionally try something out of our comfort zone?
My thoughts are yes, we should. I'm not saying that we should all immediately change our entire viewing menu to something entirely different, but who knows what you're missing out on if you vehemently cling to one or two genres. After all, tastes change. When I first started watching anime I was, for lack of a better phrase, a yaoi fangirl. I lapped up every single shounen-ai and yaoi title that I could get hold of. However, I soon grew out of that and began to gravitate more towards slice of life, comedy and eventually shounen - all three of which now form my core choices of preferred viewing. You need to take risks sometimes, or you could be depriving yourself of a new passion. Had I not taken up a friend's recommendation to watch Bleach years ago, I may never have gotten into shounen and I certainly wouldn't have discovered the joy of watching (and reading) One Piece.
Additionally, aside from personal tastes changing as you mature, just because you like one genre, doesn't mean that you will ultimately love everything that it has to offer. Recently I picked up Choir!, a 4-koma comedy slice-of-life manga - something that should in theory have been right up my street - however, I could barely make it through the first volume and promptly dropped it as soon as I had enough fodder for a synopsis. If not everything in one genre is to your tastes, it's likely that you won't hate everything in a genre you don't particularly enjoy. As much as it may be more convenient to simply put a blanket over one type of series and exclaim "I hate xxx", there's always an exception to the rule. I personally have little time for mecha, yet I found myself oddly enjoying Neon Genesis Evangelion (well except for the last few episodes - seriously? SERIOUSLY?). Likewise I'm not a fan of zombies, or ecchi, but for some reason I genuinely love Highschool of the Dead. For me it's proof that no matter how much you think you may know yourself, there's always room for surprise!
I guess, amongst all my rambling here, my overall point is this: don't limit yourself. Try something new every now and again and if someone (who you trust I hasten to add) recommends a series to you, don't immediately dismiss it if it's not something you usually go for, as you could be surprised. And if any of you do feel inspired by this post to go and watch/read something different, then brilliant and I hope the experience pays off; and if not... well at least it'll make you appreciate the genres you like even more.
As for me, well I'll be galloping into the next 25 days with an open mind and a hint of excited trepidation in the hopes that I'll stumble upon new series that I can appreciate and enjoy.


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South Korea is on course to meet its target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30% on projected levels by 2020, according to new data from the country's Ministry of Environment.
The Ministry outlines plans to reduce 233 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2020 – compared to the expected 2020 levels of 776 million tonnes of CO2e.
The target reduction includes plans to cut transportation emission by 34.3% and emissions in the building sector by 26.9%.
The Ministry of Environment also says it hopes to cut emissions 26.7% from power generation, 25% in the public sector, 18.5% in industry, 12.3% from waste and 5.2% in agriculture and fisheries.
"The new roadmap maintains the same Business As Usual and reduction target declared by the government on July 12, 2011 and reduction strategies and measures by 7 sectors such as industry, building and transportation," the Ministry says.
In a statement it adds that South Korea's proposed carbon trading scheme will allow the country to "minimise emissions reduction cost and alleviate the industry's burden" when following this strategy.
The Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is set to come into force in 2015, and is a major plank in the government's 'Green Growth' strategy of accelerating development while reducing its carbon footprint.
When it comes into force next year it is expected to initially cover more than 500 businesses classed as high emitters.
Participating companies are likely to get all of their initial emission permit allocations for free in the first two years. From 2021 10% will be auctioned.
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Aquamarine Dew Drops - Painted on March 25, 2010
The Path to Spring - Painted on March 24, 2010
A Shady Spot - Painted on March 23, 2010
by Artist Rita Squier
Original Watercolor Paintings
for my Painting A Day Challenge
I would love to type more, but I'm typing as fast as I can because I just know the "What's for dinner honey?" question is lurking. Think, think, think ... we have potatoes, how does stuffed baked potatoes sound? Hope it will do.
Have a great night and I hope you enjoy my Painting A Day Challenge! :)


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2016 has been an eventful year in many ways. Some predictions came true such as the growth in number of online shoppers throughout the Black Friday madness, other events have been less predictable with Trump's success in the US Presidential Election and the outcome of the Brexit vote in the UK.
One thing that each of these events did have in common though was that they all caused websites to crash.
In the UK when the deadline for voter registration for the EU Referendum was nearing, the application crashed due to unprecedented traffic. As Trump started to take the lead in key states in the US election it was reported that Canada's main immigration website appeared to suffer 'repeated outages', and Macy's, Argos and Quidco became victims of Black Friday traffic.
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Software Testing Life Cycle – Identify risk and prioritise to keep focussed
As with everything the speed at which testing is happening is vastly increasing and when accelerated timescales come into play it is crucial that projects are structured to deliver from the outset. Regardless of the testing approach the requirements analysis is an essential stage as it will identify priorities and associated risks, which in turn will inform the critical elements that are at risk from bugs. Testing teams can then identify the key test cases to focus on and maximise their testing time.
Remember the 7 principles of software testing
Principle 1 Testing shows presence of defects
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For those of you taking advantage of the 110,000 mile Capital One Venture Rewards card sign-up bonus, here's a potentially great use of your 110,000 or so Capital One points. Typically you're only earning what equates to one percent cash back which can be applied towards travel, though there's also an option to apply 51,250 points towards a $900 Hyatt check certificate. There's speculation in this FlyerTalk thread as to what exactly the terms of the certificate are, and most are hoping they're very similar to the ones that Costco sold a while back for 20% off. Either way, this is potentially nearly double the value you would get out of using the points otherwise.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Theme Thursday: Green
17 comments:
"Pursuing a mirageReplyDelete
Of a green land
Far far away
It may not be true
But I'm going anyway"
oooo :) yes!
better to chase a possibility
than to be stagnant !
oooo :)
I love the line.ReplyDelete
"Cross the world in your sleep
Let your soul meet mine."
Truly beautiful.
I love this... the beginning is brilliant!!!ReplyDelete
"I'm done with being strong"ReplyDelete
the pain, the helplessness, the longing, the hope.. Fabulously weaved! It says it all, friend.. Go on!
wonderful piece...being lost in a dream and letting it take you...nice. i also agree...ReplyDelete
Cross the world in your sleep
Let your soul meet mine
I'm done with being strong
Let me cry in your arms
is a phenomenal verse. so speaks to me...
great piece Maha. and I love the pictureReplyDelete
Maha, you've given us so much to think about here! Simply brilliant!ReplyDelete
Cha bhi fios aire math an tobair gus an tràigh e.ReplyDelete
"Watching the stars as they fade"...'tis nice,this... :)ReplyDelete
This is lovely Maha, I especially liked the lines "Cross the world in your sleepReplyDelete
Let your soul meet mine' ... so beautiful and so many possibilities. xo ♡
- Tess KincaidMarch 4, 2010 at 6:00 AM
So lyrical...this piece is begging for music!ReplyDelete
I liked the whole thing. You're very talented.ReplyDelete
That was so beautiful. So far, this was my absolute favorite. You truly are an amazing writer.ReplyDelete
Lovely words.ReplyDelete
Lovely @ MAHA...written ..giving the glimpse of everything just occurring in synchronous.. . Gr8ReplyDelete
All the best ..wish to read a lots of poems form your end ..
Thanks ..
P.S: Do visit back if you got time ..I know you
will be busy .....So go green n interact with nature .. he he Don't get confused ..its my new Theme
made by me
here you write as you always have...with your heart....and this gift of emotion that you give me is making me so silent, listening to it over and over.ReplyDelete
Like a song.
The reeds of the Nile are swaying beneath the date palms, while the wooden boats swaddle through...the pyramids smile in the evening skies.
Thankyou Maha!
this post is really beautiful!
"My dream is in my hands, but I dream it anyway". Brilliant! Dream we must, see futures brighter than what hands hold. Tomorrow our fingers may splay wide, grow length, grasp more. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Add your two cents. I look forward to getting to know you.ReplyDelete


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Adams, 42, is a business consultant and has Adamsserved six years on the Riviera Beach City Council. Prior to forming his own consulting company, he was the equal employment opportunity officer for Palm Beach County.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post114770557374585086..comments2018-05-07T16:29:53.341-04:00Comments on VOTARIES OF HORROR: The Theory of At Least OneKatherine email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-87170560158812747182014-03-03T13:40:28.282-05:002014-03-03T13:40:28.282-05:00Absolutely! At the time I wrote this, I was attend...Absolutely! At the time I wrote this, I was attending classes where classroom discussions would occasionally get completely sidetracked/coopted by the socio-economic-blah-de-blah single causative theory students. Which meant the overall intelligence of the discussion would instantly dropped.

What made it odd as well as annoying was how non-cutting edge it all was. For example, one day, I said, "Why do we have to have one dominant ideology?" (I was contesting the Marxist idea that all of civilization can be reduced to a dominant group and a subordinate group.)

Everyone laughed. "Hee, hee, how naïve."

Except my argument was fairly progressive and post-modern. I'm not a fan of post-modernism any more than I am of Marxism (nothing making sense doesn't appeal to me any more than single causation), but I was making a far more relevant academic argument than either the professor or the students.

Talk about being stuck in the previous century!

It brings me back (always) to my fairytale argument. Why insist that there is ONLY ONE EVIL DELIVERER OF FAIRYTALES (DISNEY) when there's Disney and Miyazaki and Grimm and Perrault and a dozen television shows and graphic novels and Mr. Depressing Hans Christian Andersen and Andrew Lang plus C.S. Lewis/Tolkien reinventing stuff all over the place.

You say this to the Marxist students in my master's program, and they would have said, "Yes, but Walt Disney has economically taken over the industry, evil capitalism, yadda yadda yadda."

You ask my folklore students (who actually read fairytales) and they say, "Yeah, Disney's okay, and people should read that other stuff too, and there's nothing to stop them."

Constructed ideology versus reality: reality wins.
Kate Woodburyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-44095112673140763602014-03-02T21:30:01.370-05:002014-03-02T21:30:01.370-05:00I've long had a similar observation, but more ...I've long had a similar observation, but more expansive: think of anything, no matter how normal or bizarre, and there is a group of people engaged in it and (and this can be even weirder) another group who like to watch the first.

I also like your disagreement with, I think if I read right, what could be called "single causative theory". That is; any human behavior can be invented but once. An extension of this is that any behavior must have a cause, be it deliberate invention or a product of biological necessity. Of course, this type of thing is essential for funding departments of sociology, psychology and a myriad of other soft sciences.

Joehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-71512569396241853832014-02-24T14:55:09.338-05:002014-02-24T14:55:09.338-05:00I love this comment :) I get a continual kick ou...I love this comment :)

I get a continual kick out of reminding myself, "At least one person bases his or her life on Andy Griffith" or "At least one person dresses like Finch from Person of Interest because it IS Finch" or "At least one person decided to become a jazz musician because of that one episode on The Simpsons" (scads of people can be inspired by actual jazz musicians; it takes the individual to be inspired by Lisa Simpson).

"Nobody could possibly believe that," I'll think about the premise of a show, and then I'll think, "Ah, yes, but somebody out there does!" Kate Woodburyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9721761.post-36866009382346304132014-02-24T10:59:00.687-05:002014-02-24T10:59:00.687-05:00At least one person did read this blog. And at lea...At least one person did read this blog. And at least one person really loved it. "There's at least one person out there who thinks that some minor soap star is the best actor in the world." writes Katherine Woodbury, I used to be that person feeling that way about Sarah Michelle Geller playing Kendall on the show All my children. As I've gotten older I'm no longer a soap opera fan. I am still a fan of Geller although I wouldn't consider her the world's best actor firstname.lastname@example.com


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I give into peer pressure extremely easily. My whole life I have always looked up to the people who stand up for what they want and never back down, who aren't afraid to be who they are or do what they want. My best friend Reagan was always one of those people. I always loved the fact about her that she didn't care what her parents said. She wore the things she wanted to regardless of if people thought it looked weird. I loved the fact that she was shameless of the things she enjoyed and she wasn't afraid to speak her mind.
I was never like that. I always came across as being confident in everything I said and believed but in reality I have always been afraid. Afraid of what people think and I find I only say things to appease others. My opinions on things change in an instant to resemble more similarly the person I am talking to so as to prevent a confrontation or argument. My actions change to match those of what people want from me or out of me. I feel extremely threatened by people who naturally get along with my friends because I feel as if I'm going to be tossed aside because I don't have all the same likes or opinions or something that they want. I have an extreme need to be accepted. Growing up I was home schooled because I was bullied in public school. I came home one day telling my mom I wanted to stay home for school and she let me. But there is always that stupid opinion of home schooled kids that they are awkward and antisocial and weird so I never told anyone I was home schooled. I hated the looks and jokes. The sad thing was I actually did sports with public school kids and band and theater. Everyone seemed to like me until they would find out I was home schooled. Then they would stop talking to me. I hated it and I felt alone. I tried to fit in in anyway I could. I stopped wearing my glasses, I stopped eating, I lost weight (even though I already had a normal body weight and type), I exercised more (like a lot more), I joked about the same things they did no matter how wrong it was, I acted as if I didn't care about school even though I loved learning, I acted as if I enjoyed all the same things they did.
What hurt the most was that I didn't even feel accepted in the home school community because I wasn't religious enough or because I didn't grow up in a generational home of home schooled kids or because I acted too much like the public schoolers.
I never felt liked. So I realized that these last 2 years. When I have been pressured the most to do things I said I would never do. And I've done them all. The sad thing is that when I do them or did them, that I would feel "cool" or accepted by those around me. But in reality, I realize now that they didn't care if I did it or not. They would still be my friends or they would still have left like they did. All I did by choosing to take part in those pressures was hurt myself. And to go back on every promise I ever made myself.
I hate looking at people now and see all the things they have stuck with and not changed. I hate it because I'm not like them. I never had the strength to say no. And even if I did, it didn't last for very long. Even if it was one of the deepest held desires in my heart. I honestly think I've only ever made one true choice for myself that I didn't feel pressured into. That honestly was switching colleges last year.
You know as much as I have felt pressured by people, some of the choices have been good ones. But that doesn't mean I was glad I was pressured. No. I've never had a chance to make my own choices. So now I am floundering. I don't know what I'm doing or who I am. I don't know what I believe or how to live with everything I've done. I can only hope that I'll learn from them and be able to help others with it. But my biggest struggle in life right now is. . .
to make my own choices. And to not care what anyone says or thinks. To say no and to stick by it. To stick by my opinions even if I don't have the best comebacks because deep down in my heart I know it is right.
I always say be humble but be firm.
Humility and openness
are the key to success
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Top Times (As of November 2015):
- 50 Free, 23.18 (2014 LE Senior Championships, SCY)
- 100 Free, 49.95 (2014 LE Senior Championships, SCY)
- 200 Free, 1:47.82 (2015 LE Northeast Ohio HS Districts, SCY)
- 50 Meter Free, 26.05 (2015 Speedo Junior Nationals, LCM)
- 100 Meter Free, 56.39 (2015 Speedo Junior Nationals, LCM)
Awards/Honors/Rankings: 2016 US Olympic Trials Qualifier in the 50 and 100 meter free ... won two varsity letters at Hawken, one for swimming and one for track ... voted Lake Erie Swimming Senior Swimmer of the Year ... as a sophomore, swam with sister Alyssa on 200 medley relay All-American team.
Prep & Personal: Swam with both prep team and Lake Erie Silver Dolphins club team ... as a freshman, set school records in 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, 100 fly, 100 back and 200 IM ... was a state finalist and All-American ... as a sophomore, broke all her school records and repeated as a state finalist and All-American ... also named a Scholastic All-American ... as a junior, broke school records in 50, 100 and 200 free ... team was crowned Division II State Champions ... finished season as a state runner up, All-American and Scholastic All-American.
Outside the Pool: Hails from same area of Ohio as current Irish swimmers Katie Miller and Danielle Margheret ... middle child of Steve and Kristan Heller ... has one brother, Michael, and one sister, Alyssa ... intends to major in psychology at the University.
Head Coach Mike Litzinger on Heller: "Lauren's commitment to Notre Dame is game changing. She is a very talented and powerful freestyler, who has a great future in college swimming. I enjoyed getting to know Lauren and her family during the summer and fall. Family is important to us at Notre Dame, and Lauren has great support from hers as she begins her career here."


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so, for the longest time i've always told myself that i have to have a vera wang dress. i think its because that's the only bridal designer i knew! but now that i've been looking around, i realized vera wang is overrated :)
i am in love with monique lhuillier!
here are some of her gowns from her spring 2010 collection that i absolutely LOVE. wow who knew bridal fashion goes that far in advance!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
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If you're anything like myself, you will certainly share appreciation of the refreshing change of season and lovely warm weather that we have been experiencing of late!
This new bout of sunshine ushers in one of the Spring/Summer '11 Season's new trends perfectly: Colour Blocking!
Now, you would've noted that colour blocking can be seen literally everywhere!
Flashes of exuberant, infused colour have appeared on the catwalks right through to the lower end retail stores!Corals, cobalt blues, tangerines, reds, hot pink, canary yellows, vibrant greens etc. And it is set to trickle into the Autumn/Winter '11/12 season too!
|Milan Show: Colour Me Beautiful AW'11[Courtesy of Vogue.com]
Rapidly vanished are the days when teaming one particular bold colour with another would be acutely frowned upon! With this season's Colour Block trend - anything goes, in more ways than one! All sorts of hues are being pitted together!
A trend within this trend that appears to be gathering momentum, especially amongst the celebs, is pairing two colours in particular: red and pink. Now who would've thought?!
I am yet to muster up my enthusiasm for this particular colour combo, however.
H&M, Zara, Topshop, Miss Selfridges, to name a few are churning out some very ample on-trend offerings hailing the Colourful Craze.
|Good green! Zara
I, for one, will most definitely be dipping into this trend this season, as I happen to think that it is a rather bright idea!
Style Tip: As an emerging Stylist, I would like to share a nugget but also warn you, though - not every vibrant colour suits every complexion. So do be sure to invest in a colour that compliments your skin tone as opposed to one that overwhelms you and everyone else within your vicinity!
Happy colour blocking!