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Program 14
"All About Alkan"
MUSIC (0:21): Gounod: Funeral March of a Marionette (using the part that served as the theme music for the Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV series) [London 436 797-2, track 7] [Down and under...] [0:21]
FLAXMAN (0:25): Whose death do you think is commemorated in this music - a parrot or a marionette? Well, my own confusion about the answer to this question led me from the TV series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where this was the theme, to the music of Charles Valentin Alkan. I'll tell you how this happened and why I'm delighted it did on this edition of Compact Discoveries. [0:46]
MUSIC (0:23): Up, then down and out. [1:09]
FLAXMAN (2:47): Hi, this is Fred Flaxman, your host for Compact Discoveries, a program where we explore lyrical music by little-known composers and little-known gems by the celebrated masters.
I love the films of Alfred Hitchcock. And I also remember with a warm spot in my heart his weekly television series. When I first started collecting compact discs, I wanted desperately to have a copy of the theme music to Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Buried deep in my memory was a scrap of information that I picked up, I don't know where, that this music was from a funeral march for some animal - a parrot, I thought. Unfortunately, I couldn't remember who the composer was.
Years later I came across a CD filled with the music of a French composer I had never heard of - Charles Valentin Alkan. That's A-L-K-A-N. The last piece on the disc was the Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot. Actually, the name was given only in Italian, so I still wasn't sure what animal had died. In any case, I forked out a great deal of money for this foreign import with the hope that this was the piece I had been searching for.
It wasn't. But that's how I discovered Alkan. The theme for Alfred Hitchcock Presents turned out to be the Funeral March on the Death of a Marionette by another 19th Century French composer, another Charles for that matter - Charles Gounod. Now, if you want the piece in your collection as much as I wanted it in mine, you'll find it on a London CD called Psycho: Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers, which also includes North by Northwest, Vertigo , Spellbound, Marnie and A Portrait of Hitch from The Trouble with Harry.
But I found that I also enjoy Alkan's mock funeral march. I'm going to play it for you in a minute. First, though, I have to give you a quick French lesson to make sure you understand all of the sparse lyrics. Without understanding the words, you'd miss the humor of this Monty Pythonesque piece. It's a parody of the operatic and religious music of its day.
Alkan starts with an introductory bogus funeral march. Then the singers enter with "As-tu déjeuné, Jacot?" Jacot is the French equivalent of Polly; "As-tu déjeuné" - which means "Have you eaten?" - is what the French say to their parrots when we would say "Polly wants a cracker?" The only other words in the piece are: "Et de quoi?" - literally, and of what? What did you eat?
Now with your new-found French firmly in mind, let's listen to the Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot by Charles Alkan. [3:56]
MUSIC (9:43): Alkan: Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot [ADDA 581285, Track 15] [13:39]
FLAXMAN (2:53): That was the Funeral March on the Death of a Parrot by Charles Valentin Alkan. The words were taken from the French equivalent of "Polly wants a cracker?" by the great female poet, author and composer, Ann Onymous. Performance was by the Ensemble 2E 2M (The 2E, 2M Ensemble), a French chamber group. The singers were Nell Froger, soprano; Anne Bartelloni, mezzo-soprano; Bruno Boterf, tenor; and François Fauche, bass. This piece is one of several by Alkan on an ADDA release, and it's an all-digital recording.
If you've never heard of Alkan before, you certainly haven't
heard of Charles Valentin Morhange. That was Alkan's real name.
I don't know why he preferred Alkan, which, pronounced the American
way - Al-kan - sounds like a better name for the merger of Alaska
and Kansas, than it does for a composer... or perhaps like an
acronym for the Aluminum Can Company.
But, if we're to believe the program notes accompanying Ronald Smith's performance of Alkan's Piano Sonata, Op. 33 on EMI Classics, the toppling bookcase story is pure myth. Alkan died of natural causes.
Some accounts have it that Alkan was a highly religious recluse. Others that, when he disappeared from social life and public performance for years at a stretch, supposedly immersing himself in Talmudic and Biblical studies, he was actually having affairs with some of his piano pupils.
In any case, for a guy who entered the Paris Conservatory at the ripe old age of six and who, a bit later, spent much of his time translating the New Testament into French from the Peshitta or Syriac version, Alkan obviously had quite a sense of humor.
But he had a serious side as well, and he wrote at least one incredible, monumental composition which I think deserves to be on every classical collector's CD shelves: The Concerto for Solo Piano. The first movement alone is just under a half-hour long. And the composition's unusual name is well deserved. It is so powerful I sometimes forget no orchestra is involved. Here's the first half of the first movement, performed by the Canadian-American pianist, Marc-André Hamelin (or Hamelin) on the Music & Arts label. [16:32]
MUSIC (15:00): Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano : Allegro assai [Music & Arts CD-724] Down and out at 30:32. [30:32]
FLAXMAN (2:04): Oh, I hate to cut in on this. It makes me think of the professor I had for Music Appreciation 101 at the University of Michigan many years ago. In those days you had LP records, not compact discs, and he used to play excerpts all the time. But, unfortunately, he was incapable of picking the needle straight up off the record. Each time he tried, he did it with a sliding motion which sent shivers up and down all of our backs simultaneously. Naturally, his continual mistreatment of the records semester after semester added pops and scratches to the LPs each year. By the time I had his course, it was almost impossible to hear the music through the scratches - which is probably why I was so quick to buy a compact disc recorder when they came out!
My professor encouraged us to listen to the whole work on our own time, and I encourage you to do the same and purchase the recording when any of the excerpts you hear on this program appeal to you. But I promise to cut into these CDs as painlessly - and as rarely - as possible.
The sound on this CD of Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano is excellent, but there is one very annoying problem. In the last movement one repeated note results in a vibration which sounds like... like the complaints of a constipated cat. How did they let that slip by? Listen for it especially starting at 8 minutes, 15 seconds into the third movement when it repeats every second for 6 beats in a row!
If the final movement sounds a bit Arabic to you, well, it's supposed to. It is called Allegretto alla barbaresca , which means Allegretto, Barbary-Coast style. French archeologists at the time were making a great many discoveries in the Arab world, kindling French interest in the area and influencing French artists, writers and composers. Arab themes also appear in Saint-Saëns, Flaubert, Delacroix and Théophile Gautier.
Let's hear the complete second and third movements now of Alkan's Concerto for Solo Piano, performed by pianist Marc-André Hamelin. [32:36]
MUSIC: (12:21 and 9:21, respectively): Alkan: Concerto for Solo Piano: Adagio and Allegretto alla barbaresca [Music & Arts CD-724] [54:27]
FLAXMAN (1:54): That was the Concerto for Solo Piano by Charles Alkan, performed by Marc-André Hamelin at the piano.
Long as it is, the Concerto for Solo Piano comprises just three of the 12 Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 39 - Alkan's most ambitious work. Four other movements make up his Symphony for Solo Piano. Opus 39 also includes a long Overture in B Minor, and Le Festin d'Esope (Aesop's Feast), a 10-minute set of variations.
So, hey, Alkan is not exactly a household word. I'm not saying he deserves to be one. But I don't think he merits the almost total neglect he has received for more than a century. Unlike Liszt and the other Romantics, he didn't do a very good job of blowing his own horn while he was alive, since he wasn't a horn player. But then, neither was Liszt, and that didn't stop him! Since Alkan's death, pianists haven't exactly rushed to perform his highly difficult, strenuous compositions either.
But, starting in the 1960s, Alkan's work has enjoyed a slow come-back, championed by pianist Raymond Lewenthal in the U.S. until his death, and by Ronald Smith in England. Smith devoted a prominent place in his programs to the composer, made several recordings, and even wrote a biography: Alkan the Enigma. John Ogdon, Michael Ponti and others have hopped on the bandwagon (or, at least, the pianowagon). Now pianist François Bou has become a card-carrying member of the fan club with ADDA's Alkan series.
Well, if you don't buy an Alkan CD right now, you may miss the chance to be the first on your block to have one. If you lived on my block, you'd already be too late. [56:12]
MUSIC: Reprieve of opening music by Gounod. Down and under.
FLAXMAN (0:30): I hope you've enjoyed Alkan - and Gounod - as much as I have. If you would like a list of the recordings played on this program, or have questions or comments about the broadcast, by all means write or call me in care of this station. I'd love to hear from you. You can also send me an e-mail message from my website: www.fredflaxman.com. This is your guide, Fred Flaxman, thanking you for joining me today on Compact Discoveries.
MUSIC (0:48}: Up, down and out at 58:00. [58:00]
"Favorite Funeral Music"
MUSIC: Grieg: Notturno with Eva Knardahl, piano [BIS CD-105, track 4]
FLAXMAN: Music lovers can make the task of writing their wills far more interesting by naming the musical selections they would like played at their funeral. Some might choose requiems, but I would pick the piano pieces I never managed to play well while I was alive, played - by more gifted pianists - as I would have liked to play them. Join me, Fred Flaxman, for my "Favorite Funeral Music," next time on Compact Discoveries.
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MUSIC: fade out at 30 seconds
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Gayle Forman did such a great thing making Adam's voice believable and gripping at the same time. As we read the book we may be wondering where on Earth is Mia right now and how is she doing but Adam pat us on the head and yells, "Hey, you've listened to Mia this whole time, now you have to sit and relax and hear me out."
We meet Adam on the night when he's supposed to rest and get ready for a long trip to London. Yes; he is a star right now, famous with his celebrity girlfriend and his striking songs, infamous with his quiet, outcast self who enjoys time in solitude rather than in most parties. That way, he somehow manages to find a banner with Mia's picture on it, with feelings of the ol' times pouring out, begging him to give this night a chance to see Mia, at least for the last time.
And this book tells us the night when Mia and Adam reunite, keep up with the each other's news, wander in New York, and wonder what was wrong about them.
It broke my heart everytime Adam cries. He is not weepy or pitiful; and that's why I pity him even more. When he learns that Mia was resentful of him because he was the reason why Mia stayed, that Mia had a few times hoped Adam would just let her go because living without her family was too painful, when he was the reason why Mia left, that him being protective for her made her angry, every time Adam aches when he remembers Teddy, I cried my heart out.
This sequel is exceptional . It's hard for me to compare the two books; because there is nothing to compare, actually. Each provides us different stories, different issues, different feelings. It's amazing how Forman manages to sum up three years + a whole night in a book. There was no part when I cringed because the plot was not making sense; I enjoyed my time reading the book. I finished the book in one sitting.


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I watched this movie last week and it was a pretty funny one. You see some stars in MST3K movies, but how about Beau Bridges and Ron Howard in the same movie? You get that in this one.
Here's a collection of bits with Mike and the bots making fun of Tommy Kirk's tiny pants.
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Blind to Sin by, Dave White
Jackson Donne has spent the year since the events of An Empty Hell in prison. Being a former cop, a PI, and the scapegoat for a political assassination, nearly everyone in prison is gunning for Donne, but he has protection from Matt Herrick's father, Kenneth. Counter to Donne's wishes, the pair are released from prison, but the terms of their release include performing a heist on the Federal Reserve. Soon Matt Herrick is drawn into the pair's orbit and finds himself trapped in an explosive web of lies and family history.
With this novel, Dave White shows himself a true student of the genre. The heist theme is straight out of Donald Westlake, to whom White pays tribute by naming each part of the book after a different Parker novel.
Raymond Chandler once wrote about the private eye "down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." But modern authors are turning Chandler's famous sentence on its head. Ray Banks put his PI, Cal Innes, through so much physical punishment that he was a cripple in Beast of Burden. Dave White seems to be putting Chandler's maxim to the test by putting Donne through so much emotional punishment to see if the mean streets can tarnish the man and turn him mean.
The history of the genre only informs and enriches the story. The actions of the characters are original (sometimes surprising) and White's characters feel lived-in. One criticism I have is multiple characters' reactions to events are described by an icy feeling in their chest or something stewing in their bowels. Also, more than one character counted to 10 or 20 before reacting in order to slow their heart rate and not be impulsive. I don't know how often this happened in the novel, but it happened a number of times in a short number of chapters that it felt repetitive and stuck out.
As always, White's books are enjoyable page-turners with actual depth. This one comes recommended.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by, Jennifer Graham
Spring break and college students descend on Neptune, transforming the beaches and boardwalks into a frenzied, week-long rave. When a girl disappears from a party, Veronica Mars is called in to investigate. The house the girl vanished from belongs to a man with serious criminal ties, and soon Veronica is plunged into a dangerous underworld of drugs and organized crime. When a major break in the investigation has a shocking connection to Veronica's past, the case hits closer to home than she ever imagined.
Writing a tie-in novel to a popular TV show or movie is a tricky tightrope to walk. The author must both serve the source material, capturing the nuance of the screen character, and the casual audience who many not be familiar with the show. Graham and Thomas do a good job with The Thousand Dollar Tan Line. Veronica's sarcastic sense of humor and the banter with her father are hallmarks of the television show and are both rendered well here. There are many cameos from almost everyone in the show, and only one or two seem gimmicky. For non-fans, the mystery itself is compelling and twisty. The "shocking connection to Veronica's past" mentioned above will resonate with fans of the show and movie, but it explained well enough that even fresh eyes will empathize with Veronica.
The novel is well plotted and the characters have depth, but there are moments that are a bit over-written. This doesn't detract from the overall enjoyability of the book. I will read the second book in the series at some point.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Song of the Week: Red Solo Cup
This week is St. Patrick's Day. I wonder how many red Solo cups are going to be sold around college campuses this week.
Friday, March 10, 2017
MST3K Friday: The Thing That Couldn't Die
I watched this movie last week. Not too bad.
"The king's men approacheth."
"You're all evil and I hope you all have snacks."
"The king's men approacheth."
"You're all evil and I hope you all have snacks."
Monday, March 6, 2017
Song of the Week: Evil Is As Evil Does
I first heard this song on SiriusXM's BB King's Bluesville station. Apocalypse Blues Revue is a band consisting of the former drummer and guitarist from Godsmack (Shannon Larkin and Tony Rombola), plus a bassist and frontman. While writing for Godsmack's 2010 album, Larkin and Rombola were burned out by hard rock and took to jamming in their South Florida rehearsal spot. During one impromptu session, the drummer laid down a slow, simmering groove, and another side of the guitar player reared its head. "I couldn't believe it," smiles Shannon. "I didn't even know he was into blues or could play the way he does. My reaction was immediate. We had to officially start a blues band."
The self-titled debut album is a mix of grinding blues, traditional shuffle, and others. At certain times, I could detect the influence of Jim Morrison and The Doors in the vocals. Overall, it's a solid debut, but there are definitely two songs that stand above the rest. This week's song "Evil Is As Evil Does" is one of those songs, and the first of theirs I heard.
The self-titled debut album is a mix of grinding blues, traditional shuffle, and others. At certain times, I could detect the influence of Jim Morrison and The Doors in the vocals. Overall, it's a solid debut, but there are definitely two songs that stand above the rest. This week's song "Evil Is As Evil Does" is one of those songs, and the first of theirs I heard.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
John Quincy Adams by, Paul C. Nagel
With John Adams as his father and someone as remarkable as Abigail as his mother, Adams was compelled to make something of himself at an early age. He traveled across the ocean to Europe twice before the age of 20, and even traveled from St. Petersburg back to Paris alone at age 14. He became a giant in the political arena, but all he wanted was literary acclaim. JQA loved books, frequently wrote poetry, and constantly lamented to his diary about the lack of time to read and write.
The book is full of great details that I never knew before (or had forgotten). John Quincy Adams served in the House, Senate, and as President, but he was almost a member of the Supreme Court. In 1811, James Madison nominated him for a vacancy on The Court. His approval was almost assured by the Senate, but Adams was serving as ambassador to Russia at the time and declined citing his wife's pregnancy and the hard travel they would have to face to return to Washington. Adams did confide to his brother and his diary that he felt he was too partisan to be an impartial judge, so his wife's pregnancy was simply a convenient cover story. Since he remained an ambassador, he was available to negotiate the treaty that ended the War of 1812 (much like his father negotiating the end of the Revolutionary War)
As Secretary of State, Adams was responsible for writing and promoting what became known as the Monroe Doctrine. He put in place the agreements that established the border between the US and Canada and the annexation of Florida from Spain. He is arguably the most important foreign policy figure in American history.
But he really won the hearts of Americans as a congressman. He was instrumental in directing funds that established the Smithsonian and was one of the most vocal opponents to slavery. Do yourself a favor and watch Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of JQA during the Amsitad case from the 1997 movie.
One of the things that most struck me about this book was how Abigail Adams was presented. In every other book I've read about the founding or the Adams family, she is shown to be a smart, feisty, remarkable woman. It this book, she comes across as an overbearing, hectoring woman constantly fretting about people falling into moral decay. Perhaps it is because most other stories are told through John's eyes, but this one is through the eyes of her son.
Nagel's biography balances JQA's private and public life to provide the reader a good idea of what he was like. There were several points that Nagel constantly repeated (JQA's want of a literary career, his frustrated relationship with his mother) that became grating after a while. However, it didn't detract much from the overall book.
If you're interested in American history, this book is a worthwhile read.
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Sorry, I was so rude today and didn't answer your question. Probably, because you directed it as more of a statement than question. I wasn't quite sure how to respond to, "well, someone's gotta put your kids through college," after I accidentally rang up your order incorrectly.
Since, our interaction was brief, I just want you to know, I don't have any children. But, I'm putting myself through college (for the second time), because I know you've been dying to hear my answer. I would have shared that with you, but between the time you of ordering and my hand jotting down your drink code, you didn't ask. Do you have children? So, rude of me not to ask in return.
I do love kids though. I am volunteering several times a month teaching first graders how to read and serving with my church's youth ministry. Things I could have mentioned, but we were both very busy.
There's something that makes me think you really weren't concerned about my "kids", and my financial well-being, but before you jump to a conclusion about my situation, you should step back to realize a coffee order being rang up incorrectly is a definition of "first-world problems."
I've worked for everything I've received, and have worked very hard. I don't rely on assistances or allowances which I am sadly realizing you were implying. When the going has gotten tough, I've rolled up my sleeves and gotten to work. When I have been hungry, I've ventured out of the cave to kill something to bring home. And when I do have children, I will expect them to do the same. If killing something to me means writing down your drink order and adding extra whipped cream, I guess that's what I have to do. A person with an ego about how they make money, doesn't deserve to make it.
I don't want to assume that anyone ever raised you to treat people the way you treat me today. I'm sure it's something you saw on television. Maybe, you were just having a bad day. Sorry if this response is out of line.
Yours Truly,
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A TYPICAL THAMES SKIFF.... see The Skiffing Boys update below!
Went up to the Savoy Hotel in London yesterday for the annual Romantic Novelists Association awards luncheon.
Terribly glam as always with maybe a little less black than previous years.
Para-Athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson was the speaker and award giver... she gave a brillant speech that was just right in tone and length for the occasion.
Rosie Thomas won the main award for IRIS AND RUBY and Nell Dixon the category romance award for MARRYING MAX.
And then the hardened among us headed, as usual, to the Coalhole pub on the corner to carry on.
This year I didn't stay in town overnight so I gave up earlier than usual. I gambled as usual on a last minute bargain room and timed it wrong. No way was I going to pay £150 for a shoebox in a none too desirable establishment! Luck of the draw, I had many bargains over the years so I can't complain.
London is so expensive though... I've had some info through from The Breakers in Palm Beach, Fl (stayed there once, super super luscious hotel) and I could have a room there in the summer for the same price. Silly silly.
Anyway, as usual I digress! While I waiting for a friend in the foyer I saw a familiar figure climb out of a limo and march purposefully in through the revolving doors and then away down the stairs.... Gordon Ramsay! Better looking in the flesh than on TV. Wondered if he's been called by the Savoy to dispose of the the troublesome vegetarians knowing his distaste for us!
Because I knew the majority of people arriving and because I recognised him without instantly realising who he was I was just a split second from saying hello and looking stupid. Hey ho.
WORD COUNT. Nothing to say right now but I am hanging my head in shame!
The skiffing boys went off this morning on their 'Three men in a Boat' (without a dog) re-creation on the Thames on a skiff. Sad to say husband Ian has already taken a dip in the river in a classic 'you've been framed' moment. One foot on the boat, one foot on the bank, the boat moved out.... splash! Don't think Trev and Phil were much help, they were still laughing a couple of hours later.
You see this is why I like BIG ships like the monstrous Caribbean cruise ships. The floating towns.... We're off on one of them later in the year. More info to follow. Even I couldn't push one of them away from the dock all by myself!
Clambering into small boats is fraught with danger. Don't think they'll be sleeping on it now they've seen it up close and experienced the size of it!
Never mind they have Ian's teepee with them.
So if you're strolling along the riverbank and spy Three Men in a Teepee making tea on a Gaz stove then stop and say HI for me.
Till next time.


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Oil & Gas sector seeks growth in Middle East28/4/2014
Stalatube's operations have extended to the oil & gas business for 15 years now. An estimated several dozen oil rigs in the North Sea contain parts delivered by Stalatube, such as brackets, pipeline supports and pipeline bridges, machine frames and blastwalls, to name a few.
Stalatube has a strong foothold in the Norwegian oil business in the North Sea. The Norwegians are pioneers in the oil & gas industry around the world, being highly active in the areas of engineering, leadership, and construction, as well as in expert tasks.
"If we can get the Norwegians interested in Lean Duplex, it will be a lot easier making a breakthrough elsewhere in the world," says Petri Kotilainen, Sales Manager for Oil & Gas.
Expansion to the Middle Eastern market is, in fact, in Stalatube's plans for the near future, and the company has attended several Oil&Gas exhibitions, for example Petroleum Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi. The company has also been looking into the North American markets and has plans to attend an exhibition in Houston in May.
"We want to present the duplex family of products and its possibilities, particularly in secondary structural applications. Our duplex family will grow in the near future. We are very excited about this. There is so much potential in duplex," says Kotilainen.
Opening up trade relations in the Middle East means not only new markets, but also potential product development. "For now, Lean Duplex is being used in the North Sea, where temperatures are very different from those in the Middle East or, say, the Gulf of Mexico," says Kotilainen.
For Stalatube, however, it is important to show that the company's products can fulfil the needs of a variety of markets, which is why it eagerly welcomes new challenges, such as seeking out user experiences and product development.
Kotilainen also stresses that in today's global markets, companies can no longer focus on just one geographic area; even transactions carried out in familiar markets may stem from anywhere in the world.
"Projects are global nowadays. The commissioner of the project may be in the Middle East. The engineer in the U.S. The steel-structure manufacturer in Korea. The outfitter in Norway and the offshore oil rig might be located in the North Sea," he says, adding, "We have delivered tubes to Norwegian wholesalers, who have then delivered the materials to Singapore or Indonesia."
So, achieving visibility in all market areas is very important. "And not just for new sales," says Kotilainen. "It also allows us to share information about new and optimal materials."


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Paul Lawrie ushered in the next chapter of his career after turning 50 on New Year's Day, with a trip to Royal Lytham and St Annes for The Senior Open Presented by Rolex high on his list of priorities in his first year as a senior golfer.
Paul Lawrie ushered in the next chapter of his career after turning 50 on New Year's Day, with a trip to Royal Lytham and St Annes for The Senior Open Presented by Rolex high on his list of priorities in his first year as a senior golfer.
The Scot, who won The Open on home soil at Carnoustie in 1999, is planning on playing on both the European Tour and Staysure Tour.
The Senior Open Presented by Rolex returns to Royal Lytham and St Annes for the first time in 25 years, when Championship is held for the 33rd time from July 25-28.
After seeing Paul Broadhurst, Bernhard Langer and Miguel Ángel Jiménez lift The Senior Open Trophy over the past three years, Lawrie is excited to do battle.
"I've been looking forward to turning 50 for quite some time," said Lawrie. "I've seen the success that the guys have had in senior golf and I'm looking forward to having the chance to emulate their achievements.
"I'm planning on splitting my time between the European Tour, Staysure Tour and PGA Tour Champions this year and it's encouraging to see someone like Miguel prove that you can successfully balance your playing commitments across the three Tours.
The last time he teed it up at Royal Lytham & St Annes, Lawrie finished tied 34th at The Open in 2012, when he equalled his lowest-ever score in golf's original Championship with a five under par 65 in his opening round.
He was one stroke behind Australia leader Adam Scott after the first round but ended the tournament four over.
"I was really disappointed with how I played after that fantastic first round," said Lawrie. "It was one of the most bizarre starts I've ever had because after six holes I'd only had three putts – I'd chipped in twice and holed one from off the green.
"I think Lytham is one of the world's best links challenges and always enjoy playing there, so I'm really looking forward to returning in July."
Lawrie will be one of a host of Major Champions, Ryder Cup stars and European Tour winners set to tee it up at Royal Lytham during one of the most celebrated weeks of the 2019 golfing calendar.
He will join defending champion Jiménez, three-time Senior Open winner Langer and former Open Champion Tom Lehman, who won the Claret Jug at Royal Lytham in 1996.
Early Bird tickets for The Senior Open are available from £10 and can be purchased via: st.golf/SO19Tickets Admission for under-16s will be free.
There was a good turnout for Knott End Ladies' first competition of the year.
The weather was kind for the nine-hole Stableford won by Elaine Wrench with a score of 21 points. Runner-up was Alex Gardner with 17.
The men's greensomes stableford at Fairhaven was won by Daniel Ryley and Ian Walker with 37 points. Runners-up were James Fleming and Stephen Walthew (37).
The winning trio in the ladies' nine-hole yellow ball were Carol Hood, Anne Weston and Michelle Hancock with 40 points.
Fairhaven's Men's 4BBB Stableford over Christmas was won by Gary Barber and Paul Mooney with 43 points. Ian Malin and Simon Holdsworth were second (38).
The Ladies Give n Take nine-holer was won by Susanne Cunningham (19 points), with Yvonne Reilly second (19) and Lynn Griffiths third (18).
To start the New Year, Alastair Taylor of Lytham Golf Academy advises on adding spin to your pitch shots...
The use of launch monitors in recent years has enabled us to see which lofts create the best spin.
Generally speaking, a wedge with 54 degrees will produce the most backspin on a pitch shot.
Now this may vary slightly depending on how you deliver the club, but even without getting a wedge fitting, you can start using whichever loft you have which is closest to 54 degrees and see that ball stop quicker on the green.
As well as using a better loft of wedge, also make sure you accelerate through impact enough.
More speed will also help to generate more spin, so try shortening your backswing slightly and following through a little bit longer.
By combining the correct loft with more speed, you will spin your pitch shots more than ever before.
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Secession Crisis
Following the election of 1860, some prominent Southern leaders, Jefferson Davis among them, wanted to give the Lincoln administration a chance to sooth the sectional strife. However, South Carolina sized the initiative, having clearly warned that if the Republicans won the 1860 election then the state would leave the Union.
A special convention, attended by Robert Rhett and other noted �fire-eaters," was convened following the election and unanimously passed a resolution of secession on December 20, 1860.
The second to secede was Mississippi. Mississippi had passed resolutions on November 20, setting out their reasons for seceding, but the actual break did not take place until January 9. Before the end of the month, four more states -- Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana -- had formally seceded. Texas followed suit on February 1.
After the secession decisions of the first seven states had been made, the movement halted. Resolutions for leaving the Union were prepared in other Southern states, but not passed. Some observers felt this was an encouraging sign and hoped that war could be averted.
President James Buchanan did little. He expressed the view that it was illegal for the seven states to secede, but he also felt that it was illegal for the federal government to take any steps to halt secession. Buchanan believed, and would so maintain to the end of his life, that the problem was caused by the actions of the Northern abolitionists. No plan was forthcoming from the president, who eagerly awaited the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
Meanwhile the Southern states were taking steps to bolster their military preparedness. Aided by Secretary of War John Floyd, a Virginian, large stockpiles of arms were turned over to officials in the seceded states. Arsenals and forts were seized by state officials.
Two fortified positions did not fall immediately into Southern hands�Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor and Fort Pickens near Pensacola. Buchanan, for once taking a firm stance, refused a demand from South Carolina to hand over Fort Sumter. The President attempted to reinforce the position, but the ship carrying supplies and soldiers was dissuaded by Southern guns.
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Quotes regarding Secession Crisis.
By James Buchanan
The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union. I should feel myself recreant to my duty were I not to express an opinion on this important subject. The question fairly stated is, Has the Constitution delegated to Congress the power to coerce a State into submission which is attempting to withdraw or has actually withdrawn from the Confederacy?
State of the Union, December 1860
By Alexander H. Stephens
But I will say no more. I fear it will all come to nought ; that it is too late to do anything ; that the people are run mad. They are wild with passion and frenzy, doing they know not what.
Regarding the prospect of Southern secession
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Robert E. Lee's war correspondence is well known, and here and there personal letters have found their way into print, but the great majority of his m...
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman.
Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was depende...
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers by James F. Simon.
The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and chief justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and the president's constitutional war powers ...
Lincoln President-Elect : Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter, 1860-1861 by Harold Holzer.
One of our most eminent Lincoln scholars, winner of a Lincoln Prize for his Lincoln at Cooper Union, examines the four months between Lincoln's electi...
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America 1859-1863 by Edward L. Ayers.
Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil ...
War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 by Thomas Goodrich.
Long before the secession crisis at Fort Sumter ignited the War between the States, men fought and died on the prairies of Kansas over the incendiary ...
Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860 by William W. Freehling.
The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the futur...


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Tenants Lost as Sheldon Silver pushed through bad bill
On Jan. 28, 2013, Speaker Silver pushed through A.3354, a bill that saps the City's budget without protecting its residents. *
Tenants lost as Assembly Members felt constrained to vote for tax breaks for condo and coop owners - and therefore also voted (in the same bill) for tax breaks for 5 specified billion-dollar luxury developments, and to renew J-51 tax breaks with no serious protections for tenants.
Now it's up to the Governor. Given the speed with which the bill was rushed through the Senate and Assembly, optimism is not in order.
Nor will it be as long as big Real Estate has all upstate voters in their pockets. (Those legislators are not accountable to NYC renters.)
Come to the Real Rent Reform's meeting on Monday, February 25, 2013 to discuss Campaign Finance Reform! (Time and place to be announced.)
*Click on "read more" for R3's memo in opposition, sent to all the Assembly Members before the lopsided vote (139 to 7).
Tenants lost as Assembly Members felt constrained to vote for tax breaks for condo and coop owners - and therefore also voted (in the same bill) for tax breaks for 5 specified billion-dollar luxury developments, and to renew J-51 tax breaks with no serious protections for tenants.
Now it's up to the Governor. Given the speed with which the bill was rushed through the Senate and Assembly, optimism is not in order.
Nor will it be as long as big Real Estate has all upstate voters in their pockets. (Those legislators are not accountable to NYC renters.)
Come to the Real Rent Reform's meeting on Monday, February 25, 2013 to discuss Campaign Finance Reform! (Time and place to be announced.)
*Click on "read more" for R3's memo in opposition, sent to all the Assembly Members before the lopsided vote (139 to 7).
January 28, 2013
The Real Rent Reform Campaign strongly opposes the following bill:
A3354 Sponsored by Wright, Braunstein, Silver, Kim, Weprin, Simanowitz, DenDekker, Cymbrowitz
Multi-sponsored by Arroyo, Benedetto, Boyland, Brennan, Brook-Krasny, Clark, Colton, Cook, Dinowitz, Espinal, Glick, Goldfeder, Heastie, Hevesi, Hikind, Lentol, Markey, Miller, Millman, Mosley, Nolan, Ortiz, Perry, Pretlow, Robinson, Rozic, Sepulveda, Simotas, Titus, Weinstein
– On Ways & Means agenda for today
This bill is a classic exercise in Albany cynicism and costly, unfair tradeoffs that benefit the wealthy and powerful at the expense of everyone else. It includes billions in taxpayer-funded giveaways to deep-pocketed real estate titans who bankroll state politicians. It helps only a very small number of tenants, while continuing legislative policies that harm all other tenants.
The bill renews the expired tax abatements for coops and condos, but links this necessary renewal to a massive giveaway of tax dollars to the richest New Yorkers. And it does this as New York City struggles to meet its financial obligations – which is shameful and wrong. This kind of legislation deepens the public's mistrust of state government. It sends voters a clear message: Albany is owned by real-estate barons and corrupt lobbyists who are paid to make state government do their bidding.
A3354 carves out wasteful tax breaks for five high rise luxury housing developments located in areas of Manhattan that are currently ineligible for tax benefits under the 421-a program. Included is One57, the "billionaires' tower" across from Carnegie Hall owned by Extell that was featured in an article in The New York Times on September 18, 2012. A penthouse on the 75th and 76th floors at One57 that was sold to a billionaire for $90 million will have its annual real property tax bill reduced from $230,000 to $20,000, thanks to the 421-a carve-out in A3354.
Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller Samuel, Inc. has quantified the lost revenue to New York City from five luxury housing developments that received 421-a subsidies: the City collected a mere $567,337 in real property taxes from the Avery, the Orion, the Aldyn, the Rushmore, and Ariel East in their first year of occupancy. Without the 421-a subsidy, the City would have collected $22,430,543 from these luxury properties. This represents an annual loss of $21.8 million from these five buildings alone.
That annual windfall of nearly $22 million for the affluent residents of these five luxury towers is $22 million that is not available for schools, parks, service for the poor, fire fighters, child care or public safety. The 421-a program cost the City $755 million in 2010, according to the Pratt Center for Community Development.
It is not surprising that the Republicans in the State Senate want to subsidize housing for billionaires. But we expected better of the State Assembly and the Governor.
The one positive feature of A3354 are two changes to the 2010 Loft Law that extended rent and eviction protections to illegal loft dwellings that were not covered under the original 1982 Loft Law. These amendments are important to these tenants and to the preservation of the units affected. One amendment in particular is important because it will provide coverage to smaller lofts that were excluded in the 2010 bill because of opposition from the Bloomberg administration.
But this will benefit only a few hundred tenants and protect only a few hundred units, most of them in north Brooklyn. There is not a single provision in A3544 that will stop the hemorrhage of rent-stabilized apartments, or put the brakes on mechanisms that landlords use to get stabilized rents up to levels so unaffordable that many stabilized tenants are forced to move.
A3354 also renews the controversial J-51 program of real property tax abatements and tax exemptions that expired December 31, 2011. This program now costs the City of New York $257 million annually in lost real property tax revenue.
According to a June 2012 analysis by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, more than half the J-51 benefits in the last ten years went to market rate housing, not affordable housing. The CHPC study made no attempt to determine how much of the J-51 benefits subsidized useful improvements as opposed to cosmetic enhancements. It seems that no one in city or state government makes an effort to learn what we are really getting for all that money.
While A3354 makes some minor improvements in targeting J-51 benefits to affordable housing, these improvements fall far short of real reform – contrary to the glowing description of the changes in the January 25 letter to Assembly members from new Housing Committee chair Keith Wright.
More fundamental reform proposals from the City of New York and from tenant advocates did not find their way into this bill. Among these proposed reforms:
● Bar benefits to cosmetic improvements such as granite countertops;
● Restrict J-51 eligibility to structural, building wide systems (i.e., new wiring, new roof, new heating system) that would be eligible for Major Capital Improvement rent increases under the rent laws;
● Require landlords to apply for J-51 benefits, and have their application granted or denied before they could apply for MCI rent increases, thus ensuring that MCI rent increases would be offset by the J-51 benefit, a provision of current law that now goes unenforced; and
● Increase the MCI rent increase offset from 50 to 100 percent of the J-51 benefit, to prevent double dipping by landlords.
Instead, the bill makes cosmetic changes that will not achieve their stated goal of ensuring that J-51 benefits offset rent increases for Major Capital Improvements. Few tenants ever receive the J-51 offset because they don't know they are entitled to it, there is no enforcement, and there is no coordination between the city agency (HPD) that acts on landlords' J-51 applications and the state agency (DHCR) that acts on landlords' MCI applications.
Rather than sensibly requiring written agency notification to the tenant, this bill calls for HPD to post J-51 information on a web site (which in the words of Chairman Wright will allow tenants to "independently check" on the status of their units) and convene a task force to improve enforcement. When you don't have a legislative solution, you set up another task force.
For forty years, Assembly Democrats have called themselves supporters of tenant protection laws. And for forty years they have been making the same excuses for why they cannot ever seem to use any leverage to win stronger tenant protections from the intransigent Senate Republicans.
If this bill passes, those claims will appear to have been a cynical ploy to placate tenants while our rights are being gutted and our supply of affordable housing is being constantly reduced.
Our rent regulation laws have been dramatically weakened in the last twenty years, most notably by enactment of Vacancy Destabilization amendments in 1993, 1994 and 1997 that allow landlords to remove apartments from regulation when they become vacant. Vacancy destabilization and other loopholes have cost New York City and the suburban counties of Nassau, Westchester and Rockland hundreds of thousands of affordable apartments that have been converted to market rate, unregulated status.
It is time to stop the phase-out of the rent regulation system. Any legislator who wants to claim to be pro-tenant must step up now and get serious about this issue.
The Real Rent Reform Campaign opposes A3354 and urges its defeat.
c/o Metropolitan Council on Housing 339 Lafayette Street New York NY 10012


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As much as I'd love to say the best meal was my kale pasta that honor has to go to the boy's roasted duck. I mean it just looks gorgeous in the photo.
Overall it feels like this month was pretty calm. A good friend of ours had a baby, although technically that happened late on May 31, but practically June. And while I rarely talk about it on the blog, work was a little crazy as well. We went through training for a new product, we had people move on from the company, as well as move within it. And I received some good work news as well. So on that front at least, life was eventful.
This month I reveiwed 5 books and 3 movies.
The Apple Orchard by Susan Wiggs
Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio
Bond Girl by Erin Duffy
Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
After Earth
The Internship
This is the End
My favorite had to be A Land More Kind Than Home with Bond Girl as a close second.
I was going through my June archives trying to find the perfect post to share here, and wow, and I wrote a ton of fun posts in Junes past. Some of the posts I thought about sharing were our diy wedding invitations or my will you be my bridesmaid cards ot the NKOTBSB concert or one of the first times we watched our niece overnight or a post where I was trying to figure out if the boy and I should by a house even though we weren't actually engaged. But instead the gem I wanted to share was posted 4 years ago called The Dream of Blogging, where the boy gave this comic to me.
And in my opinion, it's just as amusing now as it was then. And yes, I still have it hanging up on a bulletin board.
What are your meals, moments, reviews, and remembering from this past June?


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Like a mountain on the horizon, fixed, immovable, the one constant in life is death.
To some, it seems inconceivably distant. To others, labouring in its foothills, its shadow looms large. But one day, we will all make our way to its summit and look back on our life. If we are dissatisfied with the path we took to get there, by then it will be too late to change it.
In The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey urges us to "begin with the end in mind". It's with that end in mind that I begin this blog.
Much of our written communication today is superficial. A tweet or a Facebook status update are too short to convey anything but the most perfunctory of thoughts. Occasionally they may offer a brief moment of interest or entertainment. Most of the time they are entirely disposable.
This blog is a place for me to write in more depth. To reflect upon my thoughts, experiences, insights and learnings in order to put them into a wider context and help me think more clearly about my life.
My posts are likely to be infrequent. I don't want to write about ephemera, and I don't expect weightier topics to present themselves often. Moreover, writing longer, more thoughtful pieces is time-consuming and time is not something I have in abundance any more.
Death is the landmark towards which every life flows, where we all come together in a final confluence before being extinguished. Better to chart our path there than being swept along on the tide.


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FCC Suspends Licenses
The FCC has suspended two Amateur Radio licenses because the holders had failed to maintain correct mailing addresses in the Commission's licensee database. Special Counsel in the FCC Spectrum Enforcement Division Riley Hollingsworth wrote Larry L. Smith, KC7LJR, of Middleton, Idaho, and Larry J. Maniag, KD7JTG, of Payson, Arizona, on June 28 to inform them the FCC was suspending their Technician tickets for the remainder of their license terms or until each licensee provides a valid mailing address.
In his letter to Smith, Hollingsworth noted that on three occasions in late 2005, the FCC had been unable to deliver warning notices alleging deliberate interference to a 2-meter repeater system.
He told Maniag that the US Postal Service earlier this year returned as undeliverable two warning notices alleging deliberate interference with several repeaters.
Hollingsworth cited §97.23 of the Commission's Amateur Radio Service rules that requires each license grant to show the licensee's correct name and mailing address. The rule provides that "revocation of the station license or suspension of the operator license may result when correspondence from the FCC is returned as undeliverable because the grantee failed to provide the correct mailing address."
Hollingsworth cited the same rule to an Ohio licensee apparently tempting a similar fate. On June 26 Hollingsworth afforded Robert D. Reckner, W8IQJ, more time to respond to complaints involving his service as MIDCARS net control. The complaint alleges deliberate interference as a result of his starting the net on top of existing communications on 7.258 MHz in April.
A June 1 letter enclosing the complaint came back to the FCC as undeliverable, he said.
In another failure-to-reply case, Hollingsworth notified William E. Kuth, KB2SGQ, of Utica, New York, on June 27 that his license renewal application has been designated for dismissal. That action effectively eliminates Kuth's Amateur Radio privileges, and Hollingsworth reminded him of that fact.
In May, the FCC notified Kuth that his renewal application "could not be routinely granted" and had been referred to the Enforcement Bureau for review. That came in the wake of a Warning Notice for allegedly operating on 26.815 MHz without a license and causing interference on 10 meters. Additional complaints alleged that Kuth operated on 26.945 MHz.
Hollingsworth said postal records indicate that Kuth received the FCC inquiry on May 5 but did not respond. The letter to Kuth noted that the address on his renewal application differed from his actual mailing address. Kuth's Technician license expired in November 2004.
The FCC dismissed the upgrade application of Andrew O. Ojwang, KI4LTH, of Roswell, Georgia, based on the licensee's response to "numerous complaints about the operation of your station since the grant of your General class license," Hollingsworth wrote. Following the complaints, the FCC last October set aside Ojwang's General license and his renewal application, which reverted to pending status.
"Pursuant to your response dated May 31, 2006, your General class application is being forwarded to the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau for dismissal," Hollingsworth informed Ojwang on June 28. Complaints regarding Ojwang's on-air operation would have to be resolved before the Commission would consider an upgrade application, Hollingsworth advised. The FCC appears to have renewed Ojwang's Technician ticket for a full 10-year term, however.
Meanwhile, a Texas man, Billy J. Benefiel, W5BJB, turned in his amateur license rather than respond to complaints alleging that he was operating on frequencies not authorized to him as a Technician, and for causing interference.


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