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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Honey Mustard Sauce - Something to Dip Your Fingers Into
One reason there was no extra time in the chicken recipe was, in addition to showing you how to make chicken fingers for your Super Bowl party, I'll also be showing off an exciting new gadget I've been using recently. Hint: think biggest smart phone launch ever.
In the meantime, make some sauce and get ready to do some serious dipping. Enjoy!
1/3 cup real mayo
2 tbsp Dijon
2 tsp yellow mustard
1 tbsp rice vinegar
2 tbsp honey
1/2 tsp hot sauce
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Sweet! Looking forward to the chicken fingers video recipe! Total mustard/mayo-phobic so I'll just have to get the ranch and Frank's Red Hot out instead.
- January 7, 2010 at 10:06 PM
How great is this? I agree with you on the "why-can't-we-use-both?" front, but this is so quick and easy that I'm tempted to make this on three occasions to taste the difference between just yellow, just dijon, and both together.
As always, thanks for another great inspiration.
- January 7, 2010 at 10:10 PM
- Adriana A. said...
THANK YOU! i love honey mustard sauce, but i had never found a recipe of it! thanks so much!
- January 8, 2010 at 1:00 AM
chef john's got a gPhone!
- January 8, 2010 at 1:28 AM
- chinesischer grüner Tee said...
I tried this one but it did not turn out to be as good as yours. But it was appreciated by all in our family. Next time I want to try making it still better. I have already taken out prints of your recipe.
- January 8, 2010 at 6:08 AM
- blogagog said...
I spy with my little eye, a breadcrumb that starts with a P.
- January 8, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Travis said...
oh oh oh... I can't wait for the chicken finger video. I think I might have to have all my friends over and have a Dip night, where we only eat foods that involve dipping.
- January 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- PukaDog said...
I'm starting to think I'm going to have a mustard based Super Bowl. Looking forward to trying this along with the chicken fingers. I loved, and have fixed a couple times now, your mustard wings recipe. Oh so good! Those will be made Super Bowl Sunday fo' sho!
FYI, I received a Hickory Farms brand cranberry mustard for Christmas and man is it good! I used some in a meatloaf recently and everybody loved it and was asking for the recipe. Of course I learned how to make a great meatloaf from Chef John thanks to Food Wishes!
- January 8, 2010 at 1:39 PM
Hey Chef,S.O.S.
Loved your U tube spot, just wanted to know if you have a "RUSSIAN" dressing recipe for your Super Bowl wings. I want to make the wings but haven't seen a recipe for the dressing that I liked. Thanks again.
"Frozen in NYS"
- January 9, 2010 at 10:07 AM
- Xyzlmk said...
I'm looking for the mac and cheese recipe, great vid on youtube..... but the link to the blog for the recipe ain't gettin it ....
- January 9, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- Chef John said...
here you go http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2009/02/life-liberty-and-pursuit-of-cheesy.html
you can search any term on the top of the blog in the search box
- January 9, 2010 at 2:41 PM
I've been doing the sauce ever since I watched your video with honey-mustard wings. I took that mix and added the mayo, and cut out some of the honey. Wow, I see I was right on. I'm just wondering, over there you use cider vinegar, and here you use rice, when to use what?
- January 9, 2010 at 11:56 PM
- Adriana A. said...
tried it and it turned out delicious! the vinegar really made the difference
- January 12, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- Susan said...
I just use 1/3 cup Mayo,
2 tbls Mustard and 2 tbls Honey. but I'm going to start using the vinegar , too. Thanks
- September 7, 2011 at 1:16 AM
- Diablo2050 said...
I wanted to know why use the vineger,what does it add to the flavour ??
- September 24, 2011 at 7:02 AM
- Diablo2050 said...
I wanted to ask waht does the vinegar add to the flavour and is ok to not use vinegar ??
- September 24, 2011 at 7:03 AM


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Morgantown, W.Va. - MX Sports is pleased to announce the return of the 4th Annual Monster Energy Ricky Carmichael Daytona Amateur Supercross Championship (RCSX) to the legendary Daytona International Speedway. This prestigious amateur race will take place Sunday, March 10 and Monday, March 11, following Saturday's Daytona Supercross by Honda.
This year will once again feature two full-days of racing, offering amateur racers even more track time and class options throughout the weekend. Highlighted changes for 2013 include the addition of the Masters (50+) class and the splitting of the 450 C and 250 C classes into two age-appropriate categories: (14-21) and (22+).
"MX Sports put great consideration into revising the classes for 2013 in order to provide greater opportunities for our participants," said Event Director Tim Cotter. "Based off the high participation numbers in the past, our team made the decision to split the 450 C and 250 C classes into two categories in order to give racers more time on the track and an even greater opportunity to make the main event."
Amateur racers once again have the unprecedented opportunity to compete on one of the most prestigious motorsports grounds in the world only one day after the pros. Perhaps the most enticing factor of this event is that 15-Time Champion Ricky Carmichael will be on site all weekend long to converse with amateur racers and their families while offering up tips and advice.
"I'm excited to be back at my racing home-Daytona International Speedway-for another year of RCSX," said 15-Time Champion, Ricky Carmichael. "This event has really grown into something special and it's cool to be a part of such a great opportunity for amateur racers. I'm looking forward to watching some great amateur racing at Daytona."
The class structure includes classes for youth riders on 50cc bikes all the way up to vet and senior classes. The race will follow a supercross format, using heat races and last chance qualifiers to seed the field of riders into a main event in each class, over the course of two days. Unlike the Loretta Lynn Ranch format, riders do not need to qualify at other races in order to participate in the Daytona event. Because of the supercross format, please note that class entries are limited in order to give participants the utmost time on the race track.
Amateur riders and their families are encouraged to come down early and camp on the Daytona infield, where hookups are available. Move in, sign up and camping begin on Friday, March 8, so amateur families can watch the pros compete on Saturday night in the Daytona Supercross. Amateur racing takes place on Sunday, March 10 and Monday, March 11.
For more information on the event, please visit www.racedaytona.com. To register for the 2013 RCSX, click HERE.

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Jan Fasseau, an otherwise unknown Anabaptist martyr, a native of Griory in the Belgian province of Hainaut, was beheaded in 1555 or 1556 at Bergen (Mons), capital of Hainaut.
Hege, Christian and Neff, Christian. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. II, 284.
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Moss will bare all for next year's January/February issue, which will hit newsstands in December.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's son Cooper broke the news via Twitter.com on Tuesday.
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Hanson's 3-for-4 Effort Extends On-Base Streak to Ivy League-Best 23 Games
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Despite tallying a total of nine hits, the team's highest hit total in seven games, the Yale University baseball team suffered its sixth straight loss in a 6-3 defeat to in-state rival Sacred Heart Tuesday afternoon at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard.
Junior designated hitter Josh Scharff belted his first home run of the season, while sophomore shortstop Cale Hanson went 3-for-4 with a double, two singles and a walk. Hanson extended his on-base streak to an Ivy League-best 23 games.
With the loss, Yale falls to 6-18-1 overall, while Sacred Heart improves to 10-16.
The Pioneers jumped on Yale starting pitcher Ben Joseph (0-1) right from the opening pitch. The freshman right-hander hit the first two batters that he faced, gave up a run-scoring double, and then walked a pair before he was replaced by junior left-hander Nolan Becker. The bases were loaded when Joseph left the game. He gave up four runs on one hit and two walks in his first start since the second game of the season at Virginia Tech.
Becker came in and struck out the side in the first inning, but he also issued two bases-loaded walks before the end of the inning, allowing Sacred Heart to take a 4-0 lead.
Becker cruised through the second inning but found trouble in the third when the first two Sacred Heart batters, Dave Boisture and Dan Perez, singled, with Boisture scoring on a sacrifice fly out by Matt Charmello and Perez scoring on an RBI single by Keaton Flint, giving the Pioneers a 6-0 lead after three innings.
Scharff put Yale on the scoreboard with his leadoff home run in the top of the fourth inning.
The Bulldogs struck for two more runs in the sixth when Charlie Neil and Kevin Fortunato recorded back-to-back walks to lead off the inning. They both advanced on a balk, which allowed Neil to score on a groundout by Cam Squires. Chris Piwinski, who went 2-for-4 with an RBI, followed with an RBI single to drive in Fortunato.
Yale had other opportunities, but three double plays hampered the Bulldogs' scoring efforts.
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Living better is often based on clichéd advice and personally, I think it's time to put a stop to it, because frankly, there's some advice, especially when it comes to relationships, that needs to be taken with a grain, heck, make that a whole block, of salt. Such as:
There Are Plenty More Fish in the Sea:
Remember when your pet goldfish died and your parents promised to buy you another one just the same? Goldie II wasn't the same, was he? Like goldfish, when a relationship goes belly up, you can't just go out and buy a new one. And while there may be plenty of fish in the sea, catching one isn't always easy. Which doesn't mean you should stop casting your net. But know that while there are plenty of fish, you'll probably want to throw most of them back before you find one worth keeping.
Time Heals a Broken Heart:
You probably wouldn't be too happy if you showed up in your doctor's office with a busted leg or a brain tumour and she told you to go home and simply wait for it to heal. Sometimes you need to do a little open-heart surgery. Take a trip, get some therapy, throw darts at a picture of your ex -- whatever it takes to stitch up the wound before you can let time do its stuff.
Just Move On:
Relationships aren't like the bacon bits section of the salad bar. You don't just move on. It's a process. That doesn't mean you sit and stew in your apartment (at least not for too long). But instead of simply bucking up and moving on to the next warm body so you can make all the same mistakes all over again, use this time to mourn and properly say goodbye to that crappy relationship. Reflect upon what you do and don't want to do next time. That way you minimize dragging all that disappointment, anger and resentment (because, of course, the relationship death was his fault, right?) into your next relationship.
Love Conquers All:
Yeah, and I've figured out a way to lose weight by eating only chocolate! I know that it is extremely romantic and life affirming to think that your love alone will get you through anything. But when it's 4 a.m., the kid's crying, you haven't slept in three days, the house is a mess, and your annoying, unemployed brother-in-law is mooching, I mean, living with you temporarily, love may feel a little overwhelmed by the task of conquering all. I know that "communication conquers all" isn't quite as romantic sounding, but it's a good place to start. Combine communication with regular tolerance, kindness, understanding and some good old-fashioned grinning-and-bearing-it, and you at least stand a chance at putting a dent in (if not completely conquering) most of what comes at you.


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If you are at Collider, you probably watch a lot of movies. Based on our demographics, most of you have seen The Hobbit. A significant portion of you will see The Hobbit in 48 frames per second. Virtually all of you who do will think the higher frame rate looks strange, at least at first. And yet, Hobbit director Peter Jackson proclaims 48fps is the future of filmmaking. Critics are far from convinced, calling the new look "a gaudy high-definition tourist attraction" and "washed out and flat, yet unforgiving in its hyper-realism."
Jackson's push for 48fps (also known as High Frame Rate or HFR) has sparked a surprisingly heated debate over what seems like a relatively simple technological innovation. Although my first viewing of The Hobbit was a peculiar experience, I am a believer in 48fps. So after the jump, I examine the arguments for and against 48fps, the neuroscience behind the negative response, and what it will take for HFR to find widespread acceptance.
The Most Outrageous Thing
Before we start, I recommend you listen to this excerpt from the "Musical Language" episode of Radiolab that examines the arc of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from "being the most outrageous thing that literally maddens people, to a triumph, to kids music."
A brief recap: Stravinsky premiered The Rite of Spring as a ballet in Paris in May 1913. Stravinsky's composition sounded different than the traditionally beautiful music of Wagner that this audience was used to. In particular, Stravinsky relied on one dissonant chord, pounding it over and over throughout the entire piece. The audience hated it. They grew restless, started shouting and fighting each other, and this eventually escalated into a full-fledged riot. Rioting cannot be a mere expression of disapproval for this crowd. Something else must be going on here.
Science writer Jonah Lehrer explains, "There are groups of neurons whose sole job it is to turn that dissonant note, dissect it, take it apart, and try to understand it." Radiolab proposes that on that night, in the face of the repetitive dissonance of The Rite of Spring, those neurons failed to make sense of what they heard. This failure to recognize the pattern changed the brain chemistry (specifically dopamine levels) in such a way that the audience temporarily went a bit crazy.
However, by the second run of shows in April 1914, audiences came out in droves—partly to see what this music was that caused a riot no doubt—and loved it. They gave it a standing ovation. The Rite of Spring became a part of the classic cannon, and just two decades later was palatable enough to feature in the Disney kids movie Fantasia. Lehrer calls this "the perfect evidence of the brain's astonishing plasticity."
Our brains were presented with new information. It was jarring at first. We hated it. Then, with context, we accepted the new information and learned to value it. I believe 48fps can follow the same path, from controversy to natural innovation. But we do have a say in this.
Why Increase the Frame Rate?
Film simulates fluid motion by capturing and projecting individual still frames of that motion. Early silent films were projected at about 16-24fps until the frame rate was standardized at 24fps with the advent of sound film. Filmmakers argued for higher frame rates to better capture motion and achieve decent sound quality. Buyers pushed for lower frame rates, because a higher frame rate means more film, and film stock was expensive. The result was a compromise at 24fps, which has been sufficient for the last century, but not necessarily optimal. Heck, motion picture pioneer Thomas Edison himself reportedly recommended 46 frames per second because "anything less will strain the eye."
Douglas Trumbull started developing Showscan, which uses 60fps, in the late 1970s. The technology is in use at theme parks (Star Tours at Disneyland and the new King Kong attraction at Universal Studios use 60fps), but never caught on in cinemas. James Cameron started touting the benefits of a higher frame rate as early as 2008:
"For three-fourths of a century of 2-D cinema, we have grown accustomed to the strobing effect produced by the 24 frame per second display rate. When we see the same thing in 3-D, it stands out more, not because it is intrinsically worse, but because all other things have gotten better. Suddenly the image looks so real it's like you're standing there in the room with the characters, but when the camera pans, there is this strange motion artifact. It's like you never saw it before, when in fact it's been hiding in plain sight the whole time. Some people call it judder, others strobing. I call it annoying. It's also easily fixed, because the stereo renaissance is enabled by digital cinema, and digital cinema supplies the answer to the strobing problem."
Cameron was especially frustrated because, even pre-Avatar, we had the technological capability to make a relatively easy switch to 48fps:
"Increasing the data-handling capacity of the projectors and servers is not a big deal, if there is demand. I've run tests on 48 frame per second stereo and it is stunning. The cameras can do it, the projectors can (with a small modification) do it. So why aren't we doing it, as an industry?"
Cameron has already stated his intention to shoot the Avatar sequels at 48fps. In the meantime Peter Jackson—one of the few tech-minded filmmakers with nearly as much power in the industry as Cameron—took the lead on the battle for 48fps. Here is how Jackson pitched the higher frame rate in a Facebook post he wrote while shooting The Hobbit in April 2011:
"The result looks like normal speed, but the image has hugely enhanced clarity and smoothness. Looking at 24 frames every second may seem ok—and we've all seen thousands of films like this over the last 90 years—but there is often quite a lot of blur in each frame, during fast movements, and if the camera is moving around quickly, the image can judder or 'strobe.'
Shooting and projecting at 48fps does a lot to get rid of these issues. It looks much more lifelike, and it is much easier to watch, especially in 3-D. We've been watching HOBBIT tests and dailies at 48fps now for several months, and we often sit through two hours worth of footage without getting any eye strain from the 3-D."
Sounds like a pretty basic and natural technological advancement. So what's the problem?
What the Critics Say
Here are excerpts from a few of the critical reviews.
Todd McCarthy, THR:
"The print shown at Warner Bros. in what is being called 'high frame rate 3D,' while striking in some of the big spectacle scenes, predominantly looked like ultra-vivid television video, paradoxically lending the film an oddly theatrical look, especially in the cramped interior scenes in Bilbo Baggins' home. For its part, the 24fps 3D version had a softer, noticeably more textured image quality."
Kenneth Turan, LA Times:
"Despite its drawbacks, The Hobbit, as noted, does have real virtues, and the best way to appreciate them is to see the movie, whether in 2-D or 3-D, in the traditional 24 frames per second format. Though Jackson and other zealots for high frame rate would have you believe that the new system is more immersive, the truth is just the opposite. Whatever its virtues may be from a technical point of view, audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of high definition television than a traditional movie."
A.O. Scott, New York Times:
"Over all, though, the shiny hyper-reality robs Middle-earth of some of its misty, archaic atmosphere, turning it into a gaudy high-definition tourist attraction."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone:
"Couple that with 3D and the movie looks so hyper-real that you see everything that's fake about it, from painted sets to prosthetic noses. The unpleasant effect is similar to watching a movie on a new HD home-theater monitor, shadows obliterated by blinding light like—yikes!—reality TV."
Peter Debruge, Variety:
"More disconcerting is the introduction of the film's 48-frames-per-second digital cinematography, which solves the inherent stuttering effect of celluloid that occurs whenever a camera pans or horizontal movement crosses the frame—but at too great a cost. Consequently, everything takes on an overblown, artificial quality in which the phoniness of the sets and costumes becomes obvious, while well-lit areas bleed into their surroundings, like watching a high-end home movie."
Richard Corliss, Time:
"Doubling the rate keeps the image from blurring when the camera moves, which is ideal for Jackson's action sequences but disorienting in the more static interior scenes, where the scenery upstages the characters. The clarity of the image is sometimes magical, occasionally migraine-inducing… At first, in the Smaug battle, I thought I was watching a video game: pellucid pictures of indistinct creatures. After a while my eyes adjusted, as to a new pair of glasses, but it was still like watching a very expensively mounted live TV show on the world's largest home TV screen."
Dana Stevens, Slate:
"The best way I can think to describe the quality of the 48fps image in The Hobbit is this: It looks like an '80s-era home video shot by someone who happened to be standing around on set while The Hobbit was being filmed. (Other visual analogues scribbled down in my screening notes include Teletubbies and daytime soap operas.) The effect is curiously washed out and flat, yet unforgiving in its hyper-realism: Any imperfection or note of artifice in the costumes or sets stands out as if illuminated with a bank of fluorescent bulbs. This wildly expensive visual technology paradoxically conspires to make everything else in the film look cheap."
Drew McWeeny, Hitfix:
"I'm half-convinced that there was a projection problem when I saw the film, because I have trouble believing that what I saw reflected the desires of Peter Jackson and his team. Throughout the entire film, there was a strange Benny Hill quality to sequences, with things that appeared to be sped up. It happened in both dialogue and action sequences, and the overall effect was like watching the most beautifully mastered Blu-ray ever played at 1.5x speed. It doesn't make any sense to me that this process, which is supposedly all about clarity and resolution, would create that hyper-speedy quality unless they were doing something wrong in the projection of it. Peter Jackson would see this immediately. The voices are off-pitch, and the pacing of scenes goes to hell when it's played this way."
Matt Goldberg, Collider:
"Billed as a technology to sharpen 3D and reduce the headaches it can cause, HFR 3D has crippled Peter Jackson's return to Middle-earth. Without the atrocious visuals, Jackson's film is still slightly repetitive and bloated, but the magic mostly remains intact. But under HFR 3D, the journey looks like a cheap soap opera on fast forward with crappy digital effects."
I think that's enough for now, but you can read other HFR-centric review roundups at Vulture and Badass Digest. We can broadly separate the criticisms into two categories: "It looks like cheap video" and "It looks too realistic."
Head to page 2 for more on the "soap opera effect," how fantasy can use HFR, and why we can and should get used to 48fps.


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Videos | May 7, 2012
Black-Hole Hunter
A large number of galaxies are hiding black holes that we can't detect, and NASA's NuSTAR will use X-ray vision to find them.
Transcript:NuSTAR will be the very first high energy X ray telescope that can actually focus.
That'll make it make images that are 10 times crisper, sharper than anything that's been made in this part of the electromagnetic spectrum before. A whole new window on the high energy Universe -- observing objects glowing in radioactivity -- phenomena like exploding stars,
from very massive black holes to black holes that are about the mass of the sun, to the atmosphere of our own sun.
For the same reason dentists and doctors use them to study what's going on inside you, NuSTAR will use these high-energy X-rays to study what's going on near super-massive black holes.
One of NuSTAR's main scientific goals is to get a full census of black holes in the universe.
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X-ray telescopes look something like a whole bunch of coffee cans all nested inside one another.
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An amazing discovery of the last 20 years is that every galaxy -- like our own Milky Way -- has a massive black hole at its heart, and as material from this galaxy, dust and gas, falls onto this central black hole, it radiates and we can see that.
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When two black holes merge, all of that rotation will end up in a single object, making it spin very fast.
NuSTAR is going to measure how fast black holes are spinning, which gives us information about how the black holes formed and what role they play in the formation of galaxies.
I think for me the most exciting thing is to have this new window on the universe.
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The BBC Proms - a sad history
Overgrown Path has been saying it for years - BBC Proms - a multicultural society?, BBC Proms 2006 lacks eternal feminine, Music gets in the way of running BBC Proms, and BBC Proms last night - I flee the country.
Now other people are saying it - Hodge attacks Proms: they're narrow and lack the common British values: The culture minister, Margaret Hodge, will today criticise the Prom concerts as one of many British cultural events that fail to engender new common values or attract more than a narrow unrepresentative audience.
At last people are finally waking up to the fact that the BBC Proms in their present form are outdated, irrelevant and unworthy of the BBC's marketing hype as 'the world's greatest music festival'. But government intervention will only make the situation worse, unless the cause of the problem is tackled.
History is the key to understanding the present problems. The first Promenade Concert took place in 1895, and it was twenty-seven years later that the BBC became involved and broadcast the first concert. In 1945, exactly fifty years after the first Prom, the BBC took over as sole managers. The 1970s and 1980s were an Indian summer for the Proms with William Glock, Robert Ponsonby and John Drummond in charge, Pierre Boulez and Bruno Maderna were on the podium and The Soft Machine, Imrat Kahn, and David Munrow on stage.
The problems started in John Drummond's reign and the writing was on the wall in 1990 when Last Night conductor Mark Elder was replaced at the last minute due to his dissenting views on the Gulf War. (It is interesting that Elder's reputation has grown has grown since then, while that of the Proms has declined). In 1996 Nicholas Kenyon succeeded Drummond as Proms director, starting a period when the broad music vision pioneered by Willliam Glock and others was subordinated to the marketing plans and ratings measurements of the post-John Birt BBC.
To sum up Kenyon's twelve years as Proms director, which earned him a knighthood and another top job in the music establishment, I need only repeat my prophetic words written in February 2007 - His tenure at the Proms has been marked by unimaginative planning which totally failed to reflect the diversity of today's contemporary music, and his programming repeatedly backed personal hobbyhorses at the expense of important voices.
The Proms will only start to reflect a broad musical and cultural vision when the stranglehold of BBC Radio 3 is broken. The joint position of Radio 3 controller and Proms director dates from the end of the Indian Summer in 1987 when John Drummond was appointed to both positions. Like Nicholas Kenyon, his successor Roger Wright now holds both positions. The joint responsibilities create a disastrous conflict of interests in which the 'day job' of network controller invariably takes precedence over the concerts. So everything else is subservient to the broadcast schedule, including the music and timings.
To start the rejuvenation of the Proms the positions of Proms director and Radio 3 controller must be separated and 'Chinese walls' built between the broadcasts and the concerts. Birtian internal cross-charging should be instigated, with the Proms cost centre charged for the million of pounds of free BBC Radio 3 promotion it benefits from. This free promotional air time makes it very difficult to promote competitive, and broader, festivals in London during the Proms season. Can anyone really support a position where the BBC control the concerts, the promotional medium, the resident orchestra, the radio and TV coverage, the new music commissioning budget and more?
That word more is an interesting one. With a few exceptions a government minister and a music blog have been the sole critics of the Proms' tunnel vision. Margaret Hodge's criticism is reported in the Guardian; surely that bastion of liberal journalism would be one of the concert series' most vocal critics? Well, the Guardian's chief music critic Tom Service is high profile and a smart guy. But he is also a BBC Radio 3 presenter, writes for BBC Music Magazine and contributed a chapter to the book seen in my header image. The Proms - A New History is a recent publication and the consultant editor is none other than Nicholas Kenyon.
And yes, I've been an enthusiastic Promenader from the 1970s to the present day and I'm even linked from the BBC Proms website.
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- Pliable said...
Nice 'broad view' email just in:
Did you remember that yesterday was Freedom of Music Day 2008? Apparently this started last year and it is still going, just. Here's a bit of a Lithuanian blog about it, http://vilnius.cafebabel.com/en/post/2008/03/03/Muzikoslaisvesdiena - though in some typical Lithuanian fashion's it becomes all esoteric and oak trees, so you don't actually understand what she is trying to say, and some of the statements are a bit off...
but in view of your recent comments about China it might be an interesting topic
Take care
- 12:18 pm
- Pliable said...
Here is a link to a report on Margaret Hodge's speech:
I'm not sure I'd agree with her that Coronation Street and the Eden Project are more inclusive. Coincidentally we've just returned from the Eden Project and found it a rather politically-correct theme park with its acres of car parks and shopping mall.
The danger of this type of speech is that it becomes an attack on quality, intellectualism and aspirations in the arts. But it is a good starting point to question the role of the Proms. And if the Proms had seen more intelligent programming and less hype and stunt-marketing by the BBC they would not be in the firing line.
And as for David Cameron defending the Proms -
- 1:14 pm
- Lisa Hirsch said...
I'll tell you, if I had a festival with the kind of programming on a typical Proms schedule, I'd fall on my knees and thank [favorite deity here]. From my perspective in the SF Bay Area, the programming is superlative.
- 9:11 pm
- Pliable said...
Lisa, I think you would have found the programming at the 2007 Proms remarkably similar to the SF Bay area. It included a concert by the San Francisco Symphony - another touring orchestra and another war horse programme already trotted out in other European capitals.
As I've said here before, I'm afraid I don't subscribe to the school of thought which says that because the quality is much worse elsewhere you should simply accept, without question, a lowering of quality aspirations.
I'm afraid the BBC Proms have lost their way. Irrespective of what is, or is not, happening in the SF Bay area.
- 9:34 pm
- Lisa Hirsch said...
I looked over the 2007 Proms schedule before posting my earlier comment. I'm usually interested in about one-third of what SFS performs. I would buy tickets to 90% of the Proms. The repertory is very different from what SFS programs.
Things are worse elsewhere, which doesn't mean you shouldn't push for change at the Proms.
- 9:44 pm
- Ben.H said...
By all means push for improvement at the Proms, but Margaret Hodge is not your friend. I can't see how any top-down reforms made today would not include more and more of those pernicious "marketing plans and ratings measurements". And how would the Proms be helped by having them promoted less heavily on the BBC?
- 1:01 am
- Pliable said...
'And how would the Proms be helped by having them promoted less heavily on the BBC?'
Ben, the current excellent South Bank Messiaen Festival, for instance, was not attacked by Margaret Hodge.
Yet it is far narrower and more exclusive than the Proms.
The reason it was not attacked was that it has not been subject to the remorseless empty hype and spin that the BBC apply to the Proms.
The BBC has done itself no favours by claiming to run 'the world's greatest music festival'. But it has set itself up as a sitting target for the kind of criticism we have just seen, with it's jingoistic Last Night and its evening of Michael Ball.
More promotion does not equal more merit or more diversity. There are many music festivals that do a fantastic job without the promotional resources of the BBC.
At some point the classical music community will realise that big is not beautiful and that spin does not equal good.
- 7:36 am
- Pliable said...
In today's press Gordon Brown describes the Proms as a 'wonderful, democratic and quintessentially British institution. Quite so.
While Nicholas Kenyon defended the Proms with these words: 'There's no cultural event that's more opening, sicmore welcoming, more accessible.' Which neatly writes out of history a 2006 season that failed to include a single female composer.
Almost everyone misses the point that the criticism wasn't about classical music per se, it was about making it more inclusive.
But Candace Allen gets the point, and tries to open up the debate instead of stifling it with knee jerk denials -
- 8:55 am
- Ben.H said...
Margaret Hodge hasn't attacked the South Bank Messiaen Festival because she doesn't know it exists, or if she does, she assumes her audience won't understand what she's talking about. Besides, she'd be worried about mispronouncing 'Messiaen'.
The Proms, on the other hand, are known to practically everyone - if only as a caricature, so much the better for Hodge's axe-grinding.
- 6:52 pm
- Henry Holland said...
Things are worse elsewhere, which doesn't mean you shouldn't push for change at the Proms.
This might be a case of "the grass is greener" syndrome, but I'm with Lisa on this. I look at the Proms schedule every year and drool--I mean, it's not the Lucerne Festival, but still. :-)
The problem for me living in Los Angeles is that there's really one game in town: the Los Angeles Philharmonic. I've been at the mercy of Esa-Pekka Salonen's programming decisions since the late 80's. Imagine my horror of going from "YES! He's a committed post-war avant-gardist! I'll finally get to hear Gruppen live! [which hasn't happened]" to "Oh. my. gawd. he's become a fan of minimalism. Freakin' California sun, it turns people's brain to mush!". And E-PS *loves* Peter Sellars work. Yikes.
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When students at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis started arriving for class at 8 AM on the morning of Wednesday, October 23, campus security ushered them to the back entrance. The road in front of the main gate was blocked off by three Israeli military jeeps standing guard over a pit of rubble across the street where, until earlier that morning, the new home of Asraf Ibrahim Abu Snainah was under construction.
Less than a week later, in the Al-Ashqariya neighborhood of Beit Hanina, a district of East Jerusalem, Rushdi Shweiki and his family were woken at 4:00 AM by a troop of Israeli soldiers accompanying three large bulldozers to the door of their four-story home. By 9:00 AM, when Rushdi's brother Salah Shweiki managed to obtain a brief emergency halt to the demolition, the house was nearly gone. By 10:00 AM, after Salah's injunction was overturned, all that remained was a tangle of steel and stone.
In both cases, the military was acting on orders from the Israeli Civil Administration (ICA), which had issued destruction notices for the homes because the owners had not obtained building permits. The Civil Administration, the governing body of Israel's occupation, takes responsibility for approving all construction requests in the East Jerusalem district and Area C of the West Bank.
The permits can be prohibitively expensive; Salah noted that he recently paid one million shekels (about USD 300,000) for a permit to erect a small apartment building in Beit Hanina. With additional lawyer's fees during the application process, getting a permit can often be financially unfeasible for many Palestinians. The difficulty of obtaining permits drives up the cost of living substantially in East Jerusalem, both by decreasing the supply of available housing and by forcing landlords to raise rent prices to cover the expense of the building license. Salah said that the cheapest apartments in Beit Hanina would cost at least 3500 shekels (USD 1000) per month. As estimated in a 2011 report by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, the average annual income per capita among the Palestinian population of East Jerusalem in 2007 was less than USD 3000.
Furthermore, acquiring a permit can take years – Rushdi Shweiki's application with the Civil Administration had been in process for three years prior to the demolition Tuesday morning – and it most often ends in rejection. A recent World Bank study of the economic impact of Israeli civil control in Area C found that in 2010, the most recent year for which the report had data, the ICA approved 1.6% of building permit requests for Area C submitted by Palestinians.
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By 8:30 AM on Wednesday, Al Quds University students who had arrived for morning classes were evacuated as tear gas canisters started flying over the low walls of the campus. The gas attacks were followed by protests and clashes with Israeli military forces that closed the school for two days and left a 2m hole in the Separation Wall a few kilometers from the university.
"We've had problems with the soldiers before, but not like this," said Aatiyeh, a member of the Palestine Red Crescent Society who lives in Abu Dis and works at the university. This was the town's first house demolition in his memory.
According to Aatiyeh, rubber bullets and tear gas were used extensively in town during this time.
"When they do this, for three days the people here don't sleep," he said. As one Al-Quds University student who declined to be named characterized the Israeli response to the protests: "it's not surgical by any means, these home demolitions and the gas. It's a collective punishment mentality."
Clashes and evacuations happen frequently at Al-Quds University. Eight students were hospitalized with rubber bullet injuries during clashes in early September of this year after campus security personnel prevented Israeli military forces from entering the school grounds. Aatiyeh said that when soldiers are kept from entering the school, they often fire tear gas over the low walls surrounding the campus. Furthermore, students and town residents are frequently involved with or caught in the middle of clashes outside the university premises.
"They even took my brother to custody," said Salah. "This is the situation – they destroy it, they demolish your house, then they take you to custody."
Rushdi Shweiki was released around 12:00 PM Tuesday, eight hours after the destruction of his home began and two hours after the demolition had finished and the soldiers had reopened the road.
"It's like they are going to a battlefield," Salah said, describing the scene during the demolition, "It's full of soldiers all around." Rushdi and his family of ten started looking for relatives in the area they could stay with as Salah oversaw the construction of a makeshift steel fence around the rubble.
Justice doesn't play ... only power plays here.
Justice doesn't play ... only power plays here.
As Salah explained, they had to block off the lot to ensure that local children didn't come to climb on the rocks because Rushdi could face punitive charges from the ICA if anyone in the neighborhood were to be injured by the rubble. Additionally, Rushdi and his family are obligated to pay for the demolition of the house and the disposal of the rubble and to apply for another permit to be allowed to remove the stone heap.
Unlike in Abu Dis, where the destroyed home of Asraf Abu Snainah was under construction at the time of the demolition, Shweiki and his family had been living in their home in Beit Hanina for the past ten years. They were able to retrieve a few possessions from the house before it was demolished, but most of their belongings were destroyed with the building.
"Everybody's scared here," said Salah, "nobody is secure."
Salah expressed his frustration with the disconnect between the Civil Administration's treatment of Israeli and Palestinian residents. "On the other side," he said, "they build even without a license, without permission... I've never seen an apartment or a building...destroyed. You go to the settlements, mostly they start without permission. You have infrastructure, you have roads, electricity, water, etc. And instead of demolishing, they give them the good facilities."
According to internal data from the ICA, as reported in a recent study by the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem, construction is undertaken in about 75% of settlements without proper authorization. "Whereas, from 2002 through 2010," B'Tselem noted in the report, "only 176 construction permits were issued to Palestinians, at least 15,000 residential units were built in settlements during that same period, with or without permits."
The residents of Abu Dis expressed similar feelings of being held to different standards than their Israeli counterparts. Abu Dis is technically located within the Jerusalem municipality. However, since Israel's construction of its Separation Wall, the town has been physically split from the rest of Jerusalem. According to Adel Salah, the mayor of Abu Dis, residents of the town largely consider themselves Jerusalemites, and many retain blue Israeli IDs.
This leaves Abu Dis and its inhabitants in a precarious legal position. Israel considers the town part of Area C and denies the townspeople access to the government services in Jerusalem. At the same time, the PA maintains that Abu Dis is still a district of Jerusalem and under Israeli authority, making access to Palestinian social services difficult as well.
The sense in Abu Dis, as expressed by Adel Salah, is that the route of the wall was planned to cut off the Palestinian population of the town from Jerusalem. And yet, Mayor Salah explained, the demolition order issued by the ICA for Abu Snainah's home cited the proximity of the house to the wall as the security risk that necessitated its destruction. "They put the wall next to the houses," he said, "and they want us to move."
Mayor Salah said that residents of the town still consider themselves part of Jerusalem, although they are now denied access to the public services and employment opportunities of the city. "There's no hospital, no factories, different places to work," he said. "Not enough schools." At the same time, he said, the land of Abu Dis continues to be taken over by the expansion of the nearby Kedar and Ma'ale Adumim settlements. According to Adel Salah, 25,000 of the 30,000 dunams that Abu Dis once occupied have been transferred to the settlements.
Asraf Abu Snainah lost his investment in the house, and now, like Rushdi Shweiki, he must pay to have the rubble of his home cleared. Their houses are two of the estimated 27,000 homes demolished in Palestine since 1967.
As Mayor Salah explained the damage to Abu Snainah's finances and future caused by the demolition, "he tried to start his life, but they destroy everything. Even the dreams."
Salah Shweiki took a broader view of what the destruction of these homes means for Palestine. "Justice doesn't play," he said. "Only power plays here."
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The other day on my travels I saw a guy sporting a t-shirt that simply said 'Meh'. Oh, thought I, that top describes exactly how I feel about indie bands with no backbone, and here are Ghosts to drive the point home to me.
The prelude to the debut album with which it shares its name, 'The World Is Outside' is a fairly tepid combination of some stabbing Eighties synths over a honey-coated lead vocal line which, whilst suited to most musical environments, is ruined by irritatingly cheesy, overly-breathy backing vocals. It's like the Dandy Warhols' 'You Were The Last High' covered by Savage Garden.
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5 Best Books … That Take Place In The Future
Cassandra at Indie Reader Houston hosts 5 Best Books, a weekly meme that asks participants to list what they consider the 5 best books on a given topic.
This week's topic is 5 Best Books … that take place in the future.
This is another week where I could easily choose more than five books on this topic. I have read a lot of science fiction and those stories tend to spend a lot of time in the future. Rather than choose recent fiction I decided to dig back into the past and choose a few of my old favorites and perhaps provide some new old books for people to discover.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
This book was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic near future after a global nuclear war. Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter who tracks down renegade androids. Where does that strange title come from? Animals are rare and most have gone extinct from radioactive fallout. The few remaining animals are endangered and to own one is a sign of status. Rick had a live sheep but it died so he replaced it with a synthetic, or electric, sheep. P.K. Dick is one of my favorite science fiction writers. I probably could have chosen any number of his dark, disturbing, dystopian works as a favorite.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller Jr.
This post-apocalyptic science fiction novel was written in 1960 probably as a warning about nuclear annihilation. It begins about 600 years in the future in a Roman Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after civilization has been destroyed by a global nuclear war. The monks are tasked with preserving the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge. The book is divided into 3 sections each moving further into the future. The overriding theme is that history is cyclical and man doesn't learn from his mistakes.
The Space Merchants
by Cyril M. Kornbluth, Frederik Pohl
This was written in the 1950s and takes place some time in the 23rd century. I read this back in 1976 and absolutely loved it. The future world in this prescient novel is ruled by advertising agencies and big businesses who hold all the political power. While I don't remember the plot details, I do recall that it's a dark, satirical look at advertising and over the years I have referred back to it when I'd comment on a manipulative ad and say, "just like in Space Merchants". Probably time for a re-read. It's a short book and if you've never read it, it's still available and in print.
The Postman
by David Brin
Published in 1985, this post-apocalyptic novel takes place in Pacific Northwest about the year 2012. A nuclear war has caused massive destruction and all communication technology has been destroyed. People now live in small towns and are isolated from each other. A man comes across a dead postal worker and puts on his uniform to keep warm. He then takes on the role of postal inspector and travels from town to town bringing them news and mail. This was made into a movie but I recommend the book instead. The movie changes the story; it was better as a book.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell
I have to mention this book, one of the most dystopian novels ever written. References to '1984' often appear in movies and other writing and the language of the book has had a huge cultural impact. Most people are familiar with Winston Smith and his rebellion against Big Brother and the resulting consequences. In a bit of irony, Amazon Kindle owners found this book had been deleted from their libraries without notice because of copyright issues in the US.
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Cassandra @ Indie Reader Houston / May 11 2011 12:52 pm
Wow! 1984 is the only one I recognize. I think I'm going to have to have a future-themed readathon this summer.
Thanks for sharing!
TheBookGirl / May 12 2011 7:46 am
Like the other posters, I've read 1984. Even tho I don't read much sci-fi, I found this post really interesting. I appreciate that you picked older books — I am off now to see if my library has A Canticle for Leibowitz; that's the one that struck me most. Thanks!
cbjames / May 14 2011 8:27 am
The only one I haven't read it The Space Merchants. I heard an interview with Mr. Pohl on Starship Sofa a few months ago. Even though I've only read one of his many, many novels, I found him a fascinating interview. He's one of those writers who have been around since the beginnings of the genre, with lots of stories to tell. I'll look for this book.


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