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BhaktiFest. Outdoor Kirtan. Madison, Wisconsin. 2012.
My aunts, mum & I had a "sister" reunion at the first Midwest "Bhaktifest". What's Bhaktifest? Depends on who you ask! Basically nearly non-stop kirtan music at the outdoor stage. All types of physical yoga, some classes with music. Talks about environmentalism. Yoga Sutras. Eating Raw/Vegan. Gong Baths (no water involved :). Ganesh, Shiva & Parvati stories. So a mish-mash of anything/everything yoga related. Had no idea what to expect. And now lusting over glow in the dark hulas and Baggy hemp pants. Tie Dyed of course :)
So many different Kirtan bands playing. Only wished there was a shadier or indoor venue. The sun alone prevented me (and I am sure many others) from attending more daytime kirtan events. There was no shade and it was hot and sunny. Yeah, I know that our "body" isn't supposed to matter. But my "body" doesn't want anybody carving it up to remove suspicious looking moleson it from soaking up too much sun. (I totally overdosed in my youth.)
If you don't know what kirtan is....It is chanting the names of God. But typically, Hindu God/s. I say God or Gods, because sometimes there are many names/forms of one God. I know, people think there are "all of these" Gods, but just think about how Christianity has the Trinity-Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, and they are all One, the same thing. Well.....to me, there is an awful lot of that going on in other religions as well. It is just not always to see the commonalities when we were taught to view other religions so differently from the ones that are prevelant in our own country. So are these all these people at the kirtan Hindus? Um, nope. There are likely some Hindus in the crowd. I think of Kirtan as music. It is spiritual music. It is meaningful music, and it probably means something a little different to everyone. But no, Kirtan at festivals like this, are not "Hindu Events". And yes, you might hear a Hare Krishna chant, but that is just one of the many chants. It is also not a Hare Krishna event. Yes, there are both Hindus and Hare Krishna people there. But there is just a little bit of everything there including Catholics, Jews (not Orthodox), Jains, Pagans, Unitarians, Agnostics............It's odd, but really very cool.
I stuck with indoor daytime events. Like Preston Klick's GongHealing. The Gong Bath (we all went to this). Yep. A man and his wife (He did gongs, she had long blonde hair, flowing clothes, and did brain healing) did this one together. You lay down. He plays Gongs. The room vibrates. You are "bathed" in this ocean of sound that starts with nothing and works up to a crazy climatic gong high, likely integrated with the man screaming (most likely releasing energy??) and she walks around and rubs scalps and helps to healed our cooked cerebral cortexes. I couldn't help but wonder what their home life was like. I mean, my husband drinks beer, eats vegan pizza, and watches football. I personally couldn't imagine what their evenings might look like? My mom (seriously never making jaded remarks-I got THAT from my dad), said, "They probably fight all the time". Ha. Who knows. I adored the Gong Bath. Yeah. Some stuff & Vibes get a little "new agey" for me. But I love sound. And experiences. So it is just a really cool experience to just let all that sound vibrate your body. In addition, most "new agey" type of stuff is really just ideas extracted from really ancient stuff. But if you ever get a chance to go to a gong bath (yes you are fully clothed!), do it. If nothing else, it's interesting. And it prompted me to change my wake-up alarm to the "gong" setting! And for the record...I loved it. I have a tendency to freak out a little when people "talk" about art, music, poetry too much. I just like to do it. I just hate intellectualizing art.
And Durga Das (aka David Newman). Great guy. Non pretentious. Flannel Shirt & Jeans guy. Usually has his wife sing with him, but I believe that she had a family issue so was not able to come. Enjoyed the kirtan. This clip is not from BhaktiFest, but gives an idea of what a Kirtan is and who DurgaDas is.
Yeah. The kirtan peeps use color in their dress. Lots of it. Color. Beads. A fair amount of tattoos and dreads.
David Haberman. EcoMan. Professor at IU (Bloomington, Indiana) and talking about an issue he cares deeply about. A forest near in Monroe County.
I also went to what somehow we all kept calling the "eco terrorist" man talk as well. My mum thought the bio sounded interesting. Okay, so it was interesting. But in a weird way. So I had read in some true "Yoga girl Goes to India" type of story (there are SEVERAL), about "eye gazing". Guess what? We got to eye gaze. So partway into the talk, we are instructed to get up and walk around the room. (He also lets us know we can stay seated, but he doesn't say what is to come when he offers that!!). We are supposed to be looking at people or just keeping our eyes open or something?? While walking. Then....we are supposed to "find" a partner. Somehow this guy & I are the last 2 people left. I look over at my mum (who has been to a load of zen, Buddhist, retreat, yoga, blah, blah, blah, events before and while she is SUPER shy, She is not an eye gazing virgin. ) You know what "eye gazing" means to me? Okay, in my city it is don't look anybody in the fucking eye, or you might get shot. Or, at a milonga it is don't look at anybody in the fucking eye, because you are there to listen to live music and nothing else, and if you make eye contact "he" will come to ask you to dance. Except that "dance" may not be "open" embrace and it might be close embrace and some people's close embrace might involve a sweaty old crotch attempting to grind you or some creep thinking your ass is a way to steer you-partly because he can't lead worth a damn, and partly because he just wants to be up in there and learned to dance because he knows there is a world wide shortage of good leads. Oh, and eye gaze could mean you want to take a coffee. Which apparently means fuck. So you know what, I haven't looked anyone in the eye, for years, with any sort of penis. Yeah, even strap on. :)))). Okay, I have to drop ALL of that because we are in some "eco" talk & I am supposed to be thinking about how the earth is being destroyed by us and how we are killing all of the animals and how all of these deeper concerns are really occupying the apartment in my head, when all I can think about it, I don't want to gaze into any one's eyes. No. Uncomfortable. Yikes.
This video is not from BhaktiFest.....but is used in another context here. I know my mom has done this practice in yoga classes, and not in a dating/sexual/attraction sort of way at all. But it does seem to invite an openness to vulnerability.
So the last man standing & myself sit down across from each other. I breathe deeply and see my mum not hyperventilating across the room. Arrgh. She already knows how to do this. I don't remember the order of events. But we were basically supposed to be staring into each other's eyes while the teacher (we called him eco terrorist man, I am not sure why, but that is what we called him for the whole time) talked about imagining that we are sitting across from another soul that was deeply concerned about the earth. The planet. Mother Nature. That this soul was so concerned and had so much love for the planet, the earth, living things, that this soul was in this room today. That this soul hurt. Suffered pain from knowing what was happening in the world and not being able to do anything about it. About a place that this person cared deeply about and what may be happening to it because of pollution, environmental damage, carelessness, and lack of respect. All while gazing into the other person's eyes. Wow. Okay, this was really weird and at the same time somewhat cool. A new experience. But I was still scared shitless. And the teacher kept talking. And all of a sudden, many people burst into tears. Not fake, I am having a melodramatic experience tears. But this explosion of emotion. Just this kind of release, outpouring of emotion from this "soul gazing".
And yet another context...."Speed Eye Gazing" as a Dating Technique??
I wasn't in a relaxed enough state to let too much vulnerability penetrate my nervousness. But I was trying to soak it all in, while trying not to be too freaked out that I was staring into this stranger's eyes for a really long time. And then I tried to let go for a bit. And yes, most likely there was a male across from me that truly loved Mother Earth and woke up each day, really thinking about & feeling pain & suffering much from all the things that were happening to Mother Earth. All the things that we could not just change. Not just make go away. And so my jaded self vacated the BrainApartment for a bit & allowed my SevenYearOldSelf (before I became jaded and I was just happy all the time and sat outside and read copious amounts of books and didn't know there was anything wrong with the world) to live in the BrainApartment, or at least rent out the space for the duration of this workshop. Anyway, I don't know what I thought about all of it. It could have gone either way. But I felt that I was really sitting across from a good soul who was committed to the exercise and nothing more, and that in any case, the whole thing made me very uncomfortable until I just settled into it-or what I say, just surrendered. And then it maybe was very very cool. But I would still be nervous about repeating the experience. It is bizarre to stare into someones eyes for that long of a time, without any sort of knowledge of the person, but then you are looking past the person, the body, etc...and gazing into "the soul, their soul, the oneness" or something like that?
At one point we were instructed to have one person talk for a certain amount of time about a place that they care deeply about and how it is being affected by environmental factors. The other partner was supposed to just sit there and still look into their eyes and just listen to the other person's love of this place and their concerns for it's future. That was weird. I hate talking by myself and actually have someone pay full attention to me. It was awful and I got stage fright about what I was going to say and all that other stuff. All of this stuff was new to me and I am an UberShy girl. At the same time, sometimes I thrive on forced uncomfortableness.............and now I am at least glad for the experience.
We also all went to a talk about some of the Gods and Goddesses and the stories behind them (abbreviated versions) and how to find the ones that speak to us by being around the deities and picking up on the energy. The man giving the speech actually told the story about a young man who picked up a Ganesh for his girlfriend (I think that's how the story went), and was pretty cynical about the whole thing-but then the story went on and we discovered Ganesh had helped the young man in the end and that the "young man" ended up turning into a Yogi & Musician that we know as MC Yogi!
My mum & I went to an ayurvedic talk. Not on purpose. We thought it was the EcoMan one. But no.......And the man giving it was very Kapha. And I'm not. It was a lot of talking, and It was a lot of Ayurveda & Kapha. And I was a little tired.
We hit some yoga classes too. One with live music (which is nearly always a good thing in my book) and FamousMaleYogaTeacher. He is kind of a yoga star and I didn't really know that much about him. Basically when he first opened his mouth and started talking I immediately thought he was the type that had a lot of female followers (of course most of them are, right!!)....but you know.......So he was completely smooth & ran a great class that was a yoga & music "experience". Okay, but my first impression was that he was a "YogaStud" and I am more drawn to OldWiseYogaWoman. I am jaded. Oh, and I am a realist. Oh, and I do have some sort of general distrust of really smooth, confident men in the YogaWorld. There are so many tight PranaPants and PushedUpYogaBoobs and SuperCutYogaTri's and all while sucking up that root chakra (only strenghtening that sexual yogic muslce).........that it would take a true Saint not to capitalize on all that SexualYogaEnergy being thrown around in classes like this. And everyone lets loose because generally YogaRooms are primarily women. And we think we are supposed to "let it all go", release the tension, blah, blah, blah, ALL the same things you need for the BigO, you need for the BigR (Relaxation). At one point we were just gyrating our hips, boobs, butts, bodies to a wild drum beat and FamousYogaTeaher's SmoothVoice. SeriousEstrogenOverload in the Room. Then we were all "shaking". First we start with one body part and just kept adding more, all to this driving beat. Something about tapping into the NativeAmericanEnergySpiritMovement. So we were all shaking everything, all over, the room. And there was a group of musicians and FamousYogaTeacher Grooving. Watching. Again. While I am somewhat hesitant to gyrate anything except in front of my husband (can you tell I could never be a lap dancer??)-I just did it and pretended all the men were gay. Ha. They weren't, but I had to pretend to even go there. So the shaking thing feels pretty cool, yes. And it's kind of cool to do it in a room full of other people and tap into some sort of energy. But I think I would have been more comfortable if no male energy was watching all this female energy fly all around the room. Once again...very fun....cool...love the music. But I am JadedYogaGirl and somehow think that many of HotYogaTeachers aren't preserving their SexualEnergy or practicing TantricSex, but just acting on lust and creating dramas and messes and dramas and messes. Maybe I am just jaded? Maybe I am just a realist. And it's not all of anybody, I am sure. But just an energy I get sometimes.........In addition to the fact that there are constantly new revelations about SaidYogaTeacherHotFamousOrJustFamous using/abusing their YogaPower. Yoga Teachers fill a weird, ambiguous function in the States. Such a cross into spirituality, texts, religion, etc.....and they get followers. And there are often stories of misconduct. Melodrama. Messes. Breaking Trust. That is why I go for the OlderYogaWiseWoman. The ones I know won't be tweeting their Va-Jay-Jay's or probably won't be risking it all to score a hot young lad-probably.......Okay, class was fun & well directed. I didn't get all spiritual in it or anything. Way too much tight BootyShaking for that.
Note: There are many Yoga Teachers, Presenters from which to choose at events like this! So you can choose the peeps, events in which you feel most drawn. You don't have to go to any power yoga classes. You don't have to go to a talk about deities. There are so many offerings at one time, that you just choose what you want to do.
Then we took a GetAway. To the Green Owl. A Veggie/Vegan place in town.
The Green Owl had a booth at BhaktiFest as well, but we took an excursion to go to the Fair Trade store & ended up going to their brick & mortar location. Such a cute exterior.
Local Kombucha Brew. Madison is such an earthy, crunchy town. I think they have more than one LocalKombuchaBrewer!
The interior is nice-subdued & comfortable. A nice break from being outside and running around.
One of my aunts got a Vegan Bread Pudding with Vegan Sausage. It looked Yummy!
Mum & I got scrambled Tofu & Potatoes. Green Owl has a big menu and I really wanted to try their jackfruit burritos and some raw food dishes. But this was a Brunch day, and so they had a pretty small & fixed menu. Basically this was the Gluten Free Vegan option.........Like that place a lot, but would be much better to go on a non-brunch day so you can try all the super cool stuff they usually offer!
And back to the Festival........
I discovered this place Sunday night, the last night of the festival. Really, a stand that sells sprouts by the ounce and has WheatGrass Shots? Um, amazing. I will doing grass shots the whole weekend next time! In addition, after I told them I lived in St. Louis, the guys at the booth started talked about the Cahokia Mounds and Dragon Caves (in Illinois). And underground pyramids. ? They were fun.
|Cleopatra had magical shakes.
|Lots of Raw Cacao, Hemp Seeds, Dates, Maca, Wild Chaga, Greens & all the other stuff Raw Yogis love.
All the food booths were circling around this main Kirtan Scene. Sing. Eat. Sing. Buy Hippie Yoga Things. Sing. Dance. Hydrate. Hula. Sing. Yerba Mate Fix. Sing. Hula with your flower skirt and humble hippie panties beneath.
|Camp Rawnora. This place has some land and uncooking classes & other workshops. They didn't bring a ton of food, but I stocked up before they ran out. These were my favorite Kale Chips. Think my mom & aunts loved as well.
Green Spirit Kale Chips. They also had sweet potato chips & crackers. All raw & vegan. Lots of crackers, cacao, chips. They had crackers with seeds and then veggies like cabbage & carrots. And Sweet Potato chips too. I got the Salt & Vinegar style and for me there was too much salt. But I think my threshold is just quite low now, because generally I wasn't adding salt to food.
Beautiful Sunset before the final Kirtan. Several people camped around the lake. There was kirtan going on from 9 in the morning until midnight each night-so they got their share of chanting!
Love. Kombucha & Yerba Mate in one stand? Locally Brewed Kombucha at that. Was going to hit this tent later to give it a try. My mom & I walked up & there were a few people chatting. And the guy at the tent who was "taking orders" was talking to a young, very muscular yogi about spirituality. Hmmm....interesting, what comes next? KombuchaStud "Wow, I can tell you are in really great shape. I mean, it obviously enhanced your spirituality/inner growth". MuscleYogi "It's all just yoga", she seems to be trying to shrug it off, and perhaps just really wanted a cking Kombucha. But you had to love the pick up lines. Anyhow, he was pretty focused on trying to talk this chic-clearly because she was so deeply spiritual. Saw that was going nowhere, so took a detour. Did get to try my aunt's Kombucha later-and yes, it's a good brew. All flirting aside.
More Kirtan.
Jai Uttal. His BhaktiFest kirtan infused a bit of reggae. This is an old clip, not from BhaktiFest.
Krishna Das did an indoor Kirtan the last day (Sunday). Love how the musician on stage is taking a photo of the audience while I am taking mine :) This event was billed as a "workshop", but really it was KD talking & regular kirtan (call & response). KD is pretty much a rock star in the yoga world now. He is played in yoga classes around the world & the KirtanMan around the globe. I personally adore him. His stories are so great, really funny, and he possesses so much insight but and delivers it without the sometimes seemingly pretense that accompanies a lot of this kind of "spiritual talk". His dress & style is simple. His body is not decorated with obvious tattoos, piercings, no Indian clothes or the wearing of all white to "catch the energy". Not that there is anything wrong with any of the above. And he makes references to watching late night tv. He just seems to put it all out there, not attempting to be some guru or anyone "higher" than this American guy who had some really incredible experiences when he was younger. He isn't ultra "suave" or the type of guy that seems to put out the message that he wants a million yogis bowing to him. His voice & message speak for itself.
Not from BhaktiFest....but something he did with an acapella group, Prana.
Not from BhaktiFest...But gives an idea of his typical style. Sometimes a little more traditional, sometimes a little more rock. But simple melodies and always a deep, soulful voice.
He also opened the floor for questions. Pretty much from the getgo. First one was from a gal in the front row who asked something about how her son choosing to leave the planet was supposed to help her practice. Wow. Not really an easy starter. KD (yeah, that's what all the cool kids call him), allowed the space to breathe for several minutes. Then he calmly responded. Not by having "an answer" at all. By kind of saying (obviously what I "heard"), that for whatever reason her son was not able to exist here anymore. That it was terribly difficult and he offered his condolences. I don't know how he did it, but somehow he mustered up a completely eloquent and meaningful response.....once again........not trying to be a "guru" at all. But it kind of comes with the territory. Of his experiences. People ask him questions. Open up to him. Of course I don't really know him at all, but it appears that he has no intent on thriving on that "power" or abusing the fact that people are naturally drawn to him for some sort of "advice". He is really quite funny. Quite serious and no bones about it when it comes to the important stuff. But quite grounded and has been through it all himself.....and obviously still going through it.
During the Sunday Krishna Das Workshop.
A little MidWest Fusion.
A little Video.....The style freaked me out. But finally I just embraced it, jumped up and down, and had fun.
Dave Stringer. The last night. Such an odd combination of music. Just wasn't sure if I really liked it or if it just was too "heavy metal" for me. Really, the Kali tune seemed like there needed to be a mosh pit. So basically the age old artistic question-how much altering of an idea is cool? Or maybe he doesn't alter the idea, but the sometimes heavy metal accompaniment to an old Sanskrit Chant.....Loved some of the fusion though. So in the end I shrugged my shoulders and just enjoyed it, but I was seriously puzzled and taken off guard for a moment!! There was a couple in front of us jumping up and down and pointing at each other yelling Kali whenever her name came up in the tune. They were about 30, white, casual boho gear, and doing the Kali groove. It really seemed like a fusion of a Rock/Dead/Phish scene maybe? Except there were really so many older, a bit more reserved yogi peeps there as well. Truly a diverse audience in age. I did not see the diversity in color and I am not sure about economic groups. Overall, it seems this type of crowd is generally educated. Even if some may roll their eyes at advanced degrees, I kind of get the idea that most people came from educated (in the traditional sense) places. Just a hunch?
I really didn't think we were going to stay for the closing ceremony. Just sounds so bureaucratic. Um, it wasn't. First the organizers came out & talked about how great it went. And how there was some doubt that a Bhakti Fest could make it in the Midwest. Usually it's just something people fly over to get to their coasts. But I think there was so much value to having something like this in a place that is slightly more grounded. I haven't gone to the other yoga events on the coasts, but apparently some of them have a different feel. Even though we may all be "the same", often the New York/Boston & LA crowd has a different energy. Madison is a funky place. Really just enough going on to be content, yet it feels a little more earthy and a little less tolerant of so much "yoga bling". I could be completely off base, but it felt like they really tried to make this an authentic event. There were not LuluLemon booths & no ubercommerical "food bars" and I don't think I saw any YogaJournal magazines. It had a little bit more of a grassroots feeling, and guessing that was super intentional. Maybe because that was their "marketing" plan, or maybe because they truly wanted to more carefully pick their businesses. Have no idea, but either way, I'll take it.
Overall.....I say go & have fun......Don't read too much into any of it. A lot of different vibes and some you will be drawn to and others you may or may not find yourself being pulled towards...but it's a fun experience! So glad I have family that does this kind of stuff! Oh, and this is Cute! Top 10 things heard at BhaktiFest Day 2. Love the one about the Hula.
A little bit of the Closing Ceremony. Everyone took the mic. Quality not great...taken with my IpodTouch........But you get the idea.
Okay, this is goofy. But turn your head sideways to see people square dancing. What a fusion..........See.....they probably don't do that at Joshua Tree! Kirtan just got infused with a little bit of the MidWest!


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New Technologies are Quickly Changing TV Viewing Habits: Prof. Jeff McCall '76
May 22, 2014
"There's a new buzzword in broadcast television: eventize," according to Houston's KTRH. "DVR, on-demand and online television is killing traditional ratings, which brings in the advertising bucks. Media critic Jeff McCall of DePauw University says networks are having to come up with big events to draw in live viewers."
Dr. McCall, professor of communication at DePauw, tells the radio station, "People, when they DVR things or they do delayed viewing, those program views don't always show up in the Nielsen ratings, and it makes it hard to justify the numbers for advertise. There is some cultural capital for viewers to know the winner of Dancing with the Stars in real time, so that they can tweet about it or talk with their friends about it, but for most people its just not that important."
Sports programs are less likely to be recorded for viewing later "because folks want to watch them right then and find if their team won or lost," says the professor, who believes the trend will be toward more must-see live programs and fewer dramas and sitcoms.
Read more at the station's website.
McCall also discusses how viewing habits of young people are changing in a Christian Science Monitor story on last night's American Idol finale. "Their lifestyles are helter-skelter and often unplanned. Work schedules are not 9-to-5 any more. In this regard, networks are fighting an uphill battle to get young viewers to sit still at times the network decides."
Access that article here.
A former journalist and the author of Viewer Discretion Advised: Taking Control of Mass Media Influences, Jeffrey M. McCall is a 1976 graduate of DePauw. The professor is regularly called upon to discuss media matters in major publications and has been quoted in articles published by more than 100 newspapers, including a Los Angeles Times story on Monday and a USA Today piece last week.
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A postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) with qualified teacher status (QTS) will allow you to teach in state schools in England and may allow you to teach in other parts of the UK.
It may also allow you to teach overseas, though you should always check what qualifications are needed in the country you'd like to teach in.
Many PGCE courses include credits that count toward a Master's degree.
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Trainees on the School Direct (Tuition Fee) route will be working in a classroom with an experienced appointed mentor. You will have at least one meeting a week with your mentor.
Trainees will spend most of their year based in a school for four days a week and then attend training on the fifth day. The training sessions will be led by expert practitioners, some of whom work in our excellent partner schools. They will support you to develop your knowledge, skills and understanding of teaching lessons effectively in a secondary school across all key stages, where applicable.
As part of the programme trainees will complete a contrasting school placement and attend focus days to enhance your expertise and understanding of SEND and other specialist areas of education.
A programme of continuous formative assessment of trainees' subject knowledge and ability to teach, as recorded within the portfolio, culminates in a rigorous assessment of the Teachers' Standards for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) as specified by the Department for Education (DfE). As an accredited provider, SAF ITT recommends trainees, on successful completion of their training programme for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Trainees will also be able to study for a PGCE alongside the QTS, this is dependent on the qualification criteria being met.
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Trainees will be allocated a school taking into account where they live and their individual needs. The school will be either 11-16 age range or 11 to 18.
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You may also be eligible for a loan while you study – note that you'll have to apply for undergraduate student finance.
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Overseas qualifications should be verified by NARIC
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SAF ITT, as the accredited provider, and its partners are looking for ambitious trainee teachers who are passionate and enthusiastic about working with students. The programme is challenging, and so we are looking for candidates with a wide range of skills, knowledge, experiences and an aptitude for teaching.
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Maplefields Academy is the Lead School for the School Direct Training Programme offering both Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and mainstream courses, working in collaboration with a number of other special schools. The academy is a Special School and a Specialist College for pupils with severe Behaviour Emotional and Social Difficulties. As such, we offer a full range of opportunities for children and young people with special needs aged from 2 - 18 years. Our academy offers a wide range of excellent facilities including a vocational centre and full size sports hall, astro turf areas and a climbing wall.
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SINGAPORE - A stock market rout that started on Wall Street rolled through Asia, driving China's benchmark to a four-year low Thursday and knocking down indexes in Japan, Korea and Australia.
The Shanghai Composite index plunged 5.2 percent to its lowest level since November 2014, and Japan's Nikkei 225 fell by an unusually wide margin of almost 4 percent. Markets across Southeast Asia recorded similar declines.
"Equity markets were pulverized today," with investors in "full out retreat," Stephen Innes of OANDA said in a commentary. The "latest sneeze" from Wall Street "could morph into a global markets pandemic," he added.
A television screen on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the plunging numbers for the Dow Jones industrial average, March 22, 2018, as investors feared trade tensions will spike between the U.S. and China.
Interests rates worry investors
Investors are wary of possible further U.S. interest rate hikes, which will raise the cost of corporate borrowing and weigh on economic growth.
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Adding to potential U.S.-China tensions, the Justice Department announced Wednesday it arrested an official of China's Ministry of State Security on charges of trying to steal trade secrets from U.S. aerospace companies.
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Tokyo's Nikkei 225 gave up 3.9 percent to 22,590.86 and the Shanghai Composite index lost 5.2 percent to 2,583.46. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index shed 3.7 percent to 25,220.67. The Kospi in South Korea fell 4.4 percent to 2,129.67. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 slipped 2.7 percent to 5,883.80. Stocks plunged in Taiwan and fell across Southeast Asia.
On Wednesday, U.S. stocks slumped as concerns over rising interest rates and trade tensions caused a sell-off in technology and internet stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst loss in eight months, falling 3.1 percent to 25,598.74.
The S&P 500 index sank 3.3 percent to 2,785.68. The Nasdaq composite, which has a large contingent of technology stocks, was 4.1 percent lower at 7,422.05. It has fallen 7.5 percent in just five days. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks shed 2.9 percent, to 1,575.41.
Apple and Amazon, the two most valuable companies in the S&P 500, each had their worst day in 2½ years. Apple slipped by 4.6 percent while Amazon lost 6.2 percent.
Amazon has soared 50 percent this year, but its stock has fallen 14 percent from its all-time high in early September.


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What a difference a week makes. Last Sunday, my writing day, was as beautiful a day as one could special order if that were possible. Today it is pouring rain and if you look closely, distressing as that is to do, you can see some white crystalline objects mixed in. Urgh! Oh well, I shall not complain. I have a new kitchen faucet being installed and the workman (aka Spousal Unit) does not need to be tempted out-of-doors by an Indian Summer day.
I can report that THE project has only just begun and already he feels like he is in the midst of a "reality show where you are working against a time clock" because some thingamajig is leaking constantly and he needs to be done asap. The sighs are audible and frequent and I predict a slight meltdown at some point.
Yup, I think this weather is just the ticket and by the end of the day I will have a new faucet installed that hopefully will work.
This week on Facebook
As you undoubtedly know by now I have a Facebook page called, what else, Krisinsight. This week a friend of mine asked me about supplements I take and had I ever thought about the supplements working against each other? Another member of Krisinsight had the correct answer "Yes, of course." I have tried many supplements over the years and I worry or wonder about each and every one. I was comforted long ago by my then functional medicine doctor, Robert Bruley. I told him I had a pantry full of supplements and he confided that he and his wife did too.
While that seems like a lot what also made me feel better was he and his wife had their blood tested all the time to check the effects of these supplements and they basically saw good results or they quit taking them. Some lowered homocysteine levels or CRP levels and others showed positive results in lowering liver enzymes. All in all, the supplements they took showed positive results and, to me, that was comforting and reassuring.
Spectracell results
Dr. Bruley was a big proponent of Life Extension formulas and I started taking several of their supplements at that time (2007 or thereabouts). I also took some others like Dibencozide and methylcobalamin all of which had fillers and additives but were recommended by my thyroid group.
Around this same time I heard a discussion between Dr. Mercola and a Dr. Klinghardt regarding a micro-film that might form from using supplements with stearates. Also Russell Blaylock wrote a book called "Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills" and I read it around the same time. One common filler is maltodextrin, an excitotoxin due to the way it is manufactured. Then going gluten-free added new challenges to anything with additives and fillers. Even additives listed as "natural flavors" could contain gluten. Crikey! It was all becoming too, too difficult.
Then the coup d'grâce for the use of additives and fillers was my Spectracell test I had done in late 2011. Until this time I had taken the above listed supplements and one called "Anti-Alcohol Antioxidants" in addition to others that contained a full spectrum of antioxidants, CoQ10, selenium and zinc, not to mention up to 10,000 mcg of B12 sublingually every day.
In my blog from that time I wrote the following:
Vitamin B12, Selenium, Inositol, Zinc, CoQ10 and my Spectrox (comprehensive antioxidants) were all listed as deficient. Why is this troublesome? B12 is often noted to be low in people who have dementia and a B12 deficiency actually mimics Alzheimer's Disease.Selenium deficiencies are rare (the SU says he already knew I was weird) but can contribute to hypothyroidism. Inositol levels must be optimum to assure healthy brain function and even healthy hair growth. Zinc is a common deficiency and most often noted by white spots appearing in the nail bed but it also can lead to excess hair loss. CoQ10 is essential for healthy breasts and heart. As for antioxidants they are our life blood as necessary as the air we breathe.
What would you conclude?
Knowing you were taking all the nutrients that you have just tested low in what would you do? Also knowing that you, or, in this case, I, have a history of dementia in the family as well as heart disease, what would you surmise from these results? The facts were I was already taking more antioxidants and vitamins than the lab recommended in their prescription to improve my levels that were below acceptable levels. My overall low antioxidant level was really distressing to me given the supplements I was taking. Even though Dr. Bruley told me he was quite impressed with how many nutrients (like Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, etc.) were at or above average levels the things that were below average bothered me considerably.
With some enlightenment thanks to my Spectracell test, I started looking very carefully at supplements that have fillers and additives as the words of Dr. Mercola and Dr. Klinghardt (Klinghardt as been somewhat discredited at the time this is posted in his Lyme Disease work and Chris Kresser just posted this article) rang in my head.
That doesn't mean I never take a supplement that has stearates or rice powder but it does mean I don't like them and would prefer no additives or fillers. I don't see the reason for them and I have contacted a number of companies about adding them unnecessarily only to be rebuffed.
Ignore me and thousands of others if you want but the fact remains additives and fillers are really not necessary they aid in the manufacturing process and they make supplements unnecessarily large (only a problem if you have a dry mouth as so many thyroid patients do).
In answer to my friend's question, I think about the supplements I take and when they don't work I quit taking them. I have been particularly fond of the formulas that Life Extension puts together but I don't like their use of rice powder, maltodextrin and stearates. Also if you take a formula of assorted nutrients how do you know what is working and what isn't? What if one thing actually would make you feel better but mixing it with other things is making you sick? Thus, I try to take single ingredient supplements until I know the effect each ingredient will have but again don't hold me to these words as I can think of several formulations I take right now.
I, as you know, use very few scientific studies to prove my unique observations. My personal experience is what Krisinsight is all about. You can take it for what it is, one person's experience with her health and use it accordingly. My experience has taught me that taking supplements with additives and fillers apparently did disrupt the absorption of these nutrients.
This poor absorption issue may have something to do with my hypothyroidism as a person afflicted with hypothyroidism may tend to have absorption issues, aka leaky gut. Especially for others, like me, who might have absorption issues avoiding fillers and additives may be something to consider. For instance, if you are low in B12, it might be a good idea to talk to your physician about methylcobalamin injections as even sublingual B12 may not be helping you increase your levels.
As for the aforementioned faucet project. I can happily report that my faucet has been installed and long before I have finished writing. Yea! I guess the profane words stayed firmly stuck inside the installer's brain because I heard nothing other than the original "reality show" comment and several sighs. I asked him about this and he told me sometimes thinking them makes you feel just as good as voicing them. I am married to a truly gentle man and I am grateful. The new faucet is lovely and nary a drip falls after two years of a faucet that was "fixed" but dripped profusely. Now if the weather would quit dripping all would be well.


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Fuel leaks are never sexy. The fumes pollute the air and worse, leaked fuel can catch on fire more easily than most things. Unfortunately for Mercedes-Benz, a whole bunch of fuel filters may have been manufactured with a weakness that could cause them to leak fuel.
The recall, scheduled to begin in January, affects 2011-2012 S400, S550, S550 4Matic, S63 AMG, C300, C300 4Matic, E350, GLK350, GLK350 4Matic, CL550 4Matic, and CL63 AMG models. Mercedes said they'll be in touch with owners and dealers, and will replace the fuel filter free of charge.
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Looking back at my quantum mechanics notes, the angular momentum addition theorem is listed as:
$j=j_1+j_2,j_1+j_2-1, ..., |j_1-j_2| $ (Using conventional notation)
, but I'm a little unsure how to interpret the introduction of the modulus operation ($|...|$) and couldn't easily find any examples.
I'm assuming you apply the modulus to any expression which would otherwise yield a negative value for $j$?
I'd appreciate a nod from someone in the know :-).


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After applying the new terminating regex to Ruby via the following 175 stroker:
I could not restrain myself from trying to reduce it further. Two eyesores that I found extremely annoying were:
Still a space before the until and still 175 strokes. Rats. Chanting Eugene's "can't possibly work, try it anyway" mantra, I changed ~/, 99\D+/ to /, 99\D+/ and it worked! Though it now emits a "warning: regex literal in condition" message to stderr, that does not matter to codegolf. Another stroke shaved. Not as I intended, but no matter. Only one more needed to catch flagitious.
What about the n=0; initialization? At this point, I remembered the Roman to Decimal challenge, where I was able to avoid an initialization by hijacking the $. variable. Indeed, if you want a numeric variable initialized to a known value, that is the only built-in variable Ruby makes available. Given my program is four lines in length, $. is initialized to the value four. So I scribbled this down during my lunchtime walk to Neutral Bay today:
Hmmm, well that's clearly one stroke less. But will it work? Or will Ruby complain when the $. "line number" becomes negative? Nope, not a whimper about a negative line number. So, much to my surprise, I've now tied flagitious for the Ruby lead on 173 strokes:
Update: an alternative 173 using Ruby symbols:
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I've been working on some new things for the shop & I finally made a bit of time this week to add them to the shop. Some of these were made months ago but I haven't been able to make enough time to put everything together.
I still have several to add but I'm glad to share some of what I've been working on.
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An array of 575 solar panels covers the roof of the Bullitt Center, a role model for a new generation of sustainable, energy-efficient buildings.
In cloudy, drizzly Seattle, Denis Hayes, the environmental activist who organized the first Earth Day in 1970, is pulling the wraps off a six-story office building that generates all of its electricity via an oversized rooftop array of solar panels.
A sun-powered building in Seattle is "formidable," Hayes told NBC News, but the Bullitt Center project aims to show it is possible in a visible, tangible manner that, in turn, makes an impact on the often invisible, slow-motion challenge of global climate change.
"When this whole [Earth Day] thing got launched in 1970, we had people walking around with gas masks and smokestacks were pouring out enormous impenetrable clouds of black smoke," said Hayes, who is now president of the Bullitt Foundation, which supports environmental causes.
Today, the sooty smokestacks and black clouds are largely gone, but our energy demands have never been greater, and the impacts of climate change are considered by environmental advocates to be more and more apparent, ranging from extreme weather to growing food insecurity. As scientists toil to identify how our world is changing, the environmental movement will have to spend the next decades finding better ways to rally the world's citizens to address the new challenges.
Self-sustaining architecture
Hayes says the Bullitt Center addresses many of the environmental issues underpinned by global climate change. Take, for example, the building's 56,000-gallon basement cistern for storing captured rainwater. It's a seemingly odd fixture for a building in a city famous for its rain and amply supplied by water, stored in snow form, from the nearby Cascade Mountains.
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The Bullitt Foundation, whose mission is to safeguard the environment, spent $18.5 million to construct this uniquely sustainable office building.
"There is not going to be enough water in the future," Hayes said. "There is going to be far less snowpack. The water is going to come in gushers and there is just no way to build additional reservoirs to capture it in the Cascades."
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Hayes, who co-founded Earth Day with Gaylord Nelson, now heads the Seattle-based Bullitt Foundation.
The solution? Build thousands of reservoirs in the basements of buildings, sufficient to hold water to meet the needs of the current and future residents of a city that studies suggest could grow by at least a million people in the next few decades — potentially, many climate refugees from the parched Southwest, noted Hayes.
The hope is that "by trying to build a building as best we could, that literally does everything right," the Bullitt Center will drive change in the building industry with the type of impact Tom's of Maine, a green personal care products company, had on Proctor and Gamble, an industry giant, Hayes said.
Given that buildings in the U.S. account for 39 percent of the nation's carbon dioxide emissions, 65 percent of waste and 70 percent electrical use, adoption of the Living Building Challenge standards highlighted by the Bullitt Center could make life on Earth more sustainable by the middle of this century.
"If we can get a whole bunch of these other buildings built and we start eating up that market share, then we can begin to have changes that are not small incremental one inch here, five inches there, but a fairly profound impact," he explained. "At least, that's the theory."
Want to know more about the Bullitt Center? Read our feature story here, and check out our slideshow.
Rising food insecurity
But even if self-sustainable architecture really takes off, it can't solve all the environmental issues, Hayes noted. In particular, he worries about food security, at a time when rising prosperity around the world means a shift to more meat-heavy diets.
The shift in diet is not the only issue, either. It may be hard enough to meet the basic needs of a hungry population, according to Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute and a leading thinker on global environmental issues.
"Agriculture as it exists today has evolved over an 11,000-year period of rather remarkable climate stability," he told NBC News. "If the climate system begins to change, suddenly the climate system and the agricultural system will no longer be in sync with each other. With each passing year, they will be more and more out of sync, making it difficult to just maintain production, much less to increase it."
The solution, Brown added, would be to escalate the problem from the agriculture departments and ministries up to the very heads of state, who will need to grasp food's relationship to everything from energy policy to shifts in population.
And in turn, world leaders need to work together.
"No one country can ensure food security on its own because we are talking about climate change being one of the keys here and that requires a global effort," Brown explained. "No country can stabilize its climate unilaterally; it takes a concerted international effort."
Rousing international cooperation
Building an international coalition to tackle global climate change is plausible, and happening, leading environmental scientists said Thursday during a panel discussion with recipients of the Tyler Prize, an environmental achievement award, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
For example, John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology and a Tyler Prize laureate in 2000, said that in both India and China "the leadership is fully aware of the damage already being done to their countries by climate change and they are fully aware that ultimately the problem cannot be solved without their participation."
That participation, he added, is already underway, as exhibited by a Joint U.S.-China Statement on Climate Change posted on the Department of State's website earlier this month.
"Forceful, nationally appropriate action by the United States and China — including large-scale cooperative action — is more critical than ever," reads the statement. "Such action is crucial both to contain climate change and to set the kind of powerful example that can inspire the world."
Only time will tell if the statement is truly the beginning of something focused and concrete that puts the world on the path to tackling the biggest environmental issues of today and tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Hayes, on the 43rd anniversary of the first Earth Day rally, readies his new self-sustaining office building for the world to see, as he continues to search for ways to raise awareness about the environment.
"Somehow we have to take all of these issues — and I don't have the magic formula — and make them the most immediate concern," he said. "And I guess the reason for optimism is that sometimes stuff just happens. It is almost like a school of fish — it is a biological phenomenon."
John Roach is a contributing writer for NBC News. To learn more about him, visit his website.


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This new National Park commemorates a significant chapter in America's history: the World War II Home Front. Fully engaged in winning World War II, American women, minorities and men worked toward a common goal in a manner that has been unequaled since. Women affectionately known as "Rosies" helped change industry and had sweeping and lasting impacts. Richmond, California, played a significant and nationally recognized part in the World War II Home Front. The four Richmond shipyards with their combined 27 shipways, produced 747 ships, more than any other shipyard complex in the country. Richmond was home to 56 different war industries, more than any other city of its size in the United States. The city grew nearly overnight from 24,000 people to 100,000 people, overwhelming the available housing stock, roads, schools, businesses and community services. As a "partnership park" with no land or buildings actually owned by the National Park Service, the success of Rosie the Riveter is dependent on collaboration with other government agencies and private property owners. Historic properties within park boundaries include Richmond Shipyard Number Three, Ford Assembly Building, SS Red Oak Victory, Atchison Village Defense Housing Project, Maritime Child Development Center and Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital.
Atchison Village Housing Project is an excellent illustration of the local-Federal collaboration that provided much needed housing and domestic support for defense workers and their families. The modest, wood-frame buildings clearly reflect the constraints (time, money and materials) placed on publically-funded housing construction during the period. Just prior to and during the war, the Lanham Act of 1940 provided $150 million to the Federal Works Administration, which built approximately 625,000 units of housing in conjunction with local authorities nationwide. The Richmond Housing Authority was selected to be the first authority in the country to manage a defense project. Atchison Village represents one of 20 public housing projects built in Richmond before and during World War II. Constructed in 1941 as Richmond's first public defense housing project, it is the only project funded by the Lanham Act that still exists in Richmond, and one of the few in the Nation not destroyed after the war.
The Maritime Child Development Center was one of approximately 35 nursery school units of varying sizes established in the Richmond area during World War II in order to provide child care for women working in the Kaiser shipyards. This center was funded and constructed by the U.S. Maritime Commission as part of a larger development that also included housing, an elementary school and a fire station. The temporary housing was demolished after the war but a larger permanent housing complex remains as do the other buildings. The Maritime Child Development Center, a wood frame, modernist style building operated by the Richmond School District, incorporated progressive educational programming, and was staffed with nutritionists, psychiatrists and certified teachers. It had a capacity of 180 children per day. At its peak, with 24,500 women on the Kaiser payroll, Richmond's citywide child care program maintained a total daily attendance of 1,400 children. Unlike the Federally-funded WPA day care facilities implemented during the New Deal, the World War II centers were not intended for use by the destitute, but for working mothers. The Kaiser-sponsored Child Care Centers, particularly those at Kaiser's industrial sites in Vanport, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, gained a reputation for innovative and high quality child care. That the Maritime and Pullman (since renamed the Ruth C. Powers) Child Development Centers in Richmond, both constructed during World War II, continue to function as child care facilities nearly six decades later, is a testament not only to their effective design, but to the continuing demand for assistance for mothers who work.
The Kaiser Richmond Field Hospital for the Kaiser Shipyards was also financed by the U.S. Maritime Commission, and opened on August 10, 1942. Sponsored by Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Foundation, it was run by Medical Director Sidney R. Garfield, M.D. The Field Hospital served as the mid-level component of a three-tier medical care system that also included six well-equipped First Aid Stations at the individual shipyards, and the main Permanente Hospital in Oakland, where the most critical cases were treated. Together, these facilities served the employees of the Kaiser shipyards who had signed up for the Permanente Health Plan (commonly referred to as the "Kaiser Plan"), one of the country's first voluntary pre-paid medical plans, and a direct precursor to the Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) defined by the federal HMO Act of 1973. By August 1944, 92.2 percent of all Richmond shipyard employees had joined the plan, the first voluntary group plan in the country to feature group medical practice, prepayment and substantial medical facilities on such a large scale. After the war ended, the Health Plan was expanded to include workers' families. By 1990, Kaiser Permanente was still the country's largest nonprofit HMO. In part due to wartime materials rationing, the Field Hospital is a single-story wood frame structure designed in a simple modernist mode. Originally intended for use primarily as an emergency facility, the Field Hospital opened with only 10 beds. Later additions increased its capacity to 160 beds by 1944. The Field Hospital operated as a Kaiser Permanente hospital until closing in 1995.
Rosie the Riveter--World War II Home Front National Historical Park, administered by the National Park Service, is still in development. It has a small Visitor Center in the City of Richmond's City Hall South where a Driving Tour Booklet can be obtained. The Rosie the Riveter Memorial in Marina Bay Park is open year round, dawn to dusk, as are the other city parks within the National Park's boundaries, as is the SS Red Oak Victory. Other sites of the park are in private ownership and are not open to the public at this time. However, their exteriors can be viewed.
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Hawai'i's Most Expensive Dishes
It's how much!? Put your money where your mouth is, with some of Hawaii's most expensive dishes.
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After exploring Hawaii's cheap eats, we'd like to introduce you to the other end of the food spectrum. From high-quality steaks to rare sea snails, here are seven extravagant dishes (and one drink) available on Oahu and Maui.
We'll egg you on—try the caviar!
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A flight of sustainable caviars – Chef Mavro's
Who wants just one type of caviar when you can get three? A flight of sustainable caviars ($190) serves 10 grams each of Russian Golden Osetra, Siberian Osetra and White Sturgeon. The caviar is arranged on a block of ice, and prepared tableside by the server into individual, rectangular portions on special mother-of-pearl spoons. You also get a table mat with caviar labels so you don't forget what you're eating.
Chef George Mavrothalassitis took the dish off the menu 10 years ago, when wild sturgeon became an endangered species. After eight years of searching, he finally found farm-raised caviar in Uruguay, Bulgaria and California that met his standards. The taste had to be fresh, elegant and not too salty. Most important, Mavro says, "When you eat caviar you must feel like you are king!"
chefmavro.com, (808) 944-4714.
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Wagyu beef – Nobu's Restaurant
Wagyu is such an expensive breed of cattle that farmers are known to feed them red wine and even give them massages to aid digestion. As a result, we get rich meat filled with unsaturated fat and intense marbling. At Nobu's, Wagyu beef ($52 and up) from America and Australia is served five ways: shabu shabu, steak, toban, tataki and "new style" sashimi. At $26 per ounce, each style has a different minimum order of two, four or six ounces. The two-ounce tataki beef is seared on the outside and raw on the inside, served with ponzu sauce, shiso leaves, chopped garlic and grated spicy daikon radish. Chef Robin Lee says he sells about a pound and a half every day.
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You'll shell out a lot of clams for the abalone at Michel's.
California Estero Bay Abalone – Michel's
Thank world pollution for the price of California Estero Bay Abalone ($75). This sea snail is a dying breed; many varieties are already extinct. According to chef Hardy Kintscher, Michel's is the only restaurant on Oahu with big, steaklike abalone from Santa Barbara; most places serve baby Kona abalone. Kintscher prepares two pieces "Parisian style," finished with macadamia-nut white-wine sauce and served with spaghetti squash, egg-shell pasta and wok spinach. "The flavor is meaty, though delicate," says Kintscher. "It's very tender. A little bit more like chicken than fish."
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Spiny-lobster sashimi – Mitch's Seafood
The spiny-lobster sashimi ($65) at Mitch's is so upscale that master chef Masakazu Murakami refused to answer our questions. "You won't understand if you haven't tried it," he says. "I don't want to talk about it." We had better luck with the receptionist: Mitch's is the only place in Honolulu that serves lobster from New Zealand—other restaurants use Maine lobster. He told us that New Zealand is the only country that grows lobsters in natural, warm seawater instead of cold, and therefore they are "more stable and pure." The chef will bring out the 1.5-pound rock lobster alive, serve the tail as sashimi and place the head in miso soup.
mitchssushi.com, (808) 837-7774.
Get a room! You will, with a Cardinal Sin.
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A Cardinal Sin – Rival's Lounge
A cocktail that's worth $250? Well, sort of. A Cardinal Sin comes with a night at the Ohana Waikiki Malia hotel and a pizza to share. The Scotch in the cocktail is aged for 21 years, so the drink alone is worth $90.
It all began when bar owner Michael Kawazoe joined resources with his father, Fukuyoshi, owner of the hotel, to showcase the Glenfiddich 21 and Disaronno Amaretto. "The smooth oak flavor from Scotch and the sweet flavor of the amaretto mix well together," says bartender Eric Stegg. The drink has been ordered twice, but it's never been served. The first time, Stegg didn't have enough Scotch. The second, he had to refuse the order because the customer was too intoxicated.
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Bone-in ribeye – Duo's Steak and Seafood
Dry-aging meat is a complicated process. "Aging of the meat relies on the humidity of an air-controlled room," says chef Roger Stettler. "The meat dries out, loses water and, as soon as it loses water, the price goes up, because the weight specification is different." At Duo's, the 24-ounce bone-in ribeye ($56) is grilled, seasoned with salt and pepper, and flavored with house-made herb butter. Served with fresh Kula corn, Stettler describes the meat as a "more intense, grassy beef flavor that's stronger than a normal piece of meat."
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Mark Lincoln applies singing and playing techniques to the Doors song "Riders on the Storm."
Taught by Mark Lincoln in Guitar Performance seriesLength: 17:19Difficulty: 2.0 of 5
1. Warm up the body.Rhythm Variations
2. Single note hum.
3. Three note hum. 4. Hum "me-me-me-me" to "mah-mah-mah mah" to "me-ma-me-ma-me." 5. Wake up the breath with "sah-sah-sah" etc. long and sustained then five times staccato. 6. "Sah" in five-note descending scales, then five-note ascending scales.
7. Work these scales faster and faster, then louder and louder.
8. Practice singing along with rhythms that we've been working on in the last few lessons. Practice singing single note hums first. Then, sing / make up a melody line that works well with the chord you are strumming.
Love it!! Jam Play needs more Doors content, severily enjoyed and took this lesson to heart! good job Mark!!
Hi Rachel, great to hear from you and thanks for the great feedback. Take care,Mark
The singing is beautiful :)
Great lesson Mark, I like your voice. Why isn't this lesson in the 'song' section, Phase 3 ?! Many Thanks
I don't make those kind of decisions but I appreciate the feedback! Thanks! Mark
Thanks Billy and great to hear from you. Learning songs is definitely a great way to acquire new chords and technique as well. Keep rockin' my friend! Mark
Great leson again Mark. I am in the "learn to play and sing as many songs as I can" phase of my development. This Riders on the Storm lesson is perfect.
Performing live or in a studio situation is a goal of many aspiring guitarists. Vocal training and the ability to sing and play at the same time are skills that will help in this endeavor.
Lesson 1
Mark introduces you to the wonderful world of singing.Length: 15:12 Difficulty: 0.5 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln guides you through stretches and vocal exercises to warm up the voice.Length: 23:12 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Mark continues to discuss vocal warm-ups and exercises. Then, he moves on to explain vibrato.Length: 23:42 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Mark covers some singing terms and teaches an exercise that is used to "warm the breath."Length: 19:10 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln talks more about vocal exercise and warm-up. Then, he moves on to discuss singing and playing at the same time.Length: 26:12 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln provides more singing exercises to practice while playing your guitar.Length: 26:15 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark returns to singing and playing. Mark teaches proper form while singing and playing, cognitive exercises, and chord progression basics.Length: 17:54 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln discusses song dynamics and the anatomy of songs. He also explains more about singing and playing.Length: 23:19 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln explains how rhythm is used in music.Length: 15:16 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln applies singing and playing techniques to the Doors song "Riders on the Storm."Length: 17:19 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In lesson 11 of his performance series, Mark discusses the palm muting technique and how to separate your singing from your playing.Length: 23:30 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Mark discusses how alternating between arpeggios and strummed chords can add contrast and flair to your music.Length: 15:02 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark discusses silence in music and how it can transform a piece. Additionally, he explains how to use silence effectively in your playing.Length: 16:40 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, Mark Lincoln talks more about warming up your voice and walks you through a few exercises that will aid this process.Length: 16:14 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark provides a lecture on items you should do and think about to become a proficient live player.Length: 20:57 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Mark delves into the concept of combining both your voice and guitar into one neat little package you can deliver to your listener.Length: 21:47 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark Brings us Lesson 17 today to explain the preparation that goes into a performance. Mark tracks back up to 36 hours in advance, and shows us some routines to prepare for a great show.Length: 19:09 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
In this lesson, Mark teaches all of the diverse parts to a song with regards to dynamics.Length: 20:17 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In this episode, Mark talks about proper breathing techniques and routines. He gives us eight points to work off of when singing and playing together.Length: 23:34 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 20
Mark Lincoln brings us a great play along opportunity. Mark provides lyrics as well as the chord progression for this play along. He also breaks down key elements such as palm muting, hammer-ons, bending,...Length: 24:06 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Lesson 21 is a repeat of lesson 20's content only with a whole new set of chords and techniques. The"chords de jour" will be a little simpler than lesson 20's and will also include a much more in depth...Length: 20:05 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Mark Lincoln was born in S. California but was raised near Portland Oregon in a town called Beaverton. When he was twelve years old, he began his journey into the realm of the creative by composing poetry and was later published in a journal called "In Dappled Sunlight." He wrote for four years until his older sister blessed him with his first guitar, an old beat-up nylon stringed classical guitar. Mark played that guitar for five years, continuing to compose his own lyrics and starting the process of matching his own words with chords that he was learning on the guitar. He learned to play chords from his friends and from music books that he both bought and borrowed. Mark cited his four biggest influences, at that point at least, as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, The Rolling Stones.
Mark cites his most current influences as Radiohead, U2, older music by REM, and Peter Gabriel amongst others. He performs with two acoustic guitars, one being a six-string M-36 Martin with a three-pieced back for increased bass response, and a Guild Twelve-string which is his most recent acquisition. Mark is fond of saying that the twelve-string guitar is better because you get two guitars for the price of one, but he still plays his Martin equally as much and with the same passion.
Mark ended up in Fort Collins Colorado where he currently lives, works as a Marriage and Family Therapist, and continues to write, teach and perform music. He currently performs with a group called "Black Nelson" as well as with a number of other seasoned professional musicians including his cousin David, a virtuoso lead-guitar player. Mark has performed in many of the smaller venues in Denver and Boulder, as well as some of the larger ones including the Fox Theatre, The Boulder Theatre, Herman's Hideaway, and also at The Soiled Dove where he opened for Jefferson Starship as a soloist. Some of Mark's originals are also available for your listening pleasure on MySpace.
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