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Here at Ptarmigan we're dead proud of our Yorkshire roots. And to celebrate Yorkshire Day – 1st August 2009 – we're going to be munching on growlers (pork pie), stuffing our cake'ole's (mouths) with spogs (sweets) and sipping pints of Tetley's!
And because we're a nice bunch, we've decided that to ensure all you folk, whether you're Yorkshire born and bred or visiting the Shire for the very first time have a cracking Yorkshire Day, we've compiled a quick guide to regional slang words and phrases.
Yorkshire Term / Translated term
Ey up = Hello
Eh = What
Summat = Something
Sen = Self
Soz = Sorry
Barna = Bound to
Reight = Right
Growler = Pork Pie
Gotta = Got to
Gizzit = Give me it
Bever = Girl
Chiver = Boy
Cake'ole = Mouth
I = Yes
Spog = Sweet
'tebay = ebay
Sitha = Look! Now
If you're stuck for something to do on Yorkshire Day 2009, why not check out…
Holbeck Music & Arts Festival
A new, free, one-day music festival celebrating local, home-grown talent, showcasing live music and exhibiting artwork launches in Holbeck Urban Village at 1pm on Saturday 1st August.
Yorkshire V Lancashire – Cricket County Championship
If you weren't fortunate to get your hands on tickets for the Ashes 4th test at Headingley Stadium, why not watch the mighty Yorkshire take on old rival Lancashire at Lancashire County Cricket Club – 31st July – 3rd August.
But whatever you decide to do this Yorkshire Day make sure you have a reight good time.
National Lottery fever has hit the Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger office, in anticipation of the £49m rollover jackpot in tonight's EuroMillions draw. Sandrine and Marie are ready to help you celebrate so don't forget to buy your ticket – it could be you! You can read more about how Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger hit the jackpot with our very own National Lottery account win here..
by Paul Rogers
On my way to a client meeting the other week I heard a Rabbi do "pause for thought" on Wogan's Radio 2 slot. He used his precious two minutes of influence to moan on about how technology has made us all ignorant.
He cited a rise in the number of traffic lights positioned either side of pedestrian crossings as perfect illustration…(!?!). Apparently, being 'told' to stop by a red light has robbed us all of the oh-so- life-affirming exchange of pleasantries that used to occur between pedestrian and motorist when a driver stops of his own accord to allow people to cross. Hold the front page. I paused for thought: just how deep was this pit of ignominy into which technology has flung us? What, I wonder, does this revelation say about dear old lollypop ladies? I always knew they were suspicious…
He went on to have a go at central locking too. Gone are the days of opening the passenger's door for them first. Now it's "kerlunck" and every man for himself. Come on! Whatever next? I bet he's out right now looking for puddles over which to lay his cape for passers by to walk on. Whatever message he was trying to get across (and I'm sure there was something valid in there somewhere) was killed by his poor choice of illustrating content.
I will admit to sharing some common ground with the Rabbi – a penchant for scepticism. It's not a great trait, but sometimes it's just too much fun to resist. The price of such wickedness is that, inevitably, you come unstuck sooner or later. One recent example: I jumped far too quickly on the TwitterHate bus. It's a well-oiled and efficient flaming machine after all. There's the daft name to begin with. 'Twitter'. Tsk. 'Tweeting' is even worse. I know, I know. Get over it. But it also bugs me that it's so inelegant. The RTs, the #tags, the shrt txt, all those @s. All a bit Newspeak for my liking.
But if I'm brutally honest, my dislike had more to do with being cool. Or, more specifically, not being cool anymore. It's been clear to me since I moved to Leeds (wife and baby in tow) that I can no longer count myself amongst the 'it' crowd. The "I.T." crowd perhaps, but that's hardly a substitute. I don't have an iPhone (but want one). I drive an estate car. I mow the lawn. At 32, should I even be wearing hoodies these days? Don't answer that – I can't handle the truth.
Twitter is just breaking free from the realm of cool early adopters, and of "those in the know". With some 700,000 active users it's still a tick on the hide of Facebook and other popular social media. What's worse for the uninitiated is that if you dip your toe in to see what all the fuss is about (*pull on hoodie proudly*), it's confusing enough to put you off for good – much to the satisfaction of the early "twits" no doubt. It's all far too "now", and soon to be "then", like so many other online fads.
Or so I thought.
But with a little determination, and some help, I have belatedly discovered a tool of considerable power and influence (thanks to Amelia Torode for that excellent Spectator article).
It's a tool that's helping stricken and oppressed nations tell the world about their plight. A tool that's caused enough of a stir to be firmly on the radar of the Chinese censorship machine, as it seeks to shroud reports of police brutality and student killings in Xinjiang. All of a sudden, I'm taking notice – this ain't what I thought it was.
On the personal front it's pretty darn useful too. Like many, I live in a world where the cost of wasting time, both personally and professionally, is greater than ever before. So being able to obtain relevant up-to-the-second content in one-sentence chunks on pretty much any topic is undeniably nifty. Choosing the right channels and folks to follow is clearly the key.
So, I'm now faced with a choice: Get over myself, forgive Twitter its vanities and make an effort to get on board, or, turn my back on it in a fit of the grumps and admit to being technologically superceded.
I reckon that's what has happened to the Rabbi. I want to remind him of how technology facilitates the betterment of businesses, communities and charitable causes the world over. Also how easy it is to stay in touch, send birthday wishes, pokes and pleasantries these days. Technology has give rise to a different kind of sensibility that's no less valid and more than a fair trade off for 'putting up' with central locking – which, by the way, I also like.
Perhaps I should pitch Wogan for a slot? Seems that they go for sceptics. And, unlike the Rabbi, I know where to find some decent illustrative content…


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› Trained for Totalitarianism | Arthur Silber
[…] With tragically rare exceptions, all children are taught obedience as the primary, foundational virtue and, as a necessary corollary, they are taught to idealize the authority figures in their lives. In this way, they are, as [psychologist Alice] Miller suggests, trained for totalitarianism. (I suppose we could somewhat "soften" the argument, and merely say that we are trained for authoritarianism; the point remains the same.) Miller was trained in this way; so was I; and so were you. […]
I don't think it is possible to overstate the significance of this early childhood training. Of equal significance is the fact that these issues are almost never discussed in the course of political analysis. Yet there is a profound sense in which authoritarianism (and even totalitarianism) feel right to many people — "right" in the sense that it is very familiar, that it is the environment in which they were first made to function. So when the State expands its control over us, when the State spies on us, when the State lists more and more activities which are forbidden or for which we must seek "permission" before we act, and even when the State announces that it has a Murder Program, many people, most people, think: "The State knows best. The State has much more information than I do, and our leaders must have reasons for their actions. And certainly, the State only acts to protect us. The State acts for our own good." This is what we had to believe about our parents, regardless of the cruelties to which they subjected us — and this is what most adults now believe about their political leaders.
While some Democrats have voiced concern about these stories, the response from liberals and Democrats remains remarkably muted even after years of stories of the Obama Administration cracking down on journalists and whistleblowers. It is the same trade off that civil libertarians have seen in other civil liberties controversies. Democrats have repeatedly remained silent in the face of such attacks by Obama in a type of cult of personality. We saw it with torture, warrantless surveillance, the kill list policy and other scandals. Now Obama is demanding that the faithful turn their back on the free press as their latest article of loyalty. … I will say it again. There will come a day when someone else sits in the Oval Office and will demand the same sweeping authoritarian powers wielded by Obama. At that time, Democrats and liberals will not be able to step over the mountain of hypocrisy to utter a feeble, belated objection.
Jonathan Turley
Inside the Empire itself, almost nobody is protesting, except when it comes to demands for higher wages and better benefits. The Western masses became the most complacent, uncritical group of people anywhere in the world. It is obvious from the art they are producing and consuming, from their political affiliations, from their aspirations. An amazing paradox has developed, without being noticed or commented on: 'the system', which has been professing both individual choice and extreme self-centeredness, actually managed to reduce a substantial part of the human race to an obedient, thoughtless, submissive, and frightened mass of uninformed beings convinced about their own superiority.
Andre Vltchek
› Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism | Glenn Greenwald
Israeli defenders claim that its air attack [on Syria] targeted weapons provided by Iran that would have ended up in the hands of Hezbollah. Obama officials quickly told media outlets that "the administration is fully supportive of Israel's airstrikes". Indeed, Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy noted: "Keep in mind the Israelis are using weapons supplied by us." There is, needless to say, virtually no condemnation of the Israeli assault in US media or political circles. At this point, the only question is how many minutes will elapse before Congress reflexively adopts a near-unanimous or unanimous resolution effusively praising Israel for the attack and unqualifiedly endorsing all past and future attacks as well.
Because people who cheer for military action by their side like to pretend that they're something more than primitive "might-makes-right" tribalists, the claim is being hauled out that Israel's actions are justified by the "principle" that it has the right to defend itself from foreign weapons in the hands of hostile forces. But is that really a "principle" that anyone would apply consistently, as opposed to a typically concocted ad hoc claim to justify whatever the US and Israel do? Let's apply this "principle" to other cases, as several commentators on Twitter have done over the last 24 hours, beginning with this:
If Syrian planes bombed Israel's Ramat David Airbase because it houses US-supplied weaponry, what would the appropriate Israeli reaction be?
— Nima Shirazi (@WideAsleepNima) May 4, 2013
Here's a similar question:
Imagine if, say, Iran had unilaterally launched a strike on Salafi Syrian rebels overnight? Would we all be okay with that? #lawofthejungle
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 5, 2013
Or, for that matter, if Syria this week attacks a US military base on US soil and incidentally kills some American civilians (as Nidal Hasan did), and then cites as justification the fact that the US has been aiding Syrian rebels, would any establishment US journalist or political official argue that this was remotely justified? Or what if Syria bombed Qatar or Saudi Arabia on the same ground: would any US national figure defend the bombing as well within Syria's rights given those nation's arming of its rebels?
Few things are more ludicrous than the attempt by advocates of US and Israeli militarism to pretend that they're applying anything remotely resembling "principles". Their only cognizable "principle" is rank tribalism: My Side is superior, and therefore we are entitled to do things that Our Enemies are not. [++]
People love to accuse Muslims of being tribal without realizing the irony that what they are saying - Our Side is Superior and They are Inferior - is the ultimate expression of rank tribalism. They also don't seem ever to acknowledge the irony of Americans and westerners of all people accusing others of being uniquely prone to violence, militarism and aggression.
Glenn Greenwald
› The Whole Damn Camel: Rethinking Dissent | Chris Floyd
"I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken" – Bob Dylan
Surely the re-election of Barack Obama has, at long last, put the kibosh on the hoary notion that the "Professional Left" poses any kind of threat or counterbalance to the malignant spread of empire, within and without. Slice the timeline any way you like –10 years, 20 years, 30 years – and you'll still come up with the same sad salami: a political world shifted so far to the right, so deep in the pockets of Daddy Warbucks, General Ripper and Elmer Gantry that even Boss Tweed might blush for shame. This is what the Prof-Left has to show for its decades of working diligently within the system.
Of course, America's hard-right turn (or reversion) to militarism abroad and Hobbesianism at home is not solely the result of the Left's egregious failures; far from it. It's a brew made up of many poisons. And yes, failure can be honorable at times. But there is nothing honorable about what happened to "progressives" in Campaign 2012. After years of consciousness-raising – unmasking atrocities, tracking corruption, decoding propaganda, speaking truth to power, etc. – where did the Prof-Left end up in November? Supporting a lawless, cynical, corporate-coddling warmonger who has taken the tropes of imperial sway to their logical conclusion, their final solution: the arbitrary, unchecked power of life and death, not only over the grubby barbaroi but even over his own subjects. As the scripture saith, our professional progs strained at a gnat – but swallowed the whole damn camel.
Nowhere was this betrayal of principle more naked than in the very arena which, we were told, had "transformed" politics forever, shattering the old paradigms and giving unprecedented voice and power to reform and resistance: the progressive blogosphere. Yet here the cognitive dissonance was so jarring that it hurt just to look at it. [READ]
"One prod to the nerve of nationalism, and the intellectual decencies can vanish, the past can be altered, and the plainest facts can be denied. … [As] soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And, as I have pointed out already, the sense of right and wrong becomes unhinged also. There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when 'our' side commits it. Even if one does not deny that the crime has happened, even if one knows that it is exactly the same crime as one has condemned in some other case, even if one admits in an intellectual sense that it is unjustified — still one cannot feel that it is wrong. Loyalty is involved, and so pity ceases to function." — George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
One year ago, in reaction to a Washington Post poll and a column from Greg Sargent, "Liberals, Dems approve of drone strikes on American citizens abroad", I wrote the following:
There's just nothing good about this at all. It speaks to my greatest fears as we become a nation not divided over ethics or morality, but over teams like life is a god damned sporting event. Meanwhile, we've dehumanized the "unpeople" of entire races, cultures and religions to the point where we as a nation (liberals and conservatives) are perfectly comfortable blowing them to smithereens simply because our government assures us, usually with no supporting evidence or even a judicial review, that they are bad guys. What an absolute shame.
And now we see the the same behavior from the liberal chattering class in reaction to Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA (here's one illustrative example). Rather than aligning tactically with a member of the opposing "team" on just this one (literally, life and death) issue, we see ad hominem attacks instead of what should be an easy moral and ethical opposition to a radical expansion of presidential power. As Glenn Greenwald notes, "the primary obstacle to [the] effort [to confront this executive branch overreach] has been, and remains, that the Democrats who spent all that time parading around as champions of these political values [when George W. Bush was president] are now at the head of the line leading the war against them."
Indeed. As Mark Twain once wrote:
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
The answer that I see everywhere from loyal partisans is unequivocally, "Yes", and once again, it is an absolute shame.
› Three Democratic myths used to demean the Paul filibuster | Glenn Greenwald
Whether domestic assassinations are imminent is irrelevant to the debate
The primary means of mocking [Rand] Paul's concerns was to deride the notion that Obama is about to unleash drone attacks and death squads on US soil aimed at Americans. But nobody, including Paul, suggested that was the case. To focus on that attack is an absurd strawman, a deliberate distraction from the real issues, a total irrelevancy. That's true for two primary reasons.
First, the reason this question matters so much - can the President target US citizens for assassination without due process on US soil? - is because it demonstrates just how radical the Obama administration's theories of executive power are. Once you embrace the premises of everything they do in this area - we are a Nation at War; the entire globe is the battlefield; the president is vested with the unchecked power to use force against anyone he accuses of involvement with Terrorism - then there is no cogent, coherent way to say that the president lacks the power to assassinate even US citizens on US soil. That conclusion is the necessary, logical outcome of the premises that have been embraced. That's why it is so vital to ask that.
To see how true that is, consider the fact that a US president - with very little backlash - has already asserted this very theory on US soil. In 2002, the US arrested a US citizen (Jose Padilla) on US soil (at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago), and then imprisoned him for the next three-and-a-half years in a military brig without charges of any kind. The theory was that the president has the power to declare anyone (including a US citizen) to be an "enemy combatant" and then punish him as such no matter where he is found (including US soil), even if they are not engaged in any violence at the time they are targeted (as was true for Padilla, who was simply walking unarmed through the airport). Once you accept this framework - that this is a War; the Globe is the Battlefield; and the Commander-in-Chief is the Decider - then the President can treat even US citizens on US soil (part of the battlefield) as "enemy combatants", and do anything he wants to them as such: imprison them without charges or order them killed.
Far from being "paranoid", this theory has already been asserted on US soil during the Bush presidency. It has been applied to US citizens by the Obama administration. It does not require "paranoia" to raise concerns about the inevitable logical outcome of these theories. Instead, it takes blind authoritarian faith in political leaders to believe that such a suggestion is so offensive and outlandish that merely to raise it is crazy. Once you embrace the US government's War on Terror framework, then there is no cogent legal argument for limiting the assassination power to foreign soil. If the Globe is a Battlefield, then that, by definition, obviously includes the US.
Second, president change, and so do circumstances. The belief that Barack Obama - despite his record - is too kind, too good, too magnanimous, too responsible to target US citizens for assassination on US soil is entirely irrelevant. At some point, there will be another president, even a Republican one, who will inherit the theories he embraces. Moreover, circumstances can change rapidly, so that - just as happened with 9/11 - what seems unthinkable quickly becomes not only possible but normalized.
The need to object vehemently to radical theories of power has nothing to do with a belief that the current president will exercise it in the worst possible way. The need is due to the fact that acquiescing to these powers in the first instance means that they become institutionalized - legitimized - and thus become impossible to resist once circumstances change (another Terrorist attack, a president you trust less). That's why it is always the tactic of governments that seek to abuse power to select the most marginalized and easily demonized targets in the first instance (Anwar Awlaki): because they know that once the citizenry cheers for that power on the ground that they dislike the target, the power then becomes institutionalized and impossible to resist when it expands outward, as it always does.
That's what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote: "In questions of power … let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." It's also what Frederick Douglas meant when he warned:
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Human nature means that once you vest a power in political leaders, once you acquiesce to radical theories, that power will inevitably be abused. The time to object - the only effective time - is when that power theory first takes root, not later when it is finally invoked. [++]
› The submissive, indifferent Democrats | Falguni Sheth
Is [Rand] Paul a racist? Here's a better question: Is Paul any more racist in his economic and drug policy endorsements than the White House in its policies of kill lists, targeted killings, drone strikes, TSA no-fly and watch lists, Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program or "See Something, Say Something" policy? Is Rand Paul more of a threat to black and brown populations (American or foreign) than the current administration, which deported more than 1.5 million migrants during its first term and separated tens of thousands of migrant parents from their children? Is Rand Paul more of a threat to our safety than the current administration?
Despite the White House's defiant disregard of procedure, transparency or accountability, the Democrats disassociated themselves from an important strategic ally — a libertarian who is the only one asking the questions that progressives, Occupy protesters, political dissenters, Muslims, Arab Americans, African-Americans, Latinos, South Asians and undocumented migrants want an answer to: Will the president claim and exercise the power to kill one of us at his and his advisers' discretion?
Democrats should have participated in Paul's filibuster until the answer they received was an unconditional "no" to the question of targeted killings of Americans on American soil. There's much more to be demanded of this administration, but support for Paul's filibuster could have been a good place to start. And it should have been a no-brainer. But rather than forming a tactical alliance — no one was asking Democrats to convert to Tea Partyism — Democrats relinquished yet another chance to do their jobs: to question, challenge and push back on the Obama administration's unceasing quest for power.
Since the president is a member of the party that defines my identity, I agree with his policy of deciding who lives and dies in secret.
I'm on twitter watching "progressive" partisan loyalists mock a Senator that opposes the execution of human beings without due process.
It's a sad, sad spectacle.
After 11 years of vigorously reinforcing those boundaries internally and externally, we've forgotten that killing folks outside our nation — without accountability and compelling evidence — amounts to an aggressive xenophobia, which is a heinous racism hiding behind the pretense of 'national security.' … We should be vigorously challenging the racial double standard implicit in the endorsement of Obama Administration policies such as kill lists, targeted killings, and other clearly racist foreign policy measures. We should be demanding proof of guilt rather than placing blind faith in any president's demand for unilateral authority or discretion.
Falguni Sheth, Liberal racial hypocrisy
Racism is unacceptable for American liberals. But many critics of racism are surprisingly comfortable with a jingoist foreign policy, even when it includes the deaths of Pakistani and Yemeni toddlers. Jingoism is just another word for extra-national racism, made acceptable by the constant references to American safety and freedom.
Falguni Sheth
This is why the argument many liberals are making — that the drone program is acceptable both morally and as a matter of practical politics because of the faith you have in the guy who happens to be presiding over it at the moment — is criminally naive, intellectually empty, and as false as blue money to the future. The powers we have allowed to leach away from their constitutional points of origin into that office have created in the presidency a foul strain of outlawry that (worse) is now seen as the proper order of things. If that is the case, and I believe it is, then the very nature of the presidency of the United States at its core has become the vehicle for permanently unlawful behavior. Every four years, we elect a new criminal because that's become the precise job description.
Charles Pierce
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Check out a few of our pictures from this year's Ceili! We all had so much fun sharing everything we've been working on this year with our friends and family. We appreciate the support of everyone who came out. You can check out videos of all the performances on our YouTube Channel!
Ceili 2014!
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Boston Strong
04/18/2013 at 3:07 pm
Tonight at 6pm, Step About Boston will be dancing at a free poetry reading by Irish poet Paul Muldoon, coordinated by the Institute for the Study of Irish Culture here at BU. http://www.bu.edu/cgs/citl/isic/news-events/
When we planned this show several months ago, we had no idea what this week would be like. We have decided to dedicate our performance tonight to the victims of the attack at the Boston Marathon, and particularly Jane Richard, a young Irish dancer who was seriously injured in the attack, and her family.
We will keep dancing. We are Boston Strong.
Photo by Margaret Hester.
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St. Patrick's Day Week Shows!
03/16/2013 at 1:57 pm
Tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day, and it's one of our favorite days! We will be dancing all day tomorrow, and we're going to continue the celebrations all week long! Check us out at one of these shows:
Sunday 3/17: 2 p.m. at the Green Dragon, Paddy O's and Hennessy's, 3 Irish pubs in Boston. Check out more info on the pubs here!
Sunday 3/17: 6&7 p.m. at the Irish Cultural Center of New England
Monday 3/18: 6:30 p.m. at Boston Healthcare For the Homeless
Friday 3/22: 1 p.m. at Boston Medical Center
Saturday 3/23: 4:30 p.m. at The Druid pub in Cambridge
We hope we'll see you at one, or more, of our shows this week! Happy St. Paddy's Day!
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It's Ceili Week!
02/22/2013 at 1:00 pm
We are all so, so excited to perform for you all at our annual Ceili next Friday, March 1st! We've been working really hard this year putting together some awesome dances and we can't wait to share them! We'll be spending this next week putting the final touches on the lovely dances choreographed by our dance captains, Mikayla Amoling, Nicole Homerin, and Liz Morlock, as well as some solos and small group pieces. Along with that, we will have live celtic music performed by The Band Tradition, free traditional Irish food (and some goodies!), and we'll even be teaching some dance moves to the audience!
The ceili will be held in Boston University's SAC Gym at 1 University Rd at 7:30 p.m. It's a really fun night and we hope some of you will come out and join us!
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From Dublin to Delhi: A Night of Dance
11/03/2012 at 12:45 pm
We are so excited to finally be putting on our own show in the fall semester! We've paired up with Dheem, a classical Indian dance group on campus to create From Dublin to Delhi: A Night of Dance. There will be both classical Irish and Indian solo and group performances and one dance that the two groups collaborated together! And, as any good event does, we will have free food! The refreshments served will be both traditional Irish and Indian food (although we won't be serving the most traditional Irish refreshment: Guinness.) It's still going to be a really fun night! If you haven't seen us perform, this will be a really great night to do so — it's free! — and if you're a regular at our performances, this will be a good chance to see us and to introduce yourself to a new type of dance! Consider coming out to BU Central (in the basement at 775 Commonwealth Ave) this Wednesday, November 7 at 8 p.m. to come watch!
We hope we'll see you there!
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October Performances!
10/25/2012 at 12:35 pm
We've been practicing so hard lately, we've hardly found time to update you on what we have going on! We finished learning the choreography by our wonderful Liz Morlock, dance captain, last night though and we're so excited to debut it at some performances this weekend!
This Sunday, October 28th we will be performing in TWO (That's right, TWO) shows on campus! First, we'll go for a little bit of competition at the 3rd annual So You Think BU Can Dance, presented by BU's China Care Fund. We've performed in shows that the China Care Fund has put on before and they're always a lot of fun, so we're really excited about this one!
After that, we will head over to Montage!, put on by Boston University's Ballroom Dance Club & Team. Montage! is usually our first show of the semester, and we really love it! It's so much fun to dance in and to watch the other groups that are participating!
Last but not least, to add to an already very Irish-dance-filled weekend, our aforementioned dance captain Liz will be competing (also on Sunday) at the Harvest Time Feis in Burlington, MA. Wish her luck!
We hope we'll see you at one of our shows! We promise you'll have a lot of fun!
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Boston Irish Festival
05/29/2012 at 12:48 pm
One of Step About Boston's biggest performances thus far will be next weekend. We are performing twice, once on Saturday 6/9 and once on Sunday 6/10, at the Boston Irish Festival in Canton, MA. Along with SAB, there will be tons of other acts and activities going on all weekend. If you're in the area, you should definitely think about coming by and checking it out, and hopefully catching our show!
For more information and tickets, visit their website.
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More Performances!
04/24/2012 at 11:10 pm
Just when we think our semester is wrapping up, the offers for performances keep rolling in! So this Saturday SAB will be performing at Families for Depression Awareness' event, Strides Against Stigma on Nickerson Field. The event is a walk-a-thon to raise awareness for depression which will be going on all day, and there is a recommended donation of $10 for the event. If you'd like to just come see us dance, though, we'll be going on around 2:40 and you can get in for free! We'd love to see some of you come out to support an awesome cause and watch us perform some cool choreography!
Don't forget that we will also be performing Monday April 30th at the Excellence in Student Activities Awards Show (Metcalf Ballroom, 7p.m.)!
These will be probably be our last shows of the semester, so we hope you can catch at least one of them!
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End of the Year News!
04/17/2012 at 8:57 pm
Step About Boston has been having such a great year so far, and it's not over yet! This Sunday April 22nd we will be performing at Yalla!, hosted by BU Kalaniot at BU's Hillel House (213 Bay State Road). If you're interested in attending the show, check out their Facebook event for more information.
We also have a performance Monday April 30th at the Excellence in Student Activities Award Show (Metcalf Ballroom, 7 p.m.), hosted by the Student Activities Office at BU. We are so excited to perform and to hopefully take home an award for Program of the Year for SAB's Ceili, which was in March and was a huge success.
We hope you'll make it to one of your last chances to catch us this semester!
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April Update!
03/24/2012 at 4:39 pm
Our next show is ISA: The World is One, hosted by BU Filipino Student Association, on Sunday, April 1st.
Check out the Facebook event for more info!
We are also performing at Global Village, hosted by BU International Affairs, on Thursday, April 12th and at Harvard Irish's Dance's Spring Show on Saturday, April 14th.
We will finish up the year at Yalla!, hosted by BU Kalaniot, on April 22nd.
It has been a very busy year and we've really enjoyed getting to work with so many different groups, on and off campus. If you haven't gotten to a show yet, try to catch us at one of our upcoming spring shows!
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I have been a friend of Bobby Vee's for a long long time. When he announced he had Alzheimer's Disease it was a shock to everyone. I have been the MC for a couple of Bobby's shows over the years, mainly around the anniversary of the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. I often wonder how many times he's been asked about that day when he took the stage at the Moorhead Armory to fill in for the plane victims. But that night, as many have said, a star was born. When a phone interview was requested, he's always said yes and even went one step further. I was doing a 90 minute show in the afternoon and Bobby wanted to talk about his new CD. I, of course said no problem. Little did I know that he would drive from his home near St.Cloud and drive up to Fargo and did the show live. The phone did not stop ringing for the entire show. He signed autographs and gave away copies of his new CD. He is one hell of a guy. His wife Karen is showing great signs of better health after a lung transplant.
The new LP or CD or Recording, whatever you call it these days is call "Bobby Vee: The Adobe Sessions" and you can find info about how to get it by checking out his website.
Also be sure to check my recent interview with Bobby's son Tommy by clicking here
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If you are alarmed at the news of increasingly ubiquitous NSA & FBI surveillance of private Internet communications, wait until DHS cranks up with its latest wish list of physical surveillance technologies—initially for the border. Like Northrop-Grumman's VADER: the Vehicle Dismount and Exploitation Radar, designed to enable drones to tag and track individual human targets as they move through space. The pending immigration bill would mandate "effective control" and "persistent surveillance" of the U.S—Mexico border, and the major defense contractors are all scrambling to get their share of the militarization of the Homeland. Via today's NYT.
They called it VADER. With a straight face. I hope they don't seriously expect to not be presumed evil.
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hey everyone I'm sorry for this blog being inactive.
I've honestly been lazy oh my gosh FORGIVE ME.
I'm going to move this blog onto it's own account, and not linked with my personal tumblr.
I'll have the link posted up here :3
I'll also remake the "hapa-things" posts because I think those look so tacky ugh.
so stayed tuned, and I promise that I will help improve this blog and bring together this community :3
I've been such a bad blog owner <_< but you know what?! IT'S SUMMER TIME!
yeah ok this blog will be whipped into better shape I promise.
heres the link HAPA SOCIAL NETWORK
spread the word mannn
This is me and my mom.
All my life I have been told I look like my father, and nothing like my mom. Yet I definitely identify more with my asian side, but I'm not 'good' enough for my filipino side and I'm too asian for the white side of my family.
I was born and raised in Hawaii where everyone you meet is practically a mix of something and something else. I was teased an awful lot for looking white and not being filipino enough by the other full blooded filipinos. And yet Hawaii still felt like home because I knew I wasn't alone.
4 years ago I moved to the Southern U.S and I have never felt so out of place. I kinda stick out, even if I tried desperately to fit in.
I have learned to love who I am as I am, though it breaks my heart that I don't fit in on either side of my family and I'm kind of ostracized for it.
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ah okays :D yay 4 teamwork! LOL~
wow sorry for being a bad owner of this ._.
I promise to be more active on here!
yes that would be nice! can you submit the link to the site so we can all check it out? :D
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ah! :o I was thinking something similar to that xD like how I'm half white but idk what exactly that white side is LOL. good point :3
:D that's my job! xD
Dad is filipino with japanese, Mom is Mexican. I identify myself more with my Asian side, because i was raised by my dad, not my mom. :)
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my mom is white, & my dad is laotian, but everyone just thinks i'm fully filipino or straight up mexican.
Her account is deactivated :(
Yes! Omg one of my friends was like, "Your mom doesn't even look Asian." I was like, "uh excuse me, but not everyone in Asia has pale skin and small eyes." And the whole yellow thing, one of my Filipino friends was like, "lol yellow pride~" and I'm like, "you're brown ._." LOL BUT THIS SHOULDN'T BE A BIG DEAL XD
but yeah I really like this thought :3 agh some people are so narrow minded -_-
hm that's interesting! :o I don't really know what my white side is (assuming French because of my last name? LOL) so I just say half white/eurasian xD Anyone else have a comment?
My mother is 1/4 French, 1/4 Vietnamese, and half Danish and my father is Filipino with some Chinese blood thrown in there somewhere. :)
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im the on the left side.~
im half vietnamese and half czech.
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I'm half Korean and half Scottish, English, German. Out of four kids, the oldest (me) and youngest came out with auburn-red hair, freckles, and pale skin. The other two have dark brown hair. I wish I had a baby picture to post because I had a full head of auburn hair and people actually asked my parents if they had dyed my infant locks. Seriously? Come on now lol. Not sure how I ended up this way, but I'm def proud to be a hapa (ginger)! :)
PS. Love the blog!
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wow I have been soooo bad at updating this blog sdkfjhdsf
but it's Thanksgiving break!
For those who celebrate it, how are your Thanksgiving meals?
Are they a mixture of East and West? xD
Let's post pictures! :D
Which side do you think you identify yourself more with?
A) Asian side
B) Non-Asian side
C) I can't choose! Both!! xD
Norwegian mother and Chinese father. Normally people can't tell that I'm half Asian and react with disbelief when I tell them.
Either way, I'm very proud to be Eurasian! We're awesome!
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LOL xD what? you want me to do that to you? lazy! xD
:D wow so fast!
How about you all submit a picture + story ;D
xDD please?! xD
thanks! and wow omg that's really cool! I wish I could trace my background like that O_O
cool! :D cute url name xD
<3 /gives e-hug
that's my job! :D xDD
yes! :D
come on everyone submit more!!
I love reading these stories and seeing how pretty you all are! xD
I'm sure everyone else enjoys it too :D
oh yeah I should make one too hehehe
I'll get to it tomorrow :3
170+ awesome half/part asians are following this blog now :DDDD
Half Caucasian, half Japanese.
I'm a proud Hapa, with very strong ties to my Japanese heritage.(: I live in a town that doesn't have much racial diversity, so everyone here is more sensitive to "racist" comments than I even am. It's all rather awkward. Not only that, 90% assumed I had been born in Japan… Which is untrue. I don't fall under many Asian stereotypes, either. Besides the "strict Asian Mother" one. ;P
Me and my younger sister look alike, but she definitely doesn't show any of her Japanese-ness. My little brother, on the other hand, looks completely Asian! Haha I must be the happy medium in the family?
Love this blog to death X) <3
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omg love advice LOL xD
first, you should find out about stuff she likes :3 If you both have the same things in common then surely you should have no problem getting along with her! If you don't know, then find out baha xD
if that doesn't work then maybe show interest in Indonesian or Portugese culture? LOL xD
orrr you could play dumb and just randomly ask her what her background is xD be curious?
IDK LOL DO YOU KNOW HER NAME? HAVE YOU TALKED TO HER BEFORE? xD
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Somber crowds gathered on a beautiful Memorial Day at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
"We have a great crowd every year," Jim Wilcher said, who has worked at the cemetery for the past 27 years, tending the graves of those who died for freedom. "It's a resting place for some 14,000 veterans and their spouses."
Wilcher has seen crowds standing at attention during Memorial Day ceremonies.
He's also watched the painful, private moments of those who mourn recent deaths.
"You see loved ones that come out here and their heartbroken. Some of them come out after their loved one's been buried day after day," Wilcher said.
Lewis Ramsey was one of those people.
He visits the grave of his son James, a veteran who died 20 years ago.
"I come here often. I've come as late as two o' clock in the morning; was driving by. Felt guilty, turned around and came back just to visit for a few minutes," Lewis Ramsey said.
Many in attendance once got a dreaded knock on their door from officers in dress uniform, telling them of a death in battle.
"It happened to a lot of our families, including mine," said Michael Phelps, who attended the ceremony."They paid the price, especially those who died in combat. We should remember them."


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By lunch time, we're forecasting temps in the low 60s with filtered sunshine. We'll keep things nice & mild through the afternoon with highs in the mid 70s. Expect increasing clouds into the evening and overnight hours with lows in the mid 50s.
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Shure Wireless, Wired & PSM Products Receive Awards
When The NAMM Show rolls around, we can barely contain our excitement about sharing the new products we've been feverishly, painstakingly engineering all year long. There's another part of NAMM season that keeps us on our toes, though. By then, products we've launched in the past year or so have been rigorously evaluated by users and industry experts alike, and it's time to hear their thoughts. How do we know what they think? There are the reviews. And then, there are the awards. We're thrilled to have received the following awards recently. They inspire us …
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Recent Reviews: Headphones, Mics & PSM
We've been testing our products to military specifications since World War II. So, when you see a new Shure product hit the shelves, you know it already survived a serious smackdown. Despite the confidence this gives us, we still get a little nervous when the first reviews roll in. (We …tagsAndy HongChurch Production MagazineKSM42Luke HarperMacLifeMark HolderNic VargusNolan RossiPost MagazinePSM 1000reviewsSRH1840SRH940TapeOpVideomakerVP89
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Four Categories of Shure Products Receive Awards
Year in and year out, Shure engineers obsess over new ways to deliver audio that amazes. Still, we're in awe when our products win awards from organizations we respect and admire. Here's a list of the most recent awards our products have received. Wireless Systems Axient Wireless Management Network …tagsawardsAxientBeta 181earphonesKSM42NAMMpersonal monitoringPGX DigitalPSM 1000SE215SM58ULX-Dwired microphoneswireless


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It's hard to express myself nowadays. I don't know why but upon my face.. I only have one expression: tiredness.
Is it crazy that I'm afraid of a relationship?
I don't want to lose this fuel and this drive. I don't want to lose my focus over love and a boyfriend anymore. Don't want to live for someone other than myself and the people I love. I'm just scared that I'll throw it all away for someone one day, and I'll be too blind to see it.
I really wish I could just get heart surgery, so I don't have to have this feeling eating me up inside. I just want to have a system to bump blood back into my system, so I can fall in love with something else. It doesn't have to be a person, but something that will keep me safe… happy.. and something that will just make me thirsty to keep pushing myself to be better.
Is it crazy to say that I want to work on my birthday?
I just feel like my birthday happens every year and it's nothing special to me anymore. Plus this year.. I don't deserve it.
I know I'm being really negative about this but..it's really hard to see people celebrate it and be there for me when I screwed up so many times this year. Why should I let the people I love treat me like a princess when I was a terrible person? Being able to spend time with their love ones is a gift that's earned. I haven't earned it at all this year.. Not at all
So disappointed when some guys only want girls for their body.
I have fallen in love how your smile brightens my day. Fallen in love how you made me enjoy every moment I have with you. Continuously think about how when our eyes meet.. it seems like it was fate for us to find each other.
Though behind that smile, it's a mask where you hide all your pain. Through the laughter, it was a sound to suppress the yells and cries you had. Your eyes tells me that you see the future and how bright it could be, but it's only for a second then you go back to remembering the past that haunt you at night.
I know I'm not a doctor to make the disease that has been eating you inside go away. I'm not a time traveler that could erase what happened before. I'm not psychic where I read your mind whenever you're sad or mad.
But I know I'm that one person that could make you laugh whenever I say stupid things. Make you become silly and let yourself out of your shell. Do things that you never done or felt before. So give me a chance. To hug you when you feel alone or upset. Let me guide you when you're lost. To cherish you till the end. Help you understand how great of a person you are because I know I'll make you truly happy one day.
Everyone has baggage. Some may have too much and some may have slightly none, but in reality.. we all do in some form: physically, mentally, or spiritually.
Based on my past relationships… I had a lot of baggage. Maybe too much for a man to carry.I tend to choose a boyfriend that barely has any, but I don't mean to. As I pick up his, and he'll pick up mine… I could see that I barely struggled. On the other hand, he was sweating. To be honest, I don't mind helping because a relationship takes two to make things work, yet always my boyfriend had too much pride to let a lady help him out. We carried it up the stairs because the elevators weren't working. I saw my love one struggle and couldn't reach to the floor that we were staying at. Though, I was able to reach to our room without a sweat.
Finally cleaning up my room.
Bringing in the new
Breaks my heart to see you like this..
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CPU Clockspeed: Why Does It Matter?
Even for us hardcore techies here at Unplggd, there remains many questions about what makes a particular computer faster. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, all the rage for computers was to have one with higher clockspeed. The death of the Pentium 4 saw that fad slowly die. Yet, the megahertz arms race still confuses consumers and techies alike.
Computer processors are complex beasts that to most are merely black boxes. Their design changes and costs do not resonate with most consumers as we are not die engineers. This is why Intel and other chip companies focus their advertising to convince consumers that the next generation is better and faster, often with things like higher clock speed to "quantitatively" show progress.
Clockspeed for computer processors is merely a function of how many times per second a processor can compute an instruction. If two processors have the same architecture (basic design), the one that has a higher clockspeed is faster at executing code run though it. Where the confusing arises is if two processors have different architectures then the clockspeed means very little. For example, a 3.8 GHz Pentium 4 is very slow compared to a top of the line 3.8 GHz Core i7. This all stems from how processors actually work with the instructions they process.
Processors have what are called "pipelines". And like the name implies, these "pipes" are where data travels through in the processor as it enters and leaves. Older processors had larger and or less efficient pipelines, meaning that they could not move as much information, thus slower performance. Modern processor pipelines are shorter or have better features which allow them to not only move through information in fewer stages, but also ensure that it can make fewer errors. Those factors can combine meaning that modern processors get significantly more work done in each cycle making a processor with a lower given speed actually perform operations much faster.
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Part of the problem with the Pentium 4 architecture was that it had the longest data pipeline of any CPU at the time. Intel's development of hyperthreading split that long pipeline in half, giving the P4 the ability to run 2 separate threads per clock cycle. For all intents and purposes, this doubled the effective number of CPUs available.
This is why, when you look at Task Manager on your new 6-core i7 CPU, you see 12 "processors". The absolute pipeline in each core probably isn't any shorter than what the P4 had, but again because of hyperthreading technology, each core runs like 2.
Possibly interesting side note: a 1.8 GHz Pentium M processor in a laptop would run just as well as a P4 in the 3.2-3.4GHz range. This was because the P-M was based on the P3 CPU, which had a much shorter pipeline than the P4, and that allowed a much slower CPU to keep pace very well against the numerically-faster desktop CPU. Add in some of the multimedia enhancements first developed for the P4, and it's no wonder the P-M was still good even through the P4's last gasp, the true dual-core Pentium D.


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Do you worry about what has been fried in oil if you order french fries or chicken nuggets etc...? My husband says that I don't need to worry about allergins in the oil (not peanut oil) because the oil is so hot that all allergic protein would burn off. My DS who is 2 is allergic peanuts, eggs and peas. I always worry about fish and shellfish being fried in the same oil then french fries going in the same oil. I am just trying to avoid new allergies.
Very sensitive people can EASILY get into trouble if allergen-containing foods are fried in the same oil. People have actually died from this type of cross-contamination.
I have had trouble with fish that has been fried in oil use for frying shrimp. People with fish allergies also have this problem at restaurants.
DD has had rxns (we think) to egg transferred from a breaded item into frying oil and then to an otherwise safe food. At Disney, the chef fried her french fries in [i]virgin frying oil[/i] for this reason.
Milk proteins are also a problem for anyone who is extremely sensitive to traces.
I would say if you don't react to cooked egg, then this risk is probably minimal-- but this is NOT the case for my DD.
Yes--which is why DS avoids anything fried at Macaroni Grill (they have a fried Snickers Bar).
I have a shellfish allergy and last fall ate three french fries that my husband brought home from Long John Silvers. Yuck anyway, but I hadn't had anything to eat. I had a bad reaction and discovered they also fry shrimp in the same oil.
DS reacts to the peanut oil used at Chick Fil A.
So oil is an issue, and the protein does not burn off. I wish it did, but my experience declares otherwise.
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text: Have you every felt that you wanted to write, but had no idea of a topic or where to begin? That was me yesterday. I only wrote one post, though I wanted to write ten. I just felt stuck, with no inspiration. Then I remembered the Alphabet Challenge. Some brilliant person conceived of the idea to write a series of posts, each based on a letter of the alphabet. Some have themed their posts, such as food, animals, or movie reviews. Such a great way to great inspired to keep writing! I don't know if I am up for a themed series, I am a newbie after all, so I am just going to be random. Here we go... my first alphabet challenge post! +Alphabet-Challenge +Writing-inspiration Photo by morguefile.com Used with permission


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NEWS BLOG (WSAU) Would you like to see After Midnight ? I may have extra tickets to If/When if youre interested. Or how about A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder ?
I'm willing to bet you have no idea what I'm talking about and wouldn't know what yo'ud be seeing if you came.
These are some of the Tony Award nominees; this year's best-of-the-best from Broadway. And no one outside of the ever-shrinking circle of live theater enthusiasts who live mostly in New York City knows or cares. New plays, even the rare few that rise to the top and make it to Broadway, don't generate a lot of attention. A Gentleman's Guide, which leads the pack with 10 Tony nominations, is playing to one-third empty houses during its weeknight performances. Act One a nominee for best play is desperately trying to keep its doors open, and may be shuttered before the Tony Awards are handed out.
Broadway is not in financial trouble. Ticket sales are down over the last two years, but revenue is up. Last week there were 13 productions that had more than $1-million in gross ticket sales. In the good old days only one or two shows -- usually Phantom of the Opera and The Lion King -- crossed the seven-figure-a-week threshold.
What's unhealthy is the state of the art form. The costs of mounting a new show are so expensive that tried-and-true revivals get brought back again and again. New shows are crowded out, finding it virtually impossible to create buzz and interest that's needed to line-up backers and to sell tickets. Right now Broadway theaters are filled with sub-standard revivals of Cabaret , Les Miserables , and Chicago . They suck up the oxygen that new shows need to flourish.
The lack of new material is even worse at the regional and community theater level. Wausau Community Theater, a fine local group with struggling attendance, is left to debate which 30, 40, and 50 year old plays they'll choose for next season. Surely there have been very good plays from the last few years. Would a local theater company take a chance and bring one of them to the stage? Of course not. And who could blame them? They'd be performing unknown material that would stir very little community interest. Financially, they'd lose their shirts.
So what works? Musicals with the Walk Disney Companys marketing machine behind them have a fighting chance. But these are stories that started as cartoons and have been reconstructed for the stage. (Mark my words, a stage version of Frozen is on the drawing board right now.) Things that were movies or books first might have enough name recognition to make it to Broadway. But new, built-from-the-ground-up musicals the kind that Cole Porter or Andrew Lloyd Webber might construct have all but disappeared.
Why should we care? Because there are only two uniquely American contributions to art: jazz and musical theater. Everything else that makes up our artistic landscape is borrowed from other cultures. Jazz is moribund. It's only heard in elevators in classy office buildings or while youre waiting on hold. Musical theater could face a similar fate. The golden years are 70 years in the rear-view-mirror. Some of the great plays and their songs are time-worn. There's not a lot of good, high-quality new material in the pipeline. Will this art form survive?
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Monday, July 7th, 2014
Happy Summer Everyone !
I am certainly having a beautiful one so far. I have a couple pieces of news to share!
First, I was honoured to contribute a song to the compilation album DOMINIONATED – which celebrates eight great years of the Canadian music blog Quick Before it Melts. The assignment was to pick a favourite Canadian song of the 80s or 90s and record a cover of it for the compilation. I chose Mary Margaret O'Hara's Dear Darling, from her classic album Miss America. I recorded it with Michael Timmins, and my great friends Matt Bailey and Noah Reid contributed guitar and piano. You can download the entire album for free here. So delighted to be included in this great group of Canadian bands!
One of my favourite shows of the year is coming up soon! Sunday July 20th will be the seventh annual Poor Pilgrim Island Show – a traveling musical day on Toronto Island, which is organized by my good friend and Bruce Peninsula bandmate Matt Cully. Every year the show features beautiful unamplified performances by Toronto musicians in hidden natural settings all around the Islands. I'll be opening the show in a collaborative set of (mostly) traditional folk songs with my pal Sean Donald. More info on the show is here. Bring your bike if you have one! Below is a video of John Southworth, one of the great performers to see at Poor Pilgrim 7!
Tags: Dear Darling, DOMINIONATED, Ivy Mairi, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Poor Pilgrim, Quick Before it Melts, Sean Donald
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
It's finally Spring in Toronto! I wanted to share a video with all of you. This is a trailer for a new web series called FLUSH, which is created by my friends Maisie Jacobson and Natasha Greenblatt. They have been working really hard on it and created the trailer as part of an application to get more funding to finish the series. Please take a second to watch the trailer if you can – the more views they get, the more likely they are to get funding! And they used parts of a new song that I recorded with my best bud Matthew Bailey as the background music! This is the first taste of a bunch of new music I've been working on over the past few months!
I've also got a couple of fun shows coming up in the next few weeks. On Sunday April 13th I'll be singing with Isla Craig and Tamara Lindeman as a trio-version of our all-lady a capella group Soul Sisters Supreme Redux V 2.0. We'll be performing a breakfast show at the wonderful Kazoo! Fest in Guelph Ontario, at Innovation Guelph. More info on that show is here – admission includes coffee and pancake breakfast!
And then on Saturday April 19th I'll be doing a short set with my family trio kith&kin at One Sweet Day, a great event put on by Sierra Club Canada in Toronto's Sorauren Park to celebrate honey bees and beekeepers! You can get more info on facebook here.
Happy Spring!
Tags: FLUSH the series, Isla Craig, Ivy Mairi, kazoo! fest, kith&kin, maisie jacobson, Matthew Bailey, natasha greenblatt, sierra club canada
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Some shows for the deep winter
Wednesday, January 29th, 2014
It is very cold in Toronto. The coldest winter in years! It's been a big deal for lots of folks, but I've actually been enjoying it a lot – skating on natural ice on Toronto Island with my family and cooking lots of big braises and stews at home! I have a few shows coming up that will bring me out of semi-hibernation – maybe they'll get you out too.
First up, I'll be playing a show of Ivy Mairi tunes with my pal Matt Bailey at the Dakota Tavern on Jan 29th. It's been awhile since I've played my own stuff live, so I'm excited. We're gonna take the opportunity to try out some new songs. We're opening up the show and will be followed by our good friends Animal Parts and Dear Sister – both amazing!! All the details are on facebook here.
Then the following night, on Jan 30th, I'll be taking on a new role playing keyboard in the latest incarnation of Matthew Bailey's band! This will be my second time ever playing keyboards live, so wish me luck on my big solos! That show will be at the Common on College – details here.
And then later on in February I'm taking part in Returning Current at the Music Gallery – a really cool talk/performance being put on by my friend Daniela Gesundheit of Snowblink and renowned acoustic biologist Katy Payne. In the show, Katy will give a talk about her landmark research into elephant communication and humpback whale song. I am part of an amazing choir put together by Daniela that will present some musical moments to illustrate Katy's points, or give context. What we have learned so far about how these animals communicate is amazing – I'm so excited to meet Katy in person and hear her stories! This will be an awesome evening! All the details are here.
Here's a great video by Dear Sister to warm your winter…
Tags: dear sister, Ivy Mairi, katy payne, Matthew Bailey, returning current
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A bunch of news on the latest!
Monday, September 2nd, 2013
I've been a busy lady this summer programming music over at the Island Cafe, and have barely had a chance to do my own thing! But this long weekend, I'm combining the two! On Monday Sept 2nd I'll play the final night of the Cafe's 2nd annual Long Weekend Arts Fest. Myself and Matthew Bailey are going to debut a bunch of new music that we worked on together over the winter, while he was living down at the coldest end of the island, and we'll also do some reworked versions of old songs. My dear sister Martha will do a fire hoop dance as well (hence the picture). It's going to be a beautiful show, and I'm excited to do some of my own singing! You can get all the info on facebook here.
I've also got some other neat stuff on the horizon. I'll be singing with the ever-beautiful a capella group Soul Sisters Supreme Redux 2.0 (aka Isla Craig, Tamara Lindeman, Daniela Gesundheit, Felicity Williams, and Robin Dann) on Sunday Sept 8th at the Great Hall. We are opening for our good friends Matt Cully and Misha Bower (both of Bruce Peninsula). This will be the release show for their debut album as EONS. More info here.
In the spring I did some recording with Michael Timmins for one of his long-running projects: Scott Garbe's Kennedy Suite – a folk-rock opera about the Kennedy assasination, featuring some amazing Canadian musicians. The Cowboy Junkies are putting together a big live show to showcase the project at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 22nd. Guests will include Sarah Harmer, Jason Collett, Skydiggers, Lee Harvey Osmond, Harlan Pepper, Jessy Bell Smith, Reid Jameison, The Good Family (Bruce and Margaret Good), The Screwed, The Potion Kings and myself! Tickets are now on sale here. It's sure to be an amazing night!
See you soon!
Tags: EONS, Isla Craig, Island Cafe, Ivy Mairi, long weekend arts festival, matt cully, soul sisters spreme redux 2.0, the kennedy suite
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Snowblink Video !
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Last summer my sister Martha and I got to flex our hula-hooping muscles while filming the new video for Snowblink's Inner Mini-Mississippi. Snowblink are good friends of mine from the Toronto music community, and their latest record, Inner Classics is amazing! You can stream the whole thing on Brooklyn Vegan here. (BV even calls Martha and I "world class" hula hoopers!) Oh and speaking of friends, the video was directed by Neil Haverty, one of my bandmates from Bruce Peninsula. Bigups to Snowblink for the beautiful song, Neil for the gorgeous video, and to all three of them for having Martha and I dance in their video! Lucky us !
Here's it….
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This week with Matthew Bailey…
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
We had an amazing show on Friday night with Andy Maize and friends at Hugh's Room – what a special place to play. I love it more and more each time! If some photos from the night resurface, I'll be sure to put them up!
This first week of March is, for me, dominated by one person – my guitarist and best bud Matthew Bailey! I'm playing shows with him every other day this week! Matt put out his debut album, Tendrils (see the beautiful artwork by Raven Julia Shields below), earlier this year, and I was lucky enough to be one of the many great singers featured on the record. Matt is playing two shows this week, and I'll be singing backup. You can see us play…
- On Monday March 4th at the Common on College (hosted by that same Raven Shields – if you've never been to her music nights at the Common, you must go!). This show is with our friend Sean Donald.
- On Wednesday March 6th at the Magpie, opening for Rye and Fairy Tales. For more info click on this.
And then this Friday March 8th, Matt and I will be playing as a duo at the Holy Oak. We've been invited by our good friend Max Kelly to share in his monthly residency there. We're going to play our own songs, as well as lots of covers and some of our old favourites that have fallen off our setlists over the years. You can get all the info here!
And finally, you can check out Matt's song Until You Arrived on the latest installment of Tim Sweeney's podcast Rock the Shack here. It's a duet!
It's gonna be a good week!
Tags: Ivy Mairi, Matthew Bailey, Max Kelly, Raven Shields, Rock the Shack, Sean Donald, Tendrils, the Common on College
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Tonight Tonight
Saturday, December 8th, 2012
I have the first of my many December shows tonight at the El Mocambo! All the details are on facebook right here.
I had a great chat with Sarah Greene from NOW Magazine earlier this week about my upcoming shows, No Talker, and more. Check out our Q&A here.
AND I just got a wonderful gift from my friend Graham Ereaux of Bolivia and Devarrow. While we were on tour in his town of Sackville NB in October, he shot a takeaway show of Matt Bailey and I performing Neil Young's One of These Days. He just put it up moments ago, so here it is for you!
Tags: Graham Ereaux, Holiday Highnote at El Mocambo, Ivy Mairi, NOW Magazine, One of These Days, Sarah Greene
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The Most Coast!!
Friday, October 26th, 2012
We're out in New Brunswick and having the BEST TIME!! Check out me and Matt's gas station jump skills!
We've just gotten home from an amazing show in Sackville NB with our friends Bolivia. We are having a ridiculously fun time with these guys, we laugh all day long (except when we're listening to their beautiful singing voices)! Today we visited Fort Beausejour and ran around on the hills, took photos, and made a live video. We'll be taking the train back to Toronto on Sunday, at which time I promise to post photos from tonight's show, and from our Beausejour adventure!
Tomorrow we're playing in Halifax – come early to help carve pumpkins to light the show! Details here.
More photos and reports soon! The East Coast is the greatest!
Tags: Bolivia, Ivy Mairi, Sackville NB, Tweedie Hall
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Much is happening!
Monday, October 8th, 2012
After a fairly low-key summer, my musical life is coming back into force in many ways!
My band and I are getting all set to hit the road in celebration of the summer release of our new album No Talker. We'll be out for the better part of this month, starting in Toronto and working our way east to Halifax! Check all the tour dates right here. We're super excited to be playing dates with our good friend KIRTY (whose awesome new album is coming out on Oct 17th), as well as our friends Bolivia from New Brunswick. It's going to be a total time! Look at this beautiful poster by the amazing Nima Lorris….
I'll also be heading to the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals' annual conference to play as part of Global Cafe's showcase on Friday Oct 12th. The OCFF conference is a place where tons of musical friends you've made at home and on the road converge for a silly and wonderful weekend of great music and people. Thanks to Global Cafe for having me!
Another neat thing I've got on the horizon is the release of All My Trials, a new song I made with my old friend, drum n bass producer Rene LaVice. This track has been years in the making, so it's amazing to finally have it come out! RAM Records is putting it out as a single on Oct 22nd, but you can stream it right away on Soundcloud here. I guess you can say it's a bit of a departure from the stuff I've released so far!
Look at the amazing cover art! Check that hair! Check Rene's pro face! Photo by Visualbass.
See you soon!
Tags: All My Trials, Bolivia, Global Cafe, Ivy Mairi, KIRTY, Nima Lorris, OCFF, RAM Records, Rene LaVice
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ALL CAPS! come-down
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
What a crazy day I had on Sunday….
On Sunday I rehearsed in the morning, went to work, left work, played at the ALL CAPS! festival, went back to work, and then ended up returning to the festival later that evening with my work! So it was quite a day. The festival was so so wonderful – awesome bands, a big lake to swim in, and all your friends were there. The festival is held at Artscape Gibraltar Point - a building which used to be an elementary school – and the school that I attended from grades 1 through 5! It was pretty hilarious and cool to play a show on my old soccer field.
That beautiful photo above is courtesy of the wonderful Joe Strutt of Mechanical Forest Sound. You can listen to a recording Joe made of our song Passing Cars (click here!) at the event. Be sure to check out the other great bands he recorded at the festival!
We also got a nice little mention in NOW magazine's roundup of Day 2 of the festival. You can read that one right here.
Up next for me is another fun show that they'd only try in summer – playing on a rooftop! Next Thursday August 23rd I'll be joining my Bruce Peninsula bandmates for a show as part of the Amsterdam Brewery's Open Roof Festival, which combines live music and film screenings, all on the roof of the brewery! Details are here!
Tags: ALL CAPS!, Bruce Peninsula, Ivy Mairi, Mechanical Forest Sound, Open Roof Festival, Wavelength Toronto
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Right off the bat, what bothered me is how much power the Church had, almost acting like a government, and you'd think if a religious institution ran things, the general population would be kind to each other, and the people would have good morals. But in actuality there is this ridiculous hierarchy, in which titles are merely inherited rather than earned. On top of that the people that actually matter, the commoners, have no particular importance in Medieval society. My first thoughts of Chaucer are quite limited, I'm not really sure what I think of him, rather than he may just be an upstanding citizen, for his work in the courts, and service in the military. The book seems like a good authority on what the Middle Ages were like, because its coming from someone who actually went through it. The picture in my mind when I immediately hear of the Middle Ages, are legends that I have heard whether through pop. culture( TV, Movies), or through stories that I have read. The picture mostly contains the cliche things: knights, castles, princesses, kings, etc. Humanism to me, sounds like a wake-up call to the world, realizing how ridiculous many of their beliefs were. Its this move towards the separation of Church and State, where people stay religious, but put it to the side, and then begin thinking logically. In doing so they had to look to a point in time where such a thought existed, which brings them to the Romans and Greeks, which then brings a revival of these texts. The Canterbury tales is happening just as this is starting.
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Chicken Still Pink After Cooking? Don't Panic
Here's the situation: your thermometer reads 165°, but that meat still looks pretty darn pink. What do you do? According to the USDA, looks can be deceiving.
Salmonella is still a very real concern when it comes to cooking chicken, turkey, and other poultry. It gets knocked into our heads again and again that poultry is safe to eat only when its juices run clear, when the meat is no longer pink, and when it registers at least 165° in the thickest part of the thigh.
But of those, only temperature is the real indicator of a fully-cooked chicken. The USDA says that as long as all parts of the chicken have reached a minimum internal temperature of 165°, it is safe to eat. Color does not indicate doneness.
The USDA further explains that even fully cooked poultry can sometimes show a pinkish tinge in the meat and juices. This is particularly true of young chickens whose bones and skin are still very permeable. Pigment in the bone marrow can color the surrounding tissue and make the bones themselves look very dark. Hemoglobin in the muscles can likewise react with air during cooking to give the meat a pinkish color even after cooking. The chicken's feed and whether it's been frozen can also affect the final color.
Even knowing this, it's startling to cut into a chicken and see pink. Reprogramming the automatic association between pink chicken and under-cooked chicken is going to take some work.
What are your thoughts?
• Safe Food Handling: The Color of Meat and Poultry from the USDA
Related: A Little Pink: USDA Lowers Temperature Guidelines for Cooking Pork
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Good to know; I've thrown out a couple of thermometers thinking they were inaccurate. Now to get past the look of pink poultry!
after getting sick from what appeared to be a slightly underdone chicken, i'm kindof paranoid. i'll stick parts in the microwave to speed-cook them the rest of the way, where "the rest of the way" means no pink anywhere.
My hubby is a nut about slightly pink chicken, so I've had times where I cook it a good 10 degrees or more over the recommended temperature and subsequently choked down dry chicken at the dinner table. I always knew it was temperature that indicated 'doneness', but it's great to have some ammunition for my argument now! Thanks!
Are you letting it rest or cutting right into it and seeing pink?
Before throwing out what may be a perfectly good thermometer, try sticking it onto some boiling water. 100deg Celsius lets you know it's still working...
This doesn't help much for the few times you cook chicken, see pink and check and it ISNT done. Usually my easy answer is chuck the plate in the microwave for a minute to "finish it off" but by that point, it never comes out like you hope if it was undercooked.
This brings me back to my thanksgiving bird that was 172 in the thighs and 165 in the breast, but still slightly pink in spots. I'm convinced my MIL was suspicious of my bird, especially as hers are usually VERY VERY VERY done, and in bone dry. So much so my FIL told he to stick to chicken (which is still really dry). This pink phenomenon can indeed be a worrisome thing.
I cook all the way to 175 because that's when big homegrown chickens (6-9 lb) are the most tender (fall-off-the-bone tender). Otherwise can be tough. I never cooked store chicken in my life though, not sure.
That chicken in the picture is beautiful, I want to cook that right now!
@Charlotte - Let it rest and then carve it up! Before learning about all this, I would get really frustrated when I saw still-pink meat (especially around the bones and joints) when I KNEW that bird was cooked to at least 165! I would end up saving those pieces for stock instead of serving them.
My husband and I have both suffered the misfortune of biting into not-quite-done chicken. It's disgusting, even if you don't get sick. We generally cook our chicken to more like 175 or 180. Sometimes it comes out dry, but mostly there's no problem with the moistness.
(Also we have given up on being able to fry chicken. Every time we do, it burns on the outside before the inside even gets warm...)
I have been wondering about this for a long time. The other thing I've had happen is the thermometer reading well over 165, but red bits floating inside the juices that collect inside the cavity of the chicken. Red throws me even more than pink! I've read alternatively that (a) it's a result of the bird being frozen and is nothing at all to worry about or (b) it's undercooked and perhaps even though I allowed plenty of time to defrost, it's not defrosted in the center. Still trying to figure that one out, but this post is helpful!
165 works every time, for me. But I always wondered why it was still pink even if it was cooked! Great post!
I was taught about the hemoglobin in the flesh making it pink by a poultry farmer in Virginia years ago (and also at culinary school later on). But no matter how often I tell my germ-freak friend that the thermometer says 165 throughout the thickest portion of the breast, she still refuses to eat it. Oh well. More chicken for me :P
PERFECT Timing. Every time I make Thomas Keller's roast chicken it is delicious, but freaks me out a bit because it is a little pink. Afraid of totally poisoning my family, I usually end up boiling most of it and we only eat a few non-pink pieces. I was just about to google this!
This happened to me two days ago and I was all freaked out. Thanks for the post!
At home, I'll take a little bit of pink because I know the proper temperature was reached. At a restaurant, absolutely not. I was at The Cheesecake Factory scarfing down Chicken Carbonara and discovered a pink piece of chicken. I had them remake it w/o chicken even though they ensured me it would be cooked. Of course, I still ended up getting sick for a week afterward.
Very true. Many of the chickens we have for roast are pink after good cooking. Usually in the thigh area. I've had a fright once or twice but my mother reassures me it's normal. A tad chewy but it tasted fine and I lived to tell the tale.
If you've been cooking a more than reasonable time, your oven isn't broken and the chicken is by no means raw... you're probably ok to go.
merricontrari, I love fried chicken way too much not to explain. The way to keep the chicken from burning on the outside and not being done on the inside when you fry is to: 1) Don't fry singly. The pan, not deep fryer, should be full. 2) The oil is very hot when you add the chicken, but soon after you get all the chicken in the pan, cover the pan and turn the heat down to medium (or even medium low depending on your stove 3) Let the chicken cook through until the flesh of the upper side, visible under the flour coating, has turned white. 4) Turn up the heat and remove the cover. 5) Flip the chicken and let it brown on the other side.
Remove and test. Juicy but done on the inside, beautiful on the outside. For an even better texture, do as the West Indians to the raw chicken. Soak in lemon juice and salt for 20 min. or so. Then rinse, season and proceed.
Thank you so much for this post. I just roasted my first chicken last night and was very meticulous following directions and still had a pink chicken. Totally thought I messed it up. Good to know!


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Canucks firing on all cylinders these days
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Winter Classic Update
Breaking news from the NHL today regarding tomorrow's Winter Classic between the Penguins and Capitals in Pittsburgh. The NHL announced that the game will be moved from its original start time of 1 P.M. to 8 P.M. New Year's night. The NHL made this decision based on weather reports that suggest a storm front moving [...]Read more...
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Islander young guns set to fill void left by trade
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New York Islanders trade James Wisniewski to Montreal
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my guild often uses off-tanking as a form of crowd control. you see, while our server often seems to have a shortage of tanks, my small guild (12-14 active accounts) has 2 main tanks (one paladin, one warrior), and a phenominal feral druid who is always ready and willing to switch from crazy DPS to tanking at a moment's notice (always carries both sets of gear with him)...we once did a heroic shattered halls with those three, a hunter, and myself healing. it took longer to kill things, and tested my whack-a-mole skills, but they kept those mobs under control. now, i'm not recommending trying that anytime soon, but having a second person who can tank is not a bad idea when you have no, or limited, CC.
Agree with this... one of the most fun Steamvault runs I've done was a late night run by bored /2 people:
2 feral druids (mt + ot/dps), prot warrior (offtanking), aff-lock & elemental shaman healing (!).
We figured it wouldn't work out, but instead it turned out to be one of the fastest runs I've ever done through SV (untill recently when burning down the place with t6 geared group in no time).
Lots of people are stuck in the idea that you *need* such & such class for such & such role... but in reality, you can get through most of the instances with almost any class combination, you just need to work out how to use what you got effectively.


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US Stocks Open Lower As Financials Lead Declines
Just for the fun of it, let's take a look at a money news story. You know, since we ALL have such magnificent jobs and more money than we know what to do with. US Stocks Open Lower As Financials Lead … Continue reading