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Folks, it has come time to change some things here at SUFA. After much thought, I believe it's time for my term as administrator of this site needs to change, a self imposed term limit basically. It's only fair that I announce this with all due respect to everyone who reads and posts here. For the most part, it's a great site for people to chat about the many issues in our world. My views, which may be extreme at times, don't seem to be welcome much for too many folks, so it's best that I move on in life and become just a simple reader and occasional poster, as I was in the past. It's been fun, but at times it's also quite frustrating, but, that's life. Life isn't always easy, especially when you have no control over the vast majority if things that surround us. This however, is something I can control and I have decided to leave the responsibility on keeping SUFA running efficiently to someone willing to take the reigns over. I will help anyone who volunteers for these duties as much as my knowledge will allow. With that said, this will be my last article posted as the current Administrator, I would hope that someone will step up and fill the void and keep this site running. I will continue to chime in on occasions, but life dictates that it cannot be at the same levels I have been able to do in the past. God Bless All Of You!
A Time For Change
Folks, it has come time to change some things here at SUFA. After much thought, I believe it's time for my term as administrator of this site needs to change, a self imposed term limit basically. It's only fair that I announce this with all due respect to everyone who reads and posts here. For the most part, it's a great site for people to chat about the many issues in our world. My views, which may be extreme at times, don't seem to be welcome much for too many folks, so it's best that I move on in life and become just a simple reader and occasional poster, as I was in the past. It's been fun, but at times it's also quite frustrating, but, that's life. Life isn't always easy, especially when you have no control over the vast majority if things that surround us. This however, is something I can control and I have decided to leave the responsibility on keeping SUFA running efficiently to someone willing to take the reigns over. I will help anyone who volunteers for these duties as much as my knowledge will allow. With that said, this will be my last article posted as the current Administrator, I would hope that someone will step up and fill the void and keep this site running. I will continue to chime in on occasions, but life dictates that it cannot be at the same levels I have been able to do in the past. God Bless All Of You!
Gman thanks for all your efforts.
Shows you how much people pay attention to what they're signing or what the guy is even saying. It's getting to that point though, you say anything against Obama, & you're in the dog house. Heck, look at what happened to some of the generals who spoke against him & didn't agree with him about a lot of things, they got fired for it.But, then, it's getting to the point, you can't say anything about anybody or anything without getting in trouble for it, of someone getting offended by it.
Gman, thought I would rub it in a little. Just planted corn and beans. Onions and garlic are up. Planted lettuce, carrots and broccoli last week. Holding off on irrigation since it is supposed to rain this week. Also have cucumbers, cantaloupe, peppers and tomatoes started on the deck.
For those that are interested, http://www.sepp.org
The Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) puts out a weekly news letter called TWTW "The Week that Was". It reviews the literature of the week on climate change and points out all of fallacies.
Well G, I can understand your thinking.
The group the 'Right Climate Stuff' says there's no need to worry about catastrophic global warming
Posted on March 8, 2014 by Anthony Watts
New Study; Earth is Safe From 'Global Warming' Say the Men Who Put Man on the Moon
The planet is not in danger of catastrophic man made global warming. Even if we burn all the world's recoverable fossil fuels it will still only result in a temperature rise of less than 1.2 per cent.
So say The Right Climate Stuff Research Team, a group of retired NASA Apollo scientists and engineers – the men who put Neil Armstrong on the moon – in a new report.
"It's an embarrassment to those of us who put NASA's name on the map to have people like James Hansen popping off about global warming," says the project's leader Hal Doiron.
Doiron was one of 40 ex NASA employees – including seven astronauts – who wrote in April 2012 to NASA administrator Charles Bolden protesting about the organization's promotion of climate change alarmism, notably via its resident environmental activist James Hansen.
During his stint as head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Hansen tirelessly promoted Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. He retired last year to spend more time on environmental campaigning and has twice been arrested with former mermaid impersonator Darryl Hannah for his part in protests against surface coal mining and the Keystone XL pipe line. While still head of NASA GISS he once described trains carrying coal as "death trains" "no less gruesome than if they were carrying boxcars headed to crematoria and loaded with uncountable irreplaceable species." Many NASA employees and former employees found his views an embarrassment.
Doiron and his team now hope to set the record straight in a report called Bounding GHG Climate Sensitivity For Use In Regulatory Decisions.
Using calculations by George Stegemeier of the National Academy of Engineering, they estimated the total quantity of recoverable oil, gas and coal on the planet. They then used 163 years of real world temperature data to calculate Transient Climate Sensitivity (ie how much the world will warm as a result of the emission of all the carbon dioxide in the fossil fuel). The figure they came up with 1.2 degrees C which is considerably lower than the wilder claims of the IPCC, whose reports have suggested it could be as high as 4 degrees C or more.
Doiron is similarly sceptical of the computer models used by climate alarmists. He and his team argue that the 105 models currently used by the IPCC are seriously flawed because they don't agree with each other and don't agree with empirical data.
Doiron says: "I believe in computer models. My whole career was about using computer models to make life or death decisions. In 1963 I had to use them to calculate whether, when the lunar module landed on a 12 degree slope it would fall over or not – and design the landing gear accordingly. But if you can't validate the models – and the IPCC can't – then don't use them.
From James Delingpole at Breibart: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/03/08/Earth-is-safe-from-global-warming-say-the-men-who-put-man-on-the-moon
PDF here: ExecutiveSummaryBoundingGHGClimateSensitivityForUseInRegulatoryDecisions140228(1)
So if 74% of people believe there should be a requirement for ID to vote, why should the government continue to argue voter ID laws are discriminatory?
Now this I understand 🙂
Loud + Weak = War
China and Russia are no more impressed with empty bluster today than Japan was in 1941.
By Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
The Roosevelt administration once talked loudly of pivoting to Asia to thwart a rising Japan. As a token of its seriousness, in May 1940 it moved the home port of the Seventh Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor — but without beefing up the fleet's strength.
The then-commander of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral James O. Richardson, an expert on the Japanese Imperial Navy, protested vehemently over such a reckless redeployment. He felt that the move might invite, but could not guard against, surprise attack.
Richardson was eventually relieved of his command and his career was ruined — even as he was later proved right when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Britain at the same time promoted a loud Singapore Strategy, trumpeting its Malaysian base as the "Gibraltar of the Pacific." But London did not send out up-to-date planes, carriers, or gunnery to the Pacific.
Japan was not impressed. It surprise-attacked the base right after Pearl Harbor. The British surrendered Singapore in February 1942, in the most ignominious defeat in British military history.
By 1949, the U.S. was pledged to containing the expansion of Communism in Asia — even as Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson (who had been chief fundraiser for Truman's 1948 campaign) declared that the Navy and Marines were obsolete. He began to slash both their budgets.
A "revolt of the admirals" followed, to no avail. But Mao Zedong's China and Stalin's Soviet Union took note of the new disconnect between American bluster and massive defense cuts. So they green-lighted a North Korean invasion of South Korea in June 1950.
The common historical denominator is that Asia and the Pacific are always dangerous places, where calling for tough action is not the same as preparing for the consequences of upping the ante. Loud talk sometimes even encourages a thuggish challenge to prove it.
Unless the United States in any meaningful way backs up its current flamboyant "pivot" to Asia with additional ships, air wings, and manpower, there is no sense in chest-pounding our resolve to our increasingly orphaned allies, who may soon have to choose between acquiescing to China and going nuclear.
China will not be impressed that we talk confidently even as we cut defense — just as imperial Japan was not awed when aged American battleships were ordered westward to Pearl Harbor as a gesture.
Nor did the Japanese tremble when the British battleship Prince of Wales and battle cruiser Repulse were sent without air cover to Singapore. Both were seen as targets rather than deterrents and so soon ended up at the bottom of the sea.
Likewise, in the late 1940s, "containing Red China" meant nothing when the postwar U.S. had canceled new aircraft carriers, even as it still deployed on the cheap vulnerable small garrisons of troops all over Asia.
President Obama's pivot has now joined his stable of deadlines, red lines, step-over lines, and "I don't bluff" and "I'm not kidding" assertions. The problem with such rhetoric is not just that it is empty, but that it is predictably empty. If Obama cannot lead, can he at least keep quiet about it?
A Russia, China, North Korea, or Iran is not just unimpressed but encouraged, seeing such sermonizing as an assurance of nothing to follow. Obama's threats are like a gambler's involuntary tic, which astute poker players read always as a forewarning of a bluffed empty hand to follow.
A wiser course is to decide in advance where the U.S. is capable of deterring aggression and where it either has no interest in trying or has no power even if it wished to. Then, once our security parameters are established, we should stay largely quiet, consult our allies, keep troublemakers guessing about our next move, and then use force if necessary to stop their aggressions.
The Japanese, Taiwanese, South Koreans, Filipinos, and Australians are more likely to assume their democracies are safe when they see a U.S. carrier that means business than when they hear the president or his secretary of state lecture an aggressor about its unacceptable 19th-century behavior, the Third World about its homophobia, or the world about the dangers of climate change.
Consider also Russia. We forget that "reset" in 2009 was a loud Obama attempt to reverse the Bush administration's efforts to punish Russia for its aggression against Georgia — a Russian gambit itself perhaps predicated on the impression that the United States was bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that the Bush administration had been weakened by the midterm elections of 2006. Bush's efforts to promote new missile-defense initiatives with Poland and the Czech Republic, suspension of nuclear-arms-limitation talks, curtailment of official communications with Moscow, and bolder efforts to isolate Iran from Russian interference were all intended to advise Moscow not to bully its neighbors.
Yet Obama entered office declaring that it was the Bush administration's reaction to the Georgia aggression, and not the Russian invasion itself, that had cooled U.S.–Russian relations. The result was a red plastic reset button that presaged loud lectures about human rights in Russia without any real, concrete follow-through.
Our relationship with Russia is far worse now than during the Bush administration. Vladimir Putin is not just not deterred — who would be, after the U.S. fickleness in Libya, Egypt, and Syria, and in dealing with Iran? — but quite eager in the Crimea and Ukraine to show the world how to deflate American moralistic sermonizing. Putin believes that his amoral show of power impresses others who admire not his strength — for in truth he has little of it — but the simulation of strength that wins him support at home and a sort of sick admiration abroad.
Being weak is sometimes dangerous. Being loud, self-righteous, and weak is always very dangerous indeed.
I don't agree with him on every point but overall a good article. I find these words illuminating "Everything not forbidden is compulsory," does that sound like it has anything to do with rights or freedom?
March 25, 2014 4:00 AM
The Right Not to Be Implicated
"Everything not forbidden is compulsory," or will be soon enough under our "liberal" regime.
By Kevin D. Williamson
Today, Hobby Lobby will make its case before the Supreme Court, maintaining that it should not be coerced by federal mandate to use its employee insurance programs to facilitate the purchase of certain birth-control devices that it regards as being more akin to abortion than to contraception. About the legal and technical questions, I have little to add to what Ed Whelan and other legal scholars writing here — all of them far more knowledgeable than I — already have written, except to note that it strikes my non-specialist's sensibility as being self-evidently true that the Affordable Care Act fails to meet the relevant criterion in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: that in those cases in which the federal government can demonstrate a compelling state interest in burdening the free exercise of religion, it must choose the least restrictive method of doing so. The English major in me has trouble getting the words "least restrictive" to jibe with "federal mandate."
One of the finest books ever written about politics is The Once and Future King, in which young Arthur, not yet king, is transformed by Merlin into various kinds of animals in order to learn about different kinds of political arrangements: Hawks live under martial law, geese are freewheeling practitioners of spontaneous order, badgers are scholarly isolationists, and ants live under totalitarianism, with T. H. White famously rendering their one-sentence constitution: "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."
There is a great deal of political and moral real estate between those libertarian geese and totalitarian ants — at least there should be, in a healthy, liberal society. But we do not enjoy, at the political and legal levels, a healthy, liberal society. Rather, we are a society that goes from forbidden to compulsory in record time, and vice versa.
Consider the case of the legal and social standing of homosexuals. Until just over a decade ago, homosexual intercourse was a crime in many jurisdictions. Then in 2003, the Supreme Court overturned the sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas, which was in my view a bad decision with a good outcome. That same year, California considered a civil-union law, which was the source of some controversy. Opponents argued that it was a step toward the much more serious issue of gay marriage, and Democrats rejected that as a red herring: "Nobody is talking about gay marriage," said John Longville, a Democratic assemblyman, "except the people who are trying to wave it around as a straw-man issue." Within five years, that straw man was flesh and blood. Along the way the conversation changed from whether states could legalize gay marriage to whether states could prohibit it, and from whether the federal government should recognize same-sex marriage to whether it could refuse to do so. The Democratic governor of Kentucky says that he desires the Supreme Court to "bring finality and certainty to this matter," which, given his party affiliation, is a way of saying without saying that he wants a national legal mandate for gay marriage. And the matter already has progressed to the point at which we as a nation, having only recently legalized gay marriage, are debating the question of whether bakers and photographers should be locked in cages if they decline, for their own moral or religious reasons, to participate in gay weddings.
"Everything not forbidden is compulsory."
It is a perversion of the English language that our so-called liberals are the least liberal faction in our polity. American liberalism is the creed that you are entitled to think as you like and entitled to do as you are commanded.
I make a pretty poor puritan, though perhaps someday I'll make a better one. I object to abortion as violence, including abortion actuated via relatively bloodless chemical means, and believe that it should be prohibited as a matter of humane principle. The use of actual contraceptives, such as condoms, and the question of what combinations of consenting adults do what with whom — by which I mean maintaining joint bank accounts and sharing dental plans, of course — may be of acute interest to the bishops but are not properly matters of prohibition by the federal government, the purpose of which is to protect property, thus enabling Americans to organize their lives as they will, rather than to move citizens about like chessmen on the theory that it does so for their benefit. There is not much that I would have be illegal — but any civilized society requires a great deal of breathing room between forbidden and compulsory.
The Left would not have it that way: Homosexual behavior is not to be tolerated, or homosexual unions recognized under law — rather, homosexuality is to constitute a special class of blessedness, and the failure to celebrate it is to be a sin, which in the liberal mind must be identical to a crime. It is not enough for religious conservatives, such as the ones who own Hobby Lobby, to tolerate the legal sale and use of things such as the so-called morning-after pill — rather, they are expected to provide them at their own expense. Abortions are not to be legal, but legal and funded by the general community, with those funds extracted at gunpoint if necessary.
This is not merely, or even mainly, a question of economics. A monthly dose of emergency contraception (which seems like a lot) paid entirely out-of-pocket would run less than the typical cell-phone bill. One does not suspect that Americans would find it very difficult to locate gay-friendly firms in the wedding-planning business. The typical first-trimester abortion costs less than an entry-level iPad — hardly an insurmountable economic barrier for a procedure that is, if we take the pro-choice side at their word, absolutely fundamental to a woman's health and happiness.
The economics are incidental. The point is not to ensure that we all pay, but that we are all involved.
The Left may be morally illiterate, but it is not blind. The effects of the pathologically delusional tendency that once styled itself "the sexual revolution" are everywhere to be seen. In the 1960s and 1970s, our cultural discourse was dominated by the benefits side of that revolution's ledger; since then, we've had sufficient time to have a good long look at the cost side, too, and the tradeoffs are more severe than our bell-bottomed Aquarian prophets had predicted. It reads like an Old Testament genealogy: Sexual chaos begat family chaos, family chaos begat social chaos, social chaos begat economic chaos, economic chaos begat political chaos. And so the generations unfold. The relevant political reality is that those costs and benefits are not distributed equally: The benefits of license accrue mainly to the well-off and educated, who have the resources to make the most of their enjoyment of them; the costs accrue mainly to the poor, who cannot afford to live, economically or morally, beyond their means. Kate Moss can afford to be a single mother in her $20 million London townhouse. Not everybody can. Our so-called liberals find themselves in the queasy position of having created a moral culture that has destroyed millions of lives and many communities among the very disadvantaged people they claim to care most about, but they are incapable of criticizing a culture of license that none of them can imagine living without, even if they themselves are square as houses in their sexual habits.
The result of that is, if not guilt, at least a nagging awareness that this all turns out to be a great deal more morally complex than our liberationist-latitudinarian forebears had imagined. The way to assuage the collective liberal conscience is to institutionalize and normalize liberal social preferences: There is nobody to be blamed for social anarchy if that's just the way things are. And if everybody is involved — as taxpayers or as employers providing health insurance — then everybody is implicated. They are a little like those addicts who are uncomfortable in the social presence of abstainers, taking that abstention as a rebuke, whether it is intended as one or not. In the United Kingdom, the government-run hospitals are burning the corpses of aborted children for heat, and we are all expected to get cozy by the fire.
The Hobby Lobby case is in part about private property and whether we are to have it. If we hold capital only at the sufferance of the politico-sexual whims of those who hold power, then we do not really hold capital at all — we only rent property from our rulers, serfs in the world's most sophisticated fiefdom. The property right is the fundamental right upon which all other political rights have their foundation. But there is a separate question — the right of conscience, which is, at minimum, the right not to be implicated, to at least stand apart from that which is no longer forbidden but is not yet, as of Tuesday morning, compulsory.
A hijack here, for a little levity…..
Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world, Mexifornia, formerly known as California ..
White minorities still trying to have English recognized as Mexifornia's third language.
Spotted Owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.
Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.
Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.
Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.
France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica . No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!
Last Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally, but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.
George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2060.
Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $17.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesdays only.
Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.
85-year $75.8 billion study: Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.
Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.
Japanese scientists have created a camera with such a fast shutter speed they now can photograph a woman with her mouth shut.
Abortion clinics now available in every high school in United States ..
Senate still blocking drilling in ANWR even though gas is selling for 4532 pesos per liter and gas stations are only open on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Massachusetts executes last remaining conservative.
Supreme Court rules any punishment of criminals violates their civil rights.
A couple finally had sexual harmony. They had simultaneous headaches.
Average height of NBA players is now nine feet seven inches with only 73 illegitimate children.
New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters and rolled-up newspapers must be registered by January 2060.
IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75 percent.
And finally…..
Floruba voters still having trouble with voting machines.
GEEZ LOUISE Charlie, do you ever quit with the badgering? Maybe that's why some left, they couldn't take you badgering everybody on here anymore. You ever think G put those 8 postings up, just so they can talk about other things here as well? Give it a rest already why don't you.


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Kids Music Week: Sonic youth milestones
Mike Flanagan continues Kids Music Week on OpenAir with a sampling of ages and the events that affected some great musical artists.
Mike Flanagan continues Kids Music Week on OpenAir with a sampling of ages and the events that affected some great musical artists.
Alisha Sweeney picks this year's top four albums that chronicle the emotions of a breakup.
The 24 hours the Beatles spent on their only visit as a band to Colorado is remembered today with the enormity that embraced it at the time. For Denver, it introduced the era of Red Rocks as a premiere showcase for rock and roll.
Musically speaking, cities are more often metaphors than they are destinations, but join us as Retrofit keeps it on the block. 5 pm Saturday, with an urban renewal Sunday at noon.
Jessi Whitten shares her thoughts on the role of social media and music in protests like those currently happening around the country following the events in Ferguson, Mo.
It's Woodstock's 45th Anniversary! On Retrofit this week we'll stray from the beaten path in our tie-dyed VW bus, and focus our black lights on some Woodstock Rarities, in other words, not the signature playlist that was handed down on the original soundtrack.
Keefer Fulgham relays the story of the Brazilian bus magnate who owns "several million" vinyl records by his own estimation.
Nothing really strikes panic in the hearts of kids like the dwindling days of August. With the summer is nearing its end, Scott Carney shares a playlist of seven of his favorite songs to listen to while reflecting on a summer coming to a close.
This weekend Retrofit presents The Watergate Mixtape with no 18-minute gaps, airing Saturday, August 9 at 5 p.m. and again Sunday, August 10 at noon.
Prep yourself for the new James Brown biopic "Get On Up" with some of the very best videos of the Godfather of Soul himself.

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Hola lovely readers! I cannot believe it is day 'F' already in my August Alphabet Challenge! I do hope you're finding this challenge as fun as I am. I cannot lie to you, I found it quite a difficult choice for what to pick for this blog. There are lots of composers beginning with F, Fauré for example is one. However, nothing seemed to click properly, until I remembered about the Spanish gem – Manuel de Falla. So this blog is going to be on his nocturne-esque work for piano and orchestra – Nights in the Gardens of Spain (Noches en los jardines de España).
Falla was born in 1876 in the southern Spanish city of Cádiz. He studied harmony and counterpoint from a young age, as well as learning the piano. By 1900 he and his family had resided to Madrid, where Falla studied at the Royal Conservatoire of Music. Falla thrived within music education, and he won numerous prizes for both his piano playing and his compositions. After premiering some of his pieces such as Canción para piano, Falla also began teaching piano. Whilst furthering his composition style, he began using Spanish folk-song as a key foundation for many of his pieces to come. Falla became a nationalistic composer and styles such as flamenco can he be heard throughout his works. Further to this, Falla, in his lifetime, produced a wide-range of works, spanning from opera to chamber works, to solo studies, and then to large-scale orchestral works.
In 1907, Falla moved to Paris for sometime, where he met the leading French composers of the time – Debussy, Ravel and Dukas (remember him?). Turn-of-the-century Paris was a hot-spot for Spanish impressions within classical music. Spain's colourful climate and history played a large part in lots of different works by composers, for instance Bizet and Dukas. So no wonder Falla came to Paris – it offered a thriving musical scene like no other. Falla was able to not only embrace his heritage, but also learn about other cultures and how to blend various musical styles into his music.
One composer that he forged a particularly strong bond with was none other than our firebird of composition – Igor Stravinsky! Falla and Stravinsky travelled around Europe together for some time, trying to get Falla's opera, La vida breve, premiered. Shortly after World War I began, Falla was forced to return back to Madrid. Upon his return to the capital, Falla wrote some of his most famous works, including the piece that this blog is based on. He wrote two ballets, some chamber works and the nocturnes that Nights in the Gardens of Spain is based on. In 1921, Falla moved to Granada for an extended amount of time (c.1939). He wrote a fairly successful puppet opera called El retablo de maese Pedro. He also composed the absolutely brilliant concerto for harpsichord and chamber ensemble. Falla also began working on his large-scale orchestral cantata Atlántida (Atlantis). Between 1939-1940, Falla moved to Argentina, which is where he stayed as he died in 1946. He finished Atlantis whilst out there, as well as being named as a Knight of the Order of King Alfonso X. Once his health began to deteriorate, Falla moved to a house in the Alta Gracia mountains. Interestingly, Falla never married, nor did he have any children. He died in 1946, with his sister María by his side. Now, Falla is known as one of the leading Spanish composers from the 20th Century. Although he was not a prolific composer, his works bear much importance, and bring a lot of culture and musical integrity within the ever-expanding sphere of classical music. Nights in the Gardens of Spain was written in Falla's 'mature period', and thus is a perfect example of the various compositonal techniques that Falla learnt through his extensive travels around the world.
Nights in the Gardens of Spain was composed between the years of 1909 and 1915, and was finally premiered in 1916 in Madird's Teatro Real. Interestingly, Falla was not going to start composing music for the foundation idea he had. However, his newfound friends, Debussy and Ravel thought otherwise. They inspired and pushed Falla to follow through his ideas through music. Firstly, Falla began working on a set of nocturnes for solo piano, however, with advice from Ricado Viñes (a hugely famous pianist who premiered works from Satie, Debussy and Ravel. He was also teacher of Poulenc!), Falla made changes to the orchestration and instrumentation of the work, and made the piece for piano and orchestra. Falla dedicated this work to Viñes. Polish-American pianist, Arthur Rubinstein was in the audience for the premiere of this work and he liked it so much that he took it to Buenos Aires for its international premiere.
This work was referred to by Falla as "Symphonic impressions", which gives a clue as to what the structure of the work may be like. It is not a work that has only one movement, oh no, this work has three movements, all of which are based on depicting three different Spanish gardens. It has been said that the score is Falla's most impressionistic score, which lines up with the people he was associating himself with whilst in Paris. As there is not a wealth of analytical information on this score I'm going to do my best to give you a breakdown of what happens within the movements!
En el Generalife (In the Generalife)
The first movement begins with a mysterious tremolo from the upper strings, which sets the tone up for the movement. This tone movement builds tension and is passed around the wind sections. Throughout this whole movement you can certainly here Falla's flamenco influences. The piano enters with a wonderful dream-like melodic cell, which is so very resonant of Debussy. Falla has a brilliant way though of using a style, but creating his own voice within it. The movement is quite dark, but also hopeful of what may come. The orchestra proclaims a tonic chord and the piano bursts with excitement in a very fast scalic passage. The tempo is now slightly faster throughout the whole ensemble and the piano is working as one with the orchestra. A climax is built up, to which the strings play a wonderful smooth melody, which then brings the mood back down. The piano then takes this melodic cell and creates a hopeful variation from it. The horn then plays this absolutely stunning counter-melody, whilst the piano plays a strong chord progression below. A horn chorale leads us into a flute solo, which is then interrupted by a dark tremolo from the lower strings. The piano returns in with the dream-like atonal melodic cell. A trumpet fanfare enters and a swirl of notes from the upper strings leads the piano back in with another call and response figure.
A new section is now heard, which is led by the oboe and clarinets. The piano enters, alone this time, with a virtuosic passage, based on a mode (perhaps phrygian?). A solo violin enters underneath and plays a counter-melody. The initial melody from the start of this section returns again in the same form, which leads in to a solo piano section. This section is very impressionistic and the piano is essentially the soloist, however it is not very often the dominant role here. The tone turns slightly darker after an ominous figure from the bassoons. The piano plays a fast passage of semiquavers which repeats a single-note theme. This is soon shadowed by the upper strings in their upper registers. The trumpets proclaim above this theme and the piece turns ever so romantic. The orchestral writing within this movement is absolutely wonderful! The piano and orchestra play as one with open chords until the end of the movement. Essentially these movements aim to evoke places and sensations, thus its not programmatic (like Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice), but it is incredibly expressive and is left up to the listener to decipher what they hear. The titles for each movement of course help to picture what Falla is thinking of, however the melancholic mystery that is created within this first movement inspires Falla's aim of producing evocations of sound. Thus, this movement is based around the gardens in the Generalife (a Spanish summer palace), which are full of jasmine-scented shrubbery that surround the palace.
Danza lejana (A Distant Dance)
The second movement is the only one without a specific garden in mind, instead it looks into the art of Spanish dance. The movement begins with a dance melody, principally played by the flutes. This is then taken over by the clarinets. This jaunty melody is taken to the piano, where it is developed to fruition. Although this is a playful dance, I can't help but feel some darkness from it. The march-like section brings a newfound intensity to the movement, which is confirmed by the fanfares from the horns and trumpets. The piano tries to break this tension with a sort of love theme, which is taken on by the orchestra also. A climax is created however, and the tension builds again, which naturally increases the intensity within the dance. The playful melodic cell is played as a variation on the piano, which is used as a call and response between the piano and the cello.
The main melodic theme is heard once more (and in fact is heard throughout this whole movement). A very intense section is played, and the lower strings lead us into the high tremolos played by the strings. An ominous dissonant chord is played by the brass above the strings. The piece is incredibly modal, and there is no real sense of key. A dark lower-register theme is played on the piano, which quickly works it way up the whole of the instrument, before neatly seguing into the final movement.
En los jardines de la Sierra de Córboba (In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba)
An explosion of sound is heard as a result of the segue from the second movement and you can certainly hear the Spanish guitar-inspired phrases. There are a set of interludes played between the piano and the orchestra, which result in them both playing unison at points. This movement is incredibly triumphant in many ways, and the proclamation from the horns brings this idea to the forefront as the piano takes centre stage with a bold melodic figure. The piano plays a wonderfully bright set of glissandos and leads into another fast, spritely interlude. For me, this movement evokes a lot of sunshine! A strong march-style figure is then heard, and this creates a very strong pathway for the soloist to enter again. The call and response between not only the pianist and orchestra, but within the orchestra itself is incredibly powerful. The piano plays some wonderfully romantic sections of music, which is so resonant of a calm day in a beautifully sunny garden. Falla is really pulling at your heartstrings at this point, and to progress from this he uses the strings to bring the tension down until the piano returns.
This next section is slightly more ominous than that before it, which gives us yet another side to Falla and his writing. The last 5 minutes of this movement really encapsulates Falla's wonderful orchestral writing as this section is so dramatic, yet holds poise, beauty and a wonderful rich tone. By varying the ranges within the upper strings, it gives us colour and interest within the music. The first violins then play an extremely high note within their register, and the music gives such a weird feeling here, I find it so hard to explain! The music ends with staccato chords from the piano and pizzicato lower strings. The ending is neatly faded in and ends very delicately, in comparison to the large-scale orchestral writing that came just before.
Nights in the Gardens of Spain is essentially three nocturnes stitched together to create an absolutely wonderful piano and orchestra work. The pieces are dynamic, resonant of Spain, but also completely aware of the progression of classical music at that time. Its intriguing though, with a title, and subtitles so descriptive, surely this is programme music? I believe it's somewhere in between. Fallas wrote about this topic after much consideration and he said that, "If these symphonic impressions have achieved their object, the mere enumeration of their titles should be a sufficient guide to the hearer. Although in this work – as in all which have a legitimate claim to be considered as music – the composer has allowed a definite design…the end for which it was written is no other than to evoke place, sensations and sensations. The music has no pretensions to being descriptive, it is merely expressive. But something more than the sound of festivals and dances has inspired these evocations of sound, for melancholy and mystery have their part also." So there you have it, Fallas is helping to an extent with the evocation of sound, but it's up to us to interpret it for ourselves!
Strangely, it is said that Falla wrote his best music whilst not in Spain, suggesting he based a lot of his more national works on fond memories. After leaving Madrid he never returned to his homeland. Falla's compelling scores are a joy to hear and its high time this composer got some more recognition in the 21st Century!
So there we have it – day F is now complete! I hope you have enjoyed this Spanish tour of music, courtesy of Manuel de Falla. I wonder what day G has in store for us tomorrow!
Happy reading as always…Adiós amigos!
Recommended Recordings:
This is a wonderful recording of Daniel Barenboim playing Nights in the Gardens of Spain.


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At least four children have died and nearly 600 more have been injured in North America in the last three years after playing with dangerous toys that later had to be pulled from the market.
Two toddlers suffocated in 2006 when oversized plastic nails from a toy tool bench became lodged in their throats; a two-year-old died in 2005 after he swallowed magnets from a building set that twisted his small intestine; a four-year-old died of lead poisoning in 2006 after swallowing part of a charm bracelet that came free with Reebok shoes.
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Saturday, March 18, 2017
I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus – Emily Brown – Music Video
Here is another song from Mormon Channel. I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus was a theme of a talk I gave in sacrament meeting a couple years ago. This presentation puts a new light on what it means to love as jesus loves. It is also a song I have song in Primary as a teacher and is one of my favorites. It is written by Janice Kapp Perry.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Soshokukei Danshi
Two phrases have been coined to describe them: soshokukei danshi or "herbivorous males," and Ojo-man – or "girly men."
Definitions vary, but the new herbivores could be described as metrosexuals without the testosterone. Although most of them are not homosexual they have in common a disdain for the traditional accoutrements of Japanese manhood, and a taste for things formerly regarded as exclusively female. Girly men have no interest in fast cars, career success, designer labels and trophy women. Instead, they hold down humble jobs, cultivate women as friends rather than conquests and spend their free time shopping at small boutiques and pursuing in Japan what is regarded as a profoundly feminine pastime: eating cakes.
Seeking to tap into this market, Japanese manufacturers have launched underwear, cosmetics and clothing designed to appeal to herbivorous males – including bras for men and lacy male tops.
...Masahiro Yamada, a professor of sociology at Chuo University, Tokyo, believes that the new demographic is the result of economic decline: most young men in Japan simply cannot afford fast cars and designer labels, he says. Yamada also worries about the effects of soshokukei danshi on Japan's shrinking population, noting that almost half of Japanese men aged 20–34 are unmarried and that nearly 30 percent of these have never had a girlfriend:
"I worry that herbivorous boys are the future of Japan. … As young Japanese men become more timid and more averse to taking risks, it will affect the energy and vitality of the society."
According to a July 2009 article in The Japan Times, go-getting "nikushokukei joshi" – or "carnivorous women" – have emerged as a counterweight to soshokukei danshi.
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- FrostFire said...
Hello, my dear friend! Long time no see. Recently I am applying for a chemistry Ph.D of my school. Interestingly, I once thought of shifting my direction from chemistry to economics, yet now I have to return to the old way, regarding economics as an interest. Before making this decision, I experienced a period of "recession", a period during which I had no enthusiasim to anything: sleeping everyday, reading boring stories on the internet, killing time without working. Yet what I was frightened most was loneliness. You may have known that I had to suspend my school work due to health reasons, and now the biggest problem is I know nobody around me - my classmates have all graduated, and I am know living with 3 roommates, 2 from College of Maths and 1 from College of Physics, none of whom are in the same college with me. You can imagine how upset I was during these days. Fortunately, time is the best medicine for any pain and sorrow. I was able to enjoy my 23rd birthday on Nov.4 last Wednesday with joy. I was lucky for my parents called on me in Beijing during their holidays, so I could spend my birthday with my parents. My father bought me an electronic piano, which is my new friend now. I can play the instrument everyday when I am weary. I once joked with my friend that I found my girlfriend now - my piano! Tomorrow is Nov.11, a day for all the singlers, including me. But Tomorrow will not be a lonely singlers' day for me, Haha. By the way, what kind of classical composers do you like? 3 years ago I liked Chopin; 2 years ago, Beethoven; last year, Mozart and Schubert; now, Bach. I can not imagine I love this composer so much now because when I learned to play the piano in my childhood, Bach was the one I hated most!
Well, too long this time. Many wishes to you. Keep healthy! Beijing received a heavy snow yesterday, which was the heaviest I have even seen in my lifetime, and the temperature plummeted. Now it is bitterly cold outside. What is the weather like in the city you live now?
- Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- Taro said...
Dear FrostFire,
Thank you very much for your kind comment and report. Sorry for my late reply but I am really happy to hear from you and keep an eye on my blog.
I've wondered how you are going in Beijing. Since I left the school, I teach economics at college and try to research when I have some time. Now I have little time to read books and articles and to write paper.
After the Olympic game last year, how is Beijing city going also? I really wonder how many graduates can't find the job, and, some Chinese say, there's no job and it is the same situation as in Japan. I am greatly concerned about the recent Chinese economic situation and, needless to say, I hope China will be the largest economy in the world.
By the way, let me say about you and you are right to choose chemistry PhD. I do not mean by saying that you are better at chemistry than economics, rather I mean that you've known the principle of comparative advantage:
I think you're much better at economics and chemistry than me, but you know more about chemistry than economics, and then the opportunity cost of studying chemistry is lower than studying economics. So you know it and you choose chemistry. It's really a good, reasonable choice you made.
Recently, I've not listened to classics, but Bach and Beethoven are my favorite composers too. I've recently liked listening to jazz alone, and it's really a great time to me. Yes, classics is kind to me also.
At any rate, we are ontrolled by our mind and sometimes feel so depressed. Please take good care of your health and thank you again for your consideration.
- Thursday, November 12, 2009
- Aini said...
long time no see :)
i havent finished reading the blog, will give comment later
i stop by to stay hallo and that ..
i missed you!
- Friday, November 20, 2009
- Taro said...
Thank you and I am very happy to see you again. I miss you too. I hope you'll have comment to me later, and I shall reply to you!
- Saturday, November 21, 2009


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By taking these actions, CTU leadership doubling down on illegal conduct.
Earlier this year, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (ILERB) ruled that the April 1 strike was an illegal action. Under Illinois law, this ruling allows educators to exercise their right to refuse to participate in an illegal strike. By punishing educators who put their students first, CTU leadership is not only flouting the law, but sending a clear message about their priorities to CTU members.
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Scarlett is so frustrated lately with her position in life.
She is trying so hard to crawl and she is so close and she cries out in frustration when she just can't get it right.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Rest in Peace, Papa
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- dorami said...
You told me so much about your father.It was privilege to have known your father.
I know how your father loved you.
He was a really attractive man.
I hope your memories of him will
be some comfort to you.
- November 26, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Sal said...
Thanks for the warm words, Dorami. I know you were a Daddy's Girl, too, and can identify with my sense of loss better than almost anyone.
- November 26, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Sal, I am sad to read just now about the loss of your Dad. I remember meeting him a couple of times in Japan - he was quite jovial and full of life. You said some lovely things about him. What a lot of pleasure he must have had being your Dad!
I had never seen a photo of him when he was young, but he was quite handsome!
I hope your mum is doing ok. I know it has been hard for her the last few years.
I hope you too, are doing ok. I know it is hard losing someone you love when you are far away.
- November 27, 2008 at 12:55 AM
- Sal said...
Thanks, Kar'!
Thanks, too, for saving stamps for him in the past. He really appreciated your contribution!!
Both my mom and I are at peace about his passing. Today is Thanksgiving in the states and Mom has gone to my brother's house in IL to enjoy the holiday with the family. She wasn't able to go to his house for over a year, so this will be a real treat for her, and a healing time, I'm sure. She told me the other day she was looking forward to all the 2-way conversations and being able to play some games with the grandkids. She's had to do without those simple pleasures for a very long time.
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Morgan v. McKinney et al
Plaintiff: Steven Lavon Morgan
Defendant: Ricard McKinney, Tim Ford and Brett Johnson
Case Number: 1:2010cv01041
Filed: June 8, 2010
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Presiding Judge: Harry F. Barnes
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A rare public war of words has now broken out over the Embarracuda, occasioned by the new VF piece I flogged yesterday. The Politico has the goods, at perhaps greater length than any of us really needed. In sum:
Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin, usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes. Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting.
William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard and at times an informal adviser to Sen. John McCain, touched off the latest back-and-forth Tuesday morning with a post on his magazine's blog criticizing the Todd Purdum-authored Palin story and pointing a finger at Steve Schmidt, McCain's campaign manager.
Kristol cited a passage in Purdum's piece in which "some top aides" were said to worry about the Alaska governor's "mental state" and the prospect that the Alaska governor may be suffering from post-partum depression following the birth of her son Trig. "In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin's mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt," Kristol wrote.
Asked about the accusation, Schmidt fired back in an e-mail: "I'm sure John McCain would be president today if only Bill Kristol had been in charge of the campaign."
"After all, his management of [former Vice President] Dan Quayle's public image as his chief of staff is still something that takes your breath away," Schmidt continued. "His attack on me is categorically false."
Asked directly in a telephone interview if he brought up the prospect of Palin suffering from post-partum depression, Schmidt said: "His allegation that I was defaming Palin by alleging post-partum depression at the campaign headquarters is categorically untrue. In fact, I think it rises to the level of a slander because it's about the worst thing you can say about somebody who does what I do for a living."
There's loads more of this. The interesting takeaway for me is that Kristol is pretty obviously still committed to Palin for 2012, it would seem. As Schmidt reminds us above: Quayle and Palin. What's up with that? That Kristol prefers idiots he can lead around by the nose seems almost too obvious a conclusion, but I can't think of another one.
I know some of you are going to say: Tomasky, get over it! Another Palin post? Listen. Go look at the number of comments. Do the math. For whatever reason, she gets you talking. And she quite obviously wants to run for president, so it's hardly as if she's old news.
And she is a sociopathic liar and an insane narcissist. Read the vignette from Purdum's piece about how she was insisting on giving her own concession speech. Vice-presidential candidates don't give concession speeches. Sociopathic liars and insane narcissists make good copy.


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SpaceShipTwo, the flagship of honest-to-god eccentric billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic commercial space-tourism prototype fleet, has been successfully tested by onboard human operators. Via Jason Paur in Wired:
SpaceShipTwo, attached to its mother ship Eve, departed the Mojave Air and Space Port. Many, including us, were anxious to hear whether the first glide flight of the spacecraft also known as VSS Enterprise would happen, especially since we knew a chase plane followed SpaceShipTwo into the sky.
As we reported yesterday, the flight test team at Scaled Composites has been busy preparing for the first glide flight. There have been four flights of WhiteKnightTwo in the past month where the crew has made practice approaches similar to what will be flown in the VSS Enterprise.
Virgin Galactic, the company behind the development of SpaceShipTwo and private space tourism, says yesterday's flight marked the first time SpaceShipTwo flew with a crew on board.
Peter Siebold, test pilot and director of flight tests at Scaled, joined fellow test pilot Michael Alsbury aboard the VSS Enterprise as it remained mated with WhiteKnightTwo throughout the flight. It was the third captive flight for the craft and the 33rd flight for the mother ship. The craft spent six hours and 12 minutes aloft testing SpaceShipTwo's systems. Virgin says all went well.
There has been no announcement on a date for the first solo flight of SpaceShipTwo.
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Were thrilled that CameraPrive.com chose the TEAs as their opportunity to cultivate their brand outside of Brazil, said Groobys Marketing and Editorial Director Kristel Penn. Our Fan Choice Award is a big draw for the evening, so I think this is a great way to introduce the performers and attendees to this quickly growing company.
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This week's contest at Spoonflower will give you a sugar high! :-) It's a great contest for all those who have a sweet tooth. For this week it is the Sweets Contest and here is my design entry.
I've titled it Kid in a Candy Shop. My kids love those cake pops. It's the new craze! Thought I'd throw some of those in the design and gussy up the gummy bears which are also another favorite in our house. One of my favorite sayings has always been, "I feel like a kid in a candy shop."
If you would like to vote in the Sweets Contest please click here. You do not have to be a member to vote and you can vote for as many as you like. Voting begins Thursday, December 13th and best to get your vote in by Monday, December 17th.
This pillow is currently for sale at my shop at Society6. If you would like to check out all of my pillows for sale please click here.
Here are also a few items for sale at my Zazzle shop featuring the Kid in a Candy Shop design.
This is perfect for all the candy you are now craving. :-)


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Sunday, March 15, 2009
PARTY TIME!! (also known as unwanted rape-age)
To cure this boredom I either watch one of my uncles movies, or I play Left 4 Dead on his computer. I've gotten pretty good at that game, In fact I am a well known Deity in the Left 4 Dead "world." People worship me, I have had shrines built in Awesome Opossum's (my Online name) honor. But there are some days I really suck, like the one time I was getting "Party timed" by my cousin and my brother. The phrase: Party time, means to have two homo's dance up and down and in a third unwanted party's face. After The dancing goes for about a minute or two Inappropriate caressing occurs for instance... never mind the details are too horrific to mention. The third and final step includes ME GETTING RAPED IN LEFT 4 DEAD, my team then calls me a noob and I now have emotional scars that will never heal. The Shrines Built to Awesome Opossum are now desecrated, the statues are pulled down, no more Graven images of me are available. The gift shops are gone I am reduced to a noob.
So in an ironic sense hen you're raped in the the real world you're raped in the cyber world
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- AnonymousMarch 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM
We all know that you secretly like getting party-timed.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 16, 2009 at 12:13 AM
What the hell?ReplyDelete
Electronic rape is not the same as physical rape. I have to have a talk with my south-east division....ReplyDelete
Grantula would like to assure the world that he is not one of the party-timers. Grantula would like to assure the world that Nolan hasn't even beaten Left 4 Dead on Expert yet anyways and is still a noob. Grantula would like to assure the world that TX is the biggest state (screw Alaska). Grantula would like to assure the world that the world should listen to his assurances. Even if his assurances come out of assurance's first syllable. But Grantula would like to assure the world that they don't. Grantula would like to assure the world that his comments are not too long at all.ReplyDelete


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Getting a haircut in the winter can be tricky. Even though you may need a trim, you often don't want to get it all your wooliness cut off for the oncoming tundra. But nothing can excuse these bad hair days. I'd rather have Sweeney Todd (you know, the demon barber) cut my hair that whoever did this to these poor people.
1. This guy was like, "Make my hair exactly how cartoon characters with dreads have them."
2. I mean I guess this is good for when your hair is too long to find your ears to put your headphones in.
3. This person has a pooping person on his head.
4. I'd call this a "comb-over" because it literally looks like a he taped a comb to his forehead.
5. The ultimate Chuck Norris joke is this kid's life.
6. I believe this to be a medieval helmet, not hair.
7. Watch out there's a bad Burning Man decision on your head!
8. If you could actually play this as a musical instrument I'd be fine with this.
9. Too punk rock for even a standard mo-hawk.
10. Flock of Seagulls and a tinge of Augustus Gloop from Willy Wonka.
11. This guy is single handily bringing the 90's back from whatever accursed realm we banished it to.
12. The ultimate rat tail. At this point I'd say just find an actual rat and glue it to your head.
13. Is that...Michael Jackson?
14. This poor boy is imprisoned by puberty.
15. If I saw this on the back of the head of the person in front of me in line for coffee I think I'd have to reenact a Saturday Night Fever song.
16. Ever vigilant.
17. This was a dare right? If this wasn't a dare, he's gotta be hiding gills under those flaps of hair. Or something.
18. I would hope this was just the first step to a perfect Klingon costume.
19. "Angry Bird" would also be a good way to describe his girlfriend after getting this haircut.
20. One day nature shall reclaim this Earth. It starts upon this man's mid-life crisis.
Now that I look at them, I feel like a lot of these were conscious decisions and not mere mistakes, which makes this all the weirder. I know we live in a free society, but I think these people have lost their right to answer the barber when he asks what you want.


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I'm not a big believer in horoscopes – primarily…I read them for fun. However, Brigid's horoscope for today was quite compelling.
"When you pass the torch and it's still burning, it's the responsibility of the next person to keep it burning still. You'll be a torch passer, so pick your person well."
Since we began this blog back in 2010 – our goal was always to be "light-bearers" – people who can shine a light in the dark tunnel that is trauma…and help guide others. We often talked about how dark and lonely it can be…when you are out there on your own. How lucky we were to have one another so that we didn't have to walk alone.
Brigid is continually sending me little signs…and I guess this is one of them. It isn't often that I read her horoscope…so today's kind of blew me away.
Sometimes I wonder why my heart is even still beating…it just hurts so bad. I guess this is her way of reminding me that, even without her, I still have OUR mission to complete. One of the things that I placed in the casket with her was one of my SGT shoulder boards…I kept the other. You see, one of them was hers…and one was mine. It was that way from the day that I earned them. She was scheduled to have a radiation treatment on a non-malignant brain tumor. It was my fourth time being scheduled for Primary Leadership Development Course, they kept cancelling me, although once was because I got pregnant…so I can't blame the Guard for that one 🙂 I was going to cancel – not go and stay home to be there for her. She said, "Absolutely not! You have to go, they will never give you another chance. You have to earn the stripes that I never got the chance at."
The mission continues. I guess the torch passes from Brigid to all who are willing to pick it up. I will carry mine. Maybe Rich Mullins put it best in his song "I'll Carry On."
"I'll carry the songs, I learned when we were kids. I'll carry the scars of generations gone by. I'll pray for you always, and I promise you this; I'll carry on, I'll carry on."
I do covet your prayers and I thank you for all of you who have sent messages of support and have been praying. You are a blessing.


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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Time out for iguanas
This blogger's heading south tomorrow, to warm Technicolorland – a time-out from here and a chance to check on the iguanas there. AnimalBeat visitors/readers are invited (as always!) to browse earlier posts, leave comments and become followers. Till early February . . .
What Northerner has not wished, in deepest, coldest winter, to be an iguana. They always seem to be soaking up and storing sun, as if to see themselves through . . . a deep, cold winter!
Iguanas are a kind of lizard, which in turn is a kind of reptile. They're tropical, herbivorous, arboreal, quiet and diurnal – and fascinating. Unlike their relatives, the snakes, lizards have ears, eyelids and four legs. (And using those legs, they can travel fast overland, despite an ungainly look.)
Distinguishing iguana characteristics include an erectile dewlap, or throat flap. When defending territory or courting, the dewlap is erected and presented with vigorous head-nodding. In some iguanas, the neck and back crests can be inflated and displayed when excited.
Iguanas can weigh 15-30 pounds and grow to six feet or more (with the tail contributing most of that length). They love to bathe, swimming like snakes with their legs against their bodies. In eluding enemies, some can stay under water for 30 minutes, give or take.
Not a group/herd/social creature, if one iguana finds food, s/he doesn't share with others, and the female shows little or no maternal behavior. In general, the iguana prefers escape to defense. In extreme stress, the tail will come off; then, if/when it grows back, it will be darker to black in color.
In Technicolorland, iguanas are reputed to love red-hued hibiscus flowers – which seems altogether appropriate!
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- piese auto said...
If it's cold outside hibernate and stand still. I saw some this winter in hibernation. Like they were carved.
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What happened to custom configurations/vairalbes in UI7?
Why no IFTTT support? Which is pretty much a standard for all things IoT and more. A simple ability to run scenes from IFTTT would probably make 99% of the people here on the boards happy (if they haven't left yet).
I guess I'm still holding onto hope, but I'm not optimistic.
It seems I would need to resetup one of my old Vera controllers just to turn off the blue LEDs on the GE dimmer switches.
Like the OP I find the blue LED distracting. I wish there were a way to dim the LED but in the absence of that option the ability to reverse the LED?€™s on/off functionality is an ok substitute. The instructions to have the LED off when the lights are off and on when the lights are on have been covered above but I?€™d like to repeat them here with slightly more detail for people new to MiOS.1. On the MiOS dashboard click the wrench in the top right corner of the GE dimmer device you?€™d like to alter.2. Select the ?€œDevice Options?€ tab3. Click the ?€œAdd configuration settings?€ buttonThree new fields will pop up along with an ?€œX?€ delete button. The fields from left to right are ?€œVariable?€, ?€œData Size?€, and ?€œDesired Value?€.4. In the ?€œVariable?€ field put a ?€œ3?€.5. The ?€œData Size?€ field is a drop down list, click it and change it to ?€œ1 byte hex?€/6. In the ?€œDesired Value?€ field put a ?€œ1?€.7. Close the settings for the device by clicking the ?€œX?€ in the top right (the ?€œX?€ to the right of the trashcan and question mark icons, not the ?€œX?€ to delete the Configuration you just created).8. Click ?€œSave?€ in the top right of the MiOS dashboard.Give the GE dimmer about 30 seconds and the blue LED will now be off if the lights are off and on if the lights are on.-berylium
You can add device parameters exactly as you described. Instead of clicking on the wrench, you click on the > next to the device then scroll down to device options. From there, continue as you pasted.
Why would you want IFTTT on Vera? With Vera all your devices/scenes are completely local so cloud/internet/vendor failures don't affect your home automation.
I have searched the forums and the method to configure the GE dinner switches is not available because the custom configurations and variables are not like that in UI5, at least not in the GUI.
But hey, I could just feel you that you failed to search the forums instead of providing links (which I will in the next post).


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... me to stop taking Xanax please tell me why and is there anything else I can take for my anxiety thanks
I have been on Xanax for 5yrs and started taking subutex I have anxiety attacks very bad my Dr wants
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- 24 Jul 2011
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- subutex, xanax, anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder
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Back in 2002 - 2005, 1 or 2 people may have died from mixing Sub and Valium. I think it was only 1, and the person was in a hospital and the doc's administered IV Valium. This person died. It was much later determined this person was Benzo naive, which means he never used a Benzo, and certainly not on a regular basis. This started a scare that if you mix a Benzo with Sub the patient will die. This is not true at all. Sub is an opiate. Like any opiate, care must be used when administering both a Benzo and Sub. Usually the doses of both drugs have to reduced, and if the person takes the Benzo regularly, then you can't really reduce The Benzo, at least not by much. But so long as the person is used to taking a Benzo, then mixing it with Sub is as safe as it is with any opiate. No offense, but your Sub doc is greatly misinformed, and not up on the latest findings. If you have been taking Xanax for 5 years then you can't abruptly stop taking Xanax. You will probably start having seizures, and other nasty things can happen. You either need a make your Sub doc learn it's safe to mix Xanax and Sub, or you need a different Sub doc.
Good luck with him
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I, too, have lived in San Gabriel for 35 years; however I am one of the "ardent supporters of the moratorium." When I heard of the Citizens for Responsible Development, I attended their meetings to hear what they had to say, and see the statistics proving their claims, before I passed judgment on them.
The moratorium does not forbid the rebuilding of fire stations or businesses damaged or leveled in an earthquake. The whole point of the one-year moratorium is to halt proposed mini-malls, apartment complexes, motels and hotels while the city draws up a sensible plan for development. That plan will keep San Gabriel the "lovely" city of Bertone's letter, instead of a hodgepodge of cheaply constructed structures and a rush of transients attracted by motels and hotels.
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