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"Help me to do it by myself"
This educational theory and guiding principle of Maria Montessori forms the basis of our work. The team helps to unfold the strengths and talents of each individual child with affection and skill.
The Montessori approach provides:
Within this triangle, the aim of the teacher is, to create the right circumstances so that your child can be guided to find what he needs from what is on offer. He learns at his own rhythm and pace focussing on his own individual development needs at that moment. He then becomes an active learner is able to reach his own unique potential.
We believe in full immersion as the most natural way to acquire a new language. We have two identical classrooms, one with Montessori material in English, the other with Montessori material in French. The class is immersed in the English environment with a English speaking teacher in one week and in the French environment with a French speaking teacher for the following week. Our experienced teachers are native speakers and AMI Montessori certified. We follow the one-person-one-language principle so the children can link one language to every person.
In this way children are immersed in both languages equally irrespective of the starting language level when entering our school.
"There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature." Maria Montessori
Every day and in nearly any weather we spend time in our idyllic spacious park or go for a long walk. This let our children explore nature in their own way and to learn to treat its beauty with respect and care.
Our balanced meals are freshly prepared on site by our own cook, with predominantly organic and regional products. Religious and allergy-related restrictions can be accommodated.
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A few years ago I was traveling in North Dakota and listening to an oldies station from Winnipeg, Manitoba. In keeping with rules requiring Canadian stations to play a certain amount of Canadian content, this station played Canadian oldies—songs that had been big up there, often without breaking through down here. It was a Twilight Zone version of the 60s and 70s—much of the familiar American pop of the period but with a number of new-to-me songs that fit seamlessly alongside them. In the years since, I've been interested in hits from elsewhere in the English-speaking world that failed to make it in America, and how they would have fit in if they'd made it here.
In the alternate universe known as Australia, the biggest group of the 1970s was Sherbet. Starting in 1971, Sherbet singles were rarely off the radio, and between 1973 and 1978, they made the Australian Top 10 11 times, including two #1s and a #2. They had formed in 1969, and according to Allmusic.com, they were a product of unique circumstances. Australian bands of the late 60s and early 70s were "almost totally geared towards satisfying the money-rich comfort-starved American Vietnam troops who came [to Oz] for official Rest And Recreation." So Sherbet started as a soul music cover band—although they didn't stay that way for long. Their photogenic looks and a switch to teen-oriented pop made them into superstars.
In 1975, "Summer Love" went to #1, and given the popularity of glam rock in the British Empire at that moment, it's easy to understand. But their biggest hit was yet to come. In the summer of 1976, "Howzat" spent four weeks at #1 after knocking ABBA's "Fernando" from #1, a spot it had held for 14 weeks (the longest run in the history of the Australian charts, I think). It was a top-five hit in the UK, and unlike any other Sherbet single, it also charted in the States, reaching #61 in an eight-week run that fall.
Sherbet's next attempt to conquer America was strange. The group's 1978 album was released in the States under the group name Highway. It stiffed. A release in Australia under the name Highway stiffed. At that point, the band decided they'd had enough, so they split, temporarily. When they reformed in 1980, with precisely the same lineup, it was under the name the Sherbs. Their new-wave-styled album The Skill got some airplay in the States and produced the Hot 100 single "I Have the Skill" (which I remember playing on the radio in college). The album failed to produce a hit in their native land, however. After another album and an EP failed to gain much traction anywhere, the band announced it was splitting up for good. Their Australian farewell tour was conducted under the name Sherbet. There were some reunions starting in the late 80s. A couple of the members have died within the last year, including Clive Shakespeare, guitarist and principal songwriter through 1976, earlier this month, and the guitarist who replaced him, Harvey James, in 2011.
Sherbet's American label, RSO, believed that "Sherbet" was too lightweight a name, and encouraged the change to Highway—which makes me wonder if label executives ever listened to the group's music. Sherbet seems exactly right for the sort of highly produced pop-rock that made them famous down under during the 70s. "Howzat" is pretty clearly the best of their singles, although "Silvery Moon" (#5, 1974) is pretty good, too. "Only One You" (#5, 1975) is a terrific love ballad, and its B-side, "Matter of Time" was also a hit.
I think we'll spend some more time in the coming weeks fooling around with the Australian charts. There's some interesting stuff to talk about down there.


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I had intended originally to do three of these. Part one was going to be first impressions, part two a more thorough in-depth analysis with spoilers, and part three a summary I could use in rewriting my Cerebus page when I redo my website, including finishing out the saga since "Guys" had just come out when I last updated that page (I think I first created it when "Reads" was just out and "Minds" was still coming out in comic book form).
However, I find myself still stuck in analysis mode. And this next piece is already longer than it should be and I've only gotten halfway through the book. Which is actually about right, because there is a major thematic change starting with Chapter 13 ("Black Magiking") that relates directly to Dave Sim having his drug-induced vision in the midst of a "nervous breakdown" that gave him at least an outline of what the story would be. So this piece will only take us through Chapter 12, and we'll start next time with the second "half" of the book (it's a "half" because it's slightly larger than the first half, not only because there are 13 chapters in issues 13-25 and only 12 in chapters 1-12, but the second "half" also includes "Silverspoon").
To my mind, with chapter 5 we're really into the ongoing story that becomes the 300 issue saga that is "Cerebus." It starts out very much like the previous issues. It's an undetermined amount of time since Cerebus' encounter with Elrod, and he's joined a mercenary force, which we never see because Cerebus has gotten separated from them and the end of this story sees him deciding to leave the area altogether and travel to the city of Iest.
Indeed, it will be some time before Sim throws away the Conan parody altogether, but it's definitely a secondary element from here on, something to trot out to get laughs or to fall back on. He's already moving into deeper waters. In chapters 5-7, we get not one but two hints from wildly different sources about Cerebus' unique (well, at this point we *think* he's unique) importance in his world, plus we get introduced to a love interest that you can tell by the way she's introduced is due to return at some point.
It's very interesting to note, by the way, that up until now Cerebus has been apparently totally immune to the attraction of the female gender, and even with Jaka has to be drugged to be affected by her. It seems that either human females have no attraction and he'd need an aardvark mate to really feel anything (a possibility that, if it occurred to Sim at all, was obviously rejected along the way), he truly has no biological urges toward sex (which, as human as he seems despite his appearance, seems unlikely and also doesn't match his subsequent behavior), or something in his past has caused him to build a Spock-like wall surrounding his emotions. The evidence seems to point to that last possibility, and it's interesting that Dave Sim himself ended up decades later more-or-less advocating that approach, despite by then having allowed Cerebus to thaw his icy heart and let the gentler sex affect him after all. Although, to be sure, the consequences to Cerebus of letting women into his mind and heart were not exactly positive.
Be that as it may, if it wasn't obvious at the end of "The Secret" that we'd be seeing Jaka again, her name at the bottom of a letter to her uncle, Lord Julius, as Cerebus rides away from Iest at the end of "A Night at the Masque" certainly sealed the deal, even though we still wouldn't see her until the middle of the next book.
"The Idol" establishes that Cerebus is not totally unique in his world, and that at some point someone or something that looked just like him was worshipped as a god. That point is reinforced in "Black Sun Rising" - and it's significant that Cerebus has these two experiences within weeks, perhaps even within days of each other, with his first meeting with Jaka (while drugged, which he won't remember for some time) in between.
Then Sim headed off on a tangent. His stay with the Conniptins is obviously not part of any long term storyline (although he did manage to use them again, despite apparently killing them off in "Swords Against Imesh" - (apparently K'Cor didn't do as thorough a job of poisoning the wells around Imesh as he thought).
I'm not sure, but I think at this point Sim had a kind of loose structure in mind, something like "Lone Wolf & Cub" (which he probably wasn't familiar with) or "The X-Files" (which wouldn't premiere for a decade and a half), where you would have some stories that were episodic stand-alone incidents and some that contributed directly toward the development of the overall storyline. If that was his plan, he changed his mind by the time he finished this book, because there really isn't anything like a stand-alone episode from the start of "High Society" to the end of the saga.
The Conniptins, K'Cor and the return of Red Sophia are all fairly episodic, and arguably as separated from each other and from the overall storyline as the first four stories, but there is a significant difference - after slaughtering four men in a hallucinatory frenzy brought on by giant spider venom and fever, Cerebus doesn't really *act* like a barbarian any more. To be sure, he does have a couple of sword fights in Imesh, against Lord Koghem and K'Cor himself, but in the first he uses his wits more than his strength to defeat his opponent, and against K'Cor he is actually overmatched, and K'Cor's abandonment of the fight is one of the biggest flaws, narratively speaking, in the whole saga. The explanation he gives explains nothing - even if it were true (which it apparently is not), it would have been just as true before he agreed to the duel as it was at the point he cut if off, and while Cerebus was perhaps not as easy to defeat as he expected and he had sustained a wound, in his armor against an exhausted Cerebus it was only a matter of time before he would have defeated him.
Personally, I think Sim just wrote himself into a corner here and came up with K'Cor's lame reasoning because the only other outcome possible at that point was to kill off his title character and start a new book, and he'd already decided he wanted to do this book for a long time. He may even have already been thinking about 26 years.
The duel with K'Cor is the penultimate time Cerebus wields a sword in this book (to use a word correctly that Sim misuses in "The Idol"). The next and last time will go even more decisively against Cerebus, and he will barely escape with his life. So by this point he is already no longer the funny-animal-but-still-supremely-competent-Conan-clone he had started out as.
Also, while somewhat episodic, all these incidents are tied together chronologically much more tightly than the early episodes. The transition from chapter 1 to 2 is completely vague, and 2 to 3 is not much better. 3 to 4 are connected by a caption in the beginning of the latter, but 5 is floated out there with only a nebulous "After leaving Serrea, Cerebus drifts west …"
After that, though, we have a connected continuity through most of the rest of the book. Chapter 5 ends with "Iest is a day's march away," and on page 3 of Chapter 6, Cerebus says, "Tarim! It never fails -- two hours in any of these accursed cities and some farmer with more muscle than brains comes flying at me …" Even allowing for exaggeration on Cerebus' part about how long he's been in Iest, obviously no more than a day or two has passed since he destroyed "The Idol."
E'Lass, when planning on his sojourn to the Temple of the Black Sun, muses that he'll need food for two weeks. I assume from this that the temple is a week away from Iest (I'm assuming he'll want to eat on the way back, as well). Plus, when Cerebus shows up there next chapter ("Black Sun Rising," Chapter 7), the narrator tells us that it would have been easier to follow the lowlands to the south and swing back to the north, "but Cerebus is a follower of the 'old ways,' so he has taken the direct route." Even though the direct route is "through a dozen mountain passes and across treacherous terrain," one assumes that it is if anything shorter than the more obvious route, so it's possible that Cerebus has gotten there even more quickly than E'Lass was counting on. In any case, no more than a week could have passed since the end of "The Secret."
At the beginning of Chapter 8, Cerebus is still suffering from the after-effects of the sting from the giant spider he sustained at the end of Chapter 7. The amount of time passed is not specified, but surely it can't be more than a few days. Indeed, on page 6 of "Merchant of Unshib" (Chapter 10), Cerebus summarizes what has happened to him since that spider blasted his back, including the entire contents of Chapters 8 and 9, as having happened "in the last week." After acquiring the Black Blossom Lotus, Cerebus presumably goes immediately to Beduin to sell it, where he encounters the merchant who turns out to harbor a secret identity – the Cockroach. Three weeks pass between pages 15 and 16 of Chapter 11 ("The Merchant and the Cockroach"),and two more between that chapter and the next ("Beduin by Night"), which ends on Cerebus' 27th birthday. This is significant, because Chapter 5 first introduced the notion of Cerebus' age, and that him coming to the Pigts "in his twenty-sixth year" was the fulfillment of a prophecy.
(In fact, one's "twenty-sixth year" would be the year *before* one's twenty-sixth birthday, just as one's first year is before one turns one, so he actually came to the Pigts in his 27th year. Of course, Sim was at the time a high school dropout with limited education who in that same chapter misuses the word "penultimate." He eventually became one of the most successful autodidacts I've ever known, and I've known several of them, and I think most people would guess from reading his references to various writers or conversing with him about just about anything that he probably has a college degree, and would certainly be surprised to discover he doesn't even have a high school diploma. But the 22-year-old Sim still had some major defects in his education.)
There is a temporal problem here. At the beginning of Chapter 5, it would seem from the incessant rain to be spring. From later evidence, Cerebus' birthday also seems to be in the spring – indeed, the most likely time for it is in mid-to-late June, so I'm guessing it's June 17 (Dave Sim's birthday). That would seem to mean that he had essentially just turned 26 recently when Bran Mak Muffin says to him, "You're 26, aren't you?" The problem with that is that Chapter 13 ("Black Magiking") starts with the words "The first breath of summer in Lower Felda …" It is clear not much time has passed since the end of Chapter 12. Cerebus, who was holding a piece of a broken boat as he was washed down the river out of Beduin, has washed up on shore, still in Lower Felda. If Chapters 5-12 represent no more than two months (based on the internal evidence of time passing in and between chapters), how can a year have passed?
Things like this were later to become magnified and even at times deliberate, driving fans like myself and Alexx Kay, the kind of people who create timelines for themselves to keep everything straight, absolutely crazy (Kay's timeline was much more elaborate and well-documented than mine ever was and is still available on the Web at http://www.panix.com/~alexx/time5.html).
Thematically, what we have is a person who thinks of himself as a barbarian and a warrior, but who has some education and is far more sophisticated than most of those around him, moving farther and farther away from the barbarian warrior persona he has chosen for himself and toward the more sophisticated role he is eventually to play. We also see him on occasion being manipulated by those even more sophisticated and learned – first Bran Mac Muffin, who despite his surroundings and companions is obviously a scholar of old Pigtish prophecies, if nothing else, and when we next meet him will fit in with a more-or-less modern city and its political machinations quite well, then the Doctor and the Commander of the Conniptins. Both times, Cerebus recognizes what is going on and rejects it. He destroys the Pigts' idol and flees, and starts to flee from the Conniptins. But he has second thoughts about the latter, and part of his determination to stay rests on his belief in his ability to turn the tables on his would-be manipulators. "The men had pledged loyalty to Cerebus, not to the commander." We see that Cerebus himself is quite capable of manipulation in Chapters 11 and 12, as he gets the Cockroach to help him steal the Cockroach's own gold.
Next time: God and Politics (the first hints of Church and State)


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zap's repository of mental ray tips and tricks, frequent questions and their answers, and some smoke and mirror mental ray trickery you may not find elsewhere...
Fantastic Plants
Click the image above to see one of the most amazing foliage/grass/etc rendering I ever saw, any renderer, any time. To know it was done with sun&sky, mia_material, and mental ray, warms my heart.
Five stars. Times ten.
8 comments:
- commander_cool said...
I totally agree! I didn't know paint effects could do that level of detail. I guess I'll have to take a look.
But what really flabbergasts me is that he rendered those(900 millions tris??) on a 4 gig ram computer in one pass! And the render time is still ridiculously reasonable. I didn't know MR could to that either! I usually struggle with 20 millions faces on a 12 gig computer.
If you ever feel the urge to post some tips on how to achieve that, please don't refrain it :-)
- Wed Apr 22, 04:26:00 AM GMT+2
- Scott M Fedor said...
Not sure about the color tone of the ivy(?) on the tree, but everything is spot on realistic and wonderful. Great job!
- Wed Apr 22, 06:14:00 AM GMT+2
- Melak said...
Wow, this is incredible!
He mentioned using mr proxies :)
I guess if all the grass and other repetitive leaves are proxies...that could cut down on the RAM load a lot?
The closeup of the window, with the dirt spots and everything I could've sworn that was a reference photo...
- Wed Apr 22, 06:11:00 PM GMT+2
- Grey said...
Beautiful work. I want to echo what the other guy said about PFX. I had no idea one could make Mray + PFX look so real!
- Thu Apr 23, 03:53:00 AM GMT+2
- Matt said...
Simply phenomenal, let nobody doubt mental ray again.
- Thu Apr 30, 11:18:00 PM GMT+2
- Gurmukh said...
I am in awe over the render. However i tried rendering 200 million tris on my machine(same specs as his and i ran out of ram)
with everythin as mr proxy and bsp2..i wonder how he even managed to display 900m on his machine...other than the doubts on performance..great job..how do u suppose he got the grass shader to look so good
- Wed Jul 08, 09:58:00 PM GMT+2
- ytsejam said...
Alessandro is a big expert and in this work he optimize all. No problem for the time or memory consumption, with paint effects converted to Poly. But in this case little use of MrayProxy as assembly and not mip_binary, because it not good work on Maya,but some tests after this farnsworth work, take good results. Stay tuned.
Bye bye...........
- Sat Jul 11, 12:27:00 PM GMT+2
- jcjimenez said...
I prefer the vegetation from Alex Romain. In fact this image is totally a "version" from his http://thirdseventh.cgsociety.org/gallery/573528/ image he made years ago.
- Fri Jul 31, 07:31:00 PM GMT+2


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The Amazon: Worlds longest river.
New research has found a possible new source for the Amazon…..a river in Peru called the Mantaro or Great River.
The results of the research are questioned because the river dries up for four or five months a year, but if they are confirmed the Amazon will be officially the worlds longest river.
The Amazon is an incredible river. I first travelled on it when I went to see the Meeting of the Waters. The black waters of the River Negro and the tea-coloured waters of the River Solimoes flow side by side eventually blending to become, in Brazilian eyes, the great River Amazon.
The river is huge, sometimes from one bank looking across, its impossible to see the other side, its so wide. And, it feels powerful too.
It is a busy river and getting busier. Transport ranges from small wooden canoes, ferries, on to massive world-class liners.
It has also been opened up by a new $400 million bridge the Ponte Rio Negro Bridge or Iranduba Bridge from Amazonia's capital city Manaus across the river to small towns on the opposite shore.
I hear that it has already caused the deforestation of large areas as I feared when I saw the first parts of the huge structure being put in place. It was not obvious to the populace in Manaus what the bridge was for…. to open up the other shore for more farming and people, or for exploitation of gas or oil finds. Either way the forest would suffer and this is happening.
Nothing is sadder than driving along the road that used to be thickly lined with rainforest to see vast areas of nothing stretching into the distance and always a solitary Brazil-nut Tree in the middle as a reminder of what was. Wildlife and birds are non existent along the tarmacked roads.
Snuggling in small pockets along this road are small areas of thick forest and sparkling streams full of people enjoying what's left. People escape to these spots in the evenings and at weekends, desperate to enjoy the 'Green Effect' that nature alone supplies….a feeling of well being that no amount of concrete and metal can reproduce in the concrete jungles of cities.
New study by the University of California, Berkeley, argues for new origin, according to a report by Jane Lee in National Geographic.


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Contact: Outer Banks Group, (252) 473-2111
Superintendent Mike Murray announced today the National Park Service (NPS) will host a public scoping meeting on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at the Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm to share information and seek public comments on the relocation of the Bodie Island Coast Guard and Lifesaving Stations. The Coast Guard Station is the abandoned historic structure located near MP 22. The adjacent Lifesaving Station is currently used as ranger offices by NPS staff. This scoping meeting is part of the process to prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
During the public scoping period, which is not restricted to this meeting, all interested persons will be given the opportunity to review and provide comments on the proposed relocation to a new site within Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The structures are currently in danger of destruction by the ocean. Relocation will ensure the preservation of these historic structures. Following relocation, the structures will be stabilized and restored.
The Park has established a website for the purpose of providing information regarding the proposed relocation project which will also provide the opportunity to submit written comments regarding the proposal. Beginning Wednesday, January 15, 2007 and ending Thursday, February 15, 2007, comments can be submitted without attending the public meeting by visiting the Park's PEPC website for current information on this subject and submit written comments. The PEPC website address is:http://parkplanning.np.gov/. Choose "Cape Hatteras National Seashore", click on "Bodie Island Coast Guard Station and Lifesaving Station Relocation" or you can address letters to: Superintendent, Outer Banks Group, 1401 National Park Dr., Manteo, NC 27954. To ensure that the comments are included in the process, they should be entered or postmarked by February 15, 2007.
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Bishop Robert moved here from Rosemarkie between 1214 and 1249 and built this cathedral. It was about that time that the finances of the diocese became sufficiently well established to support the staff of clergy necessary for the dignity of a cathedral foundation. The first building was not very ambitious, but additions made in the early 15th century were of a very high quality. These extensions may have been the work of a mason who also worked at Elgin cathedral.
The church when first built there was no structural distinction between the choir containing the high alter and the canons' stalls and the nave for the lay folk. to the north of the nave was a tower and off the choir was a range containing the chapter house (canons' meeting room), sacristy (where the priests prepared for services) and library. In the years around 1400 an aisle and chapel were added on the south side.
In the later Middle Ages many of those who could afford to do so added chantry chapels to their local churches. the intention was that they should be buried within these chapels and prayers chanted (hence the name) at the alter there for their souls. The south chapel at Fortrose, with its prominent tomb in the eastern arch, was of this sort, and tradition has it that it was built for Euphemia the countess of Ross (d.1400?), who was forced to wed 'The Wolf of Badenoch'. Two other tombs of note are that of Bishop Fraser (d.1545) and Bishop Cairncross (d.1545).
The reformation of 1560 did not result in the immediate abandonment of the cathedral, but by 1626 the buildings were in poor repair. At the end of the century there was little more than that can be seen now. The north range long remained in use as the burgh's tollbooth and the southern additions as a buriel enclosure.
Fortrose is also known as the home of the mysterious Brahan Seer, Known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar. His existence is legendary at best, and some have questioned whether he really existed at all. He is thought to have come from Uig on lands owned by the Seaforths, and to have been a Mackenzie, although both these details are in themselves questioned. He is better known, however, for his connections to Brahan Castle near Dingwall, and the Black Isle in Easter Ross.
He is thought to have used a stone with a hole in the middle to see his visions. The Brahan Seer worked for the third Earl of Seaforth, Kenneth MacKenzie. (d.1678).
As with Nostradamus, who wrote in Provençal, most of his prophecies are best known in translation, which can in itself be deceptive. However, there are no contemporary manuscripts or accounts of his predictions, so it is impossible to verify them.


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This is not one of our videos but a video from the Cabrinha Quest - a charter/owner kiteboarding/surfer catamaran who does some really cool stuff schlepping around kiteboard pros and average kiters plus professional photographers and videographers. Pete Cabrinha wrote and narrated this video and it says so much of what I want to say myself about cruising/vagabonding.
The video is full of amazing footage worth watching but it is Pete's points about nature and remoteness that I feel like sharing with everyone.
You can go to the video directly on youtube here
There were many points that resonated with me. The two that really stick out are:
- The joy of unplugging from the internet. I love the internet, blogging and social media. I also love the fact that my life involves binges of internet and then periods where I am disconnected. I don't think I would enjoy social media very much if I were always connected to it. The periods of time when I am disconnected are important to me deeply. People often suggest ways I can be more connected to social media while at anchor (e.g., buying local SIM cards, etc) and although I am certain I will occasionally do that, I resist that full-time, every day connectivity.
- The way that connecting with a person from a different culture via a sport is powerful. We made good friends on the water through kiteboarding and spear fishing while in French Polynesia and these connections with people living ashore felt more authentic for us than other connections we made because we shared a common passion with the person.


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Race Reports from the Women: Queens 10k
Report from Jacy Kruzel and Veronica Jackson of the Open:
Summer racing is upon us, which means high temps and high humidity. For the CPTC Open Women's team, Summer also equates to fast times. Don't be fooled, at the Queens 10K on Saturday the humidity was 91%, but two ladies came away with shiny new 10K PRs. Congratulations to Colleen McGurk, who dipped under 39 to PR in 38:56! Jackie Erdos also PRed with a time of 41:19, which was a PR by over 3 minutes!
Colleen McGurk
Photo: John Le
Jacqueline Ballou Erdos
Photo: John Le
To help us to our 5th place Open Women finish was Jacy Kruzel, Colleen (and her new PR!), Andrea Bradsaw, Grace White, and Imra Bribiesca. Jacy Kruzel was excited to be racing a new course and thoroughly enjoyed the absence of the Central Park hills out in Flushing Meadows Park. She also remembered during the first mile with Andrea Bradshaw, Grace White, and Colleen – and how awesome it was to be running four across in CPTC uniforms.
Andrea Bradshaw
Photo: John Le
Andrea also commented on how great it was to run with teammates throughout the race. Whether it was the first mile, or the home stretch, she could see a CPTC jersey in site. Dani Strutz shared this sentiment as well, noting her teammates helped the humidity seem bearable. From starting the race with Erin Reddan to then running amongst Nick, Mikal, and Hank, she had the support of teammates every step of the way.
Nick Garramone, Hank Schiffman, Erin Reddan, Dani Sturtz
Photo: John Le
As many of the girls noted, it was great to see Coach Tony out there. Jackie found Coach Tony's shouts to "pump those arms, higher, higher, higher" really helped her kick it up a notch in the last few miles
Tony Ruiz
Photo: John Le
For Grace, the race was a great way to kick off her fall marathon training cycle. We are excited to see what the fall has in store for our team!
Grace White
Photo: John Le
A Happy Belated Birthday to Erin, who raced full force into her new age group with a strong showing on Saturday!
Erin Reddan
Photo: John Le
We wanted to remind everyone to sign up for the next team scoring race – TEAM CHAMPS on Saturday, August 5th. We score TEN DEEP so please please sign up today!
Happy Running!
Jacy & Veronica
Report from Ani Go of the 40+:
Masters 40+ women swim to 2nd place!
Oh the humidity! The CPTC masters 40+ ladies journeyed to the exotic land of Queens to race the 10k at Flushing Meadow Park! At 7:45am, it was already steaming with 90% humidity wrapped in 70 degrees. The scoring team of Colleen McGurk, Susan Lind-Doyle, and Captain Ani Go put on the swim goggles and doggy paddled to 2nd place. The unsinkable Colleen McGurk, our first scorer, was in full force–another PR (38:56), 3rd in her age group with a 83.37%–2nd best AG rating, her first highest being the 5th Ave Mile in 2015! She also places on the masters all time best list for the 10k. Bonus–scoring for the open ladies as well. Colleen is here to compete and win!
Susan Lind-Doyle bravely came into battle after injury–she's a self-healer with the kinseo-tape! Susan is our talent from the 50+ team, placing 2nd in her age group. Her words:
After having to take off April and May due to injury, I slowly tried to increase my mileage hoping for no pain. I decided that if I could get 2-3 runs in that were 10km distance by race day- I was going to run the race.
I went into the race just hoping I could finish without pain and I did! It was a packed crowd out there, a good course and it was great to hear Tony cheering us on!
Captain Ani hardly broke stride, dashing to the start before the horn! Captain reports:
Not a strong swimmer, I had to pop up above the waves a couple of times before sprinting for the finish. That was rough but I came to the battle! Although not my best time by far, it was still good enough to place in the top 10 of my age group!
Additional support came from Audrey Kingsley, who ran a perfect flat time (xx:00!) and Jennifer Ranck, on a roll in distance, brought her A game to the race! She is so inspiring and strong. Jennifer reports:
I went into this race with so little in the training/endurance tank and expectation/goal only being able to finish and mentally fighting to get back into training/consistent running with possibly needing walking breaks along the way. With all that, I did not falter too badly.
After a horrible corral start in Wave 2, I simply went out with whatever would feel comfortable keeping my HR in check and listening to my body. Somehow it felt comfortably easy to run first 2.5 miles consistly at 8:40 pace but during first mile or second, I could not avoid the super cold water hose spray (much worse than rain would ever feel) which covered the entire width of the course and then started having to manage a fibromyalgic reaction to that water along with everything else. I set my Strava on my watch to auto-pause when walking – so I did manage to run 5.7 of the 6.2 miles (3-5 miles slowly) and completed the course in just over an hour (1:02.00 – flat! 9:59 overall average pace).
The takeaway is between the nice quicker start feeling comfortable pace-wise at this stage and the fast kick in the end, there's some good running stuff still there waiting under the surface. Hope to build on or tap into it over the summer and into the fall if my mind and body allow me to.
Congrats to our open and masters teams!
Next up–team champs!!! But to gear up, how about a nice 5k at Icahn and a fun meet to watch after? Oh, lookie! https://www.gotracktownusa.com/events/5k-road-race/
Go Orange ?!!!
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Variant Comics recently scored a full Warner Bros. Studio Tour and shot a video piece exploring the history of the Batmobile on-screen. From the 8min 50sec mark though, the clip offers a close-up and detailed look at the new Batmobile from Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice".
The car is 20ft long, 12ft wide in the back. It boasts gattling guns, shaved down tractor tires, and it will raise up on a hydraulic system when in battle. Two were created for the film, were assembled out of carbon fiber and fibreglass, and both are "camera ready on the interior" which means they could shoot inside them – unlike the Tumbler cockpits from the Chris Nolan films.
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: is set to open worldwide on March 25th 2016.


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One Hundred Years of Girl Guiding - from "Uninvited" to "Girls in the Lead" - Part 1
Part One - The history of Guiding. In 2010, Girl Guiding celebrated its Centenary.
When Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout Rally at the Crystal Palace on September 4th 1909 he was surprised to see a few determined girls who turned up unannounced wanting to be Girl Scouts. The girls told Baden-Powell they wanted him to start 'something for the girls'.
During his time in India, Baden-Powell was impressed by the courage and discipline of a regiment called the Khyber Guides, and he decided to use the name Girl Guides.
In 1910 his sister Agnes Baden-Powell agreed to organise and lead the new movement. Later, when asked 'Who started the Guides?' he replied 'They started themselves'.
In 1914 a new section was started for younger girls. They were called Rosebuds. The girls were not impressed with that name and asked for it to be changed. In 1915 they became 'Brownies' and their company leader was called Brown Owl. The ideas for these names came from a book The Brownies and Other Tales by Juliana Ewing.
By 1917 there was a need for a section of senior girls and in 1920 the name Rangers was adopted. The Trefoil Guild was formed in 1943 for men and women who have been or still are in some way connected with Scouting and Guiding. In June 1987 guidelines for Rainbows were published for girls aged five to seven.
There are now 10 million Guides in 145 countries worldwide and girls today continue to have fun while learning to work as part of a team, to gain confidence, to try new things, to become worthwhile and caring citizens, and to 'take the lead' in their own communities.
Guiding in Barrow
First some starting dates:
* 1st Barrow Guides were registered on 30th April 1923 although they probably actually started in December 1922.
* 2nd Barrow Guides were registered on 27th May 1977 and closed on February 22nd 1999. * 1st Barrow Brownies began in 1929.
* 2nd Barrow Brownies began in 1976.
* Barrow Rainbows began on 6th September 1994.
* Rangers began in ? (no-one seems to know when it started, so perhaps you would like to let us know on 07718 153117)
Over the past few weeks, Barrow Voice reporters have been out and about to interview some of the Brownies, Guides and leaders of past times.
Mrs Jean Glen, who will shortly celebrate her 90th birthday, remembered being one of the first Brownies. She enjoyed the games that were played at meetings in the Church Rooms and also remembered being very excited when the group was taken for a trip on a train. She moved up into the Guides when she was 11 and commented that the Guide Captain, Miss Ivy Stone who was the vicar's daughter was strict but fair. Jean has tried to stick to the Guide Promise to 'do a good deed every day' and she also tries to 'Be Prepared'.
Mrs Jean Wright, who later became the Akela for Barrow Cubs for 30 years, also joined the Brownies in their very early days. There were 15 girls under the leadership of Brown Owl Lucy Marlowe. In those days Brownies wore a brown tunic, belt and beret. As now, they sang songs, went on walks and trips and learnt to do all manner of useful things such as peeling potatoes. She moved up to Guides which was also in the Church Rooms and was in the Daisy patrol. She gained a number of badges including laundress, cooking and sewing, learnt to tie different kinds of knots, practised lashing to make camp gadgets, went tracking and learnt to navigate using the sun. She particularly enjoyed campfires. She wore the blue Guide tunic onto which her badges had to be laboriously stitched, and a big navy hat.
When Jean was 16, she moved to Rangers but then left to take over the cub pack. Jean's sister, Rose Godwin was also a Brownie and Guide with Jean. Rose went on to become the Guide Captain from 1958 to 1966.
Marion Godwin is Rose Godwin's daughter in law. In early 1972 the Guides were without a Captain. Rose was asked to 'keep an eye' on the group and keep it ticking over. Marion went along to help her and 'I never got away'. She took over the group and was Captain for 15 years. She had to leave most of the camping to Carole Wheatley because she couldn't get time off work. She remembers when Carol went to be tested for her Camping Licence. Carol was under canvas for a week and it never stopped raining.
Carol Wheatley started in 1972 helping Marion Godwin with 1st Barrow Guides as the Lieutenant. Demand for places was rising steadily and in 1977 when numbers reached 36 it was decided to split into two groups. Carol took 2nd Barrow Guides but insisted that her two daughters stayed with Marion 'otherwise they would always be grumbling that I was picking on them'.
By now there was a Scout HQ and the 1st group met there while the new 2nd group met in Hall Orchard. Very quickly both groups had 30 Guides apiece. Carol clocked in 24 years service with Guides. She always tried to do as much out of doors as possible and she particularly enjoyed the May Bank holiday weekend camp. Quite often it was in The Brand on Colonel Martin's land in Swithland Woods. She remembers carting equipment in two wheelbarrows between his house and the campsite. She is very proud of the Sunday Roast that was served up each year: the wood patrol went out early to scavenge for suitable fire wood. They lit the fire as soon as they got back and the cook patrol pot roasted a huge brisket of beef in a camp billie from breakfast time to dinner time. Then it was served up with all the trimmings. Regular Guide meetings involved patrol work where Guides learnt to work as a team and patrol leaders practised leadership skills that probably stood them in good stead for the rest of their lives.
Tilly Yates took over Brownies in November 1968 replacing Dorothy Larkworthy. After the appointment was made Tilly went to tell her father the news. She knocked at the door and said 'Dad, I'm Brown Owl', to which he responded 'And I'm the queen of the fairies.'
The group was so successful that a second one was formed in 1976 and this too became oversubscribed. In fact one mother-to-be put her child's name on the waiting list before she was even born. This was Jennifer Smith who is now a Guider herself. She was on the list as "? Smith. Fortunately she turned out to be female! There were many activities and trips to interesting places including London as well as the annual District Trip when 100 excited Brownies descended on an unsuspecting population.
Nowadays the Brownie movement has its own website and on one blog there was a message posted from an ex Brownie, now herself a leader, which said 'Tilly Yates would be proud of me!' ...and indeed she is! On another occasion Tilly was approached in a Garden Centre by a young woman who said 'You used to be my Brown Owl.' The impression made by Brownies on that young woman had stayed with her for years.
One of the things which Tilly feels to be very important for the development of these young people is the annual Pack Holiday. 'Learning to live in close proximity with other girls is a truly valuable life experience of give and take in all circumstances.'
Val Gillings "I joined the newly formed 2nd Barrow Brownies in 1976 to assist Brown Owl Vanessa Freer. My title was Little Owl. Even though we had two packs and special dispensation to have 30 Brownies instead of 24, we always had a waiting list of girls eager to join.
When Vanessa moved away I became Brown Owl. Looking back I remember these little seven year olds joining Brownies, some of them very timid but they all diligently learned their Brownie Law and Promise ready for the enrolment evening. It was also a chance for older Brownies to earn their hostess badge, baking cakes and making tea for the proud parents. The evening always ended in a sing song with 'An Austrian went yodelling' being a firm favourite.
The joint pack holidays with 1st Barrow Brownies were in the days when we were full time mums of young children and we were able to go away for a full week; what great times we had! All pack holidays have a theme, and one of my favourites was the International one, where we cooked food from different countries every day. Many of the Brownies tried a dish for the first time. I also remember the time a photographer came to take our usual pack photo and asked me if I would lie on the floor in front of the Brownies instead of the usual stand in the middle at the back. I duly obliged and the Brownies loved it.
It is gratifying to see some of 'My Girls' as members of the Youth Theatre & Panto Group carrying on the tradition of working together and putting something back into the community, and also hearing of other's success in their chosen careers and those who are now mums with daughters who are Brownies. The movement goes on, and hopefully many past Brownies will be at the celebrations next year for One Hundred Years of Guiding."
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text: Well spring may officially be here but I'm pretty sure that winter got jealous and decided to throw a little love our way before the temps take a turn upward. Either way, we were lucky enough to miss some big rain this weekend and ride a bit. Here's few photos from the past week and weekend. Enjoy.


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Look! : Big Vintage Clock in the Dining Room
On Friday night we went with some friends to a restaurant in Amagansett, NY (The Meeting House) and admired this big clock on their wall. We snapped a few pics and did a little sleuthing....
The first design note we made was how nice a large clock like this energizes the space - how the oversize quality of it makes it a dramatic feature in the room. This can also be done in homes, where oversize clocks or mirrors create focal points.
We then went looking for the Electric Time Co. in Natick MA and found that they're still around, do Tiffany's clocks and specialize in big industrial and commercial clocks for both indoor and outdoor use:
For over 70 years, Electric Time® has been a master in the art of handcrafted clock manufacture and design. Our choices of indoor and outdoor styles range from silhouette clocks and tower clocks to post clocks, street clocks and wall clocks.
And if you are interested in vintage clocks and time, they have some great links here. As for finding one of these, we don't know where these folks got this one, but here are some good source links:
• Ruby Beets in Sag Harbor (where they might have found theirs)
• The City Foundry on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn


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Canadian rare earth miner Ucore wins big with SB99 approval
The Canadian company hopes to begin commercial rare earth metal production in its Alaskan mine by 2017.
Greenland says yes to uranium mining
Parliament voted Thursday to end a decades-long ban on mining for radioactive materials.
Molycorp disappoints investors; drops 23% by week's end
Despite optimistic news in early October, Molycorp is running low on cash.
Rare earths recycling on the rise
New US facility to recycle REE from fluorescent lamps.
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Equity investing is squarely in a risk-off phase and few sectors have been hit harder than junior mining.
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May 4, 2011 (Robin Bromby, Editor www.RareMetalBlog.com) - Just how quickly do things change in Washington? Well, slowly, it seems, when it comes to rare earths.
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Both are by my wife, Melody Takken Meeter, and originally published in the Reformed Journal.
Easter Sermon
The Pastor's hands rise lightly as petals
above the lilies massed around the pulpit.
My eyes challenge him:
this week I read some theology, a book by Pannenberg,
and held my breath to watch him coolly discarding miracles
like the first drafts of the early church.
Virgin birth, angel chorus, healed lepers, Cana wine, demon swine,
none passed through his literary ordeals.
But at the Resurrection Pannenberg paused,
like an amazed reporter watching the unknown runner
win the big race.
He saw the body,
running secretly through the long years,
Body that rising burned its shroud
and burned its way through history home to us.
Today I challenge you, Pastor,
to spare us the pastel prose
delivered with eyes averted
as from His own naked body:
if Christ died for good, two thousand years ago,
then I confess nothing but that
a rose is not a rose
and those lovely lilies smell like death.
A nurse brings our new daughter
plus the new Time magazine
from its cover stares a child
whose tiny cranium curved toward death
forms a bony question mark
whose ribs like razors
pierce the sweet skin from the inside out
to underline the question:
Where is God?
while my daughter, placid as a frog,
sucks abundant life from me
center of her universe.
I dream about a demon
a charred face bloody face
calls me from a doorway calls
my name
His robe of pleated light
fans in and out like gills
in each fold I read my fear
in fear I follow
down stairs that fall forever into black
I fall but reaching wildly out
the only solid thing I touch is terror
I cry and shake myself awake
certain that my daughter died in sleep.
Drops of water on my daughter make her frown
buried in water down she goes
down to the hell that Jesus knows
down to the blackness in my dream
down in the darkness to get clean.
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, here's our daughter,
be pleased to make the most of her.
Open her instinctive fists,
like ours, ready to protest
any lowered standard of living
or one pinch more than a tenth of giving.
We give her, with misgivings, to the One
who sometimes like a demon comes
and takes us down to sight-see hell
where starving children wait in cells.
Daughter, receive your dripping crown
with its dubious title to travel down
shouldering your pain and everyone else's;
gloria in excelsis.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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It's the 10th day of the month which means it's time for 10 on the 10th with Meredith! This month I wanted to share 10 things that I'm loving that I think you might love, too!
1. Mer just Tweeted about a neat summer reading program that I want to do with my kids this summer.
Barnes and Noble has a Summer Reading program that allows your child to earn a free book when he or she reads eight books. You can get more information and download a Passport to Summer Reading here.
2. Speaking of books, how about a free audio book download?!
You can download The Hole in Our Gospel by Rich Stearns free at www.christianaudio.com this month. Use the coupon code MAY2010. This book just won the Christian Book of the Year award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. Rich Stearns is the president of World Vision. The book is about his struggle to obey God and His command to fight poverty and injustice in the world. This book is on my "Want to Read" list so I downloaded it this morning in the hopes that maybe I can at least listen to it in the car until I have time to read the book.
3. Happy Hour at Starbucks!
Participating Starbucks stores are offering half-price Frappuccinos from 3 until 5 p.m. until May 16th! Perfect for my every-afternoon-at-4-crash-and-burn feeling!
4. Speaking of cold coffee beverages, K brought me a McCafe' Caramel Frappe' this weekend and may I just say, YUM!
And less expensive than a regular-price Frappucino, for sure!
5. Fake toenails.
I know, I know, but just listen to me. Last week at ballet I commented on my friend's cute pedicure. I couldn't believe me when she told me she bought them at Walgreens and glued them on her toes! But she did! So the next time I was in Walgreen's I bought a box and tried them myself. I was imagining those thick chunks of plastic that I used to superglue on my fingernails back in the 80s. These were surprisingly comfortable and they actually stayed on my toes! Several friends complimented me on my pedicure. I'm not one of those girls who can resist telling when I find a good bargain (You like my shirt? It was $3 at Walmart!), so of course I told my friends they were fake nails. And now I'm telling you.
I don't think I'd wear them for weeks at a time but they're great for special occasions when you want your toes to look cute but you don't have the time or extra cash to spend on a pedicure!
6. Laura Geller's Spackle (Under Makeup Primer)
This was in the Swag Bag I received at QVC's Beauty Bash. I love it! It makes my makeup go on more smoothly and I've noticed that my makeup stays on longer without needing a touchup.
7. Tarte's Lights, Camera, Lashes 4-in-1 Natural Mascara
This is the only non-waterproof mascara I've ever used that didn't make me look like a raccoon within hours of applying it. And it makes my lashes look especially long! Plus I have to give Tarte props (do people give props anymore?) for the cutest mascara container EVER!
8. Tree Frog Creations!!
I'm from the South. We monogram things. It's just what we do. My friend Renae has an Etsy store with the cutest little personalized whatever-you-wants! And I won a personalized bag from her store last week. Now I just have to decide which one I want!
9. Friday Night Lights! The new season has FINALLY started!!
Coach Taylor, how I've missed you! I just know that your wife Tami and I would be BFFs!!
10. MercyMe's newest CD!
I think the song "Move" is worth the price of the CD. Love. It.
Wait! I know I have 10 things on my list already, but I just thought of one more. The 3rd DVD in the What's in the Bible series just went on sale.
I'm hopefully going to buy it at Lifeway this afternoon. This one covers Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Since I've stalled in my read-through-the-Bible program right smack dab in the middle of Deuteronomy, I'm hoping that Buck Denver and his friends can give me a push start to make it through the rest of the book! I can't wait to see how Clive and Ian handle all the clean and unclean laws!
Go to http://www.lifeat7000feet.com to see more Lists of 10. I always enjoy seeing what creative list ideas others have. I hope the rest of your 10th is sTENsational, TENriffic, and enterTENing. And I promise I'll try to never make up adjectives using the word "ten" again. It's just too inTENse.


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Jennifer Slater-Sanchez via Crowdrise
July 31, 2013
We are trying to raise $3,500 to bring an A.Skate clinic to the Antelope Valley at Marie Kerr Park in Palmdale sometime between July-October of 2013.
From www.askate.org ... Mission Statement: A.skate - Autism. Skating with Kids through Acceptance, Therapy, and Education
Please help us make this a reality for kids with AUTISM in our community. Thank you on behalf of all the kids and families living with autism who will potentially take part in a day of skateboarding.
Requirements & The cost to put on an A.skate Clinic:
A.skate is Self Funded. We depend on Sales of merchandise, Donations and Fundraisers to keep us going. It costs approximately $3500.00 Per clinic for 60 children. We don't feel that it is right to charge families for this one day of joy. Therefore, for the last 2 years we have continued to fund everything on our own, using our credit cards, savings and retirement accounts. A.skate is growing and becoming very popular in the Autism community, the want and need of A.skate is overwhelming and we hope we can continue to expose and accommodate new and returning families to our organization.Each one of our camps/events costs us around 3K. That number includes just about everything—travel, food, set-up costs, shipping boards, etc. It's part of our charter to keep the camps free to all who attend.
• Cost of Renting the Marie Kerr Skatepark
• Liability Insurance (required by City of Palmdale)
* Parks and Rec staffing for the event (required by the City of Palmdale
*Travel expenses for A.Skate to come to Palmdale - Hotels and Transportation (car and gas)
• Clinic Participation -Shipping equipment (HELMETS, PADS, BOARDS)and merchandise to every City
• Merchandise
-A.skate Merchandise to replenish and sell at each Clinic
-Food , We provide snacks and refreshments for all our families and Volunteers * Skateboard Decks $22.00 a child ($660.00 for 30 Children… Every child goes home with a Skateboard Deck)


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Blog Moving Day
Posted by Chris Campbell at Friday, May 21, 2010 0
I started this blog on November 21, 2005 with a post about the impact of Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run on my life. As any friend, family member or work pal knows, I can talk about music and public policy ad nauseum. I attribute both passions to my early childhood. I mean, I wasn't deeply immersed in Watergate at age one, but life happenings and such just implanted music and policy/politics/justice into me, and I doubt I'll ever shake free.
With five years approaching, there was one simple part of this blog that I didn't like: the name. I always wanted just Bandwagon, but the owner of said domain wanted $10,000. That price tag was sent my way four years ago. That URL remains dormant.
Like many fans of music and books and stuff, I do enjoy words. And about a week ago, while writing for my memoir that may or may not ever be completed (now at about 275 pages), I was about to title a particular chapter Autumn Souvenir in reference to a memory from Yankee Stadium. I liked those words together. While walking up the stairs yesterday with N, I realized that those two words would serve as my new blog title.
I am still working on the layout and such, but as of this posting Bandwagon will now be Autumn Souvenir. Nothing is changing aside from the name. Everything from Bandwagon has been ported over and all posts going forward will be on Autumn Souvenir.
Thanks for reading over the years. And Mom, N, Bennett and Barack: Please update your bookmarks.
Labels: Autumn Souvenir, Thank You Friends
Eels : Tour / New Record
Posted by Chris Campbell at Thursday, May 20, 2010 4
Mark Oliver Everett's creative streak is bordering on some sort of record or something. Although they haven't toured since 2005's fantastic double-album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, he's taken that time off the road to pen a beautiful memoir, and followed that up with the release of two solid records separated by only six months, Hombre Lobo & End Times. Now comes news of what will be the third Eels record in 14 months, Tomorrow Morning, due on August 24th.
But the big news of the day is a massive world tour, one that will have Everett and band on tour for almost all of August, September and October.
See you at The Fillmore.
August 3, 2010 Santa Ana, California Galaxy Theater warm-up show
August 7, 2010 Tokyo, Japan Marine Stadium - Summersonic Festival
August 8, 2010 Osaka, Japan Maishima - Summersonic Festival
August 13, 2010 Brisbane, Australia The Tivoli
August 14, 2010 Sydney, Australia The Enmore Theater
August 15, 2010 Melbourne, Australia The Palace Theater
August 20, 2010 Hasselt, Belgium Pukkelpop Festival
August 21, 2010 Stafford, UK V Festival
August 22, 2010 Chelmsford, UK V Festival
August 24, 2010 Glasgow, UK Academy
August 26, 2010 Birmingham, UK Academy
August 28, 2010 Zurich, Switzerland Winterhur Festival
August 29, 2010 Paris, France Rock en Seine Festival
August 30, 2010 Amsterdam, Holland Paradiso
September 1, 2010 London, UK Brixton Academy
September 3, 2010 Dublin, Ireland Electric Picnic Festival
September 4, 2010 Manchester, UK Academy
September 5, 2010 Luxembourg, Luxembourg Den Atelier
September 6, 2010 Groningen, Holland Oosterpoort
September 7, 2010 Hamburg, Germany Grosse Freiheit
September 8, 2010 Copenhagen, Denmark Vega
September 10, 2010 Berlin, Germany Astra
September 11, 2010 Munich, Germany Theaterfabrik
September 12, 2010 Vienna, Austria Arena
September 13, 2010 Graz, Austria Orpheum
September 14, 2010 Hohenems, Austria Eventcenter
September 15, 2010 Milan, Italy Alcatraz
September 17, 2010 Barcelona, Spain Bikini
September 19, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal Coliseum
September 22, 2010 Philadelphia, PA World Cafe Live
September 23, 2010 Richmond, VA The National Theater
September 24, 2010 Boston, MA The Royal
September 25, 2010 New York, NY Terminal 5
September 26, 2010 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
September 28, 2010 Montreal, Canada Le National
September 29, 2010 Toronto, Canada The Mod
September 30, 2010 Detroit, MI The Crofoot
October 1, 2010 Chicago, IL The Metro
October 2, 2010 Milwaukee, WI The Pabst Theater
October 3, 2010 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
October 5, 2010 Denver, CO The Odgen Theater
October 6, 2010 Salt Lake City, UT The Complex
October 8, 2010 Portland, OR Roseland
October 9, 2010 Seattle, WA TBA
October 11, 2010 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore
October 12, 2010 Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theater
Labels: Eels, Mark Oliver Everett, Music, Tours, Videos
NP : Bill Fay "Down To the Bridge" (1971)
Posted by Chris Campbell at Wednesday, May 19, 2010 0New feature! Every so often (perhaps never again), I will post a song that I simply can't stop playing of late. NP is short for Now Playing, which is short for me being obsessed with a certain tune.
Labels: Bill Fay, Music, Now Playing
Hello, Amoeba
Posted by Chris Campbell at Tuesday, May 18, 2010 0
Labels: LCD Soundsystem, Music, New Releases, Rolling Stones, The Jayhawks
Mark Olson's "Many Colored Kite" Due July 27
Posted by Chris Campbell at Saturday, May 15, 2010 0Mark Olson's a darn busy man. Following his departure from The Jayhawks in 1995, he's released a slew of records under the name The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, all of which are quite good, the best being 2000s My Own Joe Ellen. In 2007, he released The Salvation Blues, the best record by any member of The Jayhawks outside of The Jayhawks. Just a year later he hopped back into the studio with Jayhawks co-founder Gary Louris for Ready For the Flood, but it's really The Salvation Blues that's proven to be Olson's best work in 15 years.
In addition to a new Olson record on the way, The Jayhawks will be playing three shows in Minneapolis this summer. Word of a new record remains up in the air and additional tour dates are unknown, but news of Olson's follow-up to the fantastic The Salvation Blues is great news for fans of any of Olson's projects.
Labels: Gary Louris, Mark Olson, Music, New Releases, The Jayhawks, Videos
Freedy Johnston @ Cafe du Nord, SF, 5.14.10
Posted by Chris Campbell at Friday, May 14, 2010 0Freedy Johnston is sort of indirectly responsible for the 13+ years I spent working either directly or tangentially in the music business. I'd get into that story here, but it's reserved for my second memoir, to be published in 2014 by Simon & Garfunkel.
I'd gather that I probably saw Freedy Johnston about ten times in the 90s. From First Avenue in Minneapolis to stops all over the East Coast, he was one of my favorites of that time. I was hooked on Can You Fly (1992), This Perfect World (1994) and Never Home (1997). And I still play those records regularly. Add in the grossly under-appreciated Right Between the Promises (2001) (which was my favorite record of that year) and this year's Rain on the City, and Freedy has amassed an enormous library of great songs. As far as straightforward singer-songwriters go, he truly is one of the best of the past two decades.
In the past decade, I've only seen Freedy maybe once or twice prior to tonight. If you take a look at his discography, that should come as little surprise. It's been nine years since Freedy has released a record of new material. It's been a quiet decade, to put it mildly. Knowing this, I wasn't sure what to expect tonight. I've been loving his new record, but man, he's been away for a while.
When he took the stage just after 730, he actually looked slightly nervous. After a few quick quips, he started into not only one of my favorite Freedy songs, but one of my favorite songs, "The Lucky One." It was perfect. And the night took off from there. The room began to fill as he moved through his first few songs and the crowd was incredibly appreciative. Requests abound, loud applause and back-and-forth banter that had the whole room in a pretty joyous mood. Freedy's expressions made it pretty clear that this show was somewhat special. And boy did he deliver. He has such a mountain of great songs that it would have been impossible to please everyone, but what a set he gave us: "Evie's Tears," "Don't Fall In Love With a Lonely Girl," "Responsible," "This Perfect World," "California Thing," Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman," "The Mortician's Daughter," "Dolores," "Bad Reputation," a gorgeous take on the new record's title track to close the show, and a few I'm missing. I can't remember the last time I saw a merch table at Cafe du Nord so jammed after a set.
N and I left the joint feeling pretty damn good. I didn't get my favorite Freedy song, "I Can Hear the Laughs," but if tonight's any indication, it can't be long before I get another chance.
Labels: Cafe du Nord, Freedy Johnston, Music, Photography, Pics, Shows
I Now Think It Will Happen
Posted by Chris Campbell at Thursday, May 13, 2010 2
Labels: Basketball, Knicks, LeBron James, Sports
Exile on Main Street
Posted by Chris Campbell at Thursday, May 13, 2010 3Is Exile on Main Street the greatest record ever? It just might be. I'm not sure I can think of a record in my collection that so masterfully mixes rock, soul, blues and just about every passion and emotion that encompasses what makes music drive us. When considering the records that traditionally fall into the "greatest ever" camp, there's The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, The Beatles' Revolver, The Clash's London Calling, Springsteen's Born To Run, Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and a bunch of others (Marquee Moon).
If I attempt to remain as objective as possible, which clearly is impossible for me to do, for straight-ahead rock. and. roll. I would likely go with Exile. Blasting out of the gates with "Rocks Off," the full, in-your-face sound is simply astounding. I can't count the number of times I've been in the car screaming, "The sunshine bores the daylights outta me. Chasing shadows, moonlight mystery" as the horns, piano, guitar, drums and bass explode from behind. And then comes "Rip This Joint." Man. The surge of emotion can be felt from head-to-toe. "Tumbling Dice," "Sweet Virginia," "Loving Cup," "Happy," "Let It Loose," "All Down the Line" and the rest.
Next week Exile on Main Street will be re-issued in about 29 different versions (remastered / remastered box set / vinyl / with posters / with a lips t-shirt / covered in a bandana), and although I won't be picking one up (I have three vinyl copies and the CD), I will be listening all week. Unbelievably, this record, which sounds as fresh as ever, was released when I was -1.5 years old. That is simply incomprehensible. Ahead of their time? Ahead of any time.
Labels: Exile on Main Street, Music, Reissues, Rolling Stones
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There has been corruption in MMD, admits Kaingu
By Henry Sinyangwe
Tue 21 Jan. 2014, 14:00 CAT
MICHAEL Kaingu says the MMD will never bounce back to power if it remains uncleansed of its previous deeds.
Kaingu who is MMD vice-president for politics and Mwandi member of parliament, said in an interview that there was no way MMD could ever think of getting back to power on the same platform it campaigned in 2011.
"The people of Zambia truly rejected us in 2011 for several reasons and I think one of them was the perception on corruption. The other one was the perception on arrogance, particularly when it came to the enactment of the constitution. Although really on the constitution we were unfairly judged because the process was initiated by President Levy Mwanawasa and it was completed by president Rupiah Banda. It was even taken to Parliament for enactment. Unfortunately, some of our colleagues at the time we were about to enact the constitution, they decided to betray us," said Kaingu, who added that the MMD was renewed.
"For example, I was not the vice-president in 2011, president Mumba was not the MMD president in 2011, and even vice-president Brian Chituwo was not the vice-president. Many positions have changed hands since then and we are asking the people of Zambia to look at the MMD as a rebranded party. Yes, we may not claim to be totally clean, but I think we are trying to renew ourselves from the perception that made us lose the 2011 elections."
He said the MMD would not remain the party that the people rejected in the 2011 general elections.
"We are not saying that we shall remain the MMD that the people of Zambia rejected. Everybody can see that there has been corruption in MMD and there is still corruption in PF," Kaingu said.
And Kaingu said leaders should avoid arrogance, which cost the MMD power in the 2011 general elections.
"We totally condemn arrogance, and the people who have been elected to preside over the welfare of the people must know that the people are the masters. We are privileged to hold the positions we hold and we should not use these positions to try and take undue advantage of the people who have elected us," said.
"I will not hesitate to condemn any misgivings or any misdeed of the PF. I strongly believe that men and women who are elected into these positions are just privileged. If I have demonstrated to the people that I am their master and not their servant, I totally apologise to them."
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Ok, ok, so I may be a little sweet potato obsessed! I could pretty much eat them at every meal. From sweet potato and quinoa chili to sweet potato and black bean enchiladas…they ROCK!! I have been making my sweet potato fries as a side dish or as a yummy afternoon snack for awhile now. Every once in awhile I like to tweak my recipes just a bit and play around with ingredients. After months of experimentation, I think I have have finally perfected the sweet potato fry! I won't make them any other way now!! Now to train you, my young grasshoppers, in my sweet potato ways…
Lesson 1: Chunks cook up WAY better in the oven than your traditional cut fry!
Lesson 2: More arrowroot and less oil makes for a crispier bite! I use 3X the arrowroot in this new, revised recipe! Don't be afraid to be heavy handed!
If you are thinking, "What the heck is arrowroot?" Well, arrowroot is gluten free and easily digested starch extracted from the roots of the arrowroot plant, maranta arundinacea. The starch is used as a thickener in many foods and it has vitamins, minerals, and even protein! Check it out HERE!
Lesson 3: Mixing in a bowl works WAY better than a gallon size bag…and it's less wasteful! Note: You need to get the potatoes completely covered in spices and arrowroot before adding oil! A bowl is the way to go!
Lesson 4: Melted coconut oil gives it an AWESOME flavor! Better than olive oil!
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I have made this recipe in this way for the past few months and it turns out perfectly every time! Now we have to resist the urge to make it everyday. HALLELUJAH! Sweet Potato Heaven! Enjoy!
- 2 medium (or 1 large) sweet potatoes, washed, peeled, and diced
- 1 tablespoon of arrowroot powder (or cornstarch)
- 1/2 tsp on sea salt (preferably pink Himalayan)
- 1/4 tsp of ground black pepper
- couple dashes of smoked paprika
- 1 tablespoon of melted extra virgin coconut oil*
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper or a Silpat.
- Wash and peel sweet potatoes. Dice the potatoes into around 1/2 inch chunks. The smaller you chop the potatoes, the faster they will cook.
- In a large bowl, combine the diced potatoes with the arrowroot and seasonings. Stir to combine. Make sure all the potatoes are coated.
- Melt the tablespoon of coconut oil in the microwave (about 30 seconds). Pour over the potatoes and stir until all of the chunks seem mostly covered with oil.*
- Pour the potatoes onto the parchment paper or Silpat into an even layer. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Pull the potatoes out of the oven and flip the chunks using a turner. Place the baking sheet back in the oven for another 15-20 minutes until potatoes are golden brown and fork-tender.
- Sprinkle with a bit more sea salt. Cool and enjoy while warm!
- *You do not want excess oil on the potatoes. Sometimes 1 tablespoon will be too much or too little depending on the size of the potatoes. The key is that the chunks are covered on most sides with a thin layer of oil. Too much oil will leave the potatoes soggy.


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NBC has made a seven-figure pilot commitment to a one-hour comedy-drama from "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star and scribe Jeff Rake.
David Nevins-led Imagine Television is producing the project — intended for fall 2003 — via the shingle's overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Project marks a reteaming of Star, Rake and Nevins: Trio worked together on Star/Rake drama "The Street," developed while Nevins was at Fox Broadcasting.
Rake will pen the pilot and exec produce with Star, Nevins and Imagine's Brian Grazer. NBC's deal for the project — which was hotly pursued by two other nets — includes a premium license fee and a significant penalty if the pilot is not produced.
Skein is inspired by the real-life story of Samantha Daniels, a Gotham matrimonial lawyer who doubles as a high-class matchmaker. Star says the show will actually be two franchises in one, focusing on the character's role as both a matchmaker and a lawyer who handles everything from divorce to adoption cases.
"It's all about relationships — getting into them and getting out of them," Star told Daily Variety, noting that the lead character "has a romantic streak even when dealing with people who are getting a divorce."
"It's a hopeful show at its core," he said. "She believes that even divorce is just one step in the path to finding your soulmate."
Skein will also focus on the lawyer's own personal life as well as her relationship with her father, providing a family aspect to the hour.
NBC Entertainment prexy Jeff Zucker said he believed Star and Rake's "sensibility is right at home here at NBC."
'Beautifully romantic idea'
"We loved the pitch," he said. "It's just a beautifully romantic idea that's not on television. And the episodes are close-ended, so that (most of the) stories will resolve themselves each week."
Nevins said Star came to him with the idea for the show; the two then went to 20th to snag Rake, who has a deal with the studio. Since Imagine is based at 20th, the deal quickly came together.
While "The Street" only lasted one season, working together on the skein was "a real positive experience for all of us which we wanted to repeat again," Nevins said.
What's more, "Great ideas are not a dime a dozen, and this is a great idea for a television show," he said. "It allows us to do a relationship show without doing long arcs. And it's a perfect Darren Star franchise."
With several offers on the table, Star said NBC seemed like the right fit creatively for the type of show he and Rake want to create.
'Street' dead end no factor
"It's all about doing the right show for the right network, and I felt the NBC audience was the right audience for this show," he said, noting that the short lifespan of "The Street" — compared to the huge success of "Sex and the City" — hasn't soured him on broadcast television.
"I don't plan on giving up on network television," he said.
Star, however, is also in the early stages of development with writer-director Nicole Holofcener ("Lovely and Amazing") on "Pacific Palisades," a romantic drama series for HBO.
In addition to "The Street," Rake's credits include "The Practice" and pilot projects for CBS and Fox; latter project was produced with Star.
Star's long list of credits includes "Melrose Place," "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Grosse Pointe" and "Central Park West."
Both Star and Rake are repped by WMA; Rake is also repped by Anonymous.


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