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Start the day with the Westford Regency's hot breakfast buffet ($15.00 + tax + gratuity; or $9.00 + tax + gratuity for continental breakfast). Alternatively, Cash Breakfast Concession opens at 8AM in the Fiddle Hell Lower Hallway.
Fiddle Hell On-Site Registration Opens. Go to the Registration Desk in the Arthur Smith Room 5 near the right front entrance of the Westford Regency Inn. Sign in, get a stylish wristband and nametag, pick up a Program Brochure, perhaps buy a newly-designed T-shirt ($15 or 2 for $25). Then, look for your fellow fiddlers; cellists; mandolin, banjo, and guitar players everywhere around you. And singers! Saturday and weekend registrations include the Saturday night concert and dance for free. T-shirts, instructors' CDs and books, and Andy's clocks are also in the Arthur Smith Room 5. Carriage House Violins (Johnson String Instrument) will have fiddles, bows, strings and accessories, and Justin will be able to perform minor set-up work for you (during the day).Jon Cooper will have splendid violins to show.
Cash Breakfast Concession with inexpensive choices: Breakfast Burrito, Oatmeal, Bagel and Cream Cheese, Muffin/Danish/Croissant, Yogurt, Fruit, Granola Bar, COFFEE, Soda, Bottled Water. Eat on the go, at a session, or perhaps upstairs in one of the two Quiet Rooms.
Get ready for the full day of fiddling by warming up your body and mind.
Bowing questions? Intonation and tone? A tricky part of a tune you're working on? Not sure where to start with a new technique? Gretchen can give your playing the "once over," offering a fresh set of eyes and ears to help answer your fiddle playing questions. Drop in for just a few minutes or stay the whole time.
Back by popular demand! We'll go through a series of exercises designed to help strengthen your ears over time, and improve your ability to learn tunes on the fly. No experience necessary, all instruments welcome. Bring a recording device and a notebook!! You'll hear Lissa's fine playing on the concert tonight.
Some doggone great traditional Yankee dance music is quite easy to learn and play. We're going THERE, with some helpful suggestions on jam etiquette, fitting in when you don't really know the tune, and more.
Drop in for just a few minutes or stay the whole time. Right hand, left hand, basic frailing, double thumbing, slides, different tunings, and whatever else is on your mind. Tim welcomes you to the rhythmic land of oldtime banjo. Look for his CDs with Jubilee Mule and the Hi-Tone Ramblers in the Fiddle Hell Store.
Around the world, a very common, easy and cheerful beginners' tune. If listeners love it, tell them you learned it at Fiddle Hell! If they don't love it, tell them the exact same thing.
What a great, driving, hypnotic tune to start the day! Bruce will cover the style, the notes, the bowing, the rhythmic groove.
Using an easy standard or two such as "Lady Be Good," Duncan will take you into the improvised world of the jazz violin player, with Dave Moultrup providing the rhythm section. This is an introduction - you don't have to have prior experience playing jazz. Said Christian Howes about Duncan: "He is without question on a path to be one of the top jazz violinists of his generation."
Éric will show you a wonderful and energetic tune from the Acadia area that is really good for step dance or square dance, or contradance. A "barachois" is a coastal lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand or shingle bar. Salt water may enter the barachois during high tide. C'est une belle façon de commencer la journée pour les jeunes violoneux!
Part of the job description for the 21st century cellist involves bass function! Learn how to alter your pizzicato technique and use a bit of amplification to get a nice bass-like sound, and how to construct bass lines on chord progressions, simple and complex. Rob is a Professor of Strings at Berklee College of Music, and is a super teacher and performer. Look for his CDs in the FH store.
We'll break down this great jig, written in 1984 by Dave Richardson, into digestible phrases and learn some basic Scottish style. Look for Ed's CDs in the FH store.
One of the lovely and distinctive things about Cajun music is having twin fiddles, exchanging leads and "seconding" (backing up) each other. We'll learn about the rhythm patterns and chord shapes that will give your fiddling that Cajun feeling. Can you hear the combined influences of music from Louisiana, Texas, Québec, and Cape Breton? Thought so; now please pass me une tarte à la bouillie.
Pam is President of American Music System Charleston, Inc., author of "Teacher Training in the American Music System," and a frequent clinician at music educators' professional development workshops and conventions. This is a new workshop at FH and with Pam we've got the world's best teacher for it.
Would you like to play harmony, but don't know where to start? If you can play some melodies but can't seem to get off the rails and improvise, this workshop is for you. We'll get you going, using straightforward tunes like Mairi's Wedding, Redwing, and Golden Slippers to demolish the obstacles in your way.
In the context of a bluegrass song with three chords, Skip will get you playing some mighty fine fills and riffs from Bill Monroe and others. Did we mention that Skip learned this directly from Bill?
Tony will lead this "teacher-directed" bluegrass jam session, where students will have the opportunity to learn from each other and from discussions about how to improve their playing. Patrick will help out the fiddlers and mandolin players while Mali holds down the low end on bass. Like most bluegrass jams, we won't know what songs we'll be playing beforehand, but we won't play fast instrumentals, very fast vocal tunes, or obscure/difficult songs. You don't need to be able to sing or to improvise solos to attend, but it's more fun if you can. The best way to get prepared for this jam is to learn a common bluegrass song to sing with us (you're welcome to bring a copy of the verses to read from). Look for Tony's and Patrick's fine CDs in the FH store.
Andrea will teach "Hull's Reel" by John Morris Rankin, the way he recorded it. A good workshop to start your Saturday at Fiddle Hell! "Listen to her play, the power of her bow, the drive and swing of her timing, the crispness of her attack. [Andrea] has made a name for herself in dance halls, concerts, ceilidhs, and festivals throughout North America and the UK."
Becky will teach "Jenny Picking Cockles," a driving Irish reel, that always seems to lift dancers off their feet. Included (at no extra charge) are the bowings and ornaments that bring life to the tune.
In Bluegrass, quoting performance on the original recording is considered not only a good idea, it's a badge of belonging and a way of connecting past with present. Quoting can develop into subtle and nuanced commentaries on the original solo and other solos in the style. We'll learn a couple of iconic "breaks" and see how they can be used in other contexts as well.
Don will focus on accordion tunes on the fiddle. Magnifique! As part of the workshop, Cindy Roy will give a brief introduction to tapping the feet Maine style.
Learn about the infinite potential of triads on the guitar. Explore different inversions up and down the neck through a simple folk song (such as In the Pines or Don't this Road Look Rough and Rocky). Don't forget to pick up the "Stash!" CD in the FH store.
As a dance caller and dance fiddler, David is the perfect leader for this workshop. You'll start by learning a solid "workhorse" tune and develop expressive melodic and rhythmic variations that relate to contra dance choreography. David, who will once again be calling for the Fiddle Hell Dance tonight, promises to reveal all (well, several) of his secrets and techniques. Just kidding about the theremin.
Cash Lunch Concession with inexpensive choices: Vegetarian Wrap with Grilled Veggies, Roast Turkey & Bacon Wrap, Hot Dog, Individual Pizza, Soup, Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad, Fruit, Cookies, Chips, COFFEE, Soda, Bottled Water. Eat on the go, at a session, or perhaps upstairs in one of the two Quiet Rooms.
Meet a few others your age at Fiddle Hell. It's during a break, so you won't miss a workshop.
Fun warm-ups from Lorraine to keep the songs coming. She'll also be leading several singing workshops Saturday and Sunday, including a Flash Singalong Sunday at 8:30AM with Bennett.
August Watters is a multi-stylistic, improvising mandolinist/guitar player, composer/arranger, and teacher in Boston, USA. For this half-hour, he'll wear his country singer hat, and he invites you to sit in on a country and Western Swing song session, backed by Mali on bass. Play along, play backup, take breaks, enjoy! The chords and melody are generally simple for players, and listeners are welcome, too.
All are welcome! With lyric sheets in hand, we'll sing through some good old songs, maybe work up a few harmonies and listen to some recordings of some very old pieces.
This will help you to harmonize, play double stops, back up a tune or song, and play along with tunes you've never heard before. Helpful handout included. Look for Dave's Oldtime Fiddling Across America book/CD in the FH store.
Laissez les bon temps rouler! Michelle's got a fine Cajun waltz to show you, with the elusive Aieee! factor. She'll start with the skeleton or vocal line of the tune, and then add the ornaments that give it a Cajun flavor. Michelle plays with the Magnolia Cajun Band as well as others.
Ask a question, get an answer! Want to know how to play chords on one of the Common Tunes? Want to learn how to count to ten in South Indian rhythmic solfege (konokol)? Want to learn how to play a bluegrass lick? Interested in using electronics with your fiddle? Want to talk about how nature and dragons and magic and mathematics relate to the mandolin or fiddle? Drop in; it's first-come, first-served.
Tony will focus on essential left- and right-hand techniques, including instrument and hand positioning, picking and tone, and more. He is primarily a bluegrass mandolin player and teacher, but the techniques he will cover will be valuable for mandolin players of any style. You'll find Tony to be a patient and supportive teacher.
What is a strathspey? Is it a type of tune, a dance, a location in Scotland or maybe all of the above! And many are named for historical events in that ancient land. We'll learn one and talk about that bit of Scottish history.
"Kitchen Girl" is a striking tune from the first two notes. It was recorded by the Hollow Rock String Band on their 1968 Traditional Dance Tunes album as learned by Alan Jabbour from his mentor Henry Reed, and from there the tune has found its way into the repertories of many oldtime fiddlers.
We'll learn a Greek island medley - a dance called Ballos - in a couple of different makams or modes. It'll be complete with rhythm and chords. Look for Beth's Weaving the Worlds CD in the FH store.
Double Stops [notes played together on two strings] are considered the Final Frontier in Bluegrass and Swing fiddling; The oldest and greatest fiddlers obsess over them. Organizing our thoughts on this difficult technique is paramount. We''ll work through the different flavors and explore simple techniques for practicing them. Some parts of the workshop will visit High Int territory.
From the Corrigan family, this easy jig was used for the dance "The Lancer.'' The swing inside the jig needs to be relaxed and stable for the dancer, but still solid.
Says Pete: "First fiddling I fell hard for was Southern. Loved the groove, the swing of it, the simple melodies that seemed to grow out of the bowing. I love sharing the ingredients that make this happen."
Understanding the Circle of Fifths can help to unlock many music theory mysteries. Shana will discuss the types of major, minor and seventh chords found in any key; some typical chord progressions in a key; and look at swing progressions that use backwards cycling through the circle. She'll start at a Low Int level and may take you into High Int territory towards the end.
The old-time music from Surry County, North Carolina - known as Round Peak - is a distinct tradition with a unique and exciting banjo style. Slides, blues notes, syncopations and sparser use of the "bum-ditty" are at the heart of the sound. We will learn a tune by ear, but tablature will be provided and bring a recording device.
We'll learn a classic strathspey, which will serve as a platform for applying what we learn about snaps and the up-driven bow. Did you know that J. Scott Skinner's Guide to [Scottish] Bowing was first published in 1900?
Learn to make your rolls more rhythmic and percussive. We'll examine the roll anatomy from the root note, high cut, low lift and the bow. Rose will also discuss where and when to use the roll with specific examples using common tunes. She'll be your "roll" model.
We'll start with a Cape Breton setting of "Balkan Hills March" and go into the Cape Breton settings of "Athole Brose Strathspey" and "General Stewart" reel.This strathspey and reel are commonly played together by most CB fiddlers; they ratchet up the excitement as the tempo increases. Look for Andrea's CDs and tune book in the FH store.
Says Becky: "I'll teach "Reel Ste. Louise" and "The Telephone Reel." We'll learn these in a slow session style, with less breaking down of the tunes, since there are two tunes here. So prepare yourself mentally and have your recording device at the ready." Today's a good time to look for Becky's CDs in the FH store.
Rob's scale system for learning jazz has been mesmerizing Berklee College of Music string students for 15 years. Learn the basics in this hands-on introductory experience. Harness the awesome power of the major scale by learning about its six relatives.
The great tune "Florida Blues" was written by Fiddlin' Arthur Smith and recorded by him in 1937. Chubby Wise was also known for playing this blues, as was Vassar Clements. While learning the tune, we will explore the 12-bar blues form and blues scales and how this form relates to other styles of music. Wear blue if you like!
Van and Ron have a great feel for innovative twin fiddling after many years of playing together in The Moving Violations, ably backed up by Eric Eid-Reiner. In this hands-on workshop, they'll demonstrate and teach some of the key techniques that you can apply to a variety of tunes. Don't have your Moving Violations CD yet? Head for the FH store.
Hungry? Thirsty? Food and drinks available at Old Joe Clark's Pub off the Lobby. Special menu for Fiddle Hell of relatively fast dishes. A faster alternative for dinner is the Quick Dinner Buffet from 5PM-6:30PM in the Lobby.
A one-hour musical extravaganza!
Come for the whole time or just drop in. Bowing, tunes, cuts, rolls, trebles, slurs across the beat, and other ways to bring your Irish fiddling to the next level. Ask away!
Andy's practical and sage advice will help you make progress on your instrument while keeping sane! This has been described as "transformational" by several prior attendees.
Emy Phelps is a prolific songwriter with a riveting voice which plumbs the deepest emotions. She'll help you along the songwriting path. Emy will do another Songwriting Workshop on Sunday at 9:30AM (doesn't assume you've come to this one). Look for Emy's CDs with Darol Anger in the FH store, and hear her sing more at 3:30PM today with Darol Anger and the Furies.
Legendary Boston fiddler Tommy Doucet (1902-1992) played some deceptively easy tunes. Beginners, here's a chance to get together with Frank at Fiddle Hell; he's made a deep study of Tommy's music. Look for Frank's great CDs and books in the FH store.
Cosmic! Dinosaurastic! If you miss this session, you'll find the music, words and dance in the program booklet. Try to learn them in time for the Cellosaurus Stomp FLASH MOB at 3:05PM Sunday afternoon.
Shy about singing in public? Come have fun with simple songs, vocal warm-ups and easy techniques that will help you find your voice. Pressure? No. Fun? Yes, indeed. Participatory for all levels. Also offered Sunday at 12:30PM.
Right hand, left hand, rhythm, chords, and much more. Drop in with a question, stay for a while if you like. Look for Tim's CDs with Jubilee Mule and the Hi-Tone Ramblers in the Fiddle Hell Store.
At a relaxed pace, learn a driving, three-part oldtime tune from the New 52 common tunes. It likely entered the oldtime tradition from a minstrel tune. Alan will lead you through this tune with patience and good cheer.
Where does the magic groove come from in Northeastern fiddle tunes? We'll combine playing and discussion as we delve into what makes a fiddle tune sound "fiddle-y." Starting with a fiddle tune or two in sheet music form, we'll explore how to make the transition from sheet music to fiddle tune. This workshop will be geared towards intermediate players, and the focus will be on Northern and contra dance style emphasis and groove. Did you know that Autumn Rose designed the new Fiddle Hell t-shirt?
Dr. Brown plays with The Reunion Band, known for its solid traditional bluegrass sound. He learned directly from Bill Monroe (really!).
Non-generic guitar accompaniment knows one tune or song from another. Guitar wisdom from Bennett.
Westford's the perfect place for your favorite New England tunes, and a few that might be new to you. Spend a happy hour with David and Bethany, having great fun with classic tunes.
Ken wrote two great books on the music of PEI, and has released many field recordings from fiddlers there (see bowingdownhome.ca). Learn some great tunes that Ken collected from PEI roots players.
The recordings of the great Sligo fiddle player Michael Coleman were a wild sensation in their day. His virtuosic technique, imaginative variations and beautiful bowing and ornamentation captured the interest of traditional Irish musicians all over the world. Sets of tunes he recorded back in the 1930s and 1940s are still favorite standards in traditional Irish sessions today. Join us for this class, and we'll learn a tune or two from his classic repertoire.
Some tunes are cool to play 'cause they're notey, some are noteworthy 'cause they're not! Yet, spare tunes with few notes are hard to get right. They need flawless flow and phrasing; and while it's helpful to know rhythmic bowing techniques, it's harder to employ these in ways that reveal, rather than obscure, the heart of the tune. We'll tackle ways to "work up" two flowing, rhythmic old-time tunes: a familiar, session-friendly standard, and a lesser-known gem—both equally fun to get a groove on!
An iconic bluegrass standard on mandolin, this tune has a lot to teach about playing fast and lonesome. Skip will slow it down and get you well along the way.
Fiddler Tommy Peoples (b. 1948) plays in the Donegal tradition and has played with the Bothy Band and many others. Clayton will teach "Grainne's Jig" and if time permits also "Beautiful Gortree."
Yoga is so good for fiddlers! Fiddlers use their bodies like athletes but often don't know how to take care of them. This "Yinyasa" class will start with a yin yoga sequence for stretching the connective tissue of the body, breathing, and deep relaxation, and will transition into a vinyasa flow that will encourage awareness of posture, with special focus on the parts of the body fiddlers work the hardest. Bring a yoga mat, and any yoga props you have (blocks, yoga belt) to class. Participants are responsible for their own well-being (not Fiddle Hell) in this yoga session.
If you're new to oldtime fiddling, or newish to the fiddle, Bruce will lead you through the basics, what to listen for and how to find your way into a simple tune.
Says Pete: "I'm a singer myself, and so as a fiddler I love to figure out how to move around a singer, between, behind and through the lines of the song, to reflect, comment, hopefully enhance the line, and magnify the mood. You need a little basic street theory, but mostly open ears and eyes. Bring a fiddle or mandolin or cello - we'll try some ideas. Great to have Lorraine and Bennett to help with this workshop!"
John Doherty (1900-1980) was born in Ardara, County Donegal, Ireland. From the late 40s to the 1970s he was sought out by collectors; he was known for fine ornamentation, and was heavily influenced by the Scottish bagpiping tradition. John was a significant influence on the fiddle playing of The Chieftains and Altan. Rose will teach a variant of "Drowsy Maggie" as John played it, and if time permits "Gallagher's March."
DADGAD is an alternative guitar tuning most associated with Celtic music. This open tuning is neither intrinsically major nor minor; it facilitates moveable chords and drones. Try it!
The rhythmic drive, flow of notes, and liveliness of a fiddle tune owe much to the often intricate patterns woven by the fiddler's bow. Dave will impart this essential knowledge in a very approachable way, as he does every year. He'll mostly be at a Low Int level, with a few patterns that approach High Int territory. Rather helpful handout includes catalog of bowing patterns and their names.
Interesting, yet accessible tunes from a staggeringly rich tradition where fiddle is the most important instrument. We'll work in detail on an easy schottische or march and a melodically and rhythmically mysterious polska.
Call and response tunes. Can you hear the story being told?
We'll work on two beautiful slow airs: one in 4/4 and one in 3/4 that can serve for listening or as a waltz. Beginners will get a sense of the tunes, while intermediates will also get tips on enriching the tunes with ornamentation.
Teachers - would you like to learn how to add chording and rhythm to melodies in group classes for "whole music"? Pam wrote "Teacher Training in the American Music System" and is a much-admired clinician at music educators' professional development workshops and conventions. This is another new workshop at FH and with Pam we've got a great leader for it.
James Robert ("Bob") Wills was the primary founder of Western Swing. He and his band the Texas Playboys were known for jazz-like arrangements and great dance music. Art will teach the fine tune "Old Fashioned Love." Art's version is G-rated, but it's in the key of D.
We'll learn the tune "Grogan's" to explore these various ornaments and bow techniques in Irish fiddling: cuts, bowed triplets, serpentine bowing, and rolls. Becky will be your "roll model" and more!
The Blues, as a musical idiom and common language, pervades EVERY style of American music and is an essential communication tool for every musician who lives here. Like the fugue, waltz, and sarabande, it's a musical form. It's also a harmonic and melodic system with a very specific set of moves and skills. We will analyze and PLAY the Blues, focusing on the form, and the three crucial Blue Notes in the Blues scale and how to use them. Listeners welcome even if you don't pick up an instrument.
Not too far to the north of Boston is a wonderland of Québecois fiddling. Let's recreate it at Fiddle Hell; come to share your favorite French Canadian tune, straight or crooked.
Eric's a fine swing mandolin player who also runs Wellspring Sound Recording Studio in Acton. He'll use tunes such as "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," "Minor Swing," and "It Don't Mean A Thing" to help you with minor scale jazz improvisation over Dave's solid rhythm playing.
Take a turn with Rob's Loop Station and effects pedals, and learn how to play a duet (or even a trio or quartet) with yourself! Looping pedals are a way to record multiple, layered tracks - live - using your feet. Loopers can be used in live performance as well as being the ultimate practice tool - like a recording studio controlled by your toes. In the early 1990s, dedicated digital devices were invented for use in live looping, and now many hardware loopers exist, some in rack unit form, but primarily as effect pedals. The musical loop is one of the most important features of video game music.
Learn an oldtime tune TBD with funky lyrics. Then we'll play rhythm and groove games and get our jam on!
Ellen will start by teaching a basic version of "Draggin' the Bow" and then explore typical little things to spice it up and make it sound more "swingy." She might even teach the triple shuffle variation, with 50% more notes than the double shuffle. Ellen is an inspiring and clear teacher as well as a fine fiddler in multiple traditions.
A look at an often-neglected style, American clog dances, popular in early vaudeville and musichalls. These moderate-tempo tunes were favorites of northern fiddlers like Jean Carignan, Tommy Doucet, and Joseph Allard. Jean Carignan (1916-1988) was a fiddler from Québec who played with great technique and joy, and had a repertoire of over 7000 tunes! "The Sparrow Dance Clog" is from the early 20th century J. W. Pepper collection - a rare volume to find.
Patrick and Tony will teach the Bill Monroe tune "Tombstone Junction." The tune starts out as an energetic 12 bar blues in the key of G, and it takes a couple twists and turns along the way.
The music of Eastern Europe encompasses Klezmer, Balkan, Greek and Gypsy traditions. We'll explore the unique scales, modes and odd meter rhythms that are often used in these styles, and learn to play "Kopenitsa", an exciting Bulgarian dance tune in 11/8.
Meet in Carignan Room 2. March to Lobby playing "Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine" in D. March back playing "Trip to Moscow" in Gm, by Ian Ball. Both are from the new 52 common tunes (2-CD set at the FH store).
Here's a great band that played in Montana in August for the total eclipse of the sun. Maybe they even caused it! When these powerful forces get together with Darol, the result is mythical, magical, musical mayhem that varies from bluegrass to world to folk music.
You can be a good fiddler if you love it and play enough, no matter how "correctly" you play, but if you gain awareness of how your joints and muscles actually do their jobs, and do some simple exercises to teach your muscles to be efficient, you can relax and play a lot longer without getting tired or injured. Video support available afterward.
Maine Fiddle Camp welcomes players of all levels. We'll teach tunes from our classes and from beginner jams during those wonderful summer music gatherings in Montville, Maine. Look for classic New England CDs from George called "The Montville Project" in the FH Store.
Playing with a singer is an important role for a fiddler. Ellen will start with a common ending lick and show you how to enhance and change the lick for variety, ending up with a pocketful of useful licks. Paul will sing mightily and patiently.
The physical Cliffs of Moher may be deadly for American tourists used to lawsuit-preventing rails at the edge of the heights, but the traditional Irish jig is an accessible and classic "chestnut" of a tune. Ellery will teach the tune and help fiddlers lock into a solid jig rhythm and groove of the tune -aka, the musical guard rail that will prevent your fiddle playing from going over the edge and taking the session with you!
Learn a fun tune while picking up Irish mandolin techniques for both your left and right hands.
Join Mariel in exploring different ways to back up a tune in an Oldtime jam setting. We'll explore rhythmic bowing, and how to hear and play chords on our fiddle. Look for Mariel's great CD "Hickory" in the FH store.
Want to improvise, but don't know a lot of cool licks? Take a simple idea and play with the rhythm. We'll explore rhythms from all over the world, using techniques not usually taught to fiddlers, and then apply them to an awesome tune.
Who knew that the Ceilidh Trail led right to Westford, MA? This should be a fine session.
Traditional bowing techniques really make the sound of Québecois fiddling. What do you do when you want to play a tune without many notes to make the melody? You can create different kinds of variation with ornamentation and especially use different bowings. From the simple melody in "Gigue à Médée," you can transform the tune, make it a little bit more complex, and different everytime, but always in a traditional style.
We'll start with some exercises to become comfortable with third position, then put it to work to learn a classic third position reel from the old Cole's Collection.
This workshop will show you how to be more playful and free when playing your favorite traditional fiddle tunes, and give you some exercises and practice techniques to develop your own personal style. We will start with a common simple fiddle tune, and work together to bend it in a variety of ways. Bring a recording device and notebook; there will be lots of ideas you'll want to take home.
Some tunes lend themselves to standard chord progressions. But some of the coolest tunes to play are also the most elusive to accompany: they go right when you think they'll go left, stay put just when you think they'll go… In this hands-on, entertaining, and practical session, Mark will draw on lessons of many years accompanying traditional Celtic music, to share some handy tricks of the vamper's trade you can apply in many styles. He'll come prepared with a couple of "problem child" tunes, then will ask for a head-scratcher or two from you.
We'll explore Dock Boggs' unique up-picking banjo style in two of his most enduring songs. We'll learn a couple of his unusual tunings and a bunch of his signature licks.
Lugubrious and serpentine, mysterious and puzzling and challenging to play, fiddler Paddy Fahey's compositions capture the deep "draiocht" (soul) of traditional Irish music. Join us as we learn one or two of the compositions of this enigmatic East Galway musician, and as we explore the fluid style of bowing that highlights the grace and mystery of his tunes.
Back by popular demand! The Burlington area has been a hotbed of youth fiddling for years, and many of these young friends of mine are prolific writers of really catchy tunes. I love sharing a couple of them each year here at Fiddle Hell. Pete might have a surprise guest or two.
Want a quick dinner before the concert and dance? The hotel is running a Fiddle Hell buffet for us in the Stoney Brook Café next to the main lobby. Help yourself to pasta primavera in cream sauce, penne pasta in marinara sauce, meatballs in marinara sauce, garden salad, garlic bread, rolls and butter, and your choice of a soft drink or a bottle of water. Prices include tax and gratuity: Adults $19, Kids 4-12 $12, Kids under 4 free.
Mark will present exercises and techniques for writing new tunes in traditional styles, sharing some of his own tunesmith's secrets, and drawing on approaches described in his book Songwriting Strategies: A 360º Approach (Berklee Press; FH store). Come get acquainted with Smitty, the Tunesmith Genie!
You'll learn "Sir Reginald MacDonald Reel," a good old traditional tune that's one of Andrea's favorites, as played on Cape Breton Island. This will be at a relaxed pace for beginners, and even starts with an easy scale going down.
We'll look at a few different right hand strumming/rhythm options for backing up jigs, reels, and waltzes. Although Bethany plays open-tuned (DADGAD) guitar, the workshop is open to guitars, mandolins, ukes, and anyone looking to play rhythm behind fiddle tunes. Right hand focus, so chording will be secondary. Bethany and Ellery play together in Fódhla (see their latest CD in the FH store).
You'll see David in glorious action again at the contra dance tonight, right after the concert. But here's a behind-the-scenes look at the caller's viewpoint, and a chance to try a little bit yourself. If you don't want to call, but would like to dance a bit, you'd be most welcome!
Come collect a few great "little" songs that will last you forever. Singers, fiddlers, all pickers welcome to participate. "The Hammonds are folk missionaries of the first order... who love to introduce people to the joys of traditional music." - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe.
Cathy and Paul have led many happy jams over the years, and they'll share a few nuggets of helpful advice on jamming throughout this session. It'll be very basic to start with, and will pick up a bit as the jam progresses.
We will learn the basics and play a song on the mando, come on out! Rob's a multi-instrumentalist, and a friendly teacher whose technique suggestions are worth their weight in gold.
Some contests have a whole Trick and Fancy or Novelty division, where anything goes - visual tricks, wierd sounds, fancy bowing, and more. Great for kids and kids at heart.
The craic will be mighty! Time for lots of trad tunes. Sorry, no black pudding or barmbrack.
Shetland is an island onto itself in the way north of the Scottish Isles. We'll explore some of the fun bowings and cool tunes from that treeless land! Fiddle Hell welcomes cello players; did you know you can get a free loaner cello for Fiddle Hell by prearrangement with Justin Davis at Johnson Strings?
Join Alan Kaufman and Ken Perlman in playing some of Alan Jabbour's favorite tunes. Listeners welcome! Alan Jabbour started with classical music, but then in the 1960s, he began documenting Southern oldtime tunes from musicians like Henry Reed and Tommy Jarrell. Alan taught many oldtime fiddle tunes to his band, the Hollow Rock String Band, which was an important link in the instrumental music revival in the 1960s. Read more about Alan Jabbour here.
We'll learn a beautiful wedding song from Ördöngösfüzes (Transylvania) by ear, complete with ornaments and accompaniment. This is Beth Bahia Cohen's first year at Fiddle Hell, and she's bringing several new styles for us to learn and enjoy.
We'll learn this rollicking and fun reel, including Scottish bowing and ornamentation techniques.
Learn from a great player who himself learned directly from Bill Monroe.
Says Skip: "I met Aly Bain in the late 60's and later traveled with him and Tom Anderson for a week in the Scottish Highlands. I played the Shetland Folk Festival in the 90's. Some of the tunes we might work on include some Foula reels (which are really jigs): Shaalds o' Foula & Garster's Dream. Perhaps The Full Rigged Ship or Gramsay jigs. Reels we might try are Da Lerwick Lasses, Da Scalloway Lasses, Sleep Sound in the Morning, Jack Broke the Prison Door & Donal Blue. Lots of possibilities…"
All instruments welcome at this fast paced jam. Look for Bruce's many CDs and DVDs in the Fiddle Hell Store.
Josephine Keegan was born in 1935 in Dundee, Scotland, and moved with her family to Co. Armagh in 1939 and later to Mullaghbane in 1950. She is primarily known for being Seán Maguire's pianist, but she is also an excellent fiddle player and a prolific composer. Josiphine was named TG4 Composer of the Year in 2005. Rose Clancy founded and runs The Chatham Fiddle Company in Chatham, MA.
Please invite your families and tell your friends about this great concert! Short appearances by more than 20 excellent traditional musicians. Doors open at 6:30PM. Free for Saturday or weekend attendees. Walk-ins are $15 (includes contra dance at 9:30PM). Featuring (without even mentioning all the great accompanists) Dave Reiner; Alan Kaufman / Ken Perlman; Rose Clancy; Andrea Beaton; Pete Sutherland; Gretchen Koehler / Rebecca Koehler; Don Roy; Rob Flax; Frank Ferrel; Lissa Schneckenburger; Duncan Wickel / Flynn Cohen; Ellen Carlson; Andy Reiner / Joy Adams; Rob Thomas; Tom Morley; Ron Grosslein / Van Kaynor / Eric Eid-Reiner; Judy Hyman; Éric Favreau; Abby Newton; Darol Anger; Bruce Molsky / Stash Wyslouch / Allison De Groot. Thanks to Tim Rowell & Oliver Scanlon for sound engineering and Eric Kilburn of Wellspring Sound for lighting.
Free if you're at the concert; no separate tickets for the dance. Fun, easy dances for all, with exuberant, rich, inclusive music by an enormous, expertly-guided folk orchestra. You can put down your instrument and dance a few easy contras and circle dances. Or FH attendees are welcome to sit in with the band to play well-known New England tunes for the dancers.
If you're not at the dance for some reason, here's a bluegrassy alternative. Bring your fiddle; other bluegrass instruments (and voices) are welcome, too. Brown County Breakdown, anyone? Jerusalem Ridge? Old Daingerfield? Blue Night? How about Old Home Place? Levels vary by tune, covering Low Int to High Int.
There's a dance going on right now, but you feel yourself drawn to the allure of jazz violin. "… Duncan is without question on a path to be one of the top jazz violinists of his generation" - Christian Howes. Duncan and Flynn are on tour right now, and it's great to have them both at Fiddle Hell.
Thirsty? Drinks available at Old Joe Clark's Pub off the Lobby. Jam session! Last call is 12:30AM.
No boundaries!
The magic of old time music is how you can play the same tune again and again and again and again and again and again... Learn a few favorites that will be sure to leave you in a trance.
Here are some fun possibilities: Brenda Stubbert's, Calliope House, Cock of the North, Cutting Ferns, My Cape Breton Home, The Reconciliation, The Sailor's Wife, and The Stool of Repentence. They're all on the New 52 2-CD set. Ed will guide fiddlers, mandolin players, and more; Abby will guide cellists who may be playing backup for these tunes if they don't know the melodies.
Here are some possibilities: The Cliffs of Moher, Egan's Polka, Father Kelly's, Inisheer, The Merry Blacksmith, Morrison's Jig, Swinging on a Gate. They're all on the New 52 2-CD set. We'll play at a relaxed tempo.
Know a few tunes, and feel okay about taking an easy solo, but still sometimes get confused about where you are in the form? Do you hear a harmony player playing juicy chords, but can't figure out how to react in time? Do you want to build a solo that has a satisfying narrative arc? This session is for you.
Play and sing through some common bluegrass tunes with Skip, Tony, and Mali. They've got ideas, and you should feel free to suggest your favorites, too (but try to avoid jam-busters).
With roots in Appalachian fiddle music, classical, and modern rock, Judy is a founding member of the alt-folk rock band, The Horse Flies, who have toured extensively and recorded many albums (check the FH store). Join her joyful jam tonight. Tunes will be at a moderate tempo and played long enough to seek trance.


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Join Chris Orwig for an in-depth discussion in this video Performing a better catalog backup, part of Lightroom 4: Catalogs.
Now that we know a little bit about the basics of backing up our catalogs, here what I want to do is share with you a few tips, which will help you more effectively back up your catalog files. All right! Let's go ahead and navigate to our Lightroom pulldown menu and select Catalog Settings. In our Catalog Settings dialog, I want to make sure you have this option turned on, Backup your catalog every time Lightroom exits. And with this option turned on, it gives us a bit of confidence, like we are effectively backing up our catalog all the time, every time we exit Lightroom.
Yet, the problem is, is that we're saving this backup catalog really in the wrong location. In this dialog, you can see the location where a catalog lives. It's in my Pictures folder by default. That's a great spot for the main catalog. Let's go ahead and click Show in order to open up that folder. Well, here you can see I have the main catalog, and then in a subfolder, I have all of my backup catalogs. The problem with this strategy here is pretty obvious, isn't it? If I accidentally cleaned out this folder or deleted this folder or perhaps if this hard drive crashed, well I would lose not only my main catalog but also all of my backup catalogs.
In other words, it's like we've put all of our eggs in one basket, and when it comes to backup strategies, that just isn't a very good idea. So how do we fix this? Let's go ahead and close this dialog. What we want to do is change the location where we're going to save these backups. To do that, in Lightroom, you can go ahead and quit Lightroom. You can do that by navigating to the pulldown menu and selecting Quit. This then gives us the ability to save this backup. And this line here is perhaps one of the most important steps that you can take when it comes to effectively backing up your catalog, because this line tells us where this catalog is being saved.
It's been saved to my Pictures folder; not a very good idea. I want this to be on another hard drive, in a different location. In order to choose that you simply click on the Choose button. Here what I'm going to do is navigate to an external hard drive. I have a hard drive which I've named Backup Drive. On this drive, I've created a subfolder. The folder is called Lightroom-Catalog-Backup. I'll click on that folder here, and then click Choose. In this way, what I'm doing is saving my main catalog on my internal hard drive.
Then that backup catalog or all of those backup catalogs, they're saved on another external device. So here, all that I need to do now to back this up is to simply click Backup and it will check the integrity, optimize that catalog, and then back that up. Well next, what I want to do is open up that drive in order to look at those files. So I'll go ahead and open up the folder now, which is Lightroom Catalog, and here you can see I have the backup file on a different hard drive than my main catalog. And by separating these two locations, it just makes this more stable.
Now another strategy that you might want to take when it comes to backing up your catalogs is to using software to automatically back up those catalog files. If you're on a Mac, you could use time machine or you could use other software that you can set up to automatically back up particular files. I want to show you a resource web site where you can find some information about this type of software. The web site is titled dpbestflow.org and if you go to the Resources section and then click on Links, it will take you to this page.
Well, here on the Links page, there is a section for Software. You can use these programs say like SyncBack or ChronoSync or the other ones listed there, and you can use them to automatically back up files from particular folders, and you can set this up, so that it happens on a regular basis at a particular time on specific days. By using software like this, again it just ensures that you're backing everything up. Well, whatever your strategy, most importantly what I recommend that you do is that you at least save your catalog files on a separate hard drive than your main catalog.
That way you can have your main catalog in one place, and you can have your backup files in a completely different location.
- Comparing RAID storage to JBOD storage
- Finding images in a catalog
- Importing images
- Understanding the difference between catalogs, collections, and folders
- Optimizing catalogs and upgrading legacy catalogs
- Merging catalogs
- Relinking images
- Solving conflicts with new hard drives
- Restoring from backups
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To President Barack Obama: The late John Gardner, a wise and patriotic American who, as cabinet secretary, successfully launched Medicare, oversaw the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and who, after resigning because of his disagreement with President Lyndon B. Johnson's war policy in Vietnam, founded Common Cause, told us: "The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." Gardner also cautioned: "Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers."
You, Mr. President, have more than your share of both.
First, the unloving critics of which so many of whom have individually and collectively prospered from the more than doubling of the Dow Jones averages during your presidency and yet refuse to give your policies any credit. Instead, they blame you personally for any recent outbreak of ringworm in Kankakee. Your partisan political opposition is as irrational as it is intransigent. But your uncritical lovers who attribute even the most thoughtful questioning of your policy or personnel choices to either invincible racism or ideological intransigence do no favors to you or to the public debate.
Mr. President, more than your presidency hangs in the balance. To be blunt, Americans who, in poll after poll, had overwhelmingly stipulated your obvious intelligence and your personal integrity now have been given — by you and your actions — reason to doubt both.
Your fellow citizens are left with two unwelcome options: Either you did not know that you were misleading the nation when you told us "you will be able to keep your health plan," which would constitute terminal lack of curiosity on your part, or you did know and chose to trade your invaluable asset of public integrity for short-term political advantage.
The Democratic Party, which has twice bestowed upon you the highest gift it has — the honor of being its presidential nominee — has long been the home for Americans who believe that government can be and has been an engine for economic progress and the instrument for social justice. Republicans have argued that government is not the answer but instead the problem, which through vexing regulation and onerous taxes prevents the vaunted private sector from solving the nation's problems.
Your own broken promises and your administration's nonperformance on health care have sabotaged the nation's already-depleted confidence in the effectiveness of government and the value of the public sector. A temporary fix is not the solution. You must demand and you must deliver professional competence and complete transparency.
If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is ultimately judged to be a failure, then American liberalism — defined by the belief that we, citizens, are capable of acting collectively through government to improve our country and make our society more just — will be disabled if not discredited. Democratic dreams about 2016, let alone 2014, will have been dealt a body blow.
You spent large chunks of your life in New York and Chicago, Mr. President, so you will understand this homely analogy. The nation's citizens, as of this writing, can best be compared to the passengers on a subway car that has just — with a terrifying jolt — come to an abrupt, unscheduled stop somewhere in the pitch black tunnel between stations. The air is limited. The nervousness and fear of the passengers are real. What those passengers — we — now desperately need is to hear a confident, authoritative voice tell us clearly what went wrong, what is being done to make things right, what we should do to help and when we can realistically expect to be back on the right track again.
That is your job, Mr. President. Only you can do it.
— Mark Shields is one of the most widely recognized political commentators in the United States. The former Washington Post editorial columnist appears regularly on CNN, on public television and on radio. Click here to contact him, or click here to read previous columns. The opinions expressed are his own.


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Asthma patients should be able to know the causes of their condition so as to be able to adequately handle it. There are various causes of asthma such as hereditary cases. This means that it runs in the family and therefore cannot be avoided or prevented. It could also have other causes such as environmental pollution. This is when the conditions under which one works or lives are not good enough for one's respiratory system.
This could bring about an asthmatic condition. Viral infections also cause these conditions. One could get infected by a virus that could cause asthma. Colds can also cause asthma.  It is therefore important to take precautions so that one is able to prevent oneself from getting infected.
There are various forms of treatment given to asthma patients. Patients with severe asthma don't get the same treatment as those suffering from mild asthma. Asthma patients should avoid cold weather as this does not go too well with their conditions. It is therefore advisable to keep warm during the cold season.
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that made me smile,
His eyes are a little bloodshot.
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That's beautiful but has got to be impossibly cold.
Where's the warming ?
They are even predicting snow in the central part of my homestate of Georgia for Jan 7 - 8.
Not trying to derail your thread, OP. It's bizarre that it's being predicted. I was born and raised here and it's not until Feb or March that Atlanta will see any snow; and then it's never more than an inch or two. Except for once. Anyway, it's weird.
Just saying it looks like what you are in could be coming my way now.
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Saturday, September 14, 2013
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"I'm interested in how other people store their stamp sheets."ReplyDelete
...I don't store mine. I use them. XD I'm sure if I had a job though, I'd have plenty more stamps. :)Replies
I ordered a bunch of stamps when I was flush and now I'm coasting off that. :)Delete
I can see you have feather stamp, it's so pretty :)ReplyDeleteReplies
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I'm with you on not using up the last of my stamps!!! I keep my vintage stamps in glassine envelopes they came in, and a few sheets of my private stash in a file folder plus some in my lap/handheld writing desks. But the bulk of our family's stamp inventory is in a 3 ring binder (I did a post about it on my blog: http://scribblingsarah.blogspot.com/2013/01/organizing-postal-stamps.html if you'd like to look)ReplyDelete


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When my oldest was born, we were youth pastors. This meant Wednesday nights were late, as well as special events on the weekends and then camps in the summer. Therefore, I set the schedule to start later in the morning, so that we could accommodate late evenings. We had an 8am wake up time, which allowed her "normal" bedtime to be 8pm but I could fudge it just a little and put her down at 8:30/9pm without disrupting our week. She got good at taking naps in a room off of our youth room or in my husband's office. We purchased a Kidco peapod and she did great with that.
I can attribute my confidence walking through this season to all I learned through Babywise. I learned the checks and balances of our schedule. I learned how to treat it like a deposit and withdrawal system when it came to consistency. If I knew we had a crazy week of evenings ahead, I would lay low during the days. I tried to pick and choose carefully what was important and what could be left out if the kids seemed to be on overload. I also set up a closet (large closet) with toys so they could do "room time or sibling time" during youth or Sunday services at the church. There was even a time (when my oldest was about 6-12 months) that we did blanket time on the stage while I helped lead youth worship (and YES she stayed on the blanket the whole time!)! All of the elements of Babywise helped keep our kids in good behavior and adapting well to our life in the ministry.
We then began a transition out of that church as youth pastors and my kids had to learn a whole new kind of flexibility as we moved in with my in-laws. This was NOT a fun experience, but if I had not been doing Babywise and being structured and proactive, I would not have survived it. We stuck to our routine and made it through a whole year of living in someone else's house with two young children. Living in someone else's house means dealing with their loud noises early and/or late at night, disruptions to sleep, lack of respect for Independent Playtimes, and a whole slough of other issues. Regardless, we survived and I thank Babywise for a lot of it!
I had our youngest while living there and she had severe reflux and feeding aversions (and that's a whole other story) . She still actually STTN at the same age that my others did (8/9 weeks) and slept great with the exception of flares and feeding issues that occurred (which did happen often, but when we solved her problems even ever so slightly, she bounced back to sleeping well immediately, no bad habits to fight!). We have had a long journey to work through with her, but she is an AMAZING sleeper and I attribute that to the consistency I've learned in Babywise.
As we have gotten to transition back into living in our own home, each of our kids are incredibly flexible in many ways and thrive off of routine and independent play times. In fact, my son (middle child) recently asked for room time when we had a bunch of company and he was feeling overwhelmed. I was so proud of him for asking, which shows that he's learned a good tool to use if he's feeling overwhelmed or out of place! We have also transitioned to a new church and new type of ministry and all 3 of the kids (now ages 1, 2.5, and 3.5) have adapted well to our new ministry and church schedule.
So, I share my little glimpse into our life to say that if you are in the ministry, you CAN still do Babywise. Yes, things are different on Sundays being at church all morning and Wednesdays doing services and then even Saturday night services (which we have at our newest church we are in!) and the random other events that come up. But your kids can learn to be flexible inside of the structure that you provide and even learn to nap in random places regularly. You can completely create the consistency that these things are a part of your life on a regular basis and just insert them into your schedule.
If you ever want to talk the logistics of ministry and Babywise, I'm completely open to it! I know it's hard to figure out how to do it, but it is not impossible! Please feel free to contact me anytime!


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Gillard gambles on pokie backdown
On the door of King Charles II's bedchamber, the Earl of Rochester, a notable wit, once pinned a note. It read:
"Here lies our sovereign lord, the King
Whose word no man relies on;
He never says a foolish thing
Nor ever does a wise one."
Unfortunately the noble earl expired in 1680, or we could ask him to pen a similar missive for Julia Gillard. Like the merry monarch, she can tell a good story, but the implementation of it is frankly lamentable.
Keeping her promise to Andrew Wilkie to legislate for pre-commitment for poker machine players was always going to be a problem, but it could have been handled much better, starting much earlier. Instead, she left her backdown so late that there was no time to produce genuine alternative reforms which would have proved to Wilkie, and much more importantly to the mass of voters, that she was serious about the issue. Now she is left looking, once again, tricky and deceitful.
The headlines from last week said it all. Where The Sydney Morning Herald announced: "Gillard retreats on pokie reforms," implying a forced withdrawal from a course of action to which she was committed, The Australian ran: "Gillard prevails in pokies stand-off." The insinuation was that Gillard had never intended to fulfil her promise; now she had called Wilkie's bluff and won.
But in any case she hadn't. Wilkie went ahead and withdrew his support, and while he is unlikely to be in a rush to install Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, Gillard can no longer rely on his vote to pass her legislation. He has already signalled that he is reconsidering his support for the government's bill to means test the health insurance rebate, which the government considers vital for both fiscal and social reasons, and more pay back is likely.
And it needn't have been thus. Gillard's excuse for ditching her commitment was that the numbers in the House of Representatives simply weren't there - the bill would not have been passed, so there was no point in introducing it. But Wilkie avers that he could still get the numbers; presumably he was relying on bringing over the Independent National Tony Crook, who does not have to worry about a backlash from the clubs; in his home state of Western Australia pokies are banned from clubs and pubs and so are not an issue
(Incidentally, can the propagandists of Clubs Australia explain how the state can exist without pokies? How it maintains a thriving club scene, sporting teams flourish, and communities prosper? No? Can it be that they have been telling the rest of us great big lies? But of course; they always have and always will. They call it being Australian.)
It would have done Gillard no harm to test Wilkie's claim by bringing the bill in for a vote - to really call his bluff. If he was wrong, he would have been forced to back off. By not doing so Gillard reinforced the impression that she did not want to risk the bill actually passing. Certainly she showed no enthusiasm for a fight; when the miners unleashed their advertising against the super profits tax, the government fought back with a campaign of its own. Against Clubs Australia's far more vulnerable tirades, Gillard maintained a stubborn silence, leaving it to GetUp! to mount a reply, which proved to be too little and too late.
And when Gillard formally announced her backdown, she treated the whole idea of reform almost with contempt. A $250 withdrawal limit on ATMs in pubs and clubs - big deal. New poker machines to be mandatory-commitment compatible - in the unlikely event any government were to reconsider the measure. And a trial of mandatory commitment in the ACT: not a bad idea, but why so late? If it was so desirable, why not run it this year instead of next, and so leave time to act on the results before the next election?
And of course there were other genuine measures which could and should have been taken. The numbers may or may not have been there for mandatory commitment, but they were certainly there for maximum one dollar bets. Too expensive said Gillard. Too expensive for whom? Surely not for the clubs?
And how about a spot of simple de-glamorising? The government has legislated for plain packaging of cigarettes. It would be easy enough to insist that the clubs strip the bells and whistles and flashing lights off the pokies, replacing them with a sober, or even downright unattractive, product - and one which does not give the occasional free turn, which some addicts have claimed is the greatest turn on of all.
But the clubs have ruled out all of the above and indeed any reform at all which could affect their revenues. And that, it would appear, is all it took for Gillard to rule them out too. Fighting the good fight, even with the enthusiastic aid of community organisations such as GetUp! the moral authority of Tim Costello and most of the churches and the pro bono skills of major advertising and marketing guns such as Neil Lawrence and Sue Cato, was just too hard.
And even widespread public support did not beat the club money.
The polls, even in the New South Wales and Queensland marginals most keenly targetted by Clubs Australia, still showed a majority of voters in favour of reform and even of Wilkie's proposed measures. And anyway, the experts, led by the Nielsen pollster John Stirton, do not regard the issue as a vote changer. So why is Gillard running away?
At the very least, it is to be hoped that the SMH was right; that it is a retreat, not a complete rout. Because the signal it sends is that from now on, any well-heeled pressure group can call the shots. At the first whiff of grapeshot, the government will capitulate. And the electorate will not, and should not, put up with such cowardice from the captain and the crew.
The carbon tax showed that Gillard could play tough when she wanted to, but her behaviour over the last week has been that of a leader who lacks guts or integrity or both. She desperately needs to stop sounding smart and start acting wise. And soon.


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Wife to one amazing man,
Mother to two rambunctious boys,
One of eleven children,
Daughter of the King,
Happily defined and shaped by these.
By God's grace and for His glory, I live, love, serve, and write.
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Spring is arriving in New York City and with it, the season of sidewalk, yard, garage and estate sales. This gives everyone a chance to discover new treasures as they stroll down the New York streets visiting different sales. Estate sales are a wonderful opportunity to view beautiful homes and find gorgeous furnishings. While these are usually organized and run by professionals, most folks plan their own weekend sales using yards, garages and streets to sell off furnishings that have been long forgotten.
It is important to be prepared when planning a sale. Take the advice from professionals and do the homework needed to investigate the worth of your items and then price accordingly. Remember, price items to sell and leave some room for buyers who will want to negotiate. Hold a sale and cash in on the fantastic opportunity to purge the home of unwanted items and get paid to have it all taken away.
1. Organization is the key to success. Crates and bins are perfect for organizing and sorting out the sale items. The Sterilite Storage Crate is the perfect solution for arranging items to entice buyers. Purchase a few to stack for easy keeping as you organize the goodies by type and color. Crates are perfect for books, albums, tools, hardware and scarves. When the sale is over, use the empty crates to better organize the basement or to collect old newspapers and recyclables.
2. Be table ready to have a great sale. The proper surface to show the offerings is important to closing the sale. Folding tables are easy to store and use as well as portable for quick set up and clean up. A six foot folding table with a table cloth should show off the treasures in the proper fashion to attract the buyers. When the sale is over, set the table for a picnic dinner to thank everyone who has helped you with your sale.
3. Advertise and price to sell. Without the proper marketing, no one will know that you are holding a sale. Get out the Sharpie Chisel Tip markers and make some signs to entice the buyers. Make sure that they are clear with the address and times of the sale. Hang them in prominent spots around the neighborhood with arrows pointing towards the sale location. Place circle stickers on each piece to be sold with a well researched price.
4. Get ready to take in the cash. Before the sale begins, make sure that you have plenty of coins and singles to make change for anxious buyers. It is important to keep the money well organized and counted. The best solution is to use a cash box. They are light enough to easily carry around from customer to customer. A cash box also provides a lock for extra safe keeping from prying fingers.
5. Have an outlet available to test appliances and play music to lure. Impress the potential buyers by being power ready to test any appliances and plug in devices that you are selling. Add some music to get everyone into the shopping mood. The Black & Decker Power Station Radio plays radio favorites from stereo speakers. A handy battery operating station can provide a place for customers to plug in and test any devices to prove that they work. If you have an inside outlet within reach of the sale, be customer ready with a long extension cord snaked through a window.
These local businesses should be able to help you get started with ease.
Gracious Home
1220 3rd Ave at 70th St
New York, NY 10021
(212) 517-6300
Hours: Mon to Fri- 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat- 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sun- 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Price: Sterilite Storage Crate $9.99
Rainbow Ace Hardware
1449 1st Ave (between 75th St & 76th St)
New York, NY 10021
(212) 288-4868
Hours: Mon to Fri 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sat 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sun 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Price: six foot folding table $59.99
Jam Paper & Envelope
466 Lexington Ave. (btwn 45th & 46th Street)
New York, NY 10017
(212) 473-6666
Hours: Mon to Thurs- 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Fri- 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat to Sun- 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Price: Circle Label Sticker Seals $7.50, Sharpie Ultra Fine Point Marker $4, Sharpie Chisel Tip Marker $4
Tarzian Hardware
193 7th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 788-4120
Hours: Mon to Fri- 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., Sat- 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Sun- 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Price: 11×7-3/4×4-Inch Blue Cash/ Storage Box $14.99
Sunset Hardware
8111 5th Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11209
(718) 748-0960
Hours: Mon to Thurs- 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fri- 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Sun- 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Price: Black & Decker Power Station Radio $129.95, 50 foot extension cord $19.99
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Saudi Aramco will take sole ownership of the nation's largest oil refinery in Port Arthur within the next three months.
Royal Dutch Shell and state-owned Saudi Armco announced late Monday they've successfully negotiated the dissolution of their two-decade joint venture, Houston-based Motiva Enterprises, which owns three refineries in Texas and Louisiana, including the massive Port Arthur Refinery.
The deal was delayed for months after Shell and Aramco struggled to finalize the details. They announced last year they planned to break up the Motiva marriage.
Aramco subsidiary, Saudi Refining Inc., will own the 600,000-barrel-a-day Port Arthur Refinery, while Shell gets the Convent and Norco refineries in Louisiana, both of which combine to process less than 500,000 barrels daily.
Aramco will pay Shell $2.2 billion as part of the deal, including $700 million in cash and the assumption of additional Motiva debt.
The deal is expected to close in the second quarter.
The Saudis will maintain the rights to the Motiva Enterprises brand, as well as 24 distribution terminals, including exclusive rights to sell Shell-branded gasoline in eastern Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C. and most of Floria.
Shell keeps 11 terminals and Shell-branded markets in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, the Florida Panhandle and the northeastern U.S.
Saudi Arabia also is seeking to grow in Texas petrochemicals and plastics. The Saudi Basic Industries Corp., called Sabic, has a joint venture with Exxon Mobil to develop a $10 billion chemicals and plastic complex that's tentatively slated for a site north of Corpus Christi.


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Fighting striga: Resistance genes deployed to boost sorghum productivity
Researchers under the regional body ASARECA (Association for strengthening agricultural research in Eastern and central Africa) have developed a high yielding striga resistant sorghum that will boost sorghum productivity in the region. This comes as a relief to sorghum farmers in the east and central Africa who for a long time have had to battle with the striga parasitic weed that has constrained production of this crop leading to the yield loss According to Dr. Charles Mugoya who heads ASARECA's Agro-Biodiversity and Biotechnology Programme (Agrobio) the striga weed is affecting almost 17 million hectares of farms in the East and central Africa region.
"The future sorghum production is affected by this weed which sometimes leads to 100 per cent losses on farmer's yields." he added. Sorghum is ranked second after maize as the most important cereal in the East and central Africa region with about 300 million people in Africa depending on it as food grain. The weed therefore poses a great danger to food security to these huge numbers of people who depend on the crop to attain food security. Striga attacks roots of young crops starving them of nutrients leading to low grain yields. The weed is a prolific seed-producer, a single plant producing more than 50,000 dust-like seeds that are readily spread by wind, water or contact, and which survive in soil for up to 20 years. It not only damages crops from below, but also emerges from the ground after farmers have finished weeding, making crop management a hard task for farmers. The weed is also said to affect other crops like rice and wheat. Already 50 striga resistant sorghum lines capable of giving up to 3.6 tonnes grains per hectare have been developed by the regional agricultural body and other partners like Eritrea, Sudan, Kenya and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid- Tropics( ICRISAT).
"This breakthrough will enable 300 million people in Africa who depend on sorghum as their food grain to get out of hunger, attain food security, walk out of hunger bracket and live better lives." Dr Mugoya said. According to agricultural researchers the practice of breeding sorghum using conventional methods is a big challenge in fighting the weed as most farmers still have limited knowledge on the resistant genes. "Utilization of these varieties by farmers will bring about positive change in the lives of farmers in the East and Central Africa." He added. Most people in these regions struggle to eke a meager living through subsistence farming of exhausted soils with diminishing food yields. ASARECA is an organization of the regional agricultural research systems of ten countries: Burundi, D. R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. It aims at boosting agricultural research in eastern and central Africa to facilitate economic growth, food security and export competitiveness through sustainable agriculture.


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January 12, 2017
Rhody Horror Movies for Friday the 13th
Even the least superstitious may feel a bit nervous on the unluckiest day of the year. With Friday the 13th almost upon us, why not tap into that fear and make some scary movies just a tad more frightening. An added bonus? It's hard to be at the at the mercy of bad luck when you're curled up in the safety of your home watching some horror flicks. Check out some Rhode Island films that were either set or filmed in our little state.
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Rhode Island is rife with historic homes, from the Newport Mansions and Clouds Hill in Warwick to the Governor Lippitt House in Providence. Perhaps this is why famous writer/director Guillermo del Torro chose to set his film Don't Be Afraid of the Dark in a Victorian mansion in Providence county. The movie tells the story of a family that is forced to deal with the malevolent creatures living beneath their newly acquired home. Although it was actually filmed at Drusilla Mansion in Australia, anyone who has wandered some of Rhode Island's historic homes should quickly recognize the house's distinctly New England vibe.
Call of Cthulhu
It's hard to talk about horror in Rhode Island without mentioning Lovecraft; his gravestone in Swan Point Cemetery even bears the line "I am Providence." Based on one of his most famous stories, the Call of Cthulhu is appropriately set in Providence, RI. Although made in 2005, the adaptation is a silent film paired with a vintage soundtrack. Follow the protagonist as he investigates a mysterious cult and mind-boggling horrors.
Anyone who has ever visited the Joseph P. Ladd school in Exeter is intimately familiar with how creepy the location is. Once a functioning school for those with developmental and mental disabilities, the facility was abandoned and eventually fell into disrepair. Exeter, which is filmed on location, tells the story of a group of teens exploring the dilapidated structure and dealing with the supernatural forces within.
The Conjuring
Probably one of the most famous horror movies set in Rhode Island, The Conjuring explores the supposedly true story of a a family living in Burrillville who dealt with paranormal happenings in their home. Although the movie was actually filmed in North Carolina, the current owner of the house has had to handle a slew of movie fans trespassing on the property, calling incessantly and even threatening to destroy the home (it's full of evil spirits after all). Please leave the investigations to the certified ghost/demon hunters.


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Samsung A900
July 4th, 2006 by Andrew
I finally got a new cell phone. After three long years of living with the same old phone, I went for an upgrade. It's the Samsung A900, the top of the line for Sprint phones before you get into the (rather useless) "smart" phones. It features bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel camera (1280×960, enough for good-quality […]


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Hello synth enthusiasts
I have been a fan since childhood of a video series called Baby Einstein. Lately I have been trying to find the synths used in the series. I'm guessing they used the Roland JV/XP series. Here is the soundtrack for one of their videos called Baby Mozart. It was made in 1998. Please help me identify what synth was used in this.http://dataup.sdasofia.org/MUSIC/Music- ... le%20Ears/


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Friday, March 23, 2007
Barack Obama Coming to Tampa
Obama will speak at the Cuban Club on April 15. Tickets to the event can be purchased online. Price of admission is $25.00.
Time: Sunday, April 15 at 11:00 AM
Host: Megan Foster
Contact Phone: 813-908-0129
Cuban Club
2010 N Avenue Republica De Cba, Tampa, FL
Sunday, March 11, 2007
The Big Lie - Iraq - Again - Part II
I am sure you've have heard it. Any mention of placing conditions , or restrictions on the supplemental funding for the war brings forth immediate cries of "micromanagement" from the Iraq War Supporters. Is this really true, or is it just one more Big Lie?
Come below the fold where we'll deconstruct this one and perhaps find some Truth....
Let's start off by defining micromanagement. Dictionary.com gives us this:
mi·cro·man·age : –verb (used with object), -aged, -ag·ing.
to manage or control with excessive attention to minor details.
[Origin: 1985–90]
—Related forms
mi·cro·man·age·ment, noun
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v
1.1)Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.
House Republican Leader John Boehner had this to say about a recent plan by John Murtha to place restrictions on the use of funds in the upcoming Iraq supplemental funding bill:
Not to be outdone, Condoleezza Rice said:
"His aim, he made clear, is not to improve readiness but to 'stop the
surge.' So why not straightforwardly strip the money out of the appropriations
bill -- an action Congress is clearly empowered to take -- rather than try to
micromanage the Army in a way that may be unconstitutional? Because, Mr. Murtha said, it will deflect accusations that he is trying to do what he is trying to
proposals being drafted by Senate Democrats to limit the war amounted to "the worst of micromanagement of military affairs."Even Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline program is getting in on the act. They quote :
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Lateline, in the same story, also had this:
ROY BLUNT, REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN: It's hard to imagine a group less capable of making tactical decisions about specific troop deployments than 535 members of Congress.
NANCY PELOSI, DEMOCRAT HOUSE SPEAKER: No more blank cheques for President Bush on Iraq. Our taxpayer dollars must go to protect our troops, to keep our promises to our veterans and to provide for the safety of the American people. In light of the facts, President Bush's escalation proposal will not make America safer.and this:
TOM LANTOS, DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN: We are not fighting terrorism in Iraq. We are attempting to referee a religiously based civil war, which saps our strength and destroys our fabric as a society.So what is all this talk really about? Does Congress in fact have the power to set policies that control how the military operates? Has it been done before?
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power to ...provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States...
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union...To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States
So it would appear that Congress does indeed have the power to govern the military. In fact, Congress has done just that from the inception of the republic. There is 5 USC CHAPTER 99 - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE NATIONAL SECURITY PERSONNEL System passed in January 2005 (For those of you not paying attention, this was in the Republican controlled Congress). Then there is 10 USC TITLE 10 - ARMED FORCES. This entire title of the code is devoted to the governance of the armed forces of the United States. It covers everything from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.
So Congress has indeed exercised its powers under the Constitution
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;They have done it under Democratic and Republican controlled Congresses. They have done it before there were Democrats and Republicans. And they should continue to do so now.
So, when you hear your Republican friends talking about Congress micromanaging the Iraq war, just point them to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. If that doesn't work, direct their attention to 10 USC TITLE 10 - ARMED FORCES. If none of that works, you know you've got the type of Republican who voted for Allan Keyes for the Illinois Senate seat now held by Barak Obama.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Mary Mulhern Victory Party
Campaign manager Mitch Kates speaks at Mary Mulhern victory party. He is a raising star. He guided Mulhern and Justice to victory while being vastly outspent.
Mary Mulhern Wins
Jim Johnson liveblogged the election and has the play by play details. I can safely say after the election that I thought Shawn Harrison's money advantage was going to give him the edge. So I can't get on Jim getting the Mulhern/Harrison race wrong. Wow, Harrison is even more of a sucky candidate than I imagined.
The good news for the left is we got a progressive on the City Council.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Florida Legislature: What to Do, What to Do
Of course the big issues that everyone is talking about are the twin terrors facing property owners: insurance and taxes. The St. Petersburg Times has an excellent article today about the tax issues. Inevitably, every other issue facing the state is intertwined with the tax issue. There are education challenges both in K-12 and the university system. Managing growth and transportation issues loom large. How about crime and the cost of Gov. Crist's Anti-Murder bill?
There are plenty of challenges and opportunities facing the legislature this year. How about we get the on line conversation going? Maybe our legislators will take notice of what we say. After all, hope springs eternal.


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ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Il (KMOV) -- An eight-year-old was burned by meth-making chemicals when he discovered a drug lab hidden inside a duffle bag behind his St. Clair County home.
JJ thought he'd stumbled upon hidden treasure in the woods behind his home.
"It looked like a black bag and I thought it was cool looking," he said.
As it turns out the bag belonged to his cousin. Deputies say Justin Cruse was cooking meth in the woods along Old State Route 3 in East Carondelet. They say he concealed it inside a duffle bag. When JJ found it, the chemicals inside burned him.
"My arm got red and it gave me like a chemical mark," JJ said.
A thin orange and white cloth marks the entrance to the makeshift drug lab, which has been dismantled by detectives.
Ashley Jones, JJ's mother, said something seemed fishy when her cousin started coming around to visit.
"The boom the day before and then people pulling up in my driveway, sneaking up like some ninjas on the side of my house."
Deputies say that 'boom' she'd heard was likely a meth lab exploding and that the duffle bag her son discovered was like a ticking time-bomb. When Jones's son found it, she says she was so furious that she called police on her own cousin.
"My son could have went back there and played in it; opened that jar up and it would have ate his face off," Jones said. "It makes me feel horrible that I was ever stupid enough to trust him; that he put my kids in that kind of danger."
"This resident did absolutely the right thing," St. Clair County Sheriff's Captain Steve Johnson said. "Even though it was a family member, because [she called], her children are safe."
Within the past two weeks, St. Clair County deputies tracked down four of the five people they say are connected to the lab. Police are still looking for Alexis McGeehan, but Jones says she ran off to Texas.
The following people were charged by the St. Clair County State's Attorney with participation in meth manufacturing, unlawful possession of meth manufacturing materials and possession of meth: Justin A. Cruse, Alexis R. McGeehan, David W. Wilkerson, Terry A. Grissom, and Charles V. Grissom.
As of Thursday night, Cruse is in jail, along with his dad Terry Grissom and his cousin Charles Grissom. Wilkerson posted bond. Deputies are still looking for McGeehan. Anyone with information should call police: (618) 277-3505.
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The varsity squad for the class 1B Sunnyside Christian Knights gave the 2A Wapato Wolves and the 3A Sunnyside Grizzlies all they could handle last night.
Unfortunately for Sunnyside Christian, Tuesday night's jamboree in the Grizzly gym also included the play of each school's junior varsity. Each of the games consisted of four, five-minute quarters, with the JV units playing the first half and the varsity closing out the action in the final two periods.
"Our JV team struggled with handling the larger schools' athleticism," said Sunnyside Christian Coach Dean Wagenaar. "Our JV team is pretty young."
The end result for the Knights were a pair of 38-32 and 52-31 losses to Wapato and Sunnyside, respectively. Neither of the defeats, however, will go on Sunnyside Christian's season record because they were not regulation-length contests.
In their first match-up of the evening the Knights varsity took the floor trailing Wapato by a 19-10 count. But behind an 11-point effort by guard Aaron Van de Graaf, which included knocking down two shots from treyland, and 5 points from his 6'4" cousin, Cole Van de Graaf, Sunnyside Christian fought back to cut the final deficit to just 38-32.
In outscoring the Wapato varsity 22-19, the Knights relied on their half-court offense. "We didn't make much happen in transition," said Wagenaar.
Wapato, he said, ran predominantly a man-defense against his club. The Knights responded on offense by rotating into their different scoring sets.
In addition to the combined 16 points from the Van de Graaf cousins, Sunnyside Christian got two points apiece from Lucas Brouwer, Brandon DeVries and Andy Freepons.
Against the host Sunnyside Grizzlies the Knights varsity relieved their JV counterparts trailing 28-11. Sunnyside went on to outscore the Knights varsity, but only by a 24-20 count.
Wagenaar said at the outset of the varsity portion of the contest he experimented a bit. "We tried some half-court trapping.
"It didn't work real well," he added in explaining how Sunnyside's varsity forged a 16-9 advantage.
"We played much better when we went to our 2-3 match-up zone. We were able to identify their shooters," he said.
The Knights fought back to make a game of it with Sunnyside, paced by the shooting of Brouwer, who sank two 3-pointers enroute to scoring a team high 8 points. Sunnyside Christian also got a pair of 6-point performances from Cole Van de Graaf and DeVries.
In getting outscored 24-20 in the varsity half of the game, the Knights didn't do themselves any favors at the free throw line. "We hit just 4-of-10 free throws," said Wagenaar. "We shot terribly."
Sunnyside Christian was without one of its key players last night, as junior Joel Koopmans was out of the line-up because he doesn't yet have enough practices in to play with the team. Koopmans, said Wagenaar, is a savvy player who will bring both scoring and rebounding to the club.
In looking ahead to the first regulation game of the season, Wagenaar said his Knights will have their work cut out for them at Liberty Christian this coming Friday. A two-time winner at last night's Mabton jamboree, Liberty Christian features an extremely tall front line that likes to pack the ball inside the paint.
"They're one of the best 1B teams in the state," Wagenaar said of the Richland club. "We want to turn it into a full-court game against them. We'll be looking to run."
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Minister of Foreign Affairs
Linas Linkevičius
On 7 September, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius congratulated the Brazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira Filho on the country's Independence Day.
In his letter of congratulations, Lithuania's Foreign Minister welcomed the intensifying bilateral relations between Lithuania and Brazil, and called for further strengthening of mutually beneficial political and economic ties. The head of Lithuania's diplomacy also repeatedly invited his Brazilian counterpart to visit Lithuania.
Lithuania and Brazil established their diplomatic relations in 1931. Lithuania's consulates in Brazil operated until 1961. The countries re-established their diplomatic relations on 5 November 1991. Currently, Lithuania has its Consulate General in São Paulo. Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius paid an official visit to Brazil in April 2015.


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Some links to more about the show at MoMA in Moscow:
Is There Any Hope for an Optimistic Art
Biennale homepage
The opening night was yesterday, and the completely new performance "3 Rivers" went really well.
Many thanks to Ivan Bushuev and his musician-friends aswell as to Per Nilsson for particpating! Also many thanks to Asya who co-ordinated the exhibition and to Clara who helped out with a lot of things.
A couple of "before" shots.