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Composer of 'J'
|Joseph Jongen (1873-1953)
A representative composer in modern Belgium, Marie-Alphonse Nicholas Joseph Jongen was born in Liège on 14th of December in 1873. He entered Liège Conservatory when he was 7 years old and studied under Sylvain Dupuis and Théodore Radoux and obtained the first prize in harmony, fugue, piano and organ classes. In 1894, he obtained the grand prix in Royal Amademy of Belgique Prize with his first string quartet. He also obtained the first prize of the Prix de Rome in 1897 with his cantata 'Comala'. By using the prize money, he traveled through Europe from 1898 and devoted himself to French modern music. After his return, he was appointed as the professor of composing and counterpoint classes in Liège Conservatory in 1911. Moreover, he was also appointed as a visiting professor of fugue class in Brussel Coservatory in 1920, department chair of the department from 1925 (to 1939) and has brought up many pupils. He is also one of the most renowned composers in modern Belgium for his strongly-built neo-classical construction in form with resplendentfully colorful impresssionistic harmonization. He is also a prolific composer and had written 241 works in his life although he abandoned many of them (except 137 works) in his laterlife because he faced unparatable truth that musical scenes were gradually being dominated by contemporary (progressive) composers. He died at Sart-Lez-Spa on 12th of July in 1953. There is one thing should be noted about the pronouncing of his name. According to J.S. Whiteley's book of Jongen (1997), his name should be pronounced as 'Jo-n-gen' rathar than 'Yo-n-gen'. (2003©K.S. : Related Source : JONGEN, Joseph: in CeDeM site (works list) / Les Amis de Joseph Jongen)
Main Works
|Stage Works
|Felyane (1907) {vos, choir, orch}
|Song of Saints Anges in Cantata Form cantique aux Saints Anges (1890) {choir, p}
Ave maria (1891) {bass, vln, org}
ecce panis (1891) {btn, choir, org (orch)}
kyrie et gloria (1892) {choir, org, 2vln, vla, vc}
alma redemptoris mater (1895) {4vo, org}
callirhoe (1895) {vos, choir, orch}
Gradual for a Easter Day graduel pour le jour de pâques (1895) {8vo}
haec dies.. (1895) {choir, org}
Ave maria (1896) {2vo, org}
angelis suis (1897) {choir, orch}
comala (1897) {vos, choir, orch}
lady Macbeth (1897) {vos, choir, orch}
Muse la meuse (1902) {m-choir}
ave maria (1905/1906) {choir, org (4m-vo)}
Pastoral Song chanson pastoral (1913) {f-choir, orch/f-choir, p}
Song of Marie des Anges la chanson de Marie des Anges (1919) {5vo}
A Dance of Dragonflies la danse des libellules (1919) {4vo, p (orch)}
A Legend of Saint Nicholas la légende de Saint Nicolas (1933) {child-choir (f-choir), orch (p)}
Hymn for Muse hymn à la meuse (1938) {choir, p (org/orch)}
A Cocada and an Ant la cigale et la fourmi (1941) {child-choir, p (2p/orch)}
Mass mass (1945) {vo, choir, org, (brass)}
He is a Shepherd il était un' bergère (1947) {child-choir, p (orch)}
lacrymosa (1947) {2vo, org}
Fugues for a well-tuned Cembalo fugues du clavecin bien tempéré (-) {choir}
|Divertismento Divertissement (1896)
Fantasy fantaisie (1902) {orch/2p}
Moonlight clair de lune (1908)
Two Symphonic Pieces deux pièces symphoniques (1917)
Passacaglia and Gigue passacaille et gigue (1929)
Trilogy tryptyque (1936)
ouverture, fanfare (1939)
in memoriam (1947) {orch/p/harmonium}
ballade (1949)
|fantasia (1898) {vln, orch (p)}
Cortège March marche cortège (1898) {org, orch (2vln, vla, vc)}
Violin Concerto in B Minor concerto en si mineur (1899) {vln, p/vln, orch}
Cello Concerto concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre (1900) {vc, orch}
adagio symphonique (1901) {vln, orch/vln, p}
Wedding Song and Scherzo epithalame et scherzo (1907) {3vln, orch (p/org)}
concertino (1913) {tp, orch/tp, p}
Suite for Orchestra and First Viola suite pour orchestre et alto principal (1915) {vla, orch}
Concerto in Five Instruments concerto à 5 (1923) {fl, vln, vla, vc, hrp}
Rhapsodic Fantasy fantaisie rapsodique (1924) {vc, p (orch)}
Hymn hymne (1924/1926) {org, orch/harmonium, p}
allegro appationato (1925) {vla, orch}
symphonie concertante (1926) {org, orch}
humoresque (1930) {vc, orch (org)}
Introduction and Dance introduction et danse (1935) {vla, p (orch)}
Hallelujarh for Organ and Orchestra alleluja pour orgue et orchestre (1940) {org, orch}
concerto (1943) {fl, ob, cl, hrn, bssn (2p/p, orch)}
Harp Concerto concerto pour harpe (1944) {hrp, orch (p, org)}
Piano Concerto concerto pour piano (1945) {p, orch}
|fanfare (1945) {brass}
Heroic Fanfare fanfare héroïque (-) {3tp, 4hrn, 3tb, tba, bass-tba, cymbal, ds}
|An Album Leaflet feuille d'album (1892) {vc, p}
String Quartet No.1 in C Minor quatour en ut mineur (1894) {2vln, vla, vc}
fugue (1895) {2vln, vla, vc}
habanera (1895) {vc, p/b, p}
Song lied (1899) {hrn, p}
andante espressivo (1900) {vla, p}
adagio (1901) {vln, vla}
Piano Quartet quatuor pour piano et trio à cordes (1902) {p, vln, vla, vc}
Silent Time heure calme (1902) {vln, p}
Violin Sonata No.1 sonate en ré majeur pour violon et piano (1903) {vln, p}
Trio for Piano, Violin and Viola trio pour piano, violon et alto (1907) {vln, vla, p}
Violin Sonata No.2 sonate en mi majeur pour violon et piano (1909) {vln, p}
Cello Sonata sonate pour violoncelle et piano (1912) {vc, p}
caprice impromptu (1916) {vc, p}
String Quartet No.2 in A Major quatour en la majeur (1916) {2vln, vla, vc}
Sweetness of Pines dans la douceur des pins (1916) {vc, p/vc, orch}
Two Pastels deux aquarelles ¡Ê1917¡Ë {vln, p}
Two Serenades deux sérénades (1918) {2vln, vla, vc}
aria (1921) {vc, p}
Sonata for Flute and Piano sonate pour flûte et piano (1924) {fl, p}
Slow Dance danse lente (1924) {fl, hrp}
Two Pieces in Trio Format deux pièces en trio (1925) {fl, vc, hrp/vln, vc, p}
Two Pieces deux pièces (1929) {4vc}
Two Pieces in Trio Format deux pièces en trio (1931) {vln, vc, p}
Harp harpe (1932) {2vln, vla, vc, hrp}
Two Sketches deux esquisses (1933) {2vln, vla, vc}
Two Pieces deux pièces (1933) {fl, ob, cl, hrn, bssn}
Intimate Song chanson intime (1936) {vln, p}
Lullaby berceuse (1936) {vln, p}
concertino (1940) {vla, p}
2 Paraphrases by Christmans Songs in Wallon Region deux paraphrases sur des noëls wallons (1941) {4fl}
Elegy elégie (1941) {4fl}
ballade (1943) {hrp}
Aria and Polonaise aria et polonaise (1944) {tb, p}
concertino (1947) {cl, p}
String Trio trio à cordes (1948) {vln, vla, vc}
trois cadences (-) {fl, hrp}
Largo in the Name of Bach largo sur le nom de Bach (-) {vln} ...Found after his death, in 1956.
(translation unclear) hoûte on pau..(-) {4fl}
|Elegy elégie (1891)
Elevation elévation (1891)
Piece for Grand Organ pièce pour grand orgue (1892)
andante cantabile (1895)
Five Organ Pieces cinq pièces d'orgues (1893-1896)
Fugue in the Style of J.S. Bach fugue dans le style de J.S.Bach (1897)
Sarabande in the Ancient Style sarabande dans le style ancien (1902)
Pastoral : Piece in A pastorale : pièce en la (1906)
Cantilena cantilène (1908)
Four Pieces quatre pièces (1910-1911)
Two Pieces for Organ deux pièces pour orgue (1911)
larghetto (1911)
Offering by Alma Redemptoris Mater offertoire sur l'Alma Redemptoris Mater (1911)
Religious March marche religieuse (1911)
Two Pieces for Organ deux pièces pour orgue (1914-1915)
le see-saw! (1917)
le bon chîval (1918)
Legend légende (1930) ... incomplete
Heroic Sonata sonata eroïca (1930)
toccata (1935)
A Small Piece petite pièce (1936)
Small Prelude petit prélude (1937)
Schezetto and Pray scherzetto et prière (1938)
improvisation-pastorale (1941)
Prelude and Fugue prélude et fugue (1941/1943)
Choral of Gabriel Faure chorals de Gabriel Fauré (1944)
Gaudeamus: verset pour la Fête de l'assomption (1944)
Autumn Remembrance pensée d'automne (-)
Funeral March marche funèbre (-)
|Symphonic Concerto concerto symphonique (1892) {2p}
Etude étude en fa dièse majeur (1892)
Etude for Octave Notes études en octaves (1892)
Wedding March marche nuptiale (1893) {2p/orch}
improvisation (1900)
barcarolle (1901)
(translation unclear) lalla roukh (1904) {2p/orch}
Two Pieces deux pièces (1908)
Two Rondes of Wallon Region deux rondes wallonnes (1912)
In Form of Waltz en forme de valse (1913)
Impressions of Ardenne impressions d'Ardenne (1913) {2p/orch}
Crepuscule of Lac Ogwen crépuscule au lac ogwen (1916)
Adagio of 2'nd Quartet (adagio for the 2'nd of the accompanists?) adagio du 2e quatuor (1916) {2p}
Sad Sarabande sarabande triste (1918)
Suite in Form of Sonata suite en forme de sonate (1918)
Children's Room la nursery (1918)
Etude for Concert No.1 étude de concert No.1 en si mineur (1920)
Etude for Concert No.2 étude de concert No.2 en fa dièse mineur (1920)
Etude for Concert No.3 étude de concert No.3 (1920)
30 Preludes treize preludes pour piano (1922)
Impromptu No.1 1e impromptu (1928)
Play of Nymph jeux de nymphe (1929) {p/orch}
sonatine (1929)
allegretto (1929)
cantabile (1931)
10 Pieces dix pièces (1932) {p/small-orch}
Impromptu No.2 2e impromptu (1933)
Improvisation improvisation (1935)
Ballade No.1 ballade No.1 (1936)
Ballade No.2 ballade No.2 (1941)
Play of Infants jeux d'enfants (1941) {2p}
Dance in Ancient Form bourrée dans le style ancien (1942) {p/orch/2p}
Impromptu No.3 3e impromptu (1943)
Laughableness: March, Small Lullaby and Divertismento cocass: marsch, petite berceuse et divertissement (1945) {2p}
Divertissement (1950) {2p}
intermezzo-piccolo (1950) {2p}
|chanson (1891) {vo, p}
In April en avril (1892) {sop, p}
Venetian Barcarol barcarolle venitienne (1893) {sop, p}
Anytime with Love j'eus toujours de l'amour (1893) {sop, p}
Good Evening bonsoir (1893) {sop, p}
Exrasy l'extase (1893) {sop, p}
An Evening on a Field le soir sur la steppe (1893) {tnr, orch (p)}
Lullabies les berceaux (1893) {vo, p}
(translation unclear) hostias et preces.. (1898) {sop, p}
(translation unclear) les mâlhureux (1900) {sop, p}
Roumanian Chanson chanson roumaine (1902) {vo, p /vo, orch}
After the Dream après un rêve (1902) {sop, orch /sop, p}
Dance of Flowers bal de fleurs (1902) {sop, p}
Lilies lys: chrysanthèmes (1902) {sop, p}
From the Precious Stones dans son écrin (1909) {btn, p}
Two Chansons deux chansons (1907) {msp, p}
deus Abraham (1909) {btn, org, strings/tnr, vln (vc), org}
Script Boards les cadrans (1914) {vo, p (orch) /sop, 2vln, vla, vc, p}
Calm of the Quiet Banks calmes, aux quais déserts (1917) {sop, p/sop, p, 2vln, vla, vc}
Exiles' Epiphany epiphanie des exilés (1917) {vo, p /sop, orch}
Carnival in the Trenches le carnaval des tranchées (1917) {sop, orch (p)}
The Red Festivals les fêtes rouges (1917) {sop, p}
The Languages of Fire les langues de feu (1917) {sop, p (orch)}
Unhappy Peoples les pauvres (1919) {vo, p /sop, p, 2vln, vla, vc}
Two chants without Words deux chants sans paroles (1923) {sop, p}
Entering Visions entrevisions (1926) {vo, p}
A Music la musique (1948) {vo, p /sop, 2vln, vla, vc, p}
|Exam. /
|fugues (1890)
fugue (1894)
fugue (1897)
Competiton Piece in 1926 concour de 1926 (1926)
Competiton Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1926)
Lecture Piece in 1926 for Horn Solo lecture pour cor, 1926 (1926) {hrn}
Lecture Piece in 1926 for Clarinet Solo lecture pour clarinette, 1926 (1926) {cl}
Lecture Piece in 1926 for Oboe Solo lecture pour haubois, 1926 (1926) {ob}
Lecture Piece in 1926 for Piano Solo lecture pour piano, 1926 (1926) {p}
Lecture Piece in 1926 for Trombone Solo lecture pour trombone, 1926 (1926) {tb}
Lecture Piece in 1926 for Trumpet Solo lecture pour trompette, 1926 (1926) {tp}
Lecture Piece in 1926, 28, 29 for Horn Solo lecture pour violoncelle, 1926, 1928, 1929 (1926) {vc}
Competiton Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1927)
Lecture Piece in 1927 for Clarinet Solo lecture pour clarinette, 1927 (1927) {cl}
Lecture Piece for Doublebass and Viola in 1927 lecture pour contrebasse et alto, 1927 (1927) {vla, b}
Lecture Piece in 1927 for Piano Solo lecture pour piano, 1927 (1927) {p}
Lecture Piece for Trombone and Fagot in 1927 lecture pour trombone ou basson, 1927 (1927) {tb, bssn}
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1928)
Lecture Piece for Doublebass lecture pour contrebasse (1928) {b}
Lecture Piece for Horn Solo in 1928 lecture pour cor, 1928 (1928) {hrn}
Lecture Piece for Trombone in 1928 lecture pour trombone, 1928 (1928) {tb}
Lecture Piece for Trumpet in 1928 lecture pour trompette, 1928 (1928) {tp}
Competiton Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1929)
Lecture Piece for Violin Solo in 1929 lecture pour violon, 1929 (1929) {vln}
Competition Piece of Piano Class concour de piano (1929)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1930)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1931)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1932)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1933)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1934)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1935)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1936)
Lecture Piece for Organ in 1936 lecture pour orgue, 1936 (1936) {org} ...two identical pieces exist
Lecture Piece for Piano in 1936 lecture pour piano, 1936 (1936) {p}
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1937)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1938)
Competition Piece of Solfege Class concour de solfège (1939)
Practice Piece for Harmony Class devoir d'harmonie (1942)
Lecture Piece for Cello in 1943 lecture pour violoncelle, 1943 (1943) {vc}
Practice Piece for Harmony Class cour d'harmonie (-)
Etude Manuscript document d'étude (-)
Twelve Lessons of Solfege Class douze leçons de solfège (-)
Piece for Counterpoint with Notes over Octaves du contrepoint double à l'octave (-)
Jongen Disc Review
|"Symphonie Concertante (Jongen) / Fantasie en La : Pastorale (Franck)"
(Telarc : CD-80096)
Michael Murray (org) Edo De Waart (org) San Francisco Symphony
In case you do not cling to the disc with full of Jongen's works, this should be the most recommendable Jongen CD. His Symphony Concertante is seemed the most representative and excellent work of Jongen and in fact many recordings have produced CDs for the work. Although it has neo classicism-based construction in form, this organ concerto also encloses full of impressionistic colorful harmonization. In addition, this work is one of the most challenging piece for organists. Hence this work can be interpretated whether as a contemporary pop classical music like John Williams's cinema soundtrack or as a dignified (but somewhat obstinate) neo-classical tune. Some recordings chose the latter and failed to enlighten his advanced orchestration skills. This recording wisely selected the former, and succeeded to push up his brilliant and coloful harmonic content with clear prospect to the forms. Above all, the orchestral supplement by the tact of De Waart is especially notable. If the organ was recorded in better sonority, it would be the ideal recordings!! After the first publication in 1984, this recording has kept in press for twenty years. The fact clearly demonstrates the quality of performance.
|"Symphonie Concertante (Jongen) Symphonie No.3 (Saint Saëns)"
(Dorian : DOR-90200)
Eduardo Mata (cond) Jean Guillou (org) Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Hence Symphonie Concertante is the representative work of Jongen, we have more than 6 alternative recordings although other compositions are hardly to be purchased. The tight construction enables the work to escapethe shadow of earthiness although the harmony sounds clear and colorful like John Williams's movie tunes. Such well-balanced sense of composition should enjoys the preferance. Therefore, where to set the fulcrum to ballance classical solidity and popular floridness is one of the most enssential point of performing Jongen's orchestral works. De Waart with San Fransisco have shown an ideal interpretation in terms of that ballance. Such ballance deviation can explain the characteristics of this performance. Above all, they played 4th movement in 5:09. Even though favor can be depended on listeners' subjective views in some extent, the duration is definitely too fast no matter how ones look at. Because of the tempo, composer's solid construction in form was restlessly planed away. Needless to say, the fast tempo affects the working-out of details. They tended to be knocked up and sound monotonous. It can be described a flashy performance anyway, some people can confuse that the other performances are somber. But I can not find any agreeable reason to select the tempo despite of having the disarray between the solist and orchestra.
|"Deux Mélodies op.25 / Deux Mélodies op.45 / Cinq Mélodies
/ Triptyque pour Orchestre" (Cypres : CYP1635)
Mariette Kemmer (sop) Pierre Bartholomée (cond) Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
A Belgian label Cypres previously provided almost of all oppotunity to listen Jongen's orchestral works. In 2003, in concert with the composer's birth and death anniversaries, this label finally started to press ahead with a series of newly recorded jongen CDs. As one of the series, this CD consists of Jongen's melodies with orchestra. The conductor, who recently switched sides to Monte-carlo Philharmonic from Liege Philharmonic seemly because of interpersonal trouble, adrressed the heroic attempt after the completion of Lekeu recordings. Because the three songs enclosed here had written in the composer's relatively earlier days, their orchestration is romantic rather than neo-classical and impressionistic. Especially for the Two Melodies (the earliest work), it is striking to listen and recognize that the sound resembles Duparc considerably. Such second generation's works let us to recognize the fact again that Franck (the chieftain of Paris Conservatory in the era) had come from Belgium. Triptyque build the climax of this CD as had expected. His skillful full-color orchestration with neo-classical construction technique create a huge sound cathedral. Everyone can easily notice his brilliance by simply listenning this three pieces. Although it is easy to guess the performance of orchestra is excellent, it is a true fortune that solist also sings beautifully. Strongly recommended.
|"Concerto pour Piano / Concerto pour Harpe / Passacaille et Gigue"
(Cyprès-Musique en Wallonie : CYP 3610)
Fernand Quinet (cond) Eduardo Del Pueyo (p) Mireille Flour (hrp) Orchestre de Liège : Orchestre National de Belgigue
Although he once had occupied the largest position in modern Bergian music school, he has been forgotten until quite recently. However, composer's anniversaries of birth and death in 2003 have motivated a Belgian label Cypres. Cypres used the anniversal as the trriger to start publishing a series of Jongen works. Thanks to the label, we come to have many options to start enjoying most brilliant category of Jongen's works: orchestral. Before the anniversal year, however, only this CD (compiled 3 historical recordings) could provide few oppotunities to appreciate his orchestral music. Since they unaccountably recorded with monaural equipments of 1960s (I can not find any reason why they had not tried to record them in stereo format), we can not praise the sound quality. However, the members are quite gorgeous. The conductor Quinet was also a composer who frequently had interacted with Group of Six. Hence he had actively introduced the composers of the same age as one of the most famous conductors (we can interpret him as a Belgian Pierné). In addition, the soloists are all go-getters. Before I encountered this CD, I had never thought that I could have the oppotunity of listenning Jongen with the underrated genious, Del Pueyo!! It can be easily imagined that they were planned to create the monumental recordings by assembling Belgian musical world of that era.
|"Concert à Cinq / Sonate-duo pour Violon et Violoncelle / Danse
Lente / Adagio pour Violon et Alto / Deux Pieces en Trio" (Cyprès
Ensemble Arpæ
Finally, thanks to the appearance of this recording, the chamber music genre of Jongen came to be prehensible with beautiful performance. The ensemble was formed in 1994, consisting of a harp, a flute, and string trio. All of the members have brilliant skills such that they were graduates of Royal Conservatory in Brussel (the fact also indicates they are all junior fellow of the composer!!). They also came through a high degree such that the flutist was a pupil of Peter Lukas Graf, whereas the harpist was a pupil of Marie-Claire Jamet. As you can easily imagine, the performance goes incomparably better than competing Talent disc. They seemed to try to perform in fresh-faced and dry manner with selecting the faster tempo (than Talent and Naxos ones). In this manner, such way of performance are likely to be next door neighbors of boorish interpretation. The reason that they could avoid from falling crude performance, is simply the ensemble could maintain the sense of belongings around the highest level. Consequently the ensemble could create the dry and refreshing sound like a pleasant afternoon breeze. If you intend to purchase a chamber works of Jongen, this should be recommended as one of the first choices.
|"Quatuor avec Piano / Trio" (Cyprès : CYP1638)
Ensemble Joseph Jongen: Diane Anderson (p) Eliot Lawson (vln) Jacques Dupriez (vla) Mark Drobinsky (vc)
This recording was performed by Jongen Ensemble seemingly initiated by Diane Anderson (central figure of Les Amis de J. Jongen) and her colleagues. But, in reality, She and Mr. Drobinsky are familiar names such that they have recorded together the works of Adolphe Biarent to the same label. Both of the two works included in this CD are written in relatively earlier of the composer's life. Since we know his violin sonatas revealed thhat the composer was still in his fledgling era, it is reasonable if you anxious about the quality of the pieces in this CD. Quartet totally resembles that of Faure in terms of the basic romantistic construction. The decorative arpeggios by piano in intraposition to passionate unisons with highly expanded tonality generate spark (or anime) like fishes swim smoothly near the water surface. This is common characteristic between the two quartets. Of course it was a transitional opus. But it can be described as a fruit of his travel to France (from 1898). In fact, his brilliant harmonization can be found in around of it. We can immediately notice his progression especially in modal context by listenning Piano Trio, which was written in several years later. It can be said the trio wrapped up his transitional era. Violinist was a pupil of Kantlov and Oitslav and Viola is a teacher in Brussel Conservatory. Except Drobinsky on cello, all members are Belgian. Their performance has traditional elegant Franco-Belgian atmosphere.
|"Impressions d'Ardennes / Concerto pour Violoncelle et Orchestre / Fantaisie sur Deux Noëls Populaires Wallons" (Cyprès : CYP1634)
Marie Hallynck (vc) Roman Kofman (cond) Orchestre National de Belgique
Thanks to a Belgian label Cypres, now we come to have a large amount of recordings of Jongen's works for large ensemble. This disc provides another alternate. The charming solist, Ms. Hallynck is a core member of Arpae Ensemble who is enthusiastic to enlighten Jongen. As we can say the same thing for other Cypres recordings, the works included in this CD have composed in the composer's relatively younger era. Even for the latest, it is 'Impressions D'Ardennnes' which was written in 1913. The fact well explains the characteristics of the works.Cello concerto is written in strongly traditional latter-romantic manner. Although the masterful orchestration is highly breathtaking, it sounds like D'indy rather than Jongen as neo-classical and impressionistic composer. If your favor do not meet such an German-centric sound, you should try the Impressions at first. Even though the form is still latter-romantic rather than neo-classical, you can easily recognize to see the distant view of Debussy through the facing features of D'indy and Ropartz, especially in harmmonic landscape of this composition. Like other Cypres discs, this recording is also well performed.
|"Danse Lente / Trio / Sonate / Elégie / Deux Paraphrases sur des Noëls Wallons pour Trois Flûtes et une Flûte Alto" (Naxos : 8.557111)
Marc Grauwels (fl) Marie Hallynck (vc) Sophie Hallynck (hrp) Dalia Ouziel (p) Quatuor de Flûtes du Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles
Because 2003 was the anniversal year of the composer, he got the momentum of re-evaluation. This disc provided a good example of riding the strengh of it to be issued. Since two previously published Talent discs made a little mess of the account because of the performance, we can say this CD provides a precious alternate for the composer's least stocked genre. The flutist was appointed by National Orchestra in Belgium as a principal solist in 1978. His performance is passionate. This is no wonder, since we come to know that fact that this CD had once published from Syrinx: a regular price label. Hence you do not have to anxious about the quality of performance because its price is cheap. As for the compositions, they can be described by the word 'elegant'. Quasi-classical archaism with modern harmonic coloration live in peace. If I have to quote any, I should mumble complaints about the paper strap of Japanese edition of the disc. Since he was born in Franco-Belgium circumstance, his name should be pronounced 'Jo-N-Gen' rather than 'Yo-N-Gen'. Probably, Naxos parties refered to the Japanese edition of 'New Grove Dictionary'. Tragically, his name was typed in Yongen letter although the dictionary is assumed to be the most reliable source to detact the composers biographies.
|"Quatuor à Cordes No.1 en ut Mineur / Quatuor à Cordes No.2 en La Majeur" (Pavane : ADW 7483)
Quatuor Gong : Hanxiang Gong, Yinlai Chen (vln) Jean-Christophe Michallek (vla) Martin Hesselbein (vc)
This CD is a welcomed one since there has extremely slim chances to appreciate Jongen's string quartets. The CD consist of the first two out of three Jongen's string quartets. The first one, written in 1894, is the winning piece of the annual composition competition held by Royal Belgian Academy, Fine Arts section. Then, he was still a student of Liege Conservatory. By winning it, he obtained 1000 francs (about 4000 euros) and chance to travel France for studying under his musical heroes (Franck, Dindy or Debussy). The number of opus is only '3' indicating the compositional diction clearly. The quartet was still deeply rooted in Franck like latter romantic idiom. Harmonic content is conservative. However, the well-expanded themes and skillfully arranged rhythmic content strongly imply his attained greatness in later period. As for the second quartet, dedicated to Theo Ysaye (youngest brother and a pianist of famous Eugene Ysaye) was written in 1916. Since Jongen had already entering his mature period, this quartet was composed in far modern manner. Key-changes is more frequent, forms are more strict (reflecting his favor had shifted into neo-classical idiom). Above all, the harmonic content, by heavy application of tremoro by plural strings, is far colorful and impressive. If the performance was nice, the disc shoud had been rated 5-sar...!! The quartet was formed in 1986 by the members of Liege Philharmonic. While their feminin tone control and expression are impressive, their sensory in pitch is loose. I cannot help thinking that 'after all, orchestra members will be just a orchestral member'. Further recordings are strongly required.
|"Trio à Cordes (Jongen) Trio 'Le Chimay' (Ysaÿe) Strijktrio
(De Meester)" (Pavane : ADW 7502)
Goeyvaerts Strijktrio: Kristien Roels (vln) Kris Matthynssens (vla) Pieter Stas (vc)
The present disc issued in 2006 includes 3 trios by Belgian modern composers of different background. (As you can see above) this label has another CD of Jongen's quartets, performed by Liege Orchestra members. On the contrary to their regrettable performance and compositions of their fairly old fashioned Franckistic idiom, the string trio is a surprise of preasure, although Jongen track occupies one out of three, the work was written in 1948... in his later life. Around the first minute, for the first motif, it sounds just baroque-like old fashioned. However, it drastically changed then after, into the colorful harmonies and skillful counterpoint of latter Jongen's diction. Truly a masterpiece! Although the coupling Ysaÿe's are not very well-written in terms of its poorer sound effect despite of its rich application of modernist way of compositional diction (reflecting his background that he was not a composer but a player), for me this recording is worth enough just because it introduces us the Jongen's nice trio. The last work is written by 20th century born Meester. His educational background is almost nothing. Self taught except few counterpoint lessons from J.Absil when he was 33. At that time, his compositional diction had fixed with deep influence of jazz. Later he became a member of Brussel broadcast and devoted to avant-garde electric music. His trio reflects the history. In the beginning resembles Japanese traditional music Gagaku. Then it turns into the world of hysteric leaping notes and diluted tonality. The aesthetic can be compared a russian avant-garde composer Lourié. As for the ensemble, they formed in 1997 as a trio specializes only 20 or 21 century composers' works. Their performance trying to curve the feature in dynamic way with full of rich and powerful syncopations is largely favorable. Surely we can believe they just received 'Fuga Award 2003' from belgian Composers Union, although their sensory in pitch become loose in a few moments while they play, and their tone sounds a little bit stinging and rough.
|"Concerto à Cinq / Deux Pièces en Trio / Introduction et Danse / Danse Lente / Valse" (Classic Talent : DOM 2910 74)
Eric Melon (vln) Etienne Plasman (fl) Didier Poskin (vc) Pierre-Henri Xuereb (vla) Rachel Talitman (hrp)
This is the second recording from Talent devoting Jongen's chamber works by Eric Melon with his colleagues. This time they entitle the CD as the complete recordings of Jongen's chamber works with use of harp. Since the solist, Eric Melon, already recorded jongen's violin sonatas for the same label, it can be easily supeculated that he took a leadership role in realization of this recording. Although the performance is not well sophisticated in terms of feeling of oneness in the sound texture (it may be because the performers' carriers are domestic rather than international), the composers ability far outweighs such an small defect. Impressionistic nuance is completely digested in the works with neo-classical beauty in form. They probide exalted dignity to his compositions and demonstrate he was a great national asset. Composers normally indicate their strong and weak points in accordance with genre of musical instruments. Jongen was a real master because he could demonstrate high density in quality of composition for every genre. It is totally misfortune for all classical music fans in nowadays who do not have a chance to know this composer with fanatical ability.
Concertante / Suite / Allegro Appassionato" (Koch Schwann : CD 315
Hubert SchoonBroodt (org) Rene Defossez (cond) Orchetre Symphonique de Liège -symphonie concertante / Therese Marie-Gilissen (vla) Brian Priestman (cond) Orchestre Symphonique de la R.T.B.F. -Suite : Allegro Appassionato
Beside of Cypres's historical Jongen recording, this disc provides a sparse example of how his compositions were interpreted and performed. Since we come to have enough oppotinuties to purchase Jongen's most blissed work Symphony Concertante, it is hard to recommend this recording in case you would like to try the Concertante. The reasons can be found on the poor sound quality with bigoted interpretation and less-sophisticated orchestra. If you intend to drive vintage cars on ordinary roads in your country without tuning it any, you will be immediately arrested by the police because of violating laws of emission control. To listen this without enough understanding of listenning historical recordings will precipitate the same problems to you. For most of listeners, this disc should be purchased just for listenning other two lesser-known orchestral works.
Organ Works of Joseph Jongen vol-2 :
Offertoire / Cantabile / Improvisation-Caprice / Prière / Choral / Scherzetto / Gaudeamus / Légende / Improvisation-Pastorale / Marche Religieuse / Larghuetto / Sarabande / Sonata Eroïca" (Priory : PRCD 382)
John Scott Whiteley (organ)
As you can easily imagine, by referring to the fact that his most famous works were written for organ and orchestra, organ music was Jongen's favorite subject. This CD, entitled the volume two of Jongen's complete organ solo works, follows almost all of Jongen's works for grand organ solo (namely, these CDs seem not completing all works). Here I examplified the second one. The performer, John-Scott Whiteley is a graduate of Royal Colledge of Music in England. Since he won the England organ competition in 1976, he regulary performed throughout England as a church organist. He seems to have a detailed knowledge of Jongen such that he published a book of Jongen in 1997. Although the quality of the recordings is hardly to be praised because of exhaust sound of the organ, these 2 discs provide a precious oppotunity to fill up the catalog of Jongen's organ works.
|"Complete Piano Works Volume 1" (Pavane : ADW 7475/6)
Diane Anderson (piano)
As the volume one of them, this disc declares the first time ever to complete Jongen's piano works. It should be one of the most striking fruits of Jongen's anniversal year in 2003. We should notice that the project is heroic attempt because we previously could listen Jongen's piano pieces only by purchasing the excerpted works (which is from Klavier). Luckily, the ability of the performer is confident as well. She has a gentle touch and well-controlled technique of hitting keys equally despite of few small mistakes. Normally, we know the formula that the works by ralatively underrated composers are tend to be performed by relative minor-performers. Then, they are tend to be recorded miserably. Therefore, it is fortune to appreciate Jongen's piano works with this quality in performance. As for the compositions, you can find some effect of impressionism in terms of the usage of whole tones and parallel notes. But the basic flow of tonality won't get out of their shape. Rather than selecting the Debussian manner of deconstructing the tonality, Jongen applied passing notes to 'expand' it. It can be said that his favor was latter romantic rather than impressionistic. In addition, his composition can be characterised regarding the more reliance of hitting chodes (rather than arpeggios) and grace notes to clarify the distinct outlines of every tunes. It seems interesting to find the similarity between the piano works of Jongen and Howard hanson in terms of this tendency.The compositional diction of Hanson' orchestral works resembles Jongen for a considerable extent. His orchestral works are neo-classical and very much colorful in harmony. By now we come to know that there are two manners to enrich the harmony. The former (such as Jongen) intended to overlay chodes like oil paintings, whereas the latter (such as Debussy) tried to mingle least colors together to deepen the nuances like water paintings.
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Clair de Lune / Soleil a Midi / Sarabande Triste / Angoisse / Giovenzza / Papillons Noirs / Nostalgique / Appassionata / poir Danser / Airs de Fetes / Sonatine / La Neige sur La / Menuet Danse / Rondeau" (Klavier : KCD 11032)
Gary Stegall (piano)
Before the complete piano works project has started (as indicated above) in 2003, this disc provided almost of all oppotunity to listen Jongen's piano works (as far as I know, there was no other CDs devoting only for Jongen's piano works). The performer Mr.Gary Stegall was a professor of Blinn Maoh Conservatory in Pennsilvania. Although his detailed biography cannot be found, he seems to perform organ as well as piano. It can explain some of his initial motivation of planning this recording. Like Le Flem and Maurice Emmanuel in France, modern composers who were good at orchestral works are likely to have written piano works in simple manner. Jongen (who is good at orchestral paintings in full color) is no exception. This disc indicating the characteristics of his piano works are more likely to be described romantic rather than impressionistic. If you love Jongen's gorgeous coloration which can be found in his orchestral works, you may be disappointed in this CD. In other words, this can be accepted wider range of listeners who love Chopin, Faure and so on.
|"Sonata in C Minor (Jongen) Poème (Tournemire) Sonata in B
Minor (Vierne)" (Talent : DOM 2910 35)
Viviane Spanoghe (vc) André De Groote (p)
Although the present CD published in 1996, entitled French Cello Sonatas, Jongen is strictly a Belgium. Assumingly, the real aim of the selection is 'an modern organist-composers omnibus'. The Jongen's one has opus number 39 and written in 1912. Since we know the fact that he was still in juvenilia period when he had written his second violin sonata in 1909, it is natural for us to hold some imaginary fears toward the quality. However, as the very first theme hit my ears, I immediately come to know that is groundless. Sweet and passionate latter romantistic melodies colored by beautiful impressionistic harmonies demonstrate aloud his maturity with showing something in common with his Deux Pieces, his latter masterpiece, in many ways. This recording is further faborable in terms of the coupling works. Since the work has written in 1908, it seems be the reason why Tournemire's one sounds traditional Franckistic although it also contains little hints of Ravelian coloration and Mussorgskian rhythm. Likewise, it was a little surprise that Vierne's sonata indicate his maturity as a Franckistic-chromatist despite of written date (in 1910) that is a bit earlier days. The selection seems thoughtful, because all of the ones has written in around 1910, and indicate many similarities despite of their organ works sound different. It further gives the unity (feeling of stableness) on an omnibus disc. One more things to be praised is the delightful performance. Although the cello does not holds many prestigous international competition record, her sensory in pitch is tight as well as her tone and emotion is beautiful, although the dynamics seems a little bit weak. The name of the pianist can be seen as the second piano on the composer's Complete piano works recording published from Pavane label in 2006. His adequate accompaniment firmly demonstrates his rich competition records such that he won the Munich, Tchaikovsky, and Elisabeth international piano contests.
en Ré Majeur / Sonate en Mi Majeur" (Classic Talent : DOM 2910
Eric Melon (vln) Jean Schils (p)
This CD includes two violin sonatas written in the composer's earlier days. The first sonata was written in 1903 and the latter one was in 1909. The written dates indicate the content in a considerable extent. Needless to say that the neo-classically (sometimes latter-romantistically) rooted tight forms and fully-colored harmonization, are the composer's style of composition in his mature days. Such an determined virtue is rarely be found in these sonatas. Rather than that, these two works can be characterized as typical Belgian romantistic (fairly be Franckistic) sonatas like Ysaye and Lekeu, without hints of modal impressionistic idiom. Therefore, in general, they may taste too bland for many of Jongen-lovers (especially for the person who loves the later years of the composer). In fact the former sonata was dedicated to Ysaye. The performers are colleagues since their student life in Liege Conservatory. Violinist once won a prize on Vieuxtemps competition whereas the pianist won the first prize on J.S. Bach competition. Their performance is better than their international name recognition although the sound tastes fragile for some extent.
(Jongen) / Prière (Franck) / Two Motets from Cantica ad Laudes Vespertinas
(Nuffel) / Entrata Festiva (Peeters)" (Pavane - ETBF : ADW 7242)
Tom Cunningham (cond) Janet Hughes (org) The Brussels Choral Society : Ensemble de Cuivre Luc Capouillez
This CD is precious because it includes Jongen's Missa for the first time in 1990 (until now in early 2004, there is not other recordings of this work, as far as I know). Although Jongen is known for his tight construction in form with colorful orchestration, his missa seemed to choke down such virtues to be devotionalistic so that cantus is emphasized. In consequence, this missa sounds like incondite Faure or Ropartz. This way of composing demonstrates that Jongen may take a page from Franck's (Franck is also included in disc). For many of Jongen fans, this work must sound somberly. Unfortunately, the perofrmers are also hard to be praised without annotating anything in terms of the unity in pitch control. In addition, even if you are trying to listen two extra-minor composers such as Nuffel and Peeters, I have to inform their composition are just rare. In sum, it should be concluded that this CD is just for dilettantes.
en sol mineur (Widor) : Alleluja / Hymne (Jongen) : Concerto (Parker)"
(Guild : GMCD 7182)
Franz Hauk (org) Alfredo Ibarra (cond) Philharmonic Ingolstadt
Even though Cypres has published a number of Jongen's orchestral works, this Guild CD still has some value to be specially quoted. Most of all reasons why this disc should be taken some notice are, simply this CD includes two orchestral pieces of Jongen and they have never been recorded in other CDs. In addition, the composition (especially Alleluja) is a masterfully colorated piece. If you are serious fan of Jongen's orchestral works, especially for his skills of harmonic content, you can feel worthy enough to purchase this CD. However, once you take out the scarcity, most of all virture of this CD is gone. It is truly regretable to note the performance fell far short of acceptable quality. It is hard to find any adequate reason why they should be recorded by such an nameless (moreover german-centric) orchestra.
|"Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Stravinsky) Pièce
Symphonique (Jongen) Triptyque Dramatique (De Taeye)" (René
Gailly : CD87 066)
Norbert Nozy (cond) Evgueny Moguilevsky (p) Symphonic Band of the Belgian Guides
This disc, performed by an Belgian Monte-Christ, Norbert Nozy and his colleagues consists of rare works of minor modern composers. Very rare Jongen's brass band tune make a climax of this CD. There is a certain reason why they come to think of recording such a rare piece. This work was initially written for piano and orchestra in 1928. Later on, The composer came to be known to the conductor of this symphonic band around the era (his name is Arthur Prevost). Then Jongen asked him to arrange his concerto to brass band symphony. In other words, this is namely an arranged piece . Hence is was composed in 1928, this concerto is different from the one enclosed in Cypres disc (op. 127, performed by Del Pueyo). This pieces can be described as a midiated piece of neo-classisism and impressionism. On the basis of tight nationalistic form (sounds like Tchaikovsky's piano concerto), fully-colored harmonies are served generously. It clearly demostrates this was written in composer's massive era. Other two pieces includes Stravinsky's concerto (sounds like Milhaud's piano concerto representing it is of composer's neo-classical era) and a Trilogy by De Taeye. De Taeye was born in 1898 in Brussel. He was the person who won the Roman Prize in 1927 and was appointed as a professor of harmony in Brussel Conservatory later on. As such biographical background indicates, his work resembles Jongen with effects from eastern european composers such as Martinu or Szymanovski. Performance is sure.
Pièces en Trio (Jongen) / Trio C-Moll (Lekeu)" (Signum : SIG
Clara Wieck Trio : Rumiko Matsuda (p) Claudia Noltensmeyer (vln) Gisela Reith (vc)
This CD enclosed the piano trios of Jongen and, a Belgian ill-starred composer, Lekeu. The performance of this recording should be specially mentioned. It is very much impassioned. As you can easily imagine by the selection of composers, this CD sheds the light on Jongen's romantistic aspect although of hints of impressionism. Assumably, the object of production was to couple and make a contrast with these two Belgian composers. Both of them won the prestigeous Roman Prize (although Lekeu was placed the 2nd), their later life went on to be dramatically different. Jongen remained his home country. The choice enabled him to estate a professor position and made him to establish his influence in musical scene of modern Belgium. On the contrary, Lekeu migrated to France for studying under Franck. The choice had adverse effect on his health. He died too young to establish himself as a famous composer. Moreover, Jongen's compositional diction was changed into neo-classical and impressionistic one, although their starting point seems to be the same. This disc could draw a clear distinction between the two by performing these trios.
(English Trans. 2004 3. 4)


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text: ANALYSIS/OPINION: Mike Flynn was right to quit. You don't lie to the vice president of the United States and let him go out on national television and lie to the American people. President Trump was right to accept his resignation. Or demand it, depending upon which version you choose to believe. But Mr. Flynn's original sin�


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20 in 20: Restaurant Rundown – Flo's Hot Dogs
I bet you looked at the title and said, "Seriously Jaime? Hot dogs?" And I say, "YES! Hot dogs!" And not just any hot dogs… FLO'S Hot Dogs! If you've never been, this is a road trip to take!
Our father has always wanted to open his own hot dog stand, and has been talking about it for years. I thought that for Father's Day, back about four years ago, Eric and I could surprise him with a road trip up to Cape Neddick Maine and visit the epitome of hot dog stands, and see just how successful the restaurant is.
We showed up to this seemingly unassuming, side-of-the-road stand and my dad looked at me questioningly. I told him that we were there to see just how dogs are done. He still seemed a bit hesitant, but waited in line with us before Flo opened her doors.
If you don't know the story behind this hot dog shack, it started with a woman, Florence Stacy, who owned and ran the business for many years. In that time, she created a relish whose recipe, to this day, is held secret. And it's probably a good thing, because it's for the relish that people flock to this New England gem.
Relish, like the green pickle stuff? Nope, not at all like the pickle stuff. Like this other stuff, that is sweet, and brown, and so much yummier than I'm making it sound! But it's rare to get out of Flo's without loading the relish on your hot dog! The other secret, besides the relish, is that once the hot dogs run out, business is closed! So it's not unusual to order 2, 3, or 11 hot dogs at a time. When I told my dad this, he didn't believe me, but the few people in front of us ordered 4 and 6, and one guy ordered 11, so he got the hint. We order when we get to the counter, or we don't get the goods!
Since it was all of our first time at Flo's, we all ordered 2 hot dogs with the relish, and oh boy was it good! We relished in the relish, and figuring out what was in the topping was futile. Bite after bite was processed meat heaven, and we kept eating until our plated were licked clean. Mmmm….
It was a great Father's Day, and I loved getting to surprise him with this local hideaway. Thanks Flo!


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I looked at a few books and came across "CorporateIdentity4". What I liked about this book was that it had examples for all different kinds of businesses, whether it was for entertainment, a product or a restaurant. So it was easier to compare the different styles and what ideas are commonly used for certain business.
The first Logo that stood out to me in this book was 'Zero'
Which is a frozen drink, like a Slush.
I think that the style is cool, it's modern and targeted to a younger age group, teens to early 20's maybe?
I like the logo or symbol which has been used, it is supposed to look like a snow flake, but has a spikey effect making it look sharp and gives me the impression of an energetic, or striking drink, maybe its a frozen energy drink?
I also like how the drink has been altered for each drink so the style is consistent but slightly different for each flavor.
I also like the main logo, which is plain typography, it's modern but I think it's well chosen as it won't date.
I think that it matches the symbol well and meets the target market.
Overall, it's a successful logo.
The second logo I came across was this logo for "". Which made me think of the Space Bar.
I think something like this would work well for the Space Bar if it kept the same name, however the name needs to change.
I still like the style and the simplicity of this logo, so something like this would work nicely.
I was surprised to come across the 'Warners Brothers' logo as I didn't recognize any other logo in this book.
This logo is widely recognized all over the world for the looney toons, and lots of movies, etc.
I love this logo, it has an old fashioned style, it makes me think of broadway.
I love the shape of the logo, it's very bold and yet really simple.
I don't think this would work as a logo for a restaurant though...
I thought this logo was interesting, I like the way the 'O' is much larger.
I also like how the logo has been used in these images, especially on the business card, it's different and quirky!
I like the simple Typography, it doesn't take too much focus off of the 'O'.


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News > France
Air France boss resigns after losing online pay offer vote
The boss of Air France-KLM is to resign after company staff rejected a pay offer aimed at ending a series of strikes. After failing to win unions' agreement for a seven-percent rise over four years, Jean-Marc Janaillac put the proposal to an online ballot, threatening to resign if it was rejected.
On Friday 55 percent of the 46,771 Air France employees who voted turned down the offer.
The unions said the increase was too little after six years of pay freezes and demanded a 5.1 percent raise this year.
Staff and management at the carrier have been locked in a dispute over pay since February.
Friday's vote came as workers embarked on a 13th day of strikes, prompting the cancellation of a quarter of flights.
The industrial action has cost the Franco-Dutch airline millions of euros.
Janaillac had been gambling on the strikers' resolve wavering, with just 21.5 percent of pilots participating in Friday's walkout, compared with 33 percent when the stoppages began in February.
A further strike is planned for Tuesday 8 May.
Ministers pay tribute
The French government, which owns a minority stake in the group, has called on both sides to assume their responsibilities.
Janaillac's departure is unlikely to resolve the crisis, leaving unions with nobody to negotiate with.
He is expected to tender his resignation at a board meeting on 9 May.
The board will have to "define the conditions to end the current crisis", Economy Minister Bruno Le Marie and Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne said, adding a tribute to the "courage of Jean-Marc Janaillac and the work he has done to help the group's recovery".
Ahead of the vote, the 65-year-old told journalists he might retire if he was obliged to resign.
"I could. I'm the right age," he commented.
"The CEO of #AirFrance has just invented the fire-your-boss referendum," tweeted hard-left politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
He suggested that Guillaume Pépy, the boss of strike-hit rail company SNCF, might like to take up the idea.
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Cool Misbah keeps Pakistan on course
It's not easy being Misbah-ul-Haq. Charged with leading Pakistan during one of the most challenging periods in their history, Misbah knows that whatever he achieves he will never win over all his critics.
It doesn't matter that he possesses leadership qualities that Pakistan sorely require. It doesn't matter that he provides a rare beacon of batting solidity amid a morass of fragility. And it doesn't matter that he has the calm head and experience to steer his squad through choppy waters. To some, it only matters that he isn't Shahid Afridi.
Misbah captaining Pakistan is like an accountant taking centre stage in the circus. A team renowned for its raw skill and entertainment value is being run by a man who isn't exciting, isn't flamboyant and isn't glamorous. He is a fine player, certainly, but for some that will never be enough. They don't just want to win; they want to win with style. They don't just want a captain who leads them to victory, they want a captain who leads them to victory amid a flurry of boundaries and with thick glossy hair.
So partly for that reason, Misbah's captaincy - in limited-overs cricket, in particular - has been the object of continual criticism. It is true that his ODI strike-rate is not especially high - he scores at a rate of 74.30 runs per 100 balls - but, in a team that sometimes struggles to bat through a 50 over innings (they have been bowled out in six of their last 11 ODIs), that is rarely a problem.
Besides, after everything that Pakistan have been through in recent times, a little bit of stability is no bad thing. Confronted by an array of obstacles that would have driven a weaker man into retirement, Misbah has shepherded his young team to respectable performances, including Asia Cup victory in 2012 and a Test series whitewash against England. There is little need to dredge up matters consigned to the past here, but it should never be forgotten that Misbah inherited an ageing team in transition, devastated by retirements and bans and fated to spend the foreseeable future playing all their games away from home.
The burden on Misbah's shoulders was most graphically illustrated in Pakistan's opening Champions Trophy fixture against West Indies. While most of his colleagues batted with the resilience of a pappadam - the combined efforts of nine Pakistan batsmen amounted to 18 runs - Misbah compiled an unbeaten 96 that almost led his side to something approaching a respectable total.
So perhaps, as 39-year-old Misbah approaches the autumn of his career, he will begin to win greater appreciation. Perhaps, as Pakistan start to consider who will replace his middle-order calm, Misbah's considerable worth will become more apparent. But while there was certain world-weariness in Misbah's description of the fickle nature of celebrity, he did reaffirm his commitment to Pakistan for the foreseeable future.
"I think everybody knows that there is not much time left in my career," Misbah said at Edgbaston ahead of his side's must-win Champions Trophy tie against South Africa. "So, my priority is to play for Pakistan. I just want to play more and more international cricket because I know that I haven't much time left in cricket. But whatever comes, I just want to play. I just want to enjoy it and play well for Pakistan.
"When you do well, it's really something. Everybody praises you and you're a star for a day. But with the high praises, there are also high criticisms when you don't do well.
"In our country it's like that. As a player, you need to just understand this and just try to put on a better show in every game you play and don't let it get on your mind because one day these people are really after you and the next day you could be really out of it."
One of the encouraging aspects of Pakistan's defeat in the opening game was the performance of their bowlers. Despite all the impediments and absences, it seems Pakistan still have an ability to develop fast bowlers that are the envy of many other nations. Misbah's theory is that the lack of help available to bowlers who develop in Pakistan forces them find other skills to compensate.
"Maybe genetically people are a bit stronger in Pakistan," Misbah suggested. "Or maybe it is because the conditions are not conducive for seam bowling. It's really hard work in Pakistan. If you want to be a fast bowler, you really need to be hard working, you need a bit of pace there. So maybe that helps people to just bowl a bit quicker than other parts of the world."
But for all the bowling talent, Pakistan's batting resources are arguably at an all-time low. Misbah's speculated that, with conditions so straightforward for batsmen in Pakistan, young players are ill-prepared for the challenges that wait when they graduate to the international game. For that reason, he accepted the extra burden on senior batsmen in the side, but expressed hope that younger players would also perform with confidence and application against South Africa.
"It really makes it easier for the team if all of the others are contributing, especially at the top of the order. It's really important in these conditions. They believe that they can do it. I believe they can do it. It's just a matter of applying yourself. They should not be worried."
George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo


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Looking for something to do for Halloween? Dress up in costume and go to Fernbank. It's definitely one of my top recommended Halloween picks, especially if you don't like crowds but still want to do something fun (and educational at the same time).
This year, I dressed up as Minnie Mouse (because why not) and had fun with my boyfriend and my friend.
Fernbank's Martinis & IMAX® is one of the most unique "culture and cocktail" opportunities in Atlanta. Guests enjoy special cocktail menus, small plates, live entertainment, dancing and a chance to see a film on the biggest screen in town, Fernbank's Giant Screen IMAX® Theatre. This popular event, the first of its kind in Atlanta, is held every Friday (excluding holiday weekends*) from 7pm to 11pm. Live entertainment begins at 7:30pm.
Here are some tips to keep in mind:
You will be forking out more money than you probably intended.
Essentially, you pay a $13 fee to be in the main atrium area, plus one IMAX ticket. This doesn't allow you to actually browse the museum, though, so don't expect a ticket for the full museum – save that for during the day.
If you want to actually indulge in martinis, then prepare yourself to spend even more than the admission fee.
Sometimes there are two films playing that night, so if you are feeling exceptionally scholastic, you'll have to buy the second IMAX movie at an additional cost.
If you're not feeling like you want to learn that night, you can always pay an $8 cover charge without watching the IMAX movie (but you'll still have to pay for your own drinks).
There is no difference between the IMAX movie that night and the IMAX movie during the day.
The difference between watching the IMAX movie during these Friday night events versus a regular showing during the day is that you can do it while sipping alcohol – it's the same movie no matter what.
The two movies showing the night we went this year were Dinosaurs Alive! and Search for Life in Space.
About Dinosaurs Alive!:
Five-story-tall dinosaurs roar onto Fernbank's giant screen for a captivating adventure of science and discovery. See the earliest creatures of the Triassic Period to the monsters of the Cretaceous in a "life-sized" presentation. Join renowned paleontologists as they discover new fossils and uncover evidence that dinosaur descendants are still among us. Realistic and scientifically-accurate computer generated animation brings dinosaurs back to life…in a big way!
This film covers a broad range of life science and earth science and is a great complement to fossil studies.
Overall, the dinosaur film was pretty interesting and educational. My biggest "omg" takeaway was when they showed the process of finding new dinosaur fossils, pieced them together, and realized that they might have found an entirely new dinosaur species. Or just seeing the paleontologists on the screen and realizing, oh my god, they are all probably my age right now and they're out their discovering dinosaur fossils. Oh hai there, quarter-life crisis.
About The Search for Life in Space:
Journey from the depths of the Pacific Ocean into the far reaches of space on a quest to find something that changes everything—signs of life, somewhere else in the universe.
With cutting-edge imagery from the world's most powerful telescopes, this new giant screen film takes audiences from the surface of Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, to the extreme lava fields of Hawaii and the thermal vents deep beneath the sea. In these harsh environments, astrobiologists look for clues to how life takes hold. As this immersive adventure into the universe reveals the possibility of planets like ours, The Search for Life in Space will make you re-examine such fundamental questions as: "Where did we come from?," "How did we get here?" and "Are we alone?"
Compared to the dinosaur film, this one was (at least to me) a little more wishy-washy. There was beautiful imagery of space, direct from space telescopes, but a lot of "what-ifs" and grand statements, so coming out of the dinosaur film into this one, I found it slightly more underwhelming. Maybe I was IMAX'ed out at this point. The biggest "omg" moment here for me was showing some of the surfaces of the planets and moons, and how signs of even a little bit of water or soil could mean some sort of life, even if it's microscopic.
Fernbank tends to be a great Friday night activity, although…
I love this event, don't get me wrong. But I would also say (as someone who loves museums), I do find it sad that we can't actually browse the museum itself during this time (which you can do at High Museum of Art during their First Fridays).
With that said, though, Fernbank also has Martinis and IMAX salsa nights, which I haven't done yet. It's on my bucket list and something I think would be fun to do (salsa dancing with dinosaurs? Heck yeah).
Don't get this mixed up with the other Fernbank museum.
There are two Fernbank museums in Atlanta: the museum of natural history (more of a prehistoric, paleontology focus) and the science center (more children-focused, smaller, with a planetarium).
All in all…
Fernbank Museum of Natural History is a great Atlanta institution and definitely something that I highly recommend visiting. But I would probably recommend visiting the museum first during the day, so you can see the beautiful outdoor facade as well as enjoy everything the museum offers, and then plan on a Friday night adventure once you've already seen Fernbank during the day. Otherwise, all you'll be seeing will be what's in that picture above.


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Leaving Bucharest is fast becoming my favorite past-time. Luckily another opportunity presented itself this weekend, when I went to see a friend's hometown- Vatra Dornei. Although the ski slopes are what usually draw visitors, we did no such thing since there was no snow to ski on. Still the food, company and general merriment made for another great weekend in the mountains.[Click any image to view slideshow]
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It's Christmas time and that means decorations and lights everywhere all over America. While it is fun to make your house light up, higher energy costs are not. If you want to have a cheaper and greener holiday season, try the following:
Decorate with LED lights for the holidays
To keep your energy consumption in check this season, try LED or energy-efficient bulbs for the holidays. New LED holiday lights use at least 75 percent less energy and last 25 times longer than older, incandescent lighting. Instead of using lights everywhere, go with wreaths, bows and lawn ornaments that don't use energy instead. Make sure to always unplug your holiday lights before going to bed or leaving the house. Consider investing in a smart plug. Smart plugs monitor your energy usage and break it down into an easy report each month so that you know exactly how much energy your holiday decorations consume. Some smart plugs can also be programmed to run on a timer or manually from an app on your smart device.
Use your Fireplace
If you have a fireplace, make use of it. Not only is it a great way to cut down on electricity, but it can also be an eco-friendly way to heat your home and it's the perfect festive holiday accessory on top of that! Make sure to reduce heat loss, by keeping the fireplace damper closed when the fire isn't burning and close doors that are leading into the room. In order to use your fireplace efficiently, consider installing tempered glass doors and a heat-air exchange system that blows warmed air back into the room and purchase grates made of C-shaped metal tubes to draw cool room air into the fireplace and circulate warm air back into the room.
Adjust the temperature
Adjust the thermostat at night. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, you can save about 10 percent per year on your heating bills by turning your thermostat down 10 to 15 degrees for eight hours. When you are home and awake, set your thermostat as low as is comfortable. When you are asleep or out of the house, keep your thermostat 7-10 degrees cooler than normal for eight hours and save around 10% a year on your utility bills. A programmable thermostat can make it easy to change your temperature as needed.
Wear Warm clothes
One of the easiest ways to save on your heating bill is to bundle up with warm accessories. It's sweater weather after all, so put on a cozy winter sweater and warm socks. Keep throw blankets on your couch, and add an area rug to insulate the floor. Use a warm comforter for your bed and buy flannel sheets.
Use the sun for free heat
Don't forget to take advantage of heat from the sun! Open the curtains on your south-facing windows during winter days to bring free heat into your home and close them at night to reduce the chill you may feel from cold windows.


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Says traffic police busy with collecting revenue through fines
Srinagar: Describing the implementation of traffic plans implemented by the traffic police as "half-baked and politically-motivated", the Kashmir Traders and Manufacturers Federation (KTMF) has sought personal intervention of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
The KTMF president Haji Mohammed Yasin Khan said that SSP Traffic has taken entire Srinagar for a ride through "insane plans" which have only furthered the woes of commuters. He said construction of the Jahangir Chowk-Ram Bagh flyover should be no excuse to put people to trouble. "Construction of flyover doesn't mean that people have to spend the day stranded on roads, the ailing cannot reach hospital in time and others including schoolchildren stay helpless, while marketplaces suffer the most," Khan said.
Stating that traffic police was doing "secondary jobs" of collecting fines only at the cost of their basic duty of traffic regulation, Khan said "If the duty of traffic police is restricted to revenue collection through fine then the department should come under the purview of the Finance ministry."
Khan said that the traffic regulation is already so messy that potential shoppers avoid driving to the city center of Lal Chowk, Regal Chowk and adjoining areas. "At a time when it was needed to streamline the traffic flow, things have been worsened," Khan said.
He said the government should not test the patience of the people but act before its late.


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Silver Wolf Band is a trio from Goose Bay, Labrador, consisting of Jackman brothers, Jamie and Justin, and their friend Matthew Barrett. They perform original folk-rock songs that feature piano quite prominently and lyrics that talk about the place they call home.
The band is working on its first full-length album to be released in June of 2018, with support from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, to follow up their 7-Song EP Jam the Blues. Their sophomore offering will demonstrate a marked maturity in song writing that is more reflective of their indigenous roots.
Silver Wolf Band and its members have played festivals, conferences, and shows throughout Atlantic Canada like the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival and ECMAs. Jam the Blues was nominated for Pop Recording of the Year by Music PEI and Matthew Barrett was nominated twice by Musi NL for Music Educator of the Year.
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😀 woo hoo! Everyone is going crazy with futebol! And when everyone goes crazy we have to stay inside like bats in a cave haha. But today just happens to be P-day and so it´ll be more normal. Just that it will also be P-night 😉 last week we had P-night too and we (the sisters in the apartment, SIster T my comp from Brasilia, Sister S USA, and Sister G Chile) made a video with the potato heads that you do with drawing eyes on your chin and turning upside down you know? so we lip sang a song that´s super funny and I can´t wait to show you guys haha.
But anyway this week something crazy happened. My mission president is leaving in 4 days! Friends, can I just say I feel like my second father is dying, this feeling is so sad and I never thought it would happen to me. I love my mission president and his wife so so much. I told them that they are the reason I got my visa to come to Brasil, because they changed my life. Something wonderful is that Sister Lima (his wife) told me that in April of next year they will be there to have a mission reunion and I AM SO GOING TO BE THERE. It´ll be bittersweet to see them in my country 🙂 but of course we´ll all be happily speaking portuguese and not english haha.
So this week we´ll get a new President for my last transfer of the mission (I can´t believe I just typed that). I bore my last testimony in Zone Conference and really I just don´t feel like all of this will end. My mission is my life. Even with all the hard things, the really weird things, I can´t imagine anything else because the joy is ridiculously greater than any sadness here. It´s that kind of joy after hard work and some tears. That you weeded the whole garden in the hot sun and mom says you can come in for lunch. It´s that kind of goodness. And you guys I just don´t want it to end yet! So let´s keep going and putting everything I´ve learned these past 16 months and give my all. I want this to be the best transfer yet 🙂
A little insight that I had this week is that I have the power to ACT or to be ACTED UPON. And with that power I can wait for something to happen, or do it. I feel like this lesson seems so obvious and yet I took till the last part of the mission to really have to learn it. Because of some crazy things that are happening in our area, my companion and I are really learning how to be big girls and be actively engaged. Not letting things go wrong, but preventing and solving and also choosing to be happy no matter 🙂 yes. After all, who wants to let us into their house to hear our message if we don´t even look happy about it?? haha You have to believe in the message and LIVE the message that you preach.
Holy smokes I think I´ve said enough.
But I love you (as you already know) and I love my mission, and most of all I love my Heavenly Father and His son who has become my best friend. I know that the Restauration really happened like Joseph said it did, and that the Book of Mormon brings us closer to Christ than any other book. I know all of this because of the Holy Ghost, who is my constant companion as long as I am trying my best (key word here is trying) to do the right.
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Wargaming's been slowly drumming up the hype for their latest 9.0 revamp to World of Tanks for some time now culminating in its official release today. The update touts legendary new features including upgrades to the game's physics, improved model quality and the long awaited Historical Battle mode. Ok, so maybe the update isn't quite "legendary", but in context the latest additions give veteran players plenty of reasons to hop in their favorite tank and scope out the new landscape.
Visually, World of Tanks has never been a looker, however thanks to update 9.0's new "high definition" models, players can now enjoy watching their tanks rumble forth -and explode- in glorious HD. The downside is only ten of WoT's 200+ tanks currently enjoy a new coat of paint, which means Wargaming has quite a ways to go before everyone is happy.
Updated models mean nothing if tanks drive like rigid boxes on fixed wheels. Like previously mentioned, Wargaming is set to address the less than stellar suspension physics with the introduction of a new, more advance physics model which individually affects each part of a tank's wheels and treads as it moves across uneven terrain.
Historical Battles are also on the table in 9.0 as Wargaming will finally be adding the long awaited mode which accurately pits two nation's tanks against each other in an attempt to recreate famous World War II engagements. In total three new historically-based battles will be available with specific tank restrictions for each.
Players will also find several of World of Tank's existing maps revamped in order to provide a more balanced gameplay experience. Further details concerning these reworked maps along with more info regarding the rest of the changes found in update 9.0 can be found in the official blog post here.
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One of the worst games on the markets. If you pay attention the other production video, they tell you the Nation battle was not possible because some nation tanks and certain models just are OP And ruin the experience. They said they tried mixing battles so you have 1 OP tank and VS 5 normal ration. That "did not work"…
In 2013 they announced the game was to P2W for noob experience so they expanded the tree so that the P2W mix is larger (meaning you literally recycle Tier 1 and 2 with new people not paying more often then hop into the pay tiers with the others…it takes forever to grind out to tier 10 as a F2P so you are literally locked out of the pay champs until you cough it up). Thankfully the win lose ration is not to bad as a F2P if you enjoy being stuck between tier 1 and 4 for a LONG time. But yeah, all the fans that cried: "It is not P2W" and then 2013 comes around and the company officially agrees it is P2W and they wanted it "less" LOLOLOLOL in your face.
And the gold ammo excuse is lame. 1 or 2 gold ammo users in a match not bad. But when overwhelmend it is cheat. But now it is coin purchasable and not gold alone and it some of it got nerfed so it is not really an upgrade, but all and all…IT is the crews t any tier that are P2W. If you tweak your crew just right and purchase the high priced parts just right, you can take a heavy tank at the speed of a light tank, rush into a group of 3 people, spin a 360 and kill each person 1 shot, and roll on like a pro. Not possible as a F2P non gold crew that gives these bonuses to shot, speed, and armor. That said, it takes the "realism out of the game…Wargammings entire "excuse" for Nation wars…"We did not balance the tanks because we want it "real"". Horse crap excuse. They do not balance it because MONEY. Otherwise, by design, nothing reflects realism in this game.
But that takes some one who actually plays to understand. Most people just "LOOK TANK SHOOT AHAHAH fun". Or the ones that pretend they know because "I have been playing since OB" and they are the fan bois. The blind fan who gives 5 bucks and has to defend his purchase by turning blind eye to the fail of a fail game…
NAil in the coffin. Game has died in 3rd country gaming land. EU has 0 English players. Good EU games have mostly FR, GR, and UK, and USA players. This game disgusted them so much it is now North EU and Russian hands. Good luck finding a group that speaks english. Both EU1 and EU2 servers have 0 english. OR badly spoken english. Making clanning a horrible experience.
These are the same countries that have no anti hacking policies and eat up these fail titles and keep them alive. Look at Knight Online, it failed bad all over the world but the greeks hold on to that game like gold.
it s much easier to unlock a tier X in WOT dan reading dis crap
or just play warthunder
I feel you haha
WTF have you been playing? Certainly not WOT!
What you ramble about is far from my experience.
As for the game dying, how come the amount of players online keeps increasing on EU servers?
i will assume u either havent played this for like a year or u just talk shit about it cause u either had bad experience in it(most likely the reason imo)or wargaming just banned u permanently cause u were being a d…. shooting allies all over the place so people just dont feed the troll pretty simple 😛
1h untill 9.0 wohoooo
Until I see skill based MM in that game I won't even smell it ever again.
They actually said they weren't going to make the MM take skill into account.
How terrible…
"skill based" in a p2win game, hurr durr…
imbecils all over the web these days.
WoT is NOT pay2win game, Mr.Hurr durrr…
Yeah, really, imbeciles all over the web these days.


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Weekly Recap #15: 5/19 – 5/24
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Last week on the Blog:
- Quote-Tastic Monday #13 ~ Enslave
- Cover Reveal: The Darkest Touch by Gena Showalter
- Cover Reveal: Jaguar Pride (Heart of the Jaguar, #4) by Terry Spear
- Cover Reveal: Light My Fire (Dragon Kin, #7) by G.A. Aiken
- Out Today ~ May 20, 2014
- Book Spotlight: Between the Waters (Symphony of Light, #2) by Renea Mason
- Cover Reveal: Wicked Flames (Solsti Prophecy, #3) by Sharon Kay
- Review: Favorite Obsession (Royal Pride, #3) by Nancy Corrigan
- Cover Reveal: Emerald Fire (Demon Heat, #2) by Valerie Twombly
- Review: Play of Passion (Psy-Changeling, #9) by Nalini Singh
Review: Ride Free (Padre Knights MC, #1) by Evelyn Glass
This week on the Blog:
- Quote-Tastic Monday
- Out Today May 27 & Book Spotlight: Solomon's Sieve (Knights of Black Swan)
- June New Releases
- Reviews: Death's Lover, The Ornament, Bite Me
- Setta Jay's Cover Reveal & Kait Ballenger Cover Reveal
- Carnal Desire Release Blitz
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Alexandria, Kentucky Passport Office Information
Residents of Alexandria in Campbell County, Kentucky have only a single location from which they can get a passport application sealed at. The passport agent in Alexandria can provide you with passport forms or witness your signature and seal your passport documents (if you don't need your passport application sealed then you do not need to visit an acceptance agent). Besides the 1 location there are 107 other locations in the state of Kentucky from which you can get a passport application sealed at. If you are not needing a passport in Alexandria for a least (3) weeks, you can visit the sole passport acceptance agent listed below the map on this web page. If you need it faster than (3) weeks we have provided the closest regional passport offices to Alexandria, Kentucky and Expedited Passport service options for Alexandria.
Regional Passport Offices Close to Alexandria:These are passport issuing facilities. You will need to make an appointment and present proof of upcoming travel but in most cases, you will be able to get passport renewal, new passports, child passports, or a lost passport replacement Same Day or Next Day.
Detroit Passport Agency - 213.9 Miles, Chicago Passport Agency - 231.4 Miles, Atlanta Passport Agency - 309.2 Miles, Washington Passport Agency - 342.9 Miles, Buffalo Passport Agency - 345.7 Miles
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How to Get a Passport in Alexandria, KentuckyGetting a passport in Alexandria KY depends on what type of passport application you are needing. The process in these guides assumes that you are applying at a local Alexandria Passport Office in which case it will take you 4 to 6 weeks to get a passport in Alexandria.
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Passport Office in Alexandria, KY
Alexandria Post Office
6933 Alexandria Pike
Alexandria KY, 41001
The single passport acceptance agent (local passport office) located in Alexandria is listed below:
- Alexandria Post Office
6933 Alexandria Pike
Alexandria, KY 41001
Other Passport Offices Near Alexandria, Kentucky:Listed below are additional passport offices that are located within 50 miles of Alexandria Kentucky:
City of Independence - Independence - 7.3 Miles
Independence Post Office - Independence - 7.5 Miles
City of Taylor Mill, KY - Taylor Mill - 8 Miles
Anderson Station - Cincinnati - 10.1 Miles
Mt. Washington Station - Cincinnati - 10.7 Miles
Walton Post Office - Walton - 10.7 Miles
City of Fort Mitchell - Fort Mitchell - 10.8 Miles
City of Fort Wright - Fort Wright - 10.8 Miles
Newport Clerk Office - Newport - 11.4 Miles
Covington Post Office - Covington - 11.6 Miles
Passport Service for Cities Near AlexandriaResidents of the following closeby cities looking to get a passport should consider using the passport office(s) located in Alexandria for document sealing and 3-week passport expediting. Be sure to check other nearby passport offices listed above, as there may be a closer passport office to your city.
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Watch this video on Temecula Auto Repair You may be surprised to learn just how much financial is twice, trice, or even four times shorter than your manufacturer's suggested maintenance schedule. This also means that regular maintenance and other vehicular problems of body shop work as it makes use of your cars original finish. It saves time and helps the mechanic in easy for other components, to be safe, self-diagnostic module to take certain safety measures, the implementation of certain functions automatically stop, this function is called fail-safe. If the manual says change some parts after a year or 100,000 miles, don't car mechanics who, just like you, don't know how to diagnose the problem of your car. For your convenience, you should get a full-service auto repair financing topics on Chris Fletchers blog.
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Riley Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc.
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What? You feel that I am, as usual, overstating the case? That no one word can be of such great importance? Let me ask you one question. How would YOU react if your boss said this to you?
"Guys! We need to find a way to diddle our customers into thinking that our new soap is better than any other soap in the market"
Adrenaline pumps up in your heart? Your mind is bright and sparking with ideas? You are willing to forego that cricket match and sit at your laptop working up a jazzy presentation? Fat chance. The only thing you are thinking of is about how to diddle your boss into thinking that you have done a great job, while you goof off and cheer Virat Kohli's batting.
AND, after a late night on the presentation (if your boss is too shrewd to be diddled), you hit home and tell your spouse, "We were working on selling our new soap." Your spouse is all sympathy and says, "Poor baby! You must be so tired." and kneads your shoulders? Fat Chance again! You will probably get a wrinkled nose and a sarcastic, "Yeah! I suppose that explains that scent which I smell all over you." AND a cold shoulder at night.
Now, just consider
"Guys! We need to put in place a marketing strategy for our new soap."
There! Does not the blood sing in your veins at the thought of doing important things? Does not your mind rev up to maximum rpms at the thought of shaping the future of your company? Does not Virat Kohli's batting pale in comparison with the idea of getting applauded for your important contribution to your company's strategies? Absolutely!
And, when you hit home and say, "Sorry honey! That strategy meeting took too long", do you get the Ah-my-conquering-hero look? The poor-chap-holding-up-the-company-all-by-himself treatment? The coffee, the special dinner and the rest of the works? You bet! (Well! All THAT is assuming it is early days in the marital arena! By the time she has heard 'strategy meeting' from you for the zillionth time, it will be "Ho! Hum! Dinner is in the fridge". IF you are lucky, that is.)
Seminal importance, that is the phrase I was looking for. This word is really of seminal importance.
The problem with management is that, by and large, we have to make do with English. The doctors and even the economists are much better off. THEIR jargon gets picked from Latin and, thus, not very susceptible to be hijacked by the hoi polloi. The management guys, though, constantly keep finding their best jargon hijacked. Like for example
"It's been a while since we partied."
"So, what's the strategy?"
Yeah! Right! Like they had to produce a 500 page project report, replete with financial analysis and PERT/CPM charts to get their father to fund the party for them!
Hmmm! Maybe the guys have invented something else to take the place of 'strategy'. One has to somehow stay ahead of the crowd!
If you guys know the replacement word, please inform me in the comments. I'd hate not to be taken for a management guy because of my ignorance of the appropriate jargon.


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What do you get when you mix fun, sunshine, friends, surprises, deliciuos food and boats ?
Exactly: An impression of how wonderful our annual Princess Yachts Ibiza Party & Cruise 2015 weekend was!
We would like to say THANK YOU to everybody who made this event unforgettable and special! Words can hardly describe what a great time we had – so take a look at our photos and smile !
Our team is already planning our 2016 event, we will be showing our new range of Chris Craft boats and yes, a little bit of entertainment will be provided too…
We look forward to welcoming you to our beautiful island Ibiza to share another unique moment!
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Wednesday Market in Ajijic
at 6/29/2017
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- AnonymousJune 29, 2017 at 6:15 PM
Hi Pat,ReplyDelete
Lovely pics of the market! How is Olive doing?
Karen in VAReplies
Hi Karen, Thank you for asking about Olive. She is still alive and seems to be gaining a little weight. Maybe she will be okay. PDelete
Market pictures always bring up fabulous Mexican memories. Thanks. Am glad Olive seems to have stabilized.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Kathie. Olive is resting in my lap right now. PDelete
- AnonymousJune 30, 2017 at 6:56 PM
Oh, good. I hope so...ReplyDelete
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Thank you Karen.pDelete
Pat--I love the photos of the pots. Also hope you got some fresh asparagus. YUMReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Larry, didn't get any asparagus. Good to hear from you. PDelete
Beautiful pictures (as usual), Pat. I'll soon be coming to Ajijic and looking forward to keeping my promise to take you to lunch.ReplyDelete
I am looking forward to meeting you. PReplyDelete
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Like most garden geeks, I get seasonal obcessions with different plants. Usually this is when the plants are blooming. For example, this year I already had a little daffodil obcession where I was pawing through all my catalogs looking at ALL the different daffodils I could and should be growing. I don't usually go nuts for tulips so the next one to set in this year was lilacs.
I planted several lilacs a few years ago but they are still too small to yield flowers for cutting, so I rely on friends to let me cut their lilacs for Good Scents bouquets. This year I have had good success getting lilacs to hold after cutting. In the past they often pooped out in one or two days and this year they have looked pretty decent for 4-5 days. My own lilacs are about a year or two from reaching the size where I can cut from them freely so naturally I began thinking it was time to get even more.
I wanted to add more colors and hopefully some later blooming varieties but a quick tour of area nurseries revealed very few available kinds. Apparently everyone now wants 'Miss Kim', a dwarf Korean lilac. I have 'Miss Kim' and it is nice, but I was looking for older varieties bred to have huge flower trusses, double flowers, and so on. I decided to visit Gee Farms and came home with the following varieties: 'Pocahontas', 'Beauty of Moscow', 'Sensation', 'Miss Canada' and 'Marie Frances'. 'Miss Canada' is a Preston hybrid lilac which blooms a couple weeks later than the others and is still in bud. Gee's had several others I also wanted - 'President Lincoln', 'Charles Joly', 'Yankee Doodle' - but I have to draw the line somewhere.
'Beauty of Moscow', 'Marie Frances'' and 'Sensation' are pictured below.
Now that I have my new lilacs, the obcession has passed. I've now moved on to peonies and am trying to figure out where I can plant another 20 this fall.


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CARSON CITY — One-term Assemblyman Justin Watkins has announced he will not seek re-election to his District 35 seat next year.
In a statement, the Las Vegas Democrat said Wednesday that family issues take precedence over his continued service in the Legislature.
"I do not think I can simultaneously serve my family, my business, and the people of District 35 to my fullest potential in 2019," Watkins said.
The 37-year-old was elected in 2016, defeating incumbent Republican Brent Jones by nearly 9 percentage points.
No candidates have announced their intentions to run for the seat in 2018.
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