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- "Channeling Hildegard," by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, March 28, 2017
- "Songs for the tempest tossed," by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, November 15, 2016
- "Chestnut Street Singers chart new territory," by Dave Allen for South Jersey Courier-Post, October 29,2015
- "40 Voices Singing: Singing the names of the stars", by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, March 22, 2015
- "A Sunday with AVA and Chestnut Street Singers: War and peace, music and politics," by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, March 22, 2014
- "Chestnut Street Singers," by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, June 4, 2013
- "Chestnut Street Singers and the 'Midnight Sun'," by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, May 8, 2012
- "This Green and Pleasant Land," by Sharon Torello for Local Arts Live, March 15, 2012
- "New Voices in Town," by Tom Purdom for Broad Street Review, June 20, 2011
Channeling Hildegard
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on March 28, 2017 at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/music/chestnut-street-singers-divinity-breathed-forth-the-eternal-hildegard#
The Chestnut Street Singers' latest concert presented one of the most artistically uncompromising programs I've encountered. The concert created a contemplative mood and the Singers resolutely avoided the temptation to liven it up with a few showy numbers. One of the pieces supported the chorus with a drum, but it stayed well inside the Singers' deliberately narrow emotional parameters. The result was a program addressing some of the deepest feelings satisfied by music.
Meet Hildegard von Bingen
The concert celebrated the life of 12th-century Catholic mystic Hildegard von Bingen, the first woman composer whose scores have survived to our own time. Placed in a convent at an early age, Hildegard became an abbess, musician, poet, and one of the leading intellectuals of her era. She is even considered the founder of German natural history.
The program included four pieces by Hildegard and ten by eight modern composers, all but one still living. Hildegard's compositions were chants on traditional sacred texts and her own religious poems. The modern composers took their words from Hildegard's texts, standard Christian religious texts, and passages from Sufi mystics and the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.
For me, the unifying mood among all the pieces is depicted in Albert Schweitzer's phrase "reverence for life." The differences between the texts' specific religious and philosophical beliefs are irrelevant. They all share a mystical sense of communion with the eternal mystery surrounding us.
Many surprises
The Chestnut Street Singers specialize in a capella chorus music, one of the most difficult forms a composer can take on. When a chorus is accompanied by instruments, a composer can maintain interest and add color by throwing in the flash of a trumpet or the warmth of strings. When a chorus sings unaccompanied, the composer must work with rhythm, the interaction between different sections, and the timbres and contrasts created by different combinations of voices. The composers on this program might bear names as unfamiliar as Ruth Byrchmore (b. 1966) or Daniel Elder (b. 1986), but their pieces created an afternoon filled with little surprises: a short, unexpected soprano solo or the timbre created by a blend of soprano and tenor voices.
The finale, Bach's Third Orchestral Suite, was a beautiful example of imaginative a cappella writing. It's built around a mantra, "Christ within me," repeated several times at the beginning. Different sections repeat the mantra as other sections take up a litany of phrases like "Christ before me, Christ when I lie down, Christ in the eye that sees me." Pärt plays with different combinations of voices the way a good orchestra composer plays with a set of variations.
The Chestnut Street Singers call themselves a "cooperative chorus." They take turns conducting and plan programs through a communal process that involves a lot of discussion and emailing. They've been at it for five years, and the process consistently produces unusual programs stocked with high-quality music. Their last program presented moving pieces on exile and immigration. Their next concerts, on June 4 and 5, 2017, will center on 20th-century Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály.
Songs for the tempest tossed
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on November 15, 2016 at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/wnwnbooks-movies/chestnut-street-singers-search-for-home-on-movement-and-migration
The Chestnut Street Singers continue to present programs that develop interesting themes and feature music that's frequently unusual and always worth hearing. Their latest concert focused on a particularly timely subject: migration and displacement.
Some harrowing selections
In the United States, we tend to picture our immigrant ancestors as sturdy people who headed for a new country determined to work hard and seize new opportunities. It's easy to forget that migration also involves loss, as people leave friends, families, and familiar customs. Emma Lazarus's sonnet "The New Colossus" calls the Statute of Liberty the "Mother of Exiles," and exile is not a condition people voluntarily choose.
The Singers looked at that aspect of migration with pieces that ranged across the centuries, as their programs usually do. The 14 selections on the program included the 15th-century German classic "Innsbruck, I must leave you"; a modern choral setting of "Wayfaring Stranger"; and a harrowing 2010 piece that plays like a mini-opera.
That piece, Christopher Marshall's "This Big Moroccan Sea" sets to music a note found on the body of a man who died in 2006, along with all the other occupants of a boat filled with 50 migrants. The engine failed, their guide left them, and the boat drifted in the Atlantic Ocean for months before it landed in Barbados with 11 bodies on board. Tenor Cortlandt Matthews sang Marshall's setting of the note as the chorus created the rise and fall of the sea in the background.
The note reads, "The situation in the boat is so painful. I believe there's no way out of this. To those who find me, I would like to send my family in Bassada this sum of money. Forgive me and goodbye. This is the end of my life in this big Moroccan sea."
Peace and prayer
More serene pieces countered the portraits of exile and loss. "Suffer no Grief" by prolific young choral composer Abbie Betinis set to music a Persian poem that ends with the reminder, "every road must have an end." A chant from an African pygmy culture called the community together as it imitated the sounds of a rainforest.
Ysaye Maria Barnwell's "We Are" ends with one of the most effective bits of understatement I've encountered. The text works through the different things people are, from our "grandmother's prayers" to grander roles like builders of nations and seekers of truth. A lesser composer might have given us a big thunderclap on the final line: "We are one." Barnwell presents it without flourishes or repeats and lets it speak for itself.
The concert maintained the musical standards set by the Singers over the last six years. In the Brahms prayer "When we are in deepest need…," they surmounted all the complex interactions and surprising touches the greatest composers put into everything they do. Eleven members of the chorus sang solos at different points in the concert and they all produced strong performances.
Much like the Mendelssohn Club, Choral Arts, and other choruses that maintain Philadelphia's long, illustrious choral tradition, the Chestnut Street Singers are a volunteer chorus. They call themselves a "cooperative chorus" because they don't have a professional conductor. They take turns conducting and develop their programs with discussions that include all the members. They're a unique organization with a unique style and they've added a fascinating voice to the city's musical life.
Chestnut Street Singers chart new territory
Dave Allen, South Jersey Courier-Post
Originally published on October 29, 2015, at http://www.courierpostonline.com/story/life/2015/10/29/chestnut-street-singers-chart-new-territory/74826464/
The Philadelphia area is crawling with choirs of all kinds: large ones that perform masses and requiems, others that specialize in Baroque music or contemporary music, still others with and without church affiliations. One of the larger groups has a name that fits Philadelphia as a whole: Singing City.
In this music-rich environment, a handful of singers in Philadelphia saw an opening and started a new group, the Chestnut Street Singers.
This year, the Center City-based chamber chorus is celebrating its sixth year in operation and will mark its growth and success with its first-ever concert outside of Philadelphia.
The Singers formed in 2010 among congregants and singers at the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia.
"We realized we all had musical interests in common," says Caroline Winschel, one of the Singers' founders and one of two original members in the current group. "We looked around and thought, 'We can just make a choir! How hard could it possibly be?'"
What sets the choir apart, in addition to its very fine performances of challenging repertoire, is that, unlike many other choral groups, it has no artistic director. Choir members alternate conducting duties, and the group's artistic vision fulfilled in a collective manner, with members weighing on selecting music and devising concert programs.
The group's musical roots are strong, as numerous conductors, composers and music teachers have passed through its rank over the years, in addition to artists, graduate students, non-profit administrators, and other professionals.
Josh Dearing, a member since 2013 and a post-baccalaureate student at the University of Pennsylvania, serves as one of the group's conductors. "I used to be a high school choir director, so this group scratched two itches for me."
Each of the choir's concerts over the past six years has had a theme: Love, travel, nature, foreign cultures.
No program has been quite as ambitious or daunting as the Nov. 7 concert, though. Titled "fray | as shadows fall," the program is based on visions of death and the afterlife, and themes of personal and social upheaval.
The idea started with Lizzy Schwartz, a former Collingswood resident and an alto in the Singers, who threw out an idea during brainstorming: What about a concert about the apocalypse?
From that starting point, an online spreadsheet was passed around, choir members put forth various pieces of music, and a program gradually coalesced around this weighty theme.
"It explores all the different ways that things can be kind of terrible or unsettled," Schwartz says.
How does the apocalypse sound? Take, for example, a setting of J.S. Bach's chorale "Come, Sweet Death" by Edwin London and Rhonda Sandberg that features "choral-ography," with arm and body movements timed to the sung words. It's familiar and soothing at first, then a free-form section, where each chorister performs the words and movements at their own pace, leads to a sort of slow-motion chaos.
There's more unearthly sounds in a motet by Gesualdo, an Italian Renaissance composer known for strange, wrenching harmonies unlike any other music from the 16th century. Elsewhere in the program, there's a rustic Appalachian hymn arranged by Rick Bjella, creeping, Halloween-esque figures in Orban's "Daemon irrepit callidus," and obsessive, insistent grief in Tomkins' setting of "When David Heard."
There's a bit of consolation as well, in form of two spirituals, "I've Been in the Storm So Long" and "Hard Times Come Around No More."
The rest of the concert features more familiar names and repertoire, including Eric Whitacre, a popular composer of contemporary choral music, plus classical greats such as Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms.
The Haddonfield concert is presented by the Haddonfield Center for the Performing Arts, an outgrowth of the music program at Grace Episcopal Church. Max Esmus, who serves as both artistic director for the Center and as music director at Grace Church, has previously programmed choral music as part of the Center's season, but he felt that the Chestnut Street Singers had something new to offer.
"If they're making music like this without an artistic director," he says, "they must be doing something amazing."
Esmus sees groups like the Singers as breaking free of classical-music stereotypes. Their music-making, he says, seems more in tune with everyday human experience, full of emotion and expression, than like works in a museum.
"When you listen to them, all of the preconceived notions about classical music drop away, and you understand why these pieces have stood the test of time."
The Nov. 7 concert is in Grace Church's 300-seat sanctuary, which Esmus is well-suited to the Singers' repertoire: spacious pieces with hazy harmonies and a wide range from bass to soprano. In rehearsal and on recordings, it's remarkable how much sound the Singers' eighteen members can produce.
Subscribers to the Center's concert series are familiar with choral repertoire, and Esmus says they're an open-minded bunch. This apocalyptic concert, though, has him intrigued.
"I can't wait to hear how they react to this program," he says.
40 Voices Singing: Singing the names of the stars
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on March 22, 2015, at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/music-opera/40-voices-singing.
The Chestnut Street Singers are a small group, but they're accumulating a big history of unusual, unpredictable programs. For their latest happening, they produced one of the most fascinating, offbeat musical events I've heard.
The Singers augmented their 16 voices by joining forces with another newcomer to the Philadelphia choral scene, Philharmonia, and a professional early music quartet, the Laughing Bird. For the first half of the concert, they surrounded the audience at First Unitarian with 40 voices and presented works that filled the church with intricate sonic patterns, unexpected solos, and resonating chords.
Take my word for it. Forty unaccompanied human voices can do anything an electronic synthesizer can do. And do it better.
My personal favorite was a piece by a living composer, Jordan Noble, which set the names of the stars to music. But that's just a reflection of my personal biases and preoccupations. The other items on the first half included an incredibly complicated motet by the Elizabethan composer Thomas Tallis and the death prayer of an Icelandic chieftain.
A mixed mass
The second half presented sections of the mass composed by five different composers, ranging from a 14th-century Gloria by Palestrina, sung by the Laughing Bird, to modern pieces like a Kyrie by Vaughan Williams and a Russian-language Credo by Igor Stravinsky.
The evening ended with one of the grandest grand finales in the repertoire — Samuel Barber's choral arrangement of his most popular work, his Adagio for Strings. As a string work, the Adagio is beautiful and mysterious. As a choral setting for the Agnus Dei ("Lamb of God have mercy on us"), it rises to an intensely dramatic peak. In the last section, Barber's music creates a serene foundation for the closing prayer for peace. This is only the second time I've heard the choral version of Barber's signature work. If you've never heard it, I recommend that you attend any concert that includes it.
A Sunday with AVA and Chestnut Street Singers: War and peace, music and politics
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on March 22, 2014, at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/music-opera/a-sunday-with-ava-and-chestnut-street-singers
In the course of a single Sunday, I heard arias by Bach, Handel, and Mozart, along with two of my favorite songs about the human fondness for organized mayhem. The arias included gems like Handel's Let the Bright Seraphim and Mozart's Laudamus Te from his Grand Mass in C Minor. The war songs were the Agincourt Song, which celebrates Henry V's famous victory, and Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye, which laments the loss of limbs and eyes to the tune most of us know as When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again.
Lofton: From one era to another
The arias were part of an annual program of instantly recognizable sacred music presented by the Academy of Vocal Arts, an 80-year-old school that attracts advanced vocal students from all over the world. The two war songs, by contrast, were sung by the Chestnut Street Singers, a "cooperative chamber chorus" organized just four years ago by 16 part-time singers— experienced choral enthusiasts, many with music education degrees, who last weekend sang works by less familiar composers like Kirke Mechem (he composed the music for Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, I Know What the Caged Bird Feels).
Together, the two programs captured some of the scope and variety of the vocal music pigeonholed under the "classical music" label.
When I told a musical acquaintance that I hoped to attend both events and cover them in a single review, she immediately understood why. "That's Philadelphia," she said.
Conflicting attitudes
You can be certain you'll hear first-rate voices when you attend "Jubiliate!," and this year's crop of AVA Resident Artists sounded especially impressive. But I was equally impressed with the way AVA's conductor David Lofton modified the orchestra's sound as the program advanced through the musical eras, from the brighter, thinner sound of Baroque music to the fuller, more emotional sound of 19th-century works by Gounod and Rossini.
The Chestnut Street Singers titled their program "To Arms: Songs of Strife and Reconciliation," and their selections captured all the tension created by humanity's conflicting attitudes toward war. The program included songs devoted to peace and serenity, interspersed with more martial fare like the Agincourt Song and a Renaissance battle piece that reveled in the clamor and excitement of war, with no indication the composer recognized the realities mourned in Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye.
Pro-Communist, anti-Hitler
In fairness to the AVA concert, I should note that it did end with three works by more contemporary composers. My favorite was a teacher's prayer that combined a nursery rhyme text with a child-like musical setting by Kristine Nicole Lewis (1920-2006).
The Chestnut Street program, on the other hand, included two works by composers with upper level name recognition: a Da pacem, Domine ("Grant peace, O Lord") by the Estonian composer Arvo Part, and Benjamin Britten's unpredictable, strikingly complex setting of a 1939 pro-Communist anti-war poem, Advance Democracy.
The Britten piece evoked the most conflicting emotions in this particular listener. For those of us who grew up in the shadow of the Second World War, the text reflects the attitudes that supported the appeasement of Hitler and led the world into war.
But that raises an interesting question. The AVA concert included an Ave Maria by Gounod with another striking setting. Soprano Marina Costa-Jackson sang it with well-moderated reverence, while Sophie Bruno and concertmaster Igor Szwec accompanied her on harp and violin, with Szwec contributing an especially sweet violin solo. The problem for me is that I'm an areligious urbanite raised in the Protestant tradition; the Ave Maria doesn't mean any more to me than the text of Advance Democracy. So why, then, should I feel that the call to overthrow the bosses in Advance Democracy is any more troublesome than the Ave Maria's prayer to the Virgin Mary?
The answer, of course, is that I should listen to Advance Democracy in exactly the same way I listen to an Ave Maria. The exercise might even provide some practical value. When you listen to music based on a religious or political text, you are, to some extent, sharing the feelings of the people who believe in those words. Add enough of those moments to your life and you may— possibly— just possibly— become a little more understanding, and a little less inclined to strike at those who differ with you, physically or verbally.
Chestnut Street Singers
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on June 4, 2013, at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/chestnut_singers_and_fine_art_piano/
When I reviewed the Chestnut Street Singers for the first time two years ago, I felt they should appeal to the same kind of audiences that the Lyric Fest art song series has attracted. Their latest concert displayed all the virtues that prompted that conclusion, but it would have benefited from an extra dose of the variety that keeps Lyric Fest programs hopping.
Taken individually, the selections on the Chestnut Street program were all good pieces, guaranteed to please anyone who enjoys hearing first-class voices interacting with precision and artistic understanding as they perform works by composers like Poulenc and Schumann. But taken together, the selections tended to be low-keyed, melancholy and too similar stylistically.
A tendency to emphasize the women's voices increased the stylistic duplication. Much as I enjoy hearing altos and sopranos, a few pieces that emphasized tenors and basses would have provided a welcome change.
Fit for Obama
The major exceptions to the general uniformity were an arrangement of "Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child" and David Ludwig's setting of the Emma Lazarus sonnet inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
"Sometimes" featured a moving solo by Melinda Steffy, whose beautiful, lonely contralto floated over a murmuring chorus. Ludwig gave the Emma Lazarus verse a straightforward musical setting that let her words speak for themselves— an approach that makes it an ideal ceremonial piece for occasions like President Obama's second inauguration, where it opened the official church service that morning.
The Chestnut Street Singers have now finished their third season and published the schedule for their fourth. Anyone who thinks the Classical music tradition is dying should look at the solid, enthusiastic audiences applauding musical events in Philadelphia venues like the First Unitarian Church. The larger, more visible organizations may need some special help right now, but the unicorn continues to flourish and regenerate in the outlying zones of its habitat.
Chestnut Street Singers and the 'Midnight Sun'
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on May 8, 2012, at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/chestnut_street_singers_and_the_midnight_sun/.
Amateurs in the best sense
As we plod through the Western world's current economic downturn, we can take some comfort from the fact that Philadelphia continues to generate new music organizations. I've attended only two concerts by the Chestnut Street Singers during their first two seasons, but they're clearly a worthy addition to Philadelphia's great tradition of volunteer choruses.
The Chestnut Street Singers fit into that tradition because they sing without pay but call themselves a "cooperative chorus." When I questioned their chief spokesperson, Jen Hayman, after the concert, she said they've chosen this designation because they operate without a designated conductor or artistic director.
Hayman and another group member, Michael Johnson, fulfill many of the functions of a music director, but all the members participate in program planning and the other high-level tasks normally assigned to a music director.
That type of freewheeling organizational structure probably wouldn't work with large choruses like the Mendelssohn Club and Choral Arts Philadelphia. But applied to a small, 14-voice chamber chorus, it produces results that should gratify the most fanatic critics of hierarchical organizations.
Who gives the cues?
The Chestnut Street Singers manage to get along without a conductor even though they're usually coping with complex pieces that require tight coordination. They sing without accompaniment. Good a cappella composers maintain interest by creating complicated interactions among the different sections of the chorus, playing one section against another, much the way orchestra composers exploit the tone colors of the different instrumental sections.
In the absence of a leader, Hayman and Johnson take turns beating time— but that's all they do. Their colleagues must make their entrances and exits without a conductor to give them cues.
For their season closer, the Chestnut Singers ventured into novel territory. As befitting a concert titled "Songs to the Midnight Sun," the program featured works inspired by the long days of the Northern European summer and the months of darkness that surround it. Half the composers hailed from Northern Europe, and their scores included odd harmonies, pieces based on unfamiliar folk traditions, and borrowings from other traditions, such as the Tuvan throat-singers of southern Siberia.
Cossacks attack
The Finnish piece that opened the program depicted an exuberant ride into the rising sun, with the lower voices creating a pulsing gallop while the upper voices sang above them like Cossacks on the attack. Other pieces evoked the sound of bells and the feeling of clouds racing across the sky.
All the pieces on the program emphasized ensemble singing, but an occasional outburst from a soloist provided a reminder of the quality of the individual voices creating the ensemble effects.
The two soloists who received credit lines on the program possess notably pure voices. Soprano Ellen Gerdes added a beautiful, sudden solo to a song about summer rain by a contemporary Icelandic composer, Hildigunnur Runarsdottir. Mezzo Rachel Haimovich contributed a similar moment to a touching traditional Finnish song that mingled loneliness with the cries of the wild duck.
Vocalists in volunteer choruses work without pay, but they earn their places through auditions and maintain their positions through the quality of their work after they join the chorus. Most of them have made significant investments in training and practice time. They're amateurs in the oldest and best sense of the word—people who do something for the love of it.
This Green and Pleasant Land
Sharon Torello, Local Arts Live
Originally published on March 15, 2012, at http://localartslive.com/profiles/blogs/chestnut-street-singers-3-11.
The Chestnut Street Singers describe themselves as a "cooperative chamber chorus" and the level of cooperation within the ensemble was immediately evident. Different members took turns leading the group and their scattered lineup with vocal ranges mixed together made for a very harmonious delivery. The cooperation extends behind the scenes with members chipping in to write program notes, select music, and work on programming. Sunday's concert was entitled "This Green and Pleasant Land". The title might lead one to think this program would involve the kind of fluff associated with the Lawrence Welk show but nothing could be further from the truth. The theme flew us to foreign lands, both real and utopian, discussed our relationship with those lands, sent us to to the cosmos, and finally brought us home with the final spiritual with an interesting story: Dvořák's "Going Home". The interesting program notes, written by Caroline Winschel, tell the details. This "mac and cheese" finish was a comforting end to an intellectual, spiritual, and most of all, musical journey.
This was my first chance to hear the Chestnut Street Singers. Listening to their beautifully blended voices and tight formations in dynamic ebbs and flows in the music was a joy. Based on themes for past and future concerts, it appears that the excellent programming in this concert is not a fluke. Mark your calendars for their next concert.
Here are two excellent examples from the concert. The first is Jordan Nobles' "Lux Antiqua". This was the east coast premier of the new work, and this recording cannot really do it justice because it lacks the spatial qualities one can only experience live. The chorus spread out widely in front of the church and the vocal parts proceeded to vary from individual voices to clusters, and finally the unison one might imagine in galaxies; just as the stars appear visually in the evening sky. The effect was moving and dramatic.
This second example is the final selection in the program: Antonín Dvořák, "Going Home"
New Voices in Town
Tom Purdom, Broad Street Review
Originally published on June 20, 2011, at http://www.broadstreetreview.com/index.php/main/article/chestnut_street_singers_american_songs/.
The Chestnut Street Singers comprise a 12-voice "cooperative chamber chorus" that presented its debut concert at the beginning of this season. I missed the Singers' first two concerts, but their third event indicated that they're another example of the creative ferment of Philadelphia's music scene.
Good a cappella choral music requires strong voices, good harmony, close coordination, and astute selections. The Chestnut Street Singers scored in all four categories. Their voices all sound good together, and the individual voices made an impression every time someone launched into a brief solo.
The program featured music by a roster of American composers that ranged from the 18th-Century father of American choral music, William Billings, to 31-year-old Abbie Betinis. Every entry made heavy use of counterpoint as well as the other musical devices that substitute for the color and variety instruments add to accompanied choral music.
In a good a cappella choral setting, the composer's musical embellishments and complexities perform two functions simultaneously: They enhance the mood of the text, and they create music that would be interesting and appealing if you didn't understand a word the singers were singing. Most of the selections on the program met that test.
Clear female voices
The opener, "Long Time Traveler," provided an effective preview of coming attractions. The arrangement by choir member Jordan Rock was a rearrangement of two versions: the original four-part arrangement published by Edmund Dumas in 1859, and a modern three-part arrangement by a Canadian folk trio, The Wailin' Jennys.
Rock's rearrangement included an evocative opening by a trio of exceptionally clear female voices; two complex arrangements of the rest of the text; and a lively interlude in which the whole chorus sang the melody in the four syllables used in the 19th-Century teaching technique called "shape note singing."
From Copland to Garcia Lorca
The rest of the program included four religious motets by Aaron Copland; Billings's moving setting of "They that go down to the sea in ships"; British composer Michael Tippet's powerful, highly embellished 1941 settings of "Steal Away" and "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"; and a setting of a Garcia Lorca poem by the contemporary American choral master Eric Whitacre.
Abbie Betinis's "Long Time Traveling" brought the afternoon to a close with a piece that lifted texts and melodies from three 19th Century shape note songs and transformed them into another rousing exercise in relevant complexifying.
The Chestnut Street Singers' first concert of the 2011-12 season is called "Axis of Medieval," and it's scheduled for November 6. If this concert was typical of their work, they should become a favorite with the kind of audiences that Lyric Fest has been attracting to its art song programs.


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Friday, May 25, 2012
Conservative Government Misses Key Talking Points On EI Reform
1: Repeat EI users would be required to accept a job paying 70% of their previous employers wages. A 30% pay cut sounds pretty bad however you frame it. BUT, EI only pays 55% of previous earnings. A repeat user accepting a job at 70% of previous pay would actually be increasing their income by 15% over what they currently receive on EI.
2. No insurance company would ever issue insurance where they are going to pay out more than they take in on a yearly basis in payment. Even with the governments so-called draconian changes, the fact is a chronic repeat applicants numbers could look something like this. (using the 60 weeks of benefits over a 5 year period, max benefits, max deductions) Deductions (5 years X $839.97 = $4199.85) Benefits (60 weeks X $485= $29,100) $29,100 - $4199.85= $24,900.15 That's right. Over every 5 year period this repeat EI applicant would receive almost $25,000 more in benefits than what they paid into Employment Insurance. To make it easier to digest, the repeat user would in effect be receiving almost $5,000 more per year, on an ongoing basis, than they would pay in the EI fund.
3. The government could have made one substantive change to EI. Currently EI recipients working part-time can earn $75 or 40% of their weekly EI, whichever is higher, without affecting their benefits. Any amount higher than that comes off dollar for dollar. While this is a great way of helping those now working part-time who have lost their jobs supplement their EI benefits, those working full-time lose all their benefits. The government could change the full-time clause or amend it to make it more appealing. Take Ontario for example, and again using maximum EI benefits in the formula. Someone receiving EI benefits of $485 could have their weekly income increased to $679 adding in the $194 (40%)allowed for part-time workers. But someone accepting a full-time position loses all their benefits, making a lower paying job far less attractive. Given minimum wage in Ontario is $10.25 per hour, that would result in weekly income of $410. By applying the same allowable income rule for part-time workers to those accepting lower paying full-time positions, the weekly EI benefit paid would drop from $485 to $269 ($485-$410+$194). The EI fund sees a huge savings, those collecting benefits see an increase of $776 monthly in income, and they can still apply for better paying jobs all the while taking home more income.
"Isabelle collects EI benefits. She receives the maximum amount allowed, which is $468 a week. During her benefit period, she finds part-time work for $10 an hour. She is entitled to earn $75 a week or 40% of her weekly benefits, which, in her case, amounts to $187.20 (this amount is rounded to the nearest dollar: $187). Since the higher amount is used, Isabelle is therefore entitled to earn $187 a week without having her benefits reduced. She works 20 hours a week, earning a total of $200. Her benefits will therefore be reduced by $13."
It also should be pointed out that the government itself sees an increase in tax revenues using the scenario in #3 above. A savings in EI benefits paid out, an increase in tax revenues, and Canadians increasing their income by 40%. Surely that change in and of itself would be an easy and appealing sell. My guess is most Canadians would accept it, and the opposition and media would look like fools trying to play this plan as unfair or draconian.q
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- Platty said...
Better still, scrap the entire program! We already have programs in place for those who are truly in need and do not have the ability to provide for themselves.
The idea of government running an insurance program, and the cost for government to run this program is, quite simply, incredible.
Take away the bird feeder in your yard and that bird will still find a way to feed itself.
Take away EI and those jobs that the repeat users had been turning down in the past would soon be looking pretty damn good to them.
- May 26, 2012 at 6:13:00 AM PDT


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Lotus boss Dany Bahar has been suspended from his role this week, owner DRB-Hicom has confirmed, ahead of an investigation into the outspoken CEO's conduct.
The news follows the release of a scathing statement in April that read more like an internal email, tearing into F1 figure Tony Fernandes and the motoring press. (You can read the full release at Yahoo! Sports.)
"As a result of a number of media inquiries, Group Lotus plc ("Lotus") can today confirm that, following an operational review, chief executive Dany Bahar has been temporarily suspended from his role to facilitate an investigation into a complaint about his conduct made by Lotus' penultimate parent company, DRB-HICOM Berhad."
The Malaysian company confirmed that Bahar's responsibilities as CEO will be managed by three representatives from Lotus parent Proton and group owner DRB-Hicom.
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Children "want things repeated and unchanged," writes G.K. Chesterton."They always say, "Do it again"… [It is] grown-up people [who] are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon…. The repetition in nature may not be mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore."......
Couldn't our days be a theatrical encore of a beautiful life?
Ceremony changes us: the single become married, the soul emerges baptized, the birthday christens another year.
Ceremony offers us the opportunity to change our everydays too.
The opportunity to christen each day as important.
And from a dear friend far-away, as she prepares to send her daughter back to college. We are preparing to do the same, with departure set for twelve days from today. Twelve short days. Feeling the weight with you, M.
... I am feeling the weight of this Arabic proverb:اولادنا اکبدنا ماشیین علی الارضOur children are our hearts walking around outside of us.


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Well, I've made it to Day 11! I've never, ever blogged this many days in a row before (or even close to it!) so this feels like an accomplishment of some kind. I've noticed so far is that it's been a good thing. There have been several times that I've written something and really needed to hold on to it the next day or two. Or even just thinking about how I would explain something has helped me find some truth. I have been blessed by remembering to accept and cry out for God's grace. I have discovered anew why so often in scripture Grace and Peace are together. When I accept God's grace, peace follows.
It's neat to think that God has special grace just for me. If his grace is given for specific tasks and callings, then there is some grace specifically for me and the calling He has on my life and the tasks He's given me. Today. Right now. There is grace just for me to raise my kids in the middle of MAJOR change. There is grace for my marriage in this brand new season. There is grace to help me accept a messy house that is messy because I spent hours this week doing my new job instead of my old job. There is grace for me when I'm tired and discouraged. Grace just for me. There is grace for me when my spirit is weary and burdened and hungry and thirsty. There is a throne of grace I can boldly come to because I need God's help. Because I need God.
And how sad does it make Him when I am tired and won't rest or hungry and won't eat what He offers? Lord, I choose to rest in You and accept Your grace - the grace You offer to me - grace with my name on it. Thank you for teaching me in a whole new way what it means to let Your grace and peace rule in my heart. (Col 3:15) May your peace reign in me and as it reigns in me, may it reign in my relationships. We were called to peace. Thank you...
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Several months ago this Westchester attorney advised my social networking friends, readers and assorted other surfers against revealing too much about your personal lives and relationships on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and the like. Many of you reading this think it's great to tell the world about your cousin's reunion or post photos of your baby's Christening but I am telling you again that this is a HUGE mistake and now well-meaning grandparents are paying the price. The Better Business Bureau says scammers are culling info from these "social networking" sites and preying upon Granny and Gramps to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
The way the scam works is that the thieves troll cyberspace……they find the names of a web of relatives and then call Granny and Gramps posing as their loving grandchildren in need of money. Unsuspecting grandparents in 19 states and Canada have fallen victim so far. Don't become another sad statistic.
PLEASE LISTEN TO ME THIS TIME. Delete your birthday and family info from your profiles. Ignore all of those family linking applications which create your family tree for your profile. Don't you think your grandparents and Cousin Mary already know they're related to you? Do you really need to tell everyone on Facespace or Mybook that your related to these people? Why not give the scammers and the identity thieves a roadmap to your house with the password to your bank accounts? You've given them everything else except your social security number………….oh no, don't tell me, you've profiled that as well!!!
Use social networks for promoting businesses or reconnecting with old business acquaintances and friends and leave the personal data for those closest to you IRL (in real life). Get the picture?


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Mayflower Connection through Minerva Dewolf wife of Azor Hoyt
Azor Hoyt (1804-1890) married Minerva Dewolf (1813-1896),
Source: HHH Book of 1871, m. 1829, pg. 547
Minerva Dewolf was the daughter of Elisha Dewolf husband of Eunice Allis (1778-1864)
Eunice Allis was the daughter of Abel Allis (1745-1810) and Lydia Porter (1742-1806)
Abel Allis was the son of Samuel Allis (1705-1796) who married Hannah Sheldon 1707-
Samuel Allis was the son of Ichabod Allis (1675-1747) who married Mary Belden (1679-
Mary Belden was the daughter of Samuel Belding or Belden (1657-1678) and Sarah Fel-
lows (1640-1713)
Mary Belden, daughter of Samuel connects upward to Samuel Belden (1632-1713) then
connects to Richard Belding (1591-1655). The line shifts to Margaret Goodrick (1564-
1598) who descends from Clare Norton who connects to Susan Neville daughter of
Richard Neville (1468-1530). Richard descends from Joan Bourchier. She is the 6th
great grandmother of Mary Belden and 3rd great grandmother of Edward Winslow.
The line descends from her to Thomas Neville to Ellen Neville tho Catherine Winston
to Edward Winslow (1560-1631) father of Edward Winslow (1595-1655). Edward was
the 3rd Governor of
Edward Winslow was related to the Tilley brothers John and Edward.
Research of my mother's Waite line that married into the Matteson lines a number of
times revealed a complex connection
of the Waites to the Howland lines of
John Howland married Elizabeth Tilley, daughter of John Tilley and Joan Hurst.
John and Joan died the first winter leaving young daughter Elizabeth as heiress of their
The Matteson/Waite lines of Captain Henry III Matteson connected Comfort Pearce
daughter of Captain George Pearce and Mercy Howland. Mercy was the great great
grand daughter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley.
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Lionel Cruet Entre Nosotros (Between Us) Variation II at the Masur Museum of Art
Opening Reception: August 3, 5pm
August 3 - September 28, 2017
Tuesday-Saturday: 9am-5pm
Masur Museum of Art
Upstairs Gallery,
135 Arts Alley, Monroe, LA 71201
UPSTAIRS gallery, in partnership with the Masur Museum's AltEx program, will present Entre Nosotros (Between Us) Variation II, an immersive video installation by the artist Lionel Cruet.
Upcoming Exhibition at the Masur Museum
Lionel Cruet
Bronx Calling: 4th Biennial Bronx Museum of the Arts
Opening Reception: July 27, 6pm
July 22 - August 22, 2017
Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse
Bronx, NY 10456
Museum Hours
Wednesday-Sunday: 11am-6pm
Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial features work by 72 artists from the 2016 and 2017 classes of the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program. Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial is organized by Christine Licata, Director of Community and Public Programs, The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Aylet Ojeda Jequín, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana; and, Heather Reyes, Exhibitions and Collections Manager, The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Lionel Cruet, "At the End of Daybreak" for "Seen and Heard" at the Everson Museum of Art
June 10 - August 27, 2017
Wednesday-Sunday: 12pm-5pm
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St,
Syracuse, NY 13202
The Everson Museum of Art present the exhibition "Seen and Heard," curated by DJ Hellerman, which features a work by Lionel Cruet. Cruet's work, titled "At The End of Daybreak," draws interpretation from Aimé Cesaire's book, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, and transforms the gallery space.
Lionel Cruet and 'Seen and Heard' Contemplate Possibilities Beyond Colonial Frameworks
Everson Museum of Art presents 'Seen and Heard' exhibition
make__ place at the New York Immigration Coalition
June 22 - December 22, 2017
By Appointment
New York Immigration Coalition
131 West 33rd Street
New York, NY 10001
make ___ place, is a cultural production organized by the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) and co-curators Eva Mayhabal Davis and Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle. In make ___ place, artists engage mechanisms of storytelling, documentation, and self-care that continually assert immigrant experiences. In the following months, works by multi-disciplinary artists will broaden conversations and visually inform dialogues for visitors, members, and allies at the NYIC offices.
Lionel Cruet
SPRING / BREAK Art Show BRKLN IMMERSIVE 2017
Curated by Sofia Reeser del Rio
May 6 - 14, 2017
12 - 7pm
CITY POINT Tower
300 Flatbush Avenue Extension
Brooklyn, NY 11201
This art installation is supported in part by SPRING/BREAK Art Show, and we want to thank Lincoln Center Education and The Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice (DIAP) MFA program at The City College of New York for its support.
Art Reveal Magazine, Entre Nosotros (Between Us)
Spring/Break Art Show Trades Labyrinthine Rooms for Immersive Installations
BKLYN Immersive - Spring/Break Art Show, ArteFuse, New York, NY
Culture of One
Curated by Sophia Skeans at Rockaway Artist Alliance
April 22 - May 21
Rockaway Artist Alliance
Studio 7 Gallery, Fort Tilden,
Gateway National Recreation Area,
Far Rockaway, NY 11695
We are composites of our origins, experiences, exposures and limits. We are people of different backgrounds, beliefs and influences. The different facets of our lives create our individual identity. Culture of One examines the intersection where the culture of origin meets with the notions of American individualism and aims to better look at the experiences that create one's present identity.
This program, is supported, in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Lionel Cruet: Entre Nosotros (Between Us)
Presented by Lincoln Center Education and Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
5:30 - 9:00 pm
Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center
250 W 65th Street
New York, NY 10023
An audio-visual and interactive installation recreates the illusion of a beach environment in an indoor space, using video projections, sounds, lights and a selection of objects that reminds us of the intimate yet universal experience of gathering in the place where the land and ocean meet.
Bestiario (Menagerie): A Group Show, at the Adobe Book Gallery in San Francisco, curated by Ángel Rafael Vázquez Concepción Cranium Corp.
2da Bienal Tropical 2016 San Juan, Puerto Rico
VideoBardo 2016 video poesía Bueno Aires, Argentina
ROtaTive RepOSiToRy of Latin American Video Art, New Latin Wave
I Intangible Sites is an immersive environment in a mobile container that displays reflections through images and sounds collected from the immigrant community of New Mexico. The installation functions as a portal that responds to the people that inhabit this geographical area, allowing them to connect their experiences using metaphors found in the natural landscape. The integration of images and audio gives the project and overall look that is very particular of the American southwest. This project was possible thanks to the community partners from the Adult Learning Center, University of New Mexico in Taos and also Thankfully sponsored by The PASEO Project, The PFLAG Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Art.
From April to August 2016, I was part of the AIM program with The Bronx Museum for the Arts.
In June 2016, I participated of a group exhibition entitled, INCITE//INSIGHT in CoLab Factory, Brooklyn, NY. The exhibition was curated by Audra Lambert and it's a contemporary approach on the impact of insight in the arts and startup communities. INCITE//INSIGHT highlights the significance of revelation as a transformative tool but revealing the artist's' surprising and unexpected juxtapositions of material and concepts.
In June of 2016, art:i:curate in London published an interview In Conversation with Lionel Cruet.
In April 2016 I was invited by La Escuela de Artes Plasticas San Juan Puerto Rico to present an artist talk on The Dispossession of the the Artistic Practice through Open Calls, and Artist Applications.
In February of 2016, designboom published an article on the project Intangible Space.
In the beginning of the year 2015, I was featured in the publication Made in Mind Magazine. I took part in an exciting interview about my artistic practice and my process. Please check the following link for the issuu version, or the following one to request a printed edition.http://issuu.com/madeinmindmag/docs/made_04?e=0/12838865
In addition, the studio produced a limited printed publication of a portfolio that includes a brief selection of recent projects.
In June of 2015, my work was included in an exciting group exhibition entitled Colonial Comfort, curated by Lisa Ladner at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico. The exhibition explored the concept of 'comfort' as a disassociated word used to describe the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Before it was mounted in Puerto Rico, the exhibition was on view in the Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts in St. Croix. One of the images below shows my work in situ; the other shows me giving an artist tour to a visiting group from the Caribbean Cultural Center for African Diaspora in New York.
I then spent six weeks in Vermont, where I collaborated with Burlington City Arts for its artist residency program. In Burlington, I developed a project around topics related to the behavior of Latin culture and social economics using video installation.
The research extended into a series of paintings on blue tarps of properties flooded and stranded in the middle of the environment.
In September 2015, The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts awarded me a fellowship, so I was thrilled to travel to Ithaca, New York, after a brief trip back to New York. As a resident artist at Saltonstall, I researched economic systems in the Caribbean, and explored the points at which cultures and individuals in the region are transformed by those systems. The result of that research is The Shade of a Paradise, which I made using photographs and news articles on the Caribbean island's economic crisis.


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A must-see screenprinted master work is now on view at Hemphill Fine Arts in downtown D.C. Conceived by art heavyweight William Christenberry and printed by Corcoran's masterprinter Dennis O'Neill, the print demonstrates the versatility of our medium. Alabama Wall is formed by a grid of 32 mini-prints, each a unique interpretation of Christenberry's trademark "Tops" snuff advertisements. O'Neill's genius lies in his processes. Experimentation within each image, along with the dustings of coffee and micro-beads on to wet ink, propels the print to magnificent.
|Dennis O'Neill
Dennis lives, breathes and talks screenprinting: "The screenprint has long been associated with its commercial cousin for making imagery that is bold and graphic, flat and hard edged. When screenprinting began to switch from solvent based to water-based technology over two decades its very nature began to change and expand as well.The screenprint today is a chameleon, borrowing freely from sculpture, painting and digital imagery, to name just a few of its influences. It has a capacity to adapt and alter as well as replicate everything it sees and touches."
|Alabama Wall, detail. Granular additions evoke the impression of rust.
See the print, discover the secrets!
William Christenberry
Assembled Memory
Hemphill Fine Arts
September 8 – October 27, 2012Hemphill Fine Arts
1515 14th Street
Washington, DC
Dennis O'Neill
presents his unique screenprint processes at the
Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair
Sunday, Nov. 18th, 2:00 - 2:45 pm
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
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Silver Spring, MD


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Browser issueshere's a new problem I've encountered. I've done a demo tour useing TW5 (you'll still see demo image as we're evaluating the software and actually waiting for TW6 to be debugged) and discovered a couple of browser issues.
On my MAC useing Safari all the hotspot images vanished despite them still actually still being there if you happen to find them. Not only that, my initial setting of the first pano pov is also not starting correctly. What is strange is that this isn't an issue when I try this locally on Safari... only when looking at it via the server. Also a previous copy of the same tour we tested which had our own .pngs as hotspots didn't have this issue via the server either. It's only when we used TW's own hotspots that this problem occured.
On Google Chrome I'm finding that the window the tour is in does not size correctly to the frame of 900x600 px... instaed I get approx 880 x 500.
It works fine on explorer and firefox.
Are these known issues? If not are these issues that will be associatted with TW6 as well? Safari after all is used by quite a few MAC users.
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree... I'd spend 45 mins sharpening the axe.


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a targeted weekend recap
For me, weekends are generally too short to feel fully rejuvenated before tackling a new work week, but they're just long enough to completely screw up my sleep schedule. If I sleep a single hour longer than I should on Saturday, it's almost a given that I will be lying in bed at 2:00 a.m. on Monday morning, unable to fall asleep.
But all that nonsense aside, I had an awesome weekend. Clayton and I were quite the social butterflies and aside from a complete lack of time to do any lounging around the house, I couldn't ask for more. The best part of the weekend? I finally crossed something off my bucket list!
I'm terrified of guns, plain and simple. I'm terrified of guns because I'm the type of person who would hold a gun and do nothing but think about all of the bad things that could possibly happen while I am holding said gun. I've heard far too many stories of stupid, unsupervised children finding their parents' guns and accidentally shooting each other in the face ... Cheney. I've read about far too many drive-by shootings. I've seen far too many movies. I have far too vivid an imagination.
I have far too much paranoia, and I've heard far too few stories about proper gun safety.
But Dan and Emily invited us to tag along to an indoor gun range in Indianapolis and since shooting guns are the kinds of the things that boys typically like to do in between drinking beers and grabbing boobies, Clay was all for it. I, on the other hand, was slightly apprehensive and figured I'd just cower in the backseat of the car and wait for everyone else to be done.
But no sooner did we get to the gun range than I found myself pointing a .22 something-or-other at a paper silhouette of an androgynous blue person. Dan gave me some quick instructions on how to properly hold the gun (he's a fellow lefty and despite being mostly ambidextrous, I was quite surprised to learn that shooting a gun is something I'm more comfortable doing left-handed than right-handed), and took a step back so I could give it a go. Shakily, I help the gun barrel up to the target, did my best to aim for the figure's chest, and prepared to be knocked backwards when I pulled the trigger.
I pulled the trigger, the gun fired ...
... and I started laughing.
... and I started laughing.
I'm not sure if James Bond laughed the first time he shot his golden gun. I can't imagine John Wayne ever giggled like a school girl when he shot his pistol out in the Wild West. And I know for a fact there was no funny business when Tony Montana unloaded the amo from his assault rifle right before he was taken down, but apparently I find shooting guns hilarious.
Shooting a gun is honestly not as scary as I had imagined, but it's certainly a lot harder. I think movies and TV romanticize gun slinging so much that most people have no idea how heavy and hard to control guns actually are. Between Dan and his friend Sean, there were about 4 different guns for us to try, but anything bigger than the .22 gave me so much kickback that I didn't trust myself to use it without accidentally shooting the ceiling … or myself.
But apparently I have pretty decent aim! Anytime I pointed the gun at the target's head, I hit its head. Any time I aimed for its chest, I hit its chest. (Now, I'm not going to be entering any shooting tournaments or challenging anyone to a dual in the near future, but I certainly wasn't a bad shot!)
Once I got over my initial fear of everyone in the gun rage getting pissed off about gas prices or the election and starting to shoot each other, I relaxed and enjoyed the experience for it was. While I still insist on carrying an empty gun at an arm's length away from my body and will probably never beg Clayton to take me shooting again, I definitely learned that guns aren't terrifying all the time. They're only terrifying when they're being handled by the wrong people … or when they're full of bullets.
I hung one of my shooting papers up in our guest bedrooms so every time I run on the treadmill, I can use the thrill of firing a gun as motivation to keep on running! If I can shoot a gun, I can finish this mile!
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Dan ordered the group a plate of Scotch Eggs which, at first glance, look completely unappetizing. They're boiled eggs wrapped in sausage and then deep fried. I like eggs and I certainly like sausage, but the combination of the two just looked like it would result in one disastrous trip to the bathroom. I was going to politely decline the offer for to try one, but then I remembered that one of my summer goals is to sample new foods. Nervously, I dipped my egg into the spicy red pepper aioli and prepared my taste buds for something along the lines of spoiled meatloaf or pig's feet.
But my taste buds didn't need much of a pep talk because Scotch Eggs are A-MAH-ZING. It was like eating a bratwurst covered in spicy mayonnaise, and those are two things that will never be anything but yummy. The risk of toxic flatulence aside, I would definitely eat these again!
We also sampled a few new beers and I was unfortunately a little disappointed in my choice of Three Floyd's Pride & Joy. It wasn't a terrible beer by any means, but it certainly wasn't my favorite. I'm not a huge fan of an intense after-taste with my brew, and the bite at the end of each sip was a little too much for me. I definitely enjoyed the Bloomington Brewing Co.'s Kölsch that Clayton and I shared later when we all met up for dinner. I'm definitely a lover of pale lagers! Well, I think I'm just a lover of beer period. ;)
Between the beer I consumed at both lunch and dinner and the whiskey and Diets I mixed later in the evening when we joined a large group of friends for board games, I'm surprised I wasn't worse for wear for Sunday's long run. Since we had such a busy Saturday planned, I moved my 8-mile run and still can't believe I wasn't too dehydrated to get through it! Quite the contrary, actually. Despite choosing a difficult route, I felt so strong that I decided to tag an extra mile onto my workout (Ya know, to burn off some of those extra beer calories). I think a lot of my unexpected energy and zest that morning came from the fact that Friday's severe weather cooled things down significantly. Sunday's 9-miles were fall running at its best. I even opted to do some hill repeats during miles 6 and 7. Crazy? Just a little.
Clay's and my weekend came to a close with the Colts game at Colby and Ireli's house on Sunday afternoon and then a few episodes of Dexter after we ran errands. I crawled into bed far later than I wanted to and had to rely heavily on Starbucks to get me through this morning. But despite being extra sleepy, I have high hopes that this upcoming week will bring more fun with softball games, new training workouts, and a chance to actually spend some time relaxing on the couch with my hubby. I took a break from trying new cuisine in the kitchen and opted to stick with some quick fan favorites for dinner this week (Mac n' cheese, anyone?). Keeping my fingers crossed for a stress-free week!
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A former bookkeeper at Temple Menorah in Redondo Beach was arraigned Friday on charges that she stole nearly $100,000 from the synagogue.
Appearing in Torrance Municipal Court, Doina Stanescu, 51, pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Prosecutors say that Stanescu embezzled nearly $100,000 from the temple during the 18 months she worked there.
Prosecutors charged her with four counts of forgery--saying she signed at least four checks to herself--and a count each of embezzlement and grand theft, all felonies.
Stanescu, who had worked for the synagogue until a few weeks ago, recently sent a letter to the temple admitting the theft and explaining that she had been sending the money to cover medical expenses for her ailing father in Romania, police said.
On Tuesday, police said, she appeared tearful and contrite when she turned herself in at the Redondo Beach police station.
During her arraignment, Stanescu appeared bewildered and asked her attorney: "What do I do? I have to stay?"
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Now that Cubs have made the decision to add Andrew Cashner as the club's fifth the starter the question becomes what do they do with Carlos Silva? Obviously, they are going to try to trade him but I don't have any confidence that Hendry is going to pull it off. At this point in his career Silva is an emergency pitcher. He is the kind of guy you keep around in case one of your top five goes down with injury. This statement creates a couple of problems.
The first is that Silva is owed 11.5 million dollars this year. Who is going to accept that kind of salary from their 6th or 7th starter. Even if the Cubs do unload him it will most likely be under the condition that they pick up the bulk of that number.
The second problem, and probably the most telling, is that Silva doesn't view himself as a backup. Something in that bacon grease soaked brain of his is telling him that he is still a front line starter and everyone around is just being so mean to him (you were supposed to read that last line in a whiny baby voice). He has reportedly said their is "No chance" that he will be joining the Cub's triple-A affiliate. Oh, and he took some parting shots at the Cub's pitching coach Mark Riggins. Classy move Carlos.
Baseball is a numbers game and Silva is in denial if he thinks his numbers are front line quality. Last year was only the second time since he has become a starter that he has had a winning record. The second time. In seven years. He had one of those years for the Cubs so I think Cubs fans don't realize how big of an outlier that is. But hey maybe he played on some mediocre teams who didn't give him a lot of support. Sure, maybe. Except he has a career ERA of 4.68. That leans toward the shitty side of average. You suck Carlos. I'll be glad when you are someone else's problem.


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So, Isla's birthday fell on Easter week this year! Two years ago it actually fell on Orthodox Easter. I think that there is a good chance her birthday will orbit Easter for the rest of her life. I am beginning to see why people hate to share their birthdays with holidays because there was just so much happening and it was tiring! Plus at Isla's age I didn't want her to confuse the importance of Easter, but thankfully I don't think that that happened.
Anyway, as I've said, Isla was sick on her birthday. I didn't have a whole lot planned for the actual day because we had planned to have her Easter party at school so I knew she would be getting a lot of sugar. Her party was that weekend and we had planned to take cupcakes to her school the following Tuesday.
Once she got sick, I tried to make it a little more special. First I let her pick what she wanted for breakfast and she requested pancakes with sprinkles. I was worried that they would come back up, but thankfully she was done with that part of the illness.
Then Nick and I let her open up two of her presents. All in all we bought her 4 bean bags, a scooter with a helmet, an Anna (Frozen) doll, and a giant floor map puzzle. That day we let her open her map and her Anna doll. I had gone to Target to let Isla pick out which helmet she wanted and by the time I got back to buy it, it was sold out. I couldn't find it online but thankfully my MIL found it at her Target so she was bringing it later.
Also, her birthday shirt came in on her birthday and she was so excited! This was a really fun thing to do and I want to make this an annual tradition. Her birthday shirt said 4 in a Clifford the Big Red Dog fabric with her name embroidered on it. Here she is modeling it! I bought it from AddiesKakesKreations on Etsy.
By Friday both my mom and Nick's parents had arrived so we let her open the rest of her presents from us and from them. I don't have pictures of it, but my mom bought Isla an Elsa doll, and Nick's parents spoiled her with a girly train set, doll clothes and several other things.
Saturday was party day! Isla had request a Clifford the Big Red Dog party at Chuck E Cheese. It was easy and fun to put together, and we invited her favorite friends from school, our neighbors and her besties, Kaylinn and Hannah. Gabby was out of town and couldn't be there. Chuck E Cheese lets you bring in all of your own decorations if you want to except your own drink cups. I kept it simple, simple. I just ordered cupcakes (white on white) from HEB (I didn't want any red frosting after Isla's "Fire Booty" incident last year) and bought Clifford themed cupcake toppers and liners. The decorations were Clifford themed mylar balloon, napkins, plates, and red tablecloths. We also had hats and goody bags for the guest. The goody bags contained playdo with a dog bone cookie cutter, a Clifford pencil, candy… and something else that I forgot.
Isla got to take her guitar up and rock out with Chuck E and she also got to get into the ticket blaster. She wanted her dad to join her though! I was jealous… that looks like FUN!
We forgot our good camera, so the only pictures I have are from my iPhone and not very good. There's not much to say other than the kids ran around, danced with Chuck E Cheese and generally had a really fun time!
The birthday queen in her crown.
And finally her school celebration! I have a summer birthday and I never got to bring cupcakes or anything to school to celebrate… so you better believe I am living through my children . It was really simple. I had planned to make cupcakes with Isla but we just ran out of time. Instead I just picked up some ready made cupcakes at HEB and it worked just as well. It was very cute and I hope to get to do this each year! We also did it one week late since her birthday fell on the same day at the Easter party and I didn't want any of the small kids to confuse the two.
I decided to get some red ones since that's Isla's favorite color and there wasn't too much icing and she did great! No adverse reactions… thank goodness for all parties involved .
And that's it! We are pretty crazy about our little 4 year old. I am so glad that we were able to give her a party that she loved. She is so special to us each and every day, but its fun to celebrate her in a special way sometimes!


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Regrettably permission was given on written appeal for the latest application to go ahead (March 2015). The Society had written to the Planning Inspectorate at Bristol strongly objecting to the most recent proposals to build two six-storey blocks of flats on the site of the Farmers pub opposite the station on London Road, as being over-dense, poorly designed and inappropriate for this sensitive location, with inadequate parking and insufficient affordable housing.
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This is a major gateway to the town and any development should have taken full account of this. The picture shows an artist's impression of what people will see as they approach Sevenoaks from the north when the scheme is completed.
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Not a major update, but I've changed and uploaded some new screenshots of how the game looks. I appreciate all your support and hope you like these new ones :)
I've even included a small sneak peak of some of the things fixed and added for the next patch. Release date still unknown, as I'm focusing on getting the game more stable and getting the three regions to a more finished and polished state. Not a massive list just yet, as a lot of effort has been put into mapping, with more events and other scripting being planned as this is typed out. Make sure to stop by the Tales of Astya Discord channel to join the discussion and see/discuss the upcoming features to the game. Or you could follow me on Twitter if you're on there.
- Names to the ports on the sailing map.
- Several new foods (mostly very tasty sweets)
- All interiors to houses in Fiks
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- (Beta only) Ability to teleport to West Outpost if your character is stuck. Access it from the pause menu.
- Connections between maps should now be 100% stuck free. Beware, if you have saved your game near the edge of a map there is a slight chance your character is stuck inside the terrain. Sorry about that.
- Mollje, the small city on the island of Ceth.
- Finished mapping, interior of houses and NPC's
- Wrong positioning when climbing down the trapdoor in bandit house north of West Outpost.
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A planet discovered in 2014 may be the darkest celestial body ever found, say researchers in the astrophysics group at Keele University, UK.
Named WASP-104b, the planet absorbs 97-99% of the starlight that hits its surface. The researchers suggest WASP-104b is even darker than charcoal and that it can be among the top-three darkest planets. It is so dark that the researchers cannot actually see the planet. They have suggested that it is probably a glowing purplish ember, according to a report in phys.org.
Researchers used data from NASA's Kepler space telescope — "the K2 short-cadence data from Campaign 14" — to detect "phase-curve modulation in the light curve of the hot-Jupiter host star WASP-104."
Hot Jupiters are a class of gas giants that have a mass similar to Jupiter and stay close and orbit their stars in less than 10 days. They are also relatively dark and most reflect 40% of starlight that reaches them. WASP-104b is tidally locked — one side always faces the star, the other side is colder and darker.
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The paper suggests that this is in keeping with theoretical atmospheric models that suggest that the hazy layer around the planet is thick with atomic sodium and potassium that absorb all light around it. In other words, the distance between the planet and its star is an important factor in how dark it is.
The new finding adds to dark planets that have been discovered previously. For instance, the paper notes: "TrES-2b is one of very few hot Jupiters at least as dark as WASP-104b." Discovered in 2011, TrES-2b orbits roughly 3 million miles from its hot star, reflecting less than 1% of any light that hits it.
"This is one of the darkest planets ever discovered — reflecting very little light from its host star," PTI quoted Teo Mocnik, who led the research. "WASP-104b is interesting because it was not even seen," he said. "When analysing the highly precise photometric data from Kepler, we were surprised not to see reflected starlight from WASP-104b." The planet orbits a yellow dwarf star some 470 light years away from Earth.


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At Saturday, April 07, 2007 4:08:00 PM, Silliyak
I said break a leg, not the speed limit, but I suppose the latter IS preferable.Good luck again!
At Saturday, April 07, 2007 4:53:00 PM, Leonesse
Go, Norman, Go!!!::::vibes::::coming your way!
At Saturday, April 07, 2007 6:21:00 PM, Linda and Denny
Norman, Norman, Norman. *shakes head sadly* A scofflaw--who knew?All kidding aside, that's great news and Denny and I are sending "HIRE NORMAN!!!" vibes to the VBC.
At Saturday, April 07, 2007 11:04:00 PM, Ace
Good luck, lady! Lots of it! Yay!
At Sunday, April 08, 2007 7:31:00 AM, Lisa
Wow! Tons of HIRE NORMAN vibes headed your way!!!Now where's those snow pics??
At Sunday, April 08, 2007 9:56:00 AM, Freak Magnet
neeeeenerneeeenerneeeeenerwooooowooooGood vibes on their way.
At Sunday, April 08, 2007 3:12:00 PM, Sandra
Lotsa luck Norman.Anyway, how is it that this winter I was in San Antonio and you weren't there and next winter I'll be at Palo Duro Canyon and you won't be where you are now. Oh well, good luck!
At Monday, April 09, 2007 10:45:00 PM, Gail S
Norman, it scares me that you are so savvy about tickets :(But...lots of luck with the job!And cool pictures, it snowed down here in Odessa too. Kinda freaked me out!
At Thursday, April 12, 2007 9:27:00 AM, Stacie
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I think i may re-read this book some time soon, maybe in the summer, after all it is a summer book. Below is the synopsis from goodreads.
a long, hot summer...
That's what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy's father.
But sometimes unexpected things can happen—things such as the catering job at Wish, with its fun-loving, chaotic crew. Or her sister's project of renovating the neglected beach house, awakening long-buried memories. Things such as meeting Wes, a boy with a past, a taste for Truth-telling, and an amazing artistic talent, the kind of boy who could turn any girl's world upside down. As Macy ventures out of her shell, she begins to wonder, Is it really better to be safe than sorry?
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