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Our final European trip is upon us! I have SO loved all this travelling we've done and I feel so lucky we've had all of these wonderful chances to see the world. For our last trip, we're going to soak up the culture and sun in the South of France and then in Cinque Terre. It all starts tomorrow in Marseilles where we'll fly in, rent a car and then end up in a tiny village at a tiny bed and breakfast in Bonnieux in the heart of Provence. We spend three days exploring Provence, from Avignon to Aix en Provence, and then on Wednesday we'll drive along the French coast to Nice. I've been to Nice once before with my sister so I know it'll be lovely and full of croissants and sunny beaches. We'll stay for four days, taking day trips to St. Tropez, Eze, Cannes and a little island off Cannes called Isla Santa Margarita. And then we'll go via train to Monterrosso in Cinque Terre where we'll relax for a few days before coming back to London. My bags are almost packed with my sunniest attire and I simply cannot wait for this last farewell trip. I'll share photos when we're back!
Friday, 3 May 2013
Tour de South of France
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well I stole this from Synthtopia but this site is overdue for a newpost
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Don't tell PETA!!
I'm dying to hear this through a TM series box
Tumor Refilled Halo and 1934 Clough Brengle Beat Frequency Oscillator
HellFire Modulator Clone and Tube OscillatorThis is a picture of my homebrew Metasonix TS-21 Hellfire Modulator clone. "Tumor Refilled Halo" is an anagram of the original name. It is next to a 1934 Clough Brengle Beat Frquency Oscillator which works like a theremin in that it outputs the difference between two high frequency oscillating tubes for a very sweet sine wave, and instead of an antenna it has a dial for changing capacitance and thus the pitch. There is also a home brew signal generator that I got on eBay. The Two oscillators come together in the Frostwave Blue Ringer and their ring-modded output goes to the TS-21 clone. That signal then is fed to a drum box and gated. There is a demo file at http://www.twango.com/media/Baghead.sounds/Baghead.10008 and the guts of the TS-21 are on display at http://www.flickr.com/photos/matrixsynth/sets/72157594354036818/

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Press Release
Outstanding Washington employers honored at AWB's Evening of Excellence
Special event recognizes startups, environmental improvements, thriving workplaces and more
OLYMPIA — The Association of Washington Business presented its top awards to six employers Wednesday at the fourth-annual Evening of Excellence, presented by Banner Bank.
More than 220 entrepreneurs, advocates and business leaders celebrated the achievements of Washington's private sector at Seattle's Benaroya Hall. Employers were recognized for their work to improve the economy and quality of life in Washington by creating new companies, a thriving work environment and environmental improvements, among other categories.
"This is our chance to say thank you to the extraordinary Washington employers that support our communities," AWB President Kris Johnson said. "Washington is fortunate to have so many outstanding private employers that call the Pacific Northwest home. At AWB we're honored to recognize their accomplishments, appreciate their hard work and advocate for the right conditions so all employers can thrive."
Each of the six award categories listed below align with AWB's mission and vision.
Employer of the Year: Recognizes an employer that has implemented innovative job retention, creation, benefits, and/or compensation plans that foster a thriving work environment.
Blackwood Builders Group is a growing team of contractors, project managers, designers and real estate developers that build custom homes in the Seattle area. The company emphasizes open communication, training, outstanding benefits and teamwork to both care for its employees and accomplish projects. The company builds homes for those in need in Central America, and also supports Seattle Children's hospital, Bainbridge Land Trust, New Beginnings, Weld Seattle, Rampathon and Seattle For Growth through its charitable work.
Les Schwab Tire Centers of Washington
MultiCare Health System
Entrepreneur of the Year: Given to an entrepreneur whose business is less than five years-old and has made a significant impact in their industry.
Discuss.io is a Seattle company that enables online conversations with global consumers at scale. Its video conversations and market research platform allows companies to easily connect with customers around the world. In contrast, focus groups can provide valuable insights, but take months to organize. The company's live video platform can provide customer insights more quickly and affordably. Discuss.io started small a few years ago, and now connects companies to millions of customers in more than 95 countries. The firm was ranked among the nation's fastest growing companies by Inc. magazine last year.
Leading Environmental Practices Award: Recognizes a business that has put a priority on environmental improvement, education or outreach to its business sector and/or community.
Avista is a regional, investor-owned utility created in 1889. Founded on clean, renewable hydropower on the banks of the Spokane River, Avista has maintained a generation portfolio that is already more than half renewable, while continuously making investments in renewable energy, advancing the efficient use of electricity and natural gas, and driving technological innovation that creates a gateway to a clean energy future. The company is expanding its wind generating capacity, is piloting a battery system to store renewable energy, and has partnered with Washington State University on a major smart grid demonstration project. The company's goal is to serve customers with 100 percent clean electricity by 2045 and have a carbon-neutral electricity supply by 2027.
Feed Commodities, LLC
Green Crow Corp.
Achieve Award: Recognizes a business that has excelled in creating, implementing or supporting a high-caliber education and/or workforce development system aligned with closing the employment gap.
The Aerospace Joint Apprenticeship Committee (AJAC) is a statewide nonprofit apprenticeship organization founded on the belief that mastery occurs on the job. AJAC was founded in 2008 to help close the skills gap in aerospace and advanced manufacturing by providing registered apprenticeship training to people pursuing high-demand occupations like machinists, industrial maintenance mechanics and tool and die makers. Apprenticeships offer paid, on-the-job training with related classroom instruction. AJAC has served 1,333 apprentices at 293 companies since 2008. The organization also supports a Youth Apprenticeship and Pre-apprenticeship program. AJAC's work is critical to support the highly-skilled workforce needed to power Washington's strong manufacturing sector.
Out of the Box Manufacturing
SGL Composites, LLC
Connect Award: Recognizes a business whose products and/or services have positively impacted the way in which Washington employers and communities are connected to each other and the world.
The mission of Delta Air Lines, Inc. is to serve as a global network connecting people, places, businesses and communities. Delta has complemented Washington's population growth and skyrocketing demand for travel in recent years by connecting passengers to more destinations via Seattle. Delta currently serves 60 destinations from Washington, and has added 28 since 2014. The number of flights has increased by 129%, and the number of seats is up 101% during peak travel days. The company is also continuously investing in new aircraft to enhance passenger experience.
Amazon Web Services
Twin Bridges Marina
Advance Award: Recognizes a business that has had a significant cause-oriented impact in its sector and/or community and contributed to the advancement of the economy.
Emerson Salon is a community of independent hair designers located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. As a commercial landlord, Emerson provides small business owners an opportunity to rent a chair and equipment, and helps them maintain profitability in a growing city.
Emerson supports community organizations and offers business coaching to commercial tenants. Notably, Emerson Salon's D'Arcy Harrison helped organize thousands of cosmetologists and small business owners in opposition to several bills that were harmful to their industry in the 2019 legislative session. The work of Harrison and other salon owners was critical in protecting their ability to work as independent contractors and create flexible schedules.
Safe Boats International
Wells Fargo Bank
AWB also recognized Washington's outstanding manufacturers Wednesday evening. These awards were previously announced during AWB's Manufacturing Week bus tour in October.
Manufacturer of the Year: Feed Commodities, LLC
This Tacoma company is a premier recycler of bakery and food byproducts into livestock feeds.
Manufacturing Excellence Award for Operational Excellence: Cascade Designs
Seattle's Cascade Designs was recognized for its distinctive manufacturing process, including continuous improvements and innovations.
Manufacturing Excellence Award for Green Manufacturing:
The Phillips 66 Ferndale Refinery
The refinery was recognized for its work to maximize energy efficiency, exceed regulatory requirements and minimize waste from the production process.
Manufacturing Excellence Award for Innovation: Kitsap Bank
This family bank's innovative edg3 FUND program helps create a dynamic way of funding small startup businesses.
For high-resolution photos of this year's Evening of Excellence, please contact AWB's Brian Mittge at email@example.com.


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Mia Luna Fine Art Flash
Selene, the Greek Moon Goddess Acrylic on Canvas.
50 x 50 cm (25 x 25 inches)
Mia Luna is about a lot of things mixed up in one: our patterns, philosophy and crystal charge owe their inspiration to Selene, the Greek Moon Goddess embodied in the crystal Selenite.
She embodies the moon's silver qualities and gave selenite its name.Intricate designs of Mia Luna's selenite mandala decorate the undertones of this portrait. Her ethereal beauty and transparency give her an angel-like quality reflecting the skies and selenite's property ass an angel stone.


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Well, our write-ins worked because Carrie is now on the ballot for Favorite Female Country Artist. Nominees are:
So vote away guys - guess they should learn not to mess with the Carrie Underwood fans who are voting machines!! Here's the link:
I didn't read to see when voting ends - haha - but show is 1/18/17 9/8C CBS. You can also vote unlimited (I guess - it let me keep voting) and also post to FB and twitter. I know we're going hard on AMA AOTY but it really made me mad Carrie wasn't on this one so thought I would share. Thanks guys!
Yeah, I saw Donna post this on Twitter and wondered if our write-ins worked or our Twitter complaints about her not being on the ballet! Some of the categories are hysterical - Lonestar is nominated for Country Group! WTH!?
Who knows if it was us raising a ruckus or them seeing Carrie making Top 5 for Artist of the Year at AMAs ALL GENRE. Oh well, she's on there now. We can concentrate on that after voting is over Thursday night for AMAs. Haha
Voting. Come on team Carrie. Let's get this one for her.
Voting every day.
Power voting everyday.
We have to get this award for her, since she was not on the list to begin with. Wonder why?
voting every morning and evening.
Voting every day!
getting in my morning workout...LOL
voting here and on twitter!
Voting every morning and evening.


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Pressure cooker Chinese spare ribs
Serves 6-8 as a starter | prep 20 mins | total time
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Serves 6-8 as a starter | prep 20 mins | total time
Nutritional information (per serving)
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 x 1.3kg pack meaty pork spare ribs
- 6 garlic cloves, crushed
- 5-6cm piece of cinnamon stick
- 5cm piece of root ginger, peeled and finely grated
- ½ star anise
- 1 tsp Szechuan pepper (or crushed black pepper)
- 1 red chilli, left whole
- 1 x 150ml bottle light soy sauce
- 100ml rice or cider vinegar
- 200ml apple juice
- 75g light brown soft sugar
- 3 spring onions
Step by step
Get ahead
Cook the ribs a day ahead and reheat (bring to the boil, then cook at pressure for 5 minutes). The cooked ribs freeze well in the sauce.
- Heat the oil in the pressure cooker. Fry the ribs in 2 batches until nicely browned – each batch will take about 5 minutes, transfer to a plate as they're ready.
- Add the garlic, cinnamon, ginger, star anise and Szechuan pepper to the pressure cooker and fry for a moment. Pierce the chilli a few times with the point of a knife and add that, too, with the soy sauce, vinegar, apple juice and sugar; season lightly with salt and pepper. Add the browned ribs, stir and close the lid. Bring up to high pressure and cook for 30 minutes for small ribs (14cm or less) or 40 minutes for larger ribs. Turn off the heat and allow the pressure to drop naturally (see tips 3 and 4, below).
- Remove the ribs and the chilli from the pressure cooker and return it to the heat. Simmer the liquid, uncovered, for 6-8 minutes until it has reduced to a fairly light syrup. Return the ribs to the cooker and, if you are serving immediately, heat through again.
- To serve, trim the spring onions, cut in half lengthways and finely shred lengthways. Sprinkle over the ribs.


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MONTREAL — Some have suggested they could become king and queen of Canada.
Tim Hortons, the quintessentially Canadian coffee chain, offered them "free coffee for life."
Others recommended Ottawa, the nation's sleepy capital, as a possible home, noting that, if they squinted hard enough, they could pretend the Parliament buildings were palaces.
Prince Harry and his wife, the former Meghan Markle, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, electrified the world this week with their announcement that they planned to step back from official royal duties and live part-time in North America.
But even before they have revealed which country they would like to make home, many Canadians were already giddy at the prospect they could be moving to Canada — part of the loose federation of nations known as the British Commonwealth — and injecting some glamour into the sprawling, bone-chillingly cold country.
It is "the fairy tale ending we all deserve," Anne T. Donahue, a Toronto-based writer, gushed in The Globe and Mail, Canada's leading national newspaper. She called their decision "a power move" for the royal couple to "stop putting up with the nonsense" and take ownership of their own lives.
"So Harry and Meghan might be moving to Canada. Let's be honest, wouldn't you?" added the conservative-leaning National Post. Canadians are excited at this opportunity to live up to their "national reputation as polite host," it wrote, extolling the potential economic benefits for Toronto if they decide to live there.
But Tim Hortons may have best captured the national mood with its appeal to the couple.
"No pressure, Meghan and Harry," it wrote on Twitter. "But if you do choose to move to Canada, free coffee for life. Think about it."
Rumors that Canada, which features Prince Harry's grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, on its coinage and its $20 bills, was their preferred refuge from Britain were stoked this week after the couple's statement announcing their plans conspicuously mentioned "North America" rather than the United States. Also, a Toronto-based digital firm designed their website explaining their plans.
And after the announcement, the duchess returned to Canada, according to the BBC, where she had reportedly left their 8-month old baby, Archie, after spending Christmas and New Year's Day in British Columbia.
During their recent six-week vacation, the couple enchanted local residents on Vancouver Island by interrupting a hike to gallantly help a couple trying to take a selfie, according to local news reports. They were also turned away by an upmarket seafood restaurant serving caviar and steamed clams amid security concerns.
Even without Canada's historical connection to its former colonial ruler, the duchess, an American, has close ties to the country and many Canadian friends. For seven years, during her previous career as an actress, she lived in Toronto while filming the popular legal drama "Suits."
The Canadian media's relative lack of intrusiveness could also offer a welcome reprieve from the voracious British tabloid press, which has dubbed the entire endeavor "Megxit."
Perhaps mindful of the couple's potential to burnish Canada's brand, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — himself a member of political royalty as the son of a former prime minister — welcomed them on Twitter in December around their vacation period.
"Prince Harry, Meghan, and Archie, we're all wishing you a quiet and blessed stay in Canada," he wrote. "You're among friends, and always welcome here."
Philippe Lagassé, an expert on the British monarchy at Carleton University in Ottawa, suggested that this sometimes self-deprecating country was greeting a potential royal migration as a "vindication of the Canadian way of life."
Such is the enthusiasm for the couple in Canada that a poll released this week showed that 60 percent of Canadians supported appointing Prince Harry as governor general, the crown's representative in Canada's system of constitutional monarchy.
"It's a big source of national pride that the royal couple would want to be here," Mr. Lagassé said. "It makes Canadians feel better about themselves."
He even floated a view that, hypothetically, the federal Parliament could make Harry and Meghan king and queen of Canada — relying on recent rulings in Canadian courts on the issue of royal succession, and various loopholes in Canadian law.
But he stressed that a majority of Canadians would be unlikely to support that, given the reticence, he said, about revisiting constitutional debates that risk dividing the country.
In any case, he added, support for the monarchy generally remained lukewarm at best in a country where many viewed constitutional ties to the crown as a historical relic rather a necessity.
Nevertheless, pundits and citizens alike have been quick to offer advice on everything from how the couple should dress for braving the Canadian winter to where they should live. One frequent tip: Prince Harry could find favor by taking up hockey.
"They'd do well to ditch the crowns, scepters and garlands of invaluable gems and jewels, and dress the part of your average Canuck," the self-described anti-monarchist Canadian John Semley, wrote in Britain's Guardian newspaper. "I'm talking red-and-black flannel shirts."
Other than Toronto, popular suggestions for potential royal abodes include Vancouver, where rainy weather and picturesque natural landscapes could remind the couple of England.
But others warned they should avoid Montreal, given that monarchists were rare in Quebec, a proud majority French province that was ceded in 1763 after Britain vanquished France in the Seven Years' War. The queen has also avoided visiting Quebec City since 1964, when protesters showed her their backs.
Not everyone is thrilled by the prospect of the couple moving to Canada.
Public attitudes toward the royals could become frosty quickly if Canadians had to pay for the hefty cost of their security, Mr. Lagassé said. Moreover, while the pair say they want to be financially independent, there is no guarantee they could get permits to work in Canada.
Even though Prince Harry's grandmother is the personification of the Canadian state, he said, that does not confer legal rights for her progeny in Canada.
It is perhaps a sign of possible things to come that Tim Hortons's offer of free coffee to the couple also spurred a backlash on social media, after a union said workers in Winnipeg had been locked out by the company after their demand for a salary increase.
The royal couple "can afford to buy the company," one woman wrote on Twitter. "Your employees can't afford rent."
For all the royal hoopla, Canadians could be rejoicing prematurely if the couple decides to go to the United States to be closer to the duchess's family.
After all, Prince Harry may heed the words of his grandfather Prince Philip, who had this to say about Canada during a trip there in 1976:
"We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."


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The routes are between Helsinki Airport and the following destinations:
- Jyväskylä
- Kajaani
- Kemi-Tornio
- Kokkola-Pietarsaari
- Mariehamn
- Norrköping
- Tartu
- Visby
Finnair sells tickets to these routes starting March 10, 2015. Tickets can also be purchased from Flybe Finland until April 30, 2015.
The change to Finnair's flight numbers may cause some changes to the schedules of Flybe Finland flights that have already been booked and which depart on 1 May 2015 and onward. The aim is to continue to offer all passengers good connections to the destination that they have originally booked.
Passengers will be informed of possible changes in flight schedules starting 10 March by email or text message. Information will also be available on Finnair's and Flybe's websites.
Further information: Finnair Media Desk, +358 9 818 4020, [email protected]


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Donate Today
Funding permits ACT's message to reach every Canadian and make a positive change …
Proven Proven Proven
We talk a lot about Franklin Delano Roosevelt at ACT. FDR was the U.S. President that built the American Dream and the greatest economy in history. FDR's fight to add his Second Bill of Rights to the American Constitution was obstructed but these policies were added to the Constitutions of Italy, Germany, and Japan after the war. Today, they are the only G7 nations with advancing economies, six weeks of paid vacation, they have lower tax rates, full healthcare, pensions, and free education in many cases. FDR's policies are proven successful – even in mature capitalisms like today
Not Conservative, Not Liberal
Sustainable and Prosperous
ACT Parties talk about Sustainable policy. That's because ACT began as a thesis in a non-theoretical new science called Transition Economics (TE). TE takes a scientific approach – which means that we deprecate meaningless conservative and liberal categories – and instead, only endorsed policies which are proven to boost economies – both statistically and in observation too
Canada has more resources than the Middle East in every way – and yet growth is not even 1% per year here. Our failing has been in leadership and in planning
ACT competes against multi-billion-dollar ad campaigns from our southern neighbours. Special Interests sought to collapse the U.S. in the 1930s, and they're alive and well today, teaching voters to build a dystopia – as if that is in their benefit too. Read Dickens, Hugo, Orwell, Lord Byron, Hobbes, Rousseau and many more to understand the landscape that policies like Low-Tax, Low Death Tax, Small Government, and Open Markets build.
Your Donation gives a Canadian message a chance to be heard – and gives you and your children the chance of a prosperous future too
Our Policies
Social Contract is the most important building block in a strong economy. FDR's Second Bill of Rights (1944) created the American Dream and the strongest economy in history. Today, 70-years after the Marshall Plan implemented FDR's Rights into the Constitutions of Germany, Italy, and Japan, these countries remain the only G7s with advancing economies.
Social Contract
Full-employment is access to income. In a monetary society, money is like air that we all have to breathe. Policies that work find income are on-shoring (Diversity hiring quotas) and off-shoring (Globalization).
Housing in Canada has reached a breaking point – for everyone who needs to live and breath in this country. Young people, old people, any people – are feeling the stress of run-away rent and mortgage poverty.
How do we Fix this?
Housing must be affordable – for everyone. We live in a very cold country with February months dipping to -30c in most areas save British Columbia. In 1982 the price of a home in Hamilton, Ontario was $30k and salaries were $30k to $40k; in 1985 the same home was $90k; and today it's $600k for the exact same run-down three-bedroom starter home. Vancouver and Toronto are in worse shape than this and salaries.
First – Walk away mortgages.
Context is vital in voting. Is the message you are hearing truthful – and is the information important as well?
The Issues
Canada loses $4.2 billion a day – $1.5 trillion a year – to an opportunity shortfall. Canadian Exports-per-Capita are a fraction of other countries our size and its not that we don't want to be productive.
In a monetary system, freedom is the gap between Salaries and Cost-of-Living (CoL). When Salaries fall to Cost of Living, Freedom is lost; and when Salaries fall below CoL, Social Contracts are lost and economic productivity falters
When salaries do not meet CoL, they can be called starvation wages. ACT corrects Salaries with Full-Employment Policy and then we start to work on cost of living
Salaries Fall since the 1970s
Inequity has risen 20% since 2010 in Canada. That's a big lift in inequity and its an important problem for us to address.
Income Inequity
First, lets start by defining what is rich? Rich people that we would call the top 1%, have incomes of $1 million per month in Canada – and $1 million per week in the U.S.. Poor in Canada can include anyone who's incomes do not meet their cost of living. Region by region, CoL changes and so there isn't a dollar-rate that can be assigned to this.
Having rich people is not a problem, but having poor people that cannot be productive for the economy – that is a big problem.
Wealth Inequity
Low Social Contracts build great wars reliably – again and again. There are more conflicts worldwide today than at any time in history, and this was true for World War I & II as well.
Mature Capitalisms build populism, currency wars, trade wars, social problems and then real wars – by 2028 if war commencements of the past repeat
Mature Capitalism & War
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Weekend Wrap Up
28 comments:
- Summer at sparklecat.com said...
My human is so envious that your human got to hang out with that llama! She loves them even more than she loves goats (although not as much as she loves kitties).
- April 7, 2014 at 12:55 AM
- Ann said...
That was a busy weekend. I think I'll need a nap just reading about it.
How cool that you had a llama visit your neighborhood
- April 7, 2014 at 2:17 AM
- Karen and Gerard said...
I assume your mommy is feeling better? That llama sure is an unusual visitor! Very cool. I never heard one make any sound.
- April 7, 2014 at 3:34 AM
- Catherine said...
Hope mom found some time to relax after all that work! What a fun visitor that Llama. Cute!
Have a happy week kitties!
xo Catherine
- April 7, 2014 at 5:24 AM
- Sandy said...
Holding down boxes is an important and very tiring job, I do hope you get some rest today. Can you imagine the chaos that would ensue had you not been able to do that! Blows the mind.
Traveling Suitcase
- April 7, 2014 at 6:06 AM
Wow, it sounds like you girls had a great weekend. Isabella, I think you have a modelling career ahead of you! And that llama IS pretty cute.
- April 7, 2014 at 6:49 AM
- Fuzzy Tales said...
Wow, you had a very busy and exciting weekend! A llama? Very cool! He's pretty cute, we must admit.
- April 7, 2014 at 7:02 AM
- Duni said...
The Llama is adorable! I would have loved to pet him/her too :)
And the pink necklace is gorgeous!!
- April 7, 2014 at 7:10 AM
- Sandee said...
You two work so hard. I know mommy appreciates it too.
I would have gone out to pet the llama too. Too cute.
Have a purrfect day you two. My best to your wonderful mom. ♥♥♥
- April 7, 2014 at 8:50 AM
- Rose Clearfield said...
Keeping busy as always! The llama sighting is too neat.
- April 7, 2014 at 9:06 AM
- da tabbies o trout towne said...
how kewl iz that !!!! we hope him getted lotz oh green paperz for his cause !!!
- April 7, 2014 at 9:32 AM
- Grace said...
Sounds like a wild weekend MOL
- April 7, 2014 at 10:00 AM
- Katie Isabella said...
Isabella! You look absolutely STUNNING in that necklace! It IS yours, right?
- April 7, 2014 at 11:37 AM
- Natashalh said...
My mom tried to bring a llama home once...it ultimately didn't happen.
Great job modeling jewelry!
- April 7, 2014 at 12:24 PM
- Angel Ginger Jasper said...
the llama is a cutie and no wonder your mum ran to pet him. I love how you modelled the lovely necklace and I think I may know where it is headed. x
- April 7, 2014 at 1:51 PM
- The Adventures of Scarlett and Melly said...
That llama is adorable! Also, thank goodness your mom had you to hold down those boxes. What would she do without you??
- April 7, 2014 at 2:39 PM
- ♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥ said...
That's one of the cleanest llamas Mom has ever seen:) Looks like he works for a good cause too.
Hope the week flies by smoothly for Mom so you all can get back to "normal".
Woos - Phantom, Ciara, and Lightning
- April 7, 2014 at 4:39 PM
- Kitties Blue said...
Seeing a llama walking around our neighborhood would be much like answering the front door to find ET standing there. Never going to happen. What a cool thing for y'all to see. And Isabella, that necklace looks wonderful next to your furs. XO, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
- April 7, 2014 at 6:31 PM
- The Island Cats said...
Wow, that must have been cool to see that llama. Good thing your mom didn't bring him home. He might have tried to steal your boxes. ;)
- April 7, 2014 at 6:35 PM
- Reeni said...
My Mom loves llamas! What a cutie! Wish he would come to our neighborhood. Hope you all have a great week! Love, Moon xoxo
- April 7, 2014 at 6:50 PM
- Lin said...
LOVE the llama! We've never had one of those roaming our 'hood. Did he spit at ya?
- April 7, 2014 at 7:21 PM
- Kathleen said...
Woooos has some furry excitement in your neighborhood! Puuuurrrrfect fun!
- April 7, 2014 at 7:28 PM
- Katnip Lounge said...
Oh Cod, you've started Mommy on the Llama Kick again!
- April 7, 2014 at 8:41 PM
- The Furries of Whisppy said...
You had a Llama right outside your home!? How pawsome!
Pink looks really good against your tortie furs, Isabella. If it fits, you sits, eh Angel? ;)
- April 8, 2014 at 12:31 PM
- Memories for Life said...
Love the pretty pink necklace!
Nope, you definitely don't see llamas just hanging out in your neighbors yard...not even here in the country!
- April 8, 2014 at 3:21 PM
- Kjelle Bus aka Charlie Rascal said...
Wow , how COOL that you had a Llama right outside your house !
My mom-person would have tryed to take him with her home too :)
- April 10, 2014 at 3:24 AM
- DancingMooney said...
Ha! A llama named Mooney. What a fun surprise! :D
- April 10, 2014 at 11:41 AM
- The Army of Four said...
Oh, I just LOVE your box!!!
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This post contains spoilers for The Bachelor's Week 3 episode.
As any fan of The Bachelor knows, half of each episode is teasers for next week's upcoming episode, and we eagerly dissect each of those scenes, knowing full well they are highly edited versions of the truth. And in these two teasers for tomorrow's episode, Colton Underwood is doing his darndest to get us excited for his "journey," which naturally includes dressing up in a swashbuckling pirate costume.
E! News shared a clip of one of his very scripted dates on Week 3. For one of the group dates, he wears a slightly embarrassing pirate costume and stands atop a fake crow's nest. Like the cover of a cheesy romance novel, Colton's shirt is open, exposing his chest, which we all know is not an accident, considering his many gratuitous shower scenes. It's the typical Bachelor trope of doing something absurd in front of a live studio audience. "Captain Colton," searching for the "true treasure of love," pretends to battle fellow pirates aboard a ship. Demi Burnett, who is working hard at becoming the villain of the season lands enough camera time to call herself "life's greatest treasure." Okay!
It looks like tomorrow's episode will include not one, but two group dates. The shows' official Twitter account shared photos of another Bachelor trope: the physical fitness challenge. Why does a sign reading "Bachelor's Strongest Woman" make us cringe?
Colton wants to get physical with the ladies tomorrow. In the gym, duh. #TheBachelor pic.twitter.com/kjNAmV8rYU— The Bachelor (@BachelorABC) January 20, 2019
In another clip, we learn that this week's one-on-one date goes to Elyse Delbom, a makeup artist from Alaska who, at the ripe "old" age of 31, is one of the self-described "cougars" of the season. Extra tagged along to their date, which they describe as PDA-packed. Obviously, this is sure to irritate Demi back at the mansion. "We have a great connection and there is the potential for a future there," says Elyse. Colton agrees and blushes when asked about their makeup session. "I don't kiss and tell," he demurred, as he kisses a woman on television and talks about it to an entertainment news show.
Elyse, for her part, was thrilled about their date. "[It was] literally the best day. My birthday, Christmas, [they] can't top this." If the make-outs are any indication, she'll be getting her rose. Watch the video below, if you want to see some slow dancing to a country singer.


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A poor but wise young man is better off than an old but foolish king. That king doesn't pay attention to a warning anymore. The young man might have come from prison to become king. Or he might have been born poor within the kingdom but still became king. I saw that everyone was following the young man who had become the new king. At first, all of the people served him when he became king. But those who came later weren't pleased with the way he was ruling. That doesn't have any meaning either. It's like chasing the wind. (Ecclesiastes 4:13-16)Just being old does not mean we are wise. Holding down a prestigious position in society does not always equal out to wisdom either. Wisdom comes from God and by following His Word over the years, but it does not always equate to age. Many young people today have been through a lot and many are trusting God with their lives . . . at least they are making the efforts.Let us not be like the old foolish king and continue to learn from our youth even as we teach them!
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CALVELEY, Sir John (d.1403), of Stapleford, Leics. and Teigh, Rutland.
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Family and Education
nephew of Sir Hugh Calveley the elder (d.1394) of Bunbury, Cheshire, governor of the Channel Isles. m. by May 1384, Margaret, da. and coh. of Roger Cheyne of Salop, wid. of Sir Christopher Folville of Teigh and of Sir Laurence Hauberk† (d.1381) of Stapleford, poss. 1s. Kntd. between Oct. 1383 and Nov. 1384.1
Offices Held
Sheriff, Rutland 11 Nov. 1384-23 July 1385, 15 Nov. 1389-25 Feb. 1390, Warws. and Leics. 15 Nov. 1389-25 Feb. 1390; Feb. 1402 dep. sheriff, Rutland by Oct. 1385-22 Oct. 1386.2
Commr. of array, Leics. Apr. 1385, Mar. 1392, Dec. 1399; to make an arrest Jan. 1387; of inquiry, Rutland Feb. 1402 (the dowager countess of Oxford's claim to the manor of Market Overton).
Steward of the lordship of Oakham, Rutland, for the King 2 Nov. 1388-2 Mar. 1390, for Edward, earl of Rutland, 2 Mar. 1390-20 Oct. 1399.
J.p. Leics. 15 July 1389-June 1390.
Calveley grew up in Cheshire where his family possessed considerable influence as landowners. Appropriately enough, the first known reference to him also concerns his uncle, Sir Hugh Calveley, one of the most outstanding English captains of the 14th century, who complained, in about 1377, of the problems faced by one of his kinsmen in gaining possession of a living in North Wales. A number of his relatives, including our Member, appear to have been active in support of the young priest, although their plans were evidently thwarted by the legal authorities within the palatinate of Chester itself. Calveley's life underwent a dramatic change as a result of his marriage to a wealthy widow with considerable property in Rutland and Leicestershire. His wife, Margaret, held a dower of property around Teigh, in Rutland, which had been settled upon her by her first husband, Sir Christopher Folville. On the death of his successor, Sir Laurence Hauberk, who was brutally murdered by Sir Thomas Maureward*, a follower of Sir Hugh Calveley, she took seisin of an estate centred upon the village of Stapleford in Leicestershire. Within a few years of his marriage, Calveley had not only represented both counties in Parliament, but had also served a term as sheriff in each, had been made steward of the lordship of Oakham, and had obtained a seat on the Leicestershire bench. That he made use of his position to advance the careers of other members of his family seems more than likely: as deputy sheriff of Rutland with personal responsibility for holding the elections to the Parliament of October 1385, he was, for example, ideally placed to secure the return of his cousin, Hugh Calveley*, who had by then married one of his stepdaughters, Agnes, the heiress to the Hauberk estates. He may also have intervened less directly to help another of his kinsmen, the Cheshire knight, Sir Hugh Browe, his colleague in the Parliament of November 1390, and the eventual husband of one of his Folville stepdaughters.3
We may reasonably assume that Calveley was already married by October 1383, when he first represented Rutland in Parliament. In the following May he and his wife were arraigned on an assize of novel disseisin brought by a rival claimant to Margaret's property in Teigh. The outcome remains unknown, although they appear to have defended their title successfully. Calveley served for a while in the garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed, being granted royal letters of protection early in 1384 for a year's absence on the Scottish border under the command of the earl of Northumberland. Notwithstanding these letters, he was sued in the court of the constable of England by one John Whitchurch for a debt of 700 francs, and it was only after a personal petition to the King that he managed to obtain a writ of supersedeas to halt the proceedings. In common with most of the male members of his family, Calveley enjoyed a considerable reputation for military prowess. In March 1387 he took up arms again, this time in the retinue of Richard, earl of Arundel, whom he accompanied on his naval expedition against the combined Flemish, French and Spanish fleets. Shortly afterwards he was pardoned his outlawry for failing to defend himself against an action for debt brought by the wealthy London draper, John Hende, to whom he owed £15 3s.4d.His wife's kinsman, Robert Hauberk, was less fortunate in avoiding the consequences of outlawry, and in July of the same year Calveley obtained custody of some of his confiscated Leicestershire estates. He himself went to law at about this date, in an attempt to recover an unpaid debt from the parson of Luddington in Warwickshire.4
Calveley's relations with the Hauberk family seem to have changed during the 1390s from the cordial to the blatantly hostile, largely as a result of a dispute over the manor of Scalford in Leicestershire. In August 1392 the dying Agnes Hauberk of Scalford appointed him as an executor of her will (which included a bequest to his wife, Margaret, her former daughter-in-law); but within a matter of months he had become involved in a protracted lawsuit against Agnes's son, John, who refused to accept that (Sir) Hugh Calveley's wife possessed a superior title to the manor. The case dragged on after (Sir) Hugh's death, and did not reach a final verdict until July 1396, when his widow and her stepfather, the subject of this biography, were confirmed in possession.5 The latter had by then been made custodian of his late kinsman's two sons and their extensive inheritance, which now included the estates left by Sir Hugh Calveley the elder on his death, without direct heirs, in April 1394. The deceased's manors of Shotwick and Lea in Cheshire were awarded to Sir John separately under the terms of various royal grants, the first of which specified a limited tenancy of seven years. Almost immediately afterwards, however, on 28 May 1394, the manor of Shotwick alone was settled upon him for life, rent-free, as one of the King's knights. Its value must have been considerable, because in September 1398 he agreed to exchange the property for a standard annuity of £30, again payable for life in return for his services to the Crown. Our MP subsequently petitioned Henry IV on behalf of his young ward, David Calveley, who had entered part of his inheritance without a royal licence. Letters of pardon were duly issued in April 1400, but soon afterwards Calveley decided to relinquish his wardship, and sold it to Sir John Handforth, who promptly married the boy's brother, Hugh, to his daughter.6
Meanwhile, during the early months of 1394, Calveley made three appearances as a mainpernor. In February he stood surety for John, Lord Beaumont, who had just taken on the keepership of the Styuecle estates; and in the following March he performed a similar service for the Cheshire knight, Sir Richard Winnington. He also offered joint bail of £1,000 on behalf of Sir Ralph Lumley, whose dispute with Roger, Lord Clifford's widow, Maud, had taken a violent turn. It was at about this time that Sir John surrendered his title to part of the Hauberk estates in the Leicestershire village of Saxby, which he and his wife may previously have occupied. Calveley appears to have gone abroad in the summer of 1396, since he then obtained permission from the Crown to appoint three attorneys for the supervision of his affairs in England. His position as a King's knight may well account for his return to the second Parliament of 1397, in which Richard II finally revenged himself against his old enemies, the Lords Appellant of 1388. Yet Calveley himself was by no means an uncritical supporter of the court party, and there is reason to suppose that his own political affiliations at this time were highly ambiguous. He found it expedient to sue out a royal pardon in May 1398, specifically because of the support which he himself had given to the Appellants, no doubt in the person of Arundel (who had just been executed for treason), and quite possibly in view of his existing attachment to Thomas, duke of Norfolk, one of the 'junior' Appellants. When the duke left England as an exile in October 1398, Calveley was among the band of 80 well-wishers who accompanied him to Lowestoft, and although other evidence of their association has so far not appeared, we may justifiably assume that it had by then grown fairly strong.7
Calveley clearly did not scruple to throw in his lot with the newly-crowned Henry IV, who, in December 1400, gave his 'dear bachelor' custody of the manor of Stapleford with rents to the value of £40 a year. Our Member was one of the six persons summoned in the following July to represent Leicestershire at a great council. He did not, however, live long enough to improve upon his fortunes as a supporter of the house of Lancaster, for he was killed (and died intestate) while fighting for the King, on 21 July 1403, at the battle of Shrewsbury. Shortly before this date Calveley had offered sureties of £200 on behalf of Sir Richard Vernon, who was captured and beheaded as a traitor because he had supported the rebels. It was thus, ironically under the circumstances, that Sir John's own possessions were temporarily declared forfeit, although they were restored to the two nominees responsible for administering his estate some six months later. One of these men was also named John Calveley, and may well have been his son. He certainly shared the fruits of Lancastrian patronage, and by 1407 had become an esquire of the body to Henry IV.8
Ref Volumes: 1386-1421
Author: C.R.
- 1. C66/317 m. 11d; SC8/103/5103; PRO List 'Sheriffs', 112; CPR, 1401-5, p. 353; Trans. Leics. Arch. Soc. xi. 464; VCH Rutland, ii. 153; Peds. Plea Rolls ed. Wrottesley, 135. Both Sir John Calveley and (Sir) Hugh Caveley MP were nephews of the distinguished soldier, Sir Hugh Calveley the elder. It seems likely that they themselves were cousins rather than brothers, since (Sir) Hugh, who appears to have been the younger of the two, was heir to his father's estates. T. Ormerod (Palatine and City of Chester ed. Helsby, ii. 768) is certainly wrong in describing them as father and son, although unlike R. Thoresby (Ducatis Leodiensis, 116) and T. Wotton (English Baronage, iv. 136-8) he does not make the mistake of attaching our Member to the Calveley family of Calveley in Yorks.
- 3. Ibid.; Trans. Leics. Arch. Soc. xi. 464; VCH Rutland, ii. 153; SC8/103/5103.
- 4. C66/317 m. 11d; E101/40/33 m. 17; CFR, x. 191; CPR, 1381-5, pp. 595-6; 1385-9, p. 334; CCR, 1385-9, p. 611; Cal. Scots Docs. (supp.) v. no. 4126.
- 5. Early Lincoln Wills ed. Gibbons, 48-49; JUST 1/1501 rot. 68, 69, 70v, 73.
- 6. DKR, xxxvi. 80-81; CFR, xi. 114-15; CPR, 1391-6, pp. 416, 419; 1399-1401, pp. 260-1.
- 7. CPR, 1391-6, p. 380; CCR, 1392-6, p. 293; CFR, xi. 112; J. Nichols, Leics. ii. 350-1; DKR, xxxvi. 80; C67/30 m. 3; A. Goodman, Loyal Conspiracy, 163.
- 8. DL41/15 f. 17d; DKR, xxxvi. 80; PCC, i. 159, 162; English Baronage, iv. 138; CPR, 1401-5, p. 353; 1405-8, p. 380; J. Trokelowe, Chron. ed. Riley, 369, 371.


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363rd day of 2010 - 2 remaining
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
In the early 1900s, college football was a brutal game ... so rough that many students suffered serious injuries and sometimes, death. This prompted many schools to discontinue the sport. Others urged that football be reformed or abolished from intercollegiate athletics.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt summoned college athletics leaders to two White House conferences to encourage such reforms. In early December 1905, Chancellor Henry M. MacCracken of New York University held a meeting with 13 institutions to initiate changes in football rules. At a subsequent meeting on December 28 in New York City, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS) was founded by 62 members.
The IAAUS was officially constituted the following spring. Then, on this day in 1910, it changed its name to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Today, the NCAA is a voluntary association representing more than 1,200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals devoted to the sound administration of intercollegiate athletics.
The Association strives to maintain intercollegiate athletics as an integral part of the educational program and the athlete as an integral part of the student body. The NCAA also stands for good conduct in intercollegiate athletics and serves as the colleges national athletics accrediting agency.
If it werent for the National Collegiate Athletic Association, there would be no college bowl games nor any college sports, for that matter.
Events December 29
1845 - The flags of Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and of the United States have flown over the area known as Texas, the state that became the 28th of the United States of America on this day. And, the state nickname, the Lone Star State, comes from the Texas state flag with its one star. Texas is an altered pronunciation of the Indian word, Tejas, meaning friends, and thats why the Texas state motto is Friendship. The capital of the second largest state is Austin, its state Bird , the mockingbird, the state flower, the bluebonnet, the state tree, the pecan tree.
1848 - President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1851 - The first U.S. Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) was organized -- in Boston, MA.
1876 - The Pacific Express, carrying some 159 passengers and crew, was traveling over a bridge near Ashtabula, Ohio. Only the first engine of the train made it to the other side as the bridge began to collapse. The rest of the train broke away and plummeted to the bottom of the ravine below. Approximately 92 men, women and children were killed. Most did not die from the fall itself, but were burned alive while trapped inside the crushed cars -- the result of oil lamps and stoves which ignited the fatal fire.
1890 - The U.S. Seventh Cavalry in efforts to suppress the Native Americans of South Dakota, massacred over 200 men, women and children. The massacre occurred at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
1913 - The Unwelcome Throne was released by Seligs Polyscope Company. This was a moving picture and the first of thirteen installments of the serial, The Adventures of Kathlyn, starring Kathlyn Williams. It was called the first serial motion picture and was co-produced by The Chicago Tribune. The Adventures of Kathlyn also appeared in the Chicago paper in serial form.
1934 - The first college basketball intersectional doubleheader was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City. New York University beat Notre Dame, 25-18 in, as you can see by the score, anything but an offensive battle. In the second game of the night, Westminster defeated St. Johns, 37-33.
1943 - San Fernando Valley was recorded by Bing Crosby. He chose the tune because he felt it would be a ba-ba-ba-big hit. Guess what? He was right. Within a week after its release, the song became a popular favorite everywhere, including the San Fernando Valley in California.
1945 - The mystery voice of Mr. Hush was heard for the first time on the radio show, Truth or Consequences, hosted by Ralph Edwards. The feature was intended as a spoof of giveaway shows. However, the idea was taken seriously and lasted five weeks before fighter Jack Dempsey was identified as Mr. Hush -- for a prize of $13,500.
1945 - Sheb Wooley recorded the first commercial record made in Nashville, TN -- on the Bullet label: I Cant Live Without You and Oklahoma Honky Tonk Girl. But it was 13 years later when Wooley finally scored with a big hit (The Purple People Eater was #1 for six weeks in June and July, 1958). Wooley (whose first name is Shelby) played the part of Pete Nolan on TVs Rawhide, recorded novelty tunes under the name, Ben Colder, and acted in High Noon, Rocky Mountain, Giant and Hoosiers. The Country Music Association honored him with the title of Comedian of the Year in 1968. If you remember the TV show Hee Haw, with Buck Owens and Roy Clark, it was Sheb Wooley who wrote the theme song.
1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut became the first ultrahigh frequency (UHF) television station to begin operating on a regular daily schedule. UHF stations broadcast from where the VHF (very high frequency) stations leave off -- channels 14 through 83.
1952 - The first transistorized hearing aid was offered for sale by Sonotone Corporation on this day. I SAID THE FIRST TRANSISTORIZED HEARING AID WAS OFFERED FOR SALE BY SONOTONE CORPORATION ON THIS DAY.
1953 - Jean Stapleton debuted in her first Broadway play. She starred with Judith Anderson in the production, In the Summer House, which opened in New York. It Closed after only 55 performances.
1957 - Entertainers Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme were married at the home of Beldon Katleman in Las Vegas. Katleman was the owner of the El Rancho Hotel-Casino.
1963 - Much to the chagrin of the disc jockeys at 50,000-watt WABC in New York, the 5,000-watt blowtorch known as WMCA and its famed Good Guys became the first New York radio station to play the Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand. It didnt take long for WABC to get revenge. It started calling itself the official Beatles station (W-A-Beatle-C).
1965 - The Christmas truce was being observed in Vietnam, while U.S. President Lyndon Johnson tried to get the North Vietnamese to the bargaining table.
1967 - Orchestra leader Paul Whiteman died on this day at the age of 76. Known as the King of Jazz, Whiteman had 28 #1 hits between 1920 and 1934 including, Three OClock in the Morning, My Blue Heaven, All of Me and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.
1972 - Following 36 years of publication, the last weekly issue of LIFE magazine hit the newsstands. The newsweekly is said to have redefined photojournalism while showing America its own face.
1972 - Eastern Airlines Flight 401, a Tristar Jumbo Jet crashed near the Everglades killing 101 people.
1975 - A powerful bomb ripped through the luggage claim area of the Delta terminal at New Yorks LaGuardia Airport, killing 11 people and injuring 74. The perpetrators behind the attack were never brought to justice.
1982 - Paul Bear Bryant led the Alabama Crimson Tide football team for the final time as Alabama beat Illinois, 21-15, at the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, TN. It was his 25th season at the University of Alabama. Coach Bryant, age 69, retired as the NCAAs winningest coach. His overall record included winning 322 games as coach at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A&M and Alabama. His teams won six national championships, played in 29 bowl games; winning 15 of them. Whered he get the nickname of Bear? He once wrestled a bear in a traveling show. We figure he must have won. After all, that was Bear Bryants style.
1985 - Phil Donahue and Soviet radio commentator Vladimir Pozner hosted the Citizens Summit via satellite TV. It was a way for people from the U.S. and the former Soviet Union to question each other about politics and policies.
1986 - After eighteen years and $47 million expended, the restored Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, FL, reopened for business.
1989 - Playwright Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia by the countrys Federal Assembly, becoming the first non-Communist to attain the post in more than four decades.
1991 - A Boeing 747 freighter of China Airlines crashed into a mountain at Taipei. All five crewmembers on board were killed.
1992 - The United States and Russia announced agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.
1992 - New York Governor Mario Cuomo commuted the prison sentence of Jean Harris, the convicted killer of Scarsdale Diet author Herman Tarnower. Harris was granted clemency because of her ill health at the time.
1994 - The U.S. confirmed the release in North Korea of Army helicopter pilot Bobby Hall, twelve days after he was shot down and captured.
1995 - Dead Man Walking was released in New York City. The Tim Robbins film about a convicted murderer on death row and the nun who befriends him, has grossed $39,387,284 in the U.S (as of Dec 2002). Susan Sarandon won Italys David di Donatello Award for best actress in a foreign film. At the 46th Berlin International Film Festival, the film won the Silver Bear for best actor (Sean Penn), the Ecumenical Jury prize, the German Arthouse Cinemas prize, and the Berliner Morgenpost Readers Jury prize.
1996 - The Firm and Lasting Peace Accord was signed, ending 36 years of civil conflict in Guatemala. The accord included provisions for education in 23 regional languages.
1997 - Hong Kong began killing 1.4 million chickens to stem the spread of a mysterious Bird flu that had already killed four people.
1998 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologized for the deaths of as many as two million people during their regime in the 1970s, and asked Cambodians to forget/forgive the past.
1999 - The Nasdaq stock index Closed above 4,000 for the first time, ending the day at 4041.46.
2000 - U.S. President-elect George Bush (II) filled four more Cabinet slots. Rod Paige was to be Secretary of Education; Gale Norton was selected to be Secretary of the Interior; Anthony J. Principi was returning as Secretary to the Department of Veterans Affairs; and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson was to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
2001 - A fireworks shop exploded in downtown Lima, Peru. The resulting fire spread over four downtown blocks. 290 people were killed.
2003 - The roof of the 800-year-old Mewa Tsadkan Gabriel church in Ethiopia collapsed while it was packed with worshippers. Fifteen people were killed. News of the collapse took days to reach the outside world because the church was in a remote location some 100 kilometres north of Gondar, the main town in the region.
2003 - The U.S. government said it would require some international air carriers to place armed law enforcement officers on cargo and passenger flights to, from and over the United States.
2004 - The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island and found thousands of bodies; the death toll from the earthquake/tsunamis reached 77,000 across twelve nations.
2005 - It was reported that Farris Hassan, a Iraqi-American teenager who travelled to Iraq without informing his parents, had been picked up by the 101st Airborne.
2006 - Two American sailors died after falling overboard from a U.S. submarine in Plymouth Sound off the southern coast of England.
2006 - U.S. regulators gave final approval for the $86-billion merger between AT&T and BellSouth to create the biggest merger in telecommunications history. This only after AT&T gave additional commitments regarding billing, Internet availability and jobs.
2007 - An Islamic militant group in Pakistan said it was not involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto; the opposition leaders aides accused the government of a cover-up, disputing the official account of her death. The Pakistan government said mass rioting has killed 38 people and caused tens of millions of dollars in damage.
2008 - The British pound fell to a record low against the euro -- to one pound per euro.
2008 - German reinsurance giant Munich Re reported that natural disasters had killed over 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record.
2008 - The U.S. government approved $6 billion in aid to GMAC LLC, the financing arm General Motors.
2009 - Mexico City enacted Latin Americas first law recognizing gay marriage. Goverment officials said they hoped to attract same-sex couples from around the world to wed.
2010 - New movies showing in U.S. theatres: Another Year, with Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Peter Wight and Oliver Maltman; and The Way Back, starring Colin Farrell, Mark Strong, Saoirse Ronan, Jim Sturgess and Ed Harris.
Birthdays December 29
1800 - Charles Goodyear
inventor of vulcanized rubber after he accidentally (after five years of research) dropped some rubber mixed with sulfur on a hot stove; died Jul 1, 1860; note: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company was founded and named after Goodyear in 1898 by Frank Seiberling
1808 - Andrew Johnson
17th U.S. President [1865-1869]: succeeded to presidency upon the death of Abraham Lincoln; married to Eliza McCardle [three sons, two daughters]; died July 31, 1875
1809 - William Gladstone
British Prime Minister; author; luggage named after him: the Gladstone bag; died May 19, 1898
1876 - Pablo Casals
musician: cellist; died Oct 22, 1973
1909 - Thomas Beck
actor: Charlie Chan film series, Supercarrier, Walking Down Broadway, Heidi 1937], Seventh Heaven, Crack-Up, White Fang, Under Two Flags; died Sep 23, 1995
1910 - Ruth Hall
actress: Monkey Business, How to Marry a Millionaire, Desert Command, Ride Him, Cowboy, Local Boy Makes Good, The Doorway to Hell; married to cinematographer Lee Garmes; died Oct 9, 2003
1917 - Thomas Bradley
mayor of Los Angeles [1973-1993]; died Sep 29, 1998
1920 - Viveca (Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter) Lindfors
actress: Backstreet Justice, Adventures of Don Juan, Stargate, A Question of Guilt, Natural Enemies; died Oct 25, 1995
1922 - William Gaddis
novelist: The Recognitions, JR, Carpenters Gothic, A Frolic of His Own; died Dec 18, 1998
1922 - Rose Lee Maphis
entertainer: half of the team: Mr. and Mrs. Country Music with husband Joe; Hee Haw regular
1927 - Jim Simpson
Emmy Award-winning sportscaster: ABC, NBC, ESPN
1932 - Inga Swenson
actress: The Miracle Worker, Advise and Consent, North and South TV miniseries
1934 - Ed Flanders
Emmy Award-winning actor: St. Elsewhere [1982-83]; A Moon for the Misgotten, True Confessions, Bye Bye Love, Eleanor and Franklin, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper; died Feb 22, 1995
1934 - Tom Jarriel
newscaster: ABC News, 20/20
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore
Emmy Award-winning actress: The Mary Tyler Moore Show [1972-1973, 1973-1974, 1975-1976], Stolen Babies [1992-93]; The **** Van Dyke Show, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ordinary People; her legs starred on Richard Diamond, Private Eye; started in TV as Happy Hotpoint [Hotpoint Appliance elf: 1955]
1936 - Ray Nitschke
Pro Football Hall of Famer: Green Bay Packers LB: All-Pro [1964-66]; MVP in 1962 NFL Championship; died Mar 8, 1998
1938 - Jon Voight
actor: Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, The Odessa File, The Tin Soldier, Mission: Impossible, Enemy of the State, Pearl Harbor
1941 - Ray Thomas
musician: flute, saxophone, harmonica, singer: group: The Moody Blues: Nights in White Satin, LPs: In Search of the Lost Chord, On the Threshold of a Dream, To Our Childrens Childrens Children, A Question of Balance, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Seventh Sojourn, Moving Mountains, Other Side of Life, Sur la Mer
1942 - Rick Danko
musician: bass, songwriter, singer: group: The Band: Music From Big Pink, The Basement Tapes; died Dec 10, 1999
1946 - Marianne Faithfull
singer: As Tears Go By, Summer Nights; actress: Ill Never Forget Whatsisname
1947 - Ted Danson
Emmy Award-winning actor: Cheers [1989-1990 and 1992-1993]; Three Men and a Baby, The Onion Field, Gullivers Travels, Becker, Curb Your Enthusiasm
1952 - Gelsey Kirkland
dancer: ballerina, author: The Little Ballerina and Her Dancing Horse, Dancing on My Grave: An Autobiography, Shape of Love
1953 - Yvonne Elliman
actress, singer: Jesus Christ Superstar: I Dont Know How to Love Him, If I Cant Have You; joined Eric Clapton in his 1974 comeback tour
1959 - Paula Poundstone
actress, comedienne: The Paula Pundstone Show, Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth
1961 - Mark Day
musician: guitar: group: Happy Mondays
1969 - Jennifer Ehle
actress: TV/films: Pride and Prejudice, Alpha Male, The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service, Sunshine, Melissa, Pride and Prejudice; Broadway: The Coast of Utopia, Design For Living [Revival], The Real Thing [Revival]
1971 - Jay Fiedler
football [quarterback]: Dartmouth Univ; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, New York Jets
1972 - Jim Brower
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Montreal Expos, San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins
1972 - Jude Law
actor: The Talented Mr. Ripley, Gattaca, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Enemy at the Gates, Artificial Intelligence: AI
1973 - Tomas Perez
baseball: Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies
1975 - Jaret Wright
baseball [pitcher]: Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles
1977 - Jack Wilson
baseball [shortstop]: Seattle Mariners, Pittsburgh Pirates
1978 - La Toya London
singer: Scandalous, Learn to Breathe, State of My Heart, Meet Me Halfway, Anything, I Cant Hide [Whats in My Heart], All By Myself; American Idol 4th-place finalist [2004]
1983 - Jessica Andrews
singer: Humanity, I Will Be There for You , You Go First [Do You Wanna Kiss], Who Am I, Unbreakable Heart, I Do Now, Karma, Helplessly, Hopelessly
1996 - Dylan Minnette
actor: Saving Grace, Oranges, The Year Without a Santa Claus
Chart Toppers December 29
1946The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole
White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Ole Buttermilk Sky - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Mike Douglas & The Campus Kids)
Divorce Me C.O.D. - Merle Travis
1955I Hear You Knocking - Gale Storm
Memories are Made of This - Dean Martin
He - Al Hibbler
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
1964I Feel Fine - The Beatles
Shes a Woman - The Beatles
Goin Out of My Head - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Once a Day - Connie Smith
1973Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) - Helen Reddy
The Joker - Steve Miller Band
If We Make It Through December - Merle Haggard
1982Maneater - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Mickey - Toni Basil
The Girl is Mine - Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney
Wild and Blue - John Anderson
1991Black or White - Michael Jackson
Its So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boyz II Men
All 4 Love - Color Me Badd
For My Broken Heart - Reba McEntire
2000Independent Woman, Part 1 - Destinys Child
Case of the Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do) - Mya
If Youre Gone - Matchbox Twenty
My Next Thirty Years - Tim McGraw
2009Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z + Alicia Keys
TiK ToK - Ke$ha
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
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Baker, Dorothy Eleanor
Birth: Friday, July 01, 1927 in Wicomico, Maryland
Residence: Newport, Maryland
Death: Friday, December 09, 2016 at the age of 89
Laid to Rest: Saturday, December 17, 2016 in the St. Marys Catholic Church Cemetery, Charlotte Hall, Maryland
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Dorothy Eleanor Baker, 89 of Newport, MD passed peacefully on December 9, 2016 at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center located in La Plata, MD. Dorothy was born on July 1, 1927 in Wicomico, MD she was the daughter of the late Stanley and Nettie Herbert Dade. Dorothy was the wife of the late Joseph (Buck) Baker Sr., whom preceded her in death on July 15, 2014.
She was educated in Charles County Public School System and graduated from Bel Alton High School however, her greatest achievement was raising 13 children in a loving home. In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her daughters, Jacqueline and Shirley Mae; son, Larry P.; grandson, Julius Jamal; siblings, James, Joe, Arthur, Clayton, John, Eddie, Florine, Mary, Mable, Kate, Eva and Viola.
Dorothy was a devoted Roman Catholic and longtime member of St. Mary's of Newport Catholic Church. Even after she and her late husband moved out of the area due to his illness she still continued to support her church through weekly offerings.
She was a devoted housewife and loving mother who never missed an opportunity to be feisty and to put you in your place. Dorothy enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, playing cards (Deuces), completing word search puzzles, and casino trips to play slots. When she was more active, black Friday shopping was an annual tradition with her daughters. She also enjoyed Sunday Family dinners and annual Christmas breakfast with country sausages. A very thrifty saver, she instilled financial values and strong work ethics in her children.
Her favorite TV shows were soap operas (All My Children, Young & Restless and General Hospital), game shows (Price Is Right, Family Feud, Let's Make a Deal, and Jeopardy); her favorite movie was Dirty Dancing with Patrick Swayze, attending gospel concerts and oldies but goodies music especially Roy C. Anyone who visited Dorothy's home became family and raved about her food specifically her fried chicken and sweetened iced tea. Young at heart Dorothy was a fashionable dresser and relished at being told she could pass as one of her daughters.
Dorothy leaves to cherish and celebrate her memories, her loving children, Gregory (Anne), Lana, Annette (Michael) Parks, Joyce, Joseph Jr., Julius Marvin (Diana), Deborah Thornhill, Anthony, Carla, Denise and Craig; 18 grandchildren to mourn her death, Derek (Brenda), Shawnree, Tananya (Derrick), Malik, Lamont, Marketta Nicole (Owen), Sarah (Danny), Renatta, Cheyna, Bryan, Jamiel, Antonio, Tiara, Henry (Hank), Julius (Marcus), Ricca, Briana, Anthony Jr. (AJ); 17 great grand-children; sisters-in law, Pauline and Mary Lorraine Baker; and brother-in law, Joseph David and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. And a special son and daughter, Eric and Rhonda Bullock and special nieces, Audrey Proctor, Loris Somerville and Terrance (Terri) Bush. Lastly, a special and dear friend, Agnes Curtis. Arrangements by Arehart-Echols Funeral Home.


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Watching movies may not sound like the most productive thing you could do while you have several exams to prepare for. You've got to review everything you know about Tap Water before you can even think about going anywhere more than 2 seconds from your room.
Sleeping, eating, drinking, social interaction; these things that we need in order to survive no longer matter.
The only thing we care about is passing so that we can move on with our lives and never have to think about the complexity that is Tap Water again.
So why on earth would I watch movies during a time where my main focus should be on learning everything I need to know for the exam? The answer, though it may not seem like it, is very simple. Watching movies, specifically kids movies allows me to relieve stress. After being awake between 8am and 3am for almost two weeks, with one meal a day and little to no social interaction outside of the classroom, I decided while in my zombie-like state that I wanted to watch something…specifically something that would make me laugh, and so I began watching shows.
When I reacted the final of each of the shows I was watching/catching up on, I realized that the shows were themselves stressful to watch as some of the episodes would leave me near tears due to some of the subject matter.
Then I decided, "I will watch a movie I haven't seen in years!" and started searching up all of these kids movies that I hadn't seen since I was maybe…well whenever I last saw them. A lot of the movies that I like came out around the time I was born, which makes sense now because my mother would say that I looked like a character from one of those films when I was maybe 5 or 6?
Ever since I began watching these happily ever after, funny, annoyingly corny movies, I've been in good spirits about writing my exams and I also ended up forgetting how incredibly tired I was…or am. I'm still tired but I'm about to watch An American Tail 2. I've never seen this one, and my little sister and I used to sing that one song that Fievel and his sister Tanya sing when my sister got this doll, and it was the only doll of that kind that she owned…so we pretended her doll was waiting for her family to come to our imaginary toy land. Our stuffed monkey Zoboomafoo (r.i.p D':), was like her caretaker and he'd carry her around the town and stuff…this is becoming a totally random slightly off topic thing. Anyways it was a great song and the movie was pretty cute. Plus I like history…so I know I'll learn something from it. I'm Canadian so I'd rather watch A Canadian Tail but that doesn't exist…and well, Canadian television is finally stepping up its game. I think it will be a while until we have another good film. Our documentaries are pretty great though. Yah…I seriously should just write for television so we'll gain more popularity. I have so many scripts that my sister and I have made over the years and our friends really liked them. However I'm more of a novelist…who likes to use a pen name because I'm kind of shy and my mom recommended it even though she doesn't know anything about writing…or really care about it all that much.
Okay my eyes are literally burning…and now they're watering. I think I should watch my movie and go to bed right after.
I may be less active for a few days I may not…depends on how confident I am after tomorrow.
Good luck to those with exams…and just some friendly advice….don't stay up until 3 am everyday with only one meal in your belly. It is painful…and you will end up eating very unhealthy in order to pretend you aren't starving.
Oh and don't tell yourself you're fasting because like…you're not, you're just choosing not to eat because eating requires leaving your studies and you know that if you walk away you are not coming back until like the day before the exam okay?
My dad was right I do say like a lot.
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Seattle Symphony Music Director Ludovic Morlot and Board Chair Leslie Jackson Chihuly announce the Grammy-winning orchestra's 2018–2019 season, which culminates Ludovic Morlot's multi-year exploration of French music past and present, as well as furthering the orchestra's commitment to commissioning new works and in-depth community-related projects. Several programs with geographic, historical and social context will be presented, including Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities, the Silkroad Ensemble which embraces difference and cultural collaboration, Jordi Savall's The Routes of Slavery, and the world premiere performances of George Walker's Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions," which was composed in response to the 2015 church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
"For my final season as Music Director, we've woven together the many programmatic threads we started seven years ago into a true culmination of ideas," commented Morlot.
"I'm thrilled to explore the music of Debussy in great depth, alongside repertoire that influenced his work, and together with those new French voices of Dusapin, Dalbavie and Durand. This season we will introduce so many new and diverse guest artists to Seattle, and I'm thrilled to embrace the voices of more women composers. When I think of my last season with this wonderful orchestra, it really feels like we've had a chance to work on all that we wanted and this beautiful season brings a sense of fulfillment to those dreams."
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Chihuly shared, "Our journey with Ludovic Morlot is coming to fruition next season in so many ways, from the symphonies we all know and love to the latest commissions and premieres, to powerful music that makes a statement about our world today, whether that's Heiner Goebbels' commentary on the effects of urbanism on humanity, or George Walker's artistic response to one of the most painful events in recent history. Here in our community we remain committed to our Simple Gifts initiative which supports those who are experiencing homelessness, and we're thrilled to welcome Derek Bermel as Composer in Residence, who will have an active role both on stage and in the community."
Ludovic Morlot will build on his previous explorations of French repertoire with a special focus on the music of Claude Debussy for the centenary year of the composer's passing. Morlot will conduct six works by Debussy over the course of five subscription weeks throughout the season including Gigues from Images, Petite suite, Jeux, Printemps, Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande and Nocturnes. These works will be presented alongside repertoire that influenced the composer, including works by Mahler, Strauss, Wagner and Janáček, and Debussy contemporary, Ravel, together with new French voices.
Morlot will conduct Marc-André Dalbavie's Sonnets and La source d'un regard, the U.S. premiere of Pascal Dusapin's At Swim-Two-Birds, and the world premiere of Joël-François Durand's Préludes. French- born Durand is Professor of Music at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Following critical acclaim for the 3-disc set of Henri Dutilleux's orchestral works, upcoming recording plans will continue to capitalize on Morlot's distinctive interpretations of French repertoire. Recordings featuring Ludovic Morlot and the orchestra performing the works of Berlioz and Dalbavie are planned for the 2018–2019 season. The orchestra will also continue to record its first-ever Nielsen cycle, which began last fall with the release of Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 conducted by Thomas Dausgaard.
Music Director Designate Thomas Dausgaard, who will become Music Director in the 2019–2020 season and will also be in his fifth season with the orchestra as Principal Guest Conductor, will conduct three programs, each with a notable premiere. In October Dausgaard will conduct the U.S. premiere of the original first movement of Schumann's "Zwickauer" Symphony created by Dausgaard from the composer's manuscript, as well as Schumann's Symphony No. 2. Two programs in April include the North American premiere of Langgaard's Prelude to Antichrist, which shares a program with Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments," followed in another program by Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World," which will be performed alongside the premiere performances of George Walker's Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions," written in response to the devastating murder of nine African Americans at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015, at the hands of a white supremacist. Although Sinfonia No. 5 has been recorded, these are the first public performances.
Season Highlights
- DEBUSSY AND FRENCH REPERTOIRE In his eighth and final season as Music Director, Ludovic Morlot will build on his exploration of works by French masters, with a major focus on works by Claude Debussy, as well as his influences and contemporary French composers he inspired, during the centenary year of the composer's passing.
- THOMAS DAUSGAARD Principal Guest Conductor and Music Director Designate Thomas Dausgaard will conduct Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, "The Four Temperaments," Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "New World," and George Walker's Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions," among other works.
- MAJOR WORKS J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor, Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9, Brahms' Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3, Bruch's Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2, Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel, Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 1 and 15, and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4.
- SEATTLE SYMPHONY COMMISSIONS The Seattle Symphony will give the world premieres of the following commissioned works: Kinan Azmeh's Clarinet Concerto, two new works by Derek Bermel, Joël-François Durand's Préludes, a new piece for Heiner Goebbels' Surrogate Cities, John Harbison's What Do We Make of Bach? for Orchestra and Obbligato Organ, Caroline Shaw's Piano Concerto, and a new work by Chen Yi.
- ADDITIONAL PREMIERES This season will feature the first-ever public performances of George Walker's Sinfonia No. 5, "Visions." The orchestra will give the U.S. premieres of Pascal Dusapin's At Swim-Two- Birds and Hannah Kendall's The Spark Catchers, and the North American premiere of Langgaard's Prelude to Antichrist.
- CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS In addition to the above commissions and premieres, contemporary works include Hans Abrahamsen's Schnee, John Adams' The Chairman Dances from Nixon in China, Unsuk Chin's snagS&Snarls, Marc-André Dalbavie's La source d'un regard, Reinbert De Leeuw's "Im wunderschöenen Monat Mai," Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium, Vijay Iyer's City of Sand, Edward Perez's Latina 6/8 Suite, Narong Prangcharoen's Pubbanimitta, Kaija Saariaho's Ciel d'hiver, Michael Tilson Thomas' Agnegram and Lotta Wennäkoski's Hava.
- SURROGATE CITIES The Seattle Symphony will present Heiner Goebbels' multi-sensory production Surrogate Cities, which reflects on the impact of urbanism on society. The evening-long performance includes the premiere of a new piece woven into Surrogate Cities.
- COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE DEREK BERMEL Composer, clarinetist and conductor Derek Bermel will be Composer in Residence for the season. In addition to world premieres of two new compositions and other projects, he will co-create the orchestra's spring Simple Gifts Community Composition project in collaboration with residents of Compass Housing Alliance, a leading provider of housing for veterans.
- SILKROAD ENSEMBLE The Silkroad Ensemble returns to Seattle, bringing their trademark world-class performers and repertoire connecting East and West. At this performance, Ludovic Morlot and the orchestra will present the world premieres of Seattle Symphony commissions from Chinese composer Chen Yi and Syrian composer Kinan Azmeh. Azmeh's new Clarinet Concerto was commissioned
- following his stirring performance at the Seattle Symphony's Music Beyond Borders: Voices from the Seven, performed in response to the travel ban that was issued in January 2017.
- JORDI SAVALL: THE ROUTES OF SLAVERY In a monumental project spanning centuries and featuring musicians from Africa, Europe and the Americas, early music expert Jordi Savall leads a singular experience of music, dance and spoken word tracing the story of the African diaspora in the Old and New Worlds. Presented in partnership with Early Music Seattle.
- BRAHMS CONCERTO FESTIVAL Associate Conductor Pablo Rus Broseta leads a two-concert festival featuring rising star violinists Blake Pouliot and Sayaka Shoji, cellist Jay Campbell, and pianists Yury Favorin and Zee Zee.
- GUEST ARTISTS Soloists include violinists Joshua Bell, Nicola Benedetti, Vadim Gluzman, Augustin Hadelich, Alina Ibragimova, Itzhak Perlman and Aleksey Semenenko; clarinetist Kinan Azmeh; pianists Behzod Abduraimov, Jonathan Biss, Khatia Buniatishvili, Boris Giltburg, Garrick Ohlsson, Steven Osborne, Sir András Schiff and Jean-Yves Thibaudet; as well as Wayne Marshall, organ; Mahan Esfahani, harpsichord; Avi Avital, mandolin; and Dmitry Sinkovsky, countertenor.
- GUEST CONDUCTORS Conductors include Andrey Boreyko, Richard Egarr, Mahan Esfahani, Gustavo Gimeno, Jonathon Heyward, Kirill Karabits, Vasily Petrenko, Ruth Reinhardt, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Dima Slobodeniouk and Shiyeon Sung.