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I get to work with some pretty amazing young people on a regular basis. It's honestly inspiring to realize how many young people are out there in the world, working daily to improve their communities and our society.
Thus, when I got to work with a school in Washington recently, I was expecting to find some pretty phenomenal young people, but I wasn't prepared for the force for good named Jake.
During our UPstander Intervention Training, I talked to the students at Jake's school about the idea of being social normers, of being the change you wish to see in your school so that you can inspire others to do the same. We talked about how social norming helps to change the air students breath in school to make it more inclusive, which makes the other work of being an UPstander far easier.
While talking to these students, though, I didn't realize that one of the students to whom I was speaking could easily have been up there offering his wisdom. After all, not long before I came to his school, Jake had made this video:
One of the most common forms of ageism toward young people in our society today is thinking that as adults, young people have nothing to teach us. Often adults pretend that we have the whole world figured out and that young folks will one day know as much as we do if they make it to the magical world we call adulthood.
In reality, though, young people are often the ones with the most to teach. After all, they have not been fully clouded by the cynicism or negativity that sometimes comes with age. Even more, young people are engaging with the world in ways that those of us even ten years older than them could not have imagined at their age. Youth are inspiring revolutions in the Arab Spring and transforming their communities through activism and servant leadership in every community around the world. Plus, with the power of the internet that they know so well, they have the ability to learn from other young people as well as from elders in ways I never would have imagined at sixteen.
What Jake reminded me, not only when I met him or when I first saw this video but in our continuing relationship through social media, is that I have a lot to learn.
And Jake reminded me that sometimes the best teachers are those who are many years younger than me.


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Yesterday an anonymous commenter drew attention to the text of the "Gang of 14" agreement to argue that Sen. Collins had committed to the "extraordinary circumstances" standard for judicial nominee filibusters only for a set period of time.
Indeed, the text of the agreement specifies that its provisions are "related to...judicial nominations in the 109th Congress." So it's certainly fair to say that Collins, by backing filibusters in less than extraordinary circumstances several years later, hasn't violated the letter of the agreement.
On the other hand, I don't remember anyone stressing the time-limited nature of the Gang of 14 compromise when it was put into effect. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that there was a widely shared sense that the "extraordinary circumstances" standard in particular was being put forward as a "new normal"--one the Gang of 14 members didn't just settle for but actually believed in.
And the contemporaneous news accounts that show up near the top of a Google search do nothing to undercut that impression.
But of course, the best way to evaluate Collins' integrity on the issue is to look at her own statements. Here's her press release on the agreement:
This agreement is based on trust. And most important, it helps preserve the unique culture of this institution. It is a culture that is built upon a foundation of collegiality and cooperation that transcends partisanship. It is a culture in which legislative goals are reached with patience and perseverance, and through the art of negotiation and compromise. This agreement preserves that Senate culture and shows a respect for the important principles that make the Senate such a great institution.And here she is in 2010, several years after the end of the 109th Congress:
In 2005, a group of senators came together to negotiate an agreement for considering judicial nominees. This "Gang of 14," of which I was part, sought to avoid what was known as the "nuclear option," a change in the Senate rules that would have brought about a legislative meltdown.If in 2010 Collins thought that her commitment to the culture-preserving, principle-respecting "extraordinary circumstances" standard had long lapsed...she sure had a funny way of expressing it.
While leaders on both sides hardened their positions, the 14 of us--seven from each party--joined to forge a solution. We established a new standard, stating that we would support filibusters of judicial nominees only in "extraordinary circumstances."
Our deal restored trust and helped preserve the unique culture of the Senate.

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It has been nearly an year since I posted something, other than my one true follower, others must know that radical changes have taken place in the Life & Times of yours truly, for one I'm not in college anymore, a graduand now, as Wikipedia puts it. My culinary options are not restricted to Gobi Manchurian* anymore. In the past year life has been partly nomadic. I have relocated about 7 times in the past 7 months in Bangalore and I'm actually working now, like for real. Of course this does not explain why the 2 year sabbatical from blogger.
Originally this post was meant to be an elegy to blogger, I thought of kicking blogger and moving to something else, posterous, tumbler, Wordpress. Well at the moment though that might be unlikely, (and blogger has undergone a lot of changes since I last posted). I promise I'll update something soon.
P.S Title inspired by XKCD comic
* Gobi Manchurian: A dish served from kitchens of Isengrad which consists mostly of questionably coloured vegetables & cauliflower bathed in oil


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Preface – this discussion originated in another thread which can be viewed here:
I should point out, that I have not deeply studied any religious texts, or for that matter, any philosophical ones, and I have no specific position whatsoever. This has no bearing on anything, but some of the arguments for and against seem to be ad hominem, so I say that just to avoid those from the beginning. If you have no interest in this subject, don't bother posting at all.
There are several questions it seems to me, left unanswered by monism and dualism. To say dualism is dead seems to be a bit premature.
Where do abstract ideas exist?
What is our brain doing when we think abstractedly, and where in the brain does it do this?
How does monism resolve the "illusions" of free will and self?
If monism is correct, abstract ideas must exist in the physical world. Where do they exist? Some say that abstract ideas only exist when we think of them, but this poses more problems than it solves. If we take the idea that abstract thoughts only exist in conscious minds, if there are no conscious minds, or, if no conscious mind is thinking of an abstract idea at that moment in time, does the idea no longer exist? If none of us think about the number 1 or 2, and abstract ideas only exist in conscious minds, that would mean that 1 or 2, at that point, do not exist at all. Intuitively, this seems incorrect, and dare I say, a "conscious-centric" worldview, which seems to arrogantly suggest that the humble numbers 1 and 2 do not exist without us.
To look at it from another perspective, let us consider an abstract law which exists in the universe. For example, gravity. If none of us think about gravity, we must still accept gravity still exists and acts in the universe. That must mean that gravity has a place in the world without conscious minds. What about numbers?
To continue the monist problem, where does gravity exist in the physical world? Or E=mc2? If monism is correct, we ought to be able to look closer and closer and perceive gravity, or another law. We ought to be able to look close enough and say, "This is a gravity. This is an E=mc2." This does not seem likely, even if we had the most powerful perceptive faculties imaginable. However, everything else in the material world operates in a space. Two balls, one red and one blue exist in space. We can say, "This ball is red, that one is blue. They are not the same." The balls exist, they operate in the physical world, the same as gravity, and E=mc2, but the balls are divisible. We can break them down and find that fundamentally they are the same particle. But these particles exist in space, separate from each other. How would we break down a gravity? What would it's constituent parts be? Everything we say materially exists operates in space and is divisible down to fundamental building blocks. Gravity exists in space but where, and what can it be broken down to? We cannot avoid the issue by saying gravity exists everywhere because that would mean we are made up of fundamental particles of gravity, yet so far we consider ourselves to be built up of minute particles. If we are just fundamental blocks of gravity, what about other physical laws?
The Ancient Greek and Indian philosophers were able to intuitively suggest that solid objects are actually made up mostly of space. This is completely counter-intuitive and if I were alive at that time and they told me I would have thought them mad. To say a solid table is mostly space seems wrong, yet they were found to be correct.
If our brains are simply sense perceiving and translation devices, how did they arrive at this conclusion? Where did this idea come from, where in the brain was this done and how? If our brains are simply sense perceiving organs that must mean there is a site in the brain which has something akin to an electron-microscope (when thinking 'micro' abstractedly) or a high powered telescope (when thinking 'macro' abstractedly, for example in pre-scientific theories about the Big Bang/creation of the universe). Where is this site in the brain, and how does it see that far? Monism MUST say that there is a device like this in the brain, if so, where is it, and how does it do this? Furthermore, if this was simply a perceiving organ, why do we have the ability to create abstract ideas as well as perceive them?
From a monist's perspective, "free will" and "self" are illusory, because everything is determinable by the fundamental laws of the universe. A monist must therefore consider both an illusion, which would suggest all conscious minds are suffered from some kind of dementia. If our senses of selves and will are delusional, how can we trust our other senses? This seems dangerously close to slipping into solipsism, and if we can prove nothing else, as Descartes said, the one thing we do know is that we exist. If the only thing I can prove to exist is myself, yet this is an illusion, does not monism slip gently into solipsism at its most fundamental state?
The dualist stance would solve a lot of these questions, but pose more of its own.
A dualist world which consisted of thought/matter, and our consciousness as some sort of window between the two solves the problems of where these abstract thoughts exist which seem problematic from a monist standpoint, as they would exist in some sort of universal other place where the abstract ideas which shape our world formally exist in their entirety and can be seen in their pure forms. The problem for dualists to solve is how we are able to see this other world, where in our material brains does this window exist? As a kind of point of singularity? Where precisely could a dualist point to and say, "This is the material site of our window?" A dualist must resolve this point if they are able to say where the point of interaction between the two worlds exists.
A dualist can also site a "will" or "self" at this point of consciousness, and resolve the monist problems with free will and self, but dualism still has to resolve the problem of where this point exists materially, as everything else we can prove to exist has a "place" in the material world.
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Tell me where 'pi' exists as anything other than a 'concept'. I've already explained 'concepts' at least 7 times so we're not going through that again. When you can tell me where 'pi' exists as anything more than a concept then we can proceed. You are getting very boring.
I'm not going to say where pi exists. I am asking if it does. If it does exist then we have to reject nominalism.
If you have no example of 'pi' that exists as anything other than a concept then it is not an example of dualism. Let me know when you have some sort of example that supports dualism.
I'm not for or against any specific position. I'm not arguing for dualism.
You asked how pi would exist except as a concept. If mathematical concepts do exist we have to give them a place. If they do not have a place, how can they be said to exist, since being able to place or perceive something in reality seems to be the very definition of existence.
If they exist, we have to reject nominalism, since it specifies that mathematical concepts themselves do not exist.
For the 8th, and last time, concepts are nothing more than patterns of neurons (such as patterns of grains of sand) - a reflection of the world perceived by those neurons. That's it.
Substitute '1' or '2' for 'pi' and go back through our entire exchange and you end up with the same thing.
But my other perceptions are perceptions of real things (or in the case of memory, things which happened). If those perceptions are "real" why is pi not?
We can say that we can not know if any of them are real, they still exist/happened in space and time. We can still say that we are real. How can we say that my perception of this table is real, but my perception of pi is an illusion. I can use pi. It cannot therefore be illusory.
Your concept of the table is just that - your concept/perception; a reflection of something that exists in reality. Our minds reflect reality with many patterns - but those patterns are just that - patterns, not a table.
That reflection is reflected and refracted all around the brain in many ways - creating a pattern for '4', the way we numerate the legs on the table. Other patterns for diameter and circumference can arise if the table is round - interfering and combining with each other to arise with the pattern for 'pi' - just a reflection of the table but not a table. The concept of a circle exists but is nothing more than a pattern that might arise as the reflection of all sorts of things - but the concept is still just a pattern - not the thing.
The colour of the table is a pattern resulting from the light perceived to be reflecting from the table but still not another object existing anywhere outside of our head.
That's it.
Please read Daniel Dennet's Consciousness Explained.
That's fair. I guess my problem is the idea that mathematical and physical laws, pi etc. don't actually exist but have effects on the material world is troublesome for me. Thanks anyway. Looks like I need to study more...
I was considering your numerical conundrum, as proposed by Plato and the counterarguments. I have to say that I'm of the persuasion that numbers are actually tools to describe the cause and effect nature of the universe in which we find ourselves.
Quantum physics and mechanics deeply disturbs the otherwise predictable nature of numbers, in that objects interact in a seemingly irregular way once a certain point is reached.
This would apparently upset the philosophy that numbers are fixed objects in "another place".
There is an amazing scientist and philosopher called Michio Kaku, perhaps you know of him. He has done some things with Big Think, and there is an interesting looking playlist that I am just about to launch and lose myself in.
Here is the link to that, in case you are interested - I think this guy may have a better set of answers than most people around. He is also a very animated and interesting character himself and extremely watchable.
Yeah I've seen that guy, and I really like Big Think. This guy for instance:
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I rarely bother writing about "assembly" dinners (i.e. you take a lot of nice things and cook them and have them on the same plate and that's that) because I reckon you can probably work that kind of stuff out for yourself. But I was moved to write about this farewell dinner my husband made for me on Sunday night before disappearing for another week's filming.
We have in this house, I think, quite an odd diet. We don't eat pasta or potatoes except in emergencies and limit fish to very special occasions.
We also rarely - like, never - eat steak or fillet or any prime cuts of anything. Not even free-range organic stuff. We mostly eat the offcuts - belly, shin, cheeks, wings, beaks, feet, ears etc - to assuage our complex feelings about eating animals. By living off these odds and ends we are not the ones driving intensive farming and the slaughter of animals, (killed primarily for "prime" cuts like steak), we are merely mopping up the leftovers, giving a home to the scrag ends that would otherwise go in the bin.
But then this weekend because we were feeling out of sorts my husband bought from the farmers' market some really properly luxe fillet steak. And it was FUCKING AMAZING. We bought too much and roasted it with half a baked potato each (just to keep our spirits up) a couple of marrow bones and a parsley salad and then had the leftovers in sandwiches the next day.
From the same butcher (Twelve Green Acres, if you are interested) we also bought some fantastic black pudding and my husband made it for dinner on a bed of lentils and popped a coddled egg on top. And it was as nice as the fillet steak - just in a slightly different way.
Black pudding and lentils, by Giles
For 2
2 eggs
100g (dried weight) green lentils
1 onion
salt and pepper
1 or 2 discs (each) of the best-quality black pudding you can get your hands on
oil for frying
(We had some tired tomatoes hanging about so roasted them for 30 mins, but by all means leave them out.)
1 Boil your lentils until very soft - about 25 minutes in salted water.
2 In a frying pan fry the chopped onion gently in oil for about 15 minutes. If you had some chorizo knocking about you could fry a few cubes of that alongside it, but it's not essential. I have not included garlic because my friend Henry, who is a chef, said the other day that he's stopped automatically adding garlic to everything he cooks because he thinks it's lazy and makes everything taste the same. But you are free to add garlic if you fancy it.
3 Add the lentils and heat through. Shift the lentils and onions to one side when done and fry off your discs of black pudding in the same pan to save on washing up.
4 If you have an egg coddler, do two eggs in that. If not, poach if you're able to. If not, just fry the buggers.
5 Assemble your dinner by putting down a layer of lentils, then the black pudding then the egg on top.


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Hospitals are uninviting by nature, assaulting one's senses almost immediately upon entry. The inescapable odor of antiseptic wafting through the corridors, the glaring fluorescent lights overhead that accentuate startlingly white walls, and the constant wailing beeps of machines that give the impression that someone is in mortal peril every 1.2 seconds tend to make even the healthiest of visitor feel as though their heart might explode.
A recent visit to the hospital saw my father rushed into a very serious emergency surgery. As I paced the floors of the Shapiro Cardiovascular Center, a facility that is part of the world-renowned Brigham and Women's Hospital, I felt overcome with the extreme anxiety provoked by the fear of losing a loved one. At the time I was too preoccupied with hand-wrenching, constant clock checking, and nervous wood knocking to notice that this anxiety was in any way abnormal. Worrying yourself sick is to be expected in these type of scenarios, what was notable, in retrospect, was that this anxiety was in no way punctuated by the normal agitating factors of a "normal" hospital environment. The air smelled fresh. The waiting room – even though located next to a busy street- was as quiet as a church on a Friday night. The walls were painted with a soft palate, the kind of hues that make you want to curl up with your favorite blanket and a good read. Not the typical institutional white that would ever leave someone remarking to their realtor, "Gosh Linda, it looks like a hospital in here!", unless that sentence was followed up by, "And I love it! Let me go put on my jammies."
Thankfully, my father pulled through his surgery. He spent his recovery in a room that if it were to be stripped of its adjustable bed and monitors would easily be mistaken for a high-end loft apartment. The spacious room had breathtaking views of the city, hard wood floors and stainless steel appliances. The furthest thing from my mind at this time was this hospitals eco-friendliness, so grateful was I to see my father make it through a complicated surgery, I could have been told then that this magical place was run on the tear drops of children and been entirely fine with that knowledge. ( Hey- it was a rough time, in my defense,I would have sent these alleged children candy. Thanks imaginary crying children, you have made a huge difference. Now, remember, there is no Santa…try to cry towards the generators.)
As a couple of months passed and my rational, less-selfish side was again accessed, I noticed an informative wall mural as I entered the Shapiro Center with my father for a follow-up visit. In a rush, due to a morning traffic jam, I only could read a few words of this educational section of wall…"Green…Hospital…Taco Friday", as I made my way to the second floor. Well I may be mistaken by some of what I gleaned, I made a mental note to look into this hospital's green attributes when I returned home that evening.
A week and half later I did a Google search. What I discovered made me love this hospital even more than I had before, a cherry on a sundae of awesome. The Shapiro Cardiovascular Center is not only one of the most advanced cardiovascular care facilities in the world, but it is also the first Green Hospital building in all of New England.
From its inception, the Shapiro Center kept eco-friendly construction and practices in mind. The Center is not only LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified, but followed The Green Guide for Health Care meticulously in its construction. Low emitting adhesives, carpets and paints were used. More than 90 percent of construction waste was recycled. Over 75 percent of the interior is exposed to natural light, which, while helping cut down on energy costs, also promotes positive mental health for quicker recoveries. The roof is painted white to deflect heat. Forgoing the use of the commonly used and toxin-emitting vinyl, the floors of this building are constructed of rubber. Staff also, whenever possible, use the least harmful cleaners available.
A little more Google style detective work and I discovered that The Shapiro Center is also a member of the non-profit organization, Healthcare Without Harm, which focuses on implementing change in how the Health Care industry operates. Elaborating on the pledge physicians take to do no harm, Healthcare without Harm is attempting to amend this oath to apply to the environment as well as patients, encouraging its members to see the impact one has on the other. As their mission statement surmises, " Together with our partners around the world, Health Care Without Harm shares a vision of a health care sector that does no harm, and instead promotes the health of people and the environment."
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Green Hospitals are not yet the norm, but hopefully the benefit of such institutions will soon be seen. A building that promotes the health of its employees, patients, and visitors while keeping an eye out for mother earth is almost enough to make up for the fact they run this place on the tears of children….oh, right, it doesn't.
Sorry about the Santa Claus thing, kiddies. He is totally real, the Easter Bunny too, they hang out on weekends and talk about what a good kid you are. Honest. (No children were harmed in the making of this blog.)
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October 17, 2013
By JIM DRAKE Hood River News
Whenever I listen to classical guitar music, I always think about the time I saw Andre Segovia's guitar. It's in New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a glass case, in the musical instrument room. One would think that an instrument featured on so many recordings — and belonging to a guy that changed the way guitar was perceived in terms of how it could fit into an orchestral setting — would stand out as a gleaming, highly polished, dazzling creation.
But, no, it's a very plain classical style guitar. If you look close you can see some finger wear on the fretboard.
I probably spent the good part of an hour staring at what was behind the glass, trying to comprehend how those frail looking strings could possibly make the sounds that gave Segovia worldwide acclaim.
For me, the mystery of classical guitar from Segovia dates back even further from that museum trip. You see, he appeared in a film. It was high school, it was a Spanish class. It was black and white, from a noisy film projector. He was in some kind of beautiful Spanish villa, just sitting there in a chair, playing this amazing finger-style guitar.
I turned around to my friend in class, who was also impressed, and we both looked at each other like - 'wow, that was cool.'
Did I see the same guitar in the museum all those years later?
Hood River has a unique opportunity to see a classical guitarist that is carrying on the tradition of masters like Segovia. His name is Peter Fletcher and he will be at the Hood River County Library on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 7 p.m. It's a free concert.
I'm excited about this show, because as some of you may recall, Peter visited our library last year, and gave a mesmerizing performance. I remember thinking I had just seen a performance at Carnegie Hall.
But, no, I looked around and I was still in the library. It was that good.
After the show, I gave Peter one of my cards and said please call me if you come back. And you know what? He did.
I recently spoke to him — he was in Indiana, of all places — with sketchy cell phone reception, traffic noise and even someone buzzing by on a loud riding lawn mower. (You never know what's going to happen in these interviews.)
We managed to talk about his new album, an inspiring visit to Spain and, oh, that comment about Carnegie Hall a minute ago? That wasn't really an exaggeration, because Peter has been a musical guest on the recital stage of the famous landmark.
If you own a guitar, if you like any kind of music — I urge you to open your mind, clear your calendar — and come hear what a guitar can sound like. Don't miss a note. Seriously.
Interview with Peter Fletcher
I'm really looking forward to your show and you playing Hood River again. Well, the honor is mine, and I'm looking forward to the concert.
I read on your website that you were interested in trying to expand the number of composers that guitarists should be able to explore and play. What is your role in doing that?
Well, basically, the guitar has a small repertoire compared to the piano, violin and cello, and what I'm doing is transcribing pieces, mostly piano music from more composers, to the guitar. I'm interested in making sure that the transcribed music sounds good. You can transcribe anything to the guitar, but the question is: Is it going to be a successful guitar transcription, and is it going to sound appropriate on classical guitar?
Every couple of years I like to have a living composer write a piece which I'll premier and play during my concert tours, and this year, I have a piece called "Diario dun Camiño," written for me by an American composer Jeremy Gill, and I'll play that piece in Hood River.
How does the Jeremy Gill piece fit in with your program?
The second half of the program will feature the new piece by Jeremy Gill, "Diario dun Camiño," and that ties in with the Monpou piece, because Jeremy Gill actually went to Spain and did the El Camino pilgrimage which ends up in Santiago del Compostella. "Camino" is the name of the pilgrimage, there's different places to start, a route that people have been taking for hundreds of years.
So his piece was inspired by the holy city of Santiago del Compostella, that was the dovetail we were after — this piece is a sonic diary of the five day pilgrimage that he did.
Please talk about the other program highlights for your upcoming concert.
The first piece, Courante, Ballet and Volte from Terpsichore (Greek Muse of Dance) is by M. Praetorius, a German composer, and this is from a collection he published in 1612. And then we have a couple of pieces by J.S. Bach, Courante from Cello Suite No. 3, and Jesú, Joy of Man's Desiring from Cantata No. 147.
The main work in the first half is by a Spanish composer, Federico Monpou, with the Suite Compostelana. There are 6 movements, and the piece is dedicated to a holy city in the west part of Spain.
And you'll be including music from your new album of composer Edvard Grieg.
Yes, and I'll play a few pieces of Grieg, which is also from piano music that I transcribed to the guitar. And then the show will end with Caprice No. 24 by Paganini.
That's a whole lot of bases to cover.
It's music from four different centuries, a very integrated program, and so far it's gone really well.
In 2002, you devoted a whole CD to Federico Monpou. What drew you to do that?
I got a record deal with Centaur Records, and the demo CD I sent them had the Suite Compostelana that I had recorded on my own, along with some other Spanish composers.
And what I had to do was re-record everything in their studio. They wanted just one composer, so I decided to go with Monpou. Monpou wrote Suite Compostelana for the guitar, and to fill out the album I had to transcribe 14 other piano pieces of his.
Why Monpou? I just really liked the Suite Compostelana. And I just fell in love with the music and realized how special it is. A lot of these pieces fit well on the guitar, these transcriptions that I did, they are songs and dances, each one is sort of a slower tempo song followed by a dance, and they play really well on guitar and I was able to play them in concerts, so it was a great project.
I had the good fortune to visit Monpou's widow in Barcelona, so I flew to Spain and spent an afternoon with her, which was a great experience. We talked about her husband, and she listened to my transcriptions, and I played the entire Suite Compostelana for her, and then I took a train to Santiago de Compostella, where the suite was dedicated, and I spent five days in this medieval city, which was also a great experience.
I looked at your tour schedule and you are booked solid for the next 2.5 months or so!
(Laughs). This is a good tour, it takes in quite a bit of states. I've got a concert tomorrow in Paynesville, Ohio, I'm in Indianapolis tonight, it's been an exciting tour, and I always love giving concerts.
(At this point, someone just started their riding lawnmower and is heading his way, so Peter needs to seek refuge in his car).
The tour started about a week ago, and I continue until Nov. 21. All concerts are important, I don't really make any distinction between Carnegie Hall or a library in a small town, they're all important. I play full out for everything, a concert is a concert.
What is it like playing in New York City in such a well know venue like Carnegie Hall?
Carnegie Hall consists of three different halls, the main 2,000 seat hall, and when I play it's been at the recital hall, and that's about 300 people, so it's not a giant hall. But it is a very prestigious hall, and whenever you play an instrument in New York, there's always a rush of adrenaline, it's very exciting.
But, you really don't have the intimacy you have when you perform at the Hood River Library, where the people are right near me, and there's not a stage, there's a level of intimacy that you have. When there's a stage, you have kind of a separation, sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's a little less intimate. It is kind of a different experience, other than that.
To be perfectly candid with you, every venue is different, none are the same, and it's always a different experience. I always tend to lose myself when I'm performing, so for me the venue seems to become less important, I'm just thinking about the music, and really thinking about communicating with the audience, and trying to connect with the audience.
It's all about connections. When people are hearing the natural acoustics of an instrument, which you don't get with a recording, the audience will forget they're an audience, I'll kind of forget that I'm a performer, we'll just feel connected and all feel like we're all part of the same thing.
And when that happens, it's really a special moment, when you have that connection and you feel like the audience is being swept away, or they're losing themselves. That's an indescribable feeling.
At this point, with all of your practicing and playing, when you dive into learning a new composition, how long are we talking until you are ready for that new piece?
That's a really good question, and it depends on the piece. Some I can learn really fast, like a Villa Lobos prelude — I can really learn that in a week. But the way things work for me now is, at this point in my life, is I don't really just sit down and learn a new piece and play, but I'm looking at music that I want to play in 2014, or 2015, so I'm reading through it, practicing the fingering, memorizing parts of it, so I can take several months or up to a year, until I can feel it becomes a part of me.
So if it's a Bach fugue, I like to spend several months with the music, playing the music with actual sight reading, spending time with the music so I can commit it to memory.
I like to spend a long time with the piece of music I'm trying to play for an audience, because I want to be able to lose myself in the music and have it become part of me, so I can play and not worry about anything else but the music, no technical things or memory.
For this concert tour I've got a 70 minute concert repertoire. So the music is learned, memorized and I'm basically just maintaining this repertoire and keeping up the practice for these current pieces. When I was in college, I'd memorize a piece and play it for a jury, or memorize this piece and play it for a competition, or learn something and play it.
Now, everything's a work in process, I'm really thinking about what my concert program is going to be for 2014-15, I'm always juggling two balls, the music that I'm performing now, and the music in the future.
As you're probably aware, there's lots of different guitar players and styles and they like to get together to jam. Is there anything like that for someone like you, who plays classical guitar for a living? If yourself and some of your contemporaries were to get together, what would you play?
No one's asked that! That's a great question. I'm primarily a soloist, and I feel that plays into my strengths. I feel like I really understand the classical guitar solo concert, that's what I enjoy doing the most, so that's what I do. That's how I'm featured on the roster of my management.
However, what I really enjoy doing is when I'm home and not touring is getting together with musicians and playing music. I've got violinist friends, flute player friends, and what we do is sit down and read through violin and guitar music and we do it for fun, it's no pressure.
If you get lost, you just start over, it's just fun. We're good sight readers, and I have a collection of music for violin and guitar, and we spend an hour just playing through stuff. If I meet a singer, we might get to do some stuff, and that's our jam session. It doesn't happen so much when I'm on the road, because logistically, it's pretty busy.
But sometimes I do play ensemble music (which is anything more than one instrument) which I love to do. In fact, I'm giving a concert in New York City next June that will feature two guitars and some guitar and violin.
So if you're asking, do we sit down and improvise . . . then, not so much. But, I could. If I meet someone who is a guitarist who would want to do that, we would get a chord progression, and I'd get familiar with that, and we could trade off. But normally, what we do, is get music and sight read it.
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The House-passed version, on the other hand, embodies very different priorities. It keeps in place the tax cuts for incomes over $250,000 for another year, while eliminating tax credits for more than 13 million low- and middle-income working Americans. In effect, the House-passed plan finances big tax breaks for the wealthy by asking the middle class to contribute more.
These two plans could not be more different, and the Center for Tax Justice recently launched a new tax calculator to help Americans see for themselves just how dramatic these differences are.
But an important aspect that isn't captured in the calculator is the impact on our lives—beyond each of our own pocketbooks. In fact, given the revenue that would be lost under the House-passed plan in one year alone, there would be fewer dollars to invest in our state's infrastructure for business and everyone's wellbeing, educating our children, and feeding housebound seniors for example. The loss of these investments must be part of our calculation of how each proposal will impact our lives.


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Yolo County Library
Biography and Memoir
March 2017
"Rather than simply mirror the exploits of her generation, Idina had magnified them."
~ from Frances Osborne's
The Bolter
Recent Releases
Rise: How a House Built a Family
Cara Brookins
After escaping two abusive marriages, author Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and only herself to rely on. In
, she describes how, after her financial situation forced her to sell her home, she then realized that she and the children could build their own house. The book's alternating chapters detail Brookins' fearful existence with her former husbands and chronicle the house construction -- which also served to heal and rebuild her family. For a frank portrait of determination to prevail over daunting challenges, take a look at this engaging memoir.
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss...
Melissa Fleming
After civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, eventually driving millions from their homes, 19-year-old Doaa Al Zamel and her family fled to Egypt. As the political situation there deteriorated, she and her new husband undertook a risky sea crossing to Europe, but their boat wrecked and many passengers drowned. Al Zamel's story was widely reported after she rescued a young child from the water, but in
A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
we read more complete details of her "inspiring and illuminating" (
Publishers Weekly
) story. For additional accounts of the risks and dangers that Middle Eastern refugees are facing, check out Patrick Kingsley's
The New Odyssey
Of All That Ends
Günter Grass; translated by Breon Mitchell
In this absorbing collection of writings on life, creativity, and aging, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass explores his memories in prose, poems, and drawings. Incomplete at the time of his death,
Of All That Ends
sums up many vivid memories, such as an account of stockpiling ribbons for his beloved Olivetti typewriter. Grass also recounts discoveries in old age, including a diminished need for sleep and the experience of designing his and his wife's coffins and trying them out once they arrived. This is an elegantly written testament to the author's life, to positive aspects of growing old, and to the power of art to inspire others.
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King, as told to Barbara Reynolds
Over the course of many years, Coretta Scott King's close friend, the Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds, recorded interviews with King about her experiences. In
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
, Reynolds assembles these accounts into an authorized biography. From her childhood in segregated Heiberger, Alabama through her college days in Ohio and her classical music studies in Boston, Coretta aspired to be a professional musician. That changed after Martin Luther King Jr persuaded her to marry him, build a family together, and return South to combat Jim Crow. This up-close, graceful narrative offers a vivid depiction of the Kings' lives, especially Coretta's, and the Civil Rights movement.
Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
Michael Tisserand
Cartoonist George Herriman created the character Krazy Kat in popular cartoons that ran in American newspapers between 1913 and 1944. In this thoroughly researched biography, acclaimed author Michael Tisserand discusses Herriman's influence on later artists and cartoonists. He also explores Herriman's personal life, revealing that the New Orleans native was a Creole African American who passed as white with the nickname "Greek" after the family moved to Los Angeles. In his cartoons, Herriman satirized race and culture in the U.S. while keeping his multiracial background secret.
provides both a captivating view of an aspect of art history and an eye-opening study of the significance of racial identity.
Contemporary and Historic Women
Isabella: The Warrior Queen
Kirstin Downey
When Europe was beginning its transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, one of the most powerful monarchs was Isabella I of Castile. Though she's typically named second in the pair "Ferdinand and Isabella," she was the sovereign Queen, who unified Spain in an era of frequent wars, forced Moors and Jews to convert to Catholicism under threat of banishment, and funded Columbus' voyages to the Western Hemisphere on behalf of Spanish expansion. In
, historian Kirstin Downey demonstrates why she was one of the most significant women in history. This detailed, engaging portrait displays the queen's "fingerprints on Renaissance culture and religion" (
Publishers Weekly
I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
Betty Halbreich with Rebecca Paley
When Betty Halbreich published this book in 2014, she was 86 years old and still working as a personal shopper for luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman, where she'd acquired a loyal following over her 40 years there.
I'll Drink to That
is as much a personal accounting of her life (privileged childhood, early marriage, and a divorce that forced her into the working world) as it is about her influential role in the lives of her clients. If you're interested in the world of women's fashion and couture gossip, you'll enjoy reading about Halbreich and her trademark style -- which you can now follow on Facebook!
The Bolter
Frances Osborne
In 1982, when author Frances Osborne was 13, she was reading the London
Sunday Times
when she found a compelling photo showing an elegant woman, Idina Sackville, framed between two elephant tusks. When Frances' parents saw what she had discovered, they broke the news to her that the notorious Idina was her great-grandmother. This revelation eventually led Frances to trace Idina's life and write
The Bolter
-- a choice of title that reflects Idina's nickname, inspired by her serial marriages and over-the-top behavior. For more on the prominent but often unconventional Sackville family, try Juliet Nicolson's
A House Full of Daughters
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Anna Whitelock
King Henry VIII of England's first child to survive past infancy was a girl: Mary Tudor's birth was a disappointment and the lack of surviving brothers a source of consternation to her father. Declared a bastard by King Henry, she fought to take the throne as Mary I while asserting her Catholic faith. Biographer Anna Whitelock paints her as a tenacious survivor who demonstrated her intelligence and administrative abilities as queen. If you're a fan of women's history or an English history buff, you'll find this vivid, engaging account riveting.
The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
Denise Kiernan
Traces the unknown contributions of tens of thousands of women residents of the Manhattan Project's then-secret city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, whose uranium-enriching jobs in support of the Project were shrouded in secrecy and whose legacy is still being felt today.
Contact your librarian for more great books!
Yolo County Library
226 Buckeye St.
Woodland, California 95695


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Ravenswood's Tyler Blackburn: Is Miranda a Ghost Now?
Oct 28, 2013 6:38 PM EDT
Are you loving Caleb's new friends in Ravenswood? Well, don't get too comfortable with them — or anyone, for that matter, on the Pretty Little Liars spin-off. No one is safe in the spooky town and it looks as though the Ravenswoo… Read more


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I noticed in the news this week that a possible Russian spy has been working at Microsoft and couldn't help thinking about a post I made last month.
My post "Did the Russians take Bing?" is about a two month old, PR2 domain name owned by an individual in Saint-Petersburg Russia and pointing at a Microsoft IP. According to reports, the alleged spy had a menial job at Microsoft yet attended Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University, one of the top schools in Russia. As it turns out the domain in my post is registered to an address located only a few miles from Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University.
The two month old domain had a PR of 2 and looked identical to Bing at the time but, is totally different now. Users could easily have mistaken this "site" for Bing. In fact, when I first arrived, I thought the site was Bing. What caught my eye was that Google was driving users and potentially market share to Bing. In fact, I arrived on the site by clicking on an organic result at Google. Sure, I know folks try anything and everything to trick or game Google but, this just seemed like an odd case and really stood out to me for some reason.
The domain was little more than a Bing mirror owned by someone other than Microsoft but, now has a PR 5 and 1,000,000 pages indexed. Since my post, the domain has been pointed away from a Bing IP at another US based IP which is shared by another domain which is... you guessed it, registered to someone else in Saint-Petersburg. I've attempted to contact both owners to see if there is a spy connection but haven't received a reply.
Is this a case of international espionage, a clandestine communication channel uncovered or just total coincidence and an unusual spam technique that appears to be working at least on some levels? I'm not sure, but I think it's an interesting situation either way and perhaps even worth further investigation….


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Thanksgiving might be over, but I have a few more thank yous to give out. They go to the editors who featured Friendly Planet Travel tours in their publications this month, as well as Gadling for posting our air travel infographic on its website. Read on to see where Friendly Planet Travel landed in the media.
Gadling liked our air travel infographic so much that it put it front and center on its website.
Budget Travel tells readers how the Jewels of South America tour is one of the best deals around.
Frommer's includes the Mediterranean Highlights by Sea as one of its five deals for the week of Nov. 3.
Rounding out this month's coverage are Traveling Boy and TravelwithVal.com who highlight the Taste of China tour. Examiner.com brings the Jewels of South America to the attention of its readers. Lastly, Travel Age West features the Exotic Borneo and Bangkok tour.
Thanks again to all the editors who featured Friendly Planet Travel!


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NAPLES, Fla. (AP) Suzann Pettersen can't win the LPGA Tour money title or the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average. Players can't go eight months and 20 tournaments before winning and hope to be in the running for any of the big awards.
She might have to settle for being the hottest player in women's golf.
Pettersen won back-to-back tournaments in Asia, and allowed herself to think about yet another trophy Thursday when she played bogey-free around the TwinEagles Club on her way to a 6-under 66. That gave her a share of the lead with So Yeon Ryu and Sun Young Yoo after the opening round of the Titleholders.
``I still feel like I have my best golf ahead of me,'' Pettersen said.
Too bad it's the end of the road.
The Titleholders is the final tournament of the year, and about all Pettersen can do is add to her 11 career wins on the LPGA, add to her bank account and perhaps pack away some momentum going into next year, even though that won't start for another three months.
So what took her so long to get going this year?
``It takes some time to get this machine going,'' she said with a smile on the eve of the Titleholders.
It was purring in the opening round, where Pettersen picked her spots and turned it on at the end of the round. She birdied two of her last three holes, the exception coming on the 17th hole when a birdie putt caught the lip.
Ryu already has clinched LPGA rookie of the year. She won the U.S. Women's Open last year before she was an LPGA member. Yoo had a five-shot lead until losing three shots on the last two holes with a pair of three-putts, one of them a double bogey on the par-3 eighth when her tee shot bounced over the green and down a steep slope.
Stacy Lewis, the LPGA player of the year, needs to win the Titleholders to have any chance of winning the money title. She was within two shots of the lead after an eagle on the par-5 13th, but the 27-year-old American dropped two shots coming in and had to settle for a 70.
For now, Pettersen looks like the player to beat.
``I still feel like I have the best golf ahead of me,'' she said. ``I'm not too worried if it's season 2012 or season 2013. My big goal now is to prepare and be well for 2013 and hopefully come out strong the way I finish, and hopefully get another three rounds together and see where that takes me for this tournament.''
She played in the same group with Cristie Kerr, whose win last week in Mexico was her first in two years. Kerr opened with a 67 and was one shot behind, along with U.S. Women's Open champion Na Yeon Choi.
``I played awesome last week and carried that into this week,'' Kerr said.
It was a long walk with a lot of rides at the TwinEagles Club, which winds through residential neighborhoods where several homes are under construction. Players had to ride in carts from green to tee on about half the holes, which was the easy part. The test came on the expansive greens, some shaped like boxes, others like crescent rolls.
The warm weather and gentle breeze allowed for good scores, with 48 players at par or better among the 73 in the field. There were a few exceptions, starting with Michelle Wie. She was wild with her first tee shot, and it finally caught up to her on the back nine en route to an 81.
Yani Tseng's struggles returned. After winning three times in her first four tournaments, the No. 1 player in the women's world ranking tapered off in a big way, and she didn't look capable of turning that around in the final event of the year, opening with a 75.
Pettersen suddenly looks unstoppable.
``We play the game to win, don't we?'' she said. ``I'm in it to win. That stays it all. I feel like my shoulders are fairly freed up after winning two in Asia. I don't feel like I really have to go out and do anything. That makes the game that much easier.''
Her biggest thrill Thursday was beating Kerr, with whom she has a friendly rivalry. They matched birdies on three holes until Pettersen got her at the end.
``I just tried to birdie the last so I didn't have to be paired with her tomorrow,'' Pettersen said. ``We're competitive. I know she probably wants to have the low round in the group. You just know it's going to annoy her when you kind of take it right at the end there. But we had a good day.''
Lewis and Ryu are gearing up for the awards dinner Friday night, with both having to give a speech - Lewis as the player of the year, Ryu as the top rookie. Ryu won the U.S. Women's Open last year, but she was not an LPGA member.
Yoo won a major this year, even if the runner-up was far more memorable. That was the Kraft Nabisco Championship, when I.K. Kim had a 12-inch putt to win at Rancho Mirage and missed it, and then lost to Yoo in the playoff.
This time, the stunning finish belonged to Yoo. She was on the verge of building a big lead until her 4-iron over the green, a fat chip that barely got onto the green and three putts for a double bogey. She compounded that with another three-putt on the ninth, which brought her back to the field.
``I hit the ball great all day, but I'm a little disappointed how I finished the last couple of holes,'' Yoo said. ``But still, 6 under was a good score. ... I still have 54 holes to play, so I feel good.''


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Gov. Deal and NAACP disagree during meeting about DeKalb schools | Education
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ATLANTA - Things got a little testy at the State Capitol on Monday after members of the NAACP and other civil rights groups sat down with Governor Nathan Deal (R-Georgia) over the DeKalb County School Board crisis.
They met behind closed doors for just over an hour and apparently neither side budged.
The civil rights leaders object to the governor's removing 6 members of the DeKalb school board under a 2011 law.
He said he acted to try and save the school district's accreditation, which is on probation thanks to a "dysfunctional" board.
The civil rights leaders disagree over how it was done.
"We're not speaking on whether the school board members deserved to be in place or not, that's not the issue," said Georgia NAACP President Edward DuBose after the meeting.
"The issue is whether a governor should act like a dictator, whether a governor should have the single power to remove someone that was elected by the people," he added.
After the meeting, the governor's spokesman, Brian Robinson, insisted Deal had no choice under the law.
"He had one choice and what he chose was to make sure that every student in DeKalb County graduates from an accredited school; that was his concern," Robinson said.
The civil rights leaders thanked the governor for meeting with them, but went on to accuse him of being part of a national conspiracy to remove African-Americans from public office.
They also objected to something they claim Deal said as the meeting was ending.
"Find some good black people to run for office," Marcus Coleman of the National Action Network quoted the governor as saying.
"We've a message to the governor," Coleman added, "You don't dictate who is good and who is bad as far as who we choose for our leaders."
The governor's spokesman had a different interpretation.
"He was encouraging them, since they were making race a major issue in this, to get involved in this process and make sure that we've got some really good African-American candidates who represent their community well to go on this school board," said Brian Robinson.
Meanwhile, a special nominating panel appointed by the governor has spent the past few days going over 403 applications for the 6 vacant school board slots.
The governor's office said they expect to get a final list of 12 nominations in the next few days.
Five of the six board members suspended by the governor continue their legal battle to have the 2011 removal law declared unconstitutional.


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Looking for a new swimsuit for your next beach vacation? How about the newest collection from the master of urban sportswear? Yes, yes, Alexander Wang probably made the best swimwear collection this spring with sleek silhouette and athletic details in neutral shades of black, white and taupe.
I personally love the white mesh combo one piece (which can double as a body suit and worn with a maxi skirt this summer). The racerback and zipper detail is just perfect!


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Sherman Hemsley's body remains in El Paso cooler
EL PASO - A two-month dispute over the embalmed body of "The Jeffersons" star Sherman Hemsley could be decided next week and finally release the actor's refrigerated remains.
Hemsley died July 24 of lung cancer. His body has remained in an El Paso funeral home because of challenges to the validity of his will.
Hemsley, who famously played television's George Jefferson, named his "beloved partner" Flora Enchinton as the sole beneficiary of his estate. The will is being contested by Richard Thornton, of Philadelphia, who claims to be Hemsley's brother and says the will might not have been made by the actor.
The dispute is to go before a probate judge Monday.
Court documents estimate Hemsley's estate to be worth more than $50,000.