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I had a different plan for today's post (some fun Liebster questions!!) but we spent most of the weekend cleaning the hoarder's apartment. The weekend wasn't quite as relaxing as some – I usually try to get caught up and maybe even a little ahead on blog stuff but not this weekend.
Anyway, today I decided to share one of my favorite jokes ever. Just to let you know, I'm awful at telling jokes – mostly because I usually forget the punch line right in the middle of the delivery.
But this joke is one that I heard almost 10 years ago and still love it!!! I even made the boys laugh the other night at dinner when I told them this joke.
Kim's one and only joke:
2 brothers (approx. ages 4 & 6) were talking. The older brother tells his little brother, "I think it's time that we learn some swear words."
The little brother readily agrees!
Big brother: when we go down to breakfast I'm going to use the words "hell" and "damn" and you say the word "ass."
OK – little brother is super excited!
The boys go down to breakfast and their mom greets them – "What would you boys like for breakfast today."
Big brother: Aw, hell, give me some damn Cheerios!!
Mom spanks big brother and sends him to his room. Then she turns to little brother and says, "And what do you want for breakfast?"
Little brother with a quiver in his voice: "I don't know but you can bet your fat ass it won't be Cheerios!!!"
Every time I heard or told that joke I pictured my sweet little boys and for some reason that just made it funnier (to me)!!!
Can you tell a joke?
What is your favorite joke?
Happy Monday!


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Apologies in advance; recollections of this gig are somewhat hazy 6 months on but a review you shall get regardless!
First things first, the support. Yeah, I don't remember anything about them even if I do still recognise the names. The support on the night was from Spectrals, Summer Camp and Veronica Falls. That's as much as I can say I'm afraid music fans.
The main act themselves, Slow Club, came bounding on stage, joined by their bass player and drummer and launched straight into a new tracks which was a brave move but one the crowd enjoyed nonetheless.
This high tempo start continued witha surprising early playing of Our Most Brilliant Friends, one of my personal favourites, and Giving Up On Love, allowing for a frantic opening which doesn't quite fit in with the whole feel of their album; 2009's 'Yeah, So'.
After that, the tempo finally dropped with old and new songs alike. The new material sounded very promising and was played with such feeling and assertiveness that it would be difficult for someone unaware of their material to tell the tried and tested tracks from the new and this all points towards a wonderful second album, whenever it may appear.
Of the older songs, the one that sticks out for me was Rebecca's solo 'Sorry For The Doom' which had the packed out Koko transfixed. It did feel at times that the duo were in awe of the crowd as much as the crowd were of them but this didn't show through too much once the band had settled into their set. In between tracks, the pair also loosened up during the night and were very quaint with Rebecca telling a joke a Waitrose Christmas cracker would be proud of ("What did the cheese say to itself in the mirror? Halloumi").
The highlights for me though were the two tracks played unplugged with 'Wild Blue Milk' coming partway through the set while 'Christmas TV' closed off the evening. Thankfully, the crowd showed the respect the tracks deserved giving an eerie hush to such a large audience, meaning the tracks worked well.
On the night, I was very impressed with Slow Club. They overcame the nerves they seemed to have playing to their biggest audience to date and once they had settled on stage, they made it feel like a much more intimate venue than Koko actually is. Not bad for a band once described to me as the "staple support act of Sheffield".
Slow Club – Our Most Brilliant Friends (live)
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"We're operating across a lot of different markets with a lot of other businesses, such as Tesco Bank, and we want to make sure we capture all that activity to convey a sense of Tesco as an innovative and interesting business," he said.
Interviews are currently taking place for the new role of planner, which will report directly to Hoskin.
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I have read all of Tolles books and occasionally re-read them. I dont think he has had any new books out for awhile and dont know if he is planning on writing any more?
For those who still follow him deeply, via webcasts or retreats, etc, can you tell me what he is up to these days? What does he talk about in his retreats or talks? Anything new or just the same stuff that is in Power of Now etc? Has anything changed in his teachings or approach? Anything you can share about the latest from Tolle would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Everyone enjoyed trying on the shoes and picking what they would like from the array of styles. The team from Redlands Healthcare had also organised a raffle and the hamper of scented products and sweet treats was won by a delighted Margaret Harris.
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The flowers are done on the image with a type of flower soft,the border at the bottom is a candy win border die.Corners are die cut.
For the sentiment i used Pink Petticoat again printed onto safmat.The butterfly is from a stamp set from SU.The flowers in the corners from stash, i used an SU punch also for the sentiment at the top.
And the little pearls are viva decor.
Going to enter it into- Penny Black Sat Chall ~#199-"Mayday"
CRAFT Chall 152--"Animals"
Fussy And Fancy-Friday Chall 61- "Punches and Dies"
MAWTT- "Garden or Flowers"
Simon Says- "Anything Birthday"
My Mums Craft Shop # 55-"Embossing"
Hope you like the card? i wish now that i would have put the butterfly over the bottom of the card in the corner to hide the bit of border in the corner, oh well to late now.I went to the dentist yesterday and had to have my gum cut open to get a root out now i have stitches in, they are nothing but trouble teeth! i have to go back for more treatment costing me lots so cant buy craft stuff now!!!
I will have to link this card up to the challenges later as i forgot i have to go out now!


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The London Musical Theatre Orchestra, founded in June 2015, presents its most ambitious and revelatory work to date: the UK premiere for Jason Robert Brown's short-lived 2015 Broadway musical Honeymoon in Vegas
Brown is best known as the writer of the game-changing Tony-winning Parade. Honeymoon in Vegas, based on the 1992 film, is a defiantly old-fashioned musical comedy of the old school that contains some of his most accessible and fun songs yet. He has given it a brassy Big Band jazz sound – a perfect match of form and content for a show set in Vegas – and it's performed to absolutely thrilling effect by the 30-strong LMTO, with the composer himself joining the orchestra as guest conductor.
The show is also blessed here with a cast of fine comedy and singing talent that bring the show's sometimes queasy characterisations to full life. In its story of a commitment-phobic man who promises his fiancee a quick Vegas wedding but instead pimps her out as payment for a gambling debt he incurs before he gets to the wedding chapel, there's an underlying comic unease; and Arthur Darvill affectionately embraces those contradictions. He's a great singer too, though those of us who saw him in Once already knew that.
Samantha Barks has a sweet-voiced integrity as his fiancee, while there's good comic support from Maxwell Caulfield as the man who tries to come between them, and Rosemary Ashe, Simon Lipkin and Nicolas Colicos in other roles.


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In my last post, I talked about what the kids learned and worked on. However, as I wrote, I realized that some of the most important learning was my own, adjusting to having older kids who are nearly in middle school, kids who have a much more tween like attitude.
I think probably the most momentous thing to happen in school this year was Mushroom, in angry tears saying, "I wish you weren't my teacher!"
He's changed his mind. He'll probably change it again at some point. However, it was the first time anything like that ever escaped his lips. In a way it's sort of funny and sweet. He's growing up and it's not as easy to satisfy him. He questions a lot more and is more likely to argue. BalletBoy is working his way toward being a champion arguer. But while I value that all these things are good in one way as the boys gain independence, I can't deny that they've been difficult for all of us to figure out how to navigate.
I got some good advice and have figured out a few things for dealing with this pre-teen stuff. I'm sure I'll look back on this in a few years and think how naive I was, but here's what I've learned so far.
Feed them.
Mushroom and BalletBoy are probably going to be on the short side. They're definitely not puny, but they're among the shorter kids in their age group. However, they've shot up in the last year. Enough that Mushroom said to me the other night, "How did I get so big? Just look at me!" They're clearly working on some more growth soon. Their eating habits have gone back to being more like toddlers too. Some days they pick at everything. But often they devour a whole burrito in one gulp. We had mostly done away with a lot of the casual snacks in our lives over the last few years. We just didn't need as many as when they were little, but now the snacks are back. I'm learning that they help. Being a grouch? Hey, would you like a granola bar? How about a banana? Yogurt tube?
Appreciate their contradictions.
And I thought nine was full of contradictions. Ten is a whole other level. They are just too big for my lap now, yet they still climb in when they're sad, sometimes nearly knocking over the chair. Then other times they nearly smack my hand away if I pat their shoulders or back. They insist they can walk a mile away alone one day, then feel incapable and nervous about asking the librarian for a book the next day. They make these great insights during discussions one day, then struggle to remember something incredibly simple the next. Rather than get whiplash, I'm trying to appreciate the little kid moments when they still really need me or play pretend with each other as well as the grown up kid moments when they teach me something I don't know or want to talk about the meaning of life. Speaking of which…
Engage in deep questions.
I'm learning that this age is completely about big questions. A few years ago, big questions were things about how things work like why is the sky blue. Now the big questions are things like why do bad things happen to good people, is there really a God, and how do we stop wars. Mushroom asked if we could study religions for school, which turned into one of our bigger projects. The logic chapters in Jousting Armadillos also helped fill this need. I'm figuring out how much we need to be engaging with deeper thinking and real questions. Next year, I'm planning to use Philosophy for Kids with them, which I think will help fill this need. I think to keep them engaged in school, learning has to be full of these big questions, even in skill subjects like writing and math.
Give them a break.
And now we come to that contradiction. I think that while we're doing schoolwork that's hopefully more and more challenging and thought-provoking, I'm learning that they're just as likely to get overwhelmed by too much work, either at home or in extracurriculars. Also, many times this year I've had the experience of watching one of them do something difficult like a tricky algebra problem or a long dictation, and then turning around and getting something really basic wrong like forgetting how to divide or misspelling "because." It feels like we're back to that uneven development that was so characteristic of when they were little. One day they could read the little reader, the next day they genuinely could not. And now I see it again sometimes. I'm learning to cut them some slack.
Look for meaningful experiences.
When Mushroom and BalletBoy were little, a trip to a museum or coloring a picture might be meaningful experiences for learning and life. They were fulfilling things in terms of learning and experiencing the world. Drawing and museum trips may still be useful and part of what we do, but they're no longer fulfilling in the same way. Just like how the kids are asking deep questions, they're also really looking for meaningful experiences. I think being in real competitions, such as soccer games or Destination Imagination tournaments, feels like a meaningful experience for them. Performing on stage feels meaningful. Taking risks feels meaningful. Creating their own projects such as the video game machine Mushroom built with his Raspberry Pi or the short story BalletBoy is working on can feel like meaningful work.
They're clearly seeking out experiences with more depth that feel like they make a difference. I want to begin to tie this in with service learning at least sometimes. And to find ways to let helping around the house, which they do unevenly, be something that feels meaningful. This is definitely something I'm hoping to think more about as they get older. At their age, I began cooking dinner most nights and doing a lot of the household shopping. I know that having what I understood was an important role in the house grounded me in many ways through those years. There's no way they're going to have a similar experience, but I also want to look for ways that meaningful experiences and meaningful work can be a part of the picture for them.


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[Verse 1]
Well now you're forced to listen to the teacher and the lesson
Class is in session so you can stop guessing
If this is a tape or a written down memo
See I am a professional, this is not a demo
In fact call it a lecture, a visual picture
Sort of a poetic and rhythm-like mixture
Listen, I'm not dissing but there's something that you're missing
Maybe you should touch reality, stop wishing
For beats with plenty bass and lyrics said in haste
If this meaning doesn't manifest put it to rest
I am a poet, you try to show it, yet blow it
It takes concentration for fresh communication
Observation, that is to see without speaking
Take off your coat, take notes, I am teaching
A class, or rather school, cause you need schooling
I am not a king or queen, I'm not ruling
This is an introduction to poetry
A small dedication to those that might know of me
They might know of you and maybe your gang
But one thing's for sure, neither one of y'all can hang
Cause yo I'm like a arrow, and Scott is the crossbow
Say something now ... thought so
You seem to be the type that only understand
The annihilation and destruction of the next man
That's not poetry, that is insanity
It's simply fantasy far from reality
Poetry is the language of imagination
Poetry is a form of positive creation
Difficult, isn't it? The point? You're missing it
Your face is in front of my hand so I'm dissing it
[Verse 2]
Scott La Rock is innovating, decorating hip-hop
The beat may drop but not like all the others
They just cover while I just smother
Every single stupid mother-- wait wait brother
KRS-One will have to show another
MC or self-proclaimed king or queen
Or gang or crew or solo or team that I mean
Business, so tell me what is this?
See I come from the Bronx so just kiss this
Boogie Down Productions is somewhat an experiment
The antidote for sucker MC's and they're fearing it
It's self-explanatory, no one's writing for me
The poetry I'm rattling is really not for battling
But if you want I will simply change the program
So when I'm done you will simply say "damn"
So this conversation is somewhat hypothetical
Boogie Down Productions attempts to prove something
I say hypothetical because it's only theory
My theory, so take a minute now to hear me
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So what's your problem?
It seems you want to be KRS too
From my point of view, backtrack, stop the attack
Cos KRS-One means simply one KRS
That's it, that's all, solo, single, no more, no less
I've built up my credential financially and mental
Anytime I rhyme I request the instrumental
I speak clearly and that's merely
Or should I say a mere, help to my career
I'm really not into fashion or craze
Just the one who pays and how soon I get a raise
You're probably in a daze, acting out of sympathy
Wrote a couple of rhymes and think that you can get with me
But what a pity, I'm rocking New York City
And everywhere else, you put the jams on the shelf
You as an amateur is outspoken
I'm looking at your face, you seem to be hoping
That I might stutter, stop, or just mess up
But everything's live that's why I don't dress up
"Blastmaster KRS" a synonym for "fresh"
I'm the teacher of the class, I do not pass no test
Got DJ Scott La Rock by my side, not in back of me
Cos we make up the Boogie Down Productions crew faculty
Get it right, or train yourself not to bite
Cos when you bite you have bitten, when I hear it, that's it
I do not contemplate a battle cause it really ain't worth it
I'd rather point a pistol at your head and try to burst it
I'm teaching poetry
I'm teaching poetry
Scott La Rock
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On this day, exactly 30 years ago in 1983, my Dad died. Here is a chapter from Salt and Light I offer in his honor. I love you and miss you, Dad. May you find eternal rest with God our Father through Christ our Lord. Amen. Mother Mary, pray for him and for us all at the hour of our death.
Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
I remember it like it was yesterday. The kitchen phone was ringing insistently on the other side of the wall as I awoke. I had gone to bed exhausted with sorrow and fear the night before, having returned from the hospital where my Dad lay snoring loudly in the depths of a coma. Just as my eyes opened, I heard Mom pick up the phone and say, "Yes?" I held my breath and could hear the stroke of my pulse in my ears. Then I heard my Mom moan, "Ohhhhhhhhh!"—as though all the sadness of the earth was in it.
My heart pounded, and I jumped out of bed, numbly groping for the door. The worst thing in the world had finally come. I rushed to my Mom and held her for a minute, then went down the hall to tell my older brother that Dad was dead. Trembling, I went back to my bedroom, fell to my knees, and bawled, asking God to take Dad's soul and grant him peace. I still feel the grief as I write about it, twenty-nine years later.
When I tell people this story, they often tear up even if they know neither me nor my Dad. That tells us something hugely important about what a truly personal experience is.
Our culture, intensely individualistic as it is, tends to identify personal experience with esoteric experience—something only knowable to a select few individuals, not commonly shared, and incommunicable to the noninitiate. When people say, for instance, that religious belief is personal, they often mean that it is supposed to be private and not public because it is supposedly esoteric. Therefore, it's supposed to be one of those things we don't include in polite conversation.
Now, to be sure, there is something properly private about the intensely personal experience of mourning. We aren't supposed to intrude on somebody's grief with platitudes and "buck up" speeches. But it is emphatically not true that mourning is therefore something esoteric, only knowable to a select few individuals, not commonly shared, and incommunicable to the non-initiate. On the contrary, mourning is universal and common—as are all our deepest experiences. In fact, the things that are most universal are also the things that are the most personal. Everybody falls in love. Everybody has felt fear. Everybody has known delight. Everybody wonders what the point of life is.
And everybody mourns. We may think that when we mourn we are utterly alone. But the truth is that we join the ranks of all the weeping children of Adam and Eve and feel in our marrow what the great pagan poet Vergil called "the tears of things."[1]
We experience this in mourning not only the death of loved ones but also the loss of things, places, times, abilities, hopes, dreams, and many of the other goods of this passing world. We can feel it in the passing of a pet. The ache comes upon us when we go back to that Little League field of our summer youth, now rank with weeds and slated to have a condo built on it next month.
Grief assails us as we think of the things we never got to say before she died. We find ourselves nursing a drink in the wee hours, wishing we'd screwed up the courage to pick up the phone and tell Grampa how much we loved him, before Alzheimer's took away his ability to know who we are. We see that dream of going to France slipping irrevocably away. We face the verdict of the doctor bravely, but in our hearts there is sorrow for our own plight and for the beloved whom we will leave helpless on the shore of this world as the bark of death carries us away, with us powerless to stop it.
Mourning stalks us. We know that sooner or later our time will come, and we hope to ward it off. So we chase death and loss away as much as possible. We often act out of a sort of superstitious fear that it is "catching," so we avoid those in mourning lest we get some of it on us should they erupt in some unseemly display of shouts or tears or begging for the past to return. But for all that, mourning comes to us anyway—because God wills that we be blessed.
The blessing, says Jesus, comes not in the form of avoidance of mourning but in the form of comfort. The great model and prophet of this truth—Isaiah—spoke to the Jewish people in the midst of their great national trauma, the Babylonian Captivity when Jerusalem was destroyed and her population deported to what is now Iraq in 587 BC:
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
double for all her sins. (Isaiah 40:1–2)
Isaiah looked both backward and forward, as was the custom of the prophets. Looking backward, he likened the coming exodus from Babylon to the old Exodus from Egypt. He spoke of making a highway in the desert, just as God had made a way through the desert the first time (see Isaiah 40:3).
Looking forward, Isaiah prophetically foreshadowed the final exodus God would accomplish when Christ would lead his people through death to life. That's why the evangelists read the prophecy as completely fulfilled not by the return of the Jews from captivity in Babylon but by the Messiah, as heralded by John the Baptist (see Mark 1:1–4). For the ultimate deliverance is not from geographic exile but from the exile from intimacy with God, who is our true home. It is the loss of life with God—and that deepest resultant mourning—that the gospel comes to comfort.
All true words of comfort do the same thing as Isaiah does in that passage to some degree or other. We are called, however feebly, to look back on goodness and forward in hope. God builds on this pattern by reminding us of what he has done for his people and urges us to attend to the good that he will yet do. False comfort, in contrast, urges us to numb or distract ourselves with lies or booze or some other drug.
Not all mourning is private. A whole world can feel it, as we did, for instance, after the assassinations of the sixties and after September 11. But public or private, mourning can be immensely fruitful, spiritually speaking. The world abounds with examples.
September 11 is again instructive: The manifestations of courage, nobility, love, and prayer that issued from the wounds torn in the side of our nation show what riches we can discover in mourning. The blood that poured out of our hearts that day was an intimate sharing in the blood that poured from the wounded heart of Christ. Many knew both his anguish and his consolation. That is why the Ground Zero Cross remains, to this day, a potent source of consolation and healing for so many.
On the other hand, just as there can be false comfort, so there can be false fruits from mourning. It can be stillborn as bitterness, despair, rage, and vengefulness. Blasphemy as well as blessing can proceed from mourning.
The point of the beatitude is that a blessing comes to those who mourn due to the love of Christ, not the goodness of man. For God's tenderness is vastly greater than we can understand or imagine. The tears that Christ shed on the cross can put out the fires of hell for us, if we receive them. The suffering that we have to endure in Christ is not divine vengeance but a sharing in his own suffering. And even when chastisement comes to us for our real sins, it is ordered, always and forever, toward our final bliss and blessing, not toward our destruction.
But before, behind, and above all is that tenderness, a desire for our true comfort (not the TV or some alcohol-numbed counterfeit the world sells us) that is the deepest, sweetest comfort there is. It is a comfort that made Paul actually rejoice in his sufferings (see Colossians 1:24). It is a comfort so intensely beautiful that sane men have walked straight to their deaths rather than lose it. To taste it is to lose the desire for the cheap imitations the world routinely offers.
When your hour of mourning comes, as it surely will, may you know the comfort God gives in Christ and drink of it deeply.
[1] Vergil, The Aeneid, Book I, line 462.


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Ringling Bros. Not Welcome in Indiana
The Indiana Animal Rights Alliance stands against humans using and abusing other animals for entertainment. Join us on December 3rd to let Ringling Bros. know that Hoosiers love animals, and that we don't want to see them harmed for entertainment. There will be additional protests scheduled throughout the weekend.
We've been seeing more Ringling Bros. advertisements for their 2015 Indianapolis shows than ever before. It's clear that our consistent presence at their Indianapolis performances is putting a cut into their profits – profits made from cruelty. You can learn more about why we protest here, here, and here.
Ringling Bros. announced plans to "retire" their elephants (several years from now… to a facility that doesn't exactly seem relaxing). This media stunt doesn't mean they're interested in caring for animals. And let's not forget the other animals Ringling uses, like tigers and camels – they need you too.


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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Of Pig and Poi
You can not visit Hawaii and not sample traditional foods like Kalua pig and poi. Food holds a significant place in Hawaiian culture and if you haven't tasted any traditional dishes, then you haven't really been to Hawaii. All luaus or feasts, will supply lots of both of these staples. At the Kaua'i Grand Hyatt Resort, I witnessed an 185-pound pig being carried out for the traditional ceremony, above. The pig was covered in ti leaves and then wrapped in chicken wire before being buried in an imu or pit. Then it was roasted over hot coals for eight hours.
The meat is so tender and moist that it doesn't really need to be cut so the hosts simply pull it off the bone. They offered me a quick taste but since I don't eat meat, I couldn't venture into hog territory but I made up for it with my poi consumption.
Poi is pounded taro root that looks like a lovely lavender pudding, above. The lavender roll was also made with taro. The taro plant is so sacred to Hawaiian culture that it's considered an affront to argue once poi is served. According to Hawaiian custom, it's disrespectful to argue in front of an elder and as the living embodiment of Haloa, the ancient ancestor of the Hawaiian people, taro is technically the elder brother of all Hawaiians. With this kind of significance, I was determined to like poi. However, it is definitely an acquired taste. Average poi tastes sour and the consistency is like paste. The first few times I tried it, I concentrated on the wonderful color (I've never disliked anything purple) and ignored the taste. And then I discovered the revelation of Hanalei Poi. Hanalei Poi is made fresh on Kaua'i and is widely considered the best poi you can eat. I spooned it up and there was no sour taste, just slightly sweet, smooth goodness. I grabbed another bowl and absorbed the deliciousness all over again. My dinner mates smiled with approval but all I could think about was how I could get a tub through security to take home.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Kauai's Feathered Friends
There are a lot of things that you'll find all over Kaua'i. Rust-colored dirt, the friendly spirit of Aloha and chickens. Chickens prance around the island like they own it and I guess when you consider their numbers and the centuries they have roamed the island, they sort of do. The scientific name is Polynesian waterfowl and they are prettier and more cocky than your average barnyard birds.
It doesn't matter where you go, to the beach, a luau, a parking lot, you will see chickens. Or at least hear the insistent crowing of the roosters. You are advised not to bother them. After I witnessed a gaggle of chickens crow and peck each other in a furious fight, flying into the air and landing on backs with sharp claws, I understood why.
Sometimes you'll spot birds that aren't chickens. You have to keep your eyes peeled because the chickens are so plentiful that all other birds seem to just blend in with them.
Except for peacocks.
There's no way peacocks can blend in and they don't seem to want to. I spotted this beauty at the Smith botanical garden and it's proud loveliness reminded me of Kaua'i itself.
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Friday, April 8, 2011
How To Eat A Puka Dog
Just as you can't journey to New York and not sample a hot dog from a street vendor, you can't possibly visit Kauai and not eat a Puka Dog. It's a requirement. A Puka Dog is a Hawaiian style hot dog and trust me, it doesn't look or taste like any hot dog you've had before. It's a grilled Polish sausage or a veggie dog cradled in a loaf of toasted Hawaiian bread with a hole or "puka" punched into it. The bread is filled with a series of sauces that can make the experience alarmingly messy if you don't know how to handle it. Fortunately, I was given detailed instructions on how to order and eat a Puka Dog.
First of all, just because they suggest a slew of sauces, doesn't mean you have to order them. The first sauce offered is a garlic lemon sauce that I was cautioned to skip to avoid sauce overload. So I did. Next you choose from a series of seven tropical relishes, which is my favorite part. You can choose from an overwhelming selection of mango, pineapple, papaya, coconut, banana, guava or star fruit relish. I went with star fruit because it was the most unusual to me. Then, you pick plain, Dijon or lilikoi mustard. Lilikoi is passion fruit so you know what I went with. Finally, you grab a cup of fresh squeezed lemonade and savor the flavors.
With sea breezes wafting through my hair, I gripped the dog with both hands and took a small bite. Both hands and small bites are essential when eating a Puka Dog if you don't want the sauces squirting everywhere. It's also easier if you wear skimpy clothes because lilikoi mustard wipes off your leg much faster than off your jeans. Overall, the sensation of the sweet star fruit relish mingled with the veggie dog and sharp mustard was delectable. I loved the fresh fruit flavors and the laid back atmosphere.My only problem with Puka Dogs is that they don't supply mainland delivery.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
The Wonders of Waimea Canyon
I'm back and I'm overwhelmed. My experiences in Kauai has altered me on so many levels that I didn't know where to begin with my posts. It has actually taken me a weeks just to mentally shift back from Kauai and more days to decide what would be my first account. In a week of cultural exploration and natural spectacles, there's a lot to choose. So I went with the most dramatic. Waimea Canyon unfolds with such dazzling beauty that it literally snatches your breath away.
It was a long, hour drive from the South Side of Kauai to the West Side, where the canyon stretches 14 miles long, one mile wide and 3,600 feet deep. I wasn't quite prepared when I faced these panoramas of crags and valley gorges, washed in shades of emerald and russet. They don't call it the "Grand Canyon of the Pacific" for nothing.
I know these pix look like re-touched post cards or professional shots but I took them with my little Cannon 495. There really isn't much chance of taking bad photos of the canyon unless you get fog or clouds. I'm told that our group was very lucky to get a clear day because rain is inevitable on Kauai.
The views were almost too much to absorb. Every angle offered another perspective, every direction provided more beauty. The spiritual energy, as can be expected, was quite high and I actually became a little dizzy. I now completely understand the phrase, "dizzy with wonder."
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Managing specific dietary needs while studying abroad can be a challenge as products and stores vary from what you are accustomed to in your host country. Copenhagen, however, has many restaurants, supermarkets, and specialty shops where you can find full product assortments for particular dietary needs.
Be ready to explore new brands and products and remember, like in the U.S., specialty foods can be more expensive than mainstream products and stores – so budget accordingly. It is not difficult to live as a vegetarian or vegan, with diabetes, or with lactose or gluten intolerance in Copenhagen if you know where to look.
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About SU's Dance Marathon
Seattle University Dance Marathon dreams of a day when no child or family is affected by childhood illness. As a result of the incredible care and research at Seattle Children's Hospital, SUDM is getting closer and closer to this dream. This year, Seattle University is Dream On! for the kids at Seattle Children's Hospital. Seattle, we need your help to make childhood illness a thing of the past.
Our efforts to fundraise and raise awareness of Children's Uncompensated Care Fund and Strong Against Cancer culminate in an annual signature event, a 16-hour celebration. Attendees challenge themselves to participate for the entire 16 hours in order to demonstrate solidarity with the patients at Children's who can't take a break from their illnesses. The 13th annual Dance Marathon will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 10 AM to Sunday, February 16 at 2 AM.
Bringing together hundreds of SU students and staff, patients and families from Seattle Children's, and local community members, The Dance Marathon features catered meals, performances, a photobooth, and a multitude of activities. At the end of the day, our fundraising total is announced.
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Dance Marathon is a nationwide youth-led philanthropy that benefits Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Seattle University's Dance Marathon (SUDM) is a student-led organization that specifically benefits Seattle Children's Hospital's Strong Against Cancer Research Initiative and Uncompensated Care Fund.
Through the Uncompensated Care Fund, SUDM provides free lifesaving health care to patients at Seattle Children's who otherwise would not be able to afford care. We believe than no family with a sick child should ever have to worry about anything but their child's wellness, regardless of their ability to afford medical care.
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Optometry At Play: Why Eye Doctors Are Looking At Tetris
As it turns out, video games aren't as vision-impairing as one might think.
Ambylopia is a disorder in which one eye becomes noticeably weaker than the other one, resulting in blurred, impaired vision, and may well be one of the most perplexing impairments any optometrist is forced to deal with. This is said to occur because of a glitch in either the optic nerve or in the brain itself; the end result of which is the dominant eye suppressing the functions of the weaker one.
Lazy Eye, as it is colloquially known, afflicts somewhere between one and five percent of the current population, and most efforts to treat it have, for all intents and purposes, failed miserably. The best, most current treatment option - blocking vision in the 'strong' eye so that the 'weak' eye is forced to compensate - is almost entirely ineffective in most adult patients, and only meets with marginal success in children.
Researchers at McGill University in Montreal on Monday made a breakthrough in the treatment of Lazy Eye, and published a scientific paper revealing some rather fascinating news: apparently, Tetris may actually be a sound cure for the disorder. The reason, the researchers explained, is because the legendary puzzle game trains the eyes to work together - "information is distributed across them in a complementary fashion," meaning the weaker eye has no choice but to adapt in order to keep up.
In short, it fosters co-operation between the eyes.
"The key to improving vision for adults , who currently have no other treatment options, was to set up conditions that would enable to two eyes to co-operate for the first time in a given task," explained senior author Dr. Robert Hess in a press release.
The researchers tested 18 adult patients afflicted with Amblyopia. Nine of these patients played Tetris with the stronger eye patched, and nine played with both eyes uncovered. Two weeks later, the researchers found that patients who played with both eyes showed noticeable improvement in both vision and perception of 3D images, while those wearing a patch displayed only moderate improvement. When the patch was removed from the secondary group, they showed the same improvement as the primary.
The reason this works is because the brain is actually forced to use both eyes, rather than focusing on either one or the other. Giving preference to either of the two optic nerves means an inability to adequately track on-screen movements of the blocks. In other words, one of the most beloved, best-known games in the hobby's history may actually have a medical, scientific use.
While it's still too early to say definitively whether or not this signifies a new frontier for the treatment of Lazy Eye, the results look very, very good indeed. The research group plans to carry out a clinical trial involving children across North America later this year.
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Obama: US recognizes Syria's main rebel group
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1. Obama just does not know when to shut up.
Jrebecca ,
These rebels include a large group of Israel and America hating, Al quida wanabees.
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2. Libya and Syria had stable governments until foreigners
mucked it up, providing arms to militias that are so evil that a video I just watched yesterday on Walid Shoebat's email news was of a CHILD killing a tied up man lying on a sidewalk and cut off his head with ONE WACK! A CHILD! What kind of depravity is that? The rebels in Syria can't even do their own killing as soldiers in a cause but have to have CHILDREN kill for them? Sick. Really sick.
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3. Based on American (obama) logic
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which openly supports the Muslim Brotherhood, if it is supporting the Syrian opposition for being inclusive, then you can be assured that it is one big degenerate gang of Jihadists.
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4. deja vu
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Here once again Obama run to support a radical muslim faction as inEgypt, Lybia and elsewere. This is not a coincidence, it`s a personal agenda : the one that for four more years he will strength islam and weaken the west.
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5. Thank you Mr. President!
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You and the EU with its Anti-Israel Vice President and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Baroness Ashton, for recognizing the Syrian "Rebels" who hate Israel more than they hate Assad and are committed to Israel's destruction and no doubt will be allied with Egypt, Hamas, Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda in the Holy Jihad against the Jews, the USA and Europe. Some critics of Prime Minister Netanyahu maintain that he backed the wrong horse in the US Presidential Election. It seems that this was done by the American people.
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Two years ago, Obama was enamoured with Mr. Assad and his glamorous wife. One day Obama suddenly decided US interests lay elsewhere. He invented, funded and armed Sunni Jihadi to attack Assad. Two years later, Obama declares his own Jihadi as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian people, who cares what Alawi, Shia, Druze, Kurd and Christians say. Netanyahu, are you reading this? Time to start negotiating with the real representatives of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria, and that is not PLO/Fatah.
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7. Obama and the ever ready pencil
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The hooligan will get what is coming He messed up and it is beyond belief why instantaneous justice has not yet caught up with him. He is a Saint awaited in Heavens
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8. #6: So who are the real Reps of the Palestinians?
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I don't know and I don't think they know either. The problem is that the Palestinians, like some extremist Israelis on BOTH the left and the right are still in the brainwashing stage of "I must hate because my ideology says so". Only once their brains are tumble-dried can common sense prevail and that will probably take another couple of thousand years! its much easier to hate than to see reason.
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Obama took out Osama but encourages his disciples to take over Syria like they did in other Arab countries. What´s the wisdom in that?
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10. First O-Boy promotes MB in Egypt, now he supports Al-qaeda
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in Syria. Is he really that stupid or did he have this Islamic takeover planned before he was elected? He has certainly spent most of the last 4 years helping nobody but the radical muslims.
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The "Obama style" representatives are anyone we want. In Libya and Syria, Obama took some people off the street, gave them guns and money, and then declared them authentic. Since Fatah/PLO represents no one, and Hamas can't negotiate with us, we just need to get some friends, arm them and then negotiate with them. We limit our involvement to an Obama-style "no fly zone" that would include bombing any Fatah movement and IDF ground troops supporting our friends when their villages are under attack. By the way, Obama did not invent this nor did Putin who did it in Georgia. I think the UK invented it in Ireland with their dreaded RUC.
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Clinton and Panetta took out BIn Laden. Aside from taking the credit Obama had nothing to do with it.
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FORT THOMAS Paws and Claws Animal Rescue, Inc. has organized having the nonprofit's first Fuzz Ball dance to help furry friends.
The inaugural Fuzz Ball will be at Highland Country Club, 931 Alexandria Pike, Fort Thomas, from 6-10 p.m. Saturday, April 12.
The rescue, based in Hebron, is selling tickets for $40 prior to April 4, and for $50 afterward or at the door. The ticket price includes a buffet dinner, beer, wine and soda. For information visit http://www.pawsclawsanimalrescue.com/.
Sponsors and donations for a silent auction are also being sought. Paws and Claws organized the ball to increase awareness about the function of the rescue, according to a news release from the group.
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Winter Storm Watching in Cornwall
Winter is an amazing time to visit Cornwall and enjoy its natural beauty.
Whilst the sea is certainly colder in winter than it is in the late summer, we get our fair share of bright, clear weather or calm sea conditions that mean it's still possible to get out on the water. There are also those days when the last place you want to be is in the sea; sticking out into the North Atlantic as it does, when storms hit Cornwall they can hit hard with nature putting on an unrivalled show of force.
When winter storms arrive on our coast we are most definitely closed and you'll find us instead enjoying the show that nature puts on from the warmth and safety of a coastal café. We are well aware of the power of the sea, and advise that on such wild days you too take extreme care and show the ocean the utmost respect: find a comfy window seat with a good view, order a hot drink, and storm watch from there. Here are a few of our favourite spots:
Port Gaverne
Pilchards Café, next door to our base, provides a great view of the action out front at Port Gaverne. The cove faces northwest, so ends to be a little more sheltered – if it's big and stormy here then it'll be even more spectacular on the west facing coasts.
There are several cafes and restaurants with good views of the beach and Pentire Point for when a storm hits, so order a coffee and cake and enjoy the show. Locals tend to congregate here to watch during winter storms, so if there's a crowd around and the staff at TJs surf shop have put out sand bags and rolled up their shutters then you know you're in the right place at the right time. Beware of surges at high tide that can wash across the road and certainly don't use the beach car park!
Mawgan Porth
On the other side of the estuary, past Padstow on the coast road towards Newquay, the Bedruthan Steps Hotel above Mawgan Porth is a lovely and family friendly hotel with large windows looking out over the sea from their public areas. They do great coffee, and the views are spectacular when the weather is wild.
St Agnes
Like Port Gaverne, Trevaunance cove at St Agnes (an hour down the road from us) faces northwest and provides a great view up the coast. When the weather gets really bad the bar and restaurant that sits above the back of the beach, Schooners, is closed and boarded up to protect the windows, but if they are open then it's a great spot to order some food and drink and enjoy their view.
Portreath's harbour wall, with the famous "Monkey Hut" stood at the end, is almost as synonymous with Cornish storm watching as the clock tower on the Bickford-Smith Institute in Porthleven. The Monkey Hut was used for shelter by the pilots who would signal and guide ships into the dangerous harbour entrance. In the storms of January 2014 this small stone building was destroyed along with sections of the harbour wall, but has since been rebuilt. You can park on the hill leading south out of Portreath and enjoy the view from this elevated position as waves smash into the end of the harbour wall.
If it is stormy during your winter break to Cornwall then please keep yourself safe and watch from a distance. If it's calm and your visit coincides with some of the beautiful winter sun that we often enjoy then give us a call, and we'll show you a different side to the Cornish coast.


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Headliners Luncheon with Former Mexican President Vicente Fox
Wharton Club members & their guests are invited to this Headliners Luncheon at National Press Club with this former Mexican leader
As National Guard troops answer President Trump's call and head for the United States' southern border, former Mexican President Vicente Fox will deliver an address entitled "Democracy at the Crossroads: Globalization versus Nationalism" at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Tuesday, May 22.
Fox, a right-wing populist representing the National Action Party (PAN), was elected as the 55th President of Mexico on December 1, 2000. Winning with 42% of the vote, Fox made history as the first presidential candidate in 71 years to defeat the Institutional Rev
olutionary Party (PRI).
Fox's administration focused chiefly on improving trade relations with the United States and maintaining Mexico's growing economy. Fox left office in 2006, and in a break with his country's cultural norms and traditions has remained in the public eye post-presidency and has not been shy about expressing his views and opinions, including those hostile to current American President, Donald J. Trump.
From Wikipedia.org: He spent a year at Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin where he learned English. Upon reaching college age, Fox moved to Mexico City to attend the Universidad Iberoamericana and received a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1964. Then in 1974, Fox earned a diploma in Management Skills from the Harvard Business School in the United States.
Business career
In 1964, Fox was hired by the Coca-Cola Company as a route supervisor and drove a delivery truck. After nine years, he had risen to the top, serving as the President and Chief Executive of Coca-Cola Mexico; after six years in this role, he was invited to lead all of Coca-Cola's operations in Latin America, but Fox declined and later resigned from Coca-Cola in 1979.[28] It was during the Fox's leadership of Coca-C
ola Mexico that Coke became Mexico's top-selling soft drink, increasing Coca-Cola's sales by almost 50%.
After retiring from Coca-Cola, Fox began to participate in various public activities in Guanajuato, where he created the "Patronato de la Casa Cuna Amigo Daniel," an orphanage. He was also the president of the Patronato Loyola, a sponsor of the León campus of the Universidad Iberoamericana and of the Lux Institute.
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Broken silences
February 26, 2011
At a certain point the balance tips. Early this morning, in spite of the dark and the persistent drizzly rain, a Song Thrush was singing in full voice. It is as if the bird's determination to express itself would overcome any obstacle even the absence of light itself. To me this seems to show that that the territorial urge has become so strong that nothing will discourage it.
Last night, as I was deep in a book, the dark and silence was broken by the unmistakeable whistling hum which comes from the wings of a Mute Swan in flight. Presumably disorientated by the lack of visibility, I can only hope that it found its way back to the river. Wildfowl do fly by night but in my experience this usually occurs on moonlit nights and not on nights of poor visibility such as last night. Perhaps this one was disturbed from it's roost by a fox.
Caution Mermaid crossing
February 24, 2011
After some dull February days it came as a relief this morning to feel that Spring is really happening. The intensity of bird song has increased – the Skylarks of the Town field were in full song and a bolshie Yellowhammer was re-establishing his ground on the railway line. The full throated calls of the Song Thrush, with it's characteristic regular five repeats, rang out over the Common. There was even a sense that the sun may appear.
Down at the Mermaid, river bank repairs are continuing. The sleeper wall which holds the river in place as it passes under the railway line has finally had to be replaced. There is some doubt as to how long the originals had been in place- the uprights had been pointed by hand and hammered in. I suppose it is possible that these could have been put in by the Victorians during the construction of the railway, but it would be interesting if anybody knows? It was with some relief that I learnt that the timbers which form the narrow crossing over this section are going back on.
late-night owls
February 19, 2011
Roz and Alex have jollied off to Norway for a Cathedral Choir tour. However, the fact that the coach was leaving Tombland at 3.00 in the morning was a bit daunting. All that struck me was that Brampton retains a far more pleasant atmosphere than the City centre has on a Friday night / Saturday morning. The wildlife in Brampton is a bit less wild as well.
Numbers of Barn Owls are hunting within the parish. Their very presence is often more effective that a village sign in demonstrating that you are nearing home. Mr Crane's new post and tape fencing has provided useful perches and on my way back from the city; at least two were adorned with owls as I drove home after the coach left. The Barn owls hissing screech is a regular night time sound. It seems to me that territories are being re-established. The Barn Owl population is certainly increasing and they seem so common now, a real contrast with the position ten years ago.
Dawn on a rainy Saturday
February 12, 2011
In the subdued pre-dawn light, the variety of bird song is gradually increasing. The Robins, now well established, defend their bubbles of territory. In the rain a Song Thrush adds to the mix, perhaps for the first time this year, but then stops.
The Blackbirds seem even less sure of themselves. Contact and alarm calls are the norm, as males seek to carve out an area of garden as their own. Any song, if it ever gets going, is fleeting and unsure. In the undergrowth the Dunnocks shout briefly and move on; their song does not really develop any further and reminds me of the sounds from a toddler's game of hide and seek.
One notable addition is the song of the Great Tit, only really two notes, but strident, clear and as much a sign of spring as a Song Thrush. It is of limited musical quality and is known to us as "the squeaky wheel-barrow bird", which just about sums it up.


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Moneypenny is a writer and performer for The Midnight Show (TMS), [1] a popular monthly sketch comedy show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater , which has been called "a hot spot to watch. [2] Some TMS performers are now writers for Saturday Night Live and NBC's Community . With TMS, Moneypenny HAS Worked with Reviews some of the top comedians in the business, Such As Fred Willard , Andy Richter , The Whitest Kids U'Know , Steve Agee , Ian Roberts , Matt Walsh , Drew Carey , Paul F. Tompkins , Jerry Minor , Paul Scheer , Jerry O'Connell , Michaela Watkins , and many more. [3]
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Recorded on 10 and 13 July 1963 in New York.
Oliver Beener, Wallace Davenport, Phil Guilbeau, John Hunt, Roy Burrows, Floyd Jones, Curtis Miller - trumpets; Henderson Chambers, James Lee Harbert, Keg Johnson, Julian Priester, Fred Morden - trombones; Hank Crawford, Bill Pearson, Harold Minerve, Dan Turner - alto saxophones; James Clay, David Fathead Newman - tenor saxophones; Leroy Cooper - baritone saxophone; Al Hendrickson, Sonny Forriest - guitar; Joe Comfort, Edgar Willis - bass; Irving Cottler, Wilbert Hogan, Bob Thompson - drums; uncredited strings; The Jack Halloran Singers - backing vocals.
Arranged by Sid Feller.
The album was "mixed twice", Steve Hoffman revealed. "The 'official' mix is actually a pointless remix done at Bell Sound about a month after the album was recorded. That is what was used for the [DCC] silver version. The DCC gold version used the original Capitol, NY mixes. Much better sound, dynamics and overall bitchin-ness." Elsewhere, Hoffman remarked: "In this case, both the United original stereo mixes and the Capitol stereo original mixes existed in the 1980's and for the DCC versions I got to pick which versions I wanted to use on the various albums I did. The original mixes were later ash-canned by Ray, sad to say so I think the DCC Gold CD is the only place to hear the actual Capitol and United mixes. The 'album master', far inferior (IMO) has been used for everything since. It sounds like someone threw a distorted blanket over everything. Bummer. Why Bell Sound thought that was a good sound, dunno but I believe they were acting under orders from ABC-Paramount to make stuff sound less aggressive and more tame and that's why Bell did what they did."


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Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937)
Piano Trio (1914) [27:09]
Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Cello Sonata (1915) [11:17]
Violin Sonata (1917) [13:31]
Gabriel FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Piano Trio Op.120 (1924) [20:33]
Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch (Hagai Shaham (violin), Arnon Erez (piano),
Raphael Wallfisch (cello))
rec. Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, 9-11 February 2013
To begin with I cannot do better than quote the
opening words of Callum MacDonald in his brochure notes: "These
four works, by perhaps the three most commanding figures in French music
in the early part of the 20th century, were all composed
within the space of eight years, and are among their composers'
definitive contributions to the chamber music genre. In their different
ways, each has an autobiographical element, while transcending mere
personal details to produce utterances that remain haunting in their
Haunting is precisely the adjective that comes to my mind each time
I hear the opening notes of Ravel's piano trio for I know of no
more gorgeously beautiful an opening to any work chamber or otherwise.
Reading the notes it would appear that there is an element of Basque
folk rhythm within the first movement in particular reflecting his native
region. The year before he wrote this work he had begun a projected
piano concerto entitled Zazpiak Bat which is Basque for 'The
Seven are One' the Basque nationalist slogan expressing their
desire for the creation of a country made out of the Basque regions
of France and Spain. He never completed that concerto but this one was
given its first performance on 28 January 1915. Ravel employed some
ground-breaking features not only in terms of timbre and harmony but
in finding solutions for enabling the percussive nature of the piano
to become a more integral member of the trio rather than it seeming
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All four works on this disc were composed just before the outbreak of
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and violin sonatas. These were to be two of a cycle of six he planned
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case. He reminds the pianist to 'never forget that he is to accompany
the cello, not vie with it'. This is sound advice of which Arnon
Erez, the pianist here could never be accused. While the central movement
shocked listeners at the time of its composition with its abrupt pizzicato
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Fantastic review from Joel Harding, an Information Operations expert, who despite some disagreement with my perspective on US propaganda describes the book as 'outstanding' and 'the single best book I have ever encountered about propaganda and information operations'. I am of course delighted. You can purchase the book from Manchester University Press in the UK or via Oxford University Press in… Read more →
Month: May 2016
7th May 2016 – 'Hidden Power' Blog
Hi there, On 31st May I am co-hosting (with Lisa Stampnitzky) a workshop called 'Hidden Power: Innovative Methods for Researching Power in a Post-Snowden Era'. We have a blog for the event where each of the speakers will be posting a short summary of their talk. Here's mine! 'When I began researching the elites who purposefully shape, influence and manipulate our… Read more →
4th May 2016 – Lecture at Uni of Iceland, Media Interviews & Book in Paperback
Amid the buzz of recent news about UK propaganda (see this piece by Piers Robinson in The Guardian), today I gave a lecture on propaganda and counter-terrorism at the University of Iceland. Thank you very much to the Department of Politics there and Ragnar Karlsson specifically for being so hospitable! I was also interviewed about propaganda on national radio –… Read more →