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Thursday, August 29, 2013
No finish today.
4 comments:
- Robyn Beeler-Nichols said...
Congratulations on a huge effort!!!!!!!!! You have always been a huge inspiration to me and you always will.
- August 29, 2013 at 7:59 PM
Even those of us that put in some of those ocean miles can only imagine how tough these swims can be. I suspect that every sting that would have led most of us to quit only motivates Pat to push harder. Going so far must make it that much harder but I suspect once the blood warms again the same Pat that we all admire will be there. I am sure every one of these swims is a learning experience and that pat will emerge a little wiser, a little tougher and no less focused than in the past. See you soon Pat, you are one hell of an athlete and an inspiration to us all
- August 29, 2013 at 8:17 PM
Amazing job, regardless of finish. Few in the world could attempt what you just did. Rest well.
- August 29, 2013 at 9:27 PM
- Paula said...
No matter. Still my most admired.
- August 30, 2013 at 5:44 AM


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I recently won the Trinity Mirror 'Student Journalist of the Year' award, and went to dinner with a few of the local media folk.
I would just like to take this opportunity to thank Paul Bradshaw, for supporting me and guiding me through my final year university project, and making it possible for me to be even considered for such an award.
I haven't been blogging on this site for a while, mainly due to being frustrated at not being able to land myself a job in the media industry. Even though I have won the above award, I'm still trying to make my first steps in the industry and I'm finding it very difficult.
I recently interviewed David Miliband for Yoosk, which was an amazing experience, and I really hope that I am considered to do such work again.
Other than that, you can follow where I am, what I'm doing, and who with on my Twitter page, which I update more frequently.
Hopefully I'll have more to tell you very soon!

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For Round 10 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest, we asked you to send a story in the form of a voice mail message. Our winner was "Sorry for Your Loss."
The llama was not my fault.
Don't hang up!
You probably hung up.
How long is a voice mail message? Three minutes?
Look, you're going to have to call me back. There is no way I'm gonna be able to explain everything in three minutes.
You're not gonna call me back.
Ok, I get that. Maybe I even deserve it. If I was on a blind date with someone I thought was trying to steal my car, I wouldn't call them back either. Or listen to their message.
And I know the thing with Karl was confusing. That's his real name, Karl. He introduced himself as me because he thinks he's funny. He's a performance artist — I know, that explains a lot, right? The casual nudity at least.
I am a much more normal person than this, I swear. I have a boring college degree, I have a boring job, I have a boring car — yeah, I have my own car, for the record.
This is what I get for trying to plan a creative date. The way you were described to me, I didn't think the regular dinner and a movie thing would cut it.
I guess I didn't think it all the way through.
I should have warned you not to wear heels. But I don't think I can fairly be blamed for what that mime said to you. What kind of a mime talks, anyway?
Not to mention the pornographic balloon animals. That was not in the online reviews.
Can I also just say that my ex-girlfriend is not the best authority on what kind of a human being I am? And that I had no idea she works at that coffee shop? I never thought she was the kind of person who would do — that — to someone's drink. She's really changed.
I know, I'm not explaining myself very well. And I haven't even gotten to the llama yet. Or why that man seemed to think I was the guy from the internet video with the trampoline and the whipped cream and the cat. The guy in that video does look a lot like me, but I promise, I don't even have a trampoline. Or a cat. But I would have a cat — I like cats. Unlike the guy in the internet video, apparently.
I'm really sorry that when that little kid threw his ice cream at me, some of it got on you. You can send me the dry cleaning bill.
I'm sorry too that I laughed a little bit when your hair got tangled in the Ferris wheel. I laugh when I'm nervous.
And I swear, I had nothing to do with the skywriting. That might sound like a weird coincidence, but your name isn't that uncommon.
And I didn't know that you're lactose intolerant. Or that that word is a euphemism for — well, I think we both remember. Or that fear of geese is, like, a thing.
Normally after screwing up this bad I wouldn't even bother to call someone, because I got enough rejection and disappointment, you know? But the thing is, I think we really connected. One bright flash, right, a spark, when you looked at me and smiled. It was just before the goose chased you and you fell into the lake. That was Karl's goose. His name is also Karl.
Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is ... I really like you. So maybe, if you bothered to actually listen to this, you might ...
Call me?


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[wimg=left]../images/covers/respectmine.jpg[/wimg]Here's the cover for
' single Respect Mine. This one dropped May 23rd, 2003 on High Times Records. This record was also featured in the Chairman's Choice section of the XXL magazine: I never imagined I'd be writing up a record featuring Wu-Tang Clan for this column - ostensibly an editorial space devoted to the efforts of the unproven, underappreciated or anyone else in rap's (on-the) bubble bunch. But thanks to the Iron Flag consumer apathy (yeah, this means you, muthafucka) that secured the group its bricklayers union card, here I am, baby - forced to exalt the merits of longtime Wu producer Mathematics'latest banger, Respect Mine (High Times) featuring
Method Man
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, Mathematics reminds everyone which organization pioneered the sped-up soul sample production blueprint so in vogue today. Maybe it'll be a minute before the Wu is back all the way, but I for one am damn sure glad they're visiting.
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Somebody stole Method Man's Benz. And they took it from in front of his house. "And I live right across the street from the police station," says Meth. "And they would say, 'That's a nice car Meth. I wouldn't park that car on the street if I was you.' I was like, 'Man I ain't worried about it. Ain't nobody gonna steal my car.' And sho' 'nuff one day, they took my car."
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"He wanted his car to be like the Batmobile, all blacked-out with red accents in the interior," says Will Castro of Unique Autosports. So the Unique team obliged Meth with custom red suede piping, custom logos on the headrests and custom mats.
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We have another six matches from the past this morning, today featuring a club which survived relegation by virtue of results elsewhere.: Queens Park Rangers. QPR have always been a relatively popular choice for the television companies, not least because of the close proximity of Loftus Road to the BBCs Television Centre, although it is worth pointing out that the majority of these highlights actually come from the cameras of ITV. Our first match comes from January 1972, seeing QPR travel north to Kenilworth Road to play Luton Town and our second match also sees them on their travels, this time to the West Midlands to play Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux in October 1973.
The 1975/76 season was Queens Park Rangers' best ever in the league, and our third match is the final match of that season at home to Leeds United, a match which the team needed to win and hope that Liverpool dropped points in their final match in order to lift the title. We then skip forward to 1982 to see a Second Division Rangers play their first ever FA Cup semi-final, at Highbury against First Division West Bromwich Albion. Next up is a second trip to Molineux, this time for a match from the top of the Second Division from December 1982 against Wolverhampton Wanderers, and our final match comes from January 1992 and sees Rangers travel to Old Trafford to play Manchester United.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
Blog Versus Website (or Blogsite?)
My new plan is to combine my website and blog into a single online presence. It makes sense to me to send readers to one place instead of two. Yet I realize not many authors do this. Is it because website design software typically doesn't include blogging capabilities? And/or because the free blogging sites (Blogger, Typepad) don't accommodate web pages?
Wordpress.com says you can do it all. Add web pages to your blog or make your blog a sub-page of your website. This is exactly what I want to do—create a blogsite. But so far, I find the setup on Wordpress to be less than user friendly. At least in comparison to Blogger. So this could be a long and painful process. Especially the transferring of posted blogs from here to there.
So I'm conducting a survey. Authors: Do you maintain a separate blog and website? If so, why? Do you have more than one blog? And if you combine the two, what software or blogging platform do you use?
Readers: Do you like it when an author's blog is part of his/her website? Or do you visit author websites looking mostly for book information?
29 comments:
- Susan Helene Gottfried said...
I was separate, but after Google threatened to delete me, I pulled up stakes and ran to a half-finished WordPress blog on my own website. I really am liking the WordPress platform and I've put up a few pages -- but we're still working on some issues. They may have been resolved sooner, or may not have been issues at all, if we hadn't had to run so fast.
I like being on the same site, to be honest, and I can't wait to fold Win a Book into it, too. I'm finding people are spending more time browsing the rest of the site, for one.
- February 23, 2009 at 5:01 AM
- Sanderdoe said...
I like everything together in one place. I set up my website before my blog and plan to bring them together. If you use Yahoo for your website they already have a connection to your blog so it's easy to do (and a way to sell your books or anything else).
- February 23, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- Helen Ginger said...
In everyday life, I find most authors through their blog. But if I'm googling an author, I go to his/her website. If they're separate, they should be linked so it's easy to go from one to the other.
But in practical terms, I think it makes sense to have them both on the same site. Fewer links to have to remember. If you're going to do that, I'd say do it early, before your blog address is so ingrained that people lose you when you move. Yea, you can leave a forwarding link on your old blog, but some people follow you through RSS and may not follow you to your new site.
- February 23, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Anna said...
I agree with them all. Better integrated as one. I've seen a few author pages with both the site and the blog and it really makes more sense. Or at least it should be really well linked for anybody to find you.
- February 23, 2009 at 1:22 PM
I had a static site for my book, The Break-Up Diet: A Memoir, but it didn't even show up on the first three pages of a Google search. What came up? All the blogs that mentioned my book! So, I scrapped the static site and now have a customized WP blog with several pages that now holds all the content from my original static site--and it comes up as the first hit when you Google: The Break-Up Diet. The search engine spiders LOVE blogs. (And that's a good thing for blog-based sites!)
I also created a custom blogsite for my writing/editing/speaking at http://www.annettefix.com. It has several pages, so it functions like a website, but has the benefits of being attractive to those little spiders, too.
I have just basic custom CSS (header, background, and navigation buttons), but if an author wanted to get crazy with customization, that's an option. My main goals were: easy to find on the internet, easy to read and navigate, and cute. =)
- February 23, 2009 at 1:49 PM
- Gayle Carline said...
I started with a website, then got a blog, then two, now three, but still need to website to post my weekly newspaper column - Gaaaa! I feel a little fractured. As a matter of fact, I blogged about it today, http://gaylecarline.blogspot.com. Oddly enough, I wanted to write about my website last week, but ran out of time. I think I need to keep the website (and the blogs), but just revamp it.
Gayle Carline (aka GeeCarl)
- February 23, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- L.J. Sellers said...
Thanks everyone for sharing. This is just the kind of feedback I was looking for. Now I need an inexpensive, local, Wordpress expert to make this easy for me.
- February 23, 2009 at 2:38 PM
- Rebbie Macintyre said...
Great idea and one that I think a lot of us are trying to do but just plain stuck, as you say. I now have separate, but want to do combine. I'm soooo incredibly tech-dum though, so I'll have to keep searching for something that won't cost more hours than the stimulus has in dollars.
- February 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Thanks for opening up this discussion, LJ. I have neither blog, nor website yet, so this is perfect for me.
- February 23, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- J Hugh Thomas said...
I have both, a basic website and a regularly updated blog. For me the main reason is web searchability (if that's a word). My website is www.jhughthomas.com which is the author name I plan to use. If you google "j hugh thomas" my blog and website are the first two entries that come up.
I don't do much with the website, but I guess when I finish my first book that will probably change.
Just my two cents.
- February 23, 2009 at 4:54 PM
- Alexandra said...
Personally, I really think it all depends on who you want to attract, and for what reason(s) - are you looking for people to find and read your work, or comment on your blog, or, hopefully, both? Because the dynamics, as I have found out, are very different.
Some authors keep a very distinct web presence for their 'author' identity, and have a link in their navigation, which takes you to a very distinct (tho incorporated) blog, which is sometimes on a different blogging (free) platform.
With Wordpress and it's ability (and templates) you can have it all, through one 'Name' by buying your own Dot Com and having it hosted like I do, say at A Small Orange, Dreamhost or through your ISP.
Try looking at Laurie R. King's new website which incorporates WP beautifully (http://www.laurierking.com/) or my own, here: http://alexwolfe.ca
An if you need help and or advice about WP, feel free to ask. :)
- February 23, 2009 at 4:57 PM
- JD Rhoades said...
My blog and website are two different (but linked) sites, because when I started, I was not aware you could put them together.
- February 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Lee Lofland said...
My website and blog are two different sites, but they're linked. I do find that I neglect the website in order to maintain the daily blog.
If the two sites were together, I'd probably pull a few weeds from the website once in a while. As it is, things are a little like a jungle over there.
But the blog just takes up so much time. And then there's FaceBook, Twitter, and...
- February 23, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Diane Eble said...
I like XSite Pro (http://www.easywebsitesforauthors.com) for creating my "regular" websites and WordPress for my blogs. The advantage of having both kinds is that you can then link to each of your sites--relevant links help your search engine ranking. XSP is a great program that's as easy to use as MS Word, plus it's got all sorts of bells and whistles AND training in Web marketing. Honestly, it's one of the best products I've ever bought.
I use WordPress, too, for two of my blogs, but it's more complicated. I suggest, if you use WordPress, that you listen to Cathy Perkins's WordPress Wizard Weekly teleseminars. You will learn a lot from her. (She has helped me with both my blogs, my Abundant Gifts blog (http://www.abundantgiftsblog.com and my http://www.yourbookpublishingcoach.com blog. (For examples of my XSP sites, go to http://www.wordstoprofitnow.com and click on some of the product links. All of those sites (except the aforementioned WP blogs) are XSP sites. They are much less complicated to "configure" than a WP blog.
- February 23, 2009 at 5:41 PM
I have a website LJ which is essentially static, however I maintain a blog for updating various things - events, shows, travel and other things .. the blog is linked to the website and whoever visits one can visit the other. KW
- February 24, 2009 at 4:20 AM
- Yvonne Perry said...
I have a Web site http://writersinthesky.com and a separate blog for my writing and editing business. Each of my books has its own blog, my e-zine has a blog, and I have a blog for my personal postings so that means I have a total of seven blogs.
My Web site is found more often than my writing blog. I don't mind having them separate because I have team members who help me keep up the blog posting, but I am the only one with access to making changes to my Web site.
I hope this information helps.
- February 24, 2009 at 6:47 AM
- Morgan Mandel said...
Mine are separate at the moment. For some reason, I don't like going to a website and clicking on the blog button. Don't know why.
I do know I have lots of work to do to get my website back in order since I've not paid much attention to it lately because I'm mainly on the blog.
Morgan Mandel
- February 24, 2009 at 8:29 PM
I use http://tina-anderson.net like a business card. It explains who I am [but better then Wiki does!] and contains my bibliography, my fanzine info [the fun stuff I produced], where to reach my reps, etc.
My blog at GGY-Meta is my working-life journal and though it does have a nifty sidebar featuring my titles and where to buy, it is primarily where news, updates, my thoughts on fandom, and writery schtuff-- is located.
I have a an additional diary with wordpress that contains only unfinished work, un-produced scripts, and orphaned ideas--but this is not something I advertise to fans or linkshare sites.
- February 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- L.J. Sellers said...
Thanks for all the great feedback. I like having new options to think about. And I'm making headway on Wordpress; not as painful as I projected.
- February 25, 2009 at 10:03 PM
I hope I'm not too late on feedback.
Currently I do have both a blog and a website, but I also want to merge them together in the near future. However, like you've mentioned, some blogging software are not so user-friendly with websites, unless you buy a domain/website hosting plan with the blogging software included.
I'd like to have my blog on my website because I like knowing that my website will have fresh updates every time I blog about something. Right now, my website is a bit static due to the fact that my blog isn't currently the main page of the site. I'm hoping soon I can figure out the coding to incorporate my blog into the website.
Best of luck with your decision!
- February 27, 2009 at 9:34 AM
- ~Sia McKye~ said...
LJ, I find Wordpress more complicated and not as easy to use as Blogger. I'm looking for ways to combine the blogging and website. It's work in progress.
In my opinion, if they're separate then there should be a link. I have to do so much on line as it is and for me it's easier as a reader to have everything in one place.
Interesting to read everyone's thoughts on it.
- February 27, 2009 at 10:45 AM
- Charlotte Phillips, Co-Author of The Eva Baum Detective Series said...
When I first irst heard that WordPress let you combine webpages and blogs, I rushed over there. I loved the idea.
It didn't take me very long to figure out this was no easy task. I put it on the back burner for "when I have more time."
Since then, I have noticed that many wordpress blog links send me to the home webpage and I have to hunt for the blog. I don't always have time for the hunt and assume I'm not alone in this.
So, I decided that what I really need to do is just link the blog and website together. For me, this makes sense. Website visitors tend to be readers and friends. Blog visitors tend to be othe writers.
- February 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- M. R. Sellars said...
I know I'm a bit late to the party, but I just ran across your post...
I personally have a combination thereof -
I maintain a site that is for the most part static, save for my tour schedule and a "what's new" rss feed. It links to my blog, which is essentially a website all its own - i.e. bio pages, sample chapters, rss feeds for my tour schedule, etc.
I also have redirected domains, since folks will often spell my name like yours, and go looking for M. R. Sellers instead of M. R. Sellars. Just one of the hazards of being non-standard (LOL)...
I know the idea of maintaining two sites seems a bit redundant, but I'm one of those "cover all the bases" types. :)
BTW - I'm a huge proponent of WordPress, and I use a self hosted version. While it may be slightly less intuitive than some of the point and click platforms out there, I found it relatively easy and far more robust. Just MHO. ;)
- March 2, 2009 at 7:44 AM
I think it's besst to have the website prominently linked to the blog and vice-versa, that way people landing on either one can get to the other. I don't want me web site mixed together with the blog--I'm selling my books, not my daily ramblings. The only thing I want people looking at on my web site is my book and how to buy it. But a link to the blog is good.
- March 2, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- Jennifer Roland said...
As a reader, I think it's okay to have different locations that point to each other. I like to see a common look, if possible.
I went through the setup process with wordpress yesterday, and it is decidedly not user friendly. But I like my blog there a lot better than when it was on blogger. (I moved my Pop Culture Curmudgeon blog to http://popculturecurmudgeon.wordpress.com). My writer blog (http://jennifer-roland.blogspot.com) is still hosted here on blogger.
- March 3, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Jennifer Roland said...
BTW, I love the blog name. My house can go to hell. I need to write!
- March 3, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- David Eric Tomlinson said...
You should have a single site. You can probably consolidate your current blogger posts into a new blogging tool by exporting them first, and them importing them into something like WordPress once it's set up.
WordPress is not as intuitive as blogger, especially if you are going to be creating a custom site. If that's the case, download WordPress from http://Wordpress.org (note the .org) and install it on your own domain. Then you can modify the PHP code behind the content tool and create a totally custom design that is hosted on your unique domain.
See this article on the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org installations: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
I plan on getting around to this once I've completed my book, but am buried in the first draft at this point and just don't have the time.
Good luck!
- March 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM
- Lisa Logan said...
I have a web site and a blogger blog, but am beginning the process of expanding the blog and reducing the static site. In today's "social network" age, people like the interactivity and "lived in" feel of a blog as opposed to a lonely webpage.
- March 6, 2009 at 12:42 AM
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- March 17, 2009 at 10:39 PM


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Lemme see... We had 20 participants at the start of the retreat and 16 at the end. Most of those who left had planned to go home early. One guy came from Europe and the jet lag proved to much for him so he opted out early from total sleep deprivation, which was probably a good idea.
A number of people came from Germany for the retreat. Two from Chile. And one guy from Finland. One from the US. The rest were from Japan, though even these were a mix of Americans, Canadians, English people and Japanese. All of these folks came specifically for the Dogen Sangha retreat and not to see me per se. The DS retreat was an on-going thing for about a decade before I ever even attended one, let alone started leading them. So I feel kind of duty bound to keep it the way Nishijima Sensei set it up.
A few of the people who'd been to other retreats were a little put off by the fact that we don't keep strictly silent. It's more or less standard operating procedure at Zen retreats that there is absolutely no talking. Even eye contact between participants is discouraged if not outright forbidden. The DS retreats have never been like that. It's a bit of a different atmosphere.
One woman who came from Germany said she felt it wasn't quite as deep when you allowed talking. I can see her point. Having done both silent and non-silent retreats, my take on it is that the silent ones do feel somehow deeper. But I'm not sure if they're necessarily actually deeper. What I mean is that I feel like Zazen has its own depth. Whether you notice it or not is something else. In that way maybe it's like sleep. While you're sleeping you're not really aware of the depth of sleep. It's more about what you feel like when you wake up. And my feeling following the DS style mostly, but not totally, silent retreats is a bit more stable than the feeling I have following totally silent retreat. After a silent retreat I feel a bit spaced out and funky. It's a good feeling. But it's a bit like being stoned, and there's a comedown just like when you're coming off some primo weed. I don't get that from retreats where a bit of social interaction is allowed.
Uh... what else? It seemed like I had more to say...
There was a funeral on the last day. So we got to listen to them chanting during our final round of Zazen. There was a lot of rain, though no typhoon. That passed us by the night before the retreat began.
I shot some video, which I'll put up after I get back to California. I didn't have enough tape to record the lectures. Which is probably a good thing. I guess they were OK. Seemed like people liked them. Peter Rocca was taping them on some kind of digital audio recorder. So maybe we can put the files up. I kind of improvised this time. Usually I follow Nishijima Sensei's tradition of doing a lecture on the life of Buddha, one on the life of Dogen and one on some aspect of Shobogenzo. But this time I did one on Fukanzazengi and one on Genjo Koan and then winged the rest.
Got some good shots of one of the gigantic spiders that live in the temple. That should be fun.
Guess that's it.
By the way, I'm starting to read the comments again. Things seem generally OK in there lately. It's always funny to see people make broad sweeping statements about what kind of person I am based on what I write, even though they've never met me. It's cute.
I'm at work. Gotta go do stuff.
I know what I wanted to say. It's related to the above regarding what I'm like (as if that matters anyway, but people seem interested). I observed in my teachers a tendency to keep everything very open. This included being very open about themselves. I don't mean they confessed a lot of sordid details of their pasts. I don't know much about Nishijima's personal history, for example. But they presented themselves very clearly. They were not like the spiritual people I'd encountered before who seemed to hide behind the mask of a generic "spiritual person." They were, instead, very genuine.
My way of imitating that behavior is to be very clear about my own utter lack of holiness. Yeah, I write for a porn site (actually, Suicide Girls is not porn, but so many people say it is). Yeah, I dig Godzilla movies. Yeah, I'm pretty much a stickler for the type of practice I learned and I've got no time for anything else. Yeah, I think certain people are jerks and I enjoy saying so. I also downplay those aspects of my personality that might seem holy. Mostly this is because I've been so burned by "spiritual person" types.
When I was given the task of being a Buddhist teacher, I decided the only way to do it was to be myself. I briefly tried to play the "spiritual person" game, albeit in a very half-assed way. But it didn't work. I don't recommend it at all. It gave me headaches.
Shunryu Suzuki (I think it was him) said it's sometimes helpful to imitate the behavior of saints. I think that's true. But in my own case I've had to try to find a way to do that and still be genuine. That's the tough part.
In any case, it's not about me. I use myself as an example in hopes that might prove useful to others.
Shit. Now I really have to go back to work...


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- What do you love about your bedroom?:
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- Eliminate clutter and unnecessary items from the room.
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The development of artistic vocal musicianship through the study and performance of carefully selected and individualized vocal literature. The acquisition of a functional vocal technique through attention to posture, breathing, tonal onset, vowel purity, reduction of inhibitory physical tensions, body coordination, and a balanced registration. Appropriate vocalises constructed to meet the individual technical problems of the student. Upper-level studies focus on range extension, vocal flexibility, melismatic singing, and the messa di voce.
Language requirements by semester:
Representative repertory includes the Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias; Handel Italian arias; German repertory of Franz, Schumann, Schubert, Brahms, and Wolf; French literature of Fauré, Debussy, Duparc, Berlioz; Handel English opera and oratorio arias; early 20th-century and contemporary English and American songs and arias of Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Warlock, Britten, Barber, Dello Joio, Persichetti, Menotti, Copland, Argento, Rorem; and operatic literature covering all styles and periods. All repertory selected to meet the development needs of the individual student.
In addition to these catalog requirements for the voice area, students studying voice for credit at Ithaca College must follow the guidelines as set forth in the Ithaca College School of Music Voice Area Handbook.
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Will Preston, an R&B artist who lives in Atlanta, Ga., will come to Bedford, Saturday, for a listening party to celebrate his new release "#reacquainted."
Why is a rhythm and blues artist from Atlanta coming to Bedford to promote his new album?
The Artisans Center of Virginia (ACV), in partnership with Bedford County citizens, announced last week the initiation of the development of the Artisan Trail Network program in Bedford County.
Kooper Jodoin just graduated from Staunton River High School last month, but he's already working on recording his first musical album. Every track consists of music that he composed.
"I write music in my head before I play," Jodoin said.
Jodoin describes his compositions as "compulsive."
"It's kind of hard, melodic rock," he said, going on to say that it's hard rock, but not heavy metal.
Sedalia Center's annual Bluegrass at Sedalia had a line-up that included the oldest continuously performing Bluegrass band in America — the Virginia Mountaineers. It was started by Clinton King more than 60 years ago.
"Clinton started this band in 1947," said Larry Hall, who now leads the band. Hall was 15 when he started with the band in 1959 and took over leadership after King's death.
"He was my second cousin," Hall said of King.
A science fiction film shot primarily in Bedford, got at good response from the 1,300 people who attended MystiCon, a sci-fi convention held in Roanoke over the weekend. A three-minute scene from the feature-length motion picture was named the MystiCon Fan Favorite Film.
From the time he was a young man, Joe Collins has always loved art, with an interest in three-dimensional art forms.
"They were so expensive I thought, 'I can't afford them, so I'll make them,'" Collins said.
So, he became a sculptor.
"I started out carving wood 35 years ago," he said.
A change of career direction is getting Bedford resident Jerome Sturm attention in the art world.
Music played a big part of the culture in the 1940s with its patriotic and sentimental themes as World War II raged around the world.
On Saturday, Feb. 9, after a four-year hiatus, area residents will get a chance to relive those times as the National D-Day Memorial brings back the GI Jive 1940s dance. The event will be held, this year, at the Elks National Home.
Karen Nichols and her Quartet will bring the sounds of the times to the stage.
After months of work, Finding Faith premiered at Thomas Road Baptist Church Saturday night.
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|Four golems are standing in front of a wall of lines, as in a police lineup. The first is in the form of a small, thin, grey man, with a mustache and goatee, dressed in a collared shirt with widening sleeves. Its hands seem too large for its body. The next appears to have been graffitied or tie-dyed, and has the form of a woman with an afro, a ruffled shirt, and possibly wearing a cape of some sort. The third is brown colored and much wider than the other two, with the appearance of a muscular man in a sleeveless undershirt. The final golem is made of metal, and is the largest of all, bearing a thick beard and spikes on its knees, as well as rings of spikes at its shoulders and wrists. It seems to be screaming, and holds its hands together above its head, little fingers extended, as if too indicate that it has "too much rock for one hand." None of the golems have noses.
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|The right-hand page of an eyebook, mostly full of plain text but also including a Hamstard cartoon in the center right.
Left Sizemore in the tunnels with his golems. He's blocking off passageways, making a maze of dead ends, pitfalls, deadfalls, ambuscades, etc. He's really happy to have something new to do.
Took me four hours to climb back up to ground level and then up the Tower. Can't describe my legs. Maybe "boop × ow ^10"
Tribal affiliations seem pointless, like a cultural thing I think. But Royalty is different. Royal and noble units have slightly stronger stats, and level faster. Cities ruled by Royals pop nobles (and more Royals). Royal empires split off sometimes into new sides. Royals claim to trace their lineage to days of Titans.
This is what they are so anal about. It's a "divine mandate" to rule. When a non-royal gets powerful, the Royals like to gang up on him.
But okay, the Tool said he had a divine mandate too. But when danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled...[1]So does he? Does anybody? Is this a real holy war, or just a bunch of deluded boopholes croaking each other? Too fine a distinction?
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Actor, director, and author Henry Winkler, better known by most people as "The Fonz" for his 10 years on the popular television show "Happy Days," will speak at Penn State York's Pullo Family Performing Arts Center (The Pullo Center) at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 24. Winkler will share his experiences dealing with the learning disability dyslexia and talk about his series of children's novels, "Hank Zipper: The World's Most Amazing Underachiever," inspired by his real life experiences.
Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at The Pullo Center box office, charge by phone at 717-505-8900, or online at www.pullocenter.yk.psu.edu. Tickets can be purchased in advance or the night of the show.
Since 2003, Winkler has collaborated with Lin Oliver on a series of children's books about a fourth-grade boy, Hank Zipper, who is dyslexic. Winkler wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia until he was 31-years-old when his stepson Jed was tested for the learning disability.
Winkler has published 17 books about his hero, "Zipper: the world's greatest unachiever." His books have appeared on the best seller lists of the "New York Times" and the "Los Angeles Times." He will have books for sale at the York event and do a signing as time permits.
In July 2008 Winkler joined First News on their annual reading tour of schools where he read excerpts from his Hank Zipper books. This has since become an annual tour for him. Winkler was also recently made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to children with special educational needs and dyslexia in the United Kingdom.
Winkler was brought to the area by the master of education in Teaching and Curriculum at the campus which offers a Summer Institute for educators each year. He was originally scheduled to take part in that program in July but had to postpone his visit. In addition to the public attending the program, many area educators who took part in that program will attend. For more information on this graduate program visit http://yk.psu.edu/Admissions/gradstudent.htm.
Earlier in the evening, Penn State York will hold a scholarship dessert reception where students who have received scholarships will meet and talk with their donors and other philanthropists. Following the 6 p.m. reception, the group will attend Winkler's presentation.