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• I have over 20 years experience as a music teacher, conductor, theater/orchestra director and a performer in Russia, Norway and the United States.
• I possess excellent interpersonal skills and over the years developed the ability to communicate efficiently and connect with every student I teach.
• I am creative and enthusiastic while working with people of all ages.
• I have a reputation of being passionate about achieving professional goals.
09/08- Present NYC Board of Education, P.S. 48
• Band & Orchestra Director
• Teach children K-5 to play musical instruments in small groups and large ensembles
• Organize and perform Winter and Spring Concerts
02/08- Present Yakov's Music for Gifted & Talented, Inc, Brooklyn, NY
• Founder and Music Director
• Teach various musical instruments and vocal
06/07-06/08 Rockaway-Five Towns Symphony, Lynbrook, NY
• Music Director, Conductor
• Conducted weekly rehearsals (night) and 3-4 concerts during the concert season
10/03-06/08 Globe Institute of Technology, New York, NY
• Adjunct Professor of Music
06/07-08/07 JCC of Cherry Hill, NJ
• Musical Theater Director
• Taught acting, improvisation, singing. Produced musical shows.
10/06-06/07 JCH of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY
• Musical Theater Director
• Produced musical theater shows
• Taught students of ages 5-12 various vocal selections
09/00-06/07 NYC Board of Education, District 20, P.S.200; P.S.179
• Band / Orchestra Director
• Taught all woodwind, brass and percussion, violin, piano
05/99-06/06 School for Musical Performance, Brooklyn, NY
• Instructed students on Piano, Guitar, All string and wind instruments and vocals.
• Prepared students for the auditions to the prestigious schools and other music organizations.
1993-1997 St. Petersburg Radio Orchestra, Russia
• Principal Bassoonist
Other work experience:
• Performed as a bassoonist with The Kirov Opera & Ballet Theatre, the Mussorgsky Opera & Ballet Theatre, The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, The Chamber Opera Orchestra of St. Petersburg and other Symphony and Chamber orchestras of St. Petersburg, Russia
• Performed Solo Recitals in Russia, Poland, Norway and United States
06/98 The St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music, St. Petersburg, Russia
M.A. in Music: Major – Bassoon Performance; Minor – Conducting
06/91 The St. Petersburg College of Music named after Rimsky-Korsakov, Russia
B.A. with a Double Major in Orchestral Performance (Bassoon) and Music Education
*** Lesson Details ***
Hi there!
Would you just like to learn a few songs on the piano, violin or guitar? Or you'd like your child be become next Joshua Bell or Evgenij Kissin? My lessons are designed with each individual student in mind. I will start my lesson with introduction and proceed with warm-up routine. I always make sure that the student is comfortable with the pace that I am offering. I am mixing elements of music theory, history and performance techniques in order to help my student to embrace the beauty of music making experience. All my students are ready to perform at the recital after just 3-4 months of lessons.
*** Studio Equipment ***
I teach using Fisher Baby Grand Piano. Fender guitars. Major brands band instruments; yamaha, selmer, gemeingardt, etc.
*** Travel Equipment ***
Fender Guitar, Yamaha Flute/Saxophone, Casio Digital Piano, Custom Violin made in England.
*** Specialties ***
suzuki violin, classical, jazz
*** Travel Equipment ***
I provide my instrument. Expect student to have their own.
*** Specialties ***
All methods, styles, genres.
*** Play just to have fun or prepare for college, church and/or professional employment! ***
Dr. Carl S. recently accepted a position at South Dakota State University as Visiting Instructor of Saxophone and Jazz for the 2014-2015 academic year. His responsibilities include directing the SDSU/Brookings Optimist Jazz Festival, directing Jazz Ensembles I-II, and teaching the saxophone studio. He completed his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in saxophone performance at the University of Kansas in 2014, and his Master of Music Pedagogy and Performance from Oklahoma State University in 2011. He graduated from Harrah High School in 2002, earned his Bachelor of Music Education from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 2008, and was a 5th-12th grade Head Band Director at Fairview Public schools. He is also currently a member of the North American Saxophone Alliance and has held previous memberships with Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Delta Pi, the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association, and Music Educators National Conference.
While at KU, he was also a graduate teaching assistant for the saxophone studio and jazz studies program. His responsibilities included Assistant Director of the KU Jazz Festival, directing Jazz Ensembles II-III, directing Jazz Combo III-VI, assisting with the KU Jazz Festival, directing Saxophone Quartets II-III, teaching private saxophone lessons, assisting in saxophone studio class, and teaching the music education woodwind methods course. His Lecture Recital Document, A Performer's Analysis of Selected Jazz Works for Saxophone Quartet, featured an interview with Bob Mintzer. Carl was a member of KU Jazz Ensemble I, KU Saxophone Quartet I, and KU's Helianthus New Music Ensemble. As a member of KU's Jazz Ensemble 1, Carl has performed with Dave Douglas, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Alex Sipiagin, Steve Owen, Gary Foster, Steve Houghton, Clint Ashlock, David von Kampen, Peter Epstein, Jeff Miley, James Miley, Roger Shew, and Brian Hamada, Brandon Draper, Rich Wheeler, Beau Bledsoe, Jeff Harshbarger, and Matt Otto. In July 2014, he went on a European tour with KU Jazz Ensemble I featuring Steve Leisring and Deborah Brown. Together, they performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the Vienne Jazz Festival in France, and performed in several cities in Germany.
While at OSU, Carl was a GTA for the saxophone studio and music theory programs. His responsibilities included Music Theory I-IV tutoring and grading, sight-singing grading, piano labs, classical and jazz saxophone lessons, saxophone quartet coaching, saxophone studio Webmaster, and saxophone studio class. He was a member of the OSU Wind Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble 1. He had a regularly performing jazz trio and played in OSU's X2End saxophone quartet. The X2End quartet performed locally at the 2011 Navy Band Saxophone symposium in Washington D.C., at the 2011 NASA Region IV Conference, and has won the state and division rounds of the 2010-2011 MTNA chamber music competition. The X2End quartet went on to win the 3rd place prize at the national final round of the MTNA chamber music competition. They also were the Division II Chamber Ensemble winners at the 2011 Hubbard Music Competition where they were awarded the 2nd place prize in the overall finals. Carl's final degree paper at OSU was a study of composer/performer collaboration. He traveled to Texas, Michigan, and Ohio to interview saxophonists and composers. He has presented his lecture at the 2011 Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, the 2011 NASA Region IV Conference, and the 2012 OSU Single Reed Summit. As a member of OSU's Jazz Ensemble 1, he has performed with Bob Sheppard, Conrad Herwig, Wayne Bergeron, and Andy Martin.
While at SWOSU, he performed as a member of the marching band, wind ensemble, Jazz Ensemble A, saxophone quartet, and his own jazz combo named Five-Seven. As a member of SWOSU's Jazz Ensemble A, he has performed with Dan Haerle, Bob Bowman, Jack Mouse, Fred Forney, Janice Borla, Eddie Daniels, Pamela York, Lynn Seaton, Carl Allen, Dr. Michael Cox, Tom Williams, Dr. Robert Chambers, Dave Hanson, Drori Mondlak, Delores Williams, Byron Stripling, Frank Wess, Kenny Drew Jr., Dennis Mackrel, Bill Watrous, Rich Eames, Jennifer Leitham, and Randy Drake.
Carl's primary saxophone instructors have been Vince Gnojek, Dr. Jeffrey Loeffert, Dr. Ann Bradfield, Dr. Keith Talley, and William Rodney Hull. He has had additional instruction in lessons and masterclasses from Gary Foster, Dr. Joseph Murphy, Dr. Michael Cox, Bob Sheppard, Johnny Salinas, Dr. Kimberly Goddard Loeffert, Dr. Geoffrey Deibel, Dr. Jonathon Nichol, Dr. Griffin Campbell, Dr. James Laughlin, and Dr. David Dees. Carl's jazz directors have included Dan Gailey, Bob McCurdy, Dr. Jonathan Martin, Dr. Keith Talley, and Dr. Terry Segress. His music theory instructors have included Dr. Bryan "Kip" Haaheim, Dr. Scott Murphy, Dr. Alan Street, Dr. Brant Adams, Dr. Igor Karaca, Dr. David Bessinger, and Dr. Dennis Widen.
Dr. Carl S. lives in Brookings, South Dakota with his family. He enjoys recording several instruments in his home studio and composing new music. His compositions that have been performed include Funk-o-matic (jazz combo), Smooth (jazz combo), and The Deadline Arrives at Dawn (alto saxophone and electronics). As an advocate of new music involving the saxophone, he has participated in a commissioning consortium for Alone Together by composer David MacDonald through Kick Starter. Most recently, he performed the premier of Cuento #3 by Nelson Ramirez Diaz.
My journey in music began when I was around 5 years old and first heard the children's choir sing in church. My mother used to tell me that I would beg her to let me sing in the choir but she would always have to tell me I wasn't old enough. As soon as I was old enough, she enrolled me in church choir and I've been in it ever since.
I have performed with the Rochester symphony orchestra and chorale, Rochester community band, Rochester civic music, church choirs and orchestras, Lake of the Isles community band, and performed Handel's Messiah at Carnegie hall in New York City. I've done some acting and singing in musicals as well.
As I got older, I discovered playing the clarinet was fun but never gave up singing. I just did them both. After becoming proficient on clarinet, I explored flute, oboe, saxophone, piano and lastly, the celtic harp.
My philosophy on teaching is "you are never too old to experience the joy of making music on whatever instrument you choose and I will strive to help you discover your hidden musical talents".
During my 20+ years of teaching, I've had many students perform with local youth orchestras, receive superior ratings in high school music competitions, win concerto competitions, be excepted to perform with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra in their playing with the pros program and go on to college to major or minor in music.
*** Lesson Details ***
Music should be fun and not a chore so I like to really get to know my students and structure their lessons in a way so the student has fun but also feels like they have learned something new or plays or sings something better than they did when they arrived.
I expect a student to schedule time in his/her week to practice since my most successful students excel in their school bands and go on to perform with local youth orchestras and other ensembles. I will remind students that they will get back what they put into it.
Listed below is my expertise level on the instruments I feel comfortable teaching.
Flute: beginner to advanced (all ages)
Clarinet: beginner to advanced (all ages)
Oboe: beginner to intermediate (all ages)
Saxophone: beginner to advanced (all ages)
Piano: beginner only (children)
Singing: beginner to advanced (all ages)
Celtic harp: beginner to intermediate (all ages)
Music theory: beginner to advanced (all ages)
Reading: beginner to advanced (all ages)
*** Studio Equipment ***
I have music, piano, CD player, musical instruments and a music stand available at the studio.
*** Travel Equipment ***
I travel with my instruments and some music but not all. If there is a piece of music at my studio which the student is interested in looking at, I will make arrangements to bring it with me to your next lesson.
Students at home should have an instrument, a good music stand and a quiet area set aside for the lesson. Pets should be kept in an area other than where the lesson will be taught.
*** Specialties ***
Broadway, showtunes, classical, popular, jazz, religious styles
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I have been sewing, crocheting, knitting and crafting for over 50 years and currently teach sewing classes to 3rd to 6th grade students each summer. Over the past few summers, I've collected over 100 fair ribbons for my sewing, knitting and crocheted creations including four best in show and 3 champion ribbons and 3 plaques. I can teach you to make awesome clothing or accessories for yourself, friends or family members, sewn items for your home, crocheted or knitted blankets, toys, scarves, sweaters, shawls, etc. Children as young as 7 and as old as 99 can be taught to use a sewing machine, knitting needles and crochet hooks.
****Studio and travel equipment*****
includes sewing machine, sewing essentials, knitting needles, crochet hooks, patterns and other essential items needed for sewing, knitting and crocheting.
Woodwind specialist Ryan hails from Aurora, Colorado, and is currently based in Chillicothe, Ohio. He holds a Master of Music Degree in Saxophone from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and graduated summa cum laude from Colorado State University with Bachelor's Degrees in Music Performance and Education. An extremely in-demand private instructor, Ryan's students have been selected to principal chairs in such ensembles as the Colorado All-State Band and Jazz Band, Northern Kentucky Honor Band, Cincinnati Youth Wind Ensemble, and many more. Equally comfortable in classical, jazz, popular, and sacred settings, Ryan has shared the stage with Fareed Haque, Matt Wilson, Greg Gisbert, The Lettermen, and many others. Ryan performs regularly with the TomaScoyk Duo and the Promethean Quartet, whose debut album "Through Adam's Fall" was released in 2013. Equally split as a performer and educator, Ryan is an energetic and innovative teacher, as well as an experienced music arranger and recording engineer.
Currently, Ryan is a Senior studying at Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship. He plays most woodwind instruments & keyboard, but primarily saxophone/flute. http://RyanGreenfield.com
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A horrific story out of Chicago today, as a six-month girl named Jonylah Watkins has died from bullet wounds suffered Monday when she was shot five times while her dad changed her diaper.
According to witnesses, a gunman opened fire on Jonathan Watkins around 1 p.m. when he was standing alongside his minivan, caring for his child in the front seat.
Police are investigating the incident, which left Jonathan with gun shots in his side and buttocks and which was NOT the first time this family was faced with such a crime.
Jonylah's mother, Judy, was shot in the knee while pregnant with Jonylah, according to the woman's mother, Mary Young.
"There's too much shooting over there," Young told journalists Monday, adding of her granddaughter: "She's nothing but 6 months old. How could anybody... what kind of heart?"
Jonathan remains in critical care and is expected to survive, while Jonylah's fatal wounds were in her thigh, shoulder, lung, liver and bowels.
I don't condone violence and I rarely believe an eye for an eye is the answer but seriously I would get a gun myself and shoot his a$$ off!
This a complete and utter TRAGEDY...What a LOSS...HW.
I have 3 words for that cold-hearted and heartless punk-ass gunman...THE ELECTRIC CHAIR!!!!! Fry his no-good ass already!!!!! Case closed.
who does this? what kind of sick fuck would shoot a 6 month old baby girl or any kid at that. makes me wonder what where the parents up to that they got themselves in this kind of trouble and it's also the parents fault that this lil girl is dead, as parents they shouldn't have been doing what they were doing if they were and risk their kids life. :( this is so sad. poor lil baby. this baby girl is with god and at least there she will be safe and at peace. but still so sad.
Omg. Rest well baby girl. What a horrific way for her to die.
but americans don't even trust their neighbours, so carry a gun to protect your family............IDIOTS!!


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That said, I should probably drag the lot of them out and start creating past event pages for all of this shizza. I'm a little compulsive in certain areas, and that'd be pleasing to me.
Note to self: events.
10 août 2010, 12h14mI'm one of those people that have kept every possible concert ticket stub since I first started going to shows in 1989. Some have been lost, but I do have the bulk of them saved... dozens and dozens of them.
That said, I should probably drag the lot of them out and start creating past event pages for all of this shizza. I'm a little compulsive in certain areas, and that'd be pleasing to me.
I can't scrobble!!!
5 août 2009, 14h37mI don't have admin access on my work PC, and can't install *anything*.
New computer at work today, after years = I can no longer scrobble anything on Winamp, since the plugin is missing.
Note: I didn't install Winamp either; I can't install anything at all.
Thoughts? Is there away around admin access to get the plugin back in Winamp, without an .exe file? Is there a simple file I can download and put in the correct directory?
Whenever I listen to music without it being scrobbled, I am annoyed.
Initials BB
25 fév. 2009, 18h10mSweet mercy, I love Benjamin Biolay. I really never get sick of listening to his work, ever.
Why this man is not more noticed, I have no idea (is it the French thing? Really? I mean, I hear that Keren Ann, his former collaborator, does pretty well over here in the US of A. What gives?).
Amazing, poignant arrangements.
Gorgeous texts.
Incredible talent.
Porta Macedonia
18 nov. 2008, 17h20mI wish I had the time to spend on a proper review, but bear with me.
I just had my special edition copy of Veljanov's Porta Macedonia arrive in the mail. After listening to both the album and extra tracks, I have to say that this time around, especially with use of the organ sounds and varied classical elements added, it sounds less like a pop album and more like musical theatre. This is far from a complaint...
I know quite a few Deine Lakaien fans who are not very fond of Alexander's solo efforts, but I rather enjoy all three, and all for incredibly different reasons, as all are incredibly different in tone. The man's songwriting ability seems solid to me, and his talent not simply reserved to one particular style, which is refreshing.
I hope DL continues as always, of course... But Alex Veljanov has done an impressive job in his own right. I'm glad that such a memorable voice has a firm backing of creative talent.
7 oct. 2008, 2h42mSo. Just now I find out that Emilie Simon is doing a series of shows in NYC, all month. Because I have prior engagements and little money, I can't go to any of these shows. Figures.
31 jui. 2008, 12h33mA couple dozen shouts have disappeared, firstly.
Secondly, I dropped half my groups, since I never use them. YET THEY STILL SHOW UP WHEN I CLICK ON MY 'GROUPS' LINK.
More proof that new Last.fm is made of EPIC, EPIC FAIL.
I'm PISSED.
new site design...
22 jui. 2008, 1h55mi'm not pleased with it, i won't lie.
i know they're never going to revert to the old design, regardless of ten thousand members complaining. it doesn't make sense for them to scrap so much time and money spent...
but since they've made the move to an aesthetic more in line with the current popular social networking sites (myspace, facebook, what-have-you), i can only hope that the option to move sections of your profile around (or choose not to show some entirely, like the waste-of-space 'library' section) will be forthcoming. i mean, even FACEBOOK gives you an option to move around some sections of your profile to display the way you'd like it to.
i'd also like to see a skinning option, since the whitespace on here now is blinding, and the overall design a complete eyesore. i seriously seriously HATE it, the design and color choice aspects.
sigh. i think that the users complaining that they will be canceling their accounts (or throwing themselves off bridges or the like, ha!) are being a TAD melodramatic, but i will NOT give last.fm any money for a service i feel has failed the user base in form and function. there are some great improvements (real-time updates of the charts being the primary), but it doesn't excuse being force-fed a terrible design.
i like coming here, y'know? i don't want to look at something that i consider "mine" which isn't pleasing to my eye.
i say give the users more options for customization.
when that happens, i'll start subscribing monthly again.
25 mars 2008, 11h52mi check my charts this morning and it appears that a HUGE portion of my tracks are missing.
i did not reset.
i did not delete any tracks myself.
i'm confused.
reset button
19 avr. 2007, 16h15mat 50,000 tracks i think i'm going to reset my numbers to zero, considering my listening habits are constantly changing now and the two-and-a-half year old chart i have now doesn't really accurately reflect my tastes at the moment.
wish there was a way to keep a log of the prior tracks, though...
i may actually end up doing this sooner. not sure.
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25 août 2006, 12h39mso.
i'm sitting here at work listening to the global tag: french station, and just getting more and more annoyed by the idiots who have tagged things like Blues Traveller, Steve Vai, and Ludacris as "french."
this just means i'm skipping 90% of the tracks on this station because that's not what i tuned in for.
the upside: listening to intermittent tracks by actual french-language artists, like Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg. also the insane amount of french house music that seems to be on here... fun :)
the other gripe i have about the last.fm player... when i use winamp, i have to listen to half the song before it's logged on my profile. with the last.fm player, the whole song has to play through the end. what's up with that?


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ISO relatively healthy (no fried) with HUUUGE portions!
So I suppose they kind of cancel out. I wouldn't mind a health food place...but nothing fried, and really big portions. I love hummus, fish and such.
I wanted to do sushi and hummus, but places that make good hummus don't make good sushi and vice versa.
Also, a really great big baked sweet potato sounds yummy.
I suppose I could get take out and go home, but I will be solo, and kinda want to dine out in a reasonably nice place.
This seems all the result of the concussion I gave myself this weekend on the laundry room stairs. Since then, I have craved every dish I see on food network- but the craving for hummus with fluffy pita and good oil and fresh sushi and a sweet potato is just super powerful.
No, I'm not pregnant.
Where can I go?
SFV, West LA, Westwood, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Miracle Mile, Hollywood, Pasadena are all OK
The Cedar House, in Sherman Oaks at Whitsett and Riverside, is a Lebanese restautant with great hummus. For twenty-five dollars they offer a complete platter for two (it feeds all three in my family). You start with fatush, that lovely Lebanese salad featuring sumac. Next up is their vegetarian platter, the afore mentioned hummus, baba ghanoush, falafels (alright there is one deep-fried item) and a lucious tabbouleh. Of course there are the omnipresent pickled turnips, peppers, and olives. After all this the main course arrives; beef kabob, chicken kabob, kefti kabob, kibbeh, and a rather disappointing rice pilaf. Finally, right before you stagger to the door, they give you a complimentary piece of baklava. The overall quality is excellent. It's twenty-five dollars!
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That may be too much!
I love Cedar House, and they have some of the best hummus in the Valley!
check out grassroots market in south pasadena, on fair oaks near el centro. it's in the minimall with the vons, pizza hut & baja fresh. huge portions, cheap, and all organic. the staff is a little spacey-hippie, but it's a great bargain for giant burritos & wraps, salads, sandwiches, meze plates, etc.
carnival in sherman oaks? great hummus. don't know how it would be for dining solo.
la seranata has good fish. Not sure if that meets the large portion criteria though.
As an aside, when I was pregnant I craved hummus!
Well... Skaf's Grill in NoHo has fantastic, sublime hummus... and right next door in the same plaza is a place called Masa, which I went to once (it was fine, but I didn't have sushi, so I can't judge). You could probably somehow combine the two...
re: wilafur
I love ethiopian, but I have it sooo often. I wanna try to not burn out on it
re: tatertots
umm, cheesecake factory and buffets aren't healthy.
I say go Indian or Ethiopian. A good place of either kind will stuff you for days for around $15 a person.
My suggestions:
Indian -- Star of India on Melrose
Ethiopian -- Nyala or any of the other places on Fairfax near Olympic
Hm... Would Native Foods do the trick?
I know theres one in Westwood, but i've never been. I like the one in Costa Mesa though. All organic veg/vegan options with the standard healthy hippy healthy stuff(quinoa, tempeh, etc). Not really sure if this will hit the spot for you but it fulfils the healthy kick.
There's a menu on there too.
If you want pretty good hummus and the like I really like Lebanese Kitchen in Pasadena off Washington. I've never really had anything bad there ( of course to me its one of those places where when i go i never wanna try something new the shishk and falaffel are both really good). Reasonable prices and huge portions.
there's that menu
Not gourmet, but great for value and health, Mongolian BBQ (Mogo's, Westwood, King's)... lots of veggies esp when it's AYCE, and don't add oil... the chefs will add water if you're sauces (soy or chili or whatever non-oil based) aren't enough liquid. You can get one serving of chicken or whatever meat you like, then just load up on veggies and avoid the noodles.
Second Carnival. Also Alcazar, Shamshiri, Javan.
A variety of ideas...
Jack Spratt's Grille
Newsroom Cafe
Qusqo has good portions
Asakuma does some good relatively large portioned platters but not my favorite sushi place by any means...
Do omakase at Zo
Whole Foods salad bars sometimes have baked sweet potatoes
This will be the third time I've made this recommendation on CH: Shamshiri in Westwood.
Great hummus, huge portions, and healthy if you order right. I like the Persian lamb dish with the orange peel rice. Or the one with dried black cherries.
Knock yourself out, go to Annapurna and have the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet; south Indian, totally vegetarian.
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for the hummus, i like shamshiri grill on westwood blvd.
everything served at shamshiri, healthful and not healthful, is served in huge portions.
for other types of healthy food with big portions, head to the spot in hermosa beach on 2nd around the corner from the boardwalk
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I am such a fan of midori...Pretty good sushi for the AYCE bargain


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Los Angeles county Central Commitee victories!Submitted by RCS4RP on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 21:10
Here's a little encouragement coming out of LA county. Though the votes could have been better, we won quite a few activist on the LA county Republican party central committee!!! Names in purple are those who were voted in :)
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Having lived up there for two years
I can tell you that these people are solid liberty lovers too and should also be in purple:
Roger Eshelman
Judith Durning
Pat Dixon (a "little old lady from Pasadena" firebrand for liberty!)
And dabooda is right, if you were one of seven or fewer candidates, you're in. That's how many of us got our start last time around, even though Jane Barnett and others tried to block us.
IMPORTANT: This results page is messed up.
In several Assembly Districts, including mine, seven or fewer candidates qualified for the ballot. In such cases, ALL candidates were deemed to be elected. Our names did not even appear on the ballot. So the results are actually much better than they appear to be!
Recommended reading: The Most Dangerous Superstition, http://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Superstition-Larken-Ros...
So Mary Willison didn't win? Isn't she the
RP supporter who speaks so well in the RT interviews?
great job guys ! hope we can
great job guys ! hope we can pull of the same to the north in OR
Only got two in my district,
Only got two in my district, but at least 50 members of the LA County GOP Central Committee are now liberty supporters!
Looks like Northern LA County 36th & 38th AD is Neo-Con Country
No Liberty Candidates won... :(
48th district
Yeah, I'm in the 48th district, and even though we didn't win all, it's encouraging to see how Judy Marie Nelson took the most votes yesterday! 3 out of 5 liberty candidates isn't bad ;)
Actually we took ALL the seats in the 48th
I'm from the 48th too and it was a complete clean sweep... Not sure why they aren't purple, but Sheena Ewing (married to Robert Ewing who also won) is an RPer as is Jorge Huaman. .
The 41st district was a clean sweep too... Noah Johnson, Cao, and Joham are also liberty republicans.
I'm not as familiar with the other districts but we did far better than what this website is showing. This was a very well organized effort to fill all the committee seats and we succeeded.
Looking at the CCRP site vote totals only shows 3 out of the 5 winning.
Amazing! Clean Sweep of Liberty Candidates at 52nd AD where 70%
registered voters are Democrats, an obvious Democratic stronghold, where minority is demographically the majority...basically, this area is what we call...the "Hood". This is where I apparently work for the LA County Gov't as a health care provider helping the "underserved" members of the community.
Ditto for 53rd Liberty Sweep...Democratic stronghold, "South Bay" of Los Angeles!!
Am so PROUD of our Liberty Candidates for Ron Paul...CONGRATS!!!!
Not amazing: no competition in that district.
There were 7 openings, and only four candidates who qualified for the ballot. Their names did not even appear on the actual ballot on election day; they were elected automatically.
Recommended reading: The Most Dangerous Superstition, http://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Superstition-Larken-Ros...
Congrats to LA liberty lovers! Glad to see those results=)
This is what I've been looking for since this early AM..great to
see Angela K Chan & incumbent Connie Ruffley won from the 49th (voted straight Liberty). I think John Won was incumbent alternate if I'm not mistaken...too bad he lost along with Brain Kelso.
Surprisingly, a Chinese American Republican won for State Assembly among two rival fellow Chinese American Democrats in my area...a long, long time bailiwick stronghold for lefty Democrats.
Thx for the linky, RCS4RP!!
Really wish it was Angela,
She is a tough girl, I've got much respect for her. Unfortunately she didn't get the spot. It was actually Eric Chan that got it. Angela came in 9th, John 10th, and I came in 11th.
I really hit my area with emails, and phone calls, and walked my local streets, but unfortunately the establishment candidates came away with a victory.
But this shouldn't be considered a loss completely, Connie Ruffley has experience, I learned alot and networked with many, and I'm sure the next time around we can hit 'em harder.
All in all, big congrats to the other AD's. Very proud of you all!
That is wonderful news!
Great job people!
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We're into day eight of the Steam Summer Camp Sale, and there's no sign of it stopping. We're not sure how many more values we can take. Anyway, today's collection of one-day-only sales is filled with franchises familiar to PC and console gamers alike, whether you enjoy street fighting, tomb raiding, commanding and conquering, or simply shooting someone in the face.
Capcom has a two-pack of savings with Street Fighter IV and Dead Rising 2 marked down 50% to $14.99 and $19.99 respectively, while Valve's own Counter-Strike: Source is $4.99, SimCity-esque Cities XL 2011 is priced at $7.99, and indie gem AudioSurf is cut down to $1.49. Additionally. there are franchise-wide sales that include genre-changing FPS Quake, the most recent Command & Conquers, RTS sensation Company of Heroes, and all the Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider games (from Legend up to last year's Guardian of Light).
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Digital transformation is inevitable
Russell Davies, of GOV.UK says in this blog post:
Digital transformation of your organisation is inevitable. Your organisation will either become digital or be replaced.
Via Neil Perkin.
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Digital transformation of your organisation is inevitable. Your organisation will either become digital or be replaced.
Via Neil Perkin.
This is a series of photos taken by Curtis James as part of his project about people at work – Beyond Work. It's me, in the very early days of Brilliant Noise.
The Coca-Cola Founders Program is an interesting proposition: bring disruptive thinking into the heart of a giant business by letting serial-start up entrepreneurs have the run of the place and find problems they want to solve and turn into businesses.
Coke streses that this is more than your average accelerator:
Most accelerators conduct three to six month programs and focus on financial investment and mentoring. Our model is very different. We invest in founders first, before they have a startup or even an idea. We don't dictate the problem they should solve and we give them the time and attention required to truly validate the problem, design the best product/market fit and find a business model to create a sustainable company.
A process of radical change around digital began at Coca-Cola four years ago – the 2020 Vision, the switching of 20% of its ad budget into earned media, the new emphasis on stories and co-creation over the traditional ad.
Coke's new approach to marketing investment grew out of the need to explore digital media. They use a 70:20:10 ratio of investment – 70% "now" (tried and tested methods), 20% "new" (experimental new media and formats) and 10% next (edge ideas and innovations). This model has seeped into the culture beyond marketing, it seems and into other areas of the business .
With companies this vast and interesting, though – you need to keep a close eye on developments. Look at them, come back three months and look again – there's always more to see.
Coke's rival, Pepsico, was apparently "all in" on social media and digital media a few years ago – why aren't we seeing anything as radical or interesting as the Coca Cola Founders Programme there?
It could well be that there are fascinating things happening behind closed doors, or that its PR and comms just aren't making as much of it as Coca-Cola – but I don't think that's the case. There have been high profile heads of digital, accelerators, sponsorships of SXSW and technically brilliant website revamps, but not the depth and ambition of change we see at Coke.
Pepsico has approached digital as a brand marketing challenge. Social as a disruption to advertising – an important trend in advertising that needed a response from a brand built on ads. The company has recently hired a new global head of innovation with a brief to look at innovation in a "more holistic" way.
Coca-Cola's marketing shift has been huge, but it has coupled this with parallel commercial and operational change. The 70-20-10 model of investment and taking risks has spread far beyond marketing into how the whole business thinks about innovation and change.
This is no coincidence – Coke's leadership came not just from a strong marketing vision but from the top – the CEO told the business what change in the digital age was going to look like. The money moved and the operations, culture and suppliers followed suit – rewarding incumbent agencies that upped their digital and earned media game or bringing in new players like Zone, as its UK content agency (which pioneered the editorial style of corporate home for Coke's UK home page).
Coca-Cola has seen and treated digital as a strategic challenge – and that's why we'll keep seeing it produce inspiring innovations like the Founders Program.
Stephen Fry once said, I've never seen a smartphone I haven't bought. My vice is writing apps. Actually it's all writing technologies – I'm the same about notebooks, pens, typewriters, pencils, writing slopes, dictionaries and style guides. Always have been – but apps most of all, because it is on screens that most of my writing happens.
If I were being kind, I would say that this about a love of the craft, of prose, copy, the act and process of the written word. Being more critical, I would say it is a proxy for getting with it, for the real secret of the professional writer – getting on with it. If I could just find the perfect app, the perfect pen, the perfect machine, then the words will flow uninterrupted – I will find the magic combination of place, tools and thoughts to write the twenty blog posts, five medium articles, seven essays and a novel currently knocking about in the creative holding area of my subconscious.
The latest is Desk. I knew I would buy it the moment I read about it because… because… it is a minimalist writing app. Because I use Byword for work, IAWriter Pro for fiction, Google Docs for collaborative writing, Evernote for lists, Curio for outlining-mindmapping-whiteboarding-in-one-app and Scrivener if I ever think there is a danger of a book emerging.
It's a great app for me, as it seems to have everything I love about all my other apps rolled into one –
All of these things add up to an app for blogging – and perhaps other writing – that helps close the gap between the intention to write a blog post and getting it published, a tip from Adam Tinworth, someone who is without parallel in their understanding and adept use of that form.
One last thing – a thread I will pick up again later – trying out new apps for working is a worthwhile thing to do to help keep you thinking critically about workflow and how tools shape the way you think and work.
Things are moving pretty quickly at work at the moment, so I've not had much of a chance to reflect or mention things that are going on there – but I can't let the year slip by without mentioning one really cool thing…
Just over a month ago Brilliant Noise held its first conference, Dots: Connecting Ideas, part of the amazing Brighton Digital Festival.
Like Matt Locke says about The Story conference – a big inspiration to us in all sorts of ways – the joy of holding your own conference is that you get to choose the people you want to hear from. With the curatorial genius of Neil Perkin, it was my dream conference – a relentless series of very different but always inspiring points of view.
Adam Tinworth, the best live-blogger in the business, created posts about all of the talks, which you can read by clicking on the speaker biographies on the Dots website.
We had a limited edition set of Artefact Cards – which I love, and have blogged about before – for everyone who attended. On the way out everyone handed in one of their cards with the one most memorable or important thing they would take away from the day. We've made that into a poster, so you can view the crowd-sourced notes of dots that were connected on the day – there's a higher resolution version of this here.
At the Dots conference last month, Mark Earls gave some fresh takes on his favourite theme – humans-as-copying-machines. The best way to come up with something new, he showed, was to copy someone else, or something else. You come up with something new because, in the process of copying, you make errors.
He went further, arguing that one of the best things to do was "copy from far away" – from another field of endeavour, another country, another industry.
On the FT a week later there was an article about how new business models disrupt industries…
…Apple became the biggest music retail seller without selling one CD; Netflix reinvented the video business without operating a single video store. Google continues to attack new industries with its data-based services and devices; Google's products from glasses, to self-driving cars to smart thermostats are just a means for increasing and leveraging Google's data-based consumer insights.
Of course, none of the business models are new, they are just copied from other industries. Copied from far away. Like Nestlé copying the Gilette razor-blade business model to sell Nespresso pods (pricing coffee at £60 a kilo).
Here's a video of the whole interview…
I tried writing an article on Medium publishing platform for the first time this week. It was a post about values and how we use them at Brilliant Noise. It felt more like an article than a post, and it felt like it neither belonged here nor the Brilliant Noise blog in the first instance. I'm not sure why, but it felt a little more like nailing something to the cathedral door – and that was right for this piece in particular.
I really enjoyed using the Medium platform for writing. The font's lovely and – a little monkeying around with the image for the header aside – it was elegant and simple to write in (I particularly like the long hyphens for some reason).
If you'd like to read the article, it's called Why Values are Valuable. Let me know what you think…
I love this "ship early, ship often" approach social content from Lars Silberbauer, head of social media and search at Lego, shared at Social Media Week London:
Describing how Lego created its social marketing campaigns, he said: "We start out by creating $100 campaigns. We of course do TV ads and have a lot of budget but I want people to think differently about social."
The idea of the $100 spend came about as Silberbauer wanted his team to think more about the dynamic of the content and not just the spend available. The number was decided as he asked his team to empty their pockets, and the value of change held by the group was almost $100.
"Pilot and scale" is a planning mantra at Brilliant Noise. I'd like to try out a few $100 campaigns – it's a neat way to constrain and get you trying out ideas.
Sometimes a slide deck gives you clues to how the author's mind works, but the latest "Master Presentation" from management thinker Tom Peters gives you almost everything. Huge knowledge, experience, exuberance and insight at one-hundred miles a second.
I picked out a few of my fabourite quotes he uses in his 567-slide – that's not a typo, I said five hundred and sixty seven - state-of-the-nation-that-is-his-brain document. Be aware, the empahsis is on content over style in the deck – the colours are vivid.
Gorgeously, he implores you, Faris-like to: "steal me blind"… Will do, Tom.
On the subject of connectedness and anxiety, I really loved this article by Megan Garber in The Atlantic – Everything: Your're Doing It Wrong.
"You're doing it wrong" started as a meme and became a journalistic cliché, she says:
We should probably stop with all this. The headlines are cheeky, sure, but in the aggregate, they are simply sad. In the name of helping people out, we have become a group of wanton, finger-wagging judgers. Which, no matter the particular moral or ethical code you subscribe to, is probably doing it wrong.
As well as being a bit of cliché headlinese and a meme, it reinforces a law of expressing opinion online – there will always be someone who thinks you're wrong. You need to be ready for that – "get a thicker skin", was one of the rules in my book. If you're in a particularly self-critical mode or feeling vulnerable and unsure, maybe don't go looking for it. If you want to be wrong, the web will always help you out.
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Bristol Farms Bakery counter: good?
- lreeve Jul 10, 2008 01:59 PM
I went into Bristol Farms for the first time today. Everything at the bakery counter looked amazing? Is it? Anything in particular worth getting?
I haven't had anything from there in a very long time, but the only thing worth getting there is bread. I have been consistently disappointed by any of the gorgeous looking bakery goods I've purchased. They do a decent job on bread, though. Note: I'm basing this on the Long Beach store.
I used to get the rugguleh all the time (at Beverly Blvd Doheny store) but its gone downhill. They stopped putting enough of the sugar topping and jam into the mix. I've complained to the manager but they changed bakers and didn't see to care too much. The cookies are good if you want to pick something from the counter - I usually stick with chocolate toffee, snickerdoodle and oatmeal raisin.
Some of their items are good...just good...such as their chocolate mousse cake and their fruit tart. I just noticed today that Bristol was ranked as the having the "Best Cupcakes" in the OC by the Register...I am not a cupcake fan, but the strawberry and red velvet looked very good! Their breads on the other hand are usually very good...such as the baguettes and foccacia...and they usually have Poulain from Paris on most days.
re: TravelPath
Agree, Bristol Farm's baguettes are pretty good
Like CynD I have been pretty consistently disappointed by the good-looking stuff at Bristol. I'm not a particularly big fan of their breads either--they'll do in a pinch but I think Breadbar is consistently better (albeit at a higher price point), and for the most part we are more consistently satisfied by the breads at Gelsons as well (both the Gelsons house breads and the Victor Benes rye breads and challahs). I do like a few things at the Bristol bakery, but they tend to be the homelier items--the giant chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies, the sugar cookies, stuff like that. Have never tried their cupcakes that I can remember, so perhaps the OC Register recommendation TravelPath mentions is worth checking out.
re: ipsedixit
Making a little kid share a cookie with you.... Now THAT is true 'Hound behavior! Hats off to you, ipse...
Very disappointing for what you pay. We once got cupcakes there. The most gorgeous cupcakes you could imagine. Took one bite and threw them away. They were dry and still frozen! The sugar cookie I got a week later was great however.
I like their peach pie, especially since they also make their pies in a small individual size. I've gotten the peach pie many times and always good. Their coffee cake was also delicious but I haven't had that in a long time.
As for their cakes/cupcakes, they (South Pasadena) told me, upon me pressing them, that the cake mix and frosting come from the same supplier that supplies supermarket chains, and it's the same thing. Just decorated more prettily.
re: slacker
ouch! thats disappointing...
I love their baguettes. I go to the one on Sunset Fairfax corner. Not the sourdough one, just the regular.
I agree with everyone else. Everything is "eh."
I've never had anything offensive, but I've only stuck to the cookies and those layered filo dough things. We called them elephant ears when I was growing up, but I can't recall the actual name.
That's what I hate about bakeries. Everything looks amazing. Never any way to know unless you try.
got a huge "outrageous brownie" at the Newport Beach location for $3.50 and it tasted waxy and not so great. I also got a Sprinkles cupcake from across the street (next to Gelato Paradiso) and it was one of the worst cupcakes I've had, greasy frosting, overmixed cake batter that tasted like cake mix and not even doctored cake mix. Got the same cupcake at Sprinkles Beverly Hills location and it was worlds better. In fact, it was really good.
re: westsidegal
The quality of the Gelson's bakeries varies by location. My experience with the Gelson's bakeries in Encino and Pacific Palisades has been great (maybe they're keeping with the old Viktor Benes recipes), but the one in Northridge has been such a disappointment that I avoid it. I can do better baking at home.
I think I had a macaroon there once that was decent. However that was pre-Albertson's
I assume you know that Abs and Bristol are owned by the same conglomerate.
Which worked in my favor yesterday when Albertson's had Copper River Salmon at $9.99 per pound.
re: CookieEater
I kind of like those cake slices that Ralphs sells but I gotta say I love the cakes by the slice at Vons (Pavilions). I bought myself a couple for my birthday and the fancy carrot cake slice stole my heart. I also liked the chocolate fudge which was really, really sweet but that's the way I like it. The tres leches wasn't so bad, but I like Porto's best so far.
re: carter
Actually it was a subsidiary of Albertsons, Inc. but Bristol Farms is now a wholly owned subsidiary Supervalu, Inc.


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