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What's the Mediterranean diet?
by Nikki Rose
What's the Mediterranean diet and who's on it anyway? Break out the world atlas and take a look at the size of the Mediterranean region – the sea touches the shores of many distinctly different countries. Wow, does everybody eat the same thing everywhere? I've noticed that some countries have been excluded from the Mediterranean Diet Club and are not even featured in those coffee-table cookbooks – membership may have required a stable government and luxury hotel accommodations for the research teams. How about the cultural, agricultural, climatic, religious, economic influences of The Club members – are they all the same? Are we missing some great stories behind traditional dishes by deeming the entire region one generic Oliveland? Sure, "fusion cuisine" is the creative incorporation of flavors from other lands, but when you see a dish on a California menu like "moussaka-canneloni" (two distinctly traditional dishes from two different countries all rolled into one) is it fusion or confusion? Cuisine and culture go hand in hand and the more global we get the less homogenous we should be. The window into the culture of a nation is through the kitchen -- you can learn so much about people when you know what they eat and why. What would Bostonians do if their beloved clam chowder was renamed "North American Clam Stew"? Even America has diverse and interesting regional cuisine – more than the rap it gets overseas as a burgers & fries nation, right?
Recap on the history of The Diet phenomenon. Back in the late 1950's an American nutritionist, Ansel Keys discovered that many Cretan men living in the mountain villages had a very low rate of heart disease and cancer and lived to a very ripe old age. He noted that they consumed lots of olive oil, but also looked at the bigger picture (which is blurry now) of traditional Cretan cuisine and lifestyle as a whole. Dr. Keys conducted a 15-year comparative study of the cardiac disease and cancer rate in Greece (Crete and Corfu), Finland, Japan, Italy, The Netherlands, The United States, and Yugoslavia (known as the "Seven-Country Study," although the demographics seem odd). The results of the study proved his hunch with low instances of either disease in Crete and high instances in all other countries compared, except Japan, which didn't fare too badly. Hence, The Diet was born.
When a story is passed on through the years, it tends to vary (even to a level of sensationalism, as is the case here). Olive oil was cited as a piece of the puzzle but the remaining pieces were lost along the way. The Diet has taken many marketing twists and turns since – everyone wants to be a Club Member, whether they've paid their dues or not. Ironically, Italy and France have managed to become Club Members, yet the cardiovascular disease rates in both countries have never coincided with The Diet's premise. Granted, both countries eat some of the same foods as the people of Crete and produce and consume their own olive oil -- Italy even buys olive oil in bulk from Greece for their own labels. However, Italy was a losing country in the comparative study and just last year in France, a group of cardiovascular disease patients were placed on the traditional diet of Crete (not Provence) with very positive results. None of this matters because the French and Italians are very good at marketing -- so why bring up some old story about Crete and risk competition? I don't think the competition would be too fierce because Cretans seem perfectly content with the way things are. I imagine there are many reasons why they haven't flooded international markets with their precious goods. The Diet's premise was based on principals of traditional Cretan cooking and lifestyle, but the interpretations we see today change the rules of the game.
As these studies emerged from Crete thirty years ago, a bit has changed since then. So what hasn't changed? First, there's the geography and climate factor. Crete is a mountainous, rocky island with only a few big cities and all that goes with them -- like pollution. Aside from seasonal tourist spots, this is farming and fishing country, not a metropolis. Olive and nut groves, fruit orchards, grape vines and greenhouses cover nearly every inch of available land. The summers are long, hot and dry and winters are relatively mild with snowfall only in the mountains. The produce is plentiful with intense concentrated flavor and color. The down side (for farmers, not holiday makers) is this seasonal drought – making life more difficult than it already is. Olive trees grow miraculously out of dry, rocky earth, that's why there's more olives here than anything else. Cow's milk butter is a luxury item as the arid, mountainous land is not fit for cows. Deep green, pungent extra virgin olive oil is produced in nearly every tiny village, usually only by and for the community (the private reserve of gold). Throughout Greece, many people would not dream of purchasing olive oil in a supermarket – they either make it themselves or know someone who does. Everyone is partial to their own village oil and even if they've moved away, they often return home to help during harvest season or have a supply sent to them – it's that important. There are several large cooperatives in Crete who share their olive oil with the rest of the world and most still follow traditional production methods – some have won top quality awards in International competitions. Why not? The Greeks have had thousands of years of experience in olive oil production – the ancient Minoans traded it for precious metals and gems.
As for exercise, farming is hard, physical labor so there's no need to drive to the gym after work (haven't seen one yet). People are too busy tending to their land or animals to sit at a computer and surf the net --even if they could justify the need for a computer (the "net" is quite useful in the collection of fish). Even if they're not farmers by trade, many people have a small patch of land for fruit and nut trees, a vegetable garden and enough chickens for the family – and maybe a few sheep or goats. Mostly for practical and financial reasons, they also make a lot all their own foods like bread, cheese, yogurt, vinegar, wine, etc., and pesticides are not even an option. There's plenty of seafood – more frequently consumed by the locals who live near the sea, often because it's their own catch or that of another family member. Recent scientific studies have proven that fish is very good for us – so dash out and get some! There are many villages tucked so far into the mountains that I'm amazed that people manage to survive there – but they have for this very reason. Throughout history the unwelcome visitor (aka invader) to these parts has been met with Homeric resistance. Hence, many traditional dishes (with great stories to match the flavor) from mountain villages are based on survival tactics and the art of foraging for food in the wild – now it's posh.
Well, that's all very nice, you say. We're still standing at the open fridge waiting for cooking advice – ready to devour a bag of chips fried in some deadly oil just to take the edge off. Wait! The common denominator are those dreaded fresh fruits and vegetables – tons of them. Every day on the average Cretan dinner table, there may be a selection of five or six simply prepared vegetables – not just a dollop of spinach fighting for recognition on the edge of a plate of prime rib. Simple salads with tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, onion and olives are the norm for lunch AND dinner. Roasted and marinated green and red peppers, beets, wild or cultivated greens, artichokes, zucchini and eggplant are also hot ticket items. Cretans eat lots of dried beans like yellow split peas (called fava), broad beans, chickpeas and lentils. Some beans are just cooked until tender, mashed a little bit and mixed with olive oil, onion and salt. There are many different types of freshly baked bread, which is always on the table. The finale is usually seasonal fruit (not baklava, etc.) like cherries, honeydew and watermelon, grapes, figs, pomegranate, apples and oranges. We should be very jealous because a lot of this stuff is also organic – a very expensive option for us – it's too late, they've paved our paradise.
for starches and things, potatoes, pasta, barley, and rice are prepared in many
different ways – with a pretty even percentage of weekly consumption.
Potatoes are often just baked or fried in a little olive oil, or steamed
with other vegetables for hot or cold combinations. Rice seasoned with onions and spices is frequently used as a
stuffing for many different vegetables and the infamous grape leaves – which
are great when made fresh. Then
there's yogurt – eaten straight, used in savory sauces, topped with fresh
fruit, walnuts or a generous portion of aromatic Cretan honey – another
precious commodity in the ancient (and modern) world.
Traditional Greek yogurt is made from sheep's or goat's milk, and
it's thick like ricotta cheese. The
natural milkfat (also known as the flavor) is not extracted. I wish we had stuff like this in the States – why they
extract all the fat from yogurt is beyond me – it's tasteless gelatin.
People always seem to read the nutritional information on the back of a
yogurt carton – something obviously nutritious, but don't dare glance at the
info on a bag of potato chips. Yogurt
is pretty easy to make at home with cow's milk – that is, if you're not
too busy. I have yet to hear of a
case where someone gained weight from eating too much yogurt with 10% fat.
Cheese is another favorite here and there are many different types (mostly sheep or goats' milk, but some made from cows' milk). The list is long and requires a separate chapter but homemade variations of feta, mizithra (a soft fresh cheese, sometimes similar in texture to New York style cheesecake or ricotta depending on the cheesemaker), kasseri and kefalotiri (hard cheeses similar to romano) still rule as part of the meal. Snacks may include fresh or dried fruits like figs, apricots, raisins and nuts like peanuts, walnuts, almonds and delicious roasted chestnuts. Last but not least are the beloved olives – large or small, green, purple or black, preserved in brine or not – take your pick, they're everywhere. Wine is a given – but generally consumed in moderation and always with food – not as heavily as we've witnessed in the plate-breaking tourist spots or Hollywood productions. If everyone here lived like Zorba, we'd be in trouble. Some men drink quite a bit of raki, the local fire water distilled from grape must, which can be hit or miss depending on the producers. Quite a few raki fans around here are well over 80 years of age – I'm not sure how healthy they are but they're certainly living long! It's OK to drink a little too much and dance a little bit, but to get a rip-roaring sloppy drunk is not acceptable behavior (this observation is based on local rules of conduct, tourists noticeably exempt). Also, Greek women drink very little alcoholic beverages, if at all, and smoking is a new, scarcely tolerable vice of the younger generation. Good guess to say the women are healthier here.
Now picture the farmers' market with produce harvested at peak ripeness that day, fresh fish straight off the boat, fresh meats straight from the hills (the chickens and sheep share the olive groves – roaming not to Hoboken, New Jersey) and fresh breads still warm from the oven. Picture a nice trip to the country to pick up your wild greens (and snails if you like), wine, olives, olive oil and cheese from local producers. This is rural Crete. This way of life is not enticing to the younger generation – I can understand why – farming is a tough life. There are supermarkets where you can buy many good-quality items – and even imports if you want them, but everyone here knows the difference between manufactured and home-grown quality and they'd rather be sure of the source. Besides, the price is often better without the middleman. I'm sure people live like this in many regions of the world, but I'm in Crete and will not speculate or make comparisons of places I've never been. It's not Manhattan and if everyone moves here – it will soon resemble Manhattan – making the point moot. We are not doomed to live short, unhealthy lives just because we can't live here. We have a choice – to wean ourselves off the manufactured stuff to control the content of the foods we eat. In short, to make a "fresh start" and shift back to raw ingredients. How do farmers the world over plan their meals? The conversation goes something like this: "Honey, what's ready to pick today?"
to cooking techniques. The Cretan
diet is based more on technique than recipes.
Grilling is the number one choice here – we're back to some ancient
basics. When considering the nutritional benefits, picture this:
meat set above fire, fat dripping to the ground (or to the bottom of your
fancy gas grill). In the case of grilled fish – it's brushed with olive oil
and grilled whole – tastes great. Grilling
is easy and requires minimal attention or pots and pans, that's why I like it.
For those of us who don't enjoy grilling during a winter blizzard,
there's roasting. Mastering these two cooking techniques can make life much
easier. All you need to know is
when the food is done. No fancy
recipes or sauces are required -- olive oil, lemon and your favorite herbs are
great on anything that's prepared well – fish, chicken, steaks, burgers,
lamb chops, vegetables, whatever. Keep
it simple. During the cooler
season, Cretans braise meats along with a variety of vegetables, starches or
beans. Braising does require a bit
of time and attention, but stews taste better made in advance and often freeze
well, so it's good for snowed-in days. Cretans
also make a number of fish soups – which are very subtle and delectable –
just a variety of bite-sized morsels simmered in fish stock with onions,
potatoes, carrots and a bit of parsley – sometimes with tomatoes.
That's it, nothing to it.
common way to cook vegetables like cauliflower, artichoke hearts, stuffed
cabbage or vine leaves is to simmer them in a little stock or water and make a
frothy egg-lemon sauce (avgolemono) with the vegetable liquid.
For greens like spinach or beet shoots, they are often simmered in a
little water until tender, served in a bowl with their cooking juices and
seasoned at the table with, you guessed it, lemon, olive oil and salt.
Greens are also sautéed in olive oil (what else?), sometimes with
garlic, leeks or onions and served with a splash of lemon juice or used as the
base for a variety of delectable vegetable pies (chortopites).
Try any combination of greens commonly available at the supermarket like
kale, collards, beet greens or spinach using the same technique – bearing in
mind that some greens are more delicate and require less cooking time, so add
them later on in the process. Tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini and eggplant are
often stuffed with seasoned rice with or without ground meats and baked or
layered in casseroles with meat sauce and bechamél sauce on top (i.e., moussaka).
These complicated dishes are usually reserved for special occasions.
Learning cooking techniques as opposed to following recipes opens up a whole new
world of experimentation and makes cooking more fun when you know there's a
basic formula to which you then add your imagination. Enough ideas for now? Great,
let's eat!
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Sweet-Tart Delights: 21 Lemon Desserts from Martha Stewart
How does that old saying go? When life gives you lemons, make dessert! With a little sugar and a pastry-minded plan, this vibrant citrus fruit becomes a winning flavor in most sweets, including cakes, cookies, bars, tarts, and pies. These spring dessert recipes from Martha Stewart showcase the humble lemon in all its sweet-tart glory.
Curious about the best way to skin a lemon? Watch Jacques Pépin as he demonstrates how to cut citrus fruits.
Lemon Poppy-Seed Cookies
Lemon lovers, rejoice — these crisp, delicate cookies are made with lots of juice and zest for a delightful tang; poppy seeds add crunch.
Recipe: Lemon Poppy-Seed Cookies
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My Favorites of 2014
2014 has been a year when I've been relatively quiet on reviews, but I have been listening to many things, and I was very fortunate to attend some fabulous concerts that I've documented here with brief write-ups and photos (no photos of King Crimson!). I've also been focused on other things, including making noise with some guitars. As in the past, my listening is concentrated on what's available to me, which is relatively narrow in scope, but I do listen to a pretty wide array of music.
This is my list of 14 favorites for 2014 (in no particular order) and then a few special categories. Each title on the list links to the artist or record label website. Happy Listening and I hope you all have a nice Holiday season, no matter what you celebrate. Thank you for reading in 2014!
Sturgill Simpson – Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
Nick Magnus – n'monix
Tony Patterson & Brendan Eyre – Northwinds
Should – The Great Pretend
Hallock Hill – Kosloff Mansion (My review was somewhat unconventional in interpretation–a really nice album).
Gareth Dickson – Invisible String (a compilation of recent live recordings)
Hiss Golden Messenger – Lateness of Dancers
Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited: Live at the Royal Albert Hall 2CD/DVD (a fabulous live album & DVD with excellent sound quality!)
Stephen Vitiello + Taylor Deupree – Captiva (double 10" LP)
Medeski Scofield Martin Wood – Juice
Ben Watt – Hendra
Beck – Morning Phase
Levin Brothers – Levin Brothers (It's only taken decades, but the Levin brothers got together and made a really marvelous jazz album)
Rosanne Cash – The River & The Thread
Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd – White Bird in a Blizzard
Boxed Sets
Anthony Phillips – Harvest of the Heart (Anthology Boxed Set): Unlike the recent R-kive Genesis box set, Cherry Red knows how to put together a proper anthology, complete with many tracks of never-before heard music from AP's archives.
Jason Molina – Songs: Ohia – Journey On (7" 45 RPM Compilation Box Set, a really beautiful set, probably rarer than hen's teeth by now.)
King Crimson – The Elements (Tour Box, archive, live and some new material as a companion to the 2014 US Tour)
Reissues (Vinyl)
East River Pipe – The Gasoline Age (vinyl reissue, my introduction to the brilliant songs of F. M. Cornog when it was first released on CD in the early 1990s)
Lambchop – Live at XX Merge (I'm so happy that Merge Records decided to release this in honor of their 25th Anniversary. Looks like the LP is out of print for the moment.)
William Tyler – Lost Colony
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Zammuto – Anchor
Temporary Residence TRR 227 LP (CD and D/L) Time: About 39 Minutes for 11 LP Tracks
Artist: http://www.zammutosound.com/ Label: http://temporaryresidence.com/
1) Good Graces 2) Great Equator 3) Hegemony 4) Henry Lee (Trad) 5) Need Some Sun 6) Don't Be A Tool 7) Electricant 8) IO 9) Stop Counting 10) Sinker 11) Your Time 12) Codebreaker* Bonus on Deluxe LP download with silkscreened cover
Many scientists have labs and equipment, and there are parallels between science and the creation of music. Discovery and creativity take hard work, inspiration and many tools—some of the work is also drudgery and can take a long time to complete. Some experiments succeed and some don't, but research presses on.
Nick Zammuto's lab is in Vermont and while Zammuto's current work is more accessible and song-oriented than work of his previous collaboration with Paul de Jong (The Books), Nick and his bandmates are still looking for music and inspiration in unexpected places (sometimes in quirky infomercial videos, physical inventions, admonitions from a parent and odd audio samples). Sounds are discovered, altered, created and spun into a fabric of song, and more often than not the results are downright fun.
It took about a year from the very successful IndieGoGo campaign to the release of Anchor, but along the way Nick Zammuto kept backers well informed on progress and entrusted early previews of the final tracks, along with the background for inspiration and in-depth technical information on how many of the sounds were developed. The resulting album varies from calming drones to chest pounding beats along with idiosyncratic melodic turns and spirited lyrics. Many of the tracks are based around odd rhythms, some created with scratches deliberately made on LPs at planned intervals.
Although I'm not always an advocate of loud music, I think this album better with the volume knob UP—it's often an absolute romp. Most of the music is also well suited to their live shows, where Nick Zammuto and his bandmates know how to have a good time, often with accompanying videos. I can attest it's also a great album for driving (at safe lower volumes!). In general, I find this album to be more reserved (almost cautious, at times) compared than their first.
After Good Graces eases-in, the more dynamic tracks like Great Equator, Hegemony, Need Some Sun, Electricant and the aggressively percussive IO give the album its verve. Anchor also has its quieter and more drone oriented moments, and can be quite introspective at times, as in Henry Lee, Stop Counting, Your Time and the acoustic percussion and guitar swells of Sinker. The bonus track Codebreaker is a syncopated keyboard, guitar arpeggio and electronic percussion pattern study.
I think my only criticism of Anchor is that Zammuto might consider exploring some longer form works. Peculiar and energetic always work for me.
The limited edition deluxe LP with silkscreen print cover
Photos are courtesy of Zammuto's website, but I participated in the campaign and got myself a deluxe LP.
Harold Budd – Jane 12-21
CD: Darla DRL289 2014 Time: About 39 minutes
CD available at this link to Darla (To be released on September 9, 2014)
Tracks: Jane 12 through Jane 21 with track Jane 16 subtitled (For Pale Saints)
I took some time off from writing reviews; primarily to just take some time off, but also I have been awaiting preorders for a number of releases as well as getting more serious about making some music instead of just listening. It's a hard road training old fingers to do new things, but it's about the journey for me, not just the destination.
What a treat it is to return to a new album by Harold Budd (and I understand that another collaboration with Robin Guthrie has been recorded and will be released in early 2015, the title will be Another Flower). Jane 12-21 is another fine example of Harold Budd sitting at a piano (or other instrument) and just playing without rehearsal or embellishment, one take without revisiting and then moving on. There are some apparent treatments and minimal overdubs. It's difficult for me to tell if the percussion is actual or keyboard-based sampling, but it does sound like actual percussion most of the time.
This album is simpler and less adventurous compared to Jane 1-11, and that's not a criticism at all, just an observation. The cover design is also rather stark by comparison, with one panel by artist Jane Maru and minimal information about the tracks, recording and times, adding a bit to the somewhat mysterious nature of the album. Jane 1-11 was created in response to videos created by artist Jane Maru (which were later released as a companion CD/DVD: Budd Maru Collaboration ) so without the benefit of input from Harold Budd (so far), I wonder if Jane 12-21 was created as a response to further videos by Maru (see video for Jane 8 below).
The album contrasts between recordings that are intimate and those which are spatially broad, more distant (whether the distance and reverberation were achieved with actual spaces or electronically, I don't know). To briefly describe each of the tracks on the album: Jane 12 is a stark and up-close, yet resonant piano with brief references to Debussy's Clair de Lune. Jane 13 also uses a piano with light melodic percussion. After the first two tracks Budd moves to more experimental territory and Jane 14 consists of melodic percussion (bells, glasses) with reverb and has a very calming effect. Distance, like a dream on the edge of consciousness is how Jane 15 sounds, with hushed piano and a spatial reverb. Whether intentional or not, I do find some of the pieces referring back to other previous Jane 1-11 pieces. Jane 16 does this for me—reminds me of Jane 8. It's placid keyboard chords with gentle piano accompaniment and minimal apparent treatments. The piano is responding to the chord movement of the keyboard.
Air moving through pipes is how Jane 17 starts, it's a strong sound with treated piano and minimal percussion, and a pronounced flow and movement. Jane 18 bends and twists with a somewhat downcast sonorous keyboard. The melodic references to the first Jane series return with Jane 19, again keyboard and resonant chimes. It sounds a bit more reflective to me with shades of Budd's earlier work.
Jane 20 has a breathy keyboard melody, somewhere between wind chimes and woodwinds along with a gamelan (at times sounding like vibraphone) and deep percussive overtones. This track more than any other in the series evokes a scene from a film with a vast landscape of mystery. Budd closes this collection with Jane 21, a modest and delicately resonant cross between piano and celeste and themes appearing in various other Jane tracks, making it part of the larger cohesive whole.
Harold Budd's work takes me to a place where I like to be, and return there as often as I can. I think you'll want to add this album to your collection.
Miguel Isaza – Levedad
CDr éter-06 Time: 38:42 Edition of 70
Tracks: 1) Pneuma, 2) Infraleve, 3) Indeleble, 4) Transparencia, 5) Levedad, 6) Gravedad
Links: http://eterlab.bandcamp.com/album/levedad, http://miguelisaza.com/
Label: http://eter-lab.net/en/eter06/, http://eter-lab.net/en/, https://soundcloud.com/eterlab
I listened to Levedad a few times and instead of immediately formulating thoughts about it, I moved on to some other activities allowing the impressions to coalesce in my subconscious. A day later I listened again and found myself thinking about cosmology, and the mystery that we cannot see or explain approximately 95% of the mass and energy in our Universe—what has come to be known as: Dark Matter and Dark Energy. It's a conundrum of knowing that something is there out there, but not knowing what exactly it is.
Although I have no expertise in astrophysics, I have read some of Stephen Hawking's and Carl Sagan's works. Why I had this macro-scale reaction to Levedad, I'm not sure. By sharp contrast, there's also a micro scale parallel as in the communications between (nerve) cells, the electrical impulses that pass via dendrites and synapses (which we KNOW to exist and have been observed in real-time using powerful laser and electron microscopy). And what of the 5% of the Universe that we can describe, see and hear?
In this album I think I would equate the tangible 5% of the Universe to the micro-sounds that populate the sonic ether throughout the six pieces on this album…like the flash of a small meteor that almost fools the eye when it disappears as quickly as it appears, the electrical pulses of a distant quasar captured with a radio telescope or the intensive shimmering ribbons of an aurora borealis. The vast remaining aura of sound is the indescribable and unknown.
Miguel Isaza studies sound and philosophy and conducts cross-disciplinary research on listening. His work includes composing, exhibit installations, performance, visual art (including computer generated images) and research. Isaza explores the relationship between creators, educators and students with workshops, talks and publications as well as creating, recording and producing music. He works with museums, academic institutions and on web-based projects. He co-founded the Éter label along with Alejandro Henao in Medellín, Colombia and also runs the Monofónicos, Invisible Valley and Sonic Terrain music labels.
Levelad is a series of micro-montages that are akin to the recent long exposure Hubble Deep Field images of a fraction of our visible night sky. The longer the time of the exposure the greater the detail that is revealed and the further back in time one travels visually; like letting one's eye adjust to the dark and eventually more stars appear in the dome of the sky.
In my brief e-mail correspondence with Isaza, I asked if there are any underlying concepts for the album, and he had a reply that was curiously similar to my impressions (after I had already listened to the album and formulated my opinions):
"The work has for me a sense of nothingness, inspired on thin, delicate and suspended activity of bodies…"
So my reaction to the album, I have concluded, is plausible in the broadest sense. The album has varied textures and moments of contrast from crystalline (almost piercing) individual tones to broad and intense walls of sound. There are some recurrent sounds and themes giving a sense of familiarity within the largely ethereal sound-scape. It's my opinion that the aura of two of the latter tracks (Transparencia and the title track Levedad) somewhat belie their titles, but that in no way diminishes the listening experience. Perhaps they were titled with a somewhat Duchamp-esque irony.
Pneuma (roughly translates to a vital spirit or creative force) opens the album with a vibrant clarity. It begins in relative silence and then merges into sonorous glassy environs, and moves briefly into cavernous and buzzing electric depths. Infraleve gives the impression of being nearby an audio jet-stream with micro-sounds and other sonic activity dancing below and in front of the high and fast-moving heavens. There is somberness in Indeleble, as if evoking a distant memory during a passage of time. In contrast to the jet-stream of Infraleve there is a feeling of an almost brooding undercurrent.
As noted above, and despite the title, there is a broad three-dimensional frontal density to Transparencia. It meanders a bit with the faintest sounds of distant voices. For me, Levelad (lightness) is ever so slightly referential, sounding mildly like the Opening Titles and backgrounds to the soundtrack of the film Bladerunner where Deckard is reviewing surveillance photos, which is followed by the Blush Response segment. Eventually a layered drone blends into the piece, but is delicately penetrated with avian sounds of an outdoor environment. Gravedad is appropriately grounded and has familiar sounds of nature, perhaps marking a return from the exploration of the unknown.
Enjoy the flight.
Hallock Hill – Kosloff Mansion
Hundred Acre Recordings HA06: 12" LP (copy 18/40 signed, 200 total LPs & digital download)
Label: http://www.hundredacrerecordings.com/ Arrangement and production by Tim Noble
Hallock Hill Website: http://hallockhill.com/
Tracks: Side A: 1) I Light The Lamp And Sit Down, 2) The Good Dead, 3) The People Without Tears, 4) Death Was A Bird, 5) Villages Of The Black Earth, 6) A Secret It Remains, 7) Another Light; Side B: 1) Workbench Atheist, 2) Demons In The Birchwood, 3) Farewell, Pale Corpse Of Many Sins, 4) The Immortalisation Commission, 5) We Looked For You For 52 Years, 6) Massed Bands And Megaphones
Ask a person cold about a particular moment in time and the recall on specifics might not be immediate or complete, but drop a needle on an LP or press play on a CD and the instant the music starts (even if it has been unheard for 30+ years) that same person's recollection of a memory could be lucid, with the place, time and circumstances remembered in vivid detail. Music is often a key that unlocks chambers in a memory palace. While not necessarily as far back as 30 years, there are moments while listening to Kosloff Mansion that visions of the past coalesce and the aura of the album further enhances that experience. Perhaps Tom Lecky had different intentions from my own experience for the inspiration of his fourth album, but that's the power of music when combined with synapses, dendrites, proteins and whatever…
I often associate the works of HH's with layered compositions for acoustic and electric guitar (as in the albums The Union or A Hem of Evening), but this LP is mostly rooted in solo piano with production and treatments by collaborator Tim Noble (of The Lowland Hundred). It's hard to know where Noble's contributions specifically appear, but I think of Lecky's work as being mostly austere, without apparent structure at times, although intricately layered (some juxtapositions being left to chance). I was fortunate to have ordered this LP early enough to obtain a copy signed by Lecky and Noble, along with a hand written short poem by TL.
Kosloff Mansion starts gently, like the rising Sun with beams of light reaching into the morning, or rather, a candle's flame penetrating the darkness. It could be an unhurried day or evening in a cabin in the woods, just sitting contemplating nothing (or everything) and listening without distraction—the types of moments of which we need more. Briefly, a storm interrupts in The Good Dead and this triggers the vision of a very late night deep in the Adirondacks (of New York) with lightning and thunder that a (then) very young son wanted to end, but I wanted (privately) to continue, to hear the storm echoing through the mountains. With assurances that the storm was increasingly distant, there was comfort enough for the younger to sleep and so the elder could continue listening and pondering that particular night before a loon emerged and greeted the dawn.
Instrumentation sometimes changes from solo piano to bells, or perhaps it's a celeste, but they fit while shifting with the breezes, moonlight and stars reflecting in the lake of the vision. A Secret It Remains blends liquid and tones before landing in the austerity of Another Light with only hints of ominous strings rolling in on an imaginary tide of a lurking then emerging spirit…before fading.
Workbench Atheist seems to be more of the morning; soft music with a light rain or is it the creaking of an ancient wood floor? Demons In The Birchwood is a darker, but livelier spirit and the celeste returns with a deeper Leslie-esque treatment, before merging into a wraith-like Farewell, Pale Corpse Of Many Sins, which at times is unsettling yet ironically at peace. A reverie is freed to peregrinate in The Immortalisation Commission and it builds to a crescendo and then gently disperses. There is a firm perseverance in We Looked For You For 52 Years, a feeling of reverence is also present. Massed Bands And Megaphones punctuates Kosloff Mansion with a blend of a celebratory whimsy and sounds reminiscent of fireworks echoing in the distance.
At times Kosloff Mansion is mysterious, yet halcyon moments come forth and while different in sound and instrumentation from his previous works, it's very much rooted in what I have come to appreciate in Lecky's work—a really brilliant and different kind of music experience.
Added bonus! Hallock Hill live on WFMU, along with Tim Noble (HH segment starts at about 30:00, but enjoy the entire show!): http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/55533
Peaceful Wrath – Fields
Label: Whispered CD WR001CD Limited to 500 hand-numbered copies Time: 36:54
Available at: http://whisperedlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fields
Tracks: 1) Cristaline (Flux), 2) Copper Traces, 3) Elements, 4) Archaique, 5) Rubis, 6) Pudgala, 7) Myth, 8) Canvas, 9) Cristaline (Reflux)
Fields is the first album to be released by the Whispered label and opens with a solo piano and the sounds of a distant shore. The music is from the imagination of Stéphane Vandezande in his guise as the Peaceful Wrath, and the work is part minimalist and part chamber orchestra along with delicate electronic and environmental treatments. The spirit is somber at times, as in Cristaline, but can change quickly to be playfully furtive like in the track Elements.
One moment, the music appears to be from a discreet scene from an imaginary film (as in Pudgala) whereas at others it depicts a broad conceptual sonic portrait, much like in the track Rubis. The presentation of the compositions is never brash, but the starkest of tracks can be the most powerful, even more so than those more broadly orchestrated (in a way, the power of silence). In Copper Traces, Vandezande also plays with rhythm and syncopation and has elements similar to Johannes Schmoelling's solo oeuvre. There are also brief moments of humor in the variety of the orchestration in Elements and I was instantly reminded of Eno Moebius Roedelius's 1978 album After The Heat.
Voices also appear like momentary distractions in dreams, but are gentle enough to allow a return to the comfort of the music; this occurs in Myth as it advances cautiously from solo piano to cello and then bass (or treated synth) and then into a section of chamber music, which quickens rhythmically. It's one of my favorite pieces on the album. Canvas shimmers, rumbles a bit and even growls before the "reflux" of Cristaline. Vandezande notes that Fields was recorded under rainy skies in Brussels and in a small village in the French countryside, and he recommends as companions, "…a log on the fire and a nice cup of hot chocolate…"; sounds like an excellent idea, and I can also attest that it works well on warm sunny days too, a very nice listen with beautiful cover artwork.
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Orbit Over Luna – Transit
Label: http://polarseasrecordings.com/ Artist: http://orbitoverluna.com/
Available at: http://polarseasrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/transit
Polar Seas Recordings PSR-007: CD-R Limited to 50 (Time: 64:02) with hand stamped numbered envelope, 8 page booklet and unique numbered art card by Shannon Penner. Review copy is 35/50. Album is also available as a digital download, but the first seven tracks only.
Tracks: 1) The Breathing of Roots, 2) Saturnine, 3) Chambers of the Sea, 4) Sungazing, 5) Ylla, 6) Un Jardin Des Cieux, 7) In The Decay of Shadows, Bonus CD tracks: 8) Equinox, 9) In The Decay of Shadows (Piano)
It's all a matter of relative perception…a transit at sea, in the sky or on land and the paradox of experiencing the direct speed of travel from within or observing from afar a celestial body in space, a vehicle on land or a jet in the sky moving very slowly, when in reality in it could be traveling hundreds or even thousand of miles per hour. Time can seem to stand still…
Shannon Penner is Orbit Over Luna and he is an animator, sound designer, composer and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto, Canada. His work draws from many influences and instrumentation in his work varies, but it's primarily guitar-based (often with ample reverb) with select moments of piano.
Penner's album Transit is both about being in the moment and observing from afar while experiencing the sense of movement on land, at sea or in air (or perhaps even floating in space). The album is quite serene and comforting, but it holds one's attention weaving through a variety of sonic territories. I compare the album (as much as I like the competitive side of sailing) to spending a delightful afternoon on a sailboat in the warm sunshine with gentle breezes and my hand occasionally creating a gentle wake in the water.
The Breathing of Roots announces what follows almost like a distant fog horn at dawn, to gently nudge one's attention that it's time for a journey. Saturnine seems a bit of a misnomer, because rather than being gloomy, it's a slow drift on that boat (and not in the doldrums) allowing the distractions of the world to dissolve and to focus instead on the gentle and calming movement…a languid afternoon on the water.
I've read Shannon Penner's oeuvre being compared to a number of different musicians, but the closest for me is the work of Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins) and in particular his trilogy of recent EPs entitled Angel Falls, Songs To Help My Children Sleep and Sunflower Stories. Penner's work, however, is not as rhythmic or melodic when compared to Guthrie's; instead it focuses more on atmospheric imagery. Throughout the album there are occasional broad wave motions that yield gossamers of a tangible melody, but it's the exception rather than the rule. In The Decay of Shadows, which follows the transit of the Sun in the sky, has a minimal and complementary piano melody to the guitar chords that emerges and disappears gently like shadows created from clouds passing across the sky until the Sun sets below the horizon (one of the bonus pieces is the isolated piano track).
Sungazing has moments of distorted guitar as if shielding one's eyes from the Sun's glare and as a more comfortable view emerges the sound clarifies and the panorama of the landscape comes into focus. Ylla is a celestial passage and it makes me wonder if it's a nod to one of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles of the same name. And the farthest and most ethereal transit of all is in Un Jardin Des Cieux (The Garden of Heaven). In The Decay of Shadows is the postlude to the album, but there are two bonus tracks on the CD, the first is Equinox, the two points in our year on Earth where we travel about the Sun and where day equals night, before summer or winter, as we pass through time…and the older we are the shorter our relative perception of time becomes.
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Pjusk / Sleep Orchestra – Drowning In The Sky
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Tracks: 1) Donitsk, 2) Daithn, 3) Skdiv, 4) Aoleeignal, 5) Rionzemef, 6) Vansunbarth, 7) Pleq Remix of Rionzemef
I've been a bit out of the loop with Dronarivm label releases for the last six months or so, but one of their new albums caught my ears—the collaboration with Pjusk and Sleep Orchestra.
Drowning In The Sky initially strikes close to home in its sound aura since we are just emerging from a VERY long winter here in the northeast USA. Pjusk's (Rune Andre Sagevik and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik) music is often rooted in their Norwegian locale being inspired by weather, landscape and nature and Sleep Orchestra's work (as noted by Christopher Pegg) is often influenced by science fiction or imaginary soundtracks to "…movies in your head…"
From what I have heard of their prior respective works, I wouldn't have necessarily thought that their musical styles would merge comfortably, but after listening to Drowning In The Sky the combination works quite well. The album does indeed seem very much like a soundtrack to a short film of an imagined journey that starts in a stark and harsh landscape of wind, snow and ice—not exactly a comforting place to be, but the solitude brings a focused awareness of the surroundings (Donitsk). Eventually the scenes change and there is a transformation from an outdoor landscape into more industrial and metallic-sounding scenes (Daithn) with sporadic rhythms. Taut and glitchy beats emerge and then there are layers of cavernous spaces, like giant shipyards or factories with remote gantry cranes (Skdiv), sharpened with a solo trumpet.
In time the scenes are darker (Aoleeignal), although still quite spatial with sounds dancing within the mix, and there is a strong visceral undercurrent and an increased sense of motion. There is a return to an outdoor environment: water and wind in Rionzemef and an auditory sense of being in a vehicle of some sort (a large truck, train or ship perhaps) while experiencing a storm and pulsing undercurrent from outside the vehicle. The environment, despite being a long way from the desolation of an Arctic plain continues to intrude into the soundscape and at a windshield or porthole…or in the mind. Vansunbarth appears to be the arrival at the imaginary destination, where furtive sounds move quickly, muffled announcements, signals ring and footfall moves in a foggy haze, disorienting as if being awakened suddenly from a traveling slumber.
The album is a journey of contrasts, from the far reaches of harsh yet pristine tundra to the gritty environs of an industrial zone, from desolation and isolation to population. Pleq's remix of Rionzemef gently sways and is more hypnotic and comforting than the original track.
A historical comparison: Drowning starts off being quite similar to Envangelos Papathanassiou's chilling soundtrack to the film Antarctica and ends up more in a post-apocalyptic and highly cinematic realm of Bladerunner. Also of note, (and I always prefer a physical release to digital) Dronarivm has changed their CD sleeve to a quite effective recyclable folded heavy cardstock slide-out package; my only comment would be to ask that the inner portion slides out another centimeter farther for easier access to the CD.
twincities – variations for the celesta
Eilean: [02] – Eilean Records: CD-R (an edition of 80) Time 48:16
Tracks: 1) Prelude in E Major, 2) Evenings Wait; The Morning's Break, 3) Early Ferns, 4) The Sun Looks Quite Ghostly When There's A Mist On The River And Everything's Quiet, 5) Faint Whirs Of The Smallest Motor, 6) They Carried Teapots And Tiny Gas Canisters, 7) A Ship's Bell (Sings), 8) The Weight Of The Frost On A Branch, 9) And The Guitar Plays War Hymns, 10) (Sings)
Long ago I found myself curiously attracted to an old celesta (celeste) in the back corner of my high school band room. I'd plug it in when I was sure that no one was around and adjust the controls and the small piano-like instrument made pleasantly sonorous yet mysterious sounds: belltones with alluring sustains and tremolos…
Eilean Records is a new French-based label run by Mathias Van Eecloo and twincities – variations for the celesta is the label's first release (although ironically labeled [02]). Long Islander (New York) Fletcher McDermott creates music in his basement studio in the guise of twincities (funny, when I think of "Twin Cities" I think of Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota).
Eilean is Scottish Gaelic for Island and the label's works will each relate to a point on an imaginary map with up to one hundred predetermined locations. Coincidentally, McDermott lives on an island (albeit a rather large island). Eilean releases will vary in quantities from 75 to 200 physical copies and there will be up to 100 releases with hand made covers and related artwork in this map series. Connections to the place where the music is created will be memorialized with an image of a small bottle containing the soil from the musician's locale. On the reverse of the image with be the map quadrant assigned to the musician. Each release will be a part of the puzzle of the overall map…the music connected to the artist, a point on the map and a small vial of soil. In effect, an imaginary hybrid island with a small yet tangible existence. Islands of the imagination, islands of the mind, perhaps even islands of isolation. Have any of you ever read the short story The Man Who Loved Islands by D. H. Lawrence?
I've noted before that I've listened to shortwave and ham radio operators for decades and in some respects this album is like roaming the radio dial late into the night on an old analog shortwave set using the fine-tuning knob. The music is like traveling and it takes the listener to different places. The feeling of being taken on a tour through a shortwave realm isn't literal like in Kraftwerk's song Radioland (from their 1975 album Radioactivity), rather it's more subtle in the background and doesn't distract from the aura created by the music and other sounds. The album at times also evokes Godley and Creme's song Get Well Soon from the 1979 album Freeze Frame (waxing rhapsodically about Radio Luxembourg and Radio Caroline late into the night), although that song is more melodic. The celesta isn't the dominant sound generator in this album, but each piece has a strong thread weaving throughout along with other well-disguised instrumentation, found or ambient sounds and faint voices. Rather than repeat the track names, I'll just reference the track number in my overview:
1) variations opens with rapid-fire automated Morse code, soothed with slow comforting celesta responses. 2) The celesta is transformed into restful wind chimes with long passages of deep resonant tones and distant faint melodies. There are some comparisons to the recent works of Kane Ikin's otherworldly explorations (seek out his recent 12k label releases). 3) Is like hanging on the edge of a dream while awakening in the misty early morning light—the calm and the quietude. The celesta treatment is like it could be from portions of the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet—rather mysterious, almost ominous.
4-7) This collection of tracks seems like a suite, at first sonorous, gentle and deep tones and mysterious atmospheres (in time, a slower Morse code reappears), transitioning into an edgier realm (6) and finishing in a gritty drift across the radio dial, sharper sounds with kalimba-like percussives. 8) Sways gently and is the most peaceful track on the album. It evokes some of the feeling of Robert Rich's recent album Nest. 9) This piece is a broad soundscape (in some respects like those created by the band Lambchop as links between songs…William Tyler's moody electric guitar drones). The celesta is treated like chimes sounding like church bells, in memoriam. 10) A gritty close, like the beginning, and the distant music returns one last time from a far away island.
Eilean Records is off to a fine start with twincities variation for the celesta. Visit their website soon for the next planned destination which will be released on 5/5/14 and monthly thereafter.
Photo of twincities by TJ Boegle
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Nicholas Szczepanik – Not Knowing
CD TANGENT001 Time: 52:56
Label: http://www.desirepathrecordings.com/ Artist: http://www.nszcz.com/
Auditioning long form musical works take time and with the many modern distractions it's often difficult to dedicate an extended period to focused listening, but for Not Knowing I think you'll want to make the time (especially if you are familiar with Nicholas Szczepanik's previous work such as Please Stop Loving Me). In fact, if one is in the right frame of mind (like in a state of meditation, self-hypnosis or deep relaxation) the sense of time is often compressed, and one wonders ultimately where the time has gone.
This piece was originally available in a shorter version on the limited 12 part release CD3 series Ante Algo Azul from 2011, and it was a favorite of mine back then. So, I was delighted to hear that an extended version would be released by Desire Path Recordings as part of their new Tangent series.
I liken Not Knowing, which is different in form and sound from PSLM, to a dream sequence in roughly four parts, although there are threads of sound that keep the piece connected throughout. The first 12 minutes or so is a deeply pulsed and hypnotic mediation that brings one to where memories and dreams might become lucid, but still out of tangible reach. It's at this point where an imagined orchestra appears from the ether and it flows. Is it a literal sample of another piece or is it combined with electronics? It appears like unresolved memories in a dream. I can hear chords of Elgar…wait, then Dvorak…but wait, there's the flow of Debussy, a sleight of hand used by other composers, hiding themes from elsewhere, leaving the brain to search for a source, and the sound is ethereal and uplifting (dare I say even heavenly for the non-believers?).
Then the music and perceived vision seems to drift out of reach and almost dissolves. At the point in a dream when one loses touch, but wants to return to the visions, and then the melodies and harmonies arrive again, but in a shrouded form with layers of choral vocals. And within this new realm the piece moves into a less recognizable and deeper unknown territory before gently returning to the original sonic thread, albeit in an altered and transitional chordal-tone state and ultimately the arrival back into the warmth of the visceral pulses.
Although quite different in presentation and instrumentation, I compare the journey in this album to that of some other favorites of mine like Vangelis Papathanasiou's Rêve from the album Opéra Sauvage and Tangerine Dream's Desert Dream from their double live album Encore. The development and sound architecture of the piece is clearly influenced by the works of French electronic composer Éliane Radigue, to whom Szczepanik dedicates the album.


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Deputies Arrest Canyon Country Man Suspected of Burglaries, Vandalism
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Castaic Elementary Rummage Sale Raises $1,250 For Damaged Classroom
A month after Castaic Elementary School's music classroom was vandalized, parents and students came together for a rummage sale on Saturday, raising $1,250 towards the school's music program to help cover some of the damage.Read More »
Castaic Middle School: Attempted Arson, Vandalism Being Investigated
Castaic Middle School was hit with vandalism and what appears to be attempted arson between Saturday evening and Monday morning. It is the third case of vandalism to hit the Castaic Union School District since Dec. 23.Read More »
Castaic Union School District Vandalism Causes $6,300 In Damage
The Castaic Union School District bus yard was hit with an incident of vandalism and theft, just three weeks after the incident of vandalism at Castaic Elementary. District officials discovered on Jan. 13 that tires had been removed from five buses.Read More »
Castaic Elementary Students Raise Money For Vandalized Classroom
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BSN in another Degree to a Masters in Nursing - page 2
I am in nursing school and will receive my ADN. I do however already have a BSN in another field of study and was told by my nursing director that I could use that BSN and study to get my Masters Degree in Nursing. Is this true... Read More
- 1Aug 27, '07 by llg GuideQuote from Silly1Yes, if there is a "Master's level entry program" near you. However, not all schools offer all options. There are some that offer people with BS's in other fields to start nursing school at the graduate level. You would have to explore the options offered by the schools in your area -- or do a nationwide search and be willing to move to where the program of your choice is located.llg,
I am just completing my first term for the ADN program. Is it possible that I could have started a nursing program under the MSN degree from the beginning with no prior nursing education or experience?


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With the return of the clock, the renovation of the courthouse will be complete
When I was a child growing up on South Lamar, a little way before you got today's Highway 6 bypass, I first lived at my grandfather's home and you could hear the hourly ringing of the town clock while sitting on the front porch. Later on, my mother moved my sisters and I a little closer to the Square on South Lamar just south of where Johnson Avenue comes into South Lamar. The chiming of the clock was even more audible.
It has been way too long since any of us has heard the clock strike any sort of sound. (August 13, 2010, Page 3B)
Cause for celebration: A church building stands for 150 years
This Fourth of July weekend, St. Peter's Episcopal Church invites the citizens of Oxford and Lafayette County to attend a celebration of their 150 years in their church building located on the corner of Jackson Avenue and North 9th Street. (July 1, 2010, Page 6B)
University High School 2010 grand reunion
This weekend is the seventh grand reunion for the Oxford kids who attended University High School. This includes the classes from 1930 to 1967 who attended high school in the building built in 1929 on University Avenue just before you reach the Hilgard Cut on the University of Mississippi campus. (June 25, 2010, Page 2B)
Stark Young: Oxford's other early well-known author
In the fall of 1907, when the University of Texas lured Stark Young away from Oxford, William Faulkner had not risen to fame as Oxford's well-known author of the first half of the 20th century. Neither had Young been recognized as an author, playwright or drama critic.
Their time was yet to come. (June 18, 2010, Page 3B)
Stark Young's days at the Walton Young Home
One of the most distinguished graduates of the University of Mississippi was also a resident of Oxford.
Although Stark Young was born in Como, he would later move with his family to Oxford. Young was born in 1881 and in 1890 his mother died. A few years later, his father, also a graduate of Ole Miss, would remarry and move to Oxford. (June 11, 2010, Page 3B)
The first Yankees on the Ole Miss Campus
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was making his first of three attempts to capture Vicksburg. This attempt would be over land from Tennessee after the Battle of Shiloh. He was following the railroad line that ran from Jackson, Tenn., to Holly Springs and then connected at Grenada with a line that ran from Memphis to Jackson. (June 4, 2010, Page 3B)
Yankees plunder Oxford
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant learned that his army could live off the land when he attempted his first capture in 1862 of the Gibraltar of the South in Vicksburg, after the Battle of Shiloh. This was significant for the citizens of Oxford and Lafayette County. His troops would plunder the homes and farms around Oxford for not only food supplies but also for personal items. (May 28, 2010, Page 3B)
Oxford-Lafayette County Jail – another lost building
Last week a decision was made by the Oxford Square Historic Preservation Committee to allow an 1895 building to be removed from 1006 Jefferson Ave. Hitsorian Jack Mayfield writes about another building in the district that was lost to the community — Oxford-Lafayette County Jail. (May 21, 2010, Page 3B)
First UM commencement didn't have graduating class
Oxford and Ole Miss historian Jack Lamar Mayfield, in honor of this week's graduation at the University of Mississippi, takes a look back at the school's first commencement exercises in 1849, a commencement without any graduates from the new school. (May 7, 2010, Page 2B)
Celebrating Jacob Thompson's 200th birthday
Oxford and Ole Miss historian Jack Lamar Mayfield takes a look at the accomplishments of one of Oxford's most distinguished citizens, Jacob Thompson as the University Museum, the city of Oxford and the Oxford-Lafayette County Heritage Foundation gets set to celebrate Thompson's birthday with a special event on May 11. (April 30, 2010, Page 2B)


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Your front-row seat for the best of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013 collections:
I have so many questions about this.
To start with, does anyone actually wear these creations? I did like a lot of them, in particular some by Anna Sui, Tory and Burch, and Donna Karan, but some of them are just so outlandish I can't imagine anyone wearing them.
Some of the models are so thin, their bones are sticking out. How can anyone think that is attractive, or think the clothes in any way look better on someone who looks like they might keel over at any second.
Why do they all look SO angry? I mean, seriously, if looks could kill... They're not just not smiling, they look really mad. Why can't they smile and look happy to be in their clothes?


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Tom Durkin: Choice of another white man for U.S. attorney raises questions about selection process
BY Tom Durkin March 22, 2013 8:02PM
*** KEYWORDS: COOK COUNTY COURTS BUILDING, TUESDAY, CHICAGO, JEFFERSON TAP, POLICE OFFICERS, VERDICT *** 04-28-09 Cook County Courts Building, 26th and California, Chicago - Police officer Paul Powers, right, listens as attorney Lori Lightfoot describes her thoughts on the verdict at the Cook County Courts building. John J. Kim ~ Sun-Times
Updated: April 25, 2013 6:46AM
Last week's press leak that the Obama administration has settled on Zach Fardon as its choice to replace Patrick Fitzgerald as the next U.S. attorney in Chicago raises larger questions — not about Fardon, but about those in the selection process who made the decision to continue the uninterrupted 158-year run of white male U.S. attorneys by not nominating the other finalist, Lori Lightfoot, a well qualified African-American woman
Chicago has any number of lawyers who were eminently qualified to fill the position Sen. Peter Fitzgerald unnecessarily felt compelled to fill with an outsider in his 2001 selection of Patrick Fitzgerald. The candidates who cleared Sen. Dick Durbin's screening committee this time comprised as impressive a list of lawyers as could be found anywhere in the country.
Of the four finalists named in December, each was a former federal prosecutor with established credentials. Any one of the four would have been a good choice to fill Patrick Fitzgerald's big, but not irreplaceable, shoes. So we have known for some time now that the office would remain in good hands.
But that is hardly the only issue. Now, 21 of the country's 93 U.S. attorneys are women. The glass ceiling has long been broken in many of the major metropolitan U.S. attorney's offices, such as New York City, Boston, Detroit, San Francisco and San Diego. Nor has this breakthrough been limited to traditionally blue states. Women have made it in such red states as Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Nebraska, Texas and Arizona.
This is where the Obama administration's pass on Lightfoot becomes unsettling and raises far bigger questions than simply whether Fardon is a highly qualified choice — which he most certainly is. How it is that from the countless talented female lawyers in Chicago, including the impressive number of talented women who have served as assistant U.S. attorneys, not one has ever been able to break through Chicago's patriarchal glass ceiling?
The spurning of Lightfoot unfortunately raises as well the ugly specter of race in a city that for all its diversity seems unable to surmount in its community relations and politics. The legal community in this town should have been forced to concede a long time ago that there are many qualified African-American lawyers, including a number of former and present African-American assistant U.S. attorneys — a number of whom are women — who merited a shot at the top job long before now. This is why lawyers who practice every day in the federal building and care about things like equality and the appearance of fairness — not incidental matters for a courthouse that sends a disproportionately large number of African Americans and minorities to prison — thought for sure the time had finally come for both an African American and a female in the appointment of Lightfoot.
Nor is it simply appearances at stake here. Forty years into the war on drugs, it continues mindlessly with its draconian sentences that most often disproportionately impact our minority communities. Yet the Chicago Police publicly wonders why it gets no inner-city neighborhood cooperation against the gangs that control the unabated flow of drugs.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently called for the next U.S. attorney to focus more on drugs and guns and less on corruption. That request ignores many law enforcement observations that the very increase in the alarming gang-related homicide rates is an unintended consequence of past federal strategy that dismantled the major gangs, splintering them into smaller, less disciplined and more violent factions.
The solution will never be simply more incarceration or more effective law enforcement. It will require leadership that can overcome the fear, suspicion and mistrust that the war on drugs has wrought minority communities.
For that purpose, diversity might well signal the very commonality needed for meaningful dialogue and engagement.
Tom Durkin, a Chicago lawyer, is a former assistant U.S. attorney.


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As population increases, animal souls are promoted to human before they are spiritually advanced enough in terms of impulse control, etc.: this shouldn't have happened, but karmic progression is automatic, after all--it's a force of nature. But the 'animalization' of humankind bodes ill for civilization.
No doubt the same goes for elves, dwarves, and so on.
Magical curses are rarely cast, as if cast on someone for fun or purely maliciously and the person cursed has not done something seriously wrong, it tends to ricochet back on the curser. Therefore the few who do get cursed are shunned by most people as genuinely guilty,and few will help them.
Chekov's Spell -- This spell has a two-fold effect. The first is to make the target item almost-unnoticeable to anyone not specifically looking for it. The second is that someone who has seen the item will remember it when they encounter a situation that would be perfectly solved by use of said item.
The words of a wedding vow contain a strong love spell which enchants both the people who says it, so they will allways be deeply in love with each other.
Little halflings are told that if they don't behave, a demon called Santa Claus from a hell of ice will kidnap them and force them to toil making toys.
What if a invisible person could see other invisible creatures? All you would need to do to check for nasties hiding around is turn invisible.
Imagine that all the humanoid and demi-human laguages are actually the same, but pronounced with outrageous accents and bizarre idiom. All the elves have a French accent, all the Dwarves have Swedish, Dragons have a Pakistani accent...
Under the sewers of a large town ancient burial chambers are discovered. If the PCs investigate they fill find that a pale white flowers grows amongst the graves, in the dark.
How do they survive without light? What is their origin? Why in a burial chamber and not just in any old cave?
Can they be sold or do they have any special quality at all? It is up to the PCs to discover.
In ancient China, women bind their feet for cosmetic reasons, resulting in them not able to walk without help and walking in a shuffling gait.
Possibly this can be modified such that people do it for less stupid reasons.
Disclaimer: This is NOT a racist remark since I'm Chinese myself and hence entitled to freely judge Chinese customs. NOT sexist either since I'm female as well.


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Mix everything up in a gallon sized baggie that can be zipped up and stays fairly mess free. Dip the tags into the mixture and let them dry on paper towels for a few minutes.
Once dry, dry brush them with Jacquard's Lumiere in Metallic Silver to give them extra sheen. Adding paint to the tags also makes them more durable.
Use StazOn inks with script font stamp and little bird stamp to stamp toward the bottom of the tags.
Dry brushing some Neopaque paint around the edges of the tags adds a finishing touch.
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