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Radio By Mark Rahner
Seattle hasn't heard this much grunge since Kurt was alive and Courtney still had her first nose. Smells like an alternative radio battle. Nearly two months after format shake-ups at two local FM stations, each is predicting victory in a town they say can support just one, the radio industry is watching it all unfold in a trend-setting market, and we're suddenly exposed to more Nirvana than a Buddhist true believer. They're calling it a "dramatic adjustment" at KNDD (107.7) The End, says program director Phil Manning. At noon on Dec. 18, The End staff gathered in a conference room to hear Manning's announcement on the radio at the same time as every other listener: There would be a complete reinvention of the station that had been the alternative mainstay here for more than a dozen years. Less personality and yammering, and back to basics with the music that put this town on the map in the early '90s. More Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana. Less "third-generation Nirvana wannabes" and "dumb rock" like Limp Bizkit. Throw in more obscure cuts and artists atypical of a commercial station, with new and local material, and you get a format Manning's calling "iPod alternative. It's just kind of random. You never know what's going to come up next." The next day, Dec. 19, the staff of '80s station KYPT (96.5) The Point gathered in a meeting room for a similar announcement: They were henceforth working at KRQI K-Rock whose rotation would be heavy on the same alt classics but without the new/local stuff. That is, most of them were working there. A couple of jocks, says operations manager Mike Preston, "left because they were folks of a more adult-contemporary mode. Not every talent fits every format." So K-Rock adopted what Preston is just calling an "alternative" format (as opposed to "classic alternative" or its permutations) as well as a couple of The End's ex-jocks: Bill Reid and Andy Savage. The latter's Web site, www.andysavage.com, has for some time displayed the message, "Andy Savage and his morning show are busy listening to their new favorite Seattle radio station 96-5 K-ROCK." Preston confirms that Savage starts in April, after his non-compete agreement expires. What about the proximity and causality of two adjustments? Depends on who's answering the question. First Preston: "Our sense is they were very scared. We think they knew that we had Andy Savage. He was their morning show, and since he's left the air, things have kind of dimmed there. I think they kind of wanted to do whatever they could to dilute whatever impact he might have."
(Entercom-owned KNDD ranks 14th tied with KISW compared with a tie for seventh place overall in spring 2002. Infinity's KYPT is 21st, down from 18th place at the same time. "It wasn't a secret that the station had been struggling," Preston says.)
The only on-air casualty at The End, by the way, was the Marconi show. Imported from Portland, it lasted a scant 37 broadcasts. It was nothing they did and they didn't draw a landslide of complaints, Manning and Keller insist; their shtick just didn't fit the new ideology. "Do you like fart jokes? Do you like fat jokes? Do you like base humor?" Manning asks. For that matter, he adds that Savage wouldn't have fit anymore, either. (Though leaving when his contract ran out in September was Savage's idea.) Manning says he's developing a "different kind of morning show" but won't elaborate. Meanwhile, what you're not hearing anymore out of The End is as notable as what you are hearing: No more DJs talking over the music. No more quick-cut maniacal production style. "We've taken our voice guy from snowboarder to skier," Manning says. "DJs are not allowed to mention any major record-label name. Nobody's a customer to a label, they're a customer to a band." There's a laundry list of broadcasting clichés outlawed with a $5 penalty per utterance: "before that," "preceding that," "at the beginning," "at the top," "at the top of the set," "in that set," "at the top of the hour," "coming up," "also in there," "single," "the latest single" ... and Manning adds, "If you're not Keith Jackson on college football day, you should never use the words 'kicking off.' " The net effect: End DJs have to think about what they're saying now. Thinking is hard. "I had to relearn a lot of the ways that I spoke and the way that I talked on the radio," says night-time guy Andrew Harms. "Music filled the gaps in dead air when you paused. Nothing is louder in the world than dead air. That was a total crutch." The on-air result is a refreshing and only occasionally irritating hybrid between an edgy college station and the other polished ones in the Entercom stable. Says Harms, "Previously we were a very slick radio station, very by-the-numbers, very produced, and the new focus of the station, that's not what we're meant to be. It's more natural." Management at both stations naturally claims that listener response has been overwhelmingly positive 90 percent at The End, by Manning's estimate, and 95 percent at K-Rock by Preston's. It won't be until the Arbitron winter ratings are released in April before anyone knows if those numbers are hyperbole. Meanwhile, even though Seattle is just the 14th-largest radio market, The End is a bellwether station, says Max Tolkoff, alternative editor at trade mag Radio & Records. "People around other radio stations still look at The End in Seattle as a station that breaks new music, so they want to see what they're playing. "The radio industry is like little ducks, lemmings," Tolkoff says. "KMET in L.A. was a heritage rock station that flipped to smooth jazz in 1988, and the next thing you know, smooth jazz was the format du jour. The industry has their eye on the station (KNDD), so if ratings look like they're good we might see ripples from it." An article in the latest Rolling Stone places The End in a "classic alternative" trend that kicked off (Note: $5 to Manning) in late 2002 on San Diego's KBZT. Tolkoff and Rolling Stone both point to another, less lofty, driving force: the beer industry, which is now aiming its ad money at older-demographic stations. Hence the grungy oldies. The End and K-Rock are both talking a bit of smack although since the arena is non-confrontational Seattle, there isn't likely to be a war like the one between "WKRP in Cincinnati" and its sitcom rival WPIG. "I'm sure there's a battle brewing, absolutely," Harms says. "It would surprise me greatly if there were two radio stations like this in a year. We're in a lot better position not to be boring in a month. We've been doing this for many, many years. People associate alternative music in Seattle with The End." Over at K-Rock, Preston repeats "War?" and laughs. "Yes, we are competing with them as well as several other stations. Our focus is on music that's broader-based, more heritage music." A year from now, Preston says, "I think we'll be providing a successful music product for folks." Tolkoff says the odds seem to favor KNDD. "The edge tends to go to the station that's been around the longest." But not so fast: "The End has performed a very, very risky maneuver here. Especially since they have now sent those hard-rockin' kids over to sister station KISW. If this gambit doesn't work, can they get those listeners back? Plus, Infinity never gives up easily, or soon. That's why it's hard to predict the ultimate outcome." In fact, he says, "Seattle has a long history of alternative, going back to KJET in the '80s. It may, in fact, be one of those few markets where two alternative stations can co-exist." On one of the front lines, aka Sonic Boom Records in Fremont, clerk Morgan Jones welcomes KNDD's shake-up. "I think that it's an improvement. I thought their format was kind of becoming too similar to other radio stations and further from what their original goal had been. They spent a lot of time with talk-radio kind of stuff. Music they were playing became a lot more standardized, more corporate in my opinion, like what MTV was doing." So what are customers saying? "Most customers listen to KEXP." Which isn't even a commercial station. So Nevermind. Mark Rahner: 206-464-8259 or email@example.com Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company More Entertainment & the Arts headlines |
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Opinion: March 2011
Don't misrepresent scientific progress
Max Wallis debunks Newton's apple
If the public is to engage with science, it must understand how science is done. Stories about the scientific discovery process need to show that many people contribute in scientific advances, following clues and making intuitive guesses, maybe chasing false trails.
The apple story
In 1752, William Stukeley published a biography of his friend, Sir Isaac Newton, which tells the famous story:
Max Wallis debunks Newton's apple
If the public is to engage with science, it must understand how science is done. Stories about the scientific discovery process need to show that many people contribute in scientific advances, following clues and making intuitive guesses, maybe chasing false trails.
The apple story
In 1752, William Stukeley published a biography of his friend, Sir Isaac Newton, which tells the famous story:
'Stukeley and Newton were sitting in the shade of some apple trees in Newton's garden in Kensington, when Newton recalled how his thoughts had turned to gravity.'
Stukeley's original manuscript in the Royal Society archives continues:
'He told me, he was just in the same situation, as when formerly, the notion of gravitation came to mind.
'Why should that apple always descend perpendicularly to the ground, thought he to himself; occasion'd by the fall of an apple, as he sat in a contemplative mood. Why should it not go sideways or upwards? but constantly towards the Earth's centre? Assuredly the reason is, that the earth draws it. There must be drawing power in matter... it must be in proportion of its quantity of matter.'
Poor choice
This tale of Newton's apple does not reflect how the theory of gravitation was actually established. It was a poor choice for promotion by the Royal Society, when they used it to launch the society's 350th anniversary in January 2010.
The extensive scholarship of Newton studies highlights an excellent opportunity to promote public understanding of the scientific process. Why characterise Newton as the unique discoverer of gravity, rather than show the vital role played by various Fellows and the arena for discussion and publication given by the Royal Society?
Historians of science are well aware that the Stukeley story is a myth.1
Background of ideas
Newton famously framed the principle of gravity in mathematical form in Principia, in 1687. This flowed from developing the concepts of dynamics and applying them to the solar system, over the previous decades.
Universal gravitation as an idea can be traced from Galileo's seeing, in 1610, Jupiter and its four moons circling the planet. Ten years before, Kepler had written, 'there is a force in the earth which causes the moon to move'. In 1659, Christiaan Huygens found that a body could move in a circle around a central force, using Descartes' dynamics. Robert Hooke investigated changes in gravity up mountains and down mines, while his study of lunar craters led him to write, in 1665, 'there is in the Moon a principle of gravitation, such as in the Earth'. In his Royal Society lecture 'On Gravity' of 21 March 1666, Hooke called gravitation 'one of the most Universall Active Principles in the World', and argued the Sun exerts an attractive force on all planets and comets that balances centrifugal force.
Hooke and Newton
Gravity as a solar system principle became a hot topic in the Royal Society. We know Hooke conjectured inverse square dependence (the mathematical formulation of the way gravitational force works) prior to disclosing this to Newton in correspondence in 1679. Newton's special contributions lay in showing a sphere acts like a point mass at its centre and to find mathematically that orbits are closed under an inverse square force.
It was evidently Hooke's challenge to relate Kepler orbits to the inverse square law that goaded Newton into writing his Principia.
How science progresses
This makes an excellent story to show the public how science progresses and to point out the Royal Society's key role in its first decade in establishing the theory of gravity.
Giving credence to the apple myth instead fosters the misunderstanding that science is discovered or advances through a few exceptional individuals.
1 Derek Djertsen (1986), The Newton Handbook, Routledge and Kegan Paul, section reproduced at www.sfu.ca/physics/ugrad/courses/teaching_resources/demoindex/mechanics/mech1l/apple.html
No place for food industries in healthier eating campaign
They are not suitable government partners, argues Christine Haigh
From our work with families around the country, we know that many people have found ideas from the Change4Life anti-obesity campaign1 really useful in helping them to adopt healthier lifestyles. But what has set alarm bells ringing is the increasing involvement of food companies in the campaign.
They are not suitable government partners, argues Christine Haigh
From our work with families around the country, we know that many people have found ideas from the Change4Life anti-obesity campaign1 really useful in helping them to adopt healthier lifestyles. But what has set alarm bells ringing is the increasing involvement of food companies in the campaign.
Members of Business4Life, 'a coalition of companies representing the food and drink, retail, media, advertising, fitness and health industries, which are partnering with government to support its Change4Life movement' include the soft drink industry (Britvic, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo), chocolate companies (Mars, Nestlé, and Cadbury – now owned by Kraft), a crisp manufacturer (Walkers are owned by PepsiCo) and an ice cream maker (Unilever produce Wall's and also own Ben & Jerry's).
Undermining messages
Exactly how enthusiastically are these companies going to encourage us to eat less of their best selling products? Or, more troubling, how effectively can they undermine Change4Life's key messages? Only last year, Change4Life partner Kellogg's ran an aggressive advertising campaign encouraging children to eat Coco Pops as an after-school snack. Never mind that Coco Pops are one-third sugar – somewhat contradicting Change4Life's encouragement for us to 'snack check' (limit snacks and switch to healthier choices) and make 'sugar swaps' (swap food and drink with added sugar for products that are lower in sugar or sugar-free).
Then, in October, it was revealed that Nestlé was breaching the campaign guidelines by using the Change4Life logo on a promotional website for sweets, chocolate and sugary cereals. It was hastily removed when it emerged that the Department of Health had approved its use in error. But it raises questions as to why the company ever thought that this was an appropriate use of the campaign's branding, since the guidelines clearly state that it must only be used where it supports 'desired changes in behaviour as regards diet'.
It's not hard to imagine why companies are so keen to be involved with Change4Life. The association generates a 'halo effect', giving them the appearance of being responsible whilst distracting from the elephant in the room: the real action that the food industry could take to help address the record levels of obesity that make theUKthe fattest inEurope. The food industry has fought any attempts at 'traffic light' nutritional labelling or regulation to protect children from their incessant marketing for junk food.
Discount vouchers
The latest phase of the campaign sees a change in the role of corporate partners.
Under the previous government, companies were seen as a means by which Change4Life could reach a greater audience – the lack of conditions on the involvement of the food industry represented a huge oversight. In the 'Great Swapathon', launched by the coalition government this January to capitalise on people's good intentions for a healthier New Year, corporate involvement is embedded as a key part of the strategy, with Change4Life partners providing discount vouchers on some of their products.
Of course vouchers and promotional offers are an effective form of marketing - and even more so when they come with a veneer of social responsibility. But our analysis has demonstrated that the companies involved would end up pocketing over twice the value of the discount vouchers were shoppers to redeem them. And more than half the value of the discount is available even without the vouchers. Here, the company involved is simply benefiting from additional advertising.
So why does the Children's Food Campaign, along with many other public health bodies, oppose food industry involvement in healthy eating campaigns? Because it undermines the campaign and distracts from real solutions.
Both the Department of Health and Unilever declined to write a response


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The Midnight Caviar Eye Liner comes by itself in a small mirrored compact. It's not a powder, more like a thick cream. The website says that they now pop out to go into the customizable 3- or 6-well compacts, but I bought mine before the redesign. Midnight is a dark blue. I think it looks very elegant and like to put this on when black would be too harsh and dark purple too trendy.
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We all know how crazy and aggressive people can be when it comes to sales. Add in the current economy crisis and you have fashionistas ready to battle it out for those shoes they've had their eye on for so long.
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The last two cities I've lived in--Ann Arbor and San Francisco--are chock full of Toyota Priuses whose drivers who are convinced they're saving the planet. Instead, they're driving me and everyone else positively bonkers with their egg-under-the-pedal, god-forbid-you-keep-up-with-traffic driving style. In an effort to somehow never force the gasoline engine to start, they'll crawl up the steep San Francisco hills at walking speed and coast down hills 10 mph below the speed limit. They often form three- or four-lane-wide moving roadblocks, none willing to pass the others, lest they give in to their repressed primal urge of wasting fossil fuel. None of them, apparently, has ever been stricken with the urge to actually get somewhere in a timely manner.
And then there's me and my manic, New-York-taxicab driving style. Through the squeaky whine of the Prius'* electric motors, you'll hear the deep yowl of sliding wide tires and the screaming howl of a big V-8. Yeah, I'm that guy driving like a crazed car-chase perp, weaving through whatever clump of hibernating hybrids I'm stuck behind. I'm not trying to be a jerk; I'm just trying to get somewhere. And today, I did that in my own little slice of world-saving smugness: the 2009 Dodge Durango Two-Mode Hybrid.
(* Yes, I'm picking on the Prius. Is there anything different between it and most other single-mode hybrids? No. In fact, my only problem with the Prius is the people who drive it. You know the type--the one who refuses to allow it to keep up with traffic. Prius drivers, by the nature of their car's distinctive appearance, tend to be the most offensive in this regard. But this is my personal impression only, and I'm certified insane, so you shouldn't listen to me. As always, your mileage might vary.)
I specifically asked to drive the Durango--a rather grotesque vehicle I would normally not enjoy piloting--for two reasons. Firstly, Chrysler recently pulled the plug on the Durango and Aspen hybrids and this will likely be my only chance to drive one, and secondly, because the Durango is only the second two-mode hybrid I've driven. What makes a two-mode a two-mode? That's a complicated subject that's better left for its own column, but here's the simple version: a single-mode hybrid (like in every one of those turtle Priuses) is relatively inefficient under steady speed highway cruising conditions because its transmission, an electronic CVT, requires that a not insignificant amount of electric power first be generated and then expended within the transmission. Any time energy is converted from mechanical to electric and back, there are losses. Losses are bad for efficiency. A two-mode transmission also uses an electronic CVT--replete with those inefficiencies--but for heavy-load operation, switches to a fixed gear ratio that bypasses the CVT portion of the gearbox and therefore also the inefficient power Merry-Go-Round.
In the 55 miles of mixed city and highway driving I put on the Durango, I averaged 19.0 indicated miles per gallon. That falls just short of its EPA rating of 20 mpg city, 22 mpg highway. But it's likely double the mileage I would have gotten with a nonhybrid Durango (rated at 13 mpg city, 19 highway with the same 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 and four-wheel drive.) Why double? I doubt very much the EPA testers who eked 13 mpg out of that big truck are afflicted with the Prius-induced road rage that forced me--twisted my arm, holding a gun to my head--to engage in a driving style that's, shall we say, less than efficient. Hell, I got 13 mpg in a four-cylinder Subaru WRX last week.
Buried hidden down deep in the road-rage driving style is the actual advantage of hybrids. At a steady cruising speed, single-mode hybrid cars don't have much, if any, of a fuel economy advantage over a normal, combustion-engine-only car. No, the big benefit of a hybrid system is brake-energy regeneration: recapturing the energy you used to get your vehicle moving by generating it back into electricity to charge the battery and then propel the car again. So the slow-and-steady hybrid drivers have it all wrong--if all they wanted to do was drive at a constant, slow speed, they should have bought a small, low, and narrow, very aerodynamic car with a tiny engine. By driving like a maniac, passing and then slowing down for the each successive Prius Speed Bump, hauling ass to each red light and then drag-racing everyone when the light turns green, I'm taking full advantage of the benefits of my Durango's hybrid's brake energy regeneration. And my hybrid is saving more fuel than theirs is. Who's saving the planet now?


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Students from a Christian school in Arizona say police stopped them from praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building.
The Allliance Defense Fund said in a statement that on May 5, the small group of students from Wickenburg Christian Academy bowed their heads and began praying for the justices when court police stopped them.
The prayer was stopped based on a statute, 40 U.S.C. §6135, which bars parades and processions on Supreme Court grounds. A spokesman for the court says federal law allows normal tourist activity but forbids assembling in a way that attracts attention.
"Mrs. Rigo was not engaging in a parade, procession or assembly. She was speaking in a conversational level to those around her with her head bowed," the ADF letter to court officials explained. "There is no reason to silence Mrs. Rigo's activities since these activities do not attract attention, create a crowd, or give off the appearance of impartiality. The ban on public prayers cannot hope to survive First Amendment scrutiny."
The ADF has threatened to sue the court unless quiet prayers are allowed in the future. The marshall of the court is looking into the matter.
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Hi, Antique roses are probably best for Mississippi. I love all the bourbons....my Buff Beauty is wonderful....there is a place on the coast that sells them...Countryside Roses...I just found about them on here....check them out!! I am in central MS..I remembered some of your posts saying that you had moved to Tupelo after Katrina. Are you getting accustomed to the colder weather up there? marie |
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I live in East Central Mississippi. Here are my favorite shrub roses: pink: "Nearly Wild" red: "Valentine" White: "Little White Pet" and "Cassie" yellow: "Nagadoches" (be aware there is a pink one called Natchitoches) I understand this one is now being sold as "Grandma's Yellow" too. All of these bloom all summer long, and have never been sprayed. Other than an annual top dressing of manure and a good January pruning, they are virtually no maintenance plants. They are also small ones (1 1/2 to 3 feet, tops), so make great landscape plants. ANd...they are extremely easy to start from winter cuttings. I stick cuttings as I prune, root them on my back porch, plant in the spring, and they're full grown and blooming by the fourth of July. |
- Posted by louisianagal z7bMS (My Page) on Sat, Feb 9, 08 at 12:04
Thanks for these great responses. I am beginning to adjust to the colder clime, however I don't like the cold. I do get a bit down in the dumps during January particularly, Feb gets better as their are signs of spring like forsythia, daffodils, etc. |
louisiana gal, have you considered teas? Not hybrid teas, but the tea roses that were developed in the late 18th early 19th century. They are especially suited to the southern zones. They are blackspot resistant and some get quite large. I just ordered 12 from Vintage roses. You may want to post on the antique rose forum, you will get a lot of very valuable advice there. |
- Posted by ncdirtdigger 7b (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 08 at 2:32
The obvious answer is 'knockout' series and the 'carefree' series both hybidized by the same fellow and the most disease resistant roses I have grown. I was skeptical at first but I have bug up most of my other roses and replaced them with these. The exception being two of my alltime favorite antiques - 'penelope' and 'Marie Pavie', which can be found at the Antique Rose Emporium. They ship good size roses (in pots with soil no less) |
Here is a link that might be useful: Antique Rose Emporium
- Posted by ronda_in_carolina Upstate SC -7a (My Page) on Wed, Feb 27, 08 at 23:33
I grow roses and I don't spray for fungus or baby my roses. They are great and bloom like mad. I have a big mix of old roses and a few new. You can find most any of these roses at Roses Unlimited, Ashdown, or Countryside Roses. Belinda's Dream You can see a host of pictures for each of these roses along with other details at the link below. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Roses at HelpMeFind roses .com
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Like many artists, Munster native S. Joel Norman rarely feels like his music ever says exactly what he wants it to when it's finished, but his new album, "Traveling Light," comes awfully close.
Norman, who will be performing his new gospel-infused rock opus at the House of Blues on Thursday night, said concertgoers will be treated to a '70s-style adaptation of his own spiritual journey, full of soul and singing his guts out. That journey had been a few years in the making; growing up in a conservative Christian home, Norman started to feel a disconnect between his performer side and his religious upbringing.
"I was always the one who, in the middle of my parents' dinner parties, would find some obnoxious way to upstage them," he said. "And I've carried a lot of guilt and shame over that, and I started to wonder why God wasn't coming to my rescue for that."
His pastor at Faith Church of Dyer, his new spiritual home, told him he needed to stop being so hard on himself and let God do the rest. Most important, he had to learn to love himself as he is — hence, "Traveling Light."
The church's influence on his music will always be there in some way, Norman can't deny. But he thinks this album combines the best parts of gospel and his other love, rock 'n' roll.
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August 13, 2012
NBC, you just made the list.
The Olympics mean very little to me. I know some people enjoy it, to each his own and all that but it's just not my thing. For the past weeks, if I watched any Olympics coverage, it's because someone else had control of what was on TV.
The one-and-only thing I wanted to see: Sunday's Closing Ceremonies. And why? Because The Who, my favorite band, were going to perform.
So I set my TIVO to record, and after it was on for an hour or so, I started to watch. I figured I could just fast-forward through all the parts that didn't interest me. Then, when The Who took the stage, I could watch it again and again. My grand plan was to archive the audio, put it on my iPod, and play it during my show on Monday.
So I watched, thumb on the FWD button, until I was all caught up, and watching NBC's "live" coverage. The Who still weren't on, but Russell Brand was, and he was singing a Beatles song to boot. So I figured, what the heck, I'll go to bed, and watch the rest this morning, forwarding through the parts rest of the parts I don't want to see.
And then...I get to the end, and still no Who! Instead, they previewed some sitcom a WSJ blogger described as Scrubs for Animals. I forget the name of the show, and even if I knew it, I wouldn't mention it here and provide the publicity. I had only recorded till the end of the ceremonies, so I didn't get to see Ray Davies, and I didn't get to see the Who! Oh, I saw the Spice Girls. I saw One Direction. Madness, and the Pet Shop Boys? Saw them too! And NBC made sure I got too see the Tribute to British Fashion! But to see favorite band's 7-minute performance, I had to go online to watch it. (I know, first-world problems, right?)
The kicker? The video is captioned "The Who performs "Teenage Wasteland" and "My Generation" to close the London Olympics"!
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Across the Universe: The Power of Disillusionment and the Politics of Despair |
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A comment appeared on the website the other day from someone who seemed driven to utter despair -- even to the consideration of suicide -- by the current state of our politics. This was disturbing enough, but I was also struck -- jarred -- by this remark: "Sharing Floyd's views and values is literally disabling." From "Pinquot": Is there anything we can do? By which I mean, is there anything I can do? And here is my reply: "The inferno…is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space." For you see, I disagree with you, and others, who say that "doing nothing" amounts to "complicity in abuse, oppression and exploitation on a thousand levels." I don't think that's true in many respects; certainly not in every respect. There is a genuine, qualitative difference between someone who actually carries out (or commands) atrocities and crimes -- and someone who doesn't. It's ludicrous to say otherwise. Someone who puts a gun to a child's head and pulls the trigger is worse than someone who doesn't put a gun to a child's head and pull the trigger. Someone who leaps into the toxic swamp of politics in order to obtain power is worse than someone who doesn't. If more people "did nothing" in this regard, there would be far less suffering in the world. Yes, there are many other things a person can do; and yes, it is part of the tragic element of human existence that no one can completely escape levels of complicity with the evils of the systems they happen to be born into. But simply refraining from active evil can be a first step toward the light. It can also serve as an example to others. ....Is it not time to be done with lies at last? Especially the chief lie now running through the world like a plague, putrescent and vile: that we kill each other and hate each other and drive each other into desperation and fear for any other reason but that we are animals, forms of apes, driven by blind impulses to project our dominance, to strut and bellow and hoard the best goods for ourselves. Or else to lash back at the dominant beast in convulsions of humiliated rage. Or else cravenly to serve the dominant ones, to scurry about them like slaves, picking fleas from their fur, in hopes of procuring a few crumbs for ourselves. If anyone is still reading at this point, a further elucidation of these themes can be found here: Immortal Communion: One Lowly Word and the Subversion of Power. blog comments powered by Disqus |


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Fettuccine Alfredo
Fettuccine Alfredo | |
Fettuccine Alfredo topped with shrimp, a typically American variation on the original recipe
Course | Primo |
Place of origin | Italy |
Region or state | Lazio |
Associated national cuisine | United States |
Creator | Alfredo di Lelio I (1882-1959) |
Main ingredients | fettuccine, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, butter |
Variations | (in the US) broccoli, cream, parsley, garlic, chicken, shrimp |
Cookbook:Fettuccine Alfredo Fettuccine Alfredo |
Fettuccine Alfredo is a pasta dish made from fettuccine tossed with Parmesan cheese and butter. As the cheese melts, it emulsifies the liquids to form a smooth and rich coating on the pasta. The term is a synonym for pasta with butter and Parmesan cheese (Italian: pasta al burro e parmigiano), one of the oldest and simplest ways to prepare pasta. The dish was named by Alfredo Di Lelio I, a restaurateur who opened and operated restaurants in Rome, Italy, throughout the early to mid 20th century.[1] While the term "Fettuccine Alfredo" is especially popular in the United States, in Italy the dish is largely unknown under that name. The American version of Fettuccine Alfredo is usually richer and very different from the original recipe created by Alfredo Di Lelio I.[citation needed]
Fettuccine with butter and Parmesan cheese was first mentioned in the 15th-century cookbook, Libro de arte coquinaria, written by Martino da Como, a northern Italian cook active in Rome.[2] The name of the dish, "Maccheroni romaneschi" (English: Maccheroni the Roman way), betrays its Roman origin. The dish soon became a staple food in Italy and abroad.[3]
The dish was invented by Alfredo di Lelio I at his restaurant, Alfredo, in 1914 as a variation of "Fettuccine al burro". When butter was added both before and after fettuccine was put in the serving bowl, the dish was known as "doppio burro" (double butter). Di Lelio's "original contribution" was to double the amount of butter in the bowl before the fettuccine would be poured in, thus a "triplo burro" (or "triple butter") effect instead of double which he started doing for his pregnant wife who was having difficulty keeping food down.[4] Alfredo added the new dish to his restaurant's menu when his wife began eating again.
A long-time customer recounted that di Lelio's restaurant became famous when Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks stopped in and fell in love with the dish while on their honeymoon in 1920. To express their gratitude, they gave him a golden fork and spoon along with a photo of them eating in his restaurant. He proudly displayed the photo on the wall. Pickford and Fairbanks served his dish to their friends and associates when they returned to Hollywood. Word about the new dish quickly spread.[5]
Alfredo di Lelio sold his restaurant on 5 May 1943. The new owner kept the restaurant's name, menu, traditional recipes, photos on the wall, and everything else; as of 2011, the restaurant is still in business under the name, "Alfredo alla Scrofa".[6] In 1950, Alfredo Di Lelio I, together with his son Armando, opened "Il Vero Alfredo" at Piazza Augusto Imperatore which is still managed by the grandchildren Alfredo Di Lelio III and Ines Di Lelio, continuing the tradition of the original fettuccine created by their grandfather.
That expansion continued in 1977 when Alfredo II and Guido Bellanca opened a new "Alfredo's" by Rockefeller Center in New York City. The walls of that restaurant, including the rest rooms, are plastered with caricature drawings by Al Hirschfeld. Another Alfredo's opened in the Epcot at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. As of September 2007, the Epcot branch is closed.
Fettuccine Alfredo has now become ubiquitous in Italian-style restaurants in the United States. In Italy, the dish, which is popular for its simplicity, is typically called "Fettuccine al burro."[7][8]
Basic Fettuccine Alfredo has many modifications to the recipe often used to lower the cost. Cream may be added to the butter. Less expensive cheeses such as American-made Parmesan cheese, an imitation of Parmigiano-Reggiano, are often used. Additionally, the cheese is sometimes mixed with flour as a thickener. Thickening can also be achieved by mixing the sauce with a small amount of roux (flour and liquid butter or olive oil) as the liquid reaches boiling.
Occasionally, other cheeses such as asiago and romano may be added to alter the flavor. Other types of pasta are sometimes used. To make it a single-dish meal, chicken/shrimp and vegetables such as peas, are often served on top. Another variation uses egg in combination with cream, butter and cheese.
Alfredo sauce[edit]
Alfredo sauce is often sold as a convenience food in many grocery stores in the United States. Unlike the original preparation, which is thickened only by cheese, the prepared food[9] and fast food[10] versions may be thickened with eggs and/or starch.
- ^ Downie, David (2011). Cooking the Roman Way. HarperCollins. p. 106. ISBN 9780062031099.
- ^ de Rossi, Martino. Libro de Arte Coquinaria. pp. sub vocem.
- ^ "The food timeline". Retrieved 23 April 2014.
- ^ Luigi Carnacina and Vincenzo Buonassisi, Roma in Cucina, Martello, Milan, 1968, sub vocem
- ^ Paul Hofmann, (November 1, 1981), "Fettuccine- A Dish Fit for a Duchess", New York Times, accessed 2008
- ^ Web site of "Alfredo alla Scrofa" in Rome
- ^ "Fettuccine Alfredo". Giallo Zafferano. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
- ^ Bastianich, Lidia; John, Mariani. How Italian Food Conquered the World (1st ed.).
- ^ Newman's Own, "Alfredo Pasta Sauce" [1]
- ^ Papa Gino's, "Nutritional information and Allergens [2]
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Finally, the day we have all been waiting for has arrived.
No, not the start of the NBA season, though I suppose that is a pretty momentous occasion as well. Right now, however, I'm talking about the long-awaited release of Stephen Jackson's "Lonely At the Top," a rap track featuring Kevin Durant that StackJack told the world about a couple months ago. It's here and it's available on iTunes for the totally-worth-it price of $0.99.
As I'm sure you could guess by the title, the song's all about how hard it is to be on top and how haters are the worst. In fact, the phrase "haters gonna hate" is literally in the hook, so that kind of tells you everything you need to know about this song. Both guys acquit themselves pretty well, but I'd say Jackson is the better rapper by a hair. His voice kind of sounds like Andre 3000 at times, though his rapping doesn't. Durant, meanwhile, sounds like Dave Chappelle rapping which is kind of unsettling but not that bad. You probably wouldn't want to listen to this if you weren't an NBA fan, but it's pretty good for a couple of NBA players. Not the most ringing endorsement, I know, but it actually is a compliment when you consider some of the NBA rap songs we've heard in the past. Also, it comes edited, which is funny.
His mixtape, "Jack of All Trades," comes out soon and that's when we'll supposedly get to hear LeBron James rapping. Until then, enjoy a different MVP candidate rapping with Stephen Jackson after the jump.


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THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of Pension Funds and Wheels Common Investment Fund have lost their bid to recoup £2bn in backdated VAT on investment management services for defined benefit schemes.
NAPF and WCIF brought a test case to the European Court of Justice in regards to WCIF's Ford pension schemes, claiming that pension funds should be granted the same VAT exemption as special investment funds are with regards to management services, Accountancy Age's sister publication Professional Pensions reports.
The action was brought in 2008 following a European ruling on JP Morgan Fleming Claverhouse Investment Trust which stated investment trusts were special investment funds.
Defined Benefit schemes pay around £100m annually in VAT on investment services. Had the case been successful, funds could have received a £2bn windfall in backdated claims from HM Revenue and Customs.
NAPF chief executive Joanne Segars said the result was "deeply disappointing".
"Pension funds were set up to be vehicles that are free from tax, and they should not be paying these VAT charges," she said.
"The European Commission is currently reviewing the VAT Directive, and we will be making strong representations as to why the management of pension funds should be VAT exempt under the proposed change to the current VAT regime."
Segars added NAPF will take the issue to the commission "as a matter of urgency".
An HMRC spokesman said: "HMRC is pleased that the judgement supports our current policy on the application of the investment fund management VAT exemption."
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Ironwood is an Australian-based ensemble, committed to exploring music of the baroque, classical and romantic periods on early string and keyboard instruments. The members are some of Australia's most respected early and contemporary chamber musicians. The ensemble was established in 2006 as a flexible group of players, drawing on a wealth of experience from across the globe. Ironwood believe that historically informed performance should be complemented with new material and has an active commissioning program for music on early instruments. The group performs widely and has produced recordings for ABC Classics and Vexations840. Ironwood have been Artists in Residence at the Bundanon Trust, NSW since 2007 and also run a Developing Artist program in Victoria and NSW.
Sunday 19 October, 3.00pm (Sydney)
Saturday 25 October, 6.00pm (Canberra)
Thursday 23 October, 7.00pm (Newcastle)
In a rare soloistic performance, the singers of The Song Company and chamber ensemble, Ironwood combine to present Johann Sebastian Bach's magnificent Mass in B Minor featuring one voice per part vocal scoring. It took a Lutheran composer to write the most expansive and profound setting of the Latin Mass ever conceived. Initiated in 1733 in order to obtain the title 'Electoral Saxon Court Composer' from the Catholic sovereign Augustus III, the full mass was only completed towards the end of Bach's life. Widely regarded as one of the supreme achievements of classical music, this monumental work combines Bach's stylistic and technical brilliance.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B Minor BWV 232
As part of the second year of Haydn For Everyone, Melbourne Festival welcomes some of the world's foremost chamber ensembles for Quartets at Sunset, a spellbinding series of twilight performances staged in the acoustically sublime surrounds of the Collins Street Baptist Church.
Following its inaugural 2013 season, this year sees the Quartets at Sunset program take on the string quartet in all its forms, from Haydn's earliest arrangements through to the opuses of Mozart, Shostakovich, Bartók and others, along with contemporary deconstructions and even a selection of new and rarely heard compositions from Australia and abroad.
Wildly diverse and consummately performed, Quartets at Sunset is an intoxicating, not-to-be-missed showcase of the past, present and future of chamber music.
Haydn String quartet Op 33 No 6
F.X. Richter Quartet Op 5 No 5b
Haydn String quartet Op 2 No 5
Boccherini String quartet Op 41 No 1 G 214
Albrechtsberger Fugue for quartet in C major
Haydn String quartet No 11 Op 9 No 4
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The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Victorian College of the Arts present the Ironwood Developing Artists Chamber Music Program.
A creative five-day intensive for young adults: tertiary music students, pre-professional and professional musicians – both period and modern instrument specialists. (Please refer to participant section below for information on your suitability, prerequisites and material to bring)
The Ironwood program focuses on Classical chamber music repertoire (1750 – 1830), including works for strings, winds and fortepiano.
The rigorous yet enjoyable week involves structured daily coaching, private and open rehearsals and lectures/demonstrations. Final day public performances by tutors and participants round out the week.
VCA & MCM short course participants receive constructive individual feedback, aiding student development and improving performance. Our quality courses are performance and improvement-oriented and set within a friendly, supportive group environment. Tutors are practicing educators and industry professionals.
The Ironwood program is unique in Australia in bridging the gap between student and professional performance, for musicians working in historically informed performance. The program offers exceptional study and performance opportunities, led by Ironwood's specialist musicians.
Monday 7 July – Saturday 12 July, 2014
$350.00 (inc GST)
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And we're back with our education 'retreat' at Riversdale on the gorgeous Shoalhaven River for 2014. Come and enjoy the sounds, silence, views, food, wildlife (and friends) & some amazing music!!
The Baroque Orchestra Winter School will offer emerging and developing musicians the unique opportunity to enhance their skills by working with international-standard performers in an inspiring natural environment. The 5-day residential workshop will include daily orchestral sessions and tutorials, for students of strings, keyboard, woodwind, brass & timpani on Baroque repertoire.
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Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing
Neal Peres da Costa
Analyzes Romantic performing practices as preserved on early piano recordings and piano rolls
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Ironwood's 2013-14 program encompasses a mix of professional performance projects, and professionally led/tutored education projects for students and young people in historically informed performance.
Ironwood has had an annual performance program of 3-6 concert seasons per year since 2007, and an annual education program of between 1-4 projects per year since 2008.
Ironwood's 2013 performance program includes self presented performances in NSW – Sydney & regional, at Sydney Conservatorium of Music and for Musica Viva Australia Chamber Festival; concerts for Melbourne Recital Centre Local Heroes series, as well as self presented concerts in Hobart, & regional Tasmania, as well as ABC Classic FM Sunday Live, and concerts as part of Melbourne Festival.
Ironwood is working in conjunction with several organisations in 2013-14, including Big hART & Victorian College of the Arts on education projects for community and young people. We are presenting a chamber music program for strings at the Victorian College of the Arts-Melbourne University during the winter semester break, and will develop the project with Big hART further during the latter half of 2013, for delivery in 2014 & beyond.
During 2014, Ironwood's performance program includes concerts at Peninsula Summer Music Festival, with a recording project of classical works for natural horn & strings for ABC Classics with Anneke Scott (UK-Aust), a tour of their 19thc performance research in Brahms chamber music to the USA (Stanford University, and re-invitations to Eastman School of Music , Princeton, Yale & concert series in NY state) with a recording for ABC Classics from this project as well.
Ironwood is working with Musica Viva Countrywide & local music societies & schools to present a regional tour of Northern NSW & SE Qld in May.
All these performance and recording projects need additional support for artist fees and touring costs.
2014 presents the possibility of expanding the education program once more – as well as collaboration with Big hART in NW Tas on programs for community & young people, we aim to have a larger pre-professional education program in the winter semester break for students studying in the HIP area. We would like to aim to work with Bundanon Trust in the Shoalhaven area again in 2014, and this will require additional development funding to make it equitable & accessible in low socio-economic areas, so we are very grateful for the Australian Cultural Fund's assistance. Our Education program is multi layered, and in 2014 we are aiming at funding two part-time positions within the company that will run this program for pre-professionals, young people and schools education.
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The United Way of Bolivar County is once again launching into another year of fundraising. While some could regard this as an ordinary occurrence, I want to tell everyone that the Mission of the United Way is anything but ho-hum! In fact, the work done year after year by the Staff of the United Way, and the help resulting from that work is extraordinary. We at the Community Counseling Center of Cleveland and Greenville will heartily attest to this. Annually, we hold well over 1,000 counseling sessions for families, couples and individuals of all ages. Those numbers continue to grow as the stressors of uncertain times – financial and otherwise, increase. In fortunate circumstances, insurance or EAP services are available to pay for counseling, but the United way helps the family or individual who is left to pay for counseling on their own, when resources may be scarce. Thanks to the help of The United Way, rather than add stress by having to charge the full fee or worse, turn people away, we are able to apply a sliding scale fee which is based on the person's household income, when needed. We are only able to do this with the funding provided by the United Way Agencies of Bolivar and Washington Counties, as well as the King's Daughters and Son's Circle Number 2 Grant.
The net-net is: Every single donation made to the United Way is important! The money you give to the United Way of Bolivar County transforms a fairly ordinary, albeit valuable item (a check, a greenback, a pledge amount), into extraordinary avenues of assistance for people who may be just like you or someone you care about. As individuals, we are generally willing to help the folks we care about; but what if we don't know what they need? Or perhaps the need is so private or painful, those persons are reluctant to ask us for help? Consider: Agencies of the United Way are usually the ones to get those calls! So the next time you catch yourself wondering, "Why should I donate to the United Way when I already give to (fill in the blank)?"
Take a fresh look around and understand that your faith in giving to the United Way can ultimately result in extraordinary works in the lives of others. We at the Community Counseling Center want to take this opportunity to assure you of the extraordinary difference your "ordinary donations" make! We thank you and we thank the United Way of Bolivar County! Most of all we thank those folks who have come to us with the hope and confidence in our abilities to help them; which of course, could not happen without your support of the United Way!
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In this Jewish version of "The Gingerbread Boy," a matzo ball runs away from an old woman as she prepares her Passover dinner.
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The classic tale of the "Gingerbread Man" is given a Judaic twist when the matzo ball boy jumps from the hot pot and takes off running with bubbe, her son the rabbi, and the fox hot on the chase to bring him back home in time for their Passover seder. Reprint.
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On the morning of the Passover
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decides to make a matzo ball boy to keep her company. Soon delicious smells waft from the bubbling pot, and when she lifts the lid to see if the matzo ball boy is done, out he jumps. Oy! she cries. And where do you think youre going? Im off to see the world,
he replies. Before long, a yenta and her children, a rabbi, and a fox are all on a mad chase to catch the matzo ball boy!


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