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This is a border of Allamanda cathartica 'sunny', a smallish, bush-growing allamanda to about 1/2 a metre that I'm nurturing from cuttings, most taken about 18 months ago. There's about 50 in here. The white one at the far end is A. blanchettii, normally a climber but I'm training it here as a standard. Being in the sub-tropics allamandas flower all summer long as do mandeviileas and thunbergias and other heat loving things. What is looking magnificent here abouts is the Poinciana (delonix regina) b. |
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I seem to remember, you posted a photo before, of some low growing Allamandas. That is some show. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Wed, Jan 22, 14 at 23:08
The "dwarf" Allamanda is used a lot in landscaping here as well, easier to keep under control. The Delonix regia finished flowering a couple of months ago here. |
By the way, Tropic..... , where in the U.S. are you? B. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Fri, Jan 24, 14 at 1:15
The name I use is tropicbreeze-NT, the "NT" stands for the Northern Territory. |
See current comment under 'Grevillea Mt Brockman'. B. |
U.S. or N.T. Tropic...? Just curious. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Sat, Jan 25, 14 at 22:26
Glad you noticed that, I hadn't looked. I registered as being in Australia (never been to the USA in my life). It was still correct some time back as some posters have commented previously on me being in Oz. Seems like there's been a glitch in the system. It's also given me a sex change (don't remember getting the operation, LOL). I notice yours shows you being in the USA as well. I tried to correct it but the system just states it's an invalid address and rejects the change. I've emailed them to alert them of the problem so hopefully it can be sorted out soon. |
Hah, yeah, I "live in the United States" and my zone is "NSW Aust". As the yanks 'ed say: "go figure!" Terranora is near Tweed Heads and that's definitely NSW. Maybe all of us should go take a look now and then at their 'My Page'. As you had no result I don't think I'll try to change it, the NSW should make it obvious. Thanks for alerting us Tropi. (excuse the shortening of your title). B. |
I have to comment on the glitch in the system. I live in Toronto. Ontario, Canada, but my original entry has been changed, too USA. I tried to change it, without success. I've been a user for many years. At one time, we all had to re-register and change user names too. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Thu, Jan 30, 14 at 19:30
Did you get a sex change too (at no extra cost, LOL)? They haven't replied to my email, or even acknowledged it. Guess I could put a comment about my right location in the comments section. I don't want to change my user name, it's the same one I use on several sites, at least the "tropicbreeze" part. |
Looks like they reckon everyone on the planet lives in the U.S. of A. Excuse me looking at your 'page' Inga but I didn't notice any notation as to your gender. I've always had the opinion you're female; didn't know you're retired though (as I, too, am). Tropic (excuse abbreviation) your gender isn't mentioned either, I'm of the opinion you're a bloke like meself! Guess it doesn't really matter where they reckon we all live, we know we all don't speak with a 'Yankee' drawl (No offence intended to the yanks). B. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Fri, Jan 31, 14 at 20:33
I tried to change the location again but it refused. Then tried just to change the gender (it shows up as female when I look) but it also refused that. When I tried to put an entry in the comments box it also refused to do that. And I still haven't had a reply to the email I sent them. |
I'd be surprised if you get a response, but let's know if you do. |
Don't know how many years it is since I've been on the Garden Web, but how lovely to see a lot of you are still here. Hi to funnelweb, Inga, Mistymorn etc. Nice to see you all again - and my wonderful photographer friend, Mistymorn. Loved your photo of the bee. Your photography has certainly improved. What isn't lovely is to see the G.W, still hasn't changed in the way it operates. Still won't allow you to change things. |
Hi triciac, yes, been a long time, nice to see you back. Please stay with us, we are a bit thin on the ground. Mind you, saying that reminds me that I, too, have wandered away from time to time, but you know even if you only visit now and again any comment you make is very welcome. B. |
- Posted by tropicbreezent (My Page) on Fri, Apr 25, 14 at 9:47
I see you're still in the US in the NSW zone. I sent them another email mentioning that my earlier one hadn't got a response. They did reply rather abruptly saying they had replied. (No sign of a reply my end.) They wanted permission to access my account to see what's wrong, so I gave it. That was a few weeks ago and haven't heard anything since. Have tried a few more times to change things but still get the same error message. I wonder whether it's even worth trying to contact them again. |
I wouldn't both, tropic... . I don't care where they reckon I live, most folks that visit this site are also 'said' to reside in the US. We all know where we are, at least most of us do, I think. B. |
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Nanping Featured Food:
Wuyishan Medicinal Food
An old saying goes that grasses on the hill are all medicines. After years of practice, Wuyishan people have worked out series of methods to cure of disease while eating food, such as stewed rabbit meat with eight treasures whose treasures are root of hairy asiabell, sojutsu var, Tuckahoe, Du grass, cuidium officiuale, chiretta, root of herbaceous peony( without bark) and rehmanniae vaporata. Chestnuts are good medicinal food too. Stewed chestnuts with sugar can be cool enough to cure of vertigo; stewed chestnuts with pig's knuckles can be good to the stomach and spleen and make people energetic; stewed chestnut with meat can cure of tracheitis; uncooked wild chestnut can cure of night sweat of kids. In addition, the cores of lotus nuts can clear away heart anger; red mushroom can get rid of rheumatism; wine-soaked champignon can ease turgescence. Other farmhouse and medicinal dishes are stewed pangolin with chiretta, stewed tortoise with chiretta, boiled pig liver with medlar, doubl
Min Bamboo Shoot
Min bamboo shoot enjoys a reputation of the "delicacy of land" because of its crispness and sweetness. Yulan slice, a kind of dried food made of winter bamboo, contains plenty of protein, calcium, phosphorus and iron, which contributes to its great value of nutrition. There are more than ten kinds of dried bamboo, such as Yulan Slice, white dried bamboo, black dried bamboo and Min dried bamboo. Dried bamboo is of beautiful color, inviting aroma and delicious taste. It can be used as the main ingredient to work out a typical dish with local color, and at the same time it is an accessorial element when a first-class and well-known dish is made.
Wengong Dish
Wengong dish is a famous traditional folk dish in Wuyishan region. It was said that Zhu Xi had ever treated his guests with this dish when he was giving lectures in Wuyijing House. People gave the name Wengong to this dish so as to honor Zhu Xi. Ingredients: lean meat, green powder, eggs and white hyacinth bean. The dish has been popular in folk area for 800 years, and because it was Zhu Xi's favorite, Xiucai and Juren in old times would often have it before the examinations, expecting to get the thread of ideas in writing and find his name on the enrolling list.
Jian'ou Salted Duck
Jian'ou salted duck is an ethnic food with great reputation in Wuyishan and northern Min area. It is like a turtle in shape with white, delicate and smooth color and luster. The texture of meat is plump and tastes delicious.
The Eight Diagrams Dinner
The Eight Diagrams dinner is made on the basis of Zhu Xi's daily diet. Its dishes are of various forms, such as assorted appetizer, chowder, soup and round mass of meat. Cooking methods varies from fry to double-boil. The most distinctive feature of the Eight Diagrams dinner is that all the dishes are arranged in accordance with the Eight Diagrams map advocated by Zhu Xi. On every orientation dishes as fried shredded eel, wine-brewed winter mushroom, diced chicken with paprikas, bamboo shoots with shredded meat, stirred chicken liver, fried fungi and eight propitious treasures
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Leonard Cohen Fan – Who, Me?
I noticed over the past month that, more and more often, sites linking to Heck Of A Guy identified me as a "Leonard Cohen fan."
This aside from Whirled Musings, a site that used, as this blog did, Leonard Cohen's Democracy as a centerpiece on Election Day,1 is among the most benign:
Another blogger who is also obviously an LC [Leonard Cohen] fan had the same idea, … ."
A tad more worrisome is the somewhat dismissive tone used in Jubu News at Another Queer Jewish Buddhist in discussing a story, Sarah Jessica Parker: Hollywood's Newest Jew-Bu?, that was also a topic at Heck Of A Guy:
Whereas over at Heck of A Guy, the focus on the Parker story shifts to Leonard Cohen, who the author is a real fan of.
There are other examples, but you get the idea.
I can't explain why I was initially surprised about being thus categorized.2 I have not, after all, hidden my thin green candle of Cohenthusiasm under a bushel.
And it's hardly a problem. That other bloggers acknowledge my genuine interest in an accomplished musician and poet is not altogether unpleasant. At the least, it may distract them from noticing some of my less attractive traits.
Now, however, things are getting out of hand.
The I Love Leonard Cohen Tipping Point
It's one thing when a random blogger notes that I am, as the youngsters say, into Leonard Cohen. It's quite another when singer-songwriter, Robin Grey, whose best known song, for goodness sake, is an adoration of Leonard Cohen called I Love Leonard Cohen, responds to my (positive) review of his music with this entry in his own blog:
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the internet's biggest leonard cohen fan?
I think I may have been tracked down by the biggest Leonard Cohen fan blogger as a result of my last e.p. referencing the great man – 'I Love Leonard Cohen'.
His feature is too long to post in full here, so I will leave you to have a look on his site if you fancy a glimpse inside the mind of someone who may even love Leonard Cohen more than me!
The Internet's biggest Leonard Cohen fan? As a former patient would remark whenever we approached a sensitive issue in his treatment, "You don't wanna go into that can of worms."
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being The Biggest Leonard Cohen Fan
Don't get me wrong. There would be a certain cachet about being known as the Biggest Leonard Cohen Fan. And, with proper representation, the name recognition could well be leveraged into product endorsement deals.
But the downside is significant. For one thing, when I think "fan," I think "sports fan," like these guys,
I don't want to be that guy.
Just in case, however, I have prepared my version of the "John 3:16″ sign that dude with the multi-colored hair habitually displays.3
And the obligations of being the Biggest Leonard Cohen Fan would be daunting – at least for me. Biggest Fans should, one supposes, abstain from creating fictitious biographical data about the object of their fandom such as this excerpt from 10 Unbelievable Secrets About Leonard Cohen:
6. The story about Cohen's inheritance was a face-saving device. Other than a few dollars earned publishing his poetry and the occasional commission as a model for Karoll's Red Hanger Shops, Cohen supported himself during the early part of his career by working, under assumed names, in the TV industry.
Leonard Cohen not only polished the lyrics (uncredited) of the "Gilligan's Island" theme (Cohen changed, for example, the phrase, "an indeterminate period of time contingent on scheduling availability of local stations," to the more easily vocalized "three hour tour." He also successfully argued that meter trumped historical accuracy and that, consequently, "Crusoe" in the phrase, "Like Robinson Crusoe," should be pronounced as "Caruso"), but also played many minor roles on the series, usually being ambiguously listed in the credits (for example, "Cannibal #2″ or "Angry Headhunter"). He did, however, audition for the role of Thurston J. Howell III but lost that part to Jim Backus, triggering a lifelong feud so intense that Cohen once demolished a TV playing a Mr. Magoo cartoon.
He also provided the voice of Grandfather Clock on Captain Kangaroo, played a number of interchangeable befuddled government officials on I Dream of Jeannie, and, had Bewitched been renewed one more season, could well have been the third Darrin on that show.
Similarly, my claim to have discovered a lost Leonard Cohen album called Songs Of Love And Halloween might be considered counterproductive.
Even my stipulation that there "hasn't even been a documented virgin sacrifice since [Cohen's] 1980 Australian Tour"4 could be taken the wrong way.
One suspects that few ascend to the post of Biggest Fan of Leonard Cohen by first posting a review of his romantic partner's album (Anjani's Blue Alert) that includes a passage of this ilk:
But hope, as it is wont to do, springs eternal so I was thought it was possible that Anjani and I might have a few laughs together in the form of three or four tracks enjoyable enough to justify transferring ten bucks from me to Jeff Bezos. Admittedly, I was only looking for a good time, not a long term relationship. But, hey, she was hanging out with Leonard Cohen so she was probably into that sort of thing, right?
Then, my interest was piqued by a phrase from Amazon's Editorial Review of the album, which described Blue Alert as
… a collection of gentle music tinged with styles
ranging from Holly Cole to Tanita Tikaram
As it turns out, folks in proximity to me for more than 20 minutes are at substantial risk of being subjected to my adulation of Tanita – if they have survived my even more fervid adoration of Holly. When I read that implicit grouping of Anjani, Holly, and Tanita, my mind raced to the obvious conclusion – that's right, I'm thinking foursome.
The major sticking point, however, is that I'm not even in the highest ranks of Leonard Cohen fans. Anyone randomly roaming LeonardCohenForum.com for an hour will find scores of folks who have followed Cohen five times as many years as I have, who know more about Cohen, his life, and his music than I do, who resonate with Cohen's songs at far deeper psychological, spiritual, and musicological levels than I do, and, most importantly, who treat Leonard Cohen with the respect he deserves.
On the other hand, I know my place in the Great Cohen Chain Of Being and, in fact, much prefer it to the station of #1 Fan.
- See Democracy Is Coming To The USA – Leonard Cohen [↩]
- Perhaps it's the same reason I've been surprised each of the 30+ years I've lived in and around Chicago that it gets really cold every winter. [↩]
- OK, the inside joke – so inside that only those who are both former Bible majors and current Leonard Cohen fans (an exclusive club populated solely by DrHGuy) gets it – is that II Samuel 11:2, rendered as
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
in the King James translation, is the scene to which Leonard Cohen refers in "Hallelujah:"
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
[emphasis mine] [↩] - See Oh My Cohen! They're Calling Us A Cult [↩]


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TweetDeck has now been formally dissolved, but the retirement party for its Android and iPhone clients has been postponed.
Samsung's latest campaign shies away from the social media big boys to ensure it targets a more relevant community in a more effective way.
Zuckerberg reveals that mobile web is the action is, with more users accessing Facebook by a mobile web browser than by iOS and Android apps combined
Hot on the heels of a retail sales report from the Commerce Department showing a third straight month of declining sales, the latest Retail Online Index from IBM shows that total online sales were down by more than 2% from the last quarter.
That's one of the big findings for a new digital jobs report that's just been released. For the second straight quarter demand for search engine optimization specialists, those crafty Google-juicing pros, is vanishing faster than a 404 link. Who's winning the digital jobs battle? There's a major shift, surprise, surprise to mobile developers with Apple specialists beating out Android.
It's June, and summer has arrived (although if you're in the UK you'll have to take the Met Office's word for that). This means the start of festival season and long weekends spent cavorting around fields covered in UV paint and making friends with strangers called 'River'. If you can't bear to leave your Smartphone in the safe, mud-less confines of home, make sure you at least check out the latest festival apps designed to make your weekend one to remember (or not, depending on your hedonistic inclinations).
The fast-moving impact of mobile on the digital economy is now so influential that old-school economists are looking at it as one of the few growth drivers in an otherwise rough macroeconomic climate. Last week, it was confirmed in Mary Meeker's annual digital trends report that mobile is lifting online commerce and, soon to come, advertising as well. With that in mind, here are some more figures that drill down into the growth rate of mobile in Europe and the U.S.
Mary Meeker's annual state of the digital world address, delivered earlier this week under the name the "2012 Internet Trends" report, is yet again a must-read for anyone trying to get their head around what to prioritize investment-wise going forward. There's a lot here, but the big summary is: mobile is a driving force in consumer digital uptake. The only problem is: when will it pay off?
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What the Heck is that?
That, my friends, is the interior of the Kangaroostaurant, brought to you via the magic of digital media from New Braunfels, TX. Construction is under way and as you can see; we now have a floor, walls, and the better part of a ceiling. Kitchens on Wheels is doing the entire kitchen install, from diamond plate flooring to the exterior graphics wrap.
Wrap it Up
Speaking of the wrap, here's an idea of what you can expect to see in your rearview mirror when we cruise down the Avenue.
From this:
To this:
We have no idea how we'll see out the windows with all that wrap over them, but we'll worry about that once we scream out of New Braunfels.
The Window is on the Right Side
When we went before the Appleton Municipal Services Committee earlier this year, one of the representatives looked at our plans and said "Well you've got the window on the right side. The last people who wanted to do this had the window on the driver's side and wanted permission to drive down College Avenue backwards." To tell the truth, we hadn't ever looked at the placement of the window until that moment.
Would have been a drag to drive all the way from Texas and find out our serving window would face the street.
Street of Dreams
It may only look like a FedEx truck with a hole in the side, but for us it's the culmination of a lot of work, time, and commitment. This is our dream; to serve great food to great people who care about local providers and want something unique and delicious. On a more personal level it's our chance to work together, have a job that we are eager to do, and most of all; be able to laugh while we do it. With most jobs, that can be difficult, but as we make this our life, we are hoping for more and more smiles for you and us.
That being said, we need that truck finished ASAP. Hey guys in Texas: get back to work!


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ActiveState Acquires Phenona
Phenona's 15-year-old founder to join ActiveState's team part-time.
ActiveState announced that it acquired Phenona, a Perl Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) company founded by 15-year-old Daniil Kulchenko. "I created Phenona after a contract job where I found it difficult to deploy a Perl web app to the cloud and couldn't find a good PaaS solution in the market. It seemed like there should be an easier way," Kulchenko says in the announcement.
Bart Copeland, President and CEO of ActiveState, says that integrating Phenona with ActiveState will mean quicker time-to-market for cloud solutions. ""The technology, knowledge, and talent from Phenona will extend a key part of our cloud strategy while helping us accelerate our development in this fast-paced market," he says.
For more about Phenona's new role in ActiveState, read Kulchenko's blog post: Next Steps. He also invites anyone who is interested to check out the Stackato Developer Preview on the ActiveState site.
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Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
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Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
Industry Giants Announce a Fix for the Password Mess
FIDO alliance declares the beginning of the end for old-style login authentication.
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Linux Mint Project Releases Mint 17.1
New LTS version offers many refinements for the Cinnamon and Mate desktops and significant improvement under the hood.
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Here's Kristen Bell vacationing in Hawaii with Dax Sheppard who I basically cropped out of every single shot. Now, I know what you're thinking: Does Jesus write this blog? And the answer is, no, he doesn't. I'm just his son who moonlights as a sexual ninja. No, really, ask my exes. They never knew ...


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"We are here to enhance your golf experience through professional, friendly customer service while providing an atmosphere of hospitality and FUN!" Manada Golf Club Mission Statement
The course was designed by David Gordon of the William F. Gordon Company of Doylestown, PA and has been part of the community for 50 years. Located 1.5 miles from Penn National Hollywood Casino this 6705 yard course with its rye grass fairways and fast undulating greens is a challenge to play for all level of golfers. It features an electronically controlled irrigation system that keeps the greens and fairways in top condition during the summer months.
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Yesterday was helping my husband clean out an old storage trailer, goodness knows how long this stuff has been there. Anyway lots of good junk.....BUT I found three of those metal trashcans that would have been outside - with a rounded lid (looks like a rocket) that comes off, and a silver swing opening with lid. Never used. Alittle rusted but very clean. I'm thinking, scrub, sand, repaint in primary colors, make a striped or patterned duffle bad shaped lining that folds over (like a trash bag does) put the top back on and ....
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Sounds like an excellent idea. Let us know how you teach them to USE IT! |
Sounds like a great idea! lazygardens, Loved your remark!!! My children have hampers, but the floor is much easier. (by the way, they are adults now and still do it.) Thanks for the post. It's been really slow here. But I keep checking it out. |
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I dont know if I'm up to the challenge of teaching them to use them, at 15 and 17 the old dogs may be too old for new tricks..... Hampers sound good in theory! |
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1 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for the saints, | 1 There is no need for me to write to you about this service to the saints. |
2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the people of Macedo'nia, saying that Acha'ia has been ready since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them. | 2 For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, telling them that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action. |
3 But I am sending the brethren so that our boasting about you may not prove vain in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be; | 3 But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be. |
4 lest if some Macedo'nians come with me and find that you are not ready, we be humiliated--to say nothing of you--for being so confident. | 4 For if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we--not to say anything about you--would be ashamed of having been so confident. |
5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren to go on to you before me, and arrange in advance for this gift you have promised, so that it may be ready not as an exaction but as a willing gift. | 5 So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given. |
6 The point is this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. | 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. |
7 Each one must do as he has made up his mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. | 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. |
8 And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that you may always have enough of everything and may provide in abundance for every good work. | 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. |
9 As it is written, "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures for ever." | 9 As it is written: "He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." |
10 He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness. | 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. |
11 You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God; | 11 You will be made rich in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. |
12 for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God. | 12 This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of God's people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God. |
13 Under the test of this service, you will glorify God by your obedience in acknowledging the gospel of Christ, and by the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others; | 13 Because of the service by which you have proved yourselves, men will praise God for the obedience that accompanies your confession of the gospel of Christ, and for your generosity in sharing with them and with everyone else. |
14 while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God in you. | 14 And in their prayers for you their hearts will go out to you, because of the surpassing grace God has given you. |
15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift! | 15 Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! |
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Hi all! I am fifteen years old and new to growing plants. I recently have begun to grow an Orchid Cactus (sorry i don't know the scientific name!) I am beginning to worry because it is wrinkling. I will post a photo so you can see what I mean. If anyone could offer suggestions as to how to fix this it would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you in advance!!! AND please ignore the pot in the background...that is for a separate project! |
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How is the lighting? How are you watering? Is there lots of light or is it shady? Does the soil stay wet or do you let it dry out? Also I think it's time to repot. And may we see a picture of the plant tag? These plants are very hardy but this doesn't mean they can't be killed, I almost killed one of mine over the winter due to neglect :p |
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Las Vegas Cabbie Turns In $300,000 Left In Back Seat - Report
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Posted 25 December 2013 - 11:36 AM
There was a case like that where a taxi driver handed in a large amount of money and also another where some one found a large amount in a phone box.
About 30 years ago, a young man who I worked with lost his wage packet, but he said he found £5 on a bus on the way home. We suggested he want to the police station as someone may have handed it in. He said it would be a waste of time as no one would do that. Eventually he did go to the police station and someone had handed it in and he was reunited with his wage packet. I said "You handed the £5 in, I hope." He replied, "You must be joking." Some people.
Posted 26 December 2013 - 08:45 AM
It's a shame upon us (society) that such honesty seems to be so rare that it makes news headlines and the honest folks are held up as being outstanding. Such honesty should be common, but I know it's not.
I've never found a huge amount of money. I did find several bills of money on the floor of the post office one day. I don't recall the amount, but it was less than a hundred dollars. Just as in some cartoons where that little devil pops up on a characters shoulder telling them to do something wrong, just as soon as I picked the money up I could almost hear a voice telling me to stuff the money in my pocket and be glad God had provided. I shook that thought off immediately, knowing that's not how God operates, and took the money and turned it in to the postmaster.
Posted 26 December 2013 - 09:02 AM
I understand that the guy who lost the money is a professional poker player.
Posted 26 December 2013 - 02:51 PM
Amazing at the number of people that finds money lost by someone & keeps it saying the Lord has provided this for me while thinking finders keepers, losers weepers!
I may be behind in the times, an old fogy even, yet I still feel honesty pays off in the long run.
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John MiltonJohn Milton (1608-1674), English poet, wrote what many consider to be one of the greatest epic poems in the English language, Paradise Lost (1667); Farewell, happy fields, and Paradise Regained (1671). Or, if I would delight my private hours England was in a great state of flux during his lifetime; Milton sided with the Puritans and Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), rejected popular political and religious beliefs, adopted an anti-royalist stance against King Charles I, and joined the pamphlet wars, writing many polemics on the Church of England including "Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England" (1641) and "The Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth" (1660). As George Saintsbury (1845-1933) states in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature (Vol. VII, 1907-21) "the inspirers of his pamphlets were furies rather than muses". Milton also wrote pamphlets on various political issues like free speech and the censorship exerted by Parliament as in "Areopagitica: A speech of Mr John Milton for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England" (1644). But today Milton is best remembered for his heroic epic verse retelling the story of Adam and Eve and the Fall. In his sympathetic portrayal of man's struggle with good and evil, "That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men." Milton has inspired countless works by artists, film makers, musicians, authors, and poets into the 21st Century including John Keats's "Endymion"; William Blake created illustrations for Paradise Lost and wrote Milton: a Poem (1804-10); Percy Bysshe Shelley writes "Milton stands alone in the age which he illumined." in his Preface to "The Revolt of Islam"; and Lord George Gordon Byron, in his Introduction and Dedication to Don Juan writes; If, fallen in evil days on evil tongues, John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 on Bread Street in London, England to Sarah Jeffrey (1572-1637) and John Milton (1562-1647), scrivener in legal and financial matters. He had an older sister Anne and younger brother Christopher. John was born with poor eyesight which increasingly worsened over time. A life-long student, his schooling started at home under tutor Thomas Young before he went to read the works of Homer and Virgil in Greek and Latin at St Paul's School in London. He entered Christ's College, Cambridge in 1625 with the intent to become a minister. However, upon graduation in 1632 with a Master of Arts degree, Milton was disenchanted with the Church, did not take his orders, and decided to further his studies in languages including Hebrew. He also learned French and Italian, countries he travelled through extensively in the late 1630s where he immersed himself in their history and culture, and met many prominent learned men of the time including Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Upon his return to England from the continent in 1639 he moved to his parent's home in Horton, Buckinghamshire to focus on further study and writing. Some of his earliest pieces were metrical psalms and poems such as "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" (1629), "An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet William Shakespeare" (1630), and "Il Penseroso" (1631) and its companion piece "L'Allegro" (1631). He also wrote the masques Arcades (c.1630-4) and Comus (1634), and his eloquent elegy "Lycidas" (1637) to his friend and fellow pupil from Christ's College, Edward King, who had drowned while on a voyage to Ireland. Around this time Milton began teaching and joined the Presbyterian cause to reform the Church and wrote several pamphlets including "Of Reformation (1641), "The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty" (1642). Poems was published in 1645. In 1643 he married Mary Powell (1626-1652) with whom he would have three daughters and one son; Anne, Mary, John, and Deborah. It was a troublesome marriage and they were estranged for a time, causing Milton to pen "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce" (1644). In 1656 he married Catharine Woodcock who died two years later in childbirth along with Milton's fourth daughter, Catharine. In 1663 he married Elizabeth Minshull (1638-1727). In 1649, after the regicide of King Charles I, Milton was appointed Cromwell's Latin secretary of foreign affairs and wrote many pamphlets in defense of the Commonwealth. The intense work of translating and writing created much strain on his eyes and he resorted to a secretary. By 1652 he was entirely blind and relied on the assistance of Andrew Marvell (1621-1678), but it seems that Milton was not unduly grieved by his loss of sight. After the death of Cromwell and the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 Milton retired from public life; as staunch defender of the Commonwealth, he first had to hide entirely from King Charles's loyalists and some of his books were burned. The Great Fire of London in 1666 destroyed the Bread Street house where he was born and that he had inherited from his father. During the plague years he left London for surrounding areas; his cottage in the village of Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire and its gardens are now a museum housing many of his works. It was here that Milton prepared for publication Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, which also includes his poetic drama wherein he reflects on his own life once again under the monarchy, Samson Agonistes (1671); Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver!; John Milton died on 12 November 1674 in Artillery Row, London, and now rests with his father in the church of St. Giles's, Cripplegate, London, England. His On Christian Doctrine was published in 1823. When I consider how my light is spent Biography written by C. D. Merriman for Jalic Inc. Copyright Jalic Inc. 2008. All Rights Reserved.
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Asked about Circle 7 during an early-April interview for Cars, Pixar's star director John Lasseter had no comment. But Andrew Stanton, writer-director of Finding Nemo and a co-writer on the Toy Story movies, was less circumspect in a separate chat (also on the topic of Cars) . ''We were never fooled that [Circle 7] wasn't the most expensive bargaining chip ever created,'' Stanton says. ''But we also knew that, bargaining chip or not, they'd go through with it. They weren't going to blink.''


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Hi All! I was wondering if anybody has made the Blueberry Bonanza in the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. I like how it makes two products with one batch of blueberries (syrup and butter). If you made it, was it worth it? Thanks |
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- Posted by balloonflower none (My Page) on Thu, Jul 4, 13 at 19:05
Since nobody has specifically answered, I would assume the answer to be that it hasn't been made by those who are currently active. I generally find more use for blueberry jam that uses the whole berry. But, if you'd be more likely to use the syrup than a jam, then I would guess that the recipe makes sense to not waste the pulp and instead turn it into a butter. |
Found 2 pound boxes of blueberries at my local kroger's this morning for $3.24 -- I'm trying out the Blueberry Bonanza recipe tonight or tomorrow! Will let you know how it goes. |
I wanted to make a blueberry syrup for drinks and would hate to waste the pulp so this recipe caught my eye! Sweet! I'm planning on going to pick more blueberries soon! I'm looking forward to hearing from you, Alison! |
Well, I did it! There's good news, and there's -- caveats. Be advised this takes a LOT of blueberries. I used 4 pounds, which at the insane price I found them for, only cost me $6.50, but I'd be hard put to buy so much at regular prices. If you're picking your own that's another matter! It takes a lot of time. At least it did for me. I've not made jelly or juice from pulp before, and I swear it took hours to drip out five cups of juice. Frankly, I ended up scrapping the cheesecloth and dumping it in a regular mesh colander simply because midnight was approaching! And it takes a lot of space. And more utensils than I have. Setting up space for the strainer, where it could sit undisturbed for a couple of hours was a pain. And the recipe directs you to cook the butter while you're cooking the syrup; I have only one jam pot, an enamelled Dutch oven, so I made the syrup and set the pulp aside until morning to make the butter. The good news -- this stuff is fantastic! I was ambivalent about the syrup. I mean, I've had blueberry syrup before, it's nice but no big deal, right? Not this stuff. Soooooo rich and silky and essence of blueberry-ness. Really, really, really really good. I imagine this will get the most raves of anything I make this season. I boiled the syrup a good long time, longer than the 35 minutes in the recipe, and it thickened up some. Still, I got 6 8-oz jars, 2 4-oz jars and a little in a glass for the fridge. The butter also took a long time to cook, and I got 4 8-oz jars of that. It seemed like a lot of sugar; I think I only had about 3 cups of pulp for the 3 cups of sugar. I don't know how it ultimately set (I finished it right before leaving for work this morning) but it tasted really really nice, with all the lemon and the spices. (If I make it again, I may cut the sugar a little bit tho', so it's more blueberry taste and not sooo sugary.) Long and short is -- I'm really glad I made this, and I think I may make another batch. Since I still have 8# of blueberries in the freezer. And I'll do it on a Saturday, when I have all day. I say -- go for it! And good luck! |
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- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 12, 13 at 17:52
Any butter, I've found, takes a long time to get it done right. I like my roaster or crock pot for butters. |
- Posted by lpinkmountain 5b/6a border PA (My Page) on Sat, Jul 13, 13 at 13:43
Thanks for posting the results!! |
Awesome! Thanks for posting the results! I have a blueberry farm not far from me that does pick-your-own! Thanks! |
I've made it and was not at all impressed with the syrup. It's not thick, and it's awfully sugary. |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Wed, Jul 17, 13 at 3:48
Blueberries are low in acid and low in pectin, so in old-fashioned parlance, they're "unreliable setters." Generally without the addition of commercial pectin, they'll tend to a looser set. Getting a thick preserve can be difficult and it's easy to over-cook. Basically with a butter you're evaporating out the water to the desired thickness. If you start it on the stovetop and then finish in the oven at a low even temperature (somewhere in the neighborhood of 250) you should be able to reduce sugar somewhat and get a thicker product without risk. Carol |
Actually, the texture of the butter ended up good, but that's a great tip, Carol. The syrup is a bit thinner than I would like. The taste is great, very intensely blueberry, but I wonder if I had just cooked it longer. Think putting that in the oven to finish would work? Ah, well; I just keep it in the fridge after opening! |
Thanks for posting your reviews ladies. I am buying MI blueberries this weekend and I think I'll try this recipe. I'll look to see if there is anyway to streamline some of the steps. |
- Posted by readinglady z8 OR (My Page) on Thu, Jul 18, 13 at 13:53
I have one recipe for a strawberry preserve done in a shallow pan in the oven. It can yield a luscious result and I see no reason it wouldn't work for other fruits. The downside is I find it's more difficult to identify the jell point as the usual temperature tests don't apply. Basically it's a slow evaporation process rather than a cook-to-jellpoint process. You just have to be careful not to overcook, resulting in an excessively stiff preserve. Carol |
- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 18, 13 at 15:45
I'm having a terrible time with my blueberry jam. It doesn't seem to jell. I've reprocessed and added more pectin, but still doesn't seem to jell. How much extra pectin do I need to add to get a good jell. |
mff- You could try Ponoma Pectin. I've had good results with it and it doesn't expire like regular pectin. Cindy |
- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 19, 13 at 13:35
I bought 5# from nuts.com and have been very happy. I think I forgot the lemon juice. I made some low-sugar with Dutch Jell lite and it jelled, but I did add the lemon juice to that. I may just need to use it as syrup. Lesson learned, lol. |
Question about yield on this - the Bonanza recipe says 12C of berries and 3C water yields 5C juice which boiled down with 1C water, 3C sugar and 2C corn syrup yields 4 half pints (4C) of syrup. Seems awfully thick to me - and I would like to avoid the corn syrup. The Ball Complete also has recipe for Blueberry Syrup without corn syrup on page 195. That calls for 8C of berries, but to compare to the Bonanza syrup, multiply by 1.5 (not sure if I'd actually make it that way), so 12C of berries, 3C of water makes unspecified amount of juice but let's say it's 5C since it's made the same way (maybe this recipe lets it drip longer - 2 hours). Using 6C of water instead of 1, and 4.5C of sugar (again, adjusting the recipe for the 12C of berries) to make a simple syrup, then adding the (5C?) of juice, the yield would be 1.5 times 3 pints listed, or 9 half pints (9C), more than twice as much as the corn syrup version! And you still have the pulp to make butter with. So is the version with corn syrup very thick (almost like corn syrup straight out of the bottle), is the no-corn-syrup product very thin (almost like sweetened juice)? Is there a happy medium without using corn syrup (like just boiling the simple syrup longer before adding the blueberry juice, or using a pouch of liquid pectin)? I'd like opinions if anyone has made either (preferably both) of these recipes. I have a bunch of blueberries I picked and froze before the heat wave, it's raining and cooler today so I figured I'd make something with them and free up freezer space! Thanks |
- Posted by myfamilysfarm 5b (My Page) on Tue, Jul 23, 13 at 8:38
I can tell you that the longer you cook syrup, the thicken it will get. |
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VisionTek Racer Series 120GB SSD
The VisionTek Racer uses a nice, solid, aluminum case that is a throwback to when SSDs were made like lumberjacks. Over the last few months we've seen a lot of plastic and wimpy cases for next-gen SSDs, this isn't a sissy case.
On the back we found the part and serial number as well as a warning not to open the drive.
The bottom and side mounting points are where they should be.
The SATA power and data connectors are where they should be as well, but the desktop adapter bracket does not offset the drive to the left. This can make cable installation difficult when you have 3.5" form factor drives next to center mounted SSDs and stiff cables, specifically the SATA power cable.
Where did the flash go?! Admittedly we've not found a lot to like about the VisionTek Racer so far, but this is where VisionTek really did an exceptional job. Wait...
Okay, this is where VisionTek did an exceptional job. Eight NAND flash chips use all 8-channels on the SF-2281 controller so you get very good SandForce performance. We've seen 120GB drives ship with just four chips, a lower power configuration, but one that produces less than optimal results in our Data on Disk tests.
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Go south, young musician
Mazatlan meets Mahler, and two formerly frantic freelance viola players from Seattle find steady work and communal musical bliss in Mexico, where orchestras thrive while their counterparts in the U.S. are struggling.
The high season was still a week off when I arrived in Mazatlán, fleeing the collective cabin fever that is December in Seattle. Perhaps the slight nip in the evening air — the southern edge of the cold front that gripped Seattle — further helped keep the tourists away. One barkeep blamed baseless lingering anxiety over last year's swine flu outbreak in Mexico.
Certainly a more persistent epidemic, narco-violence, was scaring some away; Mazatlán had seen a reported 300 narco-related killings in 2010, and widely publicized shootouts this past September and October, one of them just a few blocks from the beachfront tourist strip. In April the U.S. State Department advised travellers to "visit Mazatlán during daylight hours and limit the time you spend outside tourist centers." So where to go at night? The roads and highways in the surrounding state of Sinaloa, home to Mexico's leading drug cartel, are deemed even more perilous; U.S. government employees are only allowed to drive them by day, in armored vehicles.
Worst yet for the tourist boosters was a breezy recent piece in the Washington Post that purported to reveal which parts of Mexico "are safe to travel to, and which are dangerous." It concludes by declaring some areas "an easy call [to avoid], such as destinations along the northbound drug routes and near ports, such as … the resort town of Mazatlán." That despite the fact that Mazatlán's port is a minor one and it's off the main drug routes — unlike Tijuana, which an expert quoted in the same article mysteriously declares "perfectly safe."
That's not to say Mazatlán can't be dangerous, at least for the Mazatlécos. One local businessman told me the city had seen a record 600 homicides in the first seven months of the year. Drugs weren't the main driver, he explained: Extortion — kidnapping and good old-fashioned protection money — was. "If you don't pay on time, they beat you up. If you go to the police, they kill you." He paid. "They don't touch the tourists" — though a couple had gotten caught in crossfire. "They're afraid of the United States."
However scary all that may sound, another city just 170 miles to the north on Highway 15 has always sounded much, much scarier: Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa, the headquartes of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel and for many decades a marijuana-industry mecca. Even in the 1970s, when I bused and hitchhiked around Mexico, the word was to watch out in Culiacán and stay out of the fields around it. "You should defer non-essential travel to Culiacán," the State Department now warns. "Since 2006, more homicides have occurred [there] than in any other city in Mexico, with the exception of Ciudad Juárez."
Sounds like just the place for a couple of bright-eyed young viola players from Seattle to go to pursue their art? Yes, indeed, I discovered to my delight — because whether or not Sinaloa and Culiacán live up to their reputations as narco-meccas, they're eager to establish themselves as homes for a very different business, classical music.
Tourism downturns have their upsides: a cheap flight with room to stretch. Million-dollar sunsets for less than $40 in the best beach-facing room in Mazatlán's Hotel la Siesta, which looks like a set from an old Bogart movie and has a bronze plaque commemorating Jack Kerouac's stay there. The restaurants had plenty of room, the waiters had all the time in the world for you, and the ambient conversations were in Spanish, not English.
The tourist discos were closed (no loss), but a very different entertainment venue was packed the night I arrived: the beautifully restored 19th-century Teatro Angela Peralta in the Centro Historico. I learned there was a concert there by chance, while riding the elevator down from the rooftop bar atop the only semi-highrise on the Olas Altas beach.
A young couple boarded, she in black gown and he in white tie and tails. Both carried viola cases, and they spoke in distinctly American — perhaps even Northwest — accents. What's on the bill, I asked? "Mahler One," she replied with a smile: Gustave Mahler's formidable First (Titan) Symphony, plus the good ol' 1812 Overture as an appetizer. You don't sound like you're from around here, I said. "We're from Seattle," she replied. And thereby hangs —a tale, a fable of cultural diffusion and globalization.
Their names were Larissa Brown and Jason Sah, and until a few months ago they'd been successful — i.e., frantic — freelance musicians in Seattle. Their résumés give a sense of what it takes to make a living as a classical musician these days, unless you're one of the lucky few to land a chair with major fulltime orchestra like the Seattle Symphony.
Sah had played gigs in Colombia, Mexico, and Malaysia, and all over Europe and North America, and toured with the Salzburg Camerata and Salzburg Kammerphilarmonie. He'd been principle violist with the Starry Night Chamber Players and the Federal Way Symphony. He'd directed the Ballard High School Chamber Orchestra and taught or coached at Ballard High, the Academy of Music Northwest in Bellevue, and Summer Sounds Music Camp on Whidbey Island, and with the Seattle Youth Symphony and Seattle Chamber Music Society's outreach programs. Brown had played with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra and the Seattle Modern Orchestra, played concerts in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, London, and Chicago, recorded film scores and video game soundtracks, taught at the Academy of Music Northwest, the Music Center of the Northwest, and the Edward Said Conservatory of Music in Palestine, and coached the Seattle Youth Symphony.
"Neither one of us had ever done a full-time position before," Sah told me later. "The attraction of freelancing is that you get to do quite a few things. It keeps things interesting." The downside: "It keeps you in your car all the time," dashing between gigs.
And then Brown came across a notice on a music-community website, announcing that the Sinaloa orchestra was auditioning players. "They were accepting DVDs, which is unusual. Usually you have to fly down in person. I had nothing to lose." She sent a disk – and was invited down. Sah won the remaining open violist's chair in the next DVD audition round, after much nail-biting in the interim.
She arrived in Culiacán in September, and he joined her in early November. They joined an ensemble that is so international "you start to forget you're in Mexico," says Brown. Other players come from Spain, Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria — not to mention Michigan, Idaho, and the East Coast. One oboe player was from Seattle, but he moved on. Perhaps this is what music-making was like in the United States a hundred and more years ago, when an increasingly urban, affluent, and educated nation embraced symphonic music and the high culture it represented, and imported swarms of musicians from Europe.
Now orchestras are struggling, contracting, and sometimes folding in the United States — but surging in Mexico, thanks to official support. Every state has its own, Brown told me. Although Sinaloa is a small state, its orchestra, founded just 10 years ago, and conductor Enrique Patrón de la Rueda are among the country's most celebrated. They're clearly the local pride and joy: Between Tchaikovsky and Mahler, a roster of local dignitaries stepped forward at intermission to salute, at length, the civilizing role of the arts and the patrons who'd made this example possible. Finally even an audience used to Latinate peroration grew restive: "Musica!" one fan shouted from the balcony.
Brown and Sah are still adjusting to the Mexican way of making music, which is more relaxed than the norteamericano fashion in two senses of the word: Orchestra members typically work just that one gig, instead of chasing around after others. "Rehearsal ends at 1:30 and the day is over," marvels Brown. "You can take a walk, cook, practice…." Free time — what a concept! And the chains of punctuality don't bind so tightly as in a U.S. orchestra: "Arriving at rehearsal a few minutes late isn't such a big deal."
That flexibility cuts both ways. Up north, the season is set before it starts. In Mexico, says Brown, the schedule evolves as it progresses. "It makes plans and trips more difficult." Or maybe not: "They just say, 'Send an email a couple weeks before you want to go,' and it always seems to be granted."
The public response to the music is anything but casual. Subsidized tickets (from less than $4 to $22 U.S. for the Mahler concert, often free in other venues) make concerts accessible to a broad social swathe. On weekends the Sinaloa orchestra travels to plazas in small towns around the state: "Everybody in town will be out in plastic chairs, waiting for hours in order to get a good seat," says Brown. "It's really wonderful." They may never have heard classical music before, but they've grown up on a distant cousin: banda, the village brass-band tradition, which began with German polkas but has since absorbed everything from rock, pop, and cumbia to an occasional opera overture. "People grow up living and breathing music," says Brown — no more so than in Sinaloa, a magnet for German immigrans and seedbed of banda in the 19th century, and of narcocorridos today.
I got a taste of the unselfconscious enthusiasm of local audiences in the mid-'70s, when I whiled away a layover between buses in Mazatlán at a matinee screening of Jesus Christ Superstar. The kids hissed and threw popcorn at Judas. Mahler got a warmer reception last month: a standing ovation after a spirited performance, repeated for many of the section principals.
It's all a far, far cry from the crime and violence that, for most norteamericanos, are inextricably linked with places like Culiacán and Sinaloa. "We don't see any of those things you read about in the papers," says Brown. "Of course, we don't go looking. There are some places you don't go. It's all about practicing good sense."
When we started talking, Jason Sah waxed tentative: "This is the job you get when your career's at a level where you want to coast a bit. It is totally not the last stop of either of us." By the end, after he and Brown had described the pleasures of making music Mexico, he was waxing differently: "I really like the lifestyle down here. I think I could get used to this."
Should any musicians still shivering and scrambling for work up in the States feel the same way, perhaps some of the orchestras in all those other states are also scouting for ringers — for now, anyway. Music schools are also spreading (Mazatlán and Culiacán both have them), training the homegrown violists of the future.
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Your comments about Mazatlan and Mexican violence are typically ignorant. Quoting locals and old news only scares people. As for the swine flu scare--it was in 2009 and if it matters, there were only a few cases in Mazatlan and each of them was a person who had traveled outside of the area.
Your piece did a good job talking about music and the musicians. Our orchestra has a very diverse international mix. This mix is often criticized in local papers as some would prefer an all Mexican orchestra. Where I take great exception is setting your story against the backdrop of narco violence and extortion. If your subject musicians took a job in any major city in the U.S., you could site the same facts about murder rates and extortion, but you wouldn't. Somehow when it is Mexico you journalists feel the need to talk about the violence. You could have set your piece against the backdrop of the economy which is struggling here as it is elsewhere in the world. Many cultural events were not sellouts this year as in the past. The cruise industry is facing challenges and lack of cruse tourism has severely impacted the local economy. The northern part of Mexico is in a severe drought. This has caused some food prices to skyrocket pinching already tight budgets.
In the future, please either stick to sunsets, beaches and umbrella drinks or, if you want to learn about Mazatlan, come back and we'll show you around. We have a lot to offer--far beyond what you touched on. Grabbing the obvious and overdone topic of violence is the cheap and easy way out and I believe you are a better journalist than that.
Thanks for listening.
Greg - full-time in Mazatlan
Posted Thu, Jan 5, 8:51 a.m.
There is an incredibly strong arts scene all over Mexico, much of it fueled by gringo dollars. Places like Puerto Vallarta and San Miguel del Allende are well known for their galleries, artists and designers.Tijuana frequently makes the Architecture magazines as young architects design without the rules that are so deadening in the USA. Guanajuato has its opera house, it's university, it's museum of Diego Rivera.And if you are retired and living in Mexico taking up painting or theatre or writing is just the thing you've always wanted to do. Myself I purchased a warehouse for a painting studio at an incredibly affordable price. While it can be difficult to make a living as an artist in Mexico the rewards are plentiful and many succeed. The cost of living is so much less that one can sell artwork in the USA and live a healthy life in Mexico. At some point a real bridge will happen between artists freezing their asses off in the northern climes of North America, Europe and Asia, and warm and friendly and very affordable Mexico and Central America. One note on safety; I feel safer in Mexico than i do in downtown Seattle.
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It is comforting to know I am not alone regarding crazy sleeping patterns. I've been reading posts and I don't feel like I'm losing my mind. Last night, before I went to bed, I prayed that I would sleep through the night. At 2:30 a.m. when I was sitting outside on my porch after waking up, I prayed to be able to go back to sleep. I went back in the house after about a half an hour and fell back asleep until the alarm went off at 5:30. Why is 2:30 a.m. or 3:00 a.m. the magic moment that we get pulled out of our beauty sleep? Who said that my 40's would be feel like the begining of my life? Not depressed, just rolling with the changes....... |
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You're right about the 2:30 or 3:00 time in my experience. I never related it to being like a baby again, lol. Maybe we need to get up and drink a warm glass of milk, kind of like babies do to get back to sleep :) Mrs H |
Mine also seems to be around 2:30 or 3:00 a.m. My alarm goes off at 4:30. No, you're definitely not losing your mind. |
This is happening to me as well. 2:30/3:00 A.M. is also the magic time. I get up, let the dogs out, make a cup of tea, get the dogs in and then I'll read for awhile until I can go back to sleep. It's very draining on me mentally. It's no wonder we all complain about decreased mental function and loss of short term memory. |
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I can totally sympathize and I used to fret over how much sleep I was getting (or not getting) all the time. I was always waking up in the pre-dawn hours and it really bothered me I couldn't sleep through the night. But then last year, I decided to give it up and let my body settle into whatever sleep pattern I felt comfortable with. So I'm a total night-owl now and I rarely go to bed until well after midnight, usually between 1-2AM. That 'eight hours of sleep' thing is drilled into our heads all our lives, but everybody knows you don't need as much sleep as we age. I'm quite comfortable with 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night and can function just fine all day without feeling sleepy. The extra hours late at night are my quiet time and I spend it reading, working on craft projects, watching chick flicks, etc. It takes a while to adjust to a different schedule of sleep, but not fighting it made all the difference and I'm not staring at a dark ceiling at 3:00am anymore! |
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