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5" Chalice Lighting and Opening Reading
10" Check-in
20" Activity 1: Cheap Labor for Cheap Goods
20" Activity 2: Economic Development
20" Activity 3: The Profitability of Prisons
10" Debrief
5" Closing
Chalice Lighting and Opening Reading
In order to address the issue of mass migration to the U.S., we must understand the root causes of this migration: poverty, conflict, oppression. Part of our responsibility is to study what effect U.S. foreign and economic policies may have on increasing poverty and oppression in the countries from which many immigrants come. As the Catholic Bishops of the US said. . . "We oppose efforts to stem migration that do not adequately address its root causes and that permit the continuation of the political, social, and economic inequalities that contribute to it.
—Statement of Principles on Immigration Issues, Interfaith Worker Justice Board of Directors
Participants are invited to share where they are spiritually/emotionally with respect to the class.
Activity 1: Cheap Labor for Cheap Goods
Based on what we learned in session three about the economic pressures on immigration and handouts 5.1 and 5.3, who is it that benefits from this large pool of undocumented workers? Who is hurt? In what ways are we as U.S. consumers complicit?
Activity 2: Economic "Development"
Much of our economic/trade policies with "developing" countries is based on the assumption that free-trade and globalization are beneficial to the poor. Based on handout 5.2, are these assumptions valid. Who is it that benefits from "economic development" and "free trade"? Tying in from session three, what is the effect on the workers as goods are shipped freely across borders?
Activity 3: The Profitability of Prisons
As we have learned from session one, being in the U.S. without proper documentation is a civil offense, not criminal. Yet in recent years there has been an increasing movement towards criminalizing undocumented immigration in order to "get tough" on those who come (or stay) without proper papers. Based on handouts 5.4 and 5.5, what other motivations are at work? Regardless of one's feelings about undocumented immigration, how do people feel about our tax dollars being spent this way?
Participants are invited to share anything that strongly moved them during the session.
Closing Reading and Extinguishing the Chalice
May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that we may live deep within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that we may work for economic justice for all people. May God bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, hunger, homelessness and rejection, so that we may reach out our hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in the world so that we can do what others claim cannot be done.
—Franciscan Prayer to End Poverty
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I'm interested in sidemount diving but before I invest in the equipment, I have some questions:
- all the movies are made in nice hot water but I dive in cold water with a drysuit and a Weezle undersuit: how does the system work in cold water? What with the lead, do you need more lead?
- the Z-system is for 1 stagebottle. Is it possible to put a second stagebottle on the harness in the future?
- most of my dives would be as sidemounting but rarely I still want to dive as backmounting. Is it possible to install a divebottle on the back?
If I read your explanation, if I buy a UTD Z-Plus - Single System Complete (Rec. Side-Mount Version), then I have everything to dive sidemount and backmount. Another question: can I put an OMS backplate on it for backmount diving?
As a side note: Divers have expressed concern that the Z-System has a single point of failure in the Z-manifold. This is true, but that is a risk that has an equivalent in back mount and that we have a protocol to handle. Let's discuss this point. We do have the same single point of failure when you dive a std UTD/DIR double tank system. That is the isolator knob. If we somehow damage the manifold isolator knob, we will be unable to shut down the knob and loose all the gas. Remember, it is high pressure, if you smack it and destroy it, it will be a catastrophic lose of gas. Secondly your "only" bailout is your teammate. With the Z-System, if you were able to damage the Z-manifold (much lower profile than the Isolator Knob on a set of doubles), it is low pressure, far less catastrophic than a high pressure failure, secondly your bailout is "Traditional Side Mount". Meaning that simply unplug the QC6's, and you now have independent double side mount tanks with a second stage attached to either the first stages of the cylinder. You can also have a second stage with QC6 female in your pocket and simply plug the QC6'ed onto each of the stages as needed. Keeping in mind a third option is your buddy (std UTD/DIR option.) SO in actually fact you have two (2) bailout options in Z-System whereas in UTD/DIR std back-mount you only have one option.
While I appreciate your point of view, a single point of failure exists in all systems, from backmount DIR to rebreathers to Side-Mount. For example in backmount DIR (Double Tanks with Isolator Manifold) if you were to slam into the ceiling and shear the isolator knob off (High profile, high pressure, dynamic o-rings) on a set of doubles (That is a more reasonable scenario than breaking the z-manifold), you would first and foremost lose all you gas and all your diving functionality including breathing gas, bcd gas and drysuit inflation. Your bailout would be solely be your buddy.
In the Z-Side-mount system, we use the z-distribution block to "enhance" the functionality of the system and DO NOT RELY on for the dive. By distributing the gas, one is able to enjoy all the benefits (Long hose, necklace, bcd and so on at all times) with far less risk than an isolator knob on a set of doubles (z-manifold is low profile, low pressure, static o-rings). If you have any issues such as you suggest, your first line of defense is bailout to side-mount and then ultimately your buddy. By bailing out to traditional side-mount you can simply unplug the cylinders and use a standard second stage to breath the gas, you can orally inflate the BCD. and obviously you are bailing out so you are heading home so drysuit inflation is unnecessary. I know..... I know, you gonna say but in a cave we may have to...........My answer would be "Like in any special circumstance, if you have to descend on the way home, you can put an extra LP hose on a cylinder, or wear a separate drysuit inflation bottle like we already do for technical and trimix." Point is, I could make a thousand and one arguments as to why the "typical" side-mount configuration will fail in a circumstance, if you lost this hose then this or that hose then that. Here is the crux of the matter. With the Z-Side-Mount System and the Z-Manifold Block (Distribution block) what I get is all the benefits (listed below) without increasing risk, in fact less than an isolator knob on a standard set of doubles manifold which I dove successfully for 20 years anyways. IMHO
Benefits of Z-Side-Mount System over Traditional Side-Mount
Scalable - I use ONE system for all my diving... Single (1) Tank (Recreational), 2 tanks (Tech-reational), 3 tanks, 4 tanks. Deco bottles, Stages.... even my Rebreather (PSCR and mCCR) - One CANNOT do it this with traditional Side-mount. Imagine that you can now stage a cave with cylinders, and deco bottle, plug them into the system and always have donate-able long hose, necklace, bcd, drysuit and even rebreather function with any cylinder in the cave
Consistent - Within a UTD/DIR Team and all environments. Can easily dive wihin a mixed team (back-mount, rebreather and side-mount) and still have the donate-able long hose wrapped around your neck (NO MORE Stuffing the long hose) Best of all you can ALWAYS DONATE FROM MY MOUTH - again something traditional Side-mount configuration does not offer. With Z-System we can even do better than with traditional UTD/DIR back-mount in that we even have donate-able long hose during DECO :)
Minimalist - Only take what we need. We don't need to configure every tank and/or stage bottle with two regualtors, drysuit hose and BCD hose. Again when staging a cave ( dropping stage and deco bottles) to do big pushes, we do not worry about the fact that the stage bottle only has a single regulator on it (traditional BAck-Mount and side-mount) When we use to dive stages, we would use them first and drop them at 1500+200. Scary thing was when you came back to it, it only had a single regulator on it, NOW we has this ability plus we can pug it into the system and get FULL Functionality.
Integration - It integrates perfectly into our already established 20 years of UTD/DIR/Hogarthian system. The light is still on the right side, the argon is still worn on the left, the 7'/2m long hose still wraps around your neck and tucks under the light or knife, you are always breathing a donate-able hose, you still have a necklace regulator always ready to go, you still rock bottom gas management, you still use Ratio Deco... blah blah blah. Essentials it fully meets the 10 covenants of UTD.
This of course is a short list, but gives you the basic idea. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Series starts 1/2
Game 1: Monday, January 2nd | ||
Raptors | 90 | Final |
Knicks | 85 | |
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Game 2: Tuesday, February 14th | ||
Knicks | 90 | Final |
Raptors | 87 | |
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Game 3: Tuesday, March 20th | ||
Raptors | 87 | Final |
Knicks | 106 | |
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Game 4: Friday, March 23rd | ||
Knicks | 79 | Final |
Raptors | 96 | |
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Coverage: CSNC
7:00 PM ET, March 23, 2012
Air Canada Centre, Toronto, ON
TORONTO -- Raptors coach Dwane Casey came up with just the thing to slow down the surging New York Knicks: a zone.
DeMar DeRozan scored 30 points before leaving with a sore left ankle, Andrea Bargnani had 21 and the Raptors routed the Knicks 96-79 Friday night, snapping New York's five-game winning streak.
"The zone knocked us on our heels," Knicks center Tyson Chandler said. "We had trouble finding ways to score against it and that really was the outcome because we never got a rhythm or momentum."
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Chandler said Toronto's zone was similar to the one he played under Casey when both were with Dallas during last season's championship run.
"It's designed to force you to take jump shots and we kind of fell into the trap," Chandler said.
The results weren't pretty. New York shot just 32 of 85 (38 percent) and no Knicks player made more than six field goals.
"Everybody struggled to make shots, and I mean wide-open shots," New York coach Mike Woodson said. "I thought we moved the ball but we just couldn't make shots and defensively we couldn't get stops. That's a bad combination."
The Raptors, who had lost seven of 10 coming in, never trailed and led by as many as 22, avenging a 106-87 loss at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.
"That was good to see, especially after the spanking they put on us down in New York," Casey said. "I was really proud of the way our guys came out."
Losing for the first time in six games since replacing Mike D'Antoni, Woodson didn't feel the same way about his team's effort.
"I just didn't see energy tonight," Woodson said. "We were a step slow from the very beginning. We've got to play at a much higher level than we did tonight."
Gary Forbes scored 19 points, one shy of his career-high, and Jose Calderon had 10 assists as Toronto snapped a three-game skid. Forbes said the Raptors "played with a chip on our shoulder."
"They kicked out butt in New York," said Forbes, who scored 14 in the final quarter. "Coach reiterated how we got punked and had to come in here and protect our home court."
DeRozan fell hard after a collision with Calderon with 2:59 left, then got up and hobbled straight to the locker room. Afterward, however, he said the injury wasn't as serious as it looked.
"I came down and tweaked my ankle a little bit," DeRozan said. "It was just a little scare. It's a little sore right now and I just had it treated, try to get it ready for the game (at Chicago on Saturday night)."
Amare Stoudemire scored 17 points, Steve Novak had 15 and Carmelo Anthony 12 for the Knicks, who came in having won six of seven against the Raptors, including three straight in Toronto.
Jeremy Lin made a game-winning 3-pointer on New York's last visit to Toronto, a 90-87 victory on Feb. 14, but was held in check this time, finishing with six points. Hundreds of fans cheered Lin with signs and Taiwanese flags, but many in the crowd booed whenever he touched the ball.
Lin had as much trouble with the zone as his teammates.
"We didn't necessarily attack as much as we should have," he said. "It's something we really don't have a lot of plays for, so we kind of just float around the outside and end up settling for a lot of jumpers."
Trailing by 17 to start the fourth, the Knicks opened with a 7-0 run, including a three-point play by J.R. Smith and a 3 from Novak. Forbes stopped the run with a pair of baskets before Novak added another 3.
The Knicks scored just one basket in the next 4 minutes as Toronto surged ahead. Bargnani and DeRozan had consecutive dunks, forcing a New York timeout. After the stoppage, DeRozan dunked off Forbes' alley-oop off the glass before Forbes forced a steal and drove in for a layup, making it 86-65 with 4:54 left.
Tempers nearly flared in the first after Bargnani leveled Lin with a screen and Anthony responded by hauling down Calderon on a drive to the basket. Calderon got up yelling, and Raptors center Aaron Gray gave Anthony a hard shove. Both Gray and Anthony got technicals, while Bargnani was whistled for an offensive foul.
More words were exchanged in the tunnel as the teams left the court after the final buzzer, but Chandler downplayed the incident.
"That kind of happens," he said. "You get edgy sometimes when you lose a game you felt like you were supposed to win. Emotions run high."
Bargnani and DeRozan each scored nine in the first and Anthony shot just 2 for 7 as Toronto led 25-16 after one period.
Novak hit a 3 at the halftime buzzer but the Raptors, who did not trail in the first two quarters, took a 39-36 lead into the locker room.
DeRozan scored 14 points in the third, two on an impressive alley-oop from James Johnson and two more on a rebound and jumper with less than two seconds left, as the Raptors took a 70-53 lead into the fourth.
Game notes
Stoudemire wore a gray hoodie during early warmups, a sign of support for the family of Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin. ... Chandler led New York with 11 rebounds. ... New York had 22 turnovers, leading to 22 Toronto points. ... Knicks F Jared Jeffries, who left Wednesday's win at Philadelphia with a sore left knee, is expected to undergo an MRI Saturday morning, and likely will miss that evening's game against Detroit. ... Raptors G Jerryd Bayless (left hip) did not play. Casey said Bayless will probably sit out Saturday's game at Chicago. ... Toronto waived F Rasual Butler earlier Friday. Butler had not played in eight games. ... For the first time in franchise history, a Raptors game was broadcast in Mandarin. Former Chinese Olympic basketball player Weiping Zhang handled play-by-play duties for the national broadcast on OMNI, a Canadian multicultural station.
Team Stat Comparison
Points | 79 | 96 |
Rebounds (Offensive-Total) | 10-39 | 12-46 |
Assists | 22 | 22 |
Turnovers | 22 | 17 |
Steals | 8 | 7 |
Blocks | 6 | 6 |
Fast Break Points | 11 | 11 |
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) | 20 (2/0) | 21 (1/0) |
Largest Lead | 0 | 22 |
Top Performers
Game Leaders
Points | A. Stoudemire 17 | D. DeRozan 30 |
Rebounds | T. Chandler 11 | A. Bargnani 7 |
Assists | B. Davis 8 | J. Calderon 10 |
Steals | B. Davis 2 | J. Calderon 2 |
Blocks | A. Stoudemire 2 | A. Johnson 4 |
Team rosters: New York | Toronto |


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It's autumn in New York City, which can only mean one thing: charity season. It's something that's come to be associated with staid, uptown gatherings, but on Thursday night, philanthropy traveled south, proving that downtown denizens are no less serious about good works than their 10028 counterparts.
The second annual Art Rocks party at the Bowery Hotel was the draw. The event, which benefited the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University Medical Center, boasted an 800-person turnout with boldface names that would excite any event planner worth her Louboutins. Co-chair Charlotte Ronson and rich girl Ally Hilfiger chatted intently while seated by the window, seemingly eager for some quiet time. Liam McMullan, Patrick McMullan's son (who is always the life of the party), was in the center of a large crowd—perhaps gathering fodder for his new Page Six magazine column? And speaking of the 666, we spotted ex-Radar-er Neel Shah, rumored by the blogs to be joining Richard Johnson's illustrious team. Meanwhile, Olivia Palermo was arm-in-arm with beau Johannes Huebl. (There were no cameramen to be seen, so we can assume she was off duty from her upcoming reality television series.) Kipton Cronkite seemed to be enjoying the scene, and, as founder of KiptonART, which promotes young artistic talent, undoubtedly felt to be among kindred spirits.The hotel's ballroom provided the perfect setting for an opulent evening. The softly lit space featured details such as an expansive pool table that guests were eager to try out. Noted spinmaster DJ Berrie (also the grandson of Naomi Berrie, and brother of V.F. staffer Nicole Berrie) was at the turntable and provided a wonderfully eclectic mix, but the main focus was the art. A silent auction put together by Emmett Shine and James Cruickshank of Lola New York and Matthew Rowean of Rowean Design featured a variety of works from 13 up-and-coming artists. Guests made their way through the crowd to check out the offering, which ranged from large-scale photos to exquisite paintings.
Other luminaries in attendance included event co-chair Maggie Rizer, Alexandra Richards, Zelda and Zach Williams, Catherine Forbes, and Moises de la Renta. But let's not forget the bottom line: more than $150,000 was brought in, a true testament to people's generosity in this gloomy economic climate.


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Winter conditions in northern Norway can be very hard. Strong winds occur all of a sudden, often followed by heavy snowfall. Situations like that offer great photographic opportunities although it's not easy to create a proper composition when your equipment is nearly blown away. Initially I had chosen a longer exposure time, thinking that this would support the scenery. But then I recognized on the display that the drifting snow was nearly invisible. I managed to do some more images with a shorter shutter speed, but then the storm stopped as abruptly as it had started. As always: Great situations in nature don't last too long.
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Anytime a hockey team enters a game without a player they usually lean on heavily, some things have to change. A lot of times we'll see that team not just survive, but thrive. There are reasons for that.
Tonight, the Nashville Predators are without their leading scorer in playoffs (and he hasn't even played well), Alexander Radulov. He's two points up on the guy in second, Andrei Kostitsyn…who's also out tonight. So needless to say, they'll be heading into action a little offensively hamstrung.
Yesterday, the New Jersey Devils played without their 100 million dollar man Ilya Kovalchuk, and gave one of their best performances of the post-season, winning 4-1 against the Flyers in front of the voracious Philadelphia crowd. At a glance, it makes no sense: why were they so good without their best player? Are they better off without him then?
The answer to the latter is "no." The mental adjustments players make aren't sustainable. It's akin to bearing down and hitting a great drive on the 18th tee. You can do it once in awhile, but it's just not possible to grind it out like that every shot, every hole.
The answer to the former needs a closer look.
Teams that rise up and excel with a depleted roster have to make some mental changes.
There's a natural mindset shift that happens when you're doing up your tie-down, looking around the room in pre-game and don't see your team's big guns. Guys always go out there intending to do their job well - if you're a second or third line forward, your priorities are to play solid, do the right thing, and try to create some chances. If they go in, hey you had a great night. If they don't, well, as long as you played solid, no big deal.
But at that moment you realize that the offense is going to have to come from somewhere, and that you're going to have to step it up that night. It's a focus thing. It's Emeril's "BAM" to your usual mental preparation - it kicks it up a notch.
A quick analogy: those of you who play rec hockey can relate to this. Have you ever had those games where a number of people don't show up, and you find your team out-numbered like, eight skaters to 15? You realize "Okay, we can't run-and-gun tonight, we can't dump-and-chase, we need to play a possession game. Let's play patient, and capitalize when we get our chances." You make that mental change. (Something about that style reminds me of how the Canadiens played when they upset the Capitals a couple years back).
You adjust your game because you don't have the same tools you normally do. You remind yourself to be smarter with the puck.
It's not rope-a-dope necessarily, you just take less risks and hope you bury every time you get the puck near the net. When you have possession in the offensive corner, maintaining control is suddenly more important that making a risky pass to hopefully score, because the last thing you want is send your opponent the other way on a rush. Another night…maybe not. Maybe you're not so cautious and you cost your team.
It isn't necessarily noticeable outside the heads of the players - it's not like a team will play a different system, or dump it every time, or shoot every time they're inside the blueline. It's just a mindset that takes more focus and discipline.
I know some of my Twitter friends will cry "narratives" at this stuff, but implying that the human element doesn't exist and that people don't alter the way they play depending on circumstances is as wrongheaded as implying statistical regression to the mean doesn't exist.
Tonight the Phoenix Coyotes bring their healthy team in to play Nashville, in a game the Preds desperately need. I'm not saying the Preds will win (though I think they will), but they will play differently.


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I bought my friend the ingredients to make an extract honey wheat and gave him some of my harvested WLP 320. He used his spare bath tub for his water bath, but used frozen gallon jugs and brought the temp too low. He's been struggling ever since (few days), and I can tell he's frustrated and considering going back to his Mr Beer kits. He would place them (Mr Beer fermentors) on a concrete floor that he said stays fairly cold. He hasn't had issues with creating fusel from what I understand. Could this be due to a wider base than a bucket and so there's more contact area keeping cool? I looked at Mr Beer's yeast and it states the temps should be 68-76*, which really isn't far off from most other yeasts. Should he just try something like 1332 NW Ale, which shows a temp range of 65-75*? I have no idea what kind of temps his beer gets up to or the temp of his concrete floor, but if his Mr Beer yeast is doing fairly well it seems to reason he could probably get away with doing it like that with some of the other yeast strains. He is a restaurant manager who doesn't have much time to monitor the temp.
Is there kind of an average temp where typical American yeast strains begin to create fusels and/or off flavors?
I may be wrong, but I think high fermentation temperatures are the cause of fusel alcohol. Think 75+.
It sounds like "relax" might be a key concept here- if the concrete floor is fairly cool and he's made decent beer with the Mr Beer kits, there probably isn't a good reason to try to complicate matters. I'd get more temp data. Get a good temp on the floor, then slap a stick-on liquid crystal thermometer on the side of one of the fermenters to get a ballpark fermentation temp for the next batch. Also- what would the water bath temp be without ice bottles? Maybe the water bath pulling the first couple days' heat off the fermenters would be enough to keep things nice. In my experience, typical American ale yeast gets fruity or develop bite at 70 and above. Some produce off flavors I don't like, and others are kind of neat. One option for warm brewing without temp control headaches might be Belgian styles. Those yeasts give lots of character at the warmer end of their operating range and cleaner results at the low end. Many tasty Belgian styles can be brewed at 70-75º. Maybe a Belgian Wit with some wheat extract and a bit of grain to steep? Or a blonde...and then after that get creative with the specialty grains? Since I'm lazy, I'm coming around to the theory of adapting the style to the weather as opposed to taking even simple measures to control temperature. Managing ice bottles etc isn't exactly my idea of fun. Controls will give the best quality though...all depends on what you're looking for. This list from White Labs has good general info and might help pick a good strain: http://www.whitelabs.com/beer/homebrew_strains.html
Recent brews: Amber ale w/ honey malt, Dunkelweizen, Oktoberfest, Alt, Kölsch, English Brown, Rye IPA, Amarillo IPA. 55 gallons so far in 2013.
I suppose attaching a fermometer would be a very good idea. I wish I knew a little more about the Mr Beer yeast he has been using, and why it's not producing fusels. I'd have assumed it would if he's not doing much other than placing his fermentors on the concrete. But I've tried 2 of his beers, and no fusels. I've suggested the Belgian yeasts too, but I'm sure there will be styles he'd want to make not really in line with those yeasts. I know he loves wheat beers. i hate to get pushy with him, but the fact is the Mr Beer stuff just isn't all that great. But the main reason is that he thought it was cheap. I showed him the costs of my extract with grains cost, and I can make twice as much beer that tastes three times as good (except the ones I screwed up on). What about Fermentis yeast? They claim up to 75*. Anybody fermented a little higher with it?
Fermentis US-05 developed quite a bit of yeast bite for me near 75. Honestly it wasn't a dealbreaker, but it wasn't exactly pleasant. BRY-97, which some people suspect is the same strain, showed no sharp off flavors a degree or two cooler, but was very very fruity. Several people liked that beer better than the identical one brewed with US-05 at 70º. Crazy, I say, but it was tasty even though it wouldn't win a competition. Keep in mind that 75 on a stick-on thermometer probably means that the fermenter's internal temp is higher. Also...this depends on your buddy's personality, but it might be worth experimenting with Belgain yeast and...well...whatever recipe he feels like? So long as he's happy with drinking decent beer that's not funky, but won't win any competitions, that might be a solution. I think it sounds like a fun thing to do in the summer.
I thought the fermometers did read internal temps accurately? I have one in my cart just to see what the difference is between my 62-66* water bath and the beer itself.
Just a note on yeast temp ranges (I'm sure lots of people know this, but since it is a beginners forum ill say it anyway). Some yeasts will give a very wide temperature range when it is actually a combination of smaller temp ranges. I'll have to look up the specific example if anybody wants, but basically I was choosing between two pilsner yeasts. I think they were from Wyeast. They both listed my style as a style they could be used for. One had a range of something like 58-65 and the other something like 57-75. Don't quote my exact numbers. I decided that i would use the one with the larger range because it would be more forgiving. If you read the fine print, what it meant was the second range was actually only 57-65, but could be used up to 75 if you were brewing a steam beer. It certainly wasn't a lie, and I don't think Wyeast is trying to deceive anyone, it was just a mistake I made that seemed to be an easy mistake for any beginner to make. Here I thought I was doing my due diligence and reading instructions carefully...
Liquid crystal thermometers give a good idea of what's going on, but during vigorous fermentation, all that metabolism cranks out heat, so it's safe to assume that it's "a couple" or "a few" degrees warmer in the middle of the fermenter. People have rigged probes to monitor this. I figure that if my stick-on thermometer reads 66º and I'm using Wyeast 1335 British Ale II, I'll get the flavor profile I know and love. Whether it's 66, 68, or even 70 inside the fermenter, I just know to keep the thermometer at 66 if I want the results I like. (Although it's not much different at 68, you can tell a bit of a difference). Likewise, Belgains won't produce the interesting flavors at the low end of their operating temperature. They end up on the bland side if you're shooting for a true Belgain style (which is why I wonder if they'd be OK for generic low-70's fermentation?). They like it warm. "How warm" in my opinion can be figured out by brewing a batch with a external thermometer reading in the middle of the strain's specs (unless it's a yeast with a dual range so to speak) and then working from there. Anyway, I think every fermenter should have a stick-on thermometer! They're cheap, effective, and allow us to collect data in the notebook, even if that data's a bit skewed, it's still consistent.


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Reading the remarks of John Thain is the new Kremlinology.
As we noted in our earlier item, Thain defended the hybrid system yesterday. But one thing we didn't get around to noticing until we re-watched the interview this morning is that hain defended not just the electronic aspects of the hybrid system but the human components as well.
"If anything I think that yesterday proved that we still need people here. And that's really what hybrid is all about. And people were able to deal with, and really to overcome, the technical problems at the close yesterday," Thain told CNBC.
Thain's defense of the human element on the trading floor got our attention because it came on the heels of the announcement that Goldman managing partner Duncan Niederauer, who reportedly strongly favors moving to a fully electronic trading system, had been tapped to become a high-ranking executive at the exchange. There had been speculation that Niederauer's arrival at the NYSE might presage a move to eliminate the specialists.
The hybrid system has been controversial, especially among specialists who trade on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Hybrid combines human traders with electronic trading and it's introduction has led to a reduction in the number of traders on the floors of the exchange. Some specialists view the hybrid system as a sort of Trojan Horse for the eventual move to totally a automated, electronic system that would eliminate the specialists all together.
Some have pinned the blame for Tuesdays problems squarely on the electronic components of hybrid and the reduction of traders on the floor of the exchange. Traders we spoke to Tuesday evening pointed to this problem. And this opinion isn't just confined to specialists (who obviously have an interest in blaming the electronic systems they fear may make them redundant). CNBC star reporter Charlie Gasparino also argued that the hybrid system was compromised by an inadequate number of specialists.
"One of the reasons why we had problems yesterday is because there aren't enough specialists inside the hybrid working to make markets," Gasparino said last night on CNBC's "On The Money" program. "Ninety-percent of the time the electronic markets can work fine. You need specialists when you have these huge order imbalances."
Specialists at certain posts on floor of the New York Stock Exchange have been told not to close up shop yet, according to NYSE CEO John Thain, who spoke moments ago to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo and Bob Pisani. It seems that the floor trader nightmare we described last night as "the death of the God of the Closing Bell" continues.
"Well, Maria, what you saw a little bit today and also yesterday was we had record message traffic volume through our system and several of the servers experienced queues. Which means that they don't fail but they're a little bit slow and they build up a traffic jam of messages. And so what we wanted to do today, as we did yesterday, was let that traffic jam, that cue clear," Thain said.
Thain played down the significance of this afternoon's delays, emphasizing that orders could not be entered after the 4 P.M. closing bell.
"Many times when there is an order imbalance at the end, it take a few minutes for the stocks to actually come up with a closing price. And that's really what we were doing today. There were some orders we wanted to make sure it got to the post and then we closed the price," Thain continued.
He estimated that it would take only a few extra-minutes to complete the process, telling Maria Bartiromo that the posts should be closed by 4:15.
If he was in charge of his own graphics it probably would have read "Business As Usual" instead of what CNBC tagged him with: "Specialists Told To Keep Trading Books Open After 4:00 PM ET."
Color us skeptical when it comes to all the blather blaming yesterday's sell-off on a computer glitch. Or glitches. Why? Because it seems the main thing that caused the computer glitch was so many sell-orders pushing through the system at once. If selling caused the glitch, how could the glitch cause the selling? Okay, maybe there's a sequential, feedback loop thing going on here but isn't it a little too soon to confidently point the finger at the robots?
The Wall Street Journal has some interesting reporting about what happened when the electronic trading systems broke down. Most the the tale, of course, comes from floor traders who, of course, mostly fear and loathe the robotic masters who are threatening their jobs. So you probably want to discount some of the "manual process which never breaks down" talk for self-interest from the people new NYSE executive Duncan Niederauer once reportedly referred to as "five guys named Vinny."
After the Dow problem was resolved, other woes bedeviled traders. About a half hour before the closing bell rang at 4 p.m. Eastern time, traders reported having problems sending electronic buy and sell orders to the NYSE, which recently began converting to a largely electronic system.
At one post on the floor, traders resorted to writing buy and sell orders on a dry-erase board. Most of the letters next to the stock symbols said "S," for "sell."
"Go manual if you can," said Art Cashin, a longtime floor broker for UBS, to traders at about 4 p.m. "Take paper if you have to."
Traders were still negotiating stock closing prices 10 minutes after the 4 p.m. close. "You're done, 50 grand at 74.20," Michael Rutigliano, a floor broker at the NYSE, yelled into his headset shortly after the markets were supposed to have been closed.
Mr. Rutigliano reflected the frustration floor traders are feeling these days, as their role becomes diminished by the electronic age. "We were able to revert to a manual process that never breaks down," he said.
Louis Pastina, an executive overseeing trading systems at the Big Board, said "a rush of orders" in the last hour of trading overwhelmed the exchange's computers, leading to delays and an unknown number of orders that were never completed. Some trades may have been done on alternative markets or in an after-hours crossing session the NYSE extended by a half hour to 5:30 p.m., he said. He added that floor traders were finishing trades manually until around 4:25 p.m., about 20 minutes later than usual.
A spokesman for the NYSE said the new hybrid trading system — which matches most trades electronically but sends some to traders on the exchange floor — worked fine, but that another system that feeds it couldn't handle the onslaught of orders.
After a Rough Morning, A Data Backup Jolts The Blue-Chip Average [$$] [Wall Street Journal]
Word hit last night that the New York Stock Exchange would as of right now be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs and specialists would be scheduled for immediate extermination.
That, at least, was the reaction coming from a couple of specialists we spoke to today about the news that Goldman Sachs managing partner Duncan Niederauer had been named president and co-chief operating officer of the NYSE. He joins former Goldman president John Thain at the top of the exchange, and becomes Thain's most likely successor as chief executive of the exchange.
But what really had tongues wagging on the trading floors was Niederauer's enthusiasm for electronic trading, and possibly for eliminating floor specialists all together. Niederauer was the head of electronic trading at Goldman and was instrumental in arranging the NYSE merger with the electronic trading platform Archipelago, a move that many still see as the beginning of the end of the role of specialists on the trading floor. Prior to the merger, Niederauer sat on the board of directors of Archipelago.
As long as seven years ago, Niederauer was describing the situation of floor traders handling order flows as "an unsustainable model."
On CNBC this afternoon, Charlies Gasparino described Niederauer as "one of the biggest advocates in electronic trading." Gasparino also provided this bit of colorful background:
"This guy was advocating the replacement of the specialists with a computer because he basically thought specialists were inefficient and possible fraudulent. One time he said something along these lines to a high-ranking person at the New York Stock Exchange, "I don't want five guys named Vinnie executiving my trades."
This remark led then NYSE head Dick Grasso to treat Niederauer as an enemy of the stock exchange according to Gasparino, who described Grasso's reaction as pronouncing Niederauer dead. Well, as they say, it seems as if stories of Niederauer's death have been greatly exaggerated.
Gasparino also added that a move to completely electronic trading might not wait a few years from now when Niederauer might become the chief of the exchange.
"I think it's going to be a lot sooner," Gasparino said. "A lot of people on the floor are telling me it's a lot sooner than two years. It's possibly a year or a lot or even sooner than that."
Goldman Partner Joins Top Ranks At NYSE [Forbes.com]
Niederauer Is Clear Heir to NYSE's Thain [CNBC.com]
Remember that David Finnerty case we mentioned yesterday. You know, the one with the New York Stock Exchange specialist who the government accused of improperly inserting themselves in between customer trades. The one that the judge threw out yesterday because the prosecutors failed to show that the customers had any expectation that Finnerty wasn't interpositioning himself in their trades. Today Larry Ribstein wonders whether this case might undermine some of the theory beneath the case against brokerage firms accused of making money by trading on advance knowledge of trades by big customers. If the customers expected that the brokerages were going to do this, does this make it all okay?
Well, a lot of folks look at that kind of trading as a form of illegal "insider trading." But is it? Ribstein sounds a skeptical note.
Possibly. But is this speculation trading on material inside information? There are a lot of facts here that need to be unraveled, and perhaps the SEC should be looking into them. The danger is that all of this is going to disappear into the black hole of a criminal investigation and trial. After all, there's the whiff of "insider trading," which ramps up the feverish public demand that regulators and prosecutors "do something."
But a criminal trial is not the way to find out the institutional background necessary for a worthwhile regulatory fix. It's a long and expensive process, replete with procedural roadblocks. The whole thing could end the way the NYSE specialist cases did – ten out of 15 cases aborted or lost, with this negative result in the Finnerty case.
Interpositioning and the latest insider trading scandal [Ideoblog]
The controversial conviction of NYSE specialist David Finnerty was thrown out by a federal judge this morning. Finnerty was convicted back in October after a surprisingly brief jury deliberation that led some to wonder whether the verdict would stand up on appeal. Now we know it didn't.
U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York today set aside the jury's guilty verdict. Jurors in Manhattan federal court found that Finnerty, who worked at Fleet Specialist Inc., illegally inserted his firm as a middleman in trades that should have been made directly between two customers.
The ruling is the latest blow to prosecutors in what was the biggest crackdown on illegal trading at the Big Board. Of 15 specialists charged with fraud by the U.S. in April 2005, three, including Finnerty, were convicted at trial, and two pleaded guilty. Two other specialists were acquitted, and prosecutors dismissed charges against seven others. One remains a fugitive.
Chin said prosecutors failed to present enough evidence to show that investors were defrauded. "What did customers expect when presenting an order to specialists?" Chin said in a 37-page ruling. "What did customers `trust' the specialists to do? None of these questions were answered by the evidence."
Former NYSE Specialist Finnerty's Conviction Reversed [Bloomberg]


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Once back in Europe, Victor continued his travels; first in Holland, then France and Morocco, tracking and photographing rare birds. He took part in a major photo exhibition in Gothenburg in 1928 and in 1934 he met and married then 19 year old Erna Nathorst. In 1935 Victor published a book, entitled 'Migratory Bird Passages', containing a great number of photos of birds in flight, a rarity at the time.
1939 brought the outbreak of war and the German invasions of Denmark and Norway followed. By the early 1940s, Europe was fully enmeshed in the Second World War. The German invasion of the surrounding Scandinavian countries prompted the total mobilization of the unprepared Swedish military. The defiantly neutral nation hurried to equip and prepare itself.
Meanwhile, German troops were poised just across the Norwegian border. German surveillance planes violated Swedish air space and several went down on Swedish soil. Most of the planes – and their equipment – were destroyed. It would seem that one of them however, surrendered its cargo intact: a fully functioning German aerial surveillance camera. Exactly where and how the Swedish military gained the camera is perhaps uncertain, but one thing is clear: this was a piece of equipment that the Swedish military could sorely use. Capturing a German camera, however, and knowing how to produce similar cameras were two separate things. A fact the Swedish government soon realized.
By this time, Victor Hasselblad was in his thirties and had gained quite a reputation for himself as a camera expert. He had published several articles on photography and technical issues and, of course, his family's name was on the most successful photo supply chain in the country. It was almost a given that the Swedish military would turn to Victor for help.


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am person for whom God has done much. But of all the things that He has done
for me, the big thing that captivates my life is His love, eternal life. People
ask me "why do your songs always go to the cross?" But what other
story do we have? But what other story do we have? To get things? You can get
things outside of the cross. You can find health outside of the cross. There
are many who are better than us and have more than we do. There are many who
are not Christians that can say they have more. But we have been given eternal
life! Praise God! I don't follow God for a hamburger or a house or money, but
for eternal life! Praise God! That's what has captivated me. A few months after
I received the Lord, since I was very hard-headed, I started asking "why do
I follow the Lord?" So I fasted and prayed about it. I was young and
wanted to certain of the answer, because I saw the many places I could be.
While I was fasting and praying God took me to one place. When the Lord Jesus
Christ died, there were people around. There were. His mother and disciples
were there. So were his enemies. And I placed my self there at that scene. What
would I do knowing He died for me on that cross? What would I say? Me beneath
the cross as He died and I was saved, is a scene that is engraved in my life
forever. Now that scene has been engraved on my heart and in my life like a
painting. So now when I think of the Lord and I want to sing, that is all I see
because it is the reason I have eternal life. Praise the Lord! He can save people
like us. And if you ask me why I sing? Like David I say I will praise the Lord
all of my life with all of my praises. Even with a shaky voice, I'll praise Him
with what He's given me. The beauty of a voice is a gift of God but God looks
at the heart and our life. If the fruit of our life is not good what is the
point? That is why I sing what I have come to learn from my life. And I have
learned that Jesus is truly Lord and truth and a friend to us. He has carried
us and brought us this far because of His mighty strength. Praise the Lord! Let
us follow Him to the end. We won't lack anything and even if we do, it's
nothing as long as we have Him. So I won't sing about what I have and I don't
have. He has blessed me and that is all good. But I want to sing about Jesus
for we have no story but the story we have in Christ." Singer Addisu
Werku (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCSIg2WDpQ&list=PL5D0B324754EE84BE)
Below is an English translation of a song written by this Ethiopian Christian brother. I have been listening to Ethiopian songs and translating them to English because they're messages are so amazing. I hope you find comfort in this just as I did :-).
So far had my soul steered
From the way of the Lord
I had greatly
All the laws of
my God
But my savior on
Gave me mercy and
He Sent His only
Son to save me
He shed His blood
and He rescued me
He shed His blood
and He rescued me
Worthless though
I maybe
With no knowledge
of Him
Yet He sent His
own Son to save me
By the time He
There was no hope
in me
But He spoke to
my soul
Saying He'd set
me free
Then He lifted me
Clothing me with
He sent His only
to Son to save me
Ever since He chose me
Joy fills all of
my heart
Now when heavy
winds blow
In him I always
If I lean on His
There's no need
to fear harm
For He sent His own
Son to save me
Such great
heavenly joy
And peace are
given me
That's why all of
my life
Lord I pour out
for thee
Won't you now
hold my hand
And with you make
me stand
For you came down
to earth and saved me


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Fairuz فيروز |
In concert (Beiteddine), 2001.
Background information | |
Birth name | Nouhad Haddad[1] |
Born | November 20, 1934 |
Origin | Lebanon |
Genres | Arabic music, Lebanese music |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Instruments | Vocals |
Years active | 1950-present |
Labels | EMI, Virgin, Voix de l'Orient, Fayrouz Productions |
Associated acts | Nasri Shamseddine Wadih el Safi |
Website | http://www.fairouz.com |
Nouhad Wadi Haddad (Arabic: نهاد وديع حداد) (born November 20, 1934), known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز, also spelled Fairouz or Fayrouz, meaning turquoise in ِِArabic), is a Lebanese singer who is among the most widely admired and deeply respected living singers in the Arab world.[2][3] Her songs are constantly heard throughout the region.[4][5]
She was first noticed at the International Festival of Baalbeck, where she performed many of her songs. She became famous after appearing on the "Lebanese Nights" part of the festival for many successive years. Fairuz is commonly known as "Ambassador to the Stars", "Neighbor to the Moon" (for her song about the moon of Machgara), and the "Jewel of Lebanon".
Personal life[edit]
Fairouz was born to a Lebanese family that is Christian Maronite[6][7][8][9][10] and Syriac Orthodox[citation needed]. She is of the Greek Orthodox faith,[11][12][13] having converted when she married Assi Rahbani, one of the two Rahbani brothers who had helped shape her singing career.[14] She is also the mother of Lebanese singer and composer Ziad Rahbani and of Lebanese director and photographer Rima Rahbani.
Fairouz sings to describe the beauty, peace and freedom of Lebanon. This is especially mentioned in her song: "Tetloj El Dini", in which she sings: "Taljak El Mahabbi ou Shamsak El Herreye" (English: Love is in the snow of Lebanon and freedom is in the sun of Lebanon).
Nonetheless, the Good Friday is an annual ceremony that is set as a tradition by Fairouz, who has been holding the ceremony at different churches from all over Lebanon, concentrating on abandoned churches (old ones that need or are under renovation) according to the Greek Orthodox and Maronite liturgies.
1935–1950s – The early years[edit]
Nouhad Haddad was born on 20 November 1934[15] in Lebanon into a Maronite[6][7][8] and Syriac Orthodox[citation needed] family. The family later moved into a home in a cobblestone alley called Zuqaq el Blatt in Beirut. Living in a single room of a typical Lebanese stone house facing Beirut's Greek Orthodox Patriarchate school, they shared a kitchen with the neighbours. Her father Wadīʿ was a Lebanese of the Syriac Orthodox faith,[16][17] and worked as a typesetter in a print shop.[11] Lisa, her mother, also Lebanese, but Maronite Christian, stayed home and took care of her four children, Nouhad, Youssef, Houda and Amal.
Nouhad was a shy child and did not have many friends at school. However, she was very attached to her grandmother who lived in Debbieh (Shuf area), where Nouhad used to spend her summer holidays. Nouhad seemed to enjoy the rural village life. During the day, Nouhad would help her grandmother with house chores and fetch fresh water from a nearby water spring. She would sing all the way to the spring and back. In the evening, Nouhad would sit by the candlelight with her grandmother, who would tell her stories.
By the age of ten, Nouhad was already known at school for her unusual singing voice. She would sing regularly during school shows and on holidays. This was how she came to the attention of Mohammed Fleyfel, a well known musician and a teacher at the Lebanese Conservatory, who happened to attend one of the school's shows in February 1950. Impressed by her voice and performance, he advised her to enroll in the conservatory, which she did. At first, Nouhad's conservative father was reluctant to send her to the conservatory; however, he eventually allowed her to go on condition that her brother accompany her. That having been said, Nouhad's family as a whole encouraged her in her musical career.
Mohammed Fleyfel took a close interest in Nouhad's talent. Among other things, he taught her to recite verses from the Koran (in the recitative style known as Tajweed). On one occasion, Nouhad was heard singing by Halim el Roumi, head of the Lebanese radio station and a prominent musician in his own right (also the father of the famous Lebanese singer Majida Roumi). Roumi was impressed by her voice and noticed that it had a rare flexibility that allowed her to sing both Arabic and Western modes admirably. At Nouhad's request, El Roumi appointed her as a chorus singer at the radio station in Beirut and went on to compose several songs for her. He chose for her the stage name Fairuz, which is the Arabic word for turquoise.
A short while later, Fairuz was introduced to the Rahbani brothers, Assi and Mansour, who also worked at the radio station as musicians, and they discovered her talent. The chemistry was instant, and soon after, Assi started to compose songs for Fairouz, one of which was "Itab" (the third song he composed for her), which was an immediate
smash hit in all of the Arab world, establishing Fairuz as one of the most prominent Arab singers on the Arabic music scene. Assi and Fairuz were married on 23 January 1955.
Fairuz and Assi had four children: Ziad, a musician and a composer, Layal (died in 1987 of a brain stroke), Hali (paralysed since early childhood after meningitis) and Rima, a photographer and film director.
Fairuz's first large-scale concert was in 1957, as part of the Baalbeck International Festival which took place under the patronage of the Lebanese President Camille Chamoun. She performed alongside the British prima ballerina Beryl Goldwyn and the Ballet Rambert. Fairuz was paid one Lebanese pound for that show. Musical operettas and concerts followed for many years, eventually establishing Fairuz as one of the most popular singers in Lebanon and throughout the Arab world.
1960s – The establishment of a new star[edit]
As the 1960s wore on, Fairuz became known as the "First Lady of Lebanese singing", as Halim Roumi dubbed her. During this period the Rahbani brothers wrote and composed for her hundreds of famous songs, most of their operettas, and three motion pictures.
In 1969, Fairuz's songs were banned from the radio stations in Lebanon for six months because she refused to sing at a private concert in honour of Algerian President Houari Boumedienne. The incident only served to increase her popularity. Fairuz made it clear then and since that while always willing to sing to her public and to various countries and regions, she would never sing to any individual.
1970s – International fame and war in Lebanon[edit]
In 1971, Fairuz's fame became international after her major North American tour, which was received with much excitement by the Arab-American and American community and yielded very positive reviews of the concerts.
On September 22, 1972, Assi suffered a brain haemorrhage and was rushed to the hospital. Fans crowded outside the hospital praying for him and lighting candles. After three surgeries, Assi's brain haemorrhage was halted. Ziad Rahbani, the eldest son of Fairuz and Assi, at age 16, gave his mother the music of one of his unreleased songs "Akhadou el Helween" (that he had composed to be sung by Marwan Mahfouz in "Sahriyyi" Ziad's first play) and his uncle Mansour Rahbani re-wrote new lyrics for it to be called "Saalouni n'Nass" ("The People Asked Me") which talked about Fayrouz being on stage for the first time without Assi. Three months after suffering the haemorrhage, Assi attended the premiere performance of that musical Al Mahatta in Piccadilly Theatre on Hamra Street. Elias Rahbani, Assi's younger brother, took over the orchestration and musical arrangement for the performance.
Fairuz made her first European TV appearance on French TV on May 24, 1975, in a "Carpentier special show" called "Numero 1" dedicated to French star Mireille Mathieu. She sang one of her big hits "Habbaytak Bissayf" and was thanked and embraced after performing it by Mireille Mathieu.
Within a year, Assi had returned to composing and writing with his brother. They continued to produce musicals, which became increasingly political in nature. After the Lebanese Civil War erupted, the brothers continued to use political satire and sharp criticism in their plays. In 1977, their musical Petra was shown in both the Muslim western and Christian eastern portions of Beirut.
In 1978, the trio toured Europe and the Persian Gulf nations, including a concert at the Paris Olympia. As a result of this busy schedule, Assi's medical and mental health began to deteriorate. Fairuz and the brothers agreed to end their professional and personal relationship in 1979. Fairuz began to work with a production team helmed by her son, Ziad Rahbani, and Assi and Mansour composed for other artists such as Ronza.
During the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990), Fairuz never left Lebanon to live abroad and did not hold any concerts there with the exception of the stage performance of the operetta Petra, which was performed in both the western and eastern parts of the then-divided Beirut in 1978. However, during that time period, Fairuz held many very successful and record-breaking concerts and tours in numerous countries around the world.
1980s – A new production team[edit]
After the artistic divorce between Fairouz and the Rahbani brothers in 1979, Fairuz carried on with her son, composer Ziad Rahbani, his friend the lyricist Joseph Harb, and composer Philemon Wehbe.
Fairuz made a second and final European Television appearance on French TV on 13 October 1988 in a show called Du côté de chez Fred. Fairuz, who had scheduled a concert at the POPB of Paris Bercy concert hall three days later on 16 October, was the main guest of French TV presenter Frédéric Mitterrand, today France's Minister of Culture (2009). The program features footage of her rehearsals for her concert at Bercy in addition to the ceremony featuring then French Minister of Culture Jack Lang awarding Fairuz the medal of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. It also includes a video montage of her previous movies and concerts. In that show, Fairuz also sang the three songs "Ya hourrié", "Yara" and "Zaali tawwal".
In the 1990s, Fairuz produced six albums (two Philemon Wehbe tributes with unreleased tracks included, a Zaki Nassif album, three Ziad Rahbani albums, and a tribute album to Assi Rahbani orchestrated by Ziad) and held a number of large-scale concerts, most notably the historic concert held at Beirut's Martyr's Square in September 1994 to launch the rebirth of the downtown district that was ravaged by the civil war. She appeared at the Baalbeck International Festival in 1998 after 25 years of self-imposed absence where she performed the highlights of three very successful plays that were presented in the 1960s and 1970s.
She also performed a concert in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Arena in 1999 which was attended by over 16,000 spectators, mostly Arabs. Ever since, Fairuz has held sold out concerts at the Beiteddine International Festival (Lebanon) from 2000 to 2003, Kuwait (2001), Paris (2002), the United States (2003), Amman (2004), Montreal (2005), Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Baalbeck, BIEL (2006), Athens,[18] Amman (2007) Damascus, and Bahrain (2008).
Fairuz now works exclusively with her composer son Ziad. Her first album in the new millennium "Wala Keef", was released in 2002.
Her 2008 performance in Damascus caused considerable controversy in Lebanon, given the tense relationship between Lebanon and Syria. Several members of parliament publicly asked her to cancel the concert.[19] She went to Syria where she was received by a crowd of 7000 fans, screaming her name at the borders, as her car passed into Syrian grounds. Mosques and prayers on radio were all held back as Fairouz's songs played day and night through almost every media outlet in the Syrian nation. Radio channels, TV channels, the Syrian satellite broadcasters, restaurants and cafes, and newspapers were all focused on Fairuz's legendary return after 20 years absence. However big the controversy was, it seems it has not affected her popularity in Lebanon as she held the Orthodox Good Friday Prayer Mass in West Beirut as hundreds and hundreds crowded the church premises.
Fairuz's new album entitled Eh... Fi Amal was released on 7 October 2010, produced by Fairuz productions and written entirely by Ziad Rahbani. Two concerts took place at BIEL Center in Beirut, Lebanon on 7 and 8 October. Later a concert in Bahrain was cancelled in March 2011. She performed in Netherlands for the first time in Amsterdam on 26 June 2011. Fairuz's last appearance on stage was in Platea - Jounieh - Harer Sakher in December 2011, where she had 6 concerts extending from 9 to 23 of December 2011.
Live concerts[edit]
Fairuz has performed in many countries around the globe including Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Netherlands,[20] Greece, Canada, United States, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and her home country Lebanon.
Fairuz has performed in many venues such as the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1962, the New York Carnegie Hall in 1971, the London Palladium in 1978, L'Olympia de Paris in 1979, London's Royal Festival Hall in 1986, the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (1971, 1981, and 2003), the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. (1981 and 1987) among many others (for the complete concert chronology, see Fairuz concerts).
Fairuz has yielded record-breaking performances in many concerts she has held around the world. Fairuz, Assi, and Mansour have become the most famous and dominant music production phenomenon in the Arab world, and their music has spread beyond the Arab world to Europe, the Americas, and Australia.
Of Fairuz's numerous concerts, few are officially released. They are the Damascus 1960, Olympia 1979 concert (audio and video released in the 1980s), USA tour 1981, Jarash 1983, Royal Festival Hall London 1986, USA tour 1987, Baalbek 1998 (Video), Las Vegas 1999 concert (on DVD with make over and rehearsals), Beiteddine 2000 and Dubai 2001 (on DVD, it includes parts from concerts in 1997 and 2002 as well as rehearsals from 2001 and 2002 concerts, released May 2008). Pirated versions of other concerts exist: Kuwait 1966, Syria and Egypt 1976, Olympia 1979, Australia 1984, Syria 1985, Bahrain 1987, France 1988, Kuwait1989, Cairo 1989, London 1994, Beirut 1994, and parts of the four Beiteddine concerts (2000–2003), Parts of Dubai concerts (1990–2006), Paris 2002, Amman 2004, Canada 2005, parts of the play Sah Ennawm which was performed in Beirut (2006), Athens 2007 and Bahrain 2008. On June 26, 2011 Fairuz performed in the Royal Carre Theater in Amsterdam, Netherlands. On December 2011, Fairuz performed 5 concerts on Platea Theatre in Sahel Alma in Lebanon, on 9, 10, 16, 17 and 23 December, where the theater accommodates approximately 4,000 persons.
Theatrical works[edit]
Musical plays or operettas were the cornerstone works of the Rahbani Trio, Fairuz, Assi and Mansour. The Rahbani Brothers produced 25 popular musical plays (20 with Fairuz) over a period of more than 30 years. They were possibly the first to produce world-class Arabic musical theatre.
The musicals combined storyline, lyrics and dialogue, musical composition varying widely from Lebanese folkloric and rhythmic modes to classical, westernized, and oriental songs, orchestration, and the voice and acting of Fairuz. She played the lead roles alongside singers/actors Nasri Shamseddine, Wadih El Safi, Antoine Kerbaje, Elie Shouayri (Chouayri), Hoda (Fairuz's younger sister), William Haswani, Raja Badr, Siham Chammas (Shammas), Georgette Sayegh and many others.
The Rahbani plays expressed patriotism, unrequited love and nostalgia for village life, comedy, drama, philosophy, and contemporary politics. The songs performed by Fairuz as part of the plays have become immensely popular among the Lebanese and Arabs around the world.
The Fairuz-Rahbani collaboration produced the following musicals (in chronological order):
- Ayyam al Hassad (Days of Harvest – 1957)
- Al 'Urs fi l'Qarya (The Wedding in the Village – 1959)
- Al Ba'albakiya (The Girl from Baalbek) – 1961)
- Jisr el Amar] (Bridge of the Moon – 1962)
- Awdet el 'Askar (The Return of the Soldiers – 1962)
- Al Layl wal Qandil] (The Night and the Lantern – 1963)
- Biyya'el Khawatem (Ring Salesman – 1964)
- Ayyam Fakhreddine (The Days of Fakhreddine – 1966)
- Hala wal Malik (Hala and the King – 1967)
- Ach Chakhs (The Person – 1968–1969)
- Jibal Al Sawwan (Sawwan Mountains – 1969)
- Ya'ich Ya'ich (Long Live, Long Live – 1970)
- Sah Ennawm (Did you sleep well? – 1970–1971 – 2006–2008)
- Nass min Wara' (People Made out of Paper – 1971–1972)
- Natourit al Mafatih (The Guardian of the Keys – 1972)
- Al Mahatta (The Station – 1973)
- Loulou – 1974
- Mais el Reem (The Deer's Meadow – 1975)
- Petra – 1977–1978
Most of the musical plays were recorded and video-taped. Eighteen of them have been officially released on audio CD, two on DVD (Mais el Reem and Loulou). A pirated version of Petra and one pirated live version of Mais el Reem in black and white exist. Ayyam al Hassad (Days of Harvest) was never recorded and Al 'Urs fi l'Qarya (The Marriage in the Village) has not yet been released (yet a pirated audio record is available).
Lebanese Television has featured appearances by Fairuz in the following television programmes:
- Al Iswara (The Bracelet)
- Day'it El Aghani (Village of Songs)
- Layali As'Saad (Nights of Happiness)
- Al Quds fil Bal (Jerusalem in my Heart)
- Dafater El Layl (Night Memoirs)
- Maa Al Hikayat (With Stories)
- Sahret Hobb (Romantic Evening)
- Qasidat Hobb (A Love Poem), also presented as a musical show in Baalbeck in 1973
Other television programmes and appearances have been recorded for Syrian and Lebanese TV alike, though neither these nor the ones mentioned above are available.
Fairuz possesses a large repertoire of around 1500 songs out of which only about 800 have been released. She has also been offered prestigious awards and titles over the years (see Fairuz Awards and Recognitions).
Around 85 Fairuz CDs, vinyls and cassettes have been officially released so far. Most of the songs that are featured on these albums were composed by the Rahbani brothers. Also featured are songs by Philemon Wehbe, Ziad Rahbani, Zaki Nassif, Mohamed Abd El Wahab, Najib Hankash and Mohamed Mohsen.
Many of Fairuz's numerous unreleased works date back to the 1950s and 1960s and were composed by the Rahbani Brothers (certain unreleased songs, the oldest of all, are by Halim el Roumi). A Fairuz album composed by Egyptian musician Riad Al Sunbati (who has worked with Umm Kulthum) was produced in 1980, but is unlikely to be released. There are also fifteen unreleased songs composed by Philemon Wehbe and 24 unreleased songs composed by Ziad Rahbani in the 1980s.
Fairuz has also released an album on Folkways Records, entitled Lebanon: The Baalbek Folk Festival.
In her performances, she is hieratic and melancholic, standing motionless in front of the microphone. When questioned by Neil MacFarquhar about her seriousness, she answered that she still feels scenic panic. She claims to sing as if she were praying.[21]
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Holland Festival organizers were literally glowing with pride as legendary singer Fairuz stepped on stage on Sunday night at Amsterdam's Royal Theater Carré.
- ^ Chapter 3 of The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday: Unexpected Encounters in the Changing Middle East, Neil MacFarquhar. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-58648-635-8
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Critical articles[edit]
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Last summer my partner and I planted ten young apple tree "whips" in our yard with the intention of making an espalier kind of fence. It seemed to be going well until just a couple days ago, I glanced over and noticed that something had eaten all the branches right off them! Had no idea that was even a possibility. Now they are basically 18 inch tall sticks. Are they going to die? Is there anything I can do to save them? It was pretty excruciating hard work getting them all into the ground, I'd really hate for that to have been a wasted effort. Thanks - Patrick |
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probably deer .. maybe rabbits.. but they arent usually so efficient in destroying so many ... it depends where they were grafted ... as to whether your named variety will return .. apple has dormant buds ... so i doubt they will die ... its just a question of what you will be left with ... all that said.. now you have a deer problem.. and unless you solve that.. they will be back ... ken |
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