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Many arguments claiming to prove the existence of God have been proposed throughout the centuries. A popular argument is that, since all effects come from causes, there must have been a "first cause" that is outside the material world—an "uncaused cause". The response to many of these arguments, however, is: "If God created the world, what created God?
"The rhetoric of 'more scientific than thou' accomplishes almost nothing, reinforcing existing narratives rather than bringing more people into productive dialogue." Thankfully, magazines like National Geographic are beginning to realize this.
Historian Peter Harrison argues that harmony between faith and science is not as simple as it seems, and some versions of "harmony" can do damage to the Christian faith.
Is evolution driven mainly by random genetic variation, or are there other factors at play? Michael Burdett reviews the scientific debate.
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Evolution is a challenging subject to consider in light of biblical faith, so it is often easier to ignore or reject it than to engage in meaningful discussion about the topic. Yet considering evolutionary creation has important benefits for Christians both in our relationship with the Creator, and in our relationships with other people—both believers and non-believers.
Interview with Bill Nye and follow-up thoughts from president Haarsma.
A short guide to where BioLogos fits in the origins debate.
What happens when evolutionary creationists, old-earth creationists, and Southern Baptist theologians sit down publicly and talk about origins? At the 2014 meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, these three groups decided to find out. This four-part series is adapted from the three-hour dialogue, entitled "A Conversation on Origins".
Creation cannot explain away its creator, it merely tells part of the story of him. The danger comes when we only need God for what we don't know, and, conversely, we don't need him in what we do know.
In the early 1700s, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz famously disagreed about whether God periodically "corrected" the orbits of the planets. Why their disagreement matters for today's debates about God and evolution.
A common challenge to evolutionary theory is that while life does indeed change over time (what is known as microevolution), no one has ever seen one species evolve into another species (macroevolution).
Originally posted in 2011: Reconciliation is a much more demanding task than integration because it means an ongoing conversation between us and the unpredictability of how that ongoing conversation may affect each of us and our view of things.
For McGrath, nature is an "open secret...though open to public gaze, its deeper significance lies hidden."
Originally posted on June 11, 2012. Scientism is a rather strange word, but for reasons that we shall see, a useful one. Though this term has been coined rather recently, it is associated with many other "isms" with long and turbulent histories: materialism, naturalism, reductionism, empiricism, and positivism.
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Red variety of Friuli with harsh tannins that inspired its unique name, translated as "cutting the tongue."
Red variety of Trentino with deep color, ripe berrry fruit and good acidity.
High acid white variety of Piemonte. Often used in the production of grappa, though a few producers – most notably Massa – make an excellent dry version.
White variety planted throughout much of Italy; generally a blender with modest aromatics and high acidity. Trebbiano di Soave is one of the most highly regarded subvarieties.
Uva di Troia
Also known as Nero di Troia. Excellent red variety found in northern Puglia. Moderate tannins, good acidity and cherry, berry fruit. The principal red variety of Castel del Monte DOC.
White variety of Marche. Generally aged in stainless steel, though a few producers age in oak. Many versions are light with pleasant pear and apple fruit; there are some excellent bottlings that offer more fruit intensity and spice.
Verduzzo Friulano
White variety of Friuli, primarily in the Colli Orientali DOC. Used to produce a dry white, but also a famous sweet white named Ramondolo. Apricot and pear flavors with lively acidity.
White variety grown in Sardegna, Liguria and the coast of Tuscany (especially in Bolgheri). Very high acidity with flavors of pear, lime and pine and often notes of sea salt with a distinct minerality.
Two distinct examples: Vernaccia di San Gimignano is a refreshing, dry white wiht moderate acidity made as a light, dry white. Vernaccia di Oristano is a sweeter white from Sardegna that is sherry-like.
White from Veneto made as a lush, apricot and honeyed dessert wine called Torcolato.
Name for Moscato in Sicilia; the word is Arabic for "raisin." Used in the production of Passito di Pantelleria. Honey, apricot and marzipan flavors.
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The Trebbiano must originally be from the region around the Trebbiano river, in Lombardy/Emilia Romagna right? This is close to the Oltrepo Pavese wine region which has its own little cantina, see B&B Italy Villa I Due Padroni


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March 14th, 2007, 09:30 PM #46
The timing of Battlestar Galatitca episodes seems similarly chaotic. It seems hard to know exactly when to expect it, when it's going on a "mid-season" hiatus, and when it will be back. And it doesn't help the DVR recording when they also run the original Battlestar series at the same time, so you end up with boatloads of the young Richard Hatch instead of the old Richard Hatch...
March 15th, 2007, 11:44 AM #47
Who developed this new system of episode spurts ??
Cool that entertainment weekly is evolving to include books. (Propably because all those show watchers need to read something while waiting for the new episodes to show up!)
March 15th, 2007, 06:23 PM #48
It was the aftermath of the lets debut different series all year round strategy, followed by the lets do several weeks of reruns, then new episodes at the sweeps periods strategy. People didn't like that one much, especially for serial plot shows, so they switched to this yank and dump approach. They like it better because they can put in other shows or specials during the hiatuses, move around Idol, and concentrate all the episodes of the hotest shows around sweep months. So instead of one season, you have three mini-seasons.
It's partly the cable channels' fault because they would put on shows all different times of the year, they had fewer episodes per season, could do more than one season per year, and sometimes had big gaps between groups of episodes. So the networks cut back the number of episodes per season, and then had to deal with how to make it to May. But it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with shows this way. I try not to get involved in too many shows, though my husband has finally dragged me fully into Lost. (I gave up on Battlestar Galactica when I realized I didn't like any of the characters and wanted the Cylons to win, kill all the humans and end the misery.)
I suspect it is all a plot to get people to buy the season DVD's so that they can finally see all the episodes.
March 30th, 2007, 08:02 AM #49
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An aspect of the current publishing/distribution system that intrigues me. When I was a boy, drugstores used to have the standing, circular displays of paperback books. Book stores didn't carry paperback books and used book stores hadn't been invented. That's where I found the new stuff, in drug stores.
In the libraries - including the Phoenix Public Library - for some reason, there was an sff section but all of the books were hard cover and several years old. You could check out early and earlier decade stuff but not the latest and greatest. My family did not have the budget to permit my perusing the genuine bookstores.
But, what intrigues me now is that drug stores still have a book and magazine section as do grocery stores but you never see the latest and greatest sff there; you only find the second tier and re-prints. Why is that?
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Also, it's just plain hard for libraries to keep track of mass market paperbacks, they fall apart a lot faster, they are easy to steal, etc. So public libraries keep some mm paperbacks around, but they don't worry if they lose them as inventory and they don't bother to keep up with paperback offerings. MM paperbacks in libraries are mostly donations from patrons.
To get around this and to get more book reviews, since reviewers also won't usually cover paperbacks, publishers in the 1990's started doing limited small hardcover print runs not only of the top sellers but of other authors as well, including newbies. This ensured that the books would be more likely stocked in libraries where they might gain a readership. It's the mystery novel model and it worked brilliantly.
But, what intrigues me now is that drug stores still have a book and magazine section as do grocery stores but you never see the latest and greatest sff there; you only find the second tier and re-prints. Why is that?
The specialty mystery and sff bookstores, which were already struggling against the chain superstores, couldn't survive with all the publishers cutting out their mid-lists, and decreased to only a handful, although recently there's been signs of renewed life there. The online stores did take up a lot of the slack, but they are still only a small percentage of the total market, as most people still won't shop online. I'm not sure at this point whether the total number of sales outlets for books has increased or decreased to concentrate on the bookstores, but I do know that the loss of drugstores and grocery store business is still really hurting things. Unfortunately, books don't sell as well as cookware and hair products do.
And libraries are steadily losing their funding, often times being closed down.
April 4th, 2007, 11:25 PM #52
On the end of the Potter franchise, and now the sky is falling:
It's not exactly as if they didn't know the series was going to end someday... Why do business people sometimes act like such dolts? They land a cash cow and seem to think it will always be there, allowing them to rake in the dough...
The other thing this highlights is the pitfalls from having such a single massive hit (if we lump the whole Potter phenom into one big bucket). So much gets geared to supporting the monster, to the point where your entire corporate bottom line depends on one author's output. I remember when Scholastic, the U.S. Potter publisher, took a massive stock price hit on just *rumours* of a delay in one of the books. Pretty scary when your book value (so to speak) is so tied up in a single property.
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HE's 1st Law of Business Management: Find a crisis and manage it.
The better business schools make an art of denying the obvious by refusing to admit the strength of the US and Euro business system is crisis management. We do it better than anyone in the world. The weakness of these systems is long range planning precisely because there are no immediate results to point to as accomplishments, and without accomplishments there can be no flurry on the stock markets. All energy gets devoted to today's crisis - e.g., promoting today's phenom. When today's crisis passes, as with the Harry Potter books, THEN and only then energy gets devoted to resurrecting the company because NOW that is today's crisis.
April 7th, 2007, 11:15 AM #54
You guys have it backwards. I am continually impressed by how well the book publishing industry manages to market itself as a big, monied, glamorous industry to people. In reality, it is tiny, backward and poor compared to any other entertainment and information industry. And the children's portion of the industry is even tinnier and poorer, and up until the last decade or so, was actually in a massive slump.
So Bloomsbury didn't put all its eggs in one basket and have no strategy beyond trying to milk its cash cow. Bloomsbury was just publishing its books, and Harry Potter turned out to be not only the phenomena writer who pops up every half-decade or so, but the series that broke every record ever held in book publishing and revitalized the entire children's publishing industry -- something no one could predict. Bloomsbury could find, publish and promote numerous titles from here to kingdom come and still not manage what Harry Potter produced.
But business people and investors have no clue how book publishing works and no interest in investing long term in book publishing. They rushed in with money when Harry Potter hit and they'll rush out again when it's gone. Bloomsbury or Scholastic can no more manage such short term enthusiasm from the business community than they could the tides of the oceans.
Scholastic will be fine, probably, because it has most of the other hit-makers in children's publishing and a vast educational operation. Bloomsbury is perhaps in a less envious position, and in the much smaller market of Britain, but it clearly has some cash that it's trying to use to build up the company's operations.
On the one hand, I'm elated to hear that they are launching this site. It's what authors desperately trying to publicize on the Web have been waiting for and it could have an enormous impact, helping book publishing to finally get a foothold in the goodie pile that the other media have had all to themselves.
On the other hand, it is all too reminiscient of the 1970's, 1980's rush of publishers to venture into multi-media, electronic industries they know squat about. This was because Wall Street suddenly decided that book publishers were a good investment, but having invested in them, they expected massive growth book publishers simply couldn't produce, especially with their returns system. There were two ways to get growth -- sales and publishing mergers, and acquiring other non-publishing companies. The acquiring approach proved fairly disasterous once we had the 1990's recession.
But now we have international publishing conglomerates as the result of all the mergers that control most of the book publishing and have many other types of companies besides -- Bertelsman from Germany, Penguin from the U.K., etc., so it might be a good time for this sort of thing. It certainly can't hurt publishing in general if someone gives it a try. So overall, it's good news.
April 7th, 2007, 12:33 PM #55
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Then again, show me where this is not crisis management:
Bloomsbury was just publishing its books,....
and they'll rush out again ...
Bloomsbury or Scholastic can no more manage such short term enthusiasm from the business community...
but it clearly has some cash that it's trying to use to build up the company's operations....
On the other hand, it is all too reminiscient of the 1970's, 1980's rush of publishers to venture into multi-media, electronic industries they know squat about....
It certainly can't hurt publishing in general if someone gives it a try.
April 8th, 2007, 10:09 AM #56
I'm not sure there is such a thing as long-term planning in book publishing. It's kind of hard -- they still don't know if they are going to exist in twenty years or not or what the electronic mediums are going to do to everything. And you can plan long-term, but then there's a merger and they dissolve the company. So yeah, crisis management. It is going to be very hard for these companies because of investment pressure that they keep producing Harry Potter numbers, which is impossible.
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Worked for the now extinct Sperry Flight Systems which had a strategy to be in three distinct markets: commercial flight, commuter flight, and military flight systems. When one market was down, the other two tended to balance the scales.
For publishing, I would think the big guys would adopt a similar policy: general fiction, genre fiction, children's fiction, non-fiction, and textbooks with the latter forming the base. Particularly in the latter I can see a means for formulating short-term and strategic plans to keep the company viable in the textbook market.
For the former, I can see strategies: looking for one or more series in the fiction categories; a self-help phenomena such as "I'm Okay, You're Okay" "Megatrends" or a really good explainer series to take on the sciences as we know them today. The Jordans, Goodkinds, Anne Perrys, Karons, Hillermans, Clancys, et al, come along with a regularity that belies the gut feeling that no one succeeds anymore.
But, committing to these kinds of activities takes committing budgets; budgets for long term planning are difficult to come by when the company is struggling to make ends meet this year. It's always easier to jettison than to acquire.
April 8th, 2007, 09:59 PM #58For publishing, I would think the big guys would adopt a similar policy: general fiction, genre fiction, children's fiction, non-fiction, and textbooks with the latter forming the base. Particularly in the latter I can see a means for formulating short-term and strategic plans to keep the company viable in the textbook market.
It's always easier to jettison than to acquire.
May 7th, 2007, 10:09 AM #59
Okay, we're taking votes and propositions for the movie media theme of the summer!! Two years ago, of course, the theme was the death of the movie industry. Box office was down again, the tentpole movies were performing erratically, the media claimed that people were abandoning unpleasant and expensive theaters for DVD's and cable, the teenagers had supposedly staged a web revolt, the studios were firing people and toying with things like releasing a movie in theaters and DVD at the same time as the wave of the future. There were endless articles moaning about it all, many of which I foolishly read and then denounced as idiotic.
The next year, they shuffled their feet, said oops, we were wrong, and bombarded us with articles about how Hollywood was going political and serious with films about social issues and the fallout of post-9/11. Along with that went a side order about the return of the R-rated commedies. So the theme became Movies for Adults, especially movies with very adult titles like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin."
This year is clearly the year of the sequel, but what erroneous conclusions and predictions will they draw from that? Get your candidates in now or vote for your favorite hypotheses.*
*Okay, so this is mainly North America, but people from other countries can still play.
May 7th, 2007, 12:13 PM #60
"Sequels" seems to be the theme of the decade, not the year. Wait, I'm thinking of re-makes. Here's a prediction: Sequels of Re-makes. Charlie's Angels pioneered. Starsky and Hutch 2. Miamy Vice 2. (I did hear a rumour about Coppola and Dracula 2 )


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While the world looked on at the soaring temperatures and bushfires that hit Australia this January, countless communities across the country were coming together to provide support wherever they could. Slow Food Hobart members in Tasmania, one of the worst affected areas, rallied together with local cooks and producers to feed between 30 and 250 firefighters three meals a day – an essential behind the scenes job.
When Jo Cook, Slow Food Hobart committee member and chef received a call out of the blue to coordinate the kitchen, she wasted no time getting her mobile kitchen ready with food and personnel. She spoke to as many chefs and producers at a farmers' market as she could, and offers for food and labor started coming in.
The budget at the beginning was AUD$25 a day per firefighter for three meals and drinks. "At that budget you could either have real food and no wages, or the cheapest quality food and pay somebody," she said. "They are at their weakest. They have just worked a 12 or 15-hour shift; that's when they need nutrition and really high-quality food."
People donated their cheese, meat, fish, produce and time. One veteran firefighter said he had never been so well fed, and the man who hired Jo said he had never seen morale so high.
Mary McNeill, a Hobart member and pastry chef, made these shortbread biscuits and filled them with jam for a recharging sweet snack. "I use the recipe from Miss Irvine's Central Cookery Book (a classic Tasmanian cookbook)," she said. "I like mine slightly more cooked, so I suggest allowing a little color to develop, but traditionally you would go for pale."
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1 1/2 cups soft icing sugar
5 cups flour
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Cream butter and sugar.
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Las Vegas. Day off.
I know, I know – what the hell are we doing in Las Vegas? Well, first of all U2 is attending the Billboard Awards tonight to pick up a gong for staging the most successful tour since Noah set sail. After that the touring party fragments a little with some Spiderman and some Glastonbury errands to run, so we won't all see each other for a couple of days. This effectively provides the first real day off for Team Content and me, which is very welcome indeed, even if we are in this madhouse of a city. I made enquiries last night as to what time breakfast finished downstairs and got the joyous answer of 1pm. (Result!) However, when Run and I arrived at the hotel restaurant around noon in greatly tousled state, we were told that there would be a wait for a table of about an hour.
Forgetting for a moment where we were, I suggested that we simply head out and find some breakfast elsewhere. Ah, Las Vegas. Everything is so over-scale here that places which look just-across-the-way turn out to be a major hike. So much so that we ended up taking the free overhead train but this only deposited us in another casino. Run has never been to Las Vegas before so in a way it was the perfect introduction. Amid glimpses of the Sphinx, the New York Skyline, King Arthur's Castle, etc., we wandered zombie-like amongst the crowds of other zombies across packed casino floors, bewildered by lights flashing, bells ringing and the endless chug-chug-chug of the one-arm bandits. Could there be somewhere for a little breakfast? Anywhere? Out of desperation we looked in at the appropriately named "Dick's Last Resort", who's gimmick is to mimic a low-life bar and grill with aggressively rude waitstaff, but it was way too early in our day for that kind of carry-on and besides, living in England this would hardly be a novelty. To avoid spiralling into a vortex of caffeine-withdrawal, we just settled for coffee and a doughnut from a stand and retreated to the Hotel Fabulous. There's rarely a time when arriving in Las Vegas isn't a surreal experience but being flung into the place at zero notice after the couple of weeks that we've all just lived through put it into a whole new universe of the bizarre.
I went back to bed for a few hours, figuring that this insane adult's playground might make slightly more sense after dusk. Besides, it's been a while since we had a day off and I was feeling the need to regroup. A small group of us rendezvoused poolside later and headed down to the strip. I'm realising that it's been quite a few years since I was in Las Vegas. I think my last visit was in 2004 doing a musical at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel, an experience about which I could write a book. There's been an enormous amount of building since then, during what was a seemingly endless growth period before the world collapsed. That said, there's little sign of recession here, the casinos are busy, the streets packed and the taxis working overtime.
First stop was the Flamingo, before getting serious and heading down to Fremont Street. The downtown area still retains an amount of the low-rent sleazy charm that has been sanitized out of existence in the antiseptic over-Cirqued, celebrity-cheffed mall-casinos of the Strip. I particularly wanted Run to see the Fremont St roof of lightbulbs with its simple lo-res motion graphics that were the twin sister to the PopMart giant video screen. Imagine my disappointment to discover that this milestone in entertainment display has been 'modernised' and replaced with boringly regular LED video panels. I was gutted – it's like tearing down Stonehenge and putting up a multi-storey car park. Something so ground-breaking, unique and beautiful now rendered utterly mediocre.
Not having been blessed with the gambling gene my interest tends to wane pretty quickly in these places (though, needless to say, if they had pinball machines, I'd be there all night), so we didn't overstay our welcome. A few games of blackjack were played and even I had a go on the dollar roulette. Grotesque souvenirs were purchased, outlandish t-shirts for some, me settling for a small tin of "Bitch Mints" and another of "After Dick Mints" that I will secrete strategically amongst the possessions of some lucky souls in our touring party for maximum comedy effect.
We're off in the morning, so that's our 24-hour Vegas hit done with. It was fun for the first-timers and a good reminder for me that there's really no need to hurry back.


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February 22 , 2013
Reviews of the Week
, the first recording by the freshly formed Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet, is welcomed by reviewers in Britain
The first double album of Stankos career, the first recorded completely in America, the first with an American band. Yet the album is his most Polish to date. To use a connotation from the title of earlier album Lontano, its the faraway contemplation on the aestheticism of his homeland via the poetry of the great Wislawa Szymborska. Stanko performed with the Nobel laureate late in her life, and several of the albums compositions are inspired directly by her work. An they are sublime, particularly Mikrokosmos to cite from Clare Cavanaghand Stanislaw Baranczaks translation, a cold fear blew and its still blowing. At 70 Stanko is inspired all over again. Wislawa is music of the night, a dream to feed the imagination.
Stephen Graham, Jazzwise
If an aura of improvised poetic distillation is at the heart of this modally sprung, melodically etched musc (sample the two versions of the requiemised title track) there is also plenty of edgy fire and drive [...] Archetypal, essential music from one of Europes most striking and affecting poets of his instrument.
Michael Tucker, Jazz Journal
Chris Potter's
The Sirens
impresses in the United States and The United Kingdom alike
His credentials are impeccable, his interests are varied, hes open minded, he has total command of his instruments and he constantly pushes himself. On The Sirens, the first ECM record under is leadership, all of these factors come together to make an intelligent, often beautiful disc that brings me a step closer to adoration. Central is his choice of band, which includes the magnificently versatile rhythm section of drummer Eric Harland and bassit Larry Grenadier, together with pianist Craig Taborn, whos proven himself one of the visionaries of the current wave. Potters notion of augmenting his core corps with another keyboardist, namely David Virelles, is nothing short of daring, and it proves to be a very successful surprise.
John Corbett, Downbeat
Manfred Eichers imprimatur, as well as his always-sparkling and realistic production, should help elevate Potter from his status as musicianss musician and critics darling to the proverbial wider recognition as a sax colossus. This quintet studio session- with David Virelles adding unconventional prepared piano, celeste, and harmonium alongside pianist Craig Taborn, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Eric Harland showcases Potters virtuosity on tenor, soprano and (on one piece) bass clarinet. The playing keeps your mind racing along multiple trails some rocky and convoluted, some smooth and linear leading through terrain that morphs at surprising moments from dense woodlands to wide open spaces. The musicians negotiate Potters thorny yet welcomng compositions, which nod subtly to his bebop roots but also advance into a post_Monk-and_Coltrane place with a view of Jazzs future.
DR, Absolute Sound
Homers Odyssey is a natural inspiration for jazz musicians with its theme of a searching journey and all kinds of hazardous atttractions along the way. For his debut as a leader on the ECM label, one of the most acclaimed and respected saxophonists of his generation, and a worthy standard bearer for modern tenor playing, keeping the Michael Brecker flame aloft, Chris Potter has assembled a fine band for his own Odyssey. [...] Not only is The Sirens a triumph from a playing point of view, but it shows how strong Potter the composer has become down the years. This is possibly his finest achievement yet, and at the same time Im sure its only another few steps in a longer, even more fulfilling jazz journey for both Potter and his growing number of admirers.
Peter Bacon, The Jazz Breakfast
English and German reactions on
Hagar's Song
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Saxophonist Charles Lloyd, soon to be 75, here gives an intimate closeup of his warm relationship with brilliant pianist Jason Moran and with his enslaved great-great-grandmother, who names the album through Lloyd's suite in her memory. Evergreens such as Ellington's Mood Indigo mingle with Dylan's I Shall Be Released and the Beach Boys' God Only Knows the latter choice reflecting Lloyd's California sojourns with the Beach Boys in the 1970s. [...] the album is a testament to the sonic eloquence Lloyd discovered on his comeback via ECM at the end of the 80s in haunting pieces such as Bess, You Is My Woman Now, the lovely ballad All About Ronnie and the distantly Ornette-like Hagar's Lullaby.
John Fordham, The Guardian
Lloyd, ein alter Fuchs auf diversen Saxofonen und Föten, der gern zwischen der klanglichen Weite und gestalterischen Freiheit des Free Jazz und der Melodik festerer Songstrukturen vermittelt, wird im März 75. Sein Partner Moran, wie Lloyd Nachfahre afroamerikanischer Sklaven, ist grad halb so alt. [ ] Das gemeinsame Album [ ] basiert auf einem sehr konkreten Südstaatenschicksal: Lloyds Ururgroßmutter wurde einst ihren Eltern entrissen und als Sklavenmädchen von Mississppi nach Tennessee verkauft, wo sie von ihrem neuen Besitzer geschwängert wurde, kaum dass sie 14 war. Ihr ist das Album gewidmet, und die fünfteilige HagarSuite, mit fast 30 Minuten das längste und gewichtigste Stück, bebildert ihren Leidensweg durch Schmerz und Einsamkeit und ihre Flucht in tröstliche Träumereien. Lloyd wechselt zwischen Alt- und Tenorsaxophon, spielt auch Bass- und Altflöte, und seine offenen, eher wehmütigen als grimmigen Stimmungen werden von Morans prägnanten Pianoläufen dunkel grundiert und gebunden. Die übrigen neun Titel entstammen diversen Gipfeln der Rocky, Jazz & Classic Mountains Amerikas [ ] Diese grandiosen Stücke, dazu die Ballade Youve Changed, die durch Billie Holiday berühmt wurde, oder das von Djano Reinhardt und Nat King Cole geadelte Kleinod Rosetta werden hier so stark überformt, dass der Ursprung oft nur noch vage erkennbar ist. Und doch ist das nicht nur Zitat, sondern Verwandlung und Weiterführung. Die beiden harmonieren prächtig: Aus starker Musik erwächst andere starke Musik. Die hier ist wie ein Bad in einem Wasserfall, aus einer Kaskade aus Trinkwasser. Erfrischend, prickelnd, kraftvoll, köstlich und cool.
Jens-Uwe Sommerschuh, Sächsische Zeitung
Jazz Times recommends Jack DeJohnette's
Special Edition
box set
If you had a to plant a flag anywhere among his voluminous catalog to design a Jack DeJohnette primer, this four CD box featuring the work of his group Special Edition would be a wise choice. It contains the best material from DeJohnettes longest-running, most mutifaceted and critically acclaimed ensemble. [...] In Special Edition the master collaborator gave full rein and prominence to own musical skills and vision. Within these four records is not only his quintessential solo-drum work The Gri Gri Man on Tin Can Alley but his extensive and ear-opening use of piano melodica, clavinet, organ and even some vocals. There are songs that harken to the foundation of the blues and the pioneer jazz spirit of New Orleans, and fiery, discordant songs that take jazz outside and then up into the heavens [...] And yet, over this sprawling terrain encompassing nearly three hours of music, there is a remarkable coherence and guiding sensibility.
Britt Robson, Jazz Times
Eberhard Weber's
gets acclaim from America
As always, regardless of direction or setting, Webers tone is simultaneously audacious and crystalline. Even when hes wailing away hes a master of understatement, drilling deeply but never allowing his own skillfulness to become the story. Hopefully Résumé is a placeholder and not a final statement; either way its grand.
Jeff Tamarkin, Jazz Times
All about Jazz on
Manu Katché
On this self-titled release comprised of a multinational quartet, rock-solid pulses, richly melodic content and resounding storylines exquisitely coalesce. But the differentiator lies within Katchés enthralling compositions, sheened by the breathy , wideopen ECM soundscape aura. Highlighted with asymmetrical parts of brawn, finesse and capaciously executed motifs, the band casts an ethereal spell, but offsets the melodies with succinct grooves, spiraling choruses and hearty improvisational sprees.
Glenn Astarita, All About Jazz
British daily The Times on Eleni Karaindrou's
Concert In Athens
Greeces finest film and theatre composer also has some useful friends. Fabilous solos from saxophonist Jan Garbarek, viola player Kim Kashkashian and oboist Vangelis Christopoulos grace this concert of Eleni Karaindrous beguilingly atmospheric music. I like it best when it is mistily melancholic, with languid Middle Eastern modes, tinged with Bach-like figuration, static Satie-esque harmonies or minimalist patterns reminiscent of Arvo Pärt, rising out of silence.
Richard Morrison, The Times
The Boston Globe on Anna Gourari's
Canto Oscuro
This smartly crafted and beautifuly played recital by pianist Anna Gourari unfolds like a history of Bachs enduring influence in the 20th century. It opens with Ferruccio Busonis famously lush arrangement of the chorale prelude Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ. A few seconds of silence separate its conclusion from the jarring opening chords of Sofia Gubaidulinas Chaconne [...] a piano transcription of the Chaconne by Russian composer Alexander Siloti appears as the CDs penultimate track. At the center of Canto Oscuro is Suite 1922 by Paul Hindemith, of all 20th-century composers the one whose language hewed most closely to Bachs. [...] Silotis arrangement of the B-minor Prelude from the second book of Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier closes the program, and like everything here, its played with such opulent tone and remarkable fluidity by Gourari as to belie the true difficulty of almost all the music here.
David Weininger, The Boston Globe
Praise from Italy for András Schiff's recording of J.S. Bach's
Das Wohltemperierte Clavier
Schiff, però, utilizza il pianoforte in una maniera innovative e di straordinaria intelligenza. Il punto di partenza è, diversamente dalla vecchia edizione, un uso quasi nullo del pedale. Questo non è rivolto, come aacade in Gould, a dare unimmagine che infine è prevalentemente fonica, ma mira alla ricostruzione rigorosa del contrappunto in unopera che su di esso è ampiamente fondata: tutte le fughe e un buon numero di preludi. Schiff dà infatti un eccezionale rilievo alle linee contrapuntistiche facendo con il pianoforte quello che il cembalo può fare poco e in altro modo, utilizzando cioè in modo pervasivo marcate differenzazioni dinamiche e di articolazione. Sceglie tempi piuttosto serrati. Almeno tendenzialmente, e suona con un energia costante e controllata, con innumerevoli passaggi che riescono ad assumere una incisività e una chiarezza assolutamente fuori del comune. Il tocco è pensato nota per nota, con la res sonora che riesece a tradurre la geometria della pagina bachiana per chi abbia presenti le partiture, una geometria ben visibile anche sul pentagramma - e unaderenza alla architettura complessiva che impressiona ad ogni ascolto. [...] Con un grande capolavoro come il Clavicembalo ben temperato fare paragoni diretti è rischioso e può riuscire banale, ma certo, se ci si limitasse al pianoforte, trovare di meglio sarebbe arduo; e se anche non ci si limitasse al pianoforte, questa edizione resterebbe comunque tra le pochissime di riferimento.
Filippo Gonnelli, Audio Review


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Anyone know who was taking pictures at 90th street today???
Anyone know who was taking pictures at 90th street today???
that date hasn't happened yet.
wait...if it were 12/22/2012 would swellinfo still exist????? (reference to 2012 theory)
i meant 01/22/12
well yall know that there was some crazy sh!t going on that day there was some mofos surfing naked and were ****in rippin and some seaguls attacked one dude and riped his **** off! ouch that must have hurt he was rushed the the ER were they sewed it back on carefully. Moral of the story: seagulls think ****s are giant worms-be carefull next time you surf naked
is ass the son southjettybill?
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^hahahahah wtf!?! thats got to be the funniest thing i have read on this forum! How do you think of this man?!?!
and i hope this isnt real hahahahah


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As a member of the more robust genus Tetracha, this species is commonly 12-20 mm in length. The elytral surface is usually dark metallic green. Large, cream-colored maculations generally referred to as apical lunules (crescent-shaped maculations at the apex of the elytra) are usually present at the posterior end of the elytra. The ventral portion of the body is commonly metallic green to dark bluish-black. This species is generally found in association with water edge habitats such as river banks, floodplains, and marshes. Peak adult activity is typically in August, but this summer species is active in July and August. This nocturnal species can attracted to artificial lights.


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"I don't see why you brought the faunt," Gil said, looking at the place where young Berilac sat against the trunk of a rowan tree, his knuckle to his mouth. That was what the four-year-old always did when he wasn't certain what was expected of him--gnawed at his knuckle. Perhaps better than sucking on his thumb, Gil supposed as he turned his attention back to their leader.
"We won't be able to pull this off without him," Frodo assured him. "If it was one of us they'd realized in a second that this was a diversion, and they'd send someone to check out the gardens to see if there were more of us, scrumping their vegetables. But if it's a faunt who barely talks as yet, they'll be all worried about him." He turned to Brendilac. "All right--we're ready for the kitten."
"But, what if it just jumps down again, soon as we get it into the tree?" Brendi objected.
"That cat hasn't figured out yet it can do so," Frodo assured him. "He's still too young. Once we get him on the limb, if anything he'll go up higher--he won't go down. Lots easier to go up than to get back down again. Okay, Freddy--you watch the windows, and let us know if you see any movement." He turned to the chosen tree at the edge of the lane, an apple hanging a bit over the hedge that bounded the farm's orchard. It was too high to reach up to the lowest limbs, so he squirmed under the hedge and carefully climbed up into and along the limb until he could reach down. "Okay, hand me Sprite," he commanded in a low hiss.
Gil unfastened the cover to the carrying basket and looked down into the pale grey face of the kitten, its green eyes huge as it looked up suspiciously at a tree canopy it didn't recognize. "Come on, you," he said as he reached down and put his hand under its belly. "Come on, and you'll get to do some climbing."
Sprite was having none of it. He'd apparently hooked his claws into the wicker used to weave the basket during the trip from the Hall, and showed no indication of agreeing to being ejected into a place it didn't know. After getting one paw released, Gil worked on the second, only to find that once he was done the first had again made as great a purchase as it had known when he started.
"Hurry up!" Frodo urged. "Freddy's making signs! It'll be no good if I'm seen up here!"
"He's not cooperating!" Gil explained. He worked on the first paw again, only to realize the claws of the second paw were more firmly dug into the basket than ever. "Dogs and cats!" he spat. "Brendi, help me!"
Each of them worked on a paw, and soon they had the front paws disengaged, and then the back. Gil quickly passed the kitten up to Frodo, although Sprite, unhappy about being forced into a situation not of its own choosing, was now seeking to anchor himself to the lad's hands. "Take the dratted thing!" Gil begged, and finally Frodo managed to hook his hands under the kitten's chest and lift it up into the tree, setting it in a crotch where three branches went off in different directions. At last the kitten's own uncertainty was working to their advantage as it hunkered down, glaring down at Gil, its claws clearly transferring its decision not to be moved to the branches. Frodo didn't bother sliding back to the trunk, but fastening his own hands to the limb he lay along slipped off, allowed himself to dangle, then dropped the half foot to the ground on the outside of the hedge. He quickly used a fallen branch of leaves from the hedge itself to sweep the grass he'd flattened as he'd squirmed under into a standing position, then he turned to Berilac.
"Beri," he said in a no-nonsense tone. "Sprite is stuck in the tree, do you understand?"
The faunt nodded.
"We can't go home till he's down again, and Willow's fixing trout and almond cakes for lunch."
"Want some trout," the child said clearly. "I like trout."
"And you like almond cake, too," Frodo prompted.
The child nodded.
"You need help to get him down, and we have to go that way," he said, pointing down the lane toward the Bucklebury Ferry. "And you can't get any trout or almond cake until you can get someone to help you get him down."
"You get him down," suggested the child.
"I can't--we need to go that way," Frodo said. "But we can't get any trout or almond cake until he's down and back in the basket." He kicked the open basket over on its side. He gave a nod at Gil and Brendi, and they stepped back. "Remember, Beri," he repeated, a bit more loudly, "we can't go back until the kitten is in the basket." He grabbed the other lads' shoulders and drew them away around the turn, leaving Beri there with the basket, looking up in consternation at Sprite, perched up in the apple tree.
"Do we go into the garden now?" Freddy asked as he joined them in the shade of the hedge some way beyond Beri. "We oughtn't to, for they're coming outside and they'll most like see us."
"Not until they're busy with Beri and the kitten."
"But how will they even notice him?" Gil asked, frustrated.
"They will," Frodo assured. "Beri's just working it out, but he'll start crying soon, and loud. He's very loud when he realizes he might be missing something he likes, like trout and almond cake."
Brendi looked at their cousin with admiration. "Is that why you asked Willow if she'd cook those today?" he asked.
"Well, Uncle Rory brought home a whole string of trout yesterday--why not use them to our advantage?" Frodo began, and just then he stopped, a look of triumph on his face as Beri at last realized he'd been left alone by his cousins and they wouldn't come back until the kitten was out of the tree, and began to wail.
Gil had to admit that when Frodo'd declared Berilac Brandybuck was the right one for this caper he'd been right--the faunt's scream of rage and frustration was piercing. The four of them peered around the bush in time to see a farmer and his wife come running. Beri was pointing up into the tree at Sprite, who, upset at the noise had retreated back toward the trunk, and the goodwife, realizing the problem, was trying to reassure the child. The farmer had to go back to the entrance to the orchard and come back up the hedge to get to the place the kitten had now flattened itself against the trunk, but as the Hobbit reached up to try to pluck the kitten out of its perch it reached down and swiped at him, catching the back of the farmer's hand and leaving a red line of broken skin behind.
Gil was watching, fascinated, when Frodo grabbed at him and drew him away. "Come on!" he was hissing. "Let's not waste the time watching--it will take him some time to get that kitten out of the tree--believe me!" Gil found himself being dragged to the place they'd already determined would give them best access to the lines of tomato plants, whose fruits were just now reaching that plump, red perfection....
By the time they got back a ladder had been fetched, as well as a small throw of some sort, and Sprite, true to Frodo's predictions, had climbed quite high in the apple tree, lodging himself in the midst of several shoots going off in different directions. The vocabulary of the farmer seeking to get the animal out of the tree was far wider than any of the lads had anticipated, and they absorbed some colorful phrases that Gil promised himself he'd use on Gomez back at the Hall, and soon. At last the fellow managed to get the thick cloth wrapped sufficiently around the kitten to trap its feet, and with a grunt of triumph he lifted the whole mess up free of the hampering shoots and leaves and quickly swaddled it, then carried the struggling bundle back down the tree where his wife held the basket opened and ready to receive its intended occupant.
Now there was a new struggle, for Sprite, having hooked his claws in the blanket, had no intention of letting go. "Oh, for pity's sake, Clovis," the goodwife said, exasperated with her husband's growing frustration, "we can easily do without the wee blanket. Let the lad have it! Just put the whole thing into the basket and be done with it."
Realizing this would relieve him of the entire situation, the farmer did just that, and his wife quickly had the basket closed and fastened before the kitten could realize it might escape yet again.
Frodo thumped Freddy on the shoulder, and with a final glance back at Frodo the older lad rose from where he'd been kneeling and peering around the bush to watch, and hurried out, calling, "Derry! Derry! Where are you?"
It was masterful, Gil thought, as he saw Freddy join the farmer and his wife, explaining he'd been walking with his brother, who'd insisted on carrying the kitten's basket, and apparently the lad had stopped to look in at the wee thing and it must have escaped. "I didn't even realize he wasn't right there behind me," he said. "Oh, thank you for watching him for me. Well, come along, Derry, for elevenses will be on the table before we get there if we don't leave now. And we're promised almond cake."
Fred scooped up the basket and hurried to catch up with Berilac, who'd caught sight of Frodo peering around the hedge and was heading toward him as fast as his little legs could carry him. Grabbing the faunt's hand, Fred allowed himself to be dragged along by the child, smiling with triumph as they came abreast the other lads and they all turned to hurry back toward the place where they'd left the small rowboat they'd used to cross the river in a copse of willow shrubs. And as they turned away from the farm hedge at last, Gil could swear he heard the farmer's cries of dismay at finding all his ripe tomatoes had been taken by scrumpers. He grinned as he reached down to pick up little Beri so they could go more quickly.
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State Police again search Amanda Warf's ex-husband's property: Joined by state fire marshal's office
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EPPING — Four days after the body of Amanda Warf was discovered inside a burning building, the state police homicide unit returned to the home of Warf's ex-husband on Monday, gathering evidence, but remaining silent about the investigation.
The state's chief medical examiner ruled the death a homicide following an autopsy Friday morning. Police have not released Warf's cause of death.
Under the terms of their divorce decree, Aaron Desjardins was awarded ownership of a 1993 Honda Civic, and Amanda Desjardins was to receive a 2002 Hyundai.
In a proposed order on the motion to modify the divorce decree, Desjardins' attorney wrote that at the time of their divorce, the couple had no equity in their home. By agreeing to become the owner, Desjardins "took on a large financial burden" to protect both from a foreclosure or bankruptcy.
William Edward Warf, the couple's child, was born April 15, 2012. The couple had been divorced two months earlier.
After a paternity test confirmed that Desjardins was the father, Amanda Warf filed seeking child support payments in July 2012, according to court records. In addition, Aaron Desjardins filed a motion on Nov. 1, 2012, asking for the name of the child to be changed from William Warf to a version that included his own last name.
The couple had a temporary parenting plan in place at the time of Warf's death, according to Coughlin.
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US Institutions Participating in LHC Experiments and Accelerator
Approximately 2,000 scientists, students and technicians from 96 US institutions participate in the LHC. These institutions include universities and national laboratories from 33 states and Puerto Rico.
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