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Maureen Mullarkey is a painter who writes on art and culture. Her essays have appeared in various publications, among them: The Nation, Crisis, Commonweal, Hudson Review, Arts, The New Criterion, First Things, The Weekly Standard, and The Magazine Antiques. She was a columnist for The New York Sun.
Motherhood, as you understand and honor it, is passé. Outmoded. It has faded into a quant bit of Americana, an artifact of folklore like Johnny Appleseed or Aunt Jemima.
That is the undisquised message of the Museum of Motherhood (MOM), established this past January on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Following the lead of "museums" of contemporary art, MOM exists neither to preserve nor conserve an iota of cultural heritage. It obtains exclusively to promote a product. In this case, the article on display is a stake through the heart of our "cultural fairy tale" of what constitutes a family.
MOM's website features a daily blog, Mamablogger365 , open to submissions on the subject of "reframing" motherhood. Kimberly Dark's entry for May 5 th is a definitive decoction of this new and exciting project. Substance is all there in the title: "Queer ParentingCan We Stop Acting Like It Is Something New?":
Even if we find the fairy tale [of traditional marriage and family] foolish and think there's nothing wrong with non-adherence, this story is in our cultural consciousness.
Ms. Dark, aka Mommy Queerest, welcomes the MOMuseum's mission to supplant the antiquated preachments of our false cultural consciousness:
Here's the truth of it: Sometimes people meet and marry and have children. Often, people start having sex with one another before marriage and sometimes children result. Sometimes marriages involve sexual fidelity sometimes not. Sometimes multiple sexual partners are a planned part of loving relationships, sometimes not. And any combination of those people can create children, or not. Some people have children without marrying. Some people can't have their own children because neither of them is able to give birth either because of their own fertility or because both of them are the same gender. Yes, sometimes people of the same gender have sex, and fall in love, and sometimes they even marry either because gay marriage is legal where they live or they gain state support by concealing or changing one of their genders in order to conform to cultural norms. All of this has been happening for all of recorded time. All of it. Families are complex and we construct them both in accordance with and in opposition to cultural norms and laws.
For all of recorded time . All of it . Ms. Dark, an LBGT performer and sociology professor, puts queer scholarship to work in the war against the intellect that has become the hallmark of popular culture.
Go to MOM's website, follow the links, and weep. Under the gaudy banner of gay liberation and reproductive rights, women have succeeded in doing what Western patriarchy has not. They have maneuvered women to the status of brood mares. And proud of it.
Note: MOM is here . Kimberly Dark's site is here . Joy Rose, foundress and executive director of MOM and The Motherhood Foundation, can be found here . The Foundation is a certified 501(c)(3), tax exempt contribution to the demotion of traditional concepts of marriage and family.
Here it comes.
Truth to tell, I do not like Mother's Day. It is a mawkish, manufactured holidaya counterfeit tradition like Kwanza. But now that it is upon us, women might as well make the most of it. This is the day to milk what remains of filial guilt for all it is worth. Lay it on thick, sisters.
Get the jump on neglectful, inattentive offspring. Do not wait for your begets to send the usual Mother's Day boilerplate from the greeting card industry. Plug the ooze of pastel, market-researched sentiments. Go on the offensive; upend protocol. Drop this in the mail to your slack brood:
If you prefer suggestive indirection, you can remind them of your tender, sheltering, watchful, supportive maternity with this:
Then there are our own mothers to be thought of. No problem. Ask the endearing Zeichen Press to run this off for you:
Anna Jarvis, unmarried and childless, founded Mother's Day in honor of her own mother, Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis. Mrs. Jarvis was a dynamic woman, an eloquent public speaker, organizer and true humanitarian in the Civil War era. She also knew her own worth and impressed it upon her daughter:
I hope that someone, sometime will found a memorial mother's day commemorating her for the matchless service she renders to humanity in every field of life. She is entitled to it.
The eye never has enough of seeing.
Ecclessiastes 1:8
What is the point of having a weblog if I can't talk about things I like? One of them is the photography of William Meyers. He was my colleague on the culture desk of The New York Sun during its balmy years as a print publication . He writes on photography now for The Wall Street Journal. You might well have read his commentaries but you have not seen his own approach to the craft he observes. And celebrates.
Though he did not devote himself seriously to photography until the late '90s when he was about 60, Meyers aligns himself with the generation of photographers who developed their visual language in the 1960s and '70s. (He was born in 1938. Lee Friedlander was born in 1934, Joel Meyerowitz in 1938, William Eggleston in 1939). All were heirs of Garry Winograd, sophisticated documentarian of the 1960s' social landscape. All shared a lively determination to seize small moments of humanity out of chance glimpses on the streets.
Let Bill explain himself:
Most of my pictures were taken on anonymous streets where the people of the place live and go about their business; they represent the quotidian, not the spectacular; they are the outer boroughs of the spirit as well as of the physical city. The work is not concerned with documentation, the way things look, but with . . . the feel of a place at a particular moment. Each image represents a certain time in a certain part of a certain city where, I have found, even in unlikely neighborhoods there are occasions for beauty.
. . . Rather than shoot intrinsically exciting sites like mid-town Manhattan, I sought out ones that would be considered uninteresting and tried to take compelling pictures of them.
His first solo exhibition opens this Tuesday at the Nailya Alexander Gallery, 41 E. 57th Street. If you are in Manhattan or passing through between then and June 8th, you might want to stop up to the gallery.
Modernism in the arts is an indefinite term. Like fascism , the word gets bandied about despite the absence of any firm idea of what it means. Even the editors of Modernism: 1890-1930 , a widely used text, fell back on this:
The name [i.e. modernism] is clear; the nature of the movement or movements … is much less so. And equally unclear is the status of the stylistic claim we are making. We have noted that few ages have been more multiple, more promiscuous in artistic style; to distil from the multiplicity an overall style or mannerism is a difficult, perhaps even an impossible task.
At about the same time, critic Monroe K. Spears echoed the sentiment when he prefaced an important book on the same subject by observing that "Modernism is, of course, an impossible subject." That was the mid-1970s. Here we are thirty years later and head-long into post-Modernism, yet still with no definitive idea of precisely what we are post of.
So we have to be careful not to discard the achievements of modernism in the arts—the visual arts, my chief concern—on ideological ground that has more sand in it than we like to think.
Pius X's condemnation of modernism as the "synthesis of all heresies" has reverberated in unsuspected ways. The shadow of heresy-by-association blankets the fragmentation and disjunctions of modern art (much of it a reaction to the horrors of war). Since modern art challenged the authority of preceding art, it was disdained as an expression of the same heretical impulse.
This over-simplification is far less interesting than the reality. The entire history of Western art has been a succession of challenges to previous art as well as a story of intricate branching and wandering, with many false starts along the way. People of faith, skeptical toward unnuanced Darwinian hypotheses about the origin of man, accept without question mainstream Darwinian views of art history. Following the received wisdom, they lend themselves to the myth of the supposedly organic structure of art history, imagining an unbroken line of progress from classical times to the Renaissance. (Some stretch it to the 1880's and the beginnings of Impressionism, but no later.) After that, in the modern era, the presumed ladder of ascendancy collapses. Believers jump ship to take up the unsmiling game of modernist-spotting. The visual correlative of heresy-spotting.
And that is too bad. The volume and scope of art dismissed by this attitude is staggering. Stay awhile with Beckmann's interpretation of the theme of the woman taken in adultery. There is great power in Christ's gesture, staying the mob of accusers with one hand; with the other, making a gesture of acceptance toward the woman. While the crowd mocks, it is they who look grotesque, not Christ—self-assured and protective—and not the woman who places herself under his protection with closed eyes in trust.
And the paint! The beauty of it does not translate onto the screen. It is one of modernism's great gifts.
Have you been following the annual World Naked Bike Ride? A moveable feast, it has been going for some years now in various cities around the fossil-fuel-consuming world. Morally sensitive bikers bare all in protest against Big Oil, the global injustices of energy dependence, the horrors of drilling, demon auto, bad driving and everything else that ravages our planet. At the same time, it strikes a blow for "body freedom" against the repressive forces of Big Clothing. Its motto: "Less gas, more ass."
Portland's edition of the Naked Bike Ride, now in its tenth year, is one of the largest in the world, and typically draws between 4,000-5,000 bicyclists in birthday suits. What makes 2013's escapade notable is that the Portland Art Museum is sponsoring the ride this year. The museum invites buck naked cyclists to travel the blocks around its building on SW Park Avenue. Coincidentally, the museum plans to launch its new exhibition, "Cyclepedia: Iconic Bicycle Design" on the day of the ride, June 8th. Nice timing.
No doubt none of you are ready to drop your shmattes and hop a bike for the planet. Still, we have to admit there is a certain charm to the ride. Not to its politics, but its sense of theatre. Nakedness as a fey expression of reforming zeal has historic precedent. Lady Godiva, riding horseback in the eleventh century to protest taxation, comes straight to mind. Closer to our hearts is St. Francis. Il Poverello did not have a bike but he had a similar strain of exhibitionism. He stripped to his hair shirt to symbolize rejection of his father's resources. He would depend on God alonesomething bikers do whenever they weave through heavy traffic or take country roads after dark. Biking in all kinds of weather instead of drivingVivaldi on the radio or an audio book in progressis one of the rare mortifications that recommend themselves to a secular culture.
All that remains to be seenother than the bikers themselvesis whether the Portland Art Museum will welcome unclad visitors inside as did the Leopold Museum, Vienna, during its February exhibition "Nude Men". PAM's patronage, a bald marketing strategy, goes some way toward illustrating Aldous Huxley's reprove: "High art, low loins."
Myth does not share the status of history. It is not a factual chronicle of primordial events but a poetic insight more profound than an account of incidences ab origine , lost to us in time. Its dignity lies in what Jacques Maritain called creative intuition: "that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination." Poems originate in the individual self; myth commences in communal instinct, the collective Self. At the core of myth is man's quest to apprehend the hidden truths of existence. The myth of Original Sin is one such truth.
That brings me to a broadcast letter from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary in Yonkers. It came during Lent as part of the seminary's annual Paschal Appeal. I have kept the letter for its quotation from Alexander Schmemann, theologian, liturgist, and establisher of an autonomous Orthodox Church in America. Father Schmemann finished writing a text on the eucharist shortly before he died in 1983. These words radiate the character of his theological reflection—on the eucharist and the myth of the Fall:
In our perspective, the original sin of man is not primarily that he disobeyed God; the sin is that he ceased to be hungry for Him and for Him alone, ceased to see his whole life depending on the whole world as a sacrament of communion with God. The only real fall of man is his non-eucharistic life in a non-eucharistic world.
We rise from the pew to take the Eucharist easily. But what it means to live a eucharistic life has no ease about it. If we fully grasped what it signifies—if we are even capable of it—we would crawl to communion on our knees.
You only need a theory if you don't know how to do something.
Leon Krier
What we call the New Urbanism originated in the conversion of Leon Krier, architect and urban planner, from modernism to classicism. A blunt critic of vertical sprawl, he once declared "modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings . . . based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better."
Nikos Salingaros, architect and urban theorist, writes in sympathy with Krier's appraisal of the ravages of modernist architecture. His article " Toward Resilient Architectures 3: How Modernism Got Square
," published in the current issue of Metropolis Magazine , is a studied contribution to the discussion of why the modernist ethos has given us so many barren structures together with overwrought expressionist ones—our urban smear. The article is the third in a series. The previous ones are: Biology Lessons
, an adroit argument from the complexities of biological systems, and—my favorite—a measured remedy for green fever: Why Green Often Isn't
The pith of Salingaros' argument:
Science forces us to conclude that the Modernist view of environmental structure itself appears unmodern—and, moreover, unsustainable. It rests upon now largely discredited theories of culture, technology, environmental geometry, and building form—theories that have never been properly reassessed by their proponents.
For far from being an inevitable product of inexorable historical forces, the evidence reveals 20th Century design to be highly contingent historically, developed as a series of rather peculiar choices by a few influential individuals. The story goes back to a small group of German, Swiss, and Austrian architect-theorists, and . . . the particular ideas of one of them regarding ornament—which, as we shall see, turns out to have far-reaching implications.
Whether science forces an anti-modernist conclusion or simply escorts it is arguable. What is not arguable is that theory is the enemy of sensibility. No matter how idealistic or optimistic the claims of theory, they are doctrinaire by nature and, consequently, substitutes for sensibility. Abstraction fuels ambition, not discernment. Salvation through architecture, the dogmatic heart of the modernist dream, is messianic hubris fixed in steel and concrete. But grandiose theorizing is not easily checked. When Theory is king, it takes yet another postulate to tilt at the reigning one. Salingaros offers his own in recognition of the fragile truth that modernism—its brands and its works—is not destiny.
God spare us any more of these interfaith shows.
Organized to kick-off the civic healing processa cant phrase for a delusional conceptthese political reiki events presume to make us feel better about feeling bad in the wake of horrific assault. A Daily News headline intones "Boston Marathon Survivors Begin the Healing Process as President Obama Leads Prayer Service." The article gives us the comfort of knowing that Barack and Michelle visited victims at Massachusetts General Hospital "to try to heal a little more." US News burbled in a subhead: "The president issued a love letter to Boston during speech at an interfaith service."
Sanctimony oozed from platitudinous coverage of the president's "message of healing." The Cathedral of the Holy Cross could have held a quiet, unspectacular Mass for the dead and wounded. Instead, it staged a pseudo-pious photo-op for the same feckless politicians whose policies and ideological timidities open doors to terrorist aggression.
It was left to Investor's Business Daily and the UK's Daily Mail to note that, prior to the Marathon, our Consoler-in-Chief had slashed funds for a program to deter domestic bombing. He cut the bombing prevention budget by 45 percent against the advice of a leading military IED expert. Not so long ago he went to bed while his ambassador in Benghazi was being murdered. No prayers wasted on that carnage. Yet he feels our pain, does our high rolling healer. Much like Lewis Carroll's canny walrus who wept for the oysters he devoured.
"I weep for you," the Walrus said: /"I deeply sympathize." / With sobs and tears he sorted out / Those of the largest size/ Holding his pocket-handkerschief / Before his streaming eyes.
We need to retire the word healing divorced from its medical applications . Like hope and change , it is a word for hire. It can be rented out to any purpose whatever:
"I am excited to be a witness to healing, and grace, and peace," burbled one female attendee at the service. It is hard to say which is more virulent, her narcissism or her naiveté.
In an oprahfied, therapeutic age, there is no end to Psychological Man's maneuverings to avoid unpleasant realities. One reality is thata presidential love letter notwithstandingthis bombing was not about Boston. It simply happened there. It was about the difficult truth that Islam is fueled by a theological imperative to conquer. Bumper sticker slogans ("Forgiveness," "Peace") on hand-held signs in the crowd outside the cathedral announce our vanishing capacity to realize that sometimes peace has to be imposed. That we have no standing to dispense forgiveness as if it were a lollipop. And that we are obliged to recognize humbug when we hear it.
BBC News Magazine' s Jon Kelly discusses Behind the Candelabra , a current movie about Liberace's six year affair with a much younger man. Throughout his life , the entertainer strained to maintain the fiction that he was heterosexual:
Most famously, he sued the Daily Mirror over an innuendo-laden article by William Connor, who wrote under the pen-name Cassandra, which described the musician as "the pinnacle of masculine, feminine, and neuter . . . a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love".
Whether Connor's phrasing (this was 1956) would be "too homophobic" for today's newspapers as Kelly suggests, it is a marvelous bit of writing. Connor continued, calling Liberace a "superb piece of calculating candy-floss" whose popularity raised doubts about the character of the popularlargely femalemind:
There must be something wrong with us that our teenagers longing for sex and our middle aged matrons fed up with sex alike should fall for such a sugary mountain of jingling claptrap wrapped up in such a preposterous clown.
William Connor ought to have gotten a PEN award for lively expository prose. Worthy of Mencken. Andbe honestit is an accurate enough description of Liberace's theatrical persona which appealed hugely to women.
A pianist, he brought to the popular stage the kind of exotic burlesqueequal parts vaudeville, bacchanalia, and concertthat opened in Seattle's The Garden of Allah in 1946. America's first gay cabaret, The Garden was a celebrated oasis for female impersonators; its Prima Donnas and Dames dressed as garishly as Liberace on TV. A drag showmore precisely, the mildly risqué hint of onebeat Tex Ritter and the Andrew Sisters. The Ed Sullivan Show was ready for Liberace.
Connor had no sympathy for Liberace's glittering chintz and bravado: "He is the summit of sex . . . .Everything that he, she or it could ever want." Where is the slander here? This was language used as Orwell prescribed, "as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought."
Liberace won his suit by lying under oath. And he got the last word: "I cried all the way to the bank."
By now, camp sensibility has become mainstream. Nowhere is it more evident than in the gay marriage debate. What ought to have been taken as an exercise in camp role-playing was instead greeted with dead seriousness. This was one time we ought to have been listening to Susan Sontag: "The hallmark of Camp is the spirit of extravagance." She expanded:
Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment . . . . What it does is to offer for art (and life) a differenta supplementaryset of standards.
Sontag ended "Notes on Camp" with an observation that applies a certain bite to our descent into dandyisme in the name of rights:
Camp taste is by its nature possible only in affluent societies, in societies or circles capable of experiencing the psychopathology of affluence.
During last evening's votes in the House, John Boehner ordered a moment of silence for the victims of yesterday's terror bombings of the Boston Marathon. It was a timid, sentimental call, an act of retreat from any statement of rage or resolve. The president muttered something about "senseless loss" caused by "explosions." Not deliberate bombings, just unspecified explosions . As if there had been a gas leak.
There was nothing senseless about them. Terror has a purpose, one our political class and a courtier press prefer to deflect attention from. Political language, Orwell reminded, is " designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind."
In his essay "Politics and the English Language," Orwell remarks:
This mixture of vagueness and sheer incompetence is the most marked characteristic of modern English prose, and especially any kind of political writing. As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen house.
Justinian's great Hagia Sophia is now a mosque. We have no guarantee that the star and crescent will not fly one day over St. Peter's. Or the White House. Nothing, that is, except vigilance and the language to sustain it.
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I'm fighting back by starting my own personal trend for self-acceptance"
I don't want to carry on feeling like this, but I just can't see a way out"
One TUC have launched a 'Sack Esther McVey' song - that'd be a hit here"
The Ups and Downs website says they teach kids to follow instructions, overcome fears, work together, explore new talents and perfect skills. They succeeded in them all."
It's fair to feel more than a little cheesed off."
The Mazda2 is stylish and grown-up"
I've now told her I want a divorce but she's having none of it"
Not one person has sent me a message and it's starting to knock my confidence"
The demonisation of mothers makes me so angry. They just can't win."
Let's not go there, eh? Scotland, we are better than that."
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Dogwood tree leaves look bad
Help! 3 Dogwood trees, all in the ground for over a year. Leaves started turning brown around the edges. Plenty of rain and some sun... especially in the last month.. Good drainage as they are on a slope.. two are within 30ft of each other, other one is more than 300ft away with trees in between. Fungus maybe? Root rot? Help! I don't want to lose them!
I live just north of Vancouver, WA
Thanks in advance,
Can you post closeup pic of the brown edged leaves? I've had some Cornus Florida with Anthracnose and could compare the look of your leaves to what mine looked like. My trees never died, just kept getting brown edged leaves and dropping all the time which became extremely annoying so they finally got chopped down.
Sure looks like Anthracnose to me.
I had a few Cornus floridas with Cherokee in their name that came down with Anthracnose every year. My solution was to toss em' and grow Cornus kousa instead.
If I have to spray a plant, I don't grow it. I would probably miss the right time.
I agree with Mike. Generally I don't recommend treating for anthracnose as it is an ongoing issue that really only results in the eventual decline of the tree beyond salvation. Better to plant resistant forms if possible. If I had my druthers, they wouldn't even sell eastern dogwoods (Cornus florida) in this area as they are virtually guaranteed to get it.
Having said all that, I have seen far more anthracnose this season than in previous years and on some so-called quite resistant cultivars. I think a great of deal of it is due to our recent weather.......an extremely mild winter and a mild, moist spring. Ideal conditions for fungal issues!!
IME, anthracnose that first appears after these combinations of weather conditions is most likely temporary and somewhat treatable. It starts out as only a foliar problem but if ignored or exacerbated by additional weather issues, it can become systemic in following years. And in those cultivars/hybrids that are usually listed as resistant, it seldom ever progresses beyond the foliar stage.
Cultural control at this point is all that is recommended although you may want to be somewhat preemptive next spring, weather depending, and start early on a fungicidal spray just in case.
Here is a link that might be useful: dogwood anthracnose
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Tagalong Hamantaschen
People might wax poetic about the fall foliage or eagerly await summer, but the season I look forward to the most is Girl Scout Cookie season! New Years Diets are quickly forgotten…at the first sight of those adorable girls in green berets I squeal with excitement before buying so many boxes I have trouble carrying them away! My favorites include Samoas and Thin Mints, but I think we can all agree that there's almost no better combination than sweet peanut butter and delectable shortbread cookie all wrapped in a smooth chocolate coating. Yes, my friends, it's true. I am firmly on Team Tagalong.
As I was munching on some Tagalongs after work last week and glancing at my calendar at the upcoming holidays I realized it was pretty much my duty to all fellow Jewish food and Girl Scout cookie lovers to reinvent the Tagalong as a hamantaschen cookie. After a few attempts to perfect the recipe, I created an easy shortbread cookie dough, peanut butter filling and chocolate candy coating that my husband and friends couldn't get enough of. It definitely tops the Chocolate Hamantaschen with Irish Crème Filling I created last year, and that one was pretty good.
One note of caution – don't upgrade the ingredients! When testing this recipe, I discovered using chocolate bark made all the difference in mimicking the flavors of the Tagalong. You might be tempted to go for the high quality dark chocolate, but don't! The chocolate bark thinly coats the shortbread dough and peanut butter filling for that amazing crunch and taste that you used to only be able to find in that beautiful red Tagalong box.
These Tagalong hamantaschen taste identical to the original Girl Scout cookie, but in a Purim-perfect package your friends and family will adore – Scouts' honor!
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For the shortbread hamantaschen dough:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 1/4c sugar
3 eggs
¼ cup cream or milk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
½ tsp salt
2 ½ tsp baking powder
4 cup flour
For the Tagalong filling:
1 ½ cup peanut butter
1 cup powdered sugar, sifted
1 cup chocolate candy bark
Egg wash:
1 egg
1 Tbsp cream
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time, then cream/milk and vanilla and blend until mixture is smooth. Fold in salt, baking powder and flour until just combined. Divide the dough into two discs, cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge while you make the fillings and egg wash.
Mix peanut butter and powdered sugar in a small mixing bowl until thoroughly combined.
Beat egg and cream well together until combined to make egg wash. Set aside.
Roll out the first disc of dough on a well floured surface. Cut circles with a floured drinking glass or cookie cutter as desired. Brush lightly with egg wash.
Place a teaspoon of the peanut butter mixture in the center of each circle. Fold into a triangular shape, pinching each corner firmly to seal. Place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet and brush lightly with egg wash. Set in fridge to chill for 10 minutes. Repeat with remaining dough.
Bake chilled cookies at 350 degrees for 14-17 minutes, until golden brown.
While cookies bake, place the chocolate bark in a glass bowl. Microwave in 20 second intervals, stirring until melted.
Once the cookies are done, let them cool on the cookie sheet for 3-5 minutes and transfer to a cooling rack until cool to the touch. Dip the bottom of each cookie in the chocolate bark and set on parchment paper. Place back in fridge until chocolate is set.
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Mashed Potato Burekas
Burekas are one of my favorite Israeli treats, and they are the perfect way to use up leftover mashed potatoes from your Thanksgiving dinner. This recipe is as easy and delicious as it gets – the best kind of recipe when you need a pick-me-up from all that Black Friday shopping. These are also fantastic during Shabbat dinner to serve with a salad course. You can even serve them with leftover gravy for a delicious dipping sauce.
I used a pareve (nondairy) phyllo dough in this recipe for ease, but you are welcome to make your favorite bureka dough if you prefer. You can also switch up the fillings with whatever leftovers you have on hand: turkey and cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and even stuffing all make fantastic fillings.
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1 package phyllo dough, defrosted
leftover mashed potatoes
1 egg + 1 Tbsp water
dried thyme
freshly ground black pepper
leftover gravy for dipping
Preheat oven to 350°.
Beat the egg with 1 Tbsp of water. Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or a non-stick cooking pad.
Roll out phyllo dough carefully to prevent splitting. I like to divide the layers of the phyllo in half so I can get four sheets instead of two. If the layers seem too brittle and dry, brush with vegetable oil. Working quickly, cut each sheet horizontally into 4 strips.
Lightly brush a strip with the egg wash. Place a scant teaspoon of mashed potatoes at the right end of the strip and fold the right bottom corner up and to the left to create a triangle shape. Continue wrapping the triangle into the remaining strip, being careful to preserve the triangle shape. Seal the end with egg wash if necessary and place end down on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat this process with the remaining strips.
Lightly brush the tops of the burekas with egg wash and sprinkle with dried thyme and freshly ground black pepper.
Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve with warmed leftover gravy.
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Mushroom, Onion, and Challah-Stuffed Acorn Squash
Thanksgiving is one of my family's favorite holidays. Besides Passover, it is one of the only times we all come together during the year and so my mother and I get pretty excited about planning; we spend months working on the perfect place cards, décor, side dishes and desserts. We went all out for Thanksgivukkah last year creating this recipe for sweet potato latkes with toasted marshmallows.
This year we are very much in the midst of menu planning, and can't wait to make this new dish for challah stuffing stuffed acorn squash, made with classic Thanksgiving flavors like squash, dried cranberries, thyme and even pecans.
This dish has a great "wow factor" due to its eye-catching presentation but is quite simple to make. You can even make it ahead of time to save time the day of Thanksgiving. This dish also serves as a great vegetarian entree for your guests.
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4 acorn squashes
½ leftover challah loaf (about 2 cups cubed)
1 yellow onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
8 ounces white mushrooms, chopped
2 tsp dried thyme
2 Tbsp soy sauce
½ cup toasted pecans, chopped
½ cup dried cranberries
½ cup to 3/4 cup vegetable or chicken broth, as needed
Salt & pepper to taste
Olive oil
Preheat oven to 350°F. Place parchment paper on a baking sheet and set aside.
Cut challah into ½ inch cubes and place on the baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil and use your hands to toss the challah pieces and distribute the oil evenly. Toast in the oven for 15-20 minutes, tossing once halfway through. Set the toasted challah cubes aside.
Cut 3/4 inch off the top of each acorn squash and carefully scoop out the seeds and strings of each squash. Cut a sliver off the bottom of each squash and place them on the baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, generously season with salt and pepper, and replace the top of each squash, leaving room for steam to escape. Bake for 40 minutes.
Heat olive oil in a pan over medium-heat heat and sauté the diced onion until translucent. Add the mushrooms and thyme, stirring until the mushrooms brown. Add garlic.
Once no liquid is left in the pan, deglaze the pan with soy sauce. Add cranberries, pecans, challah and vegetable broth, stirring until the vegetable broth is absorbed and the mixture starts to come together. You can add additional broth if the mixture is too dry to come together. Add salt and pepper as needed.
Stuff the squash with the challah mixture until slightly mounded. Place the top of each squash next to its body. Bake the squash and stuffing for 25-30 minutes, until the stuffing is lightly browned and the flesh of the squash can be pierced easily with a fork. Place the top of each squash on top of the stuffing to serve.
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Jew Year's Eve Apples & Honey Punch
Holiday gatherings are always hectic, but Rosh Hashanah seems especially so. It's easy to get stressed out with preparations, the start of the school year and the marathon of holidays that continue popping up for the rest of the month.
To prevent what my mother calls "the crazies," she serves this festive cocktail as family and friends arrive for our holiday meal. Nontraditional? Yes. Effective? YES. This Jew Year's Eve Punch is one of her favorite tricks to ensure a smooth and joyful beginning to the New Year.
Perfect for the High Holiday celebrations from Rosh Hashanah through Sukkot this delicious punch incorporates the sweet flavors of apple and honey into an easy-to-make and easy-to-love drink. You can make this with or without alcohol (we often mix two versions to make sure our guests have a non-alcoholic option) and it is always a hit. Serve your Jew Year's Eve Punch in a large punch bowl or in individual glasses, garnished with a thinly sliced apple round and honey "swizzle stick" like these.
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1 quart Apple Cider
1 quart Ginger Ale
2 cups Honey Bourbon
1-2 granny smith apples, cut into slices
Honey sticks (optional)
Chill apple cider, ginger ale and bourbon if using.
Pour apple cider, ginger ale and bourbon into large pitcher or punch bowl and add ice and apple slices.
Garnish individual glasses with an apple slice and honey stick if desired.
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S'mores Rugelach
I am always ready to bake up treats for an outdoor picnic celebration. And Lag B'omer, the 33rd day of the Omer, is a time to celebrate friends, families and the change in seasons. It is traditional to have a bonfire on this joyous day, and so what better to have at around the campfire than s'mores rugelach.
Of course these sweet, gooey rugelach are perfect for any outdoor celebration or summertime gathering, campfire or not. But I must warn you: they are so addictive you may have a hard time sharing.
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2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
8 oz cream cheese at room temperature
¼ cup sugar
¼ tsp salt
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 cup marshmallow fluff
1 cup mini chocolate chips
1 ¼ cup crushed graham cracker crumbs
1 egg beaten with 1 Tbsp water for egg wash
Cream the butter and cream cheese together in a mixer until light. Add sugar and salt. With the mixer on its lowest speed, add the flour ½ cup at a time until a dough forms.
Place dough onto a well floured surface and shape into a ball. Cut the ball into quarters and wrap each with plastic. Chill in the refrigerator until firm, about 1 hour. If making ahead of time, you can also freeze the dough at this point.
Right before you're ready to take the dough out, prepare the marshmallow filling. Place 2 cups of the marshmallow fluff in a medium size microwavable bowl. Microwave for 10-15 seconds so that the fluff becomes easier to spread.
On a well floured surface, roll each ball out into a 8 inch circle. This dough can be sticky, so sprinkle more flour as necessary. Spread the marshmallow fluff across the dough in a thin layer. Sprinkle ¼ cup of mini chocolate chips and ¼ c crushed graham crackers. Use a pizza cutter to cut the circle into 12 wedges. Start by slicing the circle into quarters and then slice thirds into each quarter to ensure your rugelach will be evenly sized. Roll each wedge up, starting with the wider side.
Place cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Chill for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush each cookie with egg wash and sprinkle with remaining graham cracker crumbs.
Bake 15 to 20 minutes until browned. Let cool on a wire rack and enjoy.
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Chocolate Hamantaschen With Irish Creme Filling
Hamantaschen are the traditional treat of the holiday of Purim. These delicious cookies remind us of our sweet victory over Haman, a villain with a triangular shaped hat who attempted to kill the Jews of Persia. Hamantaschen cookies are usually filled with poppy seeds or jam, but when I found out that Purim fell over St Patrick's Day Weekend this year, I knew a recipe mash-up was a must!
I toyed with the idea of dying the hamantaschen dough green or picking a green filling — lime curd or Andes mint chocolate both sounded like delicious options. However, in the end I settled on incorporating the flavor of Irish creme liqueur. These Irish hamantschen have a crisp chocolate cookie crust that gives way to a rich and creamy spiked center. My take on the traditional Purim cookie is easy to make and pairs wonderfully with a cup of coffee
Having trouble folding your cookies? Try this tutorial if you're having trouble!
For the dough:
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
4 cups all-purpose flour
½ tsp salt
2 ½ tsp baking powder
¼ cup vegetable shortening
¾ cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 ½ cups sugar
2 eggs
½ cup irish crème liqueur
2 tsp vanilla extract
For the filling:
16 oz cream cheese (2 8oz packages)
½ cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup Irish crème liqueur
For the topping:
1 egg + 1 Tbsp water, beaten
In a medium bowl, mix cocoa powder, flour, salt and baking powder. Set aside.
In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the shortening, butter and sugar. Add eggs and blend until smooth. Add liqueur and vanilla.
Fold in dry ingredient mixture until a dough forms. Do not overmix. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and form a large ball. Divide in half, wrap each half in plastic wrap and chill in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes.
While dough is chilling, prepare cheesecake filling. Blend cream cheese and sugar. Add Irish crème and the eggs one at a time, blending thoroughly after each egg.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
Whisk remaining egg and 1 tbsp water together to create an egg glaze.
Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface until thin, around ¼ inch. Cut 3 ½ inch rounds with a cup or cookie cutter and brush round with beaten egg glaze. Fill each round with a teaspoon of Irish crème filling. Pinch corners together to create a triangular shape. Brush pastries again with the egg glaze.
Bake until golden brown (17 to 21 minutes).
Reprinted courtesy of www.thebigfatjewishwedding.
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Sweet Potato Latkes With Toasted Marshmallows
When I was brainstorming my Thanksgivukkah menu I kept dwelling on one of my favorite childhood holiday dishes – what my family calls "Sweet Potato Yum Yum" (or what another family might call sweet potato casserole). You are probably familiar with the heavenly combination of pureed sweet potatoes, margarine, brown sugar and spices, topped with marshmallows and baked to sweet, melted perfection.
Combining the flavors from my family's Sweet Potato Yum Yum into individual-sized sweet potato latkes topped with toast marshmallows seemed like the perfect crowd-pleasing dish to mark this once-in-a-lifetime holiday. And it is. Happy Thanksgivukkah!
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1 lb sweet potatoes
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
2 large eggs
½ tsp salt
1 heaping tsp pumpkin pie spice
2 Tbsp brown sugar
3/4 cup vegetable oil
Peel and coarsely grate the sweet potatoes.
Place grated potatoes in a dish towel and wring out as much excess liquid as possible. This step is key to making sure your latkes are crispy. In a medium bowl stir together potatoes, flour, salt, pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar. Lightly beat eggs in a small bowl. Fold eggs into potato mixture until combined.
Heat oil in a deep skillet over moderately high heat.
Check to see if oil is hot enough by putting a small drop of the potato mixture in the oil. If it starts bubbling it is ready for frying.
Spoon approximately 1/8 cup potato mixture per latke into the oil. Flatten with a spatula and don't crowd the pan otherwise the latkes won't crispy properly.
Reduce heat to medium and cook until golden brown, about 1- 2 minutes per side.
Transfer latkes to a cookie rack to cool.
Turn on your oven's broiler. Place latkes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and top each latke with marshmallows. Place latkes with marshmallows in the oven and watch carefully to make sure the marshmallows don't brown too much.
Once marshmallows toasted until just brown, remove from oven and serve.
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I am married to a wonderful woman, Şafak, for ten years.
I am a chemicak engineer and have been workig for TUrkey's oane of the most prestigious companies,Şişecam Group, also for ten years now.
I love listening to music and especially 70's rock. I play the drums.
I have written and published a novel and the next one is on the way.


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Top Stories of 2011
As the year comes to a close, it is time for year-end reflections. In our case that means sharing the most popular articles of 2011. The following were viewed the most, and in some case created a lot of discussion as well.
1. Readers' Choice Awards 2011
2. Adding More Awesome to Your Office by Shawn Powers
3. Python for Android by Paul Barry
4. Review: Recompute Cardboard PC by Shawn Powers
5. Tiny Core Linux by Joey Bernard
6. The Geek's Guide to the Coolest Holiday Gifts
9. Fun with ethtool by Jayson Broughton
10. Ubuntu 11.04, Unity Released to Mixed Reactions by Susan Linton
Hacking to virtualization, Python to Unity and everything in between are represented, so please enjoy catching up on any of our top stories you may have missed. We look forward to bringing you more in the new year!
2011 graphic via Shutterstock.
Nice list you have there!!
Nice list you made there for us, will be looking for more post from you in the future, Thanks
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I wrote this one-liner so I could have my very own top ten list.
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here's mine (sorry for the formatting if its messed up)
Num. Command times
1 for 190
2 echo 174
3 ls 153
4 cd 129
5 history 103
6 grep 33
7 cat 27
8 exit 18
9 find 16
10 awk 12
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Leuthardt and his colleagues have used the grids to watch consciousness fade under surgical anesthesia and return when the anesthesia wears off. They found each frequency gave different information on how different circuits changed with the loss of consciousness, according to Leuthardt.
"Certain networks of brain activity at very slow frequencies did not change at all regardless of how deep under anesthesia the patient was," Leuthardt says. "Certain relationships between high and low frequencies of brain activity also did not change, and we speculate that may be related to some of the memory circuits."
Their results also showed a series of changes that occurred in a specific order during loss of consciousness and then repeated in reverse order as consciousness returned. Activity in a frequency region known as the gamma band, which is thought to be a manifestation of neurons sending messages to other nearby neurons, dropped and returned as patients lost and regained consciousness.
The results appeared in December in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In another paper that will publish Feb. 9 in The Journal of Neuroscience, Leuthardt and his colleagues have shown that the wavelength of brain signals in a particular region can be used to determine what function that region is performing at that time. They analyzed brain activity by focusing on data from a single electrode positioned over a number of different regions involved in speech. Researchers could use higher-frequency bands of activity in this brain area to tell whether patients:
"We've historically lumped the frequencies of brain activity that we used in this study into one phenomenon
|Contact: Michael C. Purdy
Washington University School of Medicine


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Volunteers wanted to boost BAMfest 2015
Organisers of Bedale's acoustic music festival – BAMfest – are calling on local people to get involved and help make this year's festival even better than before.
An Open Evening for Volunteers is being organised for Tuesday February 24 at Big Sheep Little Cow Farm in Bedale between 7 and 8pm. Light refreshments will be served.
Festival volunteer co-ordinator Josh Waterton-Bailey said: "Volunteers are the lifeblood of the festival, without them we wouldn't be able to make the festival happen. In exchange for a few hours of volunteering across the weekend, we will reward you with free festival tickets"
"We have organised this open evening to explain what is involved and give people an opportunity to meet the Festival team and other volunteers. We'd love to see even more people get the BAMfest buzz!"
Volunteers are required to assist in various areas - to help set up site/venues and clear site/venues, to steward on the festival campsite, the BAMfest ticket desk/info point, help to sell BAMfest merchandise/CD's as well as venue stewarding.
Full details are on the BAMfest website - www.bamfest.co.uk. If you want more information call the BAMfest hotline on 07925 817116 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
BAMfest is now in its third year after being launched in 2013. The three-day event attracts hundreds of visitors to the market town, with local pubs and cafes all getting involved.
The2015 Festival will see appearances by Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, Blackbeard's Tea Party, Henry Priestman, Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra, Babajack, Les Barker, Cathryn Craig and Brian Willoughby, The Young'Uns, The Jon Palmer Band, The Duncan McFarlane Band and many other acts from across the UK.
An extra Farm stage is being launched this year on the Festival site allowing organisers to bring dozens of new bands to Bedale.
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EFDSS Soundpost Weekend - Dungworth and Bradfield
In association with English Folk Dance and Song Society, the next Soundpost weekend will be focussed around The Full English archive.
The Full English
is a ground-breaking project delivered by EFDSS drawing together important
early 20th century collections into the most comprehensive free searchable
database of British folk songs, tunes, dances and customs in the world.
Members of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning Full English Band, archivists, educationalists, academics and other performers will host a weekend of practical workshops and talks on how the archive can be used by performers and educators alike, providing participants with the tools to approach this tradition inquisitively through the use of archives.
The weekend runs
23-25 October 2015 and takes place in community buildings around Dungworth
and Bradfield, north Sheffield. Booking opens March 2015.
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Live music in Brigg gets a real boost next month with a great new concert at The Angel.
Lincolnshire legend John Conolly, the internationally
renowned singer/songwriter will be topping the bill, supported by virtuoso
musician and singer, Robin Garside.
Robin Garside hails from South Yorkshire and has often performed alongside his old friend John. A master musician, he plays fiddle, guitar, mandolin and banjo to accompany his singing, and describes his style as blues, jazz and bluegrass as well as traditional folk. He too has appeared at a host of major festivals and is a regular at the North's biggest folk festival, Whitby.
The pair are playing at The Angel Suite on Saturday 29th November at 7.30pm. This promises to be a terrific night, so don't miss it. Tickets are £9 in advance (£10 on the door) from Brigg Tourist Information and Scunthorpe Central Library.
It is hoped that this will be the start of a regular programme of live music events in Brigg so look out for advance publicity which should be out and about very soon.
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Whitby Folk come together to commemorate Rohilla rescue.
Whitby songwriter
and musician, Richard Grainger, is putting the final touches to the
first part of his most recent project, ''STORMBOUND'' - the True Story
of The Rohilla Disaster. It is to be performed at St Hilda's Parish
Church, West Cliff, Whitby on Nov 1st at 7.00pm by Richard and a cast
of musicians, actors and young people from the Whitby area.
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Commemoration with a difference – all folk/dance clubs and singers sessions across the land are invited to take part in a grass roots community celebration of the folk scene organised by Armistice Pals during October and November which is hoped will draw much needed attention to the club scene and the unsung heroes who run them in order to help keep the circuit alive and kicking.
Armistice Pals is the name given to a 'super group' of over 35 musicians from across the folk firmament who in the year that sadly presented us with the passing of Pete Seeger and the much reported 100 anniversary of the 'war to end all wars', have come together to create a special charity single. Think 'Perfect Day' using the song Pete Seeger made popular 'Where have all the flowers gone' and you won't be far off !
The single will be released as a limited edition 7" single, a physical cd and on iTunes on November 9th, with all proceeds going to peace keeping and anti war charities (The Red Cross, Malala's Fund, The Peace Foundation and Peace through Folk) and was conceived by Merry Hell's manager Damian Liptrot who organised the ambitious project with Folkstock Arts Foundation's Helen Meissner.
The single will be released on Folkstock Records.
We are delighted that Peggy Seeger has asked to be on the single and she is joined by, among others, Dave Swarbrick, Lucy Ward, Johnny Coppin, Peter Knight, Chris and Kellie While, Julie Matthews, Judy Dyble, Luke Jackson, Kelly Oliver, Ninebarrow, Reg Meuross, Said the Maiden, Gavin Davenport, Flossie Malavialle and more, as well as Pete Seeger.
If those interested in taking part register their intention to hold a special Armistice Pals themed session in October or November, which could also involve videoing their rendition of the song, the organisers have said they will add the club name and the video to their social media, promote the club and hopefully boost attendance by focussing on the life enriching experience of coming together in song.
Something which Peggy Seeger told us was Pete's legacy.
A video in which Peggy talks about the single and why she was keen to be part of Armistice Pals will be released on social media shortly.
Press and radio promotion is also lined up, with all clubs taking part potentially gaining free publicity
on their local radio shows as well as via national media as a direct result of their involvement.
There is no fee, just a commitment to mark the release of the single with a special themed evening.
If you want to take part in the biggest country wide club and singers grassroots project we've seen in recent years, please contact
Damian Liptrot or Helen Meissner via email email@example.com
Or our website http://www.armisticepals.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/armisticepals
Twitter https://twitter.com/ArmisticePals
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on the Moor's new youth project, Ghosts of Heroes, wins Heritage Lottery
Fund support.
Led by Festival on the Moor volunteers, and supported by the Rohilla Centenary Team and local schools, the project focuses on World War 1 and in particular The Rohilla Disaster, Whitby Bombardment and the stories of soldiers and civilians from the surrounding moorland and coastal communities between 1914 and 18.
The project will enable around 100 young people to research these topics and present the stories in various creative ways including Drama, Music, Creative Writing and by building a website as a permanent reference to future researchers.
Festival On The
Moor is a community arts and heritage organisation that organises festivals
and educational activities based on folk music, local heritage and culture.
It works with young people through its Shoots & Roots programme
and students from Whitby's Caedmon College and Eskdale School will take
part and benefit by helping them develop their research, media and communication
skills and enjoy the creative aspects while learning more about their
local heritage.
Commenting on the award, Festival Director, Jeanette Grainger said: ' We are thrilled to have received the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, which will enable us to increase our work with young people from Whitby, the coastal communities and the Esk Valley to help them discover more about their heritage and have fun with their discoveries.
Fiona Spiers, Head of HLF Yorkshire and the Humber, said: "Every area has its own stories of their involvement and experiences of the First World War at home and abroad. By focusing on the Rohilla Disaster and the bombardment of Whitby by German Warships young people will learn about the impact of the war on their local area, and further afield."
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More Morris, Better Morris conference
A one-day conference to share effective practice in how to inspire the next generation of morris dancers will be held at Cecil Sharp House in London on Sunday 2 November 2014.
'More Morris, Better Morris, in schools and beyond' is being organised by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) with the Joint Morris Organisations. Sessions will be across a range of morris and sword dance traditions including Cotswold, Molly, North West and Border morris, as well as rapper and longsword.
Workshop leaders, presenters and speakers will include practitioners from across England who are experienced in teaching morris to young people, including: Damien Barber from the Demon Barber Roadshow and the Lock In Dance Show; Will Hampson and Bryony Griffiths; John Bacon, Ann Bacon and David Johns; Dave Leverton from the National Youth Folklore Troupe of England; Laurel Swift and Benjamin Moss; Sue Bousfield; Gordon Phillips and Nicky Stockman; Liam Robinson; and Kim Woodward. More names will be confirmed early September and will be updated online.
The day will include topics such as:
· Delivery in primary and secondary education and links to the curriculum
· Setting up and running groups in out-of-school settings
· What an inspiring morris dance workshop looks like for children and young people and current best practice in dance education
· Safe practice – looking after the bodies of young dancers at different stages of their development
· Kitbag – ideas, information and resources on planning, structuring sessions, writing a CV, insurance and safeguarding issues
Rachel Elliott, EFDSS' Education Director, said: "This conference offers a fantastic opportunity to learn more about teaching morris dancing to young people, whether you are an experienced morris dancer, a teacher or in a morris side, or just starting out and keen to pass on the morris traditions. EFDSS is delighted to presenting this landmark event in partnership with the Joint Morris Organisations. "The aim of the day is to inspire people, connect them and feed them ideas for the delivery of great morris dancing sessions with young people!"
Conference fee: £20 including refreshments and light lunch
For more details and to book http://www.efdss.org/efdss-education/professional-development/more-morris-better-morris
Promoted by: EFDSS and the Joint Morris Organisations (The Morris Federation, Open Morris and The Morris Ring).
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Dave & Julie Evardson CD in aid of St Andrew's Hospice
of you may know that St Andrew's Hospice provides amazing care facilities
in the North East Lincolnshire area. They are currently creating a new
adult hospice as well as making improvements to the existing children's
facility. They need a great deal of financial support to complete this
hope you'll support this important work to enhance Grimsby's major Hospice
facility - and, of course, that you'll enjoy the songs!
Dave & Julie
The award-winning Beverley Folk Festival has launched an online pledge campaign to help maintain its programme of free community events.
This year's festival takes place from June 20-22 at Beverley Racecourse with a stellar musical line-up including Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy & Eliza Carthy, Chas & Dave, Home Service, Lau and Thea Gilmore. In addition the festival – a not-for-profit organisation – encompasses comedy, film, drama, poetry, literature and storytelling. Also, the festival delivers a range of free admission events and activities for visitors, including:
· Free entry to the festival village, giving people the opportunity to enjoy the festival atmosphere, explore the craft stalls and perhaps even enjoy a real ale
· A wide range of fun and creative activities in The Den children's marquee
· The Westwood Sessions, a free drop in practice and performance venue for young musicians age 11-18, nurturing new young talent both local and from further afield
· Free performances from selected festival artists on the Festival Green stage and across Beverley town centre
An online pledge campaign has been set up via CrowdFunder, with the aim of raising £3,200 to support the staging of free events at the festival, which was winner of the Remarkable Tourism Event at the 2014 REYTA awards. In return for donations of various amounts, from £5 to £250, pledgers are offered a range of exclusive offers including tickets, merchandise or goodie bags. Festival director Andrew Mills says: "Beverley Folk Festival is a not-for-profit organisation run by a small and dedicated group and supported by a loyal team of unflagging volunteers. "We believe passionately in supporting our local community, which is why we are asking for support to nurture the links we share."
The campaign runs until 22nd June and pledges can be made at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/BeverleyFolkFestival. For festival information and tickets go to www.beverleyfestival.com or tel: 01377 217569.
The Search For Five Finger Frank
Pete Coe & Alice
Jones did the launch concert for their double CD "The Search For
Five Finger Frank" at The Square Chapel, Halifax on April 13th
with an audience of around a hundred.
Item added April 22 2014
Shepley Spring Festival Cancelled
Shepley's Website carries
the following information....
Item added April 22 2014
The annual Epworth Music Day (held on 21 June) is very much a community event. Musicians, dancers and other performers of any genre and at any level of experience and ability are encouraged to perform and people are invited and welcomed to watch, listen and participate at a number of venues throughout the town. All this is done without payment to any performer and without charge to any member of the audience. As a result, it encourages participation from those who might otherwise be nervous about performing in public as well as providing a great spectacle to those watching and listening.
Epworth Music Day 2014 falls on Saturday 21 June and they are planning for this Music Day to be something rather grand. The event is planned to run from 10am to 10pm. Events are expected to take place throughout the town – indoors and outside. These will be both programmed and impromptu. There will be an evening concert in St Andrew's Church.
Anyone wishing to become involved be it as performer of audience please contact Peter Barnard at firstname.lastname@example.com
Item Added 7/4/2014
Tim Moon is off on his musical
long distance walking again, singing and playing his way from Filey
to Penzance in May and June.
Beverley Festival wins Tourism Award
Beverley Folk Festival have been selected as joint winners of the 'Remarkable Tourism Event' category at the REYTAs (Remarkable East Yorkshire Tourism Awards) held on Thursday evening in Bridlington.
Chris Wade, Artistic Director of the Folk Festival said "It's an award that should be shared by all the staff that work so hard throughout the year, our volunteers and supporters and all the wonderful artists who give their best for us over the festival weekend."
Read more about the awards and all the winners [here]
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An apparatus is disclosed for maintaining accurate control of the maximum duty cycle generated by pulse width modulators. The output signal of a pulse width modulation comparator is averaged and compared to a reference value. This reference value is proportional to the peak value of the comparator's output voltage. A closed loop circuit continually adjusts the duty cycle so the difference between the reference value and the average comparator output is nulled thereby providing an accurate maximum duty cycle output.
1. In a power conversion system employing a pulse width modulated (PWM) system control signal, means for accurately and stably setting the maximum duty cycle of said system signal comprising:
(a) means for generating a reference PWM signal having a pre-set duty cycle for establishing said maximum duty cycle; and
(b) means for comparing said reference PWM signal with said PWM system control; signal for producing a resultant PWM system control signal whose duty cycle does not exceed said maximum duty cycle.
2. The system of claim 1 in which said generating means include a PWM source signal and means for controlling said source signal such that its average value is a function of said pre-set duty cycle.
3. A system according to claim 2 in which said generating means include means for controlling said pre-set duty cycle substantially solely as a function of a resistance ratio.
4. In a power conversion system employing a pulse width modulated (PWM) system control signal, a method for accurately and stably setting the maximum duty cycle of said system control signal, comprising the steps of:
(a) generating a reference PWM signal having a pre-set duty cycle for establishing said maximum duty cycle; and
(b) comparing said reference PWM signal with said system control signal such that the duty cycle of a resultant PWM signal does not exceed said maximum duty cycle.
5. The method of claim 4, further including the step of controlling a PWM source signal used in generating said reference PWM signal, such that said source signal's average value is a function of said pre-set duty cycle.
6. The method of claim 5 further including the step of nulling the average value of said reference signal with said source signal.
The present invention relates to electronic power converters and more particularly to an apparatus for controlling the maximum pulse width duty cycle generated by pulse width modulators controlling such power converters.
In some power converters, particularly those including isolation transformers, it is mandatory to limit the maximum duty cycle generated by the converter's pulse width modulator.
The duty cycle of the pulse width modulator output signal (which controls power converter "on-time") must be limited to a certain maximum which, to avoid damage or failure, may not be exceeded under any condition; transient or steady state. This possibility for damage is due to the transformer's inability to demagnetize at large duty cycle ratios and it emphasizes the importance of accurately setting the maximum duty cycle value.
FIG. 1(a) illustrates a prior art pulse width modulator as implemented for example by the Unitrode UC3825 high speed PWM controller.
As shown, the Unitrode PWM function is performed by comparator 1 which receives as one input a voltage V1 derived from an error amplifier (not shown), and as a second input, a sawtooth signal V2 (illustrated in FIG. 1(b)) which is generated by an oscillator (not shown).
The two inputs cause the output of the PWM comparator to be high as long as the sawtooth voltage V2 is lower in amplitude than the error voltage Vl, and to be low when the sawtooth voltage V2 exceeds the voltage V1.
The duty cycle δ is mathematically defined as: ##EQU1## where ton is the time interval when the output of the PWM comparator is high, and T is the entire period of the signal.
Viewing FIGS. 1(b) and 1(c), the duty cycle δ at the output of the Unitrode PWM modulator is varied from zero to unity as the value of the error voltage V1 varies from less than the lowest value of sawtooth voltage V2 (i.e. Vvalley) to more than the highest value of sawtooth voltage V2 (i.e., Vpeak).
To limit the maximum duty cycle to a value lower than unity, the prior art method limits V2 by applying a voltage clamp 2 to the PWM comparator input. A circuit implementation of this method is shown in FIG. 1(a) where a diode 3 and adjustable source 2 are used to set a clamp level, Vclamp. A waveform illustrating the method is shown in FIG. 1(c).
Assuming for illustration that the value of Vclamp is made equal to Vpeak /2, and that the forward drop of diode 3 is negligible, then under these conditions the Unitrode maximum duty cycle will be limited to 50%.
This method of duty cycle limiting, although simple, is extremely inaccurate. The duty cycle calibration is affected by several factors that vary from circuit to circuit, and also vary for a given circuit as the ambient temperature and the supply voltage of the circuit changes.
These factors include:
Initial accuracy and temperature stability of Vclamp ;
Initial accuracy and supply/temperature stability of Vpeak ;
Initial accuracy and supply/temperature stability of Vvalley ;
Initial value and supply/temperature stability of the response time of comparator 1.
The cumulative effect of the above variations may be very significant. They may amount to a sizeable tolerance in the maximum duty cycle setting. Accommodation of this tolerance requires trade offs in the design of the converters that adversely affect performance parameters such as power density, efficiency and cost.
It is therefore one object of this invention to provide an improved technique in power conversion circuits for limiting the maximum duty cycle of a pulse width modulator to an accurate value.
It is still a further object of the present invention to provide accurate PWM duty cycle limiting circuits which vary within close tolerances from circuit to circuit.
It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide an accurate PWM duty cycle limiter which is virtually unaffected by temperature and circuit voltage changes.
The invention may generally be described as a technique for use in power conversion systems employing a pulse width modulated (PWM) system control signal, for accurately and stably setting the maximum duty cycle of the PWM signal. The technique employs:
(a) means for generating a reference PWM signal having a preset duty cycle representing a maximum value;
(b) means for comparing said reference PWM signal with said system PWM signal such that the maximum duty cycle of the latter is determined by that of the former.
FIG. 1(a) is a schematic diagram which depicts a prior art PWM circuit.
FIG. 1(b) is an illustration of a sawtooth timing signal V2.
FIG. 1(c) is an illustration of how the PWM signal output by the circuit shown in FIG. 1(a) compares to the sawtooth timing signal shown in FIG. 1(b).
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram which shows a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a preferred embodiment wherein a sawtooth timing signal V2 is fed to the inverting inputs of comparators 1 and 2. Supplying the non-inverting input of comparator 1 is output voltage V1 of an error amplifier (not shown).
The outputs of comparators 1 and 2 are fed to the inputs of AND logic gate 3. In addition, the output of comparator 2 is connected to its non-inverting input via an integrator 4 implemented with an operational amplifier A having an input resistor Ri and a feedback capacitor Ci. The non-inverting input of integrator 4 receives a DC voltage Vref, derived from resistive divider 5 (R1, R2) connected across the circuit's supply voltage Vcc.
In operation, comparator 1 generates a pulse width modulated signal PWMout by comparing the sawtooth timing signal V2 to the output voltage of the error amplifier.
The second comparator 2 also generates a PWM signal, in this case as a result of the sawtooth timing signal v2 at one input and the output of integrator 4 at the other.
AND gate 3, which receives the outputs of the two PWM comparators, provides an output PWMout dominated by that comparator (1 or 2) which produces the lower duty cycle signal.
The comparator circuit parameters in the preferred embodiment are chosen to provide a voltage swing from close to Vcc when in the "high" state to near zero in the "low" state. Consequently, the average, Vav, of the voltage V3 at the output of the second comparator 2 is the product of the voltage Vcc and the duty cycle of comparator 2. Thus:
Vav =Vcc �δ2 (2)
The duly cycle, δ2 of comparator 2 is a function of the voltage at its non-inverting input. This input is the output of the integrator 4.
The output of integrator 4 is such as to null its input, that is, to provide at its inverting input, a voltage whose average value is substantially equal to its non-inverting input, Vref :
The latter is given by:
Vref =Vcc �R1 /(R1 +R2). (3)
Thus, at steady state, the output of, integrator 4 will cause PWM comparator 2 to generate a signal V3 whose average value, Vav, equals Vref. That is ##EQU2##
Eliminating the Vcc term on both sides of (4) yields: ##EQU3##
As a result, and since Vav is applied to gate 3, the maximum duty cycle δmax selected at the output of the gate is equal to δ2 which is limited to a constant and accurate value. This constant and accurate value is independent of variations in the supply voltage, sawtooth parameters or response delays in the comparators. In effect, the actual value of the maximum duty cycle will be determined solely by the ratio of two resistances which can be preset or rendered adjustable.
If for any reason the minimum and maximum voltage values of comparator 2 do not have the previously described relation to Vcc, then appropriate compensation can be made in the selection of R1 and R2.
In practice, very accurate and stable ratios of resistors are easily attainable with discrete, printed or integrated resistors.
After considering the embodiment disclosed here, it will be apparent to those versed in the art that the illustrated maximum duty cycle limiting technique shown can be employed by various modifications of the disclosed embodiment without departing from the spirit of the invention. These may include, for example, changing the logic from positive to negative, using alternate timing waveforms, employing duality, etc.
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