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This long-awaited project presents the results of a major research effort to determine the parameters of the stylistic variability of Arab folk music in Israel. Central to this old and highly improvised musical tradition is a unique modal framework that combines the concept of "maqam"--the foundation of Arab music theory--with other characteristics, including those of the text. "Palestinian Arab Music" is a comprehensive analysis of this music as actually practiced, examining both musical and nonmusical factors, their connection with the traits of individual performers, and their interaction with sociocultural phenomena.
Working initially with their own 1957 invention, the Cohen-Katz Melograph, and later with computers, Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz recorded and digitized several hundred Palestinian music performances. The authors analyzed the musical tradition in light of its main variables. These include musical parameters, modal frameworks, the form and structure of the music, its poetic texts, and aspects of the social functions of the tradition. As a result of their study, the vexed aspect of intonation in practice is revealed to exist in a special relationship with the scale systems or "maqamat, " which are in turn of great importance to organizing the music and determining its modal systems.
"It is delightful to see the results of the authors' decades-long study of Palestinian Arab music. Working on their systematic collection of songs recorded in the 1960s and using a variety of analytic tools, Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz here provide a remarkable example of methodological and analytic sophistication that will delight those interested in the analysis of sounds and in ethnomusicological methodology."--Anthony Seeger"Anthony Seeger" (04/18/2005)
|p. ix
|The Research Topic, Problems, Objectives, and the Tradition Studied
|p. 1
|On Studying the Practice of an Oral Tradition
|p. 1
|The Group and Its Tradition
|p. 11
|The Performing Group
|p. 23
|Theoretical Considerations
|p. 23
|Variables That Affect Performance
|p. 26
|A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Creative Performer
|p. 38
|Pitch and the Maqamat
|p. 41
|p. 43
|Collections of Notes
|p. 63
|The Functions of Important Notes
|p. 76
|Melodic Intervals
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|p. 87
|p. 92
|The Phrase Unit
|p. 109
|Summary: A Comparison of the Maqamat by Pitch Factors
|p. 114
|Rhythm and Structure
|p. 133
|p. 136
|Density Tempo
|p. 149
|Beat and Tempo
|p. 152
|p. 165
|p. 173
|p. 180
|Melisma and Style
|p. 181
|On the Nature of Melismata
|p. 181
|Studying Melismata: Methods, Examples, and Findings
|p. 193
|p. 229
|The Text
|p. 235
|General Characteristics of the Texts Examined
|p. 235
|The Main Structural Components of the Text: Poetic Meter and Rhyme
|p. 238
|p. 250
|Musicopoetic Frames
|p. 251
|Theoretical Background
|p. 251
|p. 254
|p. 289
|The Performer's Role in Shaping the Performance
|p. 294
|The Effect of Types of Performers on Some Significant Musical Components
|p. 295
|The Boundaries of Creativity in Folk Tradition: The Individual Performer
|p. 312
|p. 325
|The Musical Components
|p. 326
|The Framework of the Maqamat
|p. 330
|The Connection with Extramusical Factors
|p. 332
|The Methodological Model
|p. 332
|p. 333
|A Selection of Twenty-Eight Songs Representing the Repertoire
|p. 335
|The Selection of Songs and Manner of Presentation
|p. 335
|On the Transcription of the Music and Texts
|p. 337
|Songs on the Compact Disc
|p. 338
|Melographic Output for Songs 1, 4, and 10
|p. 409
|Analysis of the Texts of Songs 2 and 13
|p. 411
|The Structure of the Traditional Village Wedding
|p. 415
|Research Questionnaires
|p. 419
|Poetic Structure as a Kind of Musical Regularity: A Comparison of Arabic Poetic Traditions, the Oral Palestinian, and the Written Medieval Spanish
|p. 459
|p. 485
|p. 501
|Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 416
Published: 1st November 2005
Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 23.62 x 16.41 x 3.43
Weight (kg): 0.83
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|Lemon gelatin/Lime gelatin
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|1⁄4 Teaspoon
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|Cold water
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Vinegar/Lemon juice
|2 Tablespoon
|Grated onion
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|1 Dash
|Diced raw cauliflower
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Shredded carrots
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Sliced radishes
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Diced celery
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Chopped watercress
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
|Diced green pepper
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Dissolve gelatin and salt in boiling water.
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Beat until well blended.
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KLANG: A New Linux Audio System For The Kernel
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While duplication of effort is generally a bad thing, I like judging by merit. If this ends up being superior to ALSA and PA, then rejoice; progress to the audio stack. Elsewise this implementation will simply remain niche and/or die out, and it may have taken manhours that could otherwise have been spent on existing systems (but that's not guaranteed).
I wonder, to what extent can existing drivers be ported to this?
1. Unless he wants to only support integer sample formats, this will never be allowed in the kernel, because Linus doesn't allow floating point in the kernel. I guess he'd have to resample any inbound floating point audio from programs in userspace before passing it to the kernel. But since the proposal is for directly accessing a character device, that sounds impossible. Good luck with that.
Also, OSS is a terrible API from the 90s that has no concept of modern ideas like power savings.
Originally posted by http://klang.eudyptula.orgWait, doesn't OSS4 already provide all this
OSS4 provides mixing, resampling and splicing a signal from a source to a process. But OSS4 still treats audio HW and client processes accessing it as different kinds of citizens. In addition to that OSS4 has no support for power management and sequencer data (=MIDI)
KLANG is different. KLANG has full support for the available power management primitives. KLANG provides transport for non-sample data, like MIDI. And KLANG will integrate into the kernel's namespacing/container primitives.
The problem is that a "character device" is a concept unique to *NIX operating systems, so any OS that doesn't implement that concept is kinda screwed. A "C" API is pretty much a universal concept; all but 1 or 2 exotic OSes support that. So you can't talk about portability while saying "forget all OSes that don't derive their core design from UNIX".
3. We don't need another solution. Period. We have too many already. It's way past the point where introducing new solutions is even remotely plausible. All this can possibly do is bring further fragmentation and brokenness to the Linux desktop, and add more headaches for application developers trying to support every system. Hopefully it does not gain any traction whatsoever.
4. Using the justification of being "annoyed" at PulseAudio is not a reason for starting a completely new project. Instead, improve on the things about PulseAudio that annoy you. Although I can't imagine what; I haven't even thought about sound infrastructure on my system for more than a year. I start up apps and they play sound. I don't see what there is to be annoyed about. Everything "just works" with no glitches/dropouts/etc, exactly like it was promised when PA started back in '06 / '07.
5. It'll take you a decade to develop all the hardware support needed to be even competitive with OSS4, let alone ALSA. Audio drivers can't ever be pure and simple; they necessarily have to come with tons of ASIC-specific hacks and workarounds, because hardware manufacturers like to add little tweaks to break your driver, like changing pinouts, etc. It's part of the territory. It takes a ridiculous amount of manpower to develop and maintain all those workarounds. One person isn't going to cut it. All the traction is already with ALSA. All the success is already with ALSA.
This thing is just stupid. It's like going on a 500 mile trip in the car, traveling 498 miles to your destination, then say "oh $@(# I meant to take a train, not a car, this sucks", then drive all the way back home and get on a train to go there again. What a terrible waste of manpower.
Contribute to ALSA or PulseAudio (or both) instead, ya dolt!
This is just a protest project, not even newsworthy.
DO NOT pollute my kernel with stupid audio crap that doesn't belong in the kernel. ALSA+Pulse is a MUCH better approach to sound.
Some people get freaked out when things actually ADVANCE. They are very small people.
If you understand German, check http://www.heise.de/open/news/foren/.../showthread-1/
Wolfgang explains a bit more about KLANG and his arguments sound valid.
Remarks from the creator of JACK
The OS X kernel has RT facilities. But you're missing the point: you don't need RT for this. The reason why RT is used in Linux for audio just shows the problems the audio stack has. RT is not needed, unless you're doing something wrong in the audio infrastructure.
From experience I know that a task like this can not be taken lightly. I've been developing a lightweight 3D audio library for years and only recently it got in a state I find acceptable (but maybe I've got too high standards). It's called AeonWave and is available for Linux and Windows now: http://www.adalin.com
Although it is not Freeware, it is cheap and a royalty free (but limited) version of the library is available.
I am a fan of Free and Open Source software though (hence the many open source side projects and more to come).
This project was started out of frustration for the state of OpenAL-Sample years ago (and in some ways still today with OpenAL-Soft) and renders about 6 times faster than both. As time passed proper stereo mixing and effects supports has been added as well as support for audio-frames which can be used for sub-mixing and to move multiple sound emitters around simultaneously in a 3d environment.
This library however is not meant to be a replacement for ALSA, PulseAudio or OSS but instead it simply uses one of them as a backend. I really wouldn't want to think of this much code added the the kernel..
Personally I think the library fills a gap that both OS-X and Windows already have a solution for and the fact that it can render (3d) audio up to 7 times faster (and I see some room for more improvement) and can be setup for latencies as low as 2 msec means it is well thought out in my honest opinion.
Originally posted by plonoma View PostSounds good architecture decisions except for the use of OSS.
A company tried to blackmail Linux with OSS API, that's why it is being replaced by ALSA.
89c51 was fired soon after.
NASA launches a rocket carrying a satellite. The rocket explodes 10 seconds after liftoff. 1 billion dollars wasted. Someone says: "It exploded, something went wrong!" 89c51 says: "Explain what's wrong then." Someone answers: "I've no idea!" 89c51 says: "See? Nothing's wrong. Everything is OK."
89c51 was fired soon after.
NASA launches a rocket carrying a satellite. The rocket explodes 10 seconds after liftoff. 1 billion dollars wasted. Someone says: "It exploded, something went wrong!" 89c51 says: "Explain what's wrong then." Someone answers: "I've no idea!" 89c51 says: "See? Nothing's wrong. Everything is OK."
89c51 was fired soon after.
Next time you say something is broken at least be able to tell why you believe this (the rocket because it exploded, a car because it crashed, etc.)
"professional grade audio, that means lowest possible latency, latency compensation and bit exact precision at a very low CPU load. KLANG has been designed as a signal routing system, supporting seamless and transparent signal transport between all endpoints.
ALSA has worked fine for me for as long as I can remember. I don't want another square wheel.


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|Derek Jeter told the president to throw his opening pitch from the mound, not in front of it. (Getty Images)
All eyes were on the dugout. That's what I remember. And why wouldn't they be? This was the World Series. These were the Yankees.
Of course all eyes were on the dugout. The game was about to begin.
I also remember the lights. Never before, it seemed, had the Yankee Stadium lights shone this brilliantly, this spectacularly.
And the sky. Pitch black. Ink black. The contrast with those lights, on that chilly autumn evening, took your breath away. It put a lump in your throat. Anybody stuffed into Yankee Stadium that night, I dare them to tell you they ever felt more alive than at that very moment.
Anyway. The dugout, the lights, the sky. Who knew what would happen next?
|Remembering 9/11
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What happened next would become one of the most remarkable moments as this country picked itself up post-9/11, one of the most enduring symbols that, while evil men could take away our buildings, they could not hijack our spirit.
Out of the Yankees dugout to deliver the first pitch before Game 3 came the President of the United States. And what struck me then and has stayed with me to this day is, never have I seen a man look more ... alone ... than George W. Bush.
Even though, as he briskly and confidently walked to the mound, he was surrounded by some 55,000 fans, rooftop Secret Service snipers, thousands of New York police and firefighters, hundreds of media members, millions watching on television and one extra umpire -- a Secret Service man in disguise.
In those raw days, nobody knew what would happen next. How could you? So we all just sort of waited. Would there be another attack? Would we respond? Would life ever be the same? Was today the day when things would start returning to normal? Tomorrow?
And now, my Lord, the President, alone in the middle of not just any public place, but Yankee Stadium.
Ten years pass, things get a little fuzzy. Memories fray. Photographs fade.
Baseball took a break in those days after 9/11, shut down for a week while bodies were recovered and prayers were offered. Commissioner Bud Selig spoke eloquently of the game's responsibility as a "social institution." And when it was time, when some of the tears had dried (but not all, not nearly all of them), baseball helped lead the way back as the country took its first wobbly steps toward some semblance of normalcy.
Many folks today recall Bush making his Yankee Stadium pitch right when the game returned. Well, kind of. The games resumed on Sept. 17, six days after the 9/11 attacks. Bush appeared before Game 3 of the World Series, on Oct. 30, exactly seven weeks to the day of the attacks.
A handful of us had visited Ground Zero earlier that day to pay our respects. It was still smoldering and, of course, fenced off. The closest you could get was maybe four, five blocks away. That was close enough. The makeshift memorials nearby ripped your guts out. Balloons. Notes. Candles. Flowers. Poems. Teddy bears.
The stadium that night was one part baseball, one part revival meeting and one part community healing. With Bush due, the security in the Bronx was extraordinary. Airport-style metal detectors at every entrance. A thick -- forget thin -- blue line, everywhere.
The tension was even thicker. It took forever to get inside, even six hours before game time. The anxiety was suffocating.
Yankees players would talk later about the sobering sight of bomb-sniffing dogs combing their clubhouse.
But this was baseball, and as you might have heard, baseball is a funny game. So away from the metal detectors and the dogs, there were moments of good humor, too. As Bush loosened his throwing arm in an indoor batting cage near the Yankees clubhouse, Derek Jeter approached.
"Are you going to throw the pitch from the mound, or from in front of the mound?" Jeter wondered.
The original plan was for the president, who, of course, was wearing a bulletproof vest, to throw from a spot in front of the mound.
"Better throw it from the mound, otherwise, you're going to get booed," Jeter advised. "This is Yankee Stadium."
Then, as he walked away, Jeter glanced back over his shoulder. One more suggestion.
"Don't bounce it," he quipped. "They'll boo you."
Later, Bush, with a lifelong passion for the game, would speak of the pressure he felt. He didn't want the citizens in the land of the free and home of the brave to think their president couldn't deliver a strike, and doesn't that just about say it all, on multiple levels?
Out of the dugout he came, wearing brown slacks and a blue jacket with the letters "FDNY" big and bold across the back. Out of the stands came thunderous chants of "USA! USA!"
Measured against staggering events, he looked so small. So alone.
He stood there on the pitching rubber looking around, taking it all in. He gave a thumbs up ... and then threw.
Damn right it was a strike. Even by a stingy umpire's standards.
It was a different America back then, one nation, united, in an edgy time. Sometimes now it's hard to remember that unity, what with the Republicans and Democrats again more divided than Yankees and Red Sox fans (and depressingly, often far less civil).
Ten years pass, things get a little fuzzy. Myths become legends, and the legends grow. A bloop double becomes a five-run homer.
Then there are the moments that remain seared into your fiber.
"Always remember" read the signs following 9/11.
"Never forget" read others.
We do, and we won't. Never before have I seen a man looking as lonely -- and, yes, as determined -- as the President appeared that night. Never again do I hope to see such a sight.


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Our pals over at Publishing Perspectives have an interesting couple of pieces up this morning on the fantastic Russian writer Master Chen (the penname of Dmitry Kosyrev): one is an interview with the author, and the other about a Kickstarter campaign started by Russian Life Magazine to fund the translation and publication of Master Chen's Silk Road Trilogy: The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas, The Pet Foal of the House of Maniakh, and The Pet Monkey of the House of Tang.
Master Chen was at a bunch of Read Russia events at BEA, and it was a pleasure to hear him speak about his work. There are a vast number of fascinating Russian writers who have yet to have any of their works translated into English, Master Chen among them, who blow my mind with the fantastic creativity of their ideas and the originality of their writing styles. If you think you know a lot about Russian literature because you're fond of the classics, you would be pleasantly surprised at how much diversity there is in the Russian literary world today.
In the interview with Daniel Kalder on Publishing Perspectives, Master Chen discusses his style as a mixture of thriller and high literature, a unique Russian form of genre writing, as popularized by Boris Akunin:
Where do you fit on the genre spectrum?
Well, if you can imagine a cocktail of James Clavell and Robert Silverberg shaken with a bit of Salman Rushdie and sprinkled with Somerset Maugham, that's about where I belong. Christie and Simenon have nothing to do with me, since I'm not sure I write detective novels as such. Sometimes I think that I write music, only problem is I never learned how to write it down, so I use letters.
His work features prominently Asian themes and stories, Master Chen's area of expertise, like those that make up the Silk Road Trilogy:
Your story in the Akashic "Moscow Noir" anthology was set in contemporary Moscow, but hinted at the Soviet past. Usually however you set your stories in the East. Is there a reason why you avoid the Soviet Union and Russia?
Fear of competition, probably. I love being a monopolist. Nobody among Russian writers knows the things I know, so why should I dump my advantage, especially in the Asian Age that is already here?
There is one more thing which I felt when I was working on my latest novel The Wine Taster which, after all this time, is about Russia (but begins in Germany and ends in Spain). Even though it is a clear case of monopoly again, since no Russian writer knows about wine as much as I do, I still felt that I did not quite like writing about Russia, it's kind of a constraining task for me, locking myself within Russian borders. Anyway, look at how many "real" Russian writers there are, still nagging at it: hopeless country, hopeless people, things are so bad…They were doing it in the 19th century, they're still doing it. You don't need me if you buy their depressive lamentations. I'd rather tell my readers: the world is dazzling, it offers you so much fun, stop banging you head against the same old wall, there are so many things to learn and to do. And by the way, if you know the world, then maybe you will start seeing your own country in a different way.
The idea of Kickstarter campaigns to fund translations is brilliant—anything to see more translations released in English is a good idea—and I think we will see many more crowd-funded projects from independent and small presses (and authors, of course, looking to self-publish) in the future, the same way many musicians and record labels are using Kickstarter to to fund music video shoots, recording sessions, and album releases. The upside for the creator is that you are in direct communication with your audience, something the publishing world could only stand to improve upon, and the upside for the audience is that they feel like they have a direct impact on the creation of a product they want to see; it's a novel take on the market economy, and I hope to see more worthwhile projects funded any way possible.
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Ryan Howard belted a three-run homer and drove in six runs to lead the Philadelphia Phillies in a 10-6 victory over the Florida Marlins Wednesday night.
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Agents of Chaos is the unatherized (as in the authers would prefer that we get off their lawn!) book release party for Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, a historical tome chronicling the beginnings and some of the antics of the people who made the CS go.
If you would like to purchase a book in advance here, they are $20 (and you get it upon entering the show). They will be $25 at the show and $40 in the stores.
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TLH2010: Return to the Trans-Lab and Newfoundland
Ever since I finished my first trip to Labrador last year (see the RR linked in my sig below), I've been plotting a return to experience it again, and of course to ride the newly-completed Phase III section. As MZcountryboy said in my ride report last year, Labrador has a draw, and I couldn't get it out of my mind for months after I got home. I was eager for more.
So I started planning my return -- but this time, since my buddy James wouldn't be able to come along again, there'd be no support vehicle, and I opted for my V-Strom instead of the XR650L for its superior ability to carry supplies and operate at highway speeds on the paved portions of the trip.
Originally the plan was to ride the Trans-Lab to Blanc-Sablon, then take the Relais Nordik coastal ferry along the St Lawrence to where Rt 138 begins in Natashquan. But this ferry turned out to cost nearly $500 once factoring in bike, rider, cabin, and food -- too expensive. So the route went back to the standard one through Newfoundland and Cape Breton.
I also started talking to several other friends about the trip. It quickly caught the attention of my friend Roman, who had been wanting to do a long trip up into Canada. My buddy Jason, with whom I'm planning to ride to Alaska next year, was interested as well. And eventually the group was joined by Martin, an ADV inmate from New Jersey who found out we'd be doing the trip at the same time as him and asked if he could join up with us as far as Newfoundland.
So over the summer, bikes got prepped, supplies were ordered, and plans were finalized. The evening before departure, I packed the bike and tried to go to sleep early.
Day 1: Saturday, 28 August 2010
We set off bright and early, meeting in Essex, VT, at 7am. Jason, Roman, and I headed up to Derby, VT, to meet up with Martin, who'd started his trip the previous day and ridden as far as southern Vermont.
We stopped off for gas...
Then rode over to the arranged meeting spot to pick up Martin.
From there we crossed the border into Quebec and took back roads past Sherbrooke.
Approaching Thetford Mines, we got into some heavy rain, but it cleared up eventually. By the time we'd passed Quebec City and were on Rt 138 heading northeast, it was beautiful out again.
We reached the Saguenay fjord and boarded the free ferry. Here's Jason and Martin; in the background are some unrelated riders we'd end up following through the twisties later on.
The Saguenay area is beautiful.
On the other side of the fjord, we followed those other guys for a little while...
...then turned off at Camping Paradis Marin and set up camp.
And Martin and I grilled steaks for dinner. :dg
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Day 2: Sunday, 29 August 2010
We got up early Sunday morning, cooked a tasty breakfast of scrambled eggs and bacon, and hit the road. Heading east, Rt 138 passes through numerous small towns and various kinds of countryside.
We made it to Baie Comeau and turned onto Rt 389. Of course we had to stop for the mandatory pics at the sign announcing the start of the Trans-Quebec-Labrador road.
We headed north on the paved road to Manic 5, enjoying the twisties along the way, and eventually stopped for lunch. Through no planning on my part, it ended up being the same spot I stopped last year -- just a convenient spot, I suppose.
Fun road.
We continued north to Manic 5 and stopped for gas and a snack.
Then continued on to the Manic 5 dam itself.
If that dam ever breaks, those buildings down there might have some problems.
The road climbs up to the top of the hill, and the fun begins!
On the gravel.
It had rained heavily earlier in the day. We kept coming across mud holes in the road. For the most part these were no real problem... or so we thought until one of them claimed Roman. His front end augured in (Martin and I suspected that the F800GS's undersprung forks contributed to the problem), and he went over the handlebars. Headlight/instrument cluster broke off.
We duct-taped it back on.
Roman's luggage was banged up too, but serviceable, and the bike started up fine. Roman himself was a bit bruised and his shoulder a little tweaked, but otherwise okay. The bigger issue was that Roman's confidence was badly shaken by crashing only 35 miles into the gravel. But once the bike was cobbled back together, he agreed it made more sense to continue on to Relais Gabriel, since it was closer than backtracking to Manic 5, and by the time we got there he felt a good deal better.
We ended up camping at a primitive site about a kilometer past Relais Gabriel.
The night was clear and beautiful.
We built the mandatory campfire, and Roman opened the bottle of tequila he'd brought.
Eventually I turned in and slept soundly... until I awoke in the middle of the night thinking a bear was walking around our campsite. But then I heard a tent zipper and realized it was just someone getting up to pee. :rofl
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Wow. :eek1
Nice job on the Strom Mark! It looks rugged! :thumb
I look forward to another excellent report.
Day 3: Monday, 30 August 2010
I awoke just before dawn, as the clouds above were being painted in deep reds.
We broke camp as it began to drizzle lightly and headed over to Relais Gabriel for breakfast and expensive showers. While we ate, it began raining more. Great.
As we sat around waiting for each other to shower, a fascinating bike rolled up to the gas pumps -- a stripped-down Ninja 650 with Versys forks, a V-Strom front wheel, and knobby tires. Astride this custom ADV beast was David, aka jdrocks, who would become a recurring character in this story. We chatted for a while, then he set off down the road as we waited for the last of our group to get showered.
Finally we got going. We kept the pace pretty slow as it was still drizzling and the road surface was variable. Eventually we made it to Gagnon.
From there the road was paved to Fire Lake, and thankfully the weather improved. At Fire Lake, the road turns back to gravel, and the section known to locals as the Mini Trail begins. We took a short snack break.
We headed up the Mini Trail, which is a twisty road of loose gravel and lots of railroad crossings. It was slow, sketchy going, made more difficult by the trucks that would blow past and stir up so much dust that we were momentarily blind. Naturally this happened most often on blind, uphill, tight left corners. But we all stayed upright and stopped occasionally to catch up to one another.
Most of the way along this section, I rounded a bend and found David (jdrocks) snapping a photo of me from the side of the road. So I stopped and chatted with him while waiting for the others to catch up.
Here comes Jason.
Beautiful land up there.
David geared up and went on his way.
We took a short break, then followed. Soon made it to the big mine shortly before Fermont.
Here comes Martin.
Big tires!
Soon after the pavement began, and then, of course, we made it to the Labrador border. Time for another mandatory pic.
We grabbed a quick lunch in Lab City, then thoroughly enjoyed the 50 freshly-paved miles of Rt 500 before once again hitting gravel. I have to admit -- once the Trans-Lab has been paved, I'll go back just to enjoy the sweeping turns and the awesome scenery that I'll actually be able to look at when I don't have to keep my eyes glued strictly to the road in front of me.
But soon the pavement ended, and we were given loose, marbly, mostly trackless gravel to enjoy. It made for stressful riding as our bikes squirmed around beneath us. We stopped to take a short break at one of the easier spots along the road.
When there were tracks like that in the gravel, it was easy to ride. Trouble was that those tracks kept quickly running out.
We stopped to camp at the same place I did last year -- happened to be a convenient clearing a little more than halfway between Lab City and Churchill Falls.
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Great story so far.........
:lurk :lurk
I missed out on Labrador this summer - glad you got to enjoy it.
eagerly awaiting more....
Day 4: Tuesday, 31 August 2010
Sometime during the night it began raining, and was still at it when I awoke shortly before dawn. But as I lay in my tent needing to pee, the tapping of raindrops on my tent slowed, then stopped. I crawled out of my tent and said, "Oh, wow!" The rain that had just moved past was catching the dawn light and put on quite a display as the sun came up.
We packed up and headed east. The road continued to be sketchy until about 30 miles before Churchill Falls, at which point it changed to hard-packed dirt, nearly as good as pavement. We enjoyed the easier ride, then stopped in Churchill Falls for breakfast.
Here we wound up running into Marty (aka lakota) and his buddy Jack. They ate faster than we did and were soon on their way again.
Eventually we gassed up and got going too.
The road from Churchill Falls to Goose Bay was more loose gravel. The graders have been busy this summer. The whole road was much easier when I rode it last year.
The scenery along the way is desolate and beautiful.
Tires were wearing okay.
Eventually we reached a freshly-laid-down ribbon of pavement. It was still soft.
The ground around here was covered with this whitish stuff. I'm not sure what it is. I'm also not sure what gorse is, but it sounds like what this looks like, so I'm going to go out on a limb and call this stuff gorse.
Jason was ready to get going again.
The pavement ended after 10 miles or so, we rode another section of gravel, then the paved road into Happy Valley-Goose Bay began. We stopped at the sign for the mandatory photo.
Then we rode into town, went grocery shopping, and rode up to Gosling Lake Park and camped on the beach.
Martin expressed his disappointment at not having seen any moose yet, although we had seen some wolves on the side of the road earlier in the day. A construction crew had started feeding them, so they didn't bother to run away in the presence of humans. One of them apparently looked like it was about to lunge at Roman as he rode by. So it was with thoughts of wildlife that we drifted off to sleep that night.
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Day 5: Wednesday, 1 September 2010
September decided to start out cold. I had to crawl into additional clothes overnight because my 35-degree sleeping bag wasn't keeping me warm enough. When I got up in the morning, there was frost on my bike.
The cold air made for a very picturesque dawn.
We got ourselves moving, stopped by Tim Horton's for breakfast (where we ran into a pair of ADV inmates from Maine), gassed up and filled our auxiliary containers, then rode off to tackle Phase III.
The first 60 miles were hard-packed and mostly free of loose gravel. As good as pavement. We stopped so Martin and Roman could empty the first of their spare gas cans.
After this the road turned to more loose and mostly trackless gravel. We stopped after another 60 miles to empty more fuel containers.
Misery approacheth.
After a truck passed, we had to wait a while for crosswinds to blow away the dust.
All the construction on Phase III was finished, but there was an awful lot of loose gravel. But we reached the end without any incidents (I spotted a large black bear running off as I approached, but it didn't attack any of us so doesn't count as an incident).
From there it was much of the same to Port Hope Simpson. Jason was having a much easier time of it -- he'd found a speed at which his Tiger smoothed out and cruised easily over the gravel, as I had on my XR650L last year. But I hadn't found a speed that worked well on the V-Strom, so there were plenty of pucker moments, though thankfully no crises.
We made it to Port Hope Simpson and gassed up, and everyone was appropriately smitten with Cindy, the daughter of the gas station's owner, who rides a KLR and has become something of an ADV celebrity thanks to past Trans-Lab ride reports.
Roman and Martin decided they wanted to sleep in real beds, and Jason and I didn't want to pay for them, so they got a room at the local B&B while we went off in search of the campground, which turned out to be the RV park just down the street from the B&B. We pulled in and got off the bikes.
While I went off to look for whoever was in charge of the RV park, an early-'90s F650 Funduro pulled in. The owner of the RV park came out, told us it would cost $15 each including a shower, and the F650 rider, Don, a 63-year-old retired schoolteacher from Cape Breton whose favorite word was clearly "fuck" as he employed it liberally, talked the guy into letting us sleep on the floor of the washroom trailer instead of outside in tents. Mission accomplished, Don rode off in search of beer while Jason and I began moving sleeping bags inside.
Dirty Jason. I thought it was funny that the vents on his helmet had allowed little dirt horns to form on his head.
Dirty Triumph. The Trans-Lab dust (I call it labradirt) has a way of getting everywhere.
It especially likes to cake onto rear wheels.
Tires were still wearing okay.
This is the RV park. We took over the white building to the left.
This is Don. He likes beer. In fact, when we (well, actually, he, with minor assistance from Jason and me) finished the first eight-pack, he sent me out for more. Also, Don complimented the mop behind him on her beautiful head of hair.
We sat around and chatted with Don for a while till he decided it was time to go to bed, whereupon he retired into the adjoining room, in which he'd commandeered a disused and suspiciously-stained mattress. Terrific guy. He graciously invited us to stop by Sydney on our way through Cape Breton and sleep in the cabin cruiser in his barn, but we wouldn't end up having the time. If you're reading this, Don, thanks for the invitation, and it was truly a pleasure to have met you!
After Don went to bed, Jason headed out to his bike to gather a few things while I unrolled my sleeping bag. I soon heard voices outside, and fearing an incident, went out to investigate. I found Jason talking with three local teens who'd been wandering by in the dark and yelled over to him. We ended up chatting with them (three brothers -- twins, about 18 or 19, and their younger brother, 16ish I'd guess) about what it's like living in Port Hope Simpson. The older two were clearly a bit bored by the place, but the younger one spoke at length (in that fascinating Scots-Irish accent native to Labrador and Newfoundland) about how much he loves going out in the boat and just sitting out there on the water, and his run-ins with fishery officers (his family's boat is the slowest in town, and the fishery guys like to pick on them because their boat's too slow to get away), and how ridiculous the fishing limits are (particularly six salmon a year for an entire family -- I agreed enthusiastically that that's an insane limit).
It was one of those unexpected encounters that reshapes your view of humanity, however slightly. Jason and I both had our guard up at first, assuming we were about to get fucked with, because that's the most likely outcome in this sort of scenario in the world we come from. But these kids weren't up to anything, they just felt like chatting with a couple of strangers on bikes. After fifteen or twenty minutes of pleasant conversation and laughter all around, they went on their way and wished us a safe journey.
Jason and I agreed afterwards that we were glad we'd chosen not to stay at the B&B with Roman and Martin, because if we had we never would have met these various people. I said it then, and I'll say it again now: the people in Labrador and Newfoundland are, generally speaking, among the nicest you will ever meet.
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Great report so far, Mark! Looks like you guys had great weather for the most part.
Labrador was crawling with motorcycles this year!
I was planning on heading up on September 21, but haven't been able to find any riding partners. Anyone planning to head up there next week?
Gorgeous report Mark
Can't wait for more. Beyond jealous. I've spent about three weeks in Alaska. Toured it mostly by foot, canoe, and air. Touring it via Motorcycle would be spectacular, but bring a gun. The locals thought I was nuts for hiking without one and they were right. My brother and I got stuck between a cub and its mother. Nothing happened, but we were very lucky. I would consider flying out and renting a dual sport, I just don't have the time for the trek to Washington State, which is where you'll probably pick up your ferry. Amazing report. Keep it coming :lurk
How did the Tiger 1050 do?
I see the semi dual sport rubber, but they still look more street than off road. Was he okay with the 17inch front wheel and was the suspension stock?
Also, Jason's a small guy, so wasn't working the suspension and tires as hard as if I were riding the bike, for example.
Lovin' the pics!
Still good... :thumb
Day 6: Thursday, 2 September 2010
Jason and I roused ourselves and headed over to the B&B to meet Roman and Martin for breakfast, then we all set off down the remaining stretch of gravel to Red Bay.
There was a lot more of the loose, sketchy gravel to contend with; I spent a lot of time riding tracks on the wrong side of the road, or packed areas left by graders on the side of the road. But we soon made it to the end of the gravel.
Martin kissed his bike...
...while Roman was very happy to see the pavement.
I made Jason take a picture of me to prove I'm not imaginary.
Red Bay.
The labradirt is going to take a while to clean off my jacket...
...and my bags.
From Red Bay it was an easy pavement ride to Blanc-Sablon, where we got in line for the ferry. The guys from Maine whom we'd met at Tim Horton's in Happy Valley got there shortly before us.
Did I mention labradirt gets everywhere?
Soon Marty (lakota) and Jack pulled up as well.
Departing Blanc-Sablon.
Martin on board.
As we neared Newfoundland, we spotted a whale breaching repeatedly off the port bow. Martin, who was pissed at still not having seen a moose, excitedly yelled out, "Fuck you, moose!"
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Scholars have empirically examined, rigorously developed, and analyzed various strategies to increase teachers' capacity to reach students of color. These instructional strategies and philosophies include the study of multicultural education, teaching for social justice, and theorizing the connection between school and home life. While these instructional strategies highlight the need for a more inclusive approach, they do not center race enough. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) is the pedagogical content and cultural knowledge a teacher exhibits (Ladson-Billings, 1995). CRP does not explicitly problematize race; yet the theory and praxis of CRP should include a critical analysis of race and racism. As an alternative framework that centers on race, researchers have begun to use Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore aspects of race and racism in the teaching and learning realm. This qualitative case study examined how teachers make sense of their own racial selves in relation to teaching students from different racial backgrounds (Yin, 2008). Data collection included semi-structured interviews as the primary source of data. Classroom observations and researcher memos served as secondary sources of data (Seidman, 2005; Hatch, 2002: Prior, 2003). According to critical race theorists, narratives are essential when gathering vital sources of information, in that they make the social realities of people of color, as influenced by racism, observable to the world (Wallace & Brand, 2012). As such, CRT was used to identify whether there were any influences of the students' racial identities on the teachers' development and implementation of culturally responsive practices. The analysis revealed that: (1) teachers' explicit confrontation with/of "otherness" as White female teachers and their critical awareness of societal influences on students of color presented more opportunities to be race-conscious and directly address institutional racism; and (2) teachers' critical awareness of explicit and implicit power structures and how these relationships ate embedded in a "hidden curriculum" influenced their beliefs and instructional practices. These findings communicate the significance of White female teachers understanding of issues specific to urban schools, and their efforts to find ways to remedy those issues to make learning meaningful, purposeful, and authentic for students of color.
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