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Egypt opposition demonstrate against constitution
Justice ministry orders probe into alleged vote violations
Thousands of Egyptian protesters marched on the presidential palace and Cairo's downtown Tahrir Square on Tuesday to protest a contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution, after the country's Justice Ministry ordered a probe into allegations of widespread voting irregularities during Saturday's first round of voting on the document.
Since the country's current political crisis erupted more than three weeks ago, the opposition has kept the pressure on the government of President Mohammed Morsi with mass marches that at times have seen turnouts of hundreds of thousands. Morsi's Islamist supporters have countered with rallies of their own.
Chanting "down with Brotherhood rule," and "your constitution is void," the opposition was making its first major street push since Saturday's round of the referendum on the constitution.
Preliminary results showed that 56 per cent of voted cast "yes." The second round of voting is set for Saturday. The opposition fears that large Islamist constituencies in rural and upper Egypt will increase the votes in favour.
Turnout was also low in Egypt's 150 diplomatic missions, which opened their doors for a half million Egyptian expatriates to vote. Preliminary results showed stark difference between Egyptians in Arab Gulf countries and elsewhere. In Washington D.C., more than 70 per cent of voters said "no," while in Saudi city of Jeddah, more than 80 per cent voted "yes."
Prosecutor general resigns after one month
Islamists have suggested that passage of the constitution would give them a clearer mandate, but the opposition groups say the process has been rushed, turnout has been low and irregularities in the voting have been rife.
They insist that the constitution requires more than a simple majority, and many have called for the referendum voting to be repeated. The Brotherhood says the country's Elections Committee can adjudicate complaints.
The protests also follow closely on new blows in the conflict between Morsi and the judiciary. More leading judges announced a boycott of the second leg of voting, and the Prosecutor General Talaat Abdullah submitted his resignation just a month after Morsi appointed him.
Abdullah had come under fire from fellow prosecutors, who accused him of pressuring a judge not to release some 130 anti-Morsi protesters from detention. Analysts were skeptical about Abdullah's resignation.
"The resignation of the prosecutor general is not innocent and it is meant to rescue the referendum from becoming legally invalid and to push the prosecutors to oversee the vote," said legal expert Nasser Amin on the social networking site Twitter.
The Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement denouncing "forcing the prosecutor general to resign," calling it a "dangerous precedent."
The Brotherhood again described the opposition as "a group of thugs." It demanded that the country's Supreme Judicial Council reject the resignation.
Judicial body to boycott 2nd voting round
Along with the prosecutors' protests, one prominent judicial body that did involve itself in the first round of voting, the State Council, said that it would boycott the second round in protest at the alleged irregularities. The Council provided 1,500 of the 7,000 judges involved in the first round.
The vote on Egypt's post-revolution constitution comes against a backdrop of deep polarization that split the country's political forces into two camps: one led by Islamists including Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood group and ultraconservative Salafis, and the second led by the National Salvation Front, an alliance of liberal and left-leaning political parties and youth groups backed by Christians, as well as Muslims who are skeptical of the Brotherhood.
Liberals, Christians and others have criticized the Islamist domination of the constitution process, particularly the insertion of clauses that they say pave the way to a religious state and threaten civil liberties. They say the breakneck pace of its drafting and passage will only polarize the country further.
The Brotherhood counters that the passage of the constitution will be a much-needed boost for political stability.
Rights groups and opposition say they filed complaints of violations marring the vote, including judges who they intentionally stalled the vote in constituencies anticipated to oppose it. They also say judges, whose supervision is required by law in Egyptian elections, were replaced by court employees in some districts to replace judges who boycotted the vote.
Judges to probe vote irregularities
On Tuesday, Egypt's Justice Ministry says it will assign judges to probe allegations of voting violations.
"This is the first time in the history of Egypt that judges are assigned to investigate vote violations," a ministry spokesman said in a presser.
Judge Mahmoud Abu Shousha, a member of the commission overseeing the referendum, rejected the charges of voting irregularities.
He said it was impossible to replace judges with court officials during the supervision, and that all stations stayed open for four extra hours to accommodate the long lines, dismissing claims that some closed early. He said more staff will be recruited for the second round to speed up the process.
"We don't know what to do with those who spread these lies," he said at a news conference.
Many top Brotherhood officials have consistently characterized their critics as holdovers from the era of deposed president Hosni Mubarak. Most top judges are Mubarak-era appointees but the National Salvation Front is largely made of the Mubarak-era opposition, and Morsi's critics also include some Islamists.
On Monday, Egypt's Supreme constitutional Court — the country's most prestigious tribunal that is at the centre of the Brotherhood's conflict with the judiciary — denounced a statement by a Morsi aide in which it discussed the court under a "campaign" by "anti-revolutionary forces" to "overturn the gains of the revolution" against Mubarak.
Court spokesman Maher Sami accused Essam el-Haddad of "tarnishing" the court's image and criticized him for writing the memo in English.
"The Supreme constitutional Court is asking why the president's aide chose to address the foreign media," he said. He added el-Haddad aimed at "toppling the court's reputation internationally" and that the "crime of spreading false and provocative news is punishable by law." El-Haddad denied the court's accusations and described them as "baseless."


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Addicted to Hand Sanitizer: A Wells Fargo Scandal Update
More questions continue to be raised about the Wells Fargo scandal. When did it really start- 2013, 2011 or as far back as 2005? What did execs know and when did they know it? How many frontline employees were fired because they complained as whistleblowers? Does setting up a fake account constitute criminal identity theft?
Here's a flyaround of some of this week's news (we didn't want to make the blog too long!) you can use about the still-growing Wells Fargo scandal that has seen highly-paid execs firing a few thousand low-level workers, paying a few million dollars in fines and hoping it goes away. It did not.
BBB "Discredits" Wells Fargo: Did you know that even the Better Business Bureau (consumer groups do not usually consider BBB membership a high bar) has "unaccredited" Wells? Screen shot at right courtesy The Consumerist blog and story.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris Says Fraudulent Accounts May Be Identity Theft: The San Francisco Chronicle says her investigation is into "identity theft on an industrial scale". The paper goes on to say: "It remains unclear who might be targeted if the charges materialize: bank executives who pushed unreasonable sales goals or underlings who carried out the identity thefts, one customer at a time."
New Running Tally of Investigations, Lawsuits and Other Actions: Compiled by the Charlotte Observer, the list includes the CFPB (still investigating), the U.S. Department of Labor, the Securities and Exchange Commission, several U.S. Attorneys (criminal investigations) and myriad Congressional Committees, plus it includes actions to remove Wells business by the Treasurers of Massachusetts, California, Illinois, Ohio and cities including San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles.
"Lions Hunting Zebras:" Stacy Cowley in the New York Times interviews a number of former Wells Fargo staff about the high-pressure sales culture and some of the tactics used, including to convince consumers that they "needed separate accounts for such purposes as traveling, grocery shopping and saving for an emergency. "They would deposit their money and get hit with fees like crazy, because they got confused about what account they were using."
"Addicted To (Drinking) Hand Sanitizer": In a separate story, Voices From Wells Fargo, with excerpts from those interviews, Stacy Cowley reports on actual anxiety and stress-related problems faced by those workers: "One morning, before meeting with a customer, in which I knew I was going to have to sell unneeded services, I had a severe panic attack. I went to the bathroom and took a drink of some hand sanitizer. This immediately reduced my anxiety. From that point, I began drinking the hand sanitizer all over the bank. In late November 2012, I was completely addicted to hand sanitizer and drinking at least a bottle a day during my workday."
Frontline Bank Workers: "Wells Fargo Is the Tip of the Iceberg:" I first went to Capitol Hill with some fired and current Wachovia (now part of Wells) bank employees over six years ago to talk about unattainable sales goals harming consumers. Those employees, organized as the Committee for Better Banks, continue to provide important information to journalists and others. This blog from their partner, the National Employment Law Project, is called: "Wells Fargo Is Only The Tip of the Iceberg."
Where Is OCC's Latest CRA Rating for Wells?: U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles, ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, has demanded that the primary prudential regulator for Wells Fargo, the OCC, release an updated Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) rating for Wells. "Despite these very recent and serious abuses of consumers, the OCC has continued to approve transactions and branch expansions for Wells Fargo—as recently as last year—based on the bank's 2009 CRA rating of outstanding," the letter states. "That is unacceptable."
Taking on Wells Fargo in their Hometown: "Today I stood on the steps of San Francisco City Hall with Treasurer Jose Cisneros and Supervisors John Avalos and David Campos to support the introduction of a resolution ending any formal financial ties the city has with the hometown banking giant Wells Fargo."
Opponents of CFPB (Incredibly!) Double Down on Attacks: Despite the CFPB's yeoman work in coordinating a three agency consent decree and continuing a national investigation of misconduct by Wells, the bureau's opponents in Congress and at powerful banks and trade associations somehow are seeking to use the scandal to attack the CFPB. We're fighting back. In response to Rep. Sean Duffy's (WI) unfounded claims in the Chippewa Herald that the CFPB was "asleep at the wheel," Wisconsin PIRG director Peter Skopec's reply letter states: "The congressman claims that despite the CFPB, Wells Fargo still broke the law, so the CFPB doesn't work and should be replaced. Some companies will cheat, with or without tough banking laws. But thanks to the CFPB, cheating now comes with serious consequences. The agency has already returned over $11.7 billion directly to more than 27 million consumers victimized by credit card companies, payday lenders, banks and debt collectors. In the case of Wells Fargo, it issued its biggest fine to date — a whopping $100 million."
Why Not Jail? If you're fed up with Wells Fargo, and bankers who look at big fines as simply a cost of doing business, then sign U.S. PIRG's new petition asking the U.S. Department of Justice to "Please investigate Wells Fargo to determine whether criminal misconduct was condoned or covered-up by senior officials."
Remember, this is only a one week snapshot of some recent actions around the fallout from a major bank fiasco. The Wells Fargo scandal raises major questions about how massive federally-insured and chartered institutions make money. Do they fairly take into account the interests of their customers, let alone their frontline workers? We encourage reporters, the public, bank accountholders, bank workers and government agencies to keep asking questions. We do not yet have all the answers. Some changes have been made. While they appear to be necessary, they are not sufficient. But one thing remains clear: the idea of the CFPB needs no defense, only more defenders. Thanks to the CFPB, cheating now comes with serious consequences.
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This is the story of a 111-year-old mystery - involving people who vanished ten years before the new millennium and the first space exploration starship, Earth Star-I, lost in deep space fifty-one years later. Is there a connection between these unexplained disappearances and a village situated along the rocky coast of New England, a place out of time, called Sarah's Landing? Joshua Morgan, the Astronaut/Biologist scratched from the ill-fated flight, sea...


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I'm so excited to share with you that my Anni quilt was selected for the Modern Quilt Guild Showcase at the International Quilt Festival this fall in Houston! There were only 33 quilts selected, and I'm so honored that one of my works was included.
Anni, which was inspired by the work of Josef Albers and was chosen as one of the winners of the Project Modern Monochromatic Challenge, is one of my favorite quilts of all times. I love the simplicity of the design and construction and the four shades of pink are just so fun together.
The Modern Quilt Guild Showcase exhibition may also travel to Cincinnati next Spring and then to Long Beach, California next summer for the Quilt Festivals in those cities. If it does, it will be kind of fun to see my quilt on display in my hometown!
So, it looks like I won't see Anni for a while. In fact, she's actually been gone for some time already since she's got some big plans that you'll learn about soon.
I may just have to make another one until then.


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Can you name the biggest impediment to innovation? One of our Fishbowl "Captains" – John Erickson– hit the nail on the head in a team discussion this week.
The culprit is fear.
A recent survey by the Robert Half Group agrees. What makes employees afraid?
- Fear of making a mistake tops the list, and was cited by 30% of employees
- Fear of getting fired is another. In fact fear of getting fired or appearing less dedicated or vital if they dare to take a vacation is rampant in the slow economy. The survey shows employees left an average of 11 vacation days—70%--of their vacations--untaken in 2011.
- Fear of dealing with difficult customers or clients
- Fear of conflict with a manager
- Fear of speaking in front of a group
- Fear of having disagreements with co-workers
Only 3% of employees consider themselves "fearless." Is it any wonder their innovation is gone?
Fear is one of the greatest sources of stress. The inventive part of our mind is difficult to nurture, and we can only access it when we are relaxed. An employee that feels supported and appreciated is more willing to devote their full energy, creativity and passion to the company and its goals, and will naturally innovate in every area within their influence. Employees who are afraid of something or someone in the organization will naturally close up to protect themselves, and can no longer perform at their full capacity.
What can we do to turn this deadly equation around? I'm highly intrigued by the philosophy of management consultant and author Wally Hauck. In his book The Art of Leading: 3 Principles for Predictable Performance Improvement, he boils the solution down to three essential steps every leader can use. These are also the steps our company uses. Here they are:
- Leaders must truly trust employees. They must expect that employees will behave like adults and therefore treat them like fully creative and capable people. They need to trust employees to care about each other and about their customers. Hauck points out that genuine trust is beyond empowerment – that when leadership "gives power," inherent in the equation is the concept that they are giving employees something they also have the power to take back. A leader who truly trusts their people knows that employees already have the power they need within them, and trusts them to use it honorably and well.
- We must rely more on principles and less on policy. Let's forget the overbearing dependence on polices to govern our steps, and learn to agree on guiding principles instead. Consider the statement "every action is consistent with specific values behaviors." For us, the values principles are our 7 Non Negotiables of Winning (which are also the focus of my upcoming book). They are Respect, Belief, Trust, Loyalty, Courage, Gratitude and Commitment. By following our principles instead of our policies, employees can make quick decisions that improve their own performance without manager oversight or performance appraisals. They can adapt to change on the fly. They can create their own solutions rather than worrying about the policies and procedures involved. They are no longer fearful about the possibility they will make a mistake.
- Finally, and most importantly, employees must experiment before they create. A fearful employee can never experiment. In an environment of trust, however, individuals and teams learn to thrive on the opportunity to try. They value and even treasure the resulting chances to make a mistake. Through their mistakes they create the genesis for miraculous outcomes.
Open communication or an "open-door" policy is critical to putting these three steps into effect. One of the first things an organization loses in a fearful environment is vital and open feedback and communication at every level.
In a fearful environment, front-line employees are unwilling to share because they are afraid somebody will "kill the messenger," and communication becomes shallow or disappears. Without a healthy feedback loop, the organization will no longer know where to focus their problem-solving efforts and will lose the innovative energy they gain.
We must move away from work environments that are based on command and control. We can eliminate fear when we face it head on and create an open dialogue to separate the issue at hand from the fear. "Attack the problem, not the individual," is our Fishbowl motto. Only then can innovation truly occur. Can you take this challenge? The change will astound you. I look forward to hearing about your results.
Additional reporting for this article was provided by Fishbowl President Mary Michelle Scott and VP Training and Support John Erickson.
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One of the most difficult aspects of conducting election polls is determining whether a respondent will actually vote in the election. More respondents say they intend to vote than actually will cast a ballot. As a consequence, pollsters do not rely solely upon a respondent's stated intention when classifying a person as likely to vote or not. Most pollsters use a combination of questions that measure intention to vote, interest in the campaign and past voting behavior. Different pollsters use different sets of questions to help identify likely voters.
The Pew Research Center's likely voter questions from 2012 can be found in Pew Research Election Questions in red type. We use nine questions to assign each respondent a score on the likely voter scale in our final pre-election poll. Earlier in the campaign, we use a somewhat shorter version of the scale to identify likely voters. For more extensive detail about likely voters in the 2012 presidential election and the scale used to determine who was most likely to vote see Understanding Likely Voters.
The Pew Research Center's likely voter scale is very similar to the method developed by election polling pioneer Paul Perry at the Gallup Organization and has been used successfully in many elections. To help assess which questions or combination of questions from the scale were most accurate in predicting voting, we conducted an experiment in a closely contested mayoral race in Philadelphia in 1999. The results from the experiment are summarized in Screening Likely Voters: A Survey Experiment and a more extensive discussion of how the likely voter scale is created and used is available in Screening for Likely Voters in Pre-Election Polls: A Voter Validation Experiment.
These publications contain the results of the Pew Research Center's final presidential election forecast polls:
- Obama Gains Edge in Campaign's Final Days November 4, 2012
- Obama Leads McCain 52% to 46% in Campaign's Final Days November 2, 2008
- Slight Bush Margin in Final Days of Campaign October 31, 2004
- Popular Vote A Tossup: Bush 49%, Gore 47%, Nader 4% November 6, 2000
- Slight Bush Margin Holding with Days To Go November 5, 2000
- Final Pew Center Survey – Clinton 52%, Dole 38%, Perot 9% November 3, 1996
- Voters Still Paying More Attention to Perot October 30, 1992


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Father, are we allowed to copy-and-paste Wikipedia materially directly into OrthodoxWiki? Should there be some attribution? Thanks! --[[User:Dpr|Dpr]] 20:29, 12 Oct 2005 (EDT)
Father, are we allowed to copy-and-paste Wikipedia materially directly into OrthodoxWiki? Should there be some attribution? Thanks! --[[User:Dpr|Dpr]] 20:29, 12 Oct 2005 (EDT)
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OrthodoxWiki and WikiKto
I would have wished to know if a partnership could be found between OrthoxWiki and WikiKto, a free catholic encyclopedia. To mean, this exchange, I indicated on the banner page of WikiKto, a bond towards your encyclopedia. If you agree, want to mean it to me in my page : [1]
Tanks, David Dias
Japan Pictures
My father-in-law, Victor Pokrovsky, was the choir director for Met. Sergius. So many of the pictures from his collection that my wife now has. Also, Matushka Maria from the Nagoya Church has given me electronic copies of the 'ancient' times of the church. Sometimes I loose track of what I may have access to.
It is really interesting to read about these old missionaries and wonder how many people from today will so remembered in the same manner in the future. Wsk 12:46, 16 Sep 2005 (EDT)
A brother's attack on the Coptic Church of Alexandria
Please carefully read HH Pope Shenouda III's The Nature of Christ before attacking us! Also watch HH Patriarch Bartholomew I video and his comments on the Coptic Church and her perfect Christological position. Those who invented monothelism were the Greek Orthodox. "The ease with which Egypt was conquered by Muslims appears to have been due to the treachery of the governor of Egypt, Patriarch Cyrus [2], Melchite (i.e., Byzantine/Chalcedonian Orthodox, not Coptic) Patriarch of Alexandria, and the incompetence of the generals of the Byzantine forces. Cyrus had persecuted the local Coptic Christians. He is one of the authors of monothelism, a seventh century heresy, and some supposed him to have been secretly a convert to Islam." I appeal to Fr John to interfere in this matter, and until resolved I won't be contributing to Orthodox Wiki any longer. In Christ, --Arbible
Thanks, and Official Statements
Many thanks, Father John. Please forgive me, a great sinner, and remember me in your fervent prayers.
You may find these Official Statements useful for the ongoing discussion/planned article:
Other related documents: http://www.orthodoxunity.org/statements.html
On Patrick Barnes' site
This site does not "speak for the Orthodox Church" as its Webmaster rightly states in its 'About this Site' page. The page http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/ea_mono.aspx has many errors; for example, its stating that we haven't excommunicated Eutyches, which is totally wrong, as we all know. Thanks. God Bless.
...but it is an external link
No it does not speak for the Chalcedonian Orthodox churches, but it clearly states that and it is offered as an external link which the reader of Orthodox wiki may or may not click on at his or her own discretion.
I would be happy if the details of this discussion could be presented in a dispassionate manner on the Oriental Orthodox page. Remember, the goal is to present the thinking behind the different sides of the issue. I hope this could be a great tool for mutual understanding. Fr. John P.S. Hey you guys, please sign your names with three tildes to make it easier to access your user pages!
Thanks. Please check out 'Talk:Fourth Ecumenical Council'
Thank you very much+ arbible
- Thank you again, Father. Done as suggested. These are all public domain articles (the Coptic Synaxarium text is not copyrighted, neither are HH Pope Shenouda III writings, of which also only a short excerpt is presented (fair use), and/or are 1990s Coptic apologetic writings intended by their writers for wide dissemination by all means (at that time via mail lists and early Web sites). They have been lightly copyedited, e.g., correcting the names of Emperor Justinian and Proterius the Melchite Patriarch, and adding relevant external links. These Coptic apologetics also appeared in our freeware work, Encyclopedia of the First Millennium of Christianity 1998 - Second Edition. See also http://www.monachos.net/mb/messages/4225/ORIENT3-20256.doc (not sure if Orthodox Wiki should also keep a copy of this important historical document). It states (among other key declarations), "The (Chalcedonian) Orthodox agree that the Oriental Orthodox will continue to maintain their traditional cyrillian terminology of 'one nature of the incarnate Logos' (mia fusiV tou qeou logou sesarkwmenh), since they acknowledge the double consubstantiality of the Logos which Eutyches denied. The Orthodox also use this terminology. The Oriental Orthodox agree that the Orthodox are justified in their use of the two-natures formula, since they acknowledge that the distinction is 'in thought alone (th qewria monh). Cyril interpreted correctly this use in his letter to John of Antioch and his letters to Acacius of Melitene (PG 77, 184-201). to Eulogius (PG 77. 224-228) and to Succensus (PG 77, 228-245)." In Christ, --Arbible
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Father, are we allowed to copy-and-paste Wikipedia materially directly into OrthodoxWiki? Should there be some attribution? Thanks! --Dpr 20:29, 12 Oct 2005 (EDT)
- Thanks for your quick reply--an angel of the Internet ;) Anyway, I plan, when I participate in this Wiki, to do a great deal of Wikipedia importing and modifying...esp. considering there's a LOT more Christian material on that Wiki than this! Best wishes in Him, Dpr 23:23, 12 Oct 2005 (EDT)


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Virgin teases with TiVo iPad app snap
Keeping mum on the details
Virgin Media has revealed it's working on an iPad app that'll tap into its TiVo-designed DVR, Media TV.
As proof, it 'leaked' this snap:
It also invited hacks and bloggers to "speculate as you wish" based on the "few things in the image that may pique your interest".
All we can see is a spotlights icon placed upside down:
And it has its channels well and truly muddled. Doc Martin on MTV? House on BBC 2? Surely not...
Plenty of time to fix it, presumably - Virgin is not saying when the app will be out, or even if it will come out. Or what it'll do when, or if, it does. ®
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Restore, Empower, and Inspire. That is what New York City Firefighter Jimmy Sands hopes the National 9/11 flag does to all who get to view it.
Local heroes and community members had the chance to do more than just view this national treasure Monday in Meridian.
Many helped to stitch and restore the once-torn and broken symbol of the American spirit, following the September 11th attacks.
"We can't bring back the people that we lost, but this is the one thing that we can actually fix and bring it back to as close as possible to the way it looked before the attacks," said Sands of the NYFD Engine Company 331. "What we are doing is traveling the country with this 20 x 30 flag that is known as the National 9/11 Flag."
The large flag beneath the smaller flags is the one that was destroyed in the aftermath of the collapse of the World Trade Center.
The smaller flags were sewn on by survivors of the Greensburg, Kansas, tornado. Other pieces have been sewn by war heroes, military veterans, first responders, and community service members.
Members of the community are given a chance to stitch the flag as well. Meridian Mayor Cheri Barry was one of the many who was able to add a stitch.
"We are a community with such strong military ties," said Barry. "We were very much so involved in the 9/11 attacks with our fundraising done by our non-profits. This makes me proud to be an American and it makes me proud to be a part of the stitching ceremony."
The flag will go to Texas next. Meridian was just the 24th state on the flag's tour.
"We've got quite a few more states to go," said Sands. "We are hoping to have it done by the 10th Anniversary."
It's also worth mentioning that Sands and his peers are touring with the flag during their off-duty hours, a sacrifice that he says is well worth it.


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If famous works of art just aren't hip and modern enough for you, there's an app for that. ATART, an augmented reality app for iOS, will take those stuffy old static images, and show you the GIFs they were always meant to be.
It's simple, all you do is point your iPhone at the work in question and it immediately comes alive on the screen. Supported pieces include such classics as the Mona Lisa, Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers, the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, and even the cover of Radiohead's Kid A.
If you're actually seeing some of the original art in person, whipping out your phone for some GIF action might be in poor taste, but if you're at your computer, settling for the cyber-version anyway, the effect could be pretty cool. ATART is available on the App Store right now, so give it a shot and add a little class to your next GIF binge. There's one below to get you going. [Creative Applications via Designboom]


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As rumors continue to swirl regarding the imminent launch of cloud-based music services from Spotify, Apple, and Google, one such service that's already up and running in this country – MOG – announced that plans to revamp its on-demand music subscription as a freemium music service somewhat along the line of Spotify within the next couple of months.
Speaking at the Rethink Music conference on Tuesday, MOG CEO David Hyman, pictured here, said his company has been watching the Spotify situation in Europe closely — and that while MOG cannot afford to offer in America something identical to what Spotify offers in Europe (ten or more free hours of listening per month), his company plans to launch a free version of its on-demand music service here within the next two months.
Today, listeners must enter a credit card in order to use MOG's 14-day free trial, which likely dissuades many users who might be more willing to try something like Spotify that lets you start listening right away — no credit card required — in perpetuity, for free, so long as you stay under the monthly limit.
Hyman said the new version of MOG will include a similar "freemium" option allowing users to get a free, relatively-unencumbered sample of what the service offers — but that it will stop short of the ten-hours-and-up-for-free Spotify model in order to generate a higher return-on-investment (ROI). Generally speaking, that's business-ese for "Spotify would cost too much money to license in the States so we're not going to clone it."
Amazon's music locker took an alternate route, by acting as a cloud-based music hard drive where people can store their music after buying it from Amazon MP3 or obtaining it in some other way. As for the rumored big three U.S. cloud music subscriptions, Apple is said to be farther along than Google, Google is said to be pursuing talks with Spotify, and Spotify is saying it's not talking to Google after all.
So, how would a freemium version of MOG work sort of like Spotify but with a larger "return on investment?" One option would be video advertising. By including more ads — especially the video advertisements which bring in more money than the audio and display ads on Spotify — MOG might be able to defray the costs of its free version.
The timing of all of this could be crucial, however. Apple and Google each already have large ad networks, and Google's in particular is absolutely massive, including web search and YouTube – arguably the only successful ad-funded on-demand music service in the U.S. to date.


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DWTS Tacky Dance Themes
So I was going through old dances and remembered how on Season 10 there was a "Movie Night" where every dance was a theme song to a movie. But there have been other dances that were done over the seasons that were themed to a movie in the past… So stemming from "Movie Night" and some of the tackiest dances to come with it, I decided to come up with a few dances from the past that were just as tacky, if not funny 😉
EDIT: So what is my criteria for a "tacky" dance theme? Three simple factors naturally (music, costumes, nuances), but they all have to tie into one thing: the television or movie program that they are tied to. Each factor will be rated on a scale of one (not that tacky) to three (way too tacky). You'll see what I mean as I go through each dance.
Season 4: Joey Fatone & Kym Johnson
Dance: Tango
TV/Movie Program: Star Wars
Tackiness Quotient
Music: Star Wars Theme Song… enough said. Score: 3
Costuming: So we have Kym dressed up as a Princess Leia wannabee, and Joey Fatone starting off as a Jedi Knight, complete with a lightsaber. Granted Joey shedded the cloak and had a suit underneath rather than the Jedi cloths that are so prevalent in the movies, so it wasn't totally tacky, but still. Score: 2.5
Nuances: First they started the package with having R2D2 in rehearsal, and then the dance started with a lightsaber sequence? Yeeeaaaah, how about no? I'll give them props in having Joey wearing a suit rather than a full Jedi getup, so it's not totally tacky, but darn it's high up there. Score: 2
Conclusion: Total Score: 7.5 out of a possible 9.
Yes, I think this dance was tacky, but hey, Joey likes Star Wars so I can't fault him for that. In fact Joey liked this dance so much that he wanted to reprise this dance for the finale… Que sera sera.
Season 3: Joey Lawrence & Edyta Sliwinska
Dance: Tango
TV/Movie Program: Addams Family
Tackiness Quotient
Music: Addams Family Theme Song… again enough said. Score: 3
Costuming: Edyta as Morticia and Joey Lawrence as a taller, skinnier, and mustache-less Gomez? uh… Well it doesn't necessarily invoke the movie as much as one would think so… Score: 2
Nuances: The dance steps are pretty cut and dry, and it didn't really invoke the Addams Family mood, let alone the "tango" dancing that Morticia and Gomez are known for.. so Score: 1
Conclusion: Total Score: 6 out of 9.
So this dance happened because waaaay back when, Season 3 happened to coincide with Halloween, as thus every song danced for "Halloween Night" had some sort of spooky theme to it. And what is a Halloween Night without an Addams Family dance?
Season 3: Monique Coleman & Louis van Amstel
Dance: Cha Cha
TV/Movie Program: Ghostbusters
Tackiness Quotient:
Music: The Ghostbusters? Eh, not as bad… but still pretty bad. Score: 2
Costuming: So they both started with the Ghostbusters getup before stripping? But what the frack is Monique wearing? Forget what she was wearing, look at her make-up and hair! Ugh! Just for that alone.. Score: 3
Nuances: For me, there wasn't really anything that invoked the Ghostbusters as much as I would have thought. So they lucked out. Score: 1
Conclusion: Final Score: 6 out of 9
Same as above, what's a Halloween Night without some ghosts? Who do you wanna call when there's a ghost in the neighborhood? Ghostbusters! But in all seriousness, other than the song (and even the song wasn't all that tacky) the dance to me seemed a bit cut and dry… so not really as tacky as other dances because it could have been a lot worse.
Season 7: Kim Kardashian & Mark Ballas
Dance: Foxtrot
TV/Movie Program: Pink Panther
Tackiness Quotient:
Music: Pink Panther Theme Song… It's an instrumental, and more often than not instrumental piece don't induce tackiness to me, but the Pink Panther (I believe) is a bit more widely known and as thus… Score: 2
Costuming: What's the Pink Panther without a lot of PINK… ugh. Way too much pink for my liking… Score: 3
Nuances: Overall it's a decent routine, for what it was. Lots of finger snapping and what not. There are times that I kind of cringed as thus this gets… Score: 2
Conclusion: Final Score 7 out of 9
Nobody pulls off pink better than… Mark! With some well placed nuances and what nots it isn't a bad routine… it's just ok for what it was.


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Monday, 4 April 2016
'She wears her words'
You may have caught a glimpse of this new piece on one of the photos from my last workshop but I thought I would show her to you in more detail. She lives in a drawer covered with the title pages from vintage books. Her paper and lace skirt is made from words and she also wears them in her hair. She has a little stock of vintage books with her as she never likes to be without some reading matter....
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Hello Christine,
I just fell in love with your doll. Your artwork is amazing and each detail is a delight for me and to use all books and fabric is a great way to show people how to create with few things. Definitively in the mood of time (excuse my bad english)
All the best from France
- 4 April 2016 at 11:29
- bayou said...
Hello Christine, she is in reality even more beautiful than on your great pictures!
Have blogged some photos from the workshop but had also sent you a mail. All the best, Anke
- 4 April 2016 at 12:23
- susan hemann said...
just lovely!!
- 4 April 2016 at 12:57
- Rima said...
I just love your work! So thoughtful and lovely.
- 4 April 2016 at 16:40
- FlowerLady Lorraine said...
She's lovely and so unique.
- 5 April 2016 at 13:37
- Di@Cottage-Wishes said...
She is beautiful I just love her. Di
- 5 April 2016 at 14:25
- Conniecrafter said...
She is just Beautiful, you did an amazing job on the dress!!
- 6 April 2016 at 09:54
- Alex said...
Gorgeous - serene and watchful.
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- Marci said...
She is exquisite!
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wow. Nice.
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Jagannatha Puri, India: August 10, 2004
[Respected Readers. Obeisances to you all. You will be interested and happy to know that last week in Murwillumbah, on April 29, just a few days before he went to Fiji, Srila Narayana spoke practically the same points he discussed in the class below, in Puri. So kindly accept this until we can send you the Australia class:]
We are continuing the conversation between Sri Ramananda Raya and Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu, so please come to the banks of the Godavari.
When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked Sri Raya Ramananda to tell Him, with scriptural reference, what is the ultimate goal in life, Raya Ramananda first quoted a verse from the Visnu Purana.
purusena parah puman
visnur aradhyate pantha
nanyat tat-tosa-karanam
[One can worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, by proper discharge of the principles of varna and asrama. There is no alternative to pacifying the Lord by execution of the principles of the varnasrama system.]
This verse, first spoken by Sri Parasara Muni, is also used in the Ramanuja-sampradaya as evidence that this is the goal of life. Sri Raya Ramananda explained that by following ones sva-dharma, ones position in varnasrama-dharma, one will achieve pure devotion to the Supreme Godhead. Hearing this, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, This is external. If you know more, you may speak further. This is because the devotion of a person engaging in his position in varnasrama is mixed with great attachment to his gross body, and he also has a desire for liberation.
This type of mixed bhakti will not take one to Vaikuntha, the spiritual abode of God; it may only take him up to Siddhaloka, liberation. It is true that pure bhakti is the ultimate goal (sadhya), but varnasrama-dharma is not the process (sadhana) to obtain that type of bhakti. For this reason Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected it as external.
Sri Raya Ramananda then recommended that offering the fruits of ones activities to Krsna (krsna-karmarpanam) is the highest goal of life. From Bhagavata-gita we learn that the karma or fruitive activities lead to bondage. The same activity that would otherwise cause bondage should be offered to Krsna.
Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (9.27):
yat karosi yad asnasi
yaj juhosi dadasi yat
yat tapasyasi kaunteya
tat kurusva mad-arpanam
[O Arjuna, whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever sacrifices and austerities you perform, do that as an offering to Me, the Supreme Lord. The Gita also says, O Arjuna, whatever you do as fruitive activity causes bondage and whatever you do for Lord Visnu causes liberation.]
yajnarthat karmano nyatra
loko yam karma-bandhanah
tad-artham karma kaunteya
mukta-sangah samacara
One should leave all types of fruitive activity. Instead of trying to enjoy the fruits of one's work for oneself, one should offer the results to Lord Sri Krsna.
There are two types of conceptions here. One is that you should first perform your own fruitive activities, and then after you have done that, you should offer the result to Krsna. The second, more superior method is to first offer yourself to Krsna, and then perform your activities in this world. These two conceptions look a bit similar, but there is actually a vast difference between them.
Sri Prahlada Maharaja said:
iti pumsarpita visnau
bhaktis cen nava-laksna
kriyeta bhagavaty addha
tan manye dhitam uttamam
[The nine processes of hearing, chanting about and remembering etc. are accepted as pure devotional service. One who has dedicated his life to the service of Krsna through these nine methods is understood to be the most learned person, for he has acquired complete knowledge. (Srimad-bhagavatam 7.24)]
First completely offer yourself to Visnu; then perform the nine limbs of devotion. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written,
manasa, deha, geha, jo kichu mora
arpilu tuwa pade, nanda-kisora
[Mind, body, family, everything I own I offer at Your lotus feet, O Nanda-kisora! (Manasa, Deha, Geha, verse 1)]
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected the proposal by Sri Raya Ramananda that the above mentioned Bhagavat-gita verse (9.27) is the goal of life. He said that this procedure is external, because in it there is also so much attachment to the body and no question of direct service to the Lord. There is no question of atma-sambandi no heart-to-heart relationship with the Lord. The activities here are not directly composed of pure bhakti. They are performed with the body and the result is offered to the Lord for ones personal benefit. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore rejected this proposal and said, This is external. If you know more, you may speak further.
Sri Ramananda Raya then suggested sva-dharma-tyaga, giving up ones occupational duty. Ultimately, even if one wants to offer the fruits of ones worldly activities to Krsna, since Krsna actually owns everything, what can one actually offer to Him? Everything belongs to Krsna, and therefore one should simply renounce and leave ones material designation in varnasrama. One should be very careful to avoid anything that is against bhakti. Giving up all of ones material designations, one should perform bhakti this is the ultimate goal of life.
Raya Ramananda said, svadharma-tyaga, ei sadhya-sara renunciation of the duties of Varnasrama is the essence of all objectives in life. For this he gave two evidences one from Srimad-Bhagavatam and one from Bhagavad-gita. In Srimad-Bhagavatam Sri Krsna told Uddhava, One should follow the injunctions of the Vedas. However, if a person who has carefully and thoughtfully examined those injunctions and after due consideration of the merits and defects of following ones duties leaves all performance of duties to engage exclusively in bhajana or devotional service, that person is the best of all. Mam bhajeta sa tu sattamah (11.29.32). That person who sees all the attributes and defects of Vedic injunctions and then decides to leave them completely and perform my bhajana is the highest, best person. What is the meaning of sat tu sattamah? In Srimad Bhagavatam the twenty six qualities of a devotee, such as being very compassionate, silent, grave, expert and thoughtful is delineated.
There are three kinds of people who neglect their religious duties in Varnasrama-dharma. The first category is the completely foolish and ignorant. Ignorant people may neglect their duties, because they have no proper understanding about what is to be done and what is not to be done. Though they are ignorant, they will still have to accept the sinful reaction for such neglect. The second type is the atheist. Atheists have no faith in God and no faith in performing their prescribed religious duties, because these duties are recommended in the Vedic scriptures.
Saksi-gopal, the Deity we visited today, was previously staying in a temple in Vrndavana, but in order to play the role of a witness in a dispute, he walked thousands of miles to Vidyanagara in South India. After that he came to the Jagannatha temple, where he was taking all the food offerings that were supposed to be offered to Lord Jagannatha and Lord Jagannatha had to fast completely. Because of this, the king came and took him from that temple, and brought him to the temple where he is worshipped today. Some people think Saksi-gopal is a statue and ask, How can he walk, and how can he talk and perform pastimes? Such persons have no faith, and they are called atheists.
Srila Sanatana Gosvami was serving the Deity Madan Mohan, and he personally saw that Madan Mohan would play with the son of a brahmana lady in Mathura. Also, when Sanatana Gosvami would sometimes offer him only some flour and water mixed together and cooked in a fire, he would say, Oh, my throat is very dry. I cannot swallow this. Many people dont believe that the Deity spoke to Srila Sanatana Gosvami or that he can speak to us. Therefore, they are atheists. They dont even believe that by performing karmas or the duties in life such as serving mothers and fathers they can become happily situated in this world. Those persons who are atheists can also neglect their duties.
The third category is spoken about in this verse from the Srimad Bhagavatam (11.11) It speaks about those who have a very strong faith in the sastra, yet they also give up the sastric injunction to perform duties. Why? Such persons have a particular qualification.
They are nirveda, which means they have understood that to perform duties in this world is a temporary thing, a material activity that ultimately has no value in relationship with the soul. Therefore, they become completely discouraged and uninspired to perform such duties. They also have sraddha, strong faith in the power of hari-katha. Those persons are qualified to leave behind or neglect prescribed duties. The root cause of these two qualities is sadhu-sanga, the association of a sadhu. Those who have sadhu-sanga and develop these two characteristics can renounce the performance of prescribed duties.
After explaining the verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sri Raya Ramananda quoted a verse from the Bhagavad-gita (18.66):
sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
moksayisyami ma sucah
[Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.]
In this verse Lord Sri Krsna gives the instruction to give up all dharma. This dharma refers to varnasrama-dharma, or the dharma that is related to the physical body and the subtle, material mind. Krsna says, Leave all these and surrender to My lotus feet. If you do this, I will deliver you from all types of sinful reaction. Do not fear.
Why is Krsna saying, I will deliver you from all types of sinful reactions, and why is He saying, Dont be afraid? Because the dharma of the body and mind includes living with ones family, wife and children, taking care of ones aged parents and all related duties. Vedic scriptures say that if you leave your wife or neglect your young children, or if you will not take care of your aged parents, this is very sinful. Therefore, if someone will consider doing this, some fear will come in their mind, thinking, Should I do it or not? Sri Krsna considers, They are afraid because sinful reactions might come, and they will have to taste the sinful reactions. He therefore says, Aham tvam sarva papebhyo I will protect you from the sin of that neglect. Dont be afraid.
Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the same conclusion:
devarsi-bhutapta-nanam pitinah
na kinkaro nayam rni ca rajan
sarvatmana yah saranam saranyam
gato mukundam parihrtya kartam
[O King, one who has given up all material duties and has taken full shelter of the lotus feet of Mukunda, who offers shelter to all, is not indebted to the demigods, great sages, ordinary living beings, relatives, friends, mankind or even ones forefathers who have passed away. Since all such classes of living entities are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, one who has surrendered to the Lords service has no need to serve such persons separately. (Srimad-bhagavatam 11.5.41)]
In this world everyone who is born has so many debts. They are indebted to the demigods, to the sages, to their forefathers, to other living entities and to the king of their society. They will have to do their prescribed duties, and by performing them they will pay their debts. Otherwise, a punishment is incurred for not paying those debts. If someone will surrender completely to Sri Krsna, they will no longer be indebted to anyone. Srimad-bhagavatam gives this conclusion. To leave everything for Krsnas service is actually not a problem. There is no necessity of being afraid.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected this suggestion of dharma-tyaga as the goal of life, and then Ramananda Raya suggested saranagati. In this verse, sarva dharma parityajya leave all karma and surrender to Sri Krsna. Saranagati, surrender to God, is a very high thing. Why is it that, after hearing this, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, This surrender to Krsna is also external. I want to hear something superior.
First we should know the definintion of saranagati. In the Hari-bhakti-vilasa, the definition of saranagati has been given.
anukulyasya sankalpah pratikulyasya varjanam
raksisyatiti visvaso goptrtve varanam tatha
atma niksepa karpanye sad-vidha saranagati
[The six divisions of surrender are the acceptance of those things favorable to devotional service, the rejection of unfavorable things, the conviction that Krsna will give protection, the acceptance of the Lord as ones guardian or master, full self-surrender, and humility.]
Saranagati has six limbs. First of all, anukulyasya sankalpa one should make a very strong, determined, unbreakable vow to except those things that are favorable for devotional service. Pratikulyasya varjanam one should leave anything that is unfavorable or detrimental to devotional service. Even if someone you know who is most dear to you but his association is unfavorable he must be given up. Raksisyatiti visvaso at the time of danger, who will protect me? I have very strong confidence that Sri Krsna will protect me. Then goptrtve varanam who will maintain me? Who will maintain my life, now and in the future? If a lady gets a husband she may think, Oh, my husband will maintain me and forget Krsna. This is not saranagati. Saranagati means, I have a very strong faith that Krsna will maintain me every step of my life. Then, atma niksepa karpanye karpanye means to always be very meek humble, and to consider oneself more insignificant than a blade of grass. Atma niksepa this means to have no independent desire.
Saranagati is actually not bhakti. It is the step leading towards bhakti; it is the door through which one must go to enter into the realm of bhakti. In this verse, sarva dharma parityajya, there is no mention of direct service to Sri Krsna. In Sri Brhad-bhagavatamrta Arjuna was speaking with Sri Narada about the time he received the instructions of the Gita, because Narada had glorified him saying You are a great personality. Krsna directly instructed you in the Bhagavad-gita. What was Arjunas opinion in regards to this? He said, Actually I am not the true recipient of Krsnas mercy, because I am His friend. I have a relationship as a friend. But what did He say to me? He told me, You should perform saranagati, because this is the doorway to bhakti. I have already established a relationship with Him as a friend. By giving me that instruction he did not make me the recipient of His mercy. He cheated me. If He had given me a blessing that I could obtain Vraja-bhakti, service to Him in Vraja, that would have been a real blessing. Instead He told me to perform saranagati; so I have been cheated.
This teaching gives guidance to the people in general. In saranagati there is no conception of svarupa anubandhi the eternal relationship between the svarupa of the soul and the svarupa of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Krsna says in this verse, Mah sucah dont be afraid. The surrender in this verse is inspired by fear, not by a loving relationship. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu therefore said, Eho bahya, age kaha ara speak something further.
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Sunday, March 07, 2010
Barber with a Beat
And I wish Samuel Barber a Happy 100th--it's coming up on Tuesday. Maybe we can all celebrate by listening to his other works as well? And I'll be sitting here, longing for the day when the Piano Sonata, Cello Sonata, or the Second Essay for Orchestra are lined up for their respective remixes. In fact, I dare someone...
Friday, February 12, 2010
Some Thoughts on Chopin and his Attendant Project
I love Chopin. I think he was One of the Greats. It seems a too-obvious thing to say, he's clearly one of The Great Composers. Nobody made the piano sound as much as he did, before or (arguably) since. And what's more, he's one of the rare composers that knew his limitations—never venturing further from his instrument, despite what must have been enormous pressure from whatever the "establishment" of his day (read: the whole Music of the Future set) must have pressured him to do. He retreated, he dealt, he had some kind of affair (or did not) and he wrote his "sugar dusted" salon piano pieces which contain so much contrapuntal depth, so much washed-ashore feeling, the quiet and deeply rebellious spirit of the age. A true D.I.Y. composer before there was such a thing (well, I count Berlioz as the progenitor of this; many will, of course, argue. But who else? And Chopin kept it small) A complex persona and a composer of genius, no question.
I've always believed deeply he deserved better than Hugh Grant.
So here it is, 2010, the bicentennial Chopin-iversary. One in a long series "year of the…" celebrations of. Leafing through the Lincoln Center Great Performers Catalogue, I found that the absolutely fantastic pianist Garrick Ohlsson is launching what he calls his "Chopin Project." Automatically this excited me, because I always thought the Polish composer got a bad gradschool rap, and I hoped, secretly, that something with the tantalizing moniker of "The
Instead I offer the programme complete, of his all-Chopin concert:
Three Nocturnes, Op. 9 Two Polonaises, Op. 40 Sonata in B-flat minor Four Mazurkas Waltz in A-flat major Scherzo in B-flat minor
Before I proceed, this does sound like a concert I'd enjoy. I love a lot of these pieces—the mazurkas (all of them) just kill me, the Waltz, the sonatas, any nocturne (which does my insomniacal heart good; I've never had the courage to write a nocturne, much as I've aspired and even tried, largely because of Chopin's). But come on, is this a "Project" or is it just another all-Chopin concert? What makes this distinct? As much as I've no doubt this pianist will play a fantastic concert, one we should all run out and see/hear, I wonder why the special designation.
This morning, on Twitter, I sighed digitally over this matter: why not celebrate Chopin in a different way than merely playing his not unavailable music? Allow me to enlarge on that one for a moment. If this were a Holmboe anniversary, or a Biber anniversary, then yes, a concert simply devoted to their works might be worth noting. After all, these are two great composers (bring it, because I believe it on both counts, and I also love Nielsen) who are indeed in need of a good musico-cultural dusting off, and simply playing their music would qualify as a "project" because its new, or at least uncommon. But in the case of Chopin, I bet there are 239,043 pianists playing one of his pieces in some kind of public capacity as I type this. He's here to stay. Agree with the diagnosis of his greatness or not, you don't have to go far to hear his work. Even if you want to stay home, how many recordings of his complete oeuvre can you own? Too many cherished outings to count. Chopin is a part of the landscape.
I don't want this to turn into one of those program-more-new-music-or-fear-the-wrath-of-the-composer-you-cowards screeds, because I honestly believe people should be able to play what they want to play, to drink deep draughts of the music that moves them, and if Mr. Ohlsson wants to play a lot of Chopin I'm not going to look down my nose at it because Chopin is old and I am the new and I'm sitting here wondering how this kind of programming relates to what I am interested in. Hardly. Not every concert needs to include something new. It is a big world, with multiple musics contained within, and there is a lot of room for every Chopin Nocturne.
What I suppose I lamented to fellow Twitter-travelers was the lack of creativity in the labelled "project." Chopin, after all, is a kind of mother's milk to pianists, and since most composers (including yr. blogger here) came up playing the piano, Chopin has flowed through most of our fingers. Does this mean he's been an influence? Who's to say, but he—or his work, I should say—has certainly been there. And I don't think it would be too grand a stretch to say he's been in the mind of just about every composer who set out to write in any kind of sexy, romantic way for the piano—how could he not? He all-but invented it.
My question was: if you want to examine Chopin as a cultural phenom, It seems like just running down a smattering of his works (even rarities or chestnuts of his canon) wouldn't do him justice, not in 2010, not two centuries since his birth. We live in a different time, a "project" ought to reflect that. Otherwise it's just a concert.
OK, so when Twitterers (I just cannot get with the word "Tweeps," and I don't have the moxie of one Mellissa Hughes to say "Tweethearts") responded, some posed the question of what a fitting tribute might be. Allow me to enlarge on that. Brace yourself for a deeply impractical finance-free Chromatic Phantasy on the idea: as someone who does not program concerts for a living (save for those dedicated to my work alone) I am obviously playing Monday Morning Quarterback here. But consider me a blogheur for a moment, hear my longing, and understand that if the odd job of making The Chopin Project in my own image was suddenly hoisted upon me by Lincoln Center ("Oh yeah, Felsenfeld, you think you could do this better than us, well alright, the job is yours") this is where I might begin.
Commence with a non-musical reaction. Chopin had a long-standing involvement with George Sand, a writer of prominence (and occasional critical displeasure). Why not start there? Why not look into poetry of the era and pair it with pieces? Or, for that matter, why not engage poets of this era and commission them to react to pieces, projecting their words onto a screen, publishing them in a book, bringing Chopin into the 21st Century through the eyes of those so-called Unacknowledged Legislators? I'd love a program, say, with each prelude or each nocturne assigned to a living poet, and that poet showed up and read their words before the piece? Talk about your souvenir, the booklet from that concert, especially if it were only available to the attendees or published in a limited run.
Why not build a short-subject Chopin film a la Fantasia? Take the nocturnes, the scherzi, any sequence of pieces (perhaps chosen by Mr. Ohlsson) and have some of our great animators or poets of the cinema make short pieces to accompany? I think that would be a special event, especially if a hybrid SACD-DVD were released. How thrilling would that be?
And of course, we come to the inevitable end: commission twenty four composers to make a whole new set of preludes, each assigned to react to a specific work (much like Orpheus' brilliant take on the Brandenbergs). I can imagine a whole panoply of composers of multiple styles who write well for the piano—John Corigliano, Michael Nyman, David Rakowski, Tobias Picker, David Lang, Philip Glass, Ned Rorem, David Del Tredici, William Bolcom, Louis Andriesen, and (maybe) even venturing slightly far afield to the piano-playing rockstar with even a small dog in this fight like Tori Amos, Rufus Wainright, Amanda Palmer—each making a fitting tribute. And of course, my next idea would never happen, but it would be completely an amazing experience if these pieces were written on condition that they never be recorded, instead making the scores available to be performed by as many pianists (and in any order) possible.
(Now that I think about it, it might be also good to include some younger composers who have a way with the piano: Ken Ueno, Mason Bates, Marc Mellits, Adam Silverman, Paola Prestini, Beata Moon, Cornelius Duffalo, hell, I'll tackily insert myself here. Perhaps I've schemed two sets of new preludes?)
Any (or all) of these ideas might qualify as a project, a long and far reaching look at this composer who has had a quiet (or not so) influence on everyone who's sat down at the piano since. And obviously these ideas far exceed the character limit.
Thursday, December 03, 2009
Sting, Reading, Schumann
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Pretender to the Throne (?)
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
So Much, So Much To Do
Tomorrow night, November 17, I'll be astage at Le Poisson Rouge playing the piano once again as part of John Wesley Harding's final Cabinet of Wonders of 2009 (more to come in 2010, you can be sure!). Which is a mixed blessing because I'll not be able to hear my friend, the astoundingly gifted Jody Redhage perform her show with her band Fire in July that night at Roulette. My loss, though the cabinet promises to be excellent, with a fascinating roster of guests.


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