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(Salt Spring Island, Canada, April 24, 2001)
Sitting in front of me is Dyutidhara Maharaja, a very humble sannyasi. I honor him. He is a pure devotee. He sincerely wants to give up his false ego. Those who are like this - I honor as pure devotees. He is helping us in various ways, and I think that he will continue to help me, and to help others. I want to hear from him about the real object of our life.
In India, there once lived a very pure devotee whose name was Rakha. He was niskincana. He did not claim anything as his own. He used to maintain his life by going to the forest and gathering dry wood, which he would then sell in the town. Thus, with a small amount, he somehow maintained himself. His wife, Bakha, was also a high class of devotee, and she was even 'two fingers' more advanced than him.
One day, while they were in the forest gathering wood, Narada Rsi saw them and became worried. He at once went to Narayana and said, "You are very cruel. On one hand. You don't hesitate to give to beggars. On the other hand, this couple is always chanting, "Narayana, Narayana, Narayana", they don't want anything, and yet You don't care for them. Please give them something."
Lord Narayana told Narada, "I am worried. I have tried so much to give them something, but they never accept anything. If I try to give them something, they become upset. I cannot give anything to them."
Narada replied, "You have never tried. I want to see You try to give them something in my presence."
Lord Narayana told him, "Yes. You should climb into this tree and hide yourself. Rakha and Bakha will come here on their way to the forest to collect dry wood. I will leave for them a bag full of golden coins. There will be so much that it will be sufficient for their whole life."
Narada then climbed up into the tree and hid himself, and after some time Rakha and Bakha came into that forest chanting, "Narayana, Narayana, Narayana." Rakha was walking somewhat quickly, and Bhaka, being a very delicate lady, was somewhat behind him. As he walked, Rakha entered the shade of the tree where Narayana had left the bag of golden coins. The coins were not hidden inside the bag, but rather they were spilling out onto the path so that Rakha and Bhaka could see and take them.
When Rakha saw the golden coins he thought, "What is this? This will derail me from my main object. My object is to somehow attain pure love for Narayana. If I take these coins, it will distract me and also my wife. Seeing that his wife was still somewhat far away, he covered the coins with some earth to hide them. Bakha could see that he was doing something and wondered, "What is he doing?" She quickly came closer and saw him covering the coins. She said to herself, "Perhaps he is thinking that I may be weak, and that I will take the coins and become derailed. She therefore asked him, "Why are you covering dust with dust? We should go."
They never touched those coins. A devotee should be like that.
You should not be derailed. In this world there are so many beautiful young ladies and males. So many things in this world are made by maya to derail you. False ego may then come and you will be lost. Always be very careful.
Acaryavan puruso veda. Those who are realized souls see and tell that the path of attaining love for the Supreme Lord is like a very sharp razor's edge. You will have to walk on this path very carefully so that you will not have any injury. It is very hard to walk on this razor's edge. If you will be somewhat careless, at once you will derailed or you will be cut. All transcendental things are like this. Be very careful so that false ego will not come and you will not be derailed from your object - love and affection for Krsna.
Please stand up and speak a few words about our goal - about what must be our goal.
[In his talk, Sripad Dyutidhara Maharaja's quoted from Srimad Bhagavatam, Fourth Canto, regarding the living entity who is greatly suffering due to being confined to a womb. In this condition, the eternal servant of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna is in abject helplessness. He thus prays, "My dear Lord, You are giving me another chance, You are giving me this human form of life. I promise you that this time I will give you my undivided attention. I will give you all of my love. I will dedicate my everything to you." Then, as soon as we come out from the womb, we take a mother, father, playmates, boyfriends girlfriends, wife, husband, children, and pets, and that love that we promised to give to Krsna is thrown away into the wind like so much dust being scattered here and there. Through uncountable lifetimes we are like this, but in one of these lifetimes we are so fortunate that we can meet our beloved gurudeva. After that the light of bhakti-sakti can overwhelm our hearts like a gigantic Niagara falls, a torrential river of devotion and love. This can only be possible by the mercy of a pure devotee.]
Srila Narayana Maharaja: You may know that high-class devotees are hidden in this world. Caitanya Mahaprabhu discovered Sri Rupa and Sri Sanatana when they were employed in the ministry of Nawab Hussain Shah, the Muslim king. Sri Rupa was the Prime Minister and Sri Sanatana Gosvami was the private secretary. Working for him, they had become very wealthy, but Mahaprabhu sprinkled His mercy on them and they came out of that bad well. After that they become Sri Rupa Gosvami and Sri Sanatana Gosvami.
You may have also heard about Sanatana-siksa and Rupa-siksa. These teachings are the jewels of Caitanya Caritamrta. Our object and the process to achieve it - everything is clearly explained there from beginning to end. I request Sripad Drstadyumna prabhu to touch on these points and speak something to us. He is very qualified and has knowledge in all subjects. He is helping me, and I am therefore indebted to him. Syamarani, Vrndavana Vilasini, Aranya Maharaja, Bon Maharaja, Madhava Maharaja, this brahmacari Radhanatha dasa, and so many others are helping me, and now Drstadyumna is helping more and more - and in the future he will continue to help me.
[Dristadyumna prabhu discussed how Sanatana Gosvami came to see Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and asked, "ke ami?" Who am I, and why am I suffering the threefold miseries in this material world? This is the beginning of intelligent human life. We forget these things - why we are suffering, why we were born, what is our purpose, our aim and objective, and why we come into this world as human beings. We are simply absorbed in materialistic activities designed around satisfying the mind and the senses of this body.]
Srila Narayana Maharaja: If you deeply study Sanatana Gosvami siksa, you will be very happy, and at the same time you will be very inspired. Caitanya Mahaprabhu told a story to Sanatana Gosvami in order to make the method to achieve perfection very easy to understand.
Once there was a boy who was very, very poor. He had nothing to eat and no place to live. He was here and there and always very worried, "O, how can I maintain my life?" One day, a friend of his father who was an astrologer met with him and said, "Oh, I know who you are. You are the son of a very wealthy person, and your father was my friend. I have known him since he was young. He has kept so many jewels and so much wealth for you, and it is hidden in your old broken down house. This house has no roof, but at least there are some walls. By my knowledge of astrology I am cognizant aware of where it is hidden. You are surely a very wealthy and fortunate boy, and I will therefore reveal to you something mysterious.
If you come with me and dig in the right place, you will have so many jewels and golden coins. Don't worry. Again you will be wealthy like your father. But don't dig in the South. There are so many snakes hidden there. They will bite you and you will die. Don't go there. And don't go to the West, because in the West there are yaksas, ghosts. They will swallow you at once, so don't go on that side. Then also, don't go to the North. There are wasps there. They will attack you at once and you will die. So don't go there.
"Come with me to where your father used to live in this room - in the East. You should dig here. There is a wonderful treasure here." Then, just by removing a little mud, a large very large chest of golden coins and jewels became visible and the boy became very happy.
What is the message behind this story? Your father is very wealthy. Who is your father? Krsna is like your father, and the 'astrologer' is your gurudeva, the friend of your father - Krsna. He is unlimitedly wealthy. He can create this universe and all other universes in a minute, and He can then destroy them. Even from the nails of His toes, crores and crores of jewels, and everything else, is emanating. He Himself never knows what is coming out. You are really the heir of that Lord - your father - but now you have forgotten what your father has kept for you.
What is East? Bhakti-yoga. You only need to make a little effort:
harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha
["In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way.There is no other way." (Adi 17.21)]
What is that name? Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare. Otherwise, there are so many other names: Jaya jaya Radha-Ramana Hari bol, Govinda Damodhara Madhaveti, Radhe Radhe Radhe jaya jaya jaya Sri Radhe.
This is the best - the East. Even if in a joke you say to your dog, "Narayana, Narayana", Narayana Himself must come. He is bound to come - and not empty handed, but with all opulence.
tat te 'nukampam su-samiksamano
bhunjana evatma-krtam vipakam
hrd-vag-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te
jiveta yo mukti-pade sa daya-bhak
["My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim." (Srimad Bhagavatam 10.14.8)]
What is the meaning of daya-bhak? It means that You are an inheritor of Supreme Lord, Krsna. So much wealth and opulence-everything plays at the feet of the Supreme Lord. Not only one Laksmi, but lakhs and lakhs of Laksmis are constantly serving His lotus feet. Therefore, if you are an heir to that wealthy person, your father, you will see that you are very happy.
Don't go to the South, where there is a very poisonous python or snake. This is Buddhism. Do you know Buddhism? It is like a cruel and very pois onous snake. Jainism, mayavada, monism - all of these are in the South. Don't go there, even in dreams. This is jnana-kanda. [Jnana means impersonalism, and here jnana-kanda is another name for bathroom.] This is where devotees go to pass stool. Don't go there. You can only go there to pass your stool.
What is in the West? A dangerous Yaksa who will swallow you. This yaksa is material sense gratification. It seems very attractive and happy, but it is like an itch. When you scratch an itch, at first it feels very good and it makes you feel happy. You say, "Oh, this is enjoyment! Oh, it feels so good!" However, after you have scratched it you get a burning sensation.
Sense gratification is not happiness, but unhappiness. It is suffering. Don't go towards sense gratification, towards the West, otherwise it will swallow you.
There was once a king whose name was Yayati. By the curse of His gurudeva, Sukracarya, he lost his youth and immediately became an old man. He became very worried, and His wife, who was the daughter his gurudeva, was also very upset. She requested her father, "O, you have punished him too severely. Please make some consideration."
Her father told her, "Bring him." He was brought and Sukracarya said to him, "You can give this old age to any one of your five sons. If any of them will change with you, you will become young and they will become old. Then you can enjoy so much sense gratification."
Yayati asked his eldest son Yadu Maharaja, but he denied his request saying, "Father, I would give my youth to you if you were going to do bhajana of Krsna. But you want to enjoy what you have already enjoyed for lakhs and lakhs of past births. In one life you were a goat, and you enjoyed in that form with a she-goat. Sometimes you enjoyed in the forms of hogs and pigs, with no bans or restrictions. Now there are some restrictions: you must be with this husband or this wife. But in hog-life there is no restriction. You can enjoy nonsense at once - with sisters, mothers and everyone else. You were once there. Also, one time you were a Gandharva. You were very beautiful - like a goddess. Now, after lakhs and lakhs of births you have come in this shape. This human life is meant only to realize who you are and who is Krsna, not for anything else."
Maharaja Yayati became angry and cursed him, "You will not get your inheritance. You will be deprived of this. You can neither be Emperor nor a king in my dynasty."
The king's son was very happy and said, "I want to be a pure devotee. I have not come to enjoy all these things."
Yayati Maharaja then asked his other sons to give to him their youth and take his old age. One son became very happy. He said, "O father, I want to obey you because you have given me this life and this body." He didn't know that his body was given to him by Krsna. He thought that his father and mother had given it. He continued, "You should give me your old age and take my young age. Yayati then happily took his son's youth. He was now young again, and he was enjoying and enjoying with so many wives out of lust.
More than 10,000 years passed, and yet he was not satisfied. One evening, when he was about to chant the mantra given to him by his guru he thought, "Oh, I have lost so many years. First I lost 50,000 years in this, and now I have lost 10,000 more. What should I do?" He remembered a sloka: "Lust for sense gratification can not be satisfied by enjoying. It is compared to a fire. If you give the fire ghee, oil, or any other fuel, the fire will increase."
If you go on enjoying and enjoying, you will not be satisfied in thousands and thousands of births. Even a devotee under good guidance may have a weakness to enjoy this person or this lady. It is very hard to escape from the hands of this lust, and even Brahma and Sankara became bewildered. Don't go to the West, otherwise it will swallow you.
And don't go to the North. In Caitanya Caritamrta it is written that the attainment of heavenly powers, siddhas, are there. Don't go towards sense gratification, taking fish and eggs and all these things. It will not give happiness. Come with me and dig here in the East.
Gurudeva is like this astrologer. He tells you, "You are very unhappy. There are so many problems, and you are suffering so much. You should chant: Govinda Damodari Madhaveti, Radhe Radhe Radhe jaya jaya jaya Sri Radhe, Radha-Ramana Hari Govinda jaya jaya, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, and Nitai Gour Hari bol Hari bol!
Someone may say, " Gurudeva, you said that so much gold and wealth will come from the East, but where is it? I am chanting the holy name. O, Gurudeva, why have you said that? Where is the wealth? Gurudeva will reply, "Don't be worried, my child. Your bhakti will sprout. All the potential of 'wealth and happiness' is there in the seed. Everything is in the names. Even Radha and Krsna Themselves, and also Their love and affection, are in these names. But the result will come gradually, not in one moment."
If you plant any seed, water it regularly, and fence it in to protect it, after some time a powerful yellow sprout appears. However, if you are always digging it up to see, "Where is a sprout? Where is the fruit?" then that seed will dry up. Don't do this. Simply continue to hear hari-katha in high-class association. This will water the seed that your gurudeva has planted in your heart, and after some time it will sprout. Don't dig it up. Sadhu-sanga sadhu-sanga sarva sastra kaya.
Continue to follow the process. After some time all your anarthas will go and you will have nistha in bhakti. When nistha comes you will be like Srila Haridasa Thakura. At that time, if anyone tells you not to utter Hare Krsna you will say, "I cannot follow your instructions. Even if you cut me into many pieces, I cannot." This is nistha.
After that ruci will come, and at that time you will have a taste for chanting. When ruci is mature, asakti will come. You will have attachment to Krsna, bhakti, and chanting. Then you will not feel sleepy during chanting, and more taste will come. If you are chanting, remembering and associating, you will then see that rati will come, and that will be like a flower or manjari appearing before the fruit. The first glimpse of the fruit is rati. When the first reddish sunrays appear in the sky, all kinds of darkness go away. When rati appears, all ignorance goes away and you will always be happy. Then, if you are always hearing hari-katha, rati will be transformed into love and affection, and at that time you will not be able to remain in this world. Yogamaya will take you with her, with your new face and very beautiful form. You will go to prakata Vrndavana where Krsna is playing.
Somewhere in this creation Krsna is playing, not in this universe, but in another. There are lakhs and lakhs of universes here and there, and wherever He is playing, Caitanya Mahaprabhu is following Him. Gaura-lila has just passed. There are therefore still many exalted devotees, and you are so very fortunate to have their darsana. Srila Swami Maharaja is one of them, and after him there is someone else. It may be that after some time you will see that the whole world will be covered with darkness. So you are very fortunate to be involved at this time. This is the process taught by Caitanya Mahaprabhu to Sri Sanatana Gosvami.


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Mountains of Obfuscation
What would you do?
You have a couple hundred files across several nested folders that contains within them 10000+ obfuscated random and unique user names. You also have a translation file of all of the obfuscated names and new ones you ned to have them replaced with. Some files have all 10000+ obfuscated names in them. Some have none or just a couple.
How would you update all of the files?
Obviously this isn't a crazy hard problem; there are many ways to solve it. I know how I solved it. I am curious as how YOU would solve it.
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text: Back in 2010, an Israeli foodie with a Tunisian passport went to Libya, at the request of an Israeli group that keeps an eye on Jewish Heritage sites there. Rafram Chaddad says he went to document some Jewish sites. He was arrested for spying and spent six months in prison. He's since written a book about the experience: it's a breezy travelogue about Libyan food as well as a diary of his time in prison. Daniella Cheslow spoke with him in Tel Aviv.


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Town of Goderich, Compass Minerals and Huron County donate combined total of $19,351
Scotiabank provides corporate matching donation of $15,000 to 'Hope Squared'
United Way Perth Huron (UWPH) staff and volunteers set out today to tour Scotiabank branches across Perth and Huron Counties.
During the 'Hope Squared' campaign, donations were collected from Scotiabank branches in St. Mary's, Exeter, Goderich, Listowel, Milverton, Mitchell and Stratford.
"There's a reason 'Hope Squared' gets circled on the United Way calendar every year. Our donors have taken advantage of Scotiabank's generosity and moved UWPH closer to its campaign goal," said UWPH Campaign Co-Chair Martin Ritsma.
Now in its eighth year, 'Hope Squared' collaboration with Scotiabank includes its previous incarnation Care-A-Van of Hope.
The campaign has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the annual campaign. Scotiabank has provided a generous corporate matching donation of $15,000.
"Certainly, with the work we are doing today with our tour, it will move us. We are around $680,000 at this point and it will move us well past the 50 per cent mark of our goal $1,446,625," added Ritsma.
Donation boxes from branches were collected, and welcomed dignitaries spoke on the importance of such a campaign.
Ritsma explained that after a 36-year career in education, he saw first had the impact United Way and the monies raised to support agencies have had on communities and students.
"There are exceptional needs in our community. I also want to remind you that there is exceptional generosity. We are blessed that there is so much generosity and Goderich is second-to-none in that world," Ritsma said.
"Every dollar that is donated is spent locally to support local people."
Today at the Goderich Scotiabank branch cheques were presented to UWPH staff by representatives from the Town of Goderich, Compass Minerals and the County of Huron, who ran workplace campaigns.
Goderich Mayor John Grace was in attendance and shared the importance of the work United Way conducts.
Explaining that the work United Way does is appreciated in Goderich, Mayor Grace who chairs the Goderich Committee understands the need for such a campaign.
"I can tell you today that the needs are great. More and more, every year, we will find the impact of United Way on some of the needs in our communities are significant," explained Grace.
"We need to raise that money and need to raise even more to meet the needs we see each and every day."
UWPH staff and volunteers also shared stories of how UWPH addresses #unignorable issues like poverty, isolation and youth mental health in local communities.
Compass Minerals gifted United Way with a total of $10,000 for the 'Hope Squared' campaign.
Huron County gifted $5,561 and the Town of Goderich gifted $3,790 to the campaign.
According to UWPH, from donations in the last year, programs such as Huron Safe Homes, YMCA extra-curricular grants and Family Services were supported.
Last year alone in Goderich, 502 individuals were helped through services supported by United Way.
"This has been an unbelievable day," concluded Ritsma.
"When our great donors – and organizations like Scotiabank – come together, we can do great things in our communities."
UWPH supports 17 local partners including: iVolunteer Perth Huron, Connect Youth, YMCA, John Howard, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Family Services, Shelter Link, One Care, Social Research and Planning Council, Huron Women's Shelter, Huron County Distribution Centre, myPerthHuron, PFSolutions, Huron Safe Homes, CNIB Vision Health, and the Emily Murphy Centre.


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Imagine: A wild salmon nursery, brimming with life, waiting for the great migration out to sea.
It begins here, where cottonwood smoke drifts across the yard at Mae Syvrud's home each summer. It wafts from the smokehouse where her family's prized wild salmon will cure for days at a time. This salmon comes from Alaska's Bristol Bay — center of the salmon universe.
For Mae and her children and grandchildren, living with salmon is a long-held custom dating back thousands of years to when, as one Yup'ik fisherman once told me, "time was thin."
Thousands of years. Millions of fish.
Why is Alaska's Bristol Bay, even in 2010, home to tens of millions of wild salmon?
People here have an answer. This headwaters menagerie of big rivers, giant lakes, ponds and willowy streams is perfect habitat. To keep it healthy, this habitat needs protection.
Which is what brought me far into the remote Bristol Bay headwaters last summer. As Mae tended the fire in her family's salmon smokehouse — yes, I've tasted her very own smoked salmon, and it's heavenly — I went far upstream with fisheries biologists working to protect the places wild salmon need to survive.
Just what does a wild salmon need to survive? Scientists have a list of exactly what salmon do need, and briefly, they need big landscapes where water is clean and rivers flow free.
Bristol Bay is a wild Idaho-sized chunk of Alaska where common environmental challenges of our day — urban sprawl or air pollution or invasive species — seem distant. Roads are mostly absent. Bears and wolves and caribou roam here. Trout. Wolverine. Waterfowl. Moose. For a salmon, it's perfect. Which is exactly why Alaska's Bristol Bay is home to the largest runs of wild salmon anywhere on Earth.
To help protect the most remote and as-yet uncharted salmon habitat at a time when large-scale copper and gold mining is proposed for the region, The Nature Conservancy sent a crew of fisheries biologists to survey lakes and rivers for wild salmon.
On a day when I joined the crew, I waded shin-deep waters and carried a fine-meshed net on a long fiberglass pole. Our biologist, named Sarah, held a battery-powered electro-shocker that works like a big magic wand. When you poke this where the young three-or-four-inch-long fish are — beneath an undercut bank or down in a pool — they are momentarily stunned with a brief pulse of electricity.
If the guy with the net (me, in this case) is quick enough, fish are scooped from the water, then identified by species and photographed before they're returned to the water. When scientists document the incredible habitat value of these waters in this way, it triggers existing regulatory levers in state and federal law.
Their lives begin in these streams, but salmon need up to four years and a trip to the Pacific Ocean before they'll return. Along the way, they feed an entire ecosystem, beginning with the brown bears — see the iconic image on the Alaska state quarter. Some salmon fill the nets of a 125-year-old sustainable commercial fishery. Anglers come from around the world to test their luck with a fishing rod. Families like Mae's catch some for the smokehouse.
But the migration journey of the salmon ends after they finally spawn in the very waters it began: the lakes and lacy network of tributaries that confluence into rivers such as the Nushagak and Kvichak.
So far, in two field seasons, we have discovered wild salmon in more than 90 miles of streams. This effort also has told us something more: Salmon are everywhere. We discovered salmon in 75 percent of the waters at the time of our surveys.
The image of a wild salmon nursery comforts people like Mae Syvrud, even as change whirs closer. Mae and a lot of her neighbors wrestle with the prospect of big-time development here. Most are simply opposed. In the meantime, Mae and her grandchildren tend the smokehouse, where she keeps the fire burning.
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America's Spookiest Lighthouse
Thick-as-soup fog, treacherous cliffs, pounding surf, and a ghost named The Gray Lady make this century-old Oregon lightstation the creepiest place on the coast.
The spirit of a mourning mother haunts Heceta Head, a 115-year-old lightstation on the windswept Oregon Coast. Some say the ghost, called The Gray Lady, searches for her infant daughter, who tumbled from the 200-foot cliffs to her death.
A visitor can get creeped out just by the setting―an isolated stretch of shore where sudden fog can blot out the sun. Mariners braving the pounding surf depend on the lighthouse to avoid smashing into the rocks below. The beacon, the strongest on the Oregon Coast, is visible 21 miles away at sea.
The Gray Lady, usually seen wearing a floor-length gray skirt, lurks in the attic of the lightkeeper's home, which is on the National Register of Historic Places and now operates as a bed-and-breakfast. One worker saw the silver-haired ghost floating over the floorboards as he repaired a broken attic window. He fled, but the next day the shattered glass in the sealed room had been swept into a neat pile.
Others report a mischievous side to the spirit. Lights flick on unexpectedly, doors sud-denly lock, and objects placed in one room later appear in another.
Photographer Steve Terrill of Portland recalls standing outside at dusk and seeing a translucent figure looking down on him from the attic. "It moved and then it dis-appeared," he says. "We knew absolutely nobody was in there. I thought, 'Man this is weird. This must be my imagination.'" Steve and a friend were the only ones staying in the building.
The next morning his friend called out in alarm. During the night, the inn's guestbook mysteriously appeared in his room. It was open to a page describing a previous lodger's encounter with the spirit. "I don't know where that book came from," Steve says. "I'm getting goosebumps now just thinking about it."
You, too, can see if the spirit moves you during a lighthouse tour (oregonstateparks.org/park_124.php). Or reserve a night at the B&B (rates from $133; 866/547-3696 or hecetalighthouse.com).


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Very nice Upland. Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work my friend.
Shes still In it. She proudly wears her of shirt to school lol.
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Phil V. I was asking about lab/GSP crosses (Wesslpointers). By the looks of it they are pointing dogs not flushing dogs. I was thinking maybe they could be trained to only flush or only point.
I was rereading your choice of dog and seen your question about gsp's being able to be trained to flush,well they can. Had one that was a dump in the mid 70's and she was trained to point would flush on command with phez,then she would flush quail all the time and rabbit part of the time.
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Choreography by: Peter Martins (after Marius Petipa); The Garland Dance choreographed by George Balanchine
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On the golf course, Susie Doyens has an easy swing and a ready smile.
When a drive flies straight down the fairway, she cries, "Yes!" She laughs when she tops a ball and her mom calls it a "wormburner." She manages a joke even when it takes four putts to finish a hole.
"There," she says, finally tapping in and moving on.
Off the golf course, Doyens, 35, has a quiet manner and an earnest message.
The athlete, who has Down syndrome, plays the role of "Global Messenger" for the Special Olympics. At meetings and fundraisers, she explains how she started off nearly mute, yet became a public speaker. Her public service videos have inspired people all over the world.
"Special Olympics helped me find my voice," Doyens says in one memorable spot, "and now everyone else is speechless."
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Doyens has made hundreds of speeches, but she remains shy, with a stutter that starts many of her sentences. Her mother, Lynda, coaxes her through interviews and appearances.
Ask the right question, though, and the words come tumbling out.
"Phil Mickelson is my favorite golfer," Susie says, "because he gave me his autographed glove, just for me. My other favorite player on the LPGA is I.K. Kim. She gave me her autograph on my hat."
Doyens looks like a golfer -- a small golfer, at 5-foot-1 and 110 pounds.
She likes to wear two-tone Nike golf shoes, navy shorts and a white-collared shirt. On cool days, she adds a blue fleece jacket with a Special Olympics logo.
Since appearing in the January issue of Golf Digest, Doyens has become more famous around Englewood. When she made appearances at Publix grocery stores, people recognized her.
Now they ask for her autograph.
"Yeah," Doyens says, beaming. "I did a couple."
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Two years ago, the Doyens family moved from Illinois to Florida.
Susie's father, Dan, was a machinist. Her mother had a house-cleaning business. Now they live in Rotonda, just minutes from several golf courses.
For the last 15 years, Doyens has competed around the country in Special Olympics Unified Golf, where two players take turns hitting shots. Her regular partner is Tom Reasoner, a retired police officer from Naperville, Ill.
He travels to Florida each spring to play with Doyens. "The ability she has, the smile on her face, that's what does it for me," Reasoner says.
One of his favorite moments came at a tournament in Port St. Lucie. Doyens hit the flag on an approach, so all he had to do was tap in for a birdie.
Reasoner may give her golf advice, but she hand-wrote a whole manual for him. It's one of his prized possessions. He always carries it in his golf bag.
"On the last page, she says, 'You hit the ball, you watch it rise in the sky, and you have fun,'" he says. "When I'm having a bad day on the golf course and I'm not having fun, I have to take that out and read it."
Doyens used to compete in more than a dozen Special Olympics sports. Struggles with tendonitis now limit her to two: bocce and golf.
Roxann Read, coordinator for Charlotte County Special Olympics, has a son who plays golf with Doyens. They've also seen her speeches, which make an impression on so many people. "She's really unique," Read says. "I don't know that we've had anyone come to us with her kind of story."
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Lynda Doyens still dotes on her daughter. She still calls her "my little girl."
Susie responds with a weary "Oh, Mom."
Susie graduated from high school in Illinois. She loves "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter" movies. She likes to read and write.
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Lynda remembers when Special Olympics officials in Illinois first suggested that Susie become a spokeswoman. It seemed unlikely.
"I'm kind of saying to myself, 'Are you people crazy?'" she says. "They said there was something inside of her that needed to come out."
That proved to be true. Now Susie enjoys standing in front of hundreds of people. She's passionate about golf, about the Special Olympics, about her journey.
"When she gives a speech, she stutters a little bit, but she goes on," Lynda says, laughing. "She loves standing ovations."
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Although I already talked about my favorite Oscar fashions, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Anne Hathaway in a custom Lanvin tuxedo and Brian Atwood heels. I adored this outfit — it fit her like a dream, had perfect proportions, and still left her looking totally feminine and beautiful. The idea of women wearing menswear is nothing new (see Marlena Dietrich, Lauren Hutton and YSL's Le Smoking jacket), and in fact, it's a trend that's been growing stronger in recent years.
If you want to try this look for a black tie affair, remember to add some girly touches (diamonds!) and don't take it too far over the top. Case in point: Rihanna, below, wearing Dolce & Gabbana to the Met Costume Institute Gala in 2009. The sleeves are just too much, and the addition of black driving gloves and severe hair doesn't help.
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Fork It!
I adore this idea, which I got from the most wonderful gal with the best ideas blog....Savvy City Farmer. She did a post telling us all we need to get away from the plastic and bring back the beautiful old coffee carafes, adding a little romance to your morning coffee. I haven't found one of those yet but I did find this fabulous old silver plate chafing dish warmer. Look at those sexy legs! And don't you know...... it makes the most fabulous wine holder.....pretty fancy huh? Reinvent what you have! It's fun!
Coming to a Vintage Nest near you soon! Never ever to see the likes of a landfill! FABulous old finds. A gorgeous vintage pink blanket surrounded with the best petite rose covered satin binding....still in it's original package. A gorgeous old reticulated creamy white lamp with pink roses...wowzer and the sweetest little bird and a French restaurant ware creamer.....yum!
34 comments :
- Brenda Eason said...
Well, look at you ms. smarty pants. that fork is the cutest thing ever.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- Beverly said...
Great inspiration, Lynn. I love the use of the forks. I am hoping to make it to the garden center this weekend.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- trash talk said...
Heck, I thought us old junkers invented Earth Day! Clever reuse of forks, my dear. Sexy legs indeed...wish mine looked as good. Have a wonderful day. Debbie
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- CatHerder said...
OH I LOVE THE FORK IDEA! Im dying to make some jewelry from old silverware when i get the time.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- Lisa said...
Great idea as the ones I try and stick in the dirt tend to blow away. Now you have me thinking...Maybe bending the handles to make placecard holders or buffet item tags...hmmmm..
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- English Cottage in Georgia said...
Great idea! I was just wondering today, where I would find something to hold the used seed packets in the garden. You have saved me ALOT of "wear and tear" on the car and me :-)
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- savvycityfarmer said...
girl, you are too fun!
I feel like a Mayberry celebrity!
I adore linking with other bloggers.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- Bargain Decorating with Laurie said...
Lynn, you are so inventive! I love your new uses for old things. You're right; we have been "green" for a long time! I think your "wine holder" was originally a centerpiece (I'm up too late and can't think of what those are called). I received one as a wedding gift. It has a small bowl that goes on the bottom and a large bowl on the top, and yes, the legs are just like your sexy legs! I haven't used mine in years (I do not like polishing silver). I'll have to get it out, polish it, and use it in a tablescape. laurie
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
- Lynn @The Vintage Nest said...
Good morning! I don't know what's going on, but both last night and this morning, I've tried to leave a comment about the fork. But it keeps telling me it was unsuccessful. Anyway, I loved this post!
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- Thursday, April 16, 2009
- Francie said...
LOL, yup us "junkers" have been saving and re-inventing for years. I have made windchimes, card holders etc. out of old silverware for years.
I have a box under my desk just waiting...I love the idea you have...wouldn't that look great with a plate border? hmmm I think I have some plates I've been saving for mosaics with just a chip on one edge...okay now you got me goin'. :)
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
- Pat@Back Porch Musings said...
Wonderful ideas Lynn! When you were talking about the landfill, it brought back memories of my teen years. We loved to go to the dump. We were as happy as The Boxcar Children, when we found a treasure!
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
- ♥ Boomer ♥ said...
Thanks for posting that for me ~ I'm trying again on a different computer and using Chrome instead of Mozilla. Getting ready to see if it posts...if not, it must be me! :-)
But as I said, I really loved the fork-in-the-garden idea!!
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
- Sue said...
Hi Lynn, Good ideas in this post. I think the way you used the chafing dish holder as a bottle holder is too cool! I'm gonna have to dig out the coffee carafe that is gathering dust on the top shelf of the pantry. Seeing it on the table might even make hubby think he is in a fancy schmancy restaurant. LOL
Hugs, Sue
- Thursday, April 16, 2009
- GMG said...
Hi Lynn! Another hectic week after the Easter break...
Amazing way to re-use the forks... ;) Always great ideas around here!
Blogtrotter has finished posting on Brasilia 2008. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
- Friday, April 17, 2009
- The Vintage Vagablonde said...
I forked it too!!
Hit the Salvation Army last night..spent $4 on about 16 little forks for my garden..LOVE the idea :)
Happy weekend MH:)
- Saturday, April 18, 2009
- The Muse said...
Reuse...loved once more in life!
Double shouts of cheer...and mega applause!
- Sunday, April 19, 2009
What cute ideas!
- Sunday, April 19, 2009
- GMG said...
Hi Lynn! What happened to your Saturday? Miss it...
You wouldn't guess where Blogtrotter is on its last post... Enjoy and have a great week!
- Sunday, April 19, 2009
- Designs on 47th Street said...
What a FABULOUS way to use old forks! Now I'm kicking myself for not picking up a bunch at a junk store in N.C. last fall! Oh well, she'll probably have more when I go back this year. I also love reinventing ways to use old things. There truly are so many interesting ways to use things. Blogs are great for helping us out with some of those.
Thank you for some great ideas today. Wish I could sit and bluebird watch with you! ;)
- Monday, April 20, 2009
- Nana Net said...
Everything is beautiful! Great pictures. Enjoy this weather while it lasts!
- Monday, April 20, 2009
- Nana Net said...
Hey, the person I called the the help desk for my security software! LOL
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Margaret Cloud said...
I know where to come for vintage ideas, thank you.I never tried a herb garden, I might give it a try. Hope you have a nice week. We are rainy and today it was spitting snow, very chilly out.
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Celene said...
I love the fork idea. I bend the outer tongs on the fork back to make them stand up and the inner ones up at the ends and use them as card holders on my shop counter. I get more comments on them! It works best with silver as it bends easier. Blessings, Celene
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...
Very sweet ideas. I have a cofee carafe like yours!
- Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Nola said...
Love your little herb garden. What a cute use for old forks! I have a huge assortment of old flatware I bought when we were making chimes with them; the forks can be put to good use now, and so easily!
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- OldBagNewTricks said...
Darling trashy ideas... That forky thing is just in time for planting season. How smart are you!?!
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Margie said...
Happy Earth Day and Thank you for making it good for all those years, I am right there with you too, your herb garden is so cute and let me add to the voices who praise your fork recycling. hugs Margie.
- Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Betty said...
I think the forks are a great idea! I just heard about it from Sheri at the Pawsh Poodle and I see she's been here already!
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
Hi Lynn, I Love the fork idea! With all of the plants I have started, this is a lovely and whimsical idea for keeping up with labels. I have not had a chance to email you about the Chicken coop yet, but I plan to post on it within the week. Audley designed ours himself and it is really nice (and fairly simple to build). I am sure he will be glad to draw it up and share it with you.Our first set of hens should begin laying within a month, so I am anxious to see how it all works for us.
Hope all is well,
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
- Linda's Blue Gate said...
I love using vintage forks in unexpected ways..... love this idea....
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
- chris said...
Oh Lynn! What great ideas for the garden! you isnpire me so! SO happy your kids had a wonderful vacation in florida. It's just the thing for anyone who endured a long, cold winter like we all did! Thanks for stopping by & your kind words~xo chris
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
- Kasey said...
lovely,lovely idea.
Hope all is well.
- Thursday, April 23, 2009
- GMG said...
Hi Lynn!
After the green, Blogtrotter entered the old town... ;)
Enjoy and have a great weekend! I'm going to be busy at the Music Fest (Bach's legacy… ;))
- Friday, April 24, 2009
- the wild raspberry said...
so creative!
- Saturday, April 25, 2009


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Saturday @ Winter Jazzfest (Day 2)
Got there around 8:15PM this time and started off, just as the day before, with trying to do some quick gig hopping and check out all the venues for the most appealing sounds…
On the average, I think it felt even more crowded than the day before (it was 2000 people both nights and it was sold out). Come to think of it, according to the data on Search&Restore website, the capacity of Zinc Bar is 250, 800 for le Poisson Rouge, 345 for Sullivan Hall (although I never saw that being at capacity),which totals 1395 people, theoretically. That would leave around 300 each for Kenny's Castaways and the Bitter End. So it's pretty understandable that the crowds were all over the place.
1. Bernie Worrell Orchestra @ le Poisson RougeKyle Cadena, guitar / Andrew Kimball, guitar / Scott Hogan, bass / Glen Fittin, percussion / Shlomi Cohen, alto sax / Ofer Assaf, tenor sax / Justin Mullens, trumpet / Karl Latham, drums / Evan Taylor, drums
Pretty straightforward funky kind of music. Hopped on pretty soon…
2. Herculaneum @ Kenny's CastawaysDylan Ryan, drums / David McDonnell, alto saxophone / Nick Broste, trombone / Nate Lepine, tenor saxophone and flute / Patrick Newbery, trumpet / Greg Danek, bass
Stopped by really briefly: seemed like a nice hang, but not spectacular enough to settle down…
3. Lionel Loueke @ Zinc Bar
Lionel Loueke, guitar and vocals / Michael Olatuja, bass / Mark Guiliana, drums
Although I had heard Lionel Loueke a few times, I was a bit curiuos to hear this particular lineup with Mark Guiliana on drums. Finally managed to get in to Zinc Bar (it was so crowded that I didn't really see anything). They sounded nice, but I only stayed for a tune or so, as the mission for the night was to hear something mind blowing…🙂
4. Andy Milne's Dapp Theory @ the Bitter End
Andy Milne, piano, keyboards & vocals / John Moon, poet / Aaron Kruziki, reeds & vocals / Chris Tordini, basses & vocals / Kenny Grohowski, drums & guitar
Back to the Bitter End. That one was crowded as well (oddly, everybody also stayed near the door, actually there was more room on the other side of the room). The band had energy and intention + they played well, so it was a pleasure to listen. Later on John Moon, the poet and vocalist in the band, performed some interesting improvised (?) poetry, locking it in with the band's groove. Haven't heard things like that too often, so I thought it sounded interesting, the rhythm of the words and the music…
5. Mostly Other People Do The Killing @ Kenny's CastawaysPeter Evans, trumpet / Jon Irabagon, saxophone / Moppa Elliott, bass / Kevin Shea, drums
Didn't fascinate that much me at the moment. Hopped on…
6. Fabian Almazan and Strings @ Sullivan Hall
Fabian Almazan, piano / Linda Oh, bass / Henry Cole, drums / Jenny Scheinman: Violin. I / Megan Gould, violin. II / Karen Waltuch, viola / Noah Hoffeld, cello
Didn't hear enough of it to form an opinion. And to be honest, I thought Sullivan Hall wasn't that appropriate a venue to hear this kind of music anyway as the sound of the room is more suitable for rock (bass is heavy, not so clear overall). On the average, the venues that have jazz in New York normally have really great balanced sound (rooms are dry and not emphasizing any particular frequencies). So I'd rather hear Fabian Almazan and Strings somewhere else.
7. Justin Brown Group @ Sullivan Hall
Fabian Almazan, fender Rhodes & piano / Burness Travis, electric bass / Matthew Stevens, guitar / Special guest Ambrose Akinmusire, trumpet / Justin Brown, drums
Another band I was looking forward to hearing – but somehow the music and the playing didn't touch me this time.
8. Vijay Iyer trio @ le Poisson Rouge
Vijay Iyer, piano / Stephan Crump, bass / Marcus Gilmore, drums
That one was great! The only drawback was that Le Poisson Rouge was packed as hell. Marcus Gilmore, once again, sounded great. And so did Stephan Crump on bass and Vijay himself. Looking forward to hearing them again soon, preferably in a bit more relaxed environment.
9. Allison Miller's BOOM TIC BOOM @ the Bitter End
Myra Melford, piano / Jenny Scheinman, violin / Brad Jones, bass / Allison Miller, drums
The Bitter End was packed as hell as well, but I managed to squeeze through the mob to the other side of the room, so it was quite cozy. I also found the music to be charming somehow, although it probably wouldn't have been a jazz purist's cup of tea (again, this conflict between the rhythmic worlds of jazz and folk). Allison Miller had loads of great musical ideas, enjoyable grooves and it was refreshing to hear her creative musical vision pouring out of the drum set: she treats the instrument in quite a unique way. They also had a nice energy as a band and were clearly enjoying what they do – it is always incredible to witness how much that actually adds (regardless of the actual music).
10. Taylor Eigsti trio @ the Bitter End
Taylor Eigsti, piano / Eric Harland, drums / Harish Raghavan, bass
That was the highlight of the day for me. Great musicians, great band! First, they played a few originals, then a pretty impressive version of Wayne Shorter's Deluge. Tenor player Dayna Stephens stepped up as special guest for (his arrangement of) Joe Henderson's Black Narcissus. For the last tune, vocalist Becca Stevens joined for a tune written by her and Eigsti, Magnolia.
What impressed me most in the concert was Eigsti's almost McCoy Tyner kind of energy in his melodic lines. It was also great how he made musically meaningful use of textures of the actual instruments, combining the more intense sound of the piano (even more noteworthy as the actual piano seemed to be rather crappy) and the mellow sound of Rhodes. Harish Raghavan's command of the bass was almost scary. And Eric Harland was as great as ever, or better.
11. Tyshawn Sorey Oblique @ the Bitter End
Tyshawn Sorey, drums / Loren Stillman, alto saxophone / Todd Neufeld, guitar / John Escreet, piano, keyboards / Chris Tordini, bass
Although that was one of the late-night sets (starting at 01:45 AM) and many had departed, but there seemed to be quite a few musicians around to see this one. What bothered me about this one, though, was how they (not Tyshawn though) seemed to be struggling with all the reading. Most players were so fixed on their sheet music that it looked almost humorous. Although this kind of intellectual and many-faceted compositions seem to be one of the interesting developments in jazz and one probably can't really play music like that by heart, is reading music really supposed to be something that jazz musicians should demonstrate in such extreme ways? I feel that lot of the effortlessness and grace that one would expect from the live music gets lost. All were great musicians (heard some spectacular solos and overall amazing musicianship), though, and it was kind of fun to try to process and make sense of the load of musical information presented (giving an almost sport-like thrill…).
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Friday at Winter Jazzfest (Day 1)
One of the most anticipated yearly music events – it was my first time to attend. Although I've done quite a bit of gig hopping before (too much temptation in New York even on a regular night), this time I probably set a personal record for the amount of bands heard in one night: caught 12 of the 31 groups on Friday (which would still make only 38% of all the Winter Jazzfest treats on offer for the day :)).
It was truly an unforgettable experience (and quite a challenge, to process that much musical information and find a way through the crowds)!
Here are some of my impressions from the first day of the Bleecker street & surroundings gig hopping marathon:
1. Started off with the Curtis Hasselbring's Mellow Edwards @ Le Poisson Rouge, around 6 PMCurtis Hasselbring, trombone & guitar / Chris Speed, tenor saxophone & clarinet / Mary Halvorson, guitar / Matt Moran, vibraphone / Trevor Dunn, bass / Satoshi Takieshi, drums & percussion / Ches Smith, drums & percussion
Heard a nice guitar solo (tastefully poetic, created a spacious and open feel as if watching clouds in the sky…) by Mary Halvorson, but didn't stay for the whole thing, still. In the early hours, there were quite few people everywhere, so it seemed like an ideal time for gig hopping and trying to see it all…
2. Off to Kenny's Castaways to hear Ben Allison w/ StringsJenny Scheinman (violin), Steve Cardenas (guitar), Ben Allison (bass)
That was one of the shows I had been looking forward to hearing (I've heard all three of them before myself quite a few times, but not this lineup).
I actually didn't find it that interesting (the combination of jazz and folk often makes me wish it was either one or the other since rhythmically they are such different worlds). Great musicians though.
3. The Bitter End: Joel Harrison String Choir playing the music of Paul Motian
Joel Harrison, Liberty Ellman, guitars / Christian Howes, Sam Bardfeld, violins / Mat Maneri, viola / Dave Eggar, cello
That actually was not a tribute band (active for 10 years already, starting way before Paul Motian died…). Having a string quartet seems to be this year's big trend for many bands… This one was nice, but I still thought I should move on…
4. Julian Lage Group @ Sullivan Hall
Julian Lage, guitar / Jorge Roeder, bass / Tupac Mantilla, percussion / Aristides Rivas, cello / Dan Blake, sax
This was one of the shows that I was really looking forward to hearing. And yes, Julian Lage is an absolutely amazing guitar player and instrumentalist with a great sense of drama. And they seemed to be enjoying what they do (and the audience loved them back for it) and the energy in the show was great (reminding of Pat Metheny Group somewhat).
But the melodic lines Lage played seemed surprisingly random, considering the outstanding quality of his musicianship. That kind of devalued the thing for me
(altough I guess great lines aren't the most important thing people expect to hear nowadays)… So I didn't stay for long.
Then tried to get in to Zinc Bar – as did many others, so it looked rather hopeless…Ditched the idea for the time.
5. Went to Kenny's Castaways instead for Pete Robbins, Simon Jermyn, Oscar Noriega, Ches SmithPete Robbins and Oscar Noriega, alto saxophone / Simon Jermyn, bass guitar / Ches Smith and John Hollenbeck, drums
This sounded great,actually, but unfortunately it was quite crowded again, so I just stayed for a couple tunes…
6. Quickly checked out le Poisson Rouge and Nels Cline SingersNels Cline, guitar / Yuka C. Honda, keyboard / Scott Amendola, drums & electronics / Trevor Dunn, bass
It was quite crowded and didn't seem like my cup of tea, so I hopped on…
7. Lucy Woodward @ the Bitter EndChris Bullock, saxophone / Nate Townsley, drums / Michael League, bass / Henry Hey, keys / Bob Lanzetti, guitar / Andy Hunter, trombone / Mike Maher, trumpet / Lucy Woodward, lead vocal
I guess some of those people form Michael League's band the Snarky Puppy (often performing at Rockwood Music Hall). It was pretty nice. And the Bitter End was the cosiest (if seated) of the Bleecker Street venues and allowed a bit less stressful listening (although they had a pretty intimidating two drink minimum per person per set), so stayed there until the next band. Especially as, at that point, the lines outside had become pretty scary and finding a seat in any of the venues wasn't that easy anymore…
8. Chris Morrissey @ the Bitter End
Chris Morrissey, bass / Mark Guiliana, drums / Aaron Parks, piano / Ben Wendel, saxophone / Nir Felder, guitar
Stayed @ the Bitter End for this, but unfortunately it turned out to be a little bit of a disappointment…Not even sure, why exactly: maybe the compositions weren't intriguing for my ear or was it just an off night or what… Aaron Parks played some beautiful solos, but despite that, it wasn't that interesting, somehow. So I left after 3 or 4 tunes.
9. Another attempt to get into Zinc Bar, this time successful. Heard 3 or 4 tunes by Sketchy Black Dog.
The hardest to get in to, Zinc Bar was grooving that night… Misha's set was about half way when we got there: and the atmosphere was hot. Great playing by everybody in the band, the string quartet sounded meticulous (+ it looked great how the women, dressed in red, were positioned on stage, encircling Misha behind the piano. Very sexy). Chris Wabich on drums was grooving and Misha himself was extremely charming (in a little bit of a Russian sort of way). His soulful phrasing (a quality that has become more and more hard to find lately), great feel for the blues and energy were really enjoyable. The repertoire seemed to consist of pop tunes (heard some Jimi Hendrix, the Police and so on). This is something almost everybody tries to do nowadays, but this band actually made it work, in style.
10. Gilad Hekselman 4tet @ Zinc Bar
That was the highlight of the whole festival for me: really great band! I think Gilad Hekselman is one of the (quite few, actually, based on my personal observations and comparisons between now and what I heard 2 years ago) musicians that has evolved a lot during the past couple of years, both as a guitar player and bandleader. He's also one of the guys who builds the modern and new stuff consciously, on a strong foundation, so it actually sounds convincing (as opposed to somebody that would try to do some of this just because it's hip and ending up sounding like excerpts from a jazz geek's exercise book). I got huge respect for this kind of players, looking forward to what's next from Gilad if he keeps moving on like that… Also, it was refreshing to see them playing without sheet music (except for Mark Turner, but in his case it was pretty understandable, as the melodies were complicated. And his playing didn't seem to suffer from it anyhow). Joe Martin and Marcus Gilmore were absolutely mind blowing!! These are the real cats.
I wish there was a way to distinguish musicians of this level from the more and more undefinable (almost random) bag of "jazz". The tools and awareness these musicians have for the improvising art are completely of another level – and they would deserve the credit for it also. It is a tremendous thing, to play this well.
11. Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures @ Zinc BarAdam Rudolph, handrumset, kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba, thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, percussion / Graham Haynes, cornet, flugelhorn, percussion / Kenny Wessel, electric and acoustic guitars, banjo, percussion / Ralph Jones, flute, bass clarinet, alto flute, sop and tenor saxophones, bamboo flutes / Jerome Harris, acoustic bass guitar, slide guitar, vocal, percussion / Matt Kilmer, frame drums, kanjira, bata, percussion / James Hurt, cajon, sogo, kidi, bells, bata, percussion
That was pretty nice, and a contrast from the previous band – more like a world music sort of thing.
12. JD Walter @ Zinc BarJD Walter, vocals / Jim Ridl, piano / Donald Edwards, drums / Luques Curtis, bass
The only show so far that was a bit behind schedule (started a bit before 2 AM). I liked it, especially the deeply satisfying groove of the bass player, Luques Curtis! But I felt pretty saturated with all the music (and the alcoholic beverages that were softly enforced throughout the night) and decided to call it a day after a few tunes (definitely wouldn't mind hearing JD Walter's band more thoroughly some other time, though). Had a ($1) slice of pizza from Gray's Papaya and arrived home around 4 AM (after some exciting shuttle bus transfers on the Q line). Was a great day!
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The eighth New York Winter Jazzfest coming up, to deliver over 60 mouthwatering performances in a compact spread of 5 different venues in the West Village. This Friday and Saturday (January 6th and 7th) – all music lovers in the city are going (me too)!
The sheer amount of music will be quite overwhelming, I expect. Imagining that if one would go see a concert once a week every single week of the year, it would still add up to only 52, compared to the 60 on just the two nights… What a way to take a bite out of this thriving music scene here.
I've been going through the program for a while (and it's even kind of educating to do some pre-listening on some of the artists): it looks like it's quite difficult to construct the absolute best itinerary for the nights – practically all of it has the potential to sound pretty mind blowing.
But as I've actually heard quite a many of this year's performers before at some point, this time time I'm particularly excited about:
Julian Lage Group – (haven't heard him live yet, but he seems to be a great guitar player and musician) Friday, 7:45pm @ Sullivan Hall
Ben Williams and the Sound Effect – Jaleel Shaw, Matt Stevens, Gerald Clayton, Etienne Charles, Justin Brown. Sounds like a promising bunch Saturday, 12:45 AM @ Sullivan Hall
Justin Brown Group – curious to see his own group (seen him doing a great job as a sideman on several occasions) Saturday 10:15 pm @ Sullivan Hall
Taylor Eigsti – one of the best young pianists now? Must be a great concert (with Eric Harland and Harish Rhaghavan) Saturday 12:30 AM @ the Bitter End
Tyshawn Sorey Oblique : interesting music! Saturday 01:45 AM @ the Bitter End
Yeah, and then I'm going to try to squeeze in Lionel Loueke (with Mark Guiliana on drums!), Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Wallace Roney (a little bit different generation than most of the Jazzfest, but sounding hip…), Chris Morrissey (with Aaron Parks, Mark Guiliana, Ben Wendel, Nir Felder = such a promising lineup!), Steven Bernstein's MTO plays Sly (everybody's raving about them), Ben Allison trio, Joel Harrison String Orchestra…
But most of all, I expect some of the fun to lie in playing it by the ear…


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National seizes control of Auckland Council plan fast-track
National has seized control of the proposed fast-tracking of Auckland Council's unitary plan by giving itself the power to appoint the plan's hearings panel, says Labour's Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford.
"National has unilaterally decided it will oversee appointments to the hearings panel for Auckland's unitary plan. That gives the Government extraordinary power over the fast-tracking of the planning process for our largest city and shows National's true centralising colours.
"Given National's hostility to Len Brown's plan for a quality compact city and ambitious public transport agenda you have to worry they will stack the panel with people unsympathetic to the Mayor's vision.
"This is Auckland's unitary plan but in rejecting the Council's proposal for a joint appointment process the Government clearly does not trust Auckland's elected Council to decide who goes on the panel.
"With this Government it is all about control, especially when it comes to local government. We have seen it with the suspension of elections for Environment Canterbury, with the local government legislation just passed, the transport bill before the House, and now the hijacking of Auckland's plan.
"Labour has signalled qualified support for the fast tracking of the unitary plan. We want to see Auckland Council get on and tackle the city's housing crisis and not be delayed year after year. However, we do have concerns about whether the Government's proposed changes will actually deliver the plan in a timely fashion or whether unforeseen legal wrangles will tie it up and deliver worse outcomes for Auckland."


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The 14-year-old seems to have literally vanished without a trace in a case that becomes more bizarre by the hour.
More than 100 friends, family, and concerned residents gathered at Walnut Ridge High School for a balloon launch in the fifth day of searching for Randall. The teen is described as bubbly and she has been in beauty pageants since the age of two.
"She was a sweet, caring person, but she was keeping something," her brother Ben Randall said. "She never did tell anybody but she was keeping something from everybody."
Sidney Randall's father and his live-in partner said they suspected the teenager's stepfather John Cornell had been molesting her.
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Cornell left and was discovered Monday with what investigators say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was about 200 yards from his truck but the sheriff says there is no evidence Sidney was in that area.
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The Arkansas State Police have the computers John Cornell recently purchased looking for any evidence there. The Lawrence County sheriff said he and the many agencies from around the area will search for Sidney Randall until they find her but right now they have no evidence to indicate what may have happened to her.
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About a month ago I rereleased my OLPC back into the wild, with the original intention of it going to a deserving person who could put it to better use. I had an intermediary in the United States handle the actual distribution, because logistically speaking it was more convenient.
The intermediary tested it for a few days and thought it worthy of donating to a worthy recipient, but both of us were a bit leery of that sticky key issue. It would be a rather dubious gift if it were given away gratis to an underprivileged user, only to have it lapse again. And if the new user was a child, as we both originally intended, that would be disappointing for everyone involved.
Because of that, and because of the costs of relaying the machine between Japan and America, we both decided it was better to offer the machine for sale, with proper mention of its standing defects. It was auctioned on ebay and found a new home, along with many of its accessories, at a school in Connecticut. Judging by the buyer's history, the school uses these for its students, and has plenty of experience working with them.
So I am satisified with that outcome. I am reasonably comfortable in the thought that it is being used for an educational purpose, and that there's an IT staff on hand to manage it if the machine misbehaves again. Both issues solved. 🙂
The second epilogue is either heartening or disheartening, depending on your perspective and mood. The horrid K6-2 struggling with Windows XP which was pulled out of retirement — more like pulled out of the garbage, really — was supplanted this week by a giant eMachines J4482 armed with Vista Home Premium.
The staff is pleased again, since this moves exceptionally faster than its crudware-infested precedent, but of course, since it came with Vista, it took a technician — a professional technician, this time — two days to connect the thing to our network and our array of printers and copiers. I pitied him after the first few hours.
Which means by extension that the K6-2 has returned to its retirement home, atop a pile of papers on a shelf in the corner of the office. Whether I bring it home again or not remains to be seen. It might be needed once more, if the planets are not in alignment, if the temperature drops below 19C, or if any other random occurence interferes with Vista's function.
(As a side note, I tried to convince the boss that he should give me the old desktop so I could rehab and donate it to charity, a la the Sony VAIO I gave away around the turn of the year. However, I think he wanted to sell it to a recycle shop, in hopes of recouping some of the price. Good luck with that.)
The last epilogue is really only halfway complete, and not much of an epilogue at all. That battered Thinkpad is in the shop now, having a new screen transplanted into it.
The final price for parts and labor will no doubt be much higher than what I would pay if I were to replace it myself, but for some reason I feel the need to support my local computer store. In this day and age, sending a little business his way might keep him afloat a little longer. And I enjoy window-shopping in his store, even if I never actually buy computers. 😉


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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
In the previous post I said Doug Collins is quickly becoming one of my most hated people. Let me elaborate a little.....I still blame him and one Michael Jeffery Jordan for making one of my first jobs out of college dreadful. The two of them single, rather double-handedly put the Washington Wizards in a tailspin they are just now getting out of.
I had to watch a lineup of Jordan, Jerry Stackhouse, Tyronn Lue, Christian Laettner, Byron Russell, and Charles Oakley struggle to try to make the playoffs each year. Well I got a sales job with the Wizards the year after Jordan was forced out and Gilbert Arenas came in. Over 75% of the calls I made to previous "fans" explained that they would no longer support the team because of the way Jordan was "treated". I would literally get in arguments on the phone with them because I would say I would rather take a playoff series than watch an over the hill legend limp around the court. This point is evidenced by two games I went to.....
1) Jordan's third to last game against the Hawks. Jordan had 17 points, but the key was he had a shot at the buzzer to win the game. I remember him getting a wide open look at the FT Line and thinking this would be a defining moment in my Sports Life. Well Jordan bricked that last shot and everyone in attendance felt like they missed something great. They had just lost to the lowly Hawks 101-100, and would proceed to lost to the Knicks and Sixers to close out the season. (In his last game Jordan scored 15 in a loss to the Sixers)
2) Game 6 of the 1st Round Playoff series last year against the Bulls. Besides seeing Walt Williams beat the #7 Tarheels with a buzzer beater courtside, and George Mason beating UConn, this is the most exciting game i've seen live. Somehow Hinrich threw an inbounds pass off of Chris Duhon's back (I sense a theme of Duke F-ups in the NBA) and Jared Jeffries raced down court for a two hand slam. The Bulls then ran a play for Nocioni and he missed a three, Tyson Chandler idiotically took a 2-point shot, and then came the most beautiful sight.....Gilbert Arenas (the same man who I argued to those asses would lead the Wizards to playoffs) grabbed the rebound and threw the ball into the crowd. As confetti flooded the Phone Booth's (MCI Center) floor and fireworks exploded as the buzzer sounded I just started hugging random fans in the upper deck. (My favorite random stat of the game is that Lawrence Funderburke had 2 points in 8 minutes of play....I have no idea how L Fun got playing time in the playoffs)
Now which of those games sounds like it was more fun? There take that random Wizards bandwagon fans!!! And take that Douglas Collins and MJJ! Okay I feel better now......on to the Awful Announcing.
I'm going to count these down in Letterman format....but my Top 10 will actually be funny. But first a little background on our announcer-du-jour Mr. Paul Douglas Collins. Before Dougie got Hair Plugs and dyed his hair Blonde (seriously wtf!?!), he was most notably remembered for being one of the best players for the 1972 United States national basketball team. The United States was undefeated in Olympic basketball competition history, and widely expected to remain undefeated after these Olympics. After Collins had hit two clutch free throws, the time had apparently expired in the gold medal game; the United States had a 50-49 lead and seemed to have secured yet another gold medal. However, in a very controversial move, it was decided by the game's referees that there were still three seconds left to play, allowing the Soviet Union to have one more chance, which they utilized to make a lay-up, and give the United States its first ever Olympic loss by a 51-50 margin. Collins and his teammates have remained upset of the outcome of the game ever since, and refused their silver medals.
Now Collins has every right to be upset at the blatant fix, but this Holier-than-thou ego carried over as a coach and as an announcer. On to the countdown!
10. Doug's Keys of the game for the Suns......."The Suns must Rebound/The Suns must shoot 3's better." That is what was put up on the screen, but Collins says nothing. So what you're saying Dougie is that the team who rebounds and scores will win? Great insight Joe Theisman.
9. "A monday night Game 7 would really help the Suns." Doug, you think?! It's would be a home game ass. But how about they just win the next two and win the series?
8. "Game 5, such a deciding game." Well if the series was 3-1 yes, but it's 2-2. Maybe the Monday night Game 7 would be a bit more deciding.
7. "They are doubling Steve Nash and what the Suns are doing is going to the open areas to make shots" No really?!?!
6. "Nash might only score 6 to 8 points tonight" Besides the fact that Nash is the MVP, he is averaging almost 20 points in the playoffs. The other reason this is retarded is because he said it with 9:31 left in the 1st Quarter!!! (Nash had 9 points in the 2nd Quarter alone)
5. He repeatedly calls Vladamir Radmanovic "Vlade" and then throws out this gem, "With Vlade Divac and Vlade Radmanovic were starting the Vlade Revolution" Yes Douglas, two people with that name comprise a revolution.
4. "The Phoenix Suns are on a 8-1 Run!!!" He said this with such inflection that I thought it was going to be something ridiculous like a 40-4 run. Question PDC, can a run be defined as 8-1?
3. "Being a guy who scored in this league a little bit it's important to get to the Free Throw Line" I really only added this one because it shocked me so much last night, but today I looked up his stats and they weren't that bad. 17.9 ppg over 8 seasons in Philly. But his ego oozed out of the TV with that statement.
2. "Multiple Shots will wear you down." I don't even know how to disect this one. He didn't even specify whether this was on offense or defense.
and drum roll please.....................
At #1 we have a tie!!!!
"Shawn Marion was at the 3 Point Line and tipped the ball in....that's when he's at his best!"
Okay this is just ridiculous. When I double checked the play the Suns only got two points. But he's also saying that Shawn Marion is the best when he's at the three point line? This is the same Shawn Marion that had 6 offenisve rebounds last night right? The same Matrix that shot 31% from behind the arc in the regular season, and 21% in the playoffs? Okay just checking.
"You are in good voice tonight"~ Paula Abdul
I really like to specialize in sports, but this was just too blatantly ridiculous. But if I was on Pain Killers and taking shots from the giant plastic Coke glass on the table in front of me I couldn't function either.
....So there you have it. I'll let you make the call on who wins the battle. More Basketball tonight, and I can only hope that John Thompson is doing one of the games.
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I think the Shawn Marion comment was regarding his hustle.


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