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Classical CD Reissues, Part 2
for October 2002
BRAHMS: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Elizabeth, Scwarzkopf, soprano
Hans Hotter, baritone
Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts Lucerne Chorus and Orchestra
Melodram GM 4.0056 78:45 (Distrib. Albany):
This performance of A German Requiem, taped 20 August 1947, is that same inscription preserved on lacquers made from a BBC rebroadcast of January 12, 1948 and recently issued by Music & Arts (CD 1085). Furtwaengler began conducting the Brahms Requiem in 1925; his last performance was in Vienna on January 25, 1951. The performance is singularly broad and architectural, a close ally of the commercial reading by Fritz Lehmann, but quite different in rhetoric and inflection. Despite another Furtwaengler interpretation with the Stockholm Philharmonic from 1948 and a surviving tape of the 1951 farewell, Furtwaengler made no commercial recording of this divine piece. Instead, EMI producer Walter Legge saw fit to employ the same soloists with Herbert von Karajan for the 1947 inscription, convinced that a Furtwaengler version would be one house-emptier too many.
Collectors who gravitate to this set rather than the Music & Arts must still tolerate a host of technical impurities: wow, distortion, and surface noise galore. The final bars of music are missing because Furtwaengler delayed the decay of the sound considerable leeway. But the musical compensations are many: an exalted, arched approach to the Denn alles Fleisch, not quite like any other conductor, although Klemperer has the girth, if not the personal agony. Schwarzkopf and Hotter are in excellent voice, the latters providing more than music, but a real characterization of religious angst. Furtwaengler puts considerable emphasis on the 53-bar pedal D in the tympani; at rehearsals of All Flesh is Like Grass he insisted the player exceed his own sense of fortissimo. The mighty sixth movement rings its affirmations against Deaths sting even in the midst of muddy sound, in what might well be the most spiritual of interpretations. There are no liner notes and no timings for individual movements. So, if your budget permits (and sonic considerations bow to musical values), go with Music & Arts (which includes the 1948 Stockholm reading). The Melodram is a powerful second choice.
--Gary Lemco
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major, K. 482/Concerto No. 10 in E-flat for 2 Pianos, K. 365/Serenade No. 10 for 13 Wind Instruments, K. 361/Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
Paul Badura-Skoda, piano (K. 482; K. 365)/Dagmar Bella, piano (K. 365)/Wilhelm Furtwaengler conducts Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Music & Arts CD-1079 62:53; 73:26 (Distrib. Albany):
Much of the credit for this restoration goes to engineer Maggi Payne, splicing together tape-fragments of air-checks and Japanese LPs in order to create as authentic a version, in more than passable sound, of the 8 February 1949 E-flat Concerto for 2 Pianos and the 27 January 1952 performance of the big Concerto No.22 in E-flat with the young Paul Badura-Skoda. Given the number of Furtwaengler apocyphal recordings in circulation, it is refreshing to have scholarship and musicianship collaborate on a meaningful reissue, since this E-flat, K. 365 is the only such performance by Furtwaengler of this piece listed in his discography. The Wind Serenade (Grand Partita) and the G Minor Symphony are from EMI sources, 1947-49, are have had prior incarnations.
What immediately strikes any Furtwaengler enthusiast as authentic is the lyric breadth of the conductors tempos, the emphasis on lower-string ensemble and harmony, the obvious, vertical approach to harmonic-rhythm. Concerto No, 22 receives some delicious chamber music ensemble, with some glittering and bold passagework from Badura-Skoda, much in his teacher Edwins Fischers lofty manner. Furtwaengler and Fischer had played the E-flat together in 1920, so there is something valedictory in the tragic grandeur of this sturdy performance. Fischers salutary influence is again felt in the last movement cadenza. As in the 2-Piano Concerto, the Andante is paced as an Adagio, slow but expansive by contemporary standards. The outside movements of the 2-Piano Concerto are quite brisk, eschewing Furtwaenglers sometimes polite version of Mozart, especially with the VPO. Dagmar Bella, by the way, is Furtwaenglers daughter; she retired from the concert stage to pursue a career in teaching.
Furtwaengler was devoted to the Grand Partitia, K. 361, having programmed it almost a dozen times between 1941 and 1954. One hears the conductor singing along, stamping a foot and generally adding whatever momentum he can to the fleet yet broad and persuasive feeling he has for this work, much of whose third section presages Don Giovanni. The Mozart 40 is from the studio, December 1948-February 1949, and maintains a cool restrained distance even in the midst of its sorrows. Restricted portamenti and close-knit rhythmic thrusts mark this performance, which was I believe coupled with Eine kleine Nachtmusik on the LP. Pity this wasnt included in what is otherwise a truly comprehensive set.
--Gary Lemco
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major/BRAHMS: Tragic Overture in D Minor, Op. 81
Hans Knappertsbusch conducts Munich Philharmonic and Suedfunk Symphony Orchestra (Brahms)
Music & Arts CD-1105 77:44 (Distrib. Albany):
Somewhat to my chagrin, I learned Bruckners Fifth Symphony (1896) from the Hans Knappertsbusch Decca recording he made in 1956 with the Vienna Philharmonic, a version which for all its luster and beauty, had serious flaws in interpretation and sound reproduction. So, this live performance from 19 March 1959 comes as a refreshing tonic, given the conductors penchant for the Franz Schalk edition of Bruckners original score, with its abbreviations of some aspects of recapitulation but with the added drama of fluid, mercurial dynamics and rapid shifts of tempo. The Brahms (15 November 1963), by the way, is a colossal, slowly langorous rendition, with many touches that link it to the spirit of the C Minor Symphony (Brahmss own and that other fellows).
Hans Knappertsbusch (1888-1965) often receives the epithet old school when the subject is Bruckner, but Knas silken and seamless way with orchestral transition has few peers, and he can balance Bruckners fluctuating musical pulse with a sturdy sense of arching tension. Rarely have I ever heard Knappertsbusch force a tempo or strain a dynamic entry. Thus, the Adagio movement, with its sudden moments of stretto and emotional fury, retains a glossy serenity Bruckner devotees owe it to themselves to experience. While I miss the full repeat in the Scherzo, which makes the movement a bit lopsided, the urgency to move from the rusticity of the music to the massive hymn of the Finale conveys its own spirit of gravity. Wind section, brass, and tympani emanate a ferocity I do not hear in the commercial, Decca record. Bruckner is not the staid, four-square pedant from the pulpit but a fierce, even whimsical titan. If this sounds like your Bruckner, seek out this historic reissue.
--Gary Lemco
HALSEY STEVENS: Symphonic Dances; Sonata for Solo Cello; Symphony No. 1
George Barati conducts London Philharmonic (Dances)
Gabor Rejto, cello
Akeo Watanabe conducts Japan Philharmonic (Symphony)
CRI American Masters CD 892 53:21 (Distrib. Koch):
Halsey Stevens (1908-1989) remains a California composer, perhaps in spite of early studies with Ernest Bloch and his life-long admiration of Bela Bartok and Igor Stravinsky. Stevens tried to strike a balance between the New Music and its post-Webern tendency to abstract serialization, and something of the Aaron Copland/Irving Fine refinement and classicism, with no apologies for an occasional melody. Stevens music has an open, colorful appeal. From the listening offered here by CRI, Stevens writes sonata-allegro and dance forms, in a predominantly tonal, albeit chromatic modality.
The Symphonic Dances (1958) seems to owe its structure to Stravinskys Symphony in Three Movements. Commissioned by Enrique Jorda and the San Francisco Symphony, the Dances have a spontaneous, busy appeal, full of color and bits of polyphony. The Cello Sonata (1959) is played by its dedicatee, Gabor Rejto (1916-1987), who premiered it in Los Angeles. In five movements in the manner of an unaccompanied Bach suite, it has two fine slow sections, of which the first is a chaconne in F-sharp. The Sonata is a high-flying affair, and I am surprised that the likes of Janos Starker have not inscribed this modern classic. The First Symphony (1938-40) had its premier in 1946 in San Frqncisco. Watanabe and the Japan Philharmonic perform the revision of 1950. In one movement, the works big moment is an extended lament of a slow section that breaks out into a primitive dance. The Symphony reminds me of movie music by way of Martinu; but there are those Western moments, whose syntax has more of Siegmeister and recollections of Grofe. All very sturdy, individualistic, what we call an American composer.
--Gary Lemco
FAURE: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15/SCHUMANN: Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Artur Rubinstein, piano/Paganini Quartet
RCA The Rubinstein Collection Vol. 23 09026-63023-2 58:03:
This disc provides inscriptions that pianist Artur Rubinstein (1887-1982) made in 1949 in repertory he re-negotiated with the Guarneri Quartet some 21 years later. What makes this collation especially desirable is the mutual affection of the players for the Faure and the Schumann and the presence of violinist Henri Temianka, whom I met in London in 1984 after a Yehudi Menuhin concert at the Barbican Music Centre. Temianka commented on Rubinsteins natural affinity for chamber music: He played more of it than he recorded; he was always reading through a composers works with friends. But the record companies wanted to promote him as a stellar soloist. He and I read through the Brahms sonatas together, and he was always so sure of his rhythms. By the way, I recorded the Beethoven sonatas with Leonard Shure for the Library of Congress.
These performances at first appear streamlined and rather coolly dispassionate, but I do not think they are. The lines of the Faure are taut and strict, eschewing the notion of Rubinstein as a romantic in the slovenly sense. Rubinstein always has a great sympathy for French rhythm and he avoids a heavy tread. Robert Courtes viola has some prominence in this inscription and his interior lines have facility as well as warmth. I was surprised how much ambiance the re-mastering of this performance has. The Schumann is all business - brisk, often brilliant playing. This is extroverted Schumann, Florestan rather than Eusebius, and an unabashedly bravura display. It makes a distinct contrast to the classic Schnabel/Pro Arte recording and collectors should possess both.
--Gary Lemco
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21; Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36/MOZART: Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 Haffner
Paul Paray conducts Detroit Symphony
Rediscovery RD 051 73:59:
The latest in the Rediscovery reissues of the late Paul Paray and his Detroit Symphony has him serving up excellent renditions of early Beethoven in excellent sound. Taken from Mercury mono masters, with its single-mike concept, the performances have a streamlined airiness and brisk conviction that acts as a real tonic to the lugubrious, over-ripe conceptions of Celibidache. I found the C Major Beethoven superior in concept to the D Major: I like Parays ability to suggest Beethovens affinity with Rossini, the pert, light handling of string staccati and spiccati and the vivacious wit that permeates the whole. The Larghetto of the D Major is refined and songful. For me some of Parays tempi are just too fast. The Haffner makes a nice addition to Parays Classical library, especially in tandem with his notable Miracle Symphony of Haydn. The music is played for its optimistic, virile character; less as an harmonic study from the empfindsamkeit period in Vienna. What I miss in Parays Detroit experience are collaborations with some of his noted guest soloists, a gap I hope Rediscovery might fill. No dates are provided for the originals; but there is a brief conversation on the disc between Salvatore Rabbio and violist Morris Hochberg.
--Gary Lemco
Ignaz Friedman, piano - CHOPIN: Mazurka in C, Op. 63, No. 3; Waltz in C# Minor, Op. 64, No. 2; Mazurka in D, Op. 33, No. 2; Preludes in E-flat and D-flat; 3 Etudes; Ballade No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 47; Waltz in A Minor; Mazurka in B Minor/HUMMEL: Rondo in E-flat/BEETHOVEN: Moonlight Sonata/SCHUBERT-LISZT: Hark, Hark, the Lark/GAERTNER: Vienna Dance/MOZART: Rondo alla Turca/SCARLATTI: Pastorale/MOSZKOWSKI: Serenata/MENDELSSOHN: Scherzo in E Minor/LISZT-BUSONI: La Campanella/FREIDMAN: Elle danse
Naxos Historical 8.110684 74:57:
Among the most notable of the pupils of Theodor Leschetizky is Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948), one of the more extroverted and volcanic talents Poland produced, who managed to record just prior to and at the onset of electrical recording (in this set 1923-1926). The real legacy of Ignaz Friedman is largely lost to posterity, for it seems that after his invitation in 1940 to tour and to record in Australia, the acetates of his huge repertory were consigned to some landfill! What does remain, however, bears testimony to an active, penetrating mind supported by a fluent, often explosive and mercurial technique, where a powerful inner rhythm and sense for rubato is matched by a temperament formed in the grand style.
Of the twenty-four cuts on this restoration, half are of music by compatriot Chopin (with two pieces in alternative performances), for whom Friedman has more than sympathy, even a propulsion and drama (in the Revolutionary Etude) still thrilling to us all. Although Friedmans most famous Chopin recording is of the E-flat Nocturne, Op. 55, No. 2 (not included), his mazurkas are peerless for idiomatic and visceral readings. The A-flat Ballade has sweep and consummate power. By placing wooden strips over the strings, Friedman manages, in Mozart and Scarlatti, to approximate the dynamic of the harpsichord, albeit with mixed results. [Echh...Those tracks should be in landfill!..Ed.] Viennese music, like Gaertner, Moszkowski and his own Elle danse, are as natural as anything in Fritz Kreisler. Mendelssohn, Hummel and Liszt-Busoni show off the lightning in Friedmans fingers, speed and articulation to spare. The 1926 Moonlight is in a style similar to that of Moiseiwitsch, with accents in the left hand being strongly urged in the opening, and some marvelous pedal. Both Danacord and APR have exploited the Friedman legacy, but these reisssues by Ward Marston are no less welcome¸ the first in a projected, extensive series devoted to this master pianist.
--Gary Lemco
Ida Haendel in Popular Encores - PAGANINI: La Clochette, Op. 7/SCHUBERT: Ave Maria/SARASATE: Habanera; Zapateado/RAVEL: Piece en forme de Habanera/DVOARAK: Songs My Mother Taught Me/COPLAND: Hoedown/TARTINI: Andante and Presto/MENDELSSOHN: On Wings of Song/WEBER: Air Russe and Rondo/HALFFTER: Gypsy Dance/BARTOK: Rumanian Folk Dances
Ida Haendel, violin/Geoffrey Parson, piano
Testament SBT 1259 55:50 (Distrib. Harmonia Mundi):
This 1978 recital by Ida Haendel (b. 1927) captures her fiery temperament in glowing sound, working with her friend and accompanist, the reliable Geoffrey Parsons (1929-1995). Haendels rich and rasping violin tone is one of the most recognizable, with its broad, often sensuous vibrato and her clear delineation of the melodic line. No small strokes for Haendel. Everything is large, even over-ripe. Her Hoe-down from Coplands Rodeo is smirky and savage, verging on the bawdy. Then witness her attack in the Tartini, which pulsates with visceral energy. The same electric pulse emanates from the first notes of Paganinis La Campanella which opens the program. The same nervous energy permeates the Weber selections from his D Minor Sonata and the concluding Bartok dances. For loftiness of sentiment, we have the introspective sensuality of the Ravel and the unending melos of Dvorak and Mendelssohn, the latter of which may surpass the inscription Oistrakh made for CBS (ML 5096) with Lev Oberin.While Haendels Sarasate is not so spicy and peasant-like as Riccis, it still throbs with earthy voluptuousness, a folksy vitality especially flavorful in Halffters Gypsy Dance. No fewer kudos to pianist Parsons, who sticks with Haendel like a glove and shines in his own right.
--Gary Lemco
SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 in C Major, Op. 61/HUMPERDICK: Prelude to Hansel and Gretel/HAYDN: Symphony No. 53 in D Imperial/MOZART: Sleigh Ride/J. STRAUSS: On the Beautiful Blue Danube; Tales From the Vienna Woods
Leopold Stokowski conducts Symphony Orchestra
Cala CACD0532 75:10:
The latest Cala reissue of Leopold Stokowski material, made in conjunction with the British Leopold Stokowski Society, includes one of his most-sought inscriptions, his March 1949 Haydn Symphony No. 53 (originally RCA LM 1073), the only Haydn this flamboyant conductor recorded commercially. I know of a tape of Haydns C Major Violin Concerto from the same period with young Isaac Stern but this collaboration has not resurfaced in CD format. The Imperial is deftly played, with pointed phrasing and congenial loftiness. Its second movement sounds like variants on Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? The last, martial movement has a silky power without becoming top heavy. Most of the players come directly from the New York Philharmonic, with a few ringers from the MET.
The program opens with Humperdinck, a richly lush version of the Prelude to Hansel und Gretel that became part of LM 2042, an LP entitled In a Lighter Vein. The two Strauss waltzes, again from 1949, suffer every kind of excess, from excisions and no repeats to Hollywood-style schmaltz. Yet the little Mozart Sleigh Ride, the third of the K. 605 German Dances (recorded in 1949) is startlingly effective. The ultimate show-stopper is the 1950 Schumann C Major Symphony, a Stokowski specialty (although an unreleased tape of his Schumann D Minor Symphony from the Suisse Romande is extant). This Cala restoration compares favorably with the Rediscovery version of this recording I reviewed some time ago. I heard Stokowski do this piece with the American Symphony around 1966, and as here it was immensely satisfying. The RCA long-playing record (LM 1194) was legendary in its time, and this CD shows you why. Listen to Stokowskis ritard just before the coda of the opening Allegro ma non troppo or the lovely oboe (Harold Gomberg?) in the pre-Mahlerian Adagio. The sound of this Cala CD is especially warm and Stokowski devotees cannot afford to be without it.
--Gary Lemco
Isaac Stern, In Tribute and Celebration - MOZART: Violin Sonatas, K. 301; K. 306; K. 378; K. 379/SCHUBERT: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat, D. 898/BRAHMS: String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111/BACH: Excerpts from Partita No. 1 in B Minor foir Solo Violin, BWV 1002
Isaac Stern violin; Yefim Bronfman, piano (Mozart);Cho-Liang Lin, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Jamie Laredo, viola; Yo-Yo Ma, cello (Brahms); Leonard Rose, cello; Eugene Istomin, piano (Schubert)
Sony Classical S2K 89936 77:10; 72:50:
This compilation celebrates the passing of violinist Isaac Stern, whose talent and personality extended beyond mere music-making into musical politics. I met Stern in Atlanta after a duo recital, where I tried to engage him in conversation on Dimitri Mitropoulos. Instead of a discussion, what I got was a polemic on Dimitris privacy and how Stern was resolved to protect it. Later, he wrote me a letter on how data on certain people and works of art have to be suppressed in order to keep their character sacrosanct. When I replied that Stern violated his own standard by playing Bartoks early Violin Concerto, he stopped writing me.
Interviews and after-concert talks with other musicians who knew Stern confirm his rather tenuous moral position in the world of music: his relation with Columbia Artists Management and his virtual hegemony over Carnegie Hall often proved a major hindrance to other musicians careers, like Aaron Rosand, whom Stern considered a serious rival. It is not politically correct to speak ill of the dead. So, let this Sony tribute speak for him, performances culled 1965 (Schubert) to 1993 (Mozart, Brahms), where his collegiality is more in force. The Brahms G Major Quintet will complement his famous collaboration with Casals, Katims, Thomas, Schneider, and Foley in the Brahms B-flat Sextet, Op. 18 (Sony SMK 58994) from Prades, 1952. It is a big-hearted, generously sonorous affair, rife with that late-Brahms mix of subdued passion and intimations of mortality. The B-flat Trio is a classic, with great verve and sensitive balances. In his typical modesty, Stern said the recording had no peer.
I went through a period, 1966-1980, where I stopped listening to Stern completely. The advent of his Dvorak Concerto with Ormandy proved so schmaltzy and so ill-prepared I sought my violin pleasures elsewhere. The last fifteen years showed me some improvement, where to play in concert with others Stern was forced to work on intonation and articulation. The Stern-Bronfman Mozart group has the benefit of good tone and loving phrasing, even if they are over-ripe in some respects. Bach was not a strong suit with Stern, although he wanted to inscribe the complete Unaccompanied Sonatas to disc, starting in 1985. If Sony wants to impress, try reissuing the Viotti A Minor with Stern and Ormandy as well as the early Bartok Concerto, a work the composer attempted to destroy but Stern championed - a clear victory of the timeless over the timely.
--Gary Lemco
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Team Foundation Server Power Tools – new release coming soon!
Brian Harry posted a new article on his blog tonight teasing us all on the upcoming October release of the Team Foundation Server Power tools. Normally I wouldn't bother too much about posting stuff that isn't available, but HOLY COW, there are a couple of features coming in these power tools that make me really excited (Yes, I'm a Geek, VSTS stuff is exciting to me!)
The specific bullet that caught me is here:
Windows Shell Extension - We've built a Windows shell extension that allows you to do the core version control operations directly inside the Windows Explorer without using the Team Explorer.
This is COOL. If you use TFS for your source control, you know that it can sometimes be a pain to interact with it outside of the IDE.
Anyway, just had to share.
Read about it all here on Brians blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power-tools-release.aspx

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(Isaac Jenkins Mikell House) The Mikell family arrived on Edisto Island before the close of the seventeenth century and were well-established planters before I. Jenkins Mikell built Peter's Point plantation house in 1840. Situated overlooking St. Helena Sound at the junction of St. Pierre's Creek and Fishing Creek, the house possesses a picturesque view and a commanding setting. The site also marks the point of Lafayette's departure from the island in 1826. The architectural design of the structure combines the style of the early Edisto Island plantation home and the Greek Revival style of the Charleston area in this period. The two-story rectangular dwelling has a low gabled roof with a pedimented boxed cornice and two five-flue chimneys which are offset from the ridge of the roof. It is supported by a high foundation of brick and tabby. The front façade is sheltered by a double piazza. Eight Tuscan columns of slender proportions are evenly spaced on both levels and support the double piazza. A balustrade encloses the piazzas of the façade. Mikell, a Princeton graduate, became one of the wealthiest planters in South Carolina; however, he shunned political life, serving only as a magistrate and commissioner of the public schools of Edisto. One of his projects was the landscaping of the grounds surrounding the house. Listed in the National Register June 19, 1973.
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Conversation: Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser
Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser commands the U.S. Army's 101st
Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Ky. He visited recently with Editor Ken
tpe: With several units currently deployed in Iraq and
Afghanistan, you speak of "battleproofing" soldiers and their families. What
does that involve?
SCHLOESSER: The 101st has 12,000 soldiers in Iraq. They've
been there for some months, and we just got back from visiting them. We have
4,000 either in Afghanistan or soon to join the headquarters there. We'll
eventually have about another 4,000 in Afghanistan.
ÒBattleproofingÓ basically speaks of good, world-class,
tough training to prepare a soldier for the rigors of combat, as well as the
challenges of dealing with counter-insurgency. Our soldiers prepare each and
every day, whether weÕre out on our local ranges or when we go down to our
joint readiness training center and interact with role players in a weeklong
activity offering the full spectrum of combat and counter-insurgency scenarios.
We do a lot more, however, to help the soldier. We insist
that each and every one of them has an assigned battle buddy who watches over
them, both here in garrison as well as in combat. Finally, we spend a lot of
time preparing mentally and emotionally both the soldiers and their families
for the rigors of being away for 12 to 15 months. This is where our chaplains
come in.
tpe: What are some steps taken to prepare soldiers' families
for their family member's deployment?
SCHLOESSER: The Army has a great number of programs they
have institutionalized and invested heavily in over the last two years as the
stress on families has become clearer to us and probably more acute. These
programs include everything from enhanced child care to programs that help a family
cope with long-term deployments. Military One Source is a toll-free number
offering help for everything from worries about their soldier to worries about
themselves to worries about how to take care of a car. That's done at the Army
At the installation level, we have a number of institutions
like Army Community Service and our Morale, Welfare and Recreation Department.
We provide a number of local programs, both in the way of counseling as well as
in financial, emotional and mental preparation for separation. Follow-through
programs are in place once the soldiers are gone.
Finally, at the unit level, we offer Family Readiness
Groups, which is a wonderful concept where we have volunteers and paid
assistants who come together to help families cope with deployment.
tpe: How do you help reintegrate soldiers with their
families following deployment?
SCHLOESSER: We start to prepare families and soldiers months
before soldiers redeploy back home. They receive a series of briefings, but
more importantly, they get access to counseling. We discuss the issues that are
going to be on the table once the exuberance of meeting and coming together
gives way to real life.
Spouses are now used to a lot of independence. The soldier
thinks he's coming back and things haven't changed in 12 to 15 months, yet the
roles may be slightly different. The family needs to factor in what the
soldier's been through and what the spouse has been through as well as what the
children have faced. So all that's discussed with the soldier and with the
family before the soldiers come home.
There's another element to that process. Once we're back,
our Chaplains Corps and Army Community Services provide a number of workshops
and retreats. For example, the chaplains run a marriage retreat, which is
always well attended by families trying to build a stronger marriage in spite
of the previous separation.
tpe: Could you comment further on the value of chaplains in
combat situations and also at home?
SCHLOESSER: In our division of 26,000 soldiers, we have
almost 80 chaplains. The majority of those will deploy with us and are deployed
either in Iraq or in Afghanistan. Some will stay here to take care of our
families. Those deployed provide, by denomination, all the normal services you
would expect from a chaplain. But they also provide counseling in country.
Combat is tough. It drains a person and places an awful lot
of mental difficulties on a young adult. Chaplains can help them understand and
place their experiences into a broader spiritual and emotional context.
Here at home, of course, the families go through the same
types of stresses. They don't experience combat, but they face the stresses of
being here worried about their soldier, worried about their own adaptation to
being without their soldier, without their husband, without their wife.
Chaplains not only do the normal services, but also provide that type of
counseling and linkages to keep a family resilient.
tpe: Could you share what post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD) is and what is being done to help soldiers suffering with it?
SCHLOESSER: PTSD for a soldier is basically a condition
where they re-experience what they have lived through in combat. Symptoms
include nightmares and flashbacks of combat. Soldiers may become irritable or
agitated, or may display total numbness to conditions occurring around them.
Sometimes they feel disjointed not only from the unit they're in, but also from
the people who love them the most, their own families. If not treated, PTSD can
lead soldiers to inappropriate or dangerous activity and lead to the collapse
of families.
We prescreen soldiers before we deploy. Many of us have been
on more than one deployment and we try to see where soldiers are mentally and
emotionally before we go. While we're in the field our chaplains play a huge
role, but we also have behavioral consultants and mental health professionals,
and they watch over our soldiers, especially those who experience a significant
trauma while deployed.
As soldiers redeploy, we again screen them. We have a
follow-up screening about three to six months after they return. So there's a
great deal of emphasis on trying to identify PTSD. More importantly, there's a
great deal of emphasis on communicating to soldiers that screening and
treatment are never meant to ostracize them. They are part of an Army family
that's been together in a tough situation, and we're here to help treat it
rather than to point them out and say they're no longer fit for soldiering.
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Dian Fitrah Hervianti
Indonesia Tumpah Darahku!
Near the shores of a lovely land
Where waves spletter on sand
And foam spreads in white bands
The green sea sprouts islands
Covered with noble mountains,
Island set in the ocean like fountains
Tumpah darahku Indonesia namanya.
See palm trees bend and lean
Barely rusling, motion half seen,
Dotted on the beach like slivers of green,
Peaceful pickets in a honest fence
Listen to the waves, song after song
Of men and women who belonged
Indonesia namanya, tanah airku
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With the Spring Forward event yesterday, Apple took to the stage early this year, giving us a look into the new technology and updated models they would debut in coming months. There were loads of confirmations and definitely more than a few surprises, leaving many with more questions than before, including myself. But after much deliberation, it stands to reason that Apple did in fact "spring forward", showcasing how to breathe new life into some of their more established product lines and giving a glimpse of where the future of computing is headed.
It was no secret that Apple was going to showoff its new Watch, giving new information on how it's made, how it performs, and most importantly, how much it will cost. What disappointed many is that last question, with prices and bands being far higher than expected. While the price is certainly a point of contention, I believe the ends justifies the means. There is so much engineering in such a small package. Cases are precision melted, modeled and formed with bands given just as much consideration. New technologies, iPod-comparible power and all day battery life in a form factor the size of your wrist is feat onto itself. It's a massive undertaking and Apple has achieved so much that its competitors have only dreamed of. What does bother me is the undeniable benefits it can provide that are being held back behind a premium price point. The quick communications, health regimes and notifications are something everyone would benefit from, but many won't be able to make that plunge until they drop the price. I understand that it is the pitfall of the first product, which is why I am optimistic. The Apple Watch in its current state feels like a first generation iPad. It will grow as time progresses and become commonplace eventually. After all, the event was named Spring Forward for a reason.
The most surprising reveal was the addition of a new notebook to Apple's line up in the form of the MacBook. Not a new Air, nor Pro, but simply MacBook. It seems odd to introduce something even more light-weight and thinner than the current Air, and yet less powerful and more expensive. But when you peel back the layer of this product and examine the individual parts, the total package makes sense.
The new MacBook is meant for the non-power user, the person who needs to travel light, take notes quickly and work all day. Think of the needs of a college student, journalist or blogger. This fits them perfectly. The new processor is totally focused on power efficiency, sacrificing raw power for performance. The batteries are layered to allow full spacial use of the unibody enclosure. The screen is still gorgeous, displaying Retina qualities without the need for huge graphical power or fans. The keyboard and its mechanisms are redesigned to take up less room in all directions. And the new Trackpad is the logical evolution of input devices. Combine this working style with the ever-growing wireless world and new USB standards and it makes sense to lose the ports. Everything in that setting can be done wirelessly, often easier than ever before. Plus, adding new forms of tech provides a cultural awareness of that demographic; the groups that want the newest, sleekest and minimalist. This whole idea matches the concept of spring forward, by providing a device already prepared for the future.
What is really exciting is what these new advances mean for the rest of the Mac line up. Slimmer, form-fitting batteries can provide the MacBook Air with even better battery life, while allowing for Retina screens to enter the mix. Force Touch trackpads give the already superb trackpad more functionality, and the haptic feedback can provide new UI and Accessibility opportunities. Perhaps the most exciting is the dawn of the new USB-C port. This new standard gives way to a whole new plethora of opportunities, by trimming down all existing ports, easier, referable design, provide faster charging and possibly even slimming down the already wafer thin unibodies. Some speculate that Thunderbolt and MiniDisplay will eventually follow the path of FireWire, which remains to be seen. Even the iOS devices may see a benefit from USB-C with faster charging cables or ditching the Lightning port all together. Again, this is all speculation, but this spring forward gives major insight to the eventual future of Apple and its products.
Apple's other announcements are nothing to snuff at either. The cheaper Apple TV and HBO partnership is a one-two punch to the television market, and adds even more pressure for many to officially cut the cable cord. The new medical research commitment is an absolutely fantastic and crucial tool to the future of medicine. Making it open-source is welcome change from the usual closed Apple ecosystem, too. It establishes Apple as being truly aware and committed to the overall wellbeing of everyone, not just their customers.
As with the seasons, we find that spring is only the beginning of a what is to become a beautiful year. I find that Apple is taking the same inspiration and will provide us with what will be nothing short of a glorious summer.


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Friday, May 28, 2010
Let's go swimming!
After the projects were finished, I got the bright idea to get Dexter a swimming pool. Not sure how he would do with it, I just got a cheap one from a big box retailer, and I am proud to say I inflated it myself, no pump needed (Pappy always did say I was full of hot air!).
We put him in the first night, and the water was cold, and he was not sure what to think. So we were doubtful he would like it. But yesterday, every time he went out to potty, he would play, and then want in the pool. He went in 4 times yesterday! At first I thought he just wanted to drink the water, but he will just stand there, with his tail wagging. It is a nice way to cool down for him I think.
I can already tell, it is going to be an awesome summer!
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- A MilShelb Mom said...
That pool looks fun! I tried a pool with Milly and Shelby... it didn't work out at all! lol Glad he likes it though.
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Woof! Woof! Happy BLOG HOP Day. Lots of Golden Woofs, Sugar
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That bed looks sooo comfy. Sorry about your laptop cord. At least you are both ok. :)
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I managed one of the four parts of my 2013 New Year resolution. In retrospect, five gigs seems less ambitious than it did after 2012, a very fallow year in which Vaccination split up and the Sweet Smelling Swampies played only one gig and that was Miranda's fourth of July party.
The rest of my resolutions met with varying degrees of failure:
I wrote only 40% of my novel Urban Armageddon and worse, so far I've had no response from the agent I sent it to, Becky Thomas, at Fox Mason. I'm going to have a good think about it before I send it to anyone else (Hmmm, I just tried to link to fox mason's website and it seems to be down);
I began rehearsing with a new band provisionally called the Band of Malcontents, but that band, for various reasons never made it to the gigging stage. Later I got together with John Giltrow and Dave Paton, formerly of the Pennebakers to form e-Cog Zero. We don't have enough songs for an album yet. So far we have four originals and two traditional songs (ie so old they're out of copyright) plus one orignal we've written but not yet rehearsed properly. We need another four songs, which I'm writing at the moment, so I guess we're 60% of the way to having an album's worth of material;
I haven't even begun learning Polish (I got the title of this blog from a phrasebook, not from my head). On the other hand, I've been practicing my Italian and brushed up on my very rusty Romany. Still, 0%.
In other news, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer early in 2013 and have spent most of the year as a cancer patient. Within the next couple of months, I will become a cancer SURVIVOR. I am blogging the experience of radiotherapy/radiation treatment here.
What of next year.
I resolve to...
- Finish "Urban Armageddon" and find a publisher.
- Record and release the album "Powerful Animal" by e-Cog Zero
- Organize and play in the First Tottenham Festival of Musical Legerdemain (details later, ether here or in my other blog, "Storming the Charts").
- Write my second novel "The Shadow Project", and plot some ideas on alternative history for later projects.
- Consolidate my existing linguistic knowledge by producing a major "loom of language" in order to improve my confidence in the languages where I am less than fluent (but more than completely ignorant).
- Perform at least ten London gigs and five gigs outside London with E-Cog Zero.
- Perform at least six spoken word gigs including at least three in places other than Tottenham Chances.


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The weeklong outpouring of mourning, love and solidarity after the passing of NDP Leader Jack Layton has now subsided. The sense of optimism that Jack insisted upon and the hunger for change that he not only represented but fanned to flame with the funeral that he planned for himself was an awesome thing to see. As Stephen Lewis spoke and argued forcefully for "a resolve to honour Jack by bringing the politics of respect for all, respect for the Earth, and respect for principle and generosity back to life." That could be a powerful call in the coming months as we face some important battles, not least here in Toronto where Mayor Ford is looking to slash the social fabric of our city and where a fight against him is brewing for the fall against.
That's why what happens now to the NDP matters. Jack was no radical but he was progressive, and principled and he supported movements outside of Parliament - whether it was the anti-war movement, struggles for LGBT rights, or providing Parliamentary opposition to the Tories' discriminatory back-to-work legislation against the Postal Workers. There is a danger that his legacy could be lost and now is the time to raise the call to not go backwards. To that end, I'd like to suggest that there are three immediately bad ideas and one good one for the future of the NDP and of the left in this country.
The first idea is the most terrible. To put it most starkly, it is to follow Bob Rae into the Liberals. In other words to merge the NDP and the Liberals into a "Liberal Democratic Party" as Denis Coderre has suggested. Just to make it clear, Bob Rae joined the Liberals explicitly because he had moved to the right since he took the Ontario NDP down the path of its greatest historic disaster by... moving it to the right. To join with the rump of the Liberals at the moment when the NDP has experience its greatest triumph is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. That's not to say that there aren't Liberal voters who the NDP should - and did - win over at election times. It's not to say that the NDP shouldn't try to win those unions that continue to support the Liberal Party into the real party of labour - instead of just being junior partners in a coalition with big business. But to join with the Liberals would mean that the NDP would no longer be the independent party of the labour movement. It would in reality be just another liberal party. Forget negotiations or musings about mergers and focus on building the strength of the NDP - merge with the Liberals by winning over their base.
Merger with the rump Liberals? Bad idea.
The second and third bad ideas are Thomas Mulcair and Brian Topp. There is much musing - and lots of ink in the Globe & Mail for Topp - that these guys will run for the NDP. Just to be clear, these guys are on the right of the party. Topp, a former senior advisor to Roy Romanow - former Saskatchewan Premier - is a Globe & Mail columnist and is an avid supporter of the massive program of austerity in Greece
And the root causes of all of this madness (debt) needs to be addressed in the style Prime Minister Papandreou is using to address the crisis here in Greece, against overwhelming odds – calmly, thoughtfully, and with determination.I'm sure that the Greek working class and youth, who struck and marched in their hundreds of thousands have a different view of the devastation of their lives that Papandreou hath wrought. His two austerity packages have decimated the economy, driving it into recession and doubling unemployment. If that is social democracy, who needs a Tory party?
As for Thomas Mulcair, he is a former Liberal cabinet minister in the Quebec government of Jean Charest and was a Liberal MNA for thirteen years up till 2007. Afterwards, he flirted briefly with joining the Tories before deciding on the NDP. Good for him that he joined the NDP and helped it win the major breakthrough that it did this year but he has no particular ties to the left and has not indicated a major political break from his past as a Liberal. Certainly his views on Palestinian rights put him to the right of the NDP and when Libby Davies came out in support of a policy of boycott, divestment and sanctions against the State of Israel, Mulcair had a bird.
"We take decisions together, parties formulate policies together, and to say that you're personally in favor of boycott, divestment and sanctions for the only democracy in the Middle East is, as far as I'm concerned, grossly unacceptable.''
Members replied that what is actually unacceptable was for an NDP party leader to form a coalition with Bob Rae and Stephen Harper against own senior party members such as Libby Davies. They added that an Apartheid State can never be a democracy.
Mulcair responded by telling the members and constituents of his riding who were raising these concerns to "shut up".
Thomas Mulcair or Brian Topp as NDP Leader? Bad idea.
The one good idea is for the possibility of Libby Davies as Leader of the NDP. She has been on the left and supported progressive struggles for decades. She is a profoundly principled woman, widely popular and deeply committed. She is in favour of drug decriminalization and for a national plan to combat homelessness. Her political roots lie in anti-poverty organizing with the Downtown Eastside Residents' Association in Vancouver. And she's a strong supporter of LGBT rights. She represents the progressive vision of a different, better society that formed the core of Stephen Lewis' eulogy. There is no one else on the left of the party, as far as I can tell, with the profile, popularity and experience to be a serious contender for the leadership. My personal feeling is that you should drop her a line at firstname.lastname@example.com and let her know that you want her to run for NDP leader.
PS - I'm not a member of the NDP but they are the only party that I've ever voted for. Sober - the only party I've ever voted for sober.
PS - I'm not a member of the NDP but they are the only party that I've ever voted for. Sober - the only party I've ever voted for sober.
Talk of NDP-Liberal merger grows after Layton funeral - The Globe and Mail


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Are Hispanics White?
What is a Hispanic? a Latino? a Chicano? Are they considered a "race"? Even those of that ancestry are confused or not sure. Not all Hispanic descent people have darker skin than white or anglo or Caucasian. Many from South America look European and in the USA, the same is true. In some counties of California based on US Census of 2010, 61% said they were "white".
But, in the US Census, many Hispanics were quite shocked to find out that Hispanic is not a race. Those with Hispanic descent were not considered a race, like, White, Black, American Indian, Korean and 10 others. Because of how the Census form was made, Hispanics, when asked what race they were had no better choice than to pick "white", whether true or not. Of course, many Hispanics do have White ancestry and may even look "White" yet have a Spanish last name. In school, these Latinos are often teased by those with brown skin because they are not "real" Hispanics.
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Eric Dickerson was a great running back. But even if he still holds the single-season rushing record after this Sunday, when Adrian Peterson and his surgically repaired knee will be done churning out of the Minnesota backfield, chances are that Peterson will have done something Dickerson could have never touched.
Peterson is about to change the way the NFL plays offense.
It sounds funny to anoint Peterson as the next great one, even with his 1,898 yards and 6.0 yards per carry this season. Running backs, after all, are the greatest of the shining stars in the NFL — so, so bright when they first light up, then so quickly flaming out when their bodies break after a few brief seasons of magical play.
A great season by an NFL running back has usually been just that — one great season for one great player, and not much more.
But what Peterson is doing is not just piling up numbers. This is not Chris Johnson in 2009, notching 2,006 yards then getting shut down when he had lesser teammates and tougher opponents in following years. Many a running back has posted a season to remember, but what Peterson has done so far this year has implications for the future.
First, let's consider what Peterson has done to injury prognostications. ACL tears are no longer the kiss of death, but now, after what Peterson and others have done, there are questions of whether they're even a debilitating injury at all. Not only has Peterson bounced back, but he's done it in a much shorter time than the usual one-year recovery window. If Peterson fails to hit another high mark for the rest of his career, he will always have this — a monstrous season built on an epic recovery that redefined how athletes handle injuries.
But Peterson is also in position to reshape the game as a whole. Thanks to his production, the Vikings are 9-6 and spoiling for a playoff spot, and they're doing it despite having a young quarterback who regularly contends for the worst performance in the league. Peterson has carried this team, and he's done it by playing better and better against tougher opposition. Teams have known Minnesota's game plan, and they've tried to stop Peterson at all costs. Peterson has just kept attacking, putting up huge numbers even when everyone knows he's taking the ball.
Peterson isn't just blowing through defenses on semi-strengthened legs. He is tearing past players whose only goal is to stop him, ripping off runs that take advantage of speed, power and precise cuts when defenses are sending most of their players into the box to stop him. Peterson isn't gaining 200 yards a game (which he's done twice this season, boosting his 126.5-yard-a-game average) in garbage time. He's doing it when the defense is planning for him and must stop him to win the game.
In that way, Peterson is changing the idea of what an NFL offense can be. It's one thing to have a great running back who can reel off incredible plays, but it's another to be able to consistently rely on a rusher to log more than 150 yards of offense and supply 20-plus (or 50-plus) yard runs throughout a game. Peterson is a running back who is a deep threat with just his legs.
Now, a pre-eminent running back is not news. Plenty of teams have relied on great backs to carry their offenses. But where Peterson is different, and where he can singularly change the game in a way no other running back has, is the era in which he's doing it.
Just months ago, any NFL expert would have said that the age of great running backs in the NFL was over. For several years, the league has been adding more and more offense, and that has come via great quarterbacks and versatile receivers. Running backs were still a part of the game, but they were increasingly becoming a throwaway piece — a token to balance the offense, an option to catch passes, an easy way to plunge into the end zone in short-yardage situations. The running back as NFL history knew it — a player relied upon for a huge workload, who could swing the fate of the game — was long gone, as were the paychecks and cache that went with the once-great backs.
But in a league that is addicted to offense and passing yards, Peterson has dominated. He has produced offense better than many teams can via the pass. He has piled up yardage where a good receiving corps couldn't. He has shown that the running back is not only not dead, but in fact could be a superior form of offense for teams that don't have the other tools needed to gain yards.
Peterson is playing in the perfect situation in Minnesota, where Christian Ponder will never be Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady — or even a serviceable, yard-producing quarterback. But that's the case around much of the NFL, too. For every Rodgers and Brady, there's a Ponder or a Mark Sanchez. There just aren't enough good quarterbacks to go around.
In a league that lives on offense, that's a death's blow — unless, somehow, those yards can come from some other player who can pick apart defenses, find holes and crank up yardage in a way that's hard to defend. That conversation now includes running backs.
It's been just one magical season, and Peterson has a long way to go to continue to recover from injury and place his name among the greats. But playing as well as he has in an era that is set up in every way to discourage elite running backs, Peterson has already made his mark on the game.
Teams will not be shy about the rushing attack, and not just to balance their passing. If a player who's even a shade of Peterson can be found, those teams can be contenders.
Peterson has swung the balance back when it comes to offense in the NFL. That's something that could be legendary on a whole new level, well above the record books.
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Both were taking aim at Bob Sheldon's 1979 season batting record of .404. Bean entered Sunday's season-ending double-header batting .414 while Lambert went in at .411. Bean suffered one of his few poor outings of the season, going 1 for 8, while Lambert managed 3 for 8. Bean tumbled 11 points to finish at .403 while Lambert lost one percentage point but set the school record at .410.
There was good news for Bean as he batted in three runs to tie Brian Leighton's year-old record of 67. Leighton set that mark in 59 games while Bean did it in 55.
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Most people with vision issues have necks that feel tight or "out". After a massage, a visit to the chiropractor or yoga class many of us notice we're seeing better. When the neck is tight less blood and chi can flow up to the brain and eyes. If a vertebra in the neck becomes misaligned it can cause pain, which often reduces vision. When we are sitting for a long time at the computer, or speaking on a cell phone, or driving while talking to a passenger, it is easy to lose our good posture and strain our neck muscles. Bringing our awareness to the neck and developing its flexibility can help us both prevent problems and improve our vision.
There are three basic movements that the neck makes and here are three simple ways to stretch in each of the directions. You can do these stretches while sitting or standing. They do not need to be done in sequence or all at the same time. Feel the muscles stretching but do not push. If you feel pain, back off from the desired position, breathe and wait for your muscles to lengthen at their own pace.
Rotation: The Owl (adapted from Brain Gym)
Place your right hand on your left shoulder, near the neck. Push your fingers into the trapezius muscle _ it's the one that generally feels tight or sore back there _ and relax both shoulders. Now, inhale as you look straight ahead and as you exhale, turn your head like an owl to the left, aiming your chin so it might be parallel with your shoulder. As you turn, move your eyes so they are looking over that shoulder. Notice, without straining, how much you can see behind you. As you inhale, turn your head to face forward again. Wait for the inhalation to finish and then, as you exhale, turn your head to look over the other shoulder. Look behind you as before. Repeat this sequence three times then on the final exhalation bring your chin towards your chest to end. Now repeat with your left hand on your right shoulder.
Extension and Flexion: The Yes
Make sure your shoulders are down and relaxed. Inhale as you look straight ahead. As you exhale, drop your chin to your chest. As you inhale, bring your chin up towards the sky, but not so far that your shoulders come up or that your nose goes past the zenith. Make sure there is no strain anywhere. As you exhale bring your chin back to your chest. Repeat three times or as needed.
Side Bends: The Ear to Shoulder
Keep the face forwards during this whole stretch. Inhale and as you exhale let your head tilt so your ear is directly above your shoulder. Do not turn your head. Your ear won't ever touch your shoulder, so don't push and keep them both down. Just let gravity do the pulling. Rest in that position as you complete a full inhalation and exhalation, relaxing into the gentle stretch. Straighten your head with the next inhalation and then let your head tilt so your other ear goes towards your other shoulder. Wait again for a full breath and then return to the center and repeat three times or more.
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Friday, 2 July 2010
Lord Woodbine: The forgotten sixth Beatle
The Independent
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The way they're carrying on about Woodbine being forgotten is not entirely true. As I was reading through it I remembered that Woodbine was portrayed in Backbeat. The one with Ian Hart as John.
- 2 July 2010 at 09:36
- carol said...
Yes many years later,Lord Woodbine was portrayed in the film.Not too acurate though.He was a tall,thin and spoke with a Trinidadian accent which means that even then finer details missed out.He was much more than a road manager.
What has now come to light from recent research is the great contribution from Lord Woodbine and so many other black musicians from Liverpool who were not given a mention in the story of the Beatles.
50 years later we are now closer to the truth.
- 12 July 2010 at 05:36
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Julie is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist, raised as a UU in the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit. In 2015, she completed her internship at the First Unitarian Society of Madison. In 2014, Julie worked a chaplain resident at the Mayo Clinic and graduated with an Master of Divinity from the Graduate Theological Union.
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IntroductionOne of my favorite tools is TweetDeck, so in fact Twitter.
I use TweetDeck to tweet what i am doing and thinking. But most of all i use it to see what is going on within the field. This blog item describes the way i use TweetDeck.
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Of course you need a TwitterAccount to tweet.
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LG Nexus X5
A few weeks ago I dropped my Android Agora 4G+ from a height of one foot. It landed face down, cracked the screen.
For a while I was holding out on getting any replacement, but a week ago I bit the bullet and ordered a Nexus X5 ($400). Today it arrived before lunch time.
This afternoon I look at kogan.com and what do I see? A new Agora 6 offer, for a fraction of the cost I paid ($179). I know that it always has to be this way, but too soon. Too soon.
Everything else is mostly fine.
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Over at Frances Suzanne the lovely sisters are sharing all kinds of free goodness. There's a link-up for sharing free patterns, a link-up for sharing things we've made from free patterns, and guests sharing some of their favorite freebies. Today it's my turn, and I'm changing up my usual M.O. to delve into accessories!
Eliza's a fan of hair bows in theory, and she loves to point out awesome hair bows on other little girls, but we have yet to find one that she actually wants to wear herself. We've tried the big, boutique style. We've tried small barrettes. We've tried headbands and fancy ponytail holders. She keeps them in for a while, and then I find them lingering behind the couch or beside her plate at the kitchen table.
Maybe if she watched me make them, she'd be more inclined to wear them, I thought.
There are a MASSIVE number of hair bow tutorials on the Internet. Most of them are for ribbon hair bows, but since this is a sewing blog, I figured I'd concentrate on those made with felt and regular old fabric.
First I used the Oliver+S free pattern and tutorial for felt bows. It was a cinch! The hardest part (for me) was finding cute felt fabric. Hobby Lobby had some neat squares of felt at a great price, so I picked up my favorites. Each square would make four bows (at least).
Oliver+S also has a free pattern for a Bow Hair Tie if you like more subtle hair accessories. I made one, but Eliza's hair is so fine (and mine's so short) that it just didn't work for us. Maybe someday.
Sew Bon also has a great tutorial for fabric hair bows that I tried. I shrank Erin's recommended measurements roughly in half to fit a small alligator clip barrette. How cute are these?
The best part is all of these bows are super easy to make. Disney from Ruffles and Stuff and Jess from Craftiness is not Optional both have felt bow tutorials that are a tad different and don't even require sewing!
This tutorial from The Ribbon Retreat shows how to cover snap barrettes with ribbon and add a bow -- so unique and adorable! The tutorial is detailed with great photos, too.
I hope this gives you a nice place to start with FREE felt and fabric hair bow tutorials and patterns! If you've got any to add, please share them in the comments. They're satisfying to make, that's for sure. Wish me luck on getting Eliza to wear one!