The Blue Note Jazz Hour is a weekly program featuring jazz in all its forms including vocal and instrumental. Join your host DJ MR. D for a great weekly program of jazz!
Music By The Jazz Greats!
This weeks episode features Frank Sinatra crossover track That's Life, Mel Torme's Jazz / Pop hit Comin' Home Baby, George Michael with an original Jazz ballad, and the classic sounds of Billie Holiday and Chet Baker.
For this weeks episode we've got the blues starting with Stan Getz' Blues For Mary Jane, followed by Sarah Vaughan's Sassy's Blues, Charlie Parker Quartet's Cool Blues, Joey Alexander's self-written Ma Blues, and John Coltrane with Trane's Slo Blues. ENJOY!
For this weeks episode we've Aretha Franklin singing a Jazz standard she recorded in 1962, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong doing a version of Dream A Little Dream Of Me, Teddy Wilson Quartet's instrumental version of Georgia On My Mind, harry Connick Jr's upbeat We Are In Love, and more. ENJOY!
This weeks episode features some Latin Jazz from Tito Puente, Poncho Sanchez, and Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, as well as New York City Jazz singer Robert Locke, and child prodigy Joey Alexander, plus early recordings by Quincy Jones and Sarah Vaughan, and a novelty written and sung by the inimitable Noel Coward! ENJOY!
Episode 15 features local talents Dan Waddell on piano and Jennine Jackson on vocals, Louisiana natives Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr, and some of the best female Jazz vocalists of the 20th century including Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall, and Bette Midler. ENJOY!
features music with titles that begin with the letter "A" by Jazz greats including Wynton Marsalis, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, and more. ENJOY!
Episode 02 features music with titles that begin with the letter "B" by Jazz greats including Tito Puente, Dave Brubeck,Diana Krall, Charles Mingus, and more. ENJOY!
features music with titles that begin with the letter "C" by Jazz greats including Quincy Jones, Billie Holiday, Natalie Cole, Miles Davis, and more. ENJOY!
Episode 04 features music with titles that begin with the letter "D" by Jazz greats including Nancy Wilson, The Manhattan Transfer, Dave Brubeck,Ella Fitzgerald, and more. ENJOY!
Episode 05 features music with titles that begin with the letter "E" by Jazz greats including Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Ramsey Lewis, Dave Brubeck, and more. ENJOY!
Episode 06 features music with titles that begin with the letter "F" by Jazz greats including Pat Metheny, The Miles Davis Quartet, Count Basie & Frank Sinatra, and more. ENJOY!
Episode 07 features music with titles that begin with the letter "G" by Jazz greats including Quincy Jones, Ramsey Lewis, and vocals by Amy Winehouse, Barbra Streisand, Nancy Wilson and more. ENJOY!
Episode 08 features music with titles that begin with the letter "H" by Jazz greats including Ray Charles, Pat Metheny Group, Ella Fitzgerald, and more. ENJOY!
features music with titles that begin with the letter "I" by Jazz greats including Chet Baker, Oscar Peterson, Joey Alexander, and more. ENJOY!
Episode 10 features music with titles that begin with the letter "J" by Jazz greats including Nina Simone, Thelonius Monk, Louis Prima, and more. ENJOY!
features music with titles that begin with the letter "K" by Jazz greats including Max Roach, Louis Jordan, Cannonball Adderly, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features music with titles that begin with the letter "L" by Jazz greats including Cecile McLorin Salvant, Diane Schuur, Avishai Cohen, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features Christmas and holiday music by the Jazz greats of yesterday and today. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Fall '18 | Episode 14: Music with titles that begin with the letter "M"
features music with titles that begin with the letter "M" by Jazz greats including Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
Spring '19 | Episode 01: Music with titles that begin with the letter "N"
features music with titles that begin with the letter "N" by Jazz greats including Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Stan Getz, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
Spring '19 | Episode 02: Music with titles that begin with the letter "O"
features music with titles that begin with the letter "O" by Jazz greats including Ray Charles, Carmen McRae, Max Roach, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
Spring '19 | Episode 03: Music with titles that begin with the letter "P"
features music with titles that begin with the letter "P" by Jazz greats including Ramsey Lewis Trio, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Nancy Wilson, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features music with titles that are questions by Jazz greats including Pat Metheny Group, Miles Davis,Tito Puente, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features music titles that begin with the letter R by Jazz greats including Peggy Lee, Shirley Horn,Thelonius Monk, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features music titles that begin with the letter S by Jazz greats including Ella Fitzgerald, Mile Davis,Oscar Peterson, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features music titles that begin with the letter T by Jazz greats including Arturo Sandoval, Lee Ritenour,Natalie Cole, and more. DIG THAT CRAZY BEAT!
features music titles that begin with the letter U by Jazz greats including John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Joshua Redman, and more. It's all about Jazz!!
features music titles that begin with the letter V by Jazz greats including Andre Previn, Sarah Vaughan, Wynton Marsalis, and more. It's all about Jazz!!


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Yesterday I posted that I had improved my lung function 20% over the past year. I got many requests to share what I did to make this happen. I am going to explain this journey in this blog, with hopes that it will help someone else dealing with this disease.
First of all I have been an athlete for the past 7 years, participating in a sport called Roller Derby which is a full contact sport. Think football on roller skates without a ball and we play offense and defense at the same time. Check out u-tube to see what it looks like.
That being said I was diagnosed with Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis in November of 2016 when I had been sick on antibiotics and suddenly could not breath well or catch my breath. I was referred to a pulmonary doctor and he started me on inhalers, stronger antibiotics and oral steroids after giving me a steroid shot. I got better and started doing my normal things again but by Christmas I was not doing so well. Not understanding how critical it was to get treatment immediately, I put it off thinking I could get well just like I used to. This was a mistake that landed me in the hospital on oxygen, intravenous antibiotics and steroids for 5 days on New Years Eve. When I did get to go home, it was with oxygen and more oral antibiotics and steroids and a nebulizer. I went back to work with oxygen and was eventually able to come off the oxygen after a few weeks.
I was taking my medicine and doing what I thought I was suppose to do but I kept getting sick. Sometime in late March or April I found Noah's group on Facebook. This changed my life. I figured out I was not taking my inhalers in the proper order and at the proper times. No one told me this mattered but boy did it matter. After another bout of sickness in March (where I ended up back on oxygen) I was finally able to get over the lung infection.
Because of my husband, I am proactive in my health and I began researching and reading everything I could find about my diagnosis. Noah's book is number 1 on my list of what truly helped me on this journey. Every single chapter made a difference, from my attitude to my nutrition and exercise program. This helped me get well enough to go on my vacation to Florida in July with my family and spend several days on the beach and walking all over Disney World. I was not fine mind you, I had to stop and rest use my rescue inhaler and take time to recover from events, but I did it. Since then I have gotten progressively better.
As I felt better, I got back into my roller derby sport and started training twice a week with them. I had to take to slow at first because my heart rate would go up to over 150 very quickly and I still got very short of breath. I had team mates that made me step off and take care of myself and not let me overdo it. They were my angels. As an athlete, I had always tried to eat better and started strength training outside of the sport training. I had to stop that training in order to get well.
One of the hardest things to do was to give myself permission to feel bad and do what I needed to take care of myself. This consisted of eating properly, and getting enough good sleep. Sleep is under rated and is required in order for your body to heal. Humans do not seem to understand just how important this is. It is also easier to get good sleep when you exercise. Nutrition is the other very important thing. I have learned to listen to my body as it will tell me what it needs in the form of cravings. Since I don't eat a lot of sweets and avoid fried foods, I don't crave those things. Instead, I crave carrots, or green vegetables, roughage, or salt because I have very low blood pressure and I do not put it on foods or use it to cook with. I listen to this because these are the nutrients that my body is lacking. I also take a multiple vitamin for women over 50 every day. This takes discipline and it is hard and I fail at it often, but I do not beat myself up over it, I move forward.
As I felt better I trained harder, but I always take a day off if I don't feel real good and just skate without contact and do endurance training, or just walking. I take pre-workout supplements and I take post workout recovery supplements. I have had to modify my thinking and know when it is good to push myself and when it isn't. I have to decide this, no one can tell me, only I know how I feel and what I can do. I make sure I have recovery time, as it is good to push and ok to be sore but it takes me longer to recover than the 20-30 year old women I skate with. Right along with this is not caring what people think. It is just a waste of energy. I am selfish when it comes to my health. My goal is to grow old and see my grand kids grow up. Since I cannot control what others think it is none of my business.
I also use essential oils for various things and I practice meditation. It may sound silly to some but I center my chi and balance my chakra's. Yoga is good for you, I don't do enough of it. I feel that the most important thing is to find what makes you feel good about yourself, what activities you can do and enjoy and do those things. For me that is roller derby which in turn makes me want to work out to get into better shape for the sport. If you like it you will do it, otherwise it is like work and you will not stick to it. I did discover that working out is addictive. So if you can get past the first few weeks, your body will crave activity.
Another very important part of my daily life is practicing deep breathing. I practice every day, multiple times a day various versions of breathing. This is also a part of my meditation. I also know that I will not be able to participate in a contact sport for long but I have already decided to learn to be a referee on skates and that will take the place of the contact sport. I have plans and I pursue them. I am only 57 and to me that is still very young!
In December of 2016 I decided to go back to school, I am getting my MBA from WGU online. You can never learn too much. This motivation keeps me feeling like I still contribute and I can stay mentally strong to fight this disease. Life was never promised to be easy or fair, it is just life and I intend to live it to its fullest!
Now with all that positivity make no mistake that I have setbacks and trials and normal human bad times with the good times. What I try to do is have more good than bad and power through the bad because something good will be on the other side.
An example is July of last year my mom was diagnosed with lymphoma, after having survived breast cancer twice. She was in her 80's and chose hospice. I went up to see her at least once a month until she passed in November. I drove 9 hours up to see her at my brothers and the same coming back. It was hard and tiring but the most beautiful thing to get to spend a lot of her last days with her and my brother's family. Sitting with and talking with my mom about everything, she asked me if I asked "why me" and felt sorry for myself when I found out I had COPD. Only because I have had significant self growth before this was I able to not ever ask this question. Instead, my focus was ok, how can I live with this and how can I help myself. I know that smoking when I was younger contributed to this but I had kicked that habit almost 20 years before and I never felt that this was my fault. I do not let what others may think or say about this bother me, if they think that way, I either educate them and if that doesn't help then I have not time for them. I have found that my attitude towards others is all I can control and letting their ignorance upset me does me no good. If they don't get it, I move on. I know that one day I may need lots of help and that burden will fall to my family but they all know this and we are close and support each other in life. I feel like my positive attitude works miracles on me and others. Now, I have to say that I also take medication for anxiety which helps with the positive attitude and being able to maintain it. That diagnosis came years ago and I have dealt with it for a very long time. But it is what made me look at ways to help myself but I still have to take the medication.
Mom's illness slowed down some of my workouts but I still walked on the treadmill at the hotel. I was finally able to start back with a trainer in February of this year. I am doing cross training with lots of weight lifting. I found I can do so much more than I ever thought was possible. We have so much strength within ourselves and we don't even realize it most of the time. And even when we do realize this, we have to remember that it is ok to cry and feel bad or be blue. Just cannot wallow there for long periods of time or it will be harder to come out of it. This is another way to relieve stress and it is very important to control stress. I am working at company that is selling my business unit, we have known this since last December, still do not know who will buy us and if we will have jobs. We know it will be around the end of the second quarter. I could use this as an excuse to stress out and make myself sick but I choose to trust in my God and work on a path forward regardless of the outcome. My health cannot handle this type of stress so I do what I have to, to get rid of it. I talk about it with my family, friends and co-workers. We lean on each other.
Wow, this was a lot and I hope it makes some sense. I honestly believe that we can control more with our bodies than we know and maybe someday there will be proof of this. I am very fortunate in that I have not had other major health problems and this could be why I was able to improve so much. I know that multiple health issues make it much harder to help yourself. However, when I heard the phrase "use it or lose it" it has become my daily motto. I was a couch potato for a couple of years before I found roller derby and I was well on my way to not being able to do things that I should have been able to do, so I know you have to use your muscles, your lungs, your eyes, your brain or you will lose things over time. I hope someone finds hope and help in this and would love to hear other's success stories.
It's almost new years eve, it's been a year of loss, challenges, health issues and some really blessed time. I start a journey back to school for my MBA. I have stepped back from leadership in roller derby and I have been able to meet my birth father and a sister I never knew I had. I got to spend some quality time with my mom before she passed and with my brother and his family. I wasn't here for Harvey, which is best as my compromised immune system could have made me very sick. And knowing me I would have been out trying to help all my friends.
I want to start 2018 better than this year and so far so good as I'm not in the hospital! I have renewed ambitions and lots of goals. My job situation is unknown but I'm leaving that in God's hands.
I miss my mom and it makes me miss my dad more too. Since my sister and bio dad live in Oklahoma I don't get to visit them as much as I would like either. Traveling is more complicated so I stay close to home more than I might if I was younger. I miss seeing my brother and spending time with all of them.
I will spend new years with my family here and that is so awesome to have them close. I remember being excited and scared to move away from my home town but I have made Houston my home. I wish other family was closer but it just means I have places to visit and must plan trips in the near future. I will embrace life to is fullest no matter what comes my way. I am here to live, love and grow.
To all of my family, wherever you all, I love you and pray for you daily and one day I will see you in person!
To all of my friends, who are also my family, I love you all and appreciate you more than you will ever know!
Thank you all for being there with your strength and encouragement so I can move thru the hard times and celebrate the good ones! May the new year being you tidings of great joy!
Until next year, love and peace be with you!
Today is Saturday. I had a really eventful week and today is a rest day. I didn't used to have to take rest and stay at home days unless I just wanted to. I have made significant progress in controlling my COPD and exercising and staying well at least a well as I can be.
I have made it through the attendance period for playing in my game with my Clutch City Crushers next Saturday. I made attendance, I have been in full contact and on Thursday night participated in the 5 on 5 mini tournament. I was able to play in back to back jams that lasted a full 2 minutes. I also jammed when it was my turn. This is a significant accomplishment. Only a few weeks ago, my heart rate would go too high to jam. I keep a close eye on my heart rate as much as I do my breathing and my ability to catch my breath. This is a new normal for me. I have had to make some major changes in my lifestyle, my diet and overall daily management.
This post is to document my how I made progress, what I went through to get here, and my plan for the future. This will probably be long and not real pleasant but I need to put it down and people need to understand.
I spent all of 2016 sick off and on like I had not been since I was a child. I was treated for sinus infections and cough and exercise induced asthma. I had a rescue inhaler that I got when I was sick and I continued using it as it helped with endurance practices. By November I got really sick and had been on and off antibiotics for several months and the last round had no effect. The day I finished them I called for another appointment because I could not catch my breath and the cough had gotten worse instead of better.
When I got to the Dr late afternoon, I could barely breath to walk in and the rescue inhaler was doing nothing to help. The put a pulse ox on my finger and immediately got oxygen and put it on me. Obviously something was not right. The coughing fits had gotten so bad that I could not sleep longer than a few hours at a time. My pulse ox was at 88. The PA (because I never did see a Dr) gave me a breathing treatment and sample inhaler with a steroid in it and prescriptions for antibiotics and oral steroids. I was also scheduled for a lung x-ray the next day. The results came back abnormal so I was referred to a pulmonary Dr. I was able to get in to see him on November 22. He explained that my x-ray of the lungs showed over inflation which is a symptom of emphysema and I had bronchitis that triggered an exasperation of COPD symptoms. So I now know I have COPD. I was scheduled for a PFT or Pulmonary Function Test.
I had the PFT test done on December 8th. The follow up appointment with the results of this test showed that I had 50% lung function. This was a total shock, how on earth did I loose so much lung function without noticing it. Well, that is because the disease progresses so slowly we assume the changes are age related and as in my case I was being misdiagnosed. I blame that on never getting to see an actual Dr and the PA dismissing my continued symptoms or not recognizing them. I also, did not realize that I should have been insisting on more attention due to increasing health changes that seemed minor at the time.
As things started getting worse, I notice several things that I dismissed as age related changes. First I noticed that my fingernails which were always strong and thick became paper thin and just tore off if they got a little long. I was also having major issues with my feet cramping and just hurting when walking. Since I skated, I assumed it had to do with that and looked for insoles to help. I ate more bananas but that had no effect on the cramps. I got better from the flare up in November but right around Christmas time I started to feel bad and cough a lot more. Now I know that is a sign to call the Dr and get on medication immediately. Not understanding that, I thought I could overcome a cold by myself with over the counter medicine as I had always done before. I made it through Christmas.
On December 30 I was struggling at work. I got home and went to the bathroom and to change clothes. I could not get back to the family room without stopping every few steps to try and catch my breath. I could not call out to my husband because I did not have enough air to talk. I was sweating and beginning to panic. I finally made it to the family room and fell on to my spot on the couch and tried to catch my breath. I still could not speak. Bobby asked me if I needed to go to the ER, I did not understand what he was asking at first, I was just trying to breath and control the panic. He asked again and I was able to shake my head yes. This was the scariest thing that I have ever been through. To see me today you would never know I have this disease, because it is invisible but I feel it all the time.
That visit turned into a 5 day stay and being released with oxygen. I was on oxygen 24/7 for 13 days. I was able to start weening off of it and was able to go without finally. During that time I was on IV antibiotics, shots of steroids liquid magnesium and Xanax. I went home with to my inhalers, a nebulizer machine, oral steroids and antibiotics. The oxygen company came and set up the concentrator and showed me how to use it. I had to sleep in my couch recliner in order to not have to move the oxygen from room to room. I had a tube long enough to reach the kitchen and hall bathroom. This I know will eventually be my future.
I have had several setbacks but I am finally staying well enough to be mostly normal. I found a FB support group started by a Dr that has the best information on how to help myself and after reading everything in his book (https://pulmonarywellnessbook.com/ in case someone reading this needs this help) I am taking my medication correctly and at the right times. This has helped immensely. I started slow on the exercising and plan to add strength training at the end of the month. I have changed my diet considerably and now take my supplements regularly, only indulge occasionally in food that is bad for my COPD and drink less alcohol. I also require more sleep. On days such as last Thursday night after practice I got 5 1/2 hours of sleep. I felt that all day and a lot of why this is a rest day. I went to bed at 10 my normal time and slept until almost 9 am. This is also my new normal. I had gotten used to being up by no later than 7 and I used to be able to work from 6:30 to 3:30. I can no longer do that. Practice nights are too late and I cannot get enough rest. My chances of getting sick go up when I don't get enough rest. That is somewhat depressing but it is what it is.
I have however, come a long way from last November and most of this year. I will have to plan my travel and vacations carefully to have medication, oxygen and everything I might need in case I have a flare. The flares are not just from getting sick, any airborne irritant can cause them. That means smoke of any kind, exhaust from vehicles, perfumes, lotions, pesticides to name a few. I can tolerate essential oils and some mild cleaning products so far and I will find out how much the heat and humidity bothers me this summer.
Now I am experiencing hair thinning most likely from the inhaled steroids I have to take on a daily basis. I have found that my AdvoCare work out product O2 Gold helps me utilize oxygen at any time and this has been great asset for me. If ever I needed proof that something did what it said it would do, this has been it. I have been trying a supplement for my hair and we will see if that makes any difference. So far I cannot see that it is.


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We are at an interesting crossroads, having made the long march up from the scarcity of our hunter-gatherer days, up through the genius of agriculture and animal husbandry (and the miracle of settled human society they made possible; up through the game-changing Industrial Revolution which birthed to the middle class and brought a tenfold increase in wealth to the capitalist countries — though often at the expense of people and the planet. Now we're in the grips of another great transformative moment in human history, which I call The Interconnectedness Revolution. It's marked by our growing awareness of the interconnectedness of all life, and our growing recognition that every man is our brother and this planet is our home. It's the culmination of man's 11,000 year journey from scarcity to abundance, and a high-water mark in the evolution of the human race.
The Zen Master Bernie Glassman spoke poignantly about this idea of interconnectedness in a recent interview on Charlie Rose, where he appeared with the actor Jeff Bridges to promote their new book, The Dude and The Zen Master. There, he asked that we imagine that our left hand, right hand and right leg are part of the same body but do not know it. He then asks us to imagine that this right leg is injured and that, instead of helping, the left hand and right hand say, "I'm not gonna help, it's not my problem," and, in the end, no one helps, and finally the body dies. For most of human history, we have been like the left hand and right hand that don't know they belong to the same body as the leg. Now, we are waking up to the idea that everyone, and everything, on this planet is part of the same body, and that we'll perish or continue as one.
If I had to identify one moment when the Interconnectedness Revolution began, I would pick the hippie, commune, antiwar, civil rights, women's rights, Eastern spirituality, ecological moment of the late 1960s. In the intervening decades, the ideals of what was then just a fringe movement — with all the visionary passion and practical limitations that generally entails — have infused the popular consciousness. They're there in the locally grown, organic, slow food, non-GMO, cruelty-free strains of our modern food conversation. They're in the conversations we're having about sustainable energy, sustainable fashion and sustainable agriculture. They're in the choices we make to recycle or grow our own vegetables, and in our growing commitment to new capitalist businesses that are measuring success not only in profits, but in their ability to have a positive impact on the world's problems. They're there in our decision to re-elect a President who's committed to equality and economic opportunity for all.
Stories like Holmberg's affirm my long-standing belief that scarcity (and it's corollary, fear) are at the heart of man's great crimes against his fellow man. The habits of scarcity are still with us, even though we now live in a world where we don't have to leave anyone behind.
Our brains developed in an environment of scarcity. The primitive part of our brain still believes we live in a scarce universe. And yet, there are other parts of our brain that are able to take full account of our circumstances and act accordingly. Throughout human history, humankind was spurred onward to the great heights of human and technological achievement by the fact or perception of scarcity. Today, we are being spurred on, increasingly, by the vision we hold for our future and for the future of the planet.
Having arrived at new levels of technological advancement and human consciousness, we are now writing a new human story. With the wisdom of one who has lived many millennia — as humanity has now collectively done — we are taking stock of what we learned during our long slog up from scarcity to abundance.
From agriculture, animal husbandry and settled human society we learned that the earth will take care of us, and that, living in such close quarters as we were, we needed to find a way to get along. From the rise of the nation state, and particularly the rise of the democratic ideal, most clearly exemplified in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, we learned that we could organize our societies around the higher principles of equality and human dignity. From the Industrial Revolution, both its fruits, and its progress at any cost ethos, we learned to create abundance, and we learned what an unconsidered abundance could cost. From the hippy-ecological-spiritual awakening-kumbaya 60's, we learned to open our hearts and expand our minds. And now, in the technological age we're living through, we are learning to use our powers for good.
There is a term used in entrepreneurial circles to describe that passionate group of first customers who will get on board even when your product is in its early, flawed, buggy stage. These are the people you build your first product for with the sure knowledge that they will help you make it better (they're passionate interest in what you're doing and how it solves their problem assures this), and that they will lead the way for the larger audience you eventually want to reach. The early adopters of the Interconnectedness idea are the people who already understand, intellectually, viscerally, emotionally, spiritually, that we can and must, as environmental and political realities make abundantly clear, make a world that is sustainable for people and the planet, that's sustainable for us all. Among the early adopters are business leaders like Umair Haque, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, social entrepreneurs like Blake Mycoskie of TOMS, Lauren Bush Lauren and Ellen Gustafson's of FEED Projects, Leah Kibede of LemLem and the four gentlemen behind eyewear company Warby Parker, ecologically-conscious fashion brand like Stella McCartney, SUNO and Edun, environmentally conscious brands like Method, the many major corporations that are retooling themselves for our socially conscious times, and people like you who are living more consciously in your daily lives by buying organic, carrying a reusable shopping tote, recycling, gardening, composting, supporting businesses and charities that are making a difference in our world, and finding other ways to ensure that the world will be better because we walked this way.


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Paul Scholes – Setting an Example?
Adam Nisbet
Paul Scholes resigned from his position as manager of Oldham Athletic last week, after barely over a month in charge of the club. While it came as something of a shock to many fans, after all of the effort the Manchester United legend had to go to just to secure the job in the first place, it may set a precedent for his future in management.
It was almost too good to be true. After spending years as one of the best midfielders in the world, and with a trophy cabinet fit to burst, Paul Scholes was going to take charge of his boyhood club. While many had always expected him to make the transition into management, his leadership and knowledge of the game have rarely been questioned, few expected him to be taking charge of a League Two side.
It wasn't exactly a straightforward appointment either, due to his involvement as part-owner of Salford City FC. It had to be approved by the EFL board, who put a number of conditions in place to stop Scholes from exploiting this new position. All in all it turned out to be a little more complicated than many people expected.
However when the appointment was finally announced, and he took over as manager, there was a buzz around the club that had not been felt in a very long time – if ever. Players, fans and club staff were all excited to see what the 11 time Premier League winner would bring to the table, in the world of management.
After seven games in charge (one win, three draws and three losses), Scholes resigned from his position as manager via a WhatsApp message, going on to explain that it had "become clear I would not be able to operate as I intended and was led to believe." While it was surprising at the time, the club's recent troubles weren't exactly unknown, and as more time passes following his resignation, the more it becomes evident that Scholes made the right choice.
The big question here, is could this be setting an example as to how Scholes will approach any subsequent management opportunities that come his way? It's certainly not something we've seen very often from club managers. While it's common for the board, or the owner, to make a number of promises that they will ultimately not follow through on in their hunt for a new manager, it's extremely rare for a manager to then resign when these promises are reneged on.
Obviously in this case there were some issues that ran a lot deeper within the club (players washing their own kits, the club bus not turning up, electricity being turned off), however it could set an interesting standard going forwards. It also brings up an interesting question – should managers do more to hold owners accountable for failing to follow through on their promises?
Often the manager of a football club can bear the brunt of a fan's anger, they can be blamed for a multitude of different failures, and almost always are – even when it isn't entirely their own fault. They struggle to deliver the results that the fans are expecting, in return the fans the begin to expect investment in the squad, and when that fails to come it can once again be the manager that is axed. The Paul Scholes approach could start to shift that blame higher up, to what can often be the real cause of the problem.
Rafael Benitez has suffered through three years of Mike Ashley's false promises, and despite pushing the squad he has even further than anyone thought possibly, the club could face losing their manager at the end of the season – a driving factor behind this is Ashley's lack of investment, and failure to deliver on a number of different promises.
We could be finally seeing a shift in the mentalities of managers. No longer just the scapegoat for any and all issues at a club, but beginning to reveal where the real blame lies in a number of cases. This could be the beginning of a big shift in the way we perceive our sport. And it might just start with Paul Scholes
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras: Honduras announced a curfew and suspended some constitutional rights to allow security forces to contain protests and unrest over a disputed election in which both candidates have declared themselves winner and the ballot count is entering its sixth day.
Honduras' electoral court had finished counting nearly 95 percent of the vote boxes from last Sunday's presidential election by late Friday and said it would conduct a hand count of 1,031 other boxes that presented "inconsistencies."
As the wait for election results has dragged on rock-wielding protesters have increasingly taken to the streets against riot police armed with tear gas, batons and water cannons. National Police spokesman Jair Meza said 12 people had been wounded in clashes between police and protesters.
Meza said numerous businesses were also damaged and looted in the capital and in San Pedro Sula. Local press reported that protesters set a bank branch on fire and looted several other businesses along a street in San Pedro Sula.
Groups of demonstrators also continued blocking highways with burning tires and other debris, in some cases forcing parents to carry their children through the smoking barriers.
"The curfew is to safeguard the security of the country," President Hernandez said as he left a hotel in the capital after meeting with observers from the Organization of American States and the European Union. "This is the time for the people to feel supported by their armed forces and their police because it cannot be that somebody decides to loot or rob."
Earlier, electoral court president David Matamoros said that representatives of the political parties would be present for the vote counts and that no announcements would be made until there is a final result.
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Subaru's (almost) WRX STI wagon has a hashtag to its name
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Subaru calls it the Levorg STI Sport #
Subaru January 3, 2023 - 11:45 AM
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Subaru has revealed the first images of the Levorg STI Sport #; and yes, it has a hashtag to its name to indicate not just sharper looks, but also sharper handling characteristics. The wagon forms part of Subaru's 7-car lineup for the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon, which includes the all-new Impreza STI concept, BRZ GT300, and the 2023 WRX circuit and rally cars, among others.
The Japanese manufacturer says the STI Sport # is based around the Levorg STI R EX, which is powered by a 2.4-liter turbocharged boxer engine pushing out 271 horsepower. Like the WRX wagon we have in the country, the STI Sport # is only being offered with a continuously variable transmission.
For now, Subaru has not disclosed the mechanical bits and other upgrades for the STI Sport #, but promises the wagon to have "enhanced stable handling" and "premium drive feel". The manufacturer also did not elaborate on how much, or how many will be made, but says the STI Sport # is scheduled to go on sale in limited quantities.
The 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon will be held from January 13-15, 2023 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. For those who won't be able to come to the physical event, a special section has been set up on the official Subaru YouTube page to show information on the STI booth.
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Q: SELECT same columns of Foreign table multiple time I have tables as follows:
ORG
    id  Name     media_budget  p_contact  s_contact
------  -------  ------------  ---------  -----------
     1  FIFA          4654623          1            3
     2  FIFA_AP          1234          2            3
     3  ICC            203254          3            2

USERS
    id  fname    lname   contact  email
------  -------  ------  -------  -----------------
     1  JHONE    MICHEL   124552  email@gmail.com
     2  William  Martin   254623  gmail@email.com
     3  Ann      Lee      321546  lee@gmail.com

I want to SELECT user.fname for ORG.p_contact and ORG.s_contact for each row in ORG, following statement works fine with single record in ORG however, when query return multiple rows it throws an error
"Error Code: 1242
Subquery returns more than 1 row"

my statement is:
SELECT o.Name, o.media_budget,
(SELECT u.fname AS primaryName    FROM org o LEFT OUTER JOIN users u ON o.p_contact = u.id) AS PrimaryContact,
(SELECT usr.fname AS SecondaryName  FROM org og LEFT OUTER JOIN users usr ON og.s_contact = usr.id) AS SecondaryContact
 FROM org o;

What should be changed in sub-query to achieve desire result :
    id  Name    media_budget  PrimaryContact      SecondaryContact
------  ------  ------------  --------------      ----------------
     3  ICC           203254          Ann            William
     4  FIFA            2656          JOHN            Ann

A: as showing in question - no chances (You show result exactly for rows not presented in source tables), but:
SELECT
    o.id,
    o.Name,
    o.media_budget,
    u.fname AS PrimaryContact,
    usr.fname AS SecondaryContact
FROM org o
JOIN users u ON o.p_contact = u.id
JOIN users usr ON o.s_contact = usr.id

must work for You
When You use subquery, You must control - subquery must return 0 or 1 records, this is mandatory, for example like this:
SELECT
    o.id,
    o.Name,
    o.media_budget,
    (SELECT u.fname AS primaryName    FROM users u WHERE u.id = o.p_contact LIMIT 1) AS PrimaryContact,
    (SELECT usr.fname AS SecondaryName  FROM users usr WHERE usr.id = o.s_contact LIMIT 1) AS SecondaryContact
 FROM org o;

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De CR206 (Chemin Repris 206) is een voormalige verkeersroute in de stad en het land Luxemburg. De route had een lengte van ongeveer 650 meter. De route lag in het oude stadscentrum van Luxemburg en het wegnummer werd in 1995 opgeheven. Het wegnummer is sindsdien nog niet hergebruikt.

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Q: after karaf login showing some Unsatisfied Requirements: i was installed one feature called odl-mdsal-apidocs, at the time of installation it throws the following  exception.
opendaylight-user@root>feature:install odl-mdsal-apidocs
Unsatisfied Requirements:
Error executing command: Error restarting bundles:
    Could not resolve module: org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02 [280]
  Bundle was not resolved because of a uses contraint violation.
  org.osgi.service.resolver.ResolutionException: Uses constraint violation.
Unable to resolve resource org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02 [osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="1.7.0.SNAPSHOT"] because it is exposed to package 'javax.annotation' from resources javax.annotation-api [osgi.identity; osgi.identity="javax.annotation-api"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="1.2.0"] and org.eclipse.osgi [osgi.identity; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="3.11.3.v20170209-1843"; osgi.identity="org.eclipse.osgi"; singleton:="true"] via two dependency chains.

Chain 1:
  org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02 [osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="1.7.0.SNAPSHOT"]
import: (osgi.wiring.package=javax.annotation)
 |
export: osgi.wiring.package: javax.annotation
  javax.annotation-api [osgi.identity; osgi.identity="javax.annotation-api"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="1.2.0"]

Chain 2:
  org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02 [osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.opendaylight.netconf.restconf-nb-bierman02"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="1.7.0.SNAPSHOT"]
import: (&(osgi.wiring.package=com.google.common.base)(&(version>=23.3.0)(!(version>=24.0.0))))
 |
export: osgi.wiring.package=com.google.common.base; uses:=javax.annotation
  com.google.guava [osgi.identity; osgi.identity="com.google.guava"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="23.3.0.jre"]
import: (osgi.wiring.package=javax.annotation)
 |
export: osgi.wiring.package: javax.annotation
  org.eclipse.osgi [osgi.identity; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="3.11.3.v20170209-1843"; osgi.identity="org.eclipse.osgi"; singleton:="true"]
opendaylight-user@root>osgi.wiring.package; filter:="(osgi.wiring.package=org.opendaylight.netconf.sal.rest.api)"
osgi.wiring.package; filter:="(osgi.wiring.package=org.opendaylight.netconf.sal.restconf.api)"
Unsatisfied Requirements:
osgi.wiring.package; filter:="
(osgi.wiring.package=org.opendaylight.netconf.sal.rest.api)"
osgi.wiring.package; filter:="
(osgi.wiring.package=org.opendaylight.netconf.sal.restconf.api)"

when i'm trying to restart the karaf, it's displaying some  Unsatisfied Requirements as follows :
osgi.wiring.package; filter:="
(osgi.wiring.package=org.opendaylight.netconf.sal.rest.api)"
osgi.wiring.package; filter:="
(osgi.wiring.package=org.opendaylight.netconf.sal.restconf.api)"

how can i resolve this issue,please help me out?

A: you are likely hitting this bug which will be fixed in the upcoming
Oxygen release.


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Summer Film School Will Culminate With Czech Premiere of The Auschwitz Report
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47th Summer Film School will culminate with the Czech premiere of Peter Bebjak's film The Auschwitz Report, this year's Slovak Oscar candidate. The drama, based on true stories, is set in 1944 when two prisoners escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp to tell the world about the atrocities of the Nazi regime. The closing screening of the festival will be attended by the film's director and its producers Rastislav Šesták and Ondřej Zima.
Another Czech premiere at the SFS will be Olmo Omerzu's short The Last Day of Patriarchy, an all-star cast bitter anecdote about one bizarre family get-together. The film will be introduced by its director Olmo Omerzu and the film producer Jiří Konečný.
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An acquisition programme was incorporated into the Summer Film School festival a couple of years ago. Every year, the festival audience can select one film that would be released into cinemas. "I'm really glad that we can again offer three different movies, three suitable candidates. The project takes place for the fifth time but the reservation of the three final films has never been that difficult. I'm really curious if the audience votes for a Norwegian war drama about a kids' escape (The Crossing), a sensitive film about a long-held secret (After Love) or a Danish rural tragicomedy (Persona non grata)," says programme director Jan Jílek. The Association of Czech Film Clubs will send the winning film into distribution in January 2022.
It has been three years since the Association of Czech Film Clubs started its collaboration with the Cinema on the Border festival and launched their mutual project Made in Poland, supported by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. With this we can realize our Polish programme and bring new Polish films into the Czech film clubs. "In this mini-distribution, we will introduce the true story movie 25 Years of Innocence, the avant-garde film Marianas or the social drama As Far as Possible," says Petr Vlček, coordinator of Made in Poland. 25 Years of Innocence will be pre-premiered in our section Eastern Promises.
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The great leaps of v1.11: Massive refuelling improvements
March 7, 2016 · Posted in Command
The v1.10 update for CMANO was released on Feb 26 to widespread acclaim. The dev team is already hard at work preparing the next upcoming major release, version v1.11. After the panoply of new features in past updates, what new tricks do the CMANO devs have up their sleeves? Let's take a peek.
Massive Air-to-Air Refueling (A2AR) improvements
Air-to-air refueling (A2AR) has been given a complete overhaul. There are significant improvements to the AI's decision making processes and it is a lot smarter about when and where to refuel. Furthermore, the player is given the ability to manually select which tanker(s) to refuel from, and there are additional options in the Mission Editor to control tanker usage. Tankers will also tell the player which receivers are currently queued for refueling, and display the number of aircraft served thus far. Further super-specialized A2AR improvements are planned for integration into the Advanced Strike Planner, such as 'refuelling waypoints', but we believe the current tanker functionality will satisfy 99% of Command players' needs.
Many players have told us the thing they have missed the most is the ability to manually select which tanker their aircraft should refuel from. You now have three choices:
– Automatic, which is the same behavior as earlier, i.e. the AI picks the most suitable tanker based on remaining fuel and shortest rendezvous time.
– Manual, simply click on the tanker you want to refuel from.
– From mission, pick the most suitable tanker from the tankers assigned to the specified support or ferry mission.
(Click on image for full view)
The improved Mission Editor has several new settings for configuring tanker usage. A new window called the 'Tanker Planner' allows the player to set the conditions for when tanking should be attempted when the aircraft are in the air, and also set launch conditions for the mission itself. The parameters are as follows:
Use nearest tanker with enough fuel to serve receivers: Airborne receivers assigned to this mission will pick the most suitable tanker based on remaining offloadable fuel and shortest rendezvous time.
Use tankers assigned to specific missions: Limit the tanker pick to those assigned to given missions only. When combined with the new mission Startup and Termination functionality along with the Support Mission 'One refueling cycle' and 'Number of receivers' limitations (explained below), the player now has the ability to do pretty detailed tanker planning.
Mission planning details – Minimum number of tankers needed: Specify the minimum number of tankers needed to launch this mission. In some cases, especially for larger air strikes, you may need a minimum amount of fuel (2,000,000 lb, hah!) and this setting allows you to postpone strike missions if the tanker requirements cannot be met.
Mission planning details – Minimum number of tankers airborne: Same as above, but specifies the minimum number of tankers that have to be in the air rather than just available.
Mission planning details – Minimum number of tankers on station: This is a further refinement of the above settings and specifies the number of tankers that must be on-station. It only applies to tankers assigned to support missions. Ferry missions are ignored.
Mission planning details – Launch mission without tankers in place (Extremely risky!): The description says it all. In some cases it is desirable to launch a mission without having tankers within tactical radius of the target. Especially in high-threat environments. This setting allows the player to override all built-in safety measures and just launch the strike aircraft regardless of tanker availability at the moment. The aircraft will of course attempt to refuel when airborne, however on the ingress leg they will only attempt to hook up with tankers ahead of them, not behind. Thus it is up to the player or scenario designer to make sure tankers get into position before the receivers run out of fuel and crash. (Dev note: on the return leg, strike aircraft will also look for tankers behind them so the requirements are not so strict there).
Mission execution details – Maximum number of receivers in queue per tanker: In order to prevent one tanker from accepting too many receivers, the player can specify the maximum number of aircraft to send to each tanker.
Mission execution details – Receivers start looking for tankers when down to X percent of mission fuel: By default, strike aircraft will start looking for tankers when down to 85 percent of mission fuel, and aircraft on patrol missions will attempt to refuel when reaching 60 percent. This works well in most cases. However, sometimes it is desirable to delay the search for tankers, and this is a super-nerdy way of doing just that. The setting works for all mission types including Ferry missions. A prettier way to do it is to use the setting below:
Airborne receivers can book tankers within…: When aircraft are down to the fuel percentage specified above, they start looking for tankers. The default is to pick a tanker within the receiver's tactical range (i.e. strike radius multiplied by two, minus fuel already burned), but the player can also decide that aircraft should only look for tankers within a certain radius.
It is our experience that most players use Support Missions for tanker stations. In order to improve tanker ops flexibility and realism, Command v1.11 adds user-configurable mission termination time (in addition to mission activation time found in earlier versions of the simulator). This allows the player to minimize the tankers' exposure to threats by de-activating the mission and force them to go home. In addition, the updated Mission Editor adds the ability to make tankers return to base when they have conducted one refueling cycle, or when a specified number of receivers have been served:
Tankers return to base after one refueling cycle, when queue is empty: Tankers will remain on-station for as long as there are receivers in the tanker's receiver queue. The tankers will accept refueling requests from additional receivers for as long as there is enough fuel, and once all aircraft in the queue have been served the tankers will return to base. This ensures the tankers will only stay on station for as long as they are needed.
Tankers can refuel maximum X receivers, rounded up to nearest flight: Tankers will serve a limited number of receivers. This is especially useful when each tanker carries limited amount of fuel, e.g. when using buddy refueling or when refueling strategic bombers. The number is rounded upwards to the nearest flight. I.e. if the maximum number is six receivers, the tanker will accept two flights of four receivers each. This option can be used in combination with the above setting to create very flexible mission termination conditions.


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New DasVergeben rumors hint at possible futures of Dragon Ball FighterZ, SoulCalibur VI, Super Smash Bros., and a possible Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite update
By Casey "Waveflame" Rinaldi on August 5, 2018 at 11:00 am
Could a New Age of Heroes be about to dawn?
Earlier this week, famed leaker DasVergeben took to both reddit and GameFAQs to speak about some updated information he's heard from his various sources concerning several different fighting games, some of which could be getting revealed during the Sunday finals of Evo 2018.
First off, he notes that both Castlevania's Simon Belmont (whom he's spoken about previously) and Animal Crossing: New Leaf's Isabelle will be two of the newcomers arriving to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and even goes as far to state that any "leaked lists" that don't feature the pair should immediately be considered fake. He also claims that there will be a Generation 7 Pokémon amongst the playable roster — but that it will not be Decidueye, Lycanroc, or Mimikyu.
Next, he claims that the rumors of a League Of Legends fighting game developed by Radiant Entertainment are true, noting that he doesn't know anything specific about gameplay or playable characters, but that he'd, "be really surprised if it doesn't get revealed at Evo for reasons I can't say."
Moving on to SoulCalibur VI, DasVergeben reiterates that Tira, Astaroth, Cervantes, and Grøh's dad — who could also be his Master — will be in the game, with the "Agent in Black's" father also serving as a boss character in Story Mode. He also expresses uncertainty about Raphael's chances of making the cut, claims that Lizardman will make an appearance in some capacity, that Cassandra is in the roster (though he's unsure if she's a base fighter or DLC), and that SoulCalibur IV's Hilde will be one of the DLC characters included in the game's Season Pass, as the additional warriors are not going to be very story-relevant characters, with the game having a 23-24 character launch cast.
On to Dragon Ball FighterZ, Vergeben claims that he heard from a separate source — different than the supposed Bandai Namco employee who claimed a Season 2 DLC roster of Gogeta, Tapion, Master Roshi, Videl, Raditz, Zarbon, and Cabba & Kale — that four of the eight Season 2 Z-Warriors will actually be Ultra Instinct Goku, Jiren the Gray, Super Saiyan 4 Goku — who would mark the first Dragon Ball GT representation — and Gogeta, who could possibly be making his canonical debut in the upcoming Dragon Ball Super: Broly film based off of merchandise.
Finally, possibly the most interesting part of this leak is Vergeben's claim that a new update for Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is seemingly in the works, and could be announced on Sunday at Evo, stating the following.
Information is scarce. Nobody knows anything other than it's apparently happening and may be offered as an upgrade like how Capcom did for Street Fighter V with Arcade Edition. I only had one source mention it might be an "Ultra" styled update instead, which means it could be offered like how Ultra Street Fighter IV was a purchased update, standalone, or retail release. No one knows what's being added, changed, or characters added other than the obvious suspicion that they in the very least finished up the characters that were being worked on for Season 2 which included Star-Lord, Ms. Marvel, Asura, Lady, Gill, and Rashid. Though I heard back in January that there was push for including Vergil, specifically in place of Rashid possibly. So there is that all to consider from back then.
Whatever is happening with it this time around seems to be more secretive than ever. As I said before, I don't know if this will be revealed at Evo or not. Only that it seems to be happening since so many people have heard and are hearing about it. I've sat on this information since after SDCC. What's funny is how I and others took the game's future as being dead by nothing being said there. Then within a few days after, all this talk of an update actually happening came pouring out my way."
We'll see what happens. Especially at Evo if it's done there. But it's become impossible for me to ignore.
He ends everything by saying we should be hyped for today's announcements, as there are even more planned than last year.
What are your thoughts on this? Would you like to see a new version of MvC:I or some of these rumored roster additions come to pass? Let us know in the comments, and keep in mind these are all unconfirmed rumors, so take them with a truckload of salt!
Sources: reddit; GameFAQs


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I received a lovely care package today from my brother filled with egg kichel -- but they're just nothing like the ones we used to get when we were kids: big, covered with a crackled sugar glaze, and perfect for coffee dunking. These are sugar- and salt-free and look more like soup crackers. Surely they can't be hard to make? I was hunting recipes online (can find none in any of my books, even Joan Nathan!) and have found both rolled and dropped versions. Suggestions?
Oops...forgot to specify: Moishe's is in NYC.
Creamtea, my 21-year-old son is similarly wise about Mexican Coca-Cola, which has cane sugar and can be found year-round in Latin markets. My quest for 'real' kichel continues this year, though I'm fairly convinced they will remain a sort of Proustian dream. Thanks for your kind words about my blog.
Love Kichel! Any time of year.
Just sayin', after reading and getting a kick out of your blog entry--Passover coke is a big cult item--I was told that even those who are not-of-the-tribe buy it by the case, because it is the only time of year it is produced with cane sugar rather than evil corn syrup. I was informed of this by the resident teenager, who knows everything, apparently.
Thank you both. Who knew??? I learn something wonderful every day from all you wonderful folks.
Thank you so much for the quick reply! I'm excited about trying this. Please let me know about your success and if you try any good twists. My brother's care package included chocolate and cinnamon-sugar variations.
Change your search to Kichlach (like rugelach). I did a quick scan and there seems to be a lot of consistency on the recipe. The following is one link as an example. This may not be the formula you are looking for, but you'll undoubtedly find it using this as your search word.
Funnily enough, around Christmas, I decided to make some homemade rugelach, having bought them in the store for years and always thinking they could be so much better than the dried out things they sell. Holy guacamole! I've been churning out rugelachs by the hundreds since. I've made them with fig filling, strawberry rhubarb filling, apricot of course. Various nuts, raisins and currants, cranberries. Oh my... what an amazing treat.
Now that you bring up the Kichlach, I'm going to take this on too!


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Jason Das, an Urban Sketcher from Brooklyn NY was flown to the Convention by Stillman & Birn so he could work the floor looking for sponsors for the Urban Sketching Symposium in July. Jason stopped by the booth and I got a chance to flip through his most recent sketchbook. I get a visceral thrill from seeing artists sketchbooks. There is no pretense of existential artistic concepts, just raw sincere observation. Another artist named Donald Owen Colley was working at the Faber Castell booth. He uses Faber Castell Pitt brush pens to do his drawings in old ledgers. The book he was drawing in was from the 1860s. The pens are good for putting down warm and cool gray tones. I picked up a few Pitt pens and immediately started playing with them. The bold blacks in this sketch were put down with a black Pitt pen. Owen was hit by a car as he was walking in the International Drive area. Florida almost killed him. There were artists painting and sketching in many of the booths. I felt like a kid in a toy store.


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Man arrested for taking 'upskirt' pics one day after prison release
Alexis Stevens, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One day after he was released from prison for touching women and taking "upskirt" photos, a 44-year-old northwest Georgia man was arrested for allegedly taking more pictures, police said Friday.
Heath Shields Franklin, 44, was arrested Thursday after allegedly following women in a Wal-Mart and taking pictures under their clothes, Dalton police spokesman Bruce Frazier said.
It wasn't hard for investigators to track down Franklin: He was wearing an ankle monitor since being released Wednesday from Central State Prison. When Franklin failed to check in with his probation officers Thursday morning, investigators tracked him to the Wal-Mart on Shugart Road, Frazier said.
Franklin told his probation officer he had bought a new phone, according to police.
"He agreed to let them check his phone and they found a number of photos of women's buttocks and also pictures of at least four women taken from angles that allowed the camera to view underneath the legs of their shorts or skirts," Frazier said in emailed statement.
Franklin was charged with one count of unlawful surveillance. Investigators were reviewing surveillance video from the store to determine how many women may have been photographed by Franklin, Frazier said. Anyone who believes they may have been photographed or had contact with Franklin should contact Dalton police.
Franklin was released from prison Wednesday after serving over two years following a conviction for sexual battery, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was convicted after taking pictures of women while he worked at a Dalton convenience store, Frazier said.
From 1989 through 2010, Franklin served three sentences in state prison, including from March 1992 until August 2010 for child molestation, records showed. He is also a registered sex offender, according to the GBI registry.


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Li-Po and T'ao Ch'ien: Chinese Wine Poetry
By Ridge Vineyards on June 11, 2009 • ( 1 )
There are few poets or poetic traditions that can evoke the magic of wine in more poignant and elegant fashion the the great poets of the early Chinese tradition. Some 1200 years ago, some of the most beautiful poems I have ever had the joy, honor, and pleasure of reading were written, and Li-Po is perhaps the greatest Chinese poet of them all. I love his writing for so many things, certainly one of which is his love of wine, and his uncanny ability to weave it into the stunning context of his otherworldly wisdom and insight. Never has wine seemed so mystical, so perfect, so holy, so infused with pathos, so real, than in the following:
"Drinking Alone Beneath The Moon"
Among the blossoms, a single jar of wine.
No one else here, I ladle it out myself.
Raising my cup, I toast the bright moon,
and facing my shadow makes friends three,
though moon has never understood wine,
and shadow only trails along behind me.
Kindred a moment with moon and shadow,
I've found a joy that must infuse spring:
I sing, and moon rocks back and forth;
I dance, and shadow tumbles into pieces.
Sober, we're together and happy. Drunk,
we scatter away into our own directions:
intimates forever, we'll wander carefree
and meet again in Milky Way distances.
This particular translation is by a gentleman named David Hinton, who is, for my money, absolutely and unqualifiedly the most brilliant translator of ancient Chinese poetry into English working today, or ever. The art and craft of translation is a vexing one, and there are traditionally thought to be two schools existing on two ends of a spectrum: on one end is the idea that one translates for accuracy, to the letter, regardless of how the poem may read in English. The goal is to get the poem right linguistically. On the other end is the idea that you translate not the letter of the poem, but the spirit. The idea is to get the poem right conceptually. Given how different are the English and the Chinese languages, this conundrum of how to translate is all the more front and center, and it's all the more difficult to reconcile the two sides.
There was a great wave of translation of both Chinese and Japanese poetry in this country starting in the late 40s through the 60s; it seemed essentially to accompany the rise of The Beat Generation, and their slow morphing into what later became The Hippies; the counter-culture through this period became fascinated with, for lack of a better term, "The East"; Zen Buddhism, Meditation, Yoga, etc., and poetry came along as an integral part of the experience. To my mind, the most notable translators of this era were Gary Snyder (whose translations of Han-Shan's "Cold Mountain Poems" pretty much remain the gold standard), Kenneth Rexroth, and Robert Bly, among others. In varying ways, all three of these translators were essentially "spirit" translators. Alternatively, academia was the realm of the "literalists," Burton Watson probably being the most influential.
David Hinton for me does the seemingly implausible; he perfectly constructs a balance between the two schools, managing to maintain what might be said to be the awkward structures and ungainly phrasings of the original Chinese, yet manages to extract exquisite English poems from this source material. Put another way, they may be in English, and read beautifully as such, but they still feel Chinese. Reading them, they unfold unlike any other translations I've ever read; I think he's done an extraordinary job, and accordingly, given us all an extraordinary gift from an extraordinary time.
I'll leave you with one other example, a beautiful poem by T'ao Ch'ien called "Drinking Wine," as translated by David Hinton:
"Drinking Wine"
I live here in a village house without
all that racket horses and carts stir up,
and you wonder how that could ever be.
Wherever the mind dwells apart is itself
a distant place. Picking chrysanthemums
at my east fence, I see South Mountain
far off: air lovely at dusk, birds in flight
returning home. All this means something,
something absolute: whenever I start
to explain it, I forget words altogether.
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