There are several predictors of a new museum's personality. Architecture and marketing matter. But at an art museum, it's the art that counts and the artists who are the ultimate ambassadors.
Introducing the Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art this weekend are artists living and dead, international and local, famous and less so, working with glass and not.
The hot shop will be blazing for Dale Chihuly and his team - plus others, including teenagers from the Hilltop Artist-in-Residence Program. What they'll create is anybody's guess.
Artwork outdoors at the museum will be the subject of a story in Saturday's SoundLife.
"Die Falle" was completed in 1998 and included in a traveling museum exhibition organized by Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center.
The Museum of Glass does not have a permanent collection or an acquisitions budget, but it owns "Die Falle." It bought the installation for continual exhibition and use in education, especially as part of outreach and the science-of-art curriculum, said chief curator Watson.
The museum will decide whether to collect in the next few years. Aside from "Die Falle," its only other holding is a glass sculpture by Lino Tagliapietra that will be on exhibit later this year.
With acrylic paint, watercolor and graphite, the Los Angeles artist Gronk improvised his way across two massive walls in the Grand Hall to create a swarming underground landscape.
An avid train traveler, he knows the land. He also knows something about working underground, though now he's quite established in the American art scene.
Born Glugio Gronk Nicandro in 1958, Gronk grew up in East LA, raised in poverty by his single mother. As a teenager, he co-founded Asco ("nausea" or "disgust" in Spanish), a politically charged Chicano artists collaborative. His early performances were in film, theater and as a guerrilla street artist and muralist.
Always interested in music, Gronk has created sets for Los Angeles Opera and worked with the Kronos Quartet.
"John Cage is like a godfather to me," he said.
"The Glass Kingdom" is semi-abstract and covers two walls on two separate levels of the museum, split by a wall studded with video screens to project live hot shop activity.
Gronk began with a seed-pod shape and added layers over three weeks earlier this month, playing off what he saw - a train going by outside the museum windows or engineers X-raying the museum walls in preparation for the opening.
"It's a garden growing something," Gronk said. "It's not the outside of the land, though. It's the inside of the land."
"FROM THE GROUND UP: BUILDING THE MUSEUM OF GLASS"
The Museum of Glass is not fashioned strictly out of glass, concrete and steel, said on-site architect Wyn Bielaska, who works for the overall designer, Arthur Erickson.
"It's all about landscape," Bielaska said, pointing to photographs of the building's windows, glass features and rooftop pools reflecting surroundings including the Thea Foss Waterway Bridge, the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, Albers Mill - and the sky.
The museum also provides framed views of Mount Rainier and Union Station, incorporating its neighbors in a friendly way, he said.
The 75,000-square-foot building itself is a landscape. On the outside, it functions as a multi-tiered urban garden for sculptures.
The building - best seen from across the waterway - follows in the modernist "International Style" for which Erickson is known. Its steel cone is a reference to sawdust burners of old Tacoma.
Bielaska and Steve Paul, project superintendent for Baugh Construction, documented construction with photographs on display along the Dock Street corridor inside the museum.
Drawings, early design schemes, video and computer-generated models also are in the exhibition.
Designing the building meant solving a spatial problem, Bielaska said. The entire museum (except the cone), with its various needs, had to fit between an underground parking lot and the bridge.
"We were in a squishy situation," Bielaska said.
Elegant, simple, minimalist solutions are Erickson's preference, Bielaska said - "whatever looks restful to your eye."
One of Bielaska's favorite features is a low glass wall on a long ascending ramp, providing "cinematic (reflective) views that change as you go up, like a film strip."
The first year of exhibitions includes "Pratt @ 25"; "How To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo"; "Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson"; "Glass Eats Light: Innovations in Glass by Bertil Vallien"; "Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus"; and "My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation."
Artists visiting to blow or cast glass in the first six months are Dale Chihuly (Saturday and Sunday), Frantisek Janak of Prague (Aug. 9-11), Deborah Oropallo of Berkeley (Sept. 20-22), Gregory Barsamian of Brooklyn, N.Y. (Oct. 18-20), and Seattle's Dante Marioni (Nov. 15-17), Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick (Dec. 13-15).


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Folkestone Invicta manager Neil Cugley looks to freshen up his attack by bringing in a forward
ByMark Stokes
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Folkestone manager Neil Cugley is planning to bring in a new face this week as he looks to reinvigorate his attack.
The Invicta boss feels his front line has gone a little off the boil of late and hopes that the arrival of a fresh face will provide a lift for the Isthmian Premier leaders.
Cugley, whose side suffered their third defeat of the season at Bowers & Pitsea on Saturday, explained: "I'm hoping to bring in a forward.
Folkestone Invicta manager Neil Cugley Picture: Paul Amos
"I think we've gone a little stale up top, really since we had those couple of weeks when we didn't play.
"We were really exciting before that, but we've lost our way a little bit so we might just benefit from a bit of a tweak.
"We do play three up front and I don't expect a lot of defensive play from them.
"I like my strikers to pose problems and score goals but when they're not doing that you maybe have to look at changing something."
Cugley revealed his target is a player who helped their side win promotion last season.
He added: "I'm hoping to get him to training this week to have a chat.
"He's done well at other clubs and he's played at this level before.
"He helped one of his teams get promoted last year so he knows what it's all about."
Cugley was disappointed with the 3-1 defeat at Bowers & Pitsea where he admitted Invicta did not do enough in the second half.
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He said: "We did well in the first half against a strong wind, but you could say they did a bit of a job on us.
"The boy up front (Lewis Manor) was a real handful and they got it forward tohim at every opportunity.
"The way they play might not be everyone's cup of tea but it's horses for courses and I have no problem with it. Their keeper did make two brilliant saves (at 1-1) but once they went 2-1 up we didn't really look like breaking them down.
"I don't think any of our forwards bothered them and that was disappointing."
Invicta remain top, one point clear of Horsham, but are not back in league action until Boxing Day when they host Margate at noon.
This weekend they turn their attention to the Velocity Trophy when they face Isthmian Premier rivals Bognor Regis Town at the BuildKent Stadium in the first knockout round.
Left-back Alfie Paxman is available after missing Saturday's game, while Tim Roberts will return in goal. Defender Finn O'Mara is among the other players Cugley will look to give game time to, but the manager says it is a tie he's looking to win.
He explained: "Bognor are the only team to have beaten us at home in the league this season and they play football the right way so it should be an entertaining game."
Admission prices for the match are adults £5, concessions £3 and under-16s free.
Invicta's home league game against Hornchurch, scheduled for January 11, will now be played on Tuesday, January 28, due to the Essex side's FA Trophy involvement.
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Bialystok - German Castle
Bialystok lies 118 miles northeast of Warsaw. Its 1936 population of 99,722 included 44,482 Jews. The Jews had transformed Bialystok into a leading manufacturing centre, with the second-largest textile industry in pre-war Poland. The Germans occupied Bialystok from 15 September 1939 to the 22 September 1939, before withdrawing and leaving it to Soviet rule as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and as a result the Jewish population was increased to approximately 50,000 with an influx of refugees from the Generalgouvernement.
The Germans recaptured Bialystok on 27 June 1941, following the start of 'Barbarossa, the so-called campaign against the Soviet Union and on that day members of Police Battalion 309 removed hundreds of Jews from their homes and executed them in the public gardens. They also brutally murdered patients in the Jewish hospital and another 800 Jews were driven into the Great Synagogue, which was set on fire and those inside were burned alive. On 3 July 1941, Einsatzkommando 8, a sub-unit of Einsatzgruppe B, rounded up approximately 1,000 Jews and shot 300 of them, mostly intellectuals, near Pietrasze, a village just north of Bialystok. On 12 July 1941, the Germans arrested about 4,500 young Jewish men, and members of Police Battalion 316 executed them in a forest near Pietrasze. On Sunday, 29 June 1941, the local German military authorities ordered Gedaliah Rosenman, the chief rabbi of Bialystok to establish a 12-member Jewish Council (Judenrat) within 24 hours. Rosenman formally served as its chairman. However, the practical responsibilities of the chairmanship were assumed by Ephraim Barash, the administrative director and president of the Bialystok Jewish community. The council was expanded to 24 people in August 1941. The Judenrat was ordered to create a Jewish Order Service in August 1941, under the command of Yitzhak Markus. On 26 July 1941, the Judenrat announced that the military authorities had ordered that a ghetto be established and had given the Jews five days to move there. The ghetto was located in an area immediately north of Kosciuszko Square. The Germans ordered the Jews to construct a 2.5 metre –high wooden fence, topped with barbed wire, around the ghetto.
On 1 August 1941, the main gate on, Jurowiecka Street was closed on its 430,000 inhabitants. A Jewish police force of more than 200 men patrolled the ghetto from the inside and helped the Judenrat maintain order and carry out German orders. The Schutzpolizei guarded the ghetto gates from the outside. Waldemar Magunia the German chief of the Civilian Administration served as the ghetto administrator, overseeing the economic activities, whilst members of the Security service, exercised day to day control. From August 1941, the commander of the police and SD in 'Distrikt Bialystok' was Wilhelm Altenloh. Until October 1942, he carried out his responsibilities from Allenstein, in East Prussia. His deputy in Bialystok was Theodor Paeffgen. In April 1942, when the SD, Criminal Police and Gestapo in Bialystok were united in a single operational framework, Altenloh was appointed Kommandeur der Sicherhietspolizei und des SD (KdS). The first commander of the Bialystok Gestapo was Waldemar Macholl. Richard Dibus was its deputy commander. From October 1942, Fritz Friedel was head of the Department of Jewish Affairs. When Lothar Heimbach was named Gestapo chief in January 1943, Macholl became his deputy, and Friedel assumed direct responsibility for the ghetto. In September 1941, the German authorities demanded the Judenrat provide a list of 4,500 to 5,000 Jews to be moved to the ghetto in Pruzana. The expulsions stirred popular anger because the Judenrat had targeted for removal, widows of recent victims, and the Jewish Police used force to remove them. Even though Barash had acted harshly, in a show of strength of his authority, he and the other Judenrat members felt enormous responsibility for the residents of the Bialystok ghetto. They established a very large administrative staff to care for them.
Bialystok During the German Occupation
By June 1942, the Judenrat employed more than 4,000 people, not including circa 8,600 industrial workers employed in the ghetto factories. The Supplies Department supervised bakeries, a dairy farm, and factories which produced for the ghetto residents a range of processed foodstuffs, including jam, and transformed inedible meat provided by the authorities into sausage. It grew 190 tons of vegetables in gardens planted on vacant lots and distributed rations, including barley, flour, potatoes, sugar, oil, wood and coal. The fact that the Judenrat initially ordered the ghetto inhabitants to burn potato peels to save on refuse collection, perhaps indicate that the Bialystok ghetto was better provided than most. A Welfare Department opened an old-age home for 200 residents and organised two orphanages. The Health Department established a hospital and provided the ghetto population with free or reduced-cost medical services, included standard vaccinations for children. A Sanitation Department imposed harsh penalties to prevent the outbreak of disease. The morbidity rate in the first year of the ghetto's existence nonetheless climbed to almost double the rate before the German occupation, but the cleanliness drives, also prevented a single case of typhus in the ghetto. Barash maintained that Jewish survival depended on transforming the Bialystok ghetto population into a productive source of cheap labour to meet the vital economic needs of the German Reich. He believed his strategy would protect the Jews from German violence, forestall deportations and ensure Jewish survival. The surviving reports of the Judenrat meetings indicate that its guiding principle was – as Barash put it – 'to make the ghetto so useful to the German administration that it would be detrimental for them to destroy it.'
By June 1942, twenty factories operated in the Bialystok ghetto. A laundry, a glass-polishing workshop, sewing rooms, a tannery, and leather works also had been created. They manufactured a long list of items, including clothing and uniforms, shoes, saddles, barrels, electrical appliances, soap, chemicals, furniture, and bandages. To produce the finished products, most shops initially depended on raw materials, such as glass and ultimately potato peels, mainly collected in the ghetto. The largest orders came from the Wehrmacht. The Bialystok ghetto laundry, for example, reportedly cleaned the soiled clothes, uniforms, and bed sheets of every Wehrmacht unit on the Eastern Front. Private German companies and the German civil administration also ordered goods and services from the ghetto workshops and factories. In early October 1942, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin ordered the Security Police in Bialystok to evacuate 12,000 Jews from the ghetto. However, several local German officials, including Friedrich Brix, the deputy head of the civil administration, appealed to Berlin to spare the ghetto because of its importance to the war production. When the Germans began on 2 November 1942, to liquidate all of the provincial ghettos in 'Distrikt Bialystok', the Bialystok ghetto was untouched. However, as a result of the liquidation 'Aktion' in early November 1942, control of the ghetto passed to the Security Police and Gestapo. Barash also ceded about 25,000 square metres of land in the ghetto, including most of Zamenhof and Zydowska Streets and some of Biala, Bransk and Polna Streets. The Germans used the dwellings there to house some 5,000 Poles and Belorussians expelled from the Bialowieza Forest area, with the latter brought there to take the place of Jewish workers, should they be deported to the extermination camps. Barash curbed the excesses of the Jewish Police, on 16-17 June 1942, the Judenrat ordered 20 corrupt policemen to be sent to labour camps. When a search on 21 June 1942, of the apartment of policeman Grisha Zelikowicz, a notorious extortionist, revealed large sums of foreign currency, diamonds, furs and other valuables, the Judenrat ordered him to be turned over to the Gestapo. Barash appointed the popular Moshe Berman, a pre-war deputy chief of police in Bialystok , to fill the position of commander of the Jewish police. Berman restored the force's public image, in part by recruiting policemen with a social conscience. The changes ultimately created a force that refused to help the Germans extricate Jews from their hiding places during the mass deportations. The young people of Bialystok, from a wide range of pre-war political movements organised resistance. In December 1941, the Communists established the first Underground organisation, known as the Anti-Fascist Committee.
In early January 1942, two groups of activists from Vilna arrived in the Bialystok ghetto. The first from Hehalutz Ha- Za'ir Dror was led by Mordechai Tenenbaum, who himself continued on to Warsaw. The second from the Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir included Hajkah Grosman, a native of Bialystok, sent from the United Partisan Organisation (FPO), to establish a similar organisation to co-ordinate resistance. Her efforts failed because the Communists refused to abandon their traditional of ideological isolation. Co-operation between Dror and Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir also did not move forward smoothly, as Dror had not yet made armed struggle the focal point of its activities. In August 1942, news of the mass deportation 'Aktion' in the Warsaw ghetto and a split among the Communists enabled Edek Boraks from the Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir to unite a part of the Underground. His block, 'Front A' joined together the Communists, Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir and a faction of Bundist youth. In November 1942, Tenenbaum returned to Bialystok, determined to establish a cohesive fighting organisation. His efforts faltered because the Communists still refused to co-operate with Dror, who they believed followed a heretical ideology, and who were too close to the Judenrat. Seeing no alternative, in late January 1943, Tenenbaum consolidated a second resistance block known as 'Front B'. It consisted of Dror, Betair, Hanoar Hasioni and a Bundist group that had not joined 'Front A'. Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir members operated in both fronts, providing the link between the two blocks. As a committed Zionist, Barash was sympathetic to the youth movements, although they did not share his view of the Jews surviving the war unharmed. Barash responded to Grosman's request for assistance for Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir and they formed a genuine friendship, based on mutual trust. He met regularly with Tenenbaum to exchange information and they developed a shared sense of responsibility for the ghetto.
On 4 February 1943, Barash summoned Tenenbaum to inform him that the Gestapo had intended to deport 17,000 Jews from the ghetto, but he had managed to reduce the number to 6,300. Barash explained that the Germans had reassured him that the factory employees would be spared. Barash was convinced of the necessity of sacrificing a few, in the hope of saving the majority. Tenenbaum also knew that a shortage of arms made resistance futile. The deportation 'Aktion' which commenced on 5 February 1943, lasted an entire week. Approximately 6,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz, arriving between 6 – 8 February. A significant number of Jews were also sent to the Treblinka death camp, while a number were shot on the spot. When the Jewish Police refused to assist, the Germans savagely beat them and turned to informers to find Jews that were hiding. Among them sent to Treblinka was a large group of Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir members including Edek Boraks. Many Dror members hid in the factories and survived. Itzhak Malmed, a Jewish refugee from Slonim, sprayed sulphuric acid at Muenter, a German police officer, burning his eyes, and by mistake shot a Gestapo officer, Wilhem Fritsch, who died instantly. Malmed escaped, and the Germans shot 100 Jews. Under the threat of 5,000 Jews being executed, Malmed gave himself up. Malmed was hanged on 8 February 1943. The expulsions divided the Bialystok Underground, many of the younger members contemplated escaping to the forests to join the partisan groups. The Communists were among the first to send their members into the forests; Ha-Shomer Ha-Za'ir followed their lead immediately after the 'Aktion'. Tenenbaum refused to retreat from the idea of resistance within the ghetto, and as a result the vast majority of Dror members remained in the ghetto to fight to the bitter end. Because the Germans did not deport the workers and their families hidden in the factories, the expulsions appeared to confirm Barash's assurance that the approximately 30,000 Jews left in the ghetto would survive the war. As a result, the expulsions somewhat enhanced Barash's status, and after the 'Aktion' the Jews believed working in the factories offered protection from expulsion.
From March to August of 1943, the number of Jews requesting jobs grew. The economic condition of ghetto residents also improved, because of an increase in production orders. In a period when the ghetto's population would have been expected to sink into despair, the improved economic conditions created hope. On 23 May 1943, the holiday of Lag ba' Omer, 30 weddings took place.The resistance was reluctant to act, given Barash's now un-impeachable authority and the atmosphere in the ghetto. The Underground functioned secretly, though in late July 1943, as rumours circulated of an impending deportation 'Aktion' the Underground leaders formed a united front, Tenenbaum was appointed commander, and Daniel Moszkowicz became his lieutenant. In late July 1943, Heinrich Himmler ordered Odilo Globocnik, the SS and Police Leader for Lublin, the head of the 'Aktion Reinhardt' mass murder programme and the director of the Ostindustrie (OSTI) camps in the Generalgouvernent, to visit Bialystok and plan the liquidation of the ghetto. The Gestapo did not forewarn Barash of these plans until 15 August 1943, when they summoned him to a secret meeting to inform him summarily that the next day police from Lublin would transport the Jews, their families, and the ghetto's factory equipment to Lublin. That night German forces from Police Regiment 26, SS men and Ukrainian –SS auxiliary forces under Georg Michalsen, a member of the Aktion Reinhardt staff, who had been involved in the mass deportation of the Warsaw ghetto, formed an armed three-ring cordon around the ghetto.
Jewish men - Bialystok
Early on 16 August 1943, Barash ordered the 30,000 Jews to assemble at specific gathering points on Jurowiecka Street to await deportation. Because the final 'Aktion' had started, the Underground prepared to fight back. On Smolna Street, near the ghetto fence, a battle erupted between the Jews and the German and Ukrainian forces. The Jews ammunition ran out quickly. As the Germans fired incessantly to prevent the rebels from escaping through the ghetto fence, dozens of Jews were killed and hundreds wounded. The revolt continued elsewhere in the ghetto, especially in the factories. But thousands of Jews had reported to Jurowiecka Street rather than join the rebellion. From 17 August 1943 to 23 August 1943, fourteen transports carried over 25,000 Bialystok Jews to the death camps of Treblinka, which were in fact the last ones gassed there, Lublin, Auschwitz and the labour camps at Poniatowa, Trawniki and Blizyn. On 17 August 1943, approximately 2,000 children awaiting deportation near the train station at Pietrasze were taken from their parents. A rumour circulated that the children would be sent to Switzerland to be exchanged for German Prisoners of War. On 21 August 1943, the children about 1260 in number, and 30 adult escorts were sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto. That same day, the adults were sent on to Auschwitz. After the exchange failed to take place, the children and 50 escorts from Theresienstadt were deported on 7 October 1943, to Auschwitz –Birkenau, where they were gassed upon arrival. While the deportation 'Aktion' was unfolding in Bialystok, thousands of Jews had hidden in bunkers they had prepared beforehand. The Germans discovered many of the bunkers daily, including one on the fourth day of the liquidation, on Chmielna Street, in which 71 Dror members had hidden. All of them were shot on the spot. When Tenenbaum and Moszkowicz discovered what had happened, they committed suicide. About 1,000 Jews, mostly 'essential' workers, their families, and important Judenrat officials, such as Barash and Rosenman, were held back from the deportations. They lived in what was known as the 'Small Ghetto,' an area boarded by Fabryczna, Jurowiecka, Ogrodowa and Ciepla Streets. They cleared the machines and raw materials from the ghetto and cleaned it up.
On 8 September 1943, the last Jews of the 'Small Ghetto' were deported along with several hundred other Jews imprisoned in the city prison. They were sent to Lublin and were distributed among the forced labour camps in the Lublin district. Many of the nearly 15,000 Bialystok Jews interned in these camps perished on 3 November 1943, during 'Aktion Erntefest' (Harvest Festival), during which the Germans murdered some 42,000 Jewish workers incarcerated in the labour camps of Lublin, Dorohucza, Poniatowa and Trawniki. In Bialystok, some Jewish men remained confined in the Bialystok prison. In May 1944, Macholl personally chose 43 of the prisoners for service in Sonderkommando 1005 unit, which was used to eliminate the traces of mass murder carried out by the Germans. Almost all of them were executed on the eve of the German retreat. On 22 July 1944, the day Bialystok was liberated by the Red Army, the only Jews left in the city were a small group of women living on false papers.
The Encyclopaedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, USHMM, Indianna University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2012
Y. Arad, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1987
D.Czech, Auschwitz Chronicle, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1989 M.Gilbert, The Holocaust – The Jewish Tragedy, Collins London. 1986
Photographs – Chris Webb Archive, Bundesarchiv
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Dieter Kühr (* 14. November 1941) ist ein deutscher Klarinettist und Pädagoge.

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Kühr studierte Klarinette bei Ernst Flackus in Würzburg und bei Heinrich Geuser in Berlin. 1965 gewann er den 2. Preis im Wettbewerb der deutschen Musikhochschulen in Köln.

Als Klarinettist und Pädagoge war Kühr nicht nur an deutschen Konservatorien tätig, sondern auch in der Schweiz (Im Thurn´sche Stiftung Schaffhausen) sowie an der Universidad Musical del Tolima de Colombia. Seine Neigung zu offenen Lebensbewegungen allgemein umschloss auch ein pädagogisches Studium. Im Rahmen der Klarinetten-Pädagogik in Deutschland erarbeitete er mit Jost Michaels und Joachim Vetter ein zeitgemäßes Curriculum für den Verband deutscher Musikschulen, einschließlich einer Neufassung der Literaturliste für Jugend musiziert. Für letztere engagierte er sich auch als Juror auf Bundes- und Landesebene. Für die Verlage Bärenreiter in Kassel und Schott in Mainz war Kühr als Berater für Schulwerke tätig. Bei Bärenreiter ist Dieter Kühr Herausgeber eines Spielbuches für Klarinette in variabler Besetzung. Beim Amadeus-Verlag in Winterthur veröffentlichte er eine Bearbeitung der 13 Stücke-B/A-Klarinette und Viola von Franz Krommer für 3 gleichgestimmte Klarinetten.

Grenzüberschreitende Projekte
Neben seiner freiberuflichen Tätigkeit als Orchester-Solist und in der Kammermusik (zum Beispiel Trio Kühr) mit seinem Zwillingsbruder Klaus Kühr (Cellist des WDR-Sinfonieorchesters), führte ihn die künstlerische Neugierde auch zu einer Zusammenarbeit mit Improvisatoren der zeitgenössischen Jazz-Szene, zum Beispiel Lajos Dudas und Eckard Koltermann. Für Kühr und Theo Jörgensmann schrieb der Komponist Peter Hoch das Duo Traumtänzer für klassisch und jazzmäßig gespielte Klarinette, welches zwischen verbindlichem Notentext und freien Prozessen changiert (Produktion SWF 1984).

Unter den auf Tonträgern und Bild-Ton-Aufzeichnungen festgehaltenen Interpretationen und improvisierten Aktionen mit Dieter Kühr, nimmt – neben den Aufnahmen mit dem Trio Kühr – das experimentelle Klarinettenquartett Cl-4, das aus dem German Clarinet Duo hervorgegangen ist, einen besonderen Platz ein. Diese Gruppe hat 2 Tonträger veröffentlicht: Alte und Neue Wege sowie Seltsam ist Prophetenlied, die bei Konnex Records erschienen sind. Zu dem Interesse an künstlerischen Wegen über Grenzen hinweg gehört auch die langjährige Partnerschaft mit der Malerin Maria Oppenheim, in der die Idee eines freien Prozess-Gewebes ohne Absprachen im Sinne von John Cage´s Gedanke der "unverabredeten Übereinkunft" umgesetzt wird.

Referenzen
 Die Klarinette Musikinstrumente und ihre Geschichte. NDR-Fernsehen, 1985.
 Erwachsenenbildung in der Musikpädagogik Vom Wesen des Übens (VdM). 1998.

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 Streiflichter zur Entwicklung der Klarinette 1900–1939 von Dieter Kühr

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[DISCLAIMER ... I know, it's getting tiresome. Think about how I feel.
This is the last week I'm doing what my friend Jason calls "high-intellectual" blog posts. They are time consuming, draining, a lot of work, and I'm not sure they are at all entertaining. They've garnered some response, much of it hate mail.
My replies are long-winded, so this may take a few posts.
Oh, you mean like every other -ism on the face of the planet? Communism? Socialism? Leftism? Liberalism (by Francis Fukuyama)? Capitalism? Catholicism? Evangelicalism? Fundamentalism? Racism? Imperialism? Nationalism? Imperialism? Protestantism? Fascism? Radicalism? Totalitarianism? Atheism? Anti-theism?
Seriously, which one of the above says that they are not superior to everything and everyone?
Yes, atheism claims a superiority. It claims superiority over every religion. Atheism is so superior, Dawkins insists that religion is a form of child abuse. The only religion I've ever seen exercise that kind of superiority is in the Sudan, and that's more of a civil war than anything else.
If you are an atheist that does not believe it is superior to everyone else, please send a letter to Mr. Dawkins at your earliest convenience, and tell him he's a moron. Thanks.
I'm Catholic. While there are aspects of "superiority," I'll going to refer you to my "You're going to Hell" blog post.
As for the rest … you don't need religion to have an intrinsic superiority complex. That's what nationalism is for. Or racism. Or evolutionary racism. Or phrenology..... long story, it was part of the whole Darwin / racism / imperialism trifecta.
Everyone's going to claim being superior over everyone else at some point or another. As the French. Or the British. Or any Generalismo in Latin America. Or Michael Moore. Or Christopher Hitchens.


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By Conall Martin / Updated: 07 Oct 2021
Transport and mobility projects to receive EUR 7 billion
Submitted by Conall Martin on 08 Oct 2021
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Call for proposals: Transport and mobility projects to receive EUR 7 billion
On 16 September, the European Climate, Environment and Infrastructure Executive Agency (CINEA) launched a call for proposals under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Transport programme.
The CEF programme is a key EU funding instrument which provides investment in the development of sustainable, high performing and interconnected Trans-European transport networks. The programme seeks to shift the focus to decarbonisation, and making transport connected, sustainable, inclusive, safe and secure.
Through this call for proposals, the CEF transport programme makes €7 billion available for projects that target innovative, new, and improved European transport infrastructure. The aim of this funding is to facilitate projects which will help the European Union achieve the European Green Deal goal of decreasing transport emissions by 90% by 2050.
The funding is available for all Member States who wish to apply. In addition, organisations and bodies within Member States are eligible to receive financing, with agreement from the given Member State. The call for proposals will accept a variety of projects relating to sustainable mobility and transport, with funding allocated under the following three categories:
€5.175 billion will be set aside to finance infrastructure projects on the Core and Comprehensive Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). This covers a broad range of potential projects, including railways, inland waterways, maritime and inland ports, roads, rail-road terminals, multimodal logistic platforms and passenger hubs. In addition, smart and interoperable applications for transport, safe and secure mobility, and infrastructure resilience are also included.
€1.575 billion will be dedicated to financing a new Alternative Fuel Infrastructure Facility implemented on a rolling call basis until 2023. This financing will be available for projects focusing on electricity fast-charging and hydrogen refuelling infrastructure on TEN-T road networks.
€330 million will also be set aside for the adaptation of the TEN-T to civilian-defence dual-use (Military Mobility envelope).
Interested parties must submit their proposals by 19 January 2022 at 17:00 CET.
Proposals must be submitted through the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System, after which they will be assessed by the European Commission and CINEA, as well as external experts.
Results will be made available no later than 6 months following the submission deadline, and grant agreements can be signed within 9 months.
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PAC Report: Financial services mis-selling: regulation and redress
By Matthew Gregory (UK) on May 20, 2016 Posted in Retail, United Kingdom
The House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (the PAC) published a report on 13 May, into mis-selling in financial services (the PAC Report). The PAC Report is primarily concerned with the redress which was paid to consumers as a result of payment protection insurance mis-selling. The PAC Report contains a number of recommendations intended to correct certain perceived failures by the FCA and HM Treasury to prevent mis-selling and to improve access to redress: 'the FCA and the Treasury must do more to know how much mis-selling is happening now, and which regulatory activities work best to prevent it'.
The PAC Report is generally critical of the role which claims management companies have played in PPI redress. However, the PAC Report goes further in identifying several areas in which HM Treasury and the FCA are seen to have failed to prevent further mis-selling. The PAC has published a number of recommendations which are anticipated to drive the regulatory agenda in this area over the coming year. All authorised firms should understand the PAC's concerns, and the likely regulatory action which will ensue.
Cultural failings in firms
The PAC Report highlights cultural failings within financial services firms as one cause for mis-selling, although it acknowledges that there are many factors which contribute to mis-selling. In some ways, the PAC Report picks up on failings which the FCA has previously identified as potential risks to the protection of consumers, under the general head of 'conduct risk'. However, the PAC Report specifically concludes that the FCA has not done enough to tackle the cultural problems that lie behind mis-selling by financial services firms. The PAC Report expresses concern that middle managers in financial services firms were often promoted on the basis of achieving sales targets, making it harder to embed customer-focused approaches. Although some steps have been taken by the FCA to improve culture in firms, the withdrawal of a proposed review into banks' culture, and the failure by the FCA to articulate the type of culture it expects firms to have, have led the PAC to conclude that there is no guarantee of improvement in culture as the regulatory spotlight moves away.
The PAC Report therefore recommends that the FCA outline the actions it will take to improve culture in financial services firms. The FCA is invited to report on their effectiveness in May 2017. Consequently, firms should expect that over the course of the next 12 months, the FCA will resume its investigations into firms' culture. The scope of the PAC's concern is wide ranging across the authorised landscape, and we anticipate that the FCA will review cross-sections of firms across the piece to understand cultural failings, and to develop plans to address them.
The risks of innovation
The PAC also expresses some concern that the FCA's focus on innovation could detract from consumer protection, and that 'product innovation can make mis-selling more likely, particularly if products are especially complex'. The FCA has been careful to couch its support for innovation in financial services in terms which make clear that consumer protection remains a core priority. It remains to be seen what impact the PAC's concerns will have on Project Innovate, and the FCA's drive in that area.
'Outcomes-focused regulation'?
The PAC Report has also concluded that the FCA does not do enough to ensure that consumers understand the financial products they are buying, and the possibility of claiming compensation. The PAC appears critical of a 'rules-focused' regime, where the regulator focuses on ensuring that firms adhere to detailed rules, rather than ensuring that firms do enough to check that consumers fully understand the products they buy. The FCA has been tasked with developing a plan to ensure that firms check consumer understanding of products purchased, and of their rights to claim compensation (particularly for vulnerable consumers) and to report back in one year.
HM Treasury oversight
HM Treasury's assessment of whether the FCA is doing a 'good job' in preventing mis-selling was found to be weak, according to the PAC Report. The PAC note that there are no good indicators of the current level of mis-selling, and it is therefore very difficult for HM Treasury to assess whether the FCA is helping to reduce it. The PAC Report highlights gaps in the information collected by the FCA from firms relating to complaints, which does not identify when alleged mis-selling took place. The FCA also fails to draw information together which could show if its actions are reducing mis-selling. The PAC has therefore recommended that HM Treasury and the FCA should develop 'real-time' indicators of the extent of mis-selling, and assess regularly how effective their actions are in reducing it.
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Many of my earliest childhood memories are daydreams of flying around the sky like a bird. I would lie in the grass, look toward the sky and imagine what it would feel like to soar high above. As Leonardo da Vinci famously wrote, "Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." Unfortunately, I was not born a bird, and I lack the ability to actually fly by myself. Luckily, the dreamers who invented airplanes gave my dreams real wings.
Fast forward a few years to a summer day as I sat aboard a flight headed to Chicago from Phoenix. I was about seven years old at the time. Our plane sat on the tarmac for an hour or so due to thunderstorm activity at our destination. This was pre-9/11, so the captain invited all of the kids on board up to the cockpit. I remember sitting in the captain's chair of that United Boeing 757 thinking that was the coolest thing I had ever done. As I explored all of the buttons and controls, and looked out of the cockpit windows, I remember realizing in that moment that I wanted to be a pilot when I grew up. I wanted to be in the left seat of that Boeing 757 every day. The excitement from that experience continued throughout the remainder of the flight, and it was all I could talk about for the course of my trip. I spent much of the rest of my childhood researching and exploring a career as an airline pilot.
As dreams often do, becoming a pilot eventually took a backseat. As high school graduation approached, I began to make what felt like "more practical" decisions. I didn't think I would want to be on the road and away from family and friends for days at a time, and I didn't like the thought of being away from home on holidays or special events. I enrolled in college, chose Finance as my major and graduated.
It didn't take me long after starting my first "real" job out of college to realize that perhaps working a corporate 9-5 desk job wasn't for me. The office I worked in wasn't far from Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix. I sat next to a window that overlooked planes taking off and landing. Childhood wasn't as far behind me as I might have thought, and I often found myself staring out the windows daydreaming and watching the airplanes, probably a lot more than I should have been. For the first time since high school, my desire to fly resurfaced, and I began to consider that I may have gone down the wrong career path.
Around this time, on another flight from Chicago to Phoenix, I found myself staring out the window the entire flight. I realized that I really did love flying, and really could envision myself doing this for a living. There was something beautiful and peaceful about being able to see thousands of stars from an airplane window miles above the Earth's surface. To the very core of my being, I felt like I had found my calling.
When I shared this with my sister, she quickly introduced to me to a co-worker of hers who had just finished earning his CFI certificate, and he took us up in a single-engine Piper. It was my first time in a small plane, and my first time being at the controls of an aircraft. This experience of actually flying an airplane, something I had been dreaming of since I was a small child, was everything I imagined it would be, and so much more. The feeling of getting to do something I had been longing to do for so long was indescribable. I was on cloud nine.
After my first flight, I began researching some local flight schools to determine my options. Unfortunately, flight school is very expensive, and I was a broke, recent college graduate. In 2011, loans for flight schools were few and far between. So, I started to save what little I could. I put this dream on the back-burner in the hope that my desire to fly might fade away, and somehow I would be content to work in Finance. I was able to suppress this dream for a while, but it wouldn't stay asleep forever.
As I continued down my career path in Corporate America, I always felt there was something missing; I never quite felt like I was where I was meant to be. I kept finding myself drawn to all things related to airplanes, flying and aviation. I often found myself looking towards the sky to watch the planes fly overhead, or hiking to the tops of mountains to watch the airport in action. I had tried to convince myself that flying wasn't what I really wanted, because it was such a hard and expensive dream to achieve. I had hoped the desire would go away, but it hadn't. The desire to fly for a living kept returning, each time stronger than the last. I began to save every extra penny I had in hopes that one day I might finally turn my dream into a reality.
After years of saving, I finally had enough money to pay for private pilot lessons. However, it would take losing my grandfather in 2016 to finally act on my dream. My grandfather lived his life telling others, "Do what you love and do it well. If you don't love it, it isn't worth doing." After all these years, it finally hit me that I was chasing what I thought I was supposed to do, and not doing what I was meant to do. If I didn't live my passion, then I was never going to be completely happy.
Life is too short to put off your dreams. After a long and emotional conversation with my boyfriend, he surprised me by scheduling a discovery flight for me at the local flight school. It was time to turn my dream into my reality. After my discovery flight, I signed on with the school to complete my private pilot certificate and I've never looked back.
It hasn't been an easy road to get to where I am today. Working towards my private pilot certificate is not always easy. I don't always want to go to my lessons, nor do I always want to study. The amount of progress, or lack thereof, can be frustrating at times. However, at the end of the day, there is nothing else I would rather be doing than pursuing this life-long dream.
As I look forward to the day when I pass my first check ride, and I can officially say that I am a pilot, I imagine that it will be one of the best days of my life thus far. I get chills just thinking about it. All of the time, money, heartache, blood, sweat and tears will be well worth it once I officially earn my wings.
Thank you for sharing your story. So inspiring to hear you're following your passion. Looking forward to future updates on your journey!
I enjoyed reading this. I too would love to be an aspiring pilot. If you would be so kind as to giving me a few pointers on exactly the beginning steps on getting my foot in the door? That would be great. I'm still currently serving so I have a few months to get things together. I appreciate your story.
Thanks for sharing with us what it's like to finally go after a dream! I totally can relate – it took someone telling me, "what are you doing? Go do what you want to do, it's that simple," for me to wake up and start down the aviation path. If you're on Instagram, totally feel free to send me a message (@soontobesonex), I love connecting with fellow pilots. That way we can support and encourage each other! Best of luck with your journey towards your license. The studying and tests aren't easy, but it's so so so worth it.
Keep chasing your dreams and best of luck to you in the future.
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October 16, 2014, Noon
Courtroom 317, Landmark Center
Artaria String Quartet
Ray Shows, violin • Nancy Oliveros, violin
Annalee Wolf, viola • Laura Sewell, cello
Ignaz Pleyel – String Quartet in G minor, B. 309
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet in C major, K. 465, "Dissonance"
Now in its 28th season, the Artaria String Quartet was recently lauded by Rob Hubbard of the St. Paul Pioneer Press: "Artaria Quartet is likely to give eloquent voice to whatever work it tackles." Artaria has served as MPR Artists-in-Residence and was featured on Twin Cities Public Television as part of its Minnesota Original series. The quartet has appeared at major summer festivals including the Banff Centre in Canada, Festival de L'Epau in France, and the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, MA. Artaria is the recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, Midori's Partners in Performance, the Heartland Fund and the Southeast Minnesota Arts Council for performance and educational outreach. Members of the quartet are founders and directors of the Artaria Chamber Music School, a weekly chamber music program for young string players; Stringwood, a two-week summer festival held in Lanesboro, MN each June; and the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition, an annual national event.
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When Xin Qing met Meyer on campus, he immediately congratulated her, "You are famous here. For many years, there has not been such an excellent Chinese!"
"I'm more curious about how you know it?" Xin Qing asked.
Ka.s.s, who was next to her, said with excitement, "You know Meyer, our uppercla.s.sman!"
Xin Qing looked at her, "Meyer... uppercla.s.sman?"
"Uppercla.s.sman Meyer is the best student in architecture of last year. He is now a teaching a.s.sistant in the college." Ka.s.s suddenly leaned over and whispered in her ear, "Eva has always liked him. Unfortunately, Meyer didn't like her."
While they were talking, a sharp voice came from behind, "What are you doing?"
Eva rushed over and squeezed between Xin Qing and Meyer, pointing at Xin Qing and scolded, "You're so shameless. No wonder you can be selected. It was because of Meyer."
"Please pay attention to your words." Xin Qing frowned. She didn't want to cause trouble, but it didn't mean she could be insulted.
Meyer stepped in front of Xin Qing. "When can you learn to be polite? Or do you think I have such a power to be the head of the school?"
"You..." Eva still wanted to talk, but was scared by the coldness from Meyer's eyes. She bit her lip and kept silent.
Xin Qing pushed Meyer away and looked directly at Eva, "I came to study. Your racism or jealousy has nothing to do with me." Xin Qing sneered, "How n.o.ble are you? If you are really n.o.ble, how can you not recognize the clothes I wear?"
Eva stared at her with hatred. Xin Qing decided to deal with this woman once and for all to avoid future problems.
"Do you know why I can be selected?" She pulled out the necklace from her collar. It was a simple puppy-shaped pendant, but with complicated lines of jewel, which formed into different patterns. When Eva saw this, her face turned pale. Ka.s.s was standing beside her, with a piece of joy in her eyes. Meyer didn't have too much reaction, just throwing a glance at Xin Qing.
"I can be selected because half of those works are in my possession. I watch them everyday and of course no them very well!"
"You... you have this? It must be fake! Fake!" Eva shouted. This was one of the CK works that they referred to when they wrote their thoughts. Each of these works was privately customized. Every item had won an international prize. How could a Chinese like Xin Qing have them?
If this was true... then she... she was not the person to be messed up with.
"Fake?" Xin Qing took the necklace back into the clothes. "You can't even tell if it is real or not. You're just so so " After that, she turned and asked Meyer, "I'm going to have some food. Are you going with me?"
Meyer smiled and said, "Do I have this honor to invite Miss to lunch?"
"Of course!" Xin Qing smiled, and the two left, leaving Eva standing there with a pale face. Ka.s.s shook her head and said, "You probably think you are very good, so no one is in your eye. Everything Xin Qing wears is top brand customized. It's ridiculous you can't see it." Ka.s.s smiled. "Spend more time on fashion magazines! It's a good way to fill your empty brain."
"You... you already know?" Eva asked in a bitter tone.
Ka.s.s cast her a glance, "I'm afraid everyone knows except you. It's so obvious. Are you blind?"
Meyer looked at the girl sitting in front of him and having pudding. She looked so different from the person with a cold face just now.
"I didn't see. You are so awesome!"
Xin Qing stared at him and said, "There's an old saying in China: Goodness does not mean weakness. My concession is not an excuse for you to take advantage of me."
"So that's what you really look like!" Meyer said with a smile. "I almost thought it was two different people."
Xin Qing put on a serious face at once. "Then I'll show you the face. Get used to it."
"Hehe!" Meyer laughed. "Don't. I still prefer the look of a Chinese doll."
Xin Qing remembered something and asked, "Do you know that Eva?"
"I don't know her." Meyer shook his head.
Xin Qing stared at him, "How can I hear that she is secretly in love with you?"
"That's her business. I don't know her anyway." Meyer shrugged. "The CK Academy is no longer simple, like when it was first built. Now, many people here are looking for money and reputation, especially a lot of girls. It is good if they could perform well and become a famous designer. But when they have the opportunity to reach the upper cla.s.s, becoming a designer will only be their second choice."
Xin Qing understood what he meant. CK had always followed the high-end route. The guests were either rich or n.o.ble. Once they got them, they would become phoenixes. Xin Qing pouted. Fortunately, Shi Qianqian reminded her to bring her clothes from home, or she would have nothing to slap Eva on the face today.
The college gave Xin Qing three days to prepare. Three days later, she should go to the design room of CK every afternoon to partic.i.p.ate in the design of this work. Xin Qing went home with the doc.u.ments, which explained the requirements for these works.
The guest asked to design a ladies' necklace, which was given to a very important woman. The woman was also very young, only 20 years old. Xin Qing thought probably this was why CK involved freshmen in this task. Because they happened to be at this age. In addition to this, the guest had one more requirement: personality and uniqueness.
Xin Qing understood the requirement for personality, but had no clue about uniqueness. Three days later, when she walked into CK, she was very anxious, not knowing what kind of problem she would face. When she entered, Eva was already sitting there. When she saw her, her eyes lightened and then she turned around without saying anything. Xin Qing did not mind. As long as she didn't come to her and cause trouble.
"You are Xin Qing and Eva, right?" A woman came over, spell able in a suit.
Xin Qing and Eva stood up and nodded. The woman smiled politely and said, "This time, Randa will be responsible for the work. I'm his secretary. You can call me Kay!"
When she heard the name of Randa, Xin Qing was a little surprised. Randa was the designer of the puppy pendant on her neck and the youngest designer of CK currently.
"Please come with me!" Kay's behavior was as vigorous as her dress. She took them directly to the studio while introducing Randa's habits during work. "You have to pay special attention to one thing. Randa hates others to question his work, so what he said in the design process, you just have to nod."
"I got it!" Eva answered quickly, but Xin Qing frowned. In this case, they did not have to partic.i.p.ate at all.
Kay seemed to see her doubt and added, "The customer required young students to partic.i.p.ate in the design work. He probably thinks that you and the future wearer are more likely to have the same taste!"
The implication was that Randa did not welcome them. Xin Qing bit the corner of her lips.
"Randa, I brought the people." Kay opened the door of the studio. A man wearing only sweatpants was sitting there for lunch, half naked. Seeing them came in, he had no intention to put on any clothes. Instead, he leaned on the sofa behind and examined the two people. In the end, his eyes rested on Xin Qing.
"Oh! Chinese doll." He smirked. "There has been no sight of Chinese people in CK for a long time." He suddenly glanced at Kay and asked, "Are you sure the Chinese will not cause trouble?"
Kay smiled helplessly, "Xin Qing's performance is very good, I think she will definitely help you."
Eva glanced at Xin Qing proudly. She couldn't mess up with her, but it didn't mean others couldn't either.
"Okay!" Randa unfolded his hand and said, "Then, Chinese doll, clear up the garbage." He pointed to the rest of the breakfast, and then looked at Eva. "As for you, sharpen the pencils over there."
When Kay left, she whispered to them, "He is just a little grumpy, but he's still a good man. Be careful not to make him angry and you'll be fine."
In the following period, Xin Qing fully experienced the big temper of the so-called popular designer. After Eva sharpened the pencil, she was sent to cla.s.sify the various gemstones. They were already cla.s.sified. But Randa insisted on her putting them together and doing it again. Xin Qing was even more unlucky. Randa asked her to make seven cups of coffee and order three takeaways in one afternoon. Not to mention designing, she and Eva didn't have the opportunity to approach the workbench.
When she got home at night, Xin Qing was sore all over her body. She thought she had been spoiled before by Ying Qingcang, and now she couldn't stand such little work. Thinking of this, she set the alarm half an hour earlier and decided to go running every morning.
At this time, Ying Qingcang was holding Ah Sha and sitting in the garden. Le Le was playing the ball with his good male friend Chihuahua.
"Ah... woo... Yeah!" Ah Sha spit bubbles and bit Ying Qingcang's face. Perhaps because it was too hard, she pushed him away with disgust. Ying Qingcang patted on her little b.u.t.t and said, "You're so dirty. I will throw you out if you lick me again, so that your irresponsible mother can never find you."
"Is Ah Sha's birthday coming soon?" Ying Qingcang asked.
Uncle Fu smiled and said, "It's four months later!"
"How could it be so long? When was she born?" Ying Qingcang felt Ah Sha had been in the house for a long time. How could she grow so slow?
Uncle Fu coughed and answered, "Young master, you forgot. Ah Sha was born after you and Miss returned from Britain."
"That was September." Ying Qingcang frowned and groaned in his heart. So bad. I thought it would be next month.
Uncle Fu turned his eyes and asked, "Master, why are you so eager to give Ah Sha a birthday party?"
"Am I?" Ying Qingcang threw a glimpse at him. "I mean she grows too slow."
Uncle Fu agreed and added, "But if it's Ah Sha's birthday, can we ask Miss to come back?"
"She won't come back." Ying Qingcang's heart tightened. He then handed Ah Sha to Uncle Fu and went upstairs.


I hope you don't mind, but it's time for another confessions post. But hey, if you can't confess to your family or friends, who can you confess to?
In the writer's world there have been many a discussion geared toward plotting or flying by the seat of your pants. Hence the nicknames #plotter and #pantster came about. When I first started writing I tried to outline, I really did. But when I did outline I felt like I had written the book already and lost my interest.
Thank goodness I found some pantsters. They made my writing world all rainbows and unicorns. Seriously? Folks who said it was A-Okay to sit down with absolutely no idea what was going to happen and write? PTL!! I lived in this rainbow and unicorn world for a long time. It was how I rolled when it came to writing.
But, oh, the EDITS! I mean, edits. Reworking, and adding things at the beginning to bring your novel full circle that of course you didn't think of until you were 3/4th's or better through said novel.
So, I learned to LOVE editing! Now my editing life was all rainbows and unicorns. Yes, my happy place shifted in my writing life, but what did it matter? I was still discovering the joy, right?
I'm here today to tell you it's shifted again. WHAT? It's true!
So, when people plot a little and fly a little the term #plantsters comes into play. I knew about this group of people, but even though I had started a little planning, not much (I couldn't write while hyperventilating you see!) I never felt a part of this group of folks. As hard as I tried the rainbows and unicorns just wouldn't come my way.
Then it happened. A new way to write that brings out the best in me-AGAIN!
The process goes something like this. I start the book with my basic premise, just like I always do. But, I have several different "leads" my heroine can take. I think of more than one idea I can explore and I started planting. Yes, planting idea's has become my new way of writing. When the book is finished, I've truly explored and expanded one of these beginning plantings and it has turned into a major plot point. Then while editing, I remove all the "weeds" from the story. You know, those ideas that are now just in the way. They serve no purpose and are extremely annoying.
So, I have named myself a #planter. I now plant write. Doesn't that sound like fun?
Maybe it's just the season of life I'm in. Maybe this too will pass and another "new" way to write will knock me over the head. I have no idea, but for now #planting is my rainbow and unicorn world.
Maybe I'll explore the angle of twin brothers and how they date differently.
That never happened, so it was plucked out.
At one point in the story she mentions how she needed to buy (or rent?) a dress for a big event. That never happened either, so that was plucked out. Little pesky weeds that clutter and get in the way. The #planter takes them out.
When I first started to write I was definitely a pantster, Lindi. Once I started to enter contests that required a synopsis, I was forced to outline and I felt so restricted. I'll have to give planting a whirl.
Jill–you had to say the bad word–synopsis! Ha JK. They are great for having a road map. I'm not opposed to them, I just like to have flexibility when I write them.
I like this pantster – planter notion. As an academic, I don't have much room for planting, because outlines are the key to telling the story of our data, but I can see how that is a lot limiting. Last weekend I wrote a book chapter out of the blue and I felt like a planter (even though I didn't know it until reading your post). I had a main goal the editor gave me, but that was it, so I just let each paragraph flow from the previous and did a few edits in the end. Of course I ended up writing almost twice as I should have—thankfully he said it was okay so I didn't have to go back and do too many edits.
As for your questions, I like changing the way I do things most of the time, including reading. I used to be paperback kind of girl and then now I just don't give up my kindle for a heavy (hard to hold) book. The stories are about the same, and every once in a while I go back to paperbacks again… I have a room full of books in my house. And they are from many different genres, because sometimes I feel in the mood of mysteries (my Agatha Christie collection is quite big compared to others that I have), I've tried historicals a few times, but I always go back to romance, and although I'm partial to inspirational books, I do like some Nicholas Sparks kind of books.
As a reader I find that I do go through different genre cycles at times, mostly contemporary and historical (I'm not a big fan of mysteries).
Hi Lindi, I enjoyed hearing about your writing process… I like the idea of planting. I have always felt that a good book has multiple "seeds" in the first chapter that are intriguing enough to make the reader want to see what happens.
By the way, Uptown Flirt sounds great!
May 3rd is my birthday! This would make a great gift.
Gail–Happy early birthday!! :) Thanks for stopping by.
I used to go through reading cycles, but not so much anymore. I have so many books I want to read I simply open the first cover that grabs me from the books I've downloaded on my kindle. Once in a while that story doesn't appeal and I'll find a different one, usually a different genre.
I occasionally deviate into historical or fantasy for my reading, but I do really love contemporary romance the best!
I go through spurts, I always read my favorite authors books when they come out , then at times I go through a different periods of time. Sometimes I read Coptic Christian novels for a while or then I get into more modern Christian novels. I always read Christian novels and have many favorite authors. My Kindle is loaded with books so I have an abundance of titles and authors to choose from. Reading is my favorite pastime. I am retired so I read when ever I have the opportunity.
Linda – I'm really curious as to what Coptic Christian novels are!
Retired and reading! Ah—does it get any better? Thanks for stopping by.
Back when my husband and I were in seminary, we had one typewriter between us, so I wrote out my papers in long hand (pencil) first and had to have each word right before I could go on to the next word. Then I'd type them up when the typewriter was available. My husband would sit down and just start typing! Now, with computers, I can just start typing and easily go back and change things!
On reading habits, if a favorite author has something new out, I'll read that. Lately I've had so many "want to reads" on my Kindle, I try to figure out what kind of mood I'm in. After reading something intense (like Charles Martin), I need a light romance next to recover :-) And sometimes non-fiction will be a good change. I'm not picky as to whether it's the e-version or a "real" book, but I like being able to read on my Kindle at night and not wake my husband up with having a light on.
Margaret—I gave up having the "exact" word. I'd rack my brain and sit and stare forever. :) I need to read Charles Martin. I've heard so many amazing things about his books.
I rotate historical periods, sometimes mysteries, but mainly inspirational romance. I really like happy endings :-)! The funny thing I find is I frequently am reading one book on electronic device, which I love, and one book in printed paper form.
dlw—my tagline is "happy endings are just the beginning." So I think you might like my books. :) And yes, I read paper and e-books—like I said above–paper in the bathtub! Can't risk that Kindle slipping into the bubbles.
I was asked recently what type of stories I prefer to read. I said definitely romance books. Historical, contemporary or whatever as long as it has a great romance in it, I'm there! I love clean romance stories and happy endings!! Love your book cover by the way!
#ROMANCE always, right? Thanks for the comment on the book cover. I was thrilled when I saw it!
Yes, I do tend to go through cycles it seems. As long as there is a good romance in the book I know I will like it. Whether it's historical, contemporary or Amish, I love a good romance.
Yes, I have changed my methods of operation regarding different things in my life before when I discovered a different way that made things easier on me or that I just enjoyed more. Of course, lately, the changes have been in how to get my 14 month old to sleep. For a while we rocked. Then she decided that would no longer work. Next, I would lay her down with me in my bed and then when she fell asleep, I would put her in her bed. And again, she decided she didn't like that method anymore. We've tried various other methods over time, and after a time, she would decide she no longer liked that method. Our current method is for Daddy to rock her while he watches a show on TV low in the background. We'll see how long that method works. :) I do go on reading binges of a certain genre and then take a break and read something else. I've also been known to binge read all of the books by one author that are available and then be waiting for the next one to come out.
Lindi, thanks for sharing your writing process. I'm a pantser and will always be one. Yes, I've had to turn in a synopsis to sell on proposal to traditional publishers, but I love just letting the story develop. I have a hard time knowing what will happen. The plot reveals itself as I write. That's why I'm loving indie publishing. I don't have to write a synopsis.
Thanks for a nice blog post, I think I would be what you call a planter, an OCD planter.
I go through episodes of reading different genres now I concentrate on Christian fiction but I read crossover thrillers and suspense..
As a teenager, young adult, young wife and mother, I primarily read about 10 to 15 romances a year. As a pastor's wife, I read devotionals and church growth books. As a high school English teacher, I read the books that I taught each year. From my travels, I read travel books and non-fiction. Now that I am retired I go through cycles. Over the last few years, I have discovered many new authors in the United States and around the world. I enjoy interacting with Michigan authors, most are cozy mystery writers. During the holidays, I read lots of romantic boxed sets. Since I signed up for recommendations from Book Bub, I have downloaded interesting romance and nonfiction books. I also belong to a monthly Book Club for Foodies sponsored by the local library and school of cooking. Becoming more diverse in my senior years.
Presently I am read out – never thought I would say that. Rather than reading a book or two a day – I am not reading a book or two a week. The weather is far to nice in Michigan to stay indoors. Even in life, some of us are plotters (the daily or weekly To Do List), pantsters, or plantsters. Thanks for sharing.
Renate–so true!! The terms can be used for all aspects. :) I love how you have read across the realm. I used to do that much more than I do it now. Also, I'm glad your weather is nice in Michigan. We have been so cold here in Ga. We are hoping for a nice weekend. Enjoy your time outdoors! I hope I can soon, too.
As a high school teacher, the idea of being a pantster or plantster was interesting- so much planning goes into a lesson/sequence of lessons to ensure curriculum etc. is covered yet questions from curious students (the best type) always initiate that pantster moment- and can lead to discussions that cover issues of faith, ethics and the like, better than any planned lesson.
Wemble—Ah….so you see the correlation when us pansters have to go to the beginning to work in the "thing" that showed up toward the end—so it will all make sense. Seems much simpler to plan, but….:) Thanks for stopping by!


With the new year comes fresh, exciting news from popular artist booking agents BookMe World as they launch their very first UK partnership.
The news come off the success of the company's territories already in Nigeria, South Africa and in the homeland Ghana.
BookME World is an agency that specialize in entertainment consulting and bookings to the corporate industry throughout the world. Their speciality is helping in finding and securing jobs for Actors, Musicians, Authors, Film Firectors, Models, Film Producers, Professional Athletes, Writers, Screenwriters, Broadcast Journalists and other people in the various fields of the entertainment industry and business.
"To expand the market of BookMe World, to sign both established and young up-coming artists in the UK, to give then exposure to other countries in Africa and the world at large" is the main purpose and desire for CEO and Founder Gregory Ankrah in establishing a UK platform.
BookME World is a platform that makes the entire entertainment industry easy to access with regards to: Artist Bookings, DJ's, PA Systems, Security for Events, Event Venues and Grounds, Events Outfit and many more.
From 2016 to date BookME World has been able to sign a number of top artists from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. Their vision is to spread their networks and provide the most comprehensive booking service to the whole of Africa.
The expansion in the UK is an exciting one with new Managing Partner Beatrice A. Ayim (fashion and beauty consultant and author) spear -heading what is to become a successful and fruitful venture. With a delightful planned launch in the works, Gregory and his growing BookMe World empire are about to be a great force to be reccond with in the African entertainment industry.


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Friends Fans, You Win: The Cast and Original Creators Are Working on a Reunion
Jennifer Aniston recently hinted that the cast was "working on something"—and now it appears we know what it is.
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Friends fans have finally gotten their way. For years the cast and creators have heard cries for a reunion—and over and over again, they've said it's a moo point. But it appears that for once, a constant barrage of begging has worked—because according to a new report, HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television are in talks with the cast and original creators for a reunion special.
Before we go further we must caution: According to the Hollywood Reporter, negotiations are still in the early stages, so the special is far from a done deal. That said, all six original stars—Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matthew Perry, and Matt LeBlanc—as well as creators Marta Kauffman and David Crane, are at the table. Should a deal materialize, the next step would be to find a way to work around everyone's schedules, THR notes.
Sources tell THR that Bob Greenblatt, former NBC Entertainment chairman and now WarnerMedia Entertainment and direct-to-consumer chairman, is the one leading the charge to bring a reunion to HBO Max as a complement to the upcoming streaming platform's debut and Friends' move to the service from Netflix.
Yes, both the Friends cast and creators have spent years shooting down the idea of a reunion, but we did have some indication that something was coming. In October, Aniston made her first-ever post on Instagram a reunion photo of the cast—and later that month she told Ellen DeGeneres that the cast was "working on something." Representatives for Warner Bros. Television and HBO Max declined to comment when reached by THR, and did not immediately respond to V.F.'s requests for comment.
It's hard to overstate how resistant the Friends cast and creators have been in the past to the idea of a reunion. Kauffman in particular has repeatedly emphasized that Friends as a concept had a certain finite lifespan. As she put it in 2016, "Friends was a show about that time in your life when your friends are your family, and in a weird way, this isn't that different. Once you start having family of your own, it changes, and the show was over. A show has a lifespan, I believe." Most of the cast did stage a reunion of sorts that year as NBC honored James Burrows—joining the casts of other shows the lauded director had helmed over the years to share stories in a panel—but that didn't stop the clamoring, especially since Perry was absent from the gathering. Maybe this special, should it materialize, will be enough to satisfy the hunger once and for all. Or, given that we live in the I.P. era, it will be just the beginning.
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Yesterday, I told someone something in a way that only slightly conveyed the real thing I tried to say.
I told her that I believed it is impossible to imagine what my life might be if I began to believe only in possibility.
We paused and our quiet faces wondered, how on earth do we do this, how do we not stray or get swayed by criticism, cynicism or just the crazy negative noise of our hectic days?
I looked into my precious cousin's face and I answered that I'd walk with imaginary blinders on both sides of my face.
I'd need to stare intently at the tiniest of light, like the dot of a pin off in the distance, move forward with intention towards hope, off quite a ways.
Avoid the garish glare and naysay of others and other things on my way.
She listened and I gazed past her and through the little tables lining the restaurant. I looked out onto the busy bustling downtown lunchtime street. People passing by, others stopping to speak, I thought of me a year from today, will I be changed by possibility, a soft contrast of me today?
Would my face be lit by possibility, will I carry my hopes in a more confident frame?
Some things I think, must be pursued in a solitary way.
I told her I was certain my life would be different if I became unafraid of possibility and if I just continued towards the tiny light growing brighter as I near.
I would be different if I believed in possibility, if possibility was seen as an option for me.
I think we rarely really live this way.
Pursuing possibility in a peaceful way, a waiting way.
A know as I go quite certain with God kind of way to what God has to show me.
Do nothing out of desperation.
The plot can shift though, we decided, the story line is our story line and we can change the paragraphs and flow.
We can surprise ourselves, readers of our own books by creating a different ending, we can believe in the hopeful development of our life stories.
Believing can come natural, just as naturally as we regularly disbelieve.
If we don't allow fear to destroy our stories.
How different I would be, we all would be, if we took leaps of faith, if we walked on whatever represents deep waters towards the light that is meant to illuminate our days.
To bring clarity to God's ways.
God, help me to be an example of someone who has faith.
Are we in God? Is He in us?
Lord, let us see as You see- without the blinders of religion, the limitation of the physical.
Why has it become so hard to simply believe?