Mission Hill Family Estate Winery is undoubtedly one of the most stunningly beautiful wineries in North America. With the launching of their Legacy Series of wines, they now have wines that are a true complement to their setting.
Situated above the Okanagan Lake southwest of Kelowna, British Columbia, the winery marries wonderful architecture with spectacular views, fine wines, and a phenomenal food program. Personally, I think it is the most gorgeous winery in the Pacific Northwest—thanks in large part to an architectural design that, while echoing European traditions, manages to create its own New World identity.
How nice that Mission Hill also happens to make very fine wines!
I have visited Mission Hill many times, and have had the pleasure of spending the better part of a day being educated on Mission Hill's wines as well as the Okanagan Valley region by Ingo Grady, an absolutely delightful gentleman who as the winery's Director of Sales, is happy to share his charming wealth of wine knowledge.
At the beginning of the month, I was in Vancouver B.C. to attend an intimate lunch with Mission Hill winemaker John Simes as the winery introduced its top-tier Legacy Series of wines, including the new brands Perpetua and Quatrain to join their well-known Oculus.
B.C. wine aficionados have long known Mission Hill's Oculus wines as among the best blends in Canada. And—I hasten to add—for those skeptical (or ignorant) Americans who can't imagine a good wine coming from B.C., the quality of Oculus is easily equal to the best of similar style blends from anywhere in the United States.
The 2006 Perpetua is a new top-tier Chardonnay that strikes an admirable balance of oak, fruit, acid, and freshness. Taken from a single vineyard (Osoyoos Vineyard Estate), three clones of chardonnay fruit are fermented separately, some in temperature-controlled steel tanks and some in new French oak barrels. The wine is aged on sur lie for 7.5 months, stirred every two weeks.
The result is a masterful Chardonnay that has crisp fresh fruit, mellowed by the lees and wood contact. The body is full and ripe, but never fat, and devoid of overt oakiness. The texture is delightfully silky and the wine has a lingering finish. I found it to be a superb Chardonnay, and was sorry that I could not take a bottle home with me. They are releasing it at $32.99 CDN.
The 2005 Quatrain is the other Legacy Series wine to be introduced. As implied by the name, it is a blend of four grape varieties (57% Merlot, 28% Syrah, 10% Cabernet Franc, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon). Certainly not Bordeaux-style, and not either a Rhone-style blend, this tasty amalgam is its own poem.
The grapes came from the best blocks within the winery's estate vineyards in Oliver and Osoyoos (in the southern, warmer, part of the Okanagan Valley). They were fermented in small lots using French oak, and were aged for 15 months in French oak. Winemaker John Simes expressed his joy at being able to do such controlled, small fermentations, and in being able to produce a wine that clearly pleased him: his eyes lit up when he talked about these wines.
The Quatrain is a big wine, though at 13.5% alcohol it is by no means as big as what Washington and California regularly produce. I was struck by the up-front fruit sweetness, followed by a brambly sort of substantial tannin. The wine is certainly meant to age, but tasting it side-by-side with the Oculus, I would expect that the Quatrain will achieve balanced maturity well before the Oculus.
I was tremendously impressed with these new additions to Mission Hill's already strong line-up of wines. I have long been a fan of their Sauvignon Blanc in particular, and their S.L.C. line of wines (Select Lot Collection). Some of the Mission Hill wines make it into the States, and I understand more supply should be available—though the small production of the Legacy Series wines means that few Americans will ever have the chance to taste them . . . unless you travel to the Okanagan, which is something I heartily recommend ANY wine lover do, but more especially those of us in the Pacific Northwest.
At the launch lunch they also served a 2007 Reserve Riesling which I had never tasted before, and fell in love. I am a Riesling fan, and this one was delicious. It was ever-so-lightly off dry, but had a perfect balance of acidity. The fruit aromas were intoxicating and tremendously fruity. I really enjoyed that wine as well.
I know that I may be sounding a bit overly enthusiastic about these wines . . . but the simple fact is that I was quite impressed with them.
Perhaps my enthusiasm had something to do with our environs: we had lunch at Yew at the Four Seasons in Vancouver. My magazine, Northwest Palate, has written about Yew, but this was my first time there. The small group of us (which included B.C. wine authority John Schreiner and B.C. wine diva Daenna Van Mulligen) sat in a private glass-walled wine room at this elegant restaurant, ad the food paired wonderfully with the wines (the miso-glazed sablefish with the Perpetua was simply heavenly).
Would I think as highly of these wines included in a typical blind tasting for the magazine? I'm pretty sure I would. With nearly everything at his disposal to make the best wines possible, John Simes has the experience and knowledge to make the most of his resources—including vineyards that are reaching a level of balance and maturity where better wines can be made now than ever before.


Luminous Power Technologies, the market leader in Home UPS with additional offerings in high performance electrical products like LED Lighting, fans, modular switches and wires today launched its new TVC on Fans 'Nazar uthao'. The brand that has lighted lakhs of households in India for several decades, also unveiled its new tag line – 'Khushiyo ka Ghar', consolidating its brand repositioning as a competitive Home Electricals brand.
The TVC has been conceptualised and developed by Luminous' creative agency, Soho Square. In the commercial, Sachin Tendulkar, the brand ambassador for Luminous, implies that Don't get so caught up in you daily lives that you forget to enjoy the beauty around you. In a subtly crafted plot he emphasizes how beautiful our lives are if we just look up and see (#nazaruthao).
The film captures the on-goings in the life of a couple who spend their majority time on their mobile phones/electronic gadgets without realising the essence of special moments of their lives like their marriage, birth of their first child, time they get to spend as a family, etc. It highlights the tragic conditions of today's world where people tend to get dependent on technology to a point that they don't cherish small moments of joy spent with loved ones. Here appears Sachin Tendulkar under the mesmerizing breeze of Luminous Fans in the commercial and stresses the need to look up and see how beautiful life is.
Commenting on the latest ad film, Vipul Sabharwal, Managing Director, Luminous India said, "Our presence in India for the last 28 years has given us immense understanding of the needs of our customers and we are convinced that we can play an important role in their daily lives. We believe in re-defining fans from a mere utility to a beautiful possession that adds to the look of one's house. We all know that beautiful things leave people hooked and so we decided to develop this thought into an interesting narrative to tell the story of our Luminous fans. At the same time, we have also tried to address the prevailing issue of poor lifestyle choices of our generation knitting both ideas into one".
Elaborating on the thought process behind the campaign, Chandana Agarwal, Branch Head, Soho Square Gurgaon, which is the creative agency behind the campaign, said, "Luminous came to us seeking an idea for the launch of their new designer fans. They wanted it to be well connected with the lives of the consumers. Taking this into consideration, when we looked at the society, we identified a tension which Luminous fans could solve. In today's world, everyone is looking down. Staring at individual screens and alone while being together. We thought that this was an interesting place for the fans to intervene. This societal tension of people being busy in themselves was something that the beauty and fresh breeze of Luminous fans could solve. Hence, the commercial was designed".
The new TVC will be aired on various communication platforms including movies channels, Hindi news channels and during reality shows on mass channels. Digital promotions of the new commercial are already live to give multi-media launch impact in cities across the country this month.


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Now so far the only video I have come across using this feature is a 1:05:37 long talk from Vint Cerf and amazingly, I have yet to find a bug… and there's only 1 improvement i would like to see at the moment.
So on videos using the feature you see a little TV shaped square with an arrow pointing into the top right corner right next to the Turn Down the Lights button.
When you click this it pauses the video on the main page and loads the video in the pop-up as you can see below.
This seems to work pretty well and is a nice little idea, but it can be taken further, now i have been watching this hour long talk and i want to watch the video in a new window after 20 minutes and the pop-up opens and starts playing from the beginning, which isn't a massive deal but it would be a lot easier if it resumed from where you were watching, like BBC iPlayer can.


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On the economy, the Prime Minister had outlined the global context for the Budget and had said that all countries were tackling similar issues. We were taking action in Britain that we were seeing having an effect. For example, just this morning we had seen the impact of the VAT cut on the retail sector. We had to also ensure that through the downturn we continued to invest in the future while ensuring the public got best value for money for taxpayers money spent.
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Asked whether the PMS was referring to Tesco when he spoke about the VAT cut, the PMS said that there was some suggestion from Tesco themselves that the VAT cut had been having a beneficial effect. We were always confident of the position that the VAT cut was the quickest and most effective way of injecting money into the economy and getting money into the hands of millions of families, including those who didn t pay tax as well as those who did pay income tax.
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New Center for Black Excellence and Culture will be a cultural space to celebrate and advance Madison's Black community
David Dahmer
Madison's African-American community is ready for a renaissance, says Rev. Dr. Alex Gee, Jr., senior pastor of Fountain of Life Covenant Church and CEO of the Nehemiah Center of Urban Leadership, and he is excited to announce the creation of The Center for Black Excellence and Culture, a much-needed cultural space to celebrate and advance Dane County's Black community.
"This will be a place where we certainly strengthen our community and nurture and foster greatness in our communities. We are going to attract and retain Black talent. We are going to build Black businesses and community leaders. This will also be a place where the broader community can see us through a light we shine," Gee tells Madison365. "We create this space and we create this narrative … and no one else. That's never happened in this part of Wisconsin."
The Center, as Gee hopes people will refer to it as, has the goals of fostering a sense of family and community; celebrating and teaching Black Culture; paying tribute to Black history; nurturing and developing Black business and community leaders; attracting, connecting and retaining Black talent; and providing the space for conversation, connection, and growth.
"There's always been this lament of who tells this story and who educates our kids and where do we celebrate our history that's been bubbling up from [Fountain of Life Church] parishioners and from families we've served at Nehemiah to when I've worked on campus for years," Gee says. "People who were new to Madison felt it was hard to connect because they lived in communities previously where there was a clear demarcation of 'Black space' – where the could be a celebration of art and culture.
"I actually think that the lack of that kind of space is what helps to exacerbate the disparities that we have," Gee adds.
Those racial disparities are well-documented in the city of Madison, often recognized as one of the best places to live in the United States for its White residents, but one of the worst places to live for its African-American citizens.
"I got to a point where I wanted to stop merely quoting these statistics and not offer solutions. This Center is a solution," Gee says. "We can't control the whole world; but we can control about three and a half acres to send a message to the city, county and state that there is space where we are going to proliferate and celebrate the contributions of African Americans."
The new The Center for Black Excellence and Culture will be located on 3.5 acres on the 700 block of W. Badger Rd. just off the Beltline Highway and close to Park Street. Longtime Southsiders will remember that there was a large self-serve car wash there for many years that was demolished in 2014.
"We acquired the property 10 years ago because we wanted to send the message that gentrification is not going to happen here and that this is going to be a place where we always celebrate our history and our contributions to his area, this country and this world," Gee says.
This picture of the former car wash on West Badger Road next to Fountain of Life Covenant Church, taken in 2014 before it was demolished, will be the site of the new The Center for Black Excellence and Culture.
(Photo by A. David Dahmer)
The Center, which Gee and others have been planning for a year and a half, will be designed to house core, long-term elements while maximizing flexible space for multiple uses. The Center will have the ability to adapt over time as new needs arise. Gee says that they hope to begin building in 2022.
"We've already been listening to community influence, and we'll do some more of that, about the content, about the performance space, the banquet space, creative/artistic space, business/incubator space for artist and technologically advanced folks," Gee says. "We will do some fundraising in 2021. We need to be building this in 2022."
The sentiment for many years around the possibility to have a space like this in Madison, Gee says, has always been 'Oh, yes, that would be nice.'
"I realized that we can't be the generation of African-Americans in Madison who say 'Oh, that would be nice.' We had to create what's not here rather than lamenting what's not here. And this is using our skills as innovative and creative Black people."
Dr. Rev. Alex Gee
Gee says the new initiative will "bring together a collective Black brilliance to affirm, inspire and advance the Black community." He is adamant about people referring to The Center for Black Excellence and Culture as "The Center."
"We used to call the South Madison Neighborhood Center 'The Center.' So we've purposely nicknamed The Center for Black Excellence and Culture 'The Center' because for our old-school African-American population we are communicating to them that we have not forgotten the gathering space that was for children and adults," he says. "It's where we learned crafts and where we learned culture. It's where I got one of my first mentors. It was central to our community and it was everyone's center, whether you lived in close proximity or not.
"For me, it's my subtle way of saying that I have not forgotten the older Black Madisonians," Gee continues. "For those of us who grew up in south Madison, that was our hub … that was our headquarters. Next to the church, that center was the most sacred collective space we had and I want the spirit of that to continue with this new center."
The last time Gee and Madison365 had talked about this, the new building was going to be called the African American Center for Culture and Advancement.
"What we realized with my trip to Ghana is that we as African Americans have not stood on the strength of the whole African diaspora, so we have intentionally named this The Center for Black Excellence and Culture because we are going to partner with the African – West African, specifically – and Caribbean Black culture to tell that collective Black story. So there will be a strong trace of pan-Africanism in this as we draw not only the African-American community but the African, Caribbean. I'm so excited about that."
Gee says that it is going to take a community-wide effort to enable those collaborations that will, someday, drive positive change and lessen Madison's racial disparities. He adds that he's excited to be breaking the news through Madison365.
"You've been here since back in the day and I appreciate that. We have watched how African-American people have made Madison better for everyone. We need a place where we honor those folks, as well," Gee says. "So this will not just tell the story of folks who have lived and are no longer alive. Our living legacy folks are still around and we have to tell the stories of how these people shaped Madison for everyone and I do believe that Madison can be attractive to a broad spectrum of people.
"There is a need for art and innovation that speaks to us that we shape," Gee adds. "We've never been able to tell our stories; others have told it for us. So many of our children have been fed that. This is a way to right so many wrongs and to proliferate and support the African-American community."
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Friends of Innerpeffray Library Talk
19th November 2018 21st November 2018 By Rita Bradd
Following a visit to Innerpeffrey Library in 2017 to hear a talk on The Scottish Diaspora Tapestry with a friend from Adelaide, I received a request to give an illustrated talk to Friends of Innerpeffray Library, near Crieff, Scotland.
Thanks to Friends Of Innerpeffray Library Programme, I took this from their page of events for 2018 on their website https://friendsofinnerpeffraylibrary.com/meetings-and-events
"8th August Rita Bradd: The Final Voyage of Clipper Ship City of Adelaide (1864)
The remarkable story of one woman's obsession and how far she was prepared to go to see it through was the subject of the August talk. Poet Rita Bradd's passion for tall ships led her to HMS Carrick, a dilapidated old wreck of a 19th century clipper ship which was slowly disintegrating at the Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine. However, this particular clipper, the oldest surviving clipper in the world, has a fascinating history having started life as a migrant ship called City of Adelaide. When she was scheduled for demolition, the city of Adelaide in Australia won the bid to save her and arrangements were made for her to be transported across the globe on a massive cargo ship, MV Palanpur.
Panel AU27 of the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry showing the City of Adelaide. This was stitched by Rosemary McKay and was part of the display at Morrison's Academy in 2017.
Read more at: http://www.scottishdiasporatapestry.org/au27-the-city-of-adelaide
Rita had been following the fate of the ship and applied for permission for accompany her on her final voyage. Thus began an intrepid 22,000 km, 10 week journey to see the ship safely delivered to her new home. Thanks to her extensive research, Rita was lucky enough to source a copy of a diary written on the ship's maiden voyage and she has written a parallel diary of her own to commemorate this momentous trip. Rita's talk links back to last year's FOIL talk and exhibition about the Scottish Diaspora tapestry which featured this panel which depicted The City of Adelaide in her heyday."
I was given a tour of the library in the early afternoon and saw many books, some hundreds of years old, and interesting items on display. Following the talk, I was granted lifelong membership of the library and was presented with a beautiful floral bouquet.
Check https://www.facebook.com/ClipperShipCoA/ for the continuing story of City of Adelaide
Tagged 10 weeks, 1864 clipper ship "City of Adelaide", 22000, Adelaide, Andrew Crummy, Dordrecht, FOIL, Friends of Innerpeffray Library, MV Palanpur, oldest lending Library in Scotland, Rita Bradd, Rosemary McKay, Rotterdam, Scottish Diaspora Tapestry, South Australia, SV Carrick, The Netherlands, voyage on heavy-lift cargo shipLeave a comment
Return to Adelaide, and Australian Wooden Boat Festival 2017
19th April 2018 15th November 2018 By Rita Bradd
One of Captain Bruce's great-great-granddaughters invited me to the Australian Wooden Boat Festival which is held every two years in Hobart, Tasmania. I was so excited to be going back to Adelaide as my first port of call, especially as I was giving two talks on board City of Adelaide, on the weekend of 3 and 4 February. I was met at the airport by my lovely, generous hosts Ian and Jeanette, who are always very welcoming, fun and helpful, and friend Rosemary who was waving the Saltire.
I could hardly contain myself the next morning when we went to Port Adelaide to see the clipper ship. She is still sitting on barge Bradley, however a good amount of work is going on inside the hull, such as scraping off the old paint from the iron beams in the 'tween deck and painting them with the original colour from 1864, planning out for replica 1st class cabins. New windows have been fitted into the stern where Captain Bruce's cabin was, as well as a very smart new South Australia Coat of Arms.
It was such a thrill to have two fantastic musicians involved with the first talk. I had understood City of Adelaide's honorary piper, and Commander of Clan Ross in Australia would not be able to come along for the evening. As I immersed myself in the sights, smells and feel of the ship in the 'tween deck where I was giving the talks, I heard the lilt of the pipes permeating through her planks. I rushed out and saw Des in finest regalia, playing the pipes. I was also hugely honoured that Adelaide-based international singer/harpist Siobhan Owen accompanied me on her clarsach (small lever harp) with my composition City of Adelaide : Farewell to Scotland whilst I read my poem City of Adelaide Bleeds before launching into my presentations to a well-attended audience.
I was lucky to meet Siobhan again in Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe in August 2017, when we repeated our performance on two evenings. https://siobhanowen.com/
My flight plane at Glasgow
Glasgow to Dubai
Award – Richard Smith, one of Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Ltd Directors
Award Mark Gilbert, one of Clipper Ship City of Adelaide Directors, plus others
Some displays on board City of Adelaide
Me in the belly of my beloved clipper that has iron ribs, timber cladding – what is known as 'composite' built. She's 5 years older than Cutty Sark which is of the same construction.
My good friends and hosts, Jeanette and Ian
A lovely welcome
Friends Jeanette and Ian with Lionel, guide on board City of Adelaide
The amazing Des Ross, Honorary Piper for clipper ship 'City of Adelaide', Commander of Clan Ross in Australia honouring me by playing before my talk on board the ship.
Des and me! Chuffed to bits he managed to come along.
On the 'tween deck of 'City of Adelaide' delivering the presentation on my 2013/14 voyage.
The amazing international singer/harpist Siobhan Owen honoured me by playing my composition 'City of Adelaide : Farewell To Scotland' whilst I read my poem 'City of Adelaide Bleeds'. Here is her website. address – https://siobhanowen.com/
Tagged 1864, 1st class cabins, Adelaide, Australian Wooden Boat Festival, barge, Bradley, Captain Bruce, City of Adelaide, clipper ship, Clipper Ship City of Adelaide, Coat of Arms, Commander of Clan Ross in Australia, Des Ross, Harpist, Hobart, Iron beams, Piper, Presentation, Rita Bradd, Singer, Siobhan Owen, South Australia, Talk, TasmaniaLeave a comment
Book Week Scotland 2015
Hannah Lavery, Creative Director of Coastword, invited me to be part of 'Journeys with Poets' during Book Week Scotland 2015 which ran from 23-29 November. Recently appointed BBC Scotland's first Poet-in-Residence Rachel McCrum cast us under a spell of performance poetry, whilst singer/songwriter Kirsty Law delighted us with a capella ballads, and songs accompanying herself on keyboard. I brought along my clarsach, and read a few of my sea -related poems.
In the second half I spoke of my voyage on a heavy-lift ship with the oldest surviving clipper ship City of Adelaide/Carrick as cargo ship from Rotterdam to Adelaide, South Australia over the winter of 2013/14. We had a delightful audience in the cosy environment in the Library in Bleachingfield Centre, Dunbar, with refreshments and warm hospitality provided by Hannah.
With Rachel McCrum and Kirsty Law, Bleachingfield Centre, Dunbar – Book Week Scotland 2015
It was a grand night, thoroughly enjoyed by all, and a fantastic way to put Winter's chill on the back burner.
Tagged Adelaide, BBC Scotland's first Poet-in-Residence, Bleachingfield Centre, Book Week Scotland 2015, Carrick, City of Adelaide, clarsach, Coastword, Dunbar, Hannah Lavery, Journeys with Poets, Kirsty Law, Library, oldest surviving clipper ship, Rachel McCrum, Rotterdam, South AustraliaLeave a comment
Happy 151st Anniversary City of Adelaide/Carrick
7th November 2015 7th November 2015 By Rita Bradd
I am feeling very nostalgic tonight. Celebrations are taking place tonight on board Bradley Barge on which sits the wonderful, oldest surviving clipper ship in the world, City of Adelaide aka SV Carrick with whom I voyaged on board MV Palanpur. I say "whom" because she is a living, breathing entity.
On our voyage I wrote a diary in tandem with that of someone who was on the maiden voyage in 1864. Her Day One was 12 August 1864, my Day One was 26 November 2013, leaving Rotterdam en route for South Australia. This is an extract for 7 November 1864. This was her day 87, the final one in her voyage from Plymouth, England to Port Adelaide, South Australia. Our diaries are the core of my up-and-coming book which I'm bringing to a conclusion now. Keep looking back for more news. You are most welcome.
"A beautiful day. I woke about 5am and saw land from the porthole. We went on Deck nearly an hour before breakfast. The land at first looked rather low and barren. We were busy packing in the morning. After lunch addresses were presented to the Captain and Doctor. We anchored about noon. The health officer came on board immediately …….."
Tagged 151st Anniversary, 6/7 November, Book, Bradley Barge, Celebrations, clipper ship, Clipper Ship City of Adelaide, Diary, England, Maiden Voyage, MV Palanpur, Nostalgia, Plymouth, Port Adelaide, Renaming Ceremony clipper ship City of Adelaide/Carrick, Rotterdam, South AustraliaLeave a comment


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Eighteen individuals charged in federal court for conspiring to sell heroin
3 years ago By Savion Buehler
Eighteen defendants have been charged in federal court with conspiring to sell heroin or fentanyl-laced heroin on the Northwest Side of Chicago. A criminal complaint was filed against the defendants in the US District Court in Chicago. The complaint stated that eighteen defendants were involved in a mega drug trafficking operation. In this operation, they had to distribute almost 12.6 kilograms of heroin, over 23 kilograms of heroin laced with fentanyl or fentanyl analogue, and 2.56 kilograms of heroin laced with both fentanyl and fentanyl analogue.
According to the court documents, much of the drug trafficking operation occurred in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago. The law enforcement officials shut down a busy open-air drug market in the 1000 block of North Monticello Avenue in Chicago during a multi-year investigation.
The law enforcement officials conducted the operation under the name of "Operation Monticello's Revenge." The criminal complaint said that the defendants used that market to carry out their operation. According to law enforcement officials, most of these 18 federal defendants have been arrested last week.
John R. Lausch, Jr., the US attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Robert J. Bell, the special agent-in-charge of the DEA's Chicago Field Division, and David Brown, the superintendent of the Chicago Police Department, announced the federal charges in the court. Richard M. Rothblatt and Jason A. Julien, the assistant US attorneys, represented the government in the case.
The names of the federal defendants are Sam Howard, Willie Tate, Kelvin Franklin, Steven Dyer, Morrio Bonds, Antonio Lee, Dwayne Peterson, Anthony Davis, Floyd Stewart, Will Howard, Torian Johnson, James Hughes, Kamron Garraway, Savan Ward, Jeremy Hampton, Johnnie Daniels, and Robert Stuckey. Howard and Franklin worked as street-level managers of the drug trafficking business, according to the complaint.
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Raindrops, a Bar Hag, and Chickens in a Tornado
Yesterday you read about the ostentatious security and omnipresent elegance of my new working environment. This was the night before.
I was on my way to see the single-A Brooklyn Cyclones (34-24) of the NY-Penn League play the Jamestown Jammers (29-30) at their park in Coney Island. The Cyclones have a great stadium and they put on a great show. It is always fun and right outside the outfield wall is the boardwalk, the beach, and the water. They do fireworks on the weekend and every time I've been there I've had a great time.
Bear that in mind as you read this.
I live near Coney Island and by train I am only a few short stops from the ballpark. (Get it? "Ballpark?" "Shortstops?" OK, I'll shut up now.) The game started at seven and I wanted to be there by six because they were giving away jerseys. (Every Thursday is a jersey giveaway, another reason to like minor league ball.) I was on the train at 5:30 and at this end of the line we are as far from Manhattan as you can get on this train line so most of the people on the train weren't coming home from the city, they were going to Coney Island, the last stop. The car I got on had only about twenty other people, most of whom were wearing Cyclones gear so they were going to the game too.
Across from me were two young guys. One was about 20, the other was maybe 16. They didn't look like brothers but who knows? They must have been bored because they started elbowing each other, then trying to get each other in headlocks, then trying to flip each other over their shoulders and it pretty mush devolved into wrestling on the bench. It was stupid but not malicious. The one I felt sorry for was the middle-aged guy sitting a few feet from them and getting dangerously close to getting hit by a flying foot. As I said, the train was mostly empty so I have no idea why he didn't move away.
However, even if he did move, he could only go to his left. On his right was a family of folks ranging from about five to thirty-five. None of them were wrestling, none of them were fighting. What was happening here was that one of them opened a box of fried chicken, put the box on the disgusting subway train floor, and began eating, tossing his gnawed bones into a bag on the floor next to the box. He had a can of soda which he (and this is true though I have no idea why he did it) poured into a plastic cup- no lid- and sat it on the floor as well. Someone else from the family looked in the box and told him that he had no fork for his macaroni and cheese. He wasn't too upset. Care to guess why? Because he ate it with his fingers.
So on one side of the car was a wrestling duo. On the other side was a picnicker, You might expect the train to be filthy by the time we got to Coney Island but it wasn't as bad as you'd expect. During the match the wrestlers had overturned a bag they were carrying and more Starburst wrappers than you would reasonably expect spilled on the floor but they actually picked most of them up. The fried chicken fan took his garbage (except for a plastic bag that he shoved under the bench) with him and tossed it in the trash. So my trip to the park was off to an interesting start.
Normally you'd see dazzling lights from the amusment park rides past the outfield wall but they shut the park down due to the storm.
I got to the park, got my jersey, found my seat, and the game began. It was a nice day but there was rain in the forecast and a few dark clouds were overhead. Soon enough, in the second inning, a drop of rain fell. That was it, all I felt was a single drop. A minute later I felt two drops and then nothing else for awhile. But to the loudmouths behind me it was a monsoon. I will try to recreate their "conversation" as well as I can. I put that in quotes because as you'll see it wasn't a real conversation as much as it was a bunch of chickens clucking to themselves without regard to the other chickens.
Chicken 1- Was that a drop? I felt a drop.
Chicken 2- RAIN! RAIN! RAIN!
Chicken 1- I was at the parlor today. I had my hair done.
Chicken 3- That's two drops!
Chicken 4- Remember when we were on the porch and it looked like this and we felt rain?
Chicken 1- I got my hair done today. I don't want any rain!
Chicken 3- What if there's a tornado? The Brooklyn Tornadoes they should call them!
It went on and on. Remember, I had only felt three drops in three minutes so far. Hardly a tornado. After about ten minutes and maybe 12 more drops it really started to come down. Not hard, but a light, steady drizzle. Even without an umbrella and only with a hat I was OK. It was a very light sprinkle but the guy in front of me put up an umbrella. Not a big issue normally, but it was a huge umbrella that blocked the views of about 25 people behind him and poked the arms and heads of the people on either side of him. And the chickens started up again.
Chicken 1- An umbrella!
Chicken 3- It's raining now!
Chicken 2- RAIN!
Chicken 1- He has an umbrella!
Chicken 4- Well it's raining.
Chicken 1- I can't see.
Chicken 3- Should we go inside?
Chicken 1- I CAN'T SEE!
And then the skies opened and the game was stopped and I went for cover. And things got worse.
I was standing under an overhang staying out of the rain and near me were a group of three people. One was an embarrassed man about 18. You'll see why he was embarrassed in a moment. Another was a man of about 21. And the other was the 21 year-old's date, a bar hag of about 40. The woman was about 40, looked 50, dressed 18. Short tight skirt, bulging belly, big gaudy jewelry, thick makeup. Think Jersey Shore cast in a few decades and you start to get the idea. She was holding a beer in one hand and a cell phone in the other. She was going on and on (and on and on) about how hungry she was until her boyfriend ran out in the rain to a hot dog stand and as soon as he was gone she started hitting on the 18 year old who just looked embarrassed and tried to walk away but the crowd and rain meant that he could only move a couple of feet. Getting no action from him, the bar hag got on her phone and called some friend and started complain about the game, about her boyfriend who had gone for food "hours ago" and didn't come back yet, about the rain, and loudly cursing up a storm. The Brooklyn Cyclones get a strong cross-section of people and that meant that there were a lot of kids there, whose parents were shooting her dirty looks, all ignored.
I hated every single minute of it but unless I wanted to get wet I had to stay there. At one point whoever she was talking to asked her when she was leaving. She poked me on the shoulder and asked me when the game was supposed to end. When was the baseball game scheduled to be over? The rain delayed baseball game. There was so much wrong with the question I didn't even know where to begin, but that didn't matter since I had no desire to talk to her so I said "I don't know." She said, in a disbelieving voice, "You don't know when the show is over?" I was tempted to say "neither do you" but I just mumbled "no" and turned away. She then got on the phone and cursed some more.
Eventually the rain slowed to almost nothing and they started milling around on the field and I went back- as fast as I could- to my seat. The rain had stopped but not the lightning. From my seat I watched lightning strike all around the park but especially out on the water where I am sure some boaters must have gotten fried. There were too many strikes to count. I am one of those people who likes a cool rainy night so I enjoyed it, threat of imminent death by electrocution and all.
I didn't take this photo but it is pretty much what was going on that night.
The game started up again after an hour and a half delay but both the barnyard behind me and the umbrella fan ahead of me left earlier so I had a clear and unbothered view of the game. Too bad I had to leave in the fifth inning for the appointment you read about yesterday. I left with the game tied at 1 but the Cyclones went on to win, 6-1. If it were not for the rain delay I would have seen the whole thing. I hate leaving ballgames early but I had a big day ahead of me.
As I left the stadium I was hit by two things. One was a wall of sound from the free Cheap Trick concert on the boardwalk just on the other side of the Cyclones parking lot. The other thing that hit me was a soaking wet woman walking away from the concert. The concert was outdoors and there was not a shred of shelter so they all got soaked. She mumbled an angry "sorry!' and dripped off. I got home with no further incident.
There you go. Taken together, yesterday and todays blogs are the yin and yang of life in Brooklyn.
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5 Responses to "Raindrops, a Bar Hag, and Chickens in a Tornado"
Maxim September 1, 2011 at 12:48 am #
I remember that storm. I was in a plane getting ready for take off when it suddenly hit. Delayed they flight for about two and a half hours.
As for your experience, hey, it's NY! We got lots of crazy peoples.
bmj2k September 1, 2011 at 1:45 am #
One weird thing about that storm was that part of it sat right over the park and part of the park was dry. From where I stood I could see half the park blanketed by rain and half clear and the front stayed almost stationary for awhile.
But crazy people? You're right, and on the crazy scale these people probably hit no more than a three.
Thomas Stazyk September 2, 2011 at 6:14 am #
I don't mind colorful and eccentric people, but ignorant, thoughtless and rude I can do without.
bmj2k September 2, 2011 at 1:03 pm #
Yeah, there's a big difference. On the colorful side, (I probably brought this up before) I once had a car service driver who tried to convince my family that he was radio's Eddie "Rochester" Anderson from the Jack Benny show. He may hvae been old enough, but was much too caucasion.
The Hook September 3, 2011 at 9:09 am #
Awesome pics and a kick-ass title!


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Nigeria and the Rule of Law
Published: 28 January 2013 By Abiodun Giwa
Members of NANS demonstrate (Courtesy:Punch, Nigeria)
Nigeria is undergoing a test in the application of the rule of law. The lack of it has been
seen as having caused a sort of Mafia rule in the country and the siphoning of resources
that would have been used for youths and infrastructural development. Observers believe
that the country is still far from achieving the objective to be called a country under the rule
of law and they claim to have reasons for their views.
First, they cite the case of James Ibori, a former governor who the Economic and Financial
Crime Commission, EFCC, could not convict in a court of law in Nigeria but was found guilty
in a London court. And recently a case of bribery that involved Farouk Lawan, chairman of
the House of Representative's Ad-Hoc Committee for the Monitoring of Fuel Subsidy, and
the secretary, Boniface Emenalo and a businessman named Femi Otedola $620,000.00
remained unresolved. The bribe giver and receivers walking freely as if none of them has
committed a crime.
Ostensibly, the giver who claims his act as a sting operation remains a member of the
country's inner caucus of the presidency. It was why observers had said the bribe act
was deliberate to get Lawan, whose committee was investigating the oil subsidy scandal,
out of the way. One of the stinger's companies was said to be among the list of companies
under investigation. After the bribery, the company got a reprieve. It is a web of corruption
only a court of law can untangle.
The above synopsis is what frustrated Nigerians who express perplexity over the country's
ethical existence give as the picture of a country deep in corruption. They are worried that
rather than for the EFCC to work hard for the prosecution and conviction of members of
Mafias whose corrupt lifestyles are the problem in the country, they are saddled with small
time corruption cases that should ordinarily be investigated and prosecuted by the police.
In another development, a Nigerian, Henry Okah, who had been standing trial in a South
African court for several counts of criminal and terroirsm related offences that included the
bombing of Eagles Square in Abuja on the country's 50th independence anniversary, was
found guilty of 13 counts-including the bombing of Eagles Square in Abuja. The news of
the South African court's pronouncement of Okah's guilt was breaking news on 21 January
2013. Simultaneously, Edmund Ebiware, another Nigerian who also had been arraigned in a
Lagos court as Okah's accomplice in the bombing of the Eagle's Square was convicted and
sentenced to life jail on 25 January 2013.
Questions observers of events in Nigeria are asking is why the Nigerian court's
pronouncement has to come after the South African court's decision? Why did the EFCC
failed in its prosecution of Ibori, despite years of running in and out of court rooms, and with
Ibori obtaining victory in all the court hearings in the country, before meeting his waterloo in
a London court?
Discerning Nigerians are saying that something sinister is wrong with the country's judicial
system and that with such a sickly judiciary the culture of corruption that has eroded the
society will not go away. Observers say a country cannot claim to have a free judiciary, where
an appeal court judge suffers removal from office for his ruling against a state governor from
the ruling party in an election case.
More than six months after Lawan's confession to a bribe of $500,000.00, Emenalo's
confession to a bribe of $120,000.00 and Otedola's confession of giving the bribe, the EFCC
has manifestly left the investigation to the police and another arm of the country's crime
fighting machinery, running after rent agents and others whose crimes have no direct barring
on the country's endemically corrupt culture, and the use of the rule of law to punish crimes
to make others abhor it, observers say.


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Hundreds of Snakes Found in California Teacher's House
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"The stench is overwhelming," said Forest Long, Jr., who lives nearby in the Orange County city. Long said friends were becoming reluctant to visit because of the nasty odor in the area.
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Police said Buchman, a 53-year-old teacher, has been taken into custody on suspicion of animal cruelty.
It wasn't immediately clear why he had kept so many snakes in his house.
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A: What i final came up with is the following;
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If above fails, i fallback on a "extension 2 mimetype" map; based on docs/conf/mime.types (I filtered all common used files; e.g. image, audio, video, web, text)
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Sindh government to ban old buses after start of the Bus Rapid Transport projects
Sindh Government has decided to ban all outdated and unfit bus operations after the completion of mass transit projects in Karachi. According to the Sindh government's Information and transport minister, all old and outdated buses will not be allowed to operate on the roads.
Peshawar BRT is expanding its fleet with 86 news buses due to high usage
At a news conference at the Sindh Archives Department, Sharjeel Memon remarked, "This message was delivered to representative bodies of transporters in a meeting." He went on to explain that he had offered carriers the chance to invest in the transportation sector and bring modern buses or join a consortium to receive the finances they needed and that the Sindh government would provide them with the required facilities, including subsidies.
Islamabad's Orange Line Metro moves 11,000 passengers daily, needs 30,000 travellers to become subsidy free
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Pakistan's first solar-powered (100 MW) metro terminal will be functional in April 2022
Green line bus project was recently inagurated while other bus rapid trasnport projects are in progree and will be launched soon. In a recent development all 20 buses for the project imported from China were eventually relocated to their depot, and the Orange Line Bus Service will be established very soon.
Karachiites would soon be able to use the service because both the project's main tasks, civil works and bus availability, were virtually complete. Soon the different bus rapid transport services will be launched in Karachi.
Karachi's Jinnah International Airport will be powered entirely by solar energy
The next target city will be Hyderabad, where cutting-edge BRTs will be installed as soon as the relevant paperwork is finished.


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John T. Duggan, age 85 of Boyne City died Friday, February 8, 2013 at Boulder Park Terrace in Charlevoix, MI.
John was born on January 12, 1928 in Detroit the son of Daniel and Nora (Clancy) Duggan. He is a brother of Nora Marie (IHM) and Henry M. Duggan.
He was a member of St. Matthews Parish in Boyne City until he moved to Boulder Park Terrace in Charlevoix in 2011 after having a stroke. He remained there until he passed away on the 8th of February, 2013.
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Supreme Court Keeps Obama's Immigration Plan Frozen
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In a 4-4 split decision, the Supreme Court this week effectively upheld a lower court's decision to block President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Those actions, delivered in November 2014, would have granted amnesty to more than 5 million illegal immigrants – the parents of U.S. citizens and lawful residents. But while legal experts have said that Obama enjoys the right to exercise prosecutorial discretion when it comes to deporting illegals, granting them work permits and various other forms of legal benefits was beyond the realm of his presidential power.
At one point, it appeared that even Obama himself understood this basic concept. A year before his actions, he said that he could not expand his DREAM act to give protections to other illegal immigrant groups. "If we start broadening that," he said, "then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally."
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"Today's decision keeps in place what we have maintained from the very start: One person, even a president, cannot unilaterally change the law," Paxton said in a statement. "This is a major setback to President Obama's attempts to expand executive power, and a victory for those who believe in the separation of powers and the rule of law."
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Cyril -
The story of a remarkable, quirky and magical young man from Portmarnock in Ireland, this website fulfilled two purposes:
to create a memorial to a guy with a marvellous sense of humour and sense of adventure.
to publicise a charity foundation in his name to help underprivilidged children in Thailand, his second home
Cyril was born in 1977 of Irish and Thai parents. He died suddenly and tragically in June 2008, whilst living in Thailand, his second home, where he was fulfilling his dream, teaching Thai children. Read the Eulogy given by Brian, at his funeral mass.
The Cyril Duncan Siam Children's Foundation was set up as a registered charity in 2008 as a way to help to underprivileged and disadvantaged children in Thailand, primarily by transferring the funds raised in Ireland to the charities in Thailand.
The Charity functioned very successfully for 13 years, donating €150,000 to the various charities chosen. All of the Foundation's funds have been allocated in full (April 2021) and have been donated.
The Charity was deregulated in April 2021 and no longer exists.
Click on the link ' the foundation' on the right for all details.
The website was created by his family and friends to ensure that his magic never dies. From the two links on the left, you can read everything from his early years to his world travels, from stories written by his friends to some of his own writings. Not to be missed are the photo galleries, featuring many of Cyril's own photographs.
© Cyril Duncan Siam Children's Foundation 2008 - 2021
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Hearing Loss and Mental Health???
People who speak softly P*$$ ME OFF!
any micro bte's out there for this hearing?!?
Can someone please explain how voices work?
Has any of you ever had hearing loss from taking advil?
Is an ENT allowed to refuse to...?
Did you ever feel like you dont want to hear normally?
I've been in denial - It has finally hit me!


This year most parts of north India can expect a blazing hot summer with average mean temperatures remaining more than a degree above normal, the India Meteorological Department reports in its countrywide hot weather outlook for April, May and June on Sunday.
While north India is likely to see the highest temperature deviations – which also indicates drier-than-usual weather in that region – IMD's outlook says the average seasonal temperatures over most subdivisions of the country could be above normal. The regions with slightly lower-than-normal projected temperatures are eastern, east-central and southern parts of the country, the outlook stated.
The northern parts of the country are likely to face dry weather with clear skies and anti-cyclonic winds that raise temperatures The higher than normal temperatures there seem to be linked to global warming signals.
According to reports, maximum temperatures in the southern and eastern India could be close to normal, indicating cloudiness and good pre-monsoon showers in these regions.


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Follow two performers as they lead you on a journey deep down into subterranean caves, through leafy forests and high up into the starry night sky. Adults become little and children become great in this interactive imaginary world of ever changing proportions.
Incorporating animated hand-drawn projection, dance, sound, text and interactive digital objects Curiouser immerses and surrounds the audience to create an intimate yet spectacular experience. A show that invites you to be curious about what it might mean to view the world from a different perspective, Curiouser is a unique collaboration between UK based Flexer & Sandiland and Norwegian company Dybwikdans.


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Math/Physical Sciences
Room 1073 (across from Carr-Fles Planetarium)
221 S. Quarterline Rd.
Monday-Wednesday: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., and other times by appointment.
Free and open to the public.
The Bartley Legacy
"We are very excited to expand our community outreach to include science exploration with free interactive exhibits," said John Selmon, the MCC provost and executive vice president. "We also hope this will enhance and continue MCC's commitment to our community."
The museum engages children and adults alike in science education that's fun and interesting. Visitors will be fascinated by the tactile scientific investigation stations, which continue Bartley's legacy of and strong commitment to scientific outreach. The late MCC instructor, who resided in Holland, MI, was a scientific researcher in the world of bryozoans, which are aquatic invertebrate animals sometimes called "moss animals."
"We are excited that our students will be able to give back to their community through designing exhibits," said Kumpf, MCC instructor of geology and oceanography.
"I hope that the museum will inspire youth to pursue careers in STEM fields for many years to come," added Moleski, MCC instructor of physics and physical science.
John Bartley
From 1989 to 2011, Bartley taught geology at MCC. Highly revered for his teaching style by his MCC geology and math students, he earned their affectionate nickname of "The Big Kahuna." Bartley was equally beloved by MCC's faculty and staff for his kind and gentle manner, for being a founding member of the "Human Potential Committee,"
Dr. John Bartley
and for his omnipresent Hawaiian shirts lovingly made for him by his wife, Jackie.An active faculty member, he served on many committees and for several years was the Math and Physical Sciences Department chair. Bartley's love for science included the Science Olympiad. For many years, he volunteered as the president of the Michigan Science Olympiad. Unfortunately, just a few months shy of his retirement in 2011, John was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and succumbed to the disease shortly thereafter.
Help support this valuable resource to our community! Contributions to the Bartley Science Museum are being accepted in a number of ways:
online by clicking on the "Donate Now" button below
charge by phone at (231) 777-0226, or
by mail to: Foundation for Muskegon Community College, Muskegon Community College, Room 2109L, 221 S. Quarterline Road, Muskegon, MI 49442. Make your check payable to: Foundation for Muskegon Community College and write Bartley Science Museum in the memo line.


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Vienna Boys' Choir
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119 Matching Classical Music Titles for
Artist: Vienna Boys' Choir
Strauss: The Best of Vienna (1999)
performed by Karl Swoboda (zither), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Philharmoniker
composed by Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II
Ave Maria (1993)
performed by Johann Sonnleitner (organ), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Vienna Boys' Choir, Wiener Symphoniker, Chorus Viennensis (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by César Franck, Charles Gounod, Franz Schubert, George Frederick Handel, Georges Bizet, Jean-Baptiste Fauré, Johann Ritter von Herbeck, John Francis Wade, Joseph Leopold Eybler, Martin Luther, Wilhelm Kienzl
Wagner: Tannhäuser (1985)
performed by Christa Ludwig (vocals), Hans Sotin (vocals), Helga Dernesch (vocals), Kurt Equiluz (vocals), Manfred Jungwirth (vocals), Norman Bailey (vocals), René Kollo (vocals), Victor Braun (vocals), Vienna Boys' Choir (vocals), Werner Hollweg (vocals)
Merry Christmas (Fröhe Weihnachten)
performed by Ingomar Rainer (organ), Chorus Viennensis (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Uwe Christian Harrer (conductor)
composed by Christmas Traditional, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Gruber, Josef Döller, Michael Haydn, Uwe Christian Harrer
Christmas in Vienna (1991)
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir
composed by Anonymous, Christmas Traditional, Franz Gruber, Michael Praetorius
Mahler: Symphonie No. 3 (2003)
performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Vienna Boys' Choir (boy's choir), Wiener Singverein Women's Chorus (choir, chorus), Wiener Philharmoniker, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
Strauss for Ever (2018)
performed by Robert Mulchrone (soprano), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Salonorchester Alt Wien, Gerald Wirth (conductor)
composed by Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss
JS Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium (2004)
performed by Concentus Musicus Wien, Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Paul Esswood (alto), Siegmund Nimsgern (bass), Chorus Viennensis (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
performed by Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Lucia Popp (soprano), Martti Talvela (bass), René Kollo (tenor), Vienna Boys' Choir (boy's choir), Vienna State Opera Chorus (choir, chorus), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)
Schubert: Mass in E flat major (1995)
performed by Albin Lenzer (alto), Arno Hartmann (organ), Benjamin Schmidinger (soprano), Harry van der Kamp (bass), Jorg Hering (tenor), Kurt Azesberger (tenor), Chorus Viennensis (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Franz Schubert
Edelweiss (1998)
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Austrian Traditional, Christmas Traditional, Heinrich Isaac, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Richard Rodgers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mahler: Symphonie No. 3
performed by Adolf Holler (posthorn), Gerhart Hetzel (violin), Jessye Norman (soprano), Vienna Boys' Choir, Wiener Philharmoniker, Vienna State Opera Concert Chorus (choir, chorus), Claudio Abbado (conductor)
Neujahrskonzert 1988
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
composed by Emil von Reznicek, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss
Bach: Messe in H-Moll (1994)
performed by Emiko Iiyama (soprano), Helen Watts (alto), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Max van Egmond (bass), Rotraud Hansmann (soprano), Chorus Viennensis (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
Bernstein: The Symphonies; Serenade (1978)
performed by Christa Ludwig (vocals), Gidon Kremer (violin), Lukas Foss (piano), Michael Wager (voices), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Jeunesse-Chor (choir, chorus), Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
composed by Leonard Bernstein
The Essential Leontyne Price: Highlights (1997)
performed by George Decker (organ), Leontyne Price (soprano), Marilyn Horne (soprano), Mario Carlin (tenor), Plácido Domingo (tenor), St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys (choir, chorus), Vienna State Opera Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Albert Hay Malotte, George Gershwin, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Hall Johnson, Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss, Traditional Spiritual, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vienna Choir Boys' 500th Anniversary (1998)
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Kammerorchester, Agnès Grossmann (conductor)
composed by Antonio Salieri, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mahler: Symphonie No. 8; Symphonie No. 10 - Adagio (1986)
performed by Agnes Baltsa (alto), Gerti Zeumer (soprano), Hermann Prey (baritone), Judith Blegen (soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Margaret Price (soprano), Trudeliese Schmidt (alto), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Singverein (choir, chorus)
Neujahrskonzert / New Year's Concert 2017 (2017)
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Philharmoniker, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
composed by Carl Michael Ziehrer, Eduard Strauss, Emile Waldteufel, Franz Lehár, Franz von Suppé, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Otto Nicolai, Spoken Word
Mozart: Requiem; Ave verum corpus; Haydn: Te Deum (1987)
performed by Gerhard Eder (bass), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Members of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Chorus Viennensis (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Hofmusikkapelle (choir, chorus)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Orff: Carmina Burana (1994)
performed by Anthony Michaels-Moore (baritone), Barbara Bonney (soprano), Frank Lopardo (tenor), Arnold Schoenberg Choir (choir, chorus), Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Philharmoniker, André Previn (conductor)
composed by Carl Orff
composed by Anton Bruckner, Engelbert Humperdinck, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, George Frederick Handel, Johann Ritter von Herbeck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
New Year's Concert 1998 (1998)
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta (conductor)
composed by Eduard Strauss, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Joseph Hellmesberger
The Best of the Vienna Boys' Choir (Box Set) (1998)
composed by Anton Bruckner, Austrian Traditional, Christmas Traditional, Engelbert Humperdinck, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, George Frederick Handel, Heinrich Isaac, Johann Ritter von Herbeck, Johann Strauss I, Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss, Richard Rodgers
Strauss Celebration (1999)
performed by Vienna Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Wiener Johann Strauss Kapelle, Gerald Wirth (conductor)
composed by Johann Strauss II, Josef Strauss
René Kollo
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Gerald Wirth
Concentus Musicus Wien


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"I Was Ashamed": Kid Cudi Opens Up About Why He Kept His Depression From Loved Ones On "Red Table Talk" [VIDEO]
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Kid Cudi is again taking a moment to talk about his battle with depression, one that he says he kept hidden from those close to him.
On the next episode of Red Table Talk, Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones and daughter Willow Smith, will sit down with the Kids See Ghost rapper to talk about depression and mental health.
SEE ALSO: Jamie Grace Opens Up About Her Battle With Tourette Syndrome & Depression [VIDEO]
People posted an exclusive clip of the discussion where the rapper talks about why he struggled with revealing his depression to his family and friends.
"I was really good at keeping my troubles hidden, even from my friends," he said. "I really was good with that. And it's scary because you hear people say, 'I had no clue.'"
The 34-year-old rapper whose real name is Scott Mescudi, said that he made sure not to blame his close circle for living in obscurity about his pain.
"Sometimes, I let them know that it's not their fault. It was me," he said. "I really went out of my way to keep what I was going through hidden because I was ashamed."
In 2016 Cudi used his Facebook page to announce that he was seeking rehab for his depression and suicidal urges.
"I am not at peace. I haven't been since you've known me. If I didn't come here, I wouldve done something to myself. I simply am a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions everyday of my life," he wrote. "Theres a ragin violent storm inside of my heart at all times. Idk what peace feels like. Idk how to relax. My anxiety and depression have ruled my life for as long as I can remember and I never leave the house because of it. I cant make new friends because of it. I dont trust anyone because of it and Im tired of being held back in my life. I deserve to have peace. I deserve to be happy and smiling. Why not me?" he continued.
Since leaving rehab he's openly advocated for mental health and works on maintaining a sense of peace by using his creative talents.
"I'm just creating a lot, with more love in my heart for what I'm doing and for myself, " he said in a June 2018 interview with Billboard. "Living a healthy life, keeping my family around and staying on a mission, which is making music that means something."
See women in Hollywood that faced depression below.
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Influenced by studying fractal geometry in nature, he is experienced in shooting macro/micro and astrophotography.
He has developed several short film and visual art about alien looking creatures, the world of fluid dynamics, cymatics and generally everything related to various scales and movements in natural phenomena.
In 2012 he directed his first feature film 'Meta (3.1/km²)'. 'Meta' won the award for Best Documentary at SIFF 2013 and Best Photography at Premio Libero Bizzarri 2015.
He has recently collaborated with the production of the film Voyage of Time and Song to Song by Terrence Malick, and Darren Aronofsky's TV-Series One Strange Rock, providing additional footages.
In addition to this he works with other kinds of project, as well as virtual reality, art installations and interdisciplinary projects inspired by science and new technologies.
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FORT WORTH -- Mary Ruth Perrin Wilkerson Bartlett died peacefully Monday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2010, during her 97th year. Service: Following a committal service at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, Mary will be laid to rest next to her husband, Willie, who died in 1969. Visitation: Laughter and tears will be shared by family friends 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 18, in the Great Room at Robertson Mueller Harper. Born April 28, 1913, in Slidell, Mary Ruth was the daughter of Abner and Maude Williams Perrin. She was a graduate of Northside High School in Fort Worth. Mary Ruth was a life member of the Church of Christ. She worked as a cashier and later as a sales associate for Monnig's Department Stores. Following the death of her husband, Willie Wayne Wilkerson, she married Ralph Bartlett, who died in 1991. She was also preceded in death by her parents and one son, David. Survivors: In addition to her son, James and his wife, Joy Ann, Mary Ruth is survived by her grandchildren, Gary, Mark, Pam, Rusty and his wife, Sherrie, Connie and her husband, John, and Carol Ann; and five great-grandchildren. Robertson Mueller Harper Funerals & Cremations 1500 Eighth Ave., 817-924-4233
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Quoi est une chanson de Jane Birkin parue en 1985 en single.

Historique
En Italie pour enregistrer une émission de télévision de la RAI 2, Cinecittà, Jane Birkin se voit proposer d'interpréter la chanson du générique, Come un gabbiano. Elle remarque un autre thème des mêmes auteurs, les frères Guido et Maurizio de Angelis et leur parolier Cesare de Natale.

Souhaitant que Serge Gainsbourg en écrive les paroles en français, elle lui téléphone depuis Rome et il lui envoie le texte par fax.

Quoi est un succès, il est certifié disque d'argent ( exemplaires vendus). Philips sort sous ce titre une compilation de douze chansons de Jane Birkin en 1986.

Thématique
Le thème est celui de la séparation : .

Les paroles insistent sur la dureté de la situation en faisant rimer cruel et duel, armes et ''larmes'.

Classement

Notes et références

Chanson interprétée par Jane Birkin
Chanson écrite par Serge Gainsbourg
Chanson de 1985
Single musical sorti en 1985
Single publié par Philips Records

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Mr. Right knows me. Like, really knows me.
He bought me the perfect souvenir from India – gorgeous, high-end fabric so that I can include a little bit of India in some of my quilts!
One of the other pastors traveling with my beloved husband was a little worried I might be offended by his gift. He told Mr. Right it was like buying me a vacuum for my birthday. Because he's giving it to me something that I will then have to make something out of. So, in essence, he's giving me a gift that will make me work.
Which is probably true… for most women. But not for me. No, for me, this was the sweetest thing he could have possibly gotten me. Fabric is expensive and I try to be frugal with my purchases, only buying what I need and always using coupons. So luxurious textiles from India… those I can't wait to get my hands on! Plus quilting is my escape and something that brings me great joy.
Oh, and he got me this rose-colored wrap to wear with my little black dress. That was a good move too. I debuted it at a friend's bachelorette party over the weekend.


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Ysobel Naomi Gaviola is the living example of a rich, spoiled brat kid. She can have what she wants in just a snap of a finger. She has her own place, own high end car, branded bags and shoes. She even threw parties for her friends almost everyday and she is so used to this kind of life. But what she would do if one day, the life that she used to live is suddenly taken away from her? And she needs to work hard for it to get it all back. She can handle all the hard work and all the humiliation. What she cannot handle is the fact that she needs to work with the arrogant Alexander Porciuncula, the adopted son of his father that she truly hates.
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Use for traction on icy surfaces. Fell, breaking my femur a year ago. Very concerned now about staying upright. These give me some nonskid security.
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Hi. I've been administering our Lithium site for about 3 months and learning as I go. I took the free Studio/Administration/Moderation/Community "Foundation" courses online.
I also took the one day "Community Configuration & Administration" class which is advertised as being an "introduction" to administration. It was helpful and showed me the very basics, but it was too basic.
I'm looking for something more in depth about administering the system. Admin & Studio. One of the hardest things for me, right now, is WHERE to find something. I'm not a developer/coder but I can pick my way through some things and tell what's happening. I can understand a few things in CSS. I use the browser INSPECT fuctionality to give me clues. I wouldn't mind sitting through a developer course for understanding, as long as I didn't actually have to do some development.
What would you recommend? I've got enough budget to take a couple of courses.
Community manager in the Micro Focus Community. My computer always used to beat me at chess, but it is no match for me now I changed the competition to kick boxing.
There are a couple of Advanced Courses on Campus that might be a good next step for you. Advanced Studio goes deeper into the Studio interface and common use cases. Advanced Developer goes another step further and focuses on the different entry points for Community customization and examines different code samples. If you would like to chat briefly before committing to these classes feel free to send me a message and we can set up a brief call.
Thanks. I read about them on hte Lithium Campus site. They look like they would be helpful. It's nice that they're eLearning classes as well. Thanks for the recommendation.


About 200 years ago, seventeen concealed miniature coffins were discovered in a cave in Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat, Scotland. No-one knows who put the tiny coffins there and why. It's a most curios find that to this day remain an unsolved enigma.
It all started in June 1836, when three Scottish boys who were out hunting rabbits discovered a small cave in the rock, hidden behind three pointed slabs of slate. Concealed within were 17 miniature coffins.
According to Charles Fort, (1874-1932), an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena the coffins were only "three or four inches long.
In the coffins were miniature wooden figures. They were dressed differently in both style and material. There were two tiers of eight coffins each, and a third one begun, with one coffin.
On July 16,1836, the Scotsman reported several of the figures were either badly damaged or lost altogether as the decrepit-looking cache provided convenient fodder for the boys to pelt one another with. Fortunately, some of the coffins were still intact and they were sold to a Robert Frazier, a South Andrews Street jeweler and private collector where they remained until being donated to donated to the National Museum of Scotland in 1901. Only eight figures, in varying states of decay, survive.
Ever since the coffins discovered, experts and laymen alike have put forward a number of a number of interesting and sometimes even incredible theories that attempt to explain who placed the artifacts in the cave and why.
Scotland has long been a country where many people were and some still are superstitious.
"Our own opinion would be – had we not some years ago abjured witchcraft and demonology – that there are still some of the weird sisters hovering about Mushat's Cairn [sic] or the Windy Gowl, who retain their ancient power to work the spells of death by entombing the likenesses of those they wish to destroy.
Later different theories were presented. Some attempted to explain the existence of the coffins as a result of witchcraft while others suggested that they were perhaps kept by sailors to ward off death.
Another widely held belief is that each of the figures were designed to commemorate the victims of the infamous serial killers Burke and Hare. The murderous duo had ended the lives of precisely seventeen Edinburgh citizens less than a decade prior to the boys' discovery on Arthur's Seat.
According to the National Museum of Scotland "the figures all appear to be made by the same hand, although it's possible the coffins were crafted by two different people.
Some of the materials and tools used – wood, iron embellishments, nails, a sharp, hooked knife – indicate the coffins could have been fashioned by a shoemaker.
The figures seem to form a set, and their upright bearing, flat feet and swinging arms suggest they may have been toy soldiers. Their eyes are open, making it unlikely they were originally designed as corpses.
Some of the figures are missing their arms – perhaps removed so that they would fit in the coffins.
Today, the remaining eight coffins and their contents are on display to the public at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street.
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