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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative The 23rd Annual International Small Print Show and Holiday Sale

Chicago Printmakers Collaborative

The 23rd Annual International Small Print Show
and Holiday Sale

Opening: Saturday and Sunday, December 1st & 2nd
11 - 7pm, both days with special holiday open hours,
12-5 Tuesday - Sunday (December 4 - 22 only)

4642 North Western Avenue
(in Lincoln Square, just across the street from the CTA Brown line
stop at Western - easy peasy!)

GORGEOUS, whimsical, fun and AFFORDABLE works on paper.
We've been doing this for 23 years, and it just keeps getting freakingly better!
We can't WAIT to see you and show you around!

During the opening weekend, December 1-2, the CPC is thrilled to present the remarkably gorgeous jewelry of Roulette 18, featuring Chicago-based designers Rhonda Welbel and Lyn Pusztai. Imaginatively realized in sterling silver, the Roulette 18 style blends sophisticated contemporary trends with soulful ethnic influences, and classic symbolism is accented with carefully selected gemstones throughout the entire collection:

Participating Artists:

Grazvyda Andrijauskaite (Lithuania), Colleen Aufderheide, George Bodmer, Corinna Button (UK), Eva Christensen, Brenda Friedman, Marnie Galloway, Christine Gendre-Bergere (France), Sanya Glisic, Misha Goro, Dan Grzeca, Patrick Herndon, Todd Irwin, Ryan Kapp, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Scott Kiefer, Eunji Kim (Korea), Jo Ana Kubiak, Carol Lader, Deborah Maris Lader, Jeff Lassahn, Kim Laurel, Letterform, Siu Jane Liu (China), Bart Longacre, Dan MacAdam, Maggie Marlin, Ray Maseman, Michelle McCoy, Bert Menco, Maria Mungai, Ashley Nason, Dennis O'Malley, Mary O'Shaughnessy, Artemio Rodriguez (Mexico), Maria Sanchez, Jeff Sippel, Sarah Smelser, Starshaped Press (Jen Farrell), Megan Sterling, Shawn Stucky, Kyra Termini, Charlie Van Gilder, Amy Ventura, Scott Westgard, Cleo Wilkinson (Australia), Nele Zirnite (Latvia)

The exhibition runs through January 26, 2013

Or check out more small prints from the show on our Facebook Page!
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« Selections from Vedem to be performed by Opera Orlando, November 5, 2017 | Main | New Recording Sessions »

THE SCARLET LETTER CD - Naxos release is Aug. 11, 2017

Under Greg Carpenter's leadership, Opera Colorado brilliantly brought The Scarlet Letter to life in May 2016. A generous grant from The Sorel Organization enabled us to capture the live performance for this CD, which Naxos is releasing on August 11, 2017. Librettist David Mason and I are so grateful to conductor Ari Pelto, chorus master John Baril, the stellar cast and creative team, as well as recording engineers Marlan Barry and Jamey Lamar, for their efforts in producing this exceptional recording. We are so honored to be part of Naxos' catalogue of American Opera Classics.

To order the CD, please click here.

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One. Million. Files. —

A little milestone went by in the last day or so: my site has now surpassed 1,000,000 files hosted. (Actually, more like 1,029,000 and growing, but still, a friggin’ million.)

I don’t really go out of my way to talk about that site all that much, mostly because of the fact that it’s a legal threat magnet; hardly a month goes by without someone, somewhere, representing somebody, going bugfuck on me for having something on there they don’t like. As a result, I don’t publicize it and I truly intend never to monetize it.

If you haven’t been there, is basically a massive collection of all those crappy shareware CD-ROMs being sold in stores, meets, online and elsewhere, which quickly became called “shovelware” because the “creators” of the CDs would shovel thousands of programs onto a CD-ROM and then sell it as a new product. In many cases, these guys would almost make it sound like they “created” the stuff themselves, instead of the fact they were putting it all on the backs of other guys who were distributing these files under a shareware license.

Without getting too much into the whole ownership thing, the fact is that people were out there collecting everything they could find on BBSes to sell it, usually without checking too closely what that stuff was. Then again, copyright infringement wasn’t the new crack, either, so some of these CDs are a bit wild and wooly in terms of content.

There’s mostly DOS and Windows-related discs, but also stuff for Atari, Apple II, Amiga, and what could best be described as “other”. And like I said, there’s over a million of them. Programs, pictures, songs, textfiles…. everything you could imagine, that someone might put online, probably has a few examples in this collection. To be sure, there’s a ton of doubled stuff, but in many cases I have various versions of a specific program or file, showing that all-too-important-and-easily-lost progression of a work over years. Why just see the last in a lineage that goes back a decade? So this thing is basically one huge-ass beneficial learning tool.

The primary beneficiary of all this, of course, is me. I have used this archive extensively in the past, either to check up on a fact, review the functionality of a program, or read documentation or textfiles regarding history. Facts and files from this collection show up in the BBS Documentary, and I’ve spent many a fine evening walking these directories and finding something new.

It brings up a small but important point: there are political and opinion-related issues that these files essentially solve. While there are certainly cases of lies or deceit or other untoward human aspects being reflected, there are also facts that have become muddied and lost over time, subject to people making claims because no-one is around or cares enough to confront them. And people like me, historians, we end up repeating these politically-charged misrepresentations because we have to go by the word of the person, if we have no evidence to the contrary.

Here’s an example off the top of my head. While he was not ultimately interviewed (scheduling issues) for the BBS Documentary, I spoke for quite some time with Bob Mahoney of the EXEC-PC BBS (his onetime employee Greg Ryan does make an appearance in the documentary), and during an extended phone call, he dropped a bit of a bomb.

He claimed he had come up with the name “ZIP” for extensions.

See, that’s quite a claim, and he said “I chose ZIP for Phil Katz when he asked me to come up with one, because it represented ‘fast’, like zipping around, and it was kind of sexy, like ‘zipper’, and I knew people would respond to it.”

Well, you see, Phil Katz died in 2000. I’ve never spoken to him, and never will. So I have no way to verify it.

Unless I go to the files! So looking on for early versions of ZIP, I quickly found a thank you to Bob Mahoney, written by Phil Katz, thanking him for coming up with the ZIP extension. So there we go, controversy solved.

It is not a cure-all. It is another photograph, another album pulled out from the muck to allow historians to look up stuff.

It is of use to patent lawyers who need to cite earlier examples of a concept before some bastard makes 20 cents every time you buy a mug on ebay, or play a song in your browser.

It’s of use to people who want to remember how far we’ve come, looking at grotty, poor graphics (which, by the way, we loved) and simple one-level games. One of the real advantages of digital history is that, with a relatively minor amount of effort via emulators and wiring to old systems, we can experience the past in almost the same sense as it originally was intended to be experienced.

And it’s certainly of use to a bevy of names, places, and people who accomplished so much with so relatively little, preserving their identities in the modern era, when so much information could easily be lost.

I love that little site. All one hundred and twenty gigabytes of it. It’s caused its share of headaches and I’m sure it’ll continue to, but I can list a lot of reasons why it should stay up.

In fact, I can now list a million.

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  1. Bishoujo fan says:

  2. OricXe says:

    Why are there so many subdirs that aren’t mentioned? Not all of them are listed on the main page of

  3. Allan Clark says:

    Indexing by md5 sums or other checksums, forming filenames of multiple checksums (or file-lengths, even), would cause duplicates to be obvious… watch for collisions, though. I do this in my index. Using hard-links to generated filenames, then doing a “find” looking for >2 inodes, should show you which are dupes.

    Bah, I could be speaking out of my butt. I haven’t even looked at your files, so my “help” might just be a nuisance.

    You’re doing a mondo-cool thing, but you know that of course. Dunno if it was your choice. Few things are entirely choice…

  4. Tom Miller says:

    Rats, I only have 770,000 files online. I thought I had a pretty complete copy of the archive. I guess I will have to go looking some more.

    Tom Miller

  5. Jason Scott says:

    It’s been a year since I posted this, Tom! I’m now at 1,568,888 files. But who’s counting?

  6. […] hitting the one million file mark in December of 2005 and passing the two million mark a few years later, we’re now at […]


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Saturday, May 15, 2010

Ash's Final Thoughts - Iron Man 2 & MOHH2

Both games were shitty so expect a short review on both.

Iron Man 2 The game, horrible graphics, the pretty much only detailed thing in there were iron man and war machine. The gameplay was very slow, it lagged a lot and I swear the game was ran at 20 fps or less especially the last boss fight with ultimo. Oh and it was very dumb how you didn't fight that whip guy when his dumbass was all over the dam trailers, but you fought some weird looking people who probably aren't in the movie since I didn't see it...yet. I personally thought it was better than the first one, character models were better, more variety of weapons plus war machine is in it. The game was longer than I thought, they could have made it shorter but they wanted to drag the game with shitty flying missions that ere really easy. I think I never died in this game, and to be honest, while playing I didn't even know where my health bar was; this game was really easy in general, just gotta use your brain. I didn't like how you were only able to hover and shit instead of flying and doing other things like the first one. That made the game corny because who wants to play an iron man game and cant even barely fly, so it made it boring, plus he hovered slow. During the story, I was wondering when I was going to be able to use war machine, turns out I had to not continue story, but to mission select the next mission and then be able to choose war machine, which I thought was cooler than Iron man. The game had a cool upgrade sstem that only works when you mission select and not continue the story...STUPID; I kept on wondering why my upgrades weren't doing anything while I was playing. I personally enjoyed the soundtrack of the game, they were actually known bands with just the instrumental of the songs. I was also able to use different iron man costumes, which were cool, i think they had their own unique ability to increase a specific stat like strength, speed, etc etc.

So yea, the game was horrible, slow pased boring, shitty graphics, and dumb. Gameplay was kinda fun just shootng people, which is all you did really so it was repetitive. I give this game a dam 1.5 out of 5

Now for shitty MOHH2.

First of all, any army game where your ass can't go on your fucking belly is a pile of shit. This game is basically you against the world, you gotta do everything and no one helps, its bullshit. Your team just stays there behind a corner while you're 50 feet away from them and they are barely firing. Gameplay was fun, its always fun shooting people, graphics were fine, but I also thought the gameplay was very slow, you move so dam slow and the sprinting doesn't even last for long. This game had a weird way of spawning enemies, basically if you kill a set, they will keep coming unless you move closer, the fighting will never end so I thought that was stupid. The last mission was insane because once again you are doing things on your own. You gotta set charges and blow up pillars and open doors full of Germans which I thought was impossible to beat because it took me 3 days to think up a strategy and trick the game. Like I said earlier, if you kill one set of enemies, they will come back again with more. So I had to kill 2 enemies and leave the last one there, go to the other set and grenade both enemies but stay where i was because if i moved to their position and blown them up, a shit load will come. So I had to nade the two from where i was, wait till they were blown up and then run for the freaking exit dodging bullets and head for cover. I think I was the first one to successfully pass the last mission on youtube; So yay >_> but yea still shitty game! I thought it was kinda boring, no interaction with your team mates at all, pretty much the only talkin was the intro of the mission. Only seven missions, not really fun objectives too. Call of duty for the PSP was kickass, way better than this pile of shit though I thought MOHH2 had better details than COD; but COD was much bigger and better. COD had its flaws but at least I was able to go on my dam belly for cover. But i give this game a 2 out of 5, better than Ironman 2 at least lol

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Auto giant Toyota Motor Corp has joined hands with Kamaishi City, Iwate Prefecture to jointly test an on-demand bus system from the month of October this year till March 2015. The temporary hour units in the northern Kamaishi City will be linked by the transportation system.

The areas are affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake with the downtown area. The testing will be done so as to provide flexible transportation services for the people travelling to and from the temporary housing units. The housing units are in the areas with inadequate transportation infrastructure. The system must be designed to change as the infrastructure restoration progresses.


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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

I've been back home in Indonesia since 10 days ago. So freaking disconnected with the cyberworld.

Only managed to log on to check some stuffs out today.

Anyways, I think blogging will resume as per normal when I return to KL.

Till then. Ciao.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Pavillion Walkabout pt. 1.

I'm flying back to Indonesia in a few hours' time. Haven't slept yet. Still in the process of packing my stuffs.

I went out with two other friends to Bukit Bintang just now for a photo-hunting session. Because the weather was freaking hot today, we decided to stay indoors. We were hoping that there were some kind of events at the malls for us to shoot at e.g fashion shows.

Realli nothing to shoot until haf to take pic of myself.

S.Wang had one event relating to Chinese New Year which didn't interest us at all becuz we didn't recognise any of the guests/celebrities. I'm not even sure if those are celebrities or wut. So we skipped.

So we proceeded to Pavillion where we found some things interesting to shoot at.

Will post in the next entry. Gonna sleep now. Check back soon.

Friday, February 1, 2008

So my two-month stint in the Sunway Internship Programme has finally come to an end. It began in December last year and ended today on the 31st of January.

I hate farewells.

I feel awkward during farewells, especially when a party/celebration is involved. In my case, we just had a simple lunch at Nandos, sponsored by the company, with colleagues from the Finance department.

Lunch with Dekon colleagues. Missing in this picture is the HOD of Finance who had an urgent meeting at the last minute.

Then after lunch, at 4 p.m, there was a tea appreciation organised for all the interns by the Sunway Group HR people who recruited us.

The good people of Sunway Group HR. Thank you for the great experience.

There was so much food to eat. But I was really full from my lunch earlier. So I just watched people eat and took their photos.

Mandatory group photo

Mr. Geh and the interns.

An then it wus time to give out the Certificates. All of us had been waiting for this piece of paper. A solid proof that we've indeed gone through the internship programme.

Hahahaha, the presentation of certificates was actually a suggestion I made during orientation when I was asked what I would like to gain out of this internship. Glad that they accepted my suggestion.

and tadah... my cert.

and my name tag and door access card which I forgot to return.. but ah who cares larh!.

Now, time to pack up and go home, enjoy the rest of my school holiday and Chinese New Year.


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Monday, March 29, 2010

My First Card Challenge

I have NEVER done a card challenge before but I see fellow card makers networking and making friends and I just sit back with mild envy...I would love to make some card friends. So I have joined a challenge not just to try my skills but to network with card makers and make some friends along the way!

This is my entry for the CPS #160 card challenge. I hope it stacks up with the other card makers.


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So, we are all nontheists. Okay, but I am fascinated by ESP, and I'll tell you why: you can try it out on the internet. Prior to the internet, I would write my predictions down and seal them in an envelope. Once I opened the envelope, I would have to have a reason to open it. I'd forgotten what was in there. I never opened it. I lost it. Now, I just post something, a page or two mentioning all kinds of things that pop into my head, from a fire to a baseball bat to a celebrity's name, and boom! It posts with the date and everything. I can easily go back and say, "Look, two days before this person dies, I put his name in my blog". It is fun!

If you think I'm a troll, no: Jesus saves Green Stamps.

I am searching through books for the usages regarding psychic power. Authors do it since they are courageous. You could be afraid of what people might think, which is that you're crazy. However, if you go ahead, you get a lot of words: prognostication, foretelling, foreseeing, hypnosis, etc., and, there are noncontroversial ways to talk about it. We all like the odd coincidence.

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I hope your life has been good.
I hope it gets better.
Its Ok. Really.
Actually, I find many of SEB's posts vaguely threatening. Of course, it's impossible to be sure, since they're completely incoherent.
Augustine of Hippo was a Berber philosopher and theologian. He concluded that unbaptized infants go to hell as a consequence of original sin. He is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity.

"Any major dude will tell you
Any minor world that falls apart falls together again."

-Steely Dan

I always get original sin confused with the oldest profession. I grew up on Playboy.
This website must be in Central Standard Time. So, you don't have far to go to get to the Bible Belt?
I'm a big Shin fan. It's kind of like Metallica does hip-hop with runs in their nylons.
SEB wrote: "Augustine of Hippo was a Berber philosopher and theologian."

You obviously know little of the Berber. Do a little reading, learn a bit and then come back and you can tell us all just how wrong you were. But, really, if you are as prescient as you claim to be, you already know this and thus are just being disingenuous.

Really, you should consider seeking counseling, I am sure that you can be helped!

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SEB wrote: "Augustine of Hippo was a Berber philosopher and theologian."

@Carlos, If I got it from Wikipedia, how could I be wrong?

I didn't write it. The line you quote and I quoted without attribution is in the first paragraph. I just wanted to see what was the story wrt original sin; I thought it was Eve eating the apple of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

I don't care what the Berbers were. It's a carpet.

FYI, first, carlos, we do not dilute what we are saying by doubly weakening it until it means nothing, the way you do. Why do you do that? And why do you guys all want to be portrayed as being outside with the hats and shorts on, in a natural setting? Our phrase is "seek counseling". You are not required to improve upon the grammar. Your grammar is supposed to be super-standardized, and when you write look up the words, because the reader must be freed by the grammar in order to see the possibilities in his own vocabulary, to see if you know what you are talking about when you write, and not dragged down into the dust by hacked-up thinking with five words for every time four will work.
And FYI, it is not counseling. The weapons available to the mental health system outside of the prison system are electroshock, drugs, surgery, confinement, restraint; I hate those ppl. It has been shown that restraint itself will kill a person on cocaine. You should see the chemical lobotomy concept first-hand. All we have in our arsenal to match Stellazine, Thorazine, and Prolixin; to maintain parity if that is the benchmark, is Sarin and binary nerve agents.
Billinghurst, I'll give you ten bucks if you can write something I can understand...
I'd chip in to that pool.

I see posts like his and wonder if it isn't someone playing with a random report generator.
No, it is a thing where you start calling the person an "it"; do not try to garner support in the form of a brown-nosing appeal to the like-minded politically-correct anons on this forum. Use this opportunity to be somebody. Your generational mindset is not survivable and you are not fooling anyone. I am an it to you; you're an it to me, not a person. I hope that is clear.

I am commenting upon your notion of any "random-report generator". Look at today's paper, online, for an article by John Markoff, "Will Machines Master Man?"
Keep your money. It would help to know what something you can understand is. I would offer Hunter Thompson's obituary of Richard Nixon, called, "He was a Crook". I am sure you can find it on the web. I didn't even write it. How would you criticize that? You "may" be much younger than I. You probably think the Vietnam War went rather well, are thinking these wars are going fine, that the economy is on the mend. Good luck with that. The obituary I mention, although good, cannot make up for a total lack of background, if you are that young. Sorry, there are no pictures.

I got that piece from the following chain: the user below is "Mary Wood". Rose Mary Woods was Richard Nixon's secretary. Richard Nixon said famously, "I am not a crook". Hunter Thompson knew better.

Let me know after you read it.
I am replying to my own post. Of course, your claim to not understand what I write was a sham. That kind of lie is typical of the spawn of a country that allows war criminals to walk the walk and talk the talk. Take your little mouse and highlight-copy-past any one sentence of mine, from the capital letter it starts with, to the period at the end and I will gladly rewrite it for you longer, until you do understand.

Meanwhile, another coincidence with a lesson: On a TV program, Nightline or something, we have the story of a Sheriff Lee of Charlotte in Florida and a 911 call when a car turned left on Toledo Blade Blvd. I got the info by Googling '911 Charlotte Toledo Blade'.

I was reading more about Vietnam, a Wiki article on American involvement in Vietnam. This interminable war ruined my country and occupied ten years of my life daily, from 1964 to 1974, when I was 12 to 22. I hate this country as bad as the First Lady does.

Some notable events:
6-11-63 protesting Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc burns on TV
Madame Nhu refers to burning monks as a barbeque
3-11-68 The My Lai Massacre

I've just jotted down Vietnam War Crimes Working Group Files, Pulitzer Prizewinning series of articles on the subject of other, smaller massacres and cover-ups, as My Lai was not alone, Tiger Force of the 101st Airborne Division by the, what do you know, it's the Toledo Blade again.

I saw the monk burn. You sit there on concrete in the lotus position black, in the middle of orange flames ten feet high, with a lot of black smoke. That actor's Duc.

If I am a Buddhist, I don't tell you that. As far as you are concerned, I'm Buddha.

Buddha/Duc sits in the air around Charlotte County's Sheriff Nine One One Call Center for the call that might come in from a concerned driver (actually a Nosy Noserson) which will save his 21-year old daughter, to divert it. You say he turned on Toledo Blade Boulevard? He has a screaming abductee in the green Camaro? Uh huh. Didn't hear that. Sorry, not until you also say why there is a street named Toledo Blade. Did you think we would forget about it? Let you tell it.

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Lady Red Hawks suffer two tough loses in Paul Elliot Invitational

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ASHLAND, Ore. - The Simpson University volleyball team suffered two loses on Saturday, August 21 on the final day of the Paul Elliot Invitational against University of Montana Western and Southern Oregon.

In match one, the Lady Red Hawks faced University of Montana Western from the Frontier Conference. The height and experience of the Lady Bulldogs was too much as they defeated Simpson in three matches (25-12, 25-19, 25-20).

In the second match, the Lady Red Hawks faced host school Southern Oregon. The Lady Raiders defeated Simpson in three straight matches (25-12, 25-13, 25-17).

Kelly Tycksen led the Red Hawks with 11 aces, while Jenny Hopkins contributed 10 kills. Micala Drews recorded a team high 10 digs, and Kelly Brown led Simpson with seven kills.

Tycksen led Simpson in aces with 13. Liz Huntsman recorded six digs, and Brown led with eight kills.

Simpson returns to action on Sept. 1 against Oregon Tech at 6 p.m. in Klamath Falls, Ore.

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Friday, July 29, 2016

Kioke-Fermented Soy Sauce

‘Kioke': The secret ingredient of soy sauce

The Japan Times  by Nancy Singleton Hachisu  Special To The Japan Times  Jul 29, 2016

Cedar tubs: Yasuo Yamamoto stands in front of the large kioke (wooden barrels) that he uses to ferment his soy sauce. | NANCY SINGLETON HACHISU

Shodoshima, the largest island in the Seto Inland Sea, is not only covered in thousands of olive trees, it also holds half of Japan’s remaining wooden soy sauce barrels. Though the island has produced olive oil for about 115 years, soy sauce has been made here for centuries — and has weathered many changes.

After World War II, soy sauce makers across Japan were encouraged to modernize their 1,000-year-old tradition by fermenting in stainless steel tanks rather than kioke (wooden barrels). But Shodoshima’s residents — like many islanders — don’t always do what they’re told by mainlanders. They decided not to use stainless steel, and today there are still 20 soy sauce makers on Shodoshima who ferment the old-fashioned way. Yamaroku Shoyu is one of them.

“In the hot and muggy summer, the shōyu moromi (soy sauce mash) becomes active, making gurgling sounds as the fermentation accelerates,” says Yasuo Yamamoto, the fifth generation head of Yamaroku. “When I walk the planks between the wooden soy sauce barrels, the moromi in each barrel becomes noticeably more active, as if it is talking to me, telling me it is happy to be in my presence. We have a mutual love for each other.”

Yamamoto speaks of his soy sauce mash as though it were a part of his family. In many ways, the moromi is the past and future of his family. Yamamoto takes this stewardship so seriously that he and two Shodoshima carpenters traveled to the last viable maker of large wooden barrels — Takeshi Ueshiba of Fujii Wood Work in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture — in 2012 to learn the craft of fashioning wooden barrels: from preparing the cedar slats and bamboo pins to weaving the bamboo hoops.

Less than 100 years ago, all Japan’s fermented products — including soy sauce, miso, mirin (sweet cooking sake), rice vinegar, sake and pickles — were made in wooden barrels. There is a good reason for this: Fermentation relies on a healthy environment where microbes can thrive, where enzymes and yeasts can work in symbiosis. Kioke are the ideal vessels for this because the wood itself is host to millions of beneficial microbes. Some maintain that the kioke is more than just a tool, it’s the essential ingredient required to authentically ferment Japanese foods.

Microorganisms thrive in Yamaroku Shoyu’s 150-year-old ōgata kioke (3,600-liter wooden barrels) on Shodoshima, creating a complex, impossible to duplicate soy sauce.

It’s worrying that kioke make up only 0.1 percent of the market today. But there is a movement afoot to preserve ancient Japanese fermentation methods before they are lost forever. Artisanal producers are banding together to support each other and to promote kioke-fermentation through education and promotion. While we will not see them disappear in our lifetimes, they certainly could in our childrens’ or grandchildrens’.

It took three days for Yamamoto and his cohorts to learn the basics of making kioke, but years of practice to get it right. They made their first barrel in September 2013, four more in January 2015, and an additional four in January of 2016. The wood used was Yoshino cedar, well-known in Japan as the best for buckets and barrels. A chance meeting between Yamamoto’s group and the head of the Yoshino Cedar Wood Products Association led to a mutually supportive relationship with Yoshino’s cedar suppliers. Since the wood needs to dry for two to three years before it can be used, the suppliers put aside boards and slabs for Yamamoto’s group.

As for the bamboo used to make braided hoops on the kioke, Yamamoto searched Kyoto for the appropriate variety but gave up due to transportation issues. He then asked a neighbor if there was any suitable bamboo on Shodoshima.

“What?” the neighbor shot back, “Your grandfather and I planted trees for the bamboo hoops years ago. Didn’t you know that?”

Yamamoto now has no more worries regarding sourcing bamboo.

According to Ueshiba of Fujii Wood Work, in the 1920s there were tens of thousands of kioke makers in Japan and by the end of World War II there were 1 million barrels left in sake breweries alone. But within a 10- to 15-year span, the number of kioke dwindled to dangerously low levels. With the abundance of metal during the postwar period, traditional wood vessels were replaced with stainless steel tanks, and many coopers were forced to close their doors. Between the ’70s and ’90s there were still master coopers in Japan, but they were aging. Ueshiba is the last master craftsman of kioke in Japan.

Today, soy sauce and miso makers who still ferment in kioke make up only a small percentage of the market, but those who continue to use wooden barrels remain convinced that fermenting the traditional way is beneficial. Sake producers, however, have not remained as committed. The National Sake Association reports that by the ’90s, barrel-fermentated sake had ceased almost completely. But from 1997 to 2000, Sarah Marie Cummings (formerly managing director of Nagano Prefecture’s Masuichi-Ichimura Sake Brewery) and the late kioke craftsman Sakuji Shimizu took up the challenge to reintroduce this traditional fermenting method. The first sake produced in a kioke built by Shimizu debuted in 2000. Thanks to the efforts of these and other passionate people, there are now more than 60 sake producers using kioke in Japan (but they still only account for 0.001 percent of the market).

“Superior products are made in these wooden vessels and there is surprisingly little research to prove what makes them so special,” says Cummings. “We hope to encourage and facilitate research and promote Japanese kioke-brewed and fermented products around the world.  With cooperation, I do believe that the kioke cooper will prosper and I am confident that there will be more great kioke makers in the future,” she says.

I have seen firsthand the excitement and pride in eyes in these few remaining producers of kioke-fermented products — people such as Yamamoto and his dedicated team of soy sauce makers. If we support them, they will flourish. The alternative would be a serious blow to the traditional food culture of not only Shodoshima but Japan itself.

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Do you presently have a law firm that supplies legal services in your city? More than likely, you are promoting in standard methods. The majority of attorneys have listings on the Telephone directory, as well as they also position promotions in the neighborhood paper. A far better way to market the legal services that you could supply is to implement seo approaches. If you have a website that showcases the kind of legal job that you do, in addition to your contact details, you could easily rank your website at the top of the internet search engine natural listings as well as produce more possible clients. This post will certainly discuss what seo is, the fundamental techniques that you can execute, and also how to discover internet marketing firms that can apply SEO for law office to enhance your practice.

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ATU celebrates 125th anniversary With Fight To Fix The Bus Driver Workstation

Amalgamated Transit Union International President Larry Hanley released the following statement to mark the 125th anniversary of the ATU.

“One hundred twenty-five years ago, today, in order to “disenthrall themselves from the slavery of long hours and burdensome toil,” 52 transit workers assembled in Indianapolis, IN, to form the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees of America, now the Amalgamated Transit Union. It was the birth of the largest and most successful transit worker movement in North America – a labor union that’s still fighting for its members, and all workers today.

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Metrolinx is adding new stations as part of a major expansion. The Kirby site is 10 km. north of Toronto on GO’s Barrie line, in Liberal Minister Steven Del Duca’s riding of Vaughan.

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Today, September 15, Metrolinx issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for what it calls “Bi-Level Electric Multiple Unit Concept Design Services”. In a press release, the Ontario Government describes the purpose of the RFP by stating the following: “As part of planning the electrification, Ontario is undertaking a feasibility study on the use of hydrogen fuel cells. Recent advances in the use of hydrogen fuel cells to power electric trains in other jurisdictions makes it important that Ontario consider this clean electric technology as an alternative to conventional overhead wires. The Hydrogen Rail (Hydrail) Feasibility Study will inform a decision on how Ontario will proceed with the electrification of GO rail services.”

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On September 14th, Metrolinx announced at their Board of Directors meeting that the Presto card will now be enabled with functionality that will support the use of any existing Universal Transit Passes that student unions or universities and colleges may offer. This is an important step towards the province’s goal of fare integration, and this is something that students have been calling for since the creation of the Presto card program.

According to Metrolinx “The PRESTO enabled University pass (UPASS) program coming this fall will offer an automated solution for discounted fares to university students within their jurisdiction.” Robert Hollis, Executive Vice President, Presto presenting this along with other issues during his report to the board.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

Casting Brief

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you are born to stand out? - Ian, What a Girl Wants (2003)

What goes on when a director brief's the casting director?
What are the questions that could get asked?

Here is a clue to what happens at the briefing session, directors (starting off), Assistant directors (D.A's or A.D's involved), to casting directors read on to find out what you should prepare for at the Casting Brief and actors as well should also know so that they are not wasting time doing auditions that are not suited to them. In the meanwhile actor's looking for work do check out Facebook links to pages that have Posts on Casting / Modeling Jobs.

The briefing to the casting director would happen only after all parties have read the scriptscreenplay, or storyboard. Everyone should know what they are getting into before this meeting or call. Notes should be made and breakdown lists have to be kept ready before this meeting. This prep before this meeting could be as short as a few minutes like in the case of advertising, to a no of days like in the case of feature films.

Once the prep is done the meeting is called for, both parties should have done their back work or there will be more of these meetings. These are some of the questions that should get asked at this meeting, these are not in any particular order

Question 12: Any specific scene that the director wants to audition the characters on?

Question 13: Any specific props required for the audition?

Question 14: Any specific costume  / look required for the audition?

Question 15: Will there be call back for actors?

There could be more questions asked basis on the answers that you get, but these questions should cover call the basics that need to be asked at the first briefing.

Each of these questions has a explanation to them which will be posted in the following blogs, when posted these questions will get converted to links to each.

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Monday, November 19, 2012

Casting / Modeling / Acting Job Information Pages & Sites - Links

A lot of actors would ask me my email id to send their pictures, but let me tell you that 2 in 100 directors look at people pictures and would remember to call you when required, whats better for a actor to do is to follow casting directors or pages that post about work on  acting or modeling.

So I have listed a few links here to get people started, most of the links are for India, you can hit Like on their Individual pages or just bookmark this page to check for job postings..

Also check out the other pages related
Media Job Posting Pages India & International
Tips When Applying For Work
Careers In Filmmaking Pre Production
Careers In Filmmaking - Post Production
Webpages blogs magazines etc
Film festivals / advertising awards

Casting / Modeling Job Information Pages & Sites - Links

Aks Model Management

Aryan Casting Director

AD's  / Film's / TV

Audition India

Bas Ek Chance

Cast It Talent

Casting Networks India

Casting Raj

Castings World

Chennai Spears

Desithrill . Com

Eskimo Vie Models

Fade in 3i Entertainment

Fame Street

Glamour Calling

Glamour Hub

Glamour world Casting

International Management of Model & Artist

Inega model management

Irfan Archana Casting Director's

Model Book Online

Model Agency

Fashion Models Actors Singer Dancers Film Music

Super Model 2012

Pure Model Management

Purple Model Management

Rajshree Casting Agency

Shaun Model Management - K.L.

Shanoo -YRF Casting

International Model Management & Casting

Talent Promoterz

Toabh Talents

The Models Portal

Twiran Castings

Vivo Talentos Agency

*do let me know if any logo's or websites have changed and I will have that corrected.
** logo's taken from each company's / persons Facebook page.
***while adding each page make sure you check the authenticity of each as I am not responsible for any page.
****some page could go offline or be irrelevant.

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How to Love Twitter Without Going Crazy… My (Unofficial) Guidelines

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When I jumped on the Twitter bandwagon in 2011, I thought it was the greatest thing since bell bottoms and toe socks.

It was fun, chatty, and quick. I followed back most people who followed me. Conversations were friendly, snappy, and polite. I met a lot of nice, interesting folks.

Twitter changed.

It didn’t feel the same way it once did. Conversations seemed stilted, less animated and fun. You know—shallow. Me-driven and…dare I say it? Automated.

It no longer enchanted me the way it once had. The fairy dust had worn off. Ugh.

Now, don’t misunderstand.

With Twitter or any other social media venue, for that matter, a certain amount of marketing is to be expected. It’s sometimes a delicate dance along an ever-changing slope.

But, ohh, my gravy.

When it becomes an endless stream of Buy ME, “Like” ME, Kiss MY Grandma and her cute cat Mischief, it happens. Poof.

The magic evaporates.

It’s like taking that last bite of chocolate and having nothing left in our sippy cup. Kind of makes us sniffle a bit. Or…a lot. (Except hopefully, we’ll be a little more gracious than a two-year-old might.) 😉

As you know, I’ve often talked about social media, and I’ve mentioned some Dos and Don’ts.

Today may be a recap if you’ve read those posts, but if you’re new here or new to Twitter, I want to share the love again—because I still love Twitter and it is still fun (again) now that I’ve set some new perimeters.

First…here’s a cup of coffee. *hands you a deelish round of Caramel Coffee Cake*

Sip slowly. It’s hot.

Here we go.

How to Love Twitter Without Going Crazy

My (Unofficial) Guidelines

I don’t always follow back. Here’s why.

I love connecting with fun, interesting, like-minded folks. Now, that doesn’t mean we have to agree on every topic, like the same things, or even speak the same way. After all—same is boring.

But (I know. I have to say it.) the reality is… no one can follow thousands upon thousands of Twitter peeps. Those who follow that many people or have that many followers themselves aren’t really connecting. They’re number counting.

I rarely follow “eggs” (folks with no head shots).

I will not follow people who tweet spam, porn, nasty commentary, or endless rants. And yes, I check followers’ Twitter accounts before I follow-back. Those accounts hold no appeal for me.

Also—I don’t sit on social media all day. I simply can’t. I’m a writer, so I write. I do pop on and off throughout the day, and I often check my Twitter feed. Sometimes, I can’t immediately follow-back those I’d really like to. Not enough hours in the day!

However, please know I try to catch up at the end of every week so if we haven’t connected yet and you’d still like to, please let me know. 🙂

I will not play the numbers game.

I “follow” under 1,000 people on Twitter, and it still feels like too many so I’m in the process of paring down.

In recent weeks, I’ve unfollowed those who follow me (to boost their numbers) and then unfollow the next week, month, etc.

Some other instances I’ve unfollowed people include: inactive users, off-color content, non-stop political drama, or general weirdness.

I use lists.

Twitter lists are a great way to stay organized. Some of the ones I’ve created are Writers #1, #2, #3, Writers Resources, Social Media, Media/Publishing, Inspiration, Interesting People, and so on.

I use TweetDeck (though there are other options) to streamline my experience and make it more efficient.

I freely use my “Report and Block” Twitter feature

In the beginning, I hesitated to do this. Now, things have gotten so crazy that if I don’t, one spam account can lead to dozens more.

It’s better to report and block trolls, meanies, and spam and stop them in their tracks before they get out of hand.

And note—it’s a good idea to look at your profile a few times a week to see just who your followers are. These folks can sometimes slip under Twitter’s radar and we don’t always get notified who our new followers are. Settings aren’t foolproof.

I tweet one to five times a day. Sometimes, more. Sometimes, less.

For those folks who tweet dozens of times throughout the day? Please…don’t.

Unless you’re doing a scheduled chat session and you’ve given your followers a heads-up, this clogs Twitterfeeds and makes us want to use our outside voice. 🙂

I’m careful with automated tweeting.

Sometimes, I’ll use that feature to preschedule newsletter/blog info., but I’ll rarely do this more than a few times per month.

Auto-tweets don’t communicate the same level of interest or respect for your friends than a personal real-time tweet might.

I don’t have my Twitter account fed into other social media accounts and vice versa.

This is a personal preference, and you may choose to handle things differently. That’s okay!

Personally, when I see those “I posted a new picture to Facebook, etc.”  show up in my Twitterfeed, it feels too much like spam. Especially when there are more than a dozen in a row. Yikes!

I rarely respond to Direct Messages on Twitter.

Again, please don’t use an auto-tweet service thanking me that I’ve followed-back and then invite me to “like” your page, your book, etc. It’s impolite. And impersonal.

I think before I tweet.

Many times, we may think our tweets are going off into the wild, blue yonder. While it’s true not all our followers will see our tweets, some will.

I never want to tweet anything that could be perceived unkind or unprofessional. (Does anyone really care that I locked myself outside on the deck in my bathrobe? Well—other than my family who got a good laugh?)

Twitter’s not brain surgery, but refining our message is something that’s learned over time.

I don’t over-think it.

No, I’m not contradicting myself.

I do think about what I want to say, but I’m authentic. Real.

Twitter is a hoot (no pun intended) once you get the hang of it. It’s a social medium I enjoy because it’s quick, fun, and in-the-moment.

I approach it differently now than I did several years ago, but that’s a good thing.

As our craft grows, we do, too. Doing the same, ol’ thing the same ol’ way leads to stagnation and boredom.

No one wants that, right?

So, let’s review.

Tweet responsibly. Check.

Establish guidelines that work for YOU. Check.

Sit back, relax, and feel the love. Check.

You can do Twitter without going crazy.

And feel free to step away on days that you do. The Twitterverse will still turn like sands through the hourglass…

Or something like that. 🙂

Does Twitter make you crazy? 10 tips for a happier, healthier YOU.

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My (unofficial) Twitter guidelines for the would-be tweeter.

Have birdseed, will travel. To a point. Here’s why.

Will You Be My Friend? The Delicate Dance of Social Media.

Are Too Many Memes Hurting Your Brand?

Do Newsletters Scare You? Five Ways to Rock It!

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What are your Twitter guidelines?

What are your favorite social media venues?

How has social media influenced your life?

A few housekeeping notes…

This month’s newsletter went to subscribers’ inboxes this morning. Don’t forget to check yours! And if you haven’t signed up yet, I’d love to welcome you to my newsletter family.

I’m guest-posting on the Seekerville blog Tuesday, April 5th. Please join us for the fun!

And remember—I post here on Wednesdays and Fridays. See you back soon!

Much Love and Many Blessings,

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  1. Shelli Littleton

    Cynthia, I haven’t been over in a little bit. Oh, I love your new website. Gorgeous. I definitely need to re-do my website … not sure who to go with … WordPress or Blogger or something new? Struggling there. I already tried WordPress, but it was so challenging for me … after working with Blogger. Hmm.

    And I’ve yet to really figure out the whole Twitter thing. Hashtags, etc. Yikes. But your tips are really great.

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    Shelli, I’m glad you found my tips helpful. While there aren’t any hard and fast “rules,” those are guidelines I’ve adopted. It takes a while to get the hang of it, but I like Twitter better than some other mediums.

    As for as your website, it’s been a struggle for me to comment on some Blogger sites, while others I don’t seem to have issues with. Maybe it’s a conflict between WP/Blogger for some reason. I’ve noticed a lot of folks moving over to WP lately, and I’ve personally always liked it better, but I think it’s really a personal decision. Your site is so lovely and your thoughts so inspiring!

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Friday, October 14, 2016

MHA - Making Home Affordable

Making Home Affordable
If you are a home owner you probably worked long and hard to get where you are. Years of work and savings poured into making those 4 brick walls and roof your family refuge. A home is where important life memories are made, where family and friends can gather, and where you can enjoy a sense of safety and comfort. Your home is something that you work hard to call your own and should never be in fear of losing due to unforeseen circumstances. Foreclosure can be a very frightful thing and RIGHT NOW THERE IS HELP! Making Home Affordable is a free government resource that can help make paying that mortgage easier. Help from MHA provides incentives and flexibility that you might not have otherwise. Through the federal Making Home Affordable (MHA) program, 1.8 million families have received much-needed help by reducing their monthly mortgage payments an average of nearly $500/month. Foreclosures can have a devastating effect on families and communities. There are still too many homeowners struggling to make their mortgage payments or facing the prospect of losing their homes. About one in 13 homeowners nationwide has fallen behind on his or her mortgage payments, putting them at a higher risk of foreclosure. Homeowners should not feel alone, but many do. Making Home Affordable

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BMW’s New Hardcore M4 GTS Parades Its Muscles In Tokyo

The new M4 GTS is the latest in a long line of track-friendly BMW models such as the 1995 M3 GT, 2003 M3 CLS and 2010 M3 GTS.  BMW-M3-GTS

It might not be the prettiest car to look at, especially with those near-tacky acid orange accents, but BMW has infused the GTS version of the M4 with motor sport genes that include a stripped out, two-seater interior with the no-cost option of a roll cage and improved aerodynamics through the use of wings and spoilers.

One of the biggest highlights of the car is the addition of a new water injection system on the 3.0-liter twin-turbo straight-six, which lowers the final compression temperature in the combustion chamber allowing a higher boost pressure for better performance.

You will have to fill it up with water every once in a while, but that’s a small inconvenience for the 60hp and 50Nm boost over the regular M4 at 493hp (500PS) at 6,250 rpm and 442 lb-ft (600Nm) of peak torque between 4,000 and 5,000 rpm respectively.

Like so many other new track-focused models these days, the GTS is available exclusively with a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission that gets it to 60mph in 3.7 seconds or to 100km/h in 3.8 seconds, and on to a top speed of 190mph or 305km/h. BMW says it’s the quickest production car it has ever made, running the Nürburgring track nearly 30 seconds faster than the standard M4 at 7 minutes and 28 seconds.

Only 700 will be made, but at least this time, this special Bimmer will be sold in the States. By: carscoops

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Stamps Baxter Encore

After dinner tonight I couldn’t resist taking another listen to those Stamps Baxter clips from earlier today and ended up clicking my through a series of other clips from the same recording. Here’re two of the highlights by way of an encore.

First, “Every Day is  a Song,” which is both a lovely, understated number, and also written by Eugene McCammon, a leading figure in singing convention  circles who, among many other things, teaches theory at Stamps Baxter. I was fortunate enough to run into him at NQC and chat for a bit. Thanks again for your time, Eugene.

And finally, the crowd-pleasing “God Will Provide.” They’re taking the song several mms too quick for the lyrics to be fully comprehensible (stick with it; things get better after the first verse), but that hardly matters. It’s such an infectious tune.

Hard to imagine any good reasons why more mainstream southern gospel acts aren’t using more of this music. At any rate, its quality and memorability far exceeds much of what’s coming from the pens of allegedly top-tier sg writers.

Or maybe it’s just that everyone and everything sounds better backed up by such gobsmackingly good piano playing. Set me free.

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  1. Kevin wrote:

    I have to say it again…Tracey is amazing on the piano. :) These videos are making me want to go back in 2010!

  2. Deron Johnson wrote:

    As a two year attendee of the school, including the year that this video was taken, I have to agree: Tracey is among the best of the best pianists in Southern Gospel. She is incredible. She belongs to the class of pianists that aren’t showy players, but every time they sit down to a piano, they produce music that includes amazing theory and enough licks to keep you listening, but not too much, like Tim Parton and Stan Whitmire.

    Everytime I hear those kinds of players, it makes me appreciate their less-is-more philosophy. I wish more SG players would follow their example and just be concerned with making beautiful music, not trying to see who can flip their wrists the most or who can pound the keys the hardest. Would to God that more pianists would follow their example.

  3. MityCats wrote:

    Those are sooooo much fun to watch. Where can I buy the video?

  4. Al wrote:

    This is a most refreshing change of pace. I grew up on Stamps Baxter, Vaughn, Hartford. I’ll always love these type of songs, and that style of piano. Thank you for putting something good like this on here.

  5. Soli Deo Gloria wrote:

    I agree that “what’s coming from the pens of allegedly top-tier sg writers” isn’t all that exciting, but that is hardly a justification for “more mainstream southern gospel acts” to re-package songs like these.

    It’s “more of this music,” i.e., the same, tired, old, rehashed versions of songs, that are keeping people away from southern gospel these days in the first place.

  6. Shawn wrote:

    Check out They make a video of the closing program each year.

  7. Part-timer wrote:

    I was fortunate enough to be a SB in ‘97 and ‘98. If memory serves, “God Will Provide” was published for the first time in the ‘97 book and was written by Harold Lane. It was an instant hit at the school. I’m glad to see they still use it.

    It was my even greater fortune the next year (’98) to have Eugene McCammon as my theory teacher. There is no sweeter, smarter or funnier man in gospel music. Love, love, love him!

    As for Tracey — well, let’s just say that it’s worth the price of the school just to sit in the choir every night and sing along with her. She is magical.

  8. Shawn wrote:

    Actually, it was in the 1998 songbook and was written by Gary D. Tucker. Harold Lane edited the book for Ben Speer. My first year was in 1998 and I was in Eugene McCammon’s class as well. Brilliant mind and unmatched wit. I have many, many quotes from him scribbled in the margins of my notes.

  9. Extra Ink wrote:

    These clips are from a recent Stamps-Baxter, but not this year’s sessions. Tom Powell, Dad Speer’s grandson, is now back directing the music at the school after a hiatus of 2 or 3 years. The man directing the first clip in this section, by the way, is Gary Martin, from Scottsville, Ky.

    There are several similar shaped-note singing schools across the south, including the Alabama School of Gospel Music, The North Georgia School, and the Southern Gospel Music School of America in Chattanooga, which has been going for a couple of years and is growing quickly. All are fantastic and similar to Stamps. Many of the same teachers travel from school to school during the summer months to teach.

    Some really sensational songs are being written in this genre of music. It’s a shame that they aren’t making it onto more SG recordings. Some of these songs are much more inventive and engaging than most people in the SG industry realize.

    Some of the top songwriters of today’s convention music are Charles Towler, Marty & Ann Phillips, Eugene McCammon, and K. Wayne Guffey, among others.

  10. Oldtimer wrote:

    As a pastor if I had an unlimited budget I would call Tracey Phillips TODAY and ask her what salary she would require to become staff musician at our church. Nobody - NOBODY- sets such a variety of moods by mastering such a variety of styles. She is unequalled - and these clips remind us of that.

  11. rick wrote: acapella sing of one of Charles Towler’s songs

  12. Gary D. Tucker wrote:

    I Googled my name and here’s what I find… So thankful folks enjoy my song. Maybe someday a big name artist will record it and I’ll make enough in royalties for my congregation to construct a church building of our own… Like the song says, God WIll Provide!

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Sunday, April 01, 2012

Passover Re-enactment, Several positions still open!

Ann and I are organizing a special "Passover Experience" next weekend to commemorate our heritage. We are starting a new tradition of an authentic re-enactment of the Passover story. This is the first attempt in the modern era to replicate in true historic fashion what it was like for our people when they left Israel as slaves and entered the desert as a free, wandering people.

Preparations will begin in Israel. We have arranged for a free charter flight from JFK to Tel Aviv, courtesy of Manischewitz, who will also provide in flight catering. We have room for 36 people, and there are still have a few spots left. Please consider joining us, and RSVP immediately if you can make it. Gentiles are welcome as well! If you haven't had horseradish or matzo balls at 38,000 feet, you have no idea what you're missing.

Given the unfortunate political climate in Egypt right now, and the likelihood that names such as Avi Rubin and Haim Jewburger may be greeted with hostility by the Muslim Brotherhood, the first stop will be to an office in Be'er Sheva that will issue us all legitimate looking credentials with Egyptian sounding names. (I have to get used to answering to Mustafa.) The next 3 hours will be spent memorizing our new identities and our cover stories, and we will participate in a two hour crash military boot camp. Those who need it will be given voice coaching to make them sound less Jewish, and we can adjust skin tones with makeup, as needed.

How this trip is different from all other trips? It will become obvious as you view this itinerary:

April 5; DAY 1
Departure:   Non-stop flight JFK -> Tel Aviv

April 6; DAY 2
9:25 a.m. arrive at Ben Gurion Airport*
10:30 a.m. shuttle to Be'er Sheva secret office
Noon  Lunch, followed by fake ID photo session and receive cover stories
3:00 p.m. cover story training and checkpoint survival instruction
8:00 p.m. insertion into Egypt at the site of an ancient pyramid
10:00 p.m. quiet Seder dinner at the foot of the pyramids
Midnight: Transport to Suez, where we will search for the afikoman

* After the long flight and all that matzo, all participants will be offered courtesy enemas upon arrival.

April 7; DAY 3
8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Slaughter a goat and mark house entrances with the blood
10:30 - noon Release frogs and locust in the streets (we will pack these in Be'er Sheva)
Noon:  Kosher lunch in Cairo
2:00 p.m. Shuttle to the red sea, bring bathing suit just in case
6:13 p.m. Parting of the red sea (haven't figured this one out yet - stay tuned!)
9:00 p.m. Enter Sinai dessert for 40 minute walk representing years in the desert

April 8; DAY 4

Free day on your own in Sinai Desert

April 9; DAY 5
Non-stop flight Tel Aviv -> JFK for whoever makes it back

If this goes well, please stay tuned for other reenactments. I'm thinking of organizing a Purim one in Iran next March, if we can find a good spot for a hanging, and perhaps a Hanukkah one in Greece, where we can seek out descendants of Antiochus to attack. Or, maybe the best one would be an April Fools Day reenactment in Chelm.


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Time:09:15 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic g91 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Fiat G.91
Owner/operator:Aeronautica Militare Italiana (AMI)
Registration: MM6245
C/n / msn: 11
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:0
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:near Quinto di Treviso (TV) -   Italy
Departure airport:Treviso AB
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Crashed after take-off. Serg Magg Giampiero Zambon (28).

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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Yarn shop Hong Kong...

If you type this into Google you'll find a lot of between meetings today, I took the MTR to Causeway Bay to check out 2 of them. I found immense amounts of yarn, and some really really cheap stuff. But everything was packed into big clear bags, so the only way to touch it was to open the bags. I guess you have to know what you want and just go and look at the colors, because it's not really easy to browse there. I may check out one more shop near my hotel tomorrow, if I have time. I bought some Spanish mohair/wool/acrylic blend that felt kind of soft and looked nice when knit up -- I think it wants to be a scarf. I also bought 2 addi turbos -- I didn't even know what size they were (turns out 8 and 11) when I bought them, but they were so dang cheap I had to -- so I just picked 2 and went with it. Only $6 or $7 each, and they would have been much more in the states. I'm sure I'll find a use for them!

While I was working, Dave has been exploring HKG. Here's a pic of the big bronze Buddha on Lantau Island, where he went today. He also went to Ocean Park to see the 2 pandas there. I'm not a big fan of zoos, so I wasn't too disappointed to miss this. But don't worry, I did manage to have some fun too...for instance I went for a hot stone massage yesterday and tomorrow we will get foot massages before dinner with my friend. I promise I'm doing some work, though!

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Xin chao, Hoi An

Any town that offers a limitless supply and variety of peasant shirts in just my size, customized to my exact fantastical whims, wins big ups in my book. Add friendly people, good food and sinfully cheap cold beer and I don't ever want to leave. It's not that I want to live here, I just don't want to leave...and I hearby declare that Vietnam is my new favorite country, knocking off my previous love, Thailand.

Even though it's been drizzling on and off since we arrived yesterday, our moods were so relaxed in this little town that the weather didn't matter. We started this morning walking through the Central Market, where all the women wanted to touch my arms and my white skin, tell me I had a beautiful face, and then try to sell me silk post cards, cinnamon cups or tiger balm. I tried to find some local yarn to bring home, and a nice lady took me into the back of a shop and showed me a bunch of acrylic stuff that I didn't really like. She said that's all they had in the town. So I passed, but at least I tried.

The big thing to do here is get clothing custom-made -- and Dave and I got really caught up in the tailor craze at Yayla. Especially started with a jacket and a shirt...then some pants...more shirts...another pair of pants to match the jacket...a skirt...almost (but not quite) $300 later and we need another suitcase. I couldn't believe how perfect Dave's jacket fit him when we went back to pick it up, so buoyed by his success, we had to buy more, and that's how we ran up such a bill. Plus, everyone of course wants you to buy more -- at one point I was surrounded by at least 5 women -- one measuring me, one writing down the numbers, 2 trying to find the exact skirt style I wanted in their big pile of JC Penny/Cosmo combo catalogues, and one alternately trying to give me a massage and demonstrate eyebrow threading on my leg. Our favorite shop was Yaly, where Sophie and Vicki gave us a lot of help and many, many suggestions for more things to buy...

Beyond the bustle of the tailor trade, this town is so peaceful and relaxing, with hardly any cars on the road, only motorbikes and bicycles. Most of the townspeople are involved with fishing in one way or another. We saw a baby buffalo along the river -- very cool!

There are also penty of laid back bars and restaurants with fantastic and cheap food line the river and the streets. Tonight it was kind of surreal to be sitting in one with Beatles music playing. It's weird to think about the war taking place here, only 30 years ago.

We spent a 1/2 day touring My Son, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is basically a complex of temples that were heavily bombed by the US during the Vietnam War. These once rivaled the Angkor Complex, but the VC used it as a staging ground and in return, so it was a big target. We were the first ones there to wake up the gods that morning, and the legend says that this is very lucky. Also, we missed most of the tourists, who arrived in busloads just as we were leaving. We got to ride in a US Army jeep from 1968 from the entrance to the complex, which was pretty cool.

A big contributor to our love of this place is the hotel we are staying at, Hoi An Life Resort. It is definitely fancy, but so well-integrated into the environment that it doesn't feel removed from the town or country like a lot of upscale hotels in SE Asia do. I think it is my favorite hotel ever. Maybe I'm a little biased because we got a free welcome 1 hour hand and sole massage.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

No ATM in Cambodia...

...this is what Taa, our tour guide/driver in Siem Reap, told us. But in exchange for this relative remoteness, we had the privilege of climbing unsupervised over thousand year old carved steps, steeply ascending to smiling Buddha faces and views of the jungle...this place is so amazing. I can't believe the kind of access we had to these ancient treasures. As tourism grows, in a few short years, I'm sure the tourist access will be severely curtailed, i.e. more barriers, actually steps instead of crumbling stones to climb on, more protection of the carvings, etc. -- which is a really great thing -- but I'm glad we were here now. I mean, with very few limits, they basically let you lose to play archaeologist. There is some restoration going on now, to keep more carvings from crumbling, but they let some temples stay as they were, totally enmeshed in the jungle, because some of the tree roots have actually grown into the buildings, like in Ta Prom (Tomb Raider, anyone?)

They grow the cutest kids in the world (besides Sam) here. Besides being incredibly beautiful, this is an extremley poor country with an unfortunate recent past, a point driven further home by our tour guide in the war museum, who had been shot so many times and stepped on more land mines than I can remember -- he literally let us feel the shrapnel in his arm, he was missing a leg, blind in an eye -- his wife, father, mother, sister, brother, etc. were killed during the Khmer Rouge reign...and yet he was so gracious to show us around the weapons that had inflicted these tragedies on him and his loved ones. I can't even imagine...this year alone, in the Siem Reap region, 29 people were injured or killed by mines. It's just crazy.

But I don't mean to be overly depressing, because there are so many beautiful things about this country, including its people. All the children must study a language in school, and many of them choose English -- so Dave and I were privileged to spend a bit of time climbing after some creative and imaginative mini tour guides slightly off the main path near the temples, as they gave us their own version of history. And it was delightful to share some chewing gum with these little kids at Angkor Wat.

Right now we're in Hoi An, Vietnam, in an incredibly cute town which we are looking foward to seeing in the daylight. Sorry for my lack of clarity and lucidity in reflection, but the Tiger Beer is embarrassingly cheap. More later...

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Airport hotel Hong Kong!

I'm sitting in the Regal Airport Hotel in Hong Kong, feeling kind of hungry because I slept through the 2nd meal on the flight. I thought I'd log in. I tried to do some knitting -- inspired by Jessamyn, I attempted a basketweave scarf for a gift, but it just didn't look right with the yarn I had (more alpaca -- this time from Suss. I have to big-up that store -- the employees are so sweat, the vibe is so relaxing, and the Suss yarns are actually very reasonably priced). The combination of tweed and basketweave also looked a little bumpy and feminine, and this is for a man, so I'm switching to a simple 4 x 1 ribbed pattern. As soon as I figured that out, I fell asleep. But here are some of my different needle size attempts. The final ribbed pattern is at the top near the needles.

Tomorrow we leave for Siem Reap, Cambodia, and then after a few days onto Hoi An, Vietnam, before returning to Hong Kong again for some business. Dave, luckily, has 2 straight weeks off!

Before we left we had to of course visit Sam & her family, after we dropped off the kitties at my parents' place. Tell me this isn't the cutest baby you've ever seen!

I'll try to post on our adventures, but maybe not until next week.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Greta is done!

Last night I finished Greta! Yay! I just have to weave in a few ends and then block my beauty. I had a little bit of an issue with the three-needle bind-off, in that I omitted the "bind-off" part and just k2tog with the 3 needles...oops...and I had already broken off the yarn and couldn't figure out how to "un" k2tog. So I just tied on another strand and bound off again and it's all good. So I dedicate this posting to pics of me and Greta. Dave says I look like a woodsmen. I can't wait to wear this in public!

Monday, November 14, 2005

I finished the hood for Greta while sitting on the Great Lawn in Central Park yesterday (that's my friend Gregor trying to stretch my wings). It was such a beautiful day, and my new outdoor knitting sub-group member, Claudine, joined me and taught me the handy 3-needle bind-off, to save me from having to sew up the seem of the hood. She's working on a pair of lovely lacey socks on teeny tiny needles for her mom. I got back home and finished up the rest of the poncho, and put it on. It needs to be blocked, but still looks lovely and is quite warm. However, the hood was too big so I had to frog it. It's not easy to do that when you've already bound off, and I think I lost a lot of yarn and got a bunch more of it all fuzzed up. But it should be okay, I hope, since I'm making it smaller this time. I could just go without the hood, but I like hoods -- they make me feel very Lord of the Rings-ish, and I think maybe it will encourage Dave to be more like Viggo Mortensen in his Aragorn regalia.

On Saturday my freshly-married friends Cherisse & Steve had us over to their place in da Bronx for dinner and a raucous game of Beyond Balderdash with Jen and Joel. And the Irish defeated Navy for the 42nd straight time. I fear the winning streak is going to end when we least expect it, like next year...

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Happy Anniversary to Us!

4 years ago today, I got hitched to my hubby, Dave. It was a grand old party with fantabulous Fall weather, and tonight we're going out for a simple yet yummy Italian meal in the East Village to celebrate. Since we're going away next weekend, I didn't go too crazy with a gift, just got him a Fodor's Hong Kong book. And I'm trying to whip up a hat to match the alpaca scarf I made him in May, but I'm not sure it's going to fit. I know it looks skinny from the pic but the yarn is super stretchy (and super soft...)

The Greta poncho is really growing, and I love working with the yarn. I was secretly pleased at SnB on Tuesday when some random customer at The Point wanted to know where she could get my yarn. I think it's lovely, too!

I finally got my labels from Heirloom Labels, aren't they cute? I can't wait to apply them to my handmade goods.

In other big news, I had a little Soap and Knit party on Monday night to watch the debut of our SnB friend Nicole Forester as Cassie on Guiding Light. It was pretty cool to see someone we knew on the soaps! And we also found out that the fabulous Heather got a book contract to write a knitting book. I'm so proud of her, because she is awesome!

And that's all for now, folks!

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

M-L-A O'Hara

My very good friend Emily got hitched to her special friend Brian this past weekend. She looked so incredibly happy, and many, many of our college friends made it to her wedding. It was a grand reunion and celebration. And bring out the babies! This was were it all switched know, when you first graduate, your friends start getting hitched and you worry about finding a date...then people start bringing fiances...then husbands/wives...and now kids. This was the wedding of the cute kids and pregnant friends (congrats, Franimal!)

Despite the fact that our flights got messed up and we ended up renting a car in Pittsburgh and driving home, arriving at 5AM, it was a grand old time. And don't worry, KNIT HAPPENED, but that update will come later as I'm running late for a meeting now. I will leave you with a cute pic of my guru wearing the Wavy Scarf birthday present. That's me with her and Renee, a guru of another sort -- she recently had an article and recipes published in Cooking Light, and I'm so proud of her!

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Happy Birthday Red!

My knitting guru turns 31 today! (She's the one on the right. Incidentally, the one of the left is getting hitched this weekend, yay Emily!) My guru is the woman to whom I owe my obsession with the needles. She's always got time to explain something knitting-related, and the only person to whom spend more time talking is Dave. We walk each other home (her from yoga, me from wherever) even though she lives in DC and I'm in Manhattan. Don't worry, we talk about much more than knitting... I have gained so much from her friendship, and just wish we lived closer. Anyway, thanks for 13 years of fun, pontification and memories, and I look forward to many many more.

What more fitting gift for a knitting guru than something handmade? Voila, the Wavy Scarf from Knitty! Maybe Red will send me a pic of her actually wearing it, for blog viewers pleasure.