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this is a fox news alert. good evening. i'm bret baier. donald trump's numbers are slipping a bit following a campaign shakeup this month, as the gop presumptive nominee tries to redirect his campaign towards a win in november. the latest fox news poll and the first national poll completely post brexit vote shows that donald trump is six points behind hillary clinton in the head-to-head matchup. and after pulling ahead of clinton in may, his numbers have slipped seven points from 45% to 38%. when it comes to party unity, clinton does well with 83% of democrats saying they support her. nearly three quarters of
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republicans polled say the same for donald trump. trump is ahead with independents. 39% of them say they prefer the gop candidate and that is news welcome for a candidate sticking to a plan to win over voters in all 50 states, according to him. tonight, he is in bangor, maine, where we find peter doocy. >> reporter: good evening, bret. >> so beautiful. so beautiful to see. >> reporter: donald trump has a ten-point lead with male voters, but faces a 19-point deficit with women, according to the new fox news polls, voters feel trump is more honest, but more hot headed than secretary clinton, and voters see clinton as the more intelligent and experienced candidate, but also the most corrupt. a full 51% of republicans say
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they would rather have someone else as their nominee. the new numbers come hours after a fund-raising request e-mailed to supporters that explains the latest lie from hillary clinton that she is crushing me in fund-raising. so i decided this, if they want to make fund-raising an issue, i will make it an issue. i didn't start this fight but will end it. trump wants to raise $10 million by tomorrow for a campaign that's spent zero for tv ads in battleground states, $140 million less than the clinton campaign has put down for tv time according to smg delta and nbc news data. >> they said donald trump's numbers -- first of all, i don't know why i need so much money. why do i need these commercials? >> reporter: even though terror concerns aren't always associated with the pine tree state, they were front and center in today's program. >> isis is now worse than ever. you see what happened yesterday.
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you see what's going on generally. isis is looking strong. isis is signing up people over the internet. they know how to use the internet better than we do, and we do nothing about anything. >> reporter: trump insists he's running a 50-state strategy, which is why he rallied in maine today, a state where he lost a caucus to ted cruz, but it has one of the slowest growing economies in the country. >> that's what we want, we want our jobs back, we want to have great economic development. we don't want factories and businesses leaving maine and going to mexico and going to other places. >> reporter: we do expect to hear more details about trump's economic plan tomorrow. also in new england, as this 50-state strategy takes him next door to new hampshire for more talk about trade. bret? >> peter doocy live in bangor. thank you. president obama was in canada today and took a shot at donald trump, talking about populism at the end of a news
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conference there. take a listen. >> somebody else who has never shown any regard for workers, has never fought on behalf of social justice issues or making sure that poor kids are getting a decent shot at life or have health care, in fact, have worked against economic opportunity for workers and ordinary people, they don't suddenly become a populist because they say something controversial in order to win votes. that's not the measure of populism. that's nativism. or xenophobia, or worse. or it's just cynicism. >> donald trump, of course, uses president obama on the trail to rally republicans. meantime, operations are back to normal at turkey's biggest airport, just one day after three suicide bombers killed at least 41 people and injured scores of others outside a security check point. as travelers come and go through
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that airport, eyewitnesss to the terror give us insight into that attack. correspondent john huddy has the latest. a warning here, if you have children in the room, some of this video is graphic. >> reporter: cleanup and repairs started this morning not even 24 hours after the terror attack in which 42 people lost their lives and 239 others were wounded. and while the airport was busy once again after reopening, signs of the chaos remain. >> there are still parts of the terminal where the glass is shattered or blown out. >> reporter: turkey's prime minister said the three attackers took a taxi to the airport. one of the three blew himself up outside. the other two blew themselves up inside after engaging in a firefight with police. in the surveillance video, you see the blast from one of the attackers inside the terminal, and then the third being shot
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before detonating his explosive device. this woman says her brother is in critical condition, his body covered with shrapnel. most of the dead are turkish nationals, no americans are on the list of dead according to officials. while no particular group has claimed responsibility, turkey's prime minister said all signs lead to isis. >> translator: findings by our security forces indicate that this attack was carried out by daesh, even though the findings point to daesh, the probe is still under way. >> reporter: turkey at one time allowed isis militants to flow freely across its border, sharing a common enemy, president assad. but now isis has carried out several other recent suicide attacks in the country and vowed to launch even more. despite this latest attack, president obama reaffirmed today that isis is losing ground and
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will be defeated. >> it's an indication of how little these vicious organizations have to offer. that beyond killing innocents, they are continually losing ground, unable to govern those areas that they have taken over. >> reporter: now, turkey's president said that turkey will fight terrorism until the very end. but that doesn't necessarily ease concerns of those who fear that the attacks here may be the start of something worse to come. bret? >> john, thank you. a new poll shows americans are feeling less confident about whether the u.s. is winning the war on terror. this poll, 44% of respondents said the u.s. and its allies are winning against terror, down
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five points from 2010. americans are also feeling less confidence about our ability to prevent terrorist attacks. 84% of voters said they feel nervous, up significantly from just 50% in 2005. turkish officials blamed tuesday's attack on isis, but the terror group has not officially claimed responsibility. today, cia director john brennan said today's attacks has the hallmarks of isis. he believes the fight is far from over. >> isis' ability to continue to propagate its narrative, as well as to incite and carry out these attacks, i think we still have a ways to go before we're able to say that we have made some significant progress against them. >> chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins me now with more on what the cia director shared today. what are your sources saying about all this? >> my contacts say the sophistication of this attack in istanbul is at a level they have not seen before. we had three suicide bombers
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working in concert. and we got a piece of video that may tell us more about their motives and objectives. we've seen this video a lot. this is a guy on the ground, he had come in guns ablazing, then blows himself up. one of my contacts suggested the true intention was to take hostages first. if he simply wanted to blow himself up, he would have gone into the airport and hit the most congested area and then detonated. >> the cia director went on to say and describe the isis threat to the u.s. as this. >> the united states, as we well know, is leading the coalition to try to destroy as much of this poison as possible. so it would be surprising to me that isil is not trying to hit us both in the region, as well
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as in our homeland. >> we know that they are, right? >> that's right. i had a conversation recently within the last two weeks with a government official who was briefed on the intelligence who said to me they believe there are six isis entities whose sole responsibility is to train operatives to launch attacks outside of the region. so specifically europe. and there is intelligence that they sent armed operatives into europe prior to ramadan. remember, with the visa waiver program, europe is just one flight into the united states. >> and we have seen some of these terrorists try to get into those syrian migrant groups, the refugees. what about the bombs? >> look, based on what we've seen just with the photographs and the video, this looks to be a weapons grade explosive. that's important, because when those bombers ran into the airport in turkey, they did so with relative ease. the vests were relatively light. when we think about what happened in brussels, we saw the same kind of damage, the kind of tiles coming down from the ceiling of the airport.
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but those were suitcase bombs, 20 or 30 pounds. so this tells us there's a level of sophistication of weapons grade material. >> sometimes these cells in areas have one bombmaker, and they do all of the bomb making in that region. >> that's right. we understood that brussels was directed by isis in syria, at least the evidence so far shows that this well may have been directed by isis and syria. the question is whether the bombmaker is in turkey and isis is reluctant to accept responsibility. >> catherine, thank you. up next, a crisis potentially in confidence for the democratic front-runner. we'll explain. first, here's what some of our fox affiliates are covering. amarillo, texas, the investigation continues into a fiery crash of two freight trains in the texas panhandle. the horrific scene tuesday showed rail cars piled up and
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smoke billowing out of that crash site. the bodies of two crew members have been found in the wreckage. one remains missing. the two trains were on the same track when they collide, but why has not been disclosed. fox 40 in sacramento, where firefighters are braving triple digit heat to fight a wildfire. at least 100 homes were evacuated tuesday as the fire grew to about 300 acres. this is a live hook at cleveland, from fox 8, the big story there tonight, an agreement reached between the city of cleveland and the aclu over the right to protest during the republican national convention next month. the two sides had been working on changes after a federal judge decided the existing rules were too strict. so a new protest route has been mapped out and the hours for protesting are also being extended. we can probably expect a lot, as you look live outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. [bassist] two late nights in tucson.
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hillary clinton is on the money trail tonight, making a west coast swing to pad her campaign coffers, this as a new fox news poll shows voters will
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split what clinton would take the country in the right direction. mike emanuel has this report from san francisco. >> reporter: since hillary clinton launched her campaign, she's held at least 30 fund-raising events in the los angeles area. today she's in san francisco. last night at a hollywood town hall, clinton said she understood where donald trump supporters are frustrated but even fearful. but then took this swipe. >> i am not sympathetic to the homophobia, the xenophobia, the islamaphobia, and all of the other sort of dog whistles that trump uses to create that fervor among some of his supporters. >> reporter: in the latest fox news poll, clinton is at 48%, while trump is at 42%. today in "the new york times,"
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bernie sanders issued a warning, drawing a comparison between this election and the brexit vote writing -- >> clinton will have more democrat star power out on the trail with her next week, with president obama expected to campaign for her tuesday. an rnc spokesperson responded -- >> reporter: after several days of working on behalf of clinton, senat senator elizabeth warren returned to her message. >> concentration will suck the last vestiges of economic security out of our middle class, and left unchecked, concentration will pervert our democracy into one more rigged game.
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>> reporter: there's also the lingering clinton e-mail controversy. in a deposition in a judicial watch lawsuit regarding the e-mail issue, uma abedin testified there were frustrating issues. under oath, she said, there were times when clinton couldn't do her job or do what she needed to do. >> mike emanuel, thank you. a meeting in phoenix between former president bill clinton and attorney general loretta lynch is raising questions about a potential conflict of interest. she confirmed she spoke with clinton at the airport in phoenix but said it was not a planned meeting. she insisted they spoke about grandchildren and golf, and current news events but did not discuss the benghazi or the e-mail investigations. as you know, if the fbi finds evidence that hillary clinton or one of her top aides mishandled
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classified information or lied under oath, and then the fbi referred an indictment, by all accounts, it will be lynch who will have to decide whether to move forward with a prosecution. as we mentioned before, president obama headed way up north today to reaffirm trade ties with his counterparts from canada and mexico during his final north american leader summit. the president's visit comes amid a contentious 2016 election where both of his potential successors say they would bid adieu to the transpacific partnership. kevin cork reports from canada tonight about what could be the president's last stand on the tpp. >> reporter: for the leaders of the united states, canada, and mexico, this is a picture of cooperation, and in sharp contrast to what many here at the north american leader summit in ottawa fear is a growing global wave of economic isolation. >> in an integrated global economy, the goal is not for us to try to shut ourselves off
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from the world, but rather to work together to raise standards around the world for workers and for the environment. >> reporter: unlike the uk's brexit from the european union, president obama, the canadian prime minister and mexican president continued to build on their model of political and economic unity, announcing today for example, a goal to achieve 50% clean power generation across north america by 2025. it's the latest deal bolstered by nafta, which aimed to reduce trade barriers between the u.s., canada, and mexico, but it's the pending trade deal that president obama backs that's getting a lot of attention. >> the transpacific partnership is another disaster. done and pushed by special interests, who want to rape our country. >> reporter: in his most explicit attack yet on big trade deals, donald trump this week called for a new era of economic americanism. threatening to opt out of tpp and renegotiate nafta.
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if an effort to restore millions of lost manufacturing jobs here at home, plans that have drawn a heavy dose of political friendly fire from gop business leaders. the u.s. chamber of commerce tweeting, under trump's trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy. >> this tpp sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade. >> reporter: that was hillary clinton, just 3 1/2 years ago, singing the praises of tpp. but in a classic political flip-flop, clinton now says she no longer supports the agreement as is, and expressing a similar opposition to nafta, which she once backed and was proudly promoted by her husband, then president bill clinton. in that piece you saw a bit of political friendly fire and it continued on twitter. the national association of manufacturers tweeted mr. trump by saying, you have it
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backwards. trade is book for manufacturing workers, and jobs, and he added the #makeamericatradeagain. now, for their part, the trump says listen, trade is fine. but america priority has to be the primary objective. i think there are a lot of people, obviously, who would agree with that. >> the battlefield on twitter. kevin, thank you. a plan to help puerto rico get out of its debt situation gets closer to reality, and supporters of puerto rico say just in time. the senate is expected to vote tonight on the bill that will help the u.s. territory address its $70 billion bet. supporters in congress hope to send a bill that is expected to pass to president obama to sign into law by friday. friday is when puerto rico faces a $2 billion debt payment. next up, a former gitmo detainee is now missing.
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a black box from egypt air 804 confirms smoke was on board minutes before the plane plunged into the mediterranean sea in may. egyptian investigators say the data recorder showed there was smoke in a bathroom, and then in the avianics area below the cockpit. recovered wreckage also showed signs of heat damage. there's no definitive word whether this is related to terrorism. investigators are working to repair the cockpit voice recorder. european union leaders put forward tough conditions for a new relationship with britain following its planned exit from the eu. no clear plan is in place, but eu leaders warn british business it is they want to keep access to europe's single market, they must also accept free movement of european workers, too. this, despite britain's leave vote that partially hinged on concerns about immigration and
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migration. president obama also weighed in on the brexit vote today, continuing his theme that the logistics and fallout could be rough in the long run. >> the global economy in the short run will hold steady. i think there are some genuine longer term concerns about global growth if, in fact, brexit goes through. >> and the markets here in the u.s. continued to post brexit vote bounceback. the dow jumped 285 today. the s&p 500 rose 35. the nasdaq was up 87. the hunt is on for a former guantanamo bay detainee who has gone missing in south america. he was transferred to uruguay by the obama administration in 2014. but has since vanished and officials say he could be in brazil. the country that also happens to be hosting the olympics in just a little over a month.
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as doug mckelway reports tonight, the circumstances under which he left are sure to escalate a heated battle between republicans and the white house over gitmo. >> reporter: an estimated 30% of enemy combatants at guantanamo bay are suspected of going back to the fight. that's one reason the hunt is on. captured in pakistan in 2002, he was among six detainees transferred to uruguay in 2014. considered high risk, he's now missing. >> he has connections to really high risk guys, guys known to be the worst of the worst of the worst, including a recruiter for al qaeda, who actually helped recruit the 9/11 hijackers for that operation. >> reporter: the former president of uruguay considered the gitmo prison a disgrace, so he allowed him to travel abroad. the pentagon was not able to
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confirm his whereabouts. >> it's something that we're tracking here. the national security of the united states is the most important thing when it comes to these decisions. >> reporter: there are fears that he may have fled to brazil, where preparations for the olympics are under way, or even to syria. his disappearance has illuminated a long running battle between the white house and congressional republicans. in a defense bill, both houses have blocked funding for any gitmo transfers. president obama has vowed a veto. >> it appears to be a campaign promise he made several years ago he's trying to fulfill this notion that somehow there's a location called gitmo that is inciting folks to become terrorists. france doesn't have a guantanamo bay, brussels did not have one. >> reporter: last week, the u.s. transferred one of osama bin laden's bodyguards to montenegro. 79 remain there. 35 more are set to be transferred in the coming weeks. >> doug at the pentagon. thank you. coming up, donald trump
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doubles down on trade. our panel weighs in on that. plus, we discuss those new fox news polls, giving a post brexit vote snapshot how voters feel. the panel is next. [plumber] i need to be where the pipes are.
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it's ttp sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade. the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. and when negotiated, this agreement, will cover 40% of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment. we should renegotiate trade deals that aren't working for americans and reject any agreements like the transpacific partnership that don't meet my high bar for raising wages or creating good paying jobs. >> hillary clinton then and now. 2012 to now gold standard
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then and now doesn't meet the bar. the problem on the issue trade as you take a look of polls here fox news 6. head to head experience, cares about you, corrupt. clinton has a big lead in experience, obviously. cares about you, corrupt, honest and trustworthy. 34% trump over clinton 30%. fox news poll 8. there you see the breakdown there. neither one of the candidates getting over 50%. back with the panel. jason, on this issue of trade. it's pretty stark to listen to those two sound bites. you have elizabeth warren and bernie sanders taken the party some place maybe by the convention is opposite where the president of their party is on this issue. >> definitely. it's definitely going to be left of there. and this is a big problem for hillary clinton. that she has still got bernie sanders biting at her ankles here and pulling her to the left. she would rather not be talking about these issues
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but she was force to do do so in the primary to oppose policies that her own husband pushed to demonstrate how far left the party has moved over the past two decades. it's really a problem. if i am looking at hillary clinton and these polls how close they are. i'm a little concerned. she is leading but it's hardly a commanding lead and she may take some comfort in donald trump's high negatives but his negatives could change between now and convention's. hers is unlikely to. she is very much a known quantity. he could improve on his numbers if he runs the right type of campaign. i think that would have team clinton a little worried. >> we went over the details yesterday at the benghazi report. details in there very unflattering to be generous to secretary clinton and what went down. what we haven't seen a lot of coverage on is the email investigation. new set of emails comes out that wasn't turned over. one of them where they are
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talking about we should talk about putting you on the state email or releasing your email address to the department so you are not going to spam. it's not the phone message system. it's the device delay. hillary to i don't want the transcript of yuma abedin has come out from judicial watch. for all the talk about donald trump having a couple bad weeks. this was not a great couple weeks for hillary clinton. >> no. not at all. and i think with the email issue it's information overload. everybody assumes it's all out there. everybody is waiting for the fbi to decide. the fbi has all the information. they are going to decide one way or the other. people aren't going to dive into the details. but this does confirm how much of a lie it was when she said i chose to have the two iphones or the two
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devices because it was convenient. it was clear from these emails and others she did it to hide her personal stuff. we don't know what's in her personal stuff. does the personal stuff mean the clinton foundation and possible corruption favors, et cetera, there or not? so i think the way this impacts the race is people are not going to decide on one news story here or there. they will wait for the fbi and decide hit by a pretty straight shooter and he will tell me if this was prosecutable or corrupt transaction. >> we talked earlier and the insistence of the attorney general that the meeting with former president bill clinton in phoenix had nothing to do or conversation with email investigation or benghazi. but there is interest in what is going to happen with the fbi or the justice department. that's one of the things that's stirring around with hillary clinton. >> absolutely. i think it was very interesting what hillary clinton said we should move on from benghazi. she is not the one who is going to decide when we move on on any of her issues or
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scandals. the email investigation. the clinton foundation, these are all part of the narrative of why you see the poll numbers showing that her honest, trustworthiness is only at 30%. i think it does impact the fact that individuals are feeling, well, yeah, she might care about me but there is a sense of corruption around hillary clinton. the sense that she is out of touch and plays into the fact that trump has done a good job of saying the elite versus the people. she falls right into the scenario being elite out of touch and doesn't have to follow the rules like the rest of the americans. >> i have to keep it short. thoughts? >> yes, i agree. >> yes, listen, the issue is still dogging hillary clinton right now this idea it's not as much about the flip flopping as not looking honest about the reasons she changed her position on tpp that honest trustworthy thing is going to continue to dog her. i agree. >> that is it for the panel. stay tuned for an interview that you may not want
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of. finally tonight, marshall want to do discuss his upcoming retirement so he went to "60 minutes." >> clicked through my mind if you run through somebody's face a lot of people aren't going to be able to take that over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. >> at one point he was like what was the question? i'm sorry. i forgot. i thought they were going to have to unplug him and plug him back in. after that they had to change the name of the show to 64 minutes. >> that's it for special reported,fair, balanced and >> good morning. it is thursday, june 30th. this is a fox news alert. souping the alarm. a terrifying warning directly from the head of the cia. >> it would be surprising to me
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that isil isn't trying to hit us. >> the airport bombers in turkey. >> he would come over and speak about his grandchildren and travels. >> behind closed doors. a secret meeting between loretta lynch and bill clinton. should see recuse herself from hillary's e-mail investigation? we report, you decide. >> a big change coming to the miss teen pageant. what you will not be seeing in the next competition. "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good morning toy. you are watching "fox & friends" on this thursday morning. almost made it through the week. thank you for joining us. i am heather childers. >> i am abby huntsman. we begin with the fox alert. are we at risk for an i sstanbu
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style attack? >> we get a first look at the two suspected terrorists. >> good morning. >> good morning. investigators have been scouring through surveillance video for the three men in istanbul. they report these are the images of two of the three attackers. this man inside the terminal appears to be carrying a white bag or package. this image showed the second attacker just outside wearing a black puffy coat. while investigators are continue to go try to learn more about the terrorists responsible for more than 40 people and injuring more than 230 others there are growing con


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Monday, 20 August 2012

I'll bet this was a surprise

I tend to check my stats on blogger. So yesterday, I was looking at the search keywords used to get to my blog and I found the following search words:

"kids girls xxx 11 years old".

So I had creepy pedophile looking at the blog. I wonder which post he (maybe I'm being sexist but ...) got to - "This is not a kids book. Rating XXX"?

I can only assume that it was a 5 second look and a move on.

This was a propos of nothing really.

Monday, 13 August 2012

Bedazzled Crone speaks!!

The following is a post that I made on another website ( in response to a commenter on a post that would have had something to do with education or health care and economics. The site belongs to a friend who is a libertarian [I have all kinds of friends :-)].  I can no longer quickly find the original web page, so I am reposting this because it is about a different part of my childhood/formative years & does explain some of the other figures, who were influential on developing my life philosophy [besides Babylon 5 :-)]

Note: BC stands for Bedazzled Crone - a name that I sometimes use on the net (& linked to this website address); POG is who knows??

BC: I will address some of the issues that you have brought up in your post over a number of comments. Don’t want to make them too long. This is the first response to something that was a little ad hominem, n’est-ce pas? So to clarify:
POG: The problem is that you continue to view “capitalism” and “competition” through your lens of Marxist critique, I am guessing it was ingrained in you in the 60’s by some professors who were apologists for Stalinism and you haven’t been able to shake it since.
BC: My intro PoliSci prof. in 1968/69 was Polish and hardly a Marxist.  He taught at Conrad Grebel College (attached to the U of Waterloo where I was a computer science/math major). If I were anything, I was first and foremost an existentialist in my late teens (when I read Sartre, Nietzsche & others) and my 20s. I was an ardent supporter of human rights, and already, seriously critical of “systems”. The main influences on my philosophical thinking were Erich Fromm (Escape From Freedom, Beyond the Chains of Illusion, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness), A. S. Neill (Summerhill), John Holt (Escape From Childhood) but probably, one of the most important was Ivan Illich (Medical Nemesis, and Deschooling Society). These writers do not a “Marxist” make!  If I have "socialist roots", they are derived from two basic areas.
The first is the reality of being the daughter of a steel mill ladleliner. The owner of the "means of production" always needs to be forced to do right by the very people that allow the owner to make his/its profits & he/it sure as hell didn't/doesn’t want to share it around. My father led sit-down strikes, my Dad was laid off. I doubt very much that he gave a damn about socialism, Marxism or anything else along that line. What he did care about were his and his fellow steel workers human rights; - the right to work in a safe environment and the right to a fair wage for a day's work. The labour movement wasn’t about "socialism/Marxism" as far as I can see - it was about individual human rights. And, sometimes, you needed/need to come together collectively to assert those rights. It is those "capitalists" and their government cronies that labelled the labour movement as "socialist" as it became a corrupted "big business" itself, particularly in the United States. This eventually led to the McCarthy hearings in the US – talk about moral panic creators). What is wrong with people wanting to collectively better themselves? Why is it there a need to "break the unions" within government agenda? Shouldn't the goal be to bring everyone up to the economic levels achieved by some of the unions so that people get "fair wage for a fair day's work"? Instead what we see is the attempts to break the unions through government legislation; the branding of unions as "socialist" or "marxist". Break the unions so that everyone can slowly find their economic status devolving to that of the level of the people who work at Walmart or McDonald's. Breaking the unions abrogates my individual right to act collectively should I want to.
The second comes clearly from my social gospel United Church of Canada Christian roots. Jesus as the Dude! The worldview that I inherited there and still maintain to a large extent would argue that human beings are interdependent. We are indeed our brothers’ and our sisters’ keepers. We always need to care about those who have less than we do. We need to care about those who are injured, who are treated unjustly. Empathy is the thing that differentiates us from most other animals. The ability to care about other human beings should matter as much as “systems”. Sometimes, I think that that is the core of the problem with most “systems” – no matter what they are: the tendency to forget that we are talking about individual human beings who get hurt by these systems. Altruism may have its roots in TheSelfish Gene, but it is a fact that humans seem to be as willing to support one another as they are to kill one another - in the evolutionary context. No matter what is in our genetic inheritance, we are thinking beings; we can envision a future different from the one we live in. Historically speaking, human beings are constantly finding ways to overcome their genetic inheritance through creating alternative scenarios, different religions, different societies, different childrearing methods, and different hierarchical or non-hierarchical forms of governance – all for the sole purpose of finding out how we can live interdependently. I doubt very much that that is “socialism” or “Marxism”.

FYI: If you got this far, here is a link to a few more of my thoughts (more philosophical and political) at one of Ray's blog posts Political Theory of Government.

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Canon Within the Canon / Inclusive Bible?

These are two of the ideas that have floated around among feminist biblical scholars & in feminist hermeneutics by those who wish to stay within the Christian belief system. I have problems with both of these attempted solutions to the patriarchal construction of the biblical texts. As I see it, some of the major problems with both solutions are that:

  1. The texts were all written from within patriarchal societies by people who were socialized within those cultures. No matter how hard you try, you cannot avoid this fact. We cannot escape our past, we can only be aware of how it shaped us.
  2. Both solutions contain within them the assumption that there is something authoritative and "divinely inspired" about (some of) the biblical texts. They are thus privileged and contain ethical and instructive material that cannot be found elsewhere.
  3. There will be no consensus on what should be the "good" canon as opposed to what is the "bad" canon. This is not necessarily a negative thing, but believers often have the idea that everyone should somehow see things the same way. Some decisions might be easy, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you", for example [but that is contained in just about every ethical system in existence].
  4. Incipient Christianity was an apocalyptic Jewish sectarian movement. A text such as Paul's comment that there is neither male nor female, slave nor free, etc., one of those "good" texts, derives from the apocalyptic assumptions of the early beliefs of the proto-Christian belief system. You can only accept it if you remove the verse itself from everything around it. This is a major problem for the entire Christian "New Testament" corpus, its apocrypha and cognate writings.
  5. The big one. How do you deal with the atonement? Jesus' death on the cross and then his resurrection are central to the structure of Christianity. Even if one focuses on the resurrection, you can't have a resurrection without a death. So do you leave it in? If yes, then how to deal with all of the theologies that were built around this from the earliest days? If no, then what are you really left with? I happened to believe that there was a real person, Jesus who was an itinerant preacher and who was sent to his death. However, why, what happened afterwards, are all open to interpretation - right from the beginning. What we have is the hero myth, writ large and it appealed to the world in which it was created. Short of Dr. Who's Tardis, we will never know what happened.
  6. Inclusive language is almost a mythical attempt to reshape the bible. What difference does it really make if Jesus died for humanity, rather than for mankind? The problem is not language but the entire construct that implies that humanity (or mankind) is in need a scapegoat - that we are guilty of something more than just living life.

Monday, 6 August 2012

Why I do this

During the question period after my presentation at the SBL International conference in Amsterdam (entitled "The Personal is Still Political: What else did you expect, or have we forgotten just how radical feminist exegesis can be?"), I was asked a question by a very upset and angry participant. In essence, the questions were: "Why did I waste my time on something that I didn't believe in; didn't I have better things to do than rip apart the bible; why didn't I go and spend my time doing something else?"

So, how to answer? There is the obvious, academic answer: The bible and Christianity are the foundations of western culture in all its good and its bad. Therefore, we have to understand where the structures of our societies' ethical systems, presuppositions about the nature of human interaction, etc. come from. And to do this, we have to look at the bible as the foundational document of Western society.

That is how I would have answered the question 10 years ago. Two weeks ago, today, I answered quite differently. I just laid it all on the line. A short version: I was sexually abused when I was 8 years old by a Roman Catholic priest, became hyper-religious, spent years in therapy dealing with the biblical god. AND I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO EVER HAVE TO GO THROUGH WHAT I HAVE GONE THROUGH.

Now I know that that is not going to happen. I don't control the world. The bible is still out there, and that biblical god is still holding sway over people's lives (for one example, just watch Jesus Camp!!) However, by writing what I do, by saying what I say, I make a difference in the lives of a few people. And they have expressed this to me. A whispered "thank you" from a conference participant years ago; a "I never believed anybody else felt like that" from a very distressed woman who came to talk to me (after I gave her the Psalm of Anger to read);  a secondhand thank you from the friend of an incest victim who said that reading "Christian Virtues and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse" had helped her more than 2 year of therapy. And what I write sometimes forces other academic theologians to think differently about the Christian religious system - see Atonement, Cycles of Abuse, and Virtue, a classroom blog from Duke University. It is discussions like this one that give me hope for a better future.

I won't change the world. However, I have nothing to lose in taking the "extreme" position. The personal is political - my life experience is my life experience - but I am not alone and I am not the only one who has ever felt like this. I am not the only one who has ever suffered from a Christian worldview that blamed me, and not the perpetrator(s) of the crimes committed against me.

If what I say and write makes even one other person's life easier, it is enough.

I will end this blog with yet another quote from Babylon 5: year 1, episode 16:

Mollari: Of course, we do. There's a natural law. Physics tells us that for every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so here we are - victims of mathematics.
Sinclair: He never listens.
Delenn: He will, sooner or later.
Sinclair: How can you be sure?
Delenn: Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope that things will get better; that our inheritors will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless and evolution is vastly overrated.

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Gongfu Brewing. . .something has always scared me away from trying to brew tea up in the tea ceremonial fashion and kept me to western brewing.  I think scared may be the incorrect word. I think intimidated is better.

I was intimidated by the amount of teaware you had to have, intimidated by having the right teaware, and also intimidated by making a complete fool out of myself for trying. But when March rolled around and I turned 40-I finally convinced myself it was time to finally immerse myself into learning something new.

And learn something I did.  I found myself taking notes after notes from different videos on YouTube from amazing tea bloggers like Tea for Me Please and tea companies like Mei Leaf.  By the time it was all said and done, I found tea ware that I already had that would work to get the party started.

So to test this out, I took a sample of Phoenix Dan Cong Duck Honey Snowflake from Serendipitea Studios and brewed the tea both in the gongfu method and western style.  The different was night and day.

With the gongfu method, I was able to get these rich gorgeous notes of sweet floral that I was not getting with the western style.  These pops of sweet floral thrilled my tastebuds and I found myself eagerly drinking this tea down.  Towards the middle brewing sessions, I would find myself describing the tea as being delicate but with a bit of power behind it.  Yes this tea is delicate but this tea demands your full attention as well. There was also this slight savory touch that I could note here and there but couldn’t really pull what I would compare the taste to.

With the western style, I was still able to pull out those beautiful floral notes with a sweet touch but I will say that the flavors were not as bold and not as alluring. Still delicious but I would say I prefer the gongfu method for this particular tea. The flavors were just more pronounced and more on point.

Regardless of how you brew this tea, this tea is fabulous and one that I will be getting more of for myself soon.  I’m beyond thrilled with the tea itself and have found myself wanting more so I may be ordering quicker than I intended to.  Smooth, lush, floral, with just a hit of a contrasting flavor here and there. Can’t ask for more from your tea.

Want to Know More About This Tea?

Leaf Type: Oolong

Where to Buy:  Serendipitea Studios

Elegant just like its name, Duck Honey Snowflake is a seasonal winter hand-picked harvest of regular Duck Honey Aroma all-natural tea. This winter version is much more florally delicate than the regular and contrasted to caramel like sweetness, its sweetness brings a rather icy wintry feel.

From the coastal area in Canton province, Phoenix Mountain possesses mineral-rich soil and is constantly surrounded by mists and fog, covered by wild tea tress and tea farms, as well as the folklore of the Phoenix Dan Cong Tea. Many wild tea trees are at least 100 to 200 years old.

It’s a special type of organic Oolong treasured for its highly distinctive natural aroma, and is also believed to be the ancestor of all Oolong teas. Well-known for its ten aromatic categories, it delivers rich and complex flavor. Local tea scholars and connoisseurs from China study and try to organize these all-natural teas into hundreds aromatic subgroups. Mandarin uses the word ‘Xiang’ or aroma for each specific type that mimics certain flower or fruit aroma. Phoenix Dan Cong’s aroma is never artificially added or perfumed but exclusively cultivated, artisan crafted, and each aroma comes from the tea plant’s natural aromatic compound.

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Raven’s Blend from Friday Afternoon . . . . . .

Hello dear readers! I have recently come across a quite delightful tea company that was sent to me as a secret Santa gift and I was amazed by the quality and of course with the tea selection. I had a whole lot of tea to chose from in the care package that was sent to me but after some consideration, I picked up Raven’s Blend.

For starters, this tea is very light given its black tea base and I believe that is thanks to the white tea wingman. There is also blue cornflower in this tea which adds a delightfully light floral taste. To those who are familiar with the taste profile of Lady Grey, it is like that but more delicate. I feel like I say this a lot because most teas are relaxing but I find that this one can be paired with just about any relaxing activity. But it also can spark creativity, giving your brain a needed boost. Which makes sense because its namesake is derived from the Ravenclaw house in the Harry Potter series. Which, funny enough is my actually my house.

Now on to the pricing of this beautiful blend. There are a total of four sizes to choose from; 1 oz which is priced at $10, a 2 oz which is priced at $14, 4 oz for $25, and 8 oz for $45. There aren’t any individual samples that you can order outright but I do know for certain that you can email the shop and ask for individual samples at $2 per sample. If you want to be more adventurous there is a mystery sample pack for $13 with four options (high caffeine, no caffeine, moderate caffeine, mixed caffeine) and an educational sampler pack for $35 that comes with steeping notes that has five options to choose from; black teas, green teas, oolong teas, pu-erh teas, and medicinal teas. Lastly, if you are in the Harry Potter fandom, there is a Wizarding Collection that you can purchase for $25 that features .5-.75 ounces for each of the teas from each of the four houses.

For the final thoughts on this tea, I believe it is well worth the money for the taste and the woman behind it is also great from my experience. From what I can tell she is very active with her consumers and is constantly adding new products to her online and physical store. There is also an option to make your own custom tea blend for $35 either by email or at the physical location. Also, as I was writing this review, I made a fresh cup of Raven’s Blend and I will possibly make another one! I fell in love with this tea company and you better be ready to see more reviews of this company in the near future!

See you for the next cuppa, Kara

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Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy:  Friday Afternoon

In wise old Ravenclaw house, “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” This medium-bodied, floral black tea is designed especially for you bibliophiles. High caffeine levels prepare you for those all-night study sessions and sharpen your focus while you devour the written word. Also fabulous while you read (or reread) your favorite novel, curled up in your favorite armchair or reading nook.

Ingredients: Black tea, white tea, and blue cornflower

All of our teas available online are gluten-free and sourced from organically certified farms. Most are vegan, but some may include honey (indicated in ingredients).

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Tsui Yu Taiwan Floral (Jade) Oolong Tea from Fong Mong. . . .

You can always count on Fong Mong for exceptional Oolongs. The aroma cup reveals some wonderful vanilla and orchid notes in the aroma as it is steeping. A strange very very slight bit of asparagus hit the back of my tongue as I was sipping. This is not a tea for those who prefer strong teas. The flavors of this one are incredibly light. There are definitely some floral notes but if you swish it around in your mouth a bit you will also discover unique vegetable and herb notes. Be it ever so slight.

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Leaf Type:  Oolong
Where to Buy:  Fong Mong

Plucking from Taiwan peculiar Tsui Yu (Jade TTES #13) tea cultivar, in addition to stringent management of planting, Taiwan floral oolong tea was made by artisans to refine into traditional oolong tea. In the process of light fermentation, Jadeoolong transpires delicate floral aroma which you, tea lovers, won’t miss it out.

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Give in to Temptation with a Picture of Earl Grey from NovelTeas

If you’re easily distracted by cute packaging, be warned that blends from NovelTeas can come shipped in beautiful, book-shaped, metal tins.  At first glance, these tins can sit amongst your real books, undetected until someone realizes the titles are full of tea-related puns.  Today, I’m tasting Picture of Earl Grey, also called Wilde’s Rosy Tea Blend on the Novel Teas site.

This blend is like a garden in a cup with lush rose petals and jasmine-green tea.  All those flowers are a perfect match for the showy, vanity of this novel.  Like Dorian, your tea will have eternal beauty since the dried flowers last much longer than fresh ones.  Mind your steep times with this brew or else the roses might get a bit overpowering. Among the rose and jasmine there is just enough tart, earl grey to give the tea a backbone and remind you of the staunch and proper Victorian Era.

Any of NovelTeas blends would be a great addition to a book club, adding themed scents and tastes to the literary discussion.  Picture of Earl Grey is a great blend for a garden party, or when you want your kitchen to be as fragrant as a spring garden in bloom.  Just a sip of this lush and verdant blend across your tongue and you’ll feel as poetic and witty as Oscar Wilde himself.

Here’s the scoop!

Leaf Type: Blend of Black and Green
Where to Buy: NovelTeas

The delicate flavorings and novel-inspired decorations of The Picture of Earl Grey™ may deceive you at first. This tin and tea provide for an exquisitely deceptive and Wildely elegant experience for any new collector. Organic jasmine green tea and a rose-blended bergamot radiate hedonism and reflect your eternal beauty as you sip.

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Raining Weather Calls for a Rose Oolong from Indias Tea. . .

Today is one of those days where a rose oolong was just what the doctor ordered.  It has been raining non stop since Friday and we are starting to experience water in the basement and seeing flooding in our community.  So as the rain continues and the thunderstorms start up, a flavored oolong sounds like perfection.

This particular Rose Oolong is from Indias Tea.  The dry leaf of this blend is intoxicating.  Fresh floral notes fill the air while this tea starts to steep and creates a gorgeous blend that I couldn’t wait to check out.

Gorgeous sweet floral notes mingle marvelously with that familiar oolong flavor that I can always count on.  This tea aromas translate into this wonderful floral flavor.  As the tea settles and cools, those lovely rose notes develop more and more.   Such a warm, soothing, and comforting tea on such a spring rainy day.

Rose Oolong is one that I can see snuggling up to with a good book and letting the stresses of the day wash away.  Something I’ll be doing for sure soon!

Here’s the scoop!

Leaf Type:  Oolong
Where to Buy:  Indias Tea

This invigorating brew captures a deliciously romantic mood, that sparkle on your palate, with the freshness and beauty of Roses. With its light and gently flavored quality, it sets in your mood for the perfect occasion.

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Being able to own a house is a Goal for millions. For countless individuals, this is a procedure that is not always accomplished while for others, the process of finding the one that matches their needs and wants perfectly is quite tricky to do. Thus when in the market for one, there are a couple home buying tips which ought to be kept in mind to be able to make sure the buying process goes as smoothly and efficiently as possible.Today, the market place for new houses is excellent for those that are contemplating purchasing one. With prices at all-time lows, prospective buyers are finding it very easy to locate precisely what they are looking for very reasonable rates. The choices continue to climb as the quantity of houses on the market continues to climb.While the time is definitely perfect for the ones that are interested, there are still a number of aspects in this process which ought to be treated very carefully. This is a really major investment decision that ought to be weighed in quite carefully to be able to ensure the buying decision that is made is solid and successful. There are a couple of aspects which are looked for this could help the purchasing process run smoother.

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Aromaleigh v1’s Twinkling Lights review

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  • Manufacturer: Aromaleigh
  • Availability: available as part of the Holiday Blast collection
  • Color Range: evergreen with red shimmer
  • Cost/Amount: USD$8 for 1.2 grams
  • Would you purchase again: yes
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Aromaleigh v1’s Twinkling Lights

This was the first color in Aromaleigh v1's lineup that really seriously made me think about purchasing from them. In November 2008, Aromaleigh was an unknown quantity to me. Their prices were lower than “big corporate” makeup lines like BE and Make Up For Ever, but they were charging more money for less product than companies like Simply Naturals or even Pure Luxe, which were the companies I used to start my online branching-out and buying sight-unseen. The green base with the distinctive red shimmer really caught my attention. I deliberated for a few weeks, but when I finally went back to purchase, the color was gone.

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A montage of three images: top left, close-up of the eyeshadow in the pot; top right, the eyeshadow mixed with water and applied to bare skin; bottom left, the eyeshadow applied dry over primer.

I finally started buying from Aromaleigh because of another color - the now-discontinued Ocean, being sold in the 10-gram jars for a blowout price to liquidate the 10-gram-jar inventory - but still kept thinking about this color. I happened upon the Ebay charity listings one day, bid on a jar of Twinkling Lights, and got it. Then when the creator made the announcement that some of the LE colors would be made permanent, I emailed and asked specifically about this color. I was disappointed to find out that this collection had been made with pigments that were no longer available, and so would likely not be coming back. Imagine my surprise when I saw the colors available on the web site! I started out ordering Twinkling Lights and Champagne Toast, and eventually ordered the other six colors. I'm very glad I got a chance to buy this color. It's a lovely green, and while the layer of red sheen isn't something that everyone would think of or even find desireable, I *love* colors that defy expectations and convention and offer duochrome effects, vivid colors, or (even better) both at once.

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80th Birthday Tribute to Leon Bradley

Brother Leon Bradley (initiated in 1957) passed away in 2017.  Leon played trombone and was a long time faculty member/band director at the School of the Ozarks in Missouri.  He's pictured above, second from the right, standing next to MSU Band Director/Brother Leonard Falcone.

As a tribute to Leon, Brother Joe Spaniola (initiated in 1984) wrote "Here's Leon's Rainy Day" as a tribute to Leon in 2018 on what would have been Leon's 80th birthday.   An all trombone piece, all of the parts of "Here's Leon's Rainy Day" are performed by Master Sergeant Karl Bradley, Leon's son.

Karl Bradley is trombonist with the U S Air Force Academy Band in Colorado Springs.

Joe Spaniola is Professor of Music at the University of West Florida where he is Director of Music Theory and Jazz Studies.  For nine years he was Chief Composer/Arranger for the U S Air Force Academy Band.

Sinfonian Saturday - A SUCCESS!!

A good time was had by all at Sinfonian Saturday held on April 27, 2019.  Beginning with an American Music Recital, we then segued to the awarding of pins to brothers who had been initiated 10, 25 or 50 years ago.   This was followed by the initiation of new brothers to Gamma Epsilon chapter and then concluded with a pizza party.  All events were held in the Music Building which made it super convenient to move from one venue to another.  Hats off to the Brothers of Gamma Epsilon for organizing and hosting this great event.

This is the second time Gamma Epsilon has invited alumni Brothers to join them in the Sinfonian Saturday.  If all goes according to plan, the next one will be held in three years.  Mark it on your calendars now - you don't want to miss it!

Thanks to Brothers Dominic Occhietti and Anthony Machniak for the photos.

Anyone need a sacbut, a hurdy gurdy and an assortment of schawms?

Until recently Gerhart (Gary) Schmeltekopf (Gamma Epsilon 1960) would have been the “go to” person for any of these instruments. He owned them all.   It seems that through the years Gary managed to amass a fairly sizeable group of functional reproductions of medieval and renaissance instruments.  And, not wanting to hang them on the wall and spend his spare time dusting them, he regularly played them at concerts, weddings, school assemblies and birthday parties in the Chicago area with his Gerhart Ensemble.  Sometimes joined by his wife Angela and his brother Duane (Gamma Epsilon 1962), Gary brought music history to life through these wonderful instruments.

On July 31, 2018 Gary and wife Angela loaded up the family van and drove to East Lansing with over 30 of these instruments which he donated to the MSU College of Music.  At MSU they were greeted by musicologist Dr. Sarah Long, Dean Jim Forger and, of course, retired College of Music faculty member/cousin Roger Smeltekop (Gamma Epsilon 1965).   Dr. Long hopes to be able to use these instruments in her teaching to allow students the opportunity to step back in time and actually perform with the instruments.

Much discussion and excitement ensued as each instrument was unpacked and described.

Most remember Gary as a music major and trombonist in the MSU bands in the late 50s/early 60s.  Gary eventually strayed from the trombone and in the mid 70s he started a business in Oak Park, Illinois called “The Early Music Center.”  He sold reproductions of early music and period instruments – mostly Baroque style recorders.  The store was in addition to his existing business of repairing, tuning and renting harpsichords.  He also enjoyed building and “rescuing” harpsichords and clavichords that had an uncertain future.

The “Oak Leaves”, a suburban newspaper from Oak Park, described Gary’s passion in this way:

"Schmeltekopf acquaints his audience with wooden recorders of several eras, showing the changes in sound that developed. Trumpet enthusiasts hear the cornetto, whose only resemblance to the modern cornet is the mouthpiece.  The body is of wood with fingerholes for pitch differences instead of valves. Sacbuts resemble their offspring, trombones.  A special treat is the gemshorn, made from an ox horn, blown at the large end. The instrument produces a lovely flute-like tone."

In the 1980s “The Early Music Center” was featured on Chicago’s Channel 5 with Gary and a few friends performing on his early instruments and discussing the various differences.  This was followed a few months later with the taping of a Christmas show in front of the beautiful English gothic altar of a Chicago Episcopal church.

“The Early Music Center” flourished until around 1990 when the demand for reproductions of old instruments waned.  His stock of unsold instruments was donated to the People’s Music School in Chicago (https://peoplesmusicschool.org/).  The School is committed to providing high quality, tuition free, music education for Chicago-area students who would otherwise not be able to afford such education.

Gary, however, continued to maintain a collection of the most unusual of these instruments.  And it is this collection that has been donated to the MSU College of Music so these instruments will continue to make beautiful music for many years to come.

In addition to being obsessed with ancient musical instruments, Gary has been a mainstay in the Chicago musical scene.  His tromboning has been heard with numerous Broadway shows, he’s been a member of various brass ensembles, and he has performed with the Lyric Opera, Grant Park Symphony and the Chicago Symphony.  You can contact Gary via the Spartan Sinfonian Alumni website.  Go to “Brother Profiles”, click on “1960” and then his name.  Then click on “Send Gary a private message”.

Test your knowledge of these ancient instruments (answers at bottom of page):

1. Roger Smeltekop and Dean Forger are discussing the possibility of a new method book to teach how to play the:

a. Tenor Schawm

b. Rankett

c. Cornamusa

2. Included were a number of different recorders.  However the curve of two of the instruments (see picture) sets them apart as:

a. Zinks

b. Crumhorns

c. Schalmeis

3. Gary is explaining to Professor Long that the bass zink is most often referred to as a:

a. Bass Serpent

b. Low pitched Tabor Pipe

c. Curved Rauschpfiffe

4. The portative organ was often worn strapped to the chest of the performer.  This allowed the performer to finger the keys with one hand while:

a. holding/playing a small kazoo with the other hand.

b. manipulating the bellows with the other hand.

c. conducting a Baroque ensemble with the other hand.

1. Cornamusa – an Italian bagpipe.

2. Crumhorn – a double reed instrument of limited range.  The reed is mounted inside a long windcap.  Blowing through a slit in the windcap produces the note.  The end of the crumhorn is traditionally curved upward resembling the letter “J”.  However, the curve is only decorative and does not influence the sound.

3. Bass Serpent – A wind instrument descended from the cornett.  It has a mouthpiece like that of a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind.  The name is derived from its bent shape.  It is generally made from wood that has been covered with leather.

4. The portative (portable) organ has a single rank of flue pipes which, in this case, have been arranged in two rows.  By strapping the instrument to the performer it frees up one hand to work the bellows that produces its tone.

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Spotlight on: LOU, StartHub's Startup to Watch

February 4, 2019

Each month as part of StartHub's Startups to Watch Program, we connect with the winning company to learn more about them. We had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel Pardue and Kyle Lawson, Co-Founders of LOU. Here’s what we learned:

Tell us about your company. What is LOU?

LOU simplifies customer success by enabling companies to upgrade lengthy help center documents and training videos into effortless interactive tutorials that teach users while they work. LOU boosts adoption, improves user experience, and provides valuable analytics about users’ behavior.

What are your backgrounds?

Rachel: I’m a senior at Babson College, and I’ll be graduating this May. I got my first taste of entrepreneurship at 17 when I became the youngest person to be accepted to Louisiana Tech University’s business accelerator with my first startup for military translation devices. While at Babson, I was a student consultant for SoftBank Robotics, and I had the opportunity to work with Design that Matters on a medical device for the prevention of neonatal hypothermia in refugee settlements and developing countries through Babson’s Affordable Design & Entrepreneurship course. Kyle and I began working together when we were vice president and president of Babson’s entrepreneurship club eTower, which is home to 21 student-entrepreneurs and offers a community and co-working space to club members.

Kyle: I just graduated from Babson College in December 2018 with a BS in Business Management. Growing up I always dreamed of starting a business, so when I got to Babson I dove head first into the startup ecosystem on campus. In my first year, I had an idea for a mobile app but no one to build it, so I decided to learn how to code. I quickly fell in love with programming and have been building web applications ever since. In my Sophomore year, I built a video marketing startup with a friend at school and participated in the Babson Summer Venture Program and Valley Venture Mentors Accelerator. Since then I have been a freelance developer, helping companies launch software to hundreds of thousands of users while honing my development skills.

How did you come up with the idea for LOU? Who is your target customer?

Rachel: I got the idea for LOU from teaching my grandparents how to use their computer. One day they asked me how to wish my Aunt Lou a happy birthday on Facebook, and as I stood over their shoulder and pointed to each button they needed to press like I had done a million times before, I thought that there should really be a customer support tool that does this. I think extreme use cases, like grandparents and computers, are illuminating because they can reveal issues that are true for average users but are not as easily observed.

I teamed up with my co-founder Kyle, and we began asking professionals what web platforms they have learned to use and what their learning process was like. The responses were overwhelmingly online business tools like CRMs, accounting software, etc. and the learning process was a pain point as it required completing hours of curriculum through videos and certifications.

We used our time in Babson’s San Francisco Program and Silicon Valley Tech Ventures class as an opportunity to build out a proof of concept where we made interactive tutorials to ‘get started with HubSpot’ that we launched on Product Hunt. We received great feedback which gave us the validation we needed to pursue interactive tutorials as the solution, and HubSpot even reached out to learn about our interactive tutorials. That’s when we began positioning LOU as enterprise software and focused on creating a scalable business through our builder which allows companies to create their own LOU tutorials.

Although the idea began with Aunt Lou, our target customer is web platform companies that provide online business tools.

How do you think LOU is going to disrupt the market? What are the main differentiators between you and your competitors?

At LOU, we’re working to simplify the web, and that starts with our own software. We’ve taken a technology that originally had to be hard coded and continually rewritten, and made it so that any customer success rep can build interactive tutorials without any technical knowledge. We believe interactive tutorials are the future of customer success, and what sets us apart in this emerging market is that LOU is the turnkey solution.

One common question we got through market research was 'Why are software programs that make websites easy to use, so hard to use?'. With LOU, there’s no downtime for training so companies can start building their content right away. We focused on baking intuitive design and simple implementation into every aspect of LOU so that companies like creating LOU tutorials as much as their users enjoy learning from them.

Who are your main investors?

LOU is fully bootstrapped to date, but we are actively seeking a seed investment to help us capture market share and scale operations after running our pilot program.

Why did you decide to start your business in Boston? How long has your company been around?

We initially began and ran LOU for the first six months in Babson’s San Francisco program. Before starting LOU we were already very active in the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem because of our involvement with eTower. When it was time to return to Boston for our senior year, we were really excited to have the chance to grow LOU in Boston’s thriving startup culture and growing tech scene that we're fortunate enough to be a part of. LOU has now been based out of Boston for almost 7 months.

What resources in the startup community have contributed to the success of LOU?

Babson has played a major role in providing resources that have helped us take LOU to the next level. We began working on the initial proof of concept for LOU in Babson’s San Francisco program, and then we built out our MVP in Babson’s Summer Catalyst Program. This program gave us access to invaluable mentors and industry connections as well as office space and visibility within the startup community. After returning from San Francisco, the Babson Blank Center has been extremely helpful with connecting us to Angel Investors, offering office hours and business advice, and providing us with our own office space on campus. Babson also sent us to pitch as the only undergraduate team at B-School Disrupt where we won the fan favorite award.

In November, we participated in MITEF’s Beantown Throwdown pitch competition, where we were fortunate enough to take home first place. The event gave us great exposure to the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem, and it has also provided us with some really great prizes like a write up in VentureFizz (see "LOU’s Interactive Tutorials Make Learning Complex Platforms A Breeze"), google cloud credits, and co-working space at the Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC).

2018 MITEF’s Beantown Throwdown Pitch Competition

How do you use StartHub professionally?

StartHub has been a great resource for us. We mainly use it to find events going on in the Boston area so that we’re always up to date and taking advantage of all of the wonderful opportunities that Boston holds. It is also a great tool for searching around and finding cool startups that align with our mission and that we could possibly collaborate with in the future.

What are the next steps for LOU?

We’re excited to announce that we’re launching a pilot with a select number of Boston-based companies who are looking to improve their customer success and user experience. We’re looking for a few more partner companies to complete our pilot, and we’d love to talk to interested companies about the challenges that they’re facing to see if it would be a good fit for us to work together.

What is the most important thing our readers should know about LOU?

We’re on a mission to simplify the web one platform at a time, and we love to collaborate with people and companies who share our passion for phenomenal customer success. Check us out!

A quick video explaining how to get started building interactive tutorials with LOU.

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Friday Find – Pinterest

Have you heard of Pinterest yet?  If not, don’t be afraid.  It’s something that’s just starting to get popular and so now you too will be in the know.  I’d hate for any of my readers to be behind the curve ball.  Often times, that’s where I am but not this time.  This time around, I’m actually ahead in this ball game.

Pinterest is an online bulletin board. It lets you organize and share all of the cool stuff you find on the web.  You can create a bulletin board for anything that interests you and you can have as many as you like.  If you want one for home decorating ideas, have one.  If you want one for good recipes you’ve found, have one.  If you want one for hunting equipment you NEED to have, have one.  And, not only can you have your own bulletin boards but you can look at everyone else’s too so you can see what others are interested in.  To see all of my boards, click here.

Before Pinterest, if I would see a recipe I wanted to try; I would create a document on my computer, copy the photo and paste it into this document along with the recipe URL.  But that is exactly what Pinterest is doing for me now.  If I see something online I want to try or save, I just Pin It.

The directions on getting started are very easy to follow.  I will warn you though; it can be highly addictive especially when you start looking at other people’s boards.  There is some wild and crazy and creative and neat stuff out there.

To make it easy on you, I added a Pin It button to the bottom of each post now.  So if you see a recipe you want to try out, just Pin It to your bulletin board.  It will put the recipe on the board of your choice and when you are ready to try it, just click on the photo and it will bring you back to the recipe on my blog.  See how easy it is!

I included a few screen shots of my Valentine’s Day Treats bulletin board.  See anything you may want to try?

***Programming Note***

For those of you who follow my blog on a daily basis.  Starting next week, I’ll be posting 2 – 4 times a week instead of all 5 days.  Each week will be different.   I don’t want it to get boring for you.  If you want to receive every blog post in your email inbox, sign up for the email service in the right hand column.  It’s really easy to do and this way you won’t miss a beat.

Happy Weekend!

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2 Responses to “Friday Find – Pinterest”

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    Sue W. — January 27, 2012 at 9:25 am

    Oh yes, I spend HOURS looking through Pinterest. It is that glossy magazine that used to be in the Dr’s office (now they are all about *health*, go figure) that you used to just page through…but now it is never ending and you don’t have to wait for everyone else around you to finish with it first. Seriously. And it’s free. No annoying ads. Well, that won’t last long – *someone* will find out how to make a buck off it!

    • Kendra replied: — February 1st, 2012 @ 8:23 am

      Pinterest – for the impatient! 🙂


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Andrew and Kanyarat were married on Saturday December 19th at Leeds Town Hall. Despite only booking a week before the wedding, everything ran smoothly thanks to their careful planning.

There is no denying that it was a cold day.  The previous few days had seen a good amount of snow and the 2 degree temperatures maintained an even coverage for the wedding.  We were fortunate to have some magnificent light which really took advantage of the blanketed surroundings.  As always, the registrar at Leeds kept the ceremony friendly and to the schedule.  After several shots signing the register, we quickly set up a confetti shot outside on the front steps.

Wrapping up on the town hall steps, we moved on to Sandmoor Golf Club for the reception as the daylight was already starting to fade.  On arriving it was clear that the course was in no condition to be played.  A thick blanket of snow covered the fairway surrounding the gold club… it was begging to be used.  Taking Andrew and Kanyarat around the grounds for some posed couple shots was great.  Kanyarat was eager to capture as many pictures of the snow as possible to send back home.

Moving into the clubhouse, we organised the group shots into traditional Thai arrangments.  This allowed us to best use the space and also provided a different take on the western group photographs.


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British GT gear up for Round 2 at Rockingham

Friday, April 28, 2017

Just two weeks after the opening races of the 2017 season, cars from the British GT Championship will this weekend compete at the first two hour enduro of the season as well as supporting a young man facing new life challenges.

The 30 car grid, made up of 12 GT3's and a whopping 18 GT4's will again be populated by just five cars from the Aston Martin Racing stable with a pair of GT3's from TF Sport, another from MacMillan Racing and a single GT4 from each of MacMillan Racing and Academy Motorsport.

Like many other individuals and organisations around the world, this event is being used by the series as a fundraising exercise for Billy Monger, the seventeen year old who lost both of his lower legs after a horrifying F4 crash at Donington on the same weekend as the BGT season opener.

The cars will adorn #BillyWhizz windscreen banners for the event as well as donations being sought from those attending - £1.00 as a pit walk donation is after all not much to ask.

Perhaps, we may even get to have some of the funds raised to help another member of the motorsport family, Craig Walker who also suffered life changing injuries at a tin top meeting at Castle Comb just 24 hours after Billy's accident. His fundraising page can be found HERE

Please help as much both as you can.

Getting back to the race, defending GT3 champions TF Sport will certainly be looking to halt the race winning progress of that #33 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini after they ran away at Oulton Park to secure two commanding race wins and despite securing 50% of the GT3 podiums you can bet that Jonny Adam/Derek Johnston and Mark Farmer/Jon Barnes will all be looking to improve.

The two cars from MacMillan Racing will each be looking for a bit more from Lady Luck after the GT3 of James Littlejohn and Mitchell boiled over on the grid for race 1 for a DNF and the GT4 of Jonck and Will Phillips was involved in some bumping and grinding in the chaotic GT4 pack in both races.

The remaining AMR car of Academy Motorsport's Matt Nichol-Jones and Will Moore will have to smarten up their driving after they were excluded from the results of Race 1 despite crossing the line third in class. They were then involved in a further first corner incident in Race 2 that ended their efforts there an then.

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Saturday, 19 August 2017

ISIS step up terror attacks: Russia knife attacker wounds seven in Surgut bringing total of 16 dead and almost 100 injured in 3 horrific days

ISIS terror attacks hit Russian city after attacks in Spain and Finland...
A man armed with a knife has attacked pedestrians in the Russian city of Surgut, injuring seven. Police killed the assailant, the local branch of the Investigative Committee reported.
Yesterday Finland became the latest European country to suffer a terrorist attack as two people were killed and at least 6 others injured after a stabbing incident in the south-western city of Turku.
According to reports Police shot the attacker in the leg and arrested him, he was known to Police.Seven people have been wounded in a knife attack in the Russian city of Surgut, security sources say. The man, who apparently stabbed passers-by on the street at random, was shot dead by police.
The injured have been taken to hospital, where two are in a critical condition, the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency reports.
The Islamic State militant group (IS) said on its official news channel that it was behind the attack. Russia's Investigations Committee said it had identified the attacker and was checking his psychological history.
The attacker was a local resident born in 1994, it said.
A spokeswoman for the committee told Reuters news agency she would not comment on the possibility of terrorist motives, calling the attack "attempted murder".
The attack happened at about 11:20 local time (06:20 GMT).
An earlier statement said eight people had been wounded, but that was later revised to seven.
Surgut, about 2,100km (1,300 miles) east of Moscow in the Khanty-Mansiysk area of Siberia, has a population of more than 350,000.

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