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Handing on the Faith at the Heart of Africa's Cultures

Ten years after the First Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops considered inculturation of the faith as one of the most urgent tasks in the very life of Africa’s particular Churches, the Pontifical Council for Culture organised a meeting in Accra in March 2003 convinced that, as the Holy Father affirms, “a faith that does not become culture is not fully accepted, not entirely thought out, not faithfully lived” (Letter creating the Pontifical Council for Culture, 20 May 1982). Africa, new homeland for Christ, has its own opportunities, challenges and experiences to show how the interaction between faith and culture is at once necessary, beneficial and fruitful.

But inculturation alone does not entirely satisfy the mission, for there is also the aspect of evangelising cultures, that is the entire make up of structures of thought and of action, of ethical reference points, of customs and habits which reveal the human person to be a fundamentally cultural being.

To favour this twofold task of the Church in Africa, the Pontifical Council for Culture brought together its African Members and Consultors with the directors of studies of many of the major seminaries in Africa to address various aspects of the pastoral approach to culture under the theme: Handing on the Faith at the Heart of Africa’s Cultures. The dialogue and debate that followed the magisterial lectures permitted an enriching sharing of ideas, experiences, hopes and expectations, within a clear desire to evangelise the peoples and their cultures in all their rich complexity.

The discussions between priests active in ministry and those responsible for the formation of future priests were marked by a sense of realism and hopefulness.

The cultural formation of priests aims to bring them to this transversal dimension of the whole of human existence, and hence, of evangelisation itself. The seminaries and centres of formation are seedbeds of hope for the future of the Church in Africa. They form and educate priests to be capable of leading an enthusiastic laity, ready to engage in the mission to bring their brothers and sisters the Good News of the Gospel and to lead them to the meeting with Christ.


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Date: 5 Mar 2014, 21:34 By Tor With 11 Comments

I seen my little nephews play this game all day long and I just don't understand it. But they absolutely love it. So today here are some cursors from the mine craft game. These particular cursors were created by dakotaatokad. He gots a ton more cursors that you can get of minecraft, so check out his DA page.

In total there were a total of 25 cursors added today. I'll be adding more minecraft cursors in the coming days, so be sure to check back for those.

Here are a few samples of what was added today.

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Date: 3 Mar 2014, 21:04 By Tor With 3 Comments

I recently tried to log into my facebook account for Cursors-4U and I was confronted with a security question. After multiple attempts to answer the question it became clear to me that I don't know it. So I did the password reset, but the security question keeps popping up. Searching the internet, there is no answer to how to reset the security question.

Going to facebook's help page, doesn't gives the answer. It's just a roundabout shmorgishborg of regurgitated crap.

I added the like us widget three years ago, and now I have to probably take it down. If anyone knows how to get pass or reset the security question, let me know. So frustrating...

March 2014 Favorite Cursor Of The Month

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March 2014 Favorite Cursor of the month is the "Multicursor Set". This animated cursor was created by ace576-cursors over at deviantart. These are amazing unique animated cursors that depict tiny little cursors making different shapes.

I had to change up the layout of the website a little bit yesterday. Mostly the ads, but if you feel that they are too much, leave a comment and let me know. Thank you.

File Server Is Down Fixed

Date: 17 Feb 2014, 11:23 By Tor With 1 Comments

First update in a long time. But our file server is down. That means you can't download or use cursors on this site until it's updated again.

I'm trying to get things up and running again.

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August 2013 Favorite Cursor Of The Month

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Augusts 2013 Favorite Cursor of the month is the "Trail Of Waving Hearts". This animated cursor was created by Cursormania. I plan on recoloring these cursors so you can get them in different shades. I think I'll make that my next update.

You probably noticed that we didn't have a favorite cursor last month. I been really busy and haven't had much time to update the site. But I'll do my best to keep things going. You can get more Heart cursors on our site as well...

Candy Crush Saga Cursors

Date: 17 Jun 2013, 23:31 By Tor With 8 Comments

I love Candy Crush Saga! So today, I decided to create some for you guys =D I included all the candies and all the combo's. I tried to do every color and type, but I couldn't find a good source material on the web as a reference for the cursor design; so I didn't get every candy bomb color.

Hope you enjoy! I'm on level 256. What level are you guys on?

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Psy Cursors (Gangnam Style, and Gentlemen)

Date: 9 Jun 2013, 15:20 By Tor With 7 Comments

Just added some Psy cursors. I did one of the popular Gangnam style. Though a little late to the party, I thought these need to made into cursors because of the historical nature of the song. I added four total cursors of psy. One real-life potrait of him, and three funny cartoony abstracts (I guess).

For those that don't know, Psy is the musical artist that sang, Gangnam Style, which has 1.6 billion views and counting. Most watch video in the entire world at the moment.

I'll be adding more celebrities soon but for now the cursors above went into the following categories...

Here are a few samples of what was added today.

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June 2013 Favorite Cursor Of The Month

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June 2013 Favorite Cursor of the month is the "Black Moustache". These moustache cursors have been liked and requested by so many people on tumblr that it has become one of our most popular cursor. It has over 200k views on it! Which is really neat.

You can get more mustache/moustache cursors on our site.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2 Cursors

Date: 14 May 2013, 21:05 By Tor With 10 Comments

I been on a rampage in this game lately, so I decided to finally add the Black Ops 2 Prestige Emblems. I got all 11 of them including Prestige Master. For those that visit this site a lot, I have all the prestige emblems as cursors since the Original Black Ops. I also plan to add Call Of Duty Ghost as well if they have it. So be sure to check back for those.

We also got a butt load more Call Of Duty Cursors. The cursors went into the following categories...

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May 2013 Favorite Cursor Of The Month

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May 2013 Favorite Cursor of the month is the "Chrome Set". This is a complete cursor set created by bokuwatensai. All the cursors are covered in a silver Chrome. Very shiny and sexy. Its one of our most popular cursor sets and will be for a long time!

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The Future of Marketing and Branding

What Can We Learn from Watching 8- to 14-Year-Olds Interact with Markets and Brands around the World?

March 27, 2003

Here’s a compelling synopsis of some of the findings in our new book, BRANDchild. We offer some interesting market research statistics and observations about the make-up of today’s global tween market—a group that purchases and/or influences $600 billion worth of sales each year.

Marketing as we know it is about to change forever--at least, B2C marketing is about to change dramatically. Why? Because consumers’ behaviors are changing in pretty dramatic ways. We expect at least some of these changes will spill over into B2B marketing practices as well.

Here’s a summary of a year’s worth of market research carried out around the world during 2002. The market research focus was on urban “tween-agers”--kids between 8 and 14 years old--in 14 countries around the world. The research and its implications are discussed in our new book, “BRANDchild:” Remarkable Insights into the minds of today’s global kids and their relationship with brands.

Here are some of the most dramatic changes to which you’ll need to adapt in order to win the hearts and minds of today’s most demanding consumers (and their parents!):

  1. The Customer is the focus; not the product or the brand.
  2. Multichannel interactive marketing and sales are required.
  3. Authenticity and straight talk are important. Your product and brand must be authentic.
  4. Secrets and nuances that can be discovered are vital to keeping the brand fresh.
  5. Peer-to-peer guerilla marketing is critical to success.
  6. Online and offline worlds have blurred--use both.
  7. Brand loyalty is more ephemeral; brand passion is stronger than ever before.

What’s the relevance of this research for B2B marketers? Customers are people. What works to motivate and connect with consumers is part of the fabric of how they approach the products, the brands, and the companies with which they interact both in their personal and in their business lives.

For example, we’ve all witnessed the impact that,, eBay and other consumer Web sites have had on B2B business processes. Because of what they’ve experienced as consumers on sites like these, today’s business customers expect to be able to shop online as well as by phone and in person. They expect to be able to interact with our businesses 24 x 7 across channels and touchpoints with great consistency. And, they expect to be able to dispose of and/or to acquire any product instantly in a global online marketplace.

Tomorrow’s adult and business marketing landscape will be shaped by tweens, who will have lived for years in the virtual worlds created in EverQuest, Entropia, Sims Online, Star Wars Galaxies, Lineage, and many other multiplayer fantasy worlds. They will be accustomed to creating their own personas with brands to match. They will want to shape their environments, interact with others constantly, and co-create their brand experiences, both online and offline.

The Customer Revolution continues, but it’s about to shift into hyperdrive!

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Illustration. Written by Martin Lindstrom, with Patricia Seybold as a contributing author, “BRANDchild” explores global tweens’ relationship to brands and branding. The book synthesizes a year’s worth of research carried out by international marketing research company Millward Brown. Martin Lindstrom and the Millward Brown team spent a year interviewing, researching, and analyzing how this new generation spends their money and what their relationship is with brands. “BRANDchild” is the result of this global study that spanned 14 countries. “BRANDchild” was published by Kogan Page Limited in March, 2003.

Tweens Have Incredible Purchasing Power and Influence

Tween-agers--kids from the age of 9 to 14--currently spend $150 billion per year globally. Tweens also influence an additional $150 billion per year globally with “pester power.” And they indirectly influence another $300 billion per year, for example, in situations in which a parent makes a purchase taking into account kids’ tastes. That’s a total purchasing/influencing power of $600 billion this year!

In addition to the products that tweens buy for themselves and/or consume themselves (food, entertainment, clothing, music, electronics, etc.), tweens actually influence adults’ purchases of a large variety of products. (This will come as no surprise to most parents, who don’t want to be perceived as “uncool” by their offspring).

In its research with global urban tweens, market research firm Millward Brown asked urban tweens and their parents about the degree of influence tweens actually had over adult purchases in three categories ...

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Saturday, 21 December 2013

What A Cracker!

Q. What do you get if you cross Father Christmas with a duck?

There are so many lovely Christmas nail designs around at the moment, and Emma and I are well and truly aboard that train. However, I couldn't resist a sneaky little novelty design too!

Although it's a little uneven this mani actually turned out better than I thought it would. It was really quick and easy to do, I just outlined the cracker, filled it in with gold, added some dots and then outlined again to neaten it up. With the Barry M nail art pens you can create anything!

I seem to have all the Barry M Christmassy colours as they were the only polishes I used for this mani. They have such a good range of bold, bright colours that lend themselves really well to nail art. Team that with a good formula and a great price and it's easy to see why we love them so much!

A. A Christmas Quacker!!

  1. This so so cute! I don't think you can tell the crackers a bit uneven - well I can't anyway! :)

    1. Thanks! I think it's cute too-Jo is just fussy! E.x

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Friday, April 25, 2008

Mobile Broadband via India

If you've been following along, you'll know that I currently have one of Three's new HSDPA USB modems on loan for review, and up till now I've been having problems getting it to work under OSX Tiger on my Intel Macbook, although I did get it working under Leopard on my PPC iMac without a hitch.

Well today I had a call from Three's technical support team, and from the sounds of things I was talking to the same Bangalore based team as you'd normally end up talking to if you'd managed to fight your way through the front line call centre people and got a call back from a real technical support person. I was pleasantly surprised, the agent at the end of the phone rapidly ramped their level of technical support from "...and have you tried plugging it into a different USB port?" to talking about the Kernel protection faults and driver conflicts.

The short story is that I now have a working USB modem, and am a happy geek with a new toy. The long story is, well, longer...

Now configured and connected to the Internet

It turns out that I having the configuration problems Aaron Heath was having, but with my own unique spin on things. The initial network driver configuration was indeed failing, because I had turned on the "Require password to unlock each secure system preference" option under the security options in my System Preferences. This meant that Three's proprietary connection software didn't actually have the permissions it needed to add or configure the new network interfaces. We actually accidentally stumbled across this during the tech support call when I plugged the dongle into the laptop while I had the Network Preference pane open and unlocked and it automatically enabled the HUAWEI Mobile device. From there we more or less followed Aaron's walkthrough to manually configure the network interface...

...and it shows up in the normal modem menu

The modem now shows up under the normal Mac drop down for such things, and I can connect to the Internet using it without a hitch from my Intel Macbook using the standard Mac tools. However, and perhaps somewhat tellingly, I still can't use the proprietary Mobile Connect application included with the dongle. It crashes, a bit further forward this time, but still with a Kernel Protection Failure...

The Mobile Connect application still doesn't work though?

Of course this doesn't really bother me, I'd rather use the device using the default tools anyway. However, without the Mobile Connect application, I do need a new way to monitor my bandwidth usage. I might not be paying for my packets while I have the dongle, but I'd like to be able to report back at the end of my trial with how much it would have cost had I actually had to pay for things. Especially since I'm off to Trieste in a couple of weeks and will be using the dongle to roam onto Three's Italian partner network, which could get interesting price wise.

It was surprisingly hard to find a simple, free, application that would just monitor my total bytes up and down on a specific network interface, until I stumbled across the oddly named SurplusMeter, which does exactly what I need, monitor ongoing usage against a preset bandwidth allowance.

Annoyingly there isn't any way of getting rid of the mounted volume on the dongle.

Which leaves me with my final annoyance, every time you plug in the dongle it mounts the partition with the driver software on it. This was actually rather nice the first time I plugged the stick into the computer, but now it just leaves me with an extra mounted volume cluttering up an already over full desktop. I'm not going to muck around with it right now, but after I've tested the dongle, and I'm back from Trieste, I might have a play around with Disk Utility and see if I can stop it doing that and still have access to the modem itself.

Anyway, as it turns out, this post is brought to you via mobile broadband and Three's dongle. I'd forgotten to plug my ethernet cable back into the laptop after taking the screen shots for the post....

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  1. Super.

    Glad you found the screen grabs helpful. I think between us, we have this thing nailed.

    @ Rational Geekery


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Eternal Damnation, Probably

Dave Atsals

I, Dave Atsals, just got told by another man donning a white collar that I am slated for Hell. His exact words were, “No amount of Hail Marys or good deeds will get you out of this one, Dave.” This marks strike four and, as far as priests go, I guess that’s the magic number. So I’ll be burning, burning, burning, like that Johnny Cash song. So let’s list my four unforgivable acts of unsaintliness (note to editor: please check if that’s a real word).

Act 1:  Alter Falter (which is also Charley Manson’s Next Album)

Place:  My friend Steve’s wedding, Hackensack, NJ

Year:  1994

Circumstance:  They had alter girls at the wedding and after settling in at the table to enjoy the reception festivities, we began discussing this fact.  I soon offered my opinion, “The Church probably felt more comfortable with the little girls around the priests than the little boys.”  I knew I had a problem as I watched Mick Zano’s cringing facial expression.  He motioned over my shoulder and, when I turned around, the priest who presided over the wedding ceremony was in the chair directly behind me.

This conversation then commenced:

Dave:  Am I going to hell for this?

Priest:  probably.

Act II:  And The Lord Said Let There Be…Crap

Place:  The Genetti Hotel, Williamsport, Pa.

Year:  1998.

Circumstance:  The maintenance department was checking the fuses because they where not labeled.  They were shutting off all the power in the hotel and then turning the fuses back on, one by one, so they could label the newly installed panel box.  I was working at the time and figured this would be a great time to hit the can.  While using the urinal, in the dark, a man walked in next to me and shined a light on his crotch. Figuring it was the other maintenance man, I said, “Hugh, I didn’t need a light to find mine in the dark.”

Just as I said this the lights came on. Not only could I see the man next to me using the urinal, I could see his white collar of priesthood.

Dave:  Am I going to hell for this?

Priest:  Probably.

Act III:  Use Jugs Not Drugs

Place:  The First Church of Christ

Year:  2000

Circumstance:  I was a bartender at the time period and got to bartend at the big Mardi Gras Celebration.  The Mardi Gras Celebration in Williamsport is known for topless women who often love to pose with their bartenders.  I got to be in several of these, my favorite of which was with a woman aptly named Jugs.  She posed by laying one of each of her…um, you know, on each of my shoulders.  I was in heaven at the time.  So there go 15 of the disposable camera’s 24 pictures. The last nine of which I took at my son’s first Holy Communion.

I guess you can see where this is going…

My wife developed the pictures not knowing that I did not take them all at church.  She even shared them unknowingly with Father Pete.  As I saw her doing this I made a mad dash towards them just in time to hear the priest say, “Look at those…um, you know.”

Dave:  Am I going to hell for this?

Father Pete:  Probably.

Act IV:  Blessed Are The Steelers

[Winslow: IIII is not a Roman numeral, Dave]

Place:  Annunciation Church

Year:  not sure.

Circumstance:  At his first holy confessional my son told the priest he had sinned because, “My father told me I did.”  He explained that when he had recently tried to watch cartoons on Thanksgiving I had told him it was in the Bible that you had to watch football on Thanksgiving. His grandfather later confirmed this important nugget of wisdom and even claimed it was from the book of Genesis.  While being stopped by the priest on the way out and lectured about this misguided information the conversation went like this:

Dave:  Am going to hell for this?

Priest:  Probably.

Well, there you have it folks, four strike…four strikes and you’re bound for hell. Well, probably.

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Change and What to Expect Post 1

Posted on September 28th, 2011 by Alicia  |  Comments Off

Any time you transition into a new food program and remain consistent, you will experience some changes (which is the purpose, now, isn’t it?). The better the program, the more severe the symptoms tend to be, as higher quality and more easily digested foods assist the body in releasing and discarding stored toxins and lower grade materials in order for the body to build new and better tissue. Read the rest of this entry »


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A new book about Beethoven gathers together (and reconfigures and edits) my blogs on Beethoven into a short introduction to the composer, Ways of Hearing Beethoven, which I'm now circulating to publishers. My novel The Fall of the Berlin Wall, completed a year ago, is about musicians and particularly the intense, irrepressible daughter of the legendary pianist featured in my previous novel Hungry Generations, now fifteen years after those events. Five years ago, my 2015 novel, The Ash Tree, was published by West of West Books in conjunction with the April 24, 2015 centenary of the Armenian genocide; it's about an Armenian-American family and the sweep of their history in the twentieth century - particularly from the points of view of two women in the family.
There are three other novels of mine, which I sometimes circulte. One is Pathological States, about a physician's family in L.A. in 1962, which is as yet unpublished. Another is Hungry Generations, about a young composer's friendship in L.A. with the family of a virtuoso pianist, published on demand by iUniverse. A Burnt Offering - a fable (a rewriting and expansion of my earlier Acts of Terror and Contrition - a nuclear fable) is my political novella about Israel and its reactions to the possibility of a war with Iran (with the fear that it will be a nuclear war).
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Friday, May 18, 2012

Beethoven xvii - on "Beethoven Hero"

There’s a sort of collision that occurs between two ways of understanding the impact of Beethoven’s music. One way is based on his amazing exploration of form and his implicit invitation to the performer to participate in the moment-to-moment unfolding of what can be made out of often a single motif (say, the pervasive exfoliations of the opening phrase of the Fifth Symphony: da da da DUM). Another way of framing our understanding of Beethoven’s music is based on the Romantic period’s ideas of the quest, of a heroic journey, and of subjective, organic growth. Both of the two conflicting approaches – the formal and the Romantic – are attempts, of course, at explaining the impact of Beethoven’s music: the impression of exploratory energy, of immense creative potential, and of the composer’s empowered mind and will.

This dominant impression of unleashed power leads some listeners to feel that certain works contain a sort of insufferable “pounding,” what Adorno identifies in Beethoven’s weakest works as a “Germanic, brutal, triumphal” emptiness. However, for his greatest works, what we hope to find are insights to convey and explain their wonderful impression of empowered creativity in the face of the collapse of the aristocratic frame and rationale which supported the great classical works of Mozart and Haydn. Especially in his middle period, Beethoven explored and experimented with the most basic building blocks of classical form, disassembling, playing with, subverting, and reassembling them with new, unprecedented power.

For both player and listener, what is the source of the sense of empowerment in his music? Scott Burnham presents the two approaches noted above in answering this question in his 1995 book Beethoven Hero.; as he does so, he explores the “musical values,” “institutional values,” and “cultural values” which shape our reception of Beethoven’s music. His main focus is on how listeners have understood the impact of the Third Symphony, the Eroica, and particularly the first movement. [Incidentally, I hope this blog entry is not too technical (for some not technical enough) or too abstruse, but it’s worth a try to engage Burnham’s argument.]

Typically, twentieth-century readings of that movement have centered on a formal analysis of “those aspects of Beethoven’s style which are particularly characteristic of his middle period” – i.e., the period also of the Appassionata and the Fifth Symphony, etc. (7-8):

“Those aspects…include the alternation of active downbeat-oriented sections with reactive upbeat-oriented sections, the liberation of thematic development to the extent that it may even take place during the initial exposition of the theme, and the polysemic formal significance of the opening section, understood as combining features of introduction, exposition, and development….Beethoven’s [main] theme remains, in a sense unconsummated: its urge to slide immediately away from E flat through chromatic alternation…never allows it to behave as a truly melodic theme…- in fact, it will have to wait until the coda before it is granted that sort of themehood….The fact that this theme must so submit in order to become more like a theme is unprecedented in musical discourse. This process establishes a new way in which music can be about a theme.”

In view of this extraordinary new approach to thematic development (the moment-to-moment momentum of its unfolding), as well, “it was this dimension of Beethoven’s style that was felt to be revolutionary and deeply engaging by his first critics; programmatic interpretations allowed them to address this specific aspect” by employing the (for them) contemporary Romantic idea of a “singularly obsessed hero fighting against a recalcitrant external world” (5). Romantic nineteenth-century as well as formalist twentieth-century understandings of Beethoven’s breakthrough respond, then, from different points of view to the power of the Third.

And yet, “the conjunction of Beethoven’s music with the ethical and mythical implications of the hero and his journey holds the entire reception history of this symphony in its sway….Even readings of mainstream formalism…share some features with the readings from which they claim to have distanced themselves….The overmastering coherence heard in works like the Eroica Symphony has both inspired the use of heroic metaphor and encouraged the coronation of such coherence as the ruling musical value of the formalist agenda” (27).

This core insight, which Burnham richly develops, operates also as he explores various theories and features of the Third as well as the Fifth Symphony and the Appassionata sonata, his commentary – say – on the role of the coda, or on Beethoven’s “radical revitalization of musical language, in which every peripheral detail becomes galvanized with significance, as part of a unitary and unmediated effusion” – in which “everything becomes melody” (quoting Wagner on Beethoven - 31); or, for another example, commentary on how “Beethoven treats harmonies like monoliths instead of playing cards, [so that] harmonic change assumes epic importance” (36). Finally, he writes, “Beethoven’s tonal form has become the destiny of music” (155).

Most delving among Burnham’s insights, though, is the response he develops to the idea of “presence and engagement in the Heroic style.” Early in his study, he is concerned with a sort of double consciousness we develop as we listen, a simultaneous experience of “enacting” the momentum of the creative, heroic journey and of self-consciously reflecting on it: being aware of it as an unfolding form.

First, remember that the Eroica Symphony’s main theme is continually curtailed (early on by the famous C sharp in bar 7) and is never fully realized until the coda of the first movement. “Hearing the coda as recapitulating the entire process of the movement brings into play a reflective dimension that goes beyond the enactment of narrative….[The music] can be said to effect the distancing narration of the genre of the epic, [so that] the acts of telling and enacting are merged” (23). [The tension between the epic form and the tragic drama is a concern of many twentieth century thinkers, including for example Raymond Williams and, as we saw in earlier posts, Adorno and Benjamin.] Burnham then links this idea of simultaneous narration and enactment to Hegel’s idea of self-consciousness: “this paradox of distance and identification is a secret of human consciousness” and “an expression of the conditions of selfhood.” By the end of his study, Burnham connects this idea to Goethe’s vision of the human, to “Goethezeit,” which integrate “ironic self-consciousness” and “the ethos of the self as hero” – together yielding both objectivity and subjectivity, simultaneously (146).

Many of the themes which these blog entries about Beethoven, Adorno, Hegel, the varieties of irony, etc., have tried to explore are, of course, at issue here, and they underlie Burnham’s delving account of Beethoven’s middle period music.

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

Who Cares?

Has anybody noticed what's in the news today? Or should I say, what's NOT in the news today? Neither of today's online editions of the New York Times nor the Washington Post had an article on Bush's new FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) victory. Yesterday most of the same people who swore to protect, defend and uphold the Constitution overwhelmingly betrayed it.

The Bush Administration and its corporate telecom buddies have succeeded in snatching their get out of jail free card from Congress.

It's the new American way. Break the law, and then bully your way to make it legal retroactively.

This is troubling in many ways.

It is more than possible that a significant number of the surveillance targets of the Administration are Democrats. J. Edgar Hoover proved this to be a useful tool of the American Reich. That could account for such a massive rollover.

And of course, there's all that telecom money going into the politicians' re-election funds.

Maybe the American people learned about this travesty by watching the news on television.

Or more likely they did not.

Corporate media TV hardly covered this destruction of the Fourth Amendment any better. They found an old story about a murdered white girl to be more important and vital to the nation's interest. The same formula works every time. Isn't America better off now that we know who didn't kill that little girl?

The FISA capitulation is a sad indication of what Obama would do if he somehow wins the election. (I still believe the fascists will steal the presidency again.) Obama would be pressured by his own party to stay on the corporatist reservation. He will be pressured by the Reich wing to continue expanding the police state. If Obama is elected and wants to keep his job, he will have to be a company man. He will be a corporatist or face consequences.

The corporate media will be the pit bulls dogging him to comply with their masters.

We can only hope Obama can delay the fascist bastards. I don't know how he can reverse the damage, especially if the Bush Administration's crimes are not called out as crimes. The new FISA is all about covering up and "legalizing" Bush's crimes of illegal wiretapping. And congress is covering up its own complicity as well.

You say FISA is only about snooping on foreigners? So we can trust them, right?

The best case I see is revocation of some of Bush's worst directives, and maybe appointing moderate Supreme Court nominees. This is, now more than ever, of crucial importance.

The creeping fascism is becoming institutionalized and will follow its track unless it is disclosed and checked.

Bush's cronies illegally hired only loyal right wingers into the Department of Justice. US Attorneys were fired for not following the Reich wing political agenda. The Justice Department is dragging their feet when it comes to Rove, Meirs, and others' contempt of Congress. It is corrupted for a long time and we cannot expect much "justice" from them.

Loyalty and unaccountability are apparently their only rules.

It's bleak when 90% of the Republicans and 50% of the Dems are going along with the police state agenda.

It's only more difficult when the corporate media are in cahoots with the corporate government. They will suppress the obvious truth of the criminal behavior. With their "fair and balanced" style they give the lie as much time as the truth. Then they suggest that the truth must be "somewhere in the middle". Journalism is dying under the thumb of right wing corporatism. Propaganda is now their business.

The media NEVER say Bush committed crimes. As if his bloody eternal war is not evidence of his war crimes...

The indifferent lack of reporting on the FISA sham only helps prove that big media are also in bed with the telecoms. And big business is in bed with the government. There you have it. Combine this power with aggressive militarism and that's fascism, by definition.

And do American citizens even care?

Are we too stupid, intimidated and complacent as a population?

Are Americans no different than the “Good Germans” of the 1930's?

The Washington Post earlier featured a FISA article, but was buried away from the headlines. Stories were posted later at both the New York Times and Washington Post.

But again, who cares?

Anonymous said...

HEIL ! oh, I misspelled that - should have been hail. No, through apathy we have them our rights. Some in Iraq even continue to give their lives. I think part of this is due to how they have 'maintained' a sort-of status quo for the majority in this country while slipping the rugs out from underneath. And now, they will have their way with us. I expect next year we will have a draft and everything will be in place to quelch the rebellion which will flicker and then go to Quantanamo.

Naj said...

Americans are no different than Good Germans of the 1930's.

I wish this line of thinking was also more invoked by the polipundits ...

Mauigirl said...

Dave, I agree - this is a very concerning situation. I can only hope that Obama, if elected, will work to reverse some of the worst abuses of this legislation, as he has said he would. But can we really trust anything anyone says anymore? I hope we can. But I reserve judgment...

jmsjoin said...

It really sucks! Americans or should I say average Americans should care already as their old life style and America they wanted to pass on is destroyed.
Unbelievably to me most still do not get what Bush has done to us or how bad it is going to get especially once Iran is attacked and this really gets going.
This manufactured perfect storm is about to come to a head at the perfect time and it is going to suck!


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Adware Gone

  /   Thursday, July 29, 2004   /   Comments(0)

It appears that I had a VX2 variant of the adware on my computer. It was designed not to be detectable by any current spyware/adware detection programs. If you have this and can’t remove it, check out Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware with VX2 Cleaner plugin. Once I used the plugin, I was able to get rid of the pop-up ads.

I can’t believe that these people are legally allowed to do this. It ought to be considered trespassing. Then again, I don’t know who did it, so pressing charges would be very difficult.

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Happy Birthday to Me

  /   Wednesday, July 28, 2004   /   Comments(0)

Well, it’s my birthday again. I’m not very old (I’m 29.), but I’m now getting to the point where I feel like I can do without more birthdays. Maybe I could stay in my 20’s for a while longer. Oh well, at least I have another year.

On another note, some infernal jerk has installed adware on my computer. I don’t know who did it, but I didn’t ask for it. It started to appear yesterday. I put ZoneAlarm on my computer as well as a couple of anti-spyware programs. The anti-spyware programs didn’t get rid of it, but the ZoneAlarm appears to be preventing it from calling home.

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Women Are Not Interested

  /   Tuesday, July 27, 2004   /   Comments(0)

Interesting, very interesting . . . .

The feminazis are out crusading to defend the precious “right” of every woman to murder her unborn child in the womb. Are the “women voters” (whomever they may be talking about) really interested? Are they really worried that this precious “right” will be taken from them?

Well, apparently they are not. In fact, the pro-aborts themselves are admitting it. One pro-abort organization took a poll that revealed that 51% of women oppose most or all abortions.

Are you surprised? I’m not really . . . . it’s just part of the trend that I’ve been gratefully observing. It’s kind of like all of those people trying to make the Church “relevant.” No one is really interested in what they are doing. Abortion just isn’t an appealing prospect for women of good sense anymore than false teaching is an appealing prospect for Catholics with good sense. Pray that people will continue to not listen to the pro-aborts and not support their cause. Then, we need only to present them with the Gospel truth if they do not already know it.

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The Plane Ride from You Know Where

  /   Monday, July 26, 2004   /   Comments(0)

I finally made it back from Steubenville last night. I mentioned before that I found that my entire itenerary was cancelled when I arrived at the airport in Memphis. The flight they put me on went pretty well. I had to connect through Cleveland, but it wasn’t much of a problem. The connecting flight was overbooked, but I managed to get on. The plane was a small plane that was very noisy, but kind of fun to fly on.

The trip back was sheer, utter hell. I was set to connect through Atlanta (which I would never do intentionally). The first leg of the trip was supposed to last about an hour and a quarter, arriving at about 9:15 PM. Instead, it arrived in Atlanta at about 12:45 AM. A weather problem kept us in a holding pattern until the plane was almost out of fuel, at which point we and about four other planes had to land in Greenville, South Carolina. We had to just sit there for a long time (I don’t remember how long.) before we finally got back into Atlanta.

Miraculously, my connection plane was still there. It was supposed to leave at 10 PM, but they hung around until about 1:30 AM. It was the most uncomfortable plane ride I’ve ever been on in my life. It was extremely cramped. Fortunately, the flight from Atlanta to Memphis was fairly short.

My problem didn’t end there. To add insult to injury, my luggage apparently didn’t make the trip with me. The lady at the baggage claim office wasn’t able to do much for me because their computer didn’t work. So, I didn’t get a “file number,” as they call them. I called their toll-free number the next morning, and I think I got one of those overseas outsourcing companies. I explained my whole story, including the fact that I didn’t have a file number, and then the rep asked me for the file number that I just told him I didn’t have. He wasn’t very helpful.

To make a long story short, their system still says they don’t have any information on my baggage. However, I have my bags. I called the local office just to see what I could get, and my bags mysteriously appeared at the airport . I’m tempted to continue to monitor the system for my bags to see how long it takes them to figure out that I already picked up my bags.

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Steubenville – Day Three

  /   Sunday, July 25, 2004   /   Comments(0)

Today was the third and final day of the conference. It started off with a conversion story. Unfortunately, I forgot the guy’s name. He was good, though. He was a classmate of Scott Hahn’s in the Calvinist seminary. Rosalind Moss gave the last talk. It was pretty good, but it was kind of hard to tell you what exactly it was about. Maybe it will be clearer when I get the CD set that I ordered. I always get more out of the second time around.

The closing Mass was celebrated by Fr. Michael Scanlan. He gave him homily on prayer and ways to pray. He suggested a way to holiness that consists of five minutes each day of listening to God, and then doing what he says.

They usually take time to talk about the pre-theologate program here. Fr. Scanlan told us about the differences between men and women looking at consecrated life. A man goes in to the pre-theologate saying he is going to be a priest, but often Fr. Scanlan will get his wedding invitation later. A woman shows up with her letter of acceptance to the convent saying she is still discerning.

I’m going to hang around and pray and take pictures of the area. Hopefully, I’ll be back in Memphis tonight, and I can provide more reflections. I’m just praying that all my stuff and the stuff I bought fit in my luggage. It’s the greatest challenge of the conference for me.

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Steubenville – Day Two

  /   Saturday, July 24, 2004   /   Comments(0)

This morning, we were at Mass with Cardinal Arinze celebrating. He was just awesome. I had to listen closely to understand him through his accent, but it was well worth it. He taught us a new term (new to me, anyway) – “ecclesiastical refrigerator.” He told us that the secularists want to keep religion in the Vatican museum or the ecclesiastical refrigerator. As you might expect, most of his talk was on the liturgy. He described people who violate the norms in the name of making the Mass more relevant as not only not knowing what the Mass is about, but also not knowing that they don’t know.

Patrick Madrid took a swipe at my favorite topic/pet peeve – moral relativism. He also did an afternoon workshop that I attended on the lies society tells us. I also heard Ralph Martin again on obstacles to growing in holiness. Of course, both Scott and Kimerly Hahn were there as well.

I spent a total of about two hours waiting in line for confession. Only in Steubenville would this happen. I guess we all know that there should be longer lines in the average confessional.

The evening concluded with the Holy Hour. I was a bit disappointed with part of it. Instead of beginning with O Salutaris Hostia, it began with Michael W. Smith’s Agnus Dei. Now, I like the song, but I wish that we could have sung O Salutaris Hostia first. Likewise, the Holy Hour ended with Salvation Belongs to Our God instead of Holy God We Praise Thy Name, which would have been better. It was, however, great to see Fr. Michael Scanlan whom I had heard so much about.

Jim Cowan has apparently written some new songs that he is trying out this year. These songs appear to be among the better ones he has written. I only wish the recording was out.

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Steubenville – Day One

  /   Friday, July 23, 2004   /   Comments(0)

It’s late, and I’m back at the hotel after my first day in Steubenville. I had an adventure getting here. I found out at check-in that my flight was cancelled, and so was my return flight. I had to connect through Cleveland instead of getting here directly. The connecting flight was on a plane that couldn’t have held 20 people. I was just waiting to find my baggage or hotel reservation lost, but neither happened.

I missed the first early bird session, but I did get to hear Steve Ray. The title of this topic was The Moral Authority of the Pope. My favorite part of the talk was when he talked about how he responded to people who suggested he leave the Church because of the scandals. He explained that people didn’t leave the country because of the sex scandals in the White House caused by a certain former president.

The evening talks by Ralph Martin and Alex Jones were a bit more difficult to describe. They dealt with our call to personal holiness and evangeliztion. In this day and age, we must not forget that, where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.

Anyway, it’s past my bedtime. I’ve got an early morning tomorrow. Mass will be at 8:15 AM with Cardinal Arinze. This is the main attraction as far as I’m concerned. It’s also the reason that I came back here instead of trying something else this year.

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Real Meaning of Conscience

  /   Thursday, July 22, 2004   /   Comments(0)

Fr. John Corapi gives one of the best detailed explanations from the Catechism of what constitutes being an accomplice or an accessory to another’s sin. Of course, he is talking about the necessity of voting pro-life. He tackles all of the “arguments” for voting pro-abort head on.

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They Allowed This . . . . Why?

  /   Thursday, July 22, 2004   /   Comments(0)

We have enough problems with people who have broken away from the Church on the grounds that the Church has broken faith without this stuff going on. It only serves to add fuel to their fire.

Now, granted, I’m not advocating that we change the way we do things to please schismatics. However, I have a saying that I once used at a Frassati Society meeting. If you are going to be written off as a kook, at least make sure that the people writing you off don’t have a legitimate reason for doing so.

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Another Courageous Bishop

  /   Thursday, July 22, 2004   /   Comments(0)

Add Bishop Robert Vasa to the list of courageous bishops (link shamelessly stolen from Jeff Miller). I’ve been reading some things about him, and I don’t think that the Diocese of Baker could ask for better. He actually understands that his real superior is the Pope.

The web site has been done in a fashion in which it is difficult to find information, but prior to this I was able to find his letter and Affirmation of Faith that he requires. If this were my diocese, I’d gladly sign it and support my bishop.

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Life Begins At – 60!

It’s been such a long, long time since I posted here and a lot of water has flowed under the proverbial bridge since then. Recently I’ve been looking for a good excuse to start posting again and I can’t think of a better reason that celebrating my 60th birthday.

The expression goes that life begins at 40 and I guess there’s a certain amount of truth in this. Certainly a lot has happened since my 40th birthday; got married to my fabulous wife, raised a wonderful, strong daughter who has recently flown the nest, moved county (twice) and a whole lot more.  But turning 60 is like opening a brand new volume in the saga with so many new challenges becoming. What better reason to reinvigorate the blog?

QPad MK-85 Keyboard

QPad MK-85 First Impressions

I’m typing this on my new QPad MK-85 keyboard. It’s not that I’m into PC gaming that I bought this; but I spend so much time on the keyboard that I wanted a decent tool for the job. So far it’s been great – the keyboard is very heavy for a keyboard, rock solid construction, and the keys are lovely to type on. Shame it doesn’t correct the spelling for me too.

Here’s a pic. Oh, did I forget to mention it glows in the dark 🙂

QPad MK-85 Keyboard

Caterham in the snow 1963

Caterham In The Snow 1963

I recently moved my blog to a new hosting provider and for some reason this post didn’t come across. So for posterity sake here are a couple of pictures taken of our house on Stanstead Road, Caterham, Surrey, UK during the severe winter of 1963. I would have been 7 years old and remember it reasonably well.

Caterham in the snow 1963

Caterham in the snow 1963

Moving On

This is not an easy post to write.

For the last 14 months I’ve been running my own business, Computer Troubleshooters – West Cork. Unfortunately, despite all my best efforts, this simply isn’t paying the bills, let alone putting food on the table. So I’ve decided to wind the company up and look for a fulltime position again.

For me this is a bit like trying to change gear in the middle of taking a sharp corner rather too fast. Life is lurching rapidly towards the curb whilst I’m struggling to keep it under control, not really sure in which direction I’m headed.

One thing I’m hoping is that this post will allow me to transition out of Computer Troubleshooters mode and back into “prospective employee” mode.

At least I should have more time for posting to this blog 🙂

PS. The business is for sale if you’re interested. It’s a franchise business and you’d get it at a fraction of the cost of setting up from scratch. Drop me a line if you’re interested.

Why I Hate DIY

There’s an age old adage that you’re probably familiar with:

Measure twice – cut once.

Well for me it goes more like:

Measure twice – cut three or four times, measure it again and cut a couple times more.

I don’t know what it is; but I just can’t seem to get the measurements right. Take this afternoon for example. All I had to do was put two hooks on the back of the bathroom door to hang a bathroom “tidy” on.

Two hooks, same height up the door. Easy!

So I put the two hooks up, hung the tidy on it, stood back; goddammit it’s crooked. Had reposition one on the hooks to get it level.

Me and DIY don’t mix.

Review: Dyson DC23 – A Great Vacuum Cleaner

Up until now we’ve used a Miele S718 vacuum cleaner to quite good effect; but since we got a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel last year it was obvious that the Miele was struggling to pick up the pet hair off the carpet.

By the way these dogs are described as “moderate shedders” of hair. I’d hate to see one that sheds a lot!

So we decided to replace it with a Dyson DC23 “Animal”. The vacuum is a compact format, as opposed to an upright, and comes with a good selection of tools and accessories including the all important turbo head for removing pet hairs. The vacuum has reasonably well packaged and took only a few minutes to assemble, though I struggled at one point to figure out just how the hose fitted around the cleaner body.

Time for a try out. There’s a reasonable length of electric cable; but I did think it could have been a few yards longer to reduce the need to keep moving sockets. I had hovered the sitting room only the afternoon before and the dog hadn’t been in there so I was completely amazed by the amount of hair that the vacuum picked up. Hopefully you can see this in the image.

Dog hair in the vacuum cylinder

So that’s a result! If I had any criticisms on this cleaner it’s in the very plastic construction of some of the parts. Only time will tell if these stand the rigors of domestic life.

As well as the large turbo head you also get:

  • Small turbo head for tight spaces (good for the stairs)
  • Wide brush head for hard floors
  • Small round brush head
  • Small narrow head for maximum suction
  • Small flat head for upholstery

The large turbo head and the three small heads all fit neatly onto the body of the cleaner for easy transport from one room to another.

Here are images of the vacuum Cylinder and the turbo heads:

The vacuum cleaner body

Large and small turbo heads

Not An Improvement

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, Brian Cowen was heard to say that the employment situation would “disimprove” during the summer.

What’s the matter Brian, does the word “worsen” get stuck in the gullet or are you hoping we’re all too daft to know what a disimprovement is?

Enda Kenny – Empty Promises

I don’t usually blog about politics; but with the country in the economic strife that it’s in I’m guess I’m more keenly aware of what our politicians are up to. If there’s one thing that really gets my gall up is empty rhetoric from politicians and Enda Kenny is the latest to step up to the ‘hot air’ plate.

In his speech to the Fine Gale ardfheis (as reported in the Irish Times) he made a number of far reaching promises:

  • 100,000 new jobs by end 2013
  • finances back to health by 2012
  • state financed health care for all doing away with the private / public system we have now

and all this without raising standard or higher tax rates! What’s he going to do, tax the poor instead?

Nowhere amongst all these promises does Enda Kenny make any sort of a hint as to how they’d finance this recovery. If it’s not through taxes then they’ve either got to borrow the capital or make massive cost savings in the public finances; and that spells yet more job cuts.

Come on Enda; how ya going to do it?


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Trouble With Elves Series

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In paperback first 5 novellas in one edition. (Ribbon, Clover, Steele, Cayenne, & Rue)

Something elven this way comes...

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An old family secret draws Ribbon into

an Elven world while Draven is forced to

find a way to drag her back home to save

Christmas magic.

 Breaking a goblin's curse is more

 difficult than Clover thought. Especially

 when love and nightshade are crucial

Stolen souls, an evil drow elf, a dark eyed

 beauty named Pepper, and a king who

 doesn't take kindly to the loss of his

 goods...Captain Joren Steele has his

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Two bounty hunting elves must put aside

 their attraction when a malevolent fairy

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Hawthorne both need the twenty gold

reward, but only one can walk away with

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When a package magically shows up in

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Either do as Gage demands, or standby

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The elementals require her sacrifice or

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Luna's simple night in the forest is

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who saves her life and then with the elf

who steals her heart.

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"There is absolutely no substitute for the best fruit you can grow.  A good wine cannot be made in the winery from inferior  grapes.  It is true that a fine wine is first crafted in the vineyard  and then allowed to express itself in the winery"                                                                                Rick &Maricor Skladzien

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Out of a fondness for grapes and fine wines and having owned and operated a boutique winery (Vollbehr Cellars) in eastern Iowa in the 80's, spawned a love for making premium wines.  However, this love for wine making was placed on hold while I completed my degree in Public Administration.  After serving as Public Works director in Iowa and Oklahoma, I was exhilarated to receive my appointment as Public Facilities and Services Director for the City of Petaluma, CA, right in the heart of Sonoma County wine country.

During my tenure with Petaluma, my wife and I spent the next five years traveling the northern California and Oregon wine country viewing vineyards and sampling my favorite wine, Pinot Noir.  Pryor to retiring from Petaluma, we both attended classes at Santa Rosa Junior College on establishing and maintaining a vineyard.  Equipped with my wine making experience  and our new vineyard training, we decided to make our way back to this beautiful Arizona valley and bring with us the fine traditions of west coast grape growing and wine making.

Our 6 acre vineyard is located on the west bench overlooking the striking Chino Valley  and Black Mesa Basin at 4,550 feet. It is rimed by the Mingus mountains on the east, the Bradshaw mountains on the south and the Juniper mountains on the west.  Some visitors have likened this valleys micro climate to Arizona's new Napa Valley, as it has a similar mountain orientation, combined with the right amount of warm breezy days and cool nights.  The altitude of the valley changes the nature of the grape and especially the tannins.  The higher you get in elevation, the more the sun radiated, so the tannins are softer and rounder. The acid is also elevated which tends to give the wines a lift.  We are much excited about the Chino Valley area as we believe it is one of the most special grape growing places in Arizona.

After many months of preparation we began planting in 2009 with select Pinot Noir clones of 828, 667, 777, 115, Pommard and Martine clone.  All of which go into the making of our premier reserve wine.  This was followed by plantings of Carménère and Phoenix in 2010, then Vignoles 2011. Our first commercial crush of Pinot Noir and Carménère wine grapes was in the fall of 2013.


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Khatarnaak Hip-Hop Collective straight outta Delhi recently collaborated with a fresh new group of emcees from Dehradun and the sounds are definitely booming! The group from Dehradun are called DehraBoom and their collaboration project with Khatarnaak goes by the wicked name – KHATRABOOM!

Khatarnaak Hip-Hop collective is back again to drop some bombs! And this time they’ve also brought their friends along from Dehradun city. Collabrating with the underground rappers and beat producers from the “City of Love”. This project also took place purely due to the love for the music and the culture from both sides of the country. It just goes to show how deep rooted music is in our hearts and lives.

The song is called “We Here To Claim”. The claim here being their hold on Hip-Hop across the country. This sick track features members Jinn, Tapas, Shan Krozy and CrOsT with the rap flow. The upbeat hyped out beat for the track was produced by Semmi. A young and talented beat producer who definitely set the tone loud and uptempo. The dope beat is all set to thrill and chill listeners. They can only go up from here!

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The best thing about these sorts of collaborations is the new kinds of sounds that people end up producing. This is also the best way to learn and grow and Khatarnaak can definitely exchange vast knowledge with the young guns from Dehradun. KhatraBoom is soon to take out many more tracks in this year. And we can’t wait to watch them drop hit for hit in unity! The visuals for this track are provided by the talented Galat Scenes. HipHop connects to the streets with this one! Check the track on the link below and let us know what you think!


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Microsoft recently announced the release of .NET Core 1.0, a truly cross-platform runtime and development environment. It is a significant milestone in Microsoft's commitment to fully open and platform-agnostic computing. It supports Windows (duh!), Linux, Mac OSX, iOS and Android.

The transition over the years from a Windows-centric view to fully embrace other platforms, as well as the open source model (yes, .NET is now open source via the .NET foundation, is very impressive. Another interesting aspect is that Microsoft made the announcement at the Red Hat summit together with Red Hat, who will officially support .NET Core in its enterprise product.

In addition, Microsoft also announced ASP.NET Core 1.0, which unifies ASP.NET MVC and WebAPI. ASP.NET Core 1.0 can run on top of either .NET Core 1.0 or the full-fledged .NET framework. Exciting days are ahead for .NET developers whose skills, and the famous .NET productivity, suddenly become even more widely applicable through Microsoft's efforts.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Additional thoughts about the WHEL Study results

This posting contains some of my initial additional thoughts in regards to the WHEL Study results (see my earlier 7/18 posting, too).

I have been waiting for these results almost since the inception of the study. It has been a long wait, and I am grateful beyond words that I am still here to comment on the outcomes. Did I expect different results? Did I hope for different results? Simple as can be, yes and yes. I do not know yet how the media will handle these results, and subsequently how the cancer survivor community and general public will react. However, I will repeat myself here (and if I knew how to bold my font I would do it here, too) - this is NOT the time to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I want to enlighten or remind everyone of the original definitions of the word "diet":
(1) A way of life
(2) A day's journey

These are the images I keep in mind in contrast to what I hear or read about the constant obsession Americans have with the "diets" they continually seek out to lose weight. In fact, I believe the collective societal definition for the word diet these days has unfortunately evolved to become synonymous with "disordered eating".

As a Registered Dietitian who is a survivor of the childhood cancer neuroblastoma and has had two separate primary breast cancer diagnoses in 1984 and 1995, I made the simple decision after my most recent breast cancer diagnosis to seek a diet and lifestyle that would optimize my odds for long-term recovery and also increase my quality of life. (It has actually been a lifetime journey with even more focus after my 1995 diagnosis.) At that point, I sought out the best advice available at the time about what was known and what was not known about diet, lifestyle, and cancer survivorship from many researchers, including my friend and colleague Cheryl Rock, PhD, RD, the co-principle investigator on the WHEL Study, as the basis for what I have chosen to do these past 12 years to optimize my odds for long-term survival and enhanced quality of life.

By all accounts, I have been successful. So much so, that my oncologist (who knows I have been speaking around the country during this time) actually shyly asked me a few years ago if I gave him any credit for my success during my speaking engagements. I always tell my audience that I am not a research study, but a "case study" of n=1, an individual, a single data point. Thus I know full well that the complete answer(s) to why I survived this long (with 9+axillary nodes and positive deep inner-mammary nodes behind the sterum also) will never be known. However, my answer to him was that I tell audiences I am very likely successful because I have combined the best of all treatments, meaning conventional medicine and all the self-help strategies in the area of complementary medicine (CAM) for which there were clues pointing to potential benefit plus strategies that made sense to me, or somehow resonated with my soul, even before much research had been started, let alone completed in this wide open field of CAM.

I have had the high honor of being invited to speak to the American Society of Breast Surgeons' annual meeting both in 2005 and again this year in 2007. I would like to share what I thought was the most helpful information I gave the surgeons. It was a handout I developed for them to duplicate for their patients that addresses the quandries and questions cancer survivors often ask themselves (and seek advice about from their health professionals). It gets at both the root and the big picture of why I am not (too) distressed about the results of the WHEL study. Optimizing life after cancer is much, much more than just 'diet' in terms of what we eat; it truly is a day's journey, a way of life.

Here is what I gave them to give to their patients who are asking "How can I help myself?":

Lifestyle Changes for Achieving Wholeness and Wellness after Breast Cancer

By Diana Dyer, MS, RD - Author, A Dietitian's Cancer Story

The following suggestions have been learned through my personal experiences and put into the acronym “Help Myself”. However, they are not all inclusive nor in any particular order. I invite you to use some of them as a starting point to find your own unique recovery path to wholeness and wellness after your cancer diagnosis when you are ready to ask the question “What can I do now to help myself?”

H – Help someone or some cause (i.e., do something that adds meaning to your life)
E – Exercise daily doing something you love to do (move more!)
L – Learn to enjoy new whole foods (not processed foods or “junk”) and new recipes
P – Plant a garden (even a small one) to increase your intake of plants plus exercise

M – Meditate or learn some other form of stress management
Y – Yield gently to the changes in life. Although some are frightening, many can open doors to newfound opportunities, health, and wellness
S – Size down the portions of most foods
E – Enjoy more water and green tea
L – Lose weight (if needed) very gradually
F – Find a Registered Dietitian (RD) to be an advisor and cheerleader for recovery

Combining such actions with the best conventional cancer treatment options that were available for me is what I have done, promoted, and called "active hope" for the past 12+ years. There are no guarantees in life at all, plus I recognize that there is more than one path to the mountain top, but doing all of the above has been my best shot for the best possible outcome(s) and has finally led to peace with my 57 years of a cancer survivorship journey.

To cancer survivors everywhere, I continue to send you all my best wishes for health, healing, and "active hope",

Diana Dyer, MS, RD

Anonymous said...

Diana, thanks for two informative posts on the results of this study.

I write about Alzheimer's and dementia research at The Tangled Neuron (, and often am baffled by the conflict between evidence from trials like this and anecdotal evidence. It seems that diet and lifestyle measures that work for one person (a case study of n=1 as you put it) or a small group of people are not supported by clinical research.

The persons with dementia I know who are doing well have adopted many of the lifestyle changes you suggest. Perhaps the combination of these measures brings about subtle and/or complex changes that are difficult to measure in a clinical study.

I'd be interested to hear any more thoughts you and your readers might have about what weight you give results of clinical studies when making personal health decisions.

Anonymous said...

I can't help but wonder if what KINDS of fruits and vegetables have something to do with it. I hear time and time again from people "I don't like cabbage, brussell sprouts, etc" but "I DO like corn, etc" the later being not as nutritious as the prior. I do your diet, exercise etc EVERY day (except 1 day a week I have "treat" day and even then it may be a homemade pie etc) and so many people tell me they couldn't do the diet (also eat EVERYTHING on the diet and rotate it and or buy seasonally). Thoughts or comments?


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OK, creating Latte Art is waaaaay harder than it looks! I recently went to Nespresso’s Creatista Studio in Leeds (it’s open in the Victoria Quarter until 26th March) to try my hand at being a barista and producing some Latte Art. It gave me a definite respect for those guys and gals creating beautiful palms, hearts and much more for us on a daily basis. They make it look so easy, I just took it for granted!

We started off we a little talk from the peeps at Nespresso (they do the whole convenient coffee pod thing) and Sage (by Heston Blumenthal, they do the clever milk steam technology thing for Nespresso’s new Creatista machine).

This was my first intro to Nespresso really. I’ve used a Nespresso coffee machine and the coffee pods at work a little…but I’m a real beginner. I hadn’t realised that they look at coffee a lot like wine. Grand crus, vintages…they like giving it a bit of sophistication.

Then onto giving us a try at making Latte Art with their new Nespresso Creatista machines. These new coffee machines are the first of Nespresso’s to have a fully automatic steam wand (like the ones you see in coffee shops), so you can create lovely frothy milk with the ‘micro-foam’ for flat whites, cappuccinos, lattes… you name it.

The Creatista lets you set the temperature of the milk (it’s got a sensor) and how much froth you want. Pretty cool.

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OK…time to give it a go!

Nespresso Creatista

Pour it on an angle (a bit like a beer)…and bring the milk jug down. Yes, hmmmmm but when I did it, it didn’t happen quite so easily! I think I created a Latte Art kangaroo…or maybe a unicorn? I’m going with unicorn.

Creating Latte Art

I need a lot more practise. Thankfully, Nespresso were sending me a Creatista to try for myself…so watch out for that upcoming post. Maybe I’ll get better? We’ll see!

I didn’t fare very well in the Instagram flatlay competition. Ellie won with hers. I actually think her flower was pretty good!

I’m going to get practising my Latte Art. I would absolutely love to create a heart…so I’m devouring YouTube videos and blog posts to give me all the help I can get. If you’ve seen any great tips, do send them over. I’ll let you know how I do in the next post.

In the meantime, get yourself down to the Creatista Studio in the Victoria Quarter in Leeds and get the lovely Nespresso baristas to show you how to do it yourself.

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  1. March 19, 2017 / 6:43 pm

    I definitely need to go give this place a visit, I’ve always wondered how coffee art is done! x

    • Digital Diva
      March 22, 2017 / 5:30 pm

      …with great skill 😀 x

  2. March 21, 2017 / 8:50 am

    I’m heading up today to give it a go! My at home attempts have been rubbish so I’m hoping that some professional help will make me fair better in the future!

    • Digital Diva
      March 22, 2017 / 5:30 pm

      Hope you managed to create some good latte art Emma!

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Six Summer Salads

Sick of corn and tomatoes accessorizing your burgers and dogs? Of course you aren’t! But I thought I’d give some options for summery side dishes anyway. Be sure to stock up on your olive oil, lemons, salt, and pepper because this time of year, that’s pretty much all you need to lift your side acts to show-stealers. Wheat Berry Salad… Read more »

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When the Lego sets arrived by mail — gifts from the grandparents — the girls ripped open their boxes right on the doorstep and immediately ran inside to start examining the plastic packages that held the magical little blocks that would eventually turn into Harry Potter’s bus (Phoebe’s) and a summery little log cabin (Abby’s). It was a rainy weekday… Read more »

Dinner: A Morning Show Story

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The All-Day Dinner

By now you know that for weeknight meals, we are all about efficiency. And by the looks of my Analytics, it looks like you guys are too. (“Quick” shows up consistently as one of the top 3 most-clicked Categories.) But the weekend? That’s another story entirely. Especially when the weekend in question conspires to create the most conducive dinner-making conditions in… Read more »

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That’s one handsome-looking bowl of quinoa, isn’t it? Looks pretty tasty, right? It’s really healthy, too. And so versatile. Have you heard about the extraordinary nutritional properties of quinoa? Amazing stuff. Packed with protein. The Incas survived on it! Now try writing 500 words about this bowl of quinoa, but it can’t be too similar to the 500-word post you wrote… Read more »

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I’ll Take My Steak Rare, Cut in Microscopic Pieces

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A Stress-free, Gluten-free Menu

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The Little Cabbage that Could

It pains us to even admit this, but it took us a long time to come around to Brussels sprouts. They didn’t crack the dinner rotation until we were well into our 30s, with two kids, a mortgage, a dog, and a creeping difficulty reading the fine print on aspirin bottles. In other words, until we were full-fledged adults. But… Read more »

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Split Pea Soup with Ham

I don’t want to be mean about it or anything, but if you don’t make this soup the day after you make a holiday ham, something is wrong with you. P.S. Tonight’s dinner of atonement: my favorite latkes topped with sour cream and smoked salmon. And for dessert: gelt! Split Pea Soup with Leftover Ham In a large stockpot, over medium-low… Read more »

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Our poor side dishes. Always getting buried at the bottom of a post that stars some showstopping piece of meat. But as anyone who is putting together her holiday party outfit knows, it’s all in the accessories, and so herewith, a round-up of some of our favorite unsung sidedish heroes. 1. Gingered Green Beans Add a couple handfuls of green beans… Read more »

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“This looks amazing,” my friend Mike said, as we sat down to dinner. He was in town on business, and Jenny was at a work event, so it was just me, Mike, and the kids, rocking out on a Wednesday night. On the table: chicken tandoori burgers with a yogurt-mint sauce, sauteed spinach, curried carrots, and the remnants of some math… Read more »

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