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Headman traces Kopa transformation
HEADMAN Sankalimba, Patrick Luo, at his new house at Sankalimba village, Senior Chief Kopa's area, Kanchibiya, Muchinga Province. PICTURE: CHARLES CHISALA
CHARLES CHISALA, Lusaka
JESUS' disciple, Phillip, could not wait to break the great news.
"We have found him of whom Moses in the Torah and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph," he panted to Nathanael.
But a dismissive Nathanael said, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip goaded him, "Come and see." John 1:43-46, KJV.
Of course, something good had indeed come out of Nazareth. Wasn't Jesus the Messiah born and brought up there?
Similarly, before the arrival of the oil palm tree plantation, some people might have been asking, "Can anything good come out of Senior Chief Kopa's chiefdom?"
Like Phillip, Patrick Luo, who is headman Sankalimba, is ready to challenge them, "Come and see."
Mr Luo was born and has lived in Sankalimba village all his life.
Since the arrival of Zambeef Products Plc in 2008 to set up Zampalm, an oil palm tree plantation and processing mill, he has seen the transformation of his and other surrounding villages unfolding right before his ageing eyes.
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) took over the venture in April for US$16 million.
Since the first seedlings were planted on 168 hectares in 2008, the estate has grown to 3,000 hectares of oil palm trees.
Nine hundred more hectares will be planted in the next three years under an ambitious expansion programme.
Estate manager David Subakanya says in 2019 alone the company will cultivate on 300 hectares.
Just the kind of drumbeat headman Sankalimba wants to hear.
The plantation, the nursery and palm crude oil mill are located on the edge of the Bangweulu Wetlands in Kanchibiya district in Muchinga Province, about 100km west of Mpika district.
Zampalm is a huge boon to the people of Kopa.
Headman Sankalimba recalls, "When Zambeef came in 2008 we thought they had come to grab our land, to displace us. People rose up against us headmen, accusing us and the senior chief of selling their chiefdom."
He explains that Senior Chief Kopa called him and other headmen to his palace and, in the presence of Mr Subakanya, explained the benefits of allowing Zambeef to set up an oil palm tree plantation and mill.
He instructed them to help the people understand that the investment would create jobs, especially for the youth and women, and extricate the community out of the chokehold of poverty.
"They identified my village as the suitable site for the offices and the nursery. Mr Subakanya told me that I would be involved in the implementation of the relocation," headman Sankalimba said.
Only his village would be moved.
The palace meeting allayed all the villagers' fears.
When Zampalm started employing local people to work at the nursery and the plantation site, the villagers started seeing the benefits.
"In 2009, my wife was employed. The job brought a big change in my house. She started bringing money every month.
"She was able to buy food, bath soap, washing powder, clothes and kitchen utensils. She even started buying books and uniforms for our grandchildren who were going to school. We were very happy," the old man said.
His wife is still working.
Before the arrival of Zampalm the local people subsisted on cassava, fish, cikanda and edible caterpillars (ifinkubala) for a livelihood.
The biggest challenge was education. It was a nightmare for parents to raise money to enable them to send or keep their children in school.
"Although in the past we had plenty of fish, there was nowhere to sell it during the fishing ban. Even after the ban we could only sell the fish in Mpika, which is just too far. Only a few with bicycles could manage," headman Sankalimba said.
The steady depletion of fish stocks in the local water bodies made matters worse.
But all that is history now.
"We the people who live in this area are very grateful for this Zampalm. We used to live in small houses made of raw bricks and roofs of grass. Today, as I speak, there are very few families who are still living in such houses, as you may have seen for yourself," headman Sankalimba said.
He said, "We are living in bigger houses now with corrugated iron sheet roofs. We have tea and bread for breakfast, we have no problem sending our children to school and the shops are near. You can get what you want from the shops."
Headman Sankalimba brags that children are now looking smart in the villages because their parents have money to spend on them.
"Even single women, including widows, are now living in their own burnt-brick houses with iron sheet roofs. It is a different place today from what it used to be before 2008," he said.
Headman Sankalimba said he and other headmen had resolved not to allow anyone to mislead the people in the area concerning development because of the positive change the investment has brought in their families.
He said, "No one can come here and mislead the people. We are grateful to the government. We never expected this to happen in our area. We are very happy."
The headman attributes the transformation taking place in the area to Senior Chief Kopa's hard work and the harmonious relationship Mr Subakanya has cultivated with the local community.
"Mr Subakanya is a blessing to both Zampalm and our community. He is humble and respectful to everyone here, including children. He has even formed village committees through which he consults us and asks us to raise any concerns about the company and the workers," headman Sankalimba said.
His voluntary testimony is an example of what happens when investors elicit and win the support of the local community towards a common goal.
The partnership between Zampalm and the Bisa people of the Kopa chiefdom has produced tangible fruits, and it is worth emulating.
Something good is happening there.
The benefits are visible.
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January Diary
Posted on December 21, 2018 December 22, 2018 by cliveoconnell
The first weeks of January are dominated, as usual, by the Peninsula Summer Music Festival – Mornington Peninsula, that is. A change in artistic director finds oboist Ben Opie in charge of proceedings and he has widened the programmatic net to include events that have little attraction for me – Bach from an ad hoc string quartet while bathing at the Peninsula Hot Springs, Fingal; solo violin music from Jessica Oddie as you follow her around the Hot Springs estate; another peripatetic experience led by Opie on the Festival's last night starting at the Pelican Statues in Hastings; a scattering of jazz and children's entertainments, alongside some indigenous recitals, as well as a rock guitarist playing solo and an electronic musician providing sounds to go along with yet another Fingal bathing experience.
Slightly running into the Peninsula festival's time space comes the Organs of the Ballarat Goldfields Festival with a plethora of recitals and a few social events for the solid core of regulars.
Wednesday January 2
SUITE PERSANE
Peninsula Chamber Musicians and Guests
St. Mark's Anglican Church, Balnarring at 2 pm
The numbers are pretty equal here: five regular Peninsularians and five guests. Some of the latter are familiar names: festival director Ben Opie, flautist Melissa Doecke, bassoonist Adam Mikulicz, while the original group is an unknown quantity to me. Their offerings are decets by Andre Caplet, the formidable orchestrator of Debussy pieces, and Enescu. Presumably, the French work is the three-movement Suite persane of 1900, and the Enescu will be its near-contemporary D Major Decet, written in 1906. Here is real festival fare: unknown scores for an unusual combination. And it's in a venue that I haven't experienced, although it might have featured in previous years and I've been too lazy to drive to a resort in high season.
SWEETER THAN ROSES
Janet Todd and Nicholas Pollock
Hurley Vineyard, Balnarring at 6 pm
Like the preceding recital – and a good many others – this is a 60-minutes/no-interval program. It presents the talents of Victorian-born soprano Todd, nowadays making her home in Los Angeles, and lutenist Pollock. Their recital's title refers (I hope) to the song that Purcell wrote for his semi-opera Pausanias. In any case, we are promised music that moves from Dowland, through Purcell, and then to the French Baroque. Pollock is listed as a 'Peninsula favourite', although his name is not one that I recall.
Thursday January 3
RAVEL'S BLUES
Sophie Rowell & Kristian Chong
Moorooduc Estate at 4 pm
Sort of self-explanatory. The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster Rowell collaborates with expert pianist Chong in three sonatas, ending with Ravel's No.2 with its central Blues in A flat movement: a sprightly construct and highly effective as long as the players don't oversell the jazz, thinking that they have a wider scope for interpretative flamboyance than the composer intended. Preceding this come Mozart in B flat K. 454 with its stately introduction and Beethoven No. 4 in A minor which doesn't have a slow movement. This duo is one of the program's more certain pairings, involving two musicians of exceptional and established quality.
This program will be repeated at 6:30 pm.
Friday January 4
GODFATHER, FATHER & SON
Duo Foster-Browne
Main Ridge Estate, Red Hill at 4 pm
A neat set of relationships are enshrined in this recital's title. The godfather is Telemann, who sponsored C. P. E. Bach at his christening. So the players are presenting music by the godfather, his godson and the proud birth father, Johann Sebastian. The duo itself comprises baroque flautist Georgia Browne and harpsichordist Tom Foster who are no strangers to each other, having presented an all-French program at the University of Edinburgh two months ago. For the senior Bach, the pickings for duets number about 8, even if some of these are disputed territory with Carl Philip Emmanuel. As for the godson, the catalogue lists 12 works for flute and continuo, as well as 5 for harpsichord and flute. Looking at Telemann's output, the mind boggles, grappling with its variety and manifold applications and arrangements.
The program will be repeated at 7 pm.
Saturday January 5
Australian Haydn Ensemble
St. John's Church, Flinders at 12 pm
On its website, most of the selective encomia for this group, established in 2011, come from the Sydney Morning Herald. Which might be a partial explanation for my lack of experience with them. The ensemble – or part of it – played at a Melbourne International Arts Festival, possibly during the years of Josephine Ridge's Haydn-fixated directorship. Anyway, here they are now . . . well, a few of them: director/violinist Skye McIntosh, second violin Simone Slattery, viola James Eccles, cello James Bush, with flautist Melissa Farrow a welcome woodwind voice. The program has only two works, both by Mozart: the first Flute Quartet in D K. 285 – all 14 minutes of it – and the String Quartet in G K. 387, which is the first of the set of six that the composer dedicated to Haydn. Seems to be a short-change program if you're after time value for money.
Songmakers Australia
St. John's Church, Flinders at 3 pm
Another duo recital, again involving well-known artists. Soprano Merlyn Quaife collaborates with Songmakers Australia director-pianist Andrea Katz. The range offered moves from Schubert to Selleck but then also promises 'music by acclaimed Australian composers' – to which group one hopes that the talented Johanna has by this stage been admitted. For all the vagueness, this should be an engrossing business, especially given Quaife's career-long dedication to performing home-grown material.
AN EVENING WITH SARA MACLIVER AND THE AUSTRALIAN HAYDN ENSEMBLE
This program revolves around Boccherini's Stabat mater, the original version of 1781 which requires a soprano soloist and a supporting string quintet. As well as this substantial score, Macliver will work through arias by Handel from Apollo e Dafne, Theodora and Agrippina, while the Haydn people present Corelli's Christmas Concerto and an arrangement for chamber ensemble by that formidable impresario Johann Peter Salomon of Haydn's last symphony, the London (I assume this version is the one for string quartet and flute). Macliver also offers a Mozart bracket in Zerlina's two arias – Batti, batti and Vedrai, carino – as well as Pamina's Ach, ich fuhl's, and Laetari, locari from the early Apollo et Hyacinthus opera by the then-11-year-old composer; his first essay in the form, actually, although this seems to be the only scrap that has moved into public awareness and, even then, I've never heard it live. The ensemble will probably consist of a string quintet as all the Mozart has been arranged by one 'Lim' – gifted local veteran composer Liza? Probably not.
Sunday January 6
MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE GREAT ROMANTICS WINNER
Miles Johnston
St. John's Church, Flinders at 11:30 am
Johnston is a guitarist who won this year's MRC competition – obviously. He's proposing some Bach, which is par for the course and has been ever since Segovia mined the extensive archive for material, some of which worked superbly. Alongside this, we are to hear works by Australian Richard Charlton – a large catalogue to pick from – and Nikita Koshkin, a big guitar name in and from Russia. It's an excellent festival initiative, to give a venue to this competition's winner – especially fortunate when the lucky player is entering a field that is already packed, some of it quite talented.
SCHUBERT SONGS
Australian Haydn Ensemble and David Greco
The program is all arrangements, but not all-Schubert. Greco, an assertive young baritone, is accompanied by the Haydn quintet in Die Gotter Griechenlands, Der Jungling und der Tod (the second version, I think), Gute Nacht, Frulingstraum, Der Leiermann, Der Tod und das Madchen and Der Erlkonig. And we have an identity for that unnamed arranger 'Lim' from yesterday's Sara Macliver/Haydn Ensemble event. It's Vi King Lim, who works as librarian for Symphony Services Australia and has done a good deal of work for the Haydn people. Interspersed with the lieder are some extracts from Felicien David's Les quatre saisons, a lengthy collection of pieces for string quintet concerned with memorialising the evenings of the four seasons. For this occasion, the Haydns are playing two of the Summer and two of the Spring soirees. From what I've heard of them, any relationship with Schubert will be hard to sustain.
REALMS OF LIGHT
Elgee Park, Dromana at 6 pm
This well-known cellist will spend much of his hour or so playing Australian music. All the works are solos and Harris starts and ends with Peter Sculthorpe: the short Sonata of 1959 and the twice-as-long Requiem written 20 years later. Stuart Greenbaum's Lunar Orbit offers a meditation on the Apollo 11 mission; Kate Moore's brief Whoever you are come forth takes its genesis from a Whitman line. Some deviations from the local come with Osvaldo Golijov's Omaramor, written in memory of Argentinian tango singer Carlos Gardel who died in a 1935 plane crash; and Japanese Karen Tanaka's The Song of Songs which calls for electronics to support the live instrument as it attempts to summon up the erotic invitation that opens King Solomon's love-poem.
MOZART'S CHURCH SONATAS
Inventi Ensemble
He wrote 17 works with this title, to be played between the Epistle and Gospel readings during the first part of the Mass, where the mumbled Alleluia versicle now stands. This ensemble intends to precede their selection from the sonata set with improvisations in the style of whatever follows. Flautist Melissa Doecke and oboist Ben Opie lead a sextet which includes violinists Peter Clark and Jessica Oddie, cellist William Hewer and Peter de Jager playing this church's Laurie organ, originally built for Whitley College and moved to Balnarring last year. On this instrument, de Jager will also play 'Wagenseil's brilliant Concerto for Organ', according to the promotional material; what is not hinted at is which of the 12 possibles is intended. As for the Mozart sonatas, the Inventi could play any of them, except Nos. 12, 14 and the last which all require extra woodwind/brass, including two trumpets. An intriguing program, even if those improvisations leave you wondering.
ARVO PART: THE PASSION OF ST. JOHN
St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat at 8 pm
Gary Ekkel and his choir are taking on this Passio, an hour-long setting of the Johannine Gospel's Chapters 18 and 19 by the Estonian composer. The requisite forces are a baritone soloist for Jesus, a tenor for Pilate, an SATB quartet to handle the Evengelist's lines, a larger force for the turba, and modest instrumental resources – violin, cello, oboe, bassoon, and organ. Using Part's tintinnabuli style – chanting till the cows come home, harmonic and rhythmic stasis, monochrome textures – the work's intent is to invite meditation rather than express the narrative's drama. I've always found it hard to find sympathy with the Baltic modern musical mystics, which is a personal fault of major proportions, yet, even if you concentrate on this work's constructional procedures, there's no getting around Part's insistent abnegation of flourish. A dour start to this packed festival.
RECITAL FOR ORGAN AND SOLO CELLO
Anthony Halliday and Alvin Wong
Carngham Uniting Church, Snake Valley at 10 am
Not much news available about this recital, except that Wong will perform the Bach Suite No. 6 in D, the one that seems to require a five-stringed instrument unless you're prepared to negotiate a fair amount of stretching and positional awkwardness. What music is there for this cello/organ combination? You'd be surprised, even if the mind automatically turns to thoughts of arrangements. Still, there's plenty of room for Halliday to play carefully on this church's Fincham & Hobday instrument. He is a true Festival favourite, taking his place in several variegated events year after year. Wong, a Melbourne University eminence, has operated under my radar since his appointment four years ago.
The program will be repeated at mid-day.
A PENINSULA SALON
Linda Barcan
Beleura Estate at 12:35 pm
For this event, patrons are asked to meet in the foyer of the Mornington Golf Club, from which point transport will be arranged to wherever on the estate this scheduled entertainment is to take place. Mezzo Barcan is the initiator but details are thin – well, non-existent – as to what will be performed and by whom. The aim is to mimic the 1870s-to-1880s Boulevard Saint-Germain salon of Pauline Viardot, the famous mezzo who knew and worked with most of the great musical names in Europe before and after her retirement from the stage in 1863. You'd have to assume that this afternoon's program will comprise works that would have been heard in Viardot's salon; from the only illustration I've seen, the room contained an organ which, for all I know, has a counterpart somewhere on the Beleura estate. Or things might take an unexpected turn and it could be all contemporary material, as it was in Viardot's day. You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Nello Catarcia
Ballarat Central Uniting Church at 3 pm
This musician comes from Orvieto where he is cathedral organist. The program for today mentions works by Bach, Franck and Liszt; curiously, those same three featured in the recital that Catarcia gave on May 31 in his hometown's Duomo. However, the options available to Catarcia should ensure an enjoyable recital of the old school, and here's hoping for something we never hear, like Liszt's Evocation a la Chapelle Sixtine or Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique.
IL DIAVOLO
Davide Monti, Josephine Vains, Jacqueline Ogeil
Mary's Mount Centre, Loreto College Ballarat at 8 pm
Another giveaway title as violinist Monti sets us up for Tartini's Devil's Trill with support from well-known Accademia Arcadia personnel in cellist Vains and harpsichordist Ogeil. But after that, we're in no man's land, although the projected path is towards contemporaries of Tartini, with the additional foreshadowing that this was a period when composition often amounted to little more than sketches, thereby offering a basis for improvisation from performers. In any other hands, you'd have to be cautious but this is a well-experienced trio with a concert-giving history, so we should be happy with where they take us.
Sunday January 13
J.S.BACH – THE MUSICAL OFFERING
John O'Donnell
Ballarat Mechanics' Institute at 3 pm
After introducing this superb work, John O'Donnell, from a Christofori piano, heads a quintet to perform the two ricercars, ten canons and four-movement trio sonata that constitute Bach's answer to Frederick II's challenge. Violinists Davide Monti and Simone Slattery, cellist Josephine Vains and flautist Greg Dikmans share in the labours of this gripping 45-minute-long collection of contrapuntal craft amounting to genius, much of which can be entrusted to a solo keyboard; let's hope O'Donnell is generous in sharing the various lines, unavoidable in the sonata which requires flute and violin as well as continuo.
JAMES MACMILLAN – 'SINCE IT WAS THE DAY OF PREPARATION
Back to the city's Catholic cathedral for another impressive choral work, this one written by a Part disciple and well-known Scottish composer. Gary Ekkel and his Schola re-emerge to present this extension of MacMillan's own St. John Passion, musically animating the Burial and Resurrection, the appearance to the disciples, and the final scene on the shore of the Sea of Tiberias – all of it sourced mainly from Chapters 20 and 21 of the Gospel text. As well, the composer uses some extra matter – a bit of St. Matthew, Tisserand's setting of O filii et filiae, Salva festa dies in the composer's own setting, probably. MacMillan requires, like Part, a small, sober orchestral group – clarinet, cello, horn, harp and theorbo, with occasional bells – and a vocal quintet which can be either a small choir or five soloists. The bass member sings the words of Christ. I've heard only scraps, which sound appropriately sombre but the composer has always had a fine ear for what travels clearly.
Monday January 14
BACH, MAHLER, WAGNER AND STRAVINSKY
Dorthe Zielke and Soren Johannsen
St. John's Anglican Church, Creswick at 10 am
Zielke is the trumpeter, Johannsen the organist in this Danish duo. The pair have been in an established musical (and personal, I believe) relationship for 20 years and have released four CDs: one of music from Bach's St. Matthew Passion, another dealing with Handel's Messiah, an intriguing one of Carl Nielsen's music for the two instruments (there isn't any, to be specific, but the disc features a multitude of arrangements, its longest track the Danish master's famous organ solo, Commotio), and a general one packed with arrangements of Wagner, Mussorgsky, Bellini, Mascagni, Mozart, Dvorak and several others. The last of these probably indicates what's heading to Creswick: the Liebstod and Air on the G String, for starters. No idea about the Mahler – one of the Wayfarer songs? – and the Stravinsky could be the finale to the Firebird or just a scrap from The Soldier's Tale. Whatever the music, it will be accompanied by 'electronically projected motifs' provided by Arne Sorensen.
The program will be repeated at 12 noon.
LES ANGELUS
Louisa Hunter-Bradley and David Macfarlane
Yet another one of this festival's referential titles that doesn't carry you very far. Louis Vierne wrote a piece by this name: a triptych – morning, noon, evening – to apply to those times of day when the Marian prayer is said. The title is used on a CD featuring soprano Margaret Roest and organist Ben van Oosten. Whether Hunter-Bradley and Macfarlane follow their Dutch colleagues down a path that includes Widor's Ave Maria, Franck's Panis Angelicus, Chausson's Pater noster and Poulenc's Priez pour paix remains to be seen. All we can be sure of is that the afternoon is dedicated to Romantic era music for this combination and it is bound to be a popular event, hearing these Festival stalwarts back in their respective saddles again.
SCHUBERT SONGS PART 1
David Greco and the Australian Haydn Ensemble
This is pretty much a re-run of the event that appears on the Peninsula Festival program on January 6 where the young baritone sings lieder interlarded with some salonesque string quintet pieces by Berlioz's mate, Felicien David. The Haydn Ensemble participants seem to be the same, although double bass Jacqueline Dooser was not specified in the Mornington events. It's hard to know what we will hear because in Ballarat the musicians are presenting two different programs on consecutive days, each of them coming in at close to an hour's duration. Wait and see, I guess
Tuesday January 15
Beaufort Uniting Church at 11 am.
The only difference expressly noted for this program is that Dylan Quinlan-Basquet, choirmaster and organist at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Canterbury is coming up the highway to play an organ voluntary. Nothing specific yet but, just as I was puzzled to see how David would fit in with Schubert, I'm even more intrigued as to how a voluntary lends itself to the same lieder-heavy atmosphere – unless Greco leads off with Die junge Nonne and Quinlan-Basquet finds an appropriately menacing piece to complement it. Hard to think of one when you consider all those optimistic English composers – Gibbons, Arne, Stanley, Purcell. But then, the young man may play something of his own on the 1959 Fincham instrument. Or he may treat 'voluntary' in its broadest sense, which then embraces anything and everything.
SO SWEET A TOUCH
Daniel Thomson and Rosemary Hodgson
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Beaufort at 11 am
This tenor/lute program takes its title from the last words of Samuel Daniel's Sonnet 47, Like as the lute delights, most famously set by John Danyel, a contemporary of Dowland. You'd be pretty safe in assuming that both composers will score heavily in this recital which brings tenor Thomson back to the festival after a break of some years spent honing his craft in Canada, Switzerland and England. Hodgson is Melbourne's go-to lutenist, a familiar presence at early music happenings, particularly in the Melbourne Recital Centre. There's not an organ work in sight but the combination would be worth the 50-kilometre trip west of Ballarat.
The recital will be repeated at 3 pm.
Wednesday January 16
MORRICONE – SCATTOLIN – PAGANINI
Massimo Scattolin, Erica Kennedy, Josephine Vains
Neil St. Uniting Church, Ballarat at 11 am
Along with Orchestra Victoria violinist Kennedy and cellist Vains, the popular guitarist will work through an all-Italian program. Scattolin has worked before with both string players in Ballarat and Melbourne recitals and he spreads his solo talents around, appearing all over this state in post-Festival events. The Morricone elements will probably be arrangements since I can't find any original works that involve the instrument, apart from chamber scores that involve multiple guitars or guitar with instruments other than violin and/or cello. Scattolin has played his own music here in previous years; I know I've heard it but no memories remain. As for Paganini, there is an astounding wealth of material for guitar and violin, three duets for violin and cello, but nothing that fits this trio combination.
FAIR IS THE ROSE
Camerata Antica
St. Joseph's Church, Blampied at 5 pm
The Camerata has as its fulcrum the cornetto of Matthew Manchester and the soprano of Anna Sandstrom. Naturally, these two flesh out their company for specific occasions; on this evening, viola da gamba Laura Moore and Sydney organist David Drury lend their hands to some English music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Mention is made of Byrd, Tallis, William Child (a plethora of religious works, next to nothing secular) 'and others'. Among these last, you'd expect to find Orlando Gibbons as one of his madrigals gives the recital its title. Manchester and Sandstrom have appeared in the festival before; Drury has been a regular participant; Moore has appeared with several early and not-so-early ensembles. Their combination, in the abstract, sounds delectable.
VENETIAN OBOE CONCERTI
Gianfranco Bortolato and Festival Chamber Orchestra
Former Wesley Church, Clunes at 11 am
Oboist at the Rome Opera, Bortolato is partnered by violinist Claudia Lopes and Anthony Halliday on the organ. The composers cited are Marcello, Vivaldi, Albinoni and a new name to me: Giovanni Benedetti Platti, a Paduan oboist/composer who produced a sizeable amount of music for his instrument, in particular a G minor concerto that will probably be heard this morning. Vivaldi wrote about 20 concertos for oboe; plenty of choice, then. Albinoni produced none, so Lopes might get exposure playing one of his five (possible) violin concertos. Halliday will work with the building's small instrument: one manual with seven stops and pedal pulldowns. Here's hoping the chamber orchestra can handle these breezy, unsheltering Baroque scores.
MOZART, HANDEL, VIVALDI AND BACH
Gianfranco Bortolato, Claudia Lopes, Anthony Halliday
St. Paul's Anglican Church, Clunes at 2:15 pm
Following the morning concert at the Clunes Former Wesleyan Church, the three soloists present a recital in the town's Anglican church which holds a rare Hamlin organ, recently restored although I can't find out how or by whom. The door is wide open as to what is on the program. You could hope for the Bach Oboe and Violin Concerto or a Vivaldi sonata. As for Handel, everything is up for grabs and any Mozart would have to be an arrangement.
A CHOICE COLLECTION
Daniel Thomson and Michele Benuzzi
Loreto Chapel, Loreto College Ballarat at 8 pm
Once again, we can enjoy Thomson's eloquent tenor, this time allied with Benuzzi's harpsichord. The program moves from Purcell and Handel to Johann Wilhelm Hassler, who once faced off against Mozart in an organ competition. But the meagre promotional material refers to the participating musicians' recordings as sources for the evening's progress. Well, Thomson has only one CD and the Purcells on that are I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly, If Music be the Food of Love, Fairest Isle, Not All My Torments and What a Sad Fate is Mine; there's no Handel or Hassler. Benuzzi, on the other hand, has produced five recordings of Hassler's keyboard music.
THE MUSIC OF MARAIS
Laura Vaughan, Laura Moore, Donald Nicholson, Nicholas Pollock
Loreto Chapel, Loreto College Ballarat at 11 am
It's never been the same since Alain Corneau's film Tous les matins du monde came out in 1991/2. Subsequently, Marin Marais and the viola da gamba enjoyed a resurgence of interest, the envy of most other Baroque instrument specialists. Both Vaughan and Moore are gamba experts, while Nicholson is a well-known harpsichord presence and Pollock a theorbo exponent who I believe was here recently with Van Diemen's Band for the Melbourne International Arts Festival. Part of the offerings are the Improvisation sue les Folies d'Espagne and the Chaconne in A Major from Le Labyrinthe. Further, I'd be surprised – nay, shocked – if the Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve did not enjoy an airing.
BACH – TELEMANN: TWO GIANTS OF BAROQUE
Trio Sine Nomine
This group — violin Claudia Lopez, oboe Gianfranco Bortolato, harpsichord Michele Benuzzi – toured Australia three years ago and this afternoon gather together from their various festival exercises so far to play some music by two Baroque contemporaries and friends. You'd be scrabbling to find pieces by Bach for all three of these instruments, so I'm anticipating duos rather than trios. Telemann produced a wealth of trio sonatas for these forces. But it's hard to pin down exactly what the In Nomine specialty area is. Complicating matters is the existence of another group of the same name, formed in Perugia in 2015: all-female and comprising two violins and piano.
AVEC CHARME
Gianfranco Bortolato and Anthony Halliday
Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts at 11 am
Two of the more hard-working musicians in this year's festival will appear in this morning matinee with a program that is, as yet, completely unknown. What do you make of the title? It's the sort of meaningless phrase you come across in French real estate advertising. Translated to music, it suggests the salon. Still, the oboe/piano combination can boast original works by C. P. E. Bach, Nielsen, Donizetti, Schumann, Franck and Saint-Saens, so there's room for substantial music-making – as well as the inevitable encore-level dross.
CANTO LATINO
Stefania Bellamio and Massimo Scattolin
Hilltop Christian Fellowship Church, Ballarat at 3 pm
Scattolin is a known quantity, soprano Bellamio not so much although she has sung here with the guitarist in 2016. Tonight's program comes from 'the Spanish-speaking world.' Which takes in a helluva lot – Central and South America, the Philippines, the Caribbean, and odd enclaves all over the place. All right: the recital will probably centre on the home country's products but there's no harm in wishing for something more novel than all-too-familiar Falla and Granados. I wouldn't mind hearing some refreshing Renaissance canciones, or even reworkings like the Rodrigo Cuatro madrigales amatorios.
Orava Quartet
Wendouree Centre for the Performing Arts at 8 pm
Great to have you in Ballarat, Oravas. It's been a while since I last saw you; in fact, it might have been at that Asia-Pacific Chamber Music Competition in 2013 where you won two of the prizes on offer. Or your 2015 Melbourne International Arts Festival recital at the Collins St. Baptist Church. Sadly, I missed your two Melbourne Recital Centre appearances this year. Whatever the case, it's hard to face the fact that you've been around for 11 years. Anyway, here you are in Wendouree and there's no indication what you're going to play. It could be some recycling from your Tchaikovsky/Shostakovich/Rachmaninov CD or some local material like Ross Edwards. Or a Haydn Op. 33. Or Debussy. We'll have to see what comes out in the wash.
A TRIBUTE TO JOHN CURRO
Monica Curro, Sarah Curro, Daniel Curro
It's all in the family. The renowned founder of the Queensland Youth Orchestra turned 86 this month and three of his four children – violinists Monica and Sarah from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, cellist Daniel from the Australian Brandenbyrg Orchestra – have put together a program of music by Mozart, Schubert, Paganini, Massenet and Delibes. You can find plenty of Mozart trios for this combination but nothing specific by the other four names listed. You can be sure that the occasion will work on the merits of its contributors and serve its chief purpose as a tribute to this formidable, effective educator.
A SPIRITUAL FOREST – THE SACRED MUSIC OF MONTEVERDI
St Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat at 8 pm
Stephen Grant brings his vocal ensemble to St. Patrick's to finish off the festival with soloists soprano Helen Thomson and tenors Daniel Thomson and Tom Buckmaster. The concert's title appears to come from the composer's 1640 collection, Selve morale e spirituale. As self-prepared anthologies go, it doesn't have as much concert hall cachet as the 1610 Vespers. But, as forests go, the foliage and tree-trunks are impressive and Grant has a vast space to log: moral madrigals, a complete Mass and some separate fragments like a Gloria and concluding sentences from the Creed, a mass of motets and psalm settings, a brace of Magnificats and a trio of Salve Reginae – all for varying numbers of vocal lines – from one to eight – the forces ranging from purely vocal to vocal with instruments. There's a nice symmetry in play between the opening and closing concerts in this year's festival: from a modern-day writer who reduces his expressivity to spartan levels, to a Renaissance master who, even in the smallest pieces, startles you with his sense of theatre and bounding vitality.
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South Africa vs England, 2nd T20 Match Prediction 14 Feb 2020
South Africa vs England 2019
South Africa vs England, 2nd T20 Match Prediction
Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa
Toss Winner - South Africa won the toss and chose to bowl first
England beat South Africa by 2 runs
South Africa vs England cricket betting odds
ENG 1.54
RSA vs ENG Prediction
2020-02-13 13:10:03 V Shashank
England look to bounce back in the second T20I!
Lungi Ngidi (3/30) grabbed the best bowling figures for South Africa in the 1st T20I.
South Africa won the first T20I by a margin of 1-run at Buffalo Park.
Jason Roy (70) and Eoin Morgan (52) were the top-scorers for England in the 1st T20I.
We are expecting England to win!
After a nerve-wracking victory in the recent outing, hosts South Africa would be beaming with confidence and would ploy hard to seal a win in the coming game, and grab hold of the 3-match T20Is. Although the Protea batted decently, with skipper Quinton de Kock (31) and Temba Bavuma (43) scoring the bulk of runs, it was the bowling attack spearheaded by pacer Lungi Ngidi (3/30) which turned the tide in their favor in the much-coveted encounter.
Meanwhile, Eoin Morgan-led England will be backing themselves to come back stronger in the must-win game. The loss would have hurt the English side considering they couldn't amass 7 runs in the last over. The likes of Moeen Ali (1/22), Adil Rashid (1/23), Jason Roy (70), and skipper Eoin Morgan (52) were the top-performers for the tourists and would be banked to emulate a similar show in the second T20I.
At one point, it didn't look like South Africa would manage past 170-run mark if not for the performances from skipper de Kock (31), Temba Bavuma (43) and Rassie van der Dussen (31). The trio would be the vital cogs for Protea in the highly-anticipated game as they possess the ability to score a belter of runs in a span of few overs. In case they falter at cheap totals, the hosts would then rely on the duo of David Miller and Andile Phehlukwayo for getting the team to a respectable position.
Miller holds an experience over 73 T20s and being a potent player in the shortest format, he would be backed to go berserk from the very delivery. In the bowling department, the pace duo of Dale Steyn and Lungi Ngidi can be a menace in the power plays. Ngidi was the top-performer from the Protea bowling unit and will be a player to keep an eye on.
Spinner Tabraiz Shami is among the finest T20 bowlers in the present era of cricket. He will be entrusted with the task of getting the breakthroughs in the middle-overs.
South Africa Actual Playing XI:
Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen, Tabraiz Shamsi, B Hendricks, David Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, Andile Phehlukwayo, JJ Smuts, Lungi Ngidi, Temba Bavuma, Bjorn Fortuin
South Africa Key Players From Previous Game
T Bavuma 43 27 5 0 159.26
Q de Kock 31 15 3 2 206.67
R van der Dussen 31 26 3 1 119.23
L Ngidi 4.0 0 30 3 7.5
A Phehlukwayo 4.0 0 32 2 8
B Hendricks 3.0 0 33 2 11
Of South Africa vs England 2019
South Africa Predicted Playing XI
Quinton de Kock (c & wk), Temba Bavuma, Rassie van der Dussen, JJ Smuts, David Miller, Dwaine Pretorius, Andile Phehlukwayo, Beuran Hendricks, Tabraiz Shamsi, Dale Steyn, Lungi Ngidi
Openers Jason Roy and Jos Buttler would hold the key for England in the must-win encounter. Roy was the top-scorer for England, and although Buttler looked in a good nick he couldn't score much in the previous outing. Jonny Bairstow is another vital prospect who has to don an aggressive role with the bat in the coming game else a victory looks scarce for England.
Southpaw Eoin Morgan held the innings from an end and the same time he was going for the big-hits which helped the English come close to the total. All-rounders Ben Stokes and Moeen Ali were dismissed for low totals in the last outing and would be itching to score runs in the forthcoming bout.
Bowling wise, spinner Adil Rashid bagged economical figures in the previous game and along with pacer, Chris Jordan would look to wreak havoc amidst the conditions of Kingsmead. Tom Curran was quite expensive in the 1st T20I and there's a strong hunch that his brother Sam Curran would be making his way into the playing XI. Mark Wood and Ben Stokes hit the right lengths and will be expected to scalp the early dismissals.
Chris Jordan, Jonny Bairstow, Tom Curran, Jason Roy, Mark Wood, AU Rashid, Moeen Ali, Eoin Morgan, Jos Buttler, Ben Stokes, Joe Denly
J Roy 70 38 7 3 184.21
J Bairstow 23 19 3 0 121.05
M Ali 4.0 0 22 1 5.5
T Curran 3.0 0 41 1 13.67
Jason Roy, Jos Buttler (wk), Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan (c), Ben Stokes, Joe Denly, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Adil Rashid, Chris Jordan, Mark Wood
00h 23 0 mm. 3.06 k/h From: N 0%
03h 23 0 mm. 5.46 k/h From: SW 0%
06h 25 0 mm. 8.11 k/h From: SSW 0%
12h 26 0 mm. 6.76 k/h From: S 0%
15h 26 0 mm. 2.61 k/h From: SSE 3%
Clouds will hover around the stadium offering plenty of help to the pacers in getting the desired seam and swing. No chances of rain are being predicted, allowing 40 overs of uninterrupted contest.
The wicket at Kingsmead is usually batter friendly with the average 1st innings total being 150. With the ball not coming onto that nicely amidst the overcast conditions, one can expect 170 as a par total.
The toss winning team should look to bat first on this occasion. Clear skies in the first half of play are something the batting team should look to capitalize on.
Although England lost the previous contest, one can certainly bank on them to come back stronger and level the series 1-1 at Kingsmead. Be it the bowling wise or batting wise, England looks like a formidable side on paper and with some of the star players namely Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan enjoying a terrific run in the white-ball format.
South Africa can pose a threat, but, the lack of hitting ability is something that could cost them the game at Kingsmead.
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Gertzman, Jay A.
Bradley, Sculley, 1897-
Fast, Howard, 1914-2003
Barsky, Edward K., 1895-1975
Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951
American Labor Party.
Communist Party of the United States of America.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
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Edward Sculley Bradley (1897-1987) was a scholar, author, educator, and administrator at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a prolific writer and editor, serving as editor of the General Magazine and History Chronicle, Philadelphia, 1945-1956. He published biographies of literary figures George Henry Boker and Henry Charles Lea, as well as editions of works by Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman. Bradley was considered an international expert on Whitman, editing several important editions of the poet's Leaves of Grass. The Sculley Bradley papers include his personal and professional correspondence dating from 1923 to 1962, material from several literary censorship cases for which he testified, corrected drafts of his manuscripts for the Comprehensive Reader's Edition, Norton Critical Edition, and Variorum edition of Leaves of Grass, ephemera and graphics associated with Walt Whitman, and a small amount of material on other authors.
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Howard Melvin Fast (1914-2003) was a best-selling and prolific American author of historical fiction, mysteries, and science fiction, known for his books on themes of patriotism, social justice, and the immigrant experience. He wrote nearly 100 books and more than 150 short stories, as well as numerous screenplays, stage plays, and newspaper columns. The Howard Fast papers include correspondence, journals, appointment books, address books, financials, writings, promotion and reviews, scrapbooks, biographies, profiles, chronologies, bibliographies, interviews, governmental and political files, vital records, personal documents, awards, photographs, artwork, and audiovisual materials. The papers were deposited at the University of Pennsylvania over the course of 45 years and represent nearly all facets of the writer's life.
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Jay A. Gertzman collection on Samuel Roth
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Jay A. Gertzman, professor emeritus of English at Mansfield University, is the author of four books: Fantasy, Fashion, and Affection: Illustrated and Decorated Editions of Robert Herrick's Poetry, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940; Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist; and A Descriptive Bibliography of Lady Chatterley's Lover: With Essays Toward a Publishing History of the Novel. This collection focuses on Gertzman's research on Samuel Roth (1893-1974), writer, publisher, and entrepreneur, who is best known for publishing unauthorized excerpts of James Joyce's Ulysses in the United States, and for being the plaintiff in a landmark case before the United States Supreme Court that redefined what constitutes obscene material unprotected by the First Amendment. Researchers will find notes associated with Gertzman's book, Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist, which was published in 2013 by University Press of Florida, as well as various research notes on Samuel Roth's publishing and writing career.
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A year of Starmer. Why are his ratings going downhill? Lack of authenticity, inconsistency and missed opportunities.
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This Sunday it will have been a year since Keir Starmer became leader of the Labour Party, and what a year it's been. It's hard to remember now but in those initial days members of the press were enraptured by his "forensic brilliance".
One paper commented on the "the quietly terrifying force of a skilled former Chief Prosecutor assembling all the evidence and nailing it piece by damning piece to the accused" at PMQs.
Laura Kuenssberg of the BBC Starmer described Starmer and Boris Johnson's war of words as a battle between the "lawyer and the showman". Forget Captain Hindsight, Captain Prosecutor had arrived.
But in the year since, the mood has changed quite substantially, as have the polls, which are going in the wrong direction for the Labour Party.
While in December 2020, a YouGov poll found that over 50 per cent of Labour voters felt Starmer was doing "well", that has since dropped by 14 percentage points, and the perception that he is doing "badly" has risen by 16. Strangely, one of the few things that now unites voters across the Left and Right is a feeling Starmer won't win an election. So what exactly has gone wrong?
First of all, it should be said that Starmer is a huge improvement on Jeremy Corbyn. Most people breathed a sigh of relief when Starmer took over from Mr "Present But Not Involved", and he has done well to make the Labour slightly more electable. But it's taking that next step that's proving a challenge for him. What makes the party more than "better than Corbynism"?
There are all sorts of reasons you could suggest for why Labour's ratings have gone downhill – the ideological fractures among members; the way MPs casually insult things/people (see below); Starmer's inability to "pick a side" to please out of "Red Wall"/ socially conservative voters and London activists, and that's before we get to his somewhat robotic demeanour.
NEW: Labour frontbencher slammed after describing business as "the enemy". https://t.co/pao83rykyZ
— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) March 29, 2021
For the sake of one article, I think there are two areas that Starmer could make headway in (albeit it might be a bit late now). The first is the obvious fact that we are in a pandemic, which Labour has never been particularly "imaginative" about how to manage. It's not clear what the party would do differently to the Conservatives, other than being more cautious (see: school reopenings) and spending more money.
Being "imaginative" doesn't mean coming out as a lockdown sceptic, incidentally – although it was exciting to see Starmer criticise the idea of vaccine passports yesterday – but trying to think ahead. It strikes me that the party that defeats the Conservatives will project "futuristic" thinking first and foremost, making plans unlike any before to protect against future health, defence and technological threats.
Indeed, one of the Conservatives' biggest failures during its time in government is lack of preparedness for the pandemic, all the while countries like South Korea had a complex Test and Trace system in place (add to that it's planning to have 6G trials in 2026).
It seems to me that there is space for the opposition to be innovative and interesting here, but Starmer spends more time criticising the firms the Conservatives have used in a national emergency (incidentally, the Tweet below would rule out Kate Bingham, who is responsible for the UK's vaccination programme and married to Jesse Norman, Financial Secretary to the Treasury).
In the last year, £2bn of taxpayers' money has been spent on products and services provided by firms with a financial or personal connection to the Conservatives.
Labour will launch the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation – bringing services back under public control.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) February 8, 2021
Another big opportunity for Labour is to fight the culture wars, particularly if it wants to get socially conservative voters back on side. The 2019 General Election wasn't just a rejection of Corbynism, and Labour's plan to hold a second referendum, but a groupthink that has dominated left-wing politics. "Wokeness", as we call it.
The Conservatives tend to ignore the culture wars, which is bad in itself, but Starmer gets involved, normally on the side he thinks Twitter might like most. For instance, he recently got involved in the row between the Royal Family and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, appearing to side with the latter. Where was the call for due process? Did he need to comment at all?
The fundamental issue with Starmer, however, is that it doesn't really matter what he does because many voters still see him in relation to Labour's second referendum policy. Being the MP for Holborn and St Pancras, in Remain-voting London, Starmer has never really "felt the heat" for his involvement in those Corbyn years.
When I have suggested to people that voters will punish Starmer at a General Election for his Brexit stance, I have been told that voters have short memories and so forth. I disagree. The Brexit years were long, and it cemented people's views of Starmer. Surprise, surprise, they aren't all that excited about "forensic brilliance" if it means their vote might be ignored.
I suspect the major issue is people don't get a sense of who the Real Starmer is. He says, for instance, that he doesn't like the idea of vaccine passports, but it sounds like someone who read a poll and decided that's his opinion. Similarly, months ago newspapers discovered Labour's plans to win back "foundation seats", as the Red Wall is now called, with attempts to appear more patriotic. Again, it's calculated and obvious.
So what does Starmer do? Well, it'll be challenging but most of all he needs to show some authenticity. People can forgive a lot, but not inconsistency and a lack of clarity about what you really want.
Contrary to what this article suggests, it gives me no pleasure to have such a catalogue of criticisms. But part of that is because of the urgency of the moment. From vaccine passports, to raising questions about the effects of lockdown, the country needs a solid opposition.
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Clinton campaigns with LGBT crowd while Trump panders with upside down pride flag
Donald Trump is still pretending to be a friend to the LGBTQ community, but his actions speak louder than his pandering.
By Jeff Taylor Monday, October 31, 2016
Donald Trump is still trying to pretend to be a friend to the LGBTQ community, holding up an upside down rainbow pride flag with "LGBTs For Trump" crudely scrawled across it at a rally in Greeley, Colorado on Sunday.
He unfurled the flag shortly after walking onto the stage, before passing it to someone in the crowd. He did not make any comments about the flag or about the LGBTQ community afterwards, instead launching into his rhetoric around vote rigging, asking the crowd if they think the ballots will actually be properly counted.
Whoever wrote on the pride flag was obviously unaware that red goes on top and purple on the bottom. Ironically, a gay Trump supporter attacked a man at a North Carolina rally for holding up the American flag upside down, which he was doing as a sign of the country being in distress. Fitting then that the pride flag should similarly displayed considering the outcomes that might result for the LGBTQ community from a Trump presidency.
Trump has surrounded himself with anti-LGBTQ advisers, not least of which is his vice presidential pick Mike Pence, which cost him the support of the Log Cabin Republicans. He also supports the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA), which would allow for discrimination based on religiously held beliefs, and said he would overturn same-sex marriage, appoint far-right judges like Antonin Scalia.
He also spoke to a group of anti-LGBTQ preachers in Orlando on the two month anniversary of the shooting at Pulse.
So while there remain some die-hard gays for Trump, most of the LGBTQ community will see this as nothing but shameless pandering.
Watch the display below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXKbEnV8NM
Meanwhile, on the same day, Hillary Clinton held a "Community for Unity" rally at The Manor, a gay club on the strip of Wilton Manners.
"This election will determine whether we continue the progress we've made or let it be ripped away," Clinton said at the campaign stop. "We know Trump has promised that he'll appoint Supreme Court justices who will overturn marriage equality and that he will repeal President Obama's executive actions to protect LGBT people from discrimination."
"We will work together to achieve an AIDS-free generation," she added. "We will take on homelessness, bullying and violence, particularly youth homelessness, which disproportionately hurts LGBT kids. And we're going to end the harmful practice of so-called conversion therapy."
Watch her speech below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yde99eoOmU
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It seems that these site updates are coming with more regularity than in the past. I am not sure if changing things up a little is actually helping or hurting, but at least I am documenting when these changes are taking place, so if I ever get interested, I shall be able to figure it out.
I have yet to see the same "editor" in Blogger in two consecutive posts in the last four days, so I am guessing that Teh Google is changing platform things up a bit, too. Teh Google has also added e-mail commenting and photo album viewers for Buzz, as well.
Additionally, there are a couple of new features that have been added to G-Mail recently, too. You can now just drag and drop attachments in G-Mail. This doesn't really add any ease to the way that I send e-mails, but maybe you can see the benefit.
If you are a BIG proponent of "open-web" stuff, Teh Google Docs has majorly upped their game in an effort to break the stranglehold of Microsoft Office. I can see this as nothing but a good thing, even though I do not use cloud-computing as much as I did just two short years ago. With the demise, or the lack of stability, of G.ho.st, I have started moving everything to my physical drives, but maybe it is time for me to start taking a harder look.
As far as Teh Google Teh Phone, they have made a few changes that appear to be acknowledging Teh Google FAILURE, though. So, when coupled with Android, Teh Google is dropping the MacApple-like online store, which obviously is a form of marketing that is only attractive to DUMB people.
At some point in the VERY near future, I am going to be launching my business site for real and I am trying to figure out traffic generation and what interests folks. Obviously, it AIN'T the content on this danged blog, either. But, with three years of active learning on what drives traffic, maybe I can become an interblog-millionaire and start sending y'all money for reading my rants.
Anyhoo, I have added Amazon Affiliate Links on posts and a search on the sidebar. I think that I might have inadvertently added AdSense, too, but I won't know what it looks like for a couple of days. Buy my junk, y'all.
In the last couple of weeks, there have been big changes in Google link value, plus IBM has launched a new Social Media Analytics thingy, and FAILbook has kicked the door open to selling every single piece of your personal information. Traffic is about to become more unpredictable, it seems. As if, traffic predictability was ever something that we could figure out.
By the way, please keep in mind that this blog is the MOST accurate information delivery portal on the entire Dubya.Dubya.Dubya, so keep coming around so you will know how NOT to get had in Gangland territory, yo.
Let me know when you'll need my address. And may you wind up rich, quickly.
Heh! Yeah TD, I figured something had happened with Google's formula. The traffic to my business site actually went up, and I'm appearing higher on their results in the most common search terms than before.
I don't do any "pay for click" stuff any more. I did it for several years, but the bid prices got so out of reason that I just dropped it all.
I hope you do make a quadrillion bazillion dollars on the net. And, you are exactly correct that I don't think ANYONE has ever figured out traffic generation completely.
You do know, don't you that you are advertising for Charlie Melancon for Senate (lib dimocrap LA), and the Official Obama Website beneath this post. But hey! I might try to become a medical assistant.
Seriously, do they pay you if we just click on those ads beneath, or do we have to donate, or purchase for you to get your 30 pieces of silver?
BTW, thanks for the tech updates. You definitely be king of the Triple Dubya.
Oh yeah...I forgot to ask you about the Construction babes. Original shot?
Dang...I've been reading your site for FREE, and you offer to pay for us to read it????
Can I get that retroactive to '07?
Andy, I am not even certain how they cut my HUGE check, but now the ads are for Ann Coulter, Fat People Photos, and How Liberal Are You? Click them all every time you are here and let's see how much change I can spread around. I do like the Amazon one because it shows every click and the path that the person takes afterward. Alas, the construction chicks are NOT local. Everyone knows women cannot work in construction.
Skunks, if you click enough ads, maybe we can work out a deal. This is called BRIBERY.
I'm sorry...I got so hung up on that photo, I couldn't concentrate on all the stuff about Google platforms and net traffic.
Apparently I'm going to have to cut and paste the text without the picture, so I can read it more effectively.
One thing I DO wonder about, is now, with Barack Obama so put off by modern technology sharing "too much information"....whether any of this is a moot point. Maybe they just haven't figured out a way around this, OR maybe they're waiting until after November to assess any electoral damage. I'm sure they were heartened by the results in England, where the Conservatives didn't do nearly as well as thought and Germany, where Merckel, virtually forced, by the EU, into accepting a Keynesian bailout package, has taken an electoral hit for that.
IF team Obama can withstand November, I'm betting they'll feel that their agenda is virtually unassailable and they'll move to remake America to the point that it will be unrecognizable within 10 years.
Mere Keynesians will be considered "the Conservatives" of that day.
We Americans have got to make that stop in six months. The prospects of failure aren't merely grim, but Third Worldish.


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Support for Yorktown lacrosse player Brielle Furci battling cancer comes from near and far
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We told you earlier this month about one of the best lacrosse communities not only in New York, but the nation — Yorktown — coming together to support lacrosse standout Brielle Furci, 15, who has been diagnosed with Stage 3 Ovarian Cancer and is starting up to three months of chemotheraphy.
Turns out much of the lacrosse community has rallied behind the effort, including from some of Yorktown's varsity rivals, and from lacrosse communities well beyond the borders of Westchester County.
The GoFundMe page that has been set up on behalf of Brielle and her family that had raised $26,000 as of Sept. 10 with a goal of $40,000, is now at $54,000 with the goal increased to $60,000.
"I want to thank everyone for their support," Brielle wrote on the GoFundMe page. "Everything that I am going through is really hard but knowing that i am surrounded by so much love makes it all that much easier.
"I am honestly scared for what is to come but I appreciate knowing that the whole community cares. Thank you all so much for your kindness and generosity."
Jeff Brameier, the head coach of two-time defending Connecticut state champion (and Yorktown rival) Darien, posted a note of support on Twitter.
"Please support if you can!!" Brameier Tweeted. "Lacrosse always has an extended family."
Brendan Forst, a junior on the Bronxville boys varsity team and 2017 Predators Lacrosse team, has reached out to players on both teams to help raise money by hosting lacrosse lessons for youth players where all profits went towards Brielle's treatment. A total of $2,000 was raised, including a $1,000 donation from the Predators.
Support for the GoFundMe page has come from as far away as Texas.
The Dallas-Forth Worth Youth Lacrosse program (@DFWYouthLax) Tweeted: "#YorktownStrong #Texas2NY."
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Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In her research, she seeks to understand the economic lives of the poor, with the aim to help design and evaluate social policies. She has worked on health, education, financial inclusion, environment and governance.
Professor Esther Duflo's first degrees were in history and economics from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. She subsequently received a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 1999.
Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Infosys Prize (2014), the David N. Kershaw Award (2011), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship (2009). With Abhijit Banerjee, she wrote Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award in 2011 and has been translated into 17 languages.
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Kyle Larson notched his first Sprint Cup win, in his 99th start.
What a great finish to a NASCAR Weekend of First-Time Winners. After both he and Chase Elliott spun their tires on a late race re-start, Kyle Larson took the lead with just nine laps remaining at Michigan International Speedway. He never looked back.
After his thrilling win, Larson completed his burnout celebration with his trade mark, steering wheel off and in his hands. The win propels the young driver into the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase. However, do not feel too bad for Chase Elliott. It appears, that he will also make the chase on points.
"This one is for the Clauson family. We really miss him . . . . We parked it in Victory Lane for him." an emotional Kyle Larson expressed.
- In 2014, Larson became the first NASCAR D4D and NASCAR Next product to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole (Pocono Raceway), as well as the first to win the Sunoco Rookie of the Year.
- In 2013, he became the first NASCAR D4D graduate to win the Sunoco Rookie of the Year Award in the NASCAR XFINITY Series.
- Larson previously became the first NASCAR D4D competitor to win a NASCAR Touring Series championship. Driving for Rev Racing, Larson won the 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East title and the Sunoco Rookie of the Year.
"I just made another mistake . . . . I had two opportunities to stay out front . . . I need to do a better job at these re-starts. Elliott reported"
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The Red Sox have agreed to a one-year deal with free-agent infielder Jose Peraza, according to a report Thursday by Robert Murray.
The Red Sox also agreed to a one-year, $6 million deal with veteran left-hander Martin Perez, a source confirmed to ESPN. The deal, which was first reported by The Athletic, includes a club option at $6.25 million.
Perez spent last season with the Twins, going 10-7 with a 5.12 ERA. He had spent the previous seven seasons with the Rangers, posting double-digit wins three separate times.
The 25-year-old Peraza spent the past four seasons with the Reds. Known for his good eye at the plate, he hit .288 with 85 runs scored, 14 home runs and 23 steals in 2018, but those numbers dipped some this past season, when he posted a .239-37-6-7 line.
He was nontendered by the Reds earlier this month.
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Mardi Gras Parades Cancelled in Thibodaux
On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, Mayor Tommy Eschete and staff members met with the five local Mardi Gras Krewes to discuss the viability of parading in the City this upcoming Mardi Gras season. After a thorough review and assessment of the potential impact that parades during the current COVID-19 pandemic could have in our region, Mayor Eschete has made the decision to prohibit all parades during the upcoming 2021 Mardi Gras Season.
Mayor Eschete stated that "He regrets to have to enact such a directive, but the current COVID crisis leaves him no alternative. In addition, he sincerely wants to thank all of the local krewe leadership for supporting his decision which was ultimately based on the health and welfare of our citizens and visitors."


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Today, because of the multitude of choices we all have, it is easy to get distracted from where we want to go in life. I offer you a few suggestions on how to find your path and stay on your path to great wealth, if you should choose to do so.
One night in 1975, I sat in my little apartment and began to choose the path I was now to take. I had to again decide which dad's path I would follow, my rich dad's or my poor dad's. I had been off track for 10 years and it was now time to get back on track.
These are some of the decisions I made and have continued to make over the years.
That night in 1975, I had to stop feeling sorry for myself and decide again to be rich. I went over some of the lessons my rich dad had given me - lessons that were more important than money, because they would ultimately create the financial empire I wanted.
Rich Dad believed that words were a person's most important tool. He constantly reminded me to watch the words I spoke, simply because he believed that the words you speak and the words you think ultimately become the world you live in. He often quoted the Old Testament: "And the word became flesh".
People who used words such as these, often focused only on financial survival. Rich Dad often referred to these people as "poor" people, because they were poor managers of money. So a person who thought or spoke words such as these was constantly fighting for financial survival, regardless of how much money they made.
So decide to be rich, even if you are broke and penniless today. In Rich Dad Poor Dad, I wrote of the difference between being poor and being broke. Poor is a state of mind where thoughts such as "I can't afford it" or "Live below your means" come from. Being poor is eternal but being broke is temporary.
The opening chapter of The CASHFLOW Quadrant is called, "Why Don't You Get a Job?" It begins with my wife Kim and I being homeless for about 3 weeks. Even though we were virtually out of money, we continued to strive to become rich, to build a business and invest through that business.
Today, even though we have plenty of money and several businesses, nothing much has changed. We continue to build businesses, reinvest in our businesses and invest through those businesses.
In The CASHFLOW Quadrant, I wrote about Be-Do-Have. "Be" is the most important part of the three word formula. Most people want to "Have" what the rich have, but they often are not willing to do what the rich "Do" to have what the rich "Have".
So whether you have money or not, it is important to "Be" rich if you decide to do so, which means being willing to make being rich more important than merely surviving financially or being comfortable.
Rich Dad stressed that his son Mike and I know not only how to make money but what to do with the money we made. Rich Dad said, "Most people know how to work for money, but they do not know how to have people and money work for them." So he taught us how to plan on having too much money.
After choosing between being rich, poor or middle class, and then choosing between too much money or too little money, it's time to write your plan.
If you're willing to be a little uncomfortable to become very rich and retire early, develop your plan — even though you may be broke, but not poor, today. And if you are already rich, Rich Dad's plan may help you become richer and happier...even beyond your wildest dreams.
Rich Dad often said that you could tell the difference between the rich, poor and middle class simply by where they went to get their money or to do their banking.
Rich Dad said, "A poor man's bank is a pawn shop." A pawn shop lends money on "assets" that a banker would not loan money on. When a poor person is short of cash, they will often go to the pawn shop and put their chainsaw, microwave oven, jewelry, TV sets, tools, or watches up as security.
The pawn shop gives them cents on the dollar, because what the poor spend their money on is not worth anything after they buy it anyway. The pawn shop makes money by charging legal usurious interest rates.
The middle class has the creditworthiness to use banks, savings and loans, or credit unions for their lines of credit. A popular form of credit for this group is the credit card, which is easy to obtain.
The rich also use banks. But they often use different banks. They use the services of investment bankers, or find private capital from wealthy individuals, or money from institutions such as pension funds, insurance companies or the stock market.
The rich, if successful as business people, have fewer problems raising large sums of money and at better interest rates. So decide where you will do your banking.
One of the reasons the rich get richer is because they spend time with other rich people. Most of my best investments come from my rich friends, not from my stock brokers or real estate brokers. It is important to know if a person's aspirations are to be rich, comfortable or simply survive.
Friends who merely want to be comfortable or survive will not understand why you want to be rich and may unconsciously pull you down. And besides, the investment tips I get from people who only want to be comfortable are often tips on investments that no one else wants.
How do you find people who are rich or want to be rich? Rich Dad had a simple answer: "It's what you know that determines who you know. If you want to change who you know, simply change what you know." So the most important investment you can make is in your financial education and financial experience. Invest in that first and the people you spend time with will change.
It takes time to build a business as well as an investment portfolio. Building a business is not the same as getting a job. With a job, you expect to be paid soon after starting work. With a business, you may not be paid for years, if you are paid at all. That is why I recommend keeping your daytime job and starting a part-time business.
It is said that 90% of all businesses fail in the first 5 years. In my opinion, there are two main reasons for this sad statistic. One reason is lack of education and experience. Business is not something you can learn in school. Business is a combination of formal education, experience and guts.
The second reason is lack of money. We have heard the old cliche "Killing the goose that lays the golden egg". When starting a business, many people kill the baby-goose before it's old enough to lay the golden egg.
In other words, most small businesses are undercapitalized, which means the new business owner tries to support him or herself and often a family on a business that is not yet up and running. So the business is drained of cash when it needs it most to grow.
In 1975, I realized that my $700 in savings was not much when compared to Mike's hundreds of millions of dollars, which were rapidly growing into a billion dollars. Initially, I felt like giving up, saying to myself, "What's the use. I'll never have more than Mike." But then I realized that if I continued with that thought process, not only would I never have more than Mike, I would never have much of anything.
I was comparing myself with Mike and trying to compete with him, rather than use him as inspiration and as a mentor. So that night I decided to dream big and start small.
Many people start small and stay small, simply because they have small dreams. In my opinion, big dreams are important because they possess ingredients vital for success: hope, desire, passion, energy, vitality, faith, drive, inspiration and creativity. These ingredients make life worth living.
So dare to dream big. Dream of all the wonderful things this world and life have to offer. Write your plan on how you can have all your dreams come true and look at the plan every day. Talk to people about your dreams, even those who criticize them. Then use their criticism to make your desire even stronger.
In 1975, I knew that if I was to achieve great wealth quickly, I first needed to tighten up before I could expand. I was hurting financially because I had been sloppy with my money during the past 10 years.
In college, I'd spent a lot of money just having fun. In Vietnam, I'd developed the attitude of living life to the fullest because tomorrow I could be dead. If I was going to get ahead, I first needed to pull back a little. Instead of playing golf, rugby and tennis, I focused only on rugby.
Instead of spending every night in the clubs or watching television, I needed to get back to studying. Instead of trying to be everywhere and do everything, I decided to focus. I began doing more — of fewer things.
So, regardless of what you did yesterday, if you want to do better financially tomorrow, you may need to forgive your past, tighten up your activities today, so you can have a bright and prosperous tomorrow. To expand, you must first contract.
The problem with a small business or small investments such as one single family rental, is that you have to do all the work. You do all the work because there is not enough money to support paid management. So you own it and manage it.
Very often, a person begins to buy real estate and soon quits because the work is hard and the pay is low. They started with a small plan and stayed small.
For business or investing to work for you, in most cases you must get big. Instead of buying only two rental properties, plan on acquiring at least 20 properties as soon as possible. (But make sure you know what you're doing first.) With 20 properties you can afford professional management, if the cash flow is strong, or you can trade the 20 units into one larger apartment house or office building.
The same goes with businesses, especially franchises etc. If you have only one franchise, you are the chief cook, bottle washer, owner and manager. If you have 20 of them, you have a chance of finding freedom faster.
The people who dream small, think small, and work small, work the hardest and are paid the least. So that night in 1975, I vowed to focus, acquire education, gain experience, start small and get big as quickly as possible.
In 1975, I knew that if I wanted to acquire great wealth quickly, I had to be a person who shared. I had to be generous. If I was greedy, stingy or tight, it would take me longer to attain great wealth.
So, I decided to operate out of the B (Business Owner) quadrant, rather than follow my poor dad's ideas on labor unions and protectionism. I knew that I needed to focus on doing more for less money, for more people. I needed to focus on sharing as much of my wealth with as many people as possible.
So Step Ten is to be generous and share. If you do that, you will become far richer than those who work only for themselves.
Every day we are presented with multiple choices, so that we must continually choose and re-choose our chosen path. If you choose to be wealthy, use these ten steps to find your path and to stay on track.
Born and raised in Hawaii, Robert Kiyosaki is fourth-generation Japanese-American investor, businessman and best-selling author. His book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, the #1 New York Times bestseller, reveals what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not. Robert has appeared on Oprah and other top national TV and radio shows. Robert has a profound message for those wanting to improve their financial lives. That message is: "With every dollar in your hand, you have the power to choose to be rich, poor or middle class.".