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- 【Women's Association / anniversary plan】 cute surprise ♪ with original flower crepes ★
- Night 3500 yen / day 2500 yen
【Dinner plan with unlimited drink 4000 yen → 3500 yen ~】 【Lunch plan is 2,500 yen (3000 yen with unlimited drinks)】 Prepared ♪ Recommended for parties and girls' sociies who want to please the leading role in a slightly different surprise from surprises Plan ♪ Make up with crepe freshly baked with crepes as roses No mistake ◎ With message plate!
- 【★ Farewell Accommodation ★ 150 minutes drinking attachment】 Taste the steak of paella · beef of various mushrooms and seafoods 6000 → 5000 yen
- 4000 yen
Enjoying various mushrooms and seafood paella and beef steaks Great plus no mistake plans are here ♪
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- One boastful galette · crepe, carefully one ..., carefully ...
Build a buckwheat flour crepe "Galette" birthplace, in the northwestern part of France in the Brittany region, enjoy cooking and Happy sake cider in crepe rye (crepe restaurant).The compatibility between Garret and Seedle baked up fragrant is outstanding! Try it once, please enjoy the authentic way ★
- 1080 yen
Galetto of Cheese, Egg and Ham (roast ham, egg, cheese)
- ¥ 1080
Galetto of Raw ham and Tomato, Egg and Cheese (raw ham · tomato · rucola · egg · cheese)
- Salmon & Avocado
- ¥ 1080
Galette of salmon, Avocado, Egg and Cheese (smoked salmon, avocado, tomato, egg, cheese)
- This week's chef commitment Galette
- 1280 yen
chef's galette The chef's commitment We ask the staff about the contents of the garret weekly.
- Autumn mackerel smoked marinade with autumn eggplant and ginkgo pickles
- 780 yen
- Sakura pork's putty de campagne
- ¥ 680
Pate de Campagne
- Stewed cow cheek meat with red wine
- 1780 yen
Beef Stew in Red Wine Sauce
- Okutanba chicken thigh meat Cider's cream simmered
- 1380 yen
Stewed Chiken and Cidre,Cream
- Spanish chestnut pork gurye mustard sauce
- 1380 yen
Grill of Pork
- Angus beef turf roasted truffle sauce
- 1880 yen
Roasted of Beaf
- Mixed nuts / Homemade pickles with seeds flavor / Olive marinade
- 300 yen for each
- Potato Salad / Belgian French Fries / Octopus French Style
- 400 yen each
Potato Salad/French flies/Octopus's Southern French Style
- German-made ham / smoked salmon
- Each 500 yen
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- Camembert cheese fries
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- Today's Omakase Tapas Platter (for 2 people)
- 1680 yen
- Grilled onion gratin soup pie
- 880 yen
- Baked crepe with vanilla ice cream (apple roast, cinnamon flavor)
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- Baked crepe with vanilla ice cream (banana chocolate cream / mix berry cream)
- Each 880 yen
- Buckwheat flour galette, Mont Blanc tailoring
- 980 yen
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- Rich Gateau chocolat
- ¥ 680
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- Crème brûle enjoys with Le Creuset
- 780 yen
- Baked cheese cake
- ¥ 680
Gran front Osaka is one specialty drifting bistro atmosphere, such as in the popular shops !! French street corner.
In the kitchen with seats on one side sofa lively of over popularity! Glass in the use of a small number, the chef will continue baked one after another in a delicious galette.
I want to stop thinking in the delicious flavor and fun and open atmosphere overflowing from the store, such atmosphere.
- The bustling bistro on the street corner of Paris
- The inside of the shop is decorated with antique accessories and a picture plate, a fashionable space just like the home where the A chair shines ♪ And tableware coded by Le Cruiser will be even more ambiance ☆ The store can accommodate up to 80 people OK It is perfect for various parties as there is also a comfortable sofa seat ♪
- Galette and Le Creuset Goko in a topic shop in cocotto
- There are lots of menus perfect for the girls' society including the popular Suminof lemonade and domestic buckwheat galette, the main dinner set from 2800 yen menu
- Table 4Person(s) × 10
- A warm space you want to use at a girls' society with a happy mood, such as your birthday, anniversary, celebration of marriage.
- Table 4Person(s) × 6
- Dating and a girls' society in an atmosphere reminiscent of French street corners.
- Table 10Person(s) × 3
- Because it is a special favorite shop, I would like to use it for parties where there are a lot of people.
- Table 6Person(s) × 5
- The girls' association gathering at Hisabis is sure to have more talks.
- Table 3Person(s) × 20
- Leave 10 to 30 medium size banquets.Seating in a variety of layouts is possible.
- Chartering1Person(s) × 60
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- It is possible to use from 40 people to a maximum of 60 people by charter!
- Beginner party course reservation reception starts
Reservation acceptance for the year-end party plan of 12/4 ~ ♪ The year-end party course for luxury menus is 3000 yen ~ with unlimited drinks ♪
- Anniversary Flower Crepe
Direct link to Osaka station !! Grand Front Osaka popular shop in Anniversary ★ Special floral crepe plan recommended
- Women's party · various banquets ♪ by all means
♪ enjoy at private dinner party and drinking party at company ♪ You can change the layout according to the number of people ♪
- Party ★ Pickled drink 3000 yen ~
- Recommended for welcome party and girls' party! If the party plan is now, 500 yen OFF & 150 minutes with all you can drink!
- Please do also ♪ parties of small groups
- Perfect for private parties gathering together among friends ♪
- Charged ★ 40 ~ 60 people
- It can be reserved according to your budget ♪ Convenience near the station is convenient for the second party · company social gathering.
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- <France Bretagne · Yubie's Cider> France There is a cider producer, Ceedle Lee Uby in the Mel district, which passes through the deep forest of the region and has a gentle hill.
- <France Bretagne · Ubie's Ceedle> Although it is a family-run small farmhouse, I am making quality and safe apples with its abundant knowledge and experience.
- <France Bretagne · Ubie's Cider> From the manufacture of the apple, make juice, even to the cider To the family of Yubi, please enjoy the juice and the cider who all have thought.
- <France Bretagne · Ubie's Cider> There are few shops that can be enjoyed in Japan, it is very rare Seedle.
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Cider who uses only the apples of the self-cultivation harvested at the own orchard in the region of Meru district of Bretagne, France, is Japan's first appearance.Please try it once ♪
- Feel free to have delicious bistro cuisine and wine marriage!
In addition to cider, we have prepared wine that fits well with the dishes.Glass wines are always available from seven species of 600 yen! Homemade sangria are also popular.
- Galette lunch using carefully selected soba powder from Yatsugatake Nagano prefecture
We can also reserve seats only ♪ ♪ Use lunch buckwheat made from Yatsugatake Nagano Prefecture and enjoy the scent of buckwheat flavor like the real home!
- Let's celebrate with the anniversary lunch plan !!
Popular flower creping appointed day plan can be enjoyed at noon !! Only cooking 2500 yen ★ 3500 yen if you have drinks all you can! You can enjoy the contents of all you can drink with soft drink only at 3000 yen.
- With flower crepes! Anniversary lunch plan
- 2500 Yen
Party for lunch from lunch! Crepe tailored to roses is a crepe made because it is pandemere.It is perfect for girls' association & mama association use and surprise.All you can drink soft drinks & cafe at + 500 yen, Alcohol & soft drinks & cafe drinks as you like + 1000 yen
- Gallelet lunch of Yatsugatake mountain-side buckwheat flour
- 1080 yen -
It is a popular set that you can enjoy salad or soup in a gullet using carefully selected soba powder from Yatsugatake Nagano Prefecture!

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Expertise: Adult Psychiatry, Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Depression, Mood Disorders, Postpartum Depression, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Psychiatry, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Women's Reproductive Health ...read more
Dr. Osborne graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College and received her training at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. She completed both clinical and research fellowships in women's mental health, and is an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy, the postpartum, the premenstrual period, and perimenopause. She conducts research on the biological pathways that contribute to mental illness at times of reproductive life cycle transition, working particularly on the role of the immune system.
- Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins Women's Mood Disorders Center
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Assistant Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
- MD; Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College (2009)
- New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center / Psychiatry (2013)
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Dr. Osborne's lab investigates the role of the immune system in maternal psychiatric illness. She conducts both translational research and intervention trials.
Clinical Trial Keywordspostpartum depression, antenatal anxiety, women's mental health
The women's mood disorders center is currently recruiting pregnant women with and without mood and anxiety disorders for an ongoing prospective study of the biological mechanisms of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy and the postpartum.
Lower allopregnanolone during pregnancy predicts postpartum depression: An exploratory study. Osborne LM, Gispen F, Sanyal A, Yenokyan G, Meilman S, Payne JL. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2017 Feb 16;79:116-121. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.02.012. [Epub ahead of print]
Returning to tricyclic antidepressants for depression during childbearing: clinical and dosing challenges. Osborne LM, Birndorf CA, Szkodny LE, Wisner KL. Arch Womens Ment Health. 2014 Jun;17(3):239-46. doi: 10.1007/s00737-014-0421-z. Epub 2014 Mar 26.
Perinatal depression--the fourth inflammatory morbidity of pregnancy?: Theory and literature review. Osborne LM, Monk C. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2013 Oct;38(10):1929-52. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2013.03.019. Epub 2013 Apr 20.
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- American Psychiatric Association, 2011
- American Women Psychiatrists, 2011
- Society of Biological Psychiatry, 2015
- Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society, 2014
- International Marce Society, 2014
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Recent News Articles and Media Coverage
Post-Partum Depression: A Clinical, Not Legal, Issue, MedPage Today (02/07/2018)
Why Some Women May Be More Biologically Susceptible to Postpartum Depression, Shape (3/22/2017)
Research links postpartum depression with diminished levels of 'anti-anxiety' hormone, Johns Hopkins The HUB (3/20/2017)
Low Levels of ‘Anti-Anxiety’ Hormone Linked to Postpartum Depression, Johns Hopkins Medicine News Release (3/14/2017)

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Health officials rethinking treatment of high blood pressure
Local health officials are rethinking the way they treat high blood pressure in those over 60 after a recent national study that calls for easing current regulation guidelines.
For years, doctors have worked to keep their adult patients at a 140/90 blood pressure.
However, the recent study, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, claims that an acceptable pressure rate can be higher at 150/90.
“It’s a major paradigm shift in the way we treat the hypertension,” said Dr. Raghotham Patlola, interventional cardiologist with Cardiovascular Institute of the South in Lafayette.
The new guidelines, however, stress regulating the diastolic pressure, the lower blood-pressure number, in patients between 30 and 59 years old, he said.
“The focus is that the lower number should be less than 90 preferably to have long-term clinical benefits and avoiding premature death from heart attacks and strokes,” Patlola said.
The new guidelines proposed by the national panel of health officials mean that the increased blood pressure threshold for older patients could require fewer medications, Patlola said.
“We did not find evidence for additional health benefits in achieving a level of 140 instead of 150 in those over age 60,” Dr. Paul James, co-chair of the guideline committee and chair of family medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, said. “We were particularly concerned about medication side effects in the elderly population like lightheadedness and dizziness, which increases the risk of falling and broken bones.”
Patlola said the easing of the guidelines was unexpected, but came as a “pleasant surprise.”
However, that does not mean hypertension is any less serious as a medical condition, Patlola said.
In Louisiana, high blood pressure, or hypertension, is a risk factor for strokes, heart attacks and heart disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Not only here in Louisiana, it’s the entire national and the entire world. It’s a big problem. At least about six in 10 adults over 40 years old have some kind of hypertension. Fifty percent of these patients don’t even know they have hypertension.”
Of the 50 percent of patients who know they have hypertension, only 20 percent of them are being adequately treated, he said.
“So it is a major medical issue, but again, even today it’s still the simplest and the cheapest medical problem to have,” Patlola said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


Episode 9 – The Future of Mobility
Neal Watterson, Global Head of Guest Products and General Manager of Uber for Business was a featured speaker at the ASA MSO Symposium in Las Vegas. Listen as Neal discusses the future of Mobility, Uber and the Automotive Industry. From a focus on safety, to the new paradigm that says “yes, it’s ok to get into vehicles with strangers” he paints a picture of a future that’s not that far off and may surprise you.
· Uber’s primary focus on safety shapes all of their plans for the future
· How autonomous vehicles will impact the automotive service industry
· How shops can use ride-sharing to improve customer convenience
· Uber for business programs for mechanical and collision shops
· Uber Elevate—electric helicopters and flying cars (yes, flying cars)
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Episode 154: Sarah Kramer
Air date: 2.24.2016
Sarah Kramer is a rare bird. Her principal is trumpet, and her mastery of that instrument has earned her a career in which she has rubbed elbows and shared stages with legends like Bo Diddley, Leonard Cohen and Levon Helm. She got her start in New Jersey, studied music in college in New York City and spent some time in Taos, New Mexico, but she soon found that she suffered from a sort of musical diaspora. Through all her travels, the music and culture of New Orleans felt most like home, so she relocated to the Crescent City and immersed herself in the local scene. For eight years, she played every style she could manage - blues, jazz, latin, brass band, reggae, klezmer, alternative rock - as well as fronting her own band, The Sarah Kramer Project. She was living the dream and making a living in music, but the seeker in her implored her to push herself out of her comfort zone, so she relocated to Los Angeles and began to focus on her own unique style of songwriting and composition. Her 2013 solo release, Home, shows off her considerable talent as a musical force who defies any box in which you might try to put her. Kramer’s music is not quite folk, not quite indie and far too adventurous to lump her in with typical singer/songwriter conventions. Home starts in familiar territory, with tremolo guitars, vocals and other standard-issue tools of the trade, and just when the listener thinks they’ve got Kramer pegged, the horns sneak in - weaving in and out of the arrangements and adding fresh timbres that owe a debt more to impressionist painters than to her beloved New Orleans rhythms. Kramer is currently working on a new record, and given her resume and the caliber of players that pick up the phone when she calls, it won’t be anything but great.


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News regarding bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is difficult to ignore these days. Bitcoin is essentially a digital currency that came into being in January 2009. Its balances are maintained on a public ledger that is globally accessible.
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“Hair Guru” Prapat Jongruamsap was the main attraction when Royal Garden Plaza hosted the Pattaya Hair and Makeover Contest.
The July 31 – Aug. 1 show showed off fancy hairstyling tricks for men, women, brides and grooms alike. Present were professional stylists from around Thailand who entered the contest to battle for prizes.
Other activities included artificial eyebrow styling and facial makeup.
The event was mainly held to showcase products, equipment for hair stylists and other accessories at 50-80 percent off normal prices. The event attracted a lot of hair lovers and people from the beauty and fashion industries.


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The sort of people who believe the 9/11 was an ‘inside job’ have welcomed the Boston bombings as the perfect opportunity to talk about how they know ‘the truth’.
With victims still fighting for their lives, Tea Party nut jobs such as Alex Jones have taken to Twitter to explain why blowing up their own people is something the US government would definitely do.
Jones Tweeted, “If you want to know what really happened, listen to me, not the television, because my theories are first class fabrications that you simply can’t get anywhere else.”
“The reason for the bombings is because the government want to take away my guns – definitely. You wait, you’ll see. I’ve joined up all the dots with my crayons.”
“Follow me on Twitter, buy my books and listen to my radio station for more definitely true information that I just made up.”
Normal people still horrified by the incident spoke of Jones’ outburst, explaining why he shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Television viewer Simon Williams told us, “Look, this is a man who made Piers Morgan look like the good guy, so that should tell you everything you need to know about him.”
“And whilst we’re at it, why doesn’t media turn this into a heartwarming story about how this tragic incident brought out the best of the Boston community?”
“You know, with picture of normal people running into the smoke, marathon runners giving blood to help the injured, family homes opened to visitors stranded by the lockdown – that sort of thing?”
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Kick-starting the day with a coffee is a vital for many people, so Adrian knew his love of premium coffee would strike the right note with the locals at Bayside.
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Fuelling the locals’ love of great coffee is part of Adrian’s DNA. “I started up Ritual Espresso with two friends who are obsessed with coffee.”
Adrian is building on 15 years’ experience in cafés and is excited about the great local response since he opened in September 2021.
The locals are loving the coffee at Ritual Espresso as well as the fabulous customer service. Getting to know the locals is one of Adrian’s favourite things, and he enjoys the morning banter with locals.
There is a coffee for everyone on the menu at Ritual Espresso, from a Cold Brew on tap and an Iced Latte to the Godfather Piccolo and, it goes without saying, an espresso. If you’re feeling peckish Adrian and his team also make delicious sandwiches, including classic ham and cheese, and the famous egg & homemade bacon jam sandwich.
When Adrian takes a break he loves to drop in to Schnitz, where he enjoys the food and catching up with the fabulous Schnitz team.


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Question: Why is North Korea relatively poor and South Korea relatively rich?
If you ask people why some nations are rich and some are poor, you're likely to hear answers such as the type and amount of natural resources, the attributes of the population at large, and other factors. But the above question begs the question: North and South Korea are relatively homogeneous in terms of natural resource endowment and population, to a large degree...so what accounts for the difference?
In a word, institutions. Specifically, the institutions of private property rights and a stable legal regime.
Douglass North, one of the co-authors of the book we are reading, is a pioneer in the study of how institutions affect economic growth. Alas, even with the understanding we have today, some nations try and avoid the trade-off that exists between stable institutions and politically expedient solutions.
Case in point: Zimbabwe. Once considered the "jewel" of Africa, Zimbabwe is now experiencing economic stagnation, due largely to the abandoning of economic institutions that foster growth.
Question: Why would a nation voluntarily abandon institutions that foster economic growth? Is there a geographic pattern to this phenomenon? Discuss.


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The high-profile battle for control of the Jefferson Parish School Board reached a climax Saturday when candidates backed by the Jefferson Federation of Teachers regained a majority of the nine seats. Melinda Doucet and Ricky Johnson, union picks in the 2nd and 7th Districts, defeated business-backed opponents in the runoff elections, putting organized labor candidates in five seats on the board that takes office in January.
Their victories mean that the union achieved the voting bloc that business activists won in 2010. For 2015, Doucet and Johnson join Ray St. Pierre, Cedric Floyd and Marion Bonura. The business-backed slate is comprised of Larry Dale, Sandy Denapolis-Bosarge and Melinda Bourgeois. Mark Morgan, the union-endorsed board president, has emerged as the swing vote.
The races were closely watched and financed by the American Federation of Teachers, and its president, Randi Weingarten, cheered the outcome on Twitter: "Public schooling won tonite" (sic). The national union funneled almost $650,000 into the races in recent months, with $200,000 of that coming just before the election.
Business interests, by contrast, contributed $400,000 to their candidates over two years. The spending disparity caused business leaders to charge that the national union was out to influence local politics.
Money wars aside, the two newly elected union-backed candidates have outlined their stances, to an extent, on key issues. Johnson has indicated that he would push for another collective bargaining contract with the union, after the School Board scrapped that contract in 2012. Doucet said she wouldn't push for collective bargaining, though she said teachers should be better treated.
Johnson has decried the board's move to close seven schools. Doucet has criticized its accounting practices.
No matter the politics, the School Board has some important decisions to make next year. Superintendent James Meza Jr. is on the verge of retirement, which means the search for a new leader is forthcoming. And a recent spike in Central American immigrant students has forced officials to find long-term funding and resources, especially for new students struggling to learn English.
The Jefferson Business Council's executive director, Tony Ligi, who has supported business-backed incumbents, said as much Saturday. "The bottom line, in whatever should happen, is we need to continue to improve the Jefferson Parish school system," he said. "Kids are depending on that."
Doucet and Johnson are not alone in their criticism of Meza and the School Board's reforms. Some teachers have loudly opposed the rejection of collective bargaining.
Ligi said that if a union contract is reinstated, he hopes for a "happy medium," chiefly one in which principals still have freedom to fire ineffective teachers. Teachers now work under individual contracts that are up for renewal at the end of each school year.
The election strategies on both sides included canvassing, media advertising and direct mailings to households in almost every School Board district, touting either the current board's accomplishments or painting incumbents as poor stewards of public money. Union ads pointed to school system layoffs and furloughs that led to costly lawsuits, and to Meza's $248,000 salary, which critics described as excessive.
Ads for business-backed candidates touted the school system's improvement from a D grade to a B and declines in union membership, pointed out that it was the union that sued the board over furloughs and accused the union of limiting school leaders' autonomy.


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The Chinese fortune calendar is one amongst the many variations of the classic lunar calendar of China. Find out about the uses of this particular version.
The diverse nature of the cultural treasures discovered from the country of China never seizes to amaze the world. With a history of thousands of years the Chinese culture is full of many mysterious and awe inspiring elements. Amongst the many things that have attracted global attention is the various forms and uses of the Chinese calendar.
Although you will find that the modern republic of China makes use of the Gregorian calendar to run its daily affairs look closely on every calendar printed in the country and you will find it to be sporting some different dates in small print. These dates are according to the traditional lunar calendar that the Chinese had been using prior to the year 1912.
The origins of the Chinese lunar calendar go back thousands of years and it is regarded as being the oldest calendar to be in continues use. Over the years the Chinese lunar calendar took on various forms and has been used for various purposes.
The Chinese culture has always had some very strange elements in it. One of these things has been the eagerness of the locals to know what good fortune the future holds for them. Although in actual terms it is impossible to predict what the future holds for anyone the Chinese however have their own belief.
One of the many variations of the Chinese lunar calendar is the Chinese fortune calendar. The obvious aim of which is to enlighten the person as to what good fortune the future holds for them. This calendar was taken very seriously in the olden days but has lost its prominence in modern times due to obvious reasons.
Back in those days the masses were tied down by the cultural dogma of legends and fantasy tales that created an ambiance that allowed such beliefs to exist and prevail. Today anything of this sort is shot down by modern science and termed as primitive thinking.
Primitive it may be but it is still a prominent part of the Chinese culture and serves as a very important academic purpose. It gives the world an insight into the lives and mindset that the people of the region had possessed during changing times.
The fact that the Chinese culture is submerged in symbolism has come into light in recent years. This unique aspect of their culture has attracted many people to explore the various dimensions and the long and mysterious history of the country. The Chinese fortune calendar in this respect stands as a piece of historical evidence and insight into this unique culture.
Today you will be able to find the Chinese fortune calendar on the internet. The internet version actually lets you calculate your good fortune in a modified way of how the actual calendar used to work. Many people like to check it out just for fun but there are few who would actually believe unreservedly in it in today’s times.


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Saturday, April 21, 2012
Since yesterday was 4/20 which is National Marijuana Day, a (in my opinion) misguided and naive celebration of escape disguised as some sort of libertarian statement about choice, I thought I would use the occasion to suggest that 4/20 be renamed National Boredom Day. I am not going to get into a discussion of controlled use of pot, or alcohol or other drugs or whether pot is a gateway drug that can lead to addiction. But I am going to think about hard core addiction...
Addicts who relapse frequently sometimes seem superficially better than the last relapse but their motivation for trying to get clean again is often more for a break from the mess of their lives rather than to lose the habit. Rarely does a relapsing addict have a sober network and the answer is a common one: "same friends but they support me" which I take to mean "same old drinking and drugging crowd who I need a break from every once in a while and then when I feel like getting high again welcome me back with open arms". In contrast are those in recovery who have lost the old friends and connected with new sober friends. They may still have a reservation to use in the future but they have the tools to avoid picking up again.
So this got me thinking. How about: "Banish the Boredom - I love getting high so why am I trying to get clean and what in the world am I going to devote my life to instead?" Addicts like getting high, addiction and the life is their entire world, their primary relationship is with their drink or drug - they love Mr. or Mrs. Smirnoff (or whatever their drug is) more than anyone. (Addicts, like any parent, love their kids and they (just like non-addict parents say and sincerely believe) that they would take a bullet for their kids but the active addict parent, sadly, is the bullet. But the parent in recovery gives their child the incredible gift of real pride). So to just take the drugs and the life style away without some other sense of purpose or meaning is not likely to work. On the other hand, each day clean brings gratitude and a sense of accomplishment and a discovery that (and this may be a spiritual idea) being ordinary is extraordinary. (Not sure about any of that but it seems right).
I think, at least initially, recovery often begins by filling the newly created void with a commitment to sobriety, a new - selfish - full time job (maintaining sobriety) - the hub of the bicycle wheel, the center of a sober network. (I use the word selfish intentionally because it is one of the skills addicts bring to the table. Getting high is about as selfish an activity as there is. Also about as self destructive. So channelling that selfishness towards putting sobriety first even if that means not doing what family, friends, job, etc. want or expect (rebelliousness is another common trait so not doing what is expected can also come in handy if channelled) seems like a positive redirection of inherent abilities.
I am often struck by how bored addicts seem in between highs. Here they are fighting for their lives and yet they seem like they could care less, just get through the down time until they can get high again. I think that goes to a big issue - life is boring - especially to selfish, stimulation craving, self centered humans who are in physical and/or emotional pain (i.e., most people - which is, in part, why I think drugs and drinking are so prevalent). Maybe Nancy Reagan was not entirely wrong when she said "Just Say No" but that seems like a result not a solution. Maybe it's more about "Banish the Boredom".

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CJ to keep Joshee off bench
Kathmandu, January 2
Newly appointed Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana, minutes after assuming charge today, said he would not assign any case to senior-most Justice Deepak Raj Joshee.
Earlier, Rana had taken the oath of office and secrecy from President Bidhya Devi Bhandari.
Rana said he was compelled to deprive Justice Joshee of any opportunity to adjudicate cases, as he had pledged to the Parliamentary Hearing Committee that if confirmed as CJ, he would honour the PHC decisions.
The PHC had, on August 3, rejected Joshee for CJ following which some ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leaders had argued that he should quit. Joshee will retire from service in eight months after turning 65.
During Rana’s confirmation hearing, PHC member Yogesh Bhattarai, who represents the NCP in the panel, had said without mentioning Joshee’s name that the Supreme Court was not honouring PHC’s decision.
Rana said a judge should voluntarily quit his post if questions were raised against his/her capacity and impartiality.
“I have not assigned any case to Joshee today, nor will I do so in the future,” he said while speaking to mediapersons on his first day as CJ. He spoke in front of all the judges and employees of the court to give the message that there was no division in the court “family”. Justice Joshee was not present at the press meet.
Constitutional expert Bhimarjun Acharya said the chief justice was within his rights to assign or not to assign cases to fellow justices, but it was wrong if he did so under pressure from the Parliamentary Hearing Committee.
“I heard the CJ pledged before the PHC that he would not assign cases to Justice Joshee. This is wrong because such a pledge undermines the independence of the judiciary. This can have other repercussions for the judiciary in the days ahead,” Acharya added.
General Secretary of Nepal Bar Association Khamma Bahadur Khati said NBA would hold a discussion with Rana and Joshee before coming up with its views on Rana’s decision not to assign any case to Joshee. Khati said he believed that Rana did not have the authority to deprive Joshee of a bench.
He said Rana’s decision smacked of parliamentary intervention in the ‘independence of the judiciary.’ “Leader of the judiciary should resist all political pressure to protect the independence of the judiciary,” he added.
Justice Joshee could not be reached for comments.
When asked about his controversial decisions, Rana said, “Decisions are taken on the basis of prevailing laws, precedents and universally accepted principles. If my decisions were overturned by the higher courts or bench, then that was normal,” he said, adding that even in foreign countries decisions of lower courts are overturned by the higher courts.


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The goal of this project was to use timber veneer as a starting point in order to develop a system which is based on material-specific properties and thus enables a high degree of morphological adaptation responding to external conditions. The design process was characterized by the close observation of a series of continuous, specific physical experiments and research regarding the material reactions to various loadings of mechanical forces; the data was compiled in a structured collection. Conclusions concerning the system-determining parameters such as assembly logic, manufacturing technique and environmental performance were drawn from these observations and measurements and served as a guide line for the further development.
After an initial analysis of the structural and material-specific properties of wood in general (growth process, adaptivity, etc.) a serious of experiments with the use of timber veneer strips was conducted, which aimed at the understanding of the bending- and torsional structural behaviour as well as the response of the workpieces to physical factors such as heat and humidity and its effect on the mechanical properties. The team developed a “catalogue of properties” (Eigenschaftskatalog) which served as a basis for the design development. After a definition of the starting material a series of differentiated phenotypes was generated. This was achieved through the manipulation of form-defining parameters (e.g. strip-geometry, glue-regions, etc.) which affected the overall geometry, which differed largely in performative capabilities. “Assembly rules” defined the generative process, which incorporated anisotropic and hygroscopic properties of the material and therewith ensured the individual configurations were aligned with the inherent material logic. Secondary, the amount of material used was a fundamental criterion. Thirdly, computer-based fabrication and assembly methods were integrated and a prototypical installation was realized with minimal technical effort in terms of tools or craftsmanship.
This project achieved to prove the early stated hypothesis that through the integration of a material-specific assembly logic and minimal means of adaptive geometric variation of timber-veneer a material system can be developed which combines inherent structural capacities, simple fabrication methods without comprimizing a high degree of formal flexibility.
The prototype was shown as part of the BMW Exhibition “Freiräume Gestalten” in Munich and Berlin from September 2009 until February 2010.
Due to its anisotrophic microstructure, laterally bent timber strips can be assembled longitudinally to create a very rigid lightweight structure. The students also developed a strategy that allows for local bending in order to address complex shapes with a population of strips.
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Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts in favor of offal, fat shavings and cow hooves, the only animal protein many of their customers can afford.
- Anatoly Kurmanaev
- The New York Times
MARACAIBO, Venezuela — Zimbabwe’s collapse under Robert Mugabe. The fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba’s disastrous unraveling in the 1990s.
The crumbling of Venezuela’s economy has now outpaced them all.
Venezuela’s fall is the single largest economic collapse outside of war in at least 45 years, economists say.
“It’s really hard to think of a human tragedy of this scale outside civil war,” said Kenneth Rogoff, an…


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Google to open $34m data centre in Taiwan?
According to a report in The DigiTimes, the internet search giant Google is looking at investing US$34 million to open a data centre in central Taiwan.
Google has been rumoured to be scouting sites in Taiwan since 2008.
The US$34 million investment is tipped to be used to acquire a 15-hectare site in a government-developed industrial park to open a regional cloud computing data centre.
The industrial park is said to be located in a coastal area of central Taiwan.
According to the report, Google’s PR representatives in Taiwan declined to comment.


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Israeli wounded in blast dies after two decades in coma
June 2, 2023 03:06 PM
An Israeli woman wounded in a 2001 attack was buried on Thursday after spending more than two decades in a coma, according to footage broadcast on state television.
Hanna Nachenberg, who died on Wednesday, was 31 when a Palestinian suicide bomber targeted a pizzeria in central Jerusalem in August 2001, killing 15 people including eight children.
More than 120 people, including American-born Nachenberg, were wounded in the attack, one of the deadliest during the second Palestinian intifada or uprising.
Nachenberg's then three-year-old daughter was unharmed in the attack that was later claimed by the Islamic Jihad militant group.
Speaking to Israeli website Ynet, Nachenberg's father Yitzhak confirmed that she never regained consciousness and died after having being hospitalised for the past three weeks in Tel Aviv.
"Our daughter died after 22 years of heroism," he said.
Jordan in 2017 refused to extradite one of its nationals, Ahlam al-Tamimi, to the United States over her involvement in the attack, which killed two Americans.
Tamimi had been held in Israel for eight years before being released in a 2011 prisoners' swap with Gaza's militant Islamist rulers Hamas.


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Cook until beef is no longer pink.
2Add beans, corn, tomato sauce and seasoning mix.
Stir until blended.
Simmer over medium heat for 10 minutes
3Place half of beef mixture into a lightly greased 13x9" baking dish.
Top with 1 1/2 cups of crushed chips and 1 1/2 cup of cheese
Add remaining beef mixture, remaining crushed chips and reamining cheese.
Bake at 350 degrees for 25-30 minutes or until bubbly and golden.
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The premiere date is June 26, 2022.
A romantic, full of humor and uncompromising patriotism love story of sniper Stepan Balynskyi to an unforgettable Hungarian girl who does not immediately understand why she loves the Ukrainian word so much, but also the theme of the lost Ukrainian identity and the chance to find and return it, which today is more timely than ever .
- Director-producer - People's Artist of Ukraine Rostyslav Derzhypilskyi
- Stage conductor - Honored Artist of Ukraine Bohdan Tkachuk
- Choreographer-director - Dmytro Leka
- The artist-director - Yuliia Zaulychna
- Choirmaster - Nataliia Baidak
- Concertmaster - Vitalina Hutsuliak
- Assistant to director - Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Andrii Felyk

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A few months ago, the Xiaomi Mi 6X officially launched in China. A lot of people has asked if the smartphone will be released to other countries as well. According to rumors, the device might launch globally as the Xiaomi Mi A2. Recently, the company has released some teasers on their next global launch. Some speculations state that the Mi A2 might be unveiled during the event.
- Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Pro spotted online: To feature the Snapdragon 710
- Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro released earlier than expected date, Specs, Availability, Price
The teasers appeared through Xiaomi’s social media accounts like Facebook and Twitter. Unfortunately, the teaser didn’t reveal much. It urged its fans to guess the venue for the event as well as included a picture of a person looking towards space. Hopefully, the company will release more teasers soon.
The reason why it was speculated that the Mi A2 might launch in the event is due to its date of shipment which is on August 8.
As for its specs, the Xiaomi Mi A2 might feature a 5.99″ IPS LCD display with a resolution of 2160 x 1080 and might be powered by the Snapdragon 660. It is expected to contain 4/6GB of RAM and an internal storage of 32/64/128GB. The Mi A2 might sport a dual 20MP + 20MP rear camera and a 20MP front camera. In addition, the device might be fueled by a 3010mAh battery.
The Xiaomi Mi A2 might arrive in the colors – Black, Gold, and Blue. Rumors state that it might have a higher price than the Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Pro.


High yields begin with a uniform, healthy plant stand. “You can help this with protective seed treatments,” says seed-treatment expert Ray Knake, Ray Knake Consulting, who has more than 40 years in the business.
Earlier planting dates, reduced tillage and a compressed planting season have driven the seed-treatment sales boom, he says. “Maximum yield potential begins with a uniform, healthy, optimal stand. But wet, cold soils harm seeds and seedlings, especially during their first 72 hours, he says.
“If everything’s ideal, seed treatments don’t bring a lot to the table. But you see the difference in times of stress, with cold, wet conditions,” Knake says. “In 2013, we saw it in side-by-side field comparisons. There’s no rescue treatment available for below-ground pest control after planting with saturated soils and sudden soil-temperature drops.”
And while crop residues protect the soil, they can result in colder soils, Knake adds.
Higher input and seed costs almost mandate that you protect seeds and young seedlings, Knake says.
A corn grower doesn’t have many seed-treatment choices, Knake says. “Your seed company has decided what will be on its seed—it’s a blanket treatment. You might have a choice on a higher insecticide rate than the base treatment, and you could order a nematode control, but that’s about it.”
Soybean treatments have many more choices, for insecticides, fungicides and Rhizobia inoculants, Knake says.
He believes the whole package is best because it reduces risk. “Planting earlier, planting quickly, using crop residues—all favor seed treatment.”
Tristan Mueller agrees with him. He’s a program manager who helps coordinate on-farm evaluations for the Iowa Soybean Association’s On-Farm Network who previously worked with seed treatments. “Generally our on-farm trials haven’t shown large differences between seed treatments on corn or soybeans, but there’s a reason both are treated,” he says. Reduced corn stands do not compensate like soybeans—you’ll lose yield, he adds. “The trend is toward soybean treatment. I’d recommend treating most of your soybeans with a fungicide and an insecticide to reduce the risk of replanting. And I believe there’s a good chance of the treatment paying for itself in higher yields because of better stands and plant vigor.”
Ohio State University Plant Pathologist Anne Dorrance, and entomologists Ron Hammond and Andy Michel, have found success with seed treatments in soybeans during the all too common wet years. But if they could predict a dry year like 2012 they would say, “don’t treat your seed at all.”
In their research against water molds using metalaxyl and mefenoxam, they recommend the high rates to save stands and stop replanting, which deliver yield gains come harvest. They found this to be true in poorly drained fields, in no-till, in continuous soybeans and in a corn-soybean rotation.
When looking at the Strobilurins, the researchers find some helpful activity on some Pythium diseases, and good help with seedborne Phomopsis. fludioxinil (Maxim) has shown excellent activity on Fusarium, Rhizoctonia, Sclerotinia and Phomopsis. Sedexane, a new mode of action, has good activity on Rhizoctonia. Ipconazole has good activity on Fusarium and Rhizoctonia. Penflufen is also good on Rhizoctonia.
New treatments for SCN and rhizoctonia
A new nematicide with season-long activity against SCN will be added to last year’s new Vibrance fungicide against rhizoctonia as part of Syngenta’s new triple pest protection seed treatment in 2014, with the introduction of Clariva Complete Beans nematicide/insecticide/fungicide.
“Soybean growers in the Midwest have told us their No. 1 problem is controlling cyst nematode, and that’s what has been missing in seed treatments,” says Wouter Berkhout, soybean product lead at Syngenta Seedcare. Vibrance was introduced for soybeans in 2013 (coming for corn in 2015).
DuPont Pioneer will continue to offer growers the same Pioneer Premium Seed Treatment program for 2014 planting as it did in 2013 in both its corn and soybean seed products. That includes EverGol Energy fungicide, (introduced in 2013) with enhanced protection against a broad spectrum of early-season diseases including Rhizoctonia, Fusarium and Pythium.
For more information from several major seed companies, check out Syngenta, Pioneer and Monsanto. Also check out a new in-depth report just released by CropLife America called “The Role of Seed Treatment in Modern U.S. Crop Production” and “The Guide to Seed Treatment Stewardship.”
Pythium resistance challenges; new treatment
Pythium caused several thousand corn acres in southeast Iowa to be replanted the past several years. Despite using seed treated for Pythium, they had trouble maintaining a good stand in some fields.
Last year and again this year, corn plants would emerge, but then die, says Alison Robertson, Iowa State University plant pathologist, whose investigative team documented this. In samples brought back to the lab, the mesocotyl tissue was rotten, she says.
Corn growth slows considerably in cold, wet soils with temperatures below 55 degrees, and seedlings become susceptible to Pythium, Robertson says.
“We saw corn at the V2 to V3 stage, that had been sitting in the ground 4 to 5 weeks. All corn seed treatments contain either metalaxyl or mefenoxam, both very effective against Pythium. We don’t know if the seed treatments didn’t last long enough or if the fungicide just wasn’t effective,” she explains.
“Resistance to this fungicide is real, so that’s always a concern. Last year, it appeared the species P. torulosum was a primary problem—80% of the isolates recovered from diseased corn seedlings belonged to this species. But this year we found a wider range of species of Pythium.”
Robertson says she heard of similar Pythium problems last year in Illinois and Indiana, and this year in Nebraska and Minnesota. Ohio researchers reported resistance several years ago. “It seems to be becoming more of an issue,” she says.
Knake says Pythium is in every field, and without a systemic fungicide seed treatment against it, growers would need to delay planting both corn and soybeans, or risk the need to replant too many acres each year.
We still use the original Pythium product introduced in the 1980s, Knake notes. “There’s no confirmed evidence of resistance, but it could develop. For Pythium, there’s only one mode of action. The industry is working on one more, but there’s really nothing a grower can do.”
Robertson and Knake agree that a “next-generation” seed treatment needs to be developed, tested, and made available. Robertson points to ethaboxam, a new fungicide that belongs to a different chemical group than metalaxyl, the primary ingredient that’s been used for years against Pythium and other pathogens.
“It’s a new fungicide that will be combined with metalaxyl and marketed as the AP3 fungicide system. In our 2012 greenhouse evaluations, ethaboxam and metalaxyl in combination reduced root and mesocotyl rot and improved emergence,” Robertson says.
Seeding rate by seed treatment
CruiserMaxx at 140,000 seeds per acre had a 71% chance of increasing profit over the base case, and on average for all environments, increased profit by $10 per acre. ApronMaxx and the untreated check obtained breakeven probabilities greater than 50% at rates of 100,000 and 120,000 seeds per acre. However, the average profit increases for all outcomes was minimal (less than $3 per acre). CruiserMaxx produced breakeven probabilities greater than 50% for all seeding rates except at 40,000 seeds per acre, and the average profit increase for all outcomes was more than $17 per acre at a rate between 80,000 and 120,000 seeds per acre. Furthermore, the lowest risk (89%) and largest average profit increase for all outcomes ($20 per acre) with CruiserMaxx was at its economically optimal seeding rate (94,000 seeds per acre).
Source: Both charts taken from research report: “Economic Risk and Profitability of Soybean Seed Treatments at Reduced Seeding Rates,” researched and compiled by Adam P Gaspar, Shawn P Conley and John Gaska, Department of Agronomy and Paul Mitchell, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://bit.ly/1jVpiIR


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In continuation of our highly irregular but highly inspiring series spotlighting musicians reinventing traditional music, we spoke to Scottish bagpipe player Brìghde Chaimbeul on the day her newest album, Carry Them With Us was released.
We’ve had our eye on Brìghde for quite a while now. Her fresh take on the small pipes, drones, ornamentation, melody and mood are equally breathtaking, tear-jerking and empowering. Depending on the tune, Brìghde’s music will have make you want to have a good cry, celebrate with friends in the pub or go climb a mountain. But it’s really hard to pinpoint what exactly it is about her playing and music that makes it so unique. Because it is bagpipes and it sounds like bagpipes. But at the same time, it sounds nothing like the bagpipes. The amount of space she creates in her compositions, even when she’s on a hot reel, her music sounds 1000 meters wide but it’s just her and her wind powered instrument. Juxtapose it with the revival of minimal church organ drone music, an instrument whose power is extremely overwhelming, Brìghde and her humble pipes, are like your shadow in the summer sun, making you seem ten-times taller.
Her first album, The Reeling (2019) is quite “traditional” in its form and arrangements. They’re just incredible played and produced. Her collaborative album Las (2022) with fellow small piper, Ross Ainslie and guitar player Steven Byrnes is also fairly straightforward but the harmonies between her and Ainslie are majestic in their subtlety. It’s undeniable that the three of them had a great time playing those tunes together. On her most recent album, Brìghde is even more stripped down, letting the tones and drones of her pipes do most of the talking while she fingers beautiful, simple melodies. She’s joined on the majority of the album by acclaimed saxophonist and composer Colin Stetson, another who pioneered a new style for a well-worn instrument. The album is a remarkable reinvention of a centuries old tradition and its only a matter of time before her work is listed among modern ambient traditionalists like Kali Malone, Ellen Arkbro and Sarah Davachi.
Read our conversation below:
So the first question. Why did you start playing the pipes and what’s been your trajectory from then until let’s say up until The Reeling came out?
I first started when I was pretty young, maybe about seven or eight. Where I grew up in Skye, in a place called Sleat, there were quite a few pipers around and traditional music was quite celebrated in the area and the primary school I was at, there was a lot of music coming through. But the first time I kind of have a memory of wanting to learn the pipes is hearing Rona Lightfoot play when I was very young and she ended up being on The Reeling actually which was pretty amazing. But yeah, I think that was my first memory of being inspired by the pipes. But also, apparently, when my mom was pregnant with me, she’s a sculptor and she was working on a piece that was inspired by a piece of pipe music and she used to always have a piper playing while she worked. I don’t know if that’s any reason for why I decided to play the pipes
Like a personal human being standing there playing while she worked?
Yeah a couple of times. Not the whole time she worked. And then she went on to do some more work with the piper while she was still pregnant. Then there was a great teacher in my school called Niall Stewart who I started learning with and then this progressed on to the big Highland pipes and I did a lot of the competitions as well when I was a child. It’s quite a big thing in Scotland so there’s a whole competition circuit and I did that. Then when I was about 14 or 15 I met Hamish and Fin Moore who are pipe makers and Hamish Moore was kind of the first person to revive small pipes into like the folk music world in the 70s and 80s. He kind of remade the instrument again from old museum drawings and audio samples of the instrument because they had largely gone extinct until this time as an instrument to be played and performed. So when I met them they said you need to try the small pipes and they gave me a set and when I started playing them I just totally fell in love. I loved how I was able to play with other people and be a wee bit more I suppose experimental with it because I was starting kind of by myself. I wasn’t guided by a teacher or competitions. There wasn’t a set way or expected thing to do with this instrument so I enjoyed that and yeah that just became my instrument I suppose.
So maybe you’re getting this question a lot and maybe it’s hard to answer but do you see yourself or recognize yourself as being an ambassador for this new generation of Celtic, Gaelic and traditional music whether from Scotland or from Ireland. Do you see yourself within that scene and do you feel something about bringing people into the tradition that otherwise wouldn’t be interested in it?
Yeah I suppose to an extent. Like, the starting point of it coming from tradition and using the Gaelic songs and stories and stuff as material is very natural to me. I feel very connected to it and as part of who I am. So in that sense it’s kind of my natural starting point. It’s not like I’m going out of my way to be presenting something traditional. But on the other hand because it is my heritage and everything I do feel connected to it and I do feel quite strongly about it being preserved and appreciated. I think it’s very rich and diverse and precious. But that’s the thing, it feels natural. I don’t feel like I’m forcing anything. But of course, I would like to promote the language and that whole side of it. The people that told the stories and sang the songs and the fact that it has survived this long. And a lot of that is thanks to the people who recorded all these people back in the 50s in Scotland. That’s such a valuable resource. But there’s a stereotype when it comes to Scots and the folk side or traditional side of Scotland. And I suppose I want to show it’s not all tartan and shortbread and kilts and all that.
Yeah it’s definitely been an uphill battle for me as well to try and convince people. I really like the music that you’re making. I think it’s really important in terms of both reviving and holding onto and representing traditional music. But still when I approach people that I work with here from the experimental or more avant-garde side of music. Everyone still kind of cocks their head, “It’s like bagpipe music?” I’m like you just have to listen to it. It’s not what you it’s not what you think it is.
Yeah there’s such a predetermined thought when people hear even just the word bagpipes. But I suppose because it’s the small pipes it’s already such a different sound. But yeah you are sort of battling against all these stereotypes that are very strong in people’s minds.
So you mentioned that you started playing the small pipes and that because you weren’t in any formal kind of education or training with that instrument it allowed you to be more experimental or maybe more expressive. So what was the initial inspiration for The Reeling? What made you decide, “I’m going to make an album and it’s going to sound like…” You maybe didn’t intend for it to sound different but it wound up being something more than just a bagpipe record you know? Did you have a vision or a plan for that album?
I think that there’s two things with The Reeling. Firstly, who I was working with. I think when I first started playing with Aidan just the way that we played together it was already just moving away from it sounding like maybe another folk Scottish record at the time. Because a lot of that, the backing is more rhythm or guitar and I think the fact that the backing with me and Aidan O’Rourke is just fiddle, it’s very much concentrated around the drones and the tonal quality that the pipes naturally produce. And I was really drawn to that because I was already just… I mean as a piper I already like that sound where it’s just kind of going round and round naturally. But I was getting tired of the typical backing on tunes as well. So I think that’s one thing. Then obviously with Radie Peat (Lankum) and Rona Lightfoot as well. Having Rona on it meant it was very much led by the voice too. So it kind of had that element to it. And then yeah the second side of it was just I suppose wanting to present… I don’t know. I’m trying to…
Yeah I know that it’s kind of a shitty question as well. It’s hard to…
I don’t think it was really mapped out or thought through. Again, it was a very natural process but I think The Reeling is unique to the people I worked with to create the sound. But I think the main thing with it is that it was the natural way of the pipes at the forefront of the arrangement rather than trying to fill out the melodies with other rhythms or other sounds.
One thing I want to reflect on what you just said is that, you know I interviewed Ian Lynch (Lankum) a few years ago and Matt Carmichael over the summer and I think there’s a universal thing for new artists working in traditional music from Ireland and Scotland having a love of the drone. Do you want to wax poetically for a minute about the loving the drone?
I think it’s interesting because recently the drones are becoming more loved but I feel like even in the revival or up until recently the drones would have been turned off and it was more about backing with rhythm and having a groovy guitar or just the melody not really being based around the drones. But for me, it’s just as a piper, the drones are right next to your ear. The drone is closer than the chanter. So that’s what I’ve been hearing since I started playing the pipe. With so many pipe tunes it doesn’t sound the same without the drones. So yeah I think it’s crucial.
You had such a structured traditional upbringing with the competitions. Can you kind of guess where tradition ends and your own voice begins in terms of the decisions you make for arrangements or phrasings and stuff? Do you ever make conscientious decisions to play scales in a certain way or play melodies in a certain way? You were talking about how you kind of got tired of traditional backings. Did you ever get tired of melodies that kind of kept popping up?
It’s funny because in my head I think I am going back to be even more traditional. So losing that guitar backing or that rhythm behind you to just go to the pure melody; I think that’s really traditional. But I suppose it’s what you do around that that makes it sound new. I do think that if I hadn’t gone through the competitions, it’s such rigorous technical training, I feel like you need that foundation to be able to develop and then go further because I can decide what I want to do based on the technical foundation that I already have. I’m definitely thankful in hindsight for doing that. In terms of the boundaries. I think a lot of it is in the moment and in collaboration. And I definitely have a sound that I want in my head. I don’t think it’s any conscious thought though, like the tradition is there and this new thing is going in any particular direction.
I had read an interview with you and a Portuguese piper and you talked a lot about tuning and how important tuning is. You said it came a lot from the competition training.
Yeah definitely. It’s such a big part of it and it really changes your ear a lot. But that’s why it was interesting working with that piper because they really wanted to explore it not being in tune. I was probably more of a perfectionist when I recorded The Reeling. But I’m starting to accept and and not be in that sort of headspace, like the dregs of the competitions. I’m starting to not be stuck in that so much now. But there’s just something magical about the pipes when it’s like perfectly in tune and when you can hear it come into tune. So that’s what I kind of did in the first track off of Carry Them With Us. Just kind of getting that effect of it being out of tune and then coming in tune because I just think it’s such a magical moment when you hear it all like a straight line coming through.
And somehow it feels like the sound waves just push harder when it is all in tune.
Exactly. It definitely brings that special sort of trance-like atmosphere. It’s much more effective when the sound waves are aligned I think.
I know that you have an affinity for different styles of piping especially because it exists all over the world. So what have you gained from looking into piping from other countries?
Probably more a technical thing and quite specific ornamentation. It’s probably the main thing because everyone styles ornaments differently and like ornamentation in Scottish piping is quite a rigorous thing again. Like while you’re learning there’s a set way to ornament tunes and you know looking at other styles kind of makes you think outside the box and about how important ornamentation is as well as the phrasing, the articulation and the way the tune is presented in the end. It’s quite a technical thing but I think that would be the main thing.
All right let’s get onto some of the newer things in your life. Obviously, you know you have a new album that came out and you just had the Caroline Polachek guest spot. Can we start there? How did that come about and did you ever expect anything like that?
No, I didn’t really. She just messaged me on Instagram that she had come across The Reeling I think in a Spotify playlist and she really liked it and yeah it was really fun. I mean it’s totally different and it’s great to be doing something that’s totally different.
I also saw that Iggy Pop played one of your songs on BBC. That’s kind of cool right?
Yeah that was cool.
Do you have anything else coming up like working with more artists from outside the traditional music world?
Just continuing the collaborations that I’ve had recently.
Yeah so let’s continue on then with collaboration. How did you meet Colin Stetson? Did he approach you or did you approach him? How did that come about?
I think he initially asked me to record a piece for a documentary he was working on.
Are you the one on the Among the Stars?
Seriously? I heard that score and the first track I was like, is this Colin Stetson recreating bagpipes on a saxophone or on a synthesizer? But no, that’s you.
Yep, it is, yeah. So that was our first connection but that obviously was all remote and that was in the pandemic as well. But then after that I was in the process of planning my album and I just thought that he would be perfect for the sound that I wanted. I asked him if he would be up for recording on it and he was and we just yeah organized from there. Prior to being in the studio we hadn’t played any of the material and I hadn’t even sent him anything so it was very fresh going into the studio. But I think it brought a certain energy.
Well you’re both very adept and skilled musicians I can imagine that there’s no struggling.
It was an amazing experience working with him.
Do you know Danny Macaskill? The cyclist from Skye.
There’s a great video of him cycling on the Cuillin Ridge on Skye. And then obviously your first music video from the new album also is from that mountain range. And I’m curious, do you still live on Skye and what role does Skye play in your music?
I don’t live on the Isle of Skye anymore but my mum and dad live just over the bridge, pretty close. Yeah so I go there pretty often enough. I suppose with a lot of the material being traditional it’s always very connected to a place. That’s probably the main thing. I mean Skye probably in particular because that’s where I grew up and I know it. The Outer Hebrides, that’s where my dad is from, I have family there so I would go there a lot as well and there’s a lot of songs and tunes that come from there. But I think it’s just that sense of place, a lot of the songs have a direct quote or a direct reference to a specific or particular place and I do think that it’s quite important. It’s not just like a tune, it’s not just a melody, it’s it’s about where it comes from, who it’s about, where it’s about and that’s what I love. I wanted to have that sense of place a little bit in those videos as well because it’s all connected.
What are you hoping for or planning for next?
I have a couple of projects in mind. I don’t want to give too much away. But it’s developing more of a live thing with collaborating cross-dimensionally. But yeah it will be a process but that’s kind of where I’m at just now.
Well I hope someone will finally program you to come play in the Netherlands so I can come see it in person.
Yeah I would love to.
Grab Brìghde’s new album Carry Them With Us here.
Photo by Camille Lemoine