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^ Housman & Dorman 2005, pp. 303–04. "The linear model supported previous findings, including regular exercise, limited alcohol consumption, abstinence from smoking, sleeping 7–8 hours a night, and maintenance of a healthy weight play an important role in promoting longevity and delaying illness and death." Citing Wingard DL, Berkman LF, Brand RJ (1982). "A multivariate analysis of health-related practices: a nine-year mortality follow-up of the Alameda County Study". Am J Epidemiol. 116 (5): 765–75. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113466. PMID 7148802.
Personal health also depends partially on the social structure of a person's life. The maintenance of strong social relationships, volunteering, and other social activities have been linked to positive mental health and also increased longevity. One American study among seniors over age 70, found that frequent volunteering was associated with reduced risk of dying compared with older persons who did not volunteer, regardless of physical health status. Another study from Singapore reported that volunteering retirees had significantly better cognitive performance scores, fewer depressive symptoms, and better mental well-being and life satisfaction than non-volunteering retirees.
Intensive weight training causes micro-tears to the muscles being trained; this is generally known as microtrauma. These micro-tears in the muscle contribute to the soreness felt after exercise, called delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). It is the repair of these micro-traumas that results in muscle growth. Normally, this soreness becomes most apparent a day or two after a workout. However, as muscles become adapted to the exercises, soreness tends to decrease.
The least intrusive weight loss methods, and those most often recommended, are adjustments to eating patterns and increased physical activity, generally in the form of exercise. The World Health Organization recommended that people combine a reduction of processed foods high in saturated fats, sugar and salt and caloric content of the diet with an increase in physical activity.
Unintentional weight loss may result from loss of body fats, loss of body fluids, muscle atrophy, or even a combination of these. It is generally regarded as a medical problem when at least 10% of a person's body weight has been lost in six months or 5% in the last month. Another criterion used for assessing weight that is too low is the body mass index (BMI). However, even lesser amounts of weight loss can be a cause for serious concern in a frail elderly person. https://www.facebook.com/Buzzing-Offer-Digital-Marketing-1107247206148320/
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Some Bodybuilders often split their food intake into 5 to 7 meals of equal nutritional content and eat at regular intervals (e.g. every 2 to 3 hours). This approach serves two purposes: to limit overindulging in the cutting phase, and to allow for the consumption of large volumes of food during the bulking phase. Eating more frequently does not increase basal metabolic rate when compared to 3 meals a day. While food does have a metabolic cost to digest, absorb, and store, called the thermic effect of food, it depends on the quantity and type of food, not how the food is spread across the meals of the day. Well-controlled studies using whole-body calorimetry and doubly labeled water have demonstrated that there is no metabolic advantage to eating more frequently.
In the modern bodybuilding industry, the term "professional" generally means a bodybuilder who has won qualifying competitions as an amateur and has earned a "pro card" from their respective organization. Professionals earn the right to compete in competitions that include monetary prizes. A pro card also prohibits the athlete from competing in federations other than the one from which they have received the pro card. Depending on the level of success, these bodybuilders may receive monetary compensation from sponsors, much like athletes in other sports.
The meaning of health has evolved over time. In keeping with the biomedical perspective, early definitions of health focused on the theme of the body's ability to function; health was seen as a state of normal function that could be disrupted from time to time by disease. An example of such a definition of health is: "a state characterized by anatomic, physiologic, and psychological integrity; ability to perform personally valued family, work, and community roles; ability to deal with physical, biological, psychological, and social stress". Then in 1948, in a radical departure from previous definitions, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed a definition that aimed higher: linking health to well-being, in terms of "physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity". Although this definition was welcomed by some as being innovative, it was also criticized as being vague, excessively broad and was not construed as measurable. For a long time, it was set aside as an impractical ideal and most discussions of health returned to the practicality of the biomedical model.


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On November 25th FACS will be holding its first Christmas Open House at our new location. This is a free event that will be held from 10 am until 4 pm. There will be free refreshments. If you would like to try your hand at creating a Christmas Tag, there will be a free Make-N-Take stand for you to create your own tag. For any purchases you make, there will be a free gift wrapping area. The entire store will be decorated with various Christmas Decorations and a tree full of hand-crafted ornaments. And to top off the event, there will be a storewide sale of at least 10% discount on regular priced items. Come join the fun and pick up some Christmas gifts or some ideas for your own Christmas decorations.
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Stoyan Todorov October 28, 2022 3 min read
NCPG Awards $120K in Grants to Entities Fighting Problem Gambling
The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) has announced that it will be funding three organisations that have a distinct track record in supporting problem gambling prevention efforts. The NCPG announced funding to the tune of $120,000 which will be distributed as part of the organization’s Agility Grant initiative and is the latest effort by the organization to protect consumers.
NCPG Shortlists More Recipients of Responsible Gambling Grant Money
The three organizations covered by the grand are the Freedom House of Mecklenburg, Inc, Ohio in Arabic, and Volunteers of America Oregon, and they will now use the funds to advance a number of initiatives and projects that have to do with specifically understanding responsible gambling and tackling the issue head-on. The NCPG is determined to ensure that it can help reduce the social, economic and personal impact of problem gambling.
The NCPG also considered several factors in issuing its funding, including whether these three organizations will have a measurable impact on the prevention and amplification of awareness. NCPG executive director Keith Whyte spoke further on this opportunity:
Problem gambling among youth has become a significant and growing public health issue. Research has shown that prevention strategies produce the greatest impact.NCPG executive director Keith Whyte
Whyte spoke highly of the recipients of the Agility Grants and praised them for the work they have put into addressing the underlying issue that is problem gambling. All three recipients had a part to play in better understanding the source of the issue and bringing around positive social change that will impact their communities.
NFL Fully Committed to the Good Cause
The NCPG confirmed that the NFL has been a principal sponsor for the program, which has made it possible to continue supporting organizations dedicated to raising public awareness of the issue and educating fans on how to engage with sports betting products responsibly.
The NFL is a multi-million and multi-year sponsor of this initiative. NFL SVP of social responsibility Anna Isaacson also welcomed this opportunity and confirmed that the National Football League was glad to be able to support the efforts that focus on curbing problem gambling.
“These Agility Grants will provide critical funds to three very worthy organizations who share our desire to curb problem gambling through proactive outreach and education,” Isaacson said.
The NCPG has worked actively with a number of companies to drive different results. PointsBet recently teamed with the Massachusetts Council on Gaming and Health (MACGH) and the NCPG and published the results of joint research.

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05 Apr Termites what are they?
Termites are an suborder of social insects, the Isoptera. They are sometimes called “white ants”, incorrectly, because ants belong to the Order Hymenoptera.
They are eusocial animals, as are ants and some bees and wasps. Termite mostly feed on detritus, mostly wood, leaf litter, soil, or animal dung. There are an estimated 4,000 species (about 2,600 taxonomically known). About 10% are pests which can cause serious structural damage to buildings, crops or plantation forests.
Termites are major detrivores in the subtropical and tropical regions. Their recycling of wood and other plant matter is very important for ecology.
A termite colony starts when winged termites (called alates) swarm and mate. After mating, they fall to the ground and rip off their wings. The female looks for a good place to start the colony, and the male follows her. Most termites nest underground their entire lives, but termites in Africa and Australia actually build really big mound structures that look like little mountains and can be more than 20 feet tall (see photo below).
Termites live in colonies that, at maturity, hold from several hundred to several million individuals. They are a prime example self-organised systems which use swarm intelligence. They use this cooperation to exploit food sources and environments which would not be available to any single insect acting alone. A typical colony contains nymphs (semi-mature young), workers, soldiers, and reproductive individuals of both genders, sometimes containing several egg-laying queens.
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CLAIRE'S MEDITERRANEAN CORN BREAD
A Cook's Guide to Grains by Jenni Muir
White wine is the brow-raising ingredient in this unusually flavoured corn bread from my friend Claire Clifton, who began making it regularly after reading an article by British food writer Simone Sekers. For those with a taste for things salty and piquant, people who feel their 'downfall' is olives or cheese, this is a treat along the lines of a savoury Mediterranean cake. It makes a great teatime snack or soup and salad accompaniment, and could be served as part of a bread basket for an Italian meal. The leftovers are super when toasted.
• 250g / 1 2/3 cups fine cornmeal
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 4 eggs, beaten
• 200ml / 7/8 cup olive oil, plus extra for greasing
• 200ml / 7/8 cup white wine
• 150g / 1 cup pitted sliced olives
• 50g / 1/2 cup pine kernels
• 3 tbsp chopped roasted bell peppers or sun-dried tomatoes
Heat the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6 and lightly oil a 23cm/9in spring-clip cake tin. In a large mixing bowl, combine the cornmeal and baking powder and make a well in the centre.
Using a whisk, beat in the eggs. Combine the oil and wine in a jug, then whisk the mixture into the batter. Fold in the olives, pine kernels and roasted bell peppers or sun-dried tomatoes until well distributed.
Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 1 1/4 hours or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean. Serve warm.
• The assumption is that you are drawing on a larder containing jars of the preserved antipasto items that are so popular today and easy to buy ready-made. You could, if necessary, roast your own peppers. If you are using sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil, remember to pat them dry. If they are not packed in oil, reconstitute them in hot water, rinsing well to remove any excess salt.
• You can mix in pretty much whatever flavourings you like - chillies, capers, chopped ham, cheese, anchovies, walnuts - but keep the total weight of added ingredients to 250g/9oz and restrict any pungent items such as capers or anchovies to very small proportions. Three would sensibly be the maximum number of flavourings to add, and 2 (rather than being a compromise) is very good.
• I have only made this with cornmeal but Claire has used a mixture of cornmeal and wheat flour, and has also produced a wholewheat version that she reports was satisfyingly light. Given the Mediterranean flavourings featured, yellow cornmeal would perhaps be the colour of choice, but it doesn't really matter.

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The app covers the proper golf course green color to use, acceptable seed varieties, turf management guidelines and more. The golf course seed and sod app can be customized for different golf courses. Use the app when evaluating grasses, choosing a turf color and developing a lawn mowing schedule.

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A delegation of the Syrian regime and the opposition members tolerated by Damascus will meet from Sunday for a week in Moscow, said Thursday to AFP the Russian Foreign Ministry. “Contacts are continuing for the settlement of the Syrian issue. A Syrian delegation will be in Moscow from August 23 to 30,” he told AFP Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The delegation of the Syrian regime will be conducted by the Minister of Reconciliation Ali Haidar, the ministry said without specifying what the opposition representatives.
The emissaries to Damascus and the opposition meet on Monday Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
The rest of their program was not disclosed. This visit comes as the Syrian dossier knows a renewed diplomatic activity.
The United Nations Security Council has supported earlier this week a new plan for peace in Syria.
This is the first political plan for the Syrian conflict on which all members of the Council were able to agree.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister has increased the discussions with his counterparts, including Iran and Saudi Arabia. He also recently met in Moscow the leader of the coalition of the Syrian opposition in exile, Khaled Khoja.
Late 2014 and early this year, Moscow had hosted two rounds of talks between the regime and the opposition tolerated but unrepresentative, that have not resulted in concrete solutions especially as the opposition in exile, supported by the West, was not involved.
The fate of President Bashar al-Assad remains at the center of disagreements between Russia on one side and Westerners, Arab and Syrian opponents of the other. Lavrov reiterated Monday that mark start Bashar Assad as a precondition for a settlement of the conflict is “unacceptable for Russia”.
Moscow also advocates a broad coalition including, in particular, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, but also the Syrian army to fight against the Islamic state group (ISIS) in Syria.


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Have you ever been to Japan or even Kyoto before? Kyoto is in Japan - but where exactly? Rather in the centre or in the west? Kyoto is a great place to visit when travelling to Japan. It is out of question that we added this Japan top spot in our geography quiz.
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10 Filipinos Shine in U.K. Tour of Miss Saigon
They make up 1/4 of the cast!
(SPOT.ph) Mention Miss Saigon to a Filipino and the name Lea Salonga would immediately come to mind. The theater actress, after all, played the lead role of Kim in the West End (1989) and Broadway (1991) productions, and eventually became the first Asian to win the sought-after Tony Award. Other Filipina names that portrayed Kim in the various international tours of this award-winning musical were Monique Wilson (West End, 1990), Joana
A photo posted by Winchester Lopez (who plays a swing role) on July 14 shows the 10 Filipinos who make up almost one-fourth of the 38-member cast of Miss Saigon. They are (from left to right): Lopez (Swing), Kristine Diaz (Ensemble), Christian Rey Marbella (Ensemble/Alternate Engineer),
Red Concepcion (The Engineer) and
Concepcion was awarded Best Actor at the 27th Aliw Awards in 2014 for his performance in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Bautista enrolled in the Trumpets Playshop and various theater workshops in Pampanga while growing up. Marbella, who hails from Cebu City, has performed in five different productions of Miss Saigon, which started in Manila. Santos rose to fame after winning the singing reality show Pinoy Pop Superstar in 2006 and was dubbed as "The Prince of Ballad."
Aynrand Ferrer and Ela Lisondra (Ensemble)
La Union-born Lopez graduated from the Philippine High School for the Arts and joined the UP Filipiniana Dance Group and Douglas Nierras' Powerdance. Diaz sang in a group called De La Salle Innersoul while studying in Manila. Ferrer graduated in musical theater from the University of Santo Tomas.
The U.K. run premiered on July 1 at Curve Theater in Leicester, England. It is scheduled to make pit stops in Birmingham, Dublin, Cardiff, Southhampton, Manchester, Bristol, Plymouth, and Norwich

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All the attention around the next MBC Wed-Thurs drama Lucky Romance have been on the two main leads Hwang Jung Eum and Ryu Jun Yeol. That’s par for the course, and especially so when the leads in question are coming off buzzy or successful prior dramas. In Hwang Jung Eum’s case it was last fall’s surprise hit She Was Pretty while Ryu Jun Yeol went from unknown to leading man status after Answer Me 1988. Now they’re paired up for LR and I’m as curious as their fans to see if they have chemistry with each other, and whether lightning will continue to hit for them in picking yet another winning drama and/or role.
With that said, the LR second leads are interesting commodities in their own right and now it’s time to check out Lee Soo Hyuk and Lee Chung Ah in first stills from the drama. The whiplash is greatest for Lee Soo Hyuk since I last saw him biting anything in sight and being the most entertaining vampire baddie ever in a K-drama. Here he looks quirky and boyish as Hwang Jung Eum’s first love, and likely the comedy guy element to Ryu Jun Yeol’s straight man. Lee Chung Ah always seems a tad low energy to me so he’s hoping her character is edgy and is integral to the story.
He looks kind of weird with this haircut, but I like the first pic. The giant doing its best to not look imposing and hear the tiny writer. LOL
I think it’s Lee Soo Hyuk not Lee Soo Hyun
Lee soo hyuk vs ryu jun yeol? Lee soo hyuk lah, I don’t know why everytime I saw him. He like the vampire from the other star lol… And ryu jun yeol please don’t break you heart anymore… Lol. Both of them master of breaking they heart. But yeah they have so much potential to become big actor. I hope they get more and more good movie.
Lee Soo Hyuk kindda reminds me of an owl..The face structure..Is it just me?
“Low energy” would be the last thing I’d use to describe Lee Chung Ah especially after Flower Boy Ramyun Shop… or was she not that good at first?
OK now I’m really thinking LSH did something to his face. I’m just really hoping it is just weight gain because he just looks off and it’s not the haircut *sigh* Anyway, looking forward to this! I’m also happy he’s getting more and more exposure.
He looks like an elf hhhhhhh

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Kamala Harris, the Vice President of the United States, has become the first woman in the whole of US history to be given certain residential powers, though briefly. This happened as Joe Biden, the President of the States, has undergone a regular health check.
Biden recently underwent a routine colonoscopy, thus, during that time of 85 minutes, Ms Harris, was in charge. Now, the doctors have said that Mr Biden is perfectly fine and ready to execute his work and duties. Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, said that this is a completely normal protocol according to the US Constitution, and not a unprecedented transfer of powers.

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Road Town, British Virgin Islands – Spume is a community-managed, owner-managed NFT marketplace. The latest expansion facilitates the non-fungible tokenization of physical and digital assets.
The Spume platform will provide a vertically integrated experience for music, art, assets, real estate, and ticketing. The test net will feature the ability to buy, sell, create, and accept offers on NFTs in both WETH and USDT. This platform will empower users to create profiles with different and new handles, socials, and more to market their projects possibly more effectively.
Moreover, everyone who holds SPUME is eligible to receive a share of the sales fee the Spume Marketplace charges. This sales fee is flexible and can be changed by the DAO but will start at a fixed 2.5% fee. The 2.5% sales fee is distributed evenly to all SPUME holders based on the percentage of SPUME tokens staked.
The Spume Protocol is an end-to-end transactional layer that facilitates payment infrastructure for physical and digital non-fungible token assets on the Ethereum blockchain. The Spume Protocol will enable anyone to build branded and personalized NFT marketplaces complete with on-chain payment processors while being able to tokenize both physical and digital assets. These can include but are not limited to the following areas:
- Digital/physical art and real estate,
- Intellectual property and its licensing, patents, and luxury goods.
The newly launched facility opens the Spume Protocol to all industries and allows users to conduct tokenized asset finance efficiently. Spume sees a future where branding is scalable via distribution channel partners, thus allowing brands/influencers/gaming ecosystems and other industries to implement end-to-end customized & branded non-fungible asset commerce.
In addition, the Spume Marketplace has four sub-platforms: The NFT Artwork Platform, the Real Estate Platform, the Licensing Platform, and the Ticketing Platform.
- The NFT Artwork Platform
- Mint and trade NFT artwork just like Open Sea and Look Rare
- The Real Estate Platform
- Tokenize real estate
- Buy and sell tokenized real estate
- The Licensing Platform:
- Tokenize digital property like music, software, and images
- Create purchasable licenses that require various royalties or fees
- Purchase licenses to use digital property
- The Ticketing Platform:
- Partnered with novel to bring fully customizable white label solutions for event ticketing
- Eliminates fraud, scalping, and pricing increases for event organizers and artists
The Licensing Platform and the NFT Artwork Platform will eventually merge as the Licensing Platform is an extension of the NFT Artwork Platform. There is more on this in our technical paper.
Furthermore, Spume has also teamed up with industry powerhouses to create a new report and platform to connect consumers with creative solutions to digitalizing assets in hopes of making a truly decentralized exchange platform. Spume will be the community-owned and governed marketplace for trading and tokenizing assets.
The founder of Spume, Beauregard Moody, develops a funding and assets platform for Web3 projects that are building for public progression.
Beauregard Moody quotes,
“After two or three years we started building projects on the Cardano blockchain. But also, on Bitcoin and Ethereum. That helps us see many different perspectives and cater to many different user groups.”
After that, the team around Beauregard and Silas began to focus on a single project: Spume.io.
Moody further adds,
“We are building a foundation upon which we can build solutions to these problems. There were a lot of aha moments, not good aha moments, but aha moments where we were like, ‘Wow, this has never been done before and it’s complicated.’ And we’re finding things out, working our way through them. Especially the work on the smart contracts has been very complex and unbelievably time consuming.”
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When it comes to following a keto diet, finding delicious alternatives to classic carb-laden dishes can be a game-changer. Today, we have a fantastic keto recipe that’s perfect for any occasion, whether it’s a casual lunch, a snack, or even a cozy dinner at home. Get ready to indulge in a Cauliflower Crust Rueben that’s not only low-carb but also bursting with flavor. Today, we’ll show you how to whip up this keto-friendly delight and explore some intriguing facts about its key ingredients.
Cauliflower Crust Rueben
Before we dive into the nitty-gritty of the recipe, let’s take a moment to savor the idea of a Cauliflower Crust Rueben. This inventive twist on a classic Rueben sandwich uses cauliflower as its star ingredient, providing a healthy and keto-friendly substitute for traditional bread. It’s the perfect choice when you’re looking to satisfy your cravings without the guilt.
To make this keto marvel, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups cauliflower rice
- 2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese
- 1 egg
- Salt and pepper to taste
Here’s how to create your very own Cauliflower Crust Rueben:
- Microwave the cauliflower rice for 8 minutes to remove excess moisture.
- Allow the microwaved cauliflower rice to cool and then squeeze out the liquid.
- Mix the cauliflower rice with parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese, one egg, salt, and pepper.
- Divide the dough into two portions for the crusts.
- Use a waffle maker to cook the cauliflower crusts until they’re golden brown and crispy.
- Assemble the Rueben by adding sauerkraut, pastrami, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing.
- Place the second cauliflower crust on top to create a sandwich, slice, and serve.
Breakdown of Ingredients and Average Carb Content
Cauliflower is the star player in this keto-friendly recipe. Not only is it a low-carb alternative to bread, but it also provides essential nutrients and dietary fiber. Here’s a quick breakdown of the average carb content for each key ingredient:
- Cauliflower rice: Approximately 2 grams of net carbs per cup.
- Parmesan cheese: Less than 1 gram of net carbs per tablespoon.
- Mozzarella cheese: Roughly 1 gram of net carbs per 1/2 cup.
- Egg: Negligible carbs.
- Sauerkraut: Around 1-2 grams of net carbs per 2 tablespoons.
- Pastrami: Minimal carbs, depending on the brand.
- Swiss cheese: Less than 1 gram of net carbs per slice.
- Russian dressing: Carbs can vary, so choose a keto-friendly option with minimal sugars.
With these low-carb ingredients, you can enjoy the flavors of a Rueben sandwich without worrying about your carb intake.
Embrace the Cauliflower Craze
The Cauliflower Crust Rueben is a keto delight that’s perfect for any occasion. Whether you’re on a strict low-carb diet or simply looking for a delicious twist on a classic sandwich, this recipe has you covered. Plus, it’s a creative way to incorporate cauliflower into your meals while keeping those pesky carbs at bay.
So, embark on this culinary adventure, and let your taste buds revel in the mouthwatering goodness of a Rueben with a keto-friendly twist. It’s time to savor every bite and discover a new world of flavors without compromising your dietary goals. Give it a try, and you won’t miss traditional bread one bit!


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What was the weight of the 1875 Remington outlaw?
The 1875 Remington New Army was a robust revolver and tipped the scales at about 2.8 pounds (unloaded) as compared to the 1873 Colt Single Action Army that weighed about 2.3 pounds (unloaded). The Uberti 1875 Remington ‘Outlaw” is a very close reproduction of the original revolver.
What’s the best price for a Remington 1875?
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Is the Cimarron 1875 a replica of the Remington?
The Cimarron 1875 Outlaw reviewed here is a replica of the Remington Model 1875 Improved Army single action (SA) cartridge revolver. Cimarron does not use the word “Remington” in their nomenclature or description, but for the purposes of this review we will, as this is what the Outlaw is.
What kind of grips does a Remington 1875 have?
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What kind of Revolver was the Remington 1875?
This Remington revolver Pocket Army Revolver. Model 1875s gathering dust in inventory. Some of these had evidently been on the shelves for several years. and milling offthe web on the ejector housing.
What kind of cartridge does a Remington 45 caliber revolver take?
The .45 Caliber revolver will accept cartridge. However, in their advenisements, Remington always referred to the caliber as .45 Government. In their advertisements show this variation. Several examples have authentic. They are very rare. It is possible that a the Model 1888 (Hartley & Graham variation). 25,000 Model 1875 revolvers. Based on my
What kind of grip does a 1875 Remington new army have?
The back strap of the Remington 1875 Remington New Army is more downward and slightly inward. Although the grip is flared at the bottom, it is in my mind, more comparable to the Smith & Wesson No. 3 and Colt ‘Bisley’ revolvers, though not so pronounced.


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Constitutional Court of Romania (CCR) has decided on Friday to debate on April 8 the notifications sent by President Klaus Iohannis and PNL in regard to a solution to the legal conflict of a constitutional nature concerning the vote cast by the Senate on the request to approve the detention and preventive arrest of Dan Sova.
Constitutional Court President Augustin Zegrean considers that the Senate and the Lower Chamber should include in a document the result of a negative decision too, a decision like the one adopted on Wednesday in the case of Dan Sova, who was helped by his colleagues to avoid preventive arrest.
Zegrean stated on Friday morning, before the CCR meeting, that two notifications concerning the Sova case were received – one from President Klaus Iohannis and “one from the Senate, for Article 173 of the regulations,” ziare.com writes.
Asked whether the second notification was filed by PNL, Augustin Zegrean answered affirmatively.
“Now I am going to see the files, I’ll allocate the rapporteurs, we will set a deadline,” the CCR President added.
Subsequently, it was announced that the notifications will be debated on April 8.
Augustin Zegrean refused to make comments on existing “guilt” in the Sova case, but underscored that “the summary definition of the rule of law is that those issuing the laws have to respect them in their turn too.”
Asked whether the Senate’s decision in the Sova case can still be changed, Augustin Zegrean refused to make any comment, but pointed out: “We won’t judge just for the sake of it, we will take a decision.”
Sova to continue teaching at Law Faculty: I’m not in a corruption case, it was an abuse
Senator Dan Sova will continue to teach fiscal law to the students of the Bucharest Faculty of Law, after anticorruption prosecutors asked for his preventive arrest on three counts of being an accessory to malfeasance in office. Dean Flavius Baias stated there is no document that would attest the change of Sova’s statute as professor at the Faculty of Law where he is currently a lecturer, HotNews.ro informs.
“Neither our records nor those of the Bucharest University (which is our employer) contain any document concerning the changing of the professorship of university lecturer Dan Sova,” Faculty of Law Dean Flavius Baias stated for HotNews.ro.
Asked by HotNews.ro whether he wants to continue teaching at the Faculty of Law, considering that he is accused by prosecutors of three counts of being an accessory to malfeasance in office, Dan Sova stated that he is suspected of being a moral accessory to malfeasance in office, not of corruption.
“I am not in a case of corruption. Haven’t you read the Penal Code? I am in a case concerning moral complicity to malfeasance in office. It’s not a corruption case,” Sova stated for Hotnews. Asked whether he considers it is moral to teach fiscal law in the context in which DNA has requested his arrest, Sova answered: “It was an abuse.” Sova ended the interview after that.
At the same time, another professor suggests Sova can continue to teach. Asked whether he believes that the faculty’s leadership will take any measure against Dan Sova, Razvan Dinca, professor within the Faculty of Law, stated that he does not believe that will happen before the legal conditions are met.
On the other hand, a reputed Faculty of Law professor that preferred to remain anonymous compared Dan Sova’s case to that for former prime minister Adrian Nastase who went through a similar situation in his turn too, after he was sentenced to jail in the “Quality Trophy” case two years ago. After numerous newspaper articles Adrian Nastase lost his professorship within the Faculty of Law.
“One thing is simple and has to be said. Through his behavior Mr. Sova has dishonored the profession of lawyer. In what concerns the profession of professor, let us not forget that Adrian Nastase was professor long after the deeds he was accused of were committed too. It is a reflection of the society we find ourselves in and of the way this society perverts values and renders principles irrelevant,” another Faculty of Law professor that wanted to remain anonymous stated for HotNews.

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Closure of Smaller Police Stations Led to More Burglaries and Car Thefts
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Following the consolidation of smaller police stations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, crime increased in the affected areas. This is the finding of a joint study conducted by the ifo Institute, EconPol Europe and the Halle Institute for Economic Research. Police station closures led to an 18 percent increase in car thefts and a 12 percent increase in residential burglaries.
“The increase cannot be explained by changes in police deployment strategies or reduced incarceration of criminals. Rather, it shows that the visibility of local police stations serves as a deterrent and, consequently, helps fight crime,” says Sebastian Blesse, Deputy Director of the Ludwig Erhard ifo Center for Social Market Economy and Institutional Economics in Fürth.
After the closure of police stations that had previously had a high crime clearance rate, there were 30 percent more car thefts in the affected regions. When police stations with lower clearance rates were closed, the increase was only 16 percent. For residential burglaries, the prior clearance rate had no effect on the results. Differences were also evident between closures of police stations in residential areas and downtown: closing police stations in residential areas results in more residential burglaries; but for police stations located downtown, e.g., in the town hall or the local marketplace, the number of residential burglaries remained the same after their closure.
The study is based on data from a comprehensive reform of the police organization in Baden-Württemberg. Until 2004, the year of the reform, local police units were highly decentralized. On average, there was one police station for every two municipalities. In the reform, the state government consolidated more than 200 smaller police stations. The authors used police crime statistics (number of cases, clearance rates, characteristics of suspects) provided by the State Criminal Police Office for Baden-Württemberg.
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Forecasting space weather
Invaluable in a myriad of applications, satellites are also vulnerable. Quite plausibly, an unusual output from the Sun could wipe out tens of billions of euros worth of equipment. The EU-funded project SPACECAST (Protecting space assets from high energy particles by developing European dynamic modelling and forecasting capabilities) has delivered a real-time system that assesses space radiation risks, helping to protect satellites used for navigation, telecommunications and other services. For the first time, it is possible to forecast radiation levels for a whole range of different orbits. These range from the geostationary orbit to the slot region, including medium Earth orbit. The new system can detect and forecast high-energy particle radiation in the Earth's outer radiation belt. Using the project's two unique forecasting models, the system provides a risk index for satellite operators. One of its key features is that radiation levels are computed from the physics of wave-particle interactions. Observations had long shown that special types of very-low-frequency electromagnetic waves can increase or decrease space radiation levels. These variations are now incorporated into the forecasting models. Based on these, scientists demonstrated that chorus waves can accelerate electrons to very high energies and acceleration occurs at the geostationary orbit. In addition to detecting high-energy particles, the system is providing real-time updates of medium-energy electrons. These can statically charge a satellite, potentially damaging components such as solar panels. Previously, providing such updates had proven difficult. Finnish partners achieved this by adapting current research models to run in real time while also considering the solar wind electrical interactions with Earth's magnetosphere. During the Sun's 11-year activity cycle the number of moderate to large magnetic storms varies from about 15 to 60 per year. Solar maximum activity peaked in 2014, while in 2015 the number of magnetic storms started to wane. The hourly updated new forecasting system will help protect the satellites from these storms.
Space weather, satellites, solar storms, high energy particles, radiation, wave-particle interactions


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About The Game
The third-person horror action series BloodRayne introduced gamers to Rayne, a brutal half-vampire femme fatale traveling the world to foil Nazi plans, battle supernatural threats, and uncover more about her vampiric heritage. Featuring a unique protagonist, fast-action combat, vampiric powers, and a globe-spanning storyline, BloodRayne and BloodRayne 2 offered a dynamic and visceral gameplay experience. Beloved by fans and critics alike, BloodRayne became a true cross-media phenomenon, spanning games, comics, and films across the early 2000s.


We all have something that we wanted to learn, maybe a skill that you wanted to master, or a knowledge that you wanted to learn about, yet we are always putting it off because it is not a priority to us. And by the time you really want to learn it, you think it’s too late.
But is it really too late?
I personally believe that you can learn anything you want if you really want to. Age and timing are irrelevant. What truly matters is your solid determination and your burning desire to learn. Not convinced? Just listen to today’s episode and you’ll understand that age is really just a number, and you can achieve anything you want if you put in the effort. That sense of pride you felt afterwards is simply amazing!
Today’s guest is Shari Broder and she is an arbitrator and mediator since 1992, and she is currently a life coach. She is here today to share about her story and her journey of learning new musical instrument.
At the age of 61, Shari has managed to learn how to play two string instruments – Ukulele and Bass Guitar. Putting what she has learned into practice, she is able to join and play in a band with experienced musicians.
In this episode, you’ll be able to listen to Shari as she talks about:
- What inspires her to learn how to play string instruments.
- How she get started on her first string instrument – Ukulele.
- The ways and methods that she took to learn how to play the Ukulele.
- How she felt great about performing on stage with a band.
- How learning something new at the age of 61 made her realize that given enough time, she can achieve anything she wanted.
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With Stage 4 Cancer, discussions about the realities of chemo are now being demanded. Doctors are expected to become better in their communication about treatment, death, and what else is possible. Three experts in the medical and spiritual fields of healing join Erin Donley to broaden the conversation about cancer, chemo, and quality of life.
This show is dedicated to Robert Kenneth Flug, 1945 – 2011, a Pioneer in Cable Access Television in Portland, Oregon.
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Improvements in wind and solar technologies? Read all about it in the New York Times and on the websites of environmental Left.
Improvements in conventional energy technology? Read about it in industry trade press. But rest assured: the conventional energies that we use all the time are getting better and better.
More from less has driven the fossil-fuel industry since inception. “Civilization … is the economy of power, and our power is coal,” William Stanley Jevons wrote in 1865. “It is the very economy of the use of coal that makes our industry what it is, and the more we render it efficient and economical, the more will our industry thrive, and our works of civilization grow.”
“Today the conservation movement is led by sober business men and is based on the cold calculations of the engineers,” observed Erich Zimmermann in 1933. “Conservation, no longer viewed as a political issue, has become a business proposition.”
Energy historian Jesse Ausubel at century-end noted how “the wheels of history” have long been “rolling in the direction of prudent, clean use of resources.” He explained:
Three-hundred years have increased the efficiency of [electric] generators from one percent to about 50 percent of their apparent limit, the latter achieved by today’s best gas turbines, made by General Electric…. The United States has averaged about one percent less energy to produce a good or service each year since about 1800…. A grand substitution of leading energy sources has taken place over the past century and a half … from wood and hay, to coal, to oil, and now to natural gas [with] … each new leading fuel is superior from an environmental point of view.
And the latest: “Gas turbine makers GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in … May  separately profiled unprecedented results from development or testing of three innovative combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT) technologies,” reported POWER magazine. GE’s FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle Power Plant—a “first-of-its-kind” power plant engineered to deliver an “unprecedented combination of flexibility and efficiency”—will offer a fuel efficiency (conversion of natural gas into electricity) of 61% or more, while achieving full power from start-up in less than 30 minutes. The 510 megawatt prototype plant is expected to enter commercial operation in 2015.
The oil, gas, and coal industries are becoming more sustainable, not less, from the mine to points of consumption. Such weakens the case for continuing to subsidize government-dependent technologies in the name of energy efficiency and progress. Consumers, not Big Brother, can and should pick energy winners in a technologically fluid world.
 Jevons, W. S. The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation and the Probable Exhaustion of our Coal Mines. London: Macmillan, 1865; 2nd ed., 1866; 3rd ed., edited by A. W. Flux, 1906. Reprint, New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1965, p. 105.
 Zimmermann, Erich. World Resources and Industries: A Functional Appraisal of the Availability of Agricultural and Industrial Resources. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1933, p. 784.
 Patel, Sonal. “Pushing the 60% Efficiency Gas Turbine Barrier,” POWER, July 2011, p. 8. Available at http://www.powermag.com/gas/Pushing-the-60-percent-Efficiency-Gas-Turbine-Barrier_3784.html.


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The Kaltenbach KBS 1001DG - APS 1015 saw-drill line consists of a horizontal bandsaw Kaltenbach KBS 1001 DG and a 3-axis CNC drill line type Kaltenbach APS 1015. This drill-saw line is suitable for sawing and drilling of profiles and flat steel bars in medium-sized steel construction and steel trade.
The CNC controlled Kaltenbach line consists of the following components:
A Kaltenbach KBS 1001 DG horizontal miter band saw with double miter. The saw band dimensions are 8250 x 54 x 1.6 mm.
A Kaltenbach APS 1015 drilling machine with 3 drilling axes and one tool changer each axis for 5 drilling tools. The drilling rig is suitable for the use of HSS coolant channel drills from 8 - 40 mm. The drilling spindle speed is adjustable from 0 to 1000 rpm.
A Kaltenbach T13 transport system consisting of an infeed roller conveyor with measuring carriage and an outfeed roller conveyor suitable for processing sectional steel lengths of up to 18 m
A cross transport system can be purchased as an option. The cross tractors are designed as a lifting carriage system.
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Reviews 2010-2011 Season
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS: I am not a beach person. And here in Los Angeles it takes a lot to get me west of La Cienega Blvd. But if there is anything that can do it, it’s the superb programming from L.A.’s Westside home for 20th-century music and more, Jacaranda. Directors Patrick Scott and Mark Allan Hilt have built a remarkable series in virtually no time that showcases some of the most exciting music in town. The philosophy centers on playing music that doesn’t get heard enough and the series’ home at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica is typically packed on a Saturday night like the one this weekend. This show, entitled “Perilous Balance,” was an evening of contrasts and symmetry leading up to the main event, David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion, which was presented by a superb ensemble including, Cedric Berry, Adrianna Manfredi, Elissa Johnston, and L.A. Master Chorale Music Director Grant Gershon. It was another big event for Jacaranda and a hugely successful performance.
Prior to the main course, however, were a number of works spanning the latter half of the 20th Century, all dealing with opposites or contrasting ideas in relatively small musical spaces. There were quartets from two American composers, Elliot Carter and Joan Tower, which were set against organ works from two ex-Soviet legends, Schnittke and Gubaidulina. Carter’s Sonata for flute, oboe, cello and harpsichord from 1952 was the oldest work on the program and started things off. This early work is all about icy clarity and what Jacaranda Artistic Director Patrick Scott described as "winter sonorities" in his remarks before the show. The technically involved playing from the ensemble, which included Gloria Cheng on the large more modern 16-foot stop harpsichord called for in the piece, set a high standard for what was to follow. Next up was an initially dark organ solo from Sofia Gubaidulina entitled Light and Darkness played by Jacaranda Music Director Mark Alan Hilt. The composer's trademark crashing keyboard waves of sound were interspersed with much quieter and reflective moments for a very spiritual effect. The first half concluded with a splendid performance from the Lyris Quartet of Joan Tower's 1994 Night Fields. As the name implies, this rather serious single movement evokes the natural world in the dark, but even more so calls to mind the quartets of Shostakovich, albeit in a more readily accessible way.
After the break, we heard Schnittke's Sound and Resound for organ and trombone. An unusual pairing of instruments to be sure, and one that Scott invited us to think of as an overture to The Little Match Girl Passion in describing the immensity of the world she inhabits. Then it was time for the main course, and the performance of Lang's 2007 Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winning composition was moving and splendidly done. This is music that sounds deceptively straightforward. A quartet of vocalists, each of whom must also manage some basic percussion parts, travel through 15 movements alternating between narrative recitatives and more reflective ensemble interludes. The four vocalists perform more or less the same text throughout with staggered entrances, placing a premium on perfect pitch and timing. The work is somewhat self explanatory and creates a recognizable musical passion inspired by Bach's own St. Matthew's Passion, but uses Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl as the foundation instead of the traditional religious texts. As with the works that preceded it, Lang draws contrast in his music between the dark cold world of the little girl and the colorful light of her visions in the flame. The music can be halting and there are abundant silent pauses, but when the vocal harmonics burst into existence, they are marvelous, if still like the match flame, short-lived. The crowd sat in appreciative silence afterward before giving Lang, who was present for the performance, and the vocalists a standing ovation. And while those can be a dime a dozen here in L.A., this one was well deserved and it was another feather in Jacaranda's newer music cap.
- Brian - Outwestarts 1/23/2011
JACARANDA BLOOMS IN WINTER:
There was a slight nip in the air in Santa Monica, so Jacaranda, the new music series, took appropriate measures Saturday night to ensure the proper temperature level in the First Presbyterian Church for the first West Coast performance of the chamber version of David Lang’s “The Little Match Girl Passion.” It turned up the musical air conditioning.
Though not all winter themed, four diverse contemporary works (two American, two from Russia) were meant as a cross-country ski through an icy landscape. Lang’s job, then, was to warm a frostbitten night. In a 35-minute missive from heaven, four solo singers in transfixed harmony, accompanying themselves with gentle percussion, transcended worldly misery.
Why Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Match Girl” has attracted the fancy of Japanese manga artists, avant-garde German composer Helmut Lachenmann (whose “Match Girl” opera is brilliantly strange) and Sarah Brightman (“A Winter Symphony”) is something I cannot begin to explain. But credit Lang with an epic effort of elevation. Combining Andersen’s text with aspects of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” he found a radiantly hip spiritual core to a maudlin story that stubbornly refuses to go out of fashion.
Unable to sell her matches and afraid to go home, a waif spends a frigid New Year’s Eve outdoors turning blue while the heartless world parties indoors with holiday goose and roaring fires. Her matches, lit one by one, illuminate her sad, cold departure from the land of the living.
Lang, one of the three founders of the Bang on a Can new music collective, is a plucky composer impossible to pin down. Twenty-five years ago and just out of Yale, he titled his impudent first orchestra piece (a Cleveland Orchestra commission, no less) “Eating Living Monkeys.” He has written audaciously loud, fast and aggressive scores, as well as audaciously soft and still ones. I am quoted in the program as having once said there is no name for this kind of music. But Lang gave up musical monkey sushi sometime back. Today, I'd call him post-stylistic.
“Match Girl” might even be called post-Pärt, in that it gives an American accent to the numinous style of the Estonian Arvo Pärt. Perhaps Lang was also drawn to the fact that Paul Hillier’s Theatre of Voices, which premiered “Match Girl” at Carnegie Hall in 2007, is an ensemble partial to Pärt. One could now say that there is no name for this kind of beauty.
But there certainly is an audience. “Match Girl” won a Pulitzer. Hillier’s recording got a Grammy. First Presbyterian was full Saturday, and the audience sat transfixed in pews. The performance of this four-voice version -- sung by soprano Elissa Johnston, alto Adrianna Manfredi, tenor Grant Gershon and bass Cedric Berry –- was a stunner. Free-flowing voices floated as if unmoored by acoustics.
What preceded “Match Girl” in the first half was Elliott Carter’s intricate 1952 Sonata for Flute, Oboe, Cello and Harpsichord, followed by Sofia Gubaidulina’s colorfully out-there “Light and Darkness” for solo organ and Joan Tower’s “Night Fields,” her first string quartet. After intermission, Alfred Schnittke’s crazy duo for trombone and organ served as a quasi-overture to “Match Girl,” a stand-in for the heartless world the pathetic kid found herself in.
Maybe this was all a bit much, but the performances were convincing. Gloria Cheng was the harpsichordist for an engagingly white-knuckled reading of Carter’s challenging quartet. Organist Mark Alan Hilt, Jacaranda’s music director, enlivened Gubaidulina’s mysterious bass rumblings and sizzling clashes of high notes. The Lyris Quartet turned Tower’s Arctic winds and dark moods into a dramatic spectacle. Trombonist Steve Suminski didn’t always keep a straight face, but Schnittke’s grotesque warm-up made the “Match Girl” all the more moving.
I am also happy to report that our own cold, heartless world doesn’t lack pockets of warmth. Jacaranda’s list of supporters seems to grow longer with each concert in this increasingly impressive series.
- Mark Swed - Los Angeles Times 1/23/2010
David Lang's divine pursuit: 'The Little Match Girl Passion' A blend of Bach and Hans Christian Andersen, the Pulitzer Prize winner's 'Passion' has drawn praise from critics and audiences, something the L.A.-born composer had not expected. It has its West Coast premiere in Santa Monica.
When David Lang's "The Little Match Girl Passion" had its premiere a few years ago, there was every reason for the L.A.-born composer to celebrate.
Equally inspired by Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" and Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Little Match Girl," Lang's piece is a rare bird in contemporary classical music: a broadly accessible work on which critics as well as the public bestow their blessings.
Minimalist in form and quasi-medieval in its sublime austerity, "Little Match Girl Passion" was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in music and is being performed this year from New York and London to Nashville and Chicago. It will have its West Coast premiere in its original four-singer version on Saturday and Sunday at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica as part of a concert program by the chamber-music series Jacaranda: Music at the Edge. Additionally, large-choral versions of the piece will be performed April 17 by the Pacific Chorale at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa (formerly the Orange County Performing Arts Center) and in November by the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
But initially, Lang was apprehensive about sending his "Little Match Girl" out into the big, cold world.
"I really felt that I was going to get stoned for being a blasphemer after the premiere, for trying to tell the Gospel by taking Jesus out," said Lang, perhaps best known as co-founder and co-artistic director of the pioneering, aggressively innovative new-music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars.
"What kind of blasphemous Jew would do that?" the 54-year-old composer, who is Jewish, added rhetorically, with a laugh.
Clearly, he needn't have worried. The affection and protective urge that Andersen's story has inspired in generations of readers is akin to what many listeners feel upon hearing Lang's approximately 40-minute composition. Tim Page, a USC professor of musicology and journalism and a member of the Pulitzer panel that named Lang's work as a finalist, described "The Little Match Girl Passion" as a deeply affecting piece of great beauty and purity.
"It's very spare, it's very simple," Page said. "The thing that I love about it is there's not one wasted note."
Intended as a kind of secular Passion, Lang's work replaces the narrative of Jesus' suffering in his final days with Andersen's pathos-laden 1845 tale of a shoeless girl traipsing through snowdrifts while futilely trying to sell matches. Scared to go home and face her father's beatings, she takes refuge under a Christmas tree, lighting matches and having visions of her grandmother, the only person ever to treat her with kindness. The next day the match girl is found frozen in the snow by passersby.
Lang, who was raised in a Reform Jewish household and attended University Synagogue on Sunset Boulevard, said that writing "The Little Match Girl Passion" helped him come to grips with the explicitly Christian bent of Western classical musical that had its birthplace in the church.
"I love this music, but I'm not a Christian, so it's always been an obstacle for me," said Lang, who has lived in New York for many years but still follows the Dodgers with fanatical fervor.
Lang said he'd been considering various secular source materials, including newspaper obituaries, to build his "Passion" around, but nothing had quite worked. Then his wife suggested Andersen's story. "I just jumped on that because it was exactly right," he said.
Invested with a reverence befitting sacred music, Lang's "Passion" in its original version is performed by four singers who are also required to play a battery of percussion instruments. The relative simplicity of the arrangements coincides with the story's theme that a humble heart and a soul able to endure severe hardship are the surest conduits to the divine.
In Jacaranda's version, the singer-percussionists will be Grant Gershon, a tenor; Elissa Johnston, a soprano (married to Gershon); alto Adriana Manfredi; and bass Cedric Berry. Gershon, who also serves as music director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale at Walt Disney Concert Hall, will conduct the Chorale's November performance of Lang's "Passion."
"When I listen to the recording, it's impossible to get through the piece without weeping," Gershon said. "It seems to me there is that aspect of his musical language that universalizes the story and certainly takes it beyond the boundaries of this specific narrative and does it through his use of techniques that are non-Western structurally and — how to put it? — austere…. There is so much Bach in the piece. But it is Bach distilled down to its absolute essence."
Johnston described the work as "sort of an endurance piece, so you really have to stay focused as you set up this trance world."
"The piece itself is so restrained, you can't sing it in a heart-on-your-sleeve way, and yet there's room to be really expressive," she continued. "I really find when we stop [rehearsing] that it takes me awhile to get my feet back on the earth."
Patrick Scott, Jacaranda's artistic director, praised the work's skillful braiding of storytelling with meditative sections that "allow your mind to spiral away from the story and into the ethos of the moment." He also was struck by how "Little Match Girl Passion" contrasts with the bulk of Lang's prolific catalog of orchestral, opera,, chamber and solo works, which the composer's own biography characterizes as "by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling and funky." (Lang's opera, "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field," based on an Ambrose Bierce story, will have its Southern California premiere in June at Long Beach Opera.)
"I find this work so startlingly different than the rest of his music and so counter to his image as this hardened, downtown- Manhattan, Bang on a Can guy with closely cropped hair," Scott said.
A number of prominent music critics hailed "The Little Match Girl Passion" as an instant classic. Typical was the New Yorker's verdict: "With his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Little Match Girl Passion' (one of the most original and moving scores of recent years), Lang, once a postminimalist enfant terrible, has solidified his standing as an American master."
Lang expresses gratitude for that reception and gratification that "The Little Match Girl Passion" already has been "sung many times in Christmas and Easter services and in churches" and that its message apparently speaks to so many.
After all, he said, that message is pretty simple: "You need to pay attention to the suffering of people around you."
"It's not like Grimm's Fairy Tales where you wonder, 'Well, what's that story about?'"
- Reed Johnson - Los Angeles Times 1/16/2011
ROCKING: Jacaranda, the Santa Monica new music series, began its season over the weekend with “strong sincere voices nurtured while America was inventing itself afresh,” as wrote artistic director Patrick Scott in his detailed program notes. Such invention has, it appears, become harder in our choleric country with its widening rift between left and right, rich and poor, greed and giving, science and religion.
Music can be just as divisive. But Americans may, at least, still agree upon a common heritage of old hymns, popular songs and spirituals. American composers –- populist or classical, conventional or avant-garde -– have long used these natural musical resources the way inventive chefs deconstruct local ingredients to come up with new tastes based on the old.
Charles Ives showed the way, and Sunday at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica, Jacaranda turned to this first great American original in 12 short numbers, written between 1897 and 1934. Songs, solo piano pieces and strange ensemble works were given illuminating performances by soprano Elissa Johnston, pianist Scott Dunn and a chamber orchestra conducted by Jacaranda music director Mark Alan Hilt.
Ives loved the past yet fought for a better future. The composer was by day an idealistic businessman who helped create the insurance industry. At night, Ives wrote music that honored nostalgia and chaos. He retained a place for innocence and one for progress.
Dunn began the program with a hilarious solo piano march based on Handel’s “See the Conquering Hero Comes” in which high-toned Baroque music, vaudeville and the modern sounds of an approaching new century commingle. The score is still, 113 years after it was written, unpublished.
The set included Ives the serious (the song “Like a Sick Eagle” with its uneasy microtones); Ives the riotous (“Impression of ‘St Gaudens’ Boston Common," a piano predecessor of the first of “Three Places in New England” and also unpublished); Ives the radical (the fabulously clangorous “From the Steeples to the Mountains”); Ives the wistful (“Serenity”); Ives the outspoken (“Gyp the Blood or Hearst? Which Is Worst?”). And my favorite Ives: the mystical. A goose-bump-raising performance of “The Unanswered Question” featured ethereal strings in the lobby behind closed glass doors, a hidden solo trumpet and chattering woodwinds on stage.
After intermission, pianist Mikhail Korzhev brilliantly turned to Ernst Krenek’s startling, little-known “George Washington Variations,” written in 1950 by the Austrian composer who emigrated to Southern California. Krenek took an 18th century military march through a set of variations that get increasingly complex, in a way that anticipates the pieces of such contemporary American left-wing modernists as Frederic Rzewski and Christian Wolff.
The Denali Quartet then offered the world premiere of Ben Johnston’s “Revised Standards.” Johnston, who is 84 and a master of microtones, began his string quartet in the '80s but put it aside until recently. The first movement is based on Gershwin’s “How Long Has This Been Going On?” and Richard Rodgers’ “Little Girl Blue.” The middle movement is a set for Billie Holiday. The final movement concentrates on Cole Porter’s “I Concentrate on You.”
Familiar strains come in and out of focus as if filtered through a pleasant dream. Strange harmonies in the second violin and viola alluringly distort the image of old songs. In the Billie Holiday movement, blues tones and microtones are shown to be the same, magical thing.
The evening ended with nostalgia not -- as in Ives, Krenek or Johnston -- tempered. Samuel Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” for soprano and ensemble, is loved by some. But James Agee’s self-involved text and Barber’s sentimental score (written in 1946 as America emerged from war) was never helpful for reinvention. There are no evolving old songs here, just old music. Elissa Johnston’s performance was committed, but it was the rest of a long, meaningful concert that mattered.
- Mark Swed - Los Angeles Times 10/25/2010
Prussian Blues seeking the enigma of Richard Wagner
Reviews 2009-2010 Season
Jacaranda’s season finale last Saturday evening was homage to Richard Wagner, its contribution to the current two-month Ring Festival LA that explores the works and influence of the dominant European musical voice from the mid 19th Century until the end of World War I. It comes as LA Opera mounts, beginning this coming Saturday, three complete Ring cycles.
Like a Cubist painting, each of the pieces in the program – by Schubert, Mahler, Hindemith, and Wagner himself - angled a different perspective on the composer, from antecedents to personal reflections, and finally to later developments.
The first programmed was the last written, the Septet for Winds of Paul Hindemith. This unsentimental excursion into a garden of earthly delights was composed in the composer’s Sicilian backyard in 1948. In the aftermath of the European disaster of war and chaos, it is a rejection of everything vainglorious and excessive, in other words, everything Wagnerian. Intimate, witty, full of musical puns, fugues and retrogrades, its playful conversations between the instruments feature piquant woodwind dissonances that suggest the buzz of insects and nearby colorful flora. The evening’s nuanced woodwinds executed its delicacies with a gentle sassiness.
A canny choice to launch the program, the Septet, in context, felt like a wine taster’s elaborate procedure to erase the aftertaste of what went before. As such it prepared us to travel back in time before Wagner’s dominant legacy and hear, with fresh ears, Franz Schubert’s proto-Romantic sensibilities beginning to flower in five deeply moving vocal pieces for male ensemble that clearly anticipated Wagner’s later elaborations. An ensemble of eight male singers performed them a cappella or with various instrumental accompaniments, conducted by Jacaranda co-producer Mark Hilt.
Sehnsucht’s gnarled chromaticism aches with the untenable separation of its lovers (“Only he who knows longing knows how I suffer.”). Nachtgesang im Walde’s seraphic atmospherics are enhanced by four horns - beloved of Romantic-era composers from Weber through Wagner - the deployment of which in the back balcony was a good idea, but presented coordination challenges to the ensemble.
Der Gondelfahrer, a blend of German and Italian musical traditions, features a deft harmonic shift on the piano for the tolling of its church bells. Nachthelle, one of the great Schubert Nachtmusik pieces in any genre, was written for male quartet, piano, and "a principal and damnably high tenor” according to one of the composer’s contemporaries. On this evening, soloist James Callon's light voice was damnably high but not principal enough for the urgent passages that cry out for the “the last barrier” to be broken.
The big work in the Schubert group was Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, for two male choirs of four voices each, with two violas, two cellos, and a contrabass. A setting of the great transcendental poem of Goethe, this was Schubert's last and most ambitious of four attempts. The poem contrasts the recycling journey of water in nature to the vicissitudes of man’s soul through life. Octave leaps and dissonances depict waters over cliffs and down chasms; melismatic passages the flow of water on more level contours, gently stirred by the wind. On this evening, it seemed also to anticipate the Ring’s fated Rhine river. Conductor Hilt and his committed voices and strings gave it their all in a riveting performance.
Siegfried Idyll could be Wagner’s nod to Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony as well as Richard Strauss’ inspiration for his own Domestic Symphony. It is Wagner at his most relaxed, ironically so in that much of its melodic material is derived from that most urgent of operatic projects, Der Ring des Nibelungen. This evening it received as serene a performance in its original 13-instrument form as was likely heard by Wagner’s wife, Cosima, at her birthday on the staircase of the couple’s chalet at Triebschen.
The Adagio from Mahler’s Tenth Symphony could have declared “Go not gently into that dark night,” laden as it was with yearnings, regrets, and remembrances of the mortally ill Mahler, reliving in his mind his tempestuous marriage to the infamous Alma Schindler. She may later have landed on our Hollywood-adjacent shores as a frumpy, middle-aged émigré, but in 1911 she was Mahler’s demonic muse. Hilt and his string ensemble made this performance the highlight of the evening, one that explored every tortured byway to its final, relieving cadence.
Romantic suffering before, during, and after Wagner had many musical resonances, but also political and social consequences. Exacerbated by the tensions of a dysfunctional Central European society in the exact century between Romanticism’s first clear expression - Schubert’s Gretchen am Spinnrade of 1814 - and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, this uneasy state of mind, expressed most intensely in the works of Richard Wagner, wore its heart dangerously on its sleeve and could never find a way out.
Prior to its commencement, Patrick Scott, Jacaranda's other co-producer, dedicated the program to the memory of the late music critic, Alan Rich, a champion of Jacaranda Music from its beginnings seven years ago.
- Rodney Punt - LA Opus 5/27/2010
JACARANDA BLOSSOMS: In Santa Monica the season began for this most admirable chamber-music series, and I cannot remember (or even want to remember) a better-imagined, better-played program supercharged with the pleasure of discovery that you could somehow feel and share on either side of the stage.
Ben Johnston’s Fourth Quartet has been co-opted by Jacaranda’s Denali Quartet; its brash and aggressive harmonies seem to generate hordes of new friends with every playing. (I heard it first at a private concert, with the 85-year composer in pleased attendance, some months ago. The work is a set of free variations on the old Slavey hymn-tune “Amazing Grace”; and Johnston, music’s great renegade, has made free use of the harmonies of old-time organs and fiddles, as if to return to its own nativity. The Denali has made it their own – progressively so; this was my fourth hearing. The partnership of Jacaranda’s programming genius and the young energy of its performing forces has created an inimitable standard in local music-making.
“Programming genius?” Saturday’s concert began with Morty Feldman’s Rothko Chapel,his evocation of that haunting Texas artwork for small chorus, drums and an ecstatic solo viola, the work of Feldman’s most easy to describe as “beautiful.”. Then came Ben Johnston’s Fourth Quartet, its radiance intensified by the handsome small church that Jacaranda calls ome. Then – wonder of wonders!!—there came music from that legendary masterwork we all long to have in our midst, Einstein on the Beach: not with Bob Wilson’s magical, madcap sets and staging, but at least with half-an-hour of Philip Glass’s music, enough to intensify our craving for the entire work on a local stage sometime in our lifetime.
These were Einstein’s “Knee-Plays,” the interlude pieces that served as flexible joints between episodes. A chorus intoned quick sequences of numbers, which in the original could be seen dancing on a back screen. A solo voice (KUSC’s Gail Eichenthal) intoned the near-jabberwock of an autistic child (the young Christopher Knowles back then, whom Wilson had adopted and groomed into an artistic career). A violinist (Joel Pargman) delivers roulades and cadenzas, symbolic of Einstein’s violinistic skills. If you have evolved a supicion that this doesn’t make sense, you just haven’t discovered the magnificent rationale of Einstein on the Beach.
Even unstaged, undanced and unorchestrated, this Einstein teaser — led by Mark Alan Hilt and with the L.A. Children’s Chorus and with Sandra Tsing Loh and Ken Page also among the narrators – makes a convincing case for the whole kaboodle, and sometime soon. So, in fact did this entire superlative concert venture.
- Alan Rich - So I've heard 10/30/2009
Music review: 'Einstein' at the beach
So “Baby Einstein” won’t make your kids smarter after all. Last week, the Walt Disney Co. confessed that plopping kids in front of its video does not count as instant education and offered to refund gullible parents their money. But the few enlightened parents who tried “Einstein on the Beach” instead may have a wiser tale to tell.
Saturday night, Jacaranda, the West Side’s new music series, concluded its first concert of the season at First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica with excerpts from Philip Glass’ groundbreaking opera he conceived with director Robert Wilson in 1976. Glass offers the option of replacing the women’s voices at the end with a children’s chorus and that is what Jacaranda did.
Asking youngsters to show up late at night to sing the last eight minutes of a five-hour avant-garde work is, obviously, unreasonable. Then again, little about putting on “Einstein on the Beach” has ever been practical. Glass has presented the score in concert on several occasions and performed the “Spaceship” scene with his ensemble at the Hollywood Bowl last summer. But despite repeated attempts to find funding for a revival, the magnificent Wilson production has not been seen for a generation.
Four years ago, Jacaranda did its bit by turning the opera’s most modest segments, the five Knee Plays (Wilson’s term for short connecting scenes) into a 40-minute concert work. Saturday, a block from the beach, the Knee Plays were back, this time with three dozen angelic Einsteins, courtesy of Los Angeles Children’s Chorus.
For many of us who have found “Einstein on the Beach” in the theater a religious experience, “Einstein” in a church is not a stretch. Still, Jacaranda’s concert made a considerable spiritual statement.
The evening began with two works full of sacred connotations written just before “Einstein” in the early '70s: Morton Feldman’s “Rothko Chapel” and Ben Johnston’s String Quartet No. 4 (“Amazing Grace”). Feldman’s score for chorus, viola, celesta and percussion was intended for Houston's interfaith Rothko Chapel, built to house haunting late paintings by the American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko.
This is music in which no notes touch ground, no downbeat is felt and pianissimo is the dynamic of choice. The chorus is asked to sing chords with a consistent “open hum.” The viola has the wisps of melody, slightly Hebraic at first and hinting at Ravel later.
Performing “Rothko Chapel” is like capturing wind. Feldman asks for a calm 30 minutes; this reading conducted by Mark Alan Hilt was an ever-so-slightly nervous 24. Still, the choral singing was sensitive; Tamara Bevard handled the soprano solos smartly and Alma Lisa Fernandez was a soulful violist.
Fernandez is a member of Jacaranda’s superb resident Denali Quartet, which has made Johnston’s “Amazing Grace” its calling card. Johnston pulls the 18th century hymn tune in directions it has never been and asks the players to use pure tunings. The result is the amazement of grace made palpable in sound. The Denalis made that evident in, to repeat the only word that describes the music and its rendition, an amazing performance.
Following all this, the “Einstein” Knee Plays, which Hilt conducted with evident affection, were in danger of too much churchliness. They began with a pipe organ intoning the bass line Glass played in more rock’n’roll fashion on an electric organ. The chorus’ “libretto” consists of either counted numbers of the changing meters or the solfege syllables of the pitches. The impressive Jacaranda Chamber Singers made even these sound more eloquent than spunky.
A solo violin – the Denali’s Joel Pargman – played Glass’ classic Minimalist etudes with style and two actresses (the familiar radio personalities Gail Eichenthal and Sandra Tsing Loh) alluringly read stream-of-consciousness texts that included an incantation on the line “Oh these are the days my friends and these are the days my friends.” I would have liked more electronic punch from Eichenthal and Loh, who were amplified, but they were not displeasing as exquisite aural wallpaper.
“Einstein” ends with a final speech about lovers on a park bench that was written and originally delivered by an elderly actor in the original. Ken Page read it wonderfully for Jacaranda, accompanied by the solo violin, organ and the children singing their one-two-threes and do-re-me's with marvelous clear voices lifted to heaven.
There are critics who once called “Einstein on the Beach” baby opera. But those were other days my friends. Saturday, Jacaranda brought “Einstein” to the beach and it was transcendent.
- Mark Swed - Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2009
Last Night in L.A.: Feldman, Johnston, Glass
The new Jacaranda season began last night with a concert that almost filled the church and brought out the Los Angeles Times critic, with photographer as well. The program comprised three key works from the 70s: Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel from 1971, Ben Johnston’s Quartet No. 4 “Amazing Grace” from 1973, and Philip Glass‘ Einstein on the Beach: Five Knee Plays from 1976. God, it was a gorgeous concert.
I didn’t want the performance of Rothko Chapel to end, but it did, and too soon, coming in at less than 25 minutes. The spaces between notes could have been a bit longer, and some of the notes could have hung in the air a bit longer. The three instrumentalists were Alma Lisa Fernandez on viola, Aron Kallay on celesta, and Kenneth McGrath on percussion, and they seemed to breathe the sounds. A group of local singers billed as the Jacaranda Chamber Singers risked all of those exposed pitches, and they handled all the challenges. This was a great experience.
Few works could follow something like the Feldman, but Johnston’s “Amazing Grace” could do so, and fortunately it took a little while to remove the instruments and risers to give some space between the two. The Denali Quartet now plays this work with seeming ease; perhaps they’ll make it their calling card, as the Phil under Salonen made the Rite of Spring. But the Johnston quartet leaves me wanting more; perhaps the Denalis could expand their Johnston offerings. Or perhaps Monday Evening Concerts could give us a Johnston evening.
The Jacaranda series has recovered the “Five Knee Plays” from Einstein on the Beach, with approval of Glass and the publisher. At the time of their first presentation of the set, in 2005, only the middle work was available; three other segments had been issued for children’s chorus but were no longer available, and the opening segment had been withdrawn and had to be reconstituted. Jacaranda has given us the full set, with pipe organ instead of electronic keyboard, with mixed chorus, with children’s chorus (the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, of all riches) for the final set, with violin (the violinist of the Denali Quartet) and with three narrators, including Gail Eichenthal and Sandra Tsing Loh of NPR broadcasts. The music still grabs at you.
Jacaranda’s next Santa Monica concert, November 14, serves as an introduction to the Phil’s exciting new “West Coast Left Coast” series with music by John Adams, Ingram Marshall and Lou Harrison. Better get your tickets.
- Sequenza21 - October 25, 2009
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