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Water, Water, Everywhere
Islands fascinate us. Skye, for many, was indefinably devalued when at last, two decades ago, linked to the mainland by bridge. Many of our islands, once inhabited, are today deserted and forlorn. Scarp and Taransay, for example, off the coast of Harris, supported families into the 1970s.
I myself am a direct descendant of the last family to live on North Rona, forty-four miles north-west of the Butt of Lewis. Surveys as to health and well-being regularly see the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland as, apparently, the happiest places to live in Britain and the desire to own one's personal island – a small, smug, sea-kissed kingdom – is a common fantasy. Even the SNP have an island – Eilean Mòr, one of the MacCormaig Isles in the Sound of Jura, bequeathed to the Nationalists in 1978 and run by a charitable trust. And when that late and fabulously corrupt Irish politician, Charles Haughey, snapped up Inishvickillane, one of the Blasket Islands, in 1974, it was an early sign of the avarice, bordering on the delusional, that two decades later sank his reputation.
We are apt to associate little islands with innocence; even nobility – or, at least, a certain incorruptible peasant cunning. Scotland was first effectively evangelized from Iona, by Columba and his acolytes. St Kilda continues to intrigue millions the world over (even though the St Kildans were very strange folk) and everyone sides with the crofters of Todday as they battle Captain Waggett in Compton MacKenzie's Whisky Galore. And the clever subversion of the trope in The Wicker Man – when the intruder, Edward Woodward's stuffy Sergeant Howie, is a good man making landfall among pretty evil people – is one of the tricks that has lent that film abiding, unsettling power.
Malachy Tallack's worthy book, though, is no winsome gazetteer of assorted Hebrides or Bounty Bar paradises. It is about islands that no longer exist – and, indeed, for the most part never were: the island less as sanctuary, or some realm of ocean-girt uniqueness, than as an ideal: a place looked to, or keened for, as something vital to your own identity. A noted parallel in modern literature is the 'greenwood' trope in the novels of EM Forster. Maurice, he lamented of the novel he refused to publish in his own lifetime, belonged 'to an England where it was still possible to get lost. It belongs to the last moment of the greenwood…
'Our greenwood ended catastrophically and inevitably. Two great wars demanded and bequeathed regimentation which the public services adopted and extended, science lent her aid, and the wildness of our island, never extensive, was stamped upon and built over and patrolled in no time. There is no forest or fell to escape to today, no cave in which to curl up, no deserted valley for those who wish neither to reform nor corrupt society but to be left alone…'
In like manner, Tallack – native of Shetland, author and singer-songwriter – writes for the most part of islands of the heart, in a book of silky covers and striking physical beauty, decorated deliciously by Katie Scott. The Gaels of Scotland and Ireland, for instance, historically believed in blessed islands far to the west, just over the horizon, where the just would live for ever in a place without age, sickness or death. The most famous of these is Tír nan Óg, the land of eternal youth – viewed not just as an afterlife but as a place the mind can go, in nostalgia not just for a where, but a when.
There is a near-untranslatable Gaelic word for that yearning – ceanalas; very similar in concept to the Welsh hiraeth – but, as Tallack details, such Islands of the Blessed have mythological roots far broader than Gaeldom. In Homer's Odyssey, we read of Elysium; and by Plato's time this was evidently understood as an island (or group of islands) somewhere in the western ocean, where 'he who has lived all his life in justice and holiness shall go, when he is dead… and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil'. The Welsh, too, had Ynys Affalon, 'Island of Apples', and it was in this Avalon – in later, broader medieval tradition – where Excalibur was forged and from whence, one day, King Arthur may return.
Indeed, despite centuries of Christendom 'the idea of a promised land on Earth never left the European imagination,' observes Tallack. 'The fruitful isle remained on the western horizon. In England, the blissful land of Cockaigne was the subject of countless stories and poems. In Germany it was Schlaraffenland, the land of milk and honey; and in Spain it was Juaja, a name now attached to a small city in Peru…'
No doubt this to some degree drove the Conquistadores, and other European adventurers, in their bold voyages across the Atlantic – though, as we now know and as Tallack details, the Vikings had made it as far as Newfoundland; and many (not least the Irish) believe St Brendan had made landfall on America before even them. Some fantasy islands, though, are cherished not as the saints' everlasting rest, but the motherland of a hazy history. From their earliest dealings with the first Europeans to come to New Zealand, the Māori insisted – and insist still – that it was not their original home: that their forebears had come from Hawaiki – and not that long ago either. There is considerable and hard evidence that the Māoris did indeed colonize New Zealand from eastern Polynesia, 'especially the Cook and Society islands. Which might provide a simple answer to Hawaiki. Except that it doesn't. For Hawaiki is not simple at all. In traditional stories it is a multifaceted idea that cannot be pinned down to a single location. This island was not just the migrants' point of departure, it was part of their luggage – that rich, mythical tradition with which they arrived.'
Much of the impact of this book lies in the extraordinary facts tossed out almost casually by Tallack – for instance, the startling discovery that eastern Polynesia itself was only populated within the last 1,500 years or so (by which time the Callanish Stones, in Lewis, were thousands of years old and already obsolete). For its size, though (and price) there are not many words for your buck; and a touch of humour here and there would make the going far easier.
The Ma'dān, or 'Marsh Arabs', of southern Iraq – their rich culture detailed only in recent decades by the likes of Gavin Maxwell and Wilfred Thesiger – had likewise a mystical realm, a beautiful island, Hufaidh, of which they spoke and which they were certain existed. But, since Saddam Hussein's atrocities against them after the first Gulf War – including the deliberate draining of almost all their priceless wetland – the Marsh Arabs and their world barely survive. Thule, an island in the far north written of foggily by the ancient Greeks and later celebrated in slushy Celtic Twilight fiction, is another island that never was (much as one might like it to have been). Did Pytheas – who claimed to have visited it around 330 BC – speak of Shetland, or Iceland? Could he have made the Faroe Islands? Had he ever actually ventured out of the Mediterranean at all?
Some islands were simply invented. As recently as 1910 the International Dateline had to be shamefacedly redrawn, when it was belatedly established that two islands on the map – Byres Island and Morrell Island, north-west of Hawaii – did not actually exist. The Treaty of Paris, in 1783 – wherein, with teeth-gritted reluctance, the British finally accepted defeat and acknowledged the new United States of America as sovereign and free – also, in its second and very involved Article detailing the boundary between the States and Canada, made mention of islands which in due time proved to be fictitious.
Then, of course, there are those islands that most disobligingly sank. A volcanic eruption in 1456 almost overnight removed Gunnbjörn's Skerries, a useful halfway-house for longboats sailing between Norway and Iceland. In 1830, Geirfuglasker also likewise vanished, which was rough for the Icelanders but still more unfortunate for its population of Great Auks; inaccessible to hunters, it was their last safe breeding-ground. Within fifteen years the Great Auk was extinct: the last, in local lore, beaten to death by a boatload of those weird St Kildans convinced it was a witch. In the Cook Islands, Tuanaki also disappeared, much to the vexation of a missionary expedition determined to convert its natives.
Tallack ends with a list of islands that have, basically, been abolished. In 1875 Captain Sir Frederick Evans was put in charge of revising the Royal Navy's charts of the Pacific, and eventually deleted 123 phantom islands from the globe. (Three of these, Tallack mischievously records, turned out to exist after all.) And as late as August 1989 the Terra Nova Islands – 'discovered' in Antarctica only in March 1961 – were found first to have disappeared and then, in cold fact, never to have been. It was concluded that the unfortunate 1961 surveyor had taken two vast icebergs for portions of land. What a pity, though, we are told nothing of Surtsey, a brand new island born by volcanic eruption of the south of Iceland in November 1965 and of huge scientific interest.
Malachy Tallack is an engaging and fluent writer of essential kindliness – the Alexander McCall Smith, it would seem, of bedside topography, and who grasps from the start that the very idea of a given island can be as vital as the land-mass itself. 'In the end it matters little,' he concludes, as to the whereabouts or even the veracity of Thule. 'For the legacy of [Pytheas's] voyage has not been the discovery of an island, it has been the creation of a space: a mysterious, unfathomable hole into which, for two millennia and more, dreams of the north have been poured. And while the desire to erase uncertainty has now wiped it from the map, Thule still exists in the cartography of the mind…'


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Pose of the Month: Tortoise Poseby Jenn Tarrant | 27/04/2017
Exploring poses that stretch our range of motion and challenge our strength can be great fun—and can release deep-seated tension throughout the body.
We don't have to do fancy poses to be "good" at yoga, of course. But exploring poses that stretch our range of motion and challenge our strength can be great fun! And really, who doesn't need a little deeper stretch in those hamstrings, upper-back muscles, and shoulders? This month's Pose of the Month, Tortoise Pose, fits the bill!
Main Elements of Tortoise:
Hip flexion
Hamstring stretch
Upper Back stretch
Shoulder stretch
Most Challenging Elements:
Finding comfort in the depth of the stretch
Relaxing enough to allow the shoulders to stretch
Breathing deeply and evenly
Releasing the need to go deeper
Begin with the YogaFit standard Warm-Up (standing or supine) and a few rounds of Sun Salutations to warm the body.
Warming the Hips and Priming the Shoulders
Throughout Mountain II, focus on poses with ample opportunity to explore the actions of the hips and shoulders.
Warrior Poses (Warrior 1 & 2, Reverse Warrior, Side Angle Stretch, Triangle) can begin the work into the hips, especially when lengthening the stance as class progresses. To get a deep opening through the shoulders in Side Angle Stretch, suggest Bound Side Angle (front arm reaching under the front leg and back arm reaching behind the back where hands clasp together). Be sure to encourage students to elongate the spine and rotate the ribcage toward the sky.
To work into the inner thighs, begin in Low Lunge or Kneeling Lunge and move students into Lizard Pose by having them place both hands inside the front foot and allowing the front knee to relax out to the side while hips relax towards the floor. A bonus benefit: Lunges release tightness in the hip flexors, which makes folding forward a whole lot easier. Also cue Wide Legged Forward Fold, which allows inner thighs to stretch and open and serves a dual purpose with its wonderful hamstring release as well!
Don't forget Standing Forward Fold! Be sure to emphasize elongating and relaxing the spine so that students can remember how to recreate that same sense of length and relaxation later. An excellent place to practice releasing the spine over the legs is in Pyramid Pose. Placing hands behind the back in reverse prayer position or clasping elbows, also introduces the shoulder and upper-back stretch that we'll deepen in Tortoise Pose. After lengthening and creating a strong hamstring stretch, cue students to gently round over the front leg, release the hands, and focus on evening out the breath (a reminder here to avoid stretching any deeper into Pyramid once the spine is in flexion).
Seated Forward Folds are an additional bonus, which can prepare the shoulders, hips, and spine for Tortoise Pose. A favorite is Marichi's Pose, which brings the shoulder and knee closer together, mimicking the action we'll experience in Tortoise Pose.
Getting into Tortoise
Begin in Butterfly Pose, hinging forward at the hips. Allow students 5 to 10 breaths in Butterfly to explore the range of motion in the hips and practice relaxing with the breath. Then have students stretch their legs wide for Seated Straddle Splits. Cue lengthening the spine with each inhale and, gently hinging at the hips, moving a bit deeper toward the floor with each exhale. Bring awareness to the stretch in the inner thighs and hamstrings. Remain for 5 to 10 breaths in Seated Straddle Splits.
From Seated Straddle Splits, have students gently bend their knees, creating a space where the arms can reach through. Placing hands under the knees, spider-walk fingers out at an angle so the arms are stretching opposite directions under the legs. This is a great place to pause and assess. If this expression of Tortoise Pose provides plenty of stretch, stay with it for several breaths. For students whose spine can accommodate a little more length, on the next inhale, open the chest, and then exhale into a deeper fold allowing the legs to gently straighten as much as possible. With each inhale, softly expand and lift. With each exhale, deepen and relax. Encourage students to allow their heads to gently relax in the same line as their spine (neither forcefully lifting nor tucking the chin).
Encourage students to remain in this shape of the pose for a few more breaths, or try one more option. Wiggle feet towards each other in front of the head (feet may or may not touch in front). Then wrap arms under legs and around the lower back (hands may or may not clasp behind the back).
Keep Breathing!
Encourage students to monitor breathing; each breath should be long and even. If, at any time, breathing feels jagged or frantic, remind students they are diving too deeply and invite them to release the stretch a little bit or come out of the pose entirely.
Tortoise can be a fantastic way to release stress and tension from the hips, back and shoulders and these tips will help you prep your students and give them lots of options so they feel successful and challenged.
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Blueberry/Blackberry CrispSaturday, June 2nd, 2012
I got this recipe from a magazine, but tweaked it a bit. I added the blackberries and tweaked the crisp a little. It came out really good!
1 Pint Blueberries
1-2 Pints Blackberries
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. lemon juice (or orange juice)
1/4 tsp. coarse salt
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup old fashioned rolled oats
1/2 cup glazed or candied walnuts
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. coarse salt
1 stick butter, softened
1/3 cup sugar
Preheat over to 375. Make the filling by mixing berries, sugar, cornstarch, lemon (or orange) juice, and salt in a bowl. Pour into 8 inch baking dish.
Cream butter and sugar in a mixer. In a medium bowl, mix together flour, oats, walnuts, baking powder, and salt. Stir flour mixture into butter mixture.
Using hands, squeeze topping into clumps and sprinkle on top of fruit filling. Bake until bubbly and topping is brown (around 50-60 minutes).
Cool before serving. Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream.


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Some of you have started reading the serial novelet by me over at Light Reading, "Silence Like Diamonds." Episode 1 came out last Friday; as I write this, Episode 2 is a few hours from being officially live, and that link should already be working for anyone who likes that "advanced peek" feeling.
While the serial lasts, I'm going to try to say something around the time each episode comes out.
The whole trick with this "credible near future" stuff is arithmetic and minimum times. Yip and her sister Yazzy are somewhere in their mid thirties at the time of the story, since each of them have established careers in a difficult field, but they're not grizzled old veterans, and what they actually do for a living (more about that in a future blog) is an occupation that doesn't fully exist in 2015.
The story is set around 2030, plus or minus maybe two years. So right now, Yip and Yazzy are going to some university and will graduate within a couple of years. They're at the young end of Millennials or the old end of Generation To Be Named.
So that's who they are: your kids (if you're my age), the summer intern where you work now, perhaps your students, maybe you on your first real job (assuming you just grabbed your first foothold on the tech ladder).
Now what about the world they're in?
The idea of near-term hard sf is to try to move things out of the lab into the real world, not to pull wish-fulfillments and sheer magic utterly out of fantasy. So this version of 2030 has no city on Mars, no hoverboards, no indistinguishable-from-people androids, no immortality injection and no franchise called "Just Fingers" that specializes in regenerating appendages for accident victims.
The time it takes from research results being announced to full commercial deployment varies a lot more than the time from early 20-something to experienced mid-30s, but there are some predictable aspects to that as well.
Here are nine of my favorite tricks for guessing how far into the future the deployments of new technologies are:
• Everyone lies about how close lab-only things are to going into application, prototype, and production. It's essential for getting funding, after all. So things that are just being shown off in lab tours now, and are supposed to be shrink-wrapped and delivered next year, will probably happen in three.
•home products come in at very high cost and fall rapidly in price, deploying swiftly as they do (some of you will remember when a smart phone was called a Blackberry and was a symbol of trendy wealth). It was a long, long trip from the Altair 8800 to the Apple IIe, TRS-80, and Commodore 64, about ten years to get to 5% market penetration -- but ten years after that, the home computer was ubiquitous and a majority of students going off to college were taking a computer with them.
•software and mathematical breakthroughs deploy all but instantly, because it's really just a matter of a proficient coder understanding what the math/logic says and writing it in valid code, and the transition from "one smart coder" to "a hundred thousand script kiddies" is nearly as quick as cut and paste.(This is particularly obvious in data science, where, for example, the time between a mathematician developing a new technique and a package to perform it becoming available in R, SAS, MySQL, etc. is measured in weeks rather than years).
•new business models flare up, go dormant, begin to grow quietly, and then suddenly have already taken over. "Oh, them, they're certainly trendy ... hey, they're still around but it's not exciting like it was ... gee, every year they have more market share, I wonder if ... I, for one, welcome the new masters of our humble economy..." For many years entrepreneur-coaches have used the example that anyone can make a better hamburger than McDonalds but making a better business model is something else again; I'd go farther and say that often even long after there has been a spectacular success, it's very difficult for most companies even to plagiarize a great business model. So no matter how advanced the tech, it will still have to be distributed via a large number of companies that don't know what they're doing, don't do it very well, and really aren't sure what they should be doing.
•"the street finds it own uses for technology," as William Gibson taught us all. Just the other day I saw an ad for a singing teacher who offers rates for "in person or Skype." I very much doubt that the developers of Skype intended that, any more than the developers at Google, Amazon, YouTube or Craigslist had any idea what else they'd be doing in the world. Whether it's as humble as WD-40 and duct tape, or as high end as DNA sequencing and nuclear magnetic resonance, somewhere out there someone will make it do something its creators never thought of.
•exponential growth without limit is exciting for sci-fi writers, but it is vanishingly rare; far more commonly, what looks like an "explosion" is merely the middle part of a logistic curve,Wil McCarthy wrote a pretty funny alternate history a few years ago by treating the 19th century explosive growth and connectivity of railroads as if the curve had been exponential rather than logistic. John Hersey's famous My Petition for More Space is another exponential that should have been logistic, about population growth (where do people in that world find time and space to do all that reproducing, and what exactly are they eating?). Infamously, the city of New York forecast in 1894 that within a few decades, all its resources would be needed just to haul horse manure out of the city (as we all know, this didn't happen to New York. It happened to Washington and Hollywood). The exponential curve may be fun and dramatic and sexy, but the logistic one is the one to bet on. What's growing rapidly today may saturate tomorrow and become as common as phones.
•almost as fun and entertaining as exponential growth is the often-forgotten possibility of reversal. Nuclear arsenals grew at apparently exponential rates for more than a decade, but today there are only about as many as there were in 1960.Meanwhile, we are told, Western prognosticators are indeed worried by the growth of the cities and the difficulties brought on by the rapid pace of scientific and technological progress. Evidently, if "futurology" had existed in Imperial Rome, where, as we are told, people were already erecting six-story buildings and children's merry-go-rounds were driven by steam, the fifth-century "futurologists" would have predicted for the following century r the construction of twenty-story buildings and the industrial utilization of steam power.
Certain high-fashion products show similar patterns: plumes for ladies' hats, plus-fours, and white plastic go-go boots. And in the larger scale of history, there are the concluding lines from Andrei Amalrik's Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984? (written in 1969, another attempt at a 15 year forecast):
As we now know, however, in the sixth century goats were grazing in the Forum just as they are doing now, beneath my window in this village.
What appears to be growing exponentially today may tomorrow reverse and become as dead as cassette tapes.
•"Information wants to be free" was not about politics, as is clearly shown by the very next sentence Stewart Brand spoke: "Information wants to be expensive." The root of this contradiction is that the value of information depends on who else has it and what they do with it, changes whenever it moves, and is catalytic for an enormous number of other processes. Information behaves rather like money with an unreadable expiration date or a randomly tested transaction limit; every time you gain value from it you risk making it worthless, and inevitably, sooner or later, something does.
•forecasts about coming ages and changes in human culture are generally rooted in observed truth, but nothing ever comes out as predicted. Robert Heinlein made up a nice little parable about the lab where they created four escape paths of exactly the same difficulty from a cage and put an ape in to see which one he'd use; the ape escaped the fifth way. Collectively, humans are that fifth-way ape; we often have some idea of where we're going but we rarely go there by the way that seems obvious, and when we get there, it doesn't look like much like what we thought it would.
I used all those tricks at one point or another in devising a world for "Silence Like Diamonds," but for the moment let me just talk about one way I used the last one.
You may have run across the currently-trendy notion of the Internet of Things, the idea of having almost everything in your physical environment wired to talk to almost everything else in the house. Eventually, presumably, your car (which is driving you home while you finish some paperwork) phones your house. It alerts the air conditioning that you are hung up in traffic and to delay coming on till you clear that bottleneck on the interstate. The refrigerator and blender start making up something soothing (and the fridge issues a call so that the drone from the local ice cream store schedules a restocking delivery). The music player queues up the "calm and happy" mix, the shower starts warming water in the reserve tank, and so forth.
But even away from home, your phone records (by checking RFIDs or their successors) all the things you look at in the store, and reports it to the store chain's intelligence system (with the phone company collecting a small fee). Face recognition software in half a dozen businesses around your workplace pick you up from security cameras and know what way you take from the parking lot to work. Knowing who walks by and what they like, stores on your route put more clothing you like in their windows.
All the gadgets in your life gang up to make you happier.
It always strikes me that in most such scenarios, we assume that the human being is a petty tyrant having a bad day. The machines either sound as if they are living in fear of our rage, or acting as very large comforting invisible nannies who will have our milk and cookies and a big hug ready for us no matter how bad the world has been, or like a neurotic parent desperately trying to please a tantrum-prone jaded brat. It all seems very infantilizing.
Compounding that infantilization, to give you everything you really want, before or at latest when you want it, an Internet of Things has to know everything you want or might want, including the wants you can't admit to and the wants you haven't felt yet and the wants that are only just emerging from the creative software of the marketing people. The liberal-feared surveillance state and conservative-feared nanny state are both much less intrusive than the probably-purely-commercial instant-gratification state. But of course, it's all much less scary because it's not about preventing you from doing what you want (like the cop on every corner), or making you do what someone else wants (like the nanny in every bedroom). No, not at all. It's about always giving you what you want as soon as you want it, and knowing enough to do that.
Like Santa. Remember, he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake ... (As Allan Sherman remarked, who did he think he was, J. Edgar Hoover?)
So you've got a world that runs on the ability for everyone to quickly know anything that is public -- and the value of keeping information private is astronomical. The relationship between cybersecurity and security breaches becomes something like the relationship between health care and death: you can buy huge amounts of the former, and make the latter very unlikely, but the reaper (or the hacker) always wins in the long run. In such a world, the number and variety of communications security services and systems is going to go through a "Cambrian explosion" -- the evolutionary phenomenon that when there is a drastic increase in the variety of niches, all sorts of strange things grow, making more niches in which more things grow --
Until the reversal, or until the first derivative of that logistic curve starts to bend downward. There, that ought to be a cliffhanger to hold you for a while ...
Friday I'll probably talk a bit about the drones that have been a big part of the plot so far, since I've gotten a few emails about them in the last couple days. After that ... well, information wants to be expensive. And time is money. So after a bit more time, more information.


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One soccer field and several matches at the same time...
You can't imagine much more fun!
...and if you have some great supporters and the best cheerleader, the emotion is guaranteed!
The other players are so big!!!
- Hey boy, can I play with your ball?
- Don't you even dare to touch it!
- I guess now you've learnt not to mess with the bigger ones!!!!
- Oh my god! she has to visit a a doctor, but she can't walk!!!
- Don't panic! I have the perfect solution!!!
Let's go to the hospital!
Let's go to the hospital!
- The doctor says you will have the plaster cast for 5 weeks.
So you will have to learn how to use the crutches!!!
- Come on! Don't get down!
We've brought some pizza to cheer you up!
- Look, they are taking pictures of us!
They surely know we are famous football players, we must show them what we can do with a ball!!!
What are you doing!?! you can't kick the ball with a plaster in your leg!
Let's forget soccer and do a Pizza Picnic!
- This place is great for a Pizza Picnic!
- Theres's 6 slices of pizza,,,
... but we are only 5!
everybody should take 1 slice...
except our own great David who has confronted the terrible Goliath boy...
- I'm the hero of the day, I deserve 2 slices of pizza!
What an ideal place for a Pizza Picnic...
... we have to admit that sometimes the city can be as bucolic as the countryside!


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Travel at your own pace on quiet routes with very little traffic. We have children's bikes, child seats, child trailers and even tag-along bikes for rent. This family cycling tour offers adventure, variety, and heaps of fun. You will cycle through green polders, along the coast and among tulip fields - so come in springtime! There will plenty of time to play at the beach or take a leisurely boat trip through the countryside.
Start: Zoetermeer Finish: Zoetermeer
The hotel is located in the centre of Zoetermeer. If you have time for sporting activities in Zoetermeer on arrival or departure day, these are our tips:
On your marks… Get set… GO! After a big breakfast, take a bike ride to The Hague. For traditional sightseeing visit the Royal Palace & Gardens, Parliament, churches etc. If your children appreciate the arts, opt to take them to see quaint Panorama Mesdag or the amazing Escher Museum of optical illusions. Teenagers (10+) will be fascinated by "De Wonderkamers", a truly excellent interactive art exhibition, at Gemeente Museum. Alternatively, learn all about the Netherlands whilst ambling through delightful Madurodam (Miniature Holland).
At breakfast, don't forget to try Dutch chocolate sprinkles on your bread! Then hit the road and pedal towards the coast. On the way, you will pass through a posh and leafy community called Wassenaar where our king and queen used to live with their three lovely daughters. If your children like amusement parks, opt to stop off at Duinrel. Top attractions include the Dragonfly rollercoaster and a waterslide paradise but the playgrounds are great too. Later on, head up the coast enjoying the sea, beach, dunes and woods. At the end of the day, watch the sun set into the sea in Noordwijk aan Zee.
Noordwijk aan Zee lies in the Dune and Bulb Region. Make sure to come in springtime when streaks of bright colours light up the landscape: Tulip fields are absolutely sensational! Who will take the best picture of the day? Keukenhof flower park is world famous and extremely busy in the 8 weeks a year it is open. If you can handle crowds, don't miss the spectacular floral displays – they are unforgettable! When you've had enough of flowers, opt to visit Space Expo for everything you ever wanted to know about astronauts, rockets, satellites etc. Alternatively, head back to the beach and go for a paddle in the sea or build a sandcastle.
The scenic route back to Zoetermeer takes you inland past Katwijk, Leiden and Voorschoten. The historical university town of Leiden boasts some charming canals and excellent museums. Our tips: Naturalis (natural history museum) holds wide appeal – the kids won't want to leave! Corpus - The Journey through the Human Body is a great experience for kids! The botanical gardens are quietly impressive. The National Museum of Antiquities exhibits finds from Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Roman Empire. In the National Museum of Ethnology the cultures of the world pass you by. Tourists like to visit the windmill "Molen de Valk" and cruise the canals in a rented motorboat.
Starting dates 2020:
Daily from April 1 till September 25.
|Price pp
|Single room, breakfast
|Double room, breakfast
|Extra night (breakfast only)
|Rental bike
|Child bike
|Extra services
|Bike Breakdown pass
|€ 3.50 x 5
|Child seat
|€ 5.00 x 5
|Bike theft insurance
|€ 3.00 x 5
|E-bike theft insurance
|€ 6.00 x 5
|Extra luggage
|€ 5.00 x 5
|Add on bike
|€ 6.00 x 5
|Child trailer
|€ 17.50 x 5
|Bike helmet
|per piece
You can book this trip daily from April 1 till September 25.
The closest airport to Zoetermeer is Rotterdam The Hague (RTM)
Parking possibilities at the hotel
If you don't bring your own, you can rent a bicycle from us. Our 24 gear touring bikes will be delivered to you at the start of your holiday and you must return them before you go home. All bikes are equipped with a chain lock and a repair kit. Hybrid and e-bikes also include a saddlebag.
Chain lock Saddlebag Repair kit
Our hybrid bikes have 21-gears with hand brakes. We will assign the bikes according to gender, as we have both men- and women style bikes.
For children who are at least 125 cm, we can also arrange bikes (these are 24"or 26" for children that are bigger than 140 cm)
Tandem bikes are suitable for two adults only. The tandem bikes have a frame size of 48 cm. We mostly use the Victoria Spezial 8.7. This tandem bike comes with 24-derailleur gears or nuvinci gears. The height of the handle bars on a tandem bike cannot be adjusted.
E-bikes are always on request, as we have a limited amount of e-bikes available. Our e-bikes are unisex, have handbrakes and have ten gears. Our smallest e-bike has a frame size of 49 cm and is suitable for persons that are 155 cm (5ft1) or taller.
GPS-tracks availible


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As you know we have released Linkgroup Gold 3.4 with new functionality and options, but almost at the same time LinkedIn released new version of group messaging server which affects proper work of the bot.
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We have received several reports that Linkgroup gold 3.4 stops working after sending more than 500 messages per day – it happens because of new LinkedIn limitations.
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a. Open group members list and check address line – if it does not have &sik= parameter like this: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=&gid=2032540&sik=1429105213325 – your account is limited.
b. Send message to group member manually from regular browser – if it redirects you to inbox – your account is limited.
c. Send more than 10 messages to group member manually from regular browser – if you start getting errors "You are no longer allowed to message the user" – your account is limited.
As a result of LinkedIn update some accounts are currently not able to send messages to group members at all (even on regular browser without the bot).
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If you can't work with 3.4, but you can send manually group messages using inbox – update to 3.6 – this version supports sending messages from inbox (as much as allowed by LinkedIn).
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1. If you work with version 2.6 – continue to work with it until it stops working, then update to 3.6
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White Sox pitching ace Chris Sale has foot fracture
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Chicago White Sox ace Chris Sale is out for at least three weeks after breaking a bone in his right foot in what the team described as an accident at home.
Unloading the back of his truck, general manager Rick Hahn explained Saturday.
Sale, though, told quite a different tale. Asked what happened, the three-time All-Star launched into a longer story, deadpanning the whole way, about some intruder breaking into his house at night.
''So I hit him with a roundhouse, tied him up'' and put him by the curb, Sale told reporters.
Asked if he was concerned about his foot, Sale went on with a straight face: ''Well, yeah, by looking at the other guy's head when I kicked him, it didn't look good.''
''Initially I was a little worried, but after the X-rays and all that stuff, it worked out,'' he said. ''I don't see this trickling into the regular season at all.''
The 25-year-old lefty was on crutches in camp, and the injury put in jeopardy a possible start for him on opening day. The White Sox begin April 6 at Kansas City.
''Things happen. It was really just a freak incident,'' Sale said.
Sale had X-rays on Saturday at a hospital in Glendale. He'll have more tests after the swelling goes down.
''I came into this spring as ready as I've ever been, so this is a minor setback,'' he said.
Sale was 12-4 with 208 strikeouts and a 2.17 ERA last season, finishing third in the AL Cy Young Award voting. He missed a month last year with a flexor strain in his left elbow, but returned at top form.
''I mean, essentially it's a sprained ankle. I'll be fine,'' Sale said. ''They aren't going to have to cut it off. I'll be walking on it in a few days. I'm not going to get down on myself.''
At the same time, Sale said he's not going to rush back.
''I'm not a doctor. I'm here to do my rehab and get it right as fast as I can,'' he said. ''That's what I'm going to do. I've never done anything like this before and I don't know what the timetable is.''
While the White Sox had not yet announced their rotation for the beginning of the season, it was expected that Sale would start on opening day for the third straight season.
If he's not ready by then, other candidates to fill Sale's rotation spot include veteran Brad Penny and Carlos Rodon, the team's first-round draft pick last June.
Jeff Samardzija, Jose Quintana, John Danks and Hector Noesi already are set in the rotation.
''Clearly we're going to err on the side of caution and we'll know more in the coming weeks,'' Hahn said. ''Due to the off-days early in the season we do not need a fifth starter, so to speak, until April 12. That would buy you another week.''
''But this is something that should heal completely in three weeks and he can resume baseball activities without restriction at that time,'' he said.


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Also, the former magazine editor in me is going, "softwares? softwares?!" but that's another problem entirely.
Read the rest of what American Express said and see the screenshot here.


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Established in 1991 in cooperation with the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA, and the University of Ottawa, Canada, Riga Business School (RBS) is a management – education institution within Riga Technical University (RTU).
The school has a solid reputation and more than 1015 MBA graduates, the majority of who occupy leading managerial positions both in Latvia and abroad. RBS is the only school in the Baltics offering North-American style MBA both in teaching standards and structure, containing intensive case studies, group work and active classroom involvement over at least two years of studies.
Strong commitment to high quality, the principles of North American MBA programs and all courses presented in English make RBS distinctive in Latvia and beyond.
Riga Business School is a member of PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education). The PRME are a call to encourage and facilitate the movement of business schools toward approaches that meet the new needs and the expectations of the business world and the demands of a new generation of students with regard to sustainability and good corporate citizenship.


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Hello folks
It is beginning to look as if very few/no common or Sandwich terns will be nesting on the two islands in the Oysterbeds' lagoon – black-headed and Mediterranean gulls seem to have bagged almost all of the suitable space, leaving very little if any room for the later arrivals (including the three pairs of oystercatchers that have been seen feeding, roosting & copulating but not making nesting attempts).
No black-headed gull chicks have yet been seen, but the first hatchlings will probably appear within the next few days although the main hatching will probably be towards the end of next week or later.
The recently imported and graded shingle (100 tonnes at the western end of the NW Bund) has encouragingly attracted some high-tide roosting terns – today, there were eight little terns (plus two more on the weathered chalky material west of the import – an area that will be flooded by most of the higher spring tides, hence much sought after by little terns!). There are now five likely potential nesting sites for little terns (Baker's island, the recharge on South Binness Island, the North Spit, the western end of the NW Bund and the raft on the Deeps at FM.
It would be great if little terns used all of these sites – even if only a few pairs at some – that would enhance likelihood of at least some productivity!
At least one pair of common terns looked as if they were considering nesting on the shingle import.
Hopefully, there will soon be terns nesting there and a suitably experienced contractor will have erected a security fence to deter people and animals from accessing the bund.
It was good to see Orange Tip, Green-veined White and Small White butterflies on the 'Mound', which also has a good flowering show of Bluebells, Celandines, Bugles etc (but Milk Thistles seem to be in terminal decline).
Chris C
Note FM = Farlington Marshes


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Kull the Conqueror
A barbarian named Kull becomes ruler after defeating the old king in battle, thus receiving his crown. But direct heirs of the king, trying to topple Kull and regain the throne, bring an old witch queen Akivasha back to life. Their plan backfires, however, as Akivasha plans to have her demon lords rule the kingdom alone. The only thing that can stop her is the breath of the god Volka, and Kull.
Released: 1997-08-29
Duration: 95m
Country: United States of America


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Happy first review of 2019, dear readers!
I wanted to start the blog year with a review of something I love and is absolutely gorgeous – the Blood Sugar Palette from Jeffree Star Cosmetics. The "Love Sick" collection did come out a year ago, but the palette has consistently sold out every time it has been restocked so far and is very much still the talk of town.
Plus Jeffree just revealed Blood Sugar part two or 'Blue Blood' which will be coming out end of March (my wallet is already crying), so I figured it would be the perfect time for a post.
As a person with little to no self control over makeup purchases I ordered the palette from Beautylish on its launch day with the three solid lipsticks from the collection (yes, I'm one of those people who click 'Buy Now' the very second a product becomes available). Since then the palette has landed in BeautyBay as well, but as I mentioned, it has sold out pretty fast after every restock. The price of the palette is 52$ in USA and 51,50 euro in Europe. It contains 27 gram of product and 18 shades in matte and shimmery finishes. The price per gram comes down to about 1.93$ or 1.90 euro. As you probably have noticed the pan size is smaller compared Jeffrees previous two palettes and now almost matches the typical eyeshadow pan size we are used to. The packaging imitates a doctors bag with clasps and a mirror on the inside. It's covered with red faux leather and closes very tightly. It came with a white cardboard sleeve which I kept, because apparently I also hoard makeup packaging. The whole palette is very well made and feels expensive, but is also very heavy and bulky, so that, plus me being scared of even a minor damage coming down upon it, are pretty strong arguments against traveling with it.
The colors in the palette range from neutrals to pinks, reds and purples. Most of the shades are matte with the exception of Donor, Candy Floss, Sweetener & Blood Sugar. I love the color story. I can easily do an all natural daytime look or go with some crazy dark red eyes. To be honest at first I wasn't entirely sure I would be able to pull off the reds without looking like I have a severe case of pinkeye, but thankfully all of the shadows are quite cool in tonality and look good on the skin. Here is the shade breakdown and swatches:
*All swatches are made over Urban Decay Primer Potion with Zoeva 234 Smoky Shader. Finger swatches are on the left side. The brush was dry. I use Colour Switch sponge between shades.
(BTW, poor 'Calabasas' is in this state, because I can't open lipsticks…)
Each lipstick contains around 3.55 grams of product and costs 18$.
This post is also available in: Bulgarian


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SoupCycle – Local Organic Soups Delivered
I've seen a ton of great business ideas come and go. Some of them were ahead of their time, others were great ideas poorly executed. Most often though, great ideas go down in burning flames because people aren't patient enough to let their ideas blossom and grow. They want to get from small to huge in a blink of an eye.
SoupCycle is a fantastic example of a great business, based on a fantastic idea that is getting the time and space it needs to really grow. The entire SoupCycle company is comprised of just three people. (Pretty mind blowing when you hear other local start ups like Forkfly have 16 employees!) Owners Jed and Shauna handle every aspect of the business from soup to nuts (quite literally) with some help from one other part time delivery person. The impact of this is a business whose owners are extremely in touch with the actual business and its customers. For example, as part of SoupCycle's regular weekly email to their customers, there is a request for feedback on each week's soup. SoupCycle makes changes to their line-up based directly on that feedback.
The SoupCycle service is a pretty simple concept. Every week SoupCycle delivers a container of soup, a box of salad and some bread. If you've got a bigger family they deliver two containers of soup, and two boxes of salad. One of the things that sets them apart from other food delivery options is that they deliver this soup entirely by bicycle. SoupCycle 's soup selections are entirely based on 'what's in season locally' and their bread is baked at a small local bakery (Little T American Baker).
For my first SoupCycle delivery I was greeted by owner Jed Lazar and handed two quarts of Potato Kale soup (the vegan option) along with four big slices of french baguette and two boxes of salad. Jed rides a recumbent bike with an electric assist. By the time he delivered our soup he had already clocked an impressive sixteen miles.
The soup is delivered cold and SoupCycle recommends you put out a cooler if you expect to be away for more than three hours during their delivery days. Many people get the soup delivered to their office so they can take it home from there.
The evening of our first delivery we heated up the Potato Kale soup and had dinner in moments. The two quarts of soup easily fed my family of five (two adults and three children) with about one serving of soup left for leftovers. The Potato Kale soup was delicious, well spiced, perfectly cooked and brimming with flavor.
I had heard a lot about SoupCycle's salad dressing (which is also impressively vegan) and so was eager to see if it lived up to the hype. It does. The salad is a nice mix of fresh greens, shredded carrot and cranberries but elevates to something entirely amazing with the dressing. With SoupCycle's soup being so good it's hard to say that you should try their service out just for the salad dressing, but it is THAT good. The bread from Little T was soft and flavorful and I recommend you try dipping it in the dressing!
SoupCycle offers three different options for their soups: vegan, vegetarian and an option with meat. Jed indicated that their most popular selection is vegetarian even among people who eat meat.
Here's an example of two weeks of their selections:
The Cumin Chihuahua (vegan)
A flavorful cumin-infused tortilla and corn soup.
Cream of Spinach (veggie)
Your mouth will approve of this tasty soup that's full of nutrients. Made with coconut milk.
Chicken Noodle (meaty)
One of the best chicken noodle soups you'll ever taste. Savory chicken, wide noodles, plenty of celery and carrots and just the right spice.
French Lentil (vegan)
Hearty lentil soup with flavorful vegetables, the distinctive taste of red wine vinegar and a touch of Dijon mustard.
Who Framed Ginger Rabbit (veggie)
Sweet and savory carrot soup with a strong punch of ginger.
Clam Chowda' (meaty)
A creamy clam chowder so tasty you'll think you're dining in New England.
To order SoupCycle, you sign up for a SoupScription on SoupCycle's site which sets you up for a weekly delivery of the soup style of your choice. SoupCycle bills you the Wednesday of your delivery and you can make changes to the following week's delivery (vacation hold, adding or dropping your level of soup or going a la cart without salad and bread) by Friday at midnight. SoupCycle soupscriptions start at $18 for 1 quart of soup + bread and salad (which serves 2 people) and goes all the way up to dinner for 6.
The soup, salad and bread for 4 at $30 ended up feeding 5 of us for a net cost of $6 per person for fresh, local and organic soup delivered. A pretty affordable option for such a tasty meal.
I knew I liked the concept of SoupCycle but I'm frankly surprised by just how much I enjoyed the whole SoupCycle experience. It's refreshing to deal with a company so committed to its customers with such a high quality product. SoupCycle's soups are just plain fantastic and when you combine that with their truly exceptional salad dressing you've got a combination that just can't lose. I highly recommend SoupCycle!
For more information on SoupCycle:
- Visit SoupCycle's Web Site
- Read our Interview with SoupCycle
- Jed Lazar's Ten Lessons of a Bicycle Delivery Service from Interesting Portland
- Bike Portland's Business Booming for SoupCycle
Tea and Poetry in Portland
Portland is home to some truly special places. Things happen in this town that simply don't happen anywhere else. One example of this is Heaven's Tea, run by "Tea Monk" Paul Rosenberg (he's actually a Tea Master but far too modest to say so). Located at the base of Mt. Tabor, Heaven's Tea holds tea ceremonies in both an outdoor tea house as well as an attic tea space. Each location could easily be classified as a "sacred space", adorned with ancient Tibetan art with design and construction work by some of Portland's most talented artisans. Tea ceremonies are often accompanied by fresh cut flowers and local chocolates creating a truly remarkable environment.
As majestic as the setting is, the tea ceremonies would be nothing without Paul Rosenberg, one of the foremost practitioners of the art of tea on the west coast. From 30 year Pu-erh to Phoenix Tea from 400 year old tea trees, you never know what Paul will pull out and serve at one of his tea sessions. Paul is a tea maestro and he brews and serves rare teas you simply can't purchase anywhere else.
The rare teas served at Heaven's Tea have very a deep and profound impact on your state of being. If you've ever practiced yoga and felt yourself drift into another 'space', you'll start to get an idea of what drinking tea with Paul is all about. If your image of tea involves ripping open a tea bag and plunging it into a cup of water, or a brightly colored iced bubble tea that you slurp through a fat straw, prepare to have your mind blown.
Heaven's Tea has a wide range of events every month, from tea classes to tastings, tea and meditation, and even private one-on-one tea sessions. This week I attended an evening event called "New Moon Tea and Poetry". Sitting in the outdoor tea house with five other people, we sampled a wide range of rare teas, sipped sake, read and wrote poetry. Although I am a writer I tend to be a little shy when it comes to writing poetry, but the evening was so inspiring that the words just flowed.
Take a deep breath
While you may not see the road ahead, it is there
You cannot control the direction of a river
Neither can the rain
So breathe my friend
The journey is long and you have just begun.
Heaven's Tea offers a unique experience in both tea and getting in touch with the sacred spaces within all of us. Paul's work is absolutely not denominational in any way and he tailors each session to the people in attendance. One thing is absolutely guaranteed: you'll never forget the experience.
For more information about Heaven's Tea:
- Visit Heaven's Tea Web Site
- Email [email protected]
- Call Heaven's Tea at 503-230-0953 to schedule a class or tasting
More Info on Tea in Portland:
SoupCycle Interview
One of the things I love about Portland is the way people follow their passion. Portland isn't just a town of great ideas, it's a place where people put their ideas into motion. One such great idea is SoupCycle which serves fresh, organic and locally made soups by bicycle. I was so intruged by this business I decided to talk to one of the companies founders Jed Lazar about SoupCycle (a full review of the service with pics will come soon).
How did you get the idea for Soup Cycle?
We heard about someone in Texas who tried to deliver soup by bicycle. He made it work for a while, but eventually switched to delivering by truck. To Shauna and I – this was the perfect challenge. We knew it could be done and wanted to prove that bicycles are a feasible form of cargo transportation within cities.
Why Soup?
Because it's perfect! There are great, tasty soups for every season of the year that use local vegetables.
Why Portland? Does SoupCycle fit Portland better than other cities?
Definitely. This city values healthy foods and healthy lifestyles. We all want to eat scrumptious foods that are good for us, but who has time to put together healthy meals every day? SoupCycle is a Soupscription- it's one healthy meal a week that our customers don't have to worry about. Plus, the city's bicycle network makes bicycle-delivery possible.
How does the expense of a Soupscription compare to other dinner options people can order?
A Soupscription is almost always less than going out to a restaurant, and a lot of times it's less than cooking for yourself. When you make a recipe at home you typically have to buy a lot of new ingredients. If you're like me, you go to the store to shop for dinner and end up spending way more than you meant to. Our soups are $9 for two full servings, or $18 for soup, rustic bread and fresh salad for two people. And that's for organic foods made with local ingredients and delivered by bicycle to you! It doesn't get better than that. Our prices are low because we don't rent an expensive retail space. We just do deliveries, and that keeps our costs down.
How far in advance do you determine what soups you are going to make?
Two weeks in advance.
Do your customers ever submit soup recipes?
They do! I've got a great recipe for hearty chicken and potato soup I've been meaning to make that a customer sent me recently.
What's your favorite soup? Why?
My favorite soup is The Democratic Republic of Peanut Chicken. It's an African peanut chicken stew that's hearty beyond belief and full of tasty goodness.
What's been the biggest challenge for SoupCycle so far?
We've been working for a while on a project to switch the containers we use. Right now, we're using recyclable plastic containers, but we'd really like to be using more durable containers that we can reclaim from customers each week, wash and reuse. We've had some difficulty finding a good solution that meets all our needs, but we haven't given up yet.
Has there been a moment that's made you feel that all the hard work is all completely worth it?
Honestly, I feel like that most of the time. This is a great city to own a small business. People bike by us on the Hawthorne Bridge and tell us they like what we're doing. Our customers love the soups, and it makes my day when I get an emails like the one I got last week: "We love the soup! My family always looks forward to Tuesdays". A few weeks ago made our 3,000th bicycle-soup delivery and we feel really good about that. Yep, it's a lot of work to own a small business, but there have been plenty of rewards.
Right now you deliver Soup, Salad and Bread. Any plans to deliver other kinds of products along with the soup?
We may eventually. We love to hear recommendations from your readers.
Where do you get your ingredients from?
We get most of our ingredients from Ladybug through Organically Grown Company.
How many people do you currently have delivering soup?
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Live Blog From Portland Opera's Opening Night of Rigoletto
The only thing worst than a theater critic is a theater blogger. Good criticism is well thought out, reasoned and considered. I have mere moments to jot my thoughts about a production which dozens of people have toiled weeks and even months on.
Given that caveat, I can only really give my first impressions of Portland Opera's production of Rigoletto. Performance wise Mark Rucker is putting forward a very strong performance as Rigoletto pretty much eclipsing Richard Troxell, but both men are clearly upstaged by the sheer vocal beauty and presence of Sarah Coburn as Gilda, Rigoletto's daughter. Coburn elevates ever scene she is in. For me the high point so far has been the duet between Gilda and Rigoletto.
I've had a few issues so far with the Portland Opera's production of Rigoletto. The stage is murky and dimly lit. I understand what they are going for, but it doesn't work. The dim stage seems to mute some of the performers on stage and in the second part of the first act after the opening number the chorus never quite is able to break out of the shadows.
The stage is also an issue. There was a huge pause between the first and second scene. Long at the point of being too long. After touring the huge stage I can understand the issues they have with it. Hopefully the transition will go smoother the next performance.
But the Opera itself is enjoyable. I kept thinking about how Rigoletto gets cursed at work in the course of doing his job, how the issues of his work follow his home and impact his home life. Somehow this feels oddly timely. Should Rigoletto be punished for doing his job as a court jester? He's hates the fact that he has to ridicule for a living and yet at the behest of the Duke he is forced to do it. Punished for a job he doesn't want to do…But as a fool Rigoletto seems to be pretty sharp. Compare him to the fool in Hamlet and realize that Rigoletto is in fact a reluctant fool.
Perhaps Rigoletto is more the fool for thinking he can imprison his daughter and keep her from the world. Perhaps its this sin, the one of trying to control her that he's ultimately punished for. Does his proximity to the Duke color his view of the world? Does he see all men as lecherous?
Like I said, these are the first things that run through my head as I watch this opera. I've found that I'm not reading the subtitles as much as listening and watching what's happening on stage. I realize that I'm really drawn in when the emotion and presence of the actors is more important than ever word they say. Heck I can't understand half the lyrics of songs I listen to on my iPod, why this need to have every word clearly defined.
The Opera is compelling and I'll be interested to see how the next few acts are…
The rough scene change of the first act clearly threw the performers off their game as the second act is noticeably stronger. Realized I totally forgot to mention the stellar performance by Keith Miller as Count Monterone. He's on stage for mere moments and he's simply fantastic. But the show is all about the duets between Rigoletto and Gilda. The opera revolves around them and the union of Mark Rucker, Sarah Coburn and conductor George Manhan is the real reason to see this opera. Richard Troxell was much better in the second act with admittedly more to work with.
I feel remiss for not mentioning how much I've enjoyed the orchestration, the musical performance has been really solid. George Manhan makes you forget he's there, nice to see a conductor so pitch perfect and so humble.
Story wise I find it interesting how Rigoletto sheds his role as the fool and tries to assume power, he shoes all the lords away and threatens his revenge on the Duke. The chorus says how you have to indulge children and madmen sometimes, but is Rigoletto either? Is the fool really able to have power? In the first act he sits on the Duke's throne in mockery, but in act II he seems to have some real authority over the other men who seem mortified that the practical joke they plaid on him was not with his mistress but with his daughter. I love the moment they realize this, it's the best moment with the chorus who all collectively seem to feel the same feeling at the same moment. Wish there had been more of that at the end of act I.
I love the line that Rigoletto delivers that talks about how much can change over the course of a day. What would have happened if Rigoletto just left well enough alone, listened to his daughter and accepted her love for the Duke? Is his undoing pride here? At the top of the act it's almost impossible to feel any sence of empathy for The Duke who thinks his love is gone, Are we being asked by Verdi to want the Duke to be dead. When you really think about it all Act 2 is pretty subversive. The Fool becomes the force of vengence and the Duke becomes the fool… You know it doesn't end well and yet when Rigoletto and Gilda sing together some how you wish that it could….
The final act has all the juicy moments you go to opera for. It's big and tragic. The one issue I have is that Richard Troxell never makes us believe that the women of Rigoletto would literally love the Duke to death. When Gilda dies in place of the Duke all I can ask is WHY? I mean she knows full well that the Duke is a womanizer. La Dona e mobile is practically an insult to women in general and the Duke professes his same "love" to Maddelen as he does to Gilda and yet she dies in his place. I can understand her trying to save her father from Sparafucile's knife but The Duke?
Perhaps if the Duke were played more electrically we'd understand. But Troxell moves through the third act without the charisma we need to believe. He sings La Dona e mobile like it's a greatest hits he's had to sing over and over, but would rather be singing something else. It's a critical moment lost. We've seen him profess his love to her in the first act and we needed to see him be both despicable and utterly irritable here. Maddelen sells it, Gilda sells it but the Duke doesn't.
The high point of the third act for me is the quartet between Rigoletto, Gilda Sparafucle and Maddelen. Portland Opera's staging of Rigolleto really comes alive outside of the solos. Heck it comes to life any time Sarah Coburn steps onto the stage.
I find myself asking… what if Rigoletto hadn't waited to exact his revenge? He asks Sparafucile to wait to set up the hit on the Duke, is this a nod to the indecision that faced Hamlet. Had Rigoletto hired him in act one then Gilda wouldn't have died! And ultimately Rigoletto pays the ultimate price for his attempt at vengeance… Is Verdi siding with the royalty or covering up the subversive subplot, and what happens next? Will Rigoletto have what it takes to face the Duke himself or is Gilda's death his literal ruin. A lot of stuff to chew on…
What strikes me the most is how in an opera mostly populated by male roles (and an all male chorus) it's the women performers who shine the brightest. Both Sarah Coburn as Gilda and Jossie Perez as Maddalena are superb. While their characters fall blindly in love with the Duke, while Gilda is kidnapped and 'ravished' and ultimately killed, she's still the strongest of the bunch…
In all, I enjoyed Rigoletto very much. I did have issues with the lighting, but in the face of everything else it feels like a nit. The show is worth seeing for no other reason than to see the union of Sarah Coburn, Mark Rucker and the Portland Opera orchestra. If Richard Troxell can up his game as The Duke during the run (and I truly believe he can) it could really morph into something special, he's the key to elevate this very good production to a really great one, if he can make us believe then it becomes something much bigger and profound.
Here are links to my fellow Portland Opera Bloggers and their take on the evening:
- Julie Grauert of Good Day Oregon
- BikePortland
- CulturePulp Opera Blog Sketches
- OurPDXNetwork
- another portland blog
- KGW's 7 on The Square TV Coverage
Other Portland Opera Rigoletto Links:
Back Stage at Portland Opera's Rigoletto
Here are photos and video (almost) live from backstage at the Portland Opera's production of Rigoletto:
Back Stage Tour of Portland Opera's Rigoletto – Part I:
Back Stage Tour of Portland Opera's Rigoletto – Part II:
Back Stage Tour of Portland Opera's Rigoletto – Upstairs on The Stage:
Portland Opera's Rigolleto – The Twitter Feed
Here's an archive of the live twitter feed from the Portland Opera's Live Bog event:
- Final thoughts from my Portland Opera production of Rigoletto… Live Blogged http://bit.ly/dKeKm #
- The finale at Portland Operas Rigoletto http://yfrog.com/0e8svj #
- Live blog up now updated with Act II of Rigoletto at Portland Operal http://bit.ly/dKeKm #
- First act down and the opera is pretty good. Very dimly lit. Not a choice I'm really a fan of. #
- Very long pause after the first scene as they muscle the stage change. So far I am half reading the English. Portland Opera Rigolleto. #
- My seat at the Portland Opera Rigoletto http://yfrog.com/0ev9ij #
- Almost time for the Opera! Rigoletto!!! #
- great comment about this opera frokm @pxcaballero "It's like the Law and Order of Operas" #
- Every tried to blog with 50 or so people coming up to you and asking you what are you are doing. It's Blogger Night at the Portland Opera #
- Amusingly the opera's network is called H1N1 and it's just as slow spreading… #
- After a nice tour of the set (which has been making the rounds for 20 years) we are on display in the lobby of the Portland Opera #
- More back stage photos at the Portland Opera http://yfrog.com/0g8bnj #
- Bloggers back stage at the Portland Opera http://yfrog.com/0mu2nbj #
- Backstage at the Portland Opera http://yfrog.com/714dbj #
- At the opera with some of the other bloggers including @culturepulp #
- Getting an early start. Figured it was such a nice day I would take max and walk to the Portland Opera tonight. #
- RT: @TheSquare Joe Smith heading to Portland Opera tonight for Rigoletto. It's blogger night $10 rush tix! – @Onportland will be there too #
- Getting psyched for the Portland Opera on Friday. Just checked out Richard Troxell's site (The Duke of Mantua) http://www.richardtroxell.tv #
- We will be live blogging tonight's performance of Portland Opera's Rigoletto. http://tinyurl.com/c85ssu #
Other Portland Opera Rigoletto Links:
Portland Opera's Rigoletto – A Study Guide
The Portland Opera is hopping on the blog bandwagon with a special opportunity for a select group of bloggers to live blog the Opera with their production of Rigoletto.
On Portland will be in attendance on opening night May 8th (starting at 7:30pm at the Keller Auditorium) and will be covering the opera live here on the site as well as on twitter. Follow us @OnPortland for up to date coverage of this opera and then check in here on the site at around 9pm for the first installment of our live review (we get to post at the first intermission).
Also if you're going to be in the audience for opening night, let us know either here in the comments or on twitter.
In the mean time, it's always good to study up on your opera before heading out so here are some useful bits about Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto:
- Portland Opera's Study Guide for Rigolletto
- Photos from the rehearsal of Rigoletto at Portland Opera
- Wikipedia's History of Rigoletto
- Luciano Pavarotti's famous rendition of The Duke
Also here are some interviews with key people from the Portland Opera Production of Rigoletto:
Mark Rucker on singing Rigoletto:
Richard Troxell as the Duke:
Conductor George Manahan


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HENRICO, Va. (WTVR) — A wanted sex offender eventually surrendered to Virginia State Police after two and a half hour barricade in the West End, near an elementary school.
Convicted sex offender Thomas H. Ward, 40, of Richmond was wanted for a felony probation violation. Virginia State Police said they received a tip concerning his whereabouts.
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It's the middle of January and Blue Monday, what a killer combination. I'm currently sat on the train on my way to a blog shoot that almost got rained off (thanks very much gale force winds and torrential rain, good old British weather), and I'm trying very hard to be positive but I find it so hard in January. I keep having to remind myself that this wintery cold period won't last forever, and better days are yet to come. Last night we just booked a little getaway to Italy at the beginning of Feb, back to Rome (I LOVE Rome, it's beautiful) and I'm now counting down the days.
I'm not usually a leopard print kind of girl, I've had these boots forever and worn them like twice, three times? I love the shape of them though. My perfect boot shape. I need these boots in every colour basically. I do find it harder to style patterned boots, as I love patterned clothing and prefer to stick to more neutral boot colours, but who couldn't resist a bit of double leopard print? This blouse looks great with denim or white jeans as it does suede, and I love the cut out neck detail and flared sleeves, making it look that little bit more expensive than it was (£18!).


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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
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San Francisco's epileptic summer weather be damned, I gotta tell ya I'm a year-round popsicle man. Henceforth I strongly recommend Fany Gerson's new book on Mexican ice pops, shaved ice and aguas frescas (aptly titled), PALETAS. Thanks to Ms. Fany I've been maintaining a functional sugar high/drunken bender off sour cream, cherry and tequila popsicles for about three days now, and being that you don't have to brown bag icy treats the cops can't touch me till I pass out on the block. YUM!
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Cruddas exposes himself as a closet Blairite after all
My opinion of Cruddas has gone thru the floor, with his backing D.Miliband. Thank heavens Cruddas didn't stand for the Labour leadership himself: with such poor judgement, he wld have made a terrible Leader, evidently!
Cruddas says he is backing DM because of some warm words DM has uttered concerning communitarianism. Well, I'm a communitarian too - but that is no reason to prefer DM to the only two remotely leftish and greenish candidates in the race, namely EM and Abbott.
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Transient effects of polymer-organic light emitting diodes and their impact on individual identification friend/foe
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The Individual Identification Friend/Foe (IIFF) patch is a unique system designed to prevent shooter-on-shooter fratricide in a battlefield environment. Using a Polymer-Organic Light Emitting Diode (p-OLED) as the emitter for the IIFF system provides many unique opportunities and challenges in system design. Both high overall brightness in the Infrared (700-900 nm) region and fast turn-on time (e.g., the time it takes from application of bias voltage to full intensity of the emitter) are important for the IIFF system to be successful. In this thesis six p-OLED candidates are tested for potential use in the IIFF device. The best candidate was determined to be a mixture of two different ink formulations (4:1; Yellow:Red) combined with an updated cathode design. This provided a 410% increase in brightness and faster turn-on compared to the original Covion Yellow emitter in the Infrared. This thesis also includes initial research on material properties of the p-OLED that determine the key factors that went into material selection. P-OLEDs differ from inorganic semiconductors in that the p-n junction is created after a bias voltage is applied and the width of the p-i-n regions varies with the bias voltage applied to the material. Two distinct transient effects during turn-on are determined, and the turn-on intensity as a function of time is able to be modeled as an exponential rise-to-maximum function with two exponential time constants, one on the order of 1 s and the other on the order of 10 s.
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