View allAll Photos Tagged straining
"Temperamental" was code for "homosexual" in the early 1950's, part of a created language of secret words that gay men used to communicate. Winner of a Drama Desk Award in 2012, "The Temperamentals" tells the story of two men - the communist Harry Hay and Viennese refugee and designer Rudi Gernreich - as they fall in love while building The Mattachine Society, the first gay rights organization in pre-Stonewall United States. "With a style and sense of humor, it mixes politics with... comedy and unexpected bursts of emotional candor," wrote David Cote in Time Out New York.
These molds show the two simple steps to install a Micro-Measurements EGP-5-350 (or EGP-5-120) Concrete Embedment strain gage. The mold on the left shows the embedment gage suspended in the correct position to measure strain due to axial loading of the concrete cylinder. The cylinder on the right shows the mold being filled with concrete. EGP embedment gages in field structural monitoring applications would typically be suspended within the rebar structure prior to the concrete being poured.
Northallerton have the put in at a scrum against Harrogate Pythons in rugby union's Yorkshire Three league. The visitors to the Army Foundation College, Penny Pot, trailed 8-7 at the break but scored the only points of the second half to win 12-8. North's narrow victory in an arm wrestle of a game avenged a 24-3 home defeat by Pythons earlier in the season.
Match statistics:
Admission: free. Programme: free (four pages). Attendance: 40. Scoring sequence: 0-7 (15mins); 3-7 (29mins); 8-7 (33mins); 8-12 (60mins).
Harrogate Pythons RFC were founded in 1994 to provide community rugby union in the Harrogate area. They used one of the back pitches at Claro Road, home to Harrogate RFC. When the Harrogate club sold the site to a housing developer, they declined to offer Pythons accommodation at their new Rudding Lane ground. Pythons relocated to the Army Foundation College, three miles west of central Harrogate, for the 2015-16 season.
West of Scotland (red and yellow strip) feed a scrum at The Gytes during a Second Division game with Peebles in Scottish rugby union's BT National League. This view features the ground's main spectator accommodation - the rear wall of The Gytes Leisure Centre. Hosts Peebles secured a 38-34 victory thanks largely to three converted tries in the opening 11 minutes of the second half. That purple patch transformed a 17-12 interval deficit into a 33-17 advantage. Milngavie-based West would have drawn the match had their kicker been able to convert their last two tries. In the event, the visitors earned two points, one for losing by fewer than seven and one for scoring four tries. The try count finished 6-5 to Peebles.
Match statistics:
Admission: £5. Programme: 36 pages (w/a). Attendance: 185. Scoring sequence: 0-7 (12mins); 7-7 (18mins); 7-14 (25mins); 12-14 (30mins); 12-17 (40+2mins); 19-17 (44mins); 26-17 (48mins); 33-17 (51mins); 33-24 (55mins); 33-29 (59mins); 38-29 (65mins); 38-34 (79mins). Referee: Michael Milner (Edinburgh).
The present Peebles Rugby Club were formed in 1923. An earlier club, of the same name, existed between 1879 and 1900. Peebles run two, occasionally three, open age XVs and have a thriving junior section. Joining the National League set-up in 1974, Peebles were placed in Division Five East. Three promotions saw the club reach Division One by 2003. They currently operate in Division Two of the BT National League after relegation in 2016. Graeme Beveridge is Peebles' most-capped international. After starting his career at The Gytes, the scrum-half played as a professional for Edinburgh Gunners, Glasgow Warriors and Bristol, representing the senior Scotland team on eight occasions between 2000 and 2006.
Drucilla Anna Strain (1913-1994) Actress and Ziegfeld Girl born in New York City to parents Robert Strain (1893-1950) and Anna Fallon (1894-1981). She married Charles Eugene Teagarden (1913-1984) in 1931 and had a daughter Druanne Teagarden (1939-1981). She later married Dick Stone and died in Long Beach, Nassau, New York 1994.
photographer - Alfred Cheney Johnston
Image Enhancement - Vizmage Studio
This is my entry for December 2007's Mixology Monday. It celebrates Dec 5th, 1934: Repeal Day.
Everybody's Irish American
1 Tablespoon Charteuse
1 Tablespoon Green Creme de Menthe
2 oz. Canadian Whiskey
Stir with ice and strain. Garnish with olive.
This was an unplanned Kodak moment. I was cooking some ground beef, and I needed the big spoon and ceramic mug to strain out the grease. The lighting in the kitchen made the ensemble look more dramatic than it actually was.
There are a few by the same artist in Reykjavik and I really liked them but i couldn't find out much about them..
These two stand trapped in plinths, a foot apart but I think (?) they are a couple, male and female?
I think the artist is Steinunn Thorarinsdottir
www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-boy-11-has-caught-3-differe...
Israeli boy, 11, has caught 3 different coronavirus strains
Alon Helfgott has officially been infected with Alpha, Delta, and now Omicron; says he's been in quarantine 3-4 times since start of school year
In a relatively rare case, an 11-year-old Israeli boy has been infected with three different coronavirus variants.
After it was confirmed this week that Alon Helfgott from the central Israel city of Kfar Saba is positive for the virus, he has now officially been infected with the Alpha, Delta and Omicron strains.
“I’m fine, feeling pretty healthy, without so many symptoms,” he told Channel 12 news on Sunday.
Compared to the previous strains, which Helfgott said he experienced with pretty serious symptoms, this time he does not feel that sick.
“In the Alpha [infection], I suffered from a high fever,” he said.
Despite his thorough experience with quarantine, the 11-year-old stated that boredom manages to overcome everything.
“My mother bought me some sweets at the supermarket and I hope I get more things,” Helfgott said, adding that around 10 out of his 27 classmates are also currently ill with COVID-19.
“I miss being with friends, because the truth is there is nothing to do. You’re shuttered at home and do nothing.”
Helfgott said that since the start of the school year, he was forced to enter quarantine “between three and four times.”
“I try to pass the time in bed or on the phone. There are really no things to do,” he said.
With his birthday coming up on Wednesday, the day in which he is expected to be released from quarantine, Helfgott made a wish to “stay healthy and not get infected again.”
abc7news.com/omicron-variant-regional-endemic-new-covid-c...
UCSF DOCTOR PREDICTS BAY AREA COULD BE APPROACHING 'REGIONAL ENDEMIC' IN NEXT 4 WEEKS
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- COVID cases are going down significantly in San Francisco giving emergency medicine doctors hope as we approach the potential downfall of omicron in the city.
According to the latest data, COVID cases in San Francisco are down by 50 percent while hospitalizations are down 10 percent.
"In a room of 20 people in San Francisco, today is probably somewhere about a 30 to 50 percent chance that one of the people has COVID. That doesn't mean you are going to get it. If you are wearing a mask your risk is very low. If you are wearing an N95 your risk is essentially 0," said Dr. Wachter.
To get the perspective from inside the hospital we spoke to the chiefs of the busiest emergency departments in San Francisco. At UCSF Parnassus campus Dr. Raven is finally seeing a drop.
"About three weeks ago, I think we were in the 140 (range) and today we are in the 90 (range). So that is a significant drop in hospitalizations but it is of course more than what we would like to see," said Dr. Raven.
At Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital Dr. Colwell is still reporting a peak in cases. He's been admitting 10 to 15 COVID patients per day for the last two weeks.
"We are in the same boat that we have been for the last 10 days to two weeks. Where we were in the mid 50 (range) and above in terms of patients in the hospital and significantly more that we see in the emergency department," said Dr. Colwell.
Both emergency departments are noticing a trend of those who are coming in with COVID now.
"They were vaccinated with the initial vaccination schedule but did not get boosted," said Dr. Colwell.
Luz Pena: "Are you feeling hopeful?"
Dr. Colwell: "I'm feeling hopeful. We haven't seen the impact in the hospital yet but I do believe there is light at the end of the tunnel."
Dr. Wachter believes we'll be closer to an endemic in the next four weeks
"I'm pretty comfortable prediction that will be where we go. That puts us at least in a regional endemic state meaning that is not dominating people's lives. People can begin letting down their guard and doing some things they haven't done before," said Dr. Wachter.
Historically hospitalization lag behind case counts by a week or two. That's why emergency medicine doctors believe we are not out of the woods yet.
Artista: The Acacia Strain
Fotografa: Emanuela Giurano
Evento: Hell On Earth 2010
Data: 2 ottobre 2010
Venue: Rockplanet Club
Città: Pinarella di Cervia
Drucilla Anna Strain (1913-1994) Actress and Ziegfeld Girl born in New York City to parents Robert Strain (1893-1950) and Anna Fallon (1894-1981). She married Charles Eugene Teagarden (1913-1984) in 1931 and had a daughter Druanne Teagarden (1939-1981). She later married Dick Stone and died in Long Beach, Nassau, New York 1994.
photographer - Alfred Cheney Johnston
Image Enhancement - Vizmage Studio
St Mirren.
1 Carson
31 Gallagher
4 Shaughnessy
18 Dunne
23 Strain bkd 6th min sub for Henderson 74th min
17 Baccus bkd 47th min
16 Erhahon
6 O'Hara sub for Flynn 45th min
3 Tanser bkd 42nd min sub for Tait 52nd min
7 Ayunga bkd 84th min
21 Greive sub for Main 62ND min
Substitutes
2 Tait
8 Flynn
9 Brophy
10 Main
12 Henderson
15 Reid
22 Fraser
25 Offord
27 Urminsky
.
Motherwell
1 Kelly
16 McGinn sub for O'Donnell 20th min bkd 45th min
15 Solholm Johansen
4 Lamie Red card 82nd min
3 Carroll
6 Maguire bkd 84th min
23 Morris sub for Efford 68th min
7 Spittal sub for Cornelius 62nd min
27 Goss bkd 64th min sub for Speirs 68th min
29 Shields
9 van Veen sub for Mugabi 85th min
Substitutes
2 O'Donnell
5 Mugabi
11 Efford
12 Fox
18 Cornelius
26 Tierney
28 Mahon
36 Speirs bkd 73rd min
49 Ferrie
I took this photo at the end of summer and posted it on here with little to no editing because I did not have the means to edit it the way I wanted to. Now that I do, I went back and edited it properly hence why I am posting it now.
The Acacia Strain at Pop's with Bleeding Through. Vincent lost his voice so a few different people covered vocals. Crazy show.
Nikon d300 / 17-35 2.8-4
SB600 on camera
This pretty poppy is one from the strain called Shirley Poppies developed in the 1880s by The Reverend William Wilks in the parish of Shirley in the London Borough of Croydon.
For more info en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Poppy
This is virtually SOOC, just converted from raw and lightened a little
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was published in Great Britain. It features the usual execrable poem that seems to be a mandatory feature of early greetings cards.
The card was posted in Manchester using a ½d. stamp on Thursday the 27th. July 1916. It was sent to:
Miss E. Hallam,
43, Oakfield Street,
Altrincham.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"To wish you very many
Happy Returns of the
Day.
Love Phyllis."
The Battle of Delville Wood
So what else happened on the day that Phyllis posted the card to Elsie?
Well, on the 27th. July 1916, a massive artillery barrage by the British destroyed much of the German defenses in Delville Wood, with patrols describing:
"A horrible scene of chaos
and destruction".
However despite horrific losses, German forces recovered and launched a counter-assault on the eastern side of the wood.
-- 'At Delville'
'At Delville' is a poem written by Robert Ernest Vernède in 1916. He was Second Lieutenant in a battalion of The Rifle Brigade.
Robert was wounded during the Battle of the Somme, and was killed in action at Havrincourt on the 9th April 1917.
He is buried in Le Bucquière Communal Cemetery Extension. This poem was found among his belongings after his death.
'At Delville I lost three Sergeants
And never within my ken
Had one of them taken thought for his life
Or cover for aught but his men.
Not for two years of fighting
Through that devilish strain and noise;
Yet one of them called out as he died -
"I've been so ambitious, boys"...
And I thought to myself, "Ambitious!"
Did he mean that he longed for power?
But I knew that he'd never thought of himself
Save in his dying hour.
And one left a note for his mother,
Saying he gladly died
For England, and wished no better thing..
How she must weep with pride.
And one with never a word fell,
Talking's the one thing he'd shirk,
But I never knew him other than keen
For things like danger and work.
Those Sergeants I lost at Delville
On a night that was cruel and black,
They gave their lives for England's sake,
They will never come back.
What of the hundreds in whose hearts
Thoughts no less splendid burn?
I wonder what England will do for them
If ever they return?'
The Execution of Charles Fryatt
Also on that day, English civilian ferry captain Charles Fryatt was executed at Bruges, Belgium, after a German court-martial condemned him for attempting to ram a U-boat in 1915.
Keenan Wynn
The 27th. July 1916 also marked the birth in NYC of the American character actor Keenan Wynn.
Keenan is known for his character supporting roles in films such as Annie Get Your Gun and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
His expressive face was his stock-in-trade; although he rarely carried the lead role, he had prominent billing in most of his film and television roles.
-- Keenan Wynn - The Early Years
Francis Xavier Aloysius James Jeremiah Keenan Wynn was the son of vaudeville comedian Ed Wynn and his wife, the former Hilda Keenan who was a minor actress. His father was Jewish and his mother was of Irish Catholic background.
He took his stage name from his maternal grandfather, Frank Keenan, one of the first Broadway actors to star in Hollywood.
During the height of his father's Broadway popularity, Keenan grew up in the lap of luxury, and was educated at St. John's Military Academy.
-- Keenan Wynn's Theatre and Radio Work
Wynn began his career as a stage actor. He appeared in several plays on Broadway, including Remember the Day (1935), Black Widow (1936), Hitch Your Wagon (1937), The Star Wagon (1938), One for the Money (1939), Two for the Show (1940), and The More the Merrier (1941).
Wynn starred in the radio show The Amazing Mr. Smith in 1941. He played the title role, a carefree young man who runs into trouble galore and becomes an involuntary detective.
-- Keenan Wynn's Film and Television Work
Wynn appeared in hundreds of films and television series between 1934 and 1986. He was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player during the 1940's and 1950's.
He had a brief role as a belligerent, unsympathetic drunk in the wartime romance The Clock (1945). Arguably his most dynamic performance was a small role in The Hucksters (1948) with Clark Gable.
Keenan's early postwar credits include The Three Musketeers (1948), playing D'Artagnan's servant; Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Royal Wedding (1951); Kiss Me, Kate (1953); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); The Absent-Minded Professor (1961); The Americanization of Emily (1964) and Dr. Strangelove (1964).
The Wynns, father and son, both appeared in the original 1956 Playhouse 90 television production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight. Keenan had helped his father overcome professional collapse, a harrowing divorce, and a nervous breakdown to return to work a decade earlier, and he now helped convince Serling that the elder Wynn should play the wistful trainer.
Both Keenan and his father also appeared in a subsequent TV drama called The Man in the Funny Suit (1960), which detailed the problems they had experienced while working on that series. In it, the Wynns, Serling, and many of the cast and crew played themselves.
Keenan also featured in another Rod Serling production, a Twilight Zone episode entitled, "A World of His Own" (1960) as playwright Gregory West, who uniquely caused series creator Rod Serling to disappear.
In 1959 Wynn starred in S. J. Perelman's Hollywood satire, "Malice in Wonderland", broadcast on NBC's prestigious Sunday afternoon anthology series Omnibus.
He had a leading role in the third Beach Party movie, Bikini Beach (1964) as a scheming newspaper publisher who wants to banish the local young people. Later he played Hezakiah in the comedy film The Great Race (1965).
Wynn took a dramatic turn as Yost in the crime drama Point Blank (1967) with Lee Marvin.
Keenan was the voice of the Winter Warlock in Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970). He also appeared in several Disney films, including Snowball Express (1972), Herbie Rides Again (1974) and The Shaggy D.A. (1976).
He appeared as villainous businessman Alonzo Hawk in three Disney films – The Absent-Minded Professor, Son of Flubber, and Herbie Rides Again.
Keenan also appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's musical Finian's Rainbow (1968), Sergio Leone's epic western Once Upon a Time in the West (also 1968), and Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).
During this time, his guest television roles included Alias Smith and Jones (1971–1972), Emergency! (1975), Movin' On (1975) and The Bionic Woman (1978).
Wynn appeared in ten episodes of TV's Dallas during the 1979–1980 season, playing the role of former Ewing family partner-turned-enemy Digger Barnes.
Wynn was initially cast in Superman (1978) to play Perry White (the boss of Clark Kent and Lois Lane at the Daily Planet) in April 1977. However by June 1977 (production had moved to Pinewood Studios in England), Wynn collapsed from exhaustion and was rushed to a hospital. He was replaced by Jackie Cooper.
Keenan played Charles Picker Dobbs in a 1982 episode of The Love Boat. In 1983, he guest-starred in one of the last episodes of Taxi, and Quincy, M.E. In 1984. He also starred in the television film Call to Glory, which later became a weekly television series.
-- Keenan Wynn's Personal Life
Wynn was married to former stage actress Eve Lynn Abbott (1914–2004) until their divorce in 1947, whereupon Abbott married actor Van Johnson, one of the couple's closest friends.
Abbott contended that her marriage to Wynn was a happy one, but that her divorce and remarriage were engineered by MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer, who refused to renew Wynn's contract unless Abbott divorced him and married Johnson, who was the subject of rumors that he was homosexual.
One son, the actor and writer Ned Wynn (born Edmond Keenan Wynn), wrote the autobiographical memoir We Will Always Live In Beverly Hills.
Keenan's other son, Tracy Keenan Wynn, is a screenwriter whose credits include The Longest Yard and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (both 1974).
His daughter Hilda was married to Paul Williams, and his granddaughter is the actress Jessica Keenan Wynn.
-- Keenan Wynn's Later Life and Death
Although his later years were marred by a severe case of tinnitus (a ringing in the ear that blocks out exterior sound), Keenan was able to continue acting until the very end. One of his last roles was as a regular on the short-lived television series The Last Precinct (1986).
In his later years, Wynn undertook a number of philanthropic endeavors, and supported several charity groups. He was a long-standing active member of the Westwood Sertoma service club, in West Los Angeles.
During his last years, Wynn suffered from pancreatic cancer, which caused his death at the age of 70 on the 14th. October 1986.
His ashes were interred in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park in The Great Mausoleum, Daffodil Corridor, Columbarium of the Dawn, in a niche alongside his father Ed Wynn, his daughter Emily (1960 – 1980), who died from lupus, and his aunt.
-- A Final Thought From Keenan Wynn
"My billing has always been "and",
or "with", or "including".
That's all right - let the stars take
the blame."
Rosemary Brown
Also born on that day, in London, was the British composer and spiritualist Rosemary Brown.
Rosemary claimed to have been able to channel the spirits of deceased composers such as Franz Liszt in order to produce new compositions.
Rosemary Isabel Brown (nee Dickeson) was an English composer, pianist and spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
Many other members of Brown's family were allegedly psychic, including her parents and grandparents.
She created a media sensation in the 1970's by presenting works purportedly dictated to her by Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinsky, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Concert pianists Peter Katin, Philip Gammon, Howard Shelley, Cristina Ortiz and John Lill have all performed her music.
An LP spoofing her work, Rosemary Brown Psyches Again! was issued in 1982 by Enharmonic Records.
Brown was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 drama, The Lambeth Waltz by Daniel Thurman, first broadcast in 2017.
-- Rosemary Brown - The Early Years
Rosemary Isabel Dickeson was born in London. She claimed to have been only seven years old when she was first introduced to the world of dead musicians.
She reported that a spirit with long white hair and a flowing black cassock appeared and told her he that was a composer, and that he would make her a famous musician one day.
She claimed that she did not know who he was until, about ten years later, she saw a picture of Franz Liszt.
Rosemary worked for the Post Office from the age of 15. In 1948 she acquired a second-hand upright piano, and took some lessons for three years. In 1952 she married Charles Brown, a government scientist. They had a son and a daughter before her husband died in 1961.
-- Communication With Deceased Musicians
In 1964 Liszt supposedly renewed contact, and Brown began transcribing original compositions that she said were dictated to her by great musicians of the past.
Brown transcribed pieces from Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Liszt.
These included:
-- A 40-page sonata that she attributed to Schubert
-- A Fantaisie-Impromptu in three movements that
she attributed to Chopin
-- 12 songs that she attributed to Schubert
-- 2 sonatas and 2 symphonies that she attributed to Beethoven.
Brown claimed that each composer had his own way of dictating to her:
-- Liszt controlled her hands for a few bars at a time, and then she wrote down the notes
-- Chopin told her the notes and pushed her hands on to the right keys
-- Schubert tried to sing his compositions
-- Beethoven and Bach simply dictated the notes.
Rosemary claimed that the composers spoke to her in English.
-- Rosemary Brown's Critical Reception
Brown's claims about spirit communication were disputed by sceptics. However, this opinion was not universal - there were a number of musicians and musicologists who supported her claims.
Humphrey Searle, who was an authority on Liszt, wrote in his autobiography Quadrille with a Raven, referring to Grubelei, a piece inspired by Liszt:
'It is certainly in keeping with Liszt's
experimental style, being mostly
written in single notes in each hand;
it is highly chromatic, and one hand
is written in 5/4 time against 3/2 in
the other.
The latter is not a thing that Liszt
ever did as far as I know, but it is
the sort of thing he might have done
as I said in my broadcast, which was
reproduced on this record sleeve
without my knowledge!
Since then Fiona and I have got to
know Rosemary well, and believe her
to be perfectly genuine. Even if the
pieces dictated to her by dead
composers are not masterpieces -
although some of them are very nice
works - she has had no technical
training in composition, and could not
possibly produce pastiches like, say,
those by Joseph Cooper in his TV
programme "Face the Music"."
Professor Ian Parrott was also a supporter, and wrote Rosemary Brown's obituary for the Guardian:
"Grübelei, partly dictated under the watchful
gaze of BBC reporter Peter Dorling and a
television studio crew, is undoubtedly a most
spectacular and unusual piece.
It has strong harmonies, cross-rhythms and
occasional instructions in French - a point
conferring authenticity, but difficult to fake."
The composer and Liszt specialist Humphrey Searle said:
"We must be grateful to Mrs Brown
for making it available to us."
After studying her compositions, many musicologists and psychologists came to the conclusion they were the work of Brown's own subconscious.
Leonard Zusne and Warren H. Jones in their book Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (1989) noted that:
"Brown wrote hundreds of pieces of music
dictated by the various composers. They
were passable works, entirely in the style
of these composers, but appeared to be
simply reworkings of existing pieces."
Professor of psychology John Sloboda wrote that:
"Brown's music offers the most convincing
case of unconscious composition on a large
scale."
Psychologist Robert Kastenbaum analysed Brown's music compositions and came to doubt that they were dictated to Brown by spirits of well known composers. According to Kastenbaum:
"There are no striking themes, complex structures,
depths of feelings, or harmonic, tonal, or rhythmic
innovations.
During their days on earth all the composers not
only created distinguished music but also contributed
to the development of compositions for the keyboard.
One of the characteristics that made each of them so
remarkable was their unpredictability.
Their next composition might well open a new domain
in musical sensitivity or technique.
Alas, they have now all fallen into desuetude. Nothing
new shows up to enrich their post-mortem compositions,
and nothing surprises, except perhaps the lack of
surprises.
Kastenbaum suggested the composers were secondary personalities of Brown herself.
PhD student Erico Bonfim studied a particular sonata by Schubert produced by Brown and said:
"I chose to investigate a sonata attributed to Schubert
because Schubert has a very special and particular
way of dealing with sonata form.
What is very impressive, in this sonata I analysed,
we can see all the most important characteristics of
Schubert's treatment of sonata form.
So this is certainly not a superficial imitation.
So when the sceptics claimed that she was making
just a superficial imitation, something maybe
improvisatory and so on, I don't believe they were
accurate – at least regarding some of her better
pieces."
Rosemary Brown maintained that she had never had any musical training aside from a few piano lessons, though paranormal investigator Harry Edwards says:
"A perusal of newspaper reports about Ms. Brown
elicits contradictory information about her alleged
lack of musical education.
Originally she stated that she had had no musical
training; later she was reported to have had only
a couple of years of music lessons, and recently
admitted to belonging to a musical household
and being a competent musician and pianist."
According to the psychologist Andrew Neher:
"Brown loved music as a child, there was a piano
in her home while she was growing up, her mother
played the piano, and she herself took piano
lessons.
All of this, together with the enhanced skill often
displayed in altered states of consciousness,
seems sufficient to account for her musical
compositions."
Musicologist Denis Matthews described her music as "charming pastiches," and suggested that she was re-creating compositions.
Similarly Alan Rich, music critic of New York magazine, having heard a privately issued record of Brown's piano pieces, concluded that they were just sub-standard re-workings of some of their purported composers' better-known compositions.
-- Publications of Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown wrote three books:
-- Unfinished Symphonies: Voices from the Beyond, William Morrow (1971)
-- Immortals at My Elbow, Bachman & Turner (1974)
-- Look Beyond Today, Bantam Press (1986).
-- The Death of Rosemary Brown
Rosemary died at the age of 85 in London on the 16th. November 2001.
by Neil E. Das
Like a hundred other things, I came late
To falafel, like modern Hebrews did
In that great breathing in to forge a state,
Fast taking them up, as if in a bid
For credibility, hoping chick peas
And spice and bread might feed a dream, a wish
To be at home, at peace, within the East,
Make memories of borscht, geflite fish.
So they learned from brother Mizrahim,
More distantly from Arab brother foes,
The tricks to soak and mash and fry, to thin
With lemons tahini sauce. Oh, if woes
Could be forgotten over meals, I know
The wonder of falafel might make it so.
________________
I have not had to soak and mash, a mix
Makes short work of tasks that once took a day.
I wonder whether I will ever fix
My hours to learn from process, to be paid
With well-won satisfaction and with taste
Of long ages. But even now as I
Lift up my knife to dice with worried haste
I taste a piece of cucumber and sigh.
Feeling its coolness on my tongue, I dream
Of coolness only half-remembered now,
In evening, in a Garden, near a stream.
I wake, and read my box and wonder how
A food that's kosher, vegan, and halal
Could do anything but unite us all.
_________________
It is really not all that hard to see
As I strain grease from well-browned batter
Why it is that these bring delight and glee.
It's grease! It's batter! You see those matter
In culture after culture. Think funnel cake.
Think Najavo fry bread and pakoras.
They all take work, but aren't that hard to make
They're market treats that take on even more
Wonder when made at home and children press,
Impatient around their mothers, like pups
Outside Old South kitchens. I clean my mess
And think of harder things, of shattered cups
And shattered lives and dreams. It's hard to keep
My thoughts on falafel while Beirut weeps.
The goddess Gefjun driving bulls.
.The Gefion Fountain (Danish: Gefionspringvandet) is a large fountain on the harbour front in Copenhagen, Denmark. It features a large-scale group of animal figures being driven by the legendary Norse goddess, Gefjun. It is located in Nordre Toldbod area next to Kastellet and immediately south of Langelinie. It is the largest monument in Copenhagen and used as a wishing well.