Waldszenen Op. 82 (Forest Scenes) by Robert Schumann, Hal Freedman, pianist

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Voices of the Woods
Throughout history, the forest has been regarded as a symbol of spirituality and the cycle of life. It has inspired thought, and fired the imagination. The great composers gave the forest world a voice through the language of music. In their works, many Voices of the Woods are heard and preserved for posterity. Waldszenen, Op. 82 (Forest Scenes)

The Romantic poetry of the nineteenth century was rich with the imagery and symbolism of the forest. It was often expressed through music, such as in the beautiful “Waldszenen,” or “Forest Scenes,” inspired by some of Schumann’s favorite poems. This collection of nine musical vignettes evokes the forest as a place of mystery and the unknown, as well as a sanctuary of safety and peace. Composed in 1848-1849, toward the end of a life cut short, it is documented that Schumann “cherished” these pieces. Hal Freedman http://cdbaby.com/cd/halfreedman3

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The Tender Land Suite (part 1)

Marrowstone Concert Orchestra 2012 performs The Tender Land: Orchestral Suite (Aaron Copland)
I. Introduction and Love Music

From France 24 International -+- Israeli doctors to advise US on Guantanamo hunger strikers

From France 24 International -+- Israeli doctors to advise US on Guantanamo hunger strikers (click to access report, or don’t, whatever you chose!)

 

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from DenverPost.com: Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows – The Denver Post

Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows – The Denver Post.

Secret move keeps bin Laden records in the shadows

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Friends: Joelle Maddyson (Click to access her website!)

from CBS -_- Intel chief apologizes for ‘erroneous’ answer on NSA data

from CBS -_- Intel chief apologizes for ‘erroneous’ answer on NSA data (you wanna find out more….you know what to to!)

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in a March 2013 file photo, denied that NSA analysts eavesdrop on Americans’ phone calls without “proper legal authorization.” / GETTY IMAGES

from: coalition for sensible safeguards: A letter!

Regs Rock

Groups to Obama today on trade negotiations: trade deal must not be used as way to weaken reg protections

 

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Hot enough to fry an egg? Don’t try it in Death Valley – FRANCE 24

Hot enough to fry an egg? Don’t try it in Death Valley

People walk through an area of California’s Death Valley known as the Devils Golf Course in 116-degree and rising temperatures in a heat wave on June 30, 2013. Death Valley National Park has asked tourists not to test out the reputation of the world’s hottest spot by frying eggs on the ground, citing a growing litter problem at the popular US landmark.

AFP – Death Valley National Park has asked tourists not to test out the reputation of the world’s hottest spot by frying eggs on the ground, citing a growing litter problem at the popular US landmark.

via Hot enough to fry an egg? Don’t try it in Death Valley – FRANCE 24.

Word of advice: Have a safe outdoor experience: stay hydrated, stay energized, use shade when possible: Know your limits!

Pictures: Washington’s Other Monuments

Pictures: Washington’s Other Monuments.

Great Outdoors Week Plea to First Lady: Fund Parks to Fight Obesity

Great Outdoors Week Plea to First Lady: Fund Parks to Fight Obesity.

Survey: Rural Regions Feeling Neglected

HELENA, Mont. – After the federal Farm Bill died in the U.S. House of Representatives this summer for the second time in two years, a new survey shows discontent in rural areas. The poll commissioned by the Center for Rural Affairs shows rural residents believe the federal government is ignoring their communities’ needs.

via Survey: Rural Regions Feeling Neglected.

Survey: Rural Regions Feeling Neglected

Survey: Rural Regions Feeling Neglected.

Egypt crisis: Army acccuse Islamists of provocation (army’s spokesman) – 07/08/2013 – YouTube

Egypt crisis: Army acccuse Islamists of provocation (army’s spokesman) – 07/08/2013

via Egypt crisis: Army acccuse Islamists of provocation (army’s spokesman) – 07/08/2013 – YouTube.

Group to ask high court to stop some NSA spying now: NYT – CBS News

Group to ask high court to stop some NSA spying now: NYT – CBS News.

Luxembourg spying scandal

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This video is called EU talks tough on US spy allegations.

NOS TV in the Netherlands reports that, for decades, the Luxembourg secret service has been spying on politicians, including Prime Minister Juncker, officially the boss of the secret police; and on many other people in Luxembourg.

An inquiry by the Luxembourg parliament has established this.

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Amid Violent Protests, One Small Voice of Wisdom

Yeah baby: let them be the way they should: separated!

JONATHAN TURLEY

Before you write off Egypt, you might want to listen to his young boy. In a sea of sectarian hate and religious extremism, this boy shows a profound understanding of civil liberties and the separation of mosque and state.

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Dupa ploaie

I can smell the air after the rain….Can you?

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St. Louis Judge Refuses To Watch Video Showing Officer Sucker Punching Teenager and Then Clears Him . . . Police Union Calls For His Rehiring

Above their own laws: How is it possible? But then, if you don’t punch someone when is down…when are you going to? Animals don’t know any better!

JONATHAN TURLEY

It is often difficult to get actual charges against a police officer, but former St. Louis Officer Rory Bruce, 35, was an exception. After all, it was a police video that clearly showed him verbally abusing a teenager and then sucker punching him while handcuffed. One would think it would be an easy conviction, even without the testimony of the 16-year-old boy. That is if the judge watched the video. She did not. Judge Teresa Counts Burke showed no reason to actually watch the video before ruling and now the police union is demanding that the department rehire Bruce.

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Call it a Daisy Delight

Face in the plate (on the favorite dish)…kind of? Very suggestive, anyway!

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A New Week, A New Day, A New Outlook

Like that….THe problem is, since they aren’t ours….Do we understand them?

A Mixed Bag

Good morning. Good Afternoon. Good Evening. Good Night. Okay, I have covered that for everybody. This new week can be the best week of your life. But don’t make it the worst. Remember … Everything comes to you at just the right moment … be patient.

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Sarcastic or Terroristic? Texas Teen Held Almost Five Months For Single Facebook Comment

JONATHAN TURLEY

We have previously discussed the often unhinged reaction to jokes and postings referring to violence by authorities. It is certainly understandable and commendable to take such postings seriously, but even when all available evidence points to a juvenile exchange or bad joke, the cases seems to go into autopilot with prosecutors and police insisting on absurd charges. That appears to be the case of Texas teenager Justin Carter who has been held for over four months due to a single sarcastic posting on Facebook for “terroristic threats.” This case shows, once again, prosecutors and police showing no judgment or logic in the handling of such cases.

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Heifetz plays Rachmaninoff Vocalise

Jascha Heifetz plays his arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14, absolutely beautiful!

This is such a special piece to me…

Shura Cherkassky – Handel – Air & Variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith

George Frideric Handel
Air & Variations from Suite No 5, HWV 430, The Harmonious Blacksmith

Shura Cherkassky, piano

Recorded, April 1963

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy – Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64 ( one of the most romantic violin concertos ever! Once you hear the theme…it will stay with you forever!)

Felix Froschhammer, violin
Alexander Mayer, conductor
Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel

11.11.2012, Temple du Bas, Neuchâtel

The concerto consists of three movements with the following tempo markings:

1. Allegro molto appassionato (E minor)
2. Andante (C major)
3. Allegretto non troppo – Allegro molto vivace (E major)

The concerto opens with an almost immediate entry of the solo violin, instead of an orchestral tutti, with the very tune in E minor that gave Mendelssohn no peace.^[12] Following a bravura of rapidly descending notes, the opening theme is then restated by the orchestra.

England ,Ralph Vaughan Williams , Fantasia on Greensleeves (yet another well known musical piece, of “stunning” beauty)

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Benjamin Grosvenor plays Moszkowski’s Caprice Espagnol

Benjamin Grosvenor plays Moszkowski’s Caprice Espagnol

Pedro Carbone plays Iberia: Triana (6/12)

Spanish piano virtuoso Pedro Carbone performs live Isaac Albeniz‘s complete Iberia. This is the only live video recording ever made of what is arguably the most complex set of pieces ever written for piano. Compare to Rubinstein’s version of Triana.

 

The 10 Commandments of Data Sovereignty

The 10 Commandments of Data Sovereignty  (if you wanna find out more…Better click now)

 

 

UNSW helps close cloud computing’s can of (legal) worms – security, unsw, cloud computing – CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives

UNSW helps close cloud computing’s can of (legal) worms – security, unsw, cloud computing – CSO | The Resource for Data Security Executives.

“What did you think Clouds will do you? YOu want to back up, go portable portable drive, USB drive….Why online cloud? How do you expect privacy…when you give it up? 

It’s like with garbage: once it hit the curb…it’s everybody’s!”

Egypt unrest: Gehad el Haddad, Freedom and Justice Party spokesman – 07/08/2013

At least 34 people were killed on Monday when soldiers opened fire on protesters outside the Cairo headquarters of the Republican Guard, with the Muslim Brotherhood calling the incident a “massacre” and urging a popular uprising. 
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Everything in moderation!

• Patriarchate of Alexandria (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Alexandria (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Asyut (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Guizeh (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Ismaïlia (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Luxor (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Minya (Coptic)
• Eparchy of Sohag (Coptic)
• Archdiocese of Alexandria (Melkite)
• Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt (Latin)
• Eparchy of Alexandria (Armenian)
• Eparchy of Cairo (Chaldean)
• Eparchy of Cairo (Maronite)
• Eparchy of Cairo (Syrian)

Egypt officials ‘order closure of Islamist party HQ’ – FRANCE 24

AFP – Egypt’s prosecution ordered the closure of the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party after police found weapons inside it on Monday, a security official said.

Police found “flammable liquid, knives and arms to be used against the June 30 protests,” the official told AFP, in reference to demonstrations that saw millions take to the streets to demand the resignation of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

via Egypt officials ‘order closure of Islamist party HQ’ – FRANCE 24.

Pope Francis visits migrant island of Lampedusa – ITALY – FRANCE 24

Pope Francis made his first visit outside Rome Monday to Lampedusa where he criticised what he called the “globalisation of indifference”. At least 40 migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died trying to reach the Sicilian island this year.

via Pope Francis visits migrant island of Lampedusa – ITALY – FRANCE 24.

Police Who Shot Dog Taken off Duty After Death Threats

Police Who Shot Dog Taken off Duty After Death Threats.

State Department Covered Up Sex, Murder, Prostitution, and ‘Underground Drug Ring’ Scandals in Belgium and Baghdad

State Department Covered Up Sex, Murder, Prostitution, and ‘Underground Drug Ring’ Scandals in Belgium and Baghdad.

EU Agrees to Talks with US – Topix

EU Agrees to Talks with US – Topix.

Just a thought: “Transparency…is a one way mirror: one side can see through, while from the other you looks at your reflection”

A Reminder: Online Free Speech is a Matter of Human Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation

A Reminder: Online Free Speech is a Matter of Human Rights | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

It’s Time for Transparency Reports to Become the New Normal | Electronic Frontier Foundation

It’s Time for Transparency Reports to Become the New Normal | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search | Electronic Frontier Foundation

How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search | Electronic Frontier Foundation

How to Protect Your Privacy from Facebook’s Graph Search | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

NSA and GCHQ spy programmes face legal challenge | UK news | guardian.co.uk

NSA and GCHQ spy programmes face legal challenge | UK news | guardian.co.uk.