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		<title>Quote for All Hallows’ Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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“Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”  — Thomas De Quincey, “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts”
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		<title>The book that changed your life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question has become commonplace in published interviews with authors and other bookish people. I think I just read the best answer yet given to that question:
Book that changed your life:
Introduction to Computer Data Processing, Third Edition, 1984. If this textbook had not so clearly described how god-awfully boring a career in information technology was, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1263&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday baroque</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[baroque]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rafael Puyana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scarlatti]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All these baroque music videos and not a single harpsichord? Time to remedy that. 
Here, Rafael Puyana plays a harpsichord built in 1740 by Hieronymus Albrecht Hass. Notice the three manuals (separate keyboards). 
Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in D major, K. 119

Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in A minor, K. 175

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		<title>Finding out about the Birmingham Charter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham Charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, you can’t accuse Birmingham’s green builders and architects of thinking small. They’ve proposed coming up with a new standard for cities, which they call the Birmingham Charter. And to convince the world that it will work, they want to transform greater Birmingham into a model of sustainable living. 
I went to the Green Resource [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1251&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The global significance of Birmingham</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of us who live here are apt to forget it, but Birmingham is a powerful symbol to people around the world. We tend to be ashamed of the ’60s legacy of “Bombingham,” but for people behind the Birmingham Charter — Karan Grover, from India, and James Smith, from South Africa — the city represents [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1248&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask me about the Muslim Mafia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Well, there’s no hiding from the facts. According to several members of Congress, I am a terrorist sympathizer. As an American Muslim and a member of my local Islamic society, I am ipso facto an agent of the “secret underworld that’s conspiring to Islamize America.” 
You know, I had no idea. As an Anglo-American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1240&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday baroque, feat. the baryton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Szászvárosi Sándor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[viola da gamba]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on last Saturday’s videos, here are some Haydn trios for the baryton, viola, and cello. The baryton is a bass viola da gamba with plucked strings concealed in the back of the neck. A skilled performer can bow the instrument in the usual way while also plucking the concealed strings with the left thumb. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1234&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If we don’t build it, they will come</title>
		<link>http://alarob.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-we-dont-build-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
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Attention Conservation Notice: This is about local politics in Birmingham, Alabama, but also about sustainability throughout North America. 
Now that the new city council is seated, it’s high time to revisit The Dome, as we like to call it. Despite the strong case against expansion of the city’s convention complex, there is political momentum in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1228&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday baroque: viol variants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[pardessus de viole]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roland Hutchinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tina Chancey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s music videos are demonstrations of two uncommon variants on the viol. 
The baryton is a large viol with plucked bass strings concealed in the neck. Roland Hutchinson shows how to play it. 

The pardessus de viole is a small treble viol, with some strings tuned like a violin’s. It was fashionable in France before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1216&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday baroque: Les Indes galantes</title>
		<link>http://alarob.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/saturday-baroque-les-indes-galantes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Indians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baroque]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Arts Florissants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Indes galantes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Petibon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rameau]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m always interested in European images of American Indians. So this week I have for you a clip from a recent staging of the 1736 opéra-ballet Les Indes galantes, by Jean-Philippe Rameau. 
In good orientalist fashion, the work lumps together stories of Turks, Persians, and American Indians under the heading of “the gallant Indies.” This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&blog=4013326&post=1209&subd=alarob&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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