The three movements are: Nuages (“Clouds”) Modéré – Un peu animé – Tempo I – Plus lent – Encore plus lent. Fêtes (“Festivals”) Animé et très rythmé – Un peu plus animé – Modéré (mais toujours très rythmé) – Tempo I – De plus en plus sonore et en serrant
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Dead Wild Roses: “Why Would You Ever Spend Money on the Death Penalty?” – Words from an Executioner
The entire article is available on Alternet.org, but I found this section in particular very moving. “Even when I was on the job, I was always asking, what can I do to prevent these guys before they get there? I used to bring kids down from schools. I would allow
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Why Poor People Make Bad Decisions
This piece from Linda Tirado – describes herexperience of what it is like to be poor and how that works into your life and your goals… go read the full article at Alternet.org. “I make a lot of poor financial decisions. None of them matter, in the long term.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Marriage Behaviours that Destroy Marriages.
I thought I’d share some useful advice about relationships and marriage. It will be familiar reading to those who have taken sociology of the family. Enjoy. “John Gottman’s FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE John Gottman, Ph.D., is a well respected psychologist and marriage researcher who reports that an unhappy marriage
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: There is always a Class War going On – Noam Chomsky
From an article at Counterpunch, I suggest you go there and read the whole interview with Noam Chomsky: “Well, there’s always a class war going on. The United States, to an unusual extent, is a business-run society, more so than others. The business classes are very class-conscious—they’re constantly fighting a
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – From One Second to the Next – Werner Hertzog
Texting and driving. Just don’t. It isn’t that important. Filed under: Education Tagged: DWR PSA, From One Second to the Next, Texting and Driving
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Abuse of Philosophy – Mary Midgley
I’ve always enjoyed(?) studying philosophy. The courses I’ve taken have always been intellectually challenging and have provided some small insight into explaining how we think about ‘stuff and things’. Fast forward to the present – the experience of Philosophy has changed. It is an inward cringe because what philosophy means
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Yoga with Cats
Well why not I say? 🙂 Filed under: Cute Tagged: Caterday Post, Cute, Kittehies!, Yoga
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Oh those Cats!
I hate it when advertisers make something so good that you have to share it despite it being advertising. Filed under: Cute Tagged: Cute, Herding Cats
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude – The CBC Signature Series – B major The Artist
In music theory, B major is a major scale based on B. The pitches B, C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, and A♯ are all part of the B major scale. Its key signature has five sharps. Although B major is usually thought of as a remote key (due to its
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Innovation of Loneliness – Film Short.
I’m not much for the social media, to be honest I prefer to be alone because the rest of you are so darn noisy. 🙂 Filed under: Social Science Tagged: Loneliness, Technology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Apologia – Drunk Women
Wow, this is still a thing. Drunk women do not deserve to get raped. Ever. From i-once-had-a-guy-tell-me: I am NOT saying that all cases could have been avoided but certain ones yes. My thing is that girls that go to parties and get drunk don’t blame themselves a tiny bit.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: US “Conservative Wisdom” – On Marriage
We need more facepalm stat!!! Filed under: Humour Tagged: Facepalm, Marriage, Teh Stupid, US Conservatives
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s Chalk Up Another Child’s Death to Alternative Medicine
Ah yes, purveyors of Woo this is your fault. This isn’t Big Pharma, this isn’t biased studies, or any of the mendacity that you preach – the death of this child is squarely and completely on you. The CBC reports: “Criminal charges are pending against a Calgary mother who
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Weapons, Death and Top 5 Lists
We, as a species have had the capacity to end ourselves quite completely since the late 1940′s. We often have our greatest minds working highly creative ways of ending human life. What bothers me the most about this quick video is the amount of ingenuity necessary to bring these designs
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude – Following the Ninth
Bill Moyers introduces a film that I, very much, want to see. Watch as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony travels the globe and what it means to people and societies. Filed under: Music Tagged: Beethoven, Following the Ninth, The DWR Friday Musical Interlude
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: On Mayor Rob Ford – Rick’s Rant
I think Rick might have a point. What sort of person would continue to vote for Mayor with Mr.Ford’s reputation? It is quite beyond my reckoning. Filed under: Canada Tagged: Just how stupid are toronto voters?, Rob Ford, Slow Motion Train Wreck
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Speech Highlights Finn Mackay
Some inspirational words from the 2013 Feminism in London Conference, the speaker was Finn Mackay – see the whole speech here. Let us be clear. It is not feminism that turns women into victims. It is the men who choose to abuse women, who choose to violate women, who presume
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Fantastic Science of Flatulence
Here at DWR, there is a room for almost any topic. With that in mind today we are taking on the important question of what sort of rectal emission is most noxious and can we correlate the odoriferous emissions in question with the amount of sound generated. Yes folks, science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Edmonton Alternative Medicine – Quackery Descends in my Hometown
Why oh why do people still want to normalize the use of magic and illusion into the practice of medicine? We’ve spent decades codifying and rooting out the bullshit practices and have steeled ourselves against ‘good common sense’ notions and looked where the evidence points us. There is no
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