Austria folk music accordion player Johann Pfuisi

Austria, Graz
Johann Pfuisi is one of Austria 's numerous accordion players. What makes him different from other is his accordion, which is made of fir ( wood ) by local carinthian craftsmen. Where technology has inundated our world, including that of musical instruments, the old craft of making accordions is still alive.

No sound of a modern accordion can match the old, full tunes of the fir wood accordion. Its price tag is accordingly, yet for music aficionados this price tag comes with the pleasure of listening to Austrian music as it always was, full resonance, the finest tunes. In tune with saying " 'The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune'.

I was drawn immediately to Johann s play and promised I will put him on u tube. One can see two of his plays on u tube

Let us hope that the craftsmanship will survive our modern times where time is everything in business, yet time is hard to find for oneself.

Thailands deluge

To describe the suffering of those afflicted, one has to enter the flood stricken areas of Bangkok and north of the capital. The scenes that come out from communities that have been inundated are horrific as can be. People lost their belongings and over 200 have so far lost their lives.

All efforts to stop the flood from reaching Bangkok seem in vain, water can not be stopped easily. Extreme efforts have been made by the government and people to stop the floods from reaching the capital Bangkok. Dykes have been built and canals have been dredged.

Yesterday the prime minister mentioned a horrendous figure : 8 billions of cubic meters of water is what is expected to roll towards Bangkok. By no accounts a small number.

We have seen the pictures. Some horrific scenes, almost unbelievable to the human eye.

Let us pray that the floods will recede and life will get back to normal soon.

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Africasiaeuro blog joo

Finding joomla rather better than comparable Typo 3 for example. Its somewhat like this bowl of delicious soup I had in southern Guangdong,

one of the best ever.

I decided to use joomla in favor of say wordpress for a couple of reasons, one of them stating security.

For example I am able to change both login ID and password as I want, rather than being restricted to one login as in wordpress.

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That said, We are still maintaining a number of wordpress blogs, for several reasons. For one we started wordpress years back and compiled a number of posts :

A) wordpress hosted

- mindwanderer

- aheneghana wordpress

- heinz rainer wordpress

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B) self hosted wordpress

- wordpressed blog

- whitershade techblog

- whitershade openblog

Looking forward to blog in joomla, so far so good.