My great uncle vic wrote this manuscript in the 1970s and my sister Joanne saved it from sure destruction during a global warming diluvian episode in my mother's basement.  Join me as I read from the manuscript and make comments about Uncle Vic's impressive contribution.

We raised $15,000 during the last fundraiser and many thanks to those of you who donated and/or joined us.  Right now, we have just sent $4,000 of that money to David so he could buy the tempering machine out of Customs Hell.  The machine was purchased for $6,000 as part of a USDA grant and David will be able to greatly improve the consistency of temper of the bars.  You can buy chocolate bars by contacting my sister Joanne at Splash Cafe ([email protected]).  They sell for $2.50 each (dark or milk) and she can ship them anywhere you like.

Also, please don't forget that our mission to de-colonialize chocolate requires capital to build the necessary infrastructure.  To donate, visit www.projecthopeandfairness.org and click on Donate and then follow the instructions from PayPal.  Or, send a check to:

DONATIONS, PH&F
1298 Warren Road
Cambria, CA 93428

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These are the five pieces that I will be playing at the upcoming fundraiser on Wednesday, Sept 22nd, 4:30 - 7:00 PM.  The organ has 64 ranks or over 2,700 pipes.  It's not too late to reserve your spot!  Just go to projecthopeandfairness.org and  scroll down to Donate, then click on Donate and follow the instructions.  $75 donation per person.

Or, send a check to:
DONATIONS, PH&F
1298 Warren Road
Cambria, CA. 93428

Enjoy!  Tom Neuhaus

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We start with my rendition of JSB's Prelude in D Major, which is a thrilling although difficult piece.  I will be playing it at the next fundraiser on Sept. 22nd, to be held in Harold Miossi Hall (PAC) at Cal Poly.

Today's podcast is about making and selling truffles in the market on Saturday morning.  I am trying to grow the market for chocolate manufactured in Depa, Côte d'Ivoire.  Since I live in France, I'm working locally.  However, we will be selling chocolate bars in early December!  If you come to the fundraiser, you can buy all sorts of bars and appreciate the food my sister Joanne (Currie) and I are preparing.  One of the tapas is Shredded Pork Mole.  And the dessert will be a chocolate mousse cake.

I finish with the Fugue in D Major by JSB.

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I begin the 24th podcast by playing part of Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and then we entertain the question, "Can Religion and Science Coexist?"  I don't believe that it's possible to actually answer the question, so I have sunk to the level of mere musings.  But I think you'll find my treatment of the philosophical question to be entertaining.

I finish the podcast mentioning that somewhere around September 20-23 of this year, I will be doing a fundraiser at the Performing Arts Center Miossi Auditorium and I will be playing 3 Bach pieces and 1 Purcell.  The Forbes Pipe Organ is a fine instrument and I have chosen four pieces that demonstrate its organic talents.    I am looking to raise money for another chocolate grinding machine for David so he can continue manufacturing chocolate.  And then finally, I finish Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu.

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I start the podcast with my rendition of the Prelude in F Major by JSB,  played on the Marnaves Pipe Organ.  The bulk of the podcast is an oral history of Project Hope and Fairness, which started with visits to 15 villages and donation of tools and then in 2012 a transition to building rice hulling and chocolate making factories.  I finish the podcast with  a report on what I'm accomplishing here in France and then the rest of the prelude.

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A lot has been made of our decrepit electrical grid.  No words, however, are as powerful as Texas's experience just a month ago.  In this podcast, I explore an old technology, batteries, which are now undergoing quite a technological revolution.  Batteries promise to provide the stability that is so needed, as we wean ourselves from fossil fuels.  In this podcast, we learn about the lithium ion battery as well as two other technologies that hold great promise.

Today's music is once again provided by F. Chopin as I make a valiant effort to channel his Ballade No. 1.

This coming Saturday, I'm selling chocolates at the town market and the following Wednesday, my African truffles will be available for sale at Cordes au Bas, a store dedicated to local products.

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This is the first of a series of podcasts about global warming.  It begins with a description of the history of the theory, the impact of different forcings both positive and negative, and the carbon cycle.  This podcast lays the foundation for the impact of technologies we will be exploring in the future. 

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Apocalypses were many, starting in the 5th century BCE and terminating in the late Roman era.  A literary form with a social purpose, it originally served to provide those suffering under the yoke of tyranny with a way out.  Today's podcast borrows from the genre by proposing to replace the New Testament version of four horsemen with a Neo-apocalyptic five horsemen.  Today's podcast assumes that God is more along the Divine Watchmaker model, or non-existent.  It does not assume  the nosy Father-God of Evangelical Christianity.  I explore five different existential crises that humanity faces, using Apocalyptic thinking as a metaphor.   Instead of learned helplessness, perhaps we can get off our collective behind and face the music.  Cheers!

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In this episode, I compare the approaches of three prominent scholars in religion:  Dr. Bart Ehrman, Dr Robert Wright, and Dr. Reza Aslan.  Ehrman has written 30 books about the New Testament that have gained much interest and favor in the faith community as well as among agnostics and atheists..  Wright's The Evolution of God takes a broader view of religion, focussing on a Darwinian perspective, pointing out how religion, politics, and economics are often intertwined.  And Aslan who is a master wordsmith has written about both Islam and Christianity.  His recent bestseller, Zealot:  the Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth has stirred a lot of interest by believers and non-believers, including the worst interview ever on Fox News.

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Today's podcast is about impermanence.  Thanks to my wife's One Year to Live class, in which I took part, I spent some time thinking about impermanence and mortality.  In this podcast I have excerpted and developed five geological representations of impermanence, focused first on my first appreciation of rocks in kindergarten, then on a particular stone from Michigan, then certain ridges left by Lake Erie near my Alma Mater, then the stones of Cordes sur Ciel, and finally rocks and minerals associated with the four industrial revolution.

I then go on to a very fun story about our Ami, a Citroen electric that we purchased weeks ago.  And I finish with some news about the 1900 chocolate bars that have traveled thousands of miles from Depa, Cote d'Ivoire and are available for purchase at Mama Ganache Artisan Chocolates on 1445 Monterey St in San Luis Obispo.  

Hope you can join me!

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