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At FPI, we get a lot of requests from media, consultants, professors and their students, etc. for our thoughts on a number of topics. The latest request was a topic I LOVE to talk about… a student was doing a story for her environmental journalism class (I didn't even know they offered these classes – that gives you some insight into what students are learning these days!), and she was writing an article about a local entrepreneur trying to start a company for reusable takeout food containers. She wanted some data, which unfortunately I couldn't give her. But I did offer to share my two cents on the topic.
I told her about how foodservice packaging like paper and plastic cups, plates and bowls were invented over 100 years ago to provide a more sanitary alternative to their reusable counterparts and help protect public health. I shared with her that over the years, FPI had commissioned independent studies with third-party laboratories to confirm the sanitary advantage of single-use foodservice packaging over reusables and encouraged her to check out the results in our "Sanitation" related Resources. To save you a step, here's what our latest study revealed…
In 2012, health inspectors visited 30 different foodservice establishments in Sacramento County, Calif. and swabbed nearly 300 single-use cups, plates, bowls and cutlery and their reusable counterparts. These swabs were sent to a laboratory for testing and can you guess what they found?
· Evidence of Enterococcus and Staphylococcus – bacteria that can cause diarrhea, cramps, nausea, vomiting, fever and chills – was below the detection limit on both the single-use and reusable items. Certainly good news for the foodservice industry.
· Not such good news when it comes to coliform bacteria, which is usually traced back to fecal matter (ewww!) and can cause bloody diarrhea, severe abdominal pain, cramps, nausea, vomiting and occasionally fever. If that's not bad enough, it can be fatal in the young, elderly and immune-compromised. The results of the swabs taken in Sacramento County showed evidence of coliforms on four percent of reusable items and on none of the single-use items. Hmm, wonder what would have happened to those lucky customers if they had been served the reusable plate, bowl and spoon that the laboratory determined had over six times the coliforms?!?!
Another test was the mere presence of bacteria, which could indicate a food safety or public health hazard. Single-use items were again shown to be more sanitary, with statistically significant lower bacteria counts compared to the reusable items. Consider these test results:
· Over one-third (gulp!) of the reusable plates and bowls tested had higher than acceptable microbial levels, compared to nine percent of single-use cups.
· One quarter of the reusable forks, knives and spoons tested had higher than acceptable microbial levels, compared to just over ten percent of single-use cups.
· Seventeen percent of reusable cups tested had higher than acceptable microbial levels, compared to only seven percent of single-use cups.
I encouraged our budding young journalist to contact her local environmental health department and ask for their opinion on the idea of reusable take out containers. I guarantee they'd have a similar response to mine – a single-use item is always going to be a better choice than a reusable one when it comes to protecting public health and sanitation.
For more reasons why single-use items are superior to reusables, please take a look at my September 24th blog post titled "Why is Foodservice Packaging the Sensible Solution?".


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When I first began conceiving the initial idea for my Creative Enterprise project, I hoped to create a live dance and poetry performance, using a local museum as a site specific theatre. I've always enjoyed dance and was involved, for about fifteen years, with Hastings Contemporary Dance School. But as I didn't feel particularly qualified to choreograph the performance, my tutor, Mimi Thebo suggested I email the dance department to see if they had any graduate or third year students, with enough practical experience and knowledge, to choreograph the dances. I was contacted by Matthew Bagley, a first year dance student. While I was apprehensive about working with a first year, which could possibly mean a lack of skills, I was impressed with the amount of knowledge and work he had done when I asked him if he could provide a brief outline for his work experience. He was also able to contact several dancers who were keen to work with him and perform in the show.
I also started researching several possible venues where we could perform and liked the idea of performing at Yeovilton's Fleet Air Arm Museum. This place not only had historical relevance to the local community, with aircraft used in the 1st and 2nd World War, but also a personal connection, as my granddad had been stationed at Yeovilton during the 1950s. I talked about the idea with Matthew and then contacted the FAAM with the possibility of performing there. I was contacted by Christine Murray, who suggested we visit the museum to see whether it would be appropriate to perform there and so scouted the location on the 26th November.
After Matthew and I had discussed our ideas further, I called Christine to thank her for taking us around the exhibits and explaining our options in more detail. We had decided the performance would be best suited for the World War Two Hall, as it had more space and a better floor plan. Instead of making it a private performance, we asked if it would be possible to perform during the day and making it a special, live exhibition for all the visitors to the museum. Potentially drawing in a larger crowd, as we still hoped to create a lot of publicity for the forthcoming event, including informing several arts reviewers from local newspapers and the Mayor of Yeovil. She said it would first have to be discussed with the museum as a whole, but if approved it could mean a reduction in the cost of hiring the place, as we would not be closing off any parts of the exhibition or having a private function in the evening.
In order to create a tighter knit group, who were better informed as to what Matthew and I were planning, I created a Facebook group and updated my Twitter account to include more details about the developing performance. I decided to keep the Facebook group as a more personal group, where ideas could be discussed and to just keep it to the group members involved. Later, when we had rehearsal footage and photographs, and were inviting people to the performance, I had planned to create a more professional Facebook page and a separate Twitter account.
Matthew and I decided to work separately on various things in order to cover more ground, though always reporting back to each other. Matthew started working out the choreography for some of the dances and so Nick Compton and I went to the recording studio, to read some of the poems and send Matthew MP3 copies. As two of the poets could not attend this session we had planned for them to be recorded later. Nick and I also began working on our original poetry, reading much of the poetry from World War One to gain inspiration, although I did not want the poetry we had written to be a mirror image of the poetry written during the time. Nick created a poem that was more reflective of the 1st World War, whereas I used the figure of 133000 Iraqi civilians who were killed during the Iraq war, as I wanted the audience to reflect on both modern and historical wars.
However, I was coming across some difficulties. Firstly, it was difficult to get the other poets to attend the writing sessions, even while I was contacting them regularly. I did not particularly want Nick and I to be the only poets involved, as I wanted more variety in the poetry we had. Then Matthew, due to personal reasons, had to leave the project. Consequently, I was left with no choreographer, one poet, three dancers (one of whom was ill and another had injured her foot) during our first few weeks of rehearsals. With the performance date looming in a matter of three months and the only thing we were able to do was roughly plan out dances, rather than practice or perform them, I didn't feel very hopeful or optimistic. My attempts to find another choreographer and more dancers were largely unsuccessful. I tried contacting Bath Spa students, close friends in Bath and even contacting my old dance school to see if any ex-students lived nearby, but I had very few responses.
As the month passed, I realised I would need to meet with my tutor and discuss how the project was not going as planned. I no longer felt it was even conceivable to do a live performance. When we initially met I wanted to abandon the project entirely, but Mimi Thebo convinced me to alter the project into an easier medium, and create a multimedia project. She reminded me that I had experience in choreographing dance routines before and in my second year I had done the module 'Planning and Making a Film' giving me a huge amount of experience in using equipment, how to plan a filming schedule and dealing with all the paperwork involved. However, I was still a little apprehensive, as I had very little experience in actually using camera equipment or editing. I contacted the Editor, Charlotte Robinson, on the previous film I had worked on, and a friend of mine, Constance Ferguson, who studied media and film at Canterbury Christ Church University, to gain a better understanding of how easy it was to use the editing software and what sort of camera equipment I should be using.
The next step was to create the basic story-lines for the poetry we were using and whether I wanted dance to be used or acting. Originally I chose five poems, Dulce Et Decorum Est, Eye Spy, Flanders Fields, I'm Telling the Story and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death. At this time, my poem 133000 had only been through one redraft and I wasn't sure whether to use it. I created a dance for Dulce Et Decorum Est and Flanders Fields. While I tried to get my previous dancers interested in the idea they didn't seem as keen, and so I asked two dancers I knew, Katherine Day and Ella Grace Mitchell, if they could be involved. They happily agreed and so we began our first rehearsals.The rehearsal for Dulce Et Decorum Est went really well, though I was a little unsure with my own choreography. I decided it would be best to begin with a historical poem and end with a modern one, so, after I finished rewriting 133000, I cut Flanders Fields from the running order. We then began rehearsing 133000, a piece I wanted to be based more on simple gestures and rhythmic movement, rather than gentle or flowing dance.
During this time I also began to look for other actors to play the roles I created for Eye Spy, I'm Telling the Story and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death. Originally I wanted Eye Spy to tell the story of a father, who had survived the 1st World War, but has PTSD. He takes a walk with his young son or daughter, fearing for his own mental health, while also being troubled by the thought that his child maybe growing up in a world with more potential wars in the future. Finding a child actor, however, proved difficult and so eventually I decided to stick with the idea of the young father (Alex Hayes), but only have his wife pregnant (Beth Kerridge). The story became more centered on his mental illness and his feelings of being unable to connect with his wife. He constantly feels his mental illness makes him weak and cowardly, which is symbolically represented by the figure of a young Edwardian girl and the white feather she carries.
I'm Telling the Story was cut out entirely for similar reasons, though I was disappointed when I had to do so, as it was the 70th anniversary of the concentration camps being liberated. In I'm Telling the Story, an old Jewish woman is walking home during the evening. She suddenly hears a dog barking and has a flashback to her time as a prisoner. I wanted to inter-cut the old woman running along the pathway, with her memories as a young girl of running along and being pursued. However, it proved difficult to find older actors available or a young actor to play the corresponding part of the girl. Although I did consider turning the poem into a dance instead, I finally decided to cut it out.
I'd placed a casting call on Casting Call Pro, a website that allows Producers and Production companies to contact a wide range of different actors. I put the two roles of the 'Father' (in Eye Spy) and 'Irish Airman' (An Irish Airman Foresees his Death) up. The Irish Airman role got a lot of interest very quickly, but when I went through the showreel footage each actor had, I thought Marcus Carroll would be perfect for the role of the Irish Airman. An Irish Airman Foresees his Death was a story that I already had worked out in my head; as a young man changes into his RFC uniform, he thinks about the time he spent with his politically charged friends (Nick Compton and Timothy Parry) and his sweetheart (Katherine Day). He acknowledges he is about to fly for the last time and never return to his home. I already had worked out a lot of the storyline, story boards and how I wanted the scenes to be edited in the final production.
I used the filming equipment from the SISO store at Commons and the editing software on the computers in the library to create the film and other materials to go with it. So the majority of my budget went on costumes and as I no longer had much time to redevelop my Arts Council Funding bid for a film, instead of a live performance, I decided to set up a Kickstarter campaign. The process was simple and straightforward, I went for an amount that would cover my expenses and used websites like ebay and charity shops to find costumes for an affordable price. The Kickstarter was also used to cover my ticket for the Mix Digital Conference, where I can show the fully finished film.

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love these fabulous little house rings..
LOVE the first one. (The 2nd is cute, too, though!)
Oh my goodness...those are SO WONDERFUL!
I'll take number one, thanks! I love the contrast of the two metals. I love mixing metals in jewelry.
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My friend Kathy loves books and bags and Bon Jovi. Not in that order necessarily but she has a love for first lines and came up with the idea for First Line Friday. You can find her here
First lines have always intrigued me since I heard an author say that writing the first sentence is, by far, the most difficult part of writing a novel. The reasoning was that a first sentence can make the reader continue reading or cause the book to be tossed aside. So, go to your To Be Read Pile, choose as many books as you want and share the first line. Be sure to include the title and author so that if your reader also finds it intriguing, they can find the book. Also, share your thoughts about the first line. Does it draw you in? Is it...exciting...thought provoking...scary...funny?
Yeah! I'm doing another First Line Friday. I had my daughter grab a random book out of my TBR pile...er...make that box. It's definitely bigger than a pile. LOL. She grabbed Pieces of My Sister's Life by Elizabeth Joy Arnold. I don't think I've ever read anything by her and I didn't buy this book but I got it from my Mom and/or sister Cheryl so I'm hoping its a good one. We'll find out. Here's the first line.
As the winter solstice approaches, the Beast of the Atlantic Nor'Easter awakens, like the Vampire rising from dormancy, to menace our Island.
Okay so it isn't the real first line of the book but a prelude about something that happened to the Island the book is set on way back in December of 1798. Here's the real first line of the book.
There's a photograph I keep in my bottom drawer, buried beneath the strips of wrapping paper that haven't yet found a gift that fits them.
And again, its still not the real first line but the beginning of the Prologue. LOL, I've never seen a book that has so many first lines.
Now for sure the real first line of chapter 1.
I glanced discreetly at the wall clock above the ballet barre.
Well the first two false starts are way better than that first line so I'm going to say the real first line is actually the prelude note from 1798. All I can say is this sounds like a mystery of a different kind for sure.
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Three first lines... wow! Of the three, I like the one about the photograph in the drawer the best.ReplyDelete
I love that you had J pick your book, I;m going to have M choose next week.
Thanks for doing First Line Friday!
I love doing it Kathy. I've just got to remember what day is what. LOL.ReplyDelete
ooh, I like it the second one as well. the photograph in the drawer - makes you wanna know why it's important enough to mention (or keep) but not important enough to frame and put out on top of the dresser.ReplyDelete
darn it, now I'm gonna have to read the book ;0)
When I get finished with it Diane I can send it to you. I'll get your address when I do. Just remind me. :)ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Sometimes I wonder why they hired me...
And I work in an International department. Where 1/2 of our distributors speak Espanol.
So today I tried to call one of our Mexican distributors to look for my sales guy that is visiting his office. I get their receptionist and ask for my sales dude. She asks me, "No habla espanol?"
So I tried... "Habla Ernesto, por favor?"
I think she then told me that she didn't know anyone by that name. Or said he was going to see a man about a horse. Or tried to tell me that they were really stupid to hire me and not knowing Spanish in an International office. I seriously have no clue. I haven't the slightest.
I then asked her if her boss (our distributor) had a cell phone. Heck, I know my spanish numbers enough to get a phone number. I said,
"Humberto moooobbbbiiiilllleeeee phone?" (really loud and drawn out like she was deaf and dumb.. why do I do that?)
She then said in plain ol' English....
Okay, I really need to brush up on the ol' Spanish. Or watch a lot of Dora with Baby H. Yep, that's what I'll try. Easy for me to understand. =) I'm sure they teach words like "Grain silos" and "chicken feeders". Yep.
11 comments:
- island girl said...
bwahahahaha.....poor Darcy!! I would go with Dora or Diego...for real!
- April 18, 2007 1:11 PM
- Niki G said...
Seriously, I'm sure we all would have talked to that woman the same way ;) I bet the kids who watch Dora know more Spanish than we do and I gook it for a year in High School!!! Have a great day!
- April 18, 2007 2:54 PM
- Jill said...
hee hee =) i know Dora teaches colors in Spanish, so at least you'd be able to discuss the right color of grain silos & chicken feeders???
- April 18, 2007 3:50 PM
- Marmot said...
you = funny.
- April 18, 2007 7:39 PM
- amber said...
Hilarious, Darcy. Dora is soooo the way to go (or Diego if Baby H is a boy). :)
- April 19, 2007 12:30 PM
- Greg & Natalie said...
Quite an entertaining conversation. I've had a few of those myself. I've always wondered after they get off the phone, do they laugh and go tell their friends what I said. The joys of international business:)
- April 19, 2007 1:39 PM
- RACHEL =) said...
Dora DOES teach Spanish! :D
Soes does GO Diego GO!!!!
Can't wait to see you tomorrow!
- April 20, 2007 4:17 PM
- Dina said...
I can totally hear you doing this! It made me laugh out loud totally! I love you whether or not you can speak espanol! Thanks for the laugh. Love you!
- April 20, 2007 6:31 PM
- Kat said...
lol!!!!! dora does rock though!
- April 20, 2007 7:49 PM
- Hi... I'm Milissa said...
OMG .. too funny... why didn't you call your sister silly!!! hee hee hee...
Oh yeah ... and tag you're it! (look on my blog)
- April 20, 2007 10:09 PM
- rev said...
girl, i would hire you in an instant!! haha, you are so much fun to be around, i'm sure of that!! so if you are planning to move to Europe, well... the Netherlands that is... you can start at my company any time :)
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"Amy is very proud; she has just played "The Final Countdown" on hand bells."
"No don't put your fingers in the letter box, they'll get stuck!" "MUM! MY FINGERS ARE STUCK!" "I did tell you. That's the 3rd time that that has happened."
So did I affect the front page of the Daily Mail's website? On Thursday they published a picture of a lady who is suddenly a suspect in the abduction of Madeline McCann (a couple of days after some negative press about the amount of money that has been spent on the search. PR in action Ladies and Gentlemen,) who apparently look like this,
but next to that on the website was a picture of Cheryl Cole's from Girls Aloud's Mum and she looks like this,
I commented on the site that they look remarkably similar and the next time I looked they had taken the picture of Cheryl's Mum down. Did I do that or was it coincidence?
The belief that one thing causes another simply because they happen to occur closely together used to be an excepted thing, in times before science that is. You do a dance and then it rains; hence the dance causes the rain. My parents go on holiday on Thursday and the sun comes out on Friday; hence my parents were causing the bad weather.
Must people have now worked out that this poor way of deciding upon causality but some of us haven't. We shall refer to it as Clarkson logic in homage to Jeremy Clarkson, a man who believes that because it rains or is a bit chilly on a summer's day then Global Warming is made up nonsense. An opinion he has expressed many times and, of course, he uses the phrase "Global Warming" and not "Global Climate Change" because it is easier to mock. I'm also sure that he believes that 1 swallow does make a summer. I'm going to try and make this a trending topic on Twitter this week using the tag #ClarksonLogic, feel free to join in.
Another example of this is the campaign by, understandably, concerned parents against the MMR vaccine and their belief that it causes Autism. There is currently no credible evidence that it does but the logic runs like this, child has MMR and then develops Autism, thus MMR causes Autism. In our less enlightened history this would have been a reasonable view point but not now.
Children have the vaccine at about the same time that the first signs of autism begin to show themselves in the developing child. One does not cause the other.
I understand why parents want to blame something for what happens to their perfect little bundles but this isn't it.
If one of you is even thinking about the awful research that was conducted by "Dr" Andrew Wakefield I will hunt you down and force a copy of the book "Bad Science" down your throats. This man has endangered the life of many hundreds, maybe thousands, of children and at risk adults by playing to the easiest to scare group in the world, already jumpy, because they have a new child, middle class parents.
I have to admit that I don't understand why some people still think that this man is correct. His research has been shown be wrong in so many ways and there are hundreds of studies that show that MMR is safe, yet he still has support. Admittedly they aren't scientific people but never the less, they seem reasonably sensible but not on this issue.
There have been 2 stories involving the Polices DNA database this week. The first one is a bit funny but also quite disturbing. A survey of police stations has found that, in some cases, the delicate and crucial DNA samples taken from those who looked a bit funny at a police man was being stored in a fridge, so that's ok then, next to half eaten food. Really? Are you Sure? Next to a take-away? No, really? Well it seems, yes.
I'm sure no samples went to the Lab with curry sauce on them.
The other story was about the European Court of Human Rights ruling earlier this year which stated that the DNA samples of innocent people or those not charged with anything should be destroyed. I wrote about it at the time because it was the right decision but it seems that the Association of Chief Police Officers does not agree.
They have written to senior officers advising them to resist individual requests based on the Strasbourg ruling to remove DNA profiles from the database. In the letter they point out that new Government advice on this subject will be out some time in 2010 so police forces should ignore all requests until then.
I'm no legal expert, as I think I have proved on here again and again, but isn't a ruling form that court binding? Don't the police have to act upon it? It would seem that they consider themselves to be above the law.
I know that I went on about the Mail and Express quite a lot last week and I will try and stop it but they are horrid but something fun struck me this morning.
The average reader, as expressed through the comments section of the websites, has an awful lot in common with the way that those papers represent Muslim men. Both have problems with woman's rights and equality. Both groups dislike Government as a concept. Both groups are a little anti-Semitic. They both think that the BBC is against them. If they was a verse in the Qur'an on the evil that is the wheelie bin then they would be the same. Think of the increased circulation of both of those papers if they just embraced this awkward little fact.
The Award for Pointless Complaint of the Week,
The Office of Fair Trading has called for an Ombudsman to over see our Supermarkets. I think that this would be a good thing because our Supermarkets are not renowned for their fair play towards suppliers.
When interviewed on the radio a spokesman representing the 4 biggest supermarkets used the classic Simpson's "won't someone please think of the children" defence. He said "Well it will cost £5 million per year and that cost will be passed on to the consumer". I don't wish to be picky but didn't Tesco make £2 BILLION profit last year? Just Tesco. No one else, just them. I think you can afford to have yourselves regulated properly and fairly.
The Award for Bravest Person of the Week,
This goes to Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein. She is facing 40 lashes in Sudan as punishment for dressing "indecently". She was wearing trousers.
12 other women were arrested with her in a restaurant but decided to take the immediate punishment of 10 lashes but she has decided not to admit guilt so will go to court.
The rules regarding dress are supposed not to apply to non-Muslim woman in Sudan and she is also works for the UN so has diplomatic immunity but has decided to wave this in order to make her point.
The Qur'an does not forbid the wearing of trousers.
The Award for Least Comfortable Looking World and Ex-World Leaders,
I give you President Clinton and Kim Jong-il,
The Award for Show Off World Leader of the Week,
Thank your lucky stars that our leaders don't choose to do this, Not President Honest Putin on holiday,
There is no need for this really, is there.
The Award for Bafflingly Famous Animal that has Died of the Week (not to contrived),
This has 2 winners.
The first is a Carp called Benson has died. It was famous for being really, really big. 64Lbs to be precise, which is quite big I suppose but national news? That's it really. Although it is possible that it died of a nut allergy which is a very middle class way for a fish to die.
Also Britain's most expensive sheep has died. He cost £128,000 six years ago and has fathered lambs worth more than £1 million.
It's a sheep people. £128,000. Oh, he had a name too, he was called Tophill Joe.
So England have lost the 4th test with some incredibly inapt battling and bowling so now the series is level. England were so bad that I think that they did it on purpose. Oh yes, we are lulling them into a false sense of security. It's 1 all with one to play. Freddie Flintoff will return for the last one at the Oval and destroy the Australian attack with the ball taking 5 or 6 wickets and then score 150 in each innings and England will win the Ashes in the most dramatic style. Freddie will retire and will be a national hero.
Please don't puncture this bubble; it's all I have left.
Have a good week.


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The Saudis continue to play their double game, but their arrest of 172 jihadists looks as if it could be a major coup. "Captured Al-Qaeda Militants Confess to Massive Terror Plot," from P.K. Abdul Ghafour for The Arab News:
JEDDAH, 16 May 2007 "" The Al-Qaeda network had plans to carry out massive terrorist operations in the scale of 9/11 attacks targeting oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, according to captured militants whose confessions were published in the local media yesterday.
Abdullah Al-Muqrin, one of the militants who were involved in planning the foiled attack on the Abqaiq oil refinery on Feb. 24, 2006, said militants, on the directives of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, carried out the suicide bombing. "Targeting the main oil facilities and areas, such as Ras Tanura and Jubail, was how the idea started," said Muqrin in confessions aired by Saudi Television late Monday night.
Ras Tanura is the Kingdom's biggest oil export terminal and Jubail is its biggest industrial complex. Both are located on the Gulf coast. Saudi Arabia is the world's biggest oil producer and exporter, supplying about seven million barrels per day.
"We started planning (the attack) but were told to wait for direct instructions from Osama Bin Laden. I asked how we would receive a signal from him; I thought he was in some mountains. They said it would take from six to seven months to get his approval," Muqrin said.
Another suspect, identified as Khaled Al-Kurdi, said the Al-Qaeda leadership in Saudi Arabia told them that the attacks on oil facilities would be tantamount to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the US.
"They said it would be a huge operation, equal to the September strike … and its impact would be on a global level," Kurdi said in his statement. "They said attacks would affect oil prices," he added.
The attackers sought "to hammer America," Kurdi added.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post557849700717114085..comments2018-05-22T07:07:07.460+01:00Comments on Edward II: O calamity! To see authors quoting a primary source out of context!Kathryn Warnerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-47547279962851362992010-11-07T19:42:12.830+00:002010-11-07T19:42:12.830+00:00To return to the original point, I just came acros...To return to the original point, I just came across this in a discussion of the Lancaster martyr-cult (chapter 2 in Danna Piroyansky's Martyrs in the Making: Political Martyrdom in Late Medieval England, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p 34):

[Lancaster's death was remarkable enough to be mentioned by almost all chroniclers of the period, whatever their opinion of him and his actions,] "whether sympathetic, indifferent or even hostile to the Earl. All political factions were bewildered by this event, and it was the pro-royalist chronicler of the Vita Edwardi Secundi who expressed this feeling best, albeit with a taint of sarcasm: 'O calamity! To see men...[etc]'"

So, still that quote alone out of context, but acknowledges his alignment and even his sarcasm, and does not use it as proof of how mean and nasty Edward was considered.

Interestingly, she goes on to link the rags with the cult of Lancaster and the popular depiction of him clothed humbly in rags in cult images.Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-64969644573766722072010-11-05T17:40:51.277+00:002010-11-05T17:40:51.277+00:00I did see another reference to Bourd many years ag...I did see another reference to Bourd many years ago but have never found it again. Edward gave him money for performing some "service". The author of this work also mentioned Arnaud-Guillaume in this section of the text(giving examples of Edward's generosity to Piers' relatives) He apparently unequivocally named these two as brothers of Piers, as I came away from this thinking Piers had only two brothers (I had never seen any other mention of his siblings at that time) I don't remember what the author cited as a source. It's not unlikely that Ed would have given money to Bourd, but it seems somewhat unlikely that the original source would have identified Bourd as Piers' brother. Other possible origins for the nickname: Bordir in Gascon means "to hit", Borda means "little farm" (from discovergascony.blogspot.com) I also saw a reference to an illegitimate son of a Gascon lord who was an outlaw and was called Burd.
If Fortaner was a son of Claramonde and Arnaud, how was he totally missed by Hamilton? (And I wonder what Arnaud thought of all this - providing heirs for the Marsan family and the Lescun family before the Gabaston family)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-18892007774341856882010-11-04T20:13:49.299+00:002010-11-04T20:13:49.299+00:00Kathryn and Anon - this is all fascinating info on...Kathryn and Anon - this is all fascinating info on Piers!Anerjehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-75391745847925203762010-11-04T18:54:54.470+00:002010-11-04T18:54:54.470+00:00I tend to think that Bourd was a nickname, perhaps...I tend to think that Bourd was a nickname, perhaps based on the man's love of the joust, and was probably one of Piers' brothers. I've never seen another ref to a 'Bourd de Gavaston', except for that one mention on the Close Roll in July 1312. It's not common to see nicknames used in the chancery rolls, but not unknown - and maybe Ed wasn't as fussed about Piers' relatives being called by their correct titles?

I've found two petitions now (undated, late Ed I's reign or Ed II's) that name Fortaner de Lescun as the brother of Arnaud-Guilhem de Marsan, so also Piers' brother, and evidently the three were sons of Arnaud and Claramonde, and not half-brothers.Kathryn Warnerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-62628768314976932902010-11-04T18:27:15.281+00:002010-11-04T18:27:15.281+00:00Dodge mentions the existence of a Raymond de Gabas...Dodge mentions the existence of a Raymond de Gabaston in the 1320's. I imagine this was Piers' brother, who appears to have become the Gabaston family heir in Gascony after his older brothers died. Did Gerard die young, or did he go to England and "morph" into Bourd ?? I've been told that "Bourd" is not a Gascon first name, so may have been a nickname.(But why would Edward have allowed his own clerks to refer to a relative of Piers this way, when he insisted that Piers be referred to by his proper title??) It's very frustrating when professional historians don't get the facts email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-25348650338403856332010-11-03T17:14:39.425+00:002010-11-03T17:14:39.425+00:00I couldn't agree more! Funny you should menti...I couldn't agree more! Funny you should mention Hamilton's family tree, as I've just been looking at it, trying to figure out what his source might have been for Piers' younger brother Raimond-Arnaud - that's the only mention of him in the entire book. (At least Gerard gets another mention in the endnotes.) He says on p. 102 that Arnaud-Guilhem de Marsan's name last appears in 1324, when actually A-G was paid as the keeper of Roquefort-de-Marsan from 6 Jan to 14 April 1325 (P. Chaplais, ed., The War of Saint-Sardos (1323-1325): Gascon Correspondence and Diplomatic Documents, 1954, p. 274.) The Amie confusion needs to be corrected, too, and Fortaner's and Bourd's identities sorted out.Kathryn Warnerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-92079821306728635842010-11-03T16:58:28.643+00:002010-11-03T16:58:28.643+00:00Most of the "officially" accepted info o...Most of the "officially" accepted info on Piers' family seems to be based on the Hamilton biography. Unfortunately, he does not list sources, but only presents a Family Tree. He also made some errors, such as confusing Piers' sister Amie with his daughter Amie,and not even mentioning Bourd de Gaveston or Fortaner de Lescun (junior). He was also sloppy with some details, such as calling Arnaud-Guillaume de Marsan a "knight" in Edward I's Household when he actually was not able to become a knight until 1308 (Edward II granted him land specifically so that he could qualify for knighthood) It's really time for a new biography of email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-72392085522463459902010-11-03T08:14:24.511+00:002010-11-03T08:14:24.511+00:00Another petition, SC 8/291/14546, presented by Pie...Another petition, SC 8/291/14546, presented by Piers Gaveston ('Perrot de Gavastun') and Arnaud-Guilhem de Marsan, says that they were the sons of Arnaud de Gavaston, thus disproving the notion that Piers' father was also called Piers.Kathryn Warnerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-2505926250456665232010-11-03T07:06:14.792+00:002010-11-03T07:06:14.792+00:00Anerje, I completely agree. :-( Carla, it really...Anerje, I completely agree. :-(

Carla, it really isn't, is it? Pretty dishonest, IMHO.

Gabriele, no, no comment showed up this end, I'm afraid! Stupid Blogger! :-(

Anon, wow, I hadn't checked Piers' entry on that one site - quite an eye-opener! I've never seen his mother named as 'Marie de Coarraze' before. Odd (and implausible). Hamilton makes Fortaner de Lescun Claramonde's brother, but there's a petition (SC 8/278/13863) where he's called brother of 'Arnaud-Guilhem de Marssan' and son of Arnaud de Gavaston. So Piers' brother, not his uncle. I haven't checked it for a while, but I remember seeing refs to Fortaner de Lescun in the chancery rolls as late as the 1340s, so he's unlikely to have been a generation older than Piers. There was some debate on Gen-Medieval a few years ago about Piers' father not being Arnaud, but another Piers, based on a statement in one chronicle. I find it unconvincing.Kathryn Warnerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-52946912114286538842010-11-02T20:25:49.067+00:002010-11-02T20:25:49.067+00:00I thought I had commented on this. Now, either I d...I thought I had commented on this. Now, either I dreamed that, or Blogger's spam detection has been overacting again. *sigh - in both cases* ;)Gabriele C.https://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-38463325260668075102010-11-02T20:19:37.841+00:002010-11-02T20:19:37.841+00:00Thanks, all, for the comments - have just come in ...Thanks, all, for the comments - have just come in from work and it's 9.20pm, so will respond properly tomorrow. :-)Kathryn Warnerhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-12164749983035951202010-11-02T18:01:26.754+00:002010-11-02T18:01:26.754+00:00I've been checking the genealogy sites you rec...I've been checking the genealogy sites you recommended on Facebook and have found some pretty wild stuff about Piers' family. I wonder if any of this is true : Claramonde was married to Arnaud de Lescun before marrying Arnaud de Gabaston (had a son Fortaner and 2 daughters)Guillaume-Arnaud was actually a legitimate son of Claramonde and Arnaud de Gabaston.Arnaud de Gabaston was married to someone before he married Claramonde and had a son named Pierre who was actually the father of Piers!! (The part about Claramonde having a previous marriage might explain how Fortaner could be the brother of Arnaud-Guillaume de Marsan, when he is not mentioned as such by Piers' biographer firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-11718798795667888782010-11-02T15:04:40.272+00:002010-11-02T15:04:40.272+00:00At the very least they could have put in [....] to...At the very least they could have put in [....] to indicate that there was something missing in between. Not very impressive.Carlahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-91662550731448508922010-11-01T18:52:34.613+00:002010-11-01T18:52:34.613+00:00I take Hannah's point. Unless you have a copy...I take Hannah's point. Unless you have a copy of the chronicle yourself - and I do have a copy of the Vita - or unless it's online, it's difficult to check. The example you have chosen has been TOTALLY taken out of context and made to mean something completely different. It really is a shocking abuse.Anerjehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-47063935394315954452010-11-01T14:17:20.019+00:002010-11-01T14:17:20.019+00:00True, but when an author cites two paragraphs of a...True, but when an author cites two paragraphs of a chronicle which appear eleven pages apart and pretends there's no break between the paragraphs because it suits their purpose, that's pretty easy to check.Kathryn Warnerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-55805353319584765452010-11-01T13:57:34.239+00:002010-11-01T13:57:34.239+00:00The trouble is that you usually can't check th...The trouble is that you usually can't check the original source of an original source. You just have to hope that the editor is representing the text correctly...Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-35576519310435470032010-11-01T07:18:01.107+00:002010-11-01T07:18:01.107+00:00Thanks, Anerje! Yes, it's often a good idea t...Thanks, Anerje! Yes, it's often a good idea to check writers' original sources...Kathryn Warnerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-73205398071091337452010-10-31T19:32:56.439+00:002010-10-31T19:32:56.439+00:00Great post! Yes, context is everything! Makes yo...Great post! Yes, context is everything! Makes you think you should always check 'historians' primary sources. Or rather, 'historians' should not play around with them to make them fit a purpose.Anerjehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-77200179722142634642010-10-31T15:44:58.693+00:002010-10-31T15:44:58.693+00:00Carole, the third quote is from an academic work, ...Carole, the third quote is from an academic work, and the first two are from 'popular' history books, both of them pretty recent.

Thanks, Susan! I thought the book background was rather appropriate.Kathryn Warnerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-76512009629575745612010-10-31T15:39:50.055+00:002010-10-31T15:39:50.055+00:00And I forgot to comment on the new template! I lik...And I forgot to comment on the new template! I like it too.Susan Higginbothamhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-22088670508101036682010-10-31T15:36:13.403+00:002010-10-31T15:36:13.403+00:00Oh dear, that really is a bad example of not using...Oh dear, that really is a bad example of not using context... are the examples you used from academic stuff? If so, it's even worse, because they should have been expected to look up the original source...firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-69011827998784476202010-10-31T14:31:33.110+00:002010-10-31T14:31:33.110+00:00Thanks, Susan! It certainly is (thinking of the H...Thanks, Susan! It certainly is (thinking of the Henry VI/Holy Ghost context here...)

Glad you like it, Hannah! I suddenly got really bored with the old template.Kathryn Warnerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-89628125723816175222010-10-31T14:24:25.421+00:002010-10-31T14:24:25.421+00:00"O calamity! To see authors quoting a primary..."O calamity! To see authors quoting a primary source out of context!"

No, don't be silly. Such a thing could never happen.

I like the facelift! Pretty blog is pretty.Hannah Kilpatrickhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-72065761884670616622010-10-31T14:07:44.563+00:002010-10-31T14:07:44.563+00:00Great post! Context is everything, isn't it?Great post! Context is everything, isn't it?Susan Higginbothamhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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From The Wall Street Journal's College Online, a report that the wages of those with undergraduate degrees are not faring as well in the economy as one might expect: "It is in the middle -- where many four-year college graduates work -- that imports, overseas outsourcing and technology seems to be reducing U.S. employer demand most significantly, and thus restraining wages."
So who is doing better? Those with professional and (some) graduate degrees. Read the whole piece here, and there's an accompanying video with more data.


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Maurice van Keulen (2015-05-20 13:45 - 14:30 in Carre 3244)
Yet another idea to achieve a good interpretation of "Paris hilton stayed in the paris hilton"
This presentation is about Information Extraction / Natural Language Processing. I will sketch a bit of state of the art, including what Mena and I have been up to. Then I will present a reformulation of the problem that I proposed in a position paper back in 2011 (URSW workshop). This reformulation of the problem hints at a different approach towards information extraction, which I have coined "Sherlock Holmes-style". In the position paper I concluded with describing an underlying probability theory problem. Only now, after Brend has developed an implementation of our Probabilistic Datalog, do I have a real and handy means of actually performing and experimenting with Sherlock Holmes-style information extraction. I will demo a proof of concept.


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The Greencards
Nashville, TN
Venue Address (Get Directions)Peg Egan PAC
Date and Time
Sunday, August 4th, 2013 at 7:00pm
Age Limit
All Ages
From the first notes struck together in 2002 through a 31-date tour with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, up to and beyond their fifth studio album in 2011, The Greencards have won steadily escalating acclaim for their multi-dimensional Americana vision. Their releases have topped the Billboard Bluegrass charts. In both 2008 (for their Viridian album) and 2010 (for Fascination), they were nominated for Grammy Awards in the "Best Country Instrumental" category, and in 2006 they were named, "Best New and Emerging Artist" at the Americana Awards. They've earned ovations from "newgrass" music devotees at Merlefest and from indie-rock loyalists at Lollapolooza and the Austin City Limits Festival. RollingStone.com noted "This imported band iscreating some of the finest Americana around."
But this four-piece band, spearheaded by Australian Carol Young and Kym Warner, is interested less in past accomplishments than in looking ahead for new goals to achieve. Produced and engineered by studio veteran Justin Niebank (Vince Gill, Mart Stuart, Keith Urban), The Brick Album on the band's own Darling Street Records is the first to infuse The Greencards' eclectic musicical references with the excitement they generate onstage.


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I just fell in love!
The color blocking, the animal prints, the metallic!
Yes, I am also a shoe person, it was actually my first love before handbags…but a much harder world to dive into. But seriously, these are awesome!
Plus, it looks like I should be sending samples to Rachel Zoe or Rachel Bilson, since their picks look very similar to my holiday collection!
We are calling it a "Starry Night" collection. Since it's a beautiful evening handbag collection, filled with sparkle! Besides the classic color blocking combos, metallic snakeskin and stud detailing, we added some great neutral grey prints with pops of pink. (that's what this picture is missing…a pop of color!)
Stay tuned for more to come on our holiday collection with a sneak peak from our photo shoot!


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Statistical fiction writing analysis is a fun exercise.
How the results are interpreted becomes a writer's individual journey.
A dash of faith is required to accept the topic ranges as fair or supported
by empirical data.
I submitted The Bones Dance Foxtrot, Second Skeleton Series Mystery.
It's a novel available in trade paperback and e-book worldwide,
free on Amazon's KindleUnlimited. Author Donan Berg Amazon Page
Here is what was determined by the word analysis.
Generic words 2.15% (Less than acceptable range, which should be good.)
Flesch Kincaid Grade 5.73 (Reads at sixth grade level.)
Adverbs 5.19% (Less than acceptable range, which should be good.)
Passive sentences 4.37% (At range bottom.)
Adjectives 6.24% (Within range.)
Sentence length 9.47 words. (At range's lower end.)
Initial pronouns 2.07% (At range's lower end.)
Difficult sentences 19.79% (At range middle.)
Best genre is mystery/detective/police procedural. (44.69% )
To forge a conclusion from the above results adds further subjectivity.
The novel's length is approximately 86,000 words. Lower than the acceptable
range of generic words suggests the words written were specific. This may account
for the mid-range sentence difficulty, however, the sixth grade comprehension
level indicates readability wasn't hindered, nor was it a PhD dissertation.
Perhaps, the short sentence length coupled with active sentences (i.e., a low
number of passive sentences) mitigated the difficult sentences effect? The low
number of initial sentence pronouns supports sentence variety.
Authors should remember that the typical reader doesn't parse sentences or
count words. He or she reads. If the author makes the story interesting and easy,
the more read the work will be.
Welcome to Donan Berg's blog home. His latest novels include the 2016 Feathered Quill 1st Place Gold Award romance "One Paper Heart" and "Alexa's Gold" plus mystery "Adolph's Gold." His reputation for entertaining mystery and heartwarming romance grows. In his Skeleton Series Mysteries are "A Body To Bones", "The Bones Dance Foxtrot" and "Baby Bones." E-book only "Abbey Burning Love". Expect book reviews, writing tips, whimsy, a quote or two. He's always pleased to answer blog visitor questions.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Ten Book Club Discussion Questions
Adolph's Gold by Donan Berg
1. What conflicts protagonist Adolph Anderson other than the fact he doesn't clip a gold detective shield to his belt?
2. Was Chief Ron Howard right to pair Adolph and Luann? Was there ever any doubt that Adolph would achieve his gold shield?
3. Did Adolph follow correct police investigative procedure or fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants?
Does it matter? If not to Adolph, to reality's criminal justice system?
4. Adolph finds scraps of poetry, or what ascribes to be poetry. What do they foreshadow?
If someone said it was an author's trick to advance the story's plot or to generate artificial suspense, would you agree or disagree? What other foretelling is there?
5. Did the locale add significance to the story?
6. There is a multitude of secondary characters. Are all necessary? Did they distract or become vital to understanding Adolph or his gold shield quest? How important is Officer Finnegan? Rebecca? Dean Wainright? Lt. "Bulldog" Hunter?
7. Is Adolph's family important to understanding all sides of Adolph? What significance is his relationship to his wife, his daughter? Does Adolph's interaction indicate he's more concerned about his family's well-being or that Adolph would act as he does for any individual in peril?
8. Does any character name remind you of an earlier Donan Berg mystery?
9. Is there a fear, an experience or a contemporaneous event that motivates Adolph to alter or confirm how he reacts the way he does? More than one?
10. Is it important to characterize the novel as a police procedural? Would it fit or cross to other genres? Mystery? Thriller? Literary? Character or family study?
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By 530News staff –
With summer right around the corner, it's time to think about keeping children eating healthy while school is out. An easy and inexpensive way is to send them to neighborhood public schools at mealtime.
Great Bend USD 428 will once again provide free meals to children in June and July.
Breakfast and lunch will be served Monday through Friday from June 5 to July 28. No meals will be served on July 4.
Meals will be served at Park, Riley, Eisenhower, Jefferson and Lincoln schools until the end of June.
Beginning on July 5 they will be served only at Park School. They are prepared at the district's central kitchen and served by USD 428 employees.
Breakfast is served from 8-8:30 a.m. and lunchtime is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
"This is a great opportunity for parents or child-care givers to feed children during the month of June and July for free," said Khris Thexton, USD 428 superintendent.
The doors are open for anyone under the age of 19 for the free meals, but adults can eat breakfast for $2 or lunch for $3.50, Thexton said. There are no income or registration requirements and no identification of any kind is needed.
"It offers a nice, cool place for them to eat," Thexton said. "With five locations in town, a free lunch is just a short walk away for most people. This is really a good program for anyone with children. We hope everyone will take advantage of it."
Last year the district served 231 breakfasts and 437 daily, on average — a total of 2,077 breakfasts and 3,929 lunches. When the district chose to continue the program through July, Park School was chosen for its location, which is near Brit Spaugh Park and Zoo, the Wetlands Aquatic Center and Great Bend Public Library.
The summer meal program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and no district funds are used to run the program.


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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Spring has left us a bit
I have no news about Heidi yet. I didn't want to call Danny, he probably is getting a bit nuts already from the calls he has to make so I better wait a bit.
Yesterday afternoon Jan and I went to the market. Jan already was there last week one day and told me the vegetables were very cheap there. So we went there and bought some of it for really just a few Euro. Part of it I already have in my freezer now, and today I will prepare the other part of it.
Although the weather looked nice enough it wasn't as nice as in the week-end. And today it looks lso not too nice too me. Temperature dropped and the wind makes it feel rather cold. So ou see you will have to enjoy the days as they come and if it's real nice weather you must take advantage of it right away.
Oh, at the market we saw a rather nice carpet for the floor in the sitting area of our room. And for a very nice price too. We are thinking about it now, and have taken the measurement of the maximum size we could have. Probably the quality will not be super, but we do need a new one and for that price it looked real nice.
So may be we will go back to the market this week and buy one. Oh, I will be so happy if a new carpet will be there!
That's about all there is to tell so we better hurry up and post the next part of the freebie, Flowers and Fairies and also a new daily download. You all take care of yourself and I hope you will have a great day!
Flowers and Fairies nr.2 HERE
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- CBH said...
Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, under the Page 2 post on Apr. 20, 2010. Thanks again.
- April 20, 2010 at 5:43 PM
- Edna B said...
Good morning, my friend. Your new kit is just lovely. And I hope you do get the new carpet. It's such a nice feeling when you can get a few new things for your home.
I'm getting a rather late start today. It looks quite nice out my window, sunny yet a bit windy. Your warm weather will be back soon. Have a great day now. Hugs, Edna B.
- April 20, 2010 at 5:50 PM
- CraftCrave said...
Just a quick note to let you know that a link to this post will be placed on CraftCrave in the DigiFree category today [20 Apr 02:00pm GMT]. Thanks, Maria
- April 20, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Lori said...
Thank you for freebies. Link on your post was added to Lori's freebie list
- April 21, 2010 at 7:38 AM


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This is the first that we heard about this project:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ida2e9d7e0740c3cf171ea0096dd7ba8d The Vine: Depp casing Mann's 'Public' heist
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Dec 4, 2007
Johnny Depp doesn't shy away from blood in the upcoming "Sweeney Todd," for which he's being touted as a major Oscar contender, and he might again find himself awash in blood if he opts to join up with producer-director Michael Mann for a film about the Depression-era crime wave.Mann has long been interested in mounting a screen adaptation of Brian Burrough's nonfiction book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34" for Universal; at one point, Leonardo DiCaprio was attached to the project, but DiCaprio is headed into Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island."But Mann -- who has considered taking the helm of Columbia's spy thriller "Edwin A. Salt" but has not committed to that project because he believes it needs a rewrite -- has an open slot.As for Depp, he was to have starred in Warner/Initial Entertainment's "Shantaram" followed by Warner Independent's "The Rum Diaries," but both of those projects were postponed last month, leaving the star with an opening in his schedule.So Depp and Mann are sitting down this week to discuss the possibility of joining forces; Depp is said to be eyeing the role of bank robber John Dillinger. Along with Mann, Kevin Misher is on board as producer; Robert De Niro and his partner Jane Rosenthal, who originally optioned the book, have been involved as exec producers; and the studio is looking at a March start in Chicago if all the elements come together.


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We had a good time celebrating Mother's Day with all the mother's of our churches. On Thursday when I went to Las Delicias we took a cake and a gift for the ladies. They really appreciated it.
On Friday night we held a Mother's banquet here in our living room. Again, Hannah did an awesome job!! She made the flower decorations in the middle of the table, we gave them out as door prizes.
Everything looked so beautiful!
It was a little crammed but hey, it worked.
There were 21 mother's who came to the banquet. We would have loved to have invited the Mother's from Las Delicias but they live too far away. But at least we had mother's from Las Uvas and Tiloarque. They had a really good time. We sang, shared advice and gave out door prizes. There were some visitors who came to the banquet who also came to church on Sunday!! It was a very nice weekend of celebrations!


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Here is the living room [before] with all its ugly red wall glory
and [after]
We painted the walls in this room Solitude by Benjamin Moore--but had the swatch matched at Home Depot. I really like this color, but was a little worried when we saw the can. It looks much more grey than blue, but it turned out just great!
On one of my trips to San Antonio, we stopped by the outlet malls and found fabulous curtain rods for a really great deal.
They were only $9.99 vs. the regular price of $169--woohoo savings! You can still buy these online if you want to, they are the bronze Knurled finial and rod set.
I love finding great deals! We got the curtains at Ikea, for around $14 I think.
Finding the curtains and rod was the fun part. Hanging them.
Well that's another story.
The biggest disappointment in our home so far is...we have plaster walls :-(
Except our bedroom, its sheet rock.
Since I hang things up, switch them around and do it again and again, this really limits me. Because it takes SO much more effort to hang stuff, and its harder to patch (and make look good) the plaster.
We really fought hanging up the curtain rods but eventually got it, we used toggle bolts to hang the rods.
Lets just say, they are up and never moving!
The chalk board is a frame my parents found in the trash and rescued for me. Mom painted plywood with some chalkboard paint. I love this!
Aunt Debbie--See the rug you passed on to us? We still love it!
Welcome to the living room :-)
ps. did you see the cute bowl of colorful old croquet balls my mom and sister found at a garage sale? awesome.


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Today (September 11th, 2017) marks the 16th anniversary of the September 11 Attacks of 2001.
As most every knows, these morning coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda upon the Wolrd Trade Center Towers in New York City, the Pentagon and a fourth plane that crashed killed 2,996 people and created countless damage in many other ways.
Towns, Cities, Townships, Counties, and States around the country are honoring those who helped, those who fell, and those who were affected by putting on memorial services in their memory.
One such event is taking place in the appropriately named Patriot, Indiana on Monday, September 11th and starting at the Patriot Volunteer Fire Department.
The Town of Patriot invites all to their 9/11 Memorial Services, which begin at 8PM at the PVFD Firehouse (located at 4th and State Road 156) and travel as a candlelight vigil to the Memorial Park (Near 3rd and Plum Street).
The recently renovated Memorial Park will also be rededicated and a bronze plaque will be placed at the World Trade Center Memorial.
Dedicated in 2006 to honor Veterans of all wars, Patriot citizens, Schools and current Patriot businesses, the park is located right in the heart of Patriot, the only incorporated town in the United States with its name.


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I opened up my box of journals and organized them according to date. I'm actually pretty excited to read through some of them, although I won't make it through the whole series. I started keeping a (prayer) journal in 2001. I am currently on book #22.
I don't really keep daily logs of activities. I'm much more diary-like on here, more prayer-like on paper. Actually, I would like to someday line up my blog entries with the journal entries from the same dates. Or around the same dates. I think it would be telling, although I'm not sure what it would say, exactly.
Having typed out my entries from the past six years, I wonder if this actually is any sort of good idea. I'm not sure. But I've done all the typing, and I do believe in transparency. Judge how you will, here are the "highlights" of my prayers from Day 1.
2002 (gr. 12, spent with my friend, "F")
Thank you for today. Thank you for a new year! Thank you for yesterday and the good time I had [with] F. Thank you for last year, for all the things you taught me, all that you brought me through. Thank you for being my God.
Lord, help me make this year a truly great one. Help me to serve you fully, to search after you and honour you in all I do. Teach me great things! Show me your love and power in awesome ways...
Thank you again for bringing me here. I know I am part of your great plan, and I pray that I would be so even more this year! I love you. Amen.
2003 (1st year, sick at a stranger's house)
I thank you for this past year. Thank you for all the experiences that you have brought me through. Thank you that you continue to teach and stretch me.
Father, my prayer for this next year is that you mold me into a woman after your heart. Break my heart with the things that break yours...
Help me to develop a servant's heart. God, humble me and help me to love through my actions. May your love be evident in me and my deeds...(edited boy content)
Give me a passion, Lord, for You and Your plan. May You and You alone be my focus. Take away distractions and help me to live for You alone.
God, I thank you for the lessons I know you have in store for me. May they draw me closer to you and deepen my love for You...
2004 (2nd year, first conference, spiritually high - suite upgrade!)
The last five days have been absolutely phenomenal - it has been so challenging, encouraging, refreshing, and draining all at the same time. Thank you, Father, for speaking to me, for convicting me, for encouraging me where I am blameless and also challenging me to walk more deeply with You.2005 (3rd year, second conference, spiritually low)
Forgive my pride, for wanting people to notice me in worship & in positions of leadership. I confess this, Lord, and want no part in it. Keep me humble before you, and if that means not serving in leadership, help me to serve willingly wherever you would have me...(edited boy content)
Guide me this semester as I spend more and more time with You. Make me attentive to your voice and willing to follow Your leading.
Father, for my inheritance, I ask for the lost; that you would save others who are perishing & so desperate for you. Amen.
These days have been so busy - I must admit I'm looking for a few days of relaxation. Thank you, Lord, for all that's gone on in these last days.2006 (4th year, third conference, sick again - clarification comes)
Thank you for my visiting with Y. I am so blessed by her friendship & her wisdom. Thank you for her understanding & willingness to listen to what's been going on in my heart. Thank you that you have been teaching us some of the same lessons. Father, I pray that you would continue to heal her. May she pace herself well & may this semester be a good, relaxed one for her. Show me how I can aid, encourage & bless her...
...(edited boy content)...
Finally, Lord, thank you for tonight's talk with my mom. Thank you for her wisdom & for the better understanding I have of her thoughts. May we both be patient and careful in our romantic curiousity, allowing You to work in Your time. Thank you for her love for me.
May I be diligent, Lord, in guarding and fighting for my thoughts. Win the battles of my mind! In the name of Jesus, Amen.
Thank you, Father, for today. Thank you that I had a good sleep last night & thank You for all the time I was able to spend with Y. Lord, may I be careful not to cling to her selfishly this semester.
God, I am so afraid of the future - of growing up, of joining a ministry & raising support, of being single, even of moving home for a time. I give these all to You. You are bigger than each one. You love me more than I can imagine, and You have better plans for me than I have for myself. Forgive me for my lack of trust. Replace my heart of fear with a heart of fire...(edited boy content)...
2007 (done school, fourth conference, #1 in the west)
Thank you for safe travels today. And thank You, God, for a great end to conference. As I think about switching gears and being back here in Vancouver, I want to say again that I need You. Desperately. I am way over my head & out of my league. be my everything. Guide, lead, use me. I put myself in Your hands.2008 (still not in school, fifth conference, #2 in the west)
Jesus, You are so faithful, & I am somewhat excited for what this year will hold...I pray that my heart would be soft towards You & that I would love Your Word more & more.
Jesus, it's obvious to me that there will be struggles in my heart, as always...(edited boy content)...May I trust You & walk confidently & peacefully in Your plans for me. Give me a heart that desires to serve and bless, and not just feel good. I know that I need You. Without You - Your Word & Your love - I know my life will be about nothing but myself. Keep me from that trap.
May X & Z know Your hope this week. And may they start to experience Your healing too.


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I was sitting on a beach in Oregon wondering what I was going to do with my life. Where was I going? What was I suppose to be doing? Who was suppose to marry? What school should I go to? Should I go to school? Where should I work? Live? I sat and struggled with the questions of life. I was never visited by any angels, or heard voices from heaven to give me guidance. But in many years since I have been guided by Yahweh as I take each step.
We are all on a journey. We all need guidance. Last week I hear two really good messages on guidance.
Nathan from our church: God's guidance in my life
Rob Bell from Mars Hill: Leaving control for faith (They also do the sermons on a podcast)
Check them out and let me know what you think.
And if you are a part of our church I would love to know how your fasting is going.
Monday, March 19, 2007
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It was a Cambiaso kind of day at the International Polo Club, Palm Beach (IPC) on Sunday, March 26. With AC manning the controls, Valiente scuttled Coca-Cola's mojo in the second half to take a 9-6 victory in the 2017 USPA Gold Cup® final. To cap off the day, Cambiaso was selected MVP, and a legendary horse he played, "Chocolate," owned by J5 Equestrian, was Best-Playing Pony.
A Sunday afternoon in Wellington, Florida, doesn't get much better than that for a team—unless, of course, it's four weeks from now and Valiente has a déjà vu day. That would mean winning the 2017 United States Open Polo Championship, the final leg of the U.S. "Triple Crown" of polo. With the Gold Cup win, Valiente—who remains undefeated in 26-goal play this season—is two-thirds of the way there.
Best Playing Pony - Chocolate, played by Cambiaso
Sunday's victory turned on Cambiaso's instinctive way of knowing when to regroup and how to sort out problems between chukkers. This time he had his work cut out for him. The game started as an uphill battle for Valiente, who found themselves facing a stonewall Coca-Cola squad bent on success. Coca-Cola led all the way through the first half, which closed with Valiente trailing 5-3.
Coca-Cola was the consummate "4-man team," which for them translates to 3 men and one woman (patrona Gillian Johnston). Every member of the red team contributed to the scoreboard: Johnston and Julio Arellano each scored once; Julian de Lusarreta and Miguel Novillo Astrada each made two goals.
Early in the fourth chukker Johnston performed one of her trademark magic tricks. She patiently stood by, watching as Cambiaso tapped the ball a few times to position it for the big hit that never happened. Johnston pounced at the perfect moment, breaking up the play and snaking the ball away from a stunned Cambiaso. She passed it to Julio Arellano, who was exactly where he needed to be. He galloped into goal with the ball while Johnston repeatedly ran Cambiaso off.
"They had us confused at first," said Valiente patron Bob Jornayvaz. "Adolfo changed the strategy in the second half. We went to plan B, and things fell into place."
The game seemed to morph into some kind of parallel universe as Cambiaso and Cavanagh melded into full sync. The master sent a slammer downfield to a flying Cavanagh, who finished off the play with a slick neck shot into goal to tie the game at 6. With Cambiaso weaving donuts on the field on an agile Chocolate until Cavanagh arrived at the perfect spot for the pass, the momentum swung to Valiente—where it remained for the rest of the game. Two quick goals by Cavanagh brought Valiente to an 8-6 lead.
Cavanagh was game high-scorer with six goals, all but one from the penalty line. Cambiaso scored twice (both times from the field) on the day, and Matias Torres Zavaleta sewed up the win with another goal— the only goal by either side in the sixth chukker—to win the game 9-6 for Valiente.


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'Go gently on your voyage, beloved.
Slip away with the ebb tide,
rejoice in a new sunrise.
May the moon make a path across the sea for you,
the Son provide a welcome.
May the earth receive you and the fire cleanse you
as you go from our love
into the presence of Love's completeness.'
You can hear Jim Clements' setting, which he composed at the request of a friend, on his website. Google his name and follow the link to 'My Space Page', and then to 'Go gently'. It is beautifully sung by the choir of Worcester Cathedral. I understand that he hopes to publish some of his work, including Go gently, in the not too distant future.


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A few years back, a friend arranged this informal music party at her home. The guest list included composer Ravi, who was going to be just that, a guest—even if an important one—for the evening. And there was this fast-rising young composer, who let's leave unnamed. Through a request earlier, the young musician had been asked to play and sing a bit for an audience of around thirty people. A scale-changing harmonium had been made available for him, the tabla player was ready after tuning his instrument, the sound operator was raring to go, all this as music aficionados were busy hydrating themselves.
But soon there emerged disheartening news: the young composer was going to be inordinately late. So everyone just sort of spoke to Ravi saab about his music and experiences, until the musician came. Cheers, we said, when he arrived, thinking the worst was over.
How wrong we were!
His bugled arrival and winning air, with attendants in tow, was soon replaced by another problem: he didn't know how to play the harmonium. Oh wasn't there going to be a synthesizer keyboard? The jaw dropping moments after he announced this can better be imagined than described. His triumphalism had been premature.
So much has changed all around us. Musically too, isn't that right? The ubiquitous synthesizer has replaced many acoustic instruments, which were so popular some decades ago. Indian film composers used to make the essential tune on a harmonium or piano. That's like history now.
Let's look at songs today which not only had musical instruments—almost all do, of course—but also, where there is mention of an instrument in the lyrics. The idea is to highlight the importance music itself was given, through the poetry of our melodies.
- Kaise baje dil ka sitar (Chandni Raat, 1949)
- Murli waale murli baja (Dillagi, 1949)
- O Mr. Banjo ishaara to samjho (Hum Sab Chor Hain, 1956)
- Meri veena tum bin roye (Dekh Kabira Roya, 1957)
- Tan ke tamboore mein do saanson ke taar bole (Janam Janam Ke Phere, 1957)
- Bugle baj raha…Kehni hai ik baat humen (Talaaq, 1958)
- Mori paayal geet sunaaye (Baap Bete, 1959)
- Teri shehnai bole (Goonj Uthi Shehnai, 1959)
- Teen canastar peet-peet kar (Love Marriage, 1959)
- Jeevan ki beena ka taar bole (Rani Rupmati, 1959)
- Tak-dhum tak-dhum baaje duniya tera dhol re (Bambai Ka Babu, 1960)
- Baaje paayal chhun-chhun hoke beqaraar (Chhalia, 1960)
- Kashti ka khaamosh safar hai, shaam bhi hai tanhaayi bhi
Door kinaare par bajti hai lehron ki shehnai bhi (Girl Friend, 1960)
- Mera naam Raju…Dafli uttha awaaz mila (Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, 1960)
- Cheel-cheel chillaake kajri sunaaye
Jhoom-jhoom kauwa bhi dholak bajaaye (Half Ticket, 1962)
- Kaahe tu been bajaaye sapere (Saheli, 1965)
- Dum dum dum dum dumroo baaje (Sangram, 1965)
- Baaje mridang, Kaanha khele rang (Chhota Bhai, 1966)
- Saaz ho tum awaaz hoon main, tum beena ho main hoon taar
Rok sako to rok lo apni paayal ki jhankaar
(Rafi/Saaz Aur Awaaz/1966)
- Baansuri tihaari Nandlal bani mori sautaniya (Saajan, 1969)
- Iktaara bole tun-tun (Yaadgaar, 1970)
- Ghunghru ki tarah (Chor Machaye Shor, 1974)
- Dafli waale, dafli baja (Sargam, 1979)
And perhaps we can offer the last word on this to the Ganesh-Indeewar-Lata combine in Smuggler (1966), a song that has three instruments in the refrain itself:
- Ye tabla kahe dhik hai dhik hai
Sarangi kahe kin ko kin ko?
Manjira haath uttha ke kehta hai in ko, inko!
But back to the synthesizer. I used to stealthily watch the reactions of a few high and mighty music people, to check out what they must feel when after decades of composing the old-fashioned way, they were made to sit in for an event featuring this new instrument with its hundreds of ersatz sounds. Here's what I observed. Kalyanji would take the light-hearted route, "Wah, wah, ye to har-fan maula hai!". Ravi would have an unchanging, amused expression, but you knew this was like a mask at a ball. Pyarelal would be more encouraging. Prem Dhawan too, though in a very understated way. And OP Nayyar? If he could, he would leave the room, that's how much he detested synthesizers.
To each his own. But the synthesizer has its adherents too. As they say in France, if you have cheese and wine, it's a party. Likewise, synthesizer and player? You have a music party. Only hope the player shows up in time.
PS: Update. While we are on France, it is worth remembering that it was in Versailles, an hour's journey out of Paris, where the world's first commercially-affordable, mass-produced synthesizer was invented by a man named Constant Martin. This was in 1947, and he named this instrument Clavioline.
To create the 'been' effect in Hemant Kumar's Nagin (1954), it was Kalyanji who had played this instrument, along with Ravi, who had played the harmonium. It was these two instruments working ensemble that had produced those notes. Ravi was particularly fond of it, using it in many of his own compositions later. Even as I visited his home to meet his daughter in late March 2016, such a synthesizer was sitting next to the maestro's harmonium and other memorabilia.
Originally published: 21st April, 2013