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Roll the Dice! Knowledge Channel airs newest game show with Marlo Mortel
With its first ever mobile game show, "Knowledge On the Go" is going places as it turns the spotlight on the channel's most important audience – the learners.
Carrying an extra large dice and a backpack, host Marlo Mortel hops from one school to another and to other places to test the students' knowledge on general topics.
The idea behind the game is to make learning more fun and exciting while instilling the value that it's okay to make mistakes and eventually learn from them.
The "Boyfie ng Bayan" as fans fondly call him, who started his hosting stint in the morning show Umagang Kay Ganda expressed his excitement when he was offered the project as this is his first time to host an educational game show.
"Sobrang honored ako kasi s'yempre of all the many artists and hosts ako ang napili kahit na medyo baguhan pa ako when it comes to hosting and s'yempre ibang usapan pa kapag educational show at sa Knowledge Channel pa eh kasi may nire-represent ka," said Marlo.
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Marlo rose to fame when he was casted in the daytime drama Be Careful With My Heart alongside Janella Salvador on ABSCBN. This was followed by the succeeding teleserye, Oh! My G. In 2015, the Sunday noontime show ASAP launched Marlo as part of the boy group, Harana with Joseph Marco, Bryan Santos and Michael Pangilinan. Marlo has also released his single "M.O.O. (My One and Only)" which he wrote. The song made its way to local radio stations and music charts and even as soundtrack to the 2016 movie, Love is Blind.
With his constant interaction with students in shooting Knowledge on the Go, the 24-year old celebrity deems that the show is a medium to begin his advocacy for education. Currently, he is starting to post photos with accompanying trivia on his Instagram account (@marlomortelmusic_) with the hashtag KnowledgeOntheGo.
"Na-realize ko na maybe kaya ako napunta dito, pwede din akong pagkatiwalaan sa ganitong klaseng field. Since sobrang importante din ng education for me, maganda na maging advocate ng education lalo na sa mga kabataan. Kaya dapat nilang abangan ang Knowledge on the Go kasi hindi lang 'to pambata," he said. "Everyday is a new learning experience for us. Sana mas madami pa ang tumanggap nito at sana mas marami pa ang ma-reach nitong mga estudyante."
Knowledge On the Go is shown thrice daily on Knowledge Channel at 7:30 am, 12:00 nn and 6:30 pm. Knowledge Channel is on ABS-CBN TVPlus, Sky Cable, Destiny Cable, and Sky Direct.
About Knowledge Channel Foundation Inc.
Knowledge Channel Foundation, Inc (KCFI) is a non-government, not-for-profit organization that works to help uplift the life of the Filipino through media and technology. Specifically, it develops and distributes curriculum-based multimedia learning resources (such as videos, games, session guides, etc.) for preschool, K-to-12, and the Alternative Learning System, online, on-demand, and on-air via the Knowledge Channel shown in the various platforms of the Philippines' leading media and entertainment company, ABS-CBN Corporation, such as ABS-CBN, ABS-CBN TVplus, and SKYcable. It also implements professional development programs for teachers and education leaders.
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Since I posted pictures of the Northwest Platinum welcome kit, I'll do the same for United as a comparison. First of all, on the plus side, my kit arrived in late December. In the past I received it in February, so it was about two months ahead of schedule.
The 1K kit has deteriorated quite a bit. I remember four years ago it was a decent sized package, while it could probably be shipped with one stamp this year, judging by the contents. It included one very simple piece of paper with the membership card attached, along with ten drink chits.
The only positive thing I can say about the kit is that they really seem to care about the environment. 😀
Membership kit
For the heck of it I took pictures of three "generations" of drink chits. The bottom chit is from a couple of years ago, and contains no expiration date. The second one, which is slightly smaller, has an expiration date. The third one, which came in this year's kit, is about half the size. I have a feeling they'll be invisible next year. 😉
Drink chit evolution

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Study from Innocent X could fetch more than $30m (£15m) when it goes under the hammer in New York, Sotheby's said.
The painting, from Bacon's Popes series, has been in the same private collection for more than 30 years and has never been sold at auction before.
Another Bacon portrait - The Study for Portrait II - sold for a record £14m at an auction in London in February.
Study from Innocent X will go on view to the public in the UK at Sotheby's New Bond Street galleries in London from 18 to 20 April.
The painting, which was completed in 1962, was described as the "ultimate Pope image" by Tobias Meyer, worldwide head of contemporary art at Sotheby's.
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"It is intense, luminescent and radiant. His painterly skill is extraordinary and the canvas possesses a Baroque energy," he said.
The painting will be sold on 15 May as part of Sotheby's contemporary art sale, which also includes Mark Rothko's White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), expected to fetch more than $40m (£20.3m).
Bacon was born in Ireland to English parents, but he left Ireland when he was a teenager. He died in Spain in 1992.
His Popes series was inspired by Diego Velazquez's 1650 Portrait of Pope Innocent X.
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You're bound to get at least one out of his many songs. Expect him to use Vulgar Humor.
- Throwing shade at Katy Perry to her face at the YouTube awards. "Thank you Mrs. Perry."
- "The majority of YouTubers/Are either Asian or they're gay/So there's an untapped YouTube celebrity/And his name is George Takei." Turns out he was right!
- "New Math." "This is a song that takes something that's not fun, math, and makes it..offensive.""Squaring numbers is just like women / If they're under 13 just do them in your head....."
- From "My Whole Family (Thinks I'm Gay)":"Maybe it's because of the way that I walk / They all think that I like...boys."
- "You all probably think I'm gay/Man this song is counter-productive."
- From the video for "Oh Bo" a hot girl plays with whipped cream seductively while he holds up a sign in the back saying "YAY FEMINISM!"
I'll have you going down like you've grown an extra chromosome!
- And since it's a rap song, there's plenty of lines like this:
- From "We Think We Know You": "I AM SATAN, LORD OF DARKNESS."
- At one point, Bo gets fed up and beats up the talent agent and the jerk... but not the girl, which is the act that gets him called out.You're not gonna hit the girl? That's sexist!
- At one point, Bo gets fed up and beats up the talent agent and the jerk... but not the girl, which is the act that gets him called out.
- "From God's Perspective"You shouldn't abstain from pork just cause you think that I want you to. You can eat pork, cause - why the fuck would I give a shit?... I created the universe. Think I'm drawing the line at the fuckin' deli aisle?
- "Bo wants to make you feel comfortable. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a healthy dose of PROLONGED EYE CONTACT."
- The video for "Repeat Stuff". Yes, there's loads of content that should be classified as Nightmare Fuel, but the way that it's executed and the purpose that it has in the video just makes it come off as very amusing.
- The part in "Sad" where Bo says he saw a poster for a lost dog that didn't have any legs. It seems terrible, but then you realize there is no way that dog ran away and its owners are just incredibly oblivious.
- The song he plays just before "Sad" titled "A World on Fire." Listen!
- From the part where Bo's left and right brain are split:Right Brain: There's something about her! I just can't describe it!Left Brain: Tits.
Left Brain: I am the left brain, I am the left brain/I work real hard 'til my inevitable death-brain/You got a job to do, better do it right/and the right way, is with the left brain's mightRight Brain: I LIKE OREOS AND PUSSY, YAH! (Yes, in that order)/And I cried for at least an hour after watching Toy Story 3 (WOODY!)/'Cause I'm the right brain, and I have feelings/I'm a little all over the place but I'm lustful, trustful and I'm looking for somebody to love (or put my penis in).
- The Mood Whiplash on this song would be enough to snap your neck on the first verse!
Disembodied Voice: So basically, you're still a little bitch.
- It's also a perfect Establishing Character Moment for the duo.
- This bit of Crosses the Line Twice from the live version:
Bo: Uh, real mature of you, disembodied voice up there...
Disembodied Voice: I was just joking, nigga.
Bo: ...We are right by Oakland, careful with that shit!
- From "Repeat Stuff:"I love my baby and you know I couldn't live without her
But now I need to make every girl think this song's about her
Just to make sure that they spread it like the plague
So I describe my dream girl as really, really vague, like
"I love your hands 'cause your fingerprints are like no other
I love your eyes and their blueish brownish greenish color
I love it when you smile, that you smile wide
And I love how your torso has an arm on either side."
Now, if you're my agent you might be thinking, "Oh no, sound the alarms
You're not appealing to little girls who don't have arms."
But they can't use iTunes, so fuck them, WHO NEEDS 'EM!
- When playing "Oh Bo" live, Bo will always end the song with a dissonant piano crash. He even ends the Words Words Words album with it (the album closes on a live performance of the song).
- The performance on the "Words Words Words" album includes a brief Audience Participation bit where they sing "Oh, Bo!" ...except he doesn't tell the audience it's coming, leading to a blank spot in the chorus that catches them off guard. Only a handful of them catch on in time for the second bit, which ends up sounding hilariously awkward.
- There's this part from the intro of Make Happy:Bo: If you like smoking weed, let me hear you say, "Hell, yeah!"
Crowd: Hell, yeah!
Bo: Gotcha. (Police sirens wail as officers speak) Get these motherfuckers. Pot is ruining America.
- "High school party, senior year, boys and girls are all sippin' on beer. I like soda, where's the soda? Am I the only fucking person here that likes soda?"
- "Kill Yourself" is, as the title suggests, so brutally dark that it's hilarious. Especially as the last part of the song is just a Long List of increasingly outlandish suicide methods.
- His cover of "Baby", particularly the line "little motherfucker stole my haircut".
- His brief attempt to gain sponsorship from "Flamin' Hot Cheetos".Flamin' Hot Cheetos!
Like regular Cheetos but they're flamin' hot!
Normal Cheetos are for pussies!
Flamin' Cheetos are not!
For pussies, that is!
- During the YouTube version of what., he tells a joke about video editors, only to have it cut to the next one mid-joke.
- He does a similar joke in the Netflix version of Make Happy, about continuity errors. The best part is, the change is so small, you pretty much have to watch it multiple times to even catch it.
- Pretty much every Vine he's ever made.
- "I put a chameleon on a red dildo. It blushed."
- After Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous got canceled, Bo immediately went and tweeted a slew of fast food restaurant chains, asking if they had job openings.
- From "Ex-Girlfriend / Racial Humor":"My ex-girlfriend, she was a bitch. You know what they say: 'If you want to know what a girl looks like, look at her mother.' You know? So I am so glad I broke up her, because she would've been, you know...dead."
- This exchange:Female Audience Member: I love you!Bo: No you fucking don't.


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Ed Koch sees a reason that Eliot Spitzer and the New York Times want illegal immigrants to be able to obtain a driver's license: It's their way to recoup the gains they sought to get in an immigration bill that failed in congress.
From Koch's latest column, emailed to readers this afternoon:
"If a general election were held today for the office of Governor, or in 2010, when it will, in fact, be held, any candidate who supports the granting of drivers licenses to illegal aliens would, I believe, go down to defeat."
Spitzer and supporters of his plan say the issue is about public and roadway safety, not immigration.
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In the end of December all Estonian political parties represented in the Estonian parliament were sent requests to answer a few questions about Free Software, proprietary software advertising on the websites of public institutions, open standards, software patents, and copyright. Estonian Reform Party (Eesti Reformierakond) was the first to respond. They replied that the party does not have official positions on those questions, but they were kind enough to have their member Lauri Luik offer his personal opinions. Our translation of our questions and his answers can be found below. We thank Estonian Reform Party and Mr. Lauri Luik for their kind reply.
1. Free Software
1.1) Does Your party think that the state should support the development of Free Software as one of the characteristics of a civil society?
The Free Software ideology is acceptable to me and history shows that it works. Advocacy is reasonable. However, excessive interference with the workings of a free market is not. This can probably be achieved without the state allocating considerable finances. Nevertheless, it is important to trust the consumer, who has to make the final choice.
1.2) Does Your party think that Free Software should be preferred to proprietary software in the public sector?
The quality of service (software) matters. If Free Software guarantees the best quality, then obviously. If not, then no.
2. Proprietary software advertising on the websites of public institutions
2.1) What does Your party think of proprietary software advertising on the websites of public institutions?
2.2) Would Your party be willing to sign the "Petition For The Removal Of Proprietary Software Advertising On Public Websites"?
2.3) Would Your party be willing to propose a bill to ban proprietary software advertising on the websites of public institutions
Depends on the kind of advertising you have in mind. If a university were advertising its cooperation partners, I would not see it as a problem. However, it is certainly not for governmental institutions to broker advertising and profit from such activities.
3.Open Standards
3.1) Does Your party agree with the definition of an Open Standard and considers Open Standards necessary?
Life has demonstrated that Open Standards will ultimately make life easier for the customer and that is important.
3.2) What does Your party intend to do to avoid vendor lock-in?
Raising awareness is exceptionally important. It could as well be asked what should be done to avoid people falling prey to SMS-loan and telemarketing companies. Raising awareness as usual. And should problems arise, we have the Consumer Protection Board to deal with them. However, contributing to prevention through raising awareness should come first and foremost.
4. Software patents
4.1) Does Your party think that software should be patentable?
4.1.1) If yes, why?
4.1.2) If yes, should mathematics also be patentable?
Patents are granted based on concrete rules. If it is thought that these rules need to be changed or adapted, then we are open to proposals from experts in the subject field.
5. Copyright
5.1) In the opinion of Your party, is the current Estonian copyright legislation too harsh, too mild, or adequate?
5.2) In the opinion of Your party, should the term limits of copyright protection be reduced? Why?
Copyright and essential liberties must find an adequate compromise in the Internet and it is being worked on.
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ah holland, it seems that i've underestimated the power of orange. after all, ,i cooked dutch food early on, expecting that i was merely giving you the chance to play a role in the cup festivities and yet somehow, here i am, still reverting back to your cuisine, having now forgotten more about dutch food than most north americans will ever know. here you are, fit and tough as ever, about to move on to the final of the world cup for only the second time in my lifespan (and let's face it, i really wasn't paying attention the first time). no, you won't get to take on your former nemesis germany. but you'll be staring down the iberian eyes of the spanish inquisition as you make a quest for your first-ever world cup title. if you win, i'll make a batch of brownies in your honour.
of course, in honour of you hanging tough and fighting your way through the semi-final, i figured i'd cook up a dish that, strangely, was buried somewhere in my memory of searching for dutch recipes either this year or four years ago (i don't look that often). i had to make sure i was right about the origin of it and, lo and behold, i was. (the memory loss hasn't started yet.) so for dinner i made a lovely dish of cod with mustard cream sauce. normally, i'm not a fan of putting sauces on fish. call it part of my maritime heritage, but i'm a little suspicious (you might say i turn a fishy eye towards it) of any dish that buries the lovely, delicate taste of fish in something heavy, because to me, it means someone's trying to hide the taste of not quite so fresh fish. but hell, i live in montreal now. i no longer know what fresh fish means. so i decided to compromise just this once, because the sauce sounded tasty and because i love mustard. yes, mustard. as in "cut the mustard", which is certainly what you've been doing, holland. it's been lovely getting to know you and your ways with seafood.
(fyi- the rice you see with the dish is not strictly speaking dutch, but indonesian. rice with corn is often served as part of a tasty table of appetizer-portion dishes called a "rijstaffel", or rice table, once it's translated from dutch, the people who adapted the traditional festive meal and then gave it their own name, still used internationally to this day.


text: I'm mad and frustrated. I got a kit from Hancock and started cutting the fabric on Saturday. The first thing was fussy cutting 18 paper dolls out of a yard of fabric. I managed that...ok. Then came the strips for sashing, etc. That went better. Then came the stars. I got the "tri-rec" and got the triangles right. I cut the 4" squares and cut out the triangles. Then the piece that makes it a rectangle messed me up. I assumed (yes, I'm the ***) I needed to cut the 4" squares before I cut out the wedges. By the time I figured it out (and read the instructions 3 more times) I used up all of the fabric in that color. I had to call Hancock and order more fab. The kicker is when my son came in and didn't want to even listen to my tale of woe. He just assumed I did it on purpose, I guess!


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Dismal River Golf Club---Mullen, NE
Dismal River is the greatest luxury golf escape that I have ever seen. It is in the middle of nowhere Nebraska and
will take most people a very long time to actually get there by plane, train, or automobile. But once you are there,
there is absolutely no reason to ever leave. The accommodations are beyond first class, the amenities are off the
charts, and the staff is friendly, welcoming, and inviting. It is Golf Heaven, if there is such a thing, with heavenly
views in every direction.
Beyond the amazing vibe of the club, the Nicklaus course at Dismal River is a truly unique golf course in an ideal
setting. It provides for some of the most unique and interesting golf holes anyone will ever see and this sets the
table for some of the most dramatic golf shots anyone will ever play.
There are blind shots on the first two holes…
Stunning par 3's at holes #3 …
#5 with its saddle green…
#15 is set in the dunes…
And #10 has the epic bunker in the middle of the green…
6 is a unique par 4 with a very manageable forced carry off the tee into a punchbowl green set in the dunes.
7 and 12 are classically great holes, with the first being a par 4 and the latter being a par 5.
8 is a drivable par 4 with an alternate route to the hole playing out to the left.
But nothing stands out more to me than the 13th hole. But let me rewind before I dive into the 13th hole.
After my first visit, I said I loved Dismal River but I noted it had two main flaws. #1—it was unwalkable and #2--it was
unplayable by an 18 handicap or higher. At the time of those statements, I had no idea that the management team
at Dismal River was already dedicated to constantly improving the golf course. And improve it, they have.
As to my first point…the course being unwalkable…I stand corrected. It is quite walkable. One of my friends, just walked 100 holes at Dismal River in one day to raise money for charity. Another one of my good friends walks Dismal every time he plays it. This type of golfing activity has been made possible by the walking paths cut into the native grass and the tweaking of tee boxes.
Regarding the tweaking of tee boxes, this has also helped on the 2nd point I listed above. But before I get to that,
let me rewind again. You see, when I first played Dismal they had six sets of tee boxes and now they have 3.
Having fewer tee boxes has improved the flow of the course and, therefore, the ease of the walk.
This reduction in tee boxes has also made the course much more playable. I am unsure if total distance has been
reduced, but what I am sure of is that very trying/touch and go forced carries have been eliminated…except if you
have the game and the length to play the tips.
These tee box changes have had a very dramatic impact on the 13th hole. I remember playing hole 13 for the very
first time. I had a forced carry of perhaps 200 yards off the tee with a centerline bunker in play. I did make that
carry…but barely. Then I had a 180 yard approach shot into a teeny-tiny peanut shaped green that sloped
severely right to left. I did pop a 4 iron up on the green and two putted for my par, but it was such an amazing feat
that I still recall the precise shots I hit that day.
As the hole is set up now, the 13th hole has a very moderate forced carry and driver, 3 wood, 3 iron, heck, even a
6 iron can be hit off that tee. This makes the centerline bunker more of a hazard to thoughtfully consider…you
might try to carry it, lay up, play up the right side fairway, or take the left fairway. All of these ideas need to be
considered before you hit your tee shot. If you choose driver and carry the bunker, you will have a sand wedge
into that small green. In fact, this hole has gone from being border line unplayable to one of my favorite holes in
the entire world. And this transformation has a lot to do with the reduction in tee boxes.
Furthermore, this increase in the course's playability has a lot to do with the changes in the maintenance of the
course. My first trip out there in 2010 the long native grass second cut of rough was lush, green and thick. Any
ball hit into the rough had an 80% chance of being a lost ball. Now, the maintenance of that rough has made the
thick, lush, green grass thin, whispy, and brown and any ball hit into it has an 80% of being found with a chance to
get a lot of club on the ball for a recovery shot.
Make no mistake about it, the course is still a great challenge. But it is more of a fun and entertaining challenge
rather than a ball-busting/ass-kicking challenge. When I first played the course in 2010, I wrote the following…
"Jack Nicklaus' Dismal River is a very nice test of golfing skill. The thing I liked most about it was just that; it is a
serious test of shot-making, mental composure, and knowing your game. In fact, I felt a lot like I was playing a Mike
Strantz course a few times. That is it seemed to be like he was trying to mentally intimidate the golfer prior to the
golfer even swinging a club.
For example, take the 18th hole. For giggles, the first time I played that hole I decided to play the hole from the
back tee marker…all 600 yards of it!! After the tee shot, the hole plays straight uphill. So, mentally the golfer
might be saying, "this is B.S.…600 yards uphill par 5…this is too much…this is unplayable…this is a garbage
hole!!!" But here is the kicker, the green is a punch bowl green. Just get the ball on the green anywhere, heck just
trickle the ball over the fringe, and the ball will funnel to the hole. So you see, even a 10 handicap who can only
drive the ball 250ish can play the tips on this hole and still have a shot at par if they just keep scrapping.
Anyway, this type of stuff happens again and again. An impossible looking hole, really isn't…perhaps due to an
easy green. And easy looking holes, have butt kicking greens. But having said that, the course isn't easy. It is a
shot makers course and you have to go into it with the idea that you are going to get tested.
Furthermore, I believe this course is Jack Nicklaus' homage to minimalism. It is said that he moved almost no dirt to
build the course. But the feel there is distinctly Dismal River. Compared to its more famous neighbor, Dismal is
more sculpted out of the natural setting rather than blended in like Sand Hills.
In a nutshell, the golf course at Dismal River is a challenge. It has mind-bending scenic views, crazy demanding
shots…but many are quite frankly easier than they look, kind of like that Mike Strantz head games thing I was
talking about earlier. With a size and scale feeling that is unmatched."
Even though the 18th green has been tweaked since I initially made this statement, the Strantz mental intimidation
tactics remain throughout the course. And with the other tweaks mentioned above, the course remains a challenge
but its fun factor has risen to a level that is off the charts.
For fun, here is some more scoop on Dismal River.
-For starters, here is some information on the new course being built at Dismal with some jaw-droppingly amazing
photos thanks to Aidan Bradley.
-Additionally, here is the Speaker of the House talking about his time at Dismal River and, yep, I was there when he
was and it was pretty neat to interact with him and witness his all-time best round.
-And here is a video of some friends of mine taking the ride into the club via the secret entrance road.
-And I stumbled across this video as well.


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Traditional:Happens with frequency in grandfathered intra-system game terminology, especially now that several systems are more than three decades old.
- The card game Illuminati uses Straight to mean normal, everyday, ordinary, i.e. the opposite of Weirdnote . In the contemporary era, we speak of mainstream and fringe subcultures. In the CCG version, Illuminati: New World Order, this is kept, but the rulebook and a couple of cards crack a few jokes at it.
- The term Ego was less strongly associated with an overdeveloped sense of self when it became a stat in Champions. The numerical characteristic (or CHA) has more to do with willpower than either pride or the Freudian combined conscience of the id and superego.
- The classic board game Cape Horn is absolutely full of this. As Mike Mozart pointed out, it's a game where you play as a crew of seamen collecting windcocks to sail around Cape Horn note and get to San Francisco. Prepare for a lot of Heh Heh, You Said "X" if you try to play it with someone particularly immature.
- There were rules for "orgies" in Dungeons & Dragons at one point. As stated above, it used to mean any large indulgence. Note that this is separate from the infamous harlot encounter table in the 1e Dungeon Masters Guide.
- One of the AD&D-compatible modules produced by Judges Guild in the early 1980s was titled Glory Hole Dwarven Mine of course, a "glory hole" is a term for a surface-level depression left by underground mining, but that may not be the first thing that comes to mind.
- Warhammer 40,000:
- For a while, the Grey Knights had a power called Holocaust, which would destroy daemons within its area of effect. Possibly knowing the unfortunate implications of the word's association and the actual in-game effect (basically obliterating the hell out of one specific type of troops) this power was dropped in the newest edition. While it was still around the game introduced a "Deny the Witch" mechanic to counter spells, meaning the Knight player's opponent had to attempt to Deny the Holocaust.
- The 3.5 Edition of the Chaos Space Marine codex did not shy away from using terminologies such as "orgy" and "fetish" in their non-sexual meanings (although it did not shy away from using the sexual connotations either, considering there was a god of sex and lust in the book too). Nowadays such terms are almost exclusively in sections referring to Slaanesh (the aforementioned god of sex and lust).
- A very strange and somewhat more recent example than most is Twinkees and Trolls, a board game invented by the proprietors of "Buddies" which was a gay bar in Boston. It plays something like a homosexual-themed version of Monopoly, in which the objective is to pick up as many "Twinkees" (handsome young men) as possible and avoid being picked up by "Trolls" (ugly old men) while haunting various cities known for having gay cruising strips and hangouts. While a "Twinkee" is still something one hears referenced in the subculture these days in a slightly abbreviated form, a "Troll" has come to mean something quite different in all cultures since the advent of the internet. (Granted, probably no self-respecting fellow of any sexual inclination would want to pick up that kind of a troll either...)


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Another holiday behind us and thoughts are no doubt turning to the festivities yet to be celebrated in the final months of this year.
Now might be a good time to review your family holidays and determine if they are in need of a tune up. We can be steeped in tradition and obligation and feel overwhelmed by the expectations family holidays can bring. There may be that feeling that someone else is driving what we feel is expected of us during a holiday celebration. Could be family, friends or neighbours.
In my own particular life, after my divorce, I admit to being determined to create a December holiday that matched anything we had done before he left us. And match it I did for several years.
There was the requisite nine-foot tree, caroling parties and banquet-style dinners. Then a few years post- divorce, and at my oldest son's urging, we decided to really switch it up. We moved our celebration out West to the mountains where both my son's lived.
I went from the huge tree to a grocery store, table-top, sparkly variety we affectionately call the Psychedelic Tree. Our family traditions changed and grew, and the focus shifted. In those early years of new holiday traditions one particular moment stands out that involved nothing more than just being together.
There are many ways to approach changing holiday traditions.
We walked along the street on Christmas Eve with a soft snow falling. The mountain town street lights caught the flakes and the sky was filled with the glow of tiny diamonds. A young man had a stand set up selling roasted chestnuts. It was a simple but beautiful moment in time that I have not forgotten. That magical evening epitomized the holiday.
If you are feeling the need to switch up your holiday tradition start with taking stock of what works and what doesn't work in your traditional holiday gathering.
I am a proponent of using T charts as a problem solving technique. Draw a large T on a sheet of paper. On one side write all the positives of your holiday celebration. On the other side put the negatives. This works best done spontaneously, quickly listing your thoughts. Whichever side fills up indicates the state of your holiday celebration health.
There are many ways to approach changing holiday traditions. Maybe the meal needs a makeover. Have you always had a large dinner and been the one to deliver the meal? Are you ready for a change? You could do a brunch, or a pot luck, or maybe just a nibbles evening without a large meal.
The holiday decoration market has mushroomed over the past few decades. My decorations used to fill many large shelves in the closet. They were a weight I didn't need to celebrate the holiday. Now my decorations barely fill a large shoe box. Gradually I have given away most of my decorations and kept the ones that were very special. Surprisingly, it's quite enough to give my home a festive touch.
Gift giving can be another onerous holiday expectation. For many of us the question can be: What to give someone who has everything? Dollar limits and drawing names help alleviate the stress of buying gifts for everyone. Donations to charity are another way to approach gifting or volunteering at a community dinner. Plans made in advance to reconfigure gift giving can reduce stress.
Emotions tend to run high as another festive time approaches.
Look around your world. There are probably people spending the holiday alone. Adding a fresh face can add vitality to the family gathering. In today's transient life, there could well be someone you know that, for whatever reasons, will be alone over the holiday. It's giving in the true spirit of the season.
We can trip over our holiday traditions and feel owned by them. Like so many things in life, it is all about taking control. Be decisive. Confer with other family members. Formulate a new holiday plan. There might be resistance but push past that and then, on the other side of the holiday -- evaluate.
Surprise can be unnerving so talking about change well ahead of the next family holiday can alleviate concern. That way family members have a length of time to accept a reinvented holiday.
Emotions tend to run high as another festive time approaches. Give everyone a chance to voice their opinions. If there is division in the ranks, stand your ground for what you want. Maybe in the first push towards new traditions there will be some resistance. A little nudge, a little bargaining, perhaps suggest trying it for a year and see how it goes.
Often you are not alone in wishing that the traditions could be changed. It takes a bit of bravery to reach out and suggest change to family members. However, you might be surprised by their reaction.
Pushing past the old family holiday traditions can be refreshing for everyone.
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Can't see UKIP getting in as much. With the Tories promising a 'Hard Brexit' I think UKIP voters might turn to the Tories for it.
Unfortunately I think the slippery Conservatives will once again be re-elected. They won't get my vote though.
PM Theresa May has called for a snap
general election for June 8th catching everyone by surprise.
Will it be a comfortable win for the Conservatives?
Could a crushing defeat for Jeremy Corbyn spell end of his leadership?
Do Lib Dems have any hope of making a comeback?
We also have to consider UKIP and of course SNP in Scotland.
Can't see UKIP getting in as much. With the Tories promising a 'Hard Brexit' I think UKIP voters might turn to the Tories for it.
Unfortunately I think the slippery Conservatives will once again be re-elected. They won't get my vote though.
Theresa May says 'When I say something I mean it, no election til 2020' then she calls an election and asks people to trust her!. This election is all about the one issue - Brexit. The PM says that this is to unite Parliament around the issue (maybe a threat to the soft Brexit section in her party to step in line or face deselection). The latest polls suggest that the Tories have a 20% lead over Labour so she can afford to shake things up a bit. I too dont think UKIP will benefit in any way. The only 2 MPs they had were defections. One lost his seat in the last election and the other one defected back just the other week!. The only other beneficiaries from this are the SNP - they will probably hold onto most of the seats they gained last time and a Tory government once again might just be the boost the Independence campaign needs!.
former chancellor George Osbourne is
to stand down as an MP now he is charge of Evening Standard.
More NHS cuts?
More welfare cuts?
More special tax deals for large corporations?
More job/employment insecurity?
More inequality?
Teresa May will do what's best her and the extremely rich. She doesn't give a shit about the people she's supposed to be serving.
Unfortunately people will make this all about Brexit and will vote the Tories and May knows it. Clever? Maybe, but to me it's just more of the same underhanded tactics the Tories use to gain advantages so they can continue to serve the wealthy.
Speaking of which, George Osborne is stepping down as an MP. This is the kind of people running the UK. Setting themselves up for further privilege.
Let us also not forget that this was the government that promised to pay back the national debt and instead it has gone up from 960 Million in 2010 to over 1.5 Trillion last year!.


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(News-Herald, January 2002) It's common to complain about irresponsible people. But I don't think irresponsibility is nearly as large an issue as nonresponsibility.
Irresponsible people make bad choices with a willful disregard for the consequences. "I want to steal this stop sign," they declare, "and I don't care whether it causes problems or not." But the nonresponsible person is cut from different cloth.
The nonresponsible person pretends not to choose. The nonresponsible person picks a pre-emptive scapegoat; he doesn't let the cat out of the bag until he's already got someone or something holding the drawstring.
This is, traditionally, one reason that religion gets a bad rap; God has always been a popular scapegoat. "God told me to take your land and kill your neighbors" had its day, and "God wants me to have your money" never fails to open a few wallets. It's an unfortunate tradition because there are so many people really trying to do what God wants them to do. These folks have to shoulder the bad press that nonresponsible believers generate.
Modern times have created even more places onto which we can shift responsibility. Upbringing is a popular one, along with any number of traumas and social and emotional disorders that provide excuses. "I'm not responsible," the litany goes, "because my mother used to dress me in ugly clothes."
But the disordered nonresponsibility really takes a back seat to modern faiths like counseling and therapy, because these, like God, allow the nonresponsible person to claim a Higher Purpose.
"I decided to dump you because your car is ugly" doesn't sound very noble, but "My therapist thinks I need to move onto a more self-actuating plane of function" sounds really cool. "I wanted sex" sounds so cheap. "God sent this person into my life so I could make her happy" sounds like missionary work.
The telling detail about the nobly nonresponsible is that God and their therapists always seem to direct them to do what they wanted to do anyway.
Now, irresponsible people do whatever the heck they want to also, but they at least are honest enough to say, "Hey, it's what I want. I'll worry about the consequences some other day." And when you want to complain about the act, the owner is there. But nonresponsible people are like a restaurant where the service is bad and the manager is never in. "We really don't have anything to talk about," says the nonresponsible person. "I was just being moved by my God/therapist/urges. I just did what I had to; it's not like I really had a choice."
Nonresponsibility also works for inaction. On my worst days, I will sit in the middle of the tracks watching the train bear down on me and complain about God's shabby treatment of me. On my best days, I'll get the heck off the rails.
It's hard to have a relationship with a person in nonresponsible mode. To have a relationship, both people have to show up, and there really isn't any substitute, any excuse, that changes that.
I have logged as many miles on the Lie-o-meter as anyone, but I wasn't responsible because it wasn't really my choice. Right. I proved conclusively that if you do not show up, in person, for the important relationships in your life, you can wreck them. And no excuse, no note from your Higher Power changes that.
If you make nonresponsibility a way of life, you eventually become a joke. You acquire a long string of short term relationships, punctuated by traumatic periods in which you meditate, pray, fast, consult your magic 8 ball. But the nonresponsible person isn't looking for answers; he's just looking for the solution to the puzzle of how to get what he wants and still feel good. He'll walk around and around the situation, looking for the angle from which the choice will appear to serve some purpose greater than his own selfishness.
Is the nonresponsible person bad? Usually not. Just afraid, or uncertain, and looking very hard for something to make him feel good about the choices that he's made. You don't mean to lie, and when you think you find your answer, you're sincere. But still, after a few years of it, you're explaining the really good reasons that it was necessary for you to dump your twelfth spouse so you could fly to Bimini with the woman that God made just for you, and people's eyes glaze over because they understand that you'll always do whatever you want to do, but it will never be your responsibility. They know you'll be full of excuses. They just won't care, because they'll have decided that you're full of something else, too.
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
(News-Herald, January 25)There are folks who figure that finding the right words to say is the solution to whatever ill assails us.
But usually it's not a new set of words that we need. More often, we just need to act as if we really mean the words we've already said.
Take, for instance, the Harrisburg crowd. They regularly present us with a new set of words about how to create property tax reform in the commonwealth. But if they could just once act as if they really intended to have property tax reform, we could all stop talking about it.
Instead, school boards find themselves forced to walk the plank, propelled by a law that claims to be voluntary, but is not, and claims to provide tax relief, and does not do so (except for a select few). The legislature and the Governor Smiling Ed say that they are giving local school districts an opportunity to choose a path to relief to their local taxpayers. But their actions say that they want to concoct a lame public relations stunt while simultaneously passing the buck for the inevitable fallout.
It is easy to talk a good game, to say that your kids come first, to announce your priorities in life. Talk is cheap. The challenge is to act as if you really believe it.
Politicians are not the only people to struggle with this issue.
We've heard a lot of noise locally over the past few years about drinking and drugs, and panels have convened, committees have formed, and action plans have been issued to clamp down on the problem. And most of all, we've had many many many conversations about what might possibly be the cause.
The usual culprits are cited. The region is suffering economically. There aren't enough wholesome activities for young folks to keep them busy. Fluoride in the water makes young people unruly.
Then there are the newer culprits, like video games and evil internet influences.
And I don't mean to suggest that modern technology is not part of the picture. Back in the day, a recalcitrant teen had to plan illicit rendezvous on the household phone and borrow the family car to get there. Today teens with their own cars and cell phones can make arrangements far from the most alert adult eyes and ears.
But before we get ready to rally the troops to put a stop to teen-age drinking once again, we might want to ask ourselves whether we really mean it or not. Because over the past few years, I've been suspecting that many of us don't.
I think there are plenty of parents who know they're supposed to disapprove of drinking. One of my wiser students last year observed that drinking peer pressure comes in two varieties—teens are pressured by their peers to drink, and parents are pressured by their peers to express disapproval.
So adults dutifully say, "Underage drinking is Bad." But many of the actions suggest that for many parents, teen drinking isn't really that big a deal. Yes, everyone would rather that teens didn't drink and then drive. But beyond that, there doesn't seem to be much consensus.
This weekend, there will be parties involving teenagers and (at least) alcohol. Some parents will know about these. Some parents will carefully avoid doing anything that might lead to finding out. Some parents will make no attempt to find out what sort of soiree their children are actually attending. In a few months, at prom time, there will be parents hosting drinking parties in their home. And on any given weekend, there will be teens staggering into homes without any fear that someone will be waiting to meet them.
I'm not suggesting these people are bad parents. There's a lot of room for argument about the drinking age; plenty of countries elsewhere do just fine without one. And after years of teaching, I also know that parents can do everything right and the teenage train can still come off the tracks.
But for a large sector of the population, the words and the actions don't match, and the message is that teen drinking is no big deal.
If we believe that underage drinking should be stopped, then let's act like we believe it. And if we think that teen drinking is basically okay, let's just say so. And if it bothers us to say so, let's ask ourselves why.
"Just say No" struck many people as kind of silly because they understand that anyone can "just say" anything. It's acting as if you mean it that's the trick.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
(News-Herald, January 18) No Child Left Behind is celebrating its fifth birthday this month (which means, of course, that if it were a human child, it would be time to start running NCLB through a battery of standardized tests). NCLB is also up for review by the feds that spawned it. So many folks are reflecting on the act and its various side-effects.
It's tempting to dismiss the act simply on the basis of its most obviously objectionable aspects. For instance, there's a lot of evidence to suggest that NCLB is partly a money-making scheme for book publishers. Book publishers write standards for reading, produce materials designed to teach those objectives, and then win government recommendations that only their books be used.
Or the central insanity of NCLB—the 100% success rate. Nobody else in the country is expected to have 100% success. Not doctors, not lawyers and certainly not politicians. Heck, after the Iraqi WMD's failed to materialize, we were reminded that the heavily staffed, generously funded intelligence community could certainly not be expected to be right all the time.
But here in Pennsylvania, in less than a decade, 100% of all students will be above average (which means, I guess, that they will all be well-educated enough to know that there's no way 100% of anything can be above average).
Administrators and school boards hate the unfunded mandates (that's when the government tells you that you must feed each student steak, but you have to pay for it yourself). Conservatives (at least the old school ones) hate having the State grabbing control of local school districts. Teachers resent being treated like the problem in education instead of the front line troops.
It's easy to let these philosophical issues overwhelm views of NCLB. But at the same time, there are practical aspects to appreciate.
There's no question that some school districts have, over the years, chosen to warehouse their problem students, to simply tolerate untalented, unmotivated, unwelcome students. Wait a few years, and they'll go away.
School districts have often catered to the college-bound crowd. If you "just" want to be a welder or a mechanic or a plumber or any of the jobs that make civilized life possible for the rest of us—well, we sometimes figured that we just didn't need to try to teach you all that much.
NCLB challenges the idea that some students aren't worth the great effort it takes to work with them. And that's an assumption that should be challenged.
NCLB also recognizes the need for some sort of measure of what a school district accomplishes. For way too long, the ed biz was marked by an attitude problem. Questions about what we were doing and how well we were doing it were greeted with a haughty, "We are the public school system. Stop questioning us and trust that we are doing great things."
The push for a stiff and strenuous standard is a Good Thing, and if we judge NCLB on practical results, we have to give credit for that push.But it is also in the area of practical results that NCLB ultimately has failed, and failed miserably. Because at the heart of those standards, we don't find a serious attempt to set and evaluate strong valuable learning goals.
All we find is a test. A one-size-fits-all, high-stakes, not-very-good test.
School districts ought to be talking about how to best educate their students. They ought to be talking about what goals are most valuable, what measures are most reliable, what will best produce wise and productive members of society. Instead, school districts are having only one conversation: how do we get better scores on the test? It's like the head of Ford saying, "Never mind if the cars are any good—are the workers wearing clean uniforms?"
We take class time away so that we can take practice tests. We take teaching time away so that teachers can coach students on the practice items they missed. And if they don't do well enough on the practice test, we replace some of their enrichment classes with classes about how to take the test. And if we don't do it, the State threatens to take our school district away.
The tests are exactly what you would expect from a committee of bureaucrats, measuring little of value, and doing it poorly. At the end of the day, the scores prove one thing—how good the students are at taking that standardized test.
NCLB was supposed to transform schools. It has. Where educating students was once our main concern, it is now a side business, an afterthought. We'll squeeze it in around the edges, once we've made certain we get our test scores up.
Posted by Peter Greene at 1/18/2007 11:38:00 PM 0 comments
Saturday, January 13, 2007
(News-Herald, January 11)Passing the mantle of leadership can be a big generational challenge.
Barack Obama has been clear about analyzing his own appeal, which he seems to feel rooted in a generational boomer-fatigue.
That's sad for the boomers—if Obama or one of his cohort win the White House, that will mean that the boomers provided the nation with a grand total of two Presidents, leaving them far in the dust of virtually every other American generation. That would be a boomer bummer, because we planned to permanently remake the world in our collective image.
And yet Bush and Clinton embody much of what is obnoxious about the boomers. Boomers specialize in a kind of single-minded righteousness, a sort of philosophical deep-seated double-jointedness. We know what we want, and we do what we want, but we always have a profound deep sincere righteous reason that we should get to.
So whether it's hiding from the draft or using money to avoid responsibility or cheating on the wife or starting a war you're clueless about how to finish, a boomer can make it all okay. At least, in his own head.
At our worst, boomers talk a good game of Right and Wrong, but somehow end up doing whatever we want to do anyway. The current political spectacle—Bush II forced to ask his dad's friends of the Iraq commission to help sort out his mess, while the younger generation is already agitating for a new broom to sweep clean—may seem uncomfortably familiar to many boomers. Our parents still providing practical clean-up for our zealously idealistic messes, while our children wonder if we're going to leave them anything in unbroken condition.
Well, if the younger generations find their elders obnoxious now, wait till the boomers finish retiring and decide that the Right Thing To Do is for taxes on investments and homes to be cut while working folks pick up the slack.
Of course, not all transitions in leadership are about the boomers (as much as we boomers have trouble believing that anything could be Not About Us).
Last week's column about the Franklin Club's financial problems had barely hit the newsstands before folks were reminding me of some earlier chapters in Club history. For instance, there still seems to be a bit of testiness out there about the Club's reluctance to recruit and retain junior members back in the 1970's. As some folks remember it, Club Elders considered proposals to try recruiting a younger wave of future members, but decided that young'uns could jolly well come ask to get in when they'd worked hard and proved they deserved it.
Groups in Venangoland sometimes have trouble handing the baton to the younger runners in the pack.
It's not that they don't want the young folks around—the younger generation is perfectly welcome to join in, as long as they don't raise a fuss, don't talk back to their elders, and promise to do everything exactly the way the older generation has always done it.
It's not that the older generation wants to hold onto the power; they just want to be sure that everything is going to go on properly ("properly" being defined as "the way we would do it ourselves").
There are plenty of churches around that have traveled to the brink of extinction with this formula—they're perfectly willing to reach out to young people, as long as the young people prove that they're the Right Kind of Young People.
Not that the issue doesn't have some of its good points. I'm pushing fifty, but there are still places where I'm considered one of the Young Fellas.
And it's not entirely the older generation's fault, either. Sometimes the younger generation has a tendency to sit sheeplike, feet propped up and comfy, congratulating itself on having the good sense to have older folks around to take care of business. It's haard to pass the baton to people who have their hands in their pockets.
Sometimes the younger generation does actually goober things up. Someone who is more ambitious than smart, more interested in winning the role than in knowing how to fill it, will often make a mess worse than any reluctant retiree ever imagined.
But that should be the exception, not the rule. One of the most basic responsibilities of leadership is to find and prepare your eventual replacement because (hot flash here) you will not be there forever. Even if you're a boomer and you're prepared to rule the roost until the end of time.
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Friday, January 05, 2007
I'm re-presenting the following because on January 20 we'll be re-presenting this show at the Barrow. It's a benefit for the theater, and it is one of my favorite shows ever. So, you should come. But here's what I had to say about it the first time we put it on three years ago:
(News-Herald, March 2004)I'm not a big fan of theater about theater. I don't get excited about old musicals like "Gypsy" and "Applause" in which singing, dancing actors explore how fascinating singing, dancing actors are.
I do have my personal old favorites on the stage. I think "Forever Plaid" might be the most perfectly written musical ever. And I could watch "Godspell" every year for the rest of my life.
It's hard to find just the right stuff to put in words and music on the stage. You don't think of it as hard, but really, compared to all the books and tv shows and movies created over the last century that still hold up, the number of theatrical musicals still worth presenting is surprisingly small.
I've been thinking about this lately because I've been working on a show that I really like, that is special because it is both new and completely ordinary.
Ordinariness is not a common trait in musical theater. Stage musicals are geared toward big honking smackwhapping explosions of drama and grandiosity. Escaping Nazis over the mountains. Hiding a broken heart and misshapen face in the catacombs. A chorus of six gazillion blasting an ode to the French Revolution.
It's not that I think those aren't worth our attention. It's just that most of us live lives not very much like that, but that are pretty ordinary.
This show (I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change) deals with the most ordinary human activity of all, the ongoing attempt to pursue and maintain a connection with those around us, to locate and hang onto that entirely ordinary human commodity, love.
I'm already on record as a sort of anti-romantic. I figure any shmuck can be romantic dressed in period costumes, well-lit and made up, hanging off the front of a giant ocean liner. It takes real love and heart to find romance after twenty years, looking across the breakfast table at someone with bad bed hair.
Anyone can be romantic with a crack team of scriptwriters. It takes real talent to make do with the words you fumble for on a first date with an appealing stranger.
It's the ordinary, everyday romance of carving out a life together in the world of car payments and dirty diapers and limbs that creak more than they did forty years ago—that's the stuff that shows our hearts at their biggest and silliest.
So this is the show I would write if I could write a show. The four actors play sixty-some characters, but the main character of the show is the purely human joy, frailty and humor of finding and holding onto love. It starts with a first date and ends with a widow and widower deciding to start a new chapter; around intermission there's a wedding.
Every character is life sized—not larger than life, not massively dramatic, not a tiny cheap imitation of a person. I've met most of these people, even been a couple of them. And they sing.
There are so few odes to regular life, so few songs about how we deal with regular stuff in the Real World. We need more songs about regular stuff, songs that let us see clearly what ordinary life is like, to let us see that it is precious and funny and okay. Ordinary really is okay.
In this column, I don't plug every show that Civic puts on; I don't even plug most of the shows that I'm involved with. But I'm plugging this one.
Local audiences are not known for turning out in droves for new or unfamiliar shows; a Venango County theater group that put on nothing but Rogers and Hammerstein shows year after year would never go broke. But this one is worth seeing.
First, for the cast, which is first rate. Steve Luxbacher, Jodi Hoover, Suzie Ditzenberger, and Jodi Hoover are seasoned pros on stage, and they really shine in this material.
Second, because this is a show which celebrates all those nice little moments that are part of a lifetime of trying to stay connected to the ones we love. It is a grown-up show, though there's nothing here to make an HBO executive or Janet Jackson bat an eye. Every time I watch it in rehearsal, I laugh, and at the end, I always feel a bit of hope for the whole Love thing. I hum the songs. I'm inviting you to this one because I think you'll enjoy it.
It's not always about the 100 piece orchestra and the searing, soulwrenching operatic scale drama. Sometimes it's just a quiet voice and warm smile at the end of the day. But operatic drama every day will wear you out; a quiet voice and a warm smile can carry on for a lifetime.
The presentation on the 20th will include a tiny bit of new material-- they added a song in the years since we did it last. Our original violin player left the area, but I'm happy to annonce that Jill Mattson will be playing with us this time out, helping the always-dependable Kristen Criado in accompaniment chores. You should come see this. Really.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
(News-Herald, January 3)I never really believed the Franklin Club could fold. Still, not everything that's old and traditional manages to survive. Nor does it necessarily deserve to.
The club started out as The Nursery Club. Long ago, Franklin's motto was "The Nursery of Great Men." That phrase was apparently coined by Erie politician Morrow B. Lowry, who was not a fan; he intended it as ironic mockery, but Franklinites picked it up and ran with it. The town called itself the Nursery, and Franklin High School sports teams proudly called themselves the Fighting Nurserymen. Hard to imagine how that nickname could fall into disfavor. But it did. FHS became the Knights, the Nursery Club became the Franklin Club, and Morrow B. Lowry, according to the local paper, ended up in an insane asylum.
The Club was initially happy to have rooms in the old Hancock Building. Common enough practice—the band and the newspaper and many other such reputable groups rented rooms rather than owning entire buildings. But the college boys who founded the club in 1877 became men and made lots of money, and the club bought a nice house and started adding to it.
That the club approaches extinction is not exactly news. The prognosis on the street has been grim for several years now. That in itself has probably not helped; folks are reluctant to book a facility that may not open by the time Billy Bob and Eulah May are fixin' to get hitched.
And of course the club has never really been for Billy Bob and Eulah May. Part of the point of the club for most of its 130 years has been to preserve a certain amount of snootiness. There are people right now who are not rooting for this symbol of privilege. Fairly or unfairly, people are dredging up tales of days when merchants and teachers and laborers were blackballed from The Club because they weren't the right sort. I've already been reminded of the story that circulated decades ago about a club employee who embezzled a truckload of money, and the club's supposed decision not to pursue the matter in order to save face.
But I don't think The Club suffers from bad karma. It has hosted many fine events, provided touches of grace and beauty to the entire community. There are more than enough fond memories of the Club to go around.
Places like the Franklin Club require a fairly good supply of Rich Guys, and we're running a little low on that breed. Can you remember when most of Joy's upper management lived right in Venango County? If you can, well, sorry, but you are old. There are not a great number of well-to-do folks around, and many of the few are not very visible in community life.
For that matter, many of those who are visible are visible in organizations involved in more active pursuits than maintaining a big club house with a ready supply of good food and alcohol. And many of them are part of a younger generation that is famously impatient in matters personal and professional. Why join an organization or business and wait twenty years to be trusted with any position of importance when you can go out and start your own club today?
That, in fact, is where groups like the Franklin Club came from in the first place. In 1877, American's thirst for starting clubs was blooming. Virtually every civic and semi-civic organization (Red Cross, NAACP, Rotary, Boy Scouts) that you've heard of was founded between 1870 and 1920. By the 1970's, we'd virtually stopped creating groups.
Then we stopped participating in them. From 1975 to 1999, figures show that participation in clubs dwindled to less than half its former level.
So The Club's problems are not unique. In early 2006, the Pittsburgh Business Times reported a big decline in country club membership throughout the region. Wanango Country Club's reputation hasn't been much more solid that The Club's for a while, and they have a pool and a golf course. In many ways, the Franklin Club is just a country club with nothing to play but basement duckpins.
We face increasing problems with these white elephants. Franklin First Baptist Church, Galena Building, Transit Building—created by long-dead rich guys, these beautiful buildings provide rich heritage and gut-busting maintenance costs.
How to hang onto them? Government pork would be a poor solution. Besides, these buildings have doors and windows; some other business with doors and windows would sue.
Nope. If we want to keep them, we have to pony up. It's nice to say you'd like the Franklin Club to survive. But what would you pay to keep it? Right now, that's the only question that counts.
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The Journey from the Fields to the Throne – The Journey of David
Mark looks at a portion of David's life, from his time of being anointed through to when he finally becomes king. Mark focuses on how King Saul pursues David trying to kill him, yet David never does anything to harm Saul, even though on two occasions he has the opportunity to kill him. Relating this to the persecuted church as well as the persecution that Christians are facing in so called Christian countries for standing upon our fundamental beliefs. It is when we know our true identity in Christ that we can rejoice and praise God in all circumstances.


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"I think that, within the [Covenant] Church, things that they offer are very focused on what the community needs. ... The sewing circle; they give a lot to single mothers, or kids in need. They focus a lot on elders. Instead of how it used to be, other people coming in and telling how things work. It's now, 'What does this community need? What can we offer?'"
my experience growing up
I was born in Kotzebue, but I've moved around the state. My dad is a retired State Trooper, and so he's been stationed in Anchorage, Kotzebue, Glennallen, and finally here, but both my parents are from [Unalakleet]. My mom's full Native, and my dad is full white. ... Usually I'll just say that I'm Alaskan Native, because my experience growing up is more-- not as "white America" as it seemed in the Lower 48. Even though I am that, as well. A lot of people will say, "Oh, well you don't really look Eskimo," or, "I thought you were part Asian or something like that." And I'm like, "Well I guess you don't really see a lot of Natives down in the lower 48."
In high school, I knew that I wanted to get out of the state, because I felt stuck here. Because, you kind of are literally stuck here, you know? You can't hop in a car and go to another village; you have to buy a really expensive flight ticket to get anywhere. And so I felt like I couldn't really do what I wanted to do. And even if I was in Anchorage or Fairbanks... it still felt too close-- that I needed to get a little bit of space and get out a little bit, and, you know, experience something different. So I decided to go to North Park University in Chicago. That was the only application that I finished. And I got accepted.
life in the lower 48
Moving to Chicago is basically like moving internationally, cause the cultures are so different. A lot of people ask me why I didn't do like a study-abroad thing, and I'm like, "I did study abroad; I studied in Chicago!" … Like, "Do you want to come home with me [to Unalakleet]? We just paved our roads five years ago. We got cell service eight years ago." It was a study abroad in Chicago. It was hard. ... I'm really introverted, and I'm a homebody, and so I moved there without really knowing anybody. It was really overwhelming. I basically was a hermit in my first year. I just kept to myself, because in my head everything was really scary and big and noisy and crazy to me. So it took me a long time to really feel comfortable-- and I never really was completely comfortable. I found a way to cope with living there. But it was a good stretch for me to do that.
churches and schools in rural alaska
A lot of times, Western people who come up [to rural Alaska], they end up kind of oppressing the culture. When [the Christian churches] started their schools, they only allowed English. If you spoke another language, you'd get punished for it. So there is this oppression of culture and...it's always been a really sensitive thing. There's been a lot of really stressful interactions with the Baptist church, family there. Because it was kind of like [repeating] the experience that they had long ago, where they came in and they wanted to save everybody, without really knowing-- without like, stepping in our shoes, you know? They came out of their culture, into our culture, bringing their culture. And they would write letters back to their donors, telling a lot of hurtful things. And a lot of untrue things. So that was really difficult, and there's still a lot of tense things now between [the church ministries] and a lot of people here in town. It hasn't really gone away. ... Another experience I think of is teachers. It happens in a bunch of villages, that teachers come from out of town and stay here for a year, and then they kind of leave. And that's hard for the students because they know the teachers, and then they get attached, and they leave. Then a whole new other teacher comes in, and so it's hard because, teacher turnover is-- It's a hard place to live here. [The teachers] need to be some pretty tough people, and some well established people, to live here long term, I think. It's hard to find that, and it's hard to figure who those types of people are, and get them here. Usually they are in other places and they do good there.
a side of me that shows up
It's been really good here for me, [living in Unalakleet]. I've been working on my art and drawing more. ... Things work a little slowly here, a little bit more my pace. It was a little too much, living in Chicago, and all those expectations and trying to work. I was really unhealthy; just kinda burned out. ... My parents told us they were separating. ... And it took me like a week ... to realize that [we were] going to have to move back, and possibly live with my dad, because there's really no housing opportunities here. ... So, at first I was like, "No, absolutely not. I would rather live on the streets in Chicago then try to go back home and deal with all that stuff." But then I was like, "Actually, okay. There are some really big positives. ... As hard as it's gonna be, and as much as I'm going to hate it during the process, it's my responsibility to be home and be there for my brothers." I will be here for them, and I'll get to watch Caden's basketball games, and Cale's basketball games, and that would be awesome because I hadn't been able to, because I've been living across the country. So there are good things here, and [Thomas] gets to see where I'm from, and I am a little different here than I was in Chicago. There's a side of me that just doesn't show up when I'm in Chicago, but when I'm here it's more my element.
it just seems right that we are here
[Thomas and I] assumed a lot when we were dating [at North Park University in Chicago]. ... When we were talking, we assumed we understood each other. Because, the way I was expressing myself is very clear--from the culture I'm brought up in. And the way he explains himself is very clear in the way he was brought up, the language he was brought up in. But it would build up into these big arguments over very-- pretty simple things that we just missed! Now we know what we really mean. ... Honestly, we both enjoy it here. It's a nice community. As crazy as everybody is within this community, it's nice. You do rely on each other and help each other out, and I like that. At least for me, I like that my family is close. ... We're both thinking about starting a family. And I like the idea of raising kids here. ... You kind of have to find and make your community. We're thinking about where we could be other than here. But right now, it just seems right that we are here.


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Babbling at Babel
I was standing on the sidewalk, had a noise in my head.
There were loudspeakers babbling, but nothing was said. – Richard Farina
See, here's what "they" don't get: It's not that we of the great unwashed are unruly, rude, and unlettered—but that "they," the people who (in their own minds) have earned the right to speak to us, do nothing but babble.
No, "babble" doesn't seem to have originated with "Babel" in Genesis 11, but a connection exists nonetheless. It's worth looking at the relevant passage in relation to the current state of information and its communication:
4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Why? Because these are the "they" I'm talking about above.
In verse 4, in my interpretation of this within a news-media context, what we are seeing is an elite speaking for all, wanting to consolidate knowledge and knowledge dissemination. There's a subtext of control: if "we be scattered abroad," we cannot be controlled. We have seen this in the centralization of media ownership and are seeing it now in the attempts to "tame" the Internet.
The God of verse 6 is certainly something of a subversive—to human activity (or that of its elite), anyway. God does not want humankind operating as a block for two reasons: First, people might begin to feel they can challenge God as a group. Impossible as that might be, the attempt would do no one any good. Second, It is up to the individual to find and accept God, and that can't been done through the sort of groupthink Babel may have symbolized to Him.
When we listened to the centralized and controlling media, information is filtered and we haven't the ability to analyze on our own (how can we, without access to the full story?). Thus, God, in verse 7, decides to "confound their language." This makes for diffuse conversation and information exchange.
Let me quote one more thing, from my own Blogging America: The New Public Sphere:
In 2000, the University of California at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems released a study estimating that the "world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth." The report goes on to say: "It is clear that we are all drowning in a sea of information. The challenge is to learn to swim in that sea, rather than drown in it. Better understanding and better tools are desperately needed if we are to take full advantage of the ever-increasing supply of information described in this report." A new study just three years later concluded that "Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002." This is more than a doubling of information production between 1999 and 2002. If we were drowning in information then, what is our situation now? (134)
One of the arguments against the "anarchy" of the Internet (there isn't any, really—but that's for another time) is that this huge information store needs sorting and straining if anyone is going to make any sense of it. And that is true, to an extent. However, all of the information needs to be available to anyone (another topic for another time). Without access, each of us is forced to rely on the "expert." We can never really make the decision (whatever it is) on our own.
The "experts," of course, don't much like the idea of just anyone having access to the information that their years of training and experience have enabled them to use deftly. Today, they point to the "babble" on the Internet as justification for their attitude, as Lee Siegel (whose expertise, beyond a certain facility with words, escapes me) does in his recent book, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob.
As we, faced with so much information, so many choices, do have to make choices (there just isn't time to look at, let alone read, everything), I have chosen not to read Siegel's book. Its title along keeps it from passing through my personal filter: The implication is that the "mob" isn't human, and that only the elite (such as Siegel) is. I just don't care for that, and don't wish to spend even an hour reading an author with such an attitude. Call me small minded if you will, but I won't read books by holocaust deniers either, or Intelligent Design advocates, or books arguing that someone other than Shakespeare wrote those plays. There's too much else out there that might prove useful.
I'm not the only one bothered by Siegel's use of "mob." In a review of Siegel's book last January on Salon, Louis Bayard wrote:
The subtitle of Siegel's book is "Being Human in the Age of the Mob," and it's worth noting the Burkean scowl of that "mob." Siegel may have liberal credentials, but he is making, at bottom, a conservative argument: in favor of gatekeepers and cultural elites, against the cacophony of untrammeled opinion.
Me, I want "the cacophony of untrammeled opinion." God was doing a good thing, when He "decentralized" human language in response to the tower of Babel. "They" have been trying to undo it for centuries, finding new ways of consolidating power and knowledge (what's an empire, after all, but just such an attempt?). For a time, it looked like "they" would succeed, and we would all be looking to Washington and its pundits when in need of information on current events. The Internet has changed that, at least for the time being, much to the chagrin of people like Siegel, who see their lucrative career path challenged. Who are finding that "we" are seeing "them" as the babbling classes, not us. They have controlled the loudspeakers for so long that they've forgotten that it isn't enough to keep sound coming from them; you have to say something as well, not just babble.
Unfortunately, the attempts to tame and control the Internet continue, and they may very well succeed. So, instead of reading Siegel, I will read the blogs, work through links, and learn (rather than be told). And, as He wishes, I will make my own way to Him. I've had enough of priests.
[If you care about keeping the Internet "free" in the future, be sure to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation as well as groups like ePluribus Media—the former for its actions as advocate in the political arena, the latter because of its participation in the widespread attempt to find a new way for the news media, on that relies on people and not on pundits.]


text: SatansDevils 6 Posted March 14, 2009 (edited) So far I am 6-0 in GDT this season and looking to go 7-0 tonight hopefully on a special game and night for Brodeur as he chases down history tonight. Patrick Roy will be in attendance for this game. "Chasing History" #551 New Jersey @ Montreal 7:00 PM ET, March 14, 2009 Bell Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Devils-Canadiens Preview http://scores.espn.go.com/nhl/preview?gameId=290314010 The New Jersey Devils and Montreal Canadiens will square off in a key Eastern Conference battle on Saturday night, but that won't be what's on the minds of most of the Bell Centre crowd.Instead, the stage will belong to Devils goalie Martin Brodeur. In a twist that could barely have been scripted, Brodeur will have a chance to match Patrick Roy's all-time record for goaltending victories in his native Montreal, which is also where Roy won a pair of Stanley Cups and spent the majority of his Hall of Fame career. "It just adds to the story. You can't ask for a better script," Brodeur said. "... It's definitely going to be a different atmosphere. I'll try to maintain my emotions and try not to be distracted by it all." "This is going to be a bit of pressure and stuff," he added. "It should be fun. I'm happy I'll be able to live it, and live it with my family and friends." But the four-time Vezina trophy winner has been as sharp as ever since his Feb. 26 return, starting all seven of New Jersey's games and going 6-1-0 with a 2.08 goals-against average. Montreal (36-24-8) is also adjusting to a new leader behind its bench, after general manager Bob Gainey fired coach Guy Carbonneau on Monday and took over the job. Gainey's debut was a successful one as the Canadiens beat Edmonton 4-3 on Tuesday, but they lost 3-2 in overtime to the New York Islanders on Thursday night -- just the NHL-worst Islanders' second road victory since Thanksgiving. This game is self explanatory and no need to even get into what the Devils and Brodeur need to do tonight to get the win. Treat this game like it is just another game and things should fall into place for the Devils and Brodeur tonight, Get the win Devils and get er done! LETS GO DEVILS!!!! Brodeur's 8th game back (6-1) and looking for win #551 to tie Patrick Roy, who will be in attendance. GDT: Devils Mascot. Edited March 14, 2009 by SatansDevils Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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