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i am sharing it because the topanga film festival
will be screening gmo omg this saturday in topanga canyon.
i am going! will you come?
all of these incredible films that document about our food,
our agriculture system, our land & our health are so brave.
i feel deep respect & appreciation for their effort to tell the real story
of what is happening in our country. they are drawing the map for
how we make our everyday choices in gathering, cooking & living.
these filmmakers are our modern day shamans.
the topanga film festival will be screening amazing films
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froggy's on topanga canyon blvd.
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the more people know, the more we can deeply
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Check out our accompanying slideshow for more images from this week's installment of Echoes and Reverberations.
Sly Stone was born there. Roy Orbison and Don Henley went to school there. Pat Boone and Dr. Phil even made the scene.
But enough about all that: Let's talk about skronk monkeys trippin' balls at Fry Street Fair. Let's remember the graffiti artists getting sick with the acrylic... and smelly jazz doods rippin' minor scales for eight hours straight in an effort to land a spot in the UNT One O'Clock Lab Band.
"OK, you can play. Now play me something I dig." - Miles Davis
Denton, Texas: Where creative artists have been coming for decades to master music theory and wreak havoc on our ear drums and eyeballs. With two big music festivals happening there in the next week, let's belly up to the plank and ask three generations of culture jammers to flip through the psychedelic scrap book...
Ron English (Popaganda founder and creator): "I went to school at North Texas from '80 to '83--something like that. I had this old house called 'Slum Manor' across the street from the campus, and we had this party where we painted the front porch like the inside of a subway car. Next thing you know, everyone had done up the whole place top to bottom. We had a pig that we wrestled in the back yard, and we were hanging headless mannequins upside down from the trees. I would wake up the next morning to go eat breakfast and people would be out front taking pictures of the house. It was wild."
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Jeff Robinson (visual artist): "I was in school at NTSU from '81 to '85, and lived in an old two-story hippie house on Elm. It was steeped with history from the previous generations of eccentric students and dropouts; it was considered haunted. I was a punk artist. There was a giant junk sculpture in the front yard that had been there for years. It sucked. I immediately tore it down and upset the old regime. Ron English had these notorious parties at his Slum Manor. He would have a graffiti party and hand out spray paint for all the guests to paint the inner and outer walls of the house. He also had a mud wrestling pit."
Ron English: "There were tons of bands at Slum Manor. I had 11 bands--literally--that practiced there on a regular basis. There would be a band jamming while I was throwing paint on canvases spread out all over the floor. I didn't even own a stereo. There was always a band playing up in there. The Bud delivery guy would pull up and would sell us kegs straight off the back of the truck. The police would just be waiting at all the surrounding street corners."
Jeff Robinson: "Fry Street Fairs were a blurry blast. The Sammy's were the 'anti-frat', frat house. Artist Matt Miller was part owner in a bar around the corner. I remember seeing Bobby Soxx play, singing his anthem 'Learn To Hate in the '80's' there. Greg Contestibile (aka spray can artist Ozone) and I sacked bread from midnight to 4 a.m. at a bakery on the square. David Williams had a band that played at some dive bar on Fry Street. Their drummer wasn't very good, so he'd play as fast as he could, then kick the drums over and walk off exhausted--end of show. Matt and I headed to Deep Ellum in '84, living at First and Parry (Expo Park). College years are always a coming-of-age time, and being in Denton was a crazy environment to experiment with who you are. There was the obvious academic influence, but also a real hippie vibe that had been lingering there for decades. Lots of pot and acid... lots of art, music and philosophy."
David Williams (The Frenetics): "For original music, there was Brave Combo, and... us. Carl Finch has always been a huge supporter for me, and what they were doing was certainly original. I didn't hang out with other musicians--I was much more into the girls in the Art Building. I was also a Philosophy major, so don't assume every musician from Denton is in the Music School. I never considered the Frenetics a punk band. Punk had died for me well before 1980, when hardcore got started. The Frenetics played the first and second Fry St. Fair. They were a blast."
Glen Reynolds (Chomsky): "I lived less than a mile from Fry Street growing up, so every spring I knew when the Fair was--it was as loud as an airport at my house! Starting back in '86, I would see the bands playing from behind the stage. In the old days, the stage backed up to Oak Street. It was pretty psychedelic--lots of tie-died shirts and granola folks. I was transfixed by the coolness of the bands."
Richard Ross (Brutal Juice/visual artist): "I lived for one summer in Denton. I was living in a house with 14 other people. I spent most of my time off drunk and got into a lot of trouble. That's why I left Brutal Juice. I got out of control while living there and needed to restore some stability to my life. It was at this time that I decided to focus on visual art, too. So, as brief as my life in Denton was, it affected me greatly."
Brandon Smith (Billygoat/Last Rites): "Dookie (Dan Connelly, now deceased) from The Daylights was the Sammies/Fry Street connection in Denton. I was there '87 to '90, with Mike Dillon, Earl Harvin, Dave Monsey, and so many other great freaks. I was playing with Last Rites at the time. Bruce Hall cafeteria was a kind of Petri dish for the scene--there was always some character eating Cap'n Crunch in there. The Library hosted some fucking incredible Ten Hands gigs. The school has an amazing listening library (the real one, not the club) that we all checked out pretty extensively, I think. That's one of the things I miss most about being a student at that place that tome of stuff."
Ben Burt (Brutal Juice): "I arrived there in the spring of '89. It was maybe a couple of weeks before I saw my first show there. It was a Thursday night, the big night of the week in Denton back in those days. It was Ten Hands at the Gravity Room. The room was packed and the music was quirky. Being a drummer, I was drawn to the two drumming freaks on stage. To this day, the duo of Earl Harvin and Mike Dillon on drums and percussion is my favorite. That night, that band, that crowd... I wanted to be a part of that!"
You gotta have discipline and determination to make all the way through music school at UNT. Graduating drummers tend to pack up their sticks and split right away, often landing badass gigs within months of relocating. Former New Bohemians drummer Matt Chamberlin had a brief stint in Pearl Jam and now plays with Tori Amos. Earl Harvin has since relocated to Berlin, Germany; while in Denton, Harvin played with Ten Hands, BIllygoat, MC 900 Ft Jesus, Rubber Bullet and Earl Harvin Trio/Quartet. These days Earl plays with Air, The The, and Psychedelic Furs. Mitch Marine lives in LA and currently plays with Smashmouth and Dwight Yoakam.
Scrote (scr011): "Living in Denton and attending UNT was a great time. By day, I'd attend classes with great professors like Larry Austin, Jack Peterson and Kevin Korsyn, followed up by hitting the live music scene at night. Toss in the random improv sessions throughout and it was music 24/7."
Chris Merlick (Charred/Lithium X-Mas): "I lived in Denton from '85 to '90. When I first arrived, the music scene was concentrated around the Library and the Enterprise. The Library was the music student spot, and the Enterprise was the art crowd's hangout. All the clubs were in the Fry Street area. As an art student, I spent a lot of time at the Enterprise. Bands that I remember playing there were Angry Jasmine, Snake Farm, Bliss, Monster Island Plus, The Whirlygigs, Elvis from Hell, the Hydrolators, and Boston Butt Roast. The Library booked bands like Ten Hands and Andy Timmons. After the Enterprise closed, a burger restaurant named the Char-Hut opened its doors to the freaks from Bruce Hall. The format was wide open and on any given night you could see any genre of music. The owner paid bands with a free dinner (usually a hamburger and curly fries)."
Glen Reynolds: "I began to take lessons that fall after my first Fry Streret Fair ('86) and my instructor, Thad Boduris, was an old-school UNT alum. He quickly got me up to speed on theory, etc. I would sneak into clubs with Ryan Short (of Mushroom Groovy) to watch Andy Timmons play. It was a real eye-opener how good he was. I loved shows at Dr. Smiths. The door guys would always look the other way when we youngsters came in. However, what really blew me away was hearing "Sins of The Fathers" by Course of Empire on the new station, 94.5 KDGE-FM in 1990. I knew at that point I wanted to be in a band."
Bucks Burnett: "In 1987, I managed the Denton location of Forever Young Records. The store lasted exactly one year. Fortunately, the owner sold the business to me, so, in 1988, I started Fourteen Records, located on Fry Street across from the Zebra head shop, which is still there, and then relocated down a block across the street from the Language building. I would usually have my store open on the day of the Fair and usually did quite well on that day, so my memories of the Fair are of selling $25 LPs to people who were probably going to lose or break them by the end of the day."
Darius Holbert (darius,tx): "I moved to Denton after I came back from school in London, and it always seemed like a homecoming. I played in a bunch of bands with all of the rest of the music school jerks, and eventually started my own thing, on the second track of the Denton white folks funk band train, with other luminaries like Mingo, Mushroom Groovy, and Beef Jerky. The band was called Dr. Teeth and we played everywhere we could, from Kharma Cafe with the awful sound, to the Italian joint that took over Jim's with the awful sound, to right on our own porch at the yellow house on Fry... it didn't matter. We took up the mantle of the long line of junky dirtbags by living in that house, and it was a toilet, but the rent was cheap and we were right there in the action. Unbelievably, somebody just told me that hole is a restaurant now. Gross."
Richard Ross: "I remember looking into the sea of faces behind a chain link fence separating the crowd from the stage, and the dude in front of me was chewing on the fence and growling like a mad animal. The next year, I wasn't playing music anymore, but went with a guy who thought he was the re-incarnation of some Native American chief. We got separated from each other when I went to see Brutal Juice perform. Craig had a giant red cross painted on his head, and lifted the skirt he was wearing to show his penis tucked between his legs while putting cigarettes out on himself. The last I ever saw of the great chief dude, he was standing in the center of a drum-off, shaking a rattle."
"The Fraternity of Noise"... "Hell's Lobby"... "Strawberry Fields"... "The Delta Lodge"... "One Ton Records"... "Good/Bad Art Collective"... "Two Ohm Hop" ... The creative people from Denton have always been able to come up with interesting conceptual themes and ideas. Inspiration and ingenuity delivered at maximum volume.
Glen Reynolds: "After about 1992, Denton began to really show a unified noise-rock explosion. Baboon and Brutal Juice became the live show to see, and I'll never forget how fired up I was to catch Baboon at Fry Street. (I never could figure out the schedule while drinking that much!) Other bands like Record Player and the Factory Press gave Denton a more indie feel, and it was cool to see Funland play at the Kharma Cafe."
Mike Rudnicki (Baboon): "My fondest memories of Denton involve its DIY spirit and the collaboration between artists and musicians. When Brutal Juice, Caulk, and Baboon started playing around town a lot, we usually played a club that we had to commandeer at times (set the bill, run the door, etc.). Around that time, my friend Lynn Lane starting booking national independent bands such as Beat Happening, Jawbox, and Nation of Ulysses with local bands as openers. I think this bringing in of national acts help set the precedent for The Argo and, later, Rubber Gloves."
Ben Burt: "The next spring, I took in my first and last Fry Street Fair as a spectator. It was the first one to take place not on the street. I was blown away that day. Yeah, the acid had a bit to do with it, but seeing all those bands: Loco Gringos, Ten Hands, Billy Goat, Last Rites, etc. What a day! Again, I said to myself, 'I want to be a part of that!' It was the next year that my little band Brutal Juice was invited to play. Funny thing. Until the very night before that fair, we couldn't even pay our friends to come see us. That all changed after that show. 'Holy Shit! I'm a part of this!'--that's what I was thinking a year later as we took the stage at the fairgrounds at dusk on the main stage."
Glen Reynolds: "I always loved the free-wheeling nature of the Fry Street shows. There were always copious amounts of alcohol backstage and people selling crazy stuff on the block. You'd usually see some beer-monster sleeping on a warm hillock or an occasional fight, but for the most part, Fry Street Fair was when Dentonites got together to hang out and celebrate a culture that arguably once rivaled Austin's eccentric nature."
Bucks Burnett: "Living in Denton for four years was one of the greatest parts of my life. I relocated the store to Dallas in 1991 and closed it in 1995. Nothing can quite compare to the experience of living in Denton. Twenty years ago, it was a twisted micro-Austin. I filmed a lot of the locals before I left town for my first short film, Local Velvet, and thank god I did, because so many of the people then were behaving as fictional characters. The actor Hans Conried once recorded a spoken album for the Chamber Of Commerce, called 'Denton Talks'. It is a cult masterpiece, worth seeking out; I need a copy, actually..."
Bucks was right at home on the square. DenTex has always had an assload of gifted dweebs and dorks. Dooms UK, Q and the Black Martin, Corn Mo, Lil' Jack Melody, Brave Combo and Josho Misho were all hard reppin' the twerp set.
A head full of acid usually provides a great deal of clarity and understanding. Some of these musical arrangements were really off on some twisted House of Leaves shit. The old "odd time signature = Art" equation.
Mike Rudnicki: "The Good/Bad Art Collective was Ground Zero for musician/artist collaboration. Bands would do benefits to help it pay its bills so it could have art openings, and the collective would return the favor by helping out the bands in various capacities. For example, they once rented a large screen television (quite the luxury back then) for the premiere of Baboon's Walker, Texas Ranger appearance. Todd Ramsell, one of Good/Bad's founders, made some great flyers for us, as well as a couple of T-shirt designs for Brutal Juice. Also, he was nice enough to let us use his painting and its title Secret Robot Control for the cover and title of our second full-length CD."
Ben Burt: "What a great time and place to get involved in a music scene. That stretch of time was life changing. To this day, when people ask me what my influences are, I cite those bands, those people who gave me inspiration. How cool is that when you could run into your new drum hero at Jim's Diner on Monday morning? What a place. Long story short: The music, the people... changed my life forever, for the better."
Glen Reynolds: "Chomsky drummer Matt Kellum and I were introduced backstage at Fry Street. I ended up joining the band in May; my first show we were supporting Centro-matic at Dan's Bar. Dallas was great to Chomsky, but one of our best memories was Fry Street Fair in 2000. We had just sold out of the first pressing of our first record and were considered a real buzz band. The weather was perfect, 75 degrees with a strong breeze blowing toward the stage. We got off that day and had one of our greatest shows ever."
Denton expat keyboardists are doing OK for themselves, too: Earl Harvin Trio/Quartet and MC 900 Ft Jesus band member Dave Palmer now lives in LA, plays with Fiona Apple and Air, and recently helped with the post-production work on Carter Albrecht's solo album. Former Billygoat /Whitey/Cottonmouth, Texas keyboardist Zac Baird now plays with Korn and Everlast. And don't sleep on '75 One O'Clocker Lyle Mays, the pianist for Pat Metheny's jazz band. Virtuoso players all.
The path of a musician studying and playing in Denton inevitably takes one of two different trajectories: either master the skill set and look for a steady gig as a touring sideman, or start your own band, stay in North Texas and go look for a day job. It costs a lot of dough to study music at UNT, so the "hired gun" gigs represent a safer and more immediate ROI for all the salad outlay and time spent deep in the shed. Again with the "Art vs. Commerce" thing.
Scrote: "When I arrived in L.A., I was pleasantly surprised to find an unbelievable amount of old Denton friends like Harvin, Mitch Marine, Palmer, Zac Baird, Jon Button, and Blair Sinta. I rarely play a session or show here without someone from Denton being involved. Earl and I recently started an electronic duet called scr011. I've also been back in Denton working with Bubba Hernandez on his new release, 'Scratch'. It's amazing to see that tradition of excellence continue there today."
The new millenium brought about a serious gut check for Denton: The music business cratered and 9/11 crippled the economy, and the creative community seemed fatigued by the blatant gentrification of the city.
The Fry Street people struggled to maintain the vibe as real estate developers moved in and tore shit down. Fair organizers lost their ass by moving to the Fair to Deep Ellum a few years back, and they finally eventually threw in the towel for good back in 2006. It's taken awhile for a new generation of artists and musicians to resurrect the freak spectacle.
Now, we're back to 1981 with the radical house parties and aesthetic theme nights at nightclubs and tiny pizza joints. And that's a good/bad thing.
Defensive Listening (We Shot JR): "I don't look back on the years of 2000 to 2005 in Denton with any particular amount of fondness, due mostly to the tastes of the day more than anything else. Even when there were positive attempts being made by the community, with DIY ventures like The People's House, Green Means Go, etc. they were culturally choked off by screamo, metal core, and emo bands, and didn't really cater to a wide variety outside of those extremely defined genres."
Ken Shimamoto (FW Weekly/Texas Music): "I worked at a record store in Fort Worth with one girl that dated Brent Best from Slobberbone and another that dated Eric Hermeyer from Mazinga Phaser, and I was always impressed by the creative energy of the place. Back in the heyday of Leon Breeden, who ran the jazz program at NTSU (now UNT) from 1959 to 1981, the One O'Clock Lab Band became known as the gold standard of college jazz bands, and North Texas became known as a breeding ground for Maynard Ferguson-esque scream trumpeters. Since then, UNT jazz has incubated a lot of great players like Earl Harvin, but more importantly for rock and experimental types, the presence of the university created a community of forward-thinking people that attracted musos from around the area who might or might not have been affiliated with the school and wound up forming bands like Comet, Mazinga Phaser, MK Ultra, and Sivad."
Defensive Listening: "Dallas and Fort Worth were much more competitive. I would have preferred shows at Moon Tunes or 1919 Hemphill to most things in Denton during this time. I hear people talk about the booking at Mable Peabody's back then more than any of the dogmatic punk activity. I think of those years as a confusing and confused era, with the music community trying to figure itself out during a bad '90s hangover. I think that the booking at actual liquor-licensed clubs was better and less emo-centric during those dark days, with Rubber Gloves hosting a lot of great shows. You could also see Nature and DJ Rerog playing hip-hop and obscure dub records, which you of course wouldn't have had at an emo house venue. Having a DJ play a house show today is not a big deal; in those years it probably would have been considered punk blasphemy or something. "
Stonedranger (We Shot JR): "I'll go ahead and say it since no one else seems willing to--for the past couple of years, Denton has had a better underground music scene than Austin. No contest. To me, the success or failure of any local music scene depends on the strength of the infastructure in place to support it; Denton's network of artists, musicians, DIY venues, clubs, practice spaces and various supportive local businesses has helped foster an atmosphere in which truly innovative and relevant music can thrive in a mid-sized college town. DIY spots like 715 Panhandle, House of Tinnitus, Time Bandits, Muscle Beach and Bunker Hill, as well as mostly solid venues like Rubber Gloves, Hailey's and Mable Peabody's have all fostered a culture in which local music is respected and celebrated, and as a result, thriving."
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This weekend brings two different three-day-long gatherings in Denton: NX35 will host shows at Hailey's, Rubber Gloves, J&J's Pizza, Dan's Silverleaf, The Boiler Room, Andy's Bar and the Denton Civic Center. House by House Fest, meanwhile, will feature a number of different groups at DIY venues scattered around the campus.
Revered visual artist Harvey Pekar will also speak at an NX35-sponsored discussion and Q&A session. It's actually kind of astonishing that you never see this kind of thing in Dallas. Has it really been a year since the Melodica Festival? Damn, time flies when you're wondering just what to do next.
Stonedranger: "The upcoming House by House Fest (March 14-17) will take place at several DIY venues and feature highly relevant and nationally respected acts performing at small, friendly places for little money; this is a true indicator of the level of success the DIY movement has achieved. Denton-based artists such as Wax Museums, Fight Bite, Ghosthustler, Koji Kondo, Sarah Jaffe, and Undoing of David Wright have attracted national attention and made incredible music along the way. They were able to do this thanks to the solid DIY scene and a town that generally embraces a culture of musical innovation and creativity; thanks in no small part to the presence of the UNT music school. The unique meeting of a fertile talent pool and a highly effective and organized scene has allowed Denton to innovate in everything from the Avant Garde, to house DJ sets. For my money, Denton is the best place in Texas to experience truly important and relevant underground musical culture... in a setting that is about as friendly as you could ever hope for."
Friendly is good. If nothing else, let's see if we can hold on to that, you know?


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Hey guys! Been a busy week so far, but I'm jetting off somewhere warmer for the holiday weekend and I can't wait. I'll be mostly signed off of the blog, but be sure to catch me on Twitter or Instagram, especially since I'll be posting an awesome Valentine's Day giveaway on the latter tomorrow. Don't miss it. :)
But in the meantime, let's discuss this cute vintage vest, which I recently scored at Housing Works' Soho shop for just $8. It's perfect for layering on these chilly winter days, and I took it out for a spin on an especially cold one, pairing it with a classic white button-up ($0.99 from Thredup's 99-cent sale!), some jeans (free, from a friend's clothing swap) and my vintage camel coat ($20, from the Salvation Army Coat Sale).
I finished off the look with a pair of $6 sunnies and my Dorothy Perkins boots ($45), and topped it all off with a combo of gold necklaces (one gifted, and another from my Rocksbox subscription). Head to toe, the whole look came out to just $80.


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My first of 365 pictures.
I have 13 roles of film leftover from my travels to Honduras and Egypt. Developing film is so expensive these days that I keep putting it off. I'm going out with my friends on the 24th for my birthday*, if I get any money I might use some of it to get some of film developed.
I've been passively thinking about this 365 project since '07. I was supposed to start this on Jan 1st, but I got lazy. But I'm lucky and my birthday was today (technically yesterday since I'm posting this around midnight) and I thought that would be a more interesting date to start and end this project with. So I'm beginning today and ending this project on my 18th (!!!!) birthday.
*My birthday was on the 16th but exams are coming up so everyone is busy.


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Local Officials Scared By Toyota
We first brought you news that Toyota was considering a plant in our region before you heard about it in the local news media. Now the News and Advance is reporting mixed and negative reactions by local officials.
Why? Because Toyota may not not be the "right kind" of industry that our area should have. There may be another consideration in the negativity towards Toyota that local officials are not espousing. Toyota may very well, offer a competition for our low paid blue collar workers to make higher wages. This could lead to the need to offer higher pay from other local companies to stay competitive. Many local officials have vested interests in local businesses.
According to The News and Advance:
Appomattox mayor Ronnie Spiggle said the area needs to keep a close eye on what officials think communities need, which tends to be young professionals,
and not recruit jobs that would come from Toyota plants and Wal-Mart. "I think
the Toyota plant is the wrong type of growth," said Tom Messier, Bedford City
...Bedford County Board of Supervisors member John Sharp said considering the large number of retired workers moving into the Lynchburg area, officials should look at industries that will attract workers to help carry the tax burden.
It is interesting to see this point of view, it shows an entrenchment aligned with keeping blue collar wages low. Heaven help us if that apple cart was overturned.


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In Coldwell Banker Mason Morse broker Tim Estin's Aspen Snowmass August 2012 Market Snapshot...dollar volume was down 25 percent and number of transactions was even compared to August 2011 in the Aspen/Snowmass market. Estin's calculations are based on sales from Aspen to Old Snowmass, including Snowmass Village.Year to date, the total Aspen/Snowmass market is down 14 percent in dollar volume and down 3 percent in number of sales compared to 2011, Estin reported.
ASPEN REAL ESTATE – Property sales in Pitkin County were up 17 percent in dollar volume and down 9 percent in number of transactions for the month of August. And while overall dollar volume is lower than it was in 2011, the gap is narrowing, and the general feeling is that the market is on the rise. Land Title released its August market analysis on Wednesday, which covers all property transfers throughout Pitkin County. The $105 million worth of real estate sales reflects the best August since 2008, just before the local recession hit, when $160 million worth of property changed hands. The 60 total transactions in August, on the other hand, was almost comparable to the 66 transactions in 2008—but nearly half of the 113 in August 2007, which was near the high point of the local real estate boom. Through August, the dollar volume of nearly $778 million reflects a 7 percent decrease from the same period in 2011, and the 441 total transactions is 11.5 percent lower than last year.Real estate brokers tend to analyze market data in more detail than Land Title, thus uncovering more specific trends.
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If you don't own your own boat there are plenty of other ways you can get out and about on our canals and rivers. From hiring out a boat with friends for an afternoon to taking a two week holiday with your family there's something out there to suit everyone's budget.
If you don't fancy taking charge of a boat yourself there are plenty of other ways to get on the water. Taking a boat trip is a wonderful way to see the canals and rivers as you can relax while someone else does all the hard work.
Alternatively you could book yourself into a hotel boat or take a meal on a restaurant boat. In this section of the website you'll find everything you need to know about taking a boat trip or holiday on our canals and rivers.
As much as a canal holiday is about exploring new territory and leaving the everyday at home, most of us still like to have our little luxuries follow us. Which is why most people are hooked after their first time on a canal boat.
One minute you could be admiring the picture-perfect views from the tiller of your boat, the next you could be putting your feet up in front of the telly or relaxing in a nice, hot shower.
Canal boats can also be surprisingly spacious - welcoming news for large families. But narrowboats and barges aren't the only types of boat available; choose the best boat to suit your needs and your canal holiday.
Narrowboats can be quite roomy with plenty of headroom. Longer craft can sleep up to 12 people.
Some of our major canals and rivers have a wider set of dimensions and so can accommodate boats of up to 14ft wide – this is where the barge comes in. These spacious vessels are the 4X4s of the waterways but with more space comes fewer routes, as these boats are obviously limited to those canals and rivers that can handle them.
These too can also host large parties but they are more flexible in their design. You could choose one that's smaller and easier to manoeuvre or even a cruiser that has steering above and below deck – ideal for moving your boat in comfort come rain or shine.
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On Sunday, January 13th at 3 P.M., the Franklin Civil War Round Table will present Dr. E. C. (Curt) Fields in a return visit to speak on "General Grant During Appomattox."
Fields' life-long interest in the American Civil War and his admiration for General Ulysses S. Grant is the background for his dramatic portrayal of the famous general to groups all over the United States as well as foreign audiences. Fields is the same height and build as General Grant and his presentation is given in the first person, quoting from Grant's memoirs and letters.
Fields holds Bachelor and Master's degrees in Education from the University of Memphis and a Ph.D. in Educational Administration and Curriculum from Michigan State University. He has spoken on leadership to various corporations including Caterpillar and International Paper. Fields has also served as a Memphis police officer and received a Life Saving Medal for action in the line of duty. He has appeared at numerous Civil War events including the 150th anniversary of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and is featured in a Discovery Channel documentary about Grant and several National Park Service visitor center productions.
The event is free to the public. The Franklin Civil War Round Table is an educational program of Franklin's Charge, and meets each month at Carnton's Fleming Center, 1345 Eastern Flank Circle. For more information, email email@example.com, or visit https://www.franklinscharge.org/the-round-table.


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Introduction to being in the ocean. How to get in, float in salt water, navigate breakers, be comfortable with waves, locomote from here to there, be at ease. Come to understand how the ocean works at the beach. Learn about undertows, currents, critters, and safety. We may have time to learn how to use snorkeling gear. Four 3-hour classes; land and ocean portions at each class. Course fee includes course. Hotel and transportation to class is extra: recommendations below.
Day 1, 9-12 and 3-6
Day 2, 9-12
Day 3, 8-11 a.m.
Day 2: Optional afternoon sailing on Sarasota Bay, 4:30-6:30, $70. Please reserve with us 2 weeks before class. Depart Day 3 (fly from Tampa after 3:30 p.m.; from Sarasota after 1:30 p.m.)
Learn to apply the 5 Circles at the beach and strengthen your practice of staying in your body in the ocean.
The Gulf of Mexico is 87-90 degrees in summer.
Goggles and cap welcome. Rash guard recommended (a sun blocking shirt). We sell Miracle Swimming rash guards for $28. We recommend clear goggles so you can see well in the water (dark goggles are too dark). Bring both.
Limit: 8 students.
Prerequisite: Miracle Swimming Beginning class
Nearest airport: Sarasota/Bradenton International (SRQ). Tampa airport (TPA) is 70 minutes away. Sarasota Airport is 20 minutes from our hotels. Take cab or rent car.
We recommend staying at either of these hotels. They're .2 miles apart and both on Lido Beach.
Sandcastle Beach Hotel
1540 Ben Franklin Dr.
Lido Key
Sarasota, FL 34236
$131 includes tax, standard room.
Restaurant on premises.
Make your own reservations (mention "Miracle Swimming").
Lido Beach Resort: newer, more upscale
700 Ben Franklin Dr.
Lido Key
Sarasota, FL 34236
$TBA plus $20 resort fee plus 12% tax, Sunday-Thursday, with kitchenettes.
$TBA/145 plus plus on Friday/Saturday nights.
Restaurants on premises.
The Sandcastle and Lido Beach Resort are within walking distance of South Lido Beach Park.
1 mile to St. Armand's Circle, lively area of restaurants and shops. Free shuttle to St. Armands from the Sandcastle and from LBR.
Two pools at each hotel.
Nonrefundable deposit for class: $150. Balance due ~30 days before class begins.
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If you are ready to pop the question, but have no idea where to start, then sitting down with one of our jewellers for an obligation free design session is a great start. Take as long as you need, ask as many questions as you like, and once you are satisfied with everything, decide what is the next step you want to take.
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We are madly in love with coloured stones and enjoy creating beautiful jewellery featuring these amazing beauties . If you are after any precious or semi precious gems or Diamonds, come and see us. David has built amazing relationships with many Diamond and gem suppliers and cutting factories over the past 30 years in the business.
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If your heart desires antique jewellery, then Vintage category will fit your style. Check out our selection of Art Deco, Nouveau and Edwardian inspired pieces, made right here in our Paddington boutique.
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We have been around for over 25 years and love sharing what we have learned about jewellery, Diamonds and gemstones in this time, (what seems like forever). We were one of the early jewellers using CAD 3D drawing technology in commercial jewellery in Australia. To be able to show you every detail of your jewel before we begin to craft it, allows us to create jewellery for customers that we may never meet in person. You also get to see the detailed design, so there is no disappointment when you open the jewellery box.
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Whether you are choosing a piece from our collection or having something custom made, we discuss the pros and cons of every design to help you choose the perfect style for yourself or your loved one. You will not be rushed and we will answer any questions you may have.
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Once you own a Bentley De Lisle piece, you will always be welcome to bring it back for a free service (which includes rhodium plating). We stay in touch by reminding you to regularly bring your jewellery back about once per year, that way we can inspect it, tighten any stones if necessary and bring your piece back to its original shine.
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Raquy & Rami Darbuka Camp & MidEast Music Gathering 2017
Saturday March 4, 11 am - Monday March 13 Noon, 2017
Empowerment Center, Goshen, NY
Immerse yourself in darbuka/ dumbek drumming, mideastern music, and vegan cuisine! Only 1.5 hours from NYC!
Great opportunity to learn the incredible Turkish drumming style for any level players, from beginner to professional.
Instrumentalists can bring their instrument and learn repertoire and technique with professional players.
Daily Classes Include:
Darbuka Fundamentals
Advanced Darbuka Technique
Ensemble pieces from around the region
Maqamat Workshops
Nightly "Istanbul Style" practice sessions
Meditation, Yoga and Sports
Retreat rates include instruction, food, and Lodging at the Empowerment Center.
Family Style :) You are invited to come up for any number of days between 11AM March 4 - Noon Monday March 13, 2017. Everyday there will be group classes, open time, practice sessions, and great food!
Recital parties every Sunday are open to the public.
Work scholarships , Vegan Chef Apprenticeships are available. Inquire within.
A typical day blends workshops on technique, composition and accompaniment with small group and individual practice sessions, as well as lots of tasty healthy food and time to explore the grounds and even run off and practice something for the recitals Sunday evenings.
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Sundays and Sat the 30th
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9:30 Breakfast
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In the Mail
Woo Hoo! I got mail! And not just ONE gorgeously stitched and beaded butterfly postcard,
but TWO from Karen of "Threadstory"!
How did I get so privileged? Woo Hoo!
Earlier I received a beautiful lino cut hand-printed card from Libby of "The Quilted Craftsman".
That tree confined to this small space conveys a lot of wisdom and power. I'm a fan of the tree Ents as well as tree spirits that are characters in some of my favorite stories ... the Hobbits and Aragon.
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Title: Rebound Remedy
Author: Christine D'Abo
My Rating: B+
Genre: Contemporary Romance (m/m)
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Main Characters: Cole and Owen
Release Date: November 2015
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
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Sexual Intensity: hot
The moment Owen McGregor sets eyes on Cole, he knows there's something wrong. So he takes it upon himself to ensure that Cole has a happy holiday: twelve outings for the twelve days before Christmas. Even if he can't quite think up twelve activities that don't involve getting the forlorn hunk into his bed.
With each outing they take together, Cole realizes that the love he thought he'd shared with his ex was less than perfect. And that Owen might prove to be more than just his rebound remedy.
Twenty percent of the proceeds from this title will be donated to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) National Help Center.
My Review:
I enjoyed this story. It's a sweet, romantic, holiday romance with a touch of emotion with everything that these characters are going through. And both these guys are going through a lot.
For Cole, he was in the process of going on a romantic vacation with his boyfriend when he got dumped at the airport. The problem...he met his boyfriend when he was on the rebound. Their relationship was never given a real chance because his boyfriend wasn't over the ex.
So when things start up with Owen, Cole knows he's on the rebound. None of this is real or lasting. Cole is the one who's most visible vulnerable in this story. But Owen is dealing with a lot too. He has taken over his father's bar when his father fell into ill health. The issue is his dad never wanted to give up running the bar.
Owen is such a good guy. He literally sees Cole upset and wants to fix things for him. That's what he does...he steps up and takes care of the people around him. I loved that about him.
But I also love the undeniable chemistry and passion between these two men. They both agree that Cole isn't in a place to do anything besides be friends, but they just can't help themselves.
I truly just enjoyed reading this book. I loved the set-up with the bar setting and the issues with Owen's father. It all just really worked for me. Once I started, I didn't want to set it down. It's a happy book, even with the angsty-sad undertones. I enjoyed it... a LOT! I definitely recommend it.
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Publication Date: Wednesday Aug 26, 1998
COURTS: Judge Ware reprimanded by his peersFederal jurist scolded for misrepresenting himself in civil rights story
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware, a former Palo Alto attorney and Santa Clara County Superior Court judge, has been reprimanded by his peers for misrepresenting himself as the brother of a boy killed by racists in Alabama in 1963.
The majority of the eight-member Judicial Council of the Northern District Court of California agreed Ware should be publicly reprimanded for judicial misconduct because his story had been widely reported in the media, which the council feared might have a negative effect on the public's image of the court.
"Because of the very public nature of the original tragedy and the public nature of the misrepresentations, as well as their discovery, it is important that discipline of Judge Ware be public and a part of the historical record," Judge Mary Schroeder wrote in the majority opinion.
Schroeder added, however, that they found no indication that Ware's misrepresentation had affected his performance on the bench. There was no recommendation for Ware to step down or reduce his caseload.
"The making of false statements, even in public, is not criminal activity," Schroeder wrote. "Judge Ware did not reap material reward from his misstatements."
One member of the panel, Judge John Coughenour, dissented from the majority opinion, citing several reasons why Ware should not be reprimanded: Ware publicly admitted to misrepresenting himself; the family of the boy who was killed, Virgil Ware, accepted "with profound grace" Ware's apology for his misrepresentation; Ware's story was told in an effort to heighten the public's awareness of "the evil of racial hatred;" and Ware had already suffered sufficient public embarrassment from the episode.
Questions about the veracity of Ware's story surfaced a year ago when he was nominated for a position on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Stories about his nomination appeared in newspapers in Birmingham, Ala., which reported how Ware said he was riding his bike with his brother Virgil Ware when he was shot in 1963. The killing occurred on the same day of the bombing of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church.
But also in 1997, newspapers reported that the church bombing case was being reopened. One story referred to Virgil's brother James Ware, a power plant employee living in Birmingham.
The apparent misrepresentation by Judge Ware was brought to the attention of the Northern District Court of California, based in San Francisco, by an Alabama District Court judge who had seen the newspaper reports. When Ware was confronted about the discrepancy, he admitted his role in the story was not true and, in November 1997, withdrew his nomination to the Court of Appeals. Ware also traveled to Birmingham to apologize to the family of Virgil Ware.
The council found Judge Ware had learned years after Virgil was killed that Judge Ware's father had a second family, also living in Birmingham, and that the judge came to believe that Virgil was his half brother.
Ware practiced with the Palo Alto firm Blase, Valentine and Klein until 1988, when he was appointed to the Santa Clara County Superior Court bench. He has served as a federal district judge since 1990. He is also a former member of the Stanford University board of trustees.1
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Notes on the Cyberpunk Moment/
The following is an elaboration of the remarks I made to open the USC Cyberpunk: Past and Future conference. I was speaking from notes, but I have developed those notes a bit more, by popular demand. For the past twenty plus years, I have been lucky enough to be able to teach courses on science fiction, first at MIT (where science fiction is the literature of choice for faculty and students alike) and now at USC (where geeks are hunted for sport.) I called the most recent version of this course, "Science Fiction AS Media Theory," which suggests something of the way that I approach the genre.
Too often, the mainstream media treat science fiction as a kind of prophecy, reminding us of those limited number of examples where ideas described in science fiction novels -- from the credit card in Looking Backward to the communication satellite in Arthur C. Clarke "came true." But, I've always felt this was the wrong way to think about the kinds of cultural work that science fiction does. Science fiction is less prophecy than intervention: I think of it as kind of popular theory -- a way of authors inciting thought in their readers about changes they are observing in their technological and cultural environment, a means of encouraging reflection and if possible, inspiring us to make a different kind of future as we think things through together.
From the start, science fiction's visions of the future have been bound up with ideas about changes in the media and communication landscape, going back to Hugo Gernsback, often cited as the father of the American science fiction genre, who was a major advocate for amateur radio. In that sense, I want to focus on the ways that the Cyberpunk Moment (basically, the 1980s and early 1990s) can be seen as contributing to some of the core conversations people of that era were having in regard to media and cultural changes brought about by the introduction of new media technologies. Speaking about the Cyberpunk moment ignores the reality that ideas from these writers were not simply of their moment but their influence has now stretched decades beyond their introduction and still matter in terms of how we make sense of the world around us.
The time spans of science fiction shortened across the 20th century, so that the present moment has finally caught up with science fiction. We might go from early science fiction novels which spanned thousands, millions (or to mimic Carl Sagan, "billions and billions") of years in the future to Max Headroom's "20 Minutes in the Future" or William Gibson's famous claim that "the future is already here -- it's just not evenly distributed." Given how much Cyberpunks' near future imagination has shaped our understanding to the present, I titled my blog post announcing this event, "the future started ten minutes ago and you are already late to the party." Indeed, for anyone who has not engaged with key cyberpunk works, such as the Mirrorshades anthology, Neuromancer, The Shaper/Mechanist books, the Ware series, Max Headroom, and so much more, you are now some 30 years late and counting.
One of the many reasons why the introduction of Cyberpunk sparked such shock waves through science fiction fandom was a shifted relationship to technology -- from the monumental engineering accomplishments which inspired the "sense of wonder" in early generations of writers to the focus on the everyday forms of technology that might have seemed futuristic to past generations but were already starting to be taken for granted by people living in the last decades of the 20th century. Bruce Sterling explains in the Preface to Mirrorshades, in what has been described as the key manifesto of the cyberpunk movement:
"[For early generations of science fiction writers and readers} Science was safely enshrined -- and confined -- in an ivory tower. The careless technophilia of those days belongs to a vanished, sluggish era, when authority still had a comfortable margin of control. For the cyberpunks, by stark contrast, technology is visceral. It is not the bottled genie of remote Big Science boffins: it is pervasive, utterly intimate. Not outside us, but next to us. Under our skin; often, inside our minds. Technology itself has changed. Not for us the giant steam-snorting wonders of the past: the Hoover Dam, the Empire State Building, the nuclear Power plant. Eighties tech sticks to the skin, responds to the touch: the personal computer, the Sony Walkman, the portable telephone, the soft contact lens."
Sterling identifies some of the central themes of the early cyberpunk moment -- "body invasion, prosthetic limbs, implanted circuitry, cosmetic surgery, genetic alternation. The even more powerful theme of mind invasion: brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence, neurochemistry -- techniques radically redefining the nature of humanity, the nature of the self." Add to this notions of gender swapping or designer drugs, also part of how cyberpunk writers imagined a world where we hacked biology, hacked chemistry, hacked psychology, and fundamentally changed who we are or what we thought we thought we were as human beings.
Frederic Jameson read cyberpunk through the lens of postmodernism, arguing that science fiction writers had lost the capacity to imagine a future radically different from the present. He saw Bladerunner, often cited as a key influence on Cyberpunk, as the exemplar of a new kind of science fiction which was a pastiche of the past, and the cyberpunks often messed around with the past: Rudy Rucker's contribution to Mirrorshades offered further adventures of Harry Houdini and Sterling and Shiner gave us "Mozart in Mirrorshades," No wonder that Sterling and Gibson helped to inform Steampunk through their novel, The Difference Engine, or Neil Stephenson gave us neo-victorianism in The Diamond Age.
But I've always thought that Jameson was wrong, that cyberpunk's focus on the near future had nothing to do with an inability to imagine radical difference in the future, but we did not have to go very far into the future to experience radical difference. The technological changes which were hitting American society were so transformative that we needed our best writers and thinkers to help us make sense of what was happening right then and now. We were in the midst of one of the few great revolutions in human communication capacity. We might point to the shift from orality to literacy, the rise of the printing press, the explosion of modern mass media, and the digital revolution as each in their own way representing major moments of transformation and transition in the media landscape.
And Cyberpunk provided us with the best set of metaphors through which to make sense of the digital revolution. It is no accident that Gibson's term, "Cyberspace," or for that matter, Neil Stephenson's "Metaverse," were among the terms to emerge during the 1980s that stuck, that helped us to understand what we were entering into as more and more of us gained access to personal networked computing as a mundane, yes, "intimate" aspect of our everyday lives.
We might see Cyberpunk as involved in a second core transition in the nature of science fiction -- from a focus on science and engineering at its technocratic origins to a focus on social sciences and political philosophy in the 1960s and beyond to a focus on popular culture, subcultures, and digital media, in the 1980s. In his Mirrorshades manifesto, Sterling talks about carrying the tools of extrapolation into the realm of everyday life, but everyday life -- the nature of human interactions -- was only rarely part of the focus of earlier forms of Science fiction, which was far better at anticipating and debating technological shifts than their impact on our lives.
At the same time, we might trace science fiction's movement from a kind of realist (or at least rationalist) speculation in its origins to modernist experimentation in the Dangerous Vision era to this new focus on sensual immersion in the 1980s Cyberpunk movement. Sterling and others compared the descriptive qualities of Cyberpunk to the wall of sound in rock music -- something that engulfs and overwhelms us.
Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, The Birmingham School of cultural studies had described the process of subcultural appropriation and identity formation as driving many forms of contemporary culture and the Cyberpunks took this idea further speculating on future subcultures with various forms of body modifications -- Stephenson's "Gargoyles," Cadigan's "Synners," Shirley's "glo-worms", Tom Maddox's "Snake-Eyes," among many others, each seeking to set themselves off from others through the ways they constructed and performed their identities.
The cyberpunks told us to pay attention to the interzones, the liminal spaces where different cultures crossed paths, struggled with each other, and sometimes formed uneasy alliances. Mary Louise Pratt, writing at the same moment, in anthropology, spoke about the arts of the "contact zone," and describes the arts of the Contact Zone as "autoethnography, transculturation, critique, collaboration, bilingualism, mediation, parody, denuciation, imaginary dialogue, vernacular expression." The hybrid texts of cyberpunk illustrated many of these genres in practice.
William Gibson warned us of the semiotic ghosts we might encounter at the place's where yesterday's tomorrows meet today's tomorrows, where pop culture traces across our landscape leave us janus-faced, looking backwards and forwards at the same time, and thus tripping over our shoes. And Gibson reminded us that "The street has its own uses for things", focusing attention on bottom-up process of appropriation, remixing, hacking, making, and making do. The old SF hero was the inventor, the scientist, the astronaut, each of which had become by the 1950s, establishment figures bound up with Ike's Military Industrial complex and Don Draper's "Mad Men," both the focus of science fiction parodies in the 1950s by Henry Kutner or Pohl and Kornbluth. The Cyberpunk protagonist was the hacker, the rocker, the cowboy, figures of resistance, rebellion, and independence, each acting on behalf of and from a location of the streets. The Cyberpunk imagination was unambiguously urban and this is one reason why its iconography has been taken up around the world by a range of different minority groups who wanted to speak about their own experiences living within and struggling to survive on the mean streets of the global urban landscape.
What made cyberpunk "punk" was the process of stripping encrusted genre conventions away, going back to the roots, tapping into the raw energy of the genre in its purest forms, and then trying in the process to create new kinds of emotional experiences -- the kind of body horror, say, we associate with cyberpunk's darkest currents. Sterling compared this emerging style of science fiction with punk rock, which makes sense, given the aesthetic and affective shock it was creating at that same cultural moment. Punk and New Wave were what gave the 1980s their particular "structure of feeling." And we can think about how groups like Devo, the Police, the Talking Heads or the B-52s might be read as contributing to the cyberpunk movement.
But, today, we might also see cyberpunk as working in parallel with the musical experimentation at the street level which would give rise to hip hop culture. Hip Hop is the other cultural movement of the 1980s which has had the most lasting impact on contemporary culture.And Sterling makes a passing reference to "scratch" music (and the technological manipulation of turntables) in the Mirrorshades manifesto.
Fred Turner's From Counterculture to Cyberculture has described the ways that the "whole earth movement" and other counter-culture movements of the 1960s informed the early development of digital culture, and we can see these influences via Cyberpunk's reliance on Rock'N'roll metaphors of the open acknowledgement by writers such as Rudy Rucker on the ways they were informed and influenced by the underground comics and Gonzo journalism of the 1960s. We can see these influences come full circle in something like the Transmetropolitan comic book series, where Spider Jerusalem represents a Hunter S. Thompson figure trying to survive in a cyberpunk realm.
This exploration of popular culture carries over to the language with which the cyberpunks wrote, which often included extensive use of slang -- both real and invented, arcane argots and terms borrowed from Russian or Japanese. Such writing posed challenges to readers. Cyberpunk dropped the kind of framing devices -- the man from our times who awakens in the future, the astronaut who finds himself on an alien world -- which helped to bridge between our reality and the imagined alternative. Instead, we are plunged into the heart of a dense fictional world and expected to find our own way. We spend the first few pages lost, overwhelmed by details, unable to sort through the pieces, and then, we start to swim in a more fully realized future than science fiction writers had ever offered us before.
Cyberpunk also relied heavily on a conception of society which was multicultural and at least transnational, if not global. We started to see signs that the American Century was ending, that other cultural forces were starting to reassert themselves and would be more of a presence in the near-term future. We see different cultures bumping up against each other. We see Asian cultures, especially the Japanese, asserting a controlling influence on the world -- thus the persistence of the Yakuza and the Triad in cyberpunk. Gibson talks about the Rastafarians; Sterling paid more and more attention to Eastern Europe in the wake of the collapse of communism. And Pat Cadigan pushed us even deeper into Japanese culture. There are surprisingly few aliens in Cyberpunk given the history of science fiction as a genre -- with difference created through ethnic and subcultural difference, people living beside each other yet coming from different worlds, rather than close encounters of the first, second or third kind.
Alongside the Yakuza, the other destructive force at play in these stories was the multinational conglomerate -- the company so large that it can no longer be contained within national borders, which exerts a power beyond the capacities of governments, that shapes our desires through media manipulations so profoundly that we lose the capacity for democratic self-governance. In Wild Palms, for example, we see the merger of alternative religious movements, such as the Church of Scientology; alternative media practices, such as virtual reality; alternative economic structures, such as horizontally integrated conglomerates; and alternative political structures, including both a world where corporate funding dictates political power and one where libertarian activists challenge centralization.
We might see these conflicts as struggles between the Networks (that is, mass media networks) and the network (that is, the digital networks, where the hacker has the upper hand, where the rebel can plug in, tap information, spread alternative messages, connect with alternative communities, and otherwise, disrupt the flow, block the signal, jam the culture.) Here, cyberpunk existed alongside real world cultural politics movements, anticipating culture jammers and adjusters, inspiring the anti-globalization movement, and now more recently, the Occupy and Arab Spring movements around the world. Again, the cyberpunks did not simply predict these developments -- they helped to create them through their inventions in cultural politics, by providing us with the conceptual tools by which we might theorize the changes taking place around us.
Sterling described Cyberpunk as embodying "the overlapping of worlds that were formally separate: the realm of high tech, and the modern pop underground." and Cyberpunk as a cultural influence has been able to surf the waves which surface where-ever those worlds meet.
Despite the best efforts of its core writers to keep creative experimentation alive, the cyberpunk moment became codified into a narrative formula, which has shaped a much broader range of cultural works. Cyberpunk became a set of themes, which have been explored through a range of different means, but which still shape in many ways important strands of contemporary science fiction across all media. And it has been a stylistic influence, a kind of sensibility, which spread rapidly to film, television, comics, music, fashion, and computer games.
To take a simple and familiar example, the Borg on Star Trek: The Next Generation, represented the insertion of a cyberpunk body-machine hybrid into the middle of our culture's longest running technological utopian fiction, just to see how they would react to each other. In many ways, it is like a reversal of the confrontation Gibson described in "The Gernsback Continuum" where people from the present watch the fading of the inhabitants of the World of Tomorrow we recognize from Amazing Stories, Things to Come, and the 1939 World's Fair.
And these ideas and images have traveled through inter zones and along contact zones, so cyberpunk's influence on, say, Japanese manga and anime has been profound and the same could be said on the ways cyberpunk is informing the imaginations of people in Brazil or Eastern Europe, South Africa or India, who are undergoing rapid technological, cultural, and political changes that resembles in many ways the contrasts and inequalities that Cyberpunk writers foregrounded in their work. And beyond its influence on other artists, writers and readers, cyberpunk, like other science fiction before it, shaped the imagination of the next generation of designers, entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, and programmers. I can't tell you how many people at MIT told me they were trying to design and program something that first captured their imagination via a cyberpunk narrative. But, what gets lost in the process is the sense of ambivalence and critique which gave Cyberpunk its edge. It is as if a generation of biologists were inspired by Mary Shelley to go out and reanimate corpses, not because it was a good idea, but because they think it would be cool to enact something from their favorite book.
Our focus today is in understanding the legacies of Cyberpunk not simply as a literary movement but as a movement across media. Our schedule progresses from a panel with some founding figures, already working in a range of different contexts, who helped to define the cyberpunk moment; then we will hear from the next generation -- contemporary artists from a range of different media and entertainment fields, who are engaging with, pushing against, working within cyberpunk influences. Then you have a choice between immersing yourself in a series of screenings designed to explore media representations of cyberpunk themes, especially those having to do with the minding between machine and body, or participating in brainstorming sessions, where you can work alongside other creators and storytellers in thinking about how the cyberpunk genre conventions might be updated to reflect today's digital media and popular culture. At the end of the day, we will come back together to share what we created and to hear a final rant from Bruce Sterling, who is perhaps the grand master of this distinctive form of spoken word performance.


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I first met Rocky last year when I came to his auto shop in downtown Murrieta to take photos for a magazine I work for. He kept my information and after he proposed to his high school sweetheart Sarah, he gave me a call. We met a few months ago for their consultation I instantly fell in love with their story.
You see, this isn't your typical "high school sweetheart" story. Rocky and Sarah dated for 4 years when eventually (and unfortunately), it came to an end. Fast forward fifteen years or so and Rocky just couldn't stop thinking about Sarah. He finally decided to get in touch with "the one that got away" and the rest is history.
We had an absolute blast with you both and cannot wait for your wedding in October! Santa Ynez here we come!!


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1. Tune up your car & tune up your body
These are things you probably won't have time for at camp but will make you feel so much better going into the summer. Your car deserves a little love and so do your teeth, your hair and heck, even your nails if that's your thing. If you're really into following my lists, go ahead…get a massage! You won't regret it.
2. Eat favorite foods you can't get at camp
This sounds really dramatic and last-suppery…but seriously! Now's the time to eat the foods you will miss during the camp season because they aren't served at camp or in the remote surrounding areas. For me, that's Thai food from Tuptim, my favorite Thai restaurant that is housed in an old Long John Silver's (please refer to photo)!
3. Every time you find yourself doing a task, ask yourself, "Is this something that can be delegated?"
Now's the time to prioritize. I remember finding myself two days before staff training scanning and photocopying hundreds of health forms. That is silly for two reasons…first because the computer can now do that for us (holla CampDoc and CampMinder, etc.) and second because I had a million more things that would be a better use of my energy for camp than making copies. Remember, there are lots of people (staff and volunteers!) who want to help—you just might have to ask. Make sure you're sticking to your job description.
4. Spend time with your friends and family members
You may feel like there is a LOT to do before the start of camp. And there is! But if you think you don't have time now, you really won't have time once the staff and then the campers get there. Carve out some special time to spend with friends and/or family members before the beginning of staff training. Schedule a day off and take the whole thing (Gasp!)!! You need this and so do your people.
5. Remember that as soon as your 50 seasonal staff arrive, you will have 50 times the help that you had before!
Something magical happens when those seasonal staff arrive. There's so many of them, and they are READY to go! While you have been working on camp planning for months, it's their first taste of CAMP. Not only do they come in large numbers, they're energized. Use this to not just help you get stuff done but to inspire you for that final push before camp begins.
(My mentor and predecessor Becca Schnetzer would always remind me of this, which would calm me down immensely in those last few days before staff training! Thanks, Becca!)
6. Put up that out of office assistant message
"Hi! Thanks for the note. We are now at camp getting ready for the summer season and training our wonderful staff. I check my emails about three times a day. If you have an urgent need, please call the camp office at 231-555-5555. Otherwise, I will do my best to return your email within 24 hours. Thanks, and happy camping!"
The pressure to be tied to your e-mail is now off! Feels nice, right??
7. Stuck on something? Seek out digital resources and online community
Check out resources like www.deepfun.com and www.ultimatecampresource.com for games and activities as well as online communities like the Summer Camp Professionals Facebook Group and www.gocamp.pro for advice and resources from peers.
8. Attend at least one potluck/barbecue (this is what non-camp adults do in the summer during the evenings)
Wow! A fascinating phenomenon! Attendance will help you understand life on the other side (anthropological necessity).
9. Go out in nature, and write your vision for the summer
So much of the time we are consumed with training our staff and helping them set goals that we fail to do so for ourselves. This year, I was introduced to the concept of Visioning, which is championed by the leadership at Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, which is renowned for its commitment to customer service and servant leadership. Here's what Ari Weinzweig, Zingerman's co-founder/owner, has to say about the process:
"Though we spend most of our work lives responding to problems and opportunities as the world presents them to us, visioning comes from the inside out. It's about what you believe, what gets you excited, what you truly want to accomplish."
Read this article and give it a go (instructions are about halfway through the article)
10. Look at your old camp pictures to remember why you do this
The more removed you get from the day-to-day interactions of camp, the harder it is to remember what camp means on the smallest yet most important level: the personal experience of each child and staff member who comes through your gates. It's the 13-year-old who learns how to swim, who never thought she could do it. It's the 16-year-old who feels for the first time in his life that a group accepts him for being who he is. And it's the 8-year-old who is yet to find out that her friends in her first cabin will be her friends for life.
Go through your pictures and remember your stories. Remember that as the camp director, your efforts make these moments happen. And feel really good about that.


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Surely, Darren McFadden must be hurt. How else do you explain the Raiders' running back averaging a stumbling 3.1 yards a carry after he galloped to 5.3 yards per attempt the previous two years?
So, when he went to the locker room early in the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, fans at O.Co Coliseum held their breath while nodding knowingly.
He was going to the bathroom, people.
Monday, basking in the dim glow of an ugly 26-23 overtime win Sunday, coach Dennis Allen was asked about McFadden.
Does he look like the same player that Allen (then a Broncos defensive coordinator) saw on film in 2011?
"Yeah, he does," Allen said. "He's still an explosive player. We've got to do a better job creating room for him to run. We've incorporated a few more of those gap-scheme plays, and I know you can say this on every play, but we're one block here or there from a big run."
McFadden was held to 53 yards on 19 carries against the Jaguars, the fifth time in six games that he has averaged less than 3 yards a carry. In fact, take away a 64-yard touchdown run against Pittsburgh in Week 3 and he is averaging 2.5 yards a carry on his other 102 attempts.
A year ago at this point, McFadden was averaging 5.5 and leading the NFL with 610 yards rushing. It was in the seventh game that he sprained his foot and then missed the rest of the season.
McFadden said he is healthy now, but he is probably sick of answering the same questions every week. He has looked at every carry this season to see if he can spot something he is doing wrong.
"You want to look at every run, so you can know what you did wrong or if you should have stayed with the hole or made an earlier cut," McFadden said. "It's one of those things where you have to go back and re-evaluate yourself."
The biggest problem right now seems to be the offensive line. Zone blocking run scheme, gap, power ... nothing is working.
"We didn't execute well at all up front," Allen said. "We need to establish a new line of scrimmage" on running plays.
Allen was asked about making some changes on the offensive line. He said "the guys out there are the guys we think give us the best chance to win."
Help is not on the way this week, as Allen said it's doubtful that starting right tackle Khalif Barnes returns from a groin injury.
Obviously, Allen's disappointed in the 31st-ranked running game and knows that has to change for his 2-4 team.
"We want to and need to run the ball," he said. "We will continue to work at it until we get better."
Briefly: Besides Barnes, cornerback Shawntae Spencer (foot) is also doubtful to practice, Allen said, but tight end Richard Gordon (hamstring) could be back. ... Mike Goodson has a minor hip injury and that, plus the use of no-huddle (fewer substitutions), was the reason the backup running back didn't have any carries Sunday. But Allen says the Raiders will find Goodson a role and "use him more." ... Linebacker Aaron Curry (knees) will get more work in practice this week, but Allen didn't seem optimistic about Curry returning to the 53-man roster before Sunday's game in Kansas City. ... Cornerback Ron Bartell (shoulder) is eligible to come off the temporary injured-reserve list Saturday and should return to practice next week.
Vic Tafur is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @VicTafur
http://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/N ... Newsletter
Many are blaming all of our woes on the zone blocking system. Coach Knapp just doesn't seem to know how to get the run going. I think he is a good coach for the passing game.
Hey, bring back offensive line coach Tom Cable and see if he can get those guys opening holes for RunDMC
I would buy into this,,personally I don't like zone anything in the NFL or the NBA or the NCAA.


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Time to kick it into overdrive—it's "the holidays." A lot has been going, and I apologize for the lapse in postings. My bad!
The horrible events in Paris last Friday have certainly upset me, as I'm sure they have disturbed all of us. As a New Yorker, memories of 9/11 flash before my eyes. Those were difficult days. I was so appreciative of the emails and calls from people checking in to see if my family, friends, and other loved ones were safe. It was comforting to know, and feel, how connected we were to each other. For the weeks and months that followed, there was a special bond among New Yorkers. We helped each other; we were kind and giving. We were not going to be defeated and let the evil of cowards change our lives and upset our sense of freedom.
I don't know anyone who lives in Paris, but as soon as I got to work on Monday, I went into the office of French colleagues who import and distribute tea from France. I asked if their family and friends were safe. Thankfully, everyone was accounted for. They were hurting, but I could tell that checking in with them had brought some comfort.
Before I was an investment advisor, I imported wine, mostly from France. It was wonderful to travel there a few times a year. The wine that I imported was from the Jura region, which borders Switzerland. The company that owned the property was based in Alsace, but I would travel to Paris and Bordeaux and throughout the Burgundy region.
I never ate and drank so well in my life. The French are passionate about their food and wine, and I took it all in. Lunches always lasted at least an hour, usually accompanied by a bottle of wine. Dinners ended with an amazing array of cheeses that still permeate the inside of my nose.
Americans like to joke about the French, as the French like to joke about Americans. At the end of the day they are weak generalizations that don't capture the essence about what we, as people and as cultures, are about. Paris is my favorite city in the world. Even this jaded New Yorker can say that Paris is the city that truly never sleeps. Paris is as beautiful as it is energetic and passionate.
It is a sad state of affairs that the world finds itself in, but I am strengthened by, and feel connected with, our brothers and sisters in Paris. In the long run good will triumph over evil, and we will never surrender to terrorists, whose only goal is to provoke fear and angst in us.
This is a terrible transition, but maybe that's fitting: in support of the greatest wines in the world, I offer up the following French suggestions to accompany your Thanksgiving turkey.
From the Alsace region both the Hugel et Fils Riesling Classic and Pinot Gris Classic. Both are flavorful with fruit but not sugary sweet. The Pinot Gris will be drier, but both are a perfect pair for your bird and sides.
While many wine lovers prefer pinot noir with their turkey, I am stepping it up a bit and recommending a Côte du Rhône. I have been drinking the Clos du Mont Olivet Côtes du Rhône Vielles Vignes of late. It is packed with jammy flavors with a bouquet of mint and fresh earth. (I hate wine descriptions but went with it.)
Please enjoy your holiday with friends and family and appreciate how lucky we are. All the best for a wonderful, safe, and happy holiday season.


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