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28 August 2019 | Groom at Peter dan Yulia Wedding
Very nice
Semuanya berjalan baik dan sesuai dengan rencana. Ci Enny membantu perencanaannya dengan baik, dan di hari H, teman-teman kru yang lain juga bekerja sigap dan ramah..
25 July 2019 | Bride at Velda & Wibi Wedding
Alhamdulillah lancar
Terimakasih untuk team khayim beshafa yg sudah membantu dan mewujudkan keinginan kami hingga acara kami lancar dan sukses. Team WO yg super baik dan nyenengin udah kaya keluarga bgt mau di repotin ini itu. Sekali lagi makasih ya. Makin sukses ke depannya khayim beshafa
23 July 2019 | Bride at Charles & Marsela Wedding
Hari Yang Bahagia
Terima kasih buat Khayim Beshafa team yang sangat care & humble, yang telah membantu untuk mewujudkan prosesi pernikahan impian kami. Sukses selalu buat Khayim Beshafa ^.^
22 July 2019 | Groom at Charles & Marsela Wedding
Lancar dan Penuh Kebahagiaan
Hari pernikahan kami yang berjalan lancar dan penuh kebahagian, tak lepas dengan kinerja yang baik dari WO, terimkasih sudah berjuang keras untuk mendukung acara pernikahan kami.
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23 July 2019
Terima kasih Charles & Marsela sudah mempercayakan Khayim Beshafa untuk menjadi bagian acara pernikahan kalian. Senang dapat membantu kalian :)
Wedding Planning
What service do you provide?
Full planning, Partial planning, Day of coordinator
What sort of planning do you cover?
Detailed task checklist, Attendee list preparation, Venue selection, Reception planning, Wedding styling and concept, Rehearsal dinner planning, Budget preparation, Ceremony planning
What is your primary expertise?
Religious wedding ceremony , International wedding , Cultural wedding , Intimate wedding, Grand wedding
Does a client need to schedule an appointment?
Yes schedule arrangement based on agreement between client and our team
Minimum and maximum number of guests of a wedding you would coordinate
all size based on client requirement
Do you speak other languages should there be any overseas couple who wants to use your services?
Do you provide services in other cities or countries?
Yes Bali, Surabaya, and Tangerang
How far in advance should your client make a booking?
Kindly contact us and we will give you the information for booking our services
How many hours are included on the day of the wedding?
based on requirement our client
What makes your services unique?
The name Khayim Beshafa is taken from the Hebrew language which means "Abundant Life" and this meaning is supported by an attitude that is "Krindha Hangudi Jaya" taken from Sanskrit which means hard work to achieve glory. With the presence of Khayim Beshafa as a One Stop Wedding Organizer and supported by the dream of a unique and diverse wedding couple, it is a motivation for us to continue to innovate in providing convenience to find the concepts and vendors they want and of course accompanied by the best service for them. This is the Khayim Beshafa mission.
What payment systems are available for your business?
Bank transfer, Cash
What is your payment terms?
25% percent for the first payment when client has signed MOU 75% percent 3 month before the day of event 25% percent 1 month before the day of event
When was your business established?
Khayim Beshafa was born on August 29, 2013
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Starting from determination, prayer, hard work and of course the support of relatives, Khayim Beshafa was born on August 29, 2013 with the vision of the presence of Khayim Beshafa not only as a One Stop Wedding Organizer but also a blessing for everyones life as a prayer for brides, vendors and all who work together with Khayim Beshafa. It is happiness for us to be able to help realize your dream marriage. Tell us your dream and consult your wedding needs. You can contact us at 0812 7837 366
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Mennonite Girls Can Cook, a comedy – Presented by The Blue Gate Theatre
Mennonite Girls Can Cook, a comedy – Presented by The Blue Gate Theatre
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Watch the excitement, confusion, and just plain frantic fun when a small town cable cooking show, hosted by two Mennonite women, attracts the attention of a Hollywood producer. This ideal recipe for hilarity will make you laugh your spatulas off as these lovely ladies gear up for the "Big Time" – and do their best to deal with their starstruck neighbors, who compete for their own fifteen minutes of fame. From the same team that brought you "Half-Stitched" and "Josiah For President", this brand new one act comedy joins faith, food, and friendship. Inspired by the popular blog and subsequent cookbook "Mennonite Girls Can Cook," by Lovella Schellenberg and the authors of the Mennonite Girls Can Cook blog.
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Here are the latest proposed changes to the Durham-Orange light rail. You can weigh in.
Several changes have evolved as transit officials worked out the kinks in the Durham-Orange light-rail plan, including one that would close a downtown railroad crossing and another that would route trains under a major intersection.
GoTriangle released an updated report this week on how proposed changes could affect the 17.7-mile rail line between UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill and N.C. Central University in Durham. The changes reflect Federal Transit Administration and public feedback, GoTriangle officials said, as well as cost-saving measures and changes made since the 2016 report.
The regional transit agency will hold three meetings in Durham and Chapel Hill, beginning Saturday, where the public can review the changes, ask questions and offer more feedback. Comments about the revised plan should be submitted by Nov. 30.
The light-rail system is expected to provide commuters with another transportation option but also drive future development, project officials have said. The latest plan increases the travel time from one end of the line to the other — from 44 to 46 minutes one way to 52 to 54 minutes.
The report — and pending public feedback — is a requirement of the final engineering phase. GoTriangle has to submit an application for federal funding by April, in order to meet a November 2019 state deadline. The FTA's final decision is expected by September.
Upcoming decisions
FTA officials are reviewing the revised project now, looking at financial estimates, cost projections and other details, GoTriangle's interim project director John Tallmadge said Thursday.
A review last year gave the project a "medium-high" rating on current capital and operations. However, FTA officials questioned the optimistic outlook of some revenue and cost projections, giving a "medium-low" rating to GoTriangle's financial estimates.
FTA officials will decide how much of a contingency fund should be set aside for unexpected expenses, Tallmadge said. Recent project changes have reduced the current contingency fund from 30 percent to 20 percent of the project's budget.
Durham city and county officials are planning for how to fill the gap if the FTA asks for more, he said.
Durham and Orange county commissioners could make their next decisions early next year, when they will be asked to approve updated bus and rail transit plans and a new cost-sharing agreement. The cost-sharing plan reflects Durham's recent decision to fill a $57.6 million state funding gap.
The light-rail project is still on schedule to start construction in 2020, with an opening date in 2028, Tallmadge said.
Paying for light rail
Federal funding is necessary to cover half of the project's $2.47 billion construction cost. The state could pay 7.7 percent, or $190 million, with roughly $102 million expected to come from private donations.
The nonprofit GoTransit Partners anticipates $41.4 million in land donations for the project and $61.1 million in financial contributions. So far, UNC and NCCU have confirmed they will donate a total of 25 parcels — worth $14.5 million — to the project.
The Durham VA Medical Center also will contribute land, but federal rules prevent GoTriangle from counting that as part of the private donations, Tallmadge said. There are other land and cash donations in the works, he said, but nothing that can be announced yet.
Durham County and Orange County would pick up the remaining costs, plus interest payments on short- and long-term debt. Durham has agreed to pay $796 million and Orange County to pay $149.5 million. Durham has agreed to pay 81.5 percent of any interest on debt, currently estimated at $847 million to $908 million; Orange County would pay 18.5 percent.
The local share is being paid for with money from a half-cent sales tax and car rental and registration fees.
Light-rail changes
The latest changes are meant to keep project costs in line, provide better pedestrian and bike access, and get the most benefit from future station-area development, officials said. Another goal is to reduce potential conflicts between cars and trains, they said.
Some changes could happen systemwide, including the use of smaller station platforms that serve two train cars instead of three. Others affect specific stations, parking lots and rail segments, such as switching to a single-track bridge across New Hope Creek.
A major change would put light-rail trains on an elevated track from roughly LaSalle Street to the Ninth Street Station. Another would change how traffic flows around downtown Durham.
Changes include:
Erwin Road
GoTriangle has worked with the Durham VA Medical Center, Duke University Medical Center and others along the route to avoid conflicts with hospital utilities and emergency access, while also limiting the amount of land that's needed. A $90 million change will run the trains on elevated tracks from roughly LaSalle Street to the Ninth Street Station.
A plan revived last year to add a 19th station — the Blackwell Mangum Station at the Durham Performing Arts Center — on Pettigrew Street is still under consideration.
Meanwhile, engineers have noted an issue in that same area with plans to run the light-rail tracks parallel to an existing freight rail line. The plans would require raising Pettigrew Street by several feet so larger vehicles don't get stuck, but it's not possible because of the historic W.T. Blackwell Bull Durham building at that intersection, Tallmadge said.
The proposed solution: Close the railroad crossing at Corcoran, Blackwell and Pettigrew streets, and re-route downtown traffic. One-way southbound traffic has been proposed for Dillard Street and two-way traffic for Ramseur Street, now part of the Downtown Loop.
However, that plan creates a new conflict first reported last month in the Indy weekly newspaper.
DPAC general manager Bob Klaus, American Tobacco Campus development director Mark Stanford and Durham Bulls Vice President Mike Birling have told the Durham City Council in a letter that the plan to close the crossing would harm the connection between their properties and the city's downtown core. They asked the council to delay light rail construction until there's a better solution.
GoTriangle is working with Downtown Durham Inc. and other stakeholders now on a "signature civic space" that also could provide a pedestrian connection between the American Tobacco campus and downtown, Tallmadge said.
Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway
The revised plan avoids the need to widen University Drive by moving the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway Station from the median to the road's shoulder. The result also is shorter street crossings and more bike and pedestrian connections.
The change also reduces the number of park-and-ride spaces planned for a shopping center at that intersection. The move also saves millions that otherwise would be spent buying a larger portion of the shopping center.
South Square Station
The biggest change is the addition of an underpass at the nearby Shannon Road and University Drive intersection. The change avoids significant conflicts between cars and rail trains, while creating a better alignment for the South Square Station.
Additional parking also is planned at the South Square Station, which planners think will be more popular because of the changes to the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway Station.
Alston Avenue/NCCU Station
A cost-cutting step replaces a planned parking deck for transit riders with a park-and-ride lot. The revised plan also makes slight changes to the light-rail design along Alston Avenue and side streets to limit the effect on surrounding property.
The revised plan also removes proposed rail storage tracks at the NCCU Station and moves it closer to the Lawson Street intersection. GoTriangle officials have said that and other adjustments also would improve pedestrian and bike access.
What's next
GoTriangle has planned three meetings for the public to review changes to the Durham-Orange light-rail project, ask questions and offer feedback. The meetings will be held:
▪ Saturday, Nov. 3, from noon to 2 p.m. at SpringHill Suites by Marriott, 5310 McFarland Drive, Durham
▪ Monday, Nov. 5, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Extraordinary Ventures, 200 S. Elliott Road, Chapel Hill
▪ Thursday, Nov. 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Monument of Faith Church, 900 Simmons St. in Durham
Comments also can be submitted in writing until Nov. 30 online; via email at email@example.com; or by mail at GoTriangle, ATTN: SEA Proposed Project Refinements, P.O. Box 13787, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.


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Contraception for men primarily involves condoms, though vasectomies are a long-term alternative. Whilst scientists continue to work on advancements such as a male equivalent of the contraceptive pill and other methods, it is mainly condoms which are relied upon for contraceptive purposes, usually preventing the possibilities of conception but also the transmission of sexually-transmitted diseases too. Whether a sexual encounter is of a fleeting nature or a regular occurrence within a relationship, it is important that safe sex is continually promoted and awareness of it is constantly nurtured.
Slowing the spread of STDs
Condoms are the only contraceptive protection against STDs, and the efficiency of them relies fully on the participation of men. Condoms are made from a thin layer of latex and prevent sperm from entering the vagina if used properly, which is another important factor to consider. They need to be slipped on and off the penis with great care to ensure spillage doesn't occur. They are available readily and can even be acquired for free from family planning clinics. Whilst other contraceptive methods make impregnation impossible, only condoms can prevent the spread of STDs, or STIs as they can be known. As such, they are an essential aid to men's health, and should always be used unless you are in a long-term relationship and have both been tested and cleared for all STDs.
Temporary or permanent contraception?
For some males, total abstinence from sexual intercourse can be advantageous, particular if there are emotional reasons for this, but men who are certain that they have no further wish to conceive often opt for the final step of a vasectomy. This is comparable to female sterilisation, though a less complex measure and means that sexual intercourse can be performed without the risk of pregnancy but no requirement for any additional materials or steps.
A vasectomy is however a very big step and not one to be taken lightly due its permanent nature. It takes around 10 minutes to perform and stops sperm from entering the fluid that is ejaculated when a man climaxes as the tubes that carry sperm are sealed. A vasectomy makes no difference to the level of arousal a man can achieve or his sex drive generally. The only change involved is that conception is no longer possible when he has sexual intercourse. Of course, this won't prevent him from contracting STIs or STDs if he comes into contact with them, so he should continue to take the accepted steps required when he begins a sexual relationship with a new partner. Many couples opt to both be tested for STDs before entering into sex together, so they can be safe in the knowledge that nothing will be passed on should they choose to have sex without the use of a barrier.
Other developments
Aside from vasectomies and condoms, there are constantly new developments being made in the scientific world, although there has yet to be a readily available alternative to the two most common forms of male contraception. Recent studies from the US showed that mice have been made temporarily infertile without the loss of sex drive, but a real third method still seems far away. The importance of condoms is constantly stressed by health professionals, whilst those in longer-term relationships may find a vasectomy to be the preferred option when they are certain they do not want to raise any more children.
Written by Kat Kraetzer, an experienced blogger working in the health-care industry for many years


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March 9, 2016
The Super Late Models join the 410 Sprint Cars to open Williams Grove Speedway's 77th season on Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips night.
The Super Late Models will join the Lawrence Chevrolet 410 Sprint Cars to kick off Williams Grove Speedway's 77th season at the historic Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania half mile. Opening night festivities will take place on Friday, March 18th with the start time slated for 7:30. The inaugural event of 2016 is presented by Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips and will find the 410 Sprint Cars vying for the $3,800 first place prize along with the return of the popular Super Late Models which will find the area's best going door to door for the $2,000 winner's share. Heats and B-Mains will set the 24 car starting fields in their respective divisions. Danny Dietrich picked up the opening night win in 2015 for the Lawrence Chevrolet 410 Sprint Cars while Nick Dickson brought home the victory in the Super Late Models only 2015 appearance.
The 2016 opening night will have a little homemade taste added to it as Berks County's own Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips will be sponsoring the night's events. Established in 1964, Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips still offers today the same homemade taste and crunch of delicious potato chips to their customers. Their fine chips come in many flavors including the Old Fashion taste that will take you on a trip down memory lane. Other favors include Sweet Potato, Mesquite Bar-B-Q, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar and Jalapeno. They invite you to visit their country store located at 51 Host Road in Womelsdorf and experience a taste of country goodness. Check them out at http://www.dieffenbachs.com for more information about Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips and their fine products, along with where to purchase them.
"We are very happy to have Dwight Zimmerman and Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips involved with our opening night" stated Speedway General Manager Justin Loh. "They are a local company that has a lot of tradition behind their product and that is a perfect fit with all the tradition and history we have here at the Speedway. They will have a display set up in the infield with their products and I encourage everyone to stop by and check them out" added Loh.
Opening night is just the first of three Super Late Model appearances in 2016 as they also will return the following Friday (March 25th) for the 2nd annual Williams Grove/ Hagerstown Speedway Shoot-out which will see guaranteed starting spots for June's Appalachian Mountain Late Model Speedweek awarded to the winners. The high powered stock cars then return on October 7th for a big "Run what ya brung" show that is slated to be an entertaining end to a great year of racing. For more information on Williams Grove Speedway and their exciting 2016 schedule log on to http://www.williamsgrove.com
Upcoming Williams Grove Speedway Events:
March 18th – Dieffenbach's Kettle Chips Opening Night – 410 Sprint Cars & Super Late Models
March 25th – 410 Sprint Cars & Super Late Models WG/Hagerstown Shoot-out
April 1st – 410 Sprint Cars "Yellow Breaches 500" & 358 Sprint Cars
April 7th – 410 Sprint Cars & Super Sportsman
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Great chips, the first time I ate them was several years ago in the middle of the front stretch grandstand. Ed from Reading passed the bag. Thanks for the support
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Hey Lovelies!
Today I am wearing NFU-OH's "51". 51 is a purple based jelly polish with a shimmer and gold, red and purple flakies throughout. It took 3 coats to reach opacity as it is very sheer.
The overall look and shimmer reminded me a lot of Max Factor's "Fantasy Fire".
This is a stunning polish and would look great layered over different colours and especially a black so think I will do that next time!
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Hi!! I have started following your blog a while back but I think this is my first comment I've left! So, "HI!, I'm Amee."ReplyDelete
I may have to give this a try! Is there anything we could add to make it smell like all the nice smelling detergents that are on the market?
I love your blog by the way. :) :)
thanks for sharing, i must try this! and i think it would make a great gift as well,ReplyDelete
Hi Amee, so glad to meat you and glad to have you as a follower. Fortunately, I just found that Ivory has a new Aloe scented soap, I really like the smell, and it's much nicer than the original scent. You could probably add some essential oils, but I would do some research first to be sure they wouldn't harm clothing.ReplyDelete
Lulu, yes it would make a great gift. I was actually already thinking of making a basket for some family members including some homemade cleaning supplies in pretty containers as well as some homemade scrubs and such.
I'd like to try this~ thanks for the recipe and for the hint about the aloe scented Ivory!ReplyDelete
Carrie, I'm proud of you for doing this! It also sounds like fun to make your own. I might just give it a whirl!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing...
Sheila :-)
Thanks for the info I love H/made cleaning products and nice to know you can use it in HE washers too.I use a lot of baking soda and vinegar in my cleaning.~Cheers KimReplyDelete
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Walking along the Hudson River mid-day, it was unusually hot and humid in the city and I was feeling particularly sensitive and uprooted.
I walk daily and that day was different because I found myself taking an unfamiliar path, which I had been wanting to do for awhile. Somehow the lowness of my mood was the perfect prompt to just get off my usual route and drop into something unexpected. It can be that way in my practice sometimes, as well. There is a movement, internally, a kind of waking up from the sleepiness of habit that literally pulls, tugs, sometimes even propels me into what I like to call the shimmering space of spontaneity. I might suddenly take a different course—have the courage to depart from the plan and find myself almost giddy that I did not have to stay in that same familiar groove, no matter how much stability or comfort I found, or imagined I found, in it.
So I left the sidewalk that runs high along Riverside Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and descended into the depths of the park. Riverside Park is a long and lovely terraced space of green comprising many layers and levels that cascade down to the walking and biking paths that run along the Hudson River. Sometimes in New York, the concrete lines of the landscape feel somehow flat and predictable. The rectangular world of rigid steel and glass, though beautiful, can have a limiting effect on the mind. "The mind takes the shape of that which it rests upon" is a traditional saying (Buddhist, I think) that is apt in this context.
And though I love the city, and cities in general, there are times when I deeply long for the curvatures and irregular shapes of nature. So I left my usual path along Riverside drive, and walked down the arcing stairways into the forested park. I felt like I was stepping out of the NYC grid-time. The layers of park—some of which had been allowed to grow wild—felt more like a body, and a round and uneven one at that. And looking around at all the many shades of green leaves, I found myself tearing up.
Dropping still further down and under the highway I found myself on the banks of the Hudson River. I stopped and squatted down by the rocks and watched the water as it lapped up and collected into little mini rock pools, one of which would have been a perfect imaginary mountain lake for my dolls to swim in when I was a little girl. I remembered how easy and fun it used to be to let the mind and imagination run wild with whatever was available. Possibility abounds when the eyes and mind are open, as they often are with children, when through a leap of cognition a whole new reality could unfold at any moment. Most of the time these were little quiet imaginings—like how neat it would be to be miniaturized and be able to swim out into the middle of that clear little rock lake and float in the cool sparkling water under the warmth of the sunlight with no one around except my doll—and maybe a close friend.
That day along the banks of the Hudson with the sounds of cars along the West Side Highway, I felt a deep and familiar connection to the rocks and the water, to the shimmer of light that appears when I allow myself to merge into the world of nature before me, and within me. Why is it that we humans try and separate ourselves (if we do) from this nature, our nature? Why do we (if we do) long for a God, or a world, that is not this? Isn't this enough?
There are small placards or signs that dot the slope of Riverside Park that say "forever wild." I always smile mischievously when I see those signs. Something in me spreads out and opens its arms in recognition: "Yes! Forever Wild!"
This is one of the reasons I love the movie '"Buck" so much. Buck Brannaman doesn't try and break the horses he works with. He doesn't try and break their spirit. And I am equating spirit with nature here—an inner wild. Buck gains the particular animal's trust through profound respect. And in doing so finds his way into a unique dance where he says he becomes one with the horse—as if he and the horse are now one body, one organism.
Buck's approach was a radical departure from the accepted notion of how these animals were to be trained, or more commonly described as "broken." He did not want to break the horse or sever it from its horse nature. He gained the animal's trust, and that made the dance possible. To break it would have been another thing altogether.
I have heard this term "break" used in reference to the teaching and practice of yoga, too. And I have personally experienced this type of pedagogy. Once a teacher actually said to me "I am waiting for you to get over your jet lag so I can break you." And I have witnessed (while studying in India) a beloved teacher of yoga demand that we "break our fear" and a student subsequently fell and broke her arm. Her fall might have happened anyway—we can and do fall—it is a part of the learning process and sometimes we do get hurt. That is art and that is life. But is there another way to work with fear, or resistance, that doesn't require such a "breaking?" I realize there are many perspectives and metaphors we can work with and there may even be times when a certain approach is effective. But can we work in a way that trusts and respects nature, and even the wild within us? Can we learn to dance with this wild, this spirit, and its many manifestations rather than desperately trying to sever ourselves from it? As if we actually could?
When I say the word spirit, I mean exactly that which is deep and natural within us—that which comes from and includes the wild. I know that this is not the way many people would define the word spirit. But I am describing something like what the Greeks might have called our daemon. For others it is the spark, the life flicker or shining inner light. And it may be unpredictable, ephemeral, and appear in forms that the photographer Sally Mann once described as that which is "as unrepeatable as a cloud."
"When I stand alone with the earth and sky a feeling of something in me going off in every direction into the unknown of infinity means more to me than anything any organized religion gives me." —Georgia O'Keeffe
(See below for the official trailer for the film "Buck.")


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This article is sponsored by the Institute of Managers and Leaders
American born screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky once wrote: "There are no nations anymore. There are no peoples… There is only one holistic system… A vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, inter-variant, multinational dominion of dollars."
With the worldwide revolution of information technology and increasing cooperation amongst trade partners, the idea of a global workforce that knows no borders is now a modern reality.
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Golden hour on Cap d'Antibes. So strange to see this place being quiet and peaceful finally. After hotels had closed for winter holidays and most tourists had taken their flights home, we are left alone with the sea and autumn sunsets. Taking the last rays of the sunlight during the walk around my neighbourhood. Wearing an outfit by Anna Yakovenko - a Ukrainian designer. Thinking of what I should pack for Switzerland. I am leaving to Zurich tomorrow afternoon and the weather forecasts puzzle me. My body has forgotten how 3 degrees feel like. But I like change.
Outfit of the day:
Jacket, Sweater ANNA YAKOVENKO / Skirt MARKS& SPENCER / Bag PRADA / Shoes TOD'S


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Obama all but names Putin as behind hacking, told him to 'cut it out'
President Barack Obama on Friday all but named Russian President Vladimir Putin as behind Moscow's alleged attempts to meddle in the US election, vowing retaliation for the moves and defending himself against criticism his administration acted too slowly.
(CNN)— President Barack Obama on Friday all but named Russian President Vladimir Putin as behind Moscow's alleged attempts to meddle in the US election, vowing retaliation for the moves and defending himself against criticism his administration acted too slowly.
Without directly answering whether Putin ordered up the cyberactivity that US intelligence says was meant to bolster Donald Trump, Obama described government in Russia as tightly controlled by the man at the top.
"Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin," he said. "This happened at the highest levels of the Russian government."
Obama said he personally confronted Putin about the hacking in September on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in China, telling the Russian leader to "cut it out" and warned of "serious consequences if he didn't."
"In fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process," Obama said of the aftermath of that conversation. "But the leaks through WikiLeaks had already occurred."
Obama, however, did not say whether he has addressed with Putin Russian's post-election hacking activity which has continued largely unabated, US officials briefed on the investigation this week told CNN.
The outgoing President's year-end press conference was dominated by questions about Russia and its influence in last month's vote.
After unleashing a string of putdowns about Russia, describing America's Cold War adversary as "a weaker country" that "doesn't produce anything anyone wants to buy except oil and gas and arms," Obama conceded the country could exploit political divisions in the United States.
"They can impact us if we lose track of who we are. They can impact us if we abandon our values," Obama said.
He attacked Republicans for siding with an arch-enemy of the United States because of their dislike of Democrats.
"Ronald Reagan would roll over in his grave," Obama said of recent GOP praise of Russia.
He warned, "Mr. Putin can weaken us just like he is trying to weaken Europe if we start buying into notions that it is okay to intimidate the press or lock up dissidents."
Obama's given Trump advice
Referring the relationship between his White House and the incoming Trump administration, Obama said Friday there was no "squabbling" between the sides, even amid a roiling debate over Russia's intrusion into the US election.
The President noted he had made "some pretty specific suggestions" to successor Donald Trump about "maintaining the effectiveness, integrity, cohesion of the office," he said during his news conference Friday.
"He has listened," Obama said. "I can't say that he will end up implementing, but the conversations themselves have been cordial as opposed to defensive in any way."
Obama said he would "always make myself available to him" during his tenure for counsel and advice.
On the alleged Russia hacks, he said the issue should be confronted on a bipartisan basis.
"What we have simply said are the facts," Obama said. "Based on uniform intelligence assessments, the Russians were responsible for hacking the DNC, and as a consequence, it is important for us to review all elements of that and make sure we are preventing that kind of interference through cyberattacks in the future."
"That shouldn't be a partisan issue," Obama went on. "My hope is the President-elect is similarly going to be concerned that we don't have foreign influence in our election process."
Despite his assurances, his White House has increasingly been engaged in an escalating rift with Trump's transition team over Moscow's intrusion into the US vote. At the same time, Obama is working to foster a productive relationship with his successor in a bid to influence his presidential decision-making.
Promised response to Moscow
Some Democrats have argued the White House was slow in naming Russia as the hacking culprit, though Obama and his aides argue that pushing the intelligence community to make that assessment earlier would have appeared like political interference.
In an interview with NPR that aired Friday, Obama attempted a balance, saying it was clear Trump and his team knew what Russia's intentions were, but arguing the issue shouldn't become mired in partisan politics.
"It requires us not to re-litigate the election, it requires us not to point fingers, it requires us to just say, here's what happened, let's be honest about it, and let's not use it as a political football but let's figure out how to prevent it from happening in the future," Obama said.
He said Trump would be wise to uphold a US commitment to international norms.
"I had a conversation with the President-elect about our foreign policy generally, and the importance of us making sure that in how we approach intelligence gathering and how we think about fighting terrorism and keeping the country secure ... that we recognize America's exceptionalism, our indispensability in the world in part draws from our values and our ideals," Obama said.
On Friday, he said that Russia's cyber meddling "was not some elaborate complicated espionage scheme," arguing instead that a hyperpartisan political environment led to an obsession with leaked emails.
"I'm finding it curious that everybody is suddenly acting surprised that this looked like disadvantaging Hillary Clinton because you guys wrote about it everyday," Obama said. "This was an obsession that dominated the news coverage."
Overall, Obama contended, Clinton was "treated unfairly" in the presidential contest.
"I think the coverage of her and the issues was troubling," Obama said.
Criticism of Syria
It comes as Obama also finds himself reckoning with a worsening humanitarian emergency in Syria, where Russian and Iranian-backed government forces recently retook the city of Aleppo. Obama has called Syria a deeply frustrating crisis that haunts him daily.
He condemned the situation Friday, harshly accusing the Syrian regime, along with Moscow and Tehran, of slaughtering civilians in Aleppo.
"We have seen a deliberate strategy of surrounding, besieging and starving innocent civilians," Obama said.
"Responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone: the Assad regime and its allies Russia and Iran," Obama declared. "The blood for these atrocities are on their hands."
On China, where Trump has called for a different course, Obama said it was "fine" to reexamine the longstanding "One China," which spells US recognition of Taiwan as a part of China.
But Obama said it was essential Trump familiarize himself with the consequences of his moves, saying his team should be briefed by current officials.
"What I have advised the President-elect is that across the board on foreign policy, you want to make sure that you're doing it in a systematic, deliberate, intentional way," Obama said. "He should want his team to be fully briefed on what's gone on in the past and where the potential pitfalls may be, where the opportunities are, what we've learned from eight years of experience.
The President led off the traditional Q-and-A session by touting his achievements from his time in office, starting off by noting that Thursday saw the biggest number of Obamacare sign-ups -- 670,000 people -- in a single day.
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services said that it was due to this "extraordinary demand" that the deadline to sign up for coverage beginning on January 1, 2017, has been extended until December 19.
The news comes just weeks ahead of lawmakers reconvening for the new session of Congress on January 3. Republicans intend to move swiftly to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act through a budget reconciliation bill.
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Blade Runner is a 1982 Ridley Scott film based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". Kinda. Not really at all actually. There are bioengineered beings with short life spans and their nemesies the Blade Runners, who are government agents that "retire"/kill illegal these replicants. Beyond that there's not much similarity. It won the prestigious Hugo award and is still considered a cornerstone in neo-noir film.
The Plot
By 2019, replicants are rebelling from their off world slave labor and banned on earth. Harrison Ford stars as Deckard, an agent brought back from retirement in to track down 4 Nexus-6 model replicants. Their life spans are only 4 years long, but these rogue replicants have returned to Earth to try to to extend their lifetimes via the inventor at Tyrell Corporation. Deckard goes to Tyrell and meets his "niece", an experimental replicant with memories of Tyrell's real niece implanted. This gives her a better ability to defeat the Empathy test, a test meant to measure emotional response. Love at first cyborg.
The Franchise
Blade Runner 2049 is set to come out in later in 2017 and, somehow, Harrison Ford will be in the movie reprising his role as Rick Deckard.
Novel based on script
Comic book
The Science
1. Bioengineering
2. Cyborg rights
The Spirit Animals
Anyone else notice how every replicant had an animal associated with them? Roy / doves… Pris / racoons… Rachael / Owls… Leon / turtles… Zhora / snakes… Deckard / unicorns… We recognize those critters as nonhuman, and guilt by association, the replicants.
The Production
Lots of product placement – Cuisinart, Coca Cola, Koss, Panam, etc
Use of darkness with lights to give a space feel to the dystopian future, neo noir
Lead actor was meant to be Dustin Hoffman but Harrison Ford was just coming off Indiana Jones and came highly recommended when Hoffman fell through.
Roy Batty was made for actor Rutger Hauer, which Philip K Dick praised.
There are seven official versions of this movie
The Good
Philip K Dick's blessing
Imagery and character development
The Bad
Almost universally panned by critics at the time… Flop at the box office, too. It took ten years for this movie to pick up steam and start to become a cult classic
Oh, those computers were bad. The photo scanner hooked up to the 6inch color tv? Saying ENHANCE, ENHANCE, ENHANCE… and somehow the image quality of a crap photo could see a freckle on a butt cheek a quarter mile away. And changed perspective, like 3-D magic!
The theme music in this episode is URBAN JUNGLE 2061 by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org


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About New Yorkers For Life
In 2018, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tried a new tactic to force legislators to expand late-term abortion: he tied it to a host of other "women's issues," and packaged it within his Executive Budget proposal. The Governor's Article VII "Women's Agenda" budget bill (S.7511/A.9511) includes a section which decriminalizes all abortions in New York State. In doing so, the bill would:
- Eliminate New York's current ban on most abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy, allowing abortion for any reason, at any time, and by any means in our state;
- Empower non-doctors to perform abortions;
- Remove protections for involuntary or coerced abortions; and
- Legalize infanticide by removing the duty in current law for health providers to provide medical care to any infant who is born alive during an abortion.
None of this has fiscal implications or has anything to do with New York's budget plan. Nevertheless, the Governor has packaged this horrific proposal within the budget to force negotiation of this issue with legislative leaders. A final state budget is due by April 1, 2018.
New Yorkers for Life remains committed to challenging the Governor's abortion expansion agenda, no matter what form it might take. We are a diverse, statewide coalition formed to protect and respect women, children and all innocent human lives from the first moment of their creation to their natural end. Here's a bit of our history.
In his 2013 State of the State Address, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared his enthusiastic support for a bill that would expand access to late-term abortion. New Yorkers for Life was birthed to challenge the Governor's abortion expansion agenda, and, in so doing, to protect vulnerable unborn children.
Initially, New Yorkers for Life focused its efforts on blocking the passage of the abortion expansion bill known as the Reproductive Health Act (RHA). However, in an effort to pressure legislators into voting in favor of abortion expansion legislation, Gov. Cuomo and his allies drafted a modified abortion expansion bill and linked it to nine other proposals that affect women. The combined ten-point package is known as the Women's Equality Act. The New York State Assembly passed the WEA by a wide margin in 2013. The New York State Senate, on the other hand, passed the nine non-abortion-related parts of the WEA, but declined to bring the abortion expansion bill to a vote. On the final day of the 2013 legislative session, pro-abortion senators attempted a procedural maneuver that would have attached abortion expansion legislation to another bill; following intense lobbying efforts by New Yorkers for Life and its supporting organizations, this attempt failed by a razor-thin margin of 31-32.
On the first day of the 2015 legislative session, the State Senate again passed the non-abortion-related parts of the WEA, but declined to bring the abortion expansion bill to a vote. In a major pro-life victory, the Assembly agreed to break up the ten-point package and start passing the individual bills. On March 25, 2015 the Assembly passed stand-alone abortion expansion legislation (A.6221 – Glick/S.4432 – Stewart-Cousins) by a vote of 95-51; thankfully, however, this bill is going nowhere in the Senate.
In 2015, a new front emerged in the ongoing battle over the sanctity of human life: Physician-assisted suicide. Multiple bills to legalize physician-assisted suicide have been introduced in the New York State Legislature, and national organizations are involved in promoting them. While Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau) has stated his opposition to physician-assisted suicide, New Yorkers for Life is concerned about these bills because of the media attention this issue is receiving and because of the well-funded support for so-called "death with dignity."
New Yorkers for Life is a coalition effort that is primarily led by coalition partner New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (NYCF), New York's evangelical Christian advocacy organization. New Yorkers for Life was initially formed as a single-issue coalition focused on opposition to abortion expansion. As of 2015, New Yorkers for Life has broadened its focus to include opposition to physician-assisted suicide. Today, we are a diverse, statewide coalition formed to protect and respect innocent human life from its beginning to its natural end.


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The mother of Willi Posey, and the grandmother of Faith, was Ida whose middle name was Matilda. I guess I should say also that she was my maternal great-grandmother, which makes her more cuddly, although I never knew her. I was always told of her that she died prematurely of a broken heart in 1927 in New York City. MJ never spoke of her without a pained expression on her face.
From my limited study of the census records and the variations over a period of decades, it would appear that some people did a lot of fiddling with their birthdates as time went on so it is difficult to tell with certainty when Ida Matilda was born but my guess would be 1869, which would have made her 58 when she died. I guess that could be considered rather young to a grieving daughter with young children (Uncle Andrew and Aunt Barbara, four and one, respectively.
B.B., my great-grandfather and MJ's father, was born in 1860 in Rocky Grove, Aiken County, South Carolina of Free and Matilda Posey, and he died in 1912 in Palatka Florida, which would have made him 52, also a fairly young age. He was nine years older than his wife Ida. This information I gathered from census records from Palatka, Florida in 1880.
B.B. Posey also died young of an attack of appendicitis. This could not have been an easy thing to die of in 1912 in Palatka, Florida. With no x-rays and I don't know what else (but maybe some morphine), this meant a protracted death at home. As MJ tells it, he died at home.
This picture, which is extensively doctored and colored, may have been taken soon after Ida Matilda's husband's death or around her move to New York, maybe in about 1918 or so, although the long skirt suggests closer to the earlier date of 1912.
I used to call her Ida Mae because there is another Ida Mae, the daughter of Hilliard Bingham (Willi's Uncle), Ida Mae Bingham who never married, and who was a choral director at the Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida.
Matilda seems to have been a somewhat popular name during the period. Free Posey's wife, and the mother of B.B. Posey was named Matilda, born in about 1815 in Aiken County, South Carolina. Her husband Free Posey was born in about 1813. The first name is highly suggestive.


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Margo Jones
Margaret Virginia Jones
December 12, 1913
Livingston, Texas, U.S.
|July 24, 1955 (aged 43)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
|Theater director and producer
Margo Jones (December 12, 1913 - July 24, 1955), nicknamed "The Texas Tornado,"[1][2] was an American stage director and producer best known for launching the American regional theater movement and for introducing the theater-in-the-round concept in Dallas, Texas.[3] In 1947, she established the first regional professional company when she opened Theatre '47 in Dallas. Of the 85 plays Jones staged during her Dallas career, 57 were new, and one-third of those new plays had a continued life on stage, television and radio. Jones played an important role in the early careers of a range of playwrights such as Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Joseph Hayes, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert E. Lee.[4]
Born Margaret Virginia Jones in Livingston, Texas, Jones worked in community and professional theaters in California, Houston, and New York City. "Since 1936, Margo Jones had served as assistant director of the Federal Theatre in Houston, traveled to Soviet Russia for a festival at the Moscow Art Theatre, and founded and directed the Houston Community Theatre. She had recently joined the faculty of the University of Texas's drama department in Austin (around 1942)."[5] She traveled the world, experiencing theater everywhere, eventually gaining commercial success on Broadway as co-director of the original production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. She directed Williams' Summer and Smoke, a flop in its first production but highly regarded years later. After she directed Maxwell Anderson's successful Joan of Lorraine, starring Ingrid Bergman as Joan of Arc, she was fired during the Washington, D.C. tryout. However, her name remained on the marquee and playbills, and no other director was ever credited for the production.[]
All three plays were filmed. Bergman repeated her Joan of Lorraine role in Joan of Arc (1948), for which she was Oscar-nominated. Geraldine Page was Oscar-nominated for her performance in Summer and Smoke (1961). Since 1950, there have been at least five different film/TV productions of The Glass Menagerie.
The success of The Glass Menagerie allowed her to take the next step toward her dream of running a repertory theatre outside of New York. She moved back to Dallas and opened Theatre '47 (which changed its name to the corresponding year every New Year's Eve).[1]
Her theater was in the sleek "Magnolia Lounge" (Magnolia Petroleum Company, later Mobil Oil) building, designed by Swiss-born architect William Lescaze, in 1936 for the Texas Centennial and situated on the grounds of Fair Park in Dallas. The theater was America's first modern nonprofit professional resident theater and also the first professional arena theater (theater-in-the-round) in the country. Jones was inspired by Franklin Roosevelt's Depression era National Theater Project and the European arts movement which she had experienced directly during the 1930s. The resident company was dedicated to staging new plays and classics of world theater rather than revivals of past Broadway hits. The initial season introduced William Inge's first play, Farther Off from Heaven, later revised as The Dark at the Top of the Stairs.[3]
Though touring shows did exist at this time, there were no quality professional American theatre companies outside of New York. Jones believed in the decentralization of theater. She wanted her art to exist all across America, beyond the realm of commercialized Broadway. She reasoned that if she and her collaborators succeeded "in inspiring the operation of 30 theatres like ours, the playwright won't need Broadway." (Sheehy 2). Playwrights Inge, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee championed this sentiment when they received their first big breaks from Jones' Dallas theater.
Jones envisioned it as a place where actors, writers and technicians could have steady jobs and not be subject to the problems found in the volatile New York scene. When the Ford Foundation began giving grants outside of New York during the 1950s, the movement gathered momentum and Theatre '47 became the model of how to build a new company. (Weeks)
In her book Theatre-in-the-Round, Jones outlined inexpensive methods to enable companies to get started, detailing valuable information on subscription sales, board development, programming, actor/artist relations and other issues relevant to new regional theatre companies.[6] Her theater-in-the-round concept requires no stage curtain, little scenery and allows the audience to sit on three sides of the stage. That concept was used by directors in later years for such well-known shows as the original stage production of Man of La Mancha, and all plays staged at the ANTA Washington Square Theatre (demolished in the late 1960s), including Arthur Miller's autobiographical play After the Fall (1964).[]
On July 17, 1955, Jones invited friends over to a party. However, during the party she spilled red paint on the carpet, so her secretary later brought professional cleaners to deal with it. They used carbon tetrachloride, a strong solvent commonly used in dry-cleaning processes at the time. Jones, satisfied with the cleaning, fell asleep into the night. Unfortunately, some carbon tetrachloride had been absorbed into the carpet and later evaporated, filling her home with toxic fumes. So she woke up dizzy; it was later discovered the gas had caused kidney failure. She was then found unconscious on the couch resting and she was rushed to hospital, but died 7 days later. According to her friends, she briefly regained consciousness and found out she was going to die, and made elaborate preparations for her burial, including asking her friends to dress her properly and grooming her for her funeral. She died July 24, 1955 at the age of 43, never realizing what killed her. In 1959, her theater was closed.
For eight years Jones balanced her career between Broadway and regional projects. In Dallas, she staged the world premiere of Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee's Inherit the Wind,[2][1] a fictionalized retelling of the Scopes monkey trial, after it had been rejected by several Broadway producers. The play received rave reviews and subsequently opened on Broadway in April 1955, where it became a major hit. Inherit the Wind become an Oscar-nominated film in 1960 and has been revived as a TV special three times.[]
Jones' innovative ideas inspired the growth of numerous resident companies, and made it possible for regions across America to experience the art she loved. In 1950-55, producer Albert McCleery brought the concept of theater-in-the-round to television with his Cameo Theatre.
The Margo Jones Award was established in 1961 by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
The theater space inside the Magnolia Lounge building has been renamed the Margo Jones Theatre to honor Jones and is the home to several small theater groups.[2]
The television series Curious & Unusual Deaths features an episode of Season 2 about Jones' death.
In 2006, a documentary film about her life and career, Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater, was shown on PBS. With Jones portrayed by Judith Ivey, the film dramatized scenes from her life, adapted from her letters and correspondence with Broadway producers and Tennessee Williams (portrayed by Richard Thomas). The film features interviews with people who worked with her, including actor Ray Walston, who got his first big break in the original production of Summer and Smoke. [7]
|The Eve of St. Mark
|Maxwell Anderson
|University of Texas, Austin
|Sporting Pink
|Theodore Apstein
|University of Texas, Austin
|A Choice of Weapons
|Theodore Apstein
|You Touched Me
|Tennessee Williams
|Pasadena Playhouse, California
|The Glass Menagerie
|Tennessee Williams
|Playhouse, New York
|On Whitman Avenue
|Maxine Wood
|Broadway, New York
|Joan of Lorraine
|Maxwell Anderson
|Alvin Theatre, New York
|Farther Off From Heaven/The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
|William Inge
|Theatre '47, Dallas, Texas
|Hedda Gabler
|Henrik Ibsen
|How Now Hecate
|Martyn Coleman
|Summer and Smoke
|Tennessee Williams
|Theatre '47, Dallas, Texas
Music Box Theatre, New York
|Third Cousin
|Vera Mathews
|Theatre '47, Dallas, Texas
|The Master Builder
|Henrik Ibsen
|Theatre '48, Dallas, Texas
|The Taming of the Shrew
|William Shakespeare
|The Importance of Being Earnest
|Oscar Wilde
|Summer and Smoke
|Tennessee Williams
|Broadway, New York
|Last of My Solid Gold Watches
This Property Is Condemned
Portrait of a Madonna
|Tennessee Williams
|Theatre '48, Dallas, Texas
|Throng o' Scarlet
|Vivian Connell
|Lemple's Old Man
|Manning Gurain
|Leaf and Bough
|Joseph Hayes
|Black John
|Barton MacLane
|The Learned Ladies
|Theatre '49, Dallas, Texas
|Twelfth Night
|William Shakespeare
|The Sea Gull
|Anton Chekhov
|She Stoops to Conquer
|Oliver Goldsmith
|Here's to Us
|Shirland Quin
|Sting in the Tail
|Tom Purefoy
|The Coast of Illyria
|Dorothy Parker and Ross Evans
|Heartbreak House
|George Bernard Shaw
|Theatre '50, Dallas, Texas
|Henrik Ibsen
|An Old Beat-Up Woman
|Sari Scott
|My Granny Van
|Loren Disney and George Sessions Perry
|Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
|Seán O'Casey
|The Golden Porcupine
|Muriel Roy Bolton
|Southern Exposure
|Owen Crump
|A Play for Mary
|William McCleery
|An Innocent Time
|Edward Caufield
|Lady Windermere's Fan
|Oscar Wilde
|Theatre '51, Dallas, Texas
|The Merchant of Venice
|William Shakespeare
|George Bernard Shaw
|A Willow Tree
|A. B. Shiffrin
|One Bright Day
|Siomund Miller
|Walls Rise Up
|Duane, Frank and Richard Shannon
|A Gift for Cathy
|Ronald Alexander
|A Midsummer Night's Dream
|William Shakespeare
|Theatre '52, Dallas, Texas
|Sainted Sisters
|Alden Nash
|The Blind Spot
|Edward Caulfield
|So in Love
|Vern Matthews
|I Am Laughing
|Edwin Justus Mayer
|William Shakespeare
|Theatre '53, Dallas, Texas
|The Rivals
|Richard Brinsley Sheridan
|Goodbye, Your Majesty
|Vivian Connell
|The Rising Heifer
|Robin Maugham
|The Last Island
|Eugene Raskin
|Late Love
|Uncle Marston
|John Briard Harding
|The Day's Mischief
|Lesley Storm
|Ben Jonson
|Theatre '54, Dallas, Texas
|The Footpath Way
|Burgess Drake
|The Guilty
|Harry Granick
|Happy We'll Be
|Samson Raphaelson
|Oracle Junction
|Samson Raphaelson
|The Heel
|Samson Raphaelson
|A Rainbow at Home
|Milton Robertson
|Wallach, David Baker, and Harnick
|The Purification
|Tennessee Williams
|Apollo of Bellac
|Jean Giraudoux
|The Brothers
|John S. Rodell
|A Dash of Bitters
|Reginald Denham and Conrad Sutton-Smith
|William Case
|The Hemlock Cup
|Edward Hunt
|As You Like It
|William Shakespeare
|Theatre '55, Dallas, Texas
|Inherit the Wind
|Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
|Whisper to Me
|William Goyen and Greer Johnson
|La Belle Lulu
|Jacques Offenbach and Charles Previn
|The Girl from Boston
|Joseph Hayes


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We arrived home from London couple of days ago, didn't plan to stay for a whole week, but then my man saw good opportunities to do some important meetings for next years bookings of artist at the club, AND as I dont have any job to go home (wherever THAT is) to, I thought I could as well just stay and spend all my money in the worlds coolest city!!
Plus being with Mark is one of my favorite things on earth ♥♥
First of all I have to thank my friends Kaija (Norwegian old friend living and studying in London this year) and Mark (a true London boy (he is very proud of that) -guy i know from the time i lived in Buenos Aires) for making our stay fantastic.
Day 1 we went to a crazily good Vietnamese place, so cheap and so good (Thai food is my fave), -drank hundreds of bottles of wine and ended up in a random club near Hoxton square (not planned!)
who do you think was the intruder?
a hilarious moment
Another thing we did was to walk by the river close to the Olympic park and what did I see: HOUSE BOATS!!
And most IMPORTANT:
on my B-day we def threw a PARTEEEEY
TEDDYS AND GIRAFFES IN ONE PLACE – iT CAN NOT GET ANY BETTER!!!
Ah good times.
Got so thrilled to meet them that I put on my boa again
Anyway more pics of my birthday party -forget it!
The truth is that its too damn FOGGY in Fabric to see a shit ten inches a head so all the photos are just like
I rest my case
Besides all that we went shopping, sat in cafes working, ate sushi MMMmmm
and yes of curse! We went to a dj award thing at Ministry of Sound,
Gotta say he's a wee bit changed, but im still a superfan
Therefore dressed out as him on Halloween
Happy halloween!
Show me your pics!


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Florida Prisons
'Timothy Thomas was murdered,' a politician says. His prison death is part of an epidemic.
All anyone really knows is inmate Timothy Thomas was very much alive on March 30 when he told an officer he didn't want to go to breakfast — an act of defiance that would ultimately get him transferred to the confinement wing at Reception and Medical Center (RMC), a state prison in Lake Butler. What happened after that is a mystery, until April 2, when Thomas left confinement in a body bag, dead at age 43.
Thomas was one of at least 145 prisoners to die in Florida prisons so far this year, a shocking number even for a state with one of the highest rates of inmate mortality in the country. Florida prisons ' mortality rate has surpassed even Texas, which is not known for coddling convicts.
Thomas was serving a life sentence for armed robbery and was known to have some health problems. But a medical examination performed when Thomas was transferred to confinement that Friday in March confirmed he was healthy upon entry. And a housing log shows Thomas spent the rest of his life in administrative confinement — a part of the prison where he would have limited access to other inmates, and would have been under the watchful eye of guards at almost all times.
The cause of Thomas' death is under official investigation, which often takes months if not years to conclude. So family members ordered their own autopsy, performed parallel to the medical examiner's report, whose results remain under wraps. Although the cause of death from the private autopsy has not yet been released, fresh bruises and lacerations on Thomas' body visible in photos suggest he had recently been beaten.
Advocates from the Florida Justice League, a group dedicated to fighting for inmates' rights and an advocate for Thomas' family, claim chemical agents may have been used on him, despite his asthma, which would have exempted him from that treatment.
"Timothy Thomas was murdered," said state Rep. Kimberly Daniels, who paid a surprise visit to RMC to investigate in the days following Thomas' death. "All of these inmates were saying at one time that they killed somebody on Easter," Daniels said.
Florida Department of Corrections Secretary Julie Jones responded in a statement: "We take these allegations very seriously, and have provided all available information to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, [which] has an active investigation into this death."
The Miami Herald has reported on suspicious deaths in FDC facilities for years, including the infamous case of Darren Rainey, whose skin peeled from his body when he was locked for nearly two hours in a shower at Dade Correctional Institution, the deadliest prison in the state over the past five years. Often, however, reporting causes of suspicious deaths is difficult without footage from the cameras in the prisons.
The Department of Corrections has said it can't release surveillance video because it would compromise security.
In February, the Miami Herald won a lawsuit against the FDC for access to video footage from within prisons. The FDC appealed.
Current projections of inmate mortality, based on data from the past five years, suggest the death rate in 2018 could spike 29 percent from the total in 2017, previously the deadliest year on record by a large margin. Over the past decade, other states with large prison populations, including California and Texas, have seen decreasing inmate mortality rates as Florida's maintained its already high level before spiking in recent years, according to the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
In response to the alarming trend, the Bureau of Internal Audit of the Florida Department of Corrections initiated an investigation. The summary, released in February, listed drug overdoses, hangings, and sickness as some of the ways inmates died between 2015 and 2017. But it was careful to avoid concrete conclusions about the cause of the spike because of uncertainty created by still-open investigations — a huge backlog the FDC has faced criticism for in the past.
FDC spokeswoman Michelle Glady provided a litany of possible explanations for the increase: an aging inmate population with more serious healthcare needs, an epidemic of drug overdoses (especially from synthetic marijuana, which can cause seizures), an unhealthier population entering the system due to the rise in opioid addiction, under-serving healthcare providers, issues derived from short staffing, and the proliferation of gangs. Glady said the department isn't waiting for investigations to conclude in order to act.
"The Office of Intelligence is using lots of different data and using the facts that we have early on to address this spike in fatalities," she said, noting that preliminary data could be used to identify prisons with increased gang activity or drug use and take proactive action.
In the recent report, inspectors did note a significant increase in accidental deaths attributed to overdoses of synthetic marijuana, often the type called K2, and the department created a video on the dangers of K2 played for all inmates this year. Glady said that more generally the goal is "making sure that we have good health services in all of our facilities," something the department has said was inadequate in the past.
The institution where Thomas died, RMC, is a hospital prison where many sick inmates from around the region are housed. It always has one of the highest numbers of deaths, most of which are categorized as natural, from sickness or age. But if the first quarter of 2018 is any indicator, RMC could see a 27 percent spike in deaths by the end of the year, and inmates who have been there say the standard of care remains poor.
"They give you aspirin, kick you in the ass, and tell you to go about your business," said former inmate Vedero Byrd, who said he did four stints at RMC during his 18 years in the Florida prison system. He said he knows someone who has waited three years for a pair of glasses.
"We have a MERSA, scabies, lice, pneumonia, TB and flu outbreak," an inmate at Florida Women's Reception Center wrote to the Miami Herald in late March. She alleged some cancer patients weren't receiving their medications. The FDC denied the allegations of a MRSA outbreak. The Miami Herald is withholding her name to shield her from reprisal.
In May 2017, a group of inmates filed a class-action lawsuit, still pending, against the FDC for failing to provide treatment to over 5,000 inmates with hepatitis C.
Glady acknowledged that the FDC had problems in the past with two private healthcare companies providing inadequate care for inmates. "Those contracts were terminated due to lack of performance," she said. As of June 2017, Centurion of Florida took over as the sole provider of healthcare at Florida state prisons. And from 2016 to 2017 the FDC increased its healthcare budget. However, allegations of substandard conditions persist.
Byrd said from his experience, RMC was the worst, but not just because of the inadequate healthcare. The food is inedible, he said. But worse, he said, is the violence. K-Wing, the confinement wing of RMC where Thomas died, also has a particular reputation. "K Wing that is no place for anyone. They treat you like animals in there," said Byrd. "K-Wing is where they mace you. They do a lot of stuff when you are in K-Wing."
A terrifying lore surrounds K-Wing. Inmates said it's guarded by brutal officers with scary nicknames, caricatures of violent personalities whose faces no one seems to be able to describe, but many talk about.
"Everybody knows," said former RMC inmate Randolph Brown. "They say, for black men like me with gold [teeth] in their mouth, the white man punch them out of your mouth. They keep a jar of them. That's the story."
Daniels, the state representative, said she heard the same thing and feared for her own safety when she toured the prison as a black woman with gold teeth. She said prison staff tried to intimidate her and her aide while they asked questions. "I couldn't sleep for two days after I left that place," Daniels said. "It's a culture. That's a city where the KKK lived. And they work in the prisons."
Rumors aside, in 2015, two former RMC officers — David Elliot Moran, known as "Sarge," and Thomas Jordan Driver — Klansmen, were arrested after they told an FBI informant of their plans to kill a former inmate with whom they had problems while he was in prison. A third corrections officer, Charles Thomas Newcomb, also was arrested, and all three either pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial.
Daniels received disturbing letters from several RMC inmates begging for help in the days after her visit. One inmate wrote a request for an emergency investigation into "police brutality by prison guards and denial of medical care." Another wrote, "Since I been at this institution I have witnessed and at times [been] subjected to the misconduct, abuse and more extreme inappropriate behavior by staff." That was followed by another message by a different inmate: "Cruelty is common here."
The chairman of the Florida Black Legislative Caucus, Rep. Bruce Antone, put out an internal memo on April 23, outlying an action plan to "address the concerns, hearsay and allegations of physical abuse of prisoners and youth juveniles housed at Florida's Public and/or Private Prisons or Youth Juvenile Detention Facilities." Keith Harris of the Florida Justice League said the Black Caucus' involvement means the FDC's "day has come."
"Inmates are being killed in their control, and they aren't addressing it," said Harris. But the more banal is also true: Be it from sickness, suicide, or overdose, more inmates than ever are dying in Florida prisons.


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The Golden State Warriors just completed the best four-year stretch in modern NBA history, and yet their greatest achievement during the run hasn't been their dominance, but rather what their invincibility has inspired.
In the aftermath of the Warriors winning their third title in four years with a sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, there has naturally been a need to contextualise Golden State's place in history. They are, of course, a dynasty now, having joined only three other franchises – the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls – with three championships over a four-year span.
Their record of 328-83 (.798) in the regular season and playoffs during that stretch is the best four-year winning percentage in NBA history, beating out Magic Johnson's 1985-88 Lakers (.754) and Michael Jordan's 1995-98 Bulls (.758). The only season over the past four years that didn't end in Golden State lifting the Larry O'Brien trophy was one in which they set a record with 73 regular-season wins.
Including the postseason, the Warriors are 328-83 (.798) over the last 4 seasons. That's the best 4-year winning percentage in NBA history, beating out the stretch the Warriors had from 2014-17. H/t @EliasSports pic.twitter.com/DtH10sxoBx— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 9, 2018
The Warriors are historically great and everyone recognises that. But for as many conversations that are going on today about how great this team is, there are just as many, if not more, centred on how they've ruined basketball.
Think about that for a second. We've just witnessed a team reach the very peak of the sport – not just in terms of overcoming 29 other challengers to win the title, but in how flawless they were to get here. Their collection of shooting, talent, unselfish personalities and playing styles melded into something we've never seen before and the result feels like someone solving a problem and all of its variables.
We're in awe of that, sure. But we're also upset and dismayed a team can have everything figured out and, frankly, be this good. At the end of the day, sports are a vehicle for entertainment and we want to be entertained. Greatness can be entertaining – how many people have you ever heard say Jordan ruined basketball? – but these Warriors feel inevitable and infallible in a way we're not used to.
They have us questioning rudimentary concepts like competitive balance and fairness, while making the NBA season feel like a formality, even if the end result was in doubt along the way.
Golden State's players and coaches seemed more relieved than anything after completing their task on Friday. There was unbridled jubilation after they won it all in 2015 and a feeling of 'mission accomplished' after their triumph last year. This time, however, it felt like an unburdening.
"It's still euphoric," Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. "But three years ago was, 'I can't believe this happened,' and now it's, 'I can definitely believe this happened.'"
That may sound arrogant, but that's exactly the overwhelming sentiment the Warriors inspire. They're supposed to win and they're supposed to do it in a way which makes you feel helpless.
Golden State have cracked, if not completely broken our psyche. We're annoyed by how easy they make it look. Which is why after the Finals ended, the focus immediately turned to LeBron James' future. That's expected considering he's the best player in the world and the face of the NBA, but part of the reason we're so invested in what LeBron decides to do this summer is because we're desperate for someone to end the Warriors' reign. And if James can't do it with a handpicked situation, who can?
Well, the Houston Rockets nearly did in the Western Conference Finals. They were one win away from eliminating Golden State and up double digits in Game 6 and 7, only to falter.
The Celtics appear to be the best challenger in East going forward after reaching the doorstep of the Finals without Kyrie Irving and Gordon Hayward.
This may be the last time we have this loathing attitude towards the Warriors for how hopeless they've made us all feel, although it's not out of the question this keeps going for another few years, especially if Golden State want it to.
For now though, if you don't want to celebrate this team for what they've achieved because it feels unjust or unfair, then at least recognise they can make you feel that way despite doing it all within the confines of the rules.
The Warriors haven't' just beaten the rest of the NBA, they've defied our construct of competition.
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Kevin Durant hailed his inspirational team-mates as his Golden State Warriors team secured back-to-back NBA titles and he joined an exclusive club.
The Warriors swept the Cleveland Cavaliers in the best-of-seven finals series, winning the fourth match in Ohio 108-85 on Friday to secure their third championship in four years.
Durant was chosen as the series' Most Valuable Player, and became only the fifth player in history to register a 20-point triple-double in a title-clinching game.
Warriors guard Steph Curry contributed 37 points to the winning cause, as LeBron James and the Cavaliers lost out to the Oakland franchise for the second successive year.
Durant said: "This is about the journey – all season, getting up, going to work with these guys is amazing.
"The environment is incredible. It's good for you to be around guys like this, it helps you become a better basketball player and a better man.
"I'm happy to be part of this group."
Asked about the contest with Cavaliers superstar James, Durant added: "When you play against one of the best, it brings out the best in you as well.
"I'm just glad we got back-to-back championships and I'm looking forward to celebrating in the locker room right now."
James revealed he had played the final three matches of the series with a broken hand, a "self-inflicted" injury, reportedly sustained when he punched a whiteboard after the overtime defeat in game one.
Warriors head coach Steve Kerr admitted the talent in his team made this success easier to take in than previous successes.
"It was definitely the toughest from the standpoint that it was the fourth year in a row that we've attempted to get back to the finals," he told reporters at a post-match press conference.
"I remember sitting in this room three years ago and this feels more like reality. I hope that doesn't sound arrogant. That's just the talent we have, the experience we've gained.
"Three years ago it was 'I can't believe this happened'. But now it's 'I can definitely believe this happened'. But it was hard."
After building a nine-point lead by half-time, the Warriors put the game out of Cleveland's grasp with a third-quarter rally in which they outscored their opposition 25-13.
LeBron James left the court with 4:03 left on the clock and the Cavs down 102-77, having just turned over the ball to Durant while the game slipped out of their reach.
James had 23 points on the night, with his Cleveland side looking to do the improbable and overturn a 3-0 deficit for the first time in NBA Finals history.
For the third time in four years, the Golden State Warriors sit atop the NBA throne after repeating as champions.
There was no need to head back to the Bay Area to close out the NBA Finals this time as Golden State completed a sweep of the Cleveland Cavaliers with a 108-85 win in Game 4 on Friday.
The Warriors exerted their dominance from start to finish in a performance that left no reason for doubt. While they've often slipped into a lackadaisical malaise during their past two title runs, Game 4 showed their urgency and how much they weren't willing to mess around.
Cleveland were the more desperate team coming into the contest as they fought to stave off a sweep on their home floor, but it was Golden State that looked hungrier at the start and tried to deliver a knockout punch, going up 34-25 by the end of the first quarter. That set the tone for the rest of the way as the Cavaliers were constantly playing off the back foot and trying to stay within arm's length.
The 2018 NBA Champions... Golden State @Warriors! #DubNation#NBAFinals#ThisIsWhyWePlay— NBA (@NBA) June 9, 2018
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Fittingly, the Warriors used one of their patented third-quarter runs – which buried opposing teams all season – to put the game out of reach as they outscored Cleveland 25-13 coming out of the intermission.
But while they hit 14 3-pointers and Stephen Curry had smoldering moments in his 37-point performance, it was Golden State's defence which was most impressive in the clincher. Not only did they hold the Cavaliers below the century mark for the first time all series, they also limited LeBron James to just 13 shots and 23 points.
It may not have been the Warriors' best game of the series, but they were arguably at their most focused and locked-in to steal the title.
Durant edges Curry
Unsurprisingly, the most suspenseful part of Game 4 was the neck-and-neck battle over Finals MVP between Curry and Kevin Durant.
It was the latter who ended up with the honour for the second straight year after posting a triple-double with 20 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, compared to 37 points, six rebounds and four assists for Curry.
For the series, Durant finished with averages of 28.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 2.0 blocks, 52.6 per cent shooting overall and 40.9 per cent on 3s, while Curry averaged 27.5 points, 6.8 assists, 6.0 rebounds, 1.5 steals, 40.2 per cent shooting and 41.5 per cent from deep.
From a pure statistical standpoint, there's no doubt Durant deserved the award, but Curry was arguably better in three of the four games. Game 3, however, was such an iconic performance by Durant – capped by an iconic shot – that it likely carried greater weight.
NBA tells me the vote on Finals MVP was 7-4, KD over Steph.— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) June 9, 2018
Gotta think Durant coming up with that near-perfect game to determine the series was what swayed most voters. It's what did it for me. https://t.co/wSsCNcGyDQ
Finals MVP continues to elude Curry as the lone major award missing from his resume, but with how the Warriors are set up for even more sustained success, he'll have more opportunities to add to his trophy cabinet.
And with how unselfish the culture appears to be in Golden State's locker room, it may not matter all that much to Curry anyways.
LeBron's last stand
An unpredictable summer is on the way, but we may have seen LeBron's final game in a Cavaliers uniform.
If that was indeed the final time James walked off the Quicken Loans Arena court as a member of the home team, it was a disappointing end to his tenure in Cleveland.
No one could have reasonably expected LeBron and the Cavaliers to win the series against a much more talented team, but avoiding a sweep was a reasonable goal. Instead, the gap between the teams was abundantly clear and that may weigh on James' mind when he sits back this summer and surveys the landscape before making a decision on his future.
LeBron and the Cavs were swept by the Spurs by a total of 24 points in 2007. They lost tonight by 23 and all 4 games by a combined 60 points. Lakers 2002 sweep over Nets was by a combined 37 points. 60 is the most of any of the 9 sweeps.— The Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) June 9, 2018
What's evident in this moment is that Cleveland, as currently constructed, are nowhere near the level of Golden State. And if James' sole purpose is to compete for championships, staying with the Cavaliers doesn't look like his best bet to do that.
A lot can change, however, and much will in the coming weeks. But as the dust settled after the final minutes of the NBA season, it was hard to ignore the feeling of finality around LeBron.


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- 12 buttons to select scale notes
- bicolor LEDs show scale pattern (red) and realtime quantized note (green)
- Special multifunction "shift" input operates in range /-12 semitones. Switch to select if shift input accepts unipolar or bipolar voltages
- With shift you can alter the output in multiple ways including: transposing before force to scale, transposing in scale (e.g. a value of "4" results in the note transposed 4 scale degrees instead of 4 semitones) and post scaling which allows very interesting key changes. The shift destination can be routed to the main noteA, interval note B, both or the scale root (again creates really interesting scale changes). Output B (interval note) is derived from the root note. It can be selected as /-12 semitone value.
- interval note can also remain chromatic (not forced to scale) so that you can have fixed intervals.
- 8 banks x 8 scales of store/recall
- manual scale root note shifting (essentially shift scale left/right)
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Warning: spoilers ahead for the April 11 episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Fox has one of the most consistently funny sitcoms on the airwaves with Brooklyn Nine-Nine, but it occasionally toys with plots that aren't quite hilarious. The Season 4 winter finale featured Gina Linetti getting hit by a bus, and it... well, it was pretty funny, but it also looked an awful lot like she was tragically killed off. Luckily for Gina fans, the spring premiere of Brooklyn Nine-Nine revealed almost immediately that she survived the traffic accident. Co-creator Dan Goor has revealed why the Brooklyn Nine-Nine team realized they had to save Gina, saying this:
Let it not be said that Twitter is a total waste of time! It seems that the social media reaction to Gina getting smacked by a bus was enough to convince Dan Goor and Co. that they had to bring her back as soon as possible in the spring premiere. Goor explained why Gina's fate was revealed in the cold open in a chat with TVLine, and it goes to show that fans can indeed influence the direction of TV at times.
The social media reaction may be what motivated the crew at Brooklyn Nine-Nine to dedicate the spring premiere's cold open to revealing Gina's fate, but it turns out that her Salt-N-Pepa "Push It" dance in her medical halo was planned well ahead of time. Dan Goor went on to share the inspiration for the medical halo dance:
Just think - if not for Chelsea Peretti's willingness to strap into a medical halo and the fans' enthusiasm on social media, we might never have gotten to see Gina bust a move in the spring premiere. Thankfully, Brooklyn Nine-Nine spared the character's life and gave away the game right off the bat, and we got to see some of the surprisingly heartwarming ridiculousness that fans have come to expect out of cold opens. As far as I'm concerned, the only way it could have been better is if Captain Holt would have yelled "Hot damn!" at some point, if only because Andre Braugher losing his composure as Holt is unfailingly funny.
Tune in to Fox on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET to see the latest shenanigans of the folks of the 99th Precinct. Next week's episode will bring none other than Nathan Fillion onto the scene, so it should be worth the watch. Check out our midseason TV premiere guide and our summer TV premiere schedule to find all your other viewing options.


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Does golden-age detective fiction hold the answers to the post-truth crisis?
In this post-truth world, trying to navigate the truth when reading/watching the news is in itself almost as difficult as the work of a detective. Much research has to be done in order to separate fact from fiction, and this is indeed a growing problem in the media – emotions are more important than facts. It is something the right and left are both incredibly guilty of. Just look at the campaigns of the last presidential election candidates. And nobody seems to have learnt any lessons since. Instead, we who care about the actual truth of stories are forced to take upon the role of Sherlock Holmes and ruthlessly scrutinise everything caring only for facts.
This is unfair, of course, as it is the job of the media to do the research and reporting. One might argue that, on the contrary, it is they who should be taking upon the role of Holmes, not us. That would solve the problem, would it not? This is the approach taken by American Libertarian wunderkind Ben Shapiro, one of my political heroes at the minute. His catchphrase is 'facts don't care about your feelings' and the way he ruthlessly searches for and spreads nothing but the truth through his website The Daily Wire as well as his podcast, is indeed very similar to Holmes. Although I do think that, unlike Holmes, who actually has struggles with any aspect of humanity and only knows facts, Shapiro is a perfectly functioning human being. He merely resembles Holmes (particularly Benedict Cumberbatch's recent interpretation of Holmes), when he deliberately takes on that role in his approach to truth and its relation to reporting and commentating. But, although I greatly admire Shapiro, I think I disagree with him on certain issues in this area. He said in an interview recently that he basically finds it morally abhorrent when people try and include emotions in discussions of policy etc. and cynically pointed out that it works so well because we as humans are attracted to narrative, citing our universal love of movies (no nod to any particular studio intended there), as evidence. Now, that's fair enough, and in the light of post-truth politics and reporting that I criticize, I think he's right. But I think he's wrong to ignore the emotion altogether. And the narrative. The importance that these aspects hold for us our essential parts of what makes us human, and can't and shouldn't be ignored, I would argue.
To illustrate, allow me to return to the golden age of detective fiction, this time to a rather lesser known detective, Father Brown. Father Brown is the invention of novelist GK Chesterton, and was literally written as an anti-Sherlock Holmes. Chesterton believed that human nature, and thus human evil, cannot be understood through reason alone, it requires intuition. And this is an important aspect in the way Father Brown solves his cases, whilst not ignoring facts. And I sympathise with Chesterton's argument here. Basic facts are not enough to thoroughly understand humanity, we need to pay attention to narrative and emotion and instinct as well. And this should not be ignored in the media. It's an essential part not only of the arts but of politics and journalism and marketing. And, yes, it's easy to be cynical about how "life is not like the movies" or "politicians are all liars" or, indeed, the idea of marketing as "legalised lying," but at the end of the day, this is just not the case. Because that side of these things is an important part of why we think the way we think and do the things we do. People will often quote Oscar Wilde and say "Life imitates Art." But they imitate each other. And, logically, life came first. We aren't robots and we cannot ignore the importance of our humanity.
Now, forgive me for getting all, religious, if you will, in my writing. And relating to that, if it wasn't obvious, Father Brown, who I used to illustrate this point, is a Catholic priest, and Chesterton was himself a Christian apologist. So one might point out that it is only through a religious lens that these aspects are important. But I would disagree. These aspects of what make us human are not limited to Christianity, they can be found in the beliefs and metanarratives of all world religions. And, indeed, in the ideas of the irreligious and even the anti-religious. Sam Harris, who, along with Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens has been labelled one of the "four horsemen of the non-apocalypse," famous critics of all religious belief, has dedicated years of his life to promoting the importance of "spirituality," whether you are religious or not. A difficult word to define, I would argue that the aspects Chesterton added to Father Brown that aren't aspects of Sherlock Holmes are indeed aspects of the "spiritual" side of humanity.
So, am I arguing that the news takes on the persona of Father Brown, a healthy balance of emotion, facts and narrative? I suppose. But I haven't actually ever read Father Brown, and am told it is really rather dull in comparison to Sherlock Holmes. Perhaps this is because Chesterton never really realised that one of the most brilliant aspects of the Holmes stories is the relationship between Holmes and Watson. Holmes' ruthless attention to facts and lack of social skills or apparent human nature humorously balances Watson's brilliant narration and understanding of the important parts of life that the bohemian Holmes struggles with. Holmes may be the star of the show, but Watson is Conan Doyle's storyteller. Now, many journalists. media outlets, politicians and advertisers guilty of the post-truth approach, are, I would say, excellent Watsons, in the way they tell their stories, with incredible insights into how we work as people. But the narrative doesn't work without a balance between this and an accurate representation of fact. To stop this crisis, we need to bring back Holmes!