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The other day Black Gate posted a sad bit of news; one of the greatest talents of the early days of TSR, David Trampier, had passed away. While he had fled the industry decades ago, his art remained a strong component of my mental gaming landscape.
Have I ever said I'm not a fan of the present day state of fantasy art? Well, I'm not. DAT's work was beautiful and clean. None of the annoyingly busy art like the WOTC D&D stuff or the soulless photo-realism of book covers.
Then there's his great, unfinished comic masterwork, Wormy. There were plenty of comics in the old Dragon Magazine, but the only one I liked was Wormy. It's a marvelous spoof of fantasy and gaming while still being a great adventure, depicted in gorgeous, detailed panels. Try to track it down. Even without an end, you won't be disappointed. Thank you, DAT and rest in peace.
No Black Gate review today as I've got too much stuff in my real life going on that took away valuable reading, writing and editing time. For those who care, my reviewing/writing process is pretty painstaking. If you have read this site for any length of time you know I stink when it comes to editing my own work. In order to make my Black Gate posts presentable I convinced my wife (the luminous Mrs. V.) to edit them. She's brutal but the results have been very satisfying. The thing is, it takes a lot of time, so now review this week.
So next you'll have to wait till next week for my review of Darrell Schweitzer's dream saturated Echoes of the Goddess. The only other stories of his I've read are The White Isle (reviewed here last year ) and his Mythos story, "Those of the Air" in Cthulhu's Heirs.
After the psychotic landscapes and kinetic writing of Adrian Cole's Oblivion Hand last week, Schweitzer's is a very different sort of writing. While he's as untethered from the tropes of Fantasyland® as Cole is, his creations are closer to the dreamy, often nightmarish, tales of Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith. If you haven't read anything by him and those two authors appeal to you I'd say spend the three bucks and get either Echoes or The White Isle.
I listened to a whole bunch of music this past week. For the past year or two I've been slowly ripping our CD collection to a external drive. After a hiatus of a couple of months (or six), I started up again this past weekend with soundtracks before moving on to orchestral music.
As usual I was struck by how little I really know about orchestral music even though I grew up hearing it all the time. The only time my dad turned off the old New York Times station, WQXR, was during the short lived eighties heyday of WNCN. My knowledge is moderately broad but very shallow. I know a piece or two by a lot of composers but that's about it.
When I started listening to the stuff on my own I what caught my ears was baroque music. It still is. My dad preferred the classical composers, Haydn being his favorite. He liked Bach well enough, but couldn't understand why I would ever want to listen to his cello concertos. All I could say to him was "Whatever."


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10% Cut in City Employees Salary
I have received a 100% thumbs up from those who read the last post on the City Council and their attempt at pirating away an additional 1% sales tax from the citizens of the City of Mobile. Thanks for your continued support.
After the recent announcement the City of Mobile was planning on cutting 10% out of every employees pay check, there was an outcry that had one veteran employee calling for Mayor Sam Jones resignation. The mayor should have realized that just merely talking about a 10% wage cut would have its toll on employee moral.
Because of this announced cut, it would appear that some city employees are showing their displeasure in the job they perform for the general public. In the picture below, you will see how a recent Friday trash pick-up went for one of our supporters. In the picture, you can see where the bucket made a stab at removing the trash. Trash pick-up has always been efficient in this area, but this type of lackluster workmanship had never happened prior to the mayor's proposal.
It would appear the city worker who was responsible for this particular Friday pick-up was able to scoop up about 90% of the trash. I guess he figures that the Mayor and City Council will come by and pick up the other 10% that is still laying beside the street.
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This season, the Green Industry has suffered from a lack of workers. For the short term, most contractors have been becoming more efficient. Without an excess of people to hire, getting more done with the existing labor pool has made a difference. Now we're starting to look ahead to 2019.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is out to get employers who are not in total compliance with its regulations. It wants to "strengthen compliance with the labor provisions of the H2B program."
Of course the Department states that its intention is to "educate employers how to be in compliance," while safeguarding American jobs, protecting guest workers, and maintaining a level playing field.
It just so happens that the landscape industry utilizes about 50% of the H2B visas, thus our industry will be deeply affected. Landscapers are already frustrated with the program. It's costly, terribly difficult to understand, and means a lot of paperwork. About 5% of the landscape companies in the U.S. use H2B labor, generally the larger firms.
Politicians have heard employer frustrations and there are various efforts to help. The House has passed a couple of bills tweaking the H2B procedures to make the program easier or more fair. We'll see with the new leadership if those bills move onto the Senate and pass.
Out of the Box Thinking
There is a tiny (1%) but growing number who are deciding it's not worth it and dropping out. The hard part is to find local labor. Some are getting creative.
For example, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory whose residents are considered American citizens. They can travel to the mainland at will. Contractors are recruiting on the island. An island that was devastated a couple of years ago by hurricanes so the citizens are very open to good career opportunities in Ohio. Certainly something to consider.
Industry Responses
Industry efforts are starting to show some fruit. For example, the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association (ONLA) started its Ohio High School Landscape Olympics program (OHLO) 3 years ago. It has grown each year. The 2018 Olympics just took place in early November with about 240 students participating. Hopefully, of the 600 plus students participating in the last 3 years, a good number of them will be looking for jobs in our industry upon graduation.
The National Association Of Landscape Professionals (NALP) partnered with the Trump National Council for the American Worker program. NALP sponsored and helped create an apprentice program called Landscape Management Apprentice. This program is open to students and those looking for a career opportunity; they expect to touch 150,000 people nationwide.
About Younger Americans
As for American young people we are trying to reach, the Cincinnati Horticulture Student Career Interest Survey sheds some interesting insights about students at the school. Here are some results with the largest gaps between employers and students:
What Landscapers are looking for What Students say they can offer
5% Person with creative ideas 35%
15% Person with deep plant knowledge 4%
43% A "Get the Job Done" attitude 19%
11% Certification/Specialized training 3%
26% Desire to learn and do new things 39%
Students believe their strengths or primary interests are "Creative Ideas" and "Desire to Learn". Note that employers are way less interested in creative thinkers and a smidge less interested in their desire to learn.
Employers are looking for people with a "Get it Done" attitude, knowledge, and desire to learn. Students say they are deeply lacking in knowledge and a "Get it Done" mindset.
Think how this will affect your ability to hire, educate, and retain these folks. To me the Get-it-Done thing is the biggest issue to deal with. Contracting is a fast paced occupation where a lot of simultaneous things have to get done as fast as possible. Profitability depends on it. How does this affect productivity?
Labor issues will be with us for many years. Traditional thought will not work to overcome it. We all have to be curious, creative, and willing to find the answers we need.


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Everybody loves a chubby baby, but those cute rolls of fat may hide a developing problem: the infant's ability to learn to crawl and walk.
A new study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found that infants who are overweight may be slower to develop motor skills than skinnier babies.
"This is concerning because children with motor skill delays may be less physically active and thus less likely to explore the environment beyond arm's reach," said Meghan Slining, the study's lead author and a nutrition doctoral student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The study's findings were based on observations of 217 African-American first-time mothers and are part of a larger effort to examine how parenting and infant-feeding styles relate to diet and health in a population at risk of obesity. The motor skills of infants were assessed at 3, 6, 9, 12 and 18 months. Overweight infants were 1.8 times as likely as non-overweight infants to score low for motor development. Infants with high subcutaneous fat (those rolls under their skin) were 2.32 times more likely than babies without rolls to have a low score.
"There are a number of studies that show that weight status during the infancy and toddler years can set young children on an obesity trajectory that may be hard to change," Slining said.
In other words, fat babies tend to become fat adults.
A United Nations study suggests that far more people in India have access to a cell phone than to a toilet and safe sanitation. The study found that roughly 545 million cell phones are now connected to service in India, which is the world's second most populous country at 1.17 billion people. By contrast, only 366 million Indians have access to toilets and adequate sanitation.
Worldwide, approximately 1.1 billion people lack access to any kind of toilet. And the World Health Organization estimates that number is likely to rise. Poor sanitation is a major contributor to waterborne diseases that, in the past three years alone, have killed 4.5 million children under the age of 5 worldwide — a death toll comparable to the combined populations of Ireland and Costa Rica.
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text: Share: Comments Print December 23, 2013 at 12:54 PM No surprise: Dennis Rodman's North Korean adventure loses sponsor Posted by Thanh Tan At the age of 52, the NBA's original bad boy still seeks the attention of the cameras, but none of the responsibility that comes with being an unofficial ambassador to an irrational and unpredictable government. Time for Dennis Rodman to grow up and get real. Former NBA basketball star Dennis Rodman poses for pictures with North Korean basketball players and government officials during a practice session in Pyongyang, North Korea on Friday, Dec. 20, 2013. Rodman selected the members of the North Korean team who will play in Pyongyang against visiting NBA stars on Jan. 8, 2014, the birthday of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) After three trips to North Korea this year, we kept hoping Rodman would do the right thing and inquire about North Korea's human rights record or ask about the 13-month-long detainment of American Kenneth Bae — whether it was behind the scenes or before the flashing lights. The only American with access to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues to disappoint. The Associated Press and other news outlets report Dennis Rodman left the country Monday without seeing his "friend for life," but he was in contact with government officials throughout his stay. In case you missed it: Last Thursday, Terri Chung, Bae's sister in the Seattle area, appeared on CNN to plead for Rodman's help in bringing her brother home. Here's a link to my write-up for Opinion Northwest, and the editorial board's latest editorial reminding Americans to not forget about Bae's imprisonment. On Sunday, The Seattle Times published this chilling account of North Korea's Camp 14 by guest columnist Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have successfully escaped from the prison to the west. Neither of these injustices seems to matter to Rodman, who says he'll be back in Pyongyang next month to host a friendly basketball game in honor of Kim's birthday. Good luck with that lofty plan. The NBA Hall of Famer has not revealed the roster of ex-NBA players he plans to take with him. Now his sponsor, Paddy Power, has withdrawn its support from the poorly named "The Bang in Pyongyang" invitational. Here's the emailed statement from the Irish online betting company: Given changed circumstances Paddy Power has decided to withdraw its association with the Dennis Rodman basketball initiative in North Korea. Dennis Rodman and his team of ex-NBA players will play a basketball match against the North Korean Olympic team on 08 January 2014 in Pyongyang. It was an awkward situation that got worse. The company could not ignore the storm of criticism it received for associating itself with North Korea's poor human rights record, especially after the country bragged about executing Kim Jong Un's uncle. Without a sponsor, will Rodman still make the trip? At the very least, he should understand he's in way over his head. He should have tried to do some good while he had the chance. Here's Associated Press video coverage of his latest visit: Comments | Topics: Dennis Rodman, kenneth bae, kim jong un


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Vietnam was estimated to ship 273,000 tonnes of coffee abroad for 616 million USD in the first two months of 2017, down 7.3 percent in quantity but up 22.3 percent in value compared to the same period last year.
Top importers Germany and the US accounted for 16 percent and 14.7 percent of the total Vietnamese coffee exports during the period, with shipments to Belgium, the UK, the US and Algeria increasing significantly.
Coffee products were sold overseas at an average price of 2,257 USD per tonne in January, up 30.2 percent year-on-year. Do Ha Nam, deputy head of the Vietnam Coffee & Cocoa Association, said domestic coffee yield this year is expected to drop by 20 percent due to drought.
Growers tend to stock their goods in hope of higher prices, he added. Nam also forecast a 30-percent reduction in coffee export due to material shortage. In respond to the information that Brazil cancels import of Vietnamese coffee robusta, Nam said it causes little impact on Vietnam's exports as the volume Brazil intends to import is not much.


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The Monteriggioni statuettes were four pairs of marble figurines of Roman deities which were displayed on pedestals in the yard around the Villa Auditore in Monteriggioni.
When Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the son of Assassin Giovanni Auditore, first arrived in Monteriggioni in 1477 to seek refuge with his uncle Mario Auditore, the statuettes were scattered around the town. Over the years as Ezio himself trained to become an Assassin and helped develop the businesses of the town, he found all eight of the missing figurines and restored them to their proper positions, whereupon it was discovered that they were keys to a mechanism that unlocked a secret storage of 2000 florins. As the statues also added to the aesthetics of the town, they also increased its value.
Each pedestal had its own message, describing the pair of statuettes that sat upon it.
- Neptune and Pluto: Two brothers rest here. One resides fathoms deep, the other at the end of time.
- Jupiter and Minerva: Here sits the king of all Olympus and beside him stands wisdom, to guide his rule.
- Diana and Apollo: Together, but never touching. One sleeps while the other rises, yet both watch over us.
- Mars and Venus: The god of rage and strength basks in his lover's radiant beauty. She tames his anger with her gentle touch.
On the south-eastern wall of the church.
As Jupiter was located high up on the wall of the church, it could either be reached by climbing the church and dropping down its eastern wall, or by climbing Monteriggioni's Thieves Guild and jumping to reach the statuette.
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When facing the entrance to church, Ezio could turn left and look in a small walled off courtyard next to said church with a bench directly in front. From there, the statuette was attached to the wall just behind the tree.
On a wall south-east from the Villa entrance.
Pluto was located at the top right corner of the village, just east of the training arena. After finding Neptune, it may be reached by climbing the building directly in front of Ezio until he was in line with the arena. Afterwards, he would need to drop to the left, towards the arena.
On a wall south-west from the Villa entrance.
Mars was almost at a mirrored location to Pluto, and could be found by going directly west from finding the Pluto statuette. It was attached to an east-facing wall to the west of the training arena.
On a wall of the western-most building, closest to the Villa.
Venus was located on the western wall of a small building, which was north-west of the building on which Mars was located. The statuette was attached to the wall just above a wooden scaffolding.
At the south-west corner of the town, on the building just north of the brothel.
Apollo could be easily found by looking north from the roof of the brothel. It was attached to the second floor of the adjacent building, just above and to the left of an archway.
On the northern wall of a building directly in front of the town's gate.
Similarly to Apollo, Diana was just above and to the left of an archway. The statuette could be easily found by looking to the south of the courtyard with a lush tree, in line with a street crossed over by several wooden beams.
On a building just to the east of the town entrance.
Minerva was on the corner of a building that was attached to a walled in courtyard with a small tree, similar to the courtyard in which Pluto was located. The statuette was on the opposite side of the building to the tree, on a low roof in the south-east corner.
- Three statuettes, Minerva, Jupiter, and Venus, have been revealed to represent members of the Isu.
- In Assassin's Creed II, the statuettes serve as collectibles in Monteriggioni, where finding them and restoring them to their places on the pedestals unlocks a reward of 2000 florins.
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While Jamey Driscoll didn't secure the win at Gloucester today, instead taking third place, he certainly took home the "most aggressive rider" award, taking off on Lap 1 and holding the lead until the race was down to the final few laps. We caught up with the latest addition to the Raleigh-Clement team to find out what made him act so aggressively, and what being on the new team has been like.
On his fast start… The boss told me to go hard so I went hard. I was excited I could go that hard! It's a first for this 'cross season so it seems like I'm ramping up. I was happy to be out there and throw the first punches even if I didn't throw the last!
On looking relaxed… I'm glad I looked calm. I was hurting. I remember looking back and seeing Jeremy way back and I know he does that but it will never cease to amaze me how cool and collected he can be, to have the confidence to ride there.
On having a file tread tire in the back and a Clement MXP in the front… Because it was loose out there, there was a lot of turning, you needed to get around the tight, slow corner so it was faster on the front tire. The file tread was enough traction but faster on the pavement section. I was running around 30 PSI for the rocky sections.
On his new bike… It's awesome. The bike, tires, wheels, brakes… It's all great.
On racing with his Garmin… I'm looking at the time. There are laps but you don't want to do the math in your head about how much longer the race is. It's easier to look and see that you're 32 minutes in or wherever. I have the time so I don't have to do the calculations!
On winning the race tomorrow… I'm going to try my best.
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The boom was so loud it shook houses in Fayetteville and was followed by a bright flash.
A scene right out of a Stephen King novel or the latest sci-fi movie came to Fayetteville Saturday night, but no one is quite sure what happened.
A sonic boom from a plane? A fireworks explosive set off by kids? A blown transformer or street light?
Or could it be some unsuspecting creature that got "fried" by electricity from a power line and then vaporized on the spot?
Susan Rausch, who lives on Oakwood Drive in Fayetteville, jumped out of her seat when she heard the boom that caused the house to shake.
"I can't imagine what it could have been," she said. "It sounded like a gas explosion. It was so loud I jumped out and ran outside to see if I could see or smell anything. But there was nothing."
The loud boom and bright flash of light was seen, heard and felt by Fayetteville residents in a roughly a 2- to 3-mile circlular area centered around Hoag Lane by Wellwood Middle School and Redfield Drive near Immaculate Conception School, Manlius police said.
Numerous calls came into the 911 center, and Manlius Police were joined by Manlius and Fayetteville fire departments in sending out crews. It was dispatched as a house explosion.
The mystery lingers. Several Fayetteville residents interviewed Monday at their homes say they've been scratching their heads ever since.
"We have no idea what it was," said Capt. Bill Bleyle, of the Manlius Police Department. " We investigated and when the sun came up on Sunday, still nothing. We still don't know."
Police and fire investigations couldn't find any blown transformers in the area, no explosions, and no resulting power outage. One theory, Bleyle said, is that sometimes an animal comes across a power line and is hit and there's a quick flash and bang and then the animal is nearly vaporized.
Courtney Quatrino, speaking for National Grid, said animals can come into contact with equipment and get burned. That could cause a "popping noise" and "quick flash of light," and not necessarily disrupt power, she said. Usually, there's some trace of the animal left, but it's not always found, she said.
Tom Canning was sitting in his television room on Edgemere Drive in Fayetteville when he heard "BOOM" and thought 'what the heck?" Last fall, a street light blew near him and the sound was similar, Canning said, but this time the light stayed on. His wife thought it sounded like a gunshot.
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On the business side, I was at the Washington Post when the Macintosh was introduced. The Post was an IBM Big Blue Shop and nobody was going to play with it and then the Macintosh infiltrated. There was almost a guerilla movement. It started with ad artists and now the whole front end of the newspaper is being done on Apple machines. Was that fairly common, this guerilla movement? Actually we had no concept of how to sell to corporate America because none of us had come from there. It was like another planet to us. Unfortunately I had to learn all that stuff.
If I only knew [then] what I know now we could have done a lot better. Our attempts to sell to corporate America were just bungled and we ended up just selling to people who just [were] sort of buying a product for its merit not because of the company it came from. I mean everybody was very hooked on Big Blue back then and they bought IBM. There was that famous phrase "You never get fired for buying IBM." We fortunately were able to change a lot of that. And Apple, as you know, I believe, is a bigger supplier of personal computers than IBM.
Tell me about what motivated you to establish NeXT and what were the goals you set out to accomplish when you set-up this new company? That's complicated. We basically wanted to keep doing what we were doing at Apple, to keep innovating. But we made a mistake, which was to try to follow the same formula we did at Apple, to make the whole widget. But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing.
And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that.
We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.
Right off the bat? The machine got great reviews when it came out. The machine was the best machine in the world. Believe it or not, they're selling on the used market, in some cases, for more than we sold them for originally. They're hard to find even today. We haven't even made them for two, two and a half years.
What are the features that are on the NeXT machine that are still missing from machines today? Well first of all it, was a totally 'plug-and-play' machine. Except for Macintosh, that's hard to find. It's an extremely powerful machine, way beyond the Macintosh. So it sort of nicely combined the power of the workstations with the 'plug and playness' of the Mac. Second of all, the machine had a fit and finish that you don't find today.
It's beautiful. I don't just mean in packaging; I mean in terms of operation. Simple things to complex things. Simple things like soft power on and off. A trivial little thing but as you know one, of the biggest reasons people lose information on computers is they turn them off at the wrong time. And when you get into a multi-tasking network system, that could have much more severe consequences. So we were the first people to do that and some of the only people who do that, where you push a button and you request the computer to turn off. It figures out what it needs to do to shut down gracefully and then turns itself off.
Of course the NeXT Computer was also the first computer with built-in high quality sound, CD quality sound. Most people do that now. It took them a long time but most people do that. It was just ahead of its time.
NeXT Software: What makes it different? What trends does it respond to? That's the real gem. I'll tell you an interesting story. When I was at Apple, a few of my acquaintances said "You really need to go over to Xerox PARC (which was Palo Alto Research Center) and see what they've got going over there."
They didn't usually let too many people in but I was able to get in there and see what they were doing. I saw their early computer called the Alto, which was a phenomenal computer, and they actually showed me three things there that they had working in 1976. I saw them in 1979. Things that took really until a few years ago for us to fully re-create, for the industry to fully re-create in this case with NeXTStep. However, I didn't see all three of those things. I only saw the first one, which was so incredible to me that it saturated me. It blinded me to see the other two. It took me years to re-create them and rediscover them and incorporate them back into the model, but they were very far ahead in their thinking. They didn't have it totally right, but they had the germ of the idea of all three things. And the three things were graphical user interfaces, object oriented computing and networking.
Let me go through those. Graphical interface: The Alto had the world's first graphical user interface. It had windows. It had a crude menu system. It had crude panels and stuff. It didn't work right but it basically was all there.
Objects: They had Smalltalk running, which was really the first object-oriented language. Simula was really the first, but Smalltalk was the first official object-oriented language.
Third, networking: They invented Ethernet there, as you know. And they had about two hundred Altos with servers hooked up in a local area network there doing email and everything else over the network, all in 1979. I was so blown away with the potential of the germ of that graphical user interface that I saw that I didn't even assimilate or even stick around to investigate fully the other two.
NeXTStep turned some of that vision into reality. It incorporated the world's first truly commercial object-oriented system, and really was the most networked system in the world when it came out. I think the world has made a lot of progress in networking but hasn't yet crossed the hurdle into objects and what's happened with NeXTStep. It's starting to get adopted by some very large corporate customers. It is now the most popular object-oriented system in the world, as objects are on the threshold of starting to move into the mainstream.
The company last year recorded its first profit in its nine-year history, and sold $50 million worth of software. I think we're going to have some significant growth this year and it's fairly clear that NeXT can get up to being a few-hundred-million-dollar software company in the next three or four years and be the largest company offering objects -- until Microsoft comes into the market at some point, probably with a pretty half-baked product.
Some people say that in the future object-oriented software is going to be the only kind of software. Of course it's true. I remember being at Xerox at 1979. It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way some day; it was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear. The minute you understand objects, it's all exactly the same. All software will be written using object-oriented technology some day. You can argue about how long its going to take, who the winners and losers are going to be, but I don't think a rational person will debate its significance.
The Internet
Give me your thoughts on the current status and the future of the Internet and the commercial online services and how they're affecting computer development. The Internet and the World Wide Web are clearly the most exciting thing going on in computing today. They're exciting for three or four reasons.
Number one, ultimately computers are turning into communications devices and ultimately we're spending more and more of the cycles of the computer to not only make it easy to use but to make it easy to communicate. The Web is the missing piece of the puzzle which is really going to power that vision much farther forward. It's very exciting in that way.
Secondly, it's very exciting because it is going to destroy vast layers of our economy and make available a presence in the marketplace for very small companies, one that is equal to very large companies.
Let me give you an example. A small three-person company in Phoenix, Arizona can have a Web server that looks identical if not better than IBM's or the Gap's or anybody else, any large company. They can gain access to this electronic distribution channel for free. They don't have to build buildings. They don't have to sign up a thousand distributors and have people to call on them, etc., etc. In essence, direct distribution from the manufacturer to the customer via the Internet, via the Web, direct contact, direct transactions and distribution via UPS or Federal Express -- that's going to be cheaper than going through all these middlemen or building hundreds of stores around the country. It is going radically change the way goods and services are discovered, sold and delivered, not only in this country but eventually all over the world.
As you know, electrons travel at the speed of light and so it tends to bring the world much closer together in terms of providers and customers. That's pretty exciting. The levelling of big and small. The levelling of near and distant.
The third reason it's very exciting is that Microsoft doesn't own it and I don't think they can. It's the one thing in the industry that Microsoft can probably never own. I think one of the things that's essential is that the government continue to fund the Internet as a public trust, as a public facility and remove any of these ridiculous notions of privatizing it that have been brought up. I don't think they're going to fly, thankfully.
The Internet cost the U.S. Federal Government about fifty to seventy-five million a year. This is peanuts for what its doing right now and even if that cost someday escalated to half a billion a year, which of course you could build the whole Internet each year from scratch if you had to, you could replace all the equipment, etc. That would be an extrodinarily small price to pay for keeping it from getting into the hands of any one company and thereby starting to destroy and control the innovation that could take place around the Internet. It's the one last bright spot of hope in the computer industry for some serious innovation to happen at a rapid pace.
What's also great about it, again, is that the U.S. in the forefront here. That's what's great about the whole personal computer software industry. This is another example where the U.S. is in the forefront. It should be kept open. It should be kept free.
The World Wide Web is literally becoming a global phenomenon. Are you optimistic about it staying free? Yes, I am optimistic about it staying free but before you say it's global too fast, it's estimated that over one-third of the total Internet traffic in the world originates or destines in California. So I actually think this is a pretty typical case where California is again on the leading edge not only in a technical but cultural shift. So I do expect the Web to be a worldwide phenomenon, distributed fairly broadly. But right now I think it's a U.S. phenomenon that's moving to be global, and one which is very concentrated in certain pockets, such as California.
85% of the world doesn't have access to a telephone yet. The potential is there and you're pretty optimistic. Tell me about Pixar. This story is very interesting. I got hooked up with some folks. Again a friend of mine told me I should go visit these crazy guys up in San Rafael, California who were working at Lucasfilm. Now George Lucas, who produced the Star Wars film trilogy, was a smart guy, and at one point when he had a lot of money coming in from these films he realized that he ought to start a technology group. He had a few problems he wanted to solve.
I'll give you an example of one. When you make a copy of analog audio recording, like tape cassette to another tape cassette, you pick up noise artifacts, in this case hiss. If you make a second-generation copy it gets worse exponentially. The same is true of optical analog copies. You take a piece of film, make an optical copy, you pick up noise artifacts, in this case optical noise which comes across as blurriness in some cases, comes across as other noise artifacts in other cases.
Now George, to make Star Wars, actually had to composite together up to thirteen pieces of film for each frame. The matt paintings for the backgrounds might be a few pieces of film, the models might be a few pieces of film, the live action might be a few pieces of film, some special effects might be a few pieces of film. And every time he'd make a copy to composite two together and then add a third, then add a fourth, he was adding noise artifacts with each generation. If you go buy a laser disk of any of the Star Wars Films, if you stop it on some of the frames, they are really grungy. Incredibly noisy, very bad quality.
George being the perfectionist he was, said "I'd like to do it perfectly," do it digitally; and nobody had ever done that before. He hired some very smart people and they figured out how to do it for him, digitally with no noise artifacts. They developed software and actually built some specialized hardware at the time. George had at some point decided that this is costing him several million dollars a year and decided that he didn't want to fund it anymore, so I bought this group from George Lucas and I incorporated it as Pixar and we set about revolutionizing high-end computer graphics.
If you look at the ten most important revolutions in high-end graphics, in the last ten years, eight of them have come out of Pixar. All of the software that was used to make Terminator, for example -- to actually construct the images that you saw on the screen -- or Jurassic Park with all the dinosaurs, was Pixar Software. Industrial Light and Magic uses it as the base for all of their stuff.
But Pixar had another vision. Pixar's vision was to tell stories. To make real films. Our vision was to make the world's first animated feature film -- completely computer synthetic, sets, characters, everything. After ten years, we have done exactly that. We have developed tools, all proprietary, to do this, to manage the production of this thing as well as the drawing of this thing, computer synthetic drawing. We are finishing up making the world's first computer animated feature film. Pixar has written it, directed it, producing it. The Walt Disney Corporation is distributing it and it's coming out this year as Walt Disney's Christmas Picture. It's coming out November 11, I believe, and it's called "Toy Story." You will hear a lot about it because I think its going to be the most successful film of this year.
Fantastic. It's phenomenal. Tom Hanks is the main character's voice. Tim Allen is the second main character. Randy Newman's doing the music for it. It's just phenomenal.
There's a lot of hoopla about Hollywood and Silicon Valley converging. They call it "Sillywood" I think. Pixar is really going to be the first digital studio in the whole world. It really combines art and technology together. Again in a very wonderful way. Pixar's got by far and away the best computer graphics talent in the entire world and it now has the best animation and artistic talent in the whole world to do these kinds of film. We have the second largest group of animators in the world outside of Disney and we think the most talented in the world working side by side with these computer scientists, the best graphics people in the world. There's really no one else in the world who could do this stuff. It's really phenomenal. We're probably close to ten years ahead of anybody else.
New possibilities
It sounds really exciting. The question I was going to ask -- and you've partially answered it -- was about start-up companies. As I look around the facility here and your literature, there are alliances written all over the walls literally. You're aligned with Hewlett-Packard, Sun, Oracle and Digital and all the systems integrators. Communications companies and information technology companies are merging. And becoming one. Do you think it will ever be possible for a new major start-up company to develop if they're going to focus on major applications or software? Will there ever be another?
I think yes. One might sometimes say in despair no, but I think yes. And the reason is because human minds settle into fixed ways of looking at the world and that's always been true and it's probably always going to be true.
I've always felt that death is the greatest invention of life. I'm sure that life evolved without death at first and found that without death, life didn't work very well because it didn't make room for the young. It didn't know how the world was fifty years ago. It didn't know how the world was twenty years ago. It saw it as it is today, without any preconceptions, and dreamed how it could be based on that. We're not satisfied based on the accomplishment of the last thirty years. We're dissatisfied because the current state didn't live up to their ideals. Without death there would be very little progress.
One of the things that happens in organizations as well as with people is that they settle into ways of looking at the world and become satisfied with things and the world changes and keeps evolving and new potential arises but these people who are settled in don't see it. That's what gives start-up companies their greatest advantage. The sedentary point of view is that of most large companies.
In addition to that, large companies do not usually have efficient communication paths from the people closest to some of these changes at the bottom of the company to the top of the company which are the people making the big decisions. There may be people at lower levels of the company that see these changes coming but by the time the word ripples up to the highest levels where they can do something about it, it sometimes takes ten years. Even in the case where part of the company does the right thing at the lower levels, usually the upper levels screw it up somehow. I mean IBM and the personal computer business is a good example of that.
I think as long as humans don't solve this human nature trait of sort of settling into a world view after a while, there will always be opportunity for young companies, young people to innovate. As it should be.
Advice for future entrepreneurs
And that was going to be my closing question before I gave you chance to sort of free associate on your own. That is to talk to young people who sort of look to you as a role model. Opportunities for innovation you think they're still possible. What are the factors of success for young people today? What should they avoid? I get asked this a lot and I have a pretty standard answer which is, a lot of people come to me and say "I want to be an entrepreneur." And I go "Oh that's great, what's your idea?"And they say "I don't have one yet." And I say "I think you should go get a job as a busboy or something until you find something you're really passionate about because it's a lot of work."
I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. It is so hard. You put so much of your life into this thing. There are such rough moments in time that I think most people give up. I don't blame them. It's really tough and it consumes your life. If you've got a family and you're in the early days of a company, I can't imagine how one could do it. I'm sure it's been done but it's rough. It's pretty much an eighteen hour day job, seven days a week for awhile. Unless you have a lot of passion about this, you're not going to survive. You're going to give it up. So you've got to have an idea, or a problem or a wrong that you want to right that you're passionate about, otherwise you're not going to have the perseverance to stick it through. I think that's half the battle right there.
Responsibilities of power
Your talking made me think of the other side of that. You talk about the passion side. What would you say, there's passion and then there's power. What you would say about the responsibilities of power, once you've achieved a certain level of success? Power? What is that?
You need passion to build a company like Apple or IBM or any other major company. Once you've taken the passion to that level and built a company and are in the position like a Bill Gates at Microsoft or anybody else, yourself, what are the responsibilities of those who have succeeded and have economic power, social power? I mean, you've changed the world. What are your responsibilities within that? That question can be taken on many levels. Obviously if you're running a company you have responsibilities but as an individual I don't think you have responsibilities. I think the work speaks for itself. I don't think that people have special responsibilities just because they've done something that other people like or don't like. I think the work speaks for itself.
I think people could choose to do things if they want to but we're all going to be dead soon, that's my point of view. Somebody once told me, they said "Live each day as if it would be your last and one day you'll certainly be right." I do that. You never know when you're going to go but you are going to go pretty soon. If you're going to leave anything behind it's going to be your kids, a few friends and your work. So that's what I tend to worry about. I don't tend to think about responsibility. A matter of fact I tend to like to on occasion pretend I don't have any responsibilities. I try to remember the last day when I didn't have anything to do and didn't have anything to do the following day that I had to do and I had no responsibilities. It was decades ago. I pretend when I want to feel that way. I don't think in those terms. I think you have a responsibility to do really good stuff and get it out there for people to use and let them build on the shoulders of it and keep making better stuff.
So the responsibility is to yourself and your own standards. In our business, one person can't do anything anymore. You create a team of people around you. You have a responsibility of integrity of work to that team. Everybody does try to turn out the best work that they can.
Any final comments or thoughts either for the record or off the record? No. Not really. Timeframe's an interesting thing when you think about people looking back. I do think when people look back on this in a hundred years, they're going to see this as a remarkable time in history. And especially this area believe it or not. When you think of the innovation that's come out of this area, Silicon Valley and the whole San Francisco Berkeley Bay area, you've got the invention of the integrated circuit, the invention of the microprocessor, the invention of semiconductor memory, the invention of the modern hard disk drive, the invention of the modern floppy disk drive, the invention of the personal computer, invention of genetic engineering, the invention of object-oriented technology, the invention of graphical user interfaces at PARC, followed by Apple, the invention of networking. All that happened in this Bay area. It's incredible.
Why do you think it happened? Why here? Two or three reasons. You have to go back a little [in] history. I mean this is where the beatnik happened in San Francisco. It's a pretty interesting thing. This is where the hippy movement happened. This is the only place in America where Rock 'n Roll really happened. Right? Most of the bands in this country, Bob Dylan in the 60's, I mean they all came out of here. I think of Joan Baez to Jefferson Airplane to the Grateful Dead. Everything came out of here, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, everybody. Why is that?
You've also had Stanford and Berkeley, two awesome universities drawing smart people from all over the world and depositing them in this clean, sunny, nice place where there's a whole bunch of other smart people and pretty good food. And at times a lot of drugs and all of that. So they stayed. There's a lot of human capital pouring in. Really smart people. People seem pretty bright here relative to the rest of the country. People seem pretty open-minded here relative to the rest of the country. I think it's just a very unique place and its got a track record to prove it and that tends to attract more people. I give a lot of credit to the universities, probably the most credit of anything to Stanford and Berkeley, UC California.
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
On the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr recite two Rakats Namaz. In first unit after
Surah Hamd recite this supplication 1000 times and in second unit after
Surah Hamd recite this supplication in prostration once.
O the possessor of Honour and O the doer of obligations O the one to
appoint Muhammad Mustafa (s.a.w.a.). Bless Muhammad (s.a.w.a.) and
his progeny.


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Hi! I'm Tracy.
If I could share only one thing with you, it would be my favorite quote by Joseph Campbell – "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are." I believe that with my whole heart.
I am wildly passionate about helping others understand and believe that they are worthy and enough. I believe Everyone has greatness within them and the world is a much better place when you live as the Real You and not someone else's version of who you "should" be. When you can do that, you begin changing the world.
Professionally, I am a Life Coach, Artist, and Workshop Guide. My best advice to you would always be to choose to act from a place of love.
I believe in Peace and Love. I believe there is room for all of us here and that your journey doesn't have to match mine to be important and valid.
I try out lots of ideas. Some work, some don't. I choose not to spend precious time wondering what might have happened if only I had given it a shot. I'd much rather try something, decide it's not for me, and toss it, than to wish I had.
I believe there is Greatness within each of Us. Not just some of us, but All of Us. Sometimes it is buried deeper in some than others. Yours is there, trust me.
- Superficial chatter is not my forte.
- I would much rather dive into the deep stuff right off the bat.
- Tell me who you are behind your mask.
- Tell me what you believe.
- Share your story with me. What's it like being you? I'm all ears.
For much of my life I believed people who told me I wasn't good enough, strong enough, thin enough, smart enough, worth their time, and/or didn't make enough money.
Those days are long gone.
I discovered they were wrong.
I *am* enough. And so are You.
Each time I work with a client I feel honored and inspired. Being invited to walk with you for part of your journey is a huge gift and privilege to me. Thank you for that opportunity!
I've been married and divorced more than once.
When they were infants, both of my children had life-threatening illnesses. Those experiences changed everything for me and about me.
My husband, Cliff, is the love of my life. He's my rock and my stability. He handles much of the tech stuff for our business, allowing me to run wild with the creative side.
Between us we have five amazing, creative, wonderful adult kiddos (plus awesome significant others), three dogs (ranch managers), two cats (production assistants), and two llamas (entertainment committee). I've asked for a giraffe and an elephant but so far Cliff's not too keen on either one.
My kiddos taught me how to really live, laugh, love, and take chances. They inspire me all the time. Always have and always will. They are amazing people. I do believe they hung the moon and the stars!
My mom taught me how to be strong, resourceful, and compassionate. She also taught me to take action. The most powerful question she ever asked me was "So, what are you going to do about it?" when I was on a rant about an injustice I had seen.
The Taos, New Mexico, area is our favorite vacation place. Someday we hope to have a home there. In the meantime, we'll be hosting retreats in that area. The first one is Summer 2015. Keep your eye on the Events page for more information soon.
Your turn. I'd love to hear your story!
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To begin with, my fondness for the Blessed Virgin Mary had a lot to do with her looks: the free-flowing hair and robes of white and azure-blue, the gilded crown, and the contrast between her Mona Lisa smile and the serpent squirming under one of her dainty feet. This was the standard issue BVM of my early childhood. I was born in the Marian Year of 1954, the heyday of the parish "grotto", when so many Irish communities were setting up wayside rock gardens and shrines dedicated to Our Lady. One of my grandmothers lived in Kilkenny and if it wasn't raining the local grotto was the incentive for a summer evening's constitutional.
The smiling Mary of grottos and school alcoves was the ultimate Flower Fairy, as pretty as she was heavenly. Moreover, it was not beyond the realms of possibility that she might make another appearance on Earth, to a hopeful girl of the suburbs! After all, it had only taken four years for the authorities to decide that St Bernadette wasn't letting her imagination run away with her, and once endorsed Our Lady of Lourdes paved the way for Our Lady of Knock, Fatima, Medjugorye et al.
Although little Marie-Bernarde Soubirous's visions of the late 1850s led, with astonishing speed, to the establishment of a world famous healing shrine at Lourdes, she herself shunned the limelight. Bernadette didn't attend the consecration of the Lourdes basilica in 1876 and spent her short adult life as an unassuming nun. (She died three years after the consecration and was canonised in 1933.) But for all her precarious physical health, Bernadette was sure enough of herself and her remarkable experience to say that the statue of Our Lady presiding over the Lourdes grotto didn't resemble the "Lady" who appeared to her. The BVM of Bernadette's visions was dressed like the nuns of a local religious order – a white habit with a blue sash – and though she spoke with the authority of a mother or a big sister, she looked like a girl of Bernadette's own age and height, i.e. a fourteen-year-old of about 140 cm.
Our Lady of Lourdes, like all Our Ladies, was very much a phenomenon of her time and place. France was going through the ideological civil war that led to the formal separation of Church and State, a conflict in which, broadly speaking, town and country were on different sides, and the re-appearance of Mary on Earth heartened the beleaguered faithful. This was also the era of railways, telegraphs, indoor sanitation, mass circulation, illustrated newspapers, and Lourdes was as good and better than a conventional spa resort. You could get there by train, mingle with simpaticos, feed your soul as well as your body, and go home with souvenirs as spiritually functional as they were ornamental: medals, figurines, rosaries, musical boxes, holy pictures, holy water fonts and bottles.
I'm not knocking or doubting the miraculous cures of Lourdes because I would never underestimate the placebo effect, and the development of the mother of all Marian grottoes included facilities – pioneering facilities – for the sick and the disabled. In any case, pilgrimages have always worked in terms of the "feel good" factor. The ancient etymological connection between "healthy" and "holy" is ongoing. Many of the miracle cures recorded at great medieval shrines like Canterbury and Santiago de Compostela pertained to dietary deficiencies and nervous disorders. Since spring was the traditional season for setting out, it's likely that pilgrims benefited from fresh greens, sunlight, a change of air and water, and exercise in the form of walking and "active" praying. (There is some evidence that the Ave Marias and Pater Nosters of the olden days were accompanied by genuflections and prostrations, so a medieval pilgrim's penance of, say, three hundred Hail Marys, was more physical, more like Muslim praying, than the kneeling rosaries of our own time.)
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Context is everything when it comes to Marian icons, and the "fixing" of the image of the Mexican Our Lady of Guadalupe has a particularly revealing history. She began as the Mary who appeared to a herdsman near the Guadalupe River in the Estremadura region of Spain during the fourteenth century. The shrine that housed her statue was replicated in the New World by the Conquistadors, many of whom hailed from Estremadura. Round about 1530, a shrine was dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe at Tepeyac in Mexico, a mountainside that was already hallowed ground because of its association with the Aztec mother goddess Tonantzin. This New World shrine celebrated the apparitions of a recently widowed Christian Aztec called Juan Diego. Telling him he was under her protection, Juan Diego's visionary Mary asked him to climb Tepeyac and pick the roses he would find growing there, even though it was neither the season nor the place for such blooms. She herself tied up Juan Diego's cape to contain these miraculous roses and when this workaday garment was unfurled before the local bishop, there was the rose-adorned image of the Virgin who had comforted him. The gap in time, between the story of Juan Diego's apparition and the emergence of the famous, definitive image on cloth, suggests that the original Spanish Mary of Guadalupe was absorbed and re-imagined by her New World devotees. The tying up of a cloak, for example, was an Aztec wedding ritual, and the sounds, flowers and vivid colours of Juan Diego's apparition are consistent with the drug-enhanced hallucinations of ancient Mexican rituals.
Mammals and mothers
By the time I started secondary school I was beginning to resent the Blessed Virgin Mary, who doesn't work as any kind of role model for thinking as well as growing virgins. Her representation as the be-all and end-all of female achievement was frankly annoying, but it was a silent annoyance. I didn't have the nerve or the biological know-how to ask how come Mary had a blessed womb but no ovaries to go with it? The ovum – the female half of the ingredients of the process of generation – wasn't actually discovered until 1827 (by K.E. Von Baer), but the language of Catholic dogma remained oblivious to this deliciously awkward fact. Although the Vatican of our own times has wholeheartedly acknowledged the scientific breakthroughs of Galileo and Darwin, it would seem that the spirit of enquiry and apology is less willing when it comes to an appreciation of female anatomy. In short, the "immaculately conceived" Blessed Virgin Mary of my childhood – she who still weeps but no longer lactates and never ever menstruated – is the fag end of a dogma dreamed up centuries ago by professional bachelors who conflated sex with sin, and female blood with filth. Why did they bother? Why was it so important to that Our Lady should be so immaculately sexless? She didn't start off like that.
Mary has always been the best-loved saint. Once learned, no one forgets the poem-like Hail Mary – the prayer made up of words spoken to her by the Angel Gabriel and her cousin Elizabeth – and she has never lost her association with love, mercy and justice. As the mother of Jesus she is a major character of the New Testament, but she wasn't a major player in the minds and teachings of the first Jewish Christians until the new religion took off among the Gentiles of the wider world. Feelings give rise to ideas and religions, not vice versa, and the revelations of the early evangelicals were not enough to shift the pre-Christian mother goddesses from their pedestals. Instead, Mary assumed their roles as readily as she was "assumed", without reference to holy writ, straight up to her heavenly throne.
Artemis, Isis, Astarte, Ishtar, Cybele, Magna Mater, we may have forgotten the names of these ancient goddesses but via Mary their attributes and stories, even their poses, are familiar. The concept of the virgin who is impregnated by a god and gives birth to a hero is a regular component of pre-Christian Mediterranean mythology. Romulus and Remus, the legendary founders of Rome, were supposedly born to a mother who had sex with the god Mars. If we didn't know the archaeological context in which they were found, the museum figurines of Isis with the baby Horus, Aphrodite with Eros, Demeter with Kore, might just as easily be taken for Mary and Jesus. It was customary in the towns of the classical world for the brightly painted and gorgeously dressed statues of major goddesses to be dressed up and paraded through the streets on feast days, and many a Mediterranean Madonna inspires similar processions.
Small Cakes
In the Orthodox Christian world, Mary has been venerated primarily in her role as Theotokos (Mother of God) and not so much as a lone virgin. It's possible that this emphasis was a response to a popular heretical sect called the Collyridians. Their name derives from their ritual of offerings of small cakes (collyris is Greek for a small cake or loaf) to Mary as a goddess in her own right, and her priests were female. The male leader of the Montanists, another Mary-focused heretical sect, was actually an ex-priest of the pagan "Great Mother", a.k.a. Magna Mater. By dint of a more generous celebration of the Mother of God, these Mary-focused heresies were gradually corrected and absorbed by the official Church in the fifth and sixth centuries. This process was happening all over the place, as the gods and goddesses of small things evolved into "patron" saints, and time-honoured pagan symbols, Thor's hammer, for example, acquired a fresh Christian legitimacy as a cross.
But pagan mother goddesses were virginal in a magical way. Just as a god is never killed in battle, a goddess never dies in childbirth. She is immune to the hazards of an active sex life and her virginity is a renewable resource. Mary is different because she is such a literal and perpetual virgin. This notion began with the mistranslation of the Aramaic word for a young woman and developed as a metaphorical way of expressing God's special involvement with the birth of Jesus, and distancing him and his mother from the messy realities of human reproduction. For ancient Jewish commentators on the upstart religion, the very idea of a virgin giving birth to a self-styled messiah was ludicrous. It's possible that conventional Jewish objections to the circumstances of Jesus's birth inspired the relatively sympathetic Muslim version of Mary's situation: a case, perhaps, of my rival's rival being my friend! In the Koran, the pregnant Maryam is disgraced and lonely until, from her womb, the unborn Jesus speaks up for her and assures her relations that she's a good girl and that he will be the prophet Issa.
The Holy Family, including Granny
Some of the best reads by serious scholars of the history of Mary and Marian phenomena are listed below. As an armchair student I can't helping seeing similarities between the evolution of Mary's cult and the machinations of those Hollywood producers who, in order to sustain a blockbuster franchise, resort to more and more complicated plot developments and back stories. I'm particularly fond of the "prequel" featuring Saint Anne, the granny of the Holy Family. Anne is a fusion of Hannah, the biblical mother of Samuel, and female characters from Greco-Roman legend. She didn't really take off in terms of popular devotion until medieval times, when she found her role as the mature, down-to-earth mother of Mary, who by then had become a fully-fledged goddess in all but name.
As the epitome of female nobility and power, the medieval Our Lady was a suitable object of adoration for all men and women. As beautiful as she was blessed, the humble Virgin was simultaneously the compassionate Mother of All Sorrows and the powerful Queen of Heaven. It's no accident that the celebration of this multi-faceted Mary in art and music and prayer (the rosary) coincided with the spread of new religious orders, notably the Cistercians, and the town-based Franciscans and Dominicans. Having left their own mothers at an early age, these monks were especially responsive to the cult of a divine mother, and their sisters-in-Christ, the many thousands of nuns, were equally well disposed towards a role model who endorsed their life choices.
In Ireland we missed out on some of the splendours of Mary's medieval and Renaissance reign. For us, the magnificent interiors of the churches of Spain and Austria and Italy are at once familiar, and disconcertingly foreign. In the heyday of the Queen of Heaven we didn't have much in the way of towns, banks and guilds – or New World riches – the context in which sculptors and artists and composers found their patrons. (My favourite hymn, the Salve Regina, dates from this period.) The relative poverty of our material culture was compounded by the catastrophes of the late seventeenth century, which effectively outlawed Catholicism and drove it underground. This is one of the reasons why the image of Our Lady of Lourdes was so popular in Ireland. Her appearance came in the wake of Catholic emancipation, when the faith of the common people was visible again.
Back to the kitchen
The centrality of Mary in the medieval and Renaissance Church offended the scripture-driven reformers of western Christianity. For these men, "Mariolatry" was an over-the-top distraction from the plain truths of the Gospels. They protested and in due course their churches would focus on the pulpit and the stark simplicity of the cross. The curious thing is that Martin Luther never repudiated Anne or Mary. As a young law student, he was caught out in a terrible thunderstorm, and it was in thanks to Saint Anne, to whom he had prayed for his survival, that he became a monk. And so it came to pass that the venerable Anne lives on in the place names of the Protestant realms, where her daughter Mary, still a virgin but no longer a queen, is esteemed as a paragon of domesticated female virtue.
When the reformers dispensed with the extravagant cults of the Catholic Mary, they were creating a vacuum. Unwittingly – and sometimes wittingly – these rigorous patriarchs were eliminating the most significant female presence in Christian discourse, the main link between the human and the divine. The "Mothering Sunday" of the Anglican tradition doesn't fill the gap left by the toppling of the Queen of Heaven from her throne. For Catholics, every day is mother's day, and for "Catholic atheists" like me, Mary lives on in her diversity as a global icon. I have some miniature Our Ladies, including the dark ladies of Guadalupe, Montserrat and Cuba, as well as Michelangelo's Pieta, and a luminous one, picked up in a charity shop in West Cork when such items were commonplace. They are complemented by picture postcards of goddesses of the ancient world, including the mysterious but instantly recognizable figuras femeninas of Ibiza, Baza and Galera,. These images remind me that art, like religion, has a redemptive function. And so! Hail Mary, full of myth, who links us to the eternal and captures something enduring about the human condition in general and the female condition in particular, and long may her personas transcend and outlast the contexts in which they were created.
* Nicholas Ayo The Hail Mary 1994
Diarmaid MacCulloch Reformation 2003
Uta Ranke-Heinemann Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven 1990
Miri Rubin Mother of God 2009


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Here is what's going on around the Athens area today, Nov. 22:
Blood Drive: 2-7 p.m., Hartwell First UMC, 200 E. Howell St., Hartwell; (706) 376-3164.
Athens Mother Center Meeting: 9:30-11:30 a.m., St. Gregory the Great, Barnett Shoals; Athens Mother Center is a mothering support group; today participate in instructor led beginner yoga, toddler play group, new moms and new members group and the discussion group 'What's your problem?'; childcare available for toddlers; email athensmotherscenter@ gmail.com.
Toddler Storytime: 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. today and Wednesday, Athens-Clarke County Library, 2025 Baxter St.; interactive story time for children ages 18 months to five years old; www.clarke.public.lib.ga.us or (706) 613-3650.
Crochet Club: 10 a.m.-noon, Winder Public Library, 189 Bellview St., Winder; socialize while working on crochet projects; (770) 867-2762 or prlib.org/winder.
Toddler Time: 10:30 a.m.-noon, Full Bloom Center, 220 N. Milledge Ave.; (706) 353-3373 or www.fullbloomparent.com.
Deck the Walls Opening: Noon-5 p.m. today-Saturday, Lyndon House Arts Center, 293 Hoyt St.; a holiday themed market featuring fine art and crafts by more than 75 local artists; purchase gifts and holiday creations including wreaths, ornaments, cards, jewelry, paintings, soap, pottery, purses, scarves, wood, stained glass and more; www.athensclarkecounty.com/lyndonhouse or (706) 613-3623.
Line Dance Class: 2 p.m., Winterville Depot, downtown Winterville; learn basic line dance steps to a variety of music; no partner needed; (706) 549-4850 or www.accaging.org.
Radio Club: 6-8 p.m., Commerce Public Library, 1344 S. Broad St., Commerce; (706) 335-5946 or www.commercega.org.
Domestic Violence Support Group: 6:30-8 p.m., call for location; meets the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month in Clarke County; dinner for participants and children at 6 p.m.; childcare is provided; for more information call Project Safe's hot line at (706) 543-3331 or (706) 613-3357, ext. 771.
The Silverbird Duo: 7 p.m., The Melting Point, 295 E. Dougherty St.; $5; (706) 254-6909 or www.meltingpointathens.com.


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Be in awe of this existence.
Be in awe of this breath.
Be in awe of this life.
Be in awe.
I receive some beautiful messages of encouragement and love from strangers over the blogging universe. Not all of them leave email or website information so I can't reply to them except on my own comments.
I'd like to send this out to any of you reading and commenting, or not commenting.
We are all connected. We all learn from each other. And I appreciate the support of the world wide web of women :) Thank you!
Yesterday at my women's circle a health food store owner from http://www.jessynaturel.com came in to speak with us about menopause and health in general. She had so many good tips for us, about products and about basic health in general. On topic of menopause, she took one look at us and said, most of you here are probably not in need of estrogen but progesterone. We all looked at each other. What did she see?
This is what I saw: we are all busy women, with part-time jobs, volunteer work, teenagers, environmental work, all activitists of one sort or another. We all have developed our masculine sides, I presume. The feminine energy, or the idea of feminine as Aphrodite or passive or intuitive, or whatever concept I have, is not what we have chosen to develop or use to get ahead, so it is not being depleted. (this is my limited understanding of her comment - write me if you have a better idea of what the feminine is, please.)
I thought, isn't that interesting - more than one person of the healing variety has mentioned that she thinks women, in the corporate world especially, are too masculine, too yang, not in touch with their feminine side - the link to the intuition, to the unconscious messages, and the receiving end of things (yin) is less developed. Our energy is fiery and bold and accomplishes things. We are doers, busy women, overbooked, overscheduled, and overwhelmed.
I have just added a link to the sidebar, http://zenamoon.typepad.com/womenatrest/ which you should check out if you are a woman who does too much, or recognize that you may be burning out. I have trying to prevent burn-out for several years now, having seen my friends try to recover (it takes years!). Mostly I am uneven in my results - balanced one day (the days I do yoga mostly), too frazzled & busy on the others. On the anxiety producing days I burn out my energy quickly and tend to fall sleep at 8:30 pm. On the balanced energy days, I can go until 11:00 (singing, practising, playing, loving) easily.
It may seem obvious to you, but this is a new discovery for me - that I can exhaust myself by going too quickly. Sometimes I consciously decide to slow down - put on some slow music (new age flute works for me), burn a candle, take a walk down to the lake, stretch into yoga, actually sit down to eat lunch for the time it takes. Ahha, that's what was missing, peace in the belly!
I invite you women with heart to take care of yourselves today by paying close attention to the stomach meter: are you anxious, dizzy, turning in circles, forgetting everything? Stop, breathe, take a teeny-meeny-retreat at your desk or computer. Allow life to calm you. Allow yourself to receive. Open your heart, close your eyes.
There now, isn't that better?
taking my own medecine,