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Entrance to Fremont St. Experience
An hour after arriving, we found ourselves eating at Siegel's 1941, an old-school restaurant in the El Cortez, the longest continuously-running hotel and casino in Las Vegas and a favorite of 1940s mobster Bugsy Siegel, who, along with Meyer Lansky and others, bought the place in 1945. Following dinner, we walked over to the Fremont St. Experience, dedicated to preserving the neon heyday of mid-century Vegas. Situated in the heart of the old downtown area, the two-block Experience is covered by a protective ceiling that projects films above pedestrians, casinos and shops. Though I'm glad my parents' favorite casinos (from the old days) have been saved, the whole thing smacked of the worst elements of Times Square and Hollywood Blvd., so we did not stay long. (But we do love neon, so more about that part of Vegas in my blog entry below.)
Tim (lower righthand corner) looking at all the neon and
ceiling projections
Mike in front of the Four Queens casino
Binion's casino
Typical "pouf" headdress worn by
Folies Bergère dancers
1960s costume (front)
And back
Men, as well as women, danced in the Folies
Greeno collection: memorabilia from the now-gone New Frontier hotel
Tiki items from the once fabulous Stardust hotel
Frontier hotel poster
When smoking was sexy: Tropicana hotel ashtrays
Desert Inn roulette wheel ashtray
Flamingo hotel: paper ephemera
Museum's permanent collection: old one-armed bandit slot machines
Saw this double rainbow as we were leaving Vegas
Good luck followed us back into California

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Regaining Lost Pride and Lost Hope
"And nothing to look backward to with pride and nothing to look forward to with hope." — Robert Frost
I am growing from, and getting over my sense of lost pride and lost hope. Often, my life seemed poisoned at the very source. I can't remember a time of innocence, joy, or confidence in myself or in my relationships with others. I was sexually abused when I was a young child. I know the pain from that abuse and the stress associated with "keeping the secret" made me feel unsure of my boundaries and re framed my view of the future to one of anxiety and dread. But things are in fact beginning to change, as I change.
To go forward, I have had to admit to powerlessness. That has been hard for me to do. I must admit that I am powerless to undo the hurt and abuse in my past. And I have learned that I can't "go it alone". I have been alone way too long! I have my "new and improved" Self, the Universe, and my close friends to trust and confer with.
I am overcoming my past and turning toward the future with growing hope and trust. And then the present, like the New Year, becomes filled with promise. For those that know me well, also know that this "re framing" was difficult and can share with me the joy in my ability to change my way of thinking.
Hope a Poem by Mark Schmitz
What Makes Our Kids Distrustful and Angry?
"A child miseducated is a child lost." – John F. Kennedy
So much money is spent on bombs and missiles and so little on education. With so many children in crowded classrooms and old buildings, with ill-trained and ill-paid teachers, it seems easier to destroy life than to nurture and strengthen it. I've thought a lot lately about what it was like for me as a child.
"Education" means leading out from … away from ignorance, defenselessness, anxiety and fear. In my childhood, I was educated in an environment which included neglect and abuse.
Childhood especially should be a time of growth and hope. When memories of childhood are tarnished, bitterness and resentment follow, and these in turn can lead to erratic or addictive behavior. I know what it was like to be pushed away, exploited, even seduced and abused. I hated it and it made me distrustful and angry.
Now that I'm on a path of personal growth and allowing more spirituality into my life, I feel the power of "education" as I learn to leave behind the ignorance, fear and pain of my childhood. I have come to feel the joy of nurturing myself and caring deeply for those around me. I want to be concerned with education as a way of overcoming ignorance, mistrust , isolation and fear.
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The Innocence of Children
"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies." — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Children feel themselves all-powerful in an infinite world. Nothing disappears, nothing passes away. In our earliest days, our pleasures were limitless and timeless. Reality was only an obstacle to gratification.
In our drama, we often remain fixed in a similar pleasure-oriented world. We don't like it when someone says "no" to us. We sometimes try to manipulate reality to suit our own purposes. We may look upon others as objects of gratification. In our fantasies, we often recreate the omnipotent, timeless world of childhood, where we are in total control. Our pleasures know no boundaries.
We need to stay childlike and full of wonder, but at the same time, we must put away those childish fantasies. We can be creative, without believing ourselves immortal or invincible. We can return to the kingdom of our earliest days without playing the little tyrannical ruler.
Remember the uniqueness of our own childhood and leave behind its self-centeredness. Love of others and love of life is the antidote to the narrow circle of our dysfunction.
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Desire Realized is Sweet to the Soul
"Desire realized is sweet to the soul." — Proverbs 13:19
Christmas is approaching. I can recall as a child, every Christmas Eve coming home from church and running up to the Christmas tree, seeing presents – mounds of them, four huge stacks, one for each sibling, towering as high as the top of the tree itself. But even with that kind of excess, one can still experience a lifetime of deprivation. If we were deprived as children, we may still live with emptiness inside. Of what were we deprived; love, security, validation, acceptance, caring, or compassion?
I know that I like many others compensated by learning to bear the deprivation and survive. As an adult, I find myself still surviving. I settle; I don't ask for things because I believe I don't deserve anything. But making do with life's crumbs has brought me to resentment, self-pity and feeling deprived. I remain a child, instead of becoming an emotionally healthy adult who feels competent and worthwhile.
I am learning where the balance is between wanting nothing and wanting everything. If I can continue to work on broadening my thinking to include such words as "plenty", "fulfillment", "pleasure", and "satisfaction", I know that only then will I start to believe there is enough of everything. It is then that I will become aware of the fullness of life around and within me. Living in the present helps me realize that I actually have everything I need in the moment.
This realization helps me feel worthwhile, competent – and even fulfilled. My prayer to the Universe today will be, "Please take away my fear of satisfaction and pleasure. Grant me an awareness of how good life is, whether it brings me what I expect."
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Needs That Have Gone Unmet
"No, this is not me; this is somebody else that suffers.
I could never face that, and all that has happened:
Let sackcloth and ashes enshroud it,
And see all the lamps are removed…
I am a person with needs. We are all people with needs. None of us are different in this. I suggest that we are not different when it comes to needs being met (or unmet) when we were younger. I am certain that for many of us, some of our important needs were not met when we were small children dependent upon a world of adults to care for us. Now we're adults, and the feeling of neediness has for many of us, become a chasm within us. And to make things harder, the child within us still feels ashamed because of our needs.
I have learned that even though my closest friend tries each day to make sure that my needs are met, I must help myself. The same holds true for my consideration when I hear my "Voice from within" wonder, "Am I meeting his/her needs?" Unless we help ourselves, our pain and shame will turn into rage, which only empties us, and we cannot run on empty forever, in trying to hide our own true feelings.
Our needs are real, and we have nothing for which to be ashamed. Whether through reaching out to others or whatever tool we gain along our path of personal growth and development, turning to that force which we believe to be greater than our own Self, or trusting any of our other inner resources while in quiet solitude, we can meet our own needs. Each day, I make every effort to be gentle with my "neediness". We don't have to be perfect after all, just real!
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I Accept All My Relationships As They Are
I Accept All My Relationships As They Are Today.
I Will Give Them My Best.
"Only one who listens can speak." – Dag Hammarskjöld
Inevitably, there will always be times in our life when a relationship becomes difficult. Maybe it's a friendship that has conflicts, a romantic relationship that suddenly, terrifyingly, starts to fall apart or family relationships, strained by years of unmet expectations, become cold and distant.
A shaky relationship can trigger one's fear of abandonment. That's when we feel torn between old, inappropriate interactions and any new tools for setting and maintaining healthy boundaries and one's commitment to living life as one chooses. What choices are available? Give up and run? Hang on, even though one may not want to? How honest should one be? What should be left unsaid, perhaps better shared with someone else? These are only some of the question we have to ask ourselves.
The wisdom gained through personal growth do nothing until one makes a choice, deciding the course of right action; what to do. All things, including relationships, are on the Universe's time continuum. Until – or when – we come to a decision, we can live each day going about our lives. All we can do is live each moment and give ourselves the love and nurturing we need until the difficulty finally comes to an end. The outcome may not be expected, but at last, with reality in our midst, we are ready to accept life and our relationships just as they are, now stronger to face our next challenge.
Fly Free!
A Short Story About a Butterfly
She was a beautiful butterfly and she belonged to someone now. Her delicate wings glistened in the light like stained glass windows in a cathedral. She sat on a little twig, her big dark eyes peering out at the world from behind the protection of her glass enclosure. She was happy. She was safe from the world, out there, content to live within the confines of her glass jar; days spent flying and fluttering about almost forgotten.
One day, a boy took the jar with the butterfly in it and carried it outside. "Butterflies should be free," he said. The butterfly wasn't so sure. She clung desperately to the twig, terrified of this sudden journey into the unknown world. When the boy got outside, he took the lid off, shook the jar and said, "Okay butterfly, fly free!"
But the little butterfly didn't want to fly free. She liked her safe little home inside the jar. She liked the twig upon which she perched. She liked the constant temperature of the air, the cool feel of the glass against her wings when she spread them wide. She did not want to fly free. The little boy became agitated. He shook the jar again and again until finally, realizing the butterfly was not going to come out, he threw the jar to the ground and smashed it into a thousand pieces.
Suddenly exposed to the chill of the air, the butterfly cried in terror. "What have you done? You've ruined everything!" The little boy didn't understand. The butterfly quivered on the grass, her wings shaking, her eyes tearing. She wouldn't move from the twig to which she clung. "Stupid butterfly," he said before turning his back and walking away.
The little butterfly watched him leave and wondered what on earth she was going to do now. Where would she go? How would she ever feel safe again? Just then a gentle breeze came up and stirred her wings.
"Who's there?" she asked.
"It's me. The Wind," a voice answered.
"The Wind you say? Come on, who are you – really?"
"I can be your friend," the Wind responded.
"Ha!" chirped the butterfly, her voice rising in condescension. "I don't need a friend. I need a glass jar."
"How do you know you don't need a friend? Have you ever had one?"
The butterfly didn't want to listen to the Wind. She wanted to climb back inside the security of the glass jar and be safe. "Go away! Leave me alone." The Wind didn't listen. He tickled her wings and ever-so-gently stroked her body. The Wind caused his gentlest breezes under and over her as he coursed through the air. "Stop that!" The butterfly cried. The Wind's friendly breezes were encouraging her wings to unfold.
She did not want her wings to unfold. She did not want to let go of the twig to which she still clung so fiercely. The Wind listened, but reasoned with the butterfly, explaining his many centuries on Earth and the experience he has gained with which he only wishes to do acts of kindness; his present act of kindness will benefit the butterfly greatly and bring great joy. With that, he grew stronger. He couldn't stop his swift breeze from naturally lifting the butterfly off the ground.
"What? What's happening?" she cried as the earth began to fall away. "Stop it! I'm scared." The Wind continued to ignore her cries as he carried her further and further away from the broken pieces of the glass jar that was once her home. He carried her to a garden of bright, brilliant colored wild flowers. Their velvety faces pointed up towards the sun, the colorful heads nodded in joy against the gentle caresses of the breeze as it carried the butterfly through their midst.
"Oh my gosh!" cried the butterfly. "Look at all the colors. What are they?" she asked as without thinking her wings began to move up and down by themselves and she began to flit among the multi-colored hues of the flowers. "They're your friends," the Wind whispered into her ear.
Suddenly, the butterfly realized she was flying. She stopped moving her wings up and down and landed with a plop on top of a flower. "Oh, sorry," she said as she struggled to gain flight again. The flower, a bright sunny, daisy with many arms smiled happily and replied. "Don't be sorry. You're helping me grow!"
Just then, another beautiful butterfly came flitting by. He saw the little butterfly struggling to lift off from the flower and settled on a petal close by. "Hi," he said, his eyes twinkling in the sun. "What's your hurry? How about sitting with me awhile?"
"Who are you?" the little butterfly asked, trying desperately to fold her wings into her body to avoid touching his.
"I'm a butterfly," he replied. "Just like you."]
"Hmm," the little butterfly thought for a moment as she digested this new information. "And you live out here?" "Where else would I live?" he asked. Growing tired of sitting around in the sunshine, he spread his magnificent wings and took flight. "Come on," he called back to the little butterfly who watched in awe as the sun caught his wings and cast beautiful colorful prism onto the ground. "Let's fly!"
The little butterfly looked around. Amidst the flowers hundreds of butterflies flitted joyfully among the flowers. Here and there a big fat bumblebee buzzed its way around as it busily gathered nectar for its hive.
The butterfly wanted to be like the other butterflies she could see around her. Carefully she unfurled her wings. She felt a tickle of breeze caress her skin. She felt her body lifting up. Leaving her fear behind her spread her wings and took to the skies. Beneath her, the glass shards of her forgotten jar glistened in the sun. In the distance, the little boy played ball with his dog while all around her the world revolved in magnificent splendor as she began to fly. She was free at last. Free to feel the Wind beneath the wings, as she moved beyond the memory of her glass jar into the big wide world around her.
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Cash in Colombia
almost 3 years ago about Colombia
Can we survive with just US Dollars on our visits to Cali and Cartagena?
If we need pesos, then how much local currency should we exchange so that we have pocket money on arrival?
Asked by malcolm grey via WorldNomads.com
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Hey Malcolm,
US dollars are very unlikely to be accepted, maybe in the airport. You should be able to take cash out of the ATM but otherwise exchange a few hundred for pocket money on arrival if you want to play it safe.
Pearse almost 3 years agoAnswered by Pearse via WorldNomads.com


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Hihi everyone!
Before I say anything else, Happy New Year Everyone!
And once again, sorry for being MIA for such a long time.
Hope that all of you enjoyed your holidays?
Ok! So today I would wanna share with you on my trip to Taiwan with my mom last November.
Well.. I seriously spent a lot of my time there travelling or just doing nothing thus I don't have much to share actually.
So, I'm just gonna summarize everything into one post!
So Day 1! Headed off to the airport with my mom early morning and after a few hours, we arrived in Taipei 桃园 Airport!
Took a cab to our hotel in 西门町, settled down then head out for early dinner.
Well, my mom seriously was not used to the short days during Autumn / Winter alright.
Went to this place for dinner as recommended by the taxi driver!
Yummy goose meat!
Paired with a simple bowl of noodles!
After dinner, we shopped around 西门町 and just exploring, checking out what's around the hotel before heading back at night to get some rest.
Got myself a bowl of 阿宗面线 for supper!
Well, I like the taste of this as compared to our Singapore's Shilin's. However, my mom think otherwise.
Day 2 morning, had some local Taiwanese food for breakfast!
Yes, camwhoring while waiting for food to be served.
And yea, I love my hat from WEGO!
With my mom!
And breakfast is served!
Yup, this is for the 2 of us.
After breakfast, we headed to 十分 as my mom wanted to go 放天灯
After more than an hour, we finally arrived in 十分!
Just love the old street in 十分! So pretty!
One of the four sides of my lantern!
After writing down your wishes, it's time to put it up into the sky!
And next is my turn!
Up, up, up you go!!!
Cutie mini lanterns that can be hung as decor at home or even accessories!
Not forgetting yummy street food!!!
Yummy chicken wings stuffed with fried rice!
Seriously, just ONE wing is enough for a meal.
After leaving 十分, we headed to.... somewhere that I forgot. LOL
Seriously didn't remember cos it was not supposed to be on our itinerary.
Found this little cafe in the shopping centre.
I have yet to watch the movie for the cafe alright.
Day 3, started out our day at StayReal Cafe!
As usual, camwhore a little while waiting for food to be served.
And my mom sits like a boss.
And food's served!
Seriously, I don't understand why my mom just can't keep sit when taking photos.
Photos forever blurr
Iced Banana Mocha!
My mom's cappuccino!
Egg Mayo and Smoked Salmon Waffle!
Super yummy!!!
Day 4, Chillax.
Decided to get chill around 西门町 area that day. Taking our last day slow.
Shopped around and caught a local movie before heading to 士林夜市 that night!
Finally! A photo with my mom's face clear!
Day 5, the day to head back to Singapore!
Didn't really got to do much that day as our flight was pretty early and many shops weren't open by the time we left the hotel.
Taiwan is a really nice place and I hope to go back, again, soon!


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|Fr. David Trask
|Fr. Trask was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Cleveland in June of 1986. His assignments, prior to his arrival at St. Patrick Parish in February of 2016, include:
♦ Ss. Cosmas & Damian Parish, Twinsburg: 1986-1991
In July of 2018, Fr. Trask was also named pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oberlin – while also remaining pastor of St. Patrick Parish.
|Deacon Dean (Dino) and Gabby Paoletta
Here's yet another "coincidence." As I've shared before, "coincidence" is when God wants to be integrally involved in a situation and yet remain totally anonymous.
When I first learned that Fr. Cole was granted permission to retire, I spoke with Fr. Schlegel (Secretary for Clergy and Religious) and indicated that the assistance of a permanent deacon would go a long way in assisting me fulfill pastoral duties and responsibilities in the my soon-to-be shared-pastorate with Sacred Heart Parish in Oberlin. Fr. Schlegel's first response was: "Well, we try to station deacons within 20 minutes of their home, and there aren't many deacons within that radius of Wellington."
Fast-forward about three weeks…. In today's mail (Monday, 3/26/2018), I received the attached letter from Bp. Perez officially appointing Deacon Dean (Dino) Paoletta as deacon at St. Patrick Parish. I would've announced Deacon Dino's appointment at Masses this past weekend, but I had no idea it was coming; I honestly didn't think I'd hear anything until the June appointments.
While some may chalk this up to the traditional definition of coincidence, I can only respond with: "Thank you, God!"
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Joe Abercrombie: Best Served Cold reread
Joe Abercrombie continues the prep for his new novel by rereading his old books. Next up: Best Served Cold:
Some background may be helpful. This was my fourth book, but in many ways my difficult second project, as Before They are Hanged and Last Argument of Kingsobviously continued with the same characters and plotlines as The Blade Itself. Plus it was the first book I started work on with books out there in the marketplace and therefore with (at least a little bit) of expectation from readers and critics. I'd writtenLast Argument of Kings in fourteen months, with relatively little blood, sweat and tears, and I expected this to be that little bit more straightforward again as I devoted more time to my writing, my craft improved and so forth. How wrong I was. Probably this was my most difficult book to write, I was crippled with doubts and worries about it pretty much from the start. It's hard to put myself in that mindset now, but I think I considered giving up on it a couple of times. Certainly the challenge of coming up with new characters, new voices, new locations, a new style of storytelling approach, on a schedule and with people waiting, was vastly much more difficult and pressurised than I'd expected. In the end it took about 20 months to write, I think, and for a great deal of that time I was deeply worried that it would turn out … let's say a little bit shit, and indeed that I'd never write anything as good as The First Law again. 'Well, not every book can be your best…' said with a mournful shrug of the shoulders was a frequent refrain of that time, as I recall.
Best Served Cold is my favourite of Joe's novels: it's blackly funny, surprising, nasty, uncompromising and, most of all, it has Monza, a female lead whose drawing almost makes up for the paucity of interesting women in the First Law trilogy.
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- Reporting to local Sheriff's Offices – A person convicted of a sex crime must register themselves by reporting in person to a local sheriff's office within 48 hours of being released from incarceration.
- Provide Personal Information for Online Registry – A person convicted of a sex crime must disclose a plethora of personal information that will become public record, such as; their name, date of birth, social security number, address, vehicle information, employment information, and fingerprints (among other things).
- Reregister Every Time You Move – A person convicted of a sex crime must reregister with the local sheriff's office by updating their address and personal information every time they relocate.
- Reregister Multiple Times a Year – A person convicted of a sex crime must reregister with a local sheriff's office up to four times a year, depending on the offense.
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- Kidnapping a Child under the age of Thirteen (FS 787.01)
- False Imprisonment of a Child under the Age of Thirteen (FS 787.02)
- Luring or Enticing a child under the Age of Thirteen (FS 787.025)
- Unlawful Sex with Certain Minors (FS 794.05)
- Lewd and Lascivious offenses upon or in the presence of a person less than 16 (FS 800.04)
- Computer Pornography
- Traveling to meet a minor (FS 847.0135))
- Procuring a Person under 18 for Prostitution (FS 796.03)
Failing to register or update personal information timely and in accordance with the law is a felony offense that would impose significant fines and more time incarcerated. If an individual has been released on probation or parole and violates and portion of Florida's registry law, they have violated the terms of their release.
Florida Sexual Offenders and Predators – Visit this website to access Florida's sexual offender/predator database published and maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which allows the general public to view information regarding sexual predators and sexual offenders throughout the State of Florida.
National Sex Offender Public Website – Visit this website to conveniently access information regarding all registered sex offenders within the United States, including both United States Territories and Native American Territories.
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To me, this is the perfect storm of sports happenings occurring over this weekend. There's something for everyone, and everything for some of us. For me, here's what I enjoy the most about it all:
- The Kentucky Derby is one of the best events to bet on, hands down. It doesn't matter that I know as much about horse racing as I do about crocheting, I get to act like a grizzled old man in a fedora who whispers to the horses for a day. And the scary part is, any one of us could make a large chunk of change. 3 Derby's ago, I hit a trifecta which paid out very handsomely. It is probably the 2nd or 3rd horse racing bet I've ever won in my life (making some at Monmouth Racetrack once in a while over the summer, and betting on the Triple Crown races), but my career record didn't matter that day. All that mattered was that I hit the big one. And now I think I can do it again. Naturally, I didn't, but I hit 3 out of 4 in my exacta bet last year (naturally because winning "just" another trifecta wouldn't quite have the same cache, would it?). So I go into this year with nothing more than my strategy of mixing favorites with underdogs, picking by trainer, and jockey, and then the never-failing practice of looking at which horse looks like a champion. That's right, show me the horse, I'll tell you if I see a winner. I look at Carmelo Anthony and no matter what team he plays on, he'll never be a winner. Why? Because I can see him, that's why. And he's no winner. Hey, don't mock me too hard it did win me a trifecta one year. Actually my buddies came up with a can't miss business idea for our strategy by starting a website called LookintheHorsesEyes.com and all we would do is show close-ups of all the eyes of the horses and make our predictions off that. Scary part is, we'd probably have a decent success rate. Look in that horse's eyes and you will find out quickly if you are looking at a Derby winner or not!
- The NFL Draft may very well be a male soap opera or the equivalent of a dude version of the Real Housewives, but damnit I don't care! It's the one day (now 3 days, actually) that every fan of every team can be optimistic. Most likely that optimism lasts all of 1 pick before you start screaming obscenities at the screen and throwing things, opining on what a better job we could do as the GM due to the five 30-second YouTube clips of film study we have done of a player. Nonetheless, it doesn't matter. There's intrigue (WHO will we pick?), drama (Trades!), scandal (wait…he failed a drug test the day before the combine???!!!), and of course 16 different talking heads throwing in their 2-cents. We have ESPN's 3rd rate production with more dead-air than a good morning Dutch-oven, and hissy fit fights between the housewives- I mean, McShay, Kiper, and Gruden. Watch for the look on Kiper's face when his 364 days of film study and Rainman-like memorization of a player's times to the 3rd decimal point are completely stepped on and trashed by Gruden's inevitable coach-speak about a guy's "urgent athleticism" or "burning desire to tackle". It just doesn't get any better than this.
- Pacquiao vs. Mayweather capping off Derby Day is something that should have most sports fans excited. Unfortunately for me, it does the opposite. Not only will I not be watching, but I also won't be giving anything resembling a crap about the fight at all, other than secretly hoping that Mayweather gets his head bashed in and retires (if reluctantly, even better) from fighting and any kind of media coverage forever. Besides being a despicable human being who has committed so many crimes that the only boxing he should be doing is the back of the shower in maximum-security facility, I think he has almost single-handedly ruined boxing. I used to LOVE boxing. I was a HUGE boxing fan. Guys like Mayweather, who has had all of 3 knockouts since 2005 (2 of them were TKOs), supposedly carried the weight of PPV "Superfights" leaving fans wondering after the final bell when the fight was going to start, are incapable of being the face of the sport. Not only is he the most unlikable human being I have seen, but he isn't even a good villain. I don't have to like a guy, but I frankly don't even care enough to want to see him lose. I know some will say I don't get the nuances of defensive strategy in boxing, or that I can't appreciate his true talent, but I'm predicting a snooze-fest between a guy who is more known for betting a half million bucks on a football game and another who is a better politician than fighter at this point in his career. Would you watch Bill Clinton in the ring against Phil Hemuth? Me neither. Ok, maybe I would actually watch that.
- Yankees vs. Red Sox happens to fall on this weekend, and even though it's very early in the season and doesn't quite carry the same cache that it used to, it's still one of the best rivalries out there. For me, it's a good filler between the Derby and Draft to keep the sports focus tight!
So pop open a cold one, or throw a couple whiskey stones in a rocks glass and tip one (or a couple) up while enjoying some great sports action!


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'Noticeboard' is a brand new section making its debut in Cycling Weekly magazine this week (March 4 issue). Situated after the Rides section, it contains a host of information on the coming week's cycling events.
In Noticeboard you will find a listing of the week's big races; events to go and watch; cycling-on-TV listings; cyclo-sportive entry updates; and even event headquarter changes.
Club profiles are back, so you can see who is close to you to ride with – or check up on a rival club! And you can find out what the top British pro riders and teams are up to in the 'where are they riding' section.
If you would like your event or updates to feature on Cycling Weekly's Noticeboard, then please email email@example.com with at least 12 days' notice.
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City Manager Cindy Rohlf has announced her selection of Jeffrey S. "Jeff" Johnson for the position of Newport News Fire Chief. Johnson currently serves as Fire Chief for Salinas, California. In his new role, he will be responsible for an annual operating budget of more than $34 million, 11 stations, and a staff of 380.
City Manager Cindy Rohlf said, "Jeff has a wealth of experience in fire and emergency medical services as well as emergency management and will be a tremendous asset to our City and our citizens. We are delighted to have him lead the extraordinary men and women of our nationally and internationally recognized Fire Department."
"I am excited and humbled to be joining the Newport News Fire Department," Johnson said. "I look forward to working side by side with the men and women serving our community. The greatest asset of any organization is the people, and I will work hard every day to ensure they have the tools, skills, and safety they need to protect our citizens and visitors."
Johnson has over 30 years of increasingly responsible experience in EMS and fire service. He began his career in 1988 with the Grandview (Mo.) Fire Department as firefighter and paramedic. He moved to the Kansas City (Mo.) Fire Department where he progressed through the ranks from firefighter to Deputy Fire Chief before being named Fire Chief for the City of Salinas. Johnson has served as an adjunct college instructor in disaster management and fire science and has authored several publications for industry organizations.
Johnson holds an associate's degree in Fire Science from Metropolitan Community College of Kansas City, a bachelor's degree in fire management from Columbia Southern University and a master's degree in public administration from American Public University. Additionally, he has earned the Chief Fire Officer (CFO) certification from the Center for Public Safety Excellence as well as the National Fire Academy's Executive Fire Officer (EFO) certification.
He will begin his new position on February 25 with an annual salary of $170,000.


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For immediate release - May 17, 2007
(DALLAS) — Dr. Wright Lassiter, chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District, will deliver opening remarks during a special higher education seminar presented by BKM Total Office of Texas — a Dallas-based office furnishings company — on Thursday, June 28, at BKM's corporate offices, located at 9755 Clifford Drive, Suite 100, in Dallas. During the seminar, BKM also will announce the 2007 recipient of a scholarship they established last year to honor the DCCCD chancellor: the Dr. Wright Lassiter Jr. BKM Scholarship, which is administered by the DCCCD Foundation.
Lassiter will present the $2,500 scholarship to a deserving DCCCD student during the conference at 9:30 a.m. The seminar will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. BKM's one-day program targets facilities managers, university deans, architects, designers, information technology professionals and human resources managers.
Interested DCCCD students who would like to apply for the scholarship:
Preference will be given to students who do not qualify for PELL grants but who have financial need.
DCCCD, the largest undergraduate institution of higher education in Texas, serves more than 64,000 credit and 25,000 continuing education students each semester. The district includes seven individually accredited colleges — Brookhaven, Cedar Valley, Eastfield, El Centro, Mountain View, North Lake and Richland — plus the Dallas TeleCollege and several additional locations.
BKM Total Office of Texas provides workplace furniture and related services throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area. BKM is a certified HUB dealer and Women Owned Business Enterprise; its products, breadth of services and experienced team enable the company to provide creative, comprehensive furniture solutions that work within any budget. BKM's clients include DCCCD, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Bank of America, SBC, Verizon, the University of Texas at Arlington, UT-Dallas, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Southern Methodist University and Baylor University.
For more information about the scholarship, contact Ella Shaw, scholarship coordinator for the DCCCD Foundation, at (214) 860-2149. For details about BKM, contact Andy Vanderveer, director of marketing, at (214) 902-7206.# # #
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When it comes to Christmas, I'm a romantic. In my part of the country, snow is rare, especially on Christmas Day. The trees in my yard are almost never frosted with snowflakes, and there are no ponds to skate or hills to sled. While gardeners in other parts of the country dream of a white Christmas, I have to settle for a green one.
That's not always bad. Northern friends hoot with laughter at my Hallmark card fantasies about sleigh rides and jingle bells. They say I can have their winter, with its icy streets and snowdrift-covered cars.
But still.
There's something about Christmas that brings out the dreamer in a lot of us. Maybe I can't make snow angels, but at least I can find the perfect fresh-cut holiday tree–the one that looks like Christmas, feels like Christmas, and smells like Christmas.
You know that smell. It's a peppermint stick melting in a mug of hot chocolate and gingerbread baking in the oven. It's the fragrant smoke from a wood-burning fireplace and the piney scent of a fresh-cut tree.
Different trees have distinctive scents. Crush the needles of a Douglas fir, and you'll catch a sweet, subtle fragrance. White firs and Grand firs give off a whiff of citrus. Balsam trees, which grow primarily in the northeast, are among the most aromatic. Noble firs are very fragrant, too. There are even trees that allergy sufferers can enjoy, like Leland Cypress, which don't produce sap and thus have little odor.
Recently I spoke to a couple of Home Depot elves who visited Bottomley Evergreens, a Christmas tree farm in Ennice, N.C. (Visit the tree farm yourself, and meet our associate BostonRoots. Bet you didn't know elves wore orange aprons.)
Mitchell Bottomley, who owns Bottomley Evergreens, took time from his busy schedule to talk to our elves, Grow2Girl and BostonRoots, about how Bottomley's trees are harvested, baled, and loaded onto trucks for distribution. His Fraser firs are arriving in Home Depot stores around the country now.
Mitchell says his favorite part of his job is watching the tiny seedlings grow into beautiful seven-foot-tall trees, and knowing that customers are happy when they decorate their annual Christmas tree at home. "It takes twelve years," he says, "for a seed to grow into a 6 to 7 foot tree." He and his family decorate with white lights and ornaments his children have made over the years.
If you've got room for more than one tree this year, you don't have to choose a favorite. But if you're torn between different kinds of trees, our little quiz, below, can help you decide. Which statement best describes you?
A. I've got a collection of large or heavy Christmas ornaments.
B. My ornaments are lightweight or made of glass.
C. Fragrance matters to me. When I come home, I want to know it's Christmas as soon as I open the door.
D. I love Christmas trees, but who wants to vacuum up all those needles?
E. I don't want to take down my tree. Ever.
If you picked A, consider a Noble or Fraser fir. Noble firs have strong, evenly spaced branches that can handle heavy decorations, and their upturned needles are long-lasting. Their branches make great wreaths and garlands.
If B describes you, try a Douglas fir. It's a full, dense tree with soft, fine needles, and it's a good choice for lightweight or glass ornaments. Douglas firs have a blue-green color and a wonderful smell.
If you chose C, look for a Balsam fir, a tree found in the northeastern U.S. These dark green, aromatic trees have excellent needle retention.
If you said D— any fresh-cut tree will shed some needles, and so will most live ones. Your best bet is a long-lasting artificial tree or a plant that you can decorate, like a Norfolk Island Pine. After the holidays, you can remove the decorations and enjoy them as houseplants.
And if you picked E, there is a tree you don't have to toss or take down. You can plant a live tree from the Home Depot Garden Center instead, and enjoy it for years to come!
After The Holidays: Recycle Your Christmas Tree
Some Home Depot stores can recycle your Christmas tree for you after the holidays, helping save space in our landfills. Watch your local ads for information on whether your store has this program. You can find other good uses for it, too:
- If you have a mulching machine, turn your tree into wood chips for your garden. Don't have one? Use your pruners to cut the limbs from the trunk and layer them as mulch on garden beds.
- Save some of the fragrant tree needles for potpourri or sachets.
- If you have a pond or lake, sink your tree in it to provide shelter for fish and other aquatic life.
- Make your tree into a feeding station. Hang suet cakes for birds (but watch for marauding squirrels or raccoons.)
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Tariff of 1894
William L. Wilson of West Virginia, head of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced a far-reaching tariff reform bill. It added a number of items to the free list, including sugar, lumber, coal and wool. Further, the duties on imported manufactured goods would be reduced while maintaining their protective nature.
To compensate for the revenue shortfall that tariff reform would create, Wilson�s bill called for the imposition of a two percent income tax, an idea recently heralded by the Populists.
The Wilson bill passed the House and moved on to the Senate where protectionist forces under A.P. Gorman of Maryland went to work. They managed to attach more than 600 amendments to the measure, which destroyed its reform intent. The domestic sugar industry was one of the prime benefactors, since a whopping 40 percent duty was applied to foreign sugar.
In the end, both the House and President Cleveland surrendered to the Senate�s will. The resulting Wilson-Gorman Tariff offered slight reductions in the overall average rates, an improvement over the McKinley Tariff, but not an example of tariff reform.
Cleveland�s lack of involvement hurt his reputation. He had campaigned on tariff reform, but allowed the bill to become law without his signature. The president rationalized that Wilson-Gorman was better than McKinley and so decided against a veto.
The income tax provision survived and became law. In 1895, however, the Supreme Court ruled the tax unconstitutional.
The Populists of the South and West labored under the disadvantage of a high protective tariff and, after the court decision, became convinced that the judicial system was working hand-in-glove with big business.
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About the same time, I found an hexagon quilt-along organised by Julie of Jaybird Quilts. So I started sewing strips in pair, before cutting them in triangles and playing around with the layout as shown in her blocks.
August 2013 because of a blog hop for hexagons. And at the time, I thought I would be able to quilt and finish it by the following month.... well no quite!
Quilted with Aurifil 4650.
This is the first of my Q1 Finish Along List.
Linking to Needle and Thread Thursday and Whoop Whoop Friday.


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But where is the outrage from Congress? Where is the concern, the solidarity, for one of their own being illegally detained and thrown into prison? This literally makes me ill.
Not that it will matter much in the greater scheme of things, I decided to write to the President about this. That short letter is available to be viewed by the public. It looks kind of cool the way they do it, which may be my greatest reward for taking the time to attempt to ask our nation's leader to do the right thing.
If they want to ignore reality I guess they will. But I cannot.
Here's the link if you're interested.


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Earlier today I blogged (rather extensively) on my take of the news. You can find those comments posted here - Corporate Espionage and Tethered Criminal Actions - and copied below...
The media is buzzing with the latest news concerning Google and Adobe and the targeted attacks directed at their corporate systems. While it's news, it's important to understand that this isn't something that's only just happened – rather it's been something that both these organizations (and dozens more) have been subjected to for quite some time; it's just become public, and they're admitting to be the victims. But this is important.
I've been providing security consultancy advice for a couple of decades. I've been pulled in to do post attack forensics along with specialized pentesting, bug-hunting and reverse engineering for the majority of the Fortune 500 companies and in all that time, unless they were required to by law, not one have gone public about the attacks they were subjected to and the losses they have incurred. That's why this Google/Adobe/etc. news is so significant – some Fortune-500 companies are actually saying "hey, enough already, we're under constant attack – we need to do something collectively about this!"
Whats the primary vehicle for these (ongoing) attacks? You'll hear plenty of discussion portraying viruses and malware as being the problem, and plenty of implications that the Chinese government lies behind the attack(s). But let's be clear – that's a fantastically simplistic view of the threat. Implying that the threat lies with targeted malware and China is like saying that drunk driving deaths are due to poor car design, and that the underlying cause is a particular beer brewery.
Malware is just a tool. The fundamental element to these (and any espionage attack) lies with the tether that connects the victim with the attacker. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), like their bigger and more visible brother "botnets", are meaningless without that tether – which is more often labeled as Command and Control (CnC).
The methods for getting a malware agent into an organization and on to key/critical hosts are incredibly diverse but, most importantly, can best be phrased as "trivial". If someone wants to infect systems within a targeted organization and is willing to spend more than a few thousand dollars worth of effort to do so, it'll happen – simple as that. Just as importantly, the malware being distributed and used in these kinds of attacks can be thought of as a Swiss Army knife with Klingon cloaking capabilities.
I jest only in part about the Klingon cloaking part – but it actually works well as a visual metaphor. Just as the Klingon Warbirds must decloak in order to launch their attack with photon torpedoes etc., APT's and botnets must decloak themselves at the network level in order to maintain their CnC connections and be successful in harvesting espionage data. While APT's are more surreptitious when it comes to CnC connectivity, their weakness lies in their network communications. At the host level, the probability of detecting an installation prior to actual financial/legal damage lies largely in the realm of dragons and mermaids.
Looking at the botnets we identify and track at Damballa that target enterprise networks, many of them fall in to the classification realm of APT's. The malware component is under constant change – often being updated on a daily basis. Meanwhile the low-and-slow stealthy CnC traffic navigates the corporate network, weaves it's way through fast fluxing networks and stratified levels of command relays, and makes it back to the team who's really in control of the compromised assets – a bunch of contracted criminals located somewhere safe and far away. I use the term "team" on purpose because this is an organized collective of professional operators – each with their own skills and specialties.
I see a lot of discussions about preventing systems from being compromised – in fact most of the security business today is exclusively focused on threat prevention. But, you know what, every year (for the last two decades at least) as antivirus vendors release their annual threat reports the percentage of hosts known (or suspected) of being a victim and running malware has increased. As we launch in to 2010, I think the percentage most industry experts and veterans would throw about would be 35-40 percent of all Internet connected systems are compromised and currently running malware. Despite the terrific advances in detection, mitigation and cleanup – the numbers continue to go up. Despite the new detection technologies, the bad guys retain their lead. APT's related malware lie in a particular niche, but they aren't being prevented from getting in to an targeted organization. Let's just face facts – if someone wants in on your organization and are willing to invest time and resources to do so, the probability that they will be successful in doing so certainly favors them.
Detecting and mitigating the CnC – breaking that tether of control – lies at the heart of dealing with this threat. By blocking those CnC channels, the bad guys can't remotely control your enterprise systems, and they can't extract the secret data they want. Tracing back who lies at the end of the CnC communication ultimately leads to he contracted criminals running the operation. The fact that those criminals happen to be located in a particular country is only part of identifying the instigators of the threat – but it's probably as far as we'll get.
Like I said earlier, I've had to deal with many of these threats before. In the UK, it appeared that many of the corporate espionage attacks were masterminded by French or US entities. In Taiwan it appeared to be China and South Korea. In China it appeared to be Taiwan and Australia. In Greece it appeared to be Turkey and Egypt. And so on… but those are only my specific experiences. [unfortunately, not a single corporate victim ever went public about the attacks they fell victim to - and probably never will... sigh]
With regards to the APT's and botnets that Damballa tracks, detects and mitigates… well, those CnC's are spread around all over the world and most likely reflect the locations of the professional teams that contract out there services, rather than the location of their their ultimate customers.
My advice to organizations being targeted with APT's, botnets and unauthorized remote control of corporate resources? Focus on the network CnC – and mitigate there. By all means protect your perimeter and clean up your hosts – that'll keep the unsophisticated script-kiddies and rif-raf off your systems – but it means very little to the pros. Success in dealing with this threat – the threat that Google, Adobe, and most global businesses (and governments) face constantly – is to identify which assets are currently compromised and "nuke-and-pave" them asap. I.e. identify systems that are trying to connect to their remote CnC, immediately cut that tether, and rapidly rebuild that system from a known good state (which is increasingly looking like a bare-metal state). If you can get that notification-to-rebuilt process down to 20 minutes or less, you'll be in a good position to deal with this class of threat long term. Until then, you're just messing around at playing detective.


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New Funding Awards for Translational Research in Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Disorders
The University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation (UC CAI), a collaboration of the five UC medical campuses focused on accelerating the translation of UC discoveries to benefit patients with heart, lung and blood diseases, invites applications from UC investigators who propose to advance highly innovative early-stage drugs, devices and diagnostics toward commercialization. Learn more at http://uccai.ctsi.ucla.edu/
- Award: Up to $200,000 for two years. Includes project management and product development mentoring
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Harold Ancart
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
Sébastien Bonin
Mon Colonel & Spit
Audrey Cottin
François Curlet
Alice De Mont
Eric Fabre
Vincent Geyskens
Renaud Jerez
Gabriel Kuri
Valérie Mannaerts
Lucy McKenzie
Julien Meert
Sophie Nys
Marina Pinsky
Oriol Vilanova
Leen Voet
Studio visit by Pauline Hatzigeorgiou
In the fall of 2012, while he is invited to exhibit along with young Spanish artists at Elisa Platteau, Oriol Vilanova discovers Brussels, its atmosphere, artistic endeavors, and flea market. After a few strolls in this emblematic venue of the Place du Jeu de Balle the decision to settle in the city becomes clear to him. The work of the artist, a native of Barcelona, develops then for five years, and yet a constancy stands out. Through a variety of media and heterogeneity of procedures, Oriol Vilanova demonstrates his commitment to the concept of staging – "mise en scène". As when he scrupulously sorts the elements of his installations or arranges theatrical works that shape his fictions, he seems captivated by the persistence of a narrative framework where he likes to reveal the most implicit resurgences. In this regard, the museum provides him with a genuine medium of expression. There he exhibits his series of gleaned postcards, alludes to its mediation devices, interprets, or directs his performances... Contrasting with the museum space that represents the fixation of time, the flea market he visits with an (almost) obsessive rituality, is one of oblivion.
"Because this is where it all begins" - the flea market as an appendix to the studio - our interview divides between these two spaces. By opening the doors of his studio - his apartment actually – the artist shows me the genesis of some of his productions, and with this, a working method closely regulated. In this space with immaculate white walls, bathed in light and equipped with a meditative sobriety, Oriol Vilanova appears to be like a taxonomist. Among the items on the shelves that mark the two places of work and residence, overlooking the books and archives, a furtive glance discerns some works of art, as the "Old Time" sign, or auxiliaries of some others, as with the inscription "Sold Out". Everything takes its place and each of these objects, which we imagine to have been collected on one or the other shop, tells its story. In this workshop, the time scales are intertwined; theatricality dominates.
Pauline Hatzigeorgiou
Your approach, and many of your installations such as
Repetition is a Base
which are arranged with postcards, have been deployed around the principle of repetition. We perceive the reverberations of a repetitive act - the way you gather the items forms the base of these works in the subject framed by the postcards. Facing them, the viewer can't help but read the repetition conveyed within the images. Wouldn't there be a successive inquiry of
mises en abyme
that ties the small narrative of the postcards to the history they reveal?
Oriol Vilanova
Yes, repetition is also emphasized by the size of the cards. The flea market is really the foundation of my work, and if I am so interested in it, it's not only for the material that I find. It is a space, which has a very strong theatricality, and this is essential to me. There are the characters that I observe and meet. The transactions are also very codified as if they were scripted. I particularly like the way objects are displayed. The market is a theater. The theater, as a form of writing too, allows me to develop topics that remain hidden in the image archives. For example, faced with the installation of triumphal arches [
], we come to the question of heritage conservation. In the end, these small stories that lie dormant in each postcard, stories that have become illegible, are revealed through the fiction of theater.
It is interesting that the theatricality of the market provides you with a narrative source for works that then enter the museum, a space where the
mise en scène
is obviously central. Between these two places, there are two connections to the past that oppose each other. On one hand, the flea market in which the past is buried, on the other, the museum that preserves it. By transposing the first into the second, it's as if you interfere with the forgetting of a silent past and reactivate the present that preserves it.
The flea market is a place of defeat. Unlike the museum, where every object is accompanied by a detailed history and by the small text of the label, the flea market is a place where all is forgotten, where subtitles are blurred. We don't know the images, stories, ... and it's precisely this that interests me. I love working from this material, with a narrative that ultimately doesn't look so much into the past but more as to how these objects from the past, who have lost their memory, can tell the present.
The collection then makes sense because it bridges the past and the present. How does your collection come to be?
I have been collecting for a long time. Even before the vocation of becoming an artist. I started as a collector of images, editions, strange things, without the idea of having to show them one day. The things that interested me have not really changed. The purchase system was there, but I had no classification system.
Do you create, or do you rather feed your collection from anonymous collections?
Very often, in fact, what you find at the flea market, are collections that belonged to people. When you open a box, you enter the history of a family. The reason for its presence in this place is death, and the refusal of relatives to keep this collection. The images are classified to the taste of the collector. I completely ignore the individuality of the collection. I do not read the text on the back of the postcards. I am only interested in the pictures that I have to disorganize first, and then re-organize, to form my own collection.
These findings, which are the result of chance, enter then a well-established classification system. Looking at this shelf on which your files are arranged, a carefully organized passion shines through, like the one of a philatelist. Can you tell me more about your method of selecting postcards, and this classification system?
Chance is very present throughout the process. Or rather the subconscious. For me, the notion of the collection is closely linked to the act of thinking with the images and through them. The images choose me, and not the opposite. At the market, I flip through the cards, very quickly. It's my eye that selects them instinctively, at first sight. Back at the studio comes the classification step. First, there are series that are established and that I complete, as the triumphal arches, the interiors of museums, flags, double, reflections, swans, doors, sunsets ... There are also potlatches I collect for other artists, such as the series of Niagara Falls that I will send to Zoe Leonard someday. Finally, there is this, which I rarely show. These are the
Unclassifiable Rarities
. In reality this is where it all begins. In this space I put the cards purchased in the morning, in chronological order of acquisition. Then, I spend a lot of time looking at them. I turn the pages over and over again. When I see a repetition in an image or theme, I tell myself that something is happening, and there I choose. Making this choice takes time. Once it's there, I can start building combining, consolidating. The thought that was implied at first takes shape and becomes explicit through repetition.
The aspect of process is fundamental. As indicated in the title of your portfolio, "A collection is forever unfinished", your approach is rooted in a transient present. Moreover, many works are indicated as "ongoing". Let's take the work
(2000 - Ongoing) for example, where an immeasurable number of triumphal arches postcards are arranged; doesn't it resemble a show played in the museum?
I think that the notion of a collection is always an unachievable thing. I like the idea that the work remains alive. I am interested in work that has no end. Because when you close the archive, or the collection, it instantly becomes a mausoleum. I looked for a method that allows the collection to stay alive in a natural way. The installation copies are the result of such an attempt. The work is now part of the collection of the MACBA. It is stored in a public institution and is intended to be exhibited in its galleries. The work is still ongoing, and I regularly send triumphal arches postcards to complete it.
So you're the curator of your installation?
Yes, absolutely. This is a collection of triumphal arches, but the images aren't classified by city or date. Depending on the time you spend looking at it, other series appear. One can recognize a series of dictators, a series of red lights... For example, these are Soviet triumphal arches before and after Stalin. He had indeed demanded their destruction but after his death, they decided to rebuild them. There are stories within the story. It's funny because in this case the sole function of the triumphal arch is the symbol. It is a formal monument that emerges in Rome and is perpetuated since. The monument itself is a copy, and the installation, a copy of the copy.
By repeating this form, we can see the signifier detach itself from the signified. You deconstruct the function of architecture. The latter is very present in your approach - you are also an architect. With the series
Repetition is a Base Question
, you proceed to crop postcards with statues so that our stare focuses on the pedestals, the passers-by, the details. In doing so, it is ultimately the social dimension of the monument that gets affirmed, this social dimension that is also central to the "postcard" as an object. What do you think?
Yes, the repetition of the triumphal arch allows us to create a distance with the symbol, an analysis of it in contemporary society. It is true that the postcard causes a similar distance because it is obsolete. Due to this time difference, we no longer have the keys to understanding their history. I am also interested in the passing that this item undergoes through, which is initially produced serially, but when I find it, it has become unique. It has been altered. It has lived. I like to stage the history of the object, to discover what it can transmit.
Doesn't this accumulation of images also seek to strike the affect of the viewer?
Yes. Here are some cards that complete the
Sunsets from...
series - an accumulation of sunsets I file in relation to the color spectrum. I collect cards that have no human trace, where the sun is framed in a natural environment. It becomes pure abstraction. It could be anywhere, everywhere and nowhere at once, even if every place claims to have the most beautiful sunset [laughs]. A sunset in the popular imagination is positive, it's beautiful, but when you are confronted with the repetition of this image, it becomes post-apocalyptic.
In addition to the narrative that springs instantly to the reading of the image, a narration that is accentuated when multiple images are combined, the concept of off-screen seems very present in your work. Let's take
One hundred and fifty
for example, which consists of an edition of 150 postcards of caves with the sentence "The Collection Will Be Complete with the other 149 postcards" stamped on the back. The reader is again faced with an inability to cope with the completion of the work.
It's funny that you bring up this notion because it is precisely the title of a current project:
Hors Champ - Off Screen
. To explain it in a few words, I am very interested in the fascist past, the links it has with our present. I picked the monument to Franco,
Valle de los Caido
s, his mausoleum actually. It is a huge building located in the middle of nature. I asked myself what to do with it, destroy it or preserve it? I am interested in its habitat because it is an environment that offers an extraordinary diversity of plants and animals. I would like to make a film that would give the animals a voice since they were there before, during and after the construction of the mausoleum. It would be a fictional wildlife documentary, focusing on the off screen. The presence of the architecture would be made by its absence to the camera, and the story would be kind of timeless, in the manner of
La disparition
of Perec where absence intensifies presence.
From accumulation we arrive to the impossibility of the image. Moreover, in your theater work, the concept of emptiness is very strong. Doesn't this absence of your own theatrical work seep into your visual productions?
Yes, two of my theater pieces are completely iconoclastic [see
They cannot die
]. There is no picture. I like to go from iconography to iconoclasm. From the large collection of images to their demise because I believe it is the same subject that translates from one space to the other. And, in the theater pieces, it is obvious. The exhibition spaces are empty. There is the disappearance of the museum, the disappearance of the works. The viewer raises the question: if the museum disappears, the originals will no longer exist. The copies would then take over.


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