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Here are some recent conversations of note with many comments and insights. Check them out! Lots of intelligent, insightful thoughts from educators around the world.
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16 Quality Principles to Guide Implementation of Competency-Based EducationDecember 30, 2018 by Chris Sturgis
If you are just starting out or are midway in your process of making the transition to personalized, competency-based education, please take the time to read Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education. If you are in planning stages, be sure to read the first section, which is a primer on competency-based education including the flaws in the traditional system. It's important to understand the problems with the traditional system so you can think about what you need to stop doing as well as what you want to put into place.
The best way to read Quality Principles for Competency-Based Education is either by purchasing the book or printing out the quality principles one at a time. Take the time to write down your questions, engage your peers in conversation about whether you think the quality principle makes sense in terms of helping students to learn, and what you have in place that you can build upon. This isn't an implementation guidebook, as schools chose different entry points and roll-out strategies. Instead, it's designed to help you make the shift in thinking from the top-down, time-based traditional system to the empowered, flexible system that is designed to make sure that every student is able to succeed and make progress toward college- and career-ready knowledge and skills. (more…)


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I've written about Christian Fletcher before, and I will never, ever get sick of his old logo, which manages to be both an act of visual rebellion as well as a time capsule for the day glo SoCal surf scene of the 1980s and 1990s. This is an interesting example of a Fletcher board, as apparently it was shaped by pioneering Aussie shaper Nev Hyman, who founded what would later become Firewire Surfboards. The other Fletcher boards I've seen have been signed by California shapers like Randy Sleigh and Chris McElroy. This board was posted to the excellent Vintage Surfboard Collectors group on Facebook; click through the link for the rest.
Via Vintage Surfboard Collectors (Note: it's a closed group, so you'll have to request access).
Finally, here's a bonus shot of Fletcher — pre-tattoos! — and a McElroy shape.
Ryan Lovelace is a talented shaper based in Santa Barbara. He posted this picture below recently, which shows an early George Greenough sailboard with an edge board design. Edge boards have come into vogue lately, thanks to shapers like Marc Andreini (Andreini), Manny Caro (Mandala), and Scott Anderson (Anderson).
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SB time capsule :: one of the earliest uses of carbon fiber and epoxy in surfboard construction, a personal sailboard of George Greenough's. Easy to see the progression in his work from velo to triplane/edge spoons and into a search for extreme speeds on sail boards. This one decently early on, with a clear lineage in design between his spoons and high speed sailboards. We can put this one on the list of things I thought I'd never have in the back of my car. Big thank you to Guerdon and Charlie for their time and for sharing their stories with me ✌🏻
Speaking of neon boards from the 80s and 90s, I'll never, ever get sick of old Channel Islands boards. This guy on Instagram posts a bunch of sweet boards, and he has a collection of vintage Merricks that makes me sick with envy. Check out his feed for more.
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Thanks @mums7873 for putting me onto another white CI. Just what I needed! Probably shoulda scraped the stomp pad glue and cleaned it up for the pics but first we gotta wax her up and see how she goes @thevintagesurfboard @roberthelphand . #vintagesurfboard #channelislands #channelislandssurfboards #cifever #80sneon #80s #almerrick #lajollasurfsystems #lajolla #malibu #balconyview #dayglow #surf #surfer #surfing #santabarbara #santabarbarasurf #californiaboard #arisboards
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Disco boys on bicycles.
So what if too many times we have been here, both
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Criticism. Essay. Fiction. Science. Weather.
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Getting interrogative with the Dark Continent
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The author displays his clothes in piles on his bedroom floor. And 1,000,000 Rhode Islanders can't be wrong.
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Personal Parties and Friend Finders considered
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We feel their pain.
What the American media doesn't
want you to know about the Tour.
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The Honeymooners
the preschool set; plus, pain as upper.
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building's ecological ethic is?
That building is whispering
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has already been leaked.
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And underrated.
90ways' investigators go into the field.
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See it again, whether you want to or not.
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New words for the new year.
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The Hoax Report returns. And Canada beats Team USA. (That last part's actually true.)
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Space and Worlds and
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One giant vehicle is for war,
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One and a half years of Ways.
The smell of pigskin is in the autumn air.
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Am I my brother's keeper?
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What makes America great
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Fanboy hand-wringing. Shocking.
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If Camp is the Pagan Savior of the B Horror, this Film is Dreadfully Puritan.
Sara Schieron
Susan Sontag
wrote that naïve camp
is more satisfying than self-aware camp, and in some cases, camp can actually raise the bad up from the floor. Having it's own aesthetic sensibilities, camp is not easily distinguished from poorly constructed films. Occasionally, films are fortunate enough to enter into camp by way of their poor construction and certain fetishistic detail. Sadly, I must report: there is no camp to save
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary
Farfetched death #1: The many uses of our genitals.
Truly, its absence of camp is suspicious, as the
Urban Legend
films are based on the premise of audience awareness and as such are filled with their own brand of seldom-clever tongue in cheek. What the film does accomplish, by way of clearly efficient plot points, is the inclusion of a series of symbolic traits that stand as legendary references for the concept of
Bloody Mary
Note the vaginal gash and white sweater mimicking bridal veil.
Beginning with the origin story of their local Mary Banner, the audience is summoned from the flashback by the film's teenage pajama-clad protagonist. Curious (as nubile girls tend to be) the girls intone the name of Bloody Mary. Nothing happens and the girls go to sleep. Mysteriously, the three girls are abducted in the night from their slumber party. When the protagonist's brother finds out that the culprits are none other than the three most recognized football players in the high school, the characters learn that local history is repeating itself.
A Sony Home Entertainment release, this picture is proof that B pictures are still made the old fashioned way: by those with money. And perhaps this is the disease that caused the film's symptomatic malady.
Farfetched death #2: Burned by the grotto. One of the film's many sacred canals.
Symbolically, the film is a veritable
Da Vinci Code
. Like any other cautionary tale, the coding both damns and favors the
. Proof of death is seen in phallic terms, and total absence (absence often referred to in the process of storytelling) is its feminine counterpart. Though it contains rapist allusions and some scrambled porn, the world of the film is interestingly devoid of sex. Even the pornography, which is mostly heard, (the man sounds bored with fake pleasure [think Ron Jeremy] and the woman squeals as if wounded) is wholly disinteresting to the soon-dead, 40-swilling, football player who watches it. Cleverly, the origin story includes veiled allusions to unwanted sex. When Mary is drugged and struggling with her homecoming date, her assailant says, "Mary, it's just a little prick". And that's the last thing
Mary hears. Following this, Mary dies by way of a device that looks strikingly like a chastity belt.
The vaginal wound on the rapist's hand, juxtaposed to the lock that keeps Mary a virgin into the afterlife.
Directed by Mary Lambert, the production design of the film features copious canal like passageways, which the camera penetrates like a jock after his first generic six-pack. And though this suggests some cleverness on the part of the director, the making-of featurette dispels any suspicion that she was "in on the trick".
I wanted so badly to find the film a brilliant ode to this puritanical cautionary tale. And to an extent it was. The writers had some ideas about the connotation of the legend ( to name a few: Mary's virginity, her reason for violence, or the "place" her victims go) and that is what makes you want to keep watching. To an extent, viewing the reprisal of these mythic stories constructs a new mythology, and that part of the urban legacy is marvelous. But sadly, this film is about as exciting as the fake scrambled porn it features, and I was left feeling about as excited as the soon-dead jock, but unluckily, without the beer.
Getting out of the Park
Judson Merrill
Somewhere in Los Angeles Tony Okun means well. Cinematically, he does almost nothing else well.
Okun's documentary is every bit an independent production, the work of one man that I would call a labor of love if it seemed anyone had actually labored over it. Instead,
The Park
been put together from a few weekends of mini-DV footage and released to the world through
DVD-pressing services
and Netflix. The good news here is that soon it will be as easy to make and release your own film as it is your own album. The bad news, of course, is most of the product will doggedly subscribe to the Terrible school of filmmaking.
Okun sets out to explore a decent, worthy thesis: parks are a crucial piece of the urban environment and give great opportunities to those living nearby. I once read that good documentarians, once they have found their subject matter, have the skill and the good sense to get out of its way. Failing to do this is the first, and mortal, blow Okun deals to
The Park
The filmmaker narrates his own movie in a creepy, bedroom hush that bespeaks inappropriate touching, not filmic intelligence and exploration. He forces an odd structure onto the film, invoking a strange sort of Q & A with title cards issuing generic prompts like "Why is The Park good?" and the annoyingly catch-all "Stories from The Park" with a series of interviewees answering. Any of these people, given a consecutive chunk of time on screen and left alone by Okun's incessant editing, would tell an interesting story. The material is there. The park in question does look to be an interesting place, but Okun wants very much to force some personal structure about learning what The Park "means to people". In doing so he steps on every interesting story and character he finds.
This mismanagement of people and material also makes what could have well been a fascinating series of documentaries a very, very padded 70-minute film. Okun uses slow-motion, useless montages, odd semi-recreations, and repetition to fluff out and fill in his light-weight wonder.
The Park
does have the occasional interesting moment. For some reason most of them have to do with going to the bathroom in the park. And, as if to further prove the documentary is padded and wholly without merit, a bundle of outtakes after the credits, intended to be a humorous coda, reveal that one of the interviewees -- who has heretofore offered his opinions on the park straighfacedly -- was recently institutionalized and thinks he's God and Santa Claus. Interesting stuff, to be sure, but something the viewer should have been apprised of earlier.
The idea of the local, guerilla documentary is a great one. People who live near an interesting park and take the time to catalogue its vital role in the neighborhood should be commended (although, obviously not in this space). They should also be the filmmakers most capable of letting their story come to them on its own. That is their biggest strength as budget-less, roving cameras.
As it happened, before I watched
The Park
I watched the frist three episodes of the Discovery/Times channel's series
Off to War
. The show is made by several Arkansas documentarians who got themselves embedded with the
39th Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard
and their families and taped them as they went to war. The producers' equipment is similar to Okun's, but
Off to War
does one thing very well: narration-less and barebones, it gets out of its characters' way and allows their story to become the movie. Score one for Arkansas in its epic battle with Los Angeles to produce, low budget, powerful documentaries about community.
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For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
Matthew 25:35
New Life Community Church reaches out to serve the community with both time and resources. Listed here are the local groups we currently support. For information about them and how we partner with them, please complete the form at the bottom of the page.
Battlefield for Freedom
This addiction recovery support group is open to anyone in the community. It meets every Tuesday night at New Life Community Church from 7:30- 8:30 with free childcare provided.
Mother's Cupboard
This local food pantry provides groceries and free hot meals every single day except Thanksgiving. They can always use extra hands in preparing and serving meals as well as donations of unexpired, shelf stable foods.
Clarity Pregnancy Care Center
The vision of Clarity is to "create a culture where every human life is valued and celebrated as a gift from God". They provide many services to our community, and New Life Community Church supports financially and through supply drives.
Brown County Backpack Program
This program provides backpacks of food for local students who may not have adequate food options at home on the weekends. New Life Community Church provides hot chocolate packets. There is a collection basket in the upper lobby during the school year.


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Scaling clean energy solutions is less about technology and more about policies, financing and local people skills. East Africa is a hot spot for scaling off-grid renewables and there are lots of reasons why. With dozens of iconic companies now going 100 percent renewable, REN21 asks the question, 'Why not the entire world'? "We'll arrive at 100 percent renewable energy. The only question is when," REN21 Executive Secretary Christine Lins told another packed audience.
Cheers for Technology: Don't blame technology for the lackluster progress on achieving the sustainable energy development goals by 2030. Across the board, no matter the region, renewable energy costs are plummeting, especially for solar photovoltaics (PVs), which have dropped in half since 2012. In places like Chile and Dubai in the past year, solar projects are shattering record lows. "They're outcompeting fossil fuels even without subsidies," said Ethan Zindler, Head of Americas at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. All regions are benefitting, including Caribbean Islands like Jamaica and Bonaire off Venezuela, which are forsaking high-polluting diesel fuel for cheaper wind power and battery storage. Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda are also benefitting, mostly with pay-as-you-go household solar systems from companies like Off Grid Electric, M-Kopa Solar and Mobisol. Bangladesh is seeing the biggest upside of all.
Why East Africa is Working: The SEforAll forum is flooded with solar companies and funders who are finding big success in Kenya, Tanzania and others East African countries. Most are solar off-grid providers who are taking advantage of ubiquitous mobile phones and mobile money in East Africa to sell their systems. "Mobile money is a key element for our business model," said Thomas Duveau, head of business development at Mobisol, which has sold 75,000 solar systems in Tanzania and other part of East Africa. Business-friendly governments are another key. A new Power for All report identifies key national energy policies in Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh and two other countries that have helped unleash decentralized solar. "We call them policy accelerators," report co-author Rebekah Shirley said, citing supportive policies like low tariffs and import fees, local financing support and clear energy access goals.
Other Intangibles for Success: Local capacity and local people skills came up time and time again. Nigerian banker and Dangote Foundation CEO Zouera Youssoufou said Nigeria's sustainable energy movement needs more women leaders and more local financing from African banks. David Lecoque, policy and development manager at the Alliance for Rural Electrification, talked about local capacity building. "Governments have an important role in developing soft skills, local capacity, so there's an understanding of these (sustainable) technologies," he said. Several speakers suggested that foundations support such capacity building.
A 100% Renewable Future? In the wake of the ambitious Paris Climate Agreement, REN21 posed the provocative question: "Is a 100 percent renewable energy future feasible by 2050?" The results of its new report, based on interviews with more than 100 energy experts, are both illuminating and inspiring. Among the key takeaways: 71 percent agreed a transition to 100 percent renewables is feasible and realistic; 72 percent expect at least a tripling in renewable energy, over 50 percent, by 2050; 63 percent expect decentralized renewable energy will dominate over centralized renewable power by 2050.
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3.1 The tape lift provides a rapid and simple technique for removing particles from a surface and determining their number and size distribution.
3.2 By using statistically determined sample size and locations, an estimate of the surface cleanliness level of large areas can be made. The user shall define the sampling plan.
3.3 The sampling plan shall consider the importance of surface geometry and surface orientation to gas flow, gravity, obstructions, and previous history of hardware. These factors influence particle fallout and entrapment of particles on the surface. The geometry of joints, recessed areas, fasteners, and the correspondence of particle-count data to area can be maintained.
3.4 The selection of tape and the verification of its effect on the cleanliness of the hardware is very important. The tape adhesive should have sufficient cohesion to avoid transfer of the adhesive to the surface under test. The impact of adhesive transfer should be evaluated by laboratory testing before using the tape on the hardware. Since potential for adhesive transfer exists, cleaning to remove any adhesive might be required. In addition, the tape should have low outgassing characteristics, and as a minimum, it should meet the requirements of less than 1.0 % total mass loss (TML) and 0.1 % collected volatile condensable materials (CVCM), as measured by Test Method E595.
3.5 Care should be exercised in deciding which surfaces should be tested by this practice. The tape can remove marginally adhering paint and coatings. Optical surfaces should not be tested until verification has been made that the surface coating will not be damaged. Rough surface finishes result in low removal efficiencies. Surface finishes up to approximately 3.20 μm (125 μin.) have been tested and found to give satisfactory results.
3.6 This practice has been tested only on surfaces at room temperature. Evaluation of temperature effects must be conducted prior to using the test on surfaces other than room temperature.
3.7 Only personnel experienced in microscopic particle-counting techniques should be used to count and size the particles.
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1.1 This practice covers procedures for sampling surfaces to determine the presence of particulate contamination, 5 μm and larger. The practice consists of the application of a pressure-sensitive tape to the surface followed by the removal of particulate contamination with the removal of the tape. The tape with the adhering particles is then mounted on counting slides. Counting and measuring of particles is done by standard techniques.
1.2 This practice describes the materials and equipment required to perform sampling of surfaces for particle counting and sizing.
1.3 The criteria for acceptance or rejection of a part for conformance to surface cleanliness level requirements shall be determined by the user and are not included in this practice.
1.4 This practice is for use on surfaces that are not damaged by the application of adhesive tape. The use of this practice on any surface of any material not previously tested, or for which the susceptibility to damage is unknown, is not recommended. In general, metals, metal plating, and oxide coatings will not be damaged. Application to painted, vapor deposited, and optical coatings should be evaluated before implementing this test.
1.5 This practice provides three methods to evaluate tape lift tests, as follows:
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Now for the other kind of juice you will need a lot of oranges and carrot, along with a small amount of ginger and a lemon juice. First of all, remove the skin from the oranges and cut them into moderate pieces. After that remove the root of the carrot, peel the ginger, and chop it into two pieces, along with lemon cutted into pieces. Place all of them into the cold presser and it will do the rest. Just make sure not through the waste as it can be used for composting.
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ABSTRACT: Arts appreciation courses for non-artist adult learners are a neglected area in the field of arts education. While adult students make up most of the contemporary arts audience, there are challenges to teaching this demographic. Adult students span 80+ years in age and have vastly different educational demands; most younger adults want greater interaction and participation, while many older adults prefer a "sit and listen" classroom. Participation and engagement are necessary for arts appreciation, and as the adult population shifts, more participatory pedagogical models will be necessary to accommodate the next generation of adults and the changing arts landscape of the future.
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In the April 2009 podcast, discover the international appeal of Saint George. Plus tall tales about ships and a short guide to religious art in this month's bonus track
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Hello. I'm Miranda Hinkley and this is the National Gallery Podcast. In this month's episode: globetrotting with Saint George – we discover the international side of England's patron saint, with a little help from Tintoretto – and…
Russell Celyn Jones: What it looks like to me is the kind of ship you struggle to remember from some other time in your life such as sleep, such as a time in the past, such as childhood.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Novelist Russell Celyn Jones on the final journey of The Fighting Temeraire.
'The Life of Christ' audio tour
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): But we start today with a subject that's had a greater influence on Western culture than perhaps any other. Take a walk around the Gallery and it soon becomes clear that the history of art is inextricably bound up with the history of religion – and with one story in particular. Masterpiece after masterpiece in the collection is devoted to the life of Christ and this Easter time we've brought some of those works together in an audio trail specifically devoted to the subject. Leah Kharibian talked to curator Dawson Carr to find out more.
Leah Kharibian: The Life of Christ trail includes some of the National Gallery's greatest masterpieces and listening to it made me wonder why is it that this particular sacred story inspired such a huge array of wonderful art?
Dawson Carr: Well, of course, Christianity is the greatest single force in European history. The belief in Christ generated the most awesome art that has been produced and exists in the National Gallery for this reason.
Leah Kharibian: The story itself is an extraordinary story that takes us from this humble birth through all the events of his life and his teachings, each of which are stories within stories, often he's talking in parables, and then the events of his death, and the Resurrection. I mean, the story itself seems to provide artists with such an array of subject matter…
Dawson Carr: There's not a greater story in existence, not even the tales of mythology are greater than this story, and of course the artists as well were believers, and this was very much an expression of their faith.
Leah Kharibian: And would you say that it was a spur to creativity, even experimentation among artists, and I'm thinking here about one of the works that appears on the trail, El Greco's 'Christ driving the Traders from the Temple', which by any account is an extraordinary picture. I mean to me it looks so modern…
Dawson Carr: Well, and of course, this story is truly exceptional in the life of Christ. This is a very non-typical moment. This was the man of non-violence and here we see him being violent on arriving at the temple and seeing it being desecrated by commerce. And he takes his belt and he makes it into a flail and he drives them out of the temple. And in this work, El Greco has thought about this subject over the course of his career. He returned to the subject again and again and again. And by the time he gets to this late phase in his career, he really understands it, and he understands its meaning, its bigger meaning than just the event. It was often interpreted as the cleansing of the soul of sin and so here you see the composition divided in half spinning around the figure of Christ. On the left-hand side, the traders are all in a jumble and on the right-hand side, much more calm are the righteous, who simply sit and comment on the event.
Leah Kharibian: And this is painted around 1600, so that's the beginning of the 17th century, I mean what sort of function would this picture originally have served – what would it have been made for? Do we know?
Dawson Carr: We don't know in this case, but because he returned to this composition again and again, we doubt that it was created for any sort of liturgical purpose. This was really the creation of a gallery picture, a picture meant to be viewed much as pictures are viewed in the National Gallery today, hung in a picture gallery, hung in a house, as a work of art. But a work of art that compels those who look at it to think about the subject, think about the deeper meaning, and how the artist has brought that to be.
Leah Kharibian: And do you see people in the National Gallery, I mean visitors today, still looking at the works in that sort of way?
Dawson Carr: Absolutely, you do definitely see people wrapped in front of pictures like this, trying to figure it out. This isn't something that's easy, something that is gained with an initial impression. The language of art speaks to those who are willing to stand and look and really analyse what an artist has done and why.
Leah Kharibian: But from a devotional point of view, there are some pictures in the National Gallery that are still operating as devotional pictures – there's one in particular that you've seen people in front of?
Dawson Carr: Yes, there is one painting in my part of the collection that I've seen people standing in front of and saying prayers before any number of times. And that's Sassoferrato's 'Madonna' and she's isolated against a dark background. She is prayerful herself and she leads people to prayer still.
Leah Kharibian: Still, so are they kneeling?
Dawson Carr: No, not kneeling, but just standing in front of the work with their heads bowed clearly saying a little prayer.
Leah Kharibian: And a picture like that, would you ever take it down or move it?
Dawson Carr: I've only done it once in my time at the Gallery and I started getting telephone calls immediately asking where it is. In the Italian 17th century we have a number of very great works and I tend to keep them rotated, but I don't take that one down now.
Leah Kharibian: So Sasserferrato's 'Virgin' is staying in place…
Dawson Carr: Absolutely.
Leah Kharibian: Thank you so much Dawson.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Dawson Carr talking to Leah Kharibian. If you're visiting the National Gallery this month, and would like to take 'The Life of Christ' trail, it's available from audio guide desks, and features former Gallery director, Neil McGregor. You can also download an excerpt as a bonus track with this episode of the podcast.
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Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Next to news of Friday Lates, our new series of evening events. The Gallery is now open until 9pm on Fridays and if you come along after work, you can enjoy the paintings with a glass of wine from the bar, and take in an event for free. The programme includes live music, drawing classes and lectures, as well as a series of talks by novelists about their favourite works. By way of a taster, I caught up with one of the first speakers, the writer Russell Celyn Jones, shortly before his session on one of the best-known works in the Gallery. Voted the greatest painting in Britain in a Radio 4 poll, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire portrays the end of a great warship as she's towed up the Thames at sunset. I asked Russell what fascinates him about the work.
Russell Celyn Jones: What strikes me about the painting is the notion of ships having memory. Now this is quite different to ships representing men's memory, men who've travelled on the ship, who've even died or fought on the ship, I'm talking about the hulk itself having a memory of some kind that the artist has to interpret for us in the form of colour and in the form of brushstrokes. The Temeraire was sold out of the Navy to John Beatson who paid £5,000 for the ship and then towed it up from its permanent home to Rotherhithe where he had his breaker's yard. And the ship had had a glorious military past at the Battle of Trafalgar, and at the time, two ships were trying to board and destroy Nelson's flagship, the Victory, and the Temeraire was there and managed to board both of these ships and take them as prizes. So, in a sense, the Temeraire is accredited with saving Nelson's ship from being taken over and possibly swung the tide of the war. So as far as the painter was concerned, this ship had a heroic past and he mourned to some extent it being brought up to the knacker's yard – to be brought up for its timber. You know, it constituted 5,000 oak trees and that was the value of the ship to John Beatson.
What Turner does is transfer the story of the ship, the memory of the ship, or the emotional experience, onto the landscape. So if you look at Turner's painting and see this golden ship being tugged into London by a dark steamship and of course the sunset and various other elements of the painting, it all adds up to an emotional memory of that ship and the sunset is probably the crucial element to that painting. You know, the blood-red sunset, that seems to be suggesting the ending of an era and the beginning of a new one in the new moon of course. The colour of the ship is the colour of dreams. It's the colour of the other world. There's a line of poetry that begins, 'the sea is the beginning of another world', and that is, in a sense, what this ship represents, that it travels on this other world. So the spectral colour of the ship, I think, suggests to me, its memory of death, not just its own death, but hundreds of men have died on that ship in the middle of a battle probably, because it has to be remembered it's a military ship. It's not a civilian cargo ship and what it looks like to me is the kind of ship you struggle to remember from some other time in your life such as sleep, such as a time in the past, such as childhood. It reminds me of ships that travel in the night, that are lit up like cathedrals, really, in the middle of the night.
There's something about the painting that is not just about a ship. There's something going on and even if you don't know the biographical information, you will feel, I think, something about that painting, which will be stirring up in you a sort of history. It might be for an age gone by, it might be for your own youth, but something about the painting triggers emotions of all kinds in the viewer.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): Thanks to Russell Celyn Jones. If you'd like to see Turner's 'The Fighting Temeraire' for yourself – with a glass of wine in hand – come along to a Friday Late. There's a bar as well as free tours, talks and music every week, and throughout this month and next, you can also visit the 'Picasso 'exhibition. For tickets to the show or more details about the free events, visit the website at www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
Globetrotting with Saint George
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): A dragon, a damsel, and a sword-wielding saint; the story of Saint George is one of our archetypal national myths, the essence of that slippery concept, 'Englishness'. On Friday 23 April, the saint's emblem – a red cross on a white background – will fly from flagpoles around the country, and events will take place in the Gallery to mark the day. I spoke to organiser Karly Allen to find out what she's got planned, and discovered there's more to England's patron saint than an aversion to fire-breathing reptiles…
Miranda Hinkley: With Saint George's Day coming up on 23 April, I've come to have a look at a painting by Tintoretto called 'Saint George and the Dragon'. And I'm joined by Karly Allen. Karly, tell me a bit about this story. We think we all know it very well – it's Saint George, he kills a dragon, but what do we see here?
Karly Allen: Well, in many respects the story is instantly recognisable – we do feel that we know this tale of Saint George and the dragon. We see them in the centre of the painting. Saint George is the brave knight in shining armour – he's mounted on a white horse and he's frozen in this act of challenging and subduing the ferocious dragon. The dragon bears its teeth; it has a long vicious looking tongue, and its claws are embedded in the seashore. This story of Saint George and the dragon is so well known that many people just can't remember when they first heard it, or a version of it – it's really embedded in our cultural back catalogue if you like – and I think it's fascinating to think about how we approach a painting like this of Saint George and the Dragon. What do we bring to it ourselves and what does it mean to us in a modern diverse society?
Miranda Hinkley: I mean, to us perhaps, this looks like a fairly straightforward story of good winning out over evil and the dragon symbolising wickedness, and Saint George coming in and saving the princess and defeating evil, but what's actually going on?
Karly Allen: I think it's possible to look at this painting in many different ways and of course around celebrations for Saint George's Day it becomes a representation of that very English story, that for many people Saint George is an icon of Englishness and he's really wrapped up in national identity, national pride, so that traditionally people have wanted to be associated with even his saint's day, 23 April. It's often noted that Shakespeare, that great English icon, died on 23 April, and Turner, the patriotic English painter, wanted people to believe he was born on Saint George's Day, although that may have been a figment of his imagination. And of course the English flag, the red cross on the white background, is the Saint George Cross, so for many people it symbolises England.
It's important to remember that Saint George himself wasn't English; he was a Roman soldier, he was born in an area which is now in modern-day Turkey, and most of his stories are linked to sites that are in the Middle East. So the cult of Saint George originated in the eastern Mediterranean and then spread out across the world. Today, Saint George is the patron saint of Catalonia, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Brazil, Ethiopia, among many other countries as well as England, so he truly is an international symbol for many people.
In the Gallery, on Saint George's Day, 23 April, we're going to try and combine some of these different elements to explore the myth and legends connected to Saint George. So that after a short talk at 4 o' clock on the painting by Tintoretto, visitors can enjoy an impromptu performance given by a travelling theatre group, the Suffolk Howlers. It's a traditional mummers' play, which is performed across the country at different sites on Saint George's Day, and includes the figure of Saint George, and one of the ways that he rises again from his martyrdom, so that in the secular tradition George becomes much more than the hero on horseback; he actually represents the defeat of darkness, of winter, and it's significant that he is a symbol of renewal at this celebration of springtime.
So it's interesting how this then affects our experience of the painting in the Gallery, in the secularised environment of the National Gallery, where I think we can now enjoy that layering of many different meanings. As well as bringing our own personal experience to it, for us these notions can exist side by side, so that George is simultaneously the chivalrous knight, he's the romantic hero, he's a focus for national pride, but he's also an international patron saint of many different countries. And so when we stand in front of it, I think we're responding to that very universal appeal of Saint George slaying the dragon whatever that dragon might be.
Miranda Hinkley: And so we invite you all to come back on April 23, have a look at the painting and enjoy the mummers' play. Karly, thank you very much.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): That was Karly Allen. If you'd like to celebrate Saint George's Day in traditional style, the Suffolk Howlers will be performing their mummers' play at 4pm on 23 April. You'll find them in front of Tintoretto's painting, which will also be the subject of a free lunchtime talk. And throughout the day, there'll be events outside in Trafalgar Square.
For more details about the Saint George's Day line up – or any of April's events – visit www.nationalgallery.org.uk. And don't forget there's still time to visit 'Picasso: Challenging the Past', which runs until early June. Exhibition tickets are available from the Gallery or online with a booking fee.
That's it for this episode – until next time, goodbye.
Bonus track
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): This is a bonus track from the National Gallery podcast. In this excerpt from 'The Life of Christ' audio guide, former Gallery Director Neil McGregor introduces The Nativity at Night by Geertgen.
Neil McGregor: This magical little panel by Geertgen, painted in the Low Countries about 1480, shows the moment when the new-born Christ is laid in a manger, in a stable. But it is also a painting about light and the idea of Christ as the light of the world. In the Bible, the different gospels give different details of Christ's birth. Luke tells of the manger and Matthew of the wise men. But in the 14th century these gospel accounts were expanded by the mystic vision of Saint Bridget of Sweden. In her vision, Saint Bridget witnessed the painless birth of Christ, and Mary adoring her son. She also saw the baby's radiance eclipsing the light from a candle held by Joseph, and it's Bridget's vision that lies behind this picture.
There are three sources of light. There's the earthly source, which is the shepherds' fire up on the hillside, barely shedding enough light to see by. There is the heavenly source – the dazzling, luminous angel which has appeared to the shepherds and is hovering in front of them in the night sky.
And then there is the divine source of light, eclipsing all others, the Christ Child himself. And if you look closely, you can see that Geertgen has added thin strips of real gold stuck to the surface of the paint to show Christ's radiance.
Surrounding the manger, and lit up by the radiance, are childlike angels, marvelling at the baby. Three of them have brought their hands together in prayer, but one seems caught in a moment of pure amazement and delight, hands apart, gently smiling. The ox and the ass have gathered round too. The ox gently warms the baby with his breath. For this is a naked child, totally exposed, completely vulnerable. So vulnerable, he needs animals to keep him warm, just as he will need the love of his mother and Joseph to keep him alive. The image of light shining in the darkness echoes the phrase in the Gospel of Saint John, read in churches on Christmas morning, his description of Christ as the light shining in the darkness, which the darkness did not overwhelm.
It was the advent of paints bound in oil rather than mixed with egg which first allowed artists to tackle such a theme successfully. Egg paint tends to be matt, but oil paints have the lustre and depth to convey light in darkness. And oil paints enabled Geertgen to show the luminous radiance of the Light of the World as it shone out on that first Christmas night.
Miranda Hinkley (in the studio): 'The Life of Christ' trail is available from audio guide desks around the National Gallery.


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Rosalyn D'Mello: Of making a mystical, fabulous meal
This Easter really felt like a blessing, where the spirit of all things divine and plentiful hovered over our gathering
In her slim but enjoyable domestic treatise, The Reluctant Hostess, Ethelind Fearon reveals what she believes to be at the crux of successful merrimaking. "Any party stands or falls, as much as anything, by the nature and excellence of its drinks," she writes authoritatively in chapter 3, that's dedicated squarely to the art of mixology. My sister Ramona and I decided we'd honour the onset of spring with a watermelon cocktail. We had invited at least 20 friends for whom we had begun preparing a feast three days before Easter Sunday. We bought lime and mint and had two big watermelons at our disposal. Each batch was uniquely made, with inventive additions of lemon, ginger, honey and godknowswhatelse. It helped all of us sail through the afternoon's proceedings.
A scene from the film Babette's Feast. Babette marvelously makes a case for spiritual transcendence through the medium of food
I write about it because it was one of the most ambitious luncheons I'd ventured to host in a long time. Cooking for 20 is no mean feat. And I'm convinced it could only be accomplished because my sister, who recently moved to Delhi, is as phenomenal a cook. We both learned from the best — my parents, the eternal busy bees who refuse to take even a moment's break if they're in the middle of cooking a feast. Food has always been central to the D'Mello household, and on special occasions, what matters most is the breadth of the spread. At least three kinds of meats must be on offer, and, as a rule, lunch is rarely ever served before 3pm.
My sister made the pork vindaloo in honour of my sisters-in-law's mother, Christine, whose preparation of the famous dish is the stuff of legends. We delighted in the impeccable redness of the masala, and then the pitch-perfect flavour we'd managed to arrive at through that last-minute capful of cashew that we added in. The mutton for the xacuti had been left to marinate in a mix of ginger-garlic paste, curd and salt for a good five days before we finally married it with the masala drawn out of precariously roasted coconut and a symphony of ground spices and Goan tamarind. The pumpkin caldin was a comfortable green, speckled with mustard seeds and redolent of fresh coconut. The carrot kachumbar was an ode to a dear friend, Devika; my take on her style of making it with grated carrot, bits of coconut and onion, and a mustard tadka. It sat on the table alongside the beetroot raita and spring sprout salad. My friend SK brought to the table his cook's rendition of a very Mallu-style egg roast and vegetable korma, adding to the plenty. The centrepiece, though, was the stuffed chicken with rosemary made by Sourav. It was so successfully cooked, it betrayed his claims to it being a first-time effort. Julien, himself a creator of delectable food, carved the chicken when we finally laid the table. While everyone served themselves and slowly got quieter, I savoured a glass of white wine and watched the devouring first hand.
When I'd told my mother that morning over the phone what was on the menu and how many we were cooking for, she said, "Lucky friends." But it's in fact the opposite. I felt lucky enough to have so many wonderful people who I was so eager to feed. "Cooking is an act of domination, eating an act of surrender," I remember Anthony Bourdain once saying. It's so true, there is so much pleasure to be derived from witnessing something you made possible — the consequence of honouring your share of the earth's goodness and bounty — being rightfully savoured.
There is something almost mystical about a fabulous meal; both in the process of preparation and the act of cooking it. Babette's Feast, the 1987 film (allegedly one of the present pope's favourite films) so aptly espouses this sentiment. Through a circuitous series of circumstances, two god-fearing and charitable women come to inherit a French cook named Babette who is presently fleeing Paris for fear of persecution. For years, she abides by their rules, trains herself to cook the bland food that they stoically eat. When one day she wins the lottery, she requests her employers, the daughters of the founder of a slowly declining religious sect, to allow her to cook for the congregation, a real French dinner. Babette's quasi-ritualistic preparation and serving of the meal is the climax of the film, where she marvelously makes a case for spiritual transcendence through the medium of food.
I'm no Babette, and I doubt I'll ever be. But this Easter really felt like a blessing, where the spirit of all things divine and plentiful hovered over our gathering. Memories continued to be made as we tucked into dessert; payassam (brought by SK), and Banofie pie and walnut fudge, lovingly made by my sister and I.
It was a fabulous lunch; you should have been there.
Deliberating on the life and times of Everywoman, Rosalyn D'Mello is a reputed art critic and the author of A Handbook For My Lover. She tweets @RosaParx. Send your feedback to email@example.com
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