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10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like Johnny Winter | TAB
LET'S SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. In the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughan's meteoric rise to fame and subsequent legacy, there may exist generations who have either forgotten or never knew that another Texas guitarist had already been there and done that more than a dozen years earlier. Fueled by word of mouth and generous hype from Rolling Stone (yep, they really used to be that influential), John Dawson Winter III's first pilgrimage from his native Beaumont to New York City in 1968 (at the behest of Scene manager Steve Paul) sparked a vicious bidding war between record companies, and Columbia Records reportedly paid the Texas guitar slinger the biggest advance ever bestowed upon a new artist. Winter delivered big time, and the label's gamble paid off. The Texas Tornado's blend of charged-up urban Chicago sounds and traditional Delta styles had a tremendous impact on blues and rock communities alike, and Winter skyrocketed to stardom virtually overnight.
Some confusion arose as several earlier Texas recordings surfaced before Columbia could release Winter's much-anticipated official debut, Johnny Winter, but fortunately one of them—The Progressive Blues Experiment (a killer "live" album recorded in a cavernous empty club)—turned out to be the best advance publicity Columbia could ever hope for. This first taste of Winter's music was as startling as his albino visage.
And that voice! Believe me folks, this was life-changing stuff. The day TPBE came out, I talked my cousin into buying both it and a copy of R. Crumb's Head Comix to peruse while Winter blew our 12-year-old minds. It was the perfect combination. And, apparently, we weren't alone. By the time Johnny Winter was released in 1969, Winter had a ravenous audience in waiting. The record's winning combination of blues standards and originals showcased Winter's diversity in both electric and acoustic settings, and established him as a major artist. His follow-up, Second Winter—three vinyl sides of revolutionary blues (yes, side four was blank) psyched-up with wah-wah, electric mandolin, and plenty of Hendrix-inspired studio effects—also remains a perennial favorite.
When Winter unveiled his new rock and roll band of ex-McCoys on Johnny Winter And in the summer of 1970, co-guitarist Rick Derringer proved to be a more than capable sparring partner, and the pair's amazing in-concert guitar duels (documented on Johnny Winter And Live) were unprecedented. Following the demise of the "And" band, Winter disappeared from the public eye during 1972. (He spent much of that year recovering from heroin addiction.) In 1973, he formed a new trio, released the successful comeback album Still Alive and Well, and mounted a triumphant arena tour. Winter would follow this path for the next several years before abandoning the rock scene for a pure blues lifestyle in 1977. Since then, Winter produced and played on three albums by his mentor Muddy Waters, who lovingly referred to Winter as his son, and continued to record and tour, garnering Grammy awards and overcoming several major health issues along the way.
Sadly, Winter died on July 16, 2014, while in Zurich, Switzerland. At the time of his death, Winter was on an extended tour, which took him to Europe. His final show was last Saturday at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria.
Let's remember him by celebrating his life and music. To get started, first you gotta ...
1. Get Struck by Lightnin'
After brief stints on clarinet and ukulele, Johnny Winter took up guitar at age 11, cutting his musical teeth byimitating early rock and roll records by Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino, etc. Before long, he became smitten with the post-war Chicago blues of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Sonny Boy Williamson, B.B. King et al, and the stylings of pre-war Mississippi Delta bluesmen such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Johnson, Son House, Leadbelly, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. It was all of these elements coupled with the ensuing late-'60s British blues boom that shaped Winter's unique approach to the blues.
"I mixed all that stuff up," he later recalled. "I would learn how to play a record note-for-note. After I got the feel of what was going on, I just took what I heard and assimilated it, and it would come out part mine and part everybody else's." While still in Beaumont, Winter also became proficient in the fingerstylings of Merle Travis and Chet Atkins, learning how to play "Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie" at the same time, a traditional southern rite of passage. And though their early musical preferences were polar opposites, it's safe to say that Johnny's younger sibling Edgar—a musical genius in his own right—certainly had a big impact on his big bro'.
2. Fire Up Your 'Bird
Though he's been indelibly associated with Gibson Firebirds from 1970 to the present, Winter has been through a stable of guitars over the decades, becoming quite attached to several along the way. These include a Gibson ES-125, a white Fender Stratocaster, a white Gibson Les Paul/SG Custom, a 1966 Fender Mustang, a Fender XII strung with six strings, a twin-pickup Epiphone solidbody, a Gibson Les Paul goldtop with P-90s, as well as his beloved trio of '60s Firebirds (two sunburst and one white), all of which Winter played with a plastic Gibson thumbpick. He also developed a singular voice as an acoustic slide player, particularly on National resonator guitars, as heard on "Dallas" (Johnny Winter).
In the early '90s, Winter began a lengthy stint on headless Erlewine Lazer guitars, typically playing them through a chorus pedal in standard tuning dropped one whole-step (D, G, C, F, A, D, low to high) but has returned to his beloved 'Birds for many of his most recent appearances. Winter's stinging tone—which he attributes to "everything on all the way, and all treble and no bass"—has cranked out of Fender Bassmans, Twin Reverbs, and Super Reverbs, as well as various combinations of Marshalls and Ampegs. Since the late '70s, however, Winter has played almost exclusively through Music Man HD410 amps. (Tip: The middle position of those EQ rocker switches on Ampeg V-4 heads or VT-22 combos is the gateway to Winter's distinctive early-'70s arena tone.)
3. Soak in Muddy Waters
Winter was heavily influenced by the early Chess recordings of Muddy Waters he had collected. When I met with him to discuss Waters' style for a feature in the March '94 GP, he provided a scholarly dissection of many of Waters' key intros and solo phrases before joining his trio and launching into a private concert that demonstrated many of the same licks in action. Our first three examples show some of the first open-E slide runs that Winter siphoned from Waters. Don a thumbpick and metal slide à la Winter (on your 4th finger) and maintain a steady 12th-fret vibrato during the first half of Ex. 1a, then shuttle between the 10th and 12th frets for the closing lick on beats three and four. Ex. 1b begins sans slide with a spooky minor-third trill followed by a typical Waters slide bass run. You can start Ex. 1c on any octave E as long as you nail the trademark first-string Waters moves on the next three beats. (Tip: Keep those approach slides short—whole-steps, half-steps, or anywhere in between.) The final run in bar 2 transforms the lick into a bona fide turnaround. Ex. 1d shifts to open-A tuning (E, A, E, A, C#, E, low to high) for another signature Waters riff, this one navigating the V and IV chords in bars 9-11 of a standard 12-bar blues.
4. Cook Up Some Signature Moves
The recurring standard-tuned motif in our next pair of examples can be traced back to the ensemble horn-section riff from T-Bone Walker's "Everytime," but I'll always think of it as a Johnny Winter lick. Barre your index finger across the first and second strings at the 3rd fret, hammer the 4 to the 5 (D to E) on the first two eighth-notes in beat one, follow up with a high upstroke, then pull off from the b5 to the 4 (Eb to D) in beat two, add the b3 (C), and you'll be sailing through the repetitive triplets in Ex. 2a in no time. Ex. 2b recasts the same motif in a sixteenth-note setting. The "name game" (you know—"Johnny-Johnny-bo-bonnie, etc.") lick in Ex. 2d is the same as starting Ex. 2c on beat four.
5. Smother 'Em in Gravy, Texas-Style
Let's look at how Johnny incorporates short licks into longer lines. You should recognize the pickup and opening lick in Ex. 3a as an extrapolation from Examples 2a and 2b, but new here are the major third bend (yow!) on beat four of bar 1, and the mini 3/16 hemiola (three-against-four phrasing) in bars 1 and 2. After you nail Ex. 3b's slinky fifth-position A blues/Dorian lines laced with Winter's one-of-a-kind vibrato, try subbing Ex. 2c or Ex. 2d for the first two beats in bar 1. Ex. 3c features a signature vibratoed pre-bend, a cool descending A blues scale run, and a pair of Winter's trademark triplet pull-offs.
6. Make a Ruckus
It's tough, but try to imagine not having heard any guitarist after the summer of '69, then play the opening track from Johnny Winter. If the hairs on your neck bristle, you get it. This ultra-cool "where's one?" intro figure to "I'm Yours and I'm Hers" [Ex. 4a] begins as a solo bass line before a discretely overdubbed Winter joins in, pitting open-A slide guitar against his razor-toned standard-tuned ax. The riff also bolsters Winter's dueling guitars throughout the solo, where he tosses off standard-tuned phrases similar to the A-pentatonic-major-based runs in Examples 4b and 4c in counterpoint with his wailing harp-like slide licks on the opposite channel of the stereo mix. The extended minor-third bend that opens Ex. 4d is another Winter trademark, as is the series of syncopated major and minor triads played over an open-A pedal tone in Ex. 4e, which borrows its rhythmic framework from the original intro riff in Ex. 4a.
NOTE: Lesson examples 4a-c were omitted due to copyrights.
7. Cross Borders
When Winter transitioned from blues wunderkind to rock star in the latter part of 1970, he brought selected standards from his earlier repertoire to the party. One tune that adapted particularly well was his own "Mean Town Blues." Ex. 5a depicts the first half of the song's main riff—a hyperactive John Lee Hooker-style boogie figure filled with rolling b7-to-7 (G to G#) hammer-ons, gradual b3-to-3 (C to C#) bends, and syncopated root/5 chords. Winter typically repeats the riff an indeterminate number of times during the intro, but once the verse begins, you'll want to play it six times, then omit the last note on the final round and segue directly to the thrice-repeated "response" riff in Ex. 5b, being sure to observe the slight melodic variations each time this new figure is repeated. For your convienience, both of the previous examples have been tabbed in both open-A (à la Winter) and standard tuning.
NOTE: Lesson examples 5a-b were omitted due to copyrights.
8. Rock and Roll!!!!!
Few who have experienced Winter's famous battle cry will ever forget it. Winter's brand of early-'70s arena rock was heavy on high-energy guitar riffs that came across like Lightnin' Hopkins on steroids. His rebirth was captured on the excellent Johnny Winter And, and Winter's jet-flanged zip up and down the low E string on the album's opening cut, "Guess I'll Go Away," gives way to Ex. 6a, the meanest riff ever concocted from a simple ascending and descending G blues scale.
(Who says scales can't be cool?) Play the down-stemmed lower-octave part the first time and the up-stemmed upper-octave part on the repeat. Ex. 6b's take on the blues standard "Rock Me Baby," comes from Still Alive and Well, Winter's aptly named return to action in 1973. Check out how this gnarly I-chord figure uses yet another lower-octave variation of Examples 2a and 2b in the second half of bar 2.
NOTE: Lesson example 6b was omitted due to copyright.
9. Get Stoned
Winter covered several Jagger/Richards compositions over the course of his career, including "Let It Bleed" and "Stray Cat Blues," as well as Richards' "Silver Train," but it was the "And" band's version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (from Johnny Winter And Live) that transformed the song's original guitar figure into one of the top ten bar-band riffs of all time. Winter plays this classic intro/verse riff in second position [Ex. 7a], while Rick Derringer covers the same figure in seventh position, revoicing the double-stops in bar 2 to include a D (the b3/#9) on the third string. The band also utilized the song's B-E-D-A/C# interlude and crafted a new four-bar power-chord outro similar to Ex. 7b to frame their extended guitar solos. The repetitive one-bar snippets in the next three examples will work equally well over either progression. High points include Winter's vibratoed pre-bends in Ex. 7c, the country-informed B pentatonic bends, hammer-ons and pull-offs in Ex. 7d, and a Clapton-style motif played without pull-offs in Ex. 7e.
10. Adopt a Dylan Classic
If there's one song in Johnny Winter's vast repertoire that you've gotta know, it's his rousing rendition of Bob Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited." Still a highlight of his live set to this day, Winter first recorded the song on Second Winter in the key of D using open-D tuning (D, A, D, F#, A, D), though he's known to perform the song in open-E (same tuning up a whole-step) as well, as shown in Ex. 8a. The song doesn't have a signature riff per se, just a quartet of barred slide chords anticipated over a galloping shuffle rhythm and set to an unusual 18-bar progression—E (I) for eight bars (subbing the E7/5 voicing in Ex. 8b for bars 5 through 8), A (IV) for two bars (using vibratoed whole notes as shown in Ex. 8b), E (I) for eight bars (subbing open-E slide fills from Examples 8c to 8e for the previous slide figure), B (V) for two bars (anticipating a tied whole-note on the and of beat four), and E (I) for two bars (playing the slide riff from Ex. 8a). Winter typically precedes and follows this progression with both short and extended slide solos over the static E-chord riff. The repetitive licks in Examples 8c through 8e use open-string pull-offs (yes, they're played with the slide), while Ex. 8f combines similar moves with a boxier approach in typical call-and-response fashion. Ex. 8g shows how effortlessly Winter adapts his standard licks to slide (or maybe it's the other way around?). Finally, Ex. 8h (played one octave higher on the repeat) illustrates the kind of broken major third intervals Winter uses to create ascending E, G, A, C, and D chord sounds and bring the song to a climax. Another gold-medal performance at the Winter Olympics!
NOTE: Lesson examples 8a-b were omitted due to copyrights.
Jonesing for more Johnny? Check out the Johnny Winter section of Jesse Gress' recent book, Guitar Licks of the Texas Blues-Rock Heroes (Backbeat).


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I watched a video the other day, and it has haunted me ever since.
It was showing a runaway team at the
1998 Michigan Great Lakes International Horse Pull in Lansing, Michigan.
Having a horse that is being trained to pull, I know what can happen.
But it wasn't the runaway situation that haunted me...it was the announcer.
The woman on the microphone reminded me of how the Holy Spirit works in my life.
While things are out of control at times,
He reminds me to STAY QUIET...just like the announcer during the runaway fiasco.
See what you think, as you view the video below.
Does the Holy Spirit speak to you this way?
Until next time, dear friends. Lord willing.

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New Portuguese Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism
Indicative of the continuing international diversification and growth of NT scholarship, there arrived in today's mail a copy of the newly-published introduction to NT textual criticism in Portuguese by Wilson Paroschi, Origem e Transmissão do Texto do Novo Testamento (Barueri, Brazil: Sociedade Biblica do Brasil, 2012). I was pleased to have been invited to preview the book and happy to endorse it. In this work, completed during a research leave spent in Heidelberg, Paroschi provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date introduction that covers the production of ancient books (scribal features, physical forms, various readers' aids), the principal textual witnesses (Greek manuscripts, ancient Versions, Patristic citations), the history of the transmission of the text and the development of NT textual criticism, the principles and practice of NT textual criticism (with a chapter devoted to several examples of significant variation-units), and a concluding chapter on recent developments in method/approach. There are also appendices on the number of NT Greek manuscripts by century, the number of NT papyri by NT writing, and the specific contents of the most ancient manuscripts for each NT writing.
I congratulate Paroschi on this demanding and impressive work, and I hope that it will be used in Brasil and other Portuguese-speaking circles to inform students and other interested readers about NT textual criticism.


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The Hi-Hi 100 Club
The Hi Hi 100 Club is one of our key fundraising initiatives. As well as being of benefit to the club it could also be of benefit to you! We would love you to get involved and recruit your family and friends to the cause.
You sign up and donate £10 per month to Third Lanark. You will be allocated a unique 100-club membership number, which will be entered into a prize draw every month.
How do I join?
Simply fill in the membership form and complete the standing order request (which is available to download below) and return both to Third Lanark AFC. We will do the rest. Anyone can join the 100 club, so please ask your friends, family and neighbours and work colleagues too. A single subscription is £10 a month and you can have as many subscriptions as you wish.


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The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization founded on two simple ideas:
1) There is a pressing national need for high-quality journalism about the American criminal justice system. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any country in the world. Spiraling costs, inhumane prison conditions, controversial drug laws, and concerns about systemic racial bias have contributed to a growing bipartisan consensus that our criminal justice system is in desperate need of reform.
The recent disruption in traditional media means that fewer institutions have the resources to take on complex issues such as criminal justice. The Marshall Project stands out against this landscape by investing in journalism on all aspects of our justice system. Our work will be shaped by accuracy, fairness, independence, and impartiality, with an emphasis on stories that have been underreported or misunderstood. We will partner with a broad array of media organizations to magnify our message, and our innovative website will serve as a dynamic hub for the most significant news and comment from the world of criminal justice.
2) With the growing awareness of the system's failings, now is an opportune moment to amplify the national conversation about criminal justice.
We believe that storytelling can be a powerful agent of social change. Our mission is to raise public awareness around issues of criminal justice and the possibility for reform. But while we are nonpartisan, we are not neutral. Our hope is that by bringing transparency to the systemic problems that plague our courts and prisons, we can help stimulate a national conversation about how best to reform our system of crime and punishment.
A Letter from Our Founder
By Neil Barsky, 11.15.2014The seeds of The Marshall Project were planted a few years ago after I read two books. The first, Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow," argues that mass incarceration — which dates roughly from President Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs in the 1980s to the present—represents the third phase of African-American oppression in the United States, after slavery and Jim Crow. Alexander documents how the United States came to be the world's biggest jailer by enacting policies that represented a bipartisan shift in how we address addiction, mental illness, and other non-violent forms of misconduct. Fueled in part by a reaction to civil rights gains and in part by fear of escalating crime, Alexander claims, we enacted tough drug laws, imposed greater mandatory minimum sentences, and ignited a prison boom. Intent can be difficult to prove; impact is irrefutable.
The second, Gilbert King's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Devil in the Grove," explores the case of four African-American males falsely accused of rape in Lake County, Fla., and the vigilante violence that ensued. At the center of the drama was NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorney Thurgood Marshall, the future Supreme Court justice, who bravely but largely futilely fought in Florida's courts to spare these young men's lives. This took place in 1949, before Brown v. Board of Education (a Marshall legal triumph) and before an organized national movement to combat the Jim Crow segregation laws. The national press did not cover the proceedings.
Spurred on by these chapters in American history, I continued to explore our country's system of crime and punishment. What struck me was not only how expensive, ineffective, and racially biased it is, and how difficult it is to find anyone, liberal or conservative, who defends the status quo. But also how our condition has become taken for granted. Other American crises — soaring health-care costs, the failure of public education — typically lead to public debate and legislative action. But the spike in mass incarceration appears to have had the opposite effect: The general public has become inured to the overuse of solitary confinement, the widespread incidence of prison rape and the mixing of teens and adults in hardcore prisons. The more people we put behind bars, it seemed, the more the issue receded from the public consciousness.
The Marshall Project represents our attempt to elevate the criminal justice issue to one of national urgency, and to help spark a national conversation about reform. I named our organization after Justice Marshall simply because he embodies the principles we hold dear. He was scholarly, he was courageous, and he fiercely believed that the U.S. Constitution was the template to secure civil rights for all.
The Marshall Project will practice open-minded, fact-based journalism without fear or favor. Our editor, Bill Keller, has assembled a first-class team of reporters and editors dedicated to excellence, nonpartisan reporting, and innovation. We are a journalism organization because we think that journalism, done honestly and well, has infinite power to drive change. One need only look to the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements to appreciate how important journalists were in shaping public opinion. We do not need to be strident or ideological or selective in our use of facts . When the truth is as disturbing as it was in the segregated South, or in Vietnam, or today's prisons and courts, truthful reporting can have a powerful impact. We will explore what is working as well as what is broken, and where the potential exists for meaningful reform. Our commentary section will be written by individuals whose views encompass a broad range of perspectives. Our board of advisers, for example, includes both the inspirational civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson from the Equal Justice Initiative, and the conservative thinker Marc Levin from Right on Crime, both of whom have devoted their careers to making our system more humane and effective.
Being nonpartisan is not the same as being neutral. We approach the issue with the view — shared by a growing number of conservatives and liberals — that our system needs serious rethinking. Thank you for your interest in The Marshall Project, and please do not hesitate to tell us what you think.
A Letter from Our Editor
By Bill Keller, 11.15.2014In March I left The New York Times after 30 years there as a reporter, editor and columnist to help launch something new: a non-profit newsroom devoted to coverage of the American criminal justice system.
In the ensuing months we have assembled a diverse team of journalists, set in motion a wide range of reporting projects, built a website to serve as a worthy stage for our journalism, and begun to forge partnerships with a range of established media organizations that will amplify our voice.
We are not here to promote any particular agenda or ideology. But we have a sense of mission. We want to move the discussion of our institutions of justice — law enforcement, courts, prisons, probation — to a more central place in our national dialogue. We believe, as the great jurist Thurgood Marshall did, that protection under the law is the most fundamental civil right in a free society. Yet, by the numbers, the United States is a global outlier, with a prison population matched by no nation except, possibly, North Korea, with a justice system that disproportionately afflicts communities of need and of color, with a corrections regime that rarely corrects.
We aim to accomplish our mission through probing, fair-minded journalism, combining investigative rigor, careful analysis, and lively storytelling. We will examine the failings of our criminal justice system — but also test promising reforms. While a number of news organizations are doing distinguished reporting on crime and punishment, the journalistic energy devoted to this kind of reporting, time consuming and expensive as it is, has been sapped by the financial traumas of the news industry. Our aim is both to restore some of that lost energy and to be a catalyst for coverage elsewhere. We will publish the fruits of our reporting here and expand our audience by collaborating with first-rate newspapers, magazines, broadcasters and other online news sites.
In addition to our original reporting, we will compile the most interesting news and commentary from around the world of criminal justice, distributing our findings in our daily email, and offer this site as a hub for debate and accord. We are nonpartisan and nonideological, which means you will find here the voices of progressives and conservatives, centrists and provocateurs. As it happens, criminal justice is one of the few areas of public policy where there is a significant patch of common ground between right and left.
We are also nonprofit, dependent on the generosity of foundations and individuals. Our website and email are free of charge, but we invite you to click the "donate" button if you find The Marshall Project to be of interest and value. And join the conversation on social media or through our Letters to the Editor feature.


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Posted by Evan Piccirillo, CPA
You have undoubtedly heard much grumbling from taxpayers in the great state of New York regarding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
A quick recap of the pertinent element of the new law: the itemized deduction is capped at $10K for combined income tax or sales tax and property taxes. Due to a combination of high income tax rates and high property taxes, this cap will be exceeded each year by many New York taxpayers, especially in the New York Metro and surrounding areas. That, coupled with the fact that most taxpayers will be taking the standard deduction as a result of the elimination of most other itemized deductions, means the $10k limit on SaLT is no sweet deal for those of us living, working, and owning homes in New York State.
These changes go into effect for the 2018 tax year. But a quick check of the calendar shows me that we are still in 2017, and therefore have time for last-minute tax planning. New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, made use of his executive power signing an emergency order to allow local New York taxing authorities to bill for 2018 NY real estate taxes in 2017. You can read the executive order here.
This executive order was a necessary step to ensure the IRS recognizes the pre-payments as deductible for 2017, as the pre-payment would otherwise not be a valid itemized deduction. Under current law, a deduction is only allowed for amounts actually billed and payable. So while it might seem at first glance that "allowing" us to pay our property tax early, would benefit only the receivers of tax, it is in fact a mutually beneficial arrangement.
Remember, these property taxes are an add-back for alternative minimum tax purposes, so as always, we recommend you consult your tax adviser, rather than diving into this tax planning opportunity on your own. There is precious little time to waste!


text: This week it is review central and it is all about Marvel Comics. I do a Trade Talk in-depth review of Secret Avengers Vol. 1: Mission To Mars HC plus review Herc #2 and Moon Knight #1. I get side tracked and remember the old days of the show in my preparation for episode 100 and do some shout outs too. Enjoy!


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Hi Guys! Today we have Brie Filled Baklava for you! Every now and then, while my boyfriend and I are out getting a bite to eat he tastes something that tugs at his heart strings and he says to me with such deep passion, "BLOG-WORTHY", which always makes me giggle. This happened a few months ago when we were out getting some pizza. We ordered these spinach and cheese stuffed "pinwheels" my boyfriend got this crazed look in eyes and a couple of days later, after I did a couple tests in the kitchen, there were Pizza Wheels.
Today's recipe is the result of another Jordan "BLOG-WORTHY" freak out! As a lover of baklava, he has to have a piece every time we run across some, and this time was no different. Except this time when he took a bite he was unexpectedly, but very pleasantly surprised to find a nice layer of rich and creamy cheese in the center! Neither of us have ever seen this before but it makes total sense! How could creamy cheese not go well with flaky, crispy crust, sweet honey, and toasty nuts?! I'm not quite sure it was brie that the restaurant was using, but it seemed to make the most sense to me so that's what we're using today for our own baklava!
Just a bit of layering, brushing and sprinkling involved in this recipe. So easy and they're so delicious! So go make them and share them, because everyone deserves a little Brie Filled Baklava in their lives. ;) xx, Jenny
Brie Filled Baklava
Makes 1 (9"x13") pan
1 cup chopped pistachios plus more for garnish
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
15 sheets of phyllo dough, thawed and cut in half
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
7 ounces double cream brie, rind removed and softened
1 cup superfine sugar (granulated is fine)
2/3 cup honey
1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Line a 9"x13", rimmed sheet pan with parchment and set aside.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine nuts and cinnamon and toss together. Set aside.
3. Brush butter onto parchment and layer 10 sheets of phyllo dough into the pan, brushing butter between each layer.
4. Sprinkle half the nut mixture over the phyllo and repeat step one with 5 more sheets of phyllo.
5. Dot the entire surface with pieces of brie and continue to layer 5 more sheets of phyllo and butter.
6. Sprinkle remaining nut mixture over the phyllo and finish by layering the remaining 10 sheets of phyllo and butter. Cut 1 inch strips into baklava, in a diagonal pattern each way, creating diamond shaped pieces.
7. Bake for about 1 hour or until golden brown.
8. While the baklava bakes, combine sugar and honey in a small saucepan and bring to a boil until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
9. Remove baklava from oven and pour sugar mixture over pan. Allow mixture to soak in and sit for about 1 hour. Top with finely chopped pistachios and serve.


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Smith works with individuals who are overwhelmed by their belongings, feel stuck and uninspired by their environment and are ready to step into a new way of being in their space.
She believes that our wellness is directly connected to what we are surrounded by. Through visualizing and creating an inspiring environment, the results are life-changing.
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Minimizing Household Waste
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- Some individual companies (i.e. Credit cards) send you a paper that lets you "opt out" of having your name in the databases they sell. Use this option! It'll not only help the environment, it'll help the counter top stay uncluttered with less mail to go through.
- Turn off the lights, TV when you are not using them to cut down on your electrical bill. Also unplug appliances, cell phone chargers and other devices when not in use. Check out this green buying guide if you are in need of a new air conditioner.
- Install a ceiling fan to use in the summer, freeze grapes for a cool snack, or do what you can to avoid using the air-conditioner during peak hours.
- Buy energy efficient light bulbs. They last for around 10 years and will also save you money in the long run, as well as cutting down on your electrical bill. Learn what CAW is doing about energy efficient lighting here.
- Turn your computer monitor off when leaving for more than an hour. Yes, the rumor is true - monitors use more energy than your computer does.
- Get a bike. Do you drive five minutes to pick up a loaf of bread at the supermarket? 25 percent of all car trips are less than a mile. By riding a bike or walking for short trips, you'll save energy and money, and you just might slim down in time for swimsuit season.
- Reduce hazardous waste associated with cleaning products by substituting some less harmful cleaners. For example, some tried and tested techniques: vinegar and scrunched up newspaper for cleaning windows; baking powder and water for removing mould and mildew, and vinegar for cleaning toilets. See SF Environment's Easy and Safe Cleaning Products for the Home for more information.
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- If you're not addicted to the continual shower stream, turn off the flow while you scrub up and turn it back on to rinse. This saves a few minutes of your water use, which adds up.
- When brushing teeth, just wet your toothbrush at the beginning and rinse at the end; no need to have it turned on the whole time.
- For most places, you don't need to buy bottled water (unless local non-profit organizations or health/water agencies advise otherwise), which only uses up the plastic in which it is contained. Some bottled waters are bottled from tap sources, and many tap waters have stronger health regulations than bottled water does.
- A comprehensive guide to water conservation and teaching tips for parents and educators (hat tip to Amy B. in Mrs. Fowler's Fourth Grade Class)
- Save one-sided used paper as scrap for shopping lists, notes and drawing paper for children.
- Save wrapping paper in bins to re-use in following years.
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- Remember that re-use is higher in the hierarchy than recycling. Use refillable pens, pencils and tape dispensers. According to the Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, Americans throw out 1.6 billion single-use pens each year.
- Bring your reusable bags to grocery stores. Learn more about the problem of plastic bags.
..and In Your Yard
- Mowing the lawn - leave the cuttings on the lawn. Called 'grasscycling,' this practice will feed the lawn and provide better growth. The process works best if the lawn is cut regularly and you don't remove more than a third of the leaf blade length.
- Recycle organics! Around 50% of household waste is made up of organic material, such as garden material and food scraps, which can be composted to produce an all-natural fertilizer for your garden. Plastic food trays and yogurt containers make good seed trays or can be used for sprouting seeds like mustard, cress and other spices. Fill an old flower pallet with compost to make an herb garden. Paint it if you want something more attractive.
- Before you head out to the grocery store for some fresh salad greens or garnishes, step out to your backyard and take a look around. Dandelions are very useful plants from roots to flowers. The roasted roots can be used as a coffee additive or replacement. The leaves make great salad greens, and the crowns can be steamed or deep-fried for a unique side dish. Violet flowers when crystallized add a special touch to cakes and other desserts and can also be used in tea. Rose petals can also be prepared as a sugared delicacy (make sure you're raising them organically, though, naturally) Did you know that the sunflowers seeds aren't the only edible part of the plant? Cooked sunflower buds are very similar to artichoke hearts. The possibilities are endless.
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The Wizard's Bar & Grill GETS CRAFTY every Friday. Kick off your weekend with us and the finest craft brews… The next 5 weeks we'll be showcasing Drop-In Brewing Company in Middlebury.
This Friday, The Wizard's Bar and Grill moves to Waterbury!!! We'll hang at Arvads Grill… located at 3 South Main Street in Waterbury. Every Friday from 4 to 7 1/9-2/6
Joey Vega and the Wizard Crew holding it down with Farrell Distributing
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UGE Releases Preliminary Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter of 2016
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 24, 2017) - UGE International Ltd. (TSXV: UGE) (OTCQB: UGEIF) (the "Company" or "UGE"), today released preliminary selected financial information for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016, including estimates for revenue and backlog as well as additional commentary. UGE reports all amounts in US dollars, unless otherwise noted.
Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2016 were approximately $3.5 million, making it the Company's largest revenue-generating quarter in its history. Previously, the Company's largest revenue-generating quarter from continuing operations1 was $1.5 million in the second quarter of 2016, and $2.7 million when including discontinued operations1 in the third quarter of 2015.
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As at December 31, 2016, UGE's order backlog was $34.8 million. Full audited results for 2016 will be released in April, 2017.
1 Excludes results and values associated with the divestment of UGE Holdings Ltd., the Company's former wind-focused subsidiary, as described in the press release issued September 6, 2016 and reported in the interim consolidated financial statements for the quarter ended September 30, 2016.


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Thanks to a Travel Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, I was able to participate in the Master Artist in Residency Program, at the beautiful Atlantic Center for the Arts, from May 15 through June 04, 2016. The Center is carved out of the Florida jungle and its award-winning buildings are made of cedar. I loved walking along the paths lined with palmettos, under Spanish moss, while little lizards scurried about in front of me. Such a special place.
The structure of the ACA Residency Program brought together three "Master Artists" from different disciplines, with 24 "Associate Artists" to participate in the three-week program. The Master Artists were Ian Winters (video and media artist working at the intersections of physical performance, installations / architectural form, and time-based media), Myra Melford (pianist, composer, experimental piano forms), and poet, Frances Richards. Milford and Winters were collaborating on a multi-sensorial performance investigating the deconstructed piano.
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Bob Hoskins reveals he is suffering from Parkinson's Disease as he announces retirement from his 'wonderful acting career'
His agent said Hoskins, 69, was given the diagnosis in the autumn and planned to spend time with his familyHoskins, from Suffolk in England, has played a range of roles since the 1970s, ranging from gangster films to comedy rolesParkinson's is a neurological condition which is thought to affect around 127,000 people in the UK and has no known cure
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Retiring: Bob Hoskins was given the diagnosis in the autumn. Announcing his retirement the star's agent said he planned to spent time with his family
Actor Bob Hoskins has announced his retirement from acting after being diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease.
The 69-year-old star – whose career spans four decades – starred in Hollywood hits such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Long Good Friday and just this year he played a dwarf alongside Kristen Stewart in Snow White & The Huntsman
Announcing his retirement today, his agent said Hoskins was given the diagnosis in the autumn and planned to spend time with his family.
A statement, issued on his behalf, said: 'Bob Hoskins wishes to announce that he will be retiring from acting, following his diagnosis of Parkinson's disease last autumn.
'He wishes to thank all the great and brilliant people he has worked with over the years, and all of his fans who have supported him during a wonderful career.
'Bob is now looking forward to his retirement with his family, and would greatly appreciate that his privacy be respected at this time.'
Parkinson's is a neurological condition which is thought to affect around 127,000 people in the UK and has no known cure.
It is often known for the tremors which it causes but other effects are include slow movements and depression.
Hoskins has appeared in more than 70 films since first finding screen success in the early 1970s, beginning with small parts and becoming a familiar face through his starring role in Dennis Potter's BBC series Pennies From Heaven.
Hoskins is perhaps best known for his role in 1988 Hollywood hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Parkinson's Disease is a chronic neurological disorder.
People with the condition don't have enough of a chemical called dopamine because some nerve cells in their brain have died.
This affects the way the brain co-ordinates the movements of the muscles in different parts of the body.
The disease mainly develops in the over 50s.
About 5 in 1,000 people in their 60s, and about 40 in 1,000 people in their 80s have the condition.
The main symptoms are slowness of movement, stiffness of muscles and shaking.
These tend to slowly worsen with time although the rate varies from patient to patient.
The condition is diagnosed from the symptoms shown by the patient. It also increases your risk of dementia.
About half of people with PD develop dementia at some stage.
Depression is also common among sufferers.
There is currently no cure but drugs and physiotherapy can treat symptoms.
There have also been recent promising trials using deep brain stimulation.
The north London-raised star spent a
brief spell working in a circus, as well as being a porter and lorry
driver before turning to acting.
Although he rose to prominence in
gritty British films – notably in The Long Good Friday, as underworld
boss Harold Shand and in Mona Lisa – he successfully built up a profile
in the US.
Hoskins' performances have gone on to include Mermaids opposite Cher, as well as Hook and Super Mario Bros.
His instantly- recognisable London accent did not stop him from taking a role as FBI boss J Edgar Hoover in the 1995 film Nixon.
And despite big-budget hits, he has
been more than happy to appear in low-budget movies such as the Shane
Meadows-directed A Room For Romeo Brass.
Hoskins – whose characters often have a heart of gold – is also known for his association with a
British Telecom (now BT) ad campaign, featuring the line "It's good to talk".
The star has been married to his second wife Linda for over 30 years.
They married in 1982, four years after he split from first wife Jane Livesey, with whom has two adult children Alex and Sarah – both in their thirties.
With Linda he has two children – Rosa, 29, an actress carving out a career in theatre and television and a 27-year-old son, Jack.
Hoskins is not the first high-profile actor to be diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
Back To The Future star Michael J Fox discovered he had the disease in 1991 and went public with the news seven years later.
He set up the Michael J Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's Research in 2000 and has become a leading
campaigner on the issue, particularly in the United States.
Another prominent sufferer is former heavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali.
Back To The Future star Michael J Fox also has the disease as well as former heavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali
Closer to home, former Arsenal and Liverpool footballer Ray Kennedy has also been diagnosed with the disease.
He set up the Michael J Fox
Foundation for Parkinson's Research in 2000 and has become a leading
campaigner on the issue, particularly in the United States.
Another prominent sufferer is former heavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali.
Closer to home, former Arsenal and Liverpool footballer Ray Kennedy has also been diagnosed with the disease.
The 69-year-old from Suffolk has played a wide range of roles including starring as a minder in 1986 film Mona Lisa opposite Cathy Minder
Eight years earlier he played a gangster alongside Helen Mirren, right, in cult hit The Long Good Friday
He is also one of around 127,000
Britons with the disease, which is caused by a loss of brain cells that
produce a chemical messenger called dopamine.
differ from case to case but often include a tremor or fine shake while
the person is at rest, rigidity of muscles, slowness of movement and
unsteady balance.
Most sufferers are aged 50 or over but younger people can get it too. One in 20 is under 40.
There is no cure and scientists have been unable to work out why people get the condition.
can be controlled using a combination of drugs, therapies and
occasionally surgery, but often more care and support may be needed as
they progress.
disease was identified by – and named after – Dr James Parkinson who
wrote An Essay On The Shaking Palsy in 1817 which established it as a
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Less than a week before their season-opening clash with one of their principal rivals, the defending American Football Conference champion Denver Broncos learned Tuesday that wide receiver Wes Welker, a pivotal weapon in their offense, would be suspended four games for violating the N.F.L.'s policy on performing-enhancing substances.
Welker's football future had recently been clouded by his third concussion in the last 10 months, but now he will miss the first quarter of the regular season because of a league mandate. According to persons familiar with the league's drug-testing results and other executives in the N.F.L. who were informed about the results, Welker tested positive for a banned amphetamine.
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Welker will be eligible to return to the Broncos' roster on Monday, Oct. 6, after the team's game with Arizona.
"Tonight's news regarding Wes is very disappointing for our team, but we understand the league's authority in this area," Broncos Coach John Fox said. "While it's unfortunate to not have him to start the year, I have full confidence in our wide receivers and expect that group to continue playing at a high level.
"I have no doubt that Wes will remain focused on his preparations for the season and stay in excellent shape during his time away from the team," Fox added.
Welker sent an email to The Denver Post late Tuesday that read: "I'm as shocked as everyone at today's news. I want to make one thing abundantly clear: I would NEVER knowingly take a substance to gain a competitive advantage in any way. I have never been concerned with the leagues performance enhancing or drug abuse policies because under no scenario would they ever apply to me, but I now know, that (drug-policy procedures) are clearly flawed, and I will do everything in my power to ensure they are corrected, so other individuals and teams aren't negatively affected so rashly like this."
Welker sustained a concussion in a preseason game on Aug. 23 but returned to practice with the team Monday. The Broncos had not ruled him out of Sunday's game with Indianapolis. Last season, he sustained a concussion in November and another concussion three weeks later, which caused Welker to miss the final three games of the 2013 regular season. He returned to have 18 postseason catches, including eight in the Broncos' Super Bowl loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
Welker, who has had 313 receptions in the last three years, has been one of the N.F.L.'s best slot receivers, and he signed a two-year contract with Denver worth $12 million. Welker, who has 841 career receptions and will be a free agent after this season, will not be paid during his suspension to begin the season.


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The theme for November is turning the soil
When one has focused only on what is seen and shows up on the surface, what is beneath that surface becomes less and less fertile as time goes on.
This month is it time to dig down deep and turn up what is underneath, bring it to the surface, inspect it, break it up, feed it, aerate it and fertilize it in preparation for new seeds.
This is what this month is all about.
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There will be numerous opportunities to discover what you are missing and what you wish you had more of. And maybe you find you want to change things up, plant something new, do some bigger landscaping on your life.
We have excellent support for this now as we revisit similar energies to the time of the eclipse. This gives us a second chance to do accomplish what we didn't back then.
One of the gifts of this time is the discovery of new passions and the rediscovery of old talents. As you turn up your past, your history, and your old dreams and inspirations, you may discover that you really do want to play music or write a book or be an artist or work with animals or children.
It may be painful to look at and acknowledge the situations or reasons why you never followed through on those dreams. That's the stuff under the ground that needs to be turned up, and your willingness, determination and discipline to do so is the shovel you will use.
Let those disappointments, judgments and regrets go. Become neutral, practice forgiveness and then rekindle the passion and get some support in following through…
This could be a very exciting time for those of you who finally decide to follow your dreams. There is great opportunity for that this month.
The challenges are going to be trusting the outcome, having the courage to make new choices, and staying out of blame.
Inertia could set in when fear comes up around moving forward. Old wounds connected to regret and failure could surface as well.
Work through them, move forward and prepare your own 'field' for a season of planting new seeds of old familiar dreams into freshly fertilized and upgraded soil.
Thank you for the insight Mystic Mamma!


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In 2015, a grant from the Wallace Global Fund funded the research and development phase of Women Effect initiative. Suzanne Biegel, founder of Women Effect, spoke to hundreds of potential community members about what they needed, and what the field needed, to connect those deploying capital with a gender lens. This phase confirmed the desire for Women Effect amongst the investor community and helped to shape the pilot.
By July 2015 Suzanne had a plan to move forward with a non-profit network and a 16-strong global advisory board.
By October 2015, Women Effect had raised most of the start up funding for the pilot year and were adopted by Criterion Institute as their Fiscal Sponsor.
The team behind the pilot was brought on in November 2015 and Women Effect was already being represented at conferences, events, and individual meetings across the world.
This website was launched in January 2016 as a Gender Lens Investing knowledge hub.
The private beta community platform was ready for beta in April 2016 and formally launched in June 2016.
The pilot ended in November 2016 following the conclusion that an online community model was not the best vehicle to advance this work.
Well over 1300 people participated in events, convenings, calls, use of the public website and the private community platform, and our social media during this time. After launching the beta community platform for four and a half months, and looking at the envisioned business model of a membership supported global online community, supported additionally by sponsorship and philanthropy, we decided to close out the pilot in October 2016. Many introductions were made, signposting people to information resources, tools, and investment resources, and many in our community shared that this initiative changed their thinking and actions on investing with a gender lens. A report on our findings throughout the pilot has been made available to funders and advisors. If you would like a copy, please get in touch. (add a link to email@example.com)
In January 2017, the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, Women Effect founder Suzanne Biegel and the Criterion Institute Board of Directors decided to move part of the Women Effect content and expertise to Wharton Social Impact Initiative (WSII) at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
We are so appreciative of the funders and supporters, team, and community that have been part of Women Effect since the beginning.


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It's Just ''Sex''
By Gina Piccalo For Los Angeles magazine.
October 1, 2009
Evan Handler has pretended to have sex with lots of women. His wife, Elisa Atti, knows all about it. Before the 48-year-old regular on Showtime's edgy comedy series Californication gets busy onscreen, Atti runs lines with him. And when the torrid scenes featuring Handler, best known as Charlotte's bald husband on Sex and the City, are broadcast, Atti often snuggles up with him to watch.
But there's one thing the couple rarely do together: talk about the fake sex on the day of Handler's performance. "That would seem particularly provocative," he says.
Diane Farr spent 13 episodes on FX's wry firefighter drama Rescue Me having a steamy affair with a man she described to her husband as "superhot": the actor Daniel Sunjata. But just as she did when she nibbled the ear of a costar on CBS's crime series Numb3rs, Farr followed a self-imposed rule: If feigning lust inspires the real thing, save the sizzle for later. "You have to make sure that when that button is pushed," Farr says, "you bring home the response."
Or else. For actors in committed relationships, love scenes can be the craft's most treacherous terrain. It doesn't matter that the heavy breathing summoned by the command "Action!" is often awkward and humiliating to perform, what with dozens of crew members on the set, counting down to lunch break. Sex scenes can hammer away at a couple's sense of trust, revealing old fissures and making room for more.
Think of a humid greenhouse, which fools plants into pumping out the plumpest, juiciest tomatoes. That's what film and TV sets can do to emotions. Actors often work 20-hour days, sometimes far from home, tucked inside windowless soundstages, fending off boredom between takes by trading intimacies. The bonds that form may be fleeting, but they're intense.
"It's kind of like if you go to war with somebody," says actor Scott Conte, a visiting assistant professor at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television. "I've done one-day shoots where I've gotten to know the person in a more intimate way than some acquaintances I've had in my life because you're asked to show all these emotions in such a short amount of time. It almost makes you feel like you're further along in the relationships than you actually are."
The better the actor, the more convincing the sex scene—and the more potentially wrenching for the actor's mate. No wonder so many couples devise rituals, some subtle, others more concrete, that they hope will ease the pain. Where there's smoke, yes, there's often a spark. But that doesn't mean you have to burn the house down. Thus: ground rules.
Actor Michael B. Silver, whose many credits include recent episodes of the TV series Heroes and Brothers and Sisters, fell in love with his wife, Katie Mitchell, in an acting class after the two did a sex scene from the 1977 film Looking for Mr. Goodbar. So they know better than most that when you engage your libido in the service of drama, you sometimes can't unring the bell.
For that reason, Mitchell and Silver have always been careful to pay close attention to how they talk to each other about their love scenes. Even scripted passion can stoke real chemistry, they say. You'd have to be dead not to react. So discretion is key. Silver might mention whether his costar was flirty or shut down, but he skips the details. Mitchell returns the favor.
"We both know it's not natural to be in bed with somebody or to kiss somebody for months where the whole thing is you're in love, and then turn it off when you leave the rehearsal hall," says Mitchell, who has appeared in the TV shows Criminal Minds and Bones. "It's not natural. And yet you can do it. Ultimately the technique is more about ethics. If I do get turned on by someone while I'm kissing them, [I know] that's all it was. And then I just walk away."
Of course, there are those—some of them A-listers—who didn't walk away. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt infamously ignited their romance on the set of the sexy action film Mr. & Mrs. Smith (while Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston). Richard Burton met then-married Elizabeth Taylor on Cleopatra. Katharine Hepburn met the married Spencer Tracy on Woman of the Year.
David Duchovny, who plays a sex-addled novelist on Californication, checked himself into rehab for sex addiction and separated briefly from his wife, Téa Leoni, after the show's second season. Asked recently about performing sex scenes, he said, "You punch in the clock, you go into work, and you're playing a character. Personally, I'm not somebody that takes it home." (Maybe that was the problem.)
Sam Mendes couldn't stomach watching the love scene between wife Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio during the shooting of Revolutionary Road, even though he was the film's director. So Mendes viewed the romantic reunion of the Titanic duo on a video monitor in a neighboring room, shouting out suggestions from afar.
Mendes may have been wise to keep his distance. (After all, did you see his wife get it on with Patrick Wilson in Little Children?) Later Winslet told reporters she was pleasantly surprised to find her chemistry with DiCaprio so powerful, they could just "slip right into it, like muscle memory."
When they're honest with themselves, actors generally admit that any butterflies they feel in the presence of a costar are usually just an illusion. But in the heat of the moment, it can be hard to remember that.
"I've had to fight the attraction for the person when I do the scenes where I'm pretending to fall in love with them," says Farr. "You end up doing something you actually do with your real-life partner. You might move your leg a certain way. But you're the only person that knows that's your actual authentic behavior. You end up feeling very close to these people because they've seen you do something very private."
This realization led Farr to reach out to the girlfriend of her onscreen love interest in Rescue Me, writing her a note. "It said, 'Hi. I'm Diane and I'm totally not interested in your boyfriend.' She really seemed to appreciate that."
But this sort of outreach—even when genuine—can strike some as protesting too much. Most actors take it upon themselves to look out for the feelings of their mates. Pamela Adlon, who plays Handler's wife on Californication, has stumbled upon a way to make her onscreen sex scenes nonthreatening to her husband: When the episode airs, her proper British mother comes over to watch.
"My mom sits there and says, 'Oh, it's lovely. You look very nice,'?" says Adlon, explaining that the seating plan—Adlon on the couch bookended by her husband and Mum—throws cold water on even the most erotic encounter.
For Handler, it's laughter that gets him and his wife past the raunchiest scenes, like this one from Californication's last season in which Handler's character pinch-hits for a porn star: First Adlon ducks between his legs to (ahem) start the engine, then the revved-up Handler walks over to a young actress perched atop a desk and thrusts mightily into her naked loins while the camera lingers on his contorted face. Scenes like this give his wife pause, Handler says. "Some of it makes her a little queasy. But it makes me a little queasy to see myself doing that stuff," he adds, joking, "We tend to have sex 10 to 20 times the day before I have to do one of those scenes."
It seems that the most successful relationships between actors thrive by maintaining a sort of Jedi mind trick of perpetual disbelief. How else can an actor spend the day in bed with a stranger—limbs entangled, lips locked—and then later slip under the covers with his or her real squeeze? How else could that squeeze banish thoughts of those hands groping another? It's weird for everyone.
Conte, the visiting UCLA professor, was newly engaged when he was cast in a play that called for him to simulate sex, half dressed with a lovely blond costar. He did his best to prepare his fiancée, now wife, Bibi Dhillonn, explaining that the physical stuff was highly choreographed: His hand would go on the actress's hip, he would hold her, they would kiss longingly. It might look wanton, Conte told Dhillonn, but it was about as sexy as following a road map.
The first time she saw the play, Dhillonn was fine. But when she saw it again, she noticed a facial expression of Conte's combined with a gesture that was so familiar, it made her heart pound and sent blood rushing to her face. The theater was tiny, and she knew that she couldn't walk out without being noticed and interrupting Conte's performance. So she just sat there, watching the visage she'd thought Conte reserved only for her and tried to remind herself that the man she loved was acting.
"I knew it was coming, and yet for some reason I was like, 'Oh. They're actually touching each other,'?" says Dhillonn, an administrator in UCLA's theater department, remembering being surprised by her own surprise. "Sometimes Scott's own mannerisms come out in the role he's playing. When that's happening, it's harder to separate Scott from the act onstage."
You can love your mate and trust them implicitly, Dhillonn says, but part of your brain is still screaming, If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, isn't it a duck? (Or something that rhymes with duck.)
"There was real body contact," she says, recalling where her mind went. "If there was nude body contact, you would have to wonder: Does he enjoy how her skin feels? Are her curves better?"
Hot Flashes
There are plenty of sex scenes on film that look real or actually were (and no, we're not talking about porn)
The Brown Bunny (2003) » Chloë Sevigny has confirmed in interviews that she was not acting (no kidding!) in a scene in which she performs fellatio on Vincent Gallo. Reportedly the four minute shocker was filmed with remote cameras and no one else on set.
Wild Orchid (1990) » Mickey Rourke and Carré Otis were an item when this romantic drama was shot; they later married and divorced. Even though the tie didn't bind—man, there was heat in those couplings, which are rumored to be real.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (1976)?» Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles so enjoyed their sex scenes in this movie that they staged some additional ones for Playboy. Kristofferson has said he regrets the dalliance, which ended his marriage to Rita Coolidge.
Don't Look Now (1973)?» Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie starred in this horror film about a couple whose daughter has drowned. Many have asserted that their famous lovemaking sequence, which had to be trimmed to avoid an X rating, was not simulated.


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Celeste Friedman is an award-winning singer who has tried marriage twice and has had many live-in boyfriends. Now she remains happily single, and she has written Single 101. When Cora Lonning's parents divorced when she was 17, she held the divorce against her father for leaving her, deciding not to trust any men. But when she was 31, she talked with her father and learned his reasoning, which rewrote her history. Good thing. He died soon after.
Interview With Dr. Beth Erickson, Relationships 101
Interview starts at 33:30


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My career as a psychiatrist is 98% complete. I chose this year to lay down my pills and needles and regular working hours and yield those tasks to younger men and women. I take my empathy, listening, and attunement with me in my ongoing role as spiritual director. Is there anything profound that can be said at such a time as this?
First, I was surprised to read on a "Happy Retirement" card from my grandchildren that I have been practicing medicine for 39 years. It didn't seem like it was possible, but I counted. They were correct. I have been doctoring for 39 years. Amazing how time passes!
Second, it's nice to be remembered. Many thank-you's to my gracious children for throwing me an unexpected and festive retirement party. Who'd of thought? I didn't even know that people had such things as retirement parties.
Finally, let me say it has been a privilege to be a servant to others through the practice of medicine and psychiatry. Let this be a lesson to all who will hear. Doing your daily duties because you enjoy them and because you wish to serve is much more valuable than merely amassing wealth. I doubt anyone reading this needs the reminder, but I'll send the message to the universe as well. As Jesus taught us, "whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all."
Speaking of sending messages to the universe, I give thanks to the Infinite Creator who got me through the hoops required prior to doctoring and through the snares and pitfalls of doctoring without too many deep wounds. What bruises were received, were not wasted. They, instead, were used surgically to progress me on that path we call the spiritual journey by a loving hand.
I hope you feel the same at the end of your career. If your trajectory is not taking you toward that end, may you find the grace to change, grow, triumph, or endure with patience and even joy. Such things are worthy of discussion in spiritual direction. Come, and let's discuss them, if you wish.
Simplicity in Retirement & Life
Contemplative practice has fostered simplicity of heart within me for decades. Part of this simplicity is what Richard Rohr describes as a "second naiveté."
Our first naiveté is that of childhood where things seem simple and one assumes things are merely as they appear on the surface. Our models of the world are simple and we do not appreciate that people and reality are multi-layered and complex.
If one takes seriously their college education, such naiveté is seriously challenged. Add to that, the deep dive into the human experience of suffering which every doctor must experience, then life becomes complex and emotionally challenging indeed.
Take that complexity one step deeper by looking into dark depths of human brokenness and inhumanity by working with severe trauma victims, and the bulwarks of the first naiveté stand no chance of enduring. Yet, strangely, the gifts given me by walking with the various biblical Job's toward recovery from trauma, has enriched my life forever. If God cannot address the deep questions that arise from the lives of such people, then God is too small. I found that He is large enough, but His help came not in the ways that I might have first imagined.
As time passed, my faith became both very traditional and very progressive. I do not fit in with either the liberals or the conservatives. Instead, I have learned to live comfortably, even joyfully, with paradox. In doing so, I found a much larger and even happier garden. I thoroughly believe in Adam and Eve now, but on about ten different levels. I am both complex and simple—orthodox, yet more. It is enough to both boggle the mind yet quiet the heart.
Through the practice of psychiatry and spiritual direction, I was steadily moved toward larger viewpoints and greater inclusivity in my ideas, a deeper understanding of people, and a more honest sense of the Ways of God. God always became bigger and led me to larger places. If God could include and allow the experiences and ideas I was challenged with, then so could I. If God asked me to love unconditionally and universally, then it was clear that God operated in the same way.
This process of transformation was gradual, and the realizations that came with it were not "either-or"; they were great big both-and realizations. None of it happened without much meditation, discernment struggles, study, and conversation. Understanding soul development enabled me to appreciate a bigger picture. I felt free to transcend my old ways of thought and limitations precisely because I knew that God was always bigger than I had yet become. I found spiritual direction training and practice helping me to do this. I honor both my teachers and the souls who have allowed me to walk with them on their own journeys to the broader, deeper places.
As Richard Rohr so aptly states,
It seems we all begin in naiveté and eventually return to a "second naiveté" or simplicity, whether willingly or on our deathbed. This blessed simplicity is calm, knowing, patient, inclusive, and self-forgetful. It helps us move beyond anger, alienation, and ignorance. I believe this is the very goal of mature adulthood and mature religion.
Troy Caldwell
PS: Some may have noted bad links on my "Spirituality Teachings" section of my web site in the past. Retirement has let me fix that. Try it out here:


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The Gutter Twins is a side project of Greg Dulli (ex-Afghan Whigs, current member of Twilight Singers) and Mark Lanegan (ex-Screaming Trees, ex-Queens Of The Stone Age). On Christmas Day 2003, the guys began work on their collaboration. It took a few years for all the timing to fall into place. Their long awaited debut, Saturnalia, was just released a few weeks back. It definetely has a dark, bluesy feel to it. It features guest appearances by Joseph Arthur, Martina Topley-Bird, Queens Of The Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen and the touring band of the Twilight Singers.
The Gutter Twins will be here on Wednesday at Antone's. Ticket info for the Austin show is down below, along with the rest of the tour dates.
They recently appeared on Letterman with the song "Idle Hands". He really seemed to enjoy it, check out his reaction at the end of the video.
The Gutter Twin Tourdates:
03/27 Dallas, TX - House of Blues (Cambridge Room)
03/29 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
04/02 Hollywood, CA - Avalon
03/26 Austin, TX - Antone's [Tickets]
03/27 Dallas, TX - House of Blues (Cambridge Room)
03/29 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
04/02 Hollywood, CA - Avalon
Touring w/ Great Northern


text: Steven won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score, the Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for Best Lyrics, the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, and the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Spring Awakening. Plays include the long-running Carbondale Dreams; Perfect for You; Doll (Rosenthal Prize); A Footnote to the Iliad (New York Stage and Film); Asylum (Naked Angels), and a reconceived musical version of Shakespeare's Tempest (Lyric Hammersmith). He has collaborated with Duncan Sheik on Nero (Magic Theatre, New York Stage and Film); The Nightingale (La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, and New York Stage and Film); Alice By Heart (commissioned by The National Theatre of London: Connections); and the critically acclaimed album Phantom Moon (Nonesuch). Sater wrote the script and lyrics for Prometheus Bound, with music by Serj Tankian, directed by Diane Paulus, which premiered at the ART in March 2011. He has also written the script and lyrics for Some Lovers, with music by Burt Bacharach, which will premiere at the Old Globe later this year. Additionally, Sater works as a pop/rock lyricist and a screenwriter (the forthcoming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake for Sony Pictures).


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On April 12, 2015, I will be running the Queens Half Marathon — not for myself, but for compassion. I'm running to raise donations for the mission of Heart's Home USA, Brooklyn. They serve the poorest of the poor in my city, New York City.
These people are saints. If Mother Teresa chose New York City, it would look like this. And that is why we should support them in whatever way we can.
"Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" (Hebrews 21:1).
If you would like to contribute, here's how:
- Go to Sports4Compassion and learn more
- Use #sports4compassion in social media and the tattoo arts
- Follow the founder of Sports4Compassion Kari Stender on twitter or instagram


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God never gives up on your dreams. Neither should you. That dream that He himself planted on your heart so long ago that doesn't seem to ever come to pass? God is molding it and shaping it to a better story than you could imagine for yourself. Just as for us, we spent four years … Continue reading Hope in the New Year: God Never Gives Up on Your Dreams
Motherhood After Infertility
Since having my little rainbow baby around a year ago, watching her learn, discover, and grow everyday has been a joy and delight! Mothering her has really made me realize that I am truly where I'm meant to be. She is my world. Everyday that passes, I am more and more thankful and grateful for … Continue reading Motherhood After Infertility
Be Still
Being still..... Easier said then done sometimes. In the hustle of life. In the pursuit of our dreams. In the stresses of what comes with trying to pursue our dreams. How often do we take a deep breath, sit down, and just reflect on the greatness of God? In the vastness of His Glory? I … Continue reading Be Still
Gone but Not Forgotten
Pregnancy loss. Miscarriage. Still Birth. Infant loss. 1 in 4 couples experience horrifying news such as these when growing their families. 1 in 4 couples grieve the loss of a child they love so dear, yet never met...Or only met for a short while. 25%. That is a tremendous amount of people having to say … Continue reading Gone but Not Forgotten
1st Year in Review: Trusting God and Answered Prayers
Right around a year ago, I started this blog. And boy what a year it has been. I thought I would take a moment to look back on what all has gone on in that amount of time. What prayers have been answered and what we have had to trust God for every day. … Continue reading 1st Year in Review: Trusting God and Answered Prayers
Kim's Story: Secondary Infertility
Time for another testimony through infertility. This time, secondary infertility. Kim and I met in collage and have stayed in touch through the years. I hope that her story will encourage anyone out there who may have a similar story to not give up and keep trusting that God will hear your prayers in the … Continue reading Kim's Story: Secondary Infertility
The Love of My Life
There are times when I think back at all the major decisions I have made through the years and think to myself, "I wonder what would have happened or what my life would have been like if I had done this or that instead?" "Would I be married to the same guy?" "Would I be … Continue reading The Love of My Life
To My "One in a Millie Anne"
Dearest Millie, You are so precious to me. Your father and I have prayed for you and your little life long before you were even conceived. Praying for you to come. Praying for the person you would become. Praying that you would one day be a world changer. Now that you are here in my … Continue reading To My "One in a Millie Anne"
A Labor of Love
48 Hours... That is how long my labor and delivery lasted...48 hours. I ended up having to be induced because of multiple reasons. This was not a good start for my "ideal" labor and delivery I had dreamed of having. I was 10 days past my due date with no end in sight. I had … Continue reading A Labor of Love
Ready and Waiting
Just over a week until my little rainbow baby will be in my arms! A miracle that my husband and I have tried for over 4 years to see come to pass will be wrapped in a blanket all sweet and ready for mommy and daddy cuddles. I am so ready. I am "patiently" waiting. … Continue reading Ready and Waiting