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Jewish World Review May 27, 2012/ 6 Sivan, 5772 Even now, Memorial Day means summer camp By Dan K. Thomasson
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Memorial Day, nee Decoration Day, was a big deal when I was a kid. For one thing it was the day that 33 drivers in the world's fastest cars roared around a brick track in the granddaddy of all races, the Indianapolis 500, about 30 miles north of my home.
More importantly to me it was the unofficial beginning of summer with the opening of the community swimming pool and warm days when all sorts of out of school activities from fishing to exploring beckoned from the creeks and woods around home. It also meant, at least when I was still a ways from puberty, heading for camp.
The anticipation of that began the minute school was out so that the three weeks I actually spent there stretched into more than a month of excitement as I packed and repacked and saved every nickel from a magazine route. This was post-Depression by only a very few years and World War II with its gasoline rationing had curbed travel. Also families, still reeling from the deprivation of the worst economic disaster in the nation's history, were just getting used to having a little money and were still careful how they spent it.
The name of this Shangri-La with its permanent cabins and ice cream and model and craft stores, chapel, dining hall, sail boats and swimming was Camp Crosley. And the years I went there the director of this YMCA-owned and operated heaven on earth was Mr. Pettyjohn. I'm not sure of the spelling after all this time nor do I remember his first name. It doesn't matter. He was short and round and a kind gentleman whom we only saw in the chapel for convocations and other camp-wide events. He had been there for years and obviously was slowing down. His assistants and counselors did most of the work.
I do recall the extravagant cost of this excitement. It was $11 a week or $33 for my entire stay, not counting outlays for candy, ice cream, stuff to make a lanyard and so forth. The importance and popularity of a camper was measured by the intricacy of his lanyard. Those fellow campers with the more colorful and elaborately woven lanyards were the most envied among us.
I was listening to National Public Radio the other day and heard a piece about the summer camp industry. The average for an overnight camp was, the reporter said, about $789 a week. For a day camp, it was more than $250. That meant that my experience today might cost $3,000, depending on whether its rate fell above or below the average.
But this venerable institution on the shores of Lake Tippecanoe, Ind., founded in 1921 is still going strong and the weekly residence fee was listed on the Internet as $500, still a tidy sum in comparison but obviously a better bargain than some. o that I can only add, "Holy Cow!"
Perhaps this summer experience has taken a backseat to the specialized "camps" offered in nearly every sport - hockey, basketball, football, baseball, tennis, golf ,etc. Maybe the electronics at home or those offered at a camp are more attractive to today's youngsters than hiking, swimming or boating. Send-a-kid -to-camp charities, I realize, still exist and now and then I have contributed. I do know there are various church-sponsored and Boy and Girl Scout camps that my own children attended and still talk about.
If this activity has diminished because of cost or lack of interest, it is too bad. I believe the semi-organized freedom of a summer in a verdant setting is one of the more exhilarating, memorable ways of spending time away from the classroom. Every night the camp bugler would warm up to ending the day with a rendition of a popular song like "Dreams" and the cabins would fall silent as they prepared to do just that.
After four years, I had other things to do. But every Memorial Day, I think about how excited I was in anticipation of those adventures by the lake.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Tuesday Lectionary Leanings: "On Fire" Edition
The Texts This Week
The Festival of Pentecost -- as many of us tell our Sunday School kids, it's the "birthday of the Church." Yet the tame flames of candles on a birthday cake are nothing like the dramatic fire and wind of the Spirit visiting the people of God in powerful and unpredictable ways.
What text(s) will you use as a thematic anchor for your sermon this coming Sunday, and why? Discuss!
And -- bonus points -- let us know if you're planning any special worship elements -- visual, choral, liturgical -- for this important Sunday in the life of the church.
Artwork: "Tipped Flames," Kazuya Akimoto
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We're having red balloons. I had thought that I would have lost my hair by now (I had my first chemo Friday) and threatened to have red flames painted on my bare skull. So, unless I shave my head, no flames for me. I also want birthday cake. I love Pentecost. It is my favorite church holiday. The spirit comes!
I'm recycling a sermon on Acts 2 cause I'm going to Cleveland, OH for a second opinion and there is only so much I can do.I'm leading Children's Worship, so I'm thinking that we'll read about the first Pentecost. Then we'll do a lesson will be about the gifts of the spirit. I'm leaning toward making a posterboard puzzle they have to put together. It will have a scripture in secret code that can only be "interpreted" when kids open gift envelopes and find clues to the code.
Love the Red Balloons!We have a mobile of origami doves, and a new banner of flames...and pinwheels for everyone! It's all very exciting. I'll be making up a children's time that is also for adults (so I can use it at the service when children are in SS too) incorporating pinwheels. I'm open to suggestions. :-)
I'm going to run upstairs and take a picture of the doves and post it on my blog right now. :-)Oooo - I LOVE that painting! We tend to have extras in our service - sometimes incense, the doves high on poles in our procession, and wonderful, wonderful music.
I reflected some on the lections for Sunday here, and then found that I had some more musings that I wrote here.
For me, probably the most important part of Pentecost is - as you pointed out - the difference between our tame fire and the untameable and unpredictable movements of God. I never used to really get why this was an important day in the church year, but now it's one my my most favoritest.I'm going with Numbers: "Would that all God's people were prophets!" Talking about (I think) the untamable Spirit and that it rests even on those "outside in the camp" and the nature of prophets in the Hebrew Bible, tying it in to the movement of the Spirit among people on the margins.
It will be different for us--we're pretty traditional for Pentecost, usually going with Acts 2 and different translations. But this year I'm REALLY shaking them up!With Mother's Day being one of the top 3 worships in attendance at my place, I am trying to integrate mothering/ mothers in with Pentecost/birthday of the church. I am probably gonna try something about the church as "mother" for believers....love red balloons and kites and pinwheels--maybe I'll use them all in the childrens time!
ReplyDeleteI like the ideas about the origami doves and the kites and pinwheels - maybe I need to get a pinwheel as a prop for my sermon. :)
I haven't far on the sermon. Sunday preached about the new ministry we've started together being grounded in prayer. Thinking about going with being empowered for ministry by the Spirit.
For worship on Pentecost I'm using:
Dona Nobis Pacem from the Hymnal 1982 (Hymn 712) (Latin - Give us your peace)) during communion, Cantad al Senor (Spanish - Sing to the Lord) as a closing hymn from Wonder Love and Praise, and Baba Tiri Pano, a folk song in Shona, taught to some of us at seminary by a student from Zimbabwe. (Father we are here, we are here in your name, Jesus we are here... Spirit we are here...) as our Hymn of Praise to do the whole languages thing.
We'll see how it goes. This is not really a singing congregation, but Sunday several came after coffee hour to learn the songs.
We will practice songs at the beginning of the service so people
will be more familiar with how to sing them. I typed the words
out phonetically to help with pronunciation.
I'm planning to read the gospel in Spanish and then the deacon
read it in English.
Also planning to do renewal of baptismal vows as in one of my books Pentecost is suggested as a good time for baptism or renewal.
Have asked folks to wear red. We will have red carnations in the
narthex for women (Mother's Day).
At this point I don't really have
any "decorations" planned like red balloons or anything.Funny, I knew it wasn't a groundbreaking idea or anything, but I didn't know it was a "thing" either - - the kites. My husband took a kitemaking class last year, and has since made some on his own, and taught some Boy Scout troops and things like that. When we moved to this new church in January he offered to do it with the Sunday School kids. I thought Pentecost was a logical choice. It wasn't really planned that they be red, but that's the color of the cellophane he bought months ago, so that's what they'll use. After worship we'll have an intergenerational kitemaking gathering which should be fun.
To make sure the significance for Pentecost is pointed out (it will be more chaotic after worship) I'll do that for my children's sermon with one he has already made.
This is my first Pentecost preaching, but I already feel like I have heard every possible variation on the "usual" Pentecost sermon. Even though I haven't preached it I feel like I'm already sick of it. And I love Pentecost!!!
Right now what I'm thinking is that I'll piggyback off the kite idea - - the kite as evidence of the wind which is invisible - - and instead of preaching traditionally, do a little congregation-participation testimony-telling time. We'll prime some pumps at our mid-week "alternative" service to make sure there are some willing to share, but otherwise mostly I'm just going to open it up to people who are willing to share what has been evidence of the Spirit in their lives. I will plan opening and closing remarks and my own testimony in case we're having trouble getting the converstaion flowing. I think that's my plan.
Not much heavy duty exegesis or anything, but some more non-traditional stuff that this congregation seems to be embracing when I've felt the Spirit move over the last couple of months.
I'm getting ready really start focusing us being attentive to the Spirit and discernment as we look for God's will for our ministry future. I'm new and they have had a long hard-working, but necessarily joyful interim. They did a lot of fixing of their internal issues, so now I want us to "ride the Spirit" moving forward and outward in ministry and mission. I feel like I've had a lot of Spirit sermons, but that seems to be the call I've been getting to preach.
We'll see what comes of it!I had to share the origami mobile with a couple members of our worship committee...maybe next year we can incorporate the idea into our worship space somehow.
Has anyone ever seen pix of the Pentecost installation at Grace Cathedral -- or the real thing? Very cool -- ribbons in "fire" colors suspended from the ceiling, flowing hither and yon.hedwyg - - Thanks for your thoughts. They have been a GREAT jumping off point and inspiration for our mid-week worship. Our music/worship director is excited to plan a visual worship display for the front of the sanctuary based on your idea of the Spirit in the 4 elements. If it pans out like we're hoping I'll take some pictures to post to you.
Peace!I'm focusing on 1 Corinthians. I originally entitled the sermon "Many Gifts, One Spirit" from the text, but then I received the current Interpreter (UM) magazine and the cover had "Many Faces, One Body" and I decided to combine these. For Children's time, I plan to photocopy the page and cut out the shape of a person, then cut it into puzzle pieces and have the children assemble it. I also plan to include a special prayer for Mother's Day from the UM Book of Worship.
ReplyDeleteNon-lectionary church person checking in here... Since it is Mother's Day in the US we are starting a four week series on family relationships. It's student intern preaching Sunday. :)
I'm preaching on Hannah and giving our kids to God. Outline almost done. Three teaching pastors-mentors all encouraging and suggesting.... and I'm getting more ideas than one can put into 20 minutes.
DebI am going a similar direction to Rainbow PAstor. I think we don't know what to do with the SPirit-filled prophetic voices in our world. Jeremiah Wright may make it into the sermon. He did get mentioned in my early thoughts.
If anyone is looking for some liturgical pieces (no kites or birds though) you can find what we are useing herebarnabas1183JoanCalvin--my prayers are with you.
I am having confirmation and affirmation of baptism on Sunday so I am not preaching so much on the lessons as I am talking about the movement of the Spirit in our lives that allow us to be faithful. I am also talking about what membership in the Church means in the light of the coming of the Holy Spirit. I think I will use some of the I Cor. reading to talk about the Body of Christ.
I am confirming my first person--as an Episcopalian in the Lutheran church, this is not a normal thing and in my tradition the work of the bishop. I am going to wear my new pink shirt for the occasion! Anybody want to kiss my ring?
We are taking in more than 10% of our sunday attendance in new membership on Sunday. I hope such an influx doesn't come back to bite us.Thank you all for such great ideas - especially the images and the children's lessons. I've been wondering what to use to help decorate the worship space...thank you! Cake is always a good thing...
I'm using the Acts 2 story and the Litany for Mothers Day (UMC GBOD worship website) to try and combo Pentecost with Moms Day. Since the reading is so long, I've divided it into three parts and we'll sing "Let it Breathe On Me" (UMH #503) in between the verses.
I really want to point to the inclusivity obtained through those divided tongues and try to build on that for Peace with Justice Sunday next week. But, it's only Tuesday and the Spirit could move me someplace completely different! :)For Joan Calvin (no email link on your blog)?
Where you are going is probably a matter of blocks from my home, thee one I'm actually at when I'm not in another city seminary. If you would like to get together -- maybe it would be good to have a cup of coffee with an unfamiliar face? -- please email me! I would be glad to come down to the hospital and hang out with you a bit if I'm there.I love this story from the Abbas (and the Ammas)...
Abba Lot came to Abba Joseph and said: Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; and, according as I am able, I strive to cleanse my heart of thoughts: now what more should I do? The elder rose up in reply and stretched out his hands to heaven, and his fingers became like ten lamps of fire. He said: Why not be changed into fire? 1
1 The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century, Thomas Merton, New Directions Books, Norfolk, CT, 1960, p. 50.We're wearing red, we've got a baptism, and we're having an intergenerational event between services. A local liturgical artist is going to help everyone tap into the Spirit's presence by drawing mandalas...then she'll come and make art during worship.
We've been exploring "art as spiritual practice" off and on since last summer.
And the choir's going to sing "Christ Sends the Spirit," this wonderful anthem by Richard Proulx whose refrain is "the gale of God, the singing fire of life."
Yum. :-)We've encouraged people to wear red, and I'm making "fire streamers" for the children's sermon. I'll take short lengths of dowel rod (or even chopsticks) and attach lengths of red, orange, gold, and yellow ribbon. I'll give them to the kids right before the Gospel and invite them to come with me to the center of the congregation and wave the streamers while I read the Gospel (or maybe the Acts text, if I rearrange the service a bit).
At my text study group this week, we talked about this Marcus Borg article, particularly about the idea that Pentecost is the "reversal" of Babel (Genesis 11) in that the fragmentation of humanity is overcome. I like that and will probably play with that in my sermon.
As far as a Mother's Day connection, one of our group suggested picking up on the quotation of Joel in Acts. Since it's a common worry for mothers about whether their children will have faith, the phrase "your sons and your daughters will prophesy" might be a way to acknowledge Mother's Day while still preaching the text.
My word verification is "crmkwnhh"; now THAT's speaking in tongues!
Blessings on your study and preparation this week.This will be my second Sunday as Acting Senior Minister (I'm really the Associate but we're in transition waiting an interim minister). I'm going after the Jews in Jerusalem heard were brought out because they heard the noise of the wind and then the disciples speaking in the natives tongues of the Jews. I'm going to focus on how we each need to listen for God in the means that we are most receptive. Is it hearing? Seeing? Moving?
I'm still working on Mother's Day. We will give out red carnations to all the women as part of the children's sermon. I'm considering weaving in the many ways in which mothers speak to their infants: holding, feeding, singing, bathing, etc. And how God does the same.last year for the children (and adults) I made popcorn over the candle in church. got the idea from the web, and don't know where. one kernel of popping corn, in a large spoon with a drop of oil, and hold over the flame. it does pop, though takes a minute or two. talk about popcorn, movies - Pentecost/God's journey is a great story [like a good movie], and here we also have popcorn at parties. and then when you look at the popped grain, you see the great transformation that the spirit makes. comparison with intial grain - closed/open, not edible/edible etc etc.
this year I was thinking of taking a tin whistle, it needs breath to be able to play it, but I think the Sunday School is doing something with Chorinthians. Windmills are also a great illustration, they have point into the wind, they function to bring water from underground - just as the church exists to bring life-giving water to the world.
all that said, I haven't started on this week yet, though the church is dressed in RED.I've signed up for Festival of Homiletics - woo hoo!
Hard to pick readings for our bulletin yesterday, I liked them all. Tempted to use Numbers, but went with 1Cor. I love that there are many gifts, and the image of many parts and one body. The story from numbers or a reference to it may still make it's way into the sermon. I'm at the sitting with the text and brainstorming stage. I still like the empowered for ministry idea, and am also liking the thought that things change, disciples are transformed when the spirit comes (and being molded and transformed may not be comfortable). Was thinking of the title Veni Sancte Spiritus or Come Holy Spirit. Also, when we say Come Holy Spirit, do we really expect the Spirit to show up?
Last night at bible study a question from Living the Good news was about what the disciples experienced. I tried to explain it from their perspective or from the pov of crowd who heard in their own language. Ooh, that gives me the thought of doing a First Person narrative. As always it will be interesting to see where this ends up.In the many parts one body theme. There's something I read in Henry Nouwen's Can You Drink The Cup that's seemed to stick with me. I'm paraphrasing, not sure where the book is at the moment. It's the imagery of a mosaic. How one stone by itself doesn't look like much but when you place a whole bunch together you can make a mosaic. That as a church the mosaic we make up is the face of Christ. When people aren't using their gifts or joining the community then it takes away from the fullness of the picture, Christ's face isn't complete. The mosaic needs each of the stones.
ReplyDeleteWe decided to go "green" and offered potted red & orange geraniums for sale (instead of balloons) and they will line the steps of the chancel; created 14' swaying poles and attached variety of red & orange ribbons/streamers that will process in and for the gospel reading and recess out.
I'm preaching on 1st Cor. 12:13, and the overarching theme is "diverse peoples unified in Christ through baptism". The bulletin cover art is an image I found years ago (while going through international adoption) that I call "a morph" of children of the world. It is circular in its shape and the 1st Cor 12;13 verse is circled around the image. As part of my internship requirement, I must incorporate multi-media into a sermon at least once and so found an awesome video on youtube "He Reigns" by the Newsboys. Wonderful imagery & great lyrics! We'll sing "one bread one body" for communion song.
So now, to write the actual sermon!
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If you ask Wolfgang Puck, Gordon Ramsay is "the nicest guy in the world." No, seriously, that's what Puck thinks!
When Puck stops by "Hell's Kitchen" on Thursday (April 24) as the VIP guest judge, he is blown away by how well Ramsay treats him … and the contestants from the red and blue teams. Apparently Ramsay even scored the pairs higher than Puck did during a pizza challenge. If Puck's a harsher judge than Ramsay, then you know he's going to be tough.
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The Festival will open on October 18th with acclaimed David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, which recently won the coveted Audience Award following its premiere at last month's Toronto International Film Festival, and is already garnering award buzz. Silver Linings Playbook is an intimate, heartfelt, engaging and often hilarious, film about a former high school teacher who returns home, looking to rebuild his life after spending time in a mental institution. The Festival will close on October 27th with Flight, Robert Zemeckis' long-awaited return to live-action filmmaking, which tells the story of a seasoned airline pilot who crash lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, miraculously saving nearly everybody on board, and the subsequent investigation into what may have caused the crash.
The Festival will also include 5 centerpiece screenings, including: Cloud Atlas, a sci-fi drama with a star-studded cast from visionary directors Tom Tywker, Lana and Andy Wachowsky, adapted from David Mitchell's celebrated novel; Hyde Park on Hudson, Roger Michell's intimate look into FDR's extramarital affair with his distant cousin starring Bill Murray as the former President, FDR; Not Fade Away, David Chase's endearing coming-of-age tale about three young men who form a rock band in the 60's; Quartet, Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut about four aging retired opera singers; and Stand Up Guys, Fisher Stevens' action comedy starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin.
"Our programming team did a tremendous job yet again, delivering a stellar program for this year's Festival," said Andrew Greenblatt, Executive Director. "I can't imagine a better Opening Night film for our Festival than Silver Linings Playbook, and I'm thrilled to have legendary director Robert Zemeckis bringing his latest film Flight to Philadelphia for our Closing Night. Both films are sure to be amongst the most talked about and celebrated films of the Fall."
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The 11-day Philadelphia Film Festival will locally premiere over 100 feature length and short films, curated by our programming committee that travels to festival around the world, all year long, to officially select each film in the program. The full Festival schedule will be released on Thursday, September 27th, available on www.filmadelphia.org/festival and in the Festival Program Guides.
Screenings for the 21st Philadelphia Film Festival will take place at the Ritz East (125 S. 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106), the Ritz Bourse (400 Ranstead St, Philadelphia, PA 19106), the Rave University Six (230 S. 40th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104), Gershman Y at the University of the Arts (401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia PA 19103), the Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104) and the Prince Music Theater (1412 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19102), with outdoor screenings at Shoemaker Green (33rd & Spruce Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 19104) on Friday, October 26th. Tickets will go on-sale for Philadelphia Film Society members on Friday, September 28, and to the general public beginning Monday, October 2nd. Tickets may be purchased through the Festival website, www.filmadelphia.org, over the phone by calling 267-908-4733, or in-person at the Prince Music Theater Box Office (1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103).
21st Philadelphia Film Festival Full Line-up
Opening Night Film
Silver Linings Playbook, Director David O. Russell. USA, 2012.
Closing Night Film
Flight, Director Robert Zemeckis. USA, 2012.
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Cloud Atlas, Directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski. USA/Germany, 2012.
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Punch-Drunk Love, Director Paul Thomas Anderson. USA, 2012.
The Shining, Director Stanley Kubrick. USA, 2012.
Signs, Director M. Night Shyamalan. USA, 2012.
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Paradise: Faith, Director Ulrich Seidl. Austria, 2012.
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Something in the Air, Director Olivier Assayas. France, 1982.
World Narratives: Explore the world through film with this diverse selection of international cinema that features distinct perspectives and images from around the globe.
Barbara, Director Christian Petzold. Germany, 2012.
Diaz – Don't Clean Up This Blood, Director Daniele Vicari. Italy/Romania/France, 2012.
Everybody in Our Family, Director Radu Jude. Romania/Netherlands, 2012.
Kuma, Director Umut Dag. Austria, 2012.
Lore, Director Cate Shortland. Germany, 1971.
A Night Too Young, Director Olmo Omerzu. Czech Republic/Slovenia, 2012.
A Royal Affair, Director Nikolaj Arcel. Denmark/Czech Republic/Sweden/Germany, 2012.
Tabu, Director Miguel Gomes. Portugal, 2011.
Terraferma, Director Emanuele Crialese. Italy, 2012.
Tey, Director Alain Gomis. France/Senegal, 2012.
The Thieves, Director Dong-Hoon Choi. South Korea, 2002.
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Yossi, Director Eytan Fox. Israel, 2012.
New French Films: The birthplace of cinema, France continues to produce some of the best movies in the world with films that are funny, daring, sexy and uniquely French.
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Sister, Director Ursula Meier. France/Belgium, 2002.
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Clandestine Childhood, Director Benjamín Ávila. Argentina/Spain/Brazil, 2012.
Here and There, Director Antonio Méndez Esparza. Spain/Mexico , 2012.
Young & Wild, Director Marialy Rivas. Chile, 2012.
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Simon Killer, Director Antonio Campos. USA, 2011.
Somebody Up There Likes Me, Director Bob Byington. USA, 2011.
Greater Filmadelphia: Featuring work from some of our finest homegrown filmmakers, this category brings our city and its talent to the big screen.
Alaskaland, Director Chinonye Chukwu. USA, 2012.
The Atomic States of America, Directors Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce. USA, 2012.
Detonator, Directors Damon Maulucci and Keir Politz. USA, 2012.
From the Shadows, Director Matt Antell and David Hearn. USA, 2012.
Future Weather, Director Jenny Deller. USA, 2012.
La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus, Director Mark Kendall. USA, 1997.
This Time Tomorrow, Director Shane Bissett. USA, 2012.
Documentary Showcase: Comprising the best in documentary filmmaking, these compelling films feature everything from stirring character studies to fascinating looks at current global issues.
The American Scream, Director Michael Stephenson. USA, 2011.
Ballroom Dancer, Director Christian Bonke and Andreas Koefoed. Denmark, 2012.
Birth Story: Ina May Gaskin and The Farm Midwives, Directors Sara Lamm and Mary Wigmore. USA, 2012.
Brooklyn Castle, Director Katie Dellamaggiore. USA, 2011.
Call Me Kuchu, Directors Katherine Fairfax-Wright and Malika Zouhali Worrall. USA, 2012.
The Central Park Five, Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon. USA, 2011.
The Final Member, Directors Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math. Canada/USA/Iceland/Italy, 2012
The Law in These Parts, Director Ra'anan Alexandrowicz. Israel, 2012.
Only the Young, Directors Elizabeth Mims and Jason Tippet. USA, 2012.
A Place at the Table, Directors Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush. USA, 2012.
Portrait of Wally, Director Andrew Shea. USA, 2010.
Room 237, Director Rodney Ascher. USA, 2011.
Seeking Asian Female, Director Debbie Lum. USA, 2012.
Step Up To the Plate, Director Paul Lacoste. France 2006, 2008, 2011.
We Are Legion: The Story of Hacktivists, Director Brian Knappenberger. USA, 2012.
Sight and Soundtrack: Featuring rockumentaries, musician biopics and films that are centered on the unifying power of music.
A Band Called Death, Director Jeff Howlett,Mark Covino. USA, 2012.
Beware of Mr. Baker, Director Jay Bulger. USA, 2012.
Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey, Director Ramona S. Diaz. USA, 2012.
El Medico: The Cubaton Story, Director Daniel Fridell. Estonia/Sweden, 2012.
The History of Future Folk, Directors John Mitchell and Jeremy Kipp Walker. USA, 2012.
The Sapphires, Director Wayne Blair. Australia, 2010.
The Zen of Bennett, Director Unjoo Moon. USA, 1980.
Sports in Motion: Enthralling stories and intense competition are hallmarks of these sports-related films that include documentaries and narratives about athletes on and off the field.
The Good Son, Director Jesse James Miller. USA, 2012.
The Iran Job, Director Till Schauder. USA/Iran, 2012.
Teddy Bear, Director Mads Matthiesen. Denmark, 2013.
Waiting For Lightning, Director Jacob Rosenberg. USA, 2012.
The Graveyard Shift: Horror, action, suspense, and the downright weird, these films will keep you awake during the graveyard shift.
The ABCs of Death, Directors Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Adrián García Bogliano, Bruno Forzani & Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Xavier Gens, Jorge Michel Grau, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Anders Morgenthaler, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Yudai Yamaguchi. USA / New Zealand, 2012.
Antiviral, Directors Brandon Cronenberg. Canada, 2012.
Dead Sushi, Director Noboru Iguchi. Japan, 2012.
Dragon, Director Peter Ho-Sun Chan. China, Hong Kong, 2012.
Here Comes the Devil, Director Adrián García Bogliano. Mexico, 2012.
I Declare War, Director Jason Lapeyre. Canada, 2012.
John Dies at the End, Director Don Coscarelli. USA, 2012.
Thale, Director Aleksander L. Nordaas. Norway, 2012.
Short Films
Advantageous, Director Jennifer Phang. USA, 2012
Another Bullet Dodged, Director Landon Zakheim. USA, 2011
The Arm, Directors Brie Larson, Sarah Ramos and Jessie Ennis. USA, 2012.
Belly, Director Julia Pott. UK, 2011.
Bobby Yeah, Director Robert Morgan. UK, 2011.
Brute Force, Director Ben Steinbauer. USA, 2012.
Caine's Arcade, Director Nirvan Mullick. USA, 2012.
Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared, Directors Rebecca Sloan and Joseph Pelling. UK, 2011.
Family Nightmare, Director Dustin Guy Defa. USA, 2011.
Horizon, Director Paul Negoescu. Romania, 2012.
I am John Wayne, Director Christina Choe. USA, 2012.
It's Not a Cowboy Movie, Benjamin Parent. France, 2012.
The Meaning of Robots, Director Matt Lenski. USA, 2011.
Moxie, Director Stephen Irwin. UK, 2011.
The Procession, Director Robert Festinger. USA, 2012.
Reddish Brown and Blueish Green, Director Samantha Gurry. USA, 2011.
Remote Medical Area, Directors Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman. USA, 2012.
A Short Film About Ice Fishing, Director Jason Shahinfar. USA, 2011.
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Lemonade! (That cool, refreshing drink)
So I've had this thing going on for a while were I drive through the drive-thru at Taco Bell and order myself a tasty *and* nutritious lunch. Like many people, I'm a creature of habit, and I typically order the same thing.
This is the most significant time of the entire order, and I literally have a small knot in my stomach. If you were in the car with me you would agree that you could actually hear a pin drop. Which is pretty amazing, because usually, I'm Eddie-Fuckin-Vedder behind the wheel, and I'll get all "Temple of the Dog" goin', "I'm gettin huuungry…yeaahhhhr". But not now. Not at this crucial juncture of the order process. This, my friends, is crunch time, and I wait for the reply.
Speaker: Number 8, soft-tacos with lava-sauce (I felt a little "spicy" today), and a pink lemonade
[The. Pin. Dropped.]
Now I'm seething, because I didn't order a PINK lemonade, I ordered a goddamned "lemonade". Look, I know it's pink; I realize that's all they have, but for the love of Pete…Give a man some dignity! But, they don't – they never do – They *purposely* fuck with me, just because they can. So I punch back. Seriously, like they think I'm gonna get punked at the drive-thru!
Me: "That's PINK lemonade, right?"
Speaker: "Yeah, pink lemonade."
Me: "Can I get it with extra pink?"
Speaker: "…um…I don't think we have that. Do you just want a large?"
Me: "Yes, of course. A large. Just as long as it's pink. I want a PINK lemonade."
Speaker: "OK, that'll be $4 and 38-cents, please pull up to the first window"
[And then I pull up to the window, they ask me if I want any sauce with it, I tell them "Yes, Fire sauce", and they give me 750 little packets of said "Fire Sauce". We exchange money & food, and I drive away, only to be repeated the next time I go through the drive thru]
This little routine has happened more times than I care to count, and I probably wouldn't say anything about it, but the guy I work with is in on my beef with Bell, and so he pays close attention to whether or not the speaker says "Lemonade" or, as is more often the case, "PINK Lemonade". And what really pisses me off is that when HE orders, he gets a damned "Lemonade". Granted, I'm no Barry White, but neither is he. Then again, he doesn't write for a blog called "FrothyGirlz" either, so I suppose this whole thing isn't without merit.
Anyway, guys…I realize that neither of you are the types of guys who go to Taco Bell, but does this ever happen to you? I figured when I switched over to drinking Scotch this little pink-problem at Bell would go away, but it hasn't. I turn the "Death Cab" ALL the way down (I know I said "Eddie-Fuckin-Vedder" earlier, but that's just 'cause I thought it sounded cool to say it. Although, that being said, I am diggin on that "Just Breathe" tune. Really cool tune. And, if we're being honest, lately it's been Led Zeppelin. Good memories. Long stories. Anyway, I promised myself I wouldn't resort to this lame-ass-cliche', but I digress…)
I know! The next time I go through the drive-thru, I'm gonna order Scotch first. That oughta send a shot right across the bow. They'll tell me they don't have it of course, and then I'll say [as if I'm put off that they don't have any Scotch, in a grumbly, gruff voice] "Oh, well…then, how 'bout a lemonade?"
I swear…if they ask me if I want a PINK lemonade, I'll…I'll…write a post about it or something. I mean it people…do NOT try me on this.
~ Dawg


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Proceeds will go to support community projects. Tickets are $6 for ages 13 and older, $4 for ages 6-12, and ages 5 and under are free.
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Stuffed Green Peppers
Green peppers | 8 Large | |
Onion | 1 Large | |
Crumbs/Bread /cracker /corn flake | 1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) | |
Smoked ham | 1 Pound | |
Tomatoes | 1 Can (10 oz) |
Grind ham and onion together, squeeze in tomatoes and juice (cut out any hard core).
Cut tops off peppers and clean out seeds.
Put mixture in peppers; place in upright position in casserole.
Use enough crumbs in meat mixture to give it body.
Pour any excess juice into bottom of casserole or a little water may be added, so peppers stay moist.
Bake at 350° for 1 1/2 hours.
These peppers can be placed in individual baking dishes, baked and cooled, covered and frozen to use later.
Appealing to small family.
Reheat individual peppers before serving.
From experience, I know they keep nicely for 3 months, possibly longer.
Serves 8.
Recipe Summary
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 132 Calories from Fat 25
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 3 g4.3%
Saturated Fat 0.83 g4.2%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 36.3 mg12.1%
Sodium 543.3 mg22.6%
Total Carbohydrates 17 g5.5%
Dietary Fiber 4.2 g16.9%
Sugars 7.7 g
Protein 12 g23.5%
Vitamin A 19.8% Vitamin C 253.5%
Calcium 3.9% Iron 8.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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By no means the best, but I just listened to the Devil in the Smoke read by Dan Starkey. Fairley short but read well, I would happily listen to more stories about that trio.
Finished The Dollar Colin Stories. I really enjoyed Voyage to Venus, it brought a smile to my face when Six mentioned visiting Venus in his second Regeneration and learning their Martial Arts. Voyage to the New World, was a very interesting idea, but, I didn't really enjoy the story all that much Doing a relisten to Colin/Evelyn's first story (The Marian Conspiracy)and then it's on to the 2nd through 4th stories
I just listened to the first Destiny of the Doctor book, read by Carol Anne Ford its about events that happen shortly before An Unearthly Child. It's not bad I'll be interested to see how the arc plays out over each Doctor.
Finished Evelyn's second story, The Spectre of Lanyon Moor. Really enjoyed this one, and it had the bonus of The Brigadier guest Starring, which was really cool. Though, a little continuity snafu, as I watched Battlefield last night and Seven didn't know who Doris was, even though the Brig told Six in this story that she is his wife. Popped in Evelyn's third story, The Apocalypse Element, on my drive this morning, looking forward to his one, as it appears to be set on Gallifrey and I always enjoy the Political machinations of the Timelords and Romana is a great plus Destiny of the Doctor? Is that an Anniversary Series? Oh, and Lungbarrow is impossible to get ahold of, are there any Audios that advance Cartmel's Master Plan, by any chance? It's really a bummer Doctor Who was cancelled in Season 26 when that Arc had just started to bubble and never got the chance to come to fruition, I would've liked to see it all play out.
It is, porduced by Big Finish, 11 stand alone stories, one for each doctor which are supposed to have one long arc connecting them together. http://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/doctor-who-destiny-of-the-doctors The first 3 are out.
Sounds very cool. I'm likely to get these when they're all out (My listening backlog is pretty large at the moment)
Well, yes and no. It's co-produced between Big Finish and BBC Audio. It's an unusual series, in that it is sort of a series of third-person companion chronicles. Because of the co-production, you cannot buy a CD and get the download with it free. This has annoyed some fans (they've posted on the Big Finish forums complaining). Prices are around $17 per cd, but you can order from Book Depository for about $11 each. For the first month each title is released, you can download it from audio2go for $2 ... after the 30 days, it goes up to full price. I'd rather have the CD though. That's just me.
It does annoy me a bit that the UK has to pay more for the Big Finish downloads. $2.00 for you and £3.99 for us.
Big Finish produced the "lost stories" of Season 27 with Andrew Cartmel script-editing, but they're awful. Seriously, they're nearly complete crap. If Season 27 had been like that, we were better off with the cancellation, but I can't believe that the real Season 27 would have been anything like that one. All sense of character is lost, the stories are bloated and meandering instead of tight and incomprehensible, and they just retread old ideas, and there's not even a hint of the bigger, more mythic Doctor we saw in Seasons 25-26. http://unreality-sf.net/2011/08/04/doctor-who-the-lost-stories-thin-ice-review/ http://unreality-sf.net/2011/08/12/doctor-who-crime-of-the-century-review/ http://unreality-sf.net/2011/08/17/doctor-who-the-lost-stories-animal-review/ http://unreality-sf.net/2011/09/25/doctor-who-the-lost-stories-earth-aid-review/ Beth Chalmers is pretty good as new companion Raine, though.
Yea, if it's notforwrding "Cartmel's Master plan", then, yea, I'm no all that interested, especially, if as you say, they aren't that great. Thanks (I've got enough Audios to catch up on, what with the Six/Evelyn stories, the Charlie/Eight stories for a start, and so many other categories)
BBC released an ebook version of Lungbarrow which was free and is still floating around online. I presume even though the beeb don't have it on their site that its still legit.
It's not "legit" in the sense of being legal-- Lungbarrow and the other BBC website e-books were contracted for distribution by the BBC website only, so spreading copies now that they've been removed from the site is outside the terms the authors agreed to. Whether it's ethical is another question.
I did mean legal, that's why I didn't post a link to where I saw it on google. Putting an ebook online for free though is kind of a cat out of the bag situation.
I'm almost done with my CLassic Who Rewatch (Started with Troughton in Jan or Feb and straight through to McCoy). I'm up to Curse of Fenric I seem to recall hearing that there is an Audioplay "Sequel" to Survivor where The Master is still in "Cat Mode". Is this true? If so what's it called and is it any good? I've listened to abut half of Evelyn's 3rd story The Apocalypse Element and I am enjoying it immensely. OmahaStar, I am becoming very attached to Evelyn, thanks. I'm liking her attitude more and more as the stories move forward (Though Charley's a bit pissed, bcause she's been waiting quite some time for me to cotinue with her adventures )
Do you have all of Evelyn's stories? If not, this will be of interest to you. Big Finish is having a "Big Finish 3" convention in the UK, with several of their actors (including Tom Baker and David Warner) signing. For those of us who can't make it, they are doing a "5 pound sale" ... Whether you get the CD or the download, it's 5 pounds ($7.47) ... They got five of their top management, and each of them picked two stories for the sale. They include: 1 - The Judgement of Isskar (5) 2 - Son of the Dragon (5) 3 - The Elite (5 with Tegan) 4 - A Death in the Family (7, WITH EVELYN) 5 - Eternal Summer (5) 6 - The Girl Who Never Was (8) 7 - The Condemned (6) 8 - Cradle of the Snake (5 with Tegan) 9 - Peri and the Piscon Paradox (5 and 6; companion chronicle with Colin Baker as the second reader!) 10 - Jago and Litefoot: Series 1 (5 per disc, so 20 pounds - $29.86 US) http://bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-who-ten-of-the-best-special-offer Good for this weekend only.
Nope, I just have the first 4, buying them in order. Hmmmm...Wkik'ing it, I see A Death in the Family is with Ace and Seven, where'd that come from? (Don't tell me if it's really spoilery) Looks like I'll have to buy that one, and hang onto it until I get there
It's somewhat spoilery. Keep listening to the Evelyn audios in order, and you'll find out how she ends up connected to the seventh Doctor. I don't think there are any post-"Survival" audios where the Master is in "Cat Mode." There are, however, a couple where his Trakenite body has degenerated into a corpse-like state, allowing Geoffrey Beevers to return in the role. Those are the seventh Doctor stories Dust Breeding and Master. The first is all right but nothing earth-shattering; the second is very spooky even if its mythic elements don't quite work. The Beevers Master also reappears in the first series of Fourth Doctor Adventures.
As Brendan said, listen to them in order. The timeline works something like this ... Six with Peri ... Peri departs and marries the quiet guy Six travels alone. And sometimes with Frobisher. Six meets Evelyn, they travel together. She is keeping a massive secret from him, which you heard right at the beginning - she has a weak heart. Older and wiser, Six changes his costume to an indigo version (the blue costume seen in "Real Time"). Evelyn decides to stop traveling. She makes the Doctor one of her famous chocolate cakes as a goodbye present. ("The Wrong Doctors") Immediately after, Six decides it's time to pick up Mel and travel with her. He changes his costume back to the original technicolor dream version. ("The Wrong Doctors") We've seen times before where the Doctor meets up with a past companion and has adventures (or just one) with them. Two Doctors, for example. City of Spires for another (Six with Jamie again). At some future point, Seven meets up with Evelyn and has another adventure with her. That's that story. Other Six and Evelyn stories have come out since then ... just know that at some point in her future, she leaves. That happens with every companion sooner or later.


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I just bought ableton, and i'm having a tough time making a hip-hop/rap type beat.
I like to make Raw hip-hop/rap, soulful rap, g-funk and gansta rap. I'm just finding it difficult to get the sound i want, i've messed around with most of the instruments and drums but i can't seem to find what i need. I was thinking about buying some sample packs of different drum kits and of other instruments i need but i'm not quite sure yet. Any ways... any tips would help. Please&&thank you, Deisol.
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56 votes received2 votesBest tip I can recommend for finding your feet is to listen to recordings you like and try to understand how they were made. The difference in production process (and instruments used) for different artists can give you plenty of ideas as to how you can get a similar sound yourself.
For example finding out what and how people like RZA and DJ Premier sample, compared to the lack of sampling used by people like Dr Dre and Kanye West, goes a long way to understand how you can get a particular sound.
Listening and understanding examples is a really good way to get started.
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8 votes received1 voteI find that Live has an easy way to build your own drum kits by using various loops and audio samples. In a loop, highlight a particular hit or section, click title bar and drag to midi track with loaded drum rack or impulse, and then drop to an empty slot. From there try using Simpler tools or audio effects to refine sound.
I would also check out NI Maschine Kits
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When South African botanist Lyall Watson claimed in his 1973 best-seller "Supernature" that plants had emotions that could register on a lie detector, scientists scoffed and branded it as hippie nonsense.
But a new Australian research at The University of Western Australia has claimed to have discovered that plants appear to react to sounds and may even make clicking noises to communicate with each other.
Monica Gagliano of UWA has teamed with colleagues Daniel Robert at the University of Bristol (UK) and Stefano Mancuso at the University of Florence (Italy) to show that the roots of young plants emit and react to particular sounds.
"Everyone knows that plants react to light, and scientists also know that plants use volatile chemicals to communicate with each other, for instance, when danger — such as a herbivore — approaches," Gagliano said in an university statement released recently.
Gagliano and fellow researchers established that young roots of corn made regular clicking sounds.
They also found that young corn roots suspended in water leaned toward the source of a continuous sound emitted in the region of 220Hz, which is within the frequency range that the same roots emitted themselves.
Their findings, published in the leading international journal Trends in Plant Science, conclude that the role of sound in plants has yet to be fully explored, "leaving serious gaps our current understanding of the sensory and communicatory complexity of these organisms."
In addition to other forms of sensory response, "it is very likely that some form of sensitivity to sound and vibrations also plays an important role in the life of plants". Gagliano said.


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We all know by now how important it is to patch our computers to keep bad things from happening. We also know that most IT administrators are extremely busy and don't have the time, or inclination, to devote themselves to this admittedly mundane, but critical, task. So what's the answer? Automation.
Automation is the perfect solution for performing what would otherwise be a tedious task. Take for example the latest trend with retirement plans. Until recently, if an employee wanted to participate in the company retirement plan, they were forced to work through a mountain of paperwork on their own, and all too often people just gave up. So, many companies have decided to move away from the "opt in" approach and are instead offering automatic enrollment plans. It is human nature to take the path of least resistance, so by automating the desired path and forcing employees to manually opt out, rather than opt in, HR folks have noticed a much higher rate of participation in retirement plans. (Yea!)
The same principal holds true when it comes to implementing your patch process; it is much more likely to happen if it is automated. So is there a tool that provides automated patching and that secures your computers almost without thinking? Yes, and it is called Shavlik Protect.
How to automate your patching process using scheduled scans and deployments
The Shavlik Protect interface makes it extremely easy to set up scheduled patch scans and deployments on the machines in your organization. Using a few basic features, (such as machine groups, scan templates, and deployment templates) you can easily configure Shavlik Protect to automatically perform recurring scheduled scans and to automatically deploy any missing patches that it detects during a scan. Doing so creates a completely automated patch scan and deployment operation.
Want to know how it is done? This screenshot probably tells you most of what you need to know.
But if you are like me, and you like to know all the details, check out our video on how to automate scheduled patching. You can find it here: http://www.shavlik.com/support/training-videos/protect/.
Unattended Consoles
Let's take things one step further. First, a lead-in: If you happen to work in an organization with many office sites located across the country or around the world, you might be (you should be!) using multiple Shavlik Protect consoles. You can set things up so that the machines at a central site (probably your company headquarters) are managed by a central console, while the machines at your remote sites are managed by remote consoles. The data rollup feature can then be used so that the central console receives data about the machines being managed by the remote consoles.
With the stage now set, wouldn't it be nice not to have to worry about any ongoing administration tasks at your remote consoles? Well, once again, with Shavlik Protect you can! You can automate the system by implementing an unattended console at each remote site. An unattended console is a console you set up once. After that the console automatically updates its own files and manages its machines without human assistance.
Here's how it works: The unattended console is configured to automatically perform periodic scans and to automatically deploy any patches it detects as missing on its target machines (see above). The console will also contain a patch scan template that is defined to look for a particular set of patches. The set of patches is contained in a patch list that resides on a distribution server. (Distribution servers were discussed in a previous blog article.)
Now, when new patches are released by a vendor (for example, the monthly patches released by Microsoft Corporation), you simply update the patch list on the distribution server. When the unattended console performs its next scheduled scan it will automatically reference the updated list and will patch its target machines, all without human intervention.
The following figure illustrates an unattended console configuration.
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Good question, Mandy. All I can think is that without them, we'd be living in cleaner houses. LOL!
Thanks Wendy :~) (and Magnus and Stepfan, of course... where would we be without them???)
LOL, Pat! You're just full of thanks! :-)Mary, that was a very smart thing to do- treating the balloons as flowers. And there's absolutely nothing more fun than 'wasting' hours at a time here. I can't think of anything more important than that. ;-)
I pretended the balloons were flowers and had a lovely time! Now doing the Faux Flowers Dance! 5:59 Thanks, Wendy! And I'm so grateful to Magnus and Stefan for creating a site that I can waste hours at a time on! LOL
My favorite--balloons!!! And with the coolest streamers ever! Thanks, Wendy, and thanks, Magnus and Stefan, and thanks, all the great people on Jigidi! :-))))))))))))))))))))))
Thank you, Francine, I just checked to see if you made one too, and you did, and it's terrific!LOL, Kate! I knew what you meant. ;-) Definitely don't feel badly about not creating puzzles yet. I think it took me two years before I started creating them (I had another alias first), and I know a lot of others who are in the same boat. However.....you better start creating some soon or you will be considered shocking. heheheLibby, exactly....and maybe we should be annoyed with Magnus and Stefan instead. My house is a wreck every since I found Jigidi....and it honestly remains a mess now. I'm glad you enjoyed the puzzle. :-)Thank you, dear Sissel. :-)
Beautiful 2:27 :-)
Without Jigidi, Magnus, and Stefan we would all have cleaner houses and fewer chores to catch up on! Cool jig, Wendy! Thanks ;-)))
No Wendy - I'm saying if I didn't have jigidi then I might have time for those other delightful (!!) activities! long live Jigidi - and the lovely people who create puzzles :-) I've been a member about 2 years and still haven't created a single puzzle - that's almost shocking!
Happy Birthday, Jigidi. Many thanks to Magnus and Stefan and additional thanks to all who take the time to post and/or create puzzles.
Mr. Bugosi, now I'm not going to your Jigidi celebration birthday puzzle to have cake with you. I LOVE your puzzle though. :-)
Oops!.......I popped a balloon!............Oh well, not to worry, eh?............Good one Wendy-at-No.13!
Kate, are you saying that the things you love most to do are solving puzzles, cleaning, vacuuming, and ironing? If so, you're welcome to come to my house. ;-)Hi, dear PJ! :-)
Jigidi is great - thanks to Magnus and Stefan - and all the friendly persons who share their creativity. Thank you Wendy, for your creativity and humor. Wonderful and fun puzzle.PJ
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Hi Katie! Thank you for including your thanks to those terrific guys. And yes, it's friends like you that make Jigidi so much fun. :-)Thank you very much, Laura! :-)
Happy Birthday and thank you too!
This is party perfection Wendy! I'll add my thanks to Magnus and Stefan for this fabulous site where I've made so many friends like you!


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Posted on Friday, February 10th, 2012 by Germain Lussier
We all know that after The Dark Knight Rises on July 20, Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale will officially hang up the cowl. We also know Warner Bros. is going to continue making Batman movies without them. So what happens after Nolan's trilogy ends? Who will be chosen to continue the legacy?
The Los Angeles Times Hero Complex had some fun with that idea, commissioning graphic artist Sean Hartter to design 15 different visions of a new Batman by some of the finest filmmakers in the world.
After the jump, check out posters for all kinds of different Batman films directed by Matthew Vaughn, Todd Phillips, Wes Anderson, Rob Marshall, Brad Bird, Guillermo del Toro, Ang Lee, Catherine Hardwicke, Guy Ritchie, Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Neill Blomkamp, Tim Burton, Zack Snyder and Ridley Scott.
Thanks to the Hero Complex for all of these images. Below, we'll provide links to write ups explaining the thinking behind each one.
Some of the best things about these posters are the casting in each. Make sure you click and see which actors got chosen for what roles.
And to explain, here are the links to each set of images:
Rob Marshall's "Gotham!"; Brad Bird's "Mr. Freeze's Icy Revenge"; Guillermo del Toro's "Batman"
I think they odds are small that any of these filmmakers will actually be the one to redo Batman in the coming years. Each probably just has way too much going on and too much to lose. But, if I was able to choose one to see, my top three would be Burton's Dark Knight Returns, Scott's Batman Beyond and Ritchie's Gotham by Gaslight. From those, I honestly just think the Batman Beyond movie would be the most interesting to see.
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Locating missing sequential numbers can be an arduous task when working with long lists of data. For example, you might want to locate business check numbers that haven't been logged into a balance sheet, or maybe you need to find missing product IDs. Manually searching the list is tedious and prone to oversight. Excel offers conditional formatting for locating gaps but this does not provide a list of missing numbers. The solution lies with using Excel's array feature to traverse a data list automatically and extract missing sequential numbers, even if the number list is out of order.
1. Open your spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel and look at the numbers list. You need to determine the range of numbers you wish to consider. This range might be based on the lowest and highest values in the number list or some known range. For example, if the last check number you logged into a balance sheet last year was 8950 and the last check number you logged in for this year was 11859, your range would be 8951 to 11859.
2. Click the first cell in an empty column, hold the "Shift" key and click the last data cell in that column. This selects all cells between those two points. You need at least as many cells selected as the anticipated number of missing values. The easiest way to guarantee you select enough cells is to select the number of cells equal to the range difference. In the example, subtracting 8951 from 11859 results in a range of 2,908 numbers. By selecting cells "1" through "2908," you guarantee a large enough output area, even if no numbers are found.
3. Type the following code: =SMALL(IF(COUNTIF(B:B,ROW($B$8951:$B$11859))=0,ROW($B$8951:$B$11859),""),ROW()) Column "B" refers to the number list, and the row numbers refer to the data range, so this example searches the "B" column for numbers 8951 through 11859, and the missing numbers will be output in the empty column.
4. Press "Ctrl-Shift-Enter" to enter the typed formula as an array. If you just press "Enter," the formula will not work.
- This formula reassesses the data list every time you input new data, so the output list is constantly updated.
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The concept of the over-promoted society where general intelligence has been declining since around 1800, and where the average person from 100 years ago would probably be in the top 10-15 percent of the modern population, provides an explanation of what happened to the geniuses.
Because, looking around the intellectual world, there seem to be approximately zero geniuses.
(At least it is apparently zero if the criteria of the past are applied.)
In intellectual history it is interesting to observe how different subjects dominate at different eras; and how genius tends to migrate from one area to another.
For example, one of the last eras of genius was biology, especially genetics; and a significant number of the biology geniuses had migrated from physics - which had been the previous dominant area of science.
From this I assumed that the decline of genius in biology would be accompanied by a rise in some other area - and I was continually on the look-out for where this might be.
My first idea was computing science; but it seemed clear that the breakthroughs had been made several decades ago and the field was no longer alive.
A second idea (please don't laugh) was economics; and I read a great deal of economics in the mid 2000s - partly to see whether this was correct.
However, I realized (from about 2007-8) that economists as a class lacked basic honesty and were not motivated to know the truth. Any impression of genius in modern economics was mere public relations, hype.
I still kept scanning the intellectual horizon; on the assumption that there must (surely!) be geniuses just as there had been for 100s of years, and they must (surely!) be doing great work somewhere.
But this was challenged by a careful reading of Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment which made clear that zero (detectable) geniuses was the norm in world history - and that the distribution of genius across time and space was very uneven, and shown no tendency to equilibrate (fill the gaps).
Of the near geniuses/ unacknowledged geniuses whom I knew, only one was successful in career terms (and that after their scientific apostasy) while the others were grossly under-promoted and indeed persecuted by academe.
So at that point I thought that there were the same number of geniuses as for the past few hundreds of years, but that they were held back and not recognized; and therefore they failed to have impact.
This is clearly correct, and genius is discriminated against while various types of mediocrity are promoted and celebrated with moralizing zeal.
But it is not likely that all geniuses of the past were able to fulfil their potential, nor is it likely that discrimination would be able utterly to crush genius had it been as numerous and vibrant as it was a century ago in the West.
My current view is that the age of genius is over - and the West has returned to the normal default state for humankind.
That is, genius is now a very infrequent occurrence; and while it may have a significant impact, it does not change the fundamental nature of society because each genius is isolated and the breakthroughs generated are not frequent enough (in the same domain) as to alter the way society as a whole functions.
Furthermore, genius is now 'misunderstood' in the sense that the general standard of intelligence is too low for their work to be comprehended; so in fact the work of a genius (those rare isolated instances) can seldom be acted upon any more - and therefore the fact that there has been a genius is not longer obvious.
What we have, then, is that the decline of intelligence means there are many-fold fewer geniuses in the West (ten-fold, twenty-fold fewer? Or an even greater decline?); plus that those geniuses who are born are less likely to get into a position to make a significant contribution due to Leftism and bureaucracy; plus, even if they do excellent work and make a theoretical contribution, this cannot be recognized (because their work cannot be understood by enough people) - and they will not make a significant practical difference.
So there are now many-fold fewer geniuses; and the few there are, are invisible. And even if not invisible, they make little or no difference to society at large - because modern society is incompetent to use the products of genius.


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Quantum of Solace
QUANTUM OF SOLACE....Moriarty tells us that he likes the new Daniel Craig version of James Bond:
I don't miss the fetishistic museum piece touches of the series at all. I don't miss Q branch. I don't miss the Moneypenny banter. I don't miss the breezy "let's have a chat" style M briefings. Honestly... there are 20-something Bond films in that style, and like most Bond films, I've seen every film more than once. Some of them, I've seen many times. That adds up. I think it's safe to say if you count individual viewings, I've seen something like 180 James Bond films in my lifetime. All with that same rhythm and style and the same cast sadly growing older while James Bond mysteriously hovers around the same age in one of the weirdest continuity choices in franchise history. Like I said, I don't miss the formula of it all. And frankly, if the Daniel Craig era never quite gets back to that, I'm perfectly happy. I wouldn't mind at all. They made those movies. Lots and lots and lots of those movies.
I get this. I really do. And yet....I have to ask: what is it that makes James Bond James Bond? At a minimum, two things. The first is the background: he works for MI6, his boss is named M, he gets cool gadgets from Q, etc. The second is his personality: he's dashing, debonair, fatally attractive to women, and never has a hair out of place. The problem with the Daniel Craig version of James Bond is that these things are mostly gone. And with those things gone, he's just a guy who works for MI6. His name might be James Bond, but he's not James Bond.
Now, I also happen to think Quantum of Solace wasn't a very good movie. The pace was so frenetic chase, fight, chase, fight, chase, fight that there was hardly any story that seemed worth following, and what story there was just wasn't very interesting. (Cornering the water supply of Bolivia? Seriously? And you thought the later Roger Moore movies were ridiculous?) Put that together with the new characterization brooding, ruthless, intense, hair artistically out of place through half the movie and I don't think anyone would so much as guess that this was a Bond film if the writers had changed the names around a bit. It would have been seen as just another Bourne Identity wannabe, and not a very good one.
Just my take, of course. But speaking of The Bourne Identity, here's another question: what's the deal with super-agents initialed JB? In a faceoff between James Bond, Jack Bauer, and Jason Bourne, who would win?


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Philadelphia PA: The City of Philadelphia will be watching Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday nigh as the Temple Owls have so much on the line as they take on Connecticut Huskies in the regular season finale of the American Athletic Conference. The Temple Owls enter have a record of (9-2, 6-1 AAC) and off a what people were saying a must win against Memphis. If the Temple Owls win on Saturday, they would clinch the East Division title and play in the inaugural American Athletic Conference championship game at Houston next week but a loss would give the division to South Florida.
There is also going to be a lot of emotion in this game as it is also Senior Night for the Temple Owls. Temple defeated Uconn 36-10 in 2014 while the last time that the Huskies beat the Owls was back in 2013 at Lincoln Financial Field
Uconn comes into game against Temple have winning their last three games which also included a 20-17 home win over previously unbeaten Houston last week. The Huskies have a record of (6-5, 4-3) became bowl eligible last week
Temple Coach Matt Rhule on the focus of the team knowing that everything is on the line "The focus will remain the same heading into Saturday night's matchup against UConn as it has all season. Nothing changes"
Head coach of Uconn coach Bob Diaco about the encounter against the Temple Owls "Matchup is very exciting-2 teams built in similar ways. If you enjoy watching two heavyweights go at it in center of ring, this would be it" Diaco would go on to say it is a "very exciting matchup with team from our division. Have a lot of respect for Head Coach Matt Rhule"
The game will be broadcasted on ESPNU at 7PM with Anish Shroff, Ahmad Brooks & Mark Morgan calling the action


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Hand/Eye coordination cannot be taught. For everything else there is the Learning Coalition.
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I'm also known as "The ANTI-Propaganda Machine".
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