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I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE from NPR News.
Coming up: in our In Your Ear segment, we take you to the gym because you've heard what they stand for, but have you heard what Janet Langhart Cohen and Bill Cohen stair-step to?
But first, his music video, "Love Will Take Over" knocked Madonna from the top spot as sexiest video on MTV's Logo network. His sound ranges from R&B to techno dance pop. His name is Ari Gold.
(Soundbite of song, "Go Where the Music Takes You")
Mr. ARI GOLD (Singer): (Singing) Doesn't matter what you do, go where the music takes you.
MARTIN: That's Ari Gold's "Go Where the Music Takes You." Gold prides himself on crossing boundaries, drawing audiences from the synagogues to the gay club scene. He stopped into the studio when he came to town for a local music festival. Ari Gold, thanks for being here.
Mr. GOLD: Thanks for having me, Michel.
MARTIN: Now you were performing as part of the Washington Jewish Music Festival here in D.C. Now, that's a festival that presents klezmer musicians, beat boxers, children sing-alongs. How would you describe your sound?
Mr. GOLD: The whole range. You know, I'm pop. I've always loved music. On the radio, it's definitely R&B and soul and a little like electronic elements, and you know, some old school '80s, '90s.
MARTIN: Your publicity materials make a point of describing you not only as openly gay, but as openly gay throughout your career. Why is that important?
Mr. GOLD: Well, I guess, I was really the first person to be out from the beginning of my career doing pop music. To me, what's actually even more important than that is the fact that I really explore that stuff in my work. You know, a lot of artists - even the ones who are out - still don't really want to use male pronouns for some reason or - I'm no holds barred. And I talk about it all.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: But sometimes when you're singing, you know, you're making it clear, you're singing to a guy.
Mr. GOLD: Singing to a man, yes, yes. Singing about a man, to a man…
MARTIN: And here's a - and it's funny. You're addressing some of the issues that are discussed, right, in the world of dating. And it here's one song, in particular, kind of fun - "He's On My Team."
(Soundbite of song, "He's On My Team")
Mr. GOLD: Kendra, what about that guy over there?
Ms. KENDRA ROSS (Singer): He's been checking me all night long.
Mr. GOLD: He's checking you out? He's checking me out.
Ms. ROSS: Ari, you think everybody plays on your team.
Mr. GOLD: Listen.
(Singing) I know it's been too late. But (unintelligible) nothing's (unintelligible). I don't know if you're hot. (unintelligible) time. I know it's been to you. What you mean, what you mean, he's on my team. Hey, yeah.
MARTIN: So, Ari, is this ripped from a headlines? Is it something you've experienced?
Mr. GOLD: It's totally something I've out experience - actually, specifically with the girl, Kendra Ross, who I'm singing with. We wrote it together, and it was definitely based on us fighting over the same guy, and me thinking someone was on my team.
MARTIN: Who was right?
Mr. GOLD: Who was right?
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. GOLD: I was, of course.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: And if I were to ask Kendra?
Mr. GOLD: Right. She might tell you a different story.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: You know, but you've also talked about the fact that you were raised as an Orthodox Jew.
Mr. GOLD: Yes.
MARTIN: Yeah. And those are two identities that don't necessarily comfortably coexist.
Mr. GOLD: Exactly. And that's why I felt like it was important for me to maintain both.
MARTIN: Can you?
Mr. GOLD: In my body, in my soul, that's what I am. I mean, you know - if I think about my childhood, if I think about my upbringing, if I think about all the things that make up who I am, I mean, there's a lot of things. You know, I grow up in New York. There's a lot of different elements. I'm a man. There's not any part of my life that I can think of that isn't impacted by the fact that I am gay. I definitely felt different. And at the same token, being, you know, raised Orthodox - and the thing about Orthodox Judaism is that you're constantly doing something for the religion. There's always something to do. Even if you're not doing something, you're wearing something. I mean, there's -you're never not engaged with the religion at all times.
MARTIN: And you're wearing a Chai?
Mr. GOLD: I'm wearing my Chai. I'm a little muggy…
MARTIN: A little…
Mr. GOLD: (unintelligible)
MARTIN: I have to say it's a hip-hop Chai. It's kind of…
Mr. GOLD: It's blingy.
MARTIN: …a hip-hop Chai. it's blingy.
Mr. GOLD: It's my Jew bling.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: Does that - does you Jewish identity find its way into your work? Into the writing, into the songs?
Mr. GOLD: Yeah, well, you know, my last album, I had a song called "Bashert," which means meant to be in Yiddish. You know, my parents spoke Yiddish around the house when they don't want us to understand.
MARTIN: Let's play a little bit of it, and then we'll talk about it.
(Soundbite of song, "Bashert")
Mr. GOLD: (Singing) Maybe it was meant to be for you and me, for us to start at last. Nowhere else I'd rather be than tenderly holding you close by. And baby I'll look after you, take care of you, because time is on my side, and (unintelligible) make me believe but with you, I feel good. Guess that means you're my meant to be, you were made for me, I know this deep inside.
MARTIN: It's a love song. Isn't it? It's a love song.
Mr. GOLD: It's totally love song, yeah.
MARTIN: And I can see it as a wedding song. It's a very profound…
Mr. GOLD: Well, I actually sang it at my ex-girlfriend, who's now a lesbian, at her traditional Jewish lesbian wedding. I sang that song.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: Okay.
Mr. GOLD: But yeah, I mean, you know, I think it's kind of cool to combine that kind of spiritual concept in reference to the idea of a man being with another man, you know, because a lot of times we think of homosexuality is not being included in things that are spiritual and religious. But to me, it can be.
MARTIN: Have any members of your religious community - your broader religious community ever raised objection to your melding of your two identities so publicly?
Mr. GOLD: Well, I mean, I definitely received a lot of homophobia when I came out of the closet, or even before I came out of the closet from the Orthodox Jewish community. And interestingly enough, being a pop singer and whatever, I've had a lot of gay people tell me, okay, fine, you know, be gay.
But the Jewish thing, tone down the Jewish thing. It's too much - too many things, Ari. There's too many things going on.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. GOLD: And, you know, but we're multifaceted individuals. We all have a lot of different aspects of us, and we're complex. And I think that it's cool to try and figure out how to express that, you know.
MARTIN: Speaking of complex, your sound is eclectic on this album. You've got, you know, a lot of different sort of styles going on. So what were your musical influences, and what are they today?
Mr. GOLD: In the '80s, I was obsessed with, like, everything that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced, and L.A. Reid, Babyface - I used to make like mix tapes of their stuff. Madonna and Prince and Whitney Houston - I mean, basically, Whitney and Mariah I would just copy like their voices and learn how to sing. Those are pretty good divas to learn from. I'm not saying I can come to their level, but…
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. GOLD: …I try.
MARTIN: Well, you've emulated - if I could use that term - Madonna in another way. You've got a coffee table book. Madonna had a coffee table book that was famously, I don't know, wrapped up in, say, (unintelligible)…
Mr. GOLD: Silver, silver…
MARTIN: …silver…
Mr. GOLD: …something…
MARTIN: …something or other it was considered very - and I must say, Ari, this is very…
Mr. GOLD: Those are the Boy George shots you just…
MARTIN: The Boy George socks, and you got kind of naked.
Mr. GOLD: I'm kind of naked.
MARTIN: I see you're not over-invested in wardrobe in this, if I can just put it that way.
(Soundbite of laughter)
MARTIN: Ari, what's going on here? What are we aiming for here?
Mr. GOLD: It's a celebration of sexuality, you know. I think a lot of times with gay people, it's like the only we're acceptable is if we're sort of desexualized, or we're considered the butt of humor, if we're hairdressers or cute - people who can make your house look better. You know, but I'm a sexual being, and I wanted to celebrate my sexuality and, you know, if the girl pop stars like Britney and Christina, and they can be sexual and flaunt their sexuality around, I don't see why I can't, either.
MARTIN: I'm just curious, though, it pushes against the stereotype that a lot of people have about gay men…
Mr. GOLD: Yeah.
MARTIN: …they're really sex focused and very into the - focus on their sexuality…
Mr. GOLD: Yeah, right.
MARTIN: …and that's kind of the primary point of the identity. And I just sort of wonder sometimes how that works.
Mr. GOLD: You know, it's sort of a double-edged sword. I mean, you know, we're sort of - you're sort of put in a lose-lose situation in a certain sense, because if then you steer away from your sexuality, then you're just sort of placating and making - say people maybe feeling more comfortable. I mean, I think that stereotype, it stems from homophobia, you know.
It's like the fact that gay men are branded as these hypersexual people is coming from a fearful place, that we're scared of their sexuality. So maybe I'm kind of putting it in their face and being like I am sexual, but don't be scared to my sexuality. And I'm multifaceted and singing about all kinds of things, and I've all kinds of different feelings just like everybody else.
MARTIN: Do you think it's a little bit like the N-word how some artist appropriate the N-Word? They say, okay, you mean it as a slur, but I'm going to take it back and make it what I wanted to be.
Mr. GOLD: I do. I do. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I mean, I know that's a big issue, but I think context is everything.
MARTIN: Do you use the F-word as a comparable slur?
Mr. GOLD: Right. I have used it, but, you know, it's at a gay pride event where it's a safe environment. And would I use it in a, you know, in an environment where I think people would misunderstand that? No. I think context is really important.
MARTIN: From the earliest work that you've sort of made public that you're going to be really clear about who you're singing to and what you're singing about, I just want to play other song about complexity. It's called, "Transport Me."
(Soundbite of song, "Transport Me")
Mr. GOLD: (Singing) Transport me to another place, another time. Transport me, I will regenerate. You care for me. If can't change the world, transport me, we go beyond about every opinion a boy or girl.
MARTIN: This is from your new CD "Transport Systems," due in early September.
Mr. GOLD: That's correct.
MARTIN: Talk to me about it. Tell me what you had in mind.
Mr. GOLD: You know, it's about the injuries that we experience in childhood and stuff like that, and wanting to transport yourself away to a different world where the things that we heard were not right about ourselves - maybe don't exist and, you know, if we wanted to be a different color. If we wanted to be a different gender.
Specifically for me and in the song, I was talking about its autobiographical about my own experience, because I didn't feel like I was correct in my gender. I felt like I didn't view the things other boys did, and I was made to feel ashamed about that. So - but I think everybody has that. Everybody has that thing that either they heard from their parents or they heard from, you know, someone or message that they got about themselves not being okay enough and that desire to be somebody else and how to figure out how to be okay with who you are and embrace that.
MARTIN: Ari Gold. His latest album, "Transport Systems," is due in early September. Ari, thanks so much for stopping by the studios today.
Mr. GOLD: Thank you so much, Michel.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Distinguish photographs
I can start to tell what are the two kinds of photographs that can be distinguished in the contemporary photographic scene. One is about VISION & TRUTH, the other is about VISUAL & TRICK. However, the latter seems to form a dominant majority.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Paris to and fro, 2011
The photograph is taken at my balcony at Seputeh with a traveler's toothbrush, a seashell in a plastic container, a French can food, an Eiffel Tower 's key chain in a glass and a bottle of honey collected by the Corsican bees.
My tongue no longer misses the French cuisine.
I am finally cured! Yeah, I should name the photograph as "The Mother Tongues Tower".
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This townhouse is located close by to shops and the University of Queensland. It has a split system air con, a lock up garage and two balconies with good nature views. No major rules besides being respectful of other peoples space and quiet time. Everyone has a turn cooking for the house each week and the night can be flexible to your schedule.
The two housemates you will be sharing with are both young males. One is a mechanic who is interested in sports and plays on a casual basketball team on the weekends. The other is a full time student studying advertising at UQ and works part time at Woolworths. Both went to school in the area and are from Australian heritage.
Everyone usually keeps to themselves and goes about their daily activities without impeding on each other. Little bit of friendly conversation here and there but rarely any big social events.
Would suit a student or professional looking for the benefits of flexible living allowing you to come and go as you please.
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Lethal Lance is an old school side scrolling platformer. The graphics have been very well crafted and have a funny look which will make you laugh and fall in love with them at the same time. The music has been carefully chosen to create the perfect atmosphere and encourage you to finish every level.
The story which drives the game has been written with a great sense of humor, but allow us to quote the official site and judge but yourself:
Born an orphan, raised by the Holy gun monks of eastern Siberia, Lance always had a strong dislike for all things dark and supernatural. As strange endless night fell onto our world, turning all of the animals into undead, bloodsucking monsters, he had no choice. It was Lance or them. Stakes are high. Stakes are sharp. Stakes are lethal, like Lance. Purge the world of the evil undead critters and help Lance return freedom to our world.
The gameplay is pretty basic, but if you love classic platformers that is all what you need to have good fun jumping and firing to every single monster.
One remarkable feature of Lethal Lance is its support for IOS 7 controllers, so if you are the proud owner of one of them you can experience Lethal Lance in all its glory.
The indie studio behind this game is LL Team and, in our humble opinion, they have done a great work here.
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5 things to know before today's Falcons at Broncos kickoff
DENVER — Here are 5 things to mull over before today's 4:05 p.m. kickoff between the surprising Atlanta Falcons (3-1) and the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos (4-0) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
1. THE X-FACTOR: Falcons All-Pro wide receiver Julio Jones, who is coming off his 12-catch,
300-yard receiving performance, will be the X-Factor against the Broncos and their secondary, which takes pride in creating a "no-fly zone." After torching the Panthers' inexperienced cornerbacks, the Falcons anticipate Jones will see man-to-man coverage from All-Pro cornerback Aqib Talib. "It's the ultimate challenge," Denver coach Gary Kubiak said.
2. Lynch to start at QB for Broncos : Second-year quarterback Trevor Siemian injured his left shoulder last week. Rookie Paxton Lynch came on to play in relief last week against Tampa Bay. The Falcons spent most of the week preparing for both quarterbacks, but Lynch will start.
3. RADIO AND TELEVISION: Fox will have the game with Chris Meyers, John Lynch and Pam Oliver announcing. Wes Durham, Dave Archer and John Michaels will call the game for 92.9 The Game with the Countdown to Kickoff show being handled by Ryan Cameron and Mike Conti starting at 2 p.m.
4. NFL OFFICIAL CREW: McAulay Crew — R: Terry McAulay (77). FJ: Rick Patterson (15). U: Undrey Wash (96). SJ: Jonah Monroe (120). HL: Jerry Bergman (91) BJ: Rich Martinez (39) LJ: Tom Stephan (68). RO: Earnie Frantz. McAulay has been an NFL official since 1998 and he's worked three Super Bowls.
5. SERIES RECORD: This will be the 14th regular-season meeting. The Broncos lead the series 8-5. The Falcons won the last meeting, 27-21, on Sept. 17, 2012. The Falcons also won the last meeting in Denver, 41-28, on Oct. 31, 2004. The Broncos defeated the Falcons, 34-19, in Atlanta's only Super Bowl appearance, Super Bowl XXXIII, on Jan. 31, 1999.
The AJC's D. Orlando Ledbetter and Noah Coslov talk about the Falcons two-week trip out west, the impact of losing LB Sean Weatherspoon and how to attack Denver's vaunted defense on Sunday.
GAME FOUR: Falcons 48, Panthers 33
5 things we learned from the Falcons' 48-33 win over the Panthers
Tweetcap: Falcons 48, Panthers 33
Old pro Freeney shows new trick with Falcons
Falcons' rookie Neal holds on vs. Olsen
What Julio Jones had to say after the 48-33 win over the Panthers
What Dan Quinn had to say after the 48-33 win over the Panthers
What Matt Ryan had to say after the 48-33 win over the Panthers
Alford battled; Collins to return
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GAME THREE: Falcons 45, Saints 32
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Falcons, Saints protest with unity circle before game
REPORT CARD: Falcons earned high marks for drubbing Saints
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What Matt Ryan had to say after the 45-32 win over the Saints
What the Falcons had to say after the 45-32 win over the Saints
Keanu Neal makes strong debut for Falcons
Falcons' Deion Jones runs for glory, not survival, in return home
AJC POWER RANKINGS: Falcons best in NFC South?
GAME TWO: Falcons 35, Raiders 28
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Trufant's heads-up play saves the day
Tight ends help to power offense
Weatherspoon plays strong in first start since 2013
Matthews, Schraeder held Mack sack-less
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What Dan Quinn had to say after the win over the Raiders
GAME ONE: Buccaneers 31, Falcons 24
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No sacks for new-look Falcons pass rush
Julio Jones not worried about his ankle injury
Falcons have a case of the "no-huddle" blues
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Johannesburg - A social media game called Gotcha has been launched in SA by Vodacom and Primedia Broadcasting.
It will allow listeners in Johannesburg (94.7 FM) and Cape Town (94.5 FM) to chase down a virtual wallet, called Smart Money, in an attempt to win their share of R700 000 split between the two cities.
By downloading the Gotcha! app, the companies say in a press release, players may track the virtual wallet and take possession when they get within 100 metres of it. The player holding the wallet at the right time trades in the virtual wallet for real cash.
"Our increasing listenership is that of techno savvy and digitally advanced individuals and we are excited to be at the forefront of interaction with them," said Ravi Naidoo, station manager at 94.7 Highveld Stereo.
The name of the game is to be as creative as possible in evading other players and hanging on to the wallet for as long as possible. Presenters at 94.7 Highveld Stereo and 94.5 KFM will keep listeners up to date over the air waves, interacting with players in real time.
"The pace of technological development in SA is moving so fast that we sometimes miss important milestones," said Enzo Scarcella, marketing executive at Vodacom.
"The Gotcha competition speaks volumes about the level of smartphone adoption in the country, the sophistication of our mobile networks, and how readily we've embraced social media. More important, it's the first concrete example of how technology is changing the way South Africans interact with traditional mass media."
Scarcella said there were almost five million smartphones on Vodacom's SA network, and the number was growing at more than 40 percent a year.
"Gotcha! is a great test case to see whether SA has passed the tipping point in smartphone adoption, whereby brands change from broadcasting to consumers to interacting with them one-to-one."
Gotcha! SA is available for download from the Vodacom Apps store and Apple, BlackBerry and Android app stores, to listeners who have access to an Android, BlackBerry or Apple smartphone. The game begins on August 13 and runs until September 8. - The Star


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Not every child learns the same way. Some do better listening to information; others require visual illustration, still more simply learn by doing but most kids need a combination. KinderBach understands and presents concepts in a variety of ways so that every child can learn to play piano.


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"I was wandering in depression... black, deep, depression..."
"I thank my wisdom furthermore this day that I never touched the poison called alcohol. It could have been near, but I prevented myself descending that low into my pathetic self-pity. Although it was because of my mistakes that she had had to suffer such an end, drinking would not have solved anything. Only a pure, evil revenge shall bring me the comprehension that my poor choices are compensated.
Melancholy and wrath shadowed my face from day to another. I did my work that did not taste any more as good as it had been. Why to serve such an idiotic organisation that could not even protect the lives of its own habitants? Or to give justice when it was needed? And I had another burden in the middle of all this, the child. As much as I was able to persuade the relatives to watch after him, I still was his guardian and forced to foster him. Oh if I would have been granted with a daughter, it would have given me some light into the sorrow. But such a little brat... gah. I took him to live with me on Capital Planet. And I can admit myself that I did not know how to raise a son. And I do still not know."
"Then came the day when I met Sajud Gar'Heej. A man that would be the key to my future.
I was then participating a summit of the Alliance senators. That did not interest me a piece of tarnished Zenerdiode. The only thing I could enjoy in that rotten conference was my majestic figure walking tall and severe among the wizened old fools. Stupid idiots living in their own fantasy worlds. Gar'Heej, however, did show brotherly friendliness towards me. He had heard about the losses of my life and came to discuss with me. And I needed someone to whom I could talk like a man to man. I had buried all the repressed enmity inside me. He became my friend. This 70-year-old senator at first introduced himself being from Tiputanssi System, but as the time went on and he literally knew my whole history, it was revealed that his position was quite much different. He in truth worked for an exterior empire, something that did not belong to the Alliance at all. In other words, he was a spy.
I did not care any more what he was. A spy or not. He explained me that there would be a way to turn the pages of the history book so that I would benefit of it. How it would be possible to realize the thing I most wished for in my life; to make the earthworms suffer who did this to you, Adi. After that, I was informed that he had made me known to his employer, an emperor called Zidár. Surprising was indeed that this royal wanted to encounter me. Gar'Heej elucidated it was extremely important that I should visit Zeta Quadrant if I wanted to do something to my miserable life. And so I was invited to tap in front of my future Master."
"Oh the sinister symphony of Planet Z when I for the first time stepped on the black ground of it. It was dusk, the red sky more crimson than ever, contrasting perfectly with the malevolent atmosphere. Ahh the harmony, the melody... The planet itself, however, was not quite similar to what it is today; it was I who built the magnificent technology, the halls, the palaces, the factories. At that time, there grew forests on those places where now my mighty architecture rises to the highnesses. Those pesting plants and vegetables needed to be destroyed, burned! Nothing would be there to remind me of Morph when I finally took the throne. Nothing! Curse you a bazillion times, Morph!
I admired this place from the first sight on. And that emotion turned to sheer awe when I was directed to the Imperial Palace. Zurg Tower did not exist then, at the place of it was a smaller colosseum, but indeed even it was marvellous in its evil beauty. All the decorations were violet, with large, glowing z-letters on the walls. From that moment on, I connected them to my own name... I had three zetas already steering my former identity.
However, I felt chills going down my spine when I was finally introduced to the ruler, Emperor Zidár. The dark side was surely his powerful ally; that could be seen already from his outer appearance. He did not actually wear the common clothes of an emperor, but moreover a black cloak, its hood drawn deep over his head. He was 130 years old, very pale and a red glow flashed in his eyes when he glanced around. I do not know until this day what was his true race. He resembled a human being, but had his origins somewhere in the furthest distances of Zeta Quadrant.
He was absolutely direct with me. The only question was that did I want to have someone to destroy the enemies that had stepped on my highway. Like in a flash, a flash of comprehension, I understood that this forceful man knew everything about me. And when I announced with the most blazing hatred in my voice that I definitely wanted to have the revenge on those skunks, he just kept nodding smilingly in front of me. I wondered for a while what this smirk was for, but then I was filled with awareness when the answer lastly came. He would carry on the retaliation, if I would do a favour for him. To become his apprentice.
Emperor Zidár explained the reason for this in a way that quite pleased my pride. He had heard about my talents, my incomparable intelligence, which was proven of course by the political post I had as such a young person. Mwa ha ha ha... what normal pathetic mortal would ever become ambassador at the age of 19? Muhahahahaa... only I, I would be capable of that. Slowly, with those coaxing words of his, he made me see what kind of a turkey the whole Alliance was, that it deserved not my skills. My life would be flushed down the sewers of dullness if I would continue in my current career. If I would agree to his plans, there would be something a billion times more glorious waiting for me. And today I see it, I feel it, I taste it... as now sitting here in my throne, ruling the Dark Empire as a sovereign monarch. Yes, I would become his apprentice, and therefore be his successor... the next Emperor. That was an offer too brilliant to be refused. Moreover, he needed my assistance in expanding his kingdom, he had been for a long time searching for such a gifted person as I was. No one in his current reign was as prospective as I was."
"For the first time in my life, I heard from the Emperor about the dark side. He declared that I was the most potential person he had ever met, for to become its servant. From my grim regard he could read the sparkles of anger that rattled in my mind. And anger... if I would release it to its full power, would already solely help me to step to the right path, the path that I am walking now. I, fool, had mistrust to take the advance at first. But gradually Zidár made me grasp what were the benefits. He told me he saw that I did not believe in goodness. And that surrendering to the forces of darkness would give me the domination so that no one could ever put his dirty shoes on my way. This way I would avenge on everyone I ever wanted, everyone that ever dared to resist me! ...There, I finally believed him... and gained my prize."
"Years of reading ancient scrolls, learning combat skills, devoting myself to meditation... That was my training. And in the middle of all this, I heard that the murderers of my wife were one by one trapped and made to experience a death more horrible than she ever had gone through... One by one, Zidár ordered to capture them, transported them to his planet and tortured them, until their last screams were heard. One by one... over 50 members of that mafia... who had plotted against me or anyhow taken part of ruining my life. I was not there to see what was their destiny, but I heard the shrieks a couple of times echoing from the dungeons, where they faced their grim reapers.
Ah, yes... Planet Z had become like a new home to me. Although I did still officially live on that sickeningly hypocritical Capital Planet, this was the crystal palace where I wanted to be. To be served by Zidár's simple-minded minions... a race of insect-like creatures. Of whom I took the control, lately. And I was trained to attend on the dark side, while I skilfully weakened the Galactic Alliance's defences -by stealing the blueprints of every single innovative invention they ever came up. Sadly Zidár's army forces were still too weak to attack the Alliance, but we built together new technology as the base of a strong future empire. And so he did conquers in the far space of Zeta Quadrant... many solar systems were there to obey him since they saw the new vigour of the raising dynasty.
And I was behind all this... I was an obedient apprentice, doing patiently every task my Master ordered me to do. The prize was there waiting for me... when I would be ready.
There I was. Stepped into the halls of the dark side. I was promoted, given a royal status. Every creeping lackey called me Lord Zora. Although I did not like that name. I had had the tendency of willing to get rid of my own, old identity. I did not want to be some whining ambassador of the Alliance, I wanted to be a dark lord. The name Lightyear was a real conjuration in my ears. Light? Light was nowhere! I do not want light! The light shall be devastated!
...Though, with the permission of my Master, I made myself known as Zurg. Lord Zurg. Oo, how dangerous and dark that sounds! Zurg... Z-Zurg... Zuuuurg... Zurrrrrg... I could repeat that name for hours, it is so harmonic in its consonant-vowel combination... ZURG! Zu-uuuurg... And I made that name for me, purely I. And I must say I admire the izzard that begins it. Oo... an evil izzard."
"As I reached the days of my 25th year, the roles changed. During a negotiation conference between Morph and a planet called Shaak in Rontti System, I received a vid-phone call from Gar'Heej. For my shock, he announced that my Master had suddenly fallen to sickbed because of an internal bleeding. In addition, the prospects were not good. As I arrived to Planet Z, the Emperor was a coughing shadow of himself, lying feebly on his deathbed. I was there to hear his last words, sealing my value in his eyes. I would take the throne. And before his regard became extinct and ¦eol swallowed him, I promised to make this reign more glorious than it ever had been.
Lord Zurg was not only a lord, now, but an emperor. Emperor Zurg.
So was the negotiation trip ended. I had left the council rooms in a hurry, not telling where I headed. No one knew where I had gone, so why bother? I never returned to Shaak, to finish the boring debates. Zidár was buried the following day, and I, I stepped into the throne room. There was a suit waiting for me. A long, purple robe, including a silver chest-plate, silvery alloy-gauntlets, and a helmet to hide my face. That day I made it clear that Z. Z. Lightyear did not exist any longer. He was dead and so would be his identity. Therefore, no one would be there to see my features. There was only the young, powerful Emperor Zurg.
For the very next day I hooted my new name visible. By contacting that ridiculous Universe Protection Unit, warning them about the new might and reign of me. I would take the Alliance into my hands, sooner or later. And as my first victory, I had destroyed the ambassador of Morph. It was all too easy to make them believe that he was dead. And so he is, the wind blows no more over his being."
"I do not know what happened to my son after that, what was his childhood. He was left to be warded by some relatives during the days of the negotiation travel. Obviously they were there to raise him, too. I did not care. But now I shall care when he has grown to be my greatest enemy. Nevertheless, the son of Z. Z. Lightyear shall one day obey me. That is for sure."
"Today I have it, dark glory... and no one is there to take it away from me. Jim-kraken-dandy."


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Where Are They Now?: Native Tongues
- By Bossip Staff
There is no Hip-Hop collective as revered, or as influential, as Native Tongues (or just "Native Tongue").* Anchored by The Jungle Brothers, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, with many other members, you can find their DNA in plenty of today's rap acts… Continue


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Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 Retired – Microsoft News
Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 Retired – Microsoft News – Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 are no more, according to Microsoft. With the release of Windows 7, the older operating systems have become outdated and there is a need for the company to move forward instead of trying to connect with outdated software. Keep in mind that the operating systems will not stop working, the company is just cutting their support for those operating systems; meaning that they will not be releasing any new security fixes or provide technical assistance. If you want to keep running the operating systems, you will have to provide yourself with support.
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The masses phased out Windows 2000 on their own several years ago, and the operating system has continued to lose popularity since 2005. Six years after Microsoft released their second service pack, they are ending support for it. Six years is an eternity in the tech world. Microsoft would eventually release a third service pack for the operating system several years later.
It will be interesting to see how many people switch to Windows 7 with this announcement. As computers start to crap out, and people are looking for support for their machines, they may just be persuaded to upgrade their computer.
The downside is that many users are still reporting problems with XP machines. Smaller computer support companies will benefit from the move, but Microsoft is leaving a lot of users hanging by cutting off support to Windows XP SP2 and Windows 2000 users.


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Murphy, Simon, Moore, G.F., Tapper, K,, Lynch, R., Clarke, R., Raisanen, L., Desousa, C. and Moore, L. (2011) Free healthy breakfasts in primary schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial of a policy intervention in Wales, UK. Public Health Nutrition, 14 (2). pp. 219-226. ISSN 1368-9800Full text not available from this repository.
OBJECTIVE: The present study evaluated the impact of a national school programme of universal free healthy breakfast provision in Wales, UK. DESIGN: A cluster randomised controlled trial with repeated cross-sectional design and a 12-month follow-up. Primary outcomes were breakfast skipping, breakfast diet and episodic memory. Secondary outcomes were frequency of eating breakfast at home and at school, breakfast attitudes, rest-of-day diet and class behaviour. SETTING: Primary schools in nine local education authority areas. SUBJECTS: A total of 4350 students (aged 9-11 years) at baseline and 4472 at follow-up in 111 schools. RESULTS: Students in intervention schools reported significantly higher numbers of healthy food items consumed at breakfast and more positive attitudes towards breakfast eating at 12 months. Parents in intervention schools reported significantly higher rates of consumption of breakfast at school and correspondingly lower rates of breakfast consumption at home. No other significant differences were found. CONCLUSIONS: The intervention did not reduce breakfast skipping; rather, pupils substituted breakfast at home for breakfast at school. However, there were improvements in children's nutritional intake at breakfast time, if not the rest of the day, and more positive attitudes to breakfast, which may have implications for life-course dietary behaviours. There was no impact on episodic memory or classroom behaviour, which may require targeting breakfast skippers
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a hootenanny
a ribald clutch lets loose laughter
a serious look at who we are now
a very different perspective on humanity
an urgency long withheld, surfaces
It takes courage to write about motherhood in a culture that sets women with children on the sidelines, and it takes even more courage to give voice to the powerful emotions and fears that swirl deep beneath the surface of our daily lives, informing and sharing our relationships with our children and the world at large.
-Katrina Kenison and Kathleen Hirsch
This week I am in the thick of preparing to teach.
I am also sitting with my heart-broken son on the phone as he navigates a cross-country trip with his friends and sorts out being single, suddenly.
We look up at the same moon.
I am also walking to the river again and again with my daughter, figuring out what her next steps are, if not only in to the blazingly cold clear waters of the Green river, but what of her senior year in high school?
And then, there is me.
Here, a blossoming is going on. There is energy building with the work I am doing.
Here is an interview that I did for Wild Motherhood. Morgan's questions prompted me to write this prayer:
Live your full life.
"Your body does not lie." -Terry Tempest Williams
Your story matters.
Taking one small step for yourself today makes a difference in everything you do.
Your story matters.
Love your kids, ask for help, listen closely to the world around you, talk to each other, and be outside, every single day. Bring the littles with you.
Your story matters.
There is room for you here, even within motherhood. Take up your own space and urge your sisters to do the same.
Your story matters.
This is what I believe.
Today, I offer you a fresh post in the Out of the Mouths of Babes blog series by Sara Nolan. She lives what this series is all about, expressing a woman's life within motherhood. I am so happy Sara offered this post. Please leave your comments for Sara here. I will be at the International Women's Writing Guild this week, posting from Litchfield, CT. You can expect more Out posts and a running update from my workshop, Mapping Motherhood.
Experiment in the Mini-Essay #16- Infant Poetry has God on the Line
by Sara Nolan
I read aloud to Ronen while we nurse. Gulping is his foreground music; words are his background music. Not Hungry Caterpillar, Not Goodnight Moon– he'll be well-fed on those classics everyone includes in an early literary diet. Instead, I'm moving through the anthology that Rick, our beloved officiant, left here for our wedding preparation: the "Winged Energy of Delight." That's what I want my son to know. Vallejo, Dickson, Machado, Issa, Kabir– the poet's ardor and specificity. It ain't Mother Goose's regular posse.
This morning I read the verses of poet Caesar Vallejo, not so kid-tastic; his existential dreariness is leavened by the abstract, bizarre, and surreal. He's in depressing Paris, trying to be an artist, being an artist, dying there an artist. Couldn't be farther from my infant's reality, but the fuzzy borders between self and world that poet and infant must traverse and explore, and sometimes be confounded by, are similar. The regular old world still reads to them both as nonsense. Vallejo's lines also have currents of odd joy that would not be everyone's joy, manifesting in pulses throughout his poems the way Milk lets down in pulses.
My small boy, suckling intensely, is anchored to my body while I read. Nothing could be less abstract than breast-feeding. As counterpoint to that, Vallejo writes: "I feel that God is traveling/so much in me,/ with the dusk and the sea….He is kind and sad, like those who care for the sick;…I consecrate you, God, because you love so much;/because you never smile; because your heart/ must all the time give you great pain." Just as I read these lines to Ronen, who smacks my breast by reflex in aim-iess rhythm, my dear friend texts me a snippet from her first day in her program for a Masters in Children's Literature and Research: "Poetry eases an infant's transition learning division of self and world"(From her teacher Karen Coats). Yes, ease— what I want for my boy, ease.
And yet I read to him about what we all long to keep from our children, from anyone we love, or, if we have the Big View, from anyone at all– pain that cannot be mitigated. Pain that is as elementary and constitutional as blood and lymph. Motherhood brings on a special ache over this pain– when Ronen flinches and whimpers from any discomfort whose source I cannot know, as private and inaccessible as his moment of embryonic implantation, I flinch, I hurt with reciprocal depth, I grimace, I flail. I am on my knees even while standing up, on his behalf, I pray despite myself.
I feel that god is traveling so much in me, Vallejo explains. Pregnant with my boy, not knowing then he was a boy, I too felt god traveling in my body– really! Coursing through the blood, using hormones as floatation devices. Not to say that it was a comfy situation, not at all. How could it be when the infinite moves through the finite? But it was supersonic fullness, continual transit across placental hallways, mood spikes, a tsunami of creative energy working itself into compressed cellular organelles and organs and an eventual organism. Mother Mary, turns out, as special as she was, was nobody special. She was us, you and me, holding the urgent and ineffable becoming.
When John and I made love in those 9 months– when I managed to take a break from being irritated at all of humanity for which he was, in my limited, warped, delusional pregnant viewpoint, the unfortunate front-runner in my household– I'd say to our baby-to-be, this is where you come from, you come from love, and you're coming into love. Simplistic, yes– and, if you pushed me to admit it, the world is not exactly that straightforward. But mothers fib sometimes for the sake of a good story: egg and sperm and cellular replication was involved, and the baby enters into a lot more than love– into bureaucracy (fittingly hard to spell), burrs, bumpers, a mish-mosh of phenomena. The world is inescapably complex, and not reducible to any one element, however glorious. But still, not a bad creation myth to tell your child or yourself. It is a non-sentimental kind of Love that catches the child, more absolute, more daunting.
With my boy in my arms, feeling the increasing loops of love that tether me to his funny particularities, that twine around the arbor of my body, fixed, from which he is the heavy grapes hanging, I feel something like Vallejo's god again, that sad god who kindly cares for the sick, a person of great pain, the heavy pain that comes with separation. I feel God in the strange lumpy tissue accruing beneath my C-section incision, I feel God in the tingling that signals the milk truck has filled up the ducts, I feel God in the endlessness of diapers that seem to pinwheel off the table into the garbage, off the table into the garbage. I feel God in the way my beautiful husband razzes and strokes the baby, the way my stepsons ask to hold him and cradle his erratic head with confidence. This holiness is like water, taking the shape of its container.
Sara Nolan finds life amazing and whole, and bios awkward and partial. She teaches young people to write about their lives through personal essays, using the imagination in support of truth. Sara can be found leading classes and workshops in NYC via her education initiative, Essay Intensive, which is what it sounds like. She is also findable via the written word on her blog of sorts, Massive Missive, where she occasionally posts essays that took a long time to hatch. Meanwhile, she learns and mothers with all her might.


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Both parties are politicians so they share common interests. However none of those interests are helping the American public. As Rush Limbaugh says: The Democrats are the "Always win" Harlem Globe Trotters and the Republicans are the "always the losing stooges" Washington Generals. America is doomed as a Republic as the Washington swamp morass slides towards the same goal: Socialism. Sadly, eventually America's last hope; President Trump will be pushed aside.
Occasionally the Generals win. The GOP needs to capitalize on this & put a stop to the infighting. The Socialist (formally the Dimocratic) Party) should held accountable for all their anti-American rhetoric.
Held accountable by whom? The news and entertainment media that are their propaganda arm? A handful of "hate radio" broadcasters they want to muzzle?
TJ, I, for one, miss your Saturday reviews on GOC..
Denny and I had a falling out. I think he was getting jealous of me steeling his thunder.
is that really true ?
I actually was watching cnn and I know they reported on air that it was the democrats praying on the field, no mention of the gop.
I am not surprised, but cnn had reporters at the game; they would have been able to identify republicans out there; so they chose not to; but supposedly fox is the one telling lies.
just shameful, but not new.
The only time Demonicrats "pray" is for a photo-op. Remember when they tried to remove "God" from the 2012 platform? That at least would have been honest if they had done it. But, they realized the fly-over country people might be offended so they reinserted it.


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There were lots of smiling faces in the villages when students at Donington Thomas Cowley High School and Kirton Middlecott School received their GCSE results.
Teachers at Thomas Cowley High School were celebrating the best ever set of results - placing the school nationally in the top 25 per cent.
Ninety-nine per cent of students gained at least five or more GCSE grades A*-G.
Forty-nine per cent of students gained 10 or more GCSE grades A*-C.
Martyn Taylor, headteacher, said: "The year group worked tremendously hard throughout their time at The Thomas Cowley High School. They have proved to be a credit to themselves and the school is thrilled that they have done so well.
"Congratulations are also due to the staff at the Thomas Cowley High School who dedicate themselves to ensuring that all students can be the best that they can be. They too have worked tirelessly to help all the students achieve these outstanding results.
"The results demonstrate yet again why so many parents want their children to attend The Thomas Cowley High School. They show clearly that students of all ability are given the opportunity, the expert assistance and the individual care in order to do well."
Kirton Middlecott School's new headteacher, Julia Garwood, is delighted 95 per cent of students achieved 5 GCSE results at A* - G.
The percentage of students achieving five or more passes at grade C or better, including mathematics and English, was 38 per cent.
Ms Garwood said: "It's a fantastic accomplishment and compares very favourably with the national average.
"The on-going improvements in the school has allowed this year's results to equal last year's performance.
"All credit to the students for their endeavours and to the staff for their hard work.
"Success is contagious and the school fully intends to keep up the momentum of change, rigour and improvement.
"We will keep pursuing improvement, aiming for even higher results next year."
Results are being published online on this website. For the full story and pictures, see Tuesday's Lincolnshire Free Press.


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Proficiency in German or Russian allows students to engage with some of the greatest cultural traditions in the world while also gaining the skills necessary for entry into such fields as international business, economics, and law.
The Department of German and Russian provides superior language instruction from a faculty that consistently ranks among the best in the University; offers a wide range of courses, including but not limited to literature; and fosters a community of learning, in which students benefit from small classes and ample extracurricular opportunities.
NEW COURSE: The Holocaust in German and American Cultural Memory (GE 43402; AMST 30971)
Whose lives matter? In light of current events such as the racially motivated violence in Charlottesville last summer, this course explores the legacy of slavery and Holocaust memory (and their limits) from a comparative perspective. Drawing on German and U.S. American fiction, film, photography, comics, and art, we investigate how various media cultures bear witness to intercultural histories of genocide. This interdisciplinary course is taught in English by Prof. Julia Faisst, the Spring 2018 Max Kade Visiting Professor. Questions? Email our DUS, Dr. Denise Della Rossa. Make sure to register for this exciting class before it fills up.


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This wasn't my first visit to America's Packard Museum in Dayton but that other visit was over ten years ago and before I was even sure I'd be maintaining a website very long. The first picture has nothing to do with Packards other than being within a few blocks of the museum and being the place where I had lunch. It's something I've been meaning to do for a long time. As revealed by the awnings, the White Lotus was once a Yummy Burger and, in addition to some fine looking but as yet unsampled Thai dishes, still serves an excellent Yummy Burger. Here's is a shot of my meal in progress. I've always been a little mystified by the lack of distance between the Yummy Burger and the Wympee across the street. The Wympee has been gutted and is going upscale as a place called "Olive" but the competition must have once been fierce.
The Citizen's Motorcar Company constructed this building in 1917 as a Packard dealership and that's what it was until 1939. It now houses what just may be the largest assemblage of Packards anywhere. There is a basement and two more stories that aren't accessible to museum visitors. There's an unconnected annex that is. The top floor is a sort of attic and lots of odd and ends were stored there. That's where the museum folk found the original chandeliers, which helped create the showroom like appearance of the museum's entrance, and the big neon sign which has been repaired and rehung. The donor of the 1914 Runabout that sits in the showroom has retained a few privileges that include occasionally taking his baby out for a cruise. Thus the not exactly correct but very practical turn signals.
Beyond the showroom, what was once the service area is filled with cars. I've singled out a 1930 Speedster Bobtail, the 1928 Jesse Vincent Speedster, and a 1933 Super Eight Touring. The Super Eight belonged to William Cooper Proctor who was the head of a fairly successful soap making outfit in Cincinnati. In an unsuccessful effort to tone things down, Proctor ordered the car with absolutely no bright work. Of course, the big Packard with no hood ornament and blacked out bumpers and trim became instantly recognizable. Dick, who was my guide today, told me of a recent visit by twenty some of the Proctor's chauffer's grandchildren. They took tons of pictures of themselves with the car and shared tons of stories including the fact that Franklin Roosevelt once rode in the car in a during a Cincinnati procession.
The pair of cars in the third row of photos make a rather odd couple. One is a true barn find recently pulled out of storage in nearby Eaton, Ohio. There is evidence of it having been repainted at some point in its long life but it is essentially unrestored and will likely remain that way other than getting the engine operational. The other car pictured is an exceptional 1936 V-12 Speedster with a body by Fernandez & Darrin. It's a legitimate candidate for the world's most valuable Packard. Stylish features include a teardrop shaped step rather than a full running board. Packard produced the industry's first V-12 engine in 1912. Probably because of the available casting technology, early Packard twelve cylinder engines were made by bolting two six cylinder blocks to a common crank case. This was the Twin Six. I'm not certain of this but I believe Packard switched to the V-12 designation once they began making the big engines with a single casting.
The three cars in the last row are all in the annex. In Packard's final days, when they were merely rebadged Studebakers, Chief Engineer Patrick Pridachuk caused this convertible prototype to be built but it was never produced. Read about it here. Sorry about the flash. The 1935 V-12 Convertible is part of the museum's fleet of available limousines. Sure beats the crap out of a stretch Hummer. The last car pictured is a 1903 Model K Grey Wolf Racer. Actually I guess it's the 1903 Model K Grey Wolf Racer as only one was built at a cost of $10,000 1903 dollars. It 1904 it topped 77 MPH to grab the land speed record. There is a radiator in the rear and the tubes along the side are part of the cooling system. The hood ornament is on a 1925 Phaeton Speedster back in the main building.
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I lay looking at the ceiling and wondered about life. If you take a pebble and toss it into a very still pond then you can watch the ripples move away from the point of splash and then like micro tsunamis, head in every direction away from the epicenter. If there is an obstacle, let's say a stick in the water then the pattern changes, chaos is introduced and the pattern is less defined than it was before. But what if you were blind? You might toss a random pebble and hear a tiny splash but you'd never know what ripples went where, and that led me to wonder; even with sight what else might we be missing when we take some action, ever so slight?
Suppose instead of sight you perceived waves of motion regardless of how they were created. Bats do this with sound waves and whales do it underwater with sound, so all you have to imagine is some organ developed to detect waves and some method to produce the waves. Were this a reality the ocean's shores might be some incredibly wonderful sensory experience, even more so than it already is. Imagine the first wave based creatures who would dare an ocean with giant waves. It would be like sailing into the sun for sight based creatures.
So what if these wave based creatures evolved to be incredibly fragile by our own standards and they communicated by slightly higher of slightly lower pressure waves with amplitude and frequency for the expression of emotion. Suppose these creatures lived on a world where the environment was so stable they needed slight and easy structures, miles high yet as delicate as rice paper. Their spires would reach high into their atmosphere and these creatures would rise and fall on the very slightest winds that occurred so rarely.
Imagine the works of art that could be created of waves across a plane suspended by waves and across that plane emotions of all sorts of any one of their kind chose to contribute. Indeed, there would be sites where students of history of the wave creatures echoed time and time again the past story of their species, with their headmaster looking over their shoulders, so anyone might learn of their pasts, near and distant. All of them, their religion and culture and art, everything recorded in an ocean of waves, each as easy to translate to the denizens of that world as these words are to you.
But nothing good lasts forever and far too soon alien creatures would land, blasting the surface of the planet with their fire and pressure. Whole subcultures would disappear into ash and dust. The peaceful creatures who had never known war had never built a weapon and never shed blood in anger would perish from despair. Defenseless they would die by the trillions as the invaders trampled history into dust and shattered the fragile planes of communication.
But it's a misunderstanding, really. The humans landing on the alien planet have no method by which they might discern the creatures' existence, very much like the blind man who cannot see the ripples in the pond. They blunder down to the surface in ecstatic celebration and know nothing of the devastation upon which they have wrought upon an entire race.
Yes, as I lay looking at the ceiling, I have these thoughts, while lying on the floor. Lillith dove between myself and the counter, in order to escape the charging Loki Mutt and Lucas followed. He knocked a small footstool into me, overturning the stool, creating an unbalance, and I went down flat. I never did lose consciousness but I knew better than try to stand right away. The dogs came and licked me, then settled down around my prone body, with Lucas, contrite, near my head, and Sam at my feet. Lillith took up position beside Lucas, and they waited. No more zoomies in the house. New rule. My vision is a little fuzzy and my head hurts.
But my dog what a great story that came out of this!
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Music legend Levon Helm, singer and drummer for The Band, has lost his 14-year battle with throat cancer, leaving behind a wife and daughter as well as a lasting legacy in the music world.
Helm grew up on an Arkansas farm and fostered a love of music early on; he was just six years old when he saw Bill Monroe and His Bluegrass Boys for the first time, and the show made a lasting impression on him. He wrote about it in his autobiography, "This Wheel's On Fire: The Story Of Levon Helm And The Band".
"This really tattooed my brain. I've never forgotten it," he said of the performance, and indeed a soulful, grass-roots feel can be heard in Levon's voice that was no doubt influenced by that youthful admiration.
The Band infused R&B with rock, country, and the story-telling abilities of a Bluegrass genius, and that deft maneuvering is what made them so successful.
Country/rock band Fifth On The Floor counts Helm and The Band among their influences--which include Shooter Jennings, who will contribute to their new album. Lead singer and guitarist Justin Wells told WebProNews that the amazing thing about The Band was their ability to be a democracy.
"All styles had weight. Even their name showed their "all for one" attitude," Wells said. "There was no clear leader in the Band. Three strong vocalists, everybody was a soloist, and that was as much an influence on Fifth On The Floor as anything. I came up around country bands, and it was all about the lead singer. John Smith and the So and So's. I literally had a guy tell me you can't run a band like a democracy. I was like the f**k you can't, look at The Band."
Despite losing his voice to cancer for several years and only partially gaining it back, Helm continued to sing and record and started the Midnight Ramble sessions at his home, inviting musicians like Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello, and The Black Crowes to perform with him. The Black Crowes actually recorded a live album there entitled "Before The Frost...Until The Freeze". The two albums Helm released after regaining his voice went on to win Grammy awards.
Levon Helm and The Band were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1994. He will be remembered as an unsurpassed talent with an impeccable sense of rhythm and a voice which recalls a lonely night, a glass of warm whiskey, and a story told from a barstool.


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A curious thingBMJ 2008; 337 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a843 (Published 18 July 2008) Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a843
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- 2Department of Academic Virology, St Bartholomew's and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry
- 3Retroscreen Virology, London
Many of us who have had an influenza infection will know that we aren't at our sharpest mentally when ill with flu. So, when I and other psychiatry researchers were invited by virology colleagues to test this hypothesis, we jumped at the opportunity. Twenty healthy volunteers were quarantined for 10 days and infected with influenza virus. We administered a number of validated neuropsychological tests assessing various aspects of …
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Clasps that Hold Tight: Archival Sources for Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book
In her 2008 novel, People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks presents the fictionalized history of a single book through the lens of Hanna Heath, an Australian expert in rare books. Centered on the Sarajevo Haggadah, Brooks flips through its pages and offers her readers a glimpse into the book's past using clues stuck to, drawn in, spilled on, and missing from the book.
Over the next few weeks, I want to provide readers of People of the Book with real-world examples from archives, libraries, and museums across the world. These examples should help you picture what Brooks is describing, contextualizing her novel and providing an introduction to the history of the book.
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Clasps appear to have developed in tandem with the codex, manuscripts bound together to form the first recognizably book-like books. Since these very first books were made of parchment or other organic materials, they were particularly vulnerable to moisture and fluctuations in temperature.
There are two ways clasps promoted longevity. First, clasps insured that books remained closed when not in use. The less a page is exposed to things like air, dust, humidity, or light, the longer it will last. Locking a book shut with a clasp meant that no matter where a book was, no matter what position it was in, it would remain closed tight.
Second, clasps provide consistent and even pressure, which was needed to keep a book's pages flat. Parchment pages, for example, buckle at ambient room temperature with enough force to crack a wooden book cover. By holding a book tight, clasps prevented pages from warping, cracking, and becoming illegible.
Although clasps were very practical, they were also aesthetically important. The clasps on a book told you a lot about the values and social position of its owner. Weither they were made out of modest (leather straps) or expensive (gold, gems) materials, simple in design or extravagant, homemade or crafted by the world's finest jewelers, reflected a book's content and its owner's wealth.
In People of the Book, the Sarajevo Haggadah's clasps were definitely in the expensive-extravagant-world's finest jewelers category. They were silver, carved with a "motif of flower[s] enfolded by wing[s]." (104) But rather than being luminous in gold or incrusted with jewels, it was delicately carved in silver.
The Sarajevo Haggadah, like most of its contemporaries, would have had two clasps, one near the top of the book and one near the bottom. This insured that the pages remained in place, and it was the dominant clasp style in Medieval Europe until the end of the 16th century.
There are two reasons clasps became obsolete. First, books were increasingly made out of cloth or rag paper. Made from leftover clothing fibers, like linen and, later, cotton, rag paper was much less venerable to changes in temperature and moisture. It was also resilient against dust and light, meaning it could be left out and open without any negative effects. Second, the advent of the printing press and a general increase in European literacy, meant there were many more books in circulation. Up until then, books were always stored horizontally, taking up a lot of room on shelves and tables. With the massive influx of material available, people had to start shelving their books vertically to save space. Not only did giant clasps get in the way, they were also just no longer necessary.
Regardless, they remain beautiful reminders about the complex and developing history of the book.
Below are a few clasps from the same period and in the same style described in Brooks's book, all of which can be found preserved in archives and special collections:
- Folger Shakespeare Library | If you scroll though the Folger's online collection of clasps, you will get a great idea of the different types of binding from different places and periods. Although none of them really line up with the Haggadah in Brooks's book, this blog entry does give a solid overview of the topic.
- Hugging a Medieval Book (Leiden University) | On his blog, Erik Kwakkel, a book historian, explores a type of Medieval clasp, which was a popular contemporary to the Haggadah's clasps. However, instead of a rose and wing, these clasps are meant to mimic clasping hands and arms. If you are interested, Kwakkel's blog is a rich resource for information on all aspects of Medieval manuscripts and books.
- The British Museum | These clasps, removed from their original book, are probably very similar to those in People of the Book. They are beautiful examples of detailed silver work, although Christian in origin and not Jewish.


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It was not political correctness, but rather a deep and visceral thirst that has driven me to reach out to people who are different — very different from myself. Being brought up Jewish (traditional eastern-European Jewish Ashkenaze) is not all of who I am, not even close to that, but it is the raw clay out of which I have been sculpted in America. Canada is different. A pharmacist I worked with in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada was well-traveled and told me how it was different from America. "America is a melting-pot — Canada is a salad."
Americans really seem (or at least seemed) to want to be Americans. I remember the emigrants to America joking about learning about baseball, the bat being likened to a chicken drumstick, a "pulkeh." To understand and love baseball was a very important part of being American. Part of the lore of the time was that it was possible to unmask a foreign spy who spoke perfect English if you asked him who had won the last world series and he did not know. Very different from Canadians who kept their own traditions and their own languages in tiny equivalents of their native lands around Edmonton where ethnic traditions were publicly exalted, in places called "little Germany" or "little Italy."
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I value those behind-the-scenes programs on TV, especially when they warn you of dangers that you may never know. Here is a little behind-the-scenes story that you will really want to read because it might involve you! One of my chief interests in making sure patients are not only treated properly but that all the safeguards and protections are observed.
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The southern California sun is blinding this morning. I really need my shades.
March is not over yet and I see the requisite blonde in a bikini, working on her tan, stretched out near the swimming pool.
The radio is barely audible; something about how we are all becoming heartless bureaucrats. Read more on Getting Some Rays…
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It is hard for me to digest the events of July 14 in Nice, France, as I feel especially close to them.
I was present at seven such annual patriotic ceremonies during my tenure as a student of medicine in a French government facility. I loved the street-fair atmosphere, where I sang at the top of my lungs and danced with a whole heart.
As a medical student in government service, a terrorist attack would have mobilized me into service of France, a nation I can only love, which gave me a medical education essentially free of charge, asking only for me to prove on an exam that I had what it takes.
I wear a tiny Eiffel Tower around my neck — I stroke it as I write. Read more on Terrorism In Nice…
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"Bureaucracy" is a word that comes from the French, which I suppose means that moi has a greater understanding of it than most folks who have never lived in France. Literally, "bureau" means "desk." So "bureaucracy" is "rule by desk" in the same way that "democracy" is supposed to be "rule by the people" since "demos" in Greek is "people." Problems already. There is considerable debate possible about how much representative government can even be a democracy. I mean, do so-called "Public Servants" vote for what their constituencies want, or for what they really believe? Desks have no soul. Here, we are on a little firmer ground, for bureacracies have not much in the way of souls, either. The word "bureau" itself originally meant the cheap green cloth used to cover the tops of desks. More like the felt of blotters, the coarsely woven green dyed stuff is used to cover gaming tables and such.
The Brits use the word for this sort of cloth as a metaphor for "snooker" (the billiard table game with all of those confusing balls and rules). Read more on Bureaucracy, What It Is And Why I hate It…
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I did not really "get" what and who Edith Piaf was until I got to France and first slipped a cassette of her "greatest hits" into what now seems to have been an over sized cassette player. I had heard of her by reputation in eighth grade French class, but had not yet heard a recording of her work. But my discovery of my love for her in France was when I was a first year medical student in the fall of 1973, freezing in an apartment over a cafe and a dress shop, looking for a few minutes of respite from studying in a way that was more compulsive and obsessional than efficient. My Mother-Of-Blessed-Memory had been full of ideas about things that I could do if and when my wild adventure in Europe did not work, and I would come back to Boston and become either an excessively-qualified nurse or an excessively-qualified French teacher who had "tried" medicine in France. Me — I just told her what I had learned ancient Greek soldiers told people when they went off to war: That I would "come back with my shield or upon it." It meant that I would not be the coward who drops their shield and runs, but if I died they would send back my dead body. She was horrified and yelled at me, right there in the airport, but that was how I felt about being a doctor and how I basically feel about my life now — I have to do what I can do and I am meant to do and is important. I really do not have much better than medicine for that. Read more on The Phenomenal Edith Piaf…
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Back in France, when I wished there were more hours in the day to study, two female Mormon missionaries showed up at my door. They tried to get inside, wanting to assimilate me to that religion. I had not yet developed the method of chasing Mormon missionaries that I used years later, when we lived in Palm Springs. I took the bus and the Mormon missionaries would nail me at the bus stop. I did not want to run away and miss the bus, so I yelled "Devil get thee behind me" in English and numerous Psalms in Hebrew. This method worked quickly and efficiently for getting rid of many southern California Mormon missionaries. This method has been replicated by me in numerous situations.
Back in France, I was less experienced. I hit them with Genesis Chapter 3 verse 16; in French "Tu enfanteras avec douleur." I suppose I could have used the English standard version. I basically convinced them not only that I knew my Old Testament pretty well, but that I had enough problems being female and a French medical student without being a Mormon. The older of the two women, a preceptor guiding a young student, said the equivalent of "she knows Scripture; we better leave her alone," and I hid my joy. Read more on Women's Pains…
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