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Actually, if you look in the LXX, Gen 2:8 uses the word paradise (*
paradeison*) to describe the garden of Eden. But the word just means an
idyllic place or state - in fact when I just looked it up, paradise was
defined as "the abode of Adam and Eve before the Fall in the biblical
account of the creation: the Garden of Eden". It was a place where the
forces of chaos had been dealt with by the acts of creation. Humans had a
task, but it was one they were well able to do. They were in need of nothing
- there was no sickness, no tears, no pain, no death. And to top it all
off, God walked in the garden with them.
In fact, take a look at the late chapters of Revelations and we see a
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:46 PM, gordon brown <email@example.com>wrote:
> Bethany,
> I am not sure how to evaluate your statements about the Garden of Eden
> being a literal paradise but that that was impossible, without knowing what
> your definition of paradise is. The literal meaning of Eden is delight.
> Paradise, a Greek word of Persian origin, occurs exactly three times in the
> New Testament: Luke 23:43, II Corinthians 12:4, and Revelation 2:7.
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Bethany Sollereder wrote:
> Merv,
>> I'd agree with you that we have a choice to make. And in light of the
>> other
>> literature speaking of the 'paradise when the world began', I think the
>> Biblical author meant that it was a literal paradise, but I think we must
>> say that (in light of modern science) there was never a paradise and thus
>> the story is not literal. In doing so, we give up our addiction to
>> historical concordism. A difficult, but necessary, step.
>> David, I think you can have perfect paradise, and still having 'work'. In
>> fact I don't think it could be paradise without man to have something to
>> do:
>> we would be redundant without a task. But the task was not a painful one,
>> not one that would strain man beyond the pleasantness of the paradise he
>> works in. C.S. Lewis gives a nice imagining of what this could look like
>> in
>> *Perelandra*. Yes, man had a task. But it was paradise.
>> Bethany
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:10 PM, David Opderbeck <email@example.com
>> >wrote:
>> Yes Merv, when I say "ontological reality," I don't necessarily mean "a
>>> verifiable 'historical' moment."
>>> BTW, I found an even better quote from Von Rad (p. 80):
>>> "[chapter 2, verse 15] indicates man's purpose in being in the garden:
>>> he
>>> is to work it and preserve it from all damage, a destiny tha tcontrasts
>>> decided with the commonly accepted fantastic ideas of 'Paradise.' . . .
>>> There is 'nothing here about abunded wonders of fertility and sensual
>>> enjoyment', but work was man's sober destiny even in his original state.
>>> That man was transferred to the garden to guard it indicates that he was
>>> called to a state of service and had to prove himself in a realm tha twas
>>> not his own possessio. in the ensuing divine address the
>>> misunderstanding
>>> of the garden as an Elysium for sensual enjoyment is completely
>>> destroyed."
>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Merv <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>>> David Opderbeck wrote:
>>>> Merv said: That is the forced choice, is it not?
>>>> I respond: I don't accept that. Binary thinking, in my view, usually
>>>> betrays a lack of imagination. I think it's critical to Biblical
>>>> theology
>>>> that the Fall narrative refer to some sort of ontological reality, in
>>>> whatever literary form it might be cast. Christ came into the world
>>>> because
>>>> something *really is* wrong; "evil" is foreign to God's good creation;
>>>> and the new heavens and new earth will constitue a new ontology that is
>>>> equally real.
>>>>> Not all binary thinking is deficient (though I note your word *usually*
>>>> with approval). Logic and the way we frame situations imposes such
>>>> necessary logic in many cases. E.g. my student turns in homework late
>>>> with
>>>> all manner of valid or invalid excuses or extenuating circumstances.
>>>> But in
>>>> the end, I either award him full credit or I do not. Law of excluded
>>>> middle.
>>>> Yet granted, in this situation perhaps binary thinking is inappropriate
>>>> --I would certainly agree that the binary mode of argument often used to
>>>> frame a religion verses science arena is impoverished in many ways. Yet
>>>> we
>>>> will continue to choose a new "frame" or arena where we too will make a
>>>> binary choice --and rightly so. Would I be correct to infer from what
>>>> you
>>>> say above that you don't use the label "ontological reality" on anything
>>>> that isn't a tack on a time line? To me this is another form of binary
>>>> thought: that either something is ontologically "real" because it is an
>>>> event that we could (in principle, with a time machine) dial in the
>>>> correct
>>>> era and then watch it unfold like a play; or failing that test, it is
>>>> not. I think the E.C. side of what I framed has a wide array of
>>>> orthodox
>>>> possibilities to be explored that would acknowledge the reality of a
>>>> fall no
>>>> less real than someone biting a piece of fruit.
>>>> --Merv
>>> --
>>> David W. Opderbeck
>>> Associate Professor of Law
>>> Seton Hall University Law School
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Including the Hall of Fame Game, the NFL preseason is not quite three weeks old. But, as it often is at this time of year, the MVP is obvious: The Cart.
No fewer than four players needed the cart to leave the field during games on Saturday night alone—Bears safety Brandon Hardin, Chargers wide receiver Vincent Brown, and two 49ers running backs, Brandon Jacobs and LaMichael James.
Hardin, a rookie, had to be strapped to a board after a head-first tackle against Washington; he was motionless for a long time until, as he was placed on the cart, he gave the relieved crowd the thumbs-up.
Brown suffered a broken ankle when a Cowboys defender—whom he had just beaten for a touchdown—rolled over it in the end zone. James hurt his ankle colliding with a teammate. Jacobs' knee took a hard hit from the helmet of a Titans tackler.
In all fairness, these things can happen in practice, too. And in scrimmages and OTAs, and in regular-season games and playoffs and the Super Bowl. There's always a chance it can happen. It's football.
But, once again, it feels like too much football. It always feels that way when it happens in a game that's so unnecessary, so excessive, so meaningless.
There ought to be enough information available by now to show everybody connected to the NFL that whatever reward comes from these games doesn't outweigh the safety risks.
Whatever everybody thinks you need four exhibition games to accomplish, you don't need them that badly.
And—it's always worth pointing out, until the entire ridiculous idea is beaten out of everybody's head and out of existence forever—nobody needs 18 regular-season games.
You enjoy the exploits of The Cart in Week 3 of the preseason? You'll adore them in Week 19 of real, legitimate play that counts. (Or Week 20, depending on how much of a bone gets thrown to its opponents in terms of an extra open week.)
It's been months since the topic of expanding the regular season has even come up. However, the last time it did, it was still an option the NFL might pursue eventually.
According to The New York Times, at the March owners' meetings in Palm Beach, commissioner Roger Goodell expected discussion to be re-opened later this year or early next year. The report said that Goodell wanted to see how the new safety rules in the collective bargaining agreement—signed in time for just an abbreviated training camp last year—play out over a full training camp, preseason and season before taking up an expanded regular season again.
Is mid-August, one Hall of Fame game, one full week of games and part of a second week, enough of a sample size?
The toll so far (not a complete list, just a representative one): in Week 1 games, Chargers running back Ryan Matthews broke his collarbone; Cowboys tight end Jason Witten lacerated his spleen; Bengals guard Travelle Wharton, Falcons fullback Bradie Ewing and Steelers fullback David Johnson tore knee ligaments. Colts linebacker Pat Angerer broke his foot. Falcons linebacker Akeem Dent suffered a concussion.
Besides the injuries to Ewing and Pitta, the Ravens-Falcons opener also saw Ravens defensive tackle Ryan McBean break his ankle and tight end Ed Dickson sprain his shoulder. Wharton, Johnson and McBean are out for the year.
This weekend, with two more days of games left, the Cardinals' Levi Brown tore his triceps and Saints linebacker Chris Chamberlain blew out his knee; both are done for the year. In the same Bears-Redskins game in which Hardin was carted off, two Washington defensive starters—Brian Orakpo (reportedly his pectoral muscle, the same one on which he had undergone offseason surgery) and Brandon Meriweather (knee) were forced out in the first quarter.
Injuries like the above are random and unavoidable. Then again, exposing players to them more often than necessary is utterly pointless. The only level of football at which exhibitions like this are played to this extent is the top level. You don't see them in Pop Warner, on the rarest occasions in high school, never in college.
Alabama doesn't face, say, Towson, SUNY-Cortland and Ole Miss in August to get ready for its 12-game season. It never will, either. What benefit does this provide the NFL when there is none found anywhere else in football?
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Quon started all 24 games she played as a freshman for Stanford last season, something that even surprised her a little bit.
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Quon obviously adapted quickly to college soccer, which can be rough and tumble at times, but the physical part of the game has never seemed to bother her. Her tackling – when she has to tackle and it's rare due to her superior defensive savvy – does indeed pack a punch.
"I feel like most of defense is mental attitude," said Quon. "If you don't want them to get by you, they are not going to. Sometimes as a soccer player it might not be your day and you might be a little off, but you can always still put in 110 percent work rate. That's what our women's and men's national teams are known for. We always work hard."
Quon considers herself a leader by example rather than voice, but has also felt her maturity and leadership progress over the past few years and even through the group games here in Germany. She also saw how Cherundolo was able to impact the game through his play and leadership from right back and she's ready to take on that role as well.
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The idea occurred to me recently to start an open-source project and share it on GitHub just for fun because it really boring to work alone and would like to work with others on something and GD5 was naturally come up as one of the possible engines to use because it fun, simple and free.
But then I realized, it would be a pain to maintain the project, document it and for others to collaborate.
So I would like to suggest to make GD projects modular. It was a feature in GD4 but I don't see it coming in GD5 but even if it would, I think the project should be divided in to even more modules.
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Of course we could also simply copy and pate most of this things from project to project once we can open multiple projects in GD5 but the point would be to be able to merge changes coming from multiple sources. Currently if multiple people working on the same project, at the end we have multiple different projects. By storing each feature in separated modules we could import only what changed from multiple sources.
Along with this changes, would be nice to also see Git integration in GD to login to GitHub and commit and push changes directly from GD with a click of a button to GitHub. It would detect any changes in the project folder, new and changed files and we could commit and push any changes to GitHub, also able to sync with the master branch to make sure the project we are working on is up to date.
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EDIT:// alternatively, to speed thing up instead of having separated import options for each module, when we import changes, we could have only a single option to "import project" then we could simply tick boxes what parts of the project we want to import and merge with our project or simply copy and override the relevant project files too.
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No 9th Doctor involvement in Doctor Who 50th Anniversary
Recently, the BBC has denied tabloid reports that Christopher Eccleston has 'pulled out' of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode, stating his decision to not start in it "has not impacted on the shows 50th Anniversary"
The BBC's official statement to Digital Spy stated:
"Chris met with Steven Moffat a couple of times to talk about Steven's plans for the Doctor Who 50th anniversary episode. After careful thought, Chris decided not to be in the episode. He wishes the team all the best."
What do you think, are you disappointed of his-non-involvement? or pleased?
25 comments :
- Andrew Davies-Land said...
so do you think this is the only reason we have David?..
- 5 April 2013 at 15:01
- Combom Pazza said...
sux him not there, but the 50th already seems a let down!
- 5 April 2013 at 15:14
Terrible. So now it's going to be the Rose Tyler show featuring her little buddy 10 (and some guy named matt smith). If it was going to be two Doctors then that's fine but why involve Rose at all? Not necessary and distracting. Doctors 4-8 get snubbed and yet Rose has had more returns than last night's curry. The return of the "Rose/10 Show" is not something I want to see again.
- 5 April 2013 at 15:31
- PunkJohnnyCash said...
I'm indifferent. I am indifferent about 9 or 10 returning. I want to see classic Doctors and the new stuff I really don't care much about.
- 5 April 2013 at 15:43
- James Walker said...
i'll believe it when i don't see it, you know?
- 5 April 2013 at 17:13
Really disappointed. So we only get Doctors 10 and 11 for the 50th anniversary special? Ridiculous. Where are the classic Doctors and their companions?
- 5 April 2013 at 17:31
- George E. Pie said...
Its a shame but not unexpected.
I'm not sure why the 50th seems a let down yet though. The 11 Doctors is an impossibility, The 8 Doctors an improbability.
Personally, the Doctor I'd really like to see again is McGann, but that probably wont happen either.
We should be happy to celebrate 50 years of a great program in whatever form we get.
Whatever comes will not suit everyone and I suppose some people will think it cool to criticise plot holes etc, but why don't we enjoy it for what it is, good wholesome fun.
- 5 April 2013 at 19:22
- Jeff Tullin said...
if 9 and 10 had come to the party, would that have involved 2 Roses?
- 5 April 2013 at 19:29
Well, Chris Eccleston is busy with Thor 2 and whatever other promo for the movie. I wish he was in the anniversary. I'm hopeful that Mcgann makes an appearance. Hey, at least we got the zygons for now.
- 5 April 2013 at 21:13
- John Laubach said...
He sucked as the Doctor anyway just above Colin Baker
- 5 April 2013 at 23:55
- Matthew Bagnall said...
The lack of 9th doctor is a great disappointment. The fourth series finale essentially had three doctors (Two 10th Doctors and Donna with the Doctors mind) at the moment none of the finale's have even managed to top those two episodes for me - in terms of scale or in terms of 'squeeness' (Enjoyment)
I was hoping that we'd have the three new doctors at least however with the lack of Chris as the 9th and filming already started i doubt we'll see more of them. Maybe cameos from the rest... but this is seeming more like a let down the more i read about it.
Lets be honest. We all know that if Rose is back then it means either one of three things. Either;
Its a flashback
Time vortex problems and they meet up with the eleventh
Its the parallel world Doctor with Rose
If it is any option other than the parallel world doctor then we know nothing can happen to them - given the fact that it would destroy the timeline and those are fixed events... meaning the only option is;
We are getting the human doctor who has likely built/found/grown a tardis and is traveling in it with Rose.
So plot sounds something like this;
Set after the events of series 7. In a parallel world the 10th Doctor is trying to free Rose from the Zygons. Suddenly a large rift opens pulling them into the time vortex. Meanwhile the 11th Doctor still reeling from the events of the finale while talking with Clara is hit by a sudden burst of energy as the Tardis's collide in the vortex. With time running out before the 11th Doctor falls the two Doctors must team together to defeat an unknown enemy and restore time to its proper events... even if it means his death.
- 6 April 2013 at 00:52
- Matthew Bagnall said...
Nope... the 10th will be the human version. Otherwise it messes up the timelines too much and provides no suspense for the audience. The 10th (Human doctor) will probably be the one to give River his screwdriver - seeing as the 10th Doctor's screw driver is the one that looks closest to the one seen in the library and the other Doctor has likely made his own screw driver.
- 6 April 2013 at 00:59
Its probably the proper timelord 10th Doctor because on set pictures showed David Tennant in his grey suit and the human doctor was in the blue suit but its possible he could have made a grey suit up becuase the timelord 10th Doctor made up another blue suit but the 10th Doctor's tardis was also on set but the human doctor could have grown his own tardis as suggested by a deleted scene in Journey's End but the evidence still makes me think its the timelord 10th Doctor.
- 6 April 2013 at 01:34
- Mark Schleupner said...
Disappointed, but this was expected, Eccleston has been distancing himself from Doctor Who since he left. As far as the plot goes, didn't Matt Smith drop the word "paintings" a while ago? What if there is some collector that has paintings of the past 10 doctors and somehow Matt goes to the museum and jumps into the painting of David Tennant with awesome 3D effects?
- 6 April 2013 at 02:29
- BigDaddy DMick said...
HEY!!!!! watch it chum!!! lay off of Colin
Baker!!!!!! he has done more for the show than Eccleston will EVER DO!!!! but yet Moffat isn't asking him to come back!!? this 50th is gonna' SUCK!!!!
- 6 April 2013 at 03:14
- Sharee MacDonald said...
I wish 9 was coming back but I'll take cameos from other Who actors. Isn't it possible though that David and Billie were announced because they were doing location shoots and it would have been to hard to keep the info from leaking out? Maybe we'll still get some surprises.
- 6 April 2013 at 09:37
I believe the 10th doctor to be the human one. The great intelligence enemy from Xmas n episode 1 of the 2nd part series will be in the shows final i reckon and will have something to do with opening the dimensions for human 10th doctor and rose to cross over, as the great intelligence is an old series enemy and it's said his kind existed before the universe and can open dimensions or something like that.
- 6 April 2013 at 17:05
I agree with you Kevin 1000%!
- 7 April 2013 at 00:35
Of course Moffat has to drag in his favorite Riversong, meanwhile the people we really want to see like Martha, Captain Jack (he's twitted he's not in it), and some of the other former Doctors are a no show; bummer.
- 7 April 2013 at 00:42
I love how you just make up bullshit and call it facts. The Sun could learn some things from you.
- 8 April 2013 at 02:57
- Matthew Bagnall said...
Do not insult me on here. That is breaking the following rules on this forum;
- Bullying
- Cruelty
- 12 April 2013 at 01:55
- Matthew Bagnall said...
Pretty sure we'll have cameo flashbacks to characters... even though Moffat prefers to think of his seasons as not connected to RTD's
- 12 April 2013 at 01:56
Very well. I apologize. Still doesn't change the fact there is little to no basis for that plot synopsis.
- 12 April 2013 at 06:22
- Matthew Bagnall said...
- The Zygons are confirmed
- Tennants favorite enemy are the Zygons - its likely no coincidence they were recently revealed to be in the 50th.
- River Song is 'Moffats baby' she is appearing in the finale of this season so will likely be appearing in the 50th - especially seeing as she is his wife and knows his name before her death at the library
- Clara is confirmed
- Rose Tyler is confirmed
- 10th Doctor is confirmed
- 11th Doctor is confirmed
- Trying to use the non-clone 10th Doctor would result in continuity problems as Rose is already sleeping with the human version of the 10th Doctor and is likely married to him at this point.
- Trying to use the 10th Doctor from any previous point before the events of 'Journeys end' would also create continuity problems
- A 3D scene of the Tardis in the vortex is confirmed - this is likely during a chase scene or action scene as otherwise it's been seen before
- Daleks are the shows most well known enemy. They will likely get a cameo or mention.
"The Valeyard, Doctor, is your penultimate reincarnation... Somewhere between your twelfth and thirteenth regeneration" (Some people state that it meant incarnation - in which case he would have only 12 regenerations with 13 bodies. It is also where the 13 rule comes from for 'the Doctor' - The Master has always known that that is what the Doctor will become or create.
Thus confirming the Doctor has thirteen lives and at some point part/all of him becomes the entity known as the Valeyard. Given the show this means that he'll probably be hinted sometime soon.
Entity controlling the tardis;
If the 50th Anniversary clears up all the loose ends then it'll either reveal who controlled the tardis or it'll simply leave that for series 8. Either way we can expect a reveal of who was controlling the tardis before the 11th Doctor leaves.
- 13 April 2013 at 02:20
- Matthew Bagnall said...
Personally i feel Moffat only brought them back because fans wanted to see them. Nothing more, Nothing less. I'm guessing the 10th Doctor will probably just be more or less a dead weight trying to protect Rose...
- 26 April 2013 at 01:06


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Pau-Llosa Discusses Latin American Art, Shares Poem
May 14, 2009
Ricardo Pau-Llosa, a prolific Miami-based poet and critic of Latin American art, remembers the colors, tastes and memories that shaped his youth and his writing, taking him back to his native Cuba. He reads a poem from his new collection, "Parable Hunter."
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When we joined our local Food Coop, it became cheaper to buy our fair trade coffee there...in addition we found we could re-use the coffee bags several times, reducing our waste. So that is our main source of coffee these days.
But there is one source that I want to plug that is an amazing coffee, called Mirembe Kawomera (Delicious Peace) from Uganda with an amazing story that has just recently gotten even better by seeking to maximize sustainability. That coffee is grown by a farmers' cooperative of Bantu Jews, Muslims and Christians working together in an otherwise tense and intolerant part of the world. It grew out of a movement initiated by the local Jewish population to build schools, with the help of the American Jewish organization Kulanu, which would be open to not just the Jewish community but also the Muslim and Christian communities. From that initial connection among otherwise mutually suspicious communities, came the inspiration to cooperate (again with help from Kulanu) to market their coffee at fair trade prices. Finally, recognizing the impact of climate change and environmental degradation on their own livelihoods, these communities are now initiating a carefully thought out sustainability project (with the help of the Dutch NGO Progreso) to reduce their environmental impact while improving their economic livelihood.
It all started in the end of British colonialism in what became Uganda. Christian evangelicals were part of the British push to dominate Uganda. Semei Lulaklenzi Kakungulu was one of the products of this evangelical push and he is in many ways not a sympathetic figure, but it was his initiative that led to a native Jewish community in Uganda.
Semei Lulaklenzi Kakungulu was a military strong man and part of the Christian evangelical movement. He fought on behalf of the Buganda King against both Muslims and Catholics in the religious wars at the end of the 19th century. The British supported his efforts because they saw it as part of their goal of unifying the region under British influence. Kakungulu's military efforts allowed British influence to spread without large scale use of British troops.
Kakungulu's goal, however, was to become a local king under a British aegis. But the Brits didn't go for it. So instead Kakungulu focused on evangelical Christianity of a particularly strict kind called "Katonda omu ayinza byona" which means "God is omnipotent" and believed in a very strict interpretation of the Bible. They also tended to be anti-colonialism so it fit with Kakungulu's conflict with the Brits.
But Kakungulu took that strict interpretation beyond what the founders of Katonda omu ayinza byona had intended. Kakungulu felt that true devotion to God meant putting the Old Testament ahead of the New Testament and he began to compile a list of rules and prayers for his followers with in the Katonda omu ayinza byona evangelical movement that looked more like the rules that Orthodox Jews follow than they did Christian doctrine. By 1919 Kakungulu and his followers were outright rejecting the New Testament in favor of "Moses' Commandments". In essence Kakungulu reinvented Judaism from what he read in a Protestant version of the Old Testament. He called his breakaway community the Kibina Kya Bayudaya Absesiga Katonda (the "Community of Jews who trust in the Lord").
This put him at odds with both the British and the local community. But it also put him in contact with a Jewish traveler referred to as "Joseph." Joseph introduced a more standard, Talmudic version of Jewish practice into the Kibina Kya Bayudaya Absesiga Katonda community.
When Kakungulu died in 1928, the Kibina Kya Bayudaya Absesiga Katonda community split. One branch reverted to Christianity. The other branch maintained their Jewish identity, becoming the community that is today called the Abayudaya. Because of widespread anti-Semitism, particularly during the Idi Amin period, the Abayudaya isolated themselves as much as possible.
During Idi Amin's dictatorship, some 80% of the Abayudaya were killed or forced to convert to Christianity. It was, needless to say, a low point in the development of their community. Roughly 300 survived, keeping their Jewish identity secret. From that small community, the modern Abayudaya community of about 1000 grew.
In a strict sense the Abayudaya are not Jewish. However, with the help of American and Israeli rabbis (mostly Conservative and Hasidic) official conversion of many Abayudaya has begun. The Abayudya welcome official Jewish recognition and are willing to undergo the conversion process. This is in contrast with Ethiopian Jews who consider themselves Jews by birth (DNA evidence is conflicting here...older data suggests they are NOT descended from Israel, but more modern evidence suggests they are) so there has been conflict between Ethiopian Jews and mainstream Israeli Jews with considerable insensitivity shown by mainstream Jews towards Ethiopian Jews.
But to me the Abayudaya are more Jewish than I am. Here are Abayudaya versions of Shema Israel and L'cha Dodi
That is the background. The origin of the Abayudaya and the overall negative view of them within the wider Muslim and Christian culture of Uganda meant that the Abayudaya were always faced with prejudice. In the 21st century they came in contact with the American Jewish group Kulanu, which has helped integrate them into the wider Jewish world but also came up with a wonderful idea.
They started helping the Abayudaya build schools. In Uganda, as in much of Africa, schools are often very far from the local villages and they are not free. Kulanu and the Abayudaya started building schools in the villages where the Abayudaya live and covering the costs of children attending, even providing some meals. But Kulanu and the Abayudaya went one step further. They invited their Muslim and Christian neighbors to send their kids to the schools as well. This introduced a cooperation between the Abayudaya and their neighbors that helps everyone in the community. Even more fundamentally, the sharing of these schools helped establish trust among the Jews, Muslims and Christians in in the area.
Which brings us to my wife's favorite beverage in the whole world...coffee.
Coffee accounts for about 90% of Uganda's revenues from international trade. Worldwide, coffee is second only to oil as being the most traded commodity. But the prices very enormously from year to year and the path from grower to your cup is extremely circuitous, bringing in many middlemen who take their own profit. In general, of what you pay for your coffee, almost none of it makes it to the grower. With Fair Trade coffee, the amount that makes it from your wallet to the grower is still small, but it is often 3-5 times more than on the regular market, and that makes a huge difference for the growers. It makes the difference between near slavery and making it (even if barely by our standards). It makes the difference between sending their kids to school or not. It makes the difference between saving money versus accruing debt.
Fair Trade is often flawed, and not always as fair as we would like, but it DOES make a difference.
The Abayudaya and their Muslim and Christian neighbors also grow coffee. And were getting almost nothing for their efforts. Until the current leader of the Abayudaya community decided to do something, and the first thing he did was go to his Muslim and Christian neighbors. From the Thanksgiving Coffee website:
I brought the idea to my fellow friends, Muslims and Christians, and I said we should make a co-op selling our coffee but as well as spreading peace in the world.
They were all so happy so we called it Mirembe, which means peace, Kawomera, which means that even our coffee must be of quality.
Then we made that cooperative.
— JJ Keki, founder & director, Peace Kawomera
It was a great idea. And it would have failed except for two things. One was the efforts of Kulanu. And the other was the whim of one man, the CEO of Thankgsgiving Coffee.
Kulanu had been working with the Abayudaya for some time, including in their reaching out to their Muslim and Christian neighbors when it came to developing local schools. So it was only natural that they work together on this coffee project. But neither the Abayudaya nor Kulanu had much experience in this. Which is why the whim of the Thanksgiving Coffee CEO was so critical. Again, from the Thanksgiving Coffee website:
I was at my desk, it was late afternoon. The phone rang... "Hello, my name is Laura Wetzler" came the voice from the other end...
It turned out that Laura Wetzler was, and still is, the Ugandan Coordinator for an all volunteer Jewish NGO called Kulanu in Washington DC. She called to ask me if I would buy five sacks of coffee from a cooperative she was working with. I rolled my eyes and thought, "Another starry-eyed idealist who went to a poor country to build a school, discovered coffee in the midst of poverty and decided that it was the answer to all the community's woes."
Over the past 20 years I have fielded many such calls. Although my heart goes out to these volunteers, I explain to them that coffee is not bought under such novice circumstances. "There is a well-established infrastructure of exporters, brokers, importers," I explained, "And of course, there are the issues of quality and price."
I asked Ms. Wetzler if she had called any other roasters and she told me she had called over 50 but had sold nothing. "Everybody wants a sample to taste but I have none," she told me. "I was just there but didn't know I needed samples to offer." I began to settle in to the conversation and asked her to tell me about the work of Kulanu. Being Jewish myself I thought it unusual for her to be working with Jews in Uganda. "Jews in Uganda? Tell me more!"
Laura told me about this community of black Bantu Jews that she has been working with since 2002. She helped them organize a coffee cooperative, become Fair Trade Certified™, and now, with their first crop sitting unsold in a Uganda warehouse, she was calling US coffee roasters trying to sell the coffee. She had a list, it was in alphabetical order, and when she got down to the letter T she called Thanksgiving Coffee and I picked up the phone. By the time she got to me she had been rejected 50 times.
The Jewish Bantus of Uganda caught my attention, but it was when she described the other two-thirds of the cooperative that my heart really began to pound. "There are Muslims and Christians in this coffee cooperative," she continued. "They are all working together. It's one community. The co-op president is Jewish, the vice-president is Christian, and the treasurer is Muslim. There are hundreds of families all together; they have one container to sell and soon this year's crop will be coming. The people are desperate!" she exclaimed...
"I'll buy it all," I said. "All or nothing. I want the entire story. I don't want any other coffee company to have a single bag. I want to bring this story to the world."
So the coffee project took off. The coffee is certified fair trade and is shade grown next to other plants that provide the local community with food or income. However success particularly with other crops grown alongside the coffee started having an environmental toll. Soil erosion, global warming, and environmental degradation started taking its toll on the area. The Abayudaya decided to face the problem head on (unlike, I should add, most of the world). They decided to find a way to a.) make their own practices more sustainable, b.) reduce their impact on climate change, and c.) protect their livelihoods from climate change. They took three years to put together a proposal that just this May got funded by a Dutch NGO.
From the Thanksgiving Coffee website again:
Given the above, the farmers are searching for strategies they can employ to adapt to these changes without sacrificing their livelihoods. This is happening at the time when farmers are anxious to reap a lot out of their coffee due to its regaining reputation on the international scene, increasing market price and increasing differential and quality premium through the specialty coffee market and the good price from US-based Thanksgiving Coffee Company, a buyer since 2004.
The above-mentioned activities of environmental degradation are mainly driven by economic need arising from high rates of unemployment locally. Therefore, this project seeks a two-pronged strategy to increase the value and production of shade grown coffee, and interventions to fortify the ecosystem against the impacts of shifting weather by planting valuable grasses in swale formation, increasing the intercropping of strategically important shade trees in coffee plantations, and reforestation of hill tops and ridges to create a conducive micro climate for coffee. This fortified ecosystem will be better able to protect coffee from severe rains because of increased canopy cover, and will be able to reduce erosion by controlling runoff. Additionally, through the selection of appropriate shade trees, the project will increase the production of high-mulching organic matter which will improve soil quality, a critical step towards improved coffee quality and production, as well creating habitat for the biological control agents here referred to as natural enemies of the pests.
Agro forestry provides additional sources of income especially from sales of fruits from the planted trees, sale of harvested grasses from swales, sale of firewood and of seedlings from the nurseries to other communities.
This will also reduce the gap of unemployment and improve on food security for the area's farmers by increasing the diversity of foods immediately available to farming families. Protecting and restoring the environment will reduce the impacts of climate change, enhance biodiversity, and improve on ecological systems which are all aimed at improving coffee production and food security.
The project will be built around a package of incentives designed to facilitate and inspire quick uptake in action by individual farmers. The methodology will be driven by the established network and practice of the Farmer Field Schools. Led by the project manager, a team will create local seedling nurseries and begin the process of educating individual farmers through the FFS groups. After an 6 month period, the leading farmer in each FFS group (determined by objective pre-established criteria around tree planting, swale construction, soil and water conservation) will be given a female goat. These goats produce manure which is high in nitrogen which can be incorporated back into the fields for improved soil fertility. After an additional 6 months the next leading farmer in each FFS Group will be rewarded a goat based upon the established criteria. These goats will be expected to reproduce so as time goes on, the kids will be given out to other members who come second, i.e. responsibility will be upon farmers to know that if such a farmer`s goat kids, the offspring will be expected to be designated by the project to the next recipient farmer. This process of review and award will be conducted 4 times (6, 12, 18, and 24 months. It is estimated that the project will need to purchase 252 female goats (63 FFS Groupsx4 cycles) to get the inventive program off the ground and to a point of self-sustainability.
The project is ambitious and complex. Which is probably exactly what they need to handle a complex web of problems. They came up with the solutions themselves and I am sure if/when problems come up in the implementation they will adapt the plan to deal with those problems.
So you start with British colonialism starting a wave of rather unappealing military strongmen and evangelical Christian movements. You move through a highly unlikely re-invention of Judaism among Bantus in Uganda and the even more unlikely survival of those Jews through the Idi Amin brutality. Then you have cooperation between those unlikely Jews and their Muslim and Christian neighbors first for public education, then for fair trade coffee, then for environmental sustainability.
All in one cup of coffee called Mirembe Kawomera which you can buy right now. I should note that I have seen this very coffee listed as "best coffee I have ever had" on several websites. I would not go quite that far, since I think the best coffee I ever had was a New Guinea coffee in a fancy coffee house in Santa Cruz, California. But Mirembe Kawomera coffee is up there!
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Saturday, April 18, 2009
Boy Katindig - 'Midnight Lady' (1981)
Some great keyboard work on this 1981 instrumental album from Boy Katindig (real name Roland Katindig) from the Philippines, who's on rhodes, mini-moog, string ensemble and wide lapels here. Jazz-funk-fusion with some touches of late-70s Brazil samba, the last of which serves as a link to Bong Peñera, the only other Philippino jazz artist I know. Anyway, this album's more of an electric affair than the Peñera ones, with jazz-fusion at the forefront.
This is a donation by reader Ken, who was sent a vinyl rip by a friend in New York, and then passed it on to me - so a first for the blogosphere. Many thanks Ken!
Here's an excerpted bio from allaboutjazz :
"Jazz Pianist and International Recording Artist Boy Katindig, comes from a well-known clan of musicians who pioneered Latin jazz in Manila. His father is Philippines' jazz legend, Romy Katindig. After playing with a host of successful bands in Manila like "Bits & Pieces" & "Circus", Boy formed the "Boy Katindig Band" in 1978. In 1978, Boy signed up with A&W Records International and recorded several albums under the Horizon label. "Midnight Lady", his first album was awarded "Best Instrumental Composition" by the Himig Awards and Gold for the single which preceded it "Don't Ask My Neighbor". The album was released in the U.S. by PAUSA, who had fusion jazz pioneers Tom Grant & Alphonse Mouzon in its artist roster. The "Boy Katindig Band", which spawned out of the 'Midnight Lady" release, was also voted Best Jazz Group by the Aliw Awards Foundation consecutively for three years."
Best tracks for me are a cover of Rhythm Heritage's "Language Of Love" and Katindig's own title track "Midnight Lady", both uptempo tracks pushed along by the congas. There are a couple of duds - there's really no excuse for Billy Joel, you know - next wave, new wave etc ... it's still Billy Joel to me ...
Skip Scarborough's oft-recorded "Don't Ask My Neighbours" is probably best known as an Emotions song but here more references the Eddie Russ and Raul De Souza versions.
Anyway, check it out!
Katindig released several albums after this one and seems to be still touring around, visit him at MySpace.
01. 'Midnight Lady' (Roland Katindig) - 5:06
02. 'Don't Ask My Neighbours' (Skip Scarborough) - 10:25
03. 'Whatever Happened To the Love?' (Roland Katindig) - 7:43
04. 'Just the Way You Are' (Billy Joel) - 5:49
05. 'Agua de Beber' (Jobim, Demoraes) - 3:46
06. 'Language Of Love' (M.Price / D.Walsh) - 11:20
Boy Katindig - rhodes, clavinet, mini-moog, string ensemble
Teddy Vano - guitar
Jerry "Paco" Gamboa - bass
Cesar "Bachu" Yumping - drums
Jun Viray - drums
Panting Katindig - percussion
Danny Boogie - percussion
Pausa 7137
- Vinyl rip supplied by Ken.
- Covers photoshopped into shape from some angled ebay shots by Simon
- Other album links in this post go to My Jazz World, Quimsy's Mumbo Jumbo, My Favourite Sound, Blog-o-blog, Digs Daily.com and The Eternal Dance 2. Please drop them some thanks if you visit.
25 comments:
- Jazz Monkey said...
I remember this was a bit of a favourite in the UK Jazz Funk scene back in the day...picked it up as an import then and looking forward to hearing it all over again. Thanks Simon
- April 18, 2009 at 7:14 PM
- Gianni aka Cesare Barbetta said...
totally new for me.
thank you Simon!
- April 18, 2009 at 9:21 PM
- Solomon said...
Thank you.
- April 19, 2009 at 2:45 AM
- JTF said...
Thanks Ken!
- April 19, 2009 at 3:48 AM
- the jazzstronaut said...
Many thanks for this Simon. Please check the "Comments" in the Ana Mazzotti post I left a question for you.
- April 19, 2009 at 4:11 AM
- jazzobsessive said...
Thanks Ken & Simon.
Great post-I always had this on my Wish List back when it was released but never did buy/find a copy.
Great to hear at last.
Agree with your Billy Joel comment!
- April 19, 2009 at 8:09 AM
- AmBrOsE said...
Thanx simon :-)
- April 19, 2009 at 9:20 PM
- fritz the cat said...
looking forward to this. thanks
- April 20, 2009 at 12:44 AM
- Robert said...
thanks Simon and Ken!!
Those 2 excerpts rock and I can't wait to listen to this lp...
- April 20, 2009 at 5:06 AM
- andy said...
This is a belter, cheers
- April 22, 2009 at 12:16 AM
- Arkadin said...
Jazz from the Philippines - terra incognita for me! Will give it a try. Thanks, Simon!
Found "A Samba Song" on Soulseek. Pretty sure it originally came from Quimsy's blog:
- April 22, 2009 at 4:28 AM
- Simon666 said...
Thanks Arkadin! Will check it out now .. .
And thanks all for commenting.
- April 22, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Simon666 said...
Hey Arkadin, thanks again - enjoying the Bong Penera. I copied the link over to Quimsy's since there was a desparate line of people (including myself!) wanting a re-up.
- April 22, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Arkadin said...
Gern geschehen, Simon & Glückwunsch zum 666. LaMont-Johnson-Download. Ziemlich diabolisch! ;)
- April 22, 2009 at 10:54 PM
- Simon666 said...
Ja bestimmt! Jetzt warte ich auf der Apocalypse :)
- April 22, 2009 at 11:06 PM
- avocado kid said...
very groovy! thanks simon.
- April 25, 2009 at 2:16 AM
- Black Moses said...
i really love "don't ask my neighbors". big up simon!
- April 25, 2009 at 2:55 AM
- Weekend Hippie said...
Cool, another version of "Dont ask my neighbors".
Many thanks for your great site, Blog watch, and all your hard work!
- April 26, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- Lorden said...
Thanks very much for uploading this album.
"Whatever Happened to the Love" is a real favourite of mine - but I only had it on tape before.
- May 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM
- Sax Mann said...
Woohoo! Pinoy pride! Love this
- June 21, 2009 at 3:07 AM
- Hanimex 3000 said...
currently listening. Impressive
- January 25, 2010 at 5:02 AM
- TomO said...
Hi Simon, everyone,
I've got a copy of this LP on Pausa and it sounds awful in the mastering - the sound occasionally pans to one side without warning and the drums are recorded so badly. I'm just wondering - was it recorded badly in the first place or are there other presses that sound better? Mine is the Pausa US release from 1982.
- February 24, 2010 at 6:50 AM
- Simon666 said...
Hi TomO -
The rip here was supplied by Ken, a reader of this blog, so I haven't been able to compare to the vinyl itself. Killergroove has one :
- February 24, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- TomO said...
Hey Simon,
Thanks, I'll check out that song and see if it's any better than my Pausa vinyl (which is clean).
- February 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- KingsGroove said...
This is indeed truly a great set with the two tracks you mention definite stand outs for me! It is a pity that the recorded quality is somewhat 'muffled' if ever an ablum was in need of a remastered Jap CD release its this one! Thanks for the post truly superb as always!
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Abdesslem Ayoujil, Abdel R. El Amrouss
We prove the existence of nontrivial solutions for perturbations of p-Laplacian. Our approach combine minimax arguments and Morse Theory, under the conditions on the behaviors of the perturbed function or its primitive near infinity and near zero.
Published September 20, 2006.
Math Subject Classifications: 58E05, 35J65, 49B27.
Key Words: Minimax method; p-Laplacian; resonance elliptic equation; critical group; Morse theory.
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In Fox's "The Following," Wilmette native Nico Tortorella plays one-third of a serial killer love triangle that henceforth shall be called "Jemmaul."
"Jemmaul, I like that," the 24-year-old told me, laughing, when I suggested that nickname, PauJaMma (pronounced Paw-jam-ma) and Jacmaul. "That's definitely the best one."
"Jemmaul" is Jacob (Tortorella's character), Emma (Valorie Curry) and Paul (Adan Canto), three people who have fallen under the spell of serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) and are currently holed up in a remote farmhouse with Carroll's young son.
Spoiler alert: If you have yet to watch the Feb. 11 episode, "Mad Love," you might want to stop reading.
In the episode, "Jemmaul" jumped in the shower together after Emma and Paul recaptured a woman Paul had kidnapped and Jacob was unable to kill. The scene was less sexy than emotional, as Jacob revealed to his two serial-killer lovers that he has never killed a human being.
"He's ashamed," Tortorella said of his character. "He's been lying and once that lie is revealed, it's just shame. Now he wants to prove that he can actually be part of this bigger picture."
The only way he can stay in the picture, obviously, is to kill someone. Tortorella wouldn't reveal what happens exactly, but said, "A whole lot happens at that farm house."
His role in "The Following" is much heavier than his first acting gig, which he got when he was 8. Far from starring as an apprentice killer, he played as a munchkin in "The Wizard of Oz" at a children's theater in Wilmette. He went on to do theater at New Trier High School and after that, while living in Chicago, where he starred in "Over the Tavern" at the Mercury and other area theaters.
He was in high school when he started collecting the "10 or 11" tattoos that now adorn his body. His mom took him to get the first, while his grandmother's love of antiques turned him on to taxidermy. Read an edited version of our chat below.
What's the key to playing a guy who has these two convoluted relationships?
Right. I think that the key as of now is to just make my lies seem somewhat acceptable and explain why I have been doing what I've been doing. It's just, with these two people that I have these relationships with, it's just fully giving myself to them and just trying to find that acceptance.
He genuinely feels for both of them, right?
Yeah. Oh, completely. It's just all that he lives for--and Joe Carroll, you know?
How do you approach playing a serial killer?
That's the fun part, you know? It's every actor's dream to be the bad guy. I have that opportunity here. And also it's with all the amazing actors and characters and filmmakers that I'm able to work. I think it just bringing as much of my darkness in my own life into the role. Clearly that's just a tiny, tiny little piece of what Jacob is.
Do you see him as a bad guy or is it hard to approach a character thinking that about him?
No. I don't go to work thinking, "I'm going to be a bad guy today." I'm put in scenarios and situations where I come off as such. But I totally empathize with Jacob and I think that he really believes that what he's doing is for a greater purpose. On paper, yeah, he's 100 percent a bad guy. And it just gets worse.
In the episode before "Mad Love," Jacob begs Paul not to tell Emma his secret. I love that it had nothing to do with him having real sexual feelings toward Paul, but the fact he hasn't killed anyone yet. And I felt for your character.
Yeah. That I think is the most interesting part of our show, that the audience is totally going to empathize with the bad guys. There's going to be some episodes where they're going to want the bad guys to win and the good guys to lose. And other times where it's going to be the opposite. But I think that's what makes our show so interesting.
And why do you think that is?
Kevin's not portraying us, like you said, as these mustache-twirling evil people. He's really showing our family relationship and how we interact with each other. It's based in love, really. It's just kind of one big, fucked up love story with blood everywhere.
The 'shippers are probably going to have a field day. "I like Jacob/Emma." "I like Jacob/Paul." "I like all three together." Where do you see that dynamic going?
It's constantly changing.
How do you think Jacob identifies himself and his sexuality?
I'm sure that he's had issues his whole life with it and I think that he would be the first one to say that he's not gay. But he's been in a relationship with Emma and he's been in a pseudo-ridiculous relationship with Paul for the past three years. That's a long time to be living under one roof with one person. And I think that he's just opened up to the world. He's well-rounded.
What do you hope people get from your character?
I want people to want Jacob to win in whatever sense that that means. I want people to genuinely feel for Jacob. And sympathize with his struggles that he's gone through and that he's continuing to go through. And his place in the cult and what it all means. I want people to be team Jacob.
What did you think about the shower scene? Your reaction when you read the script?
On paper it screamed sex. I was like, "OK, this is going to be a hot threesome in a shower!" But then when we shot it, it was not sexual. Clearly there's a little bit, but it wasn't, you know, just bleeding in sex. It was beautiful and emotional.
It didn't seem like they were thinking, "We're gonna jump each others bones after we get cleaned up."
Right. I mean, we probably do, but ... [Laughs.]
What's next for them after that shower scene?
You mean after they jump each other's bones? [Laughs.] It definitely gets very interesting. Like I said, Jacob's had separate relationships with both of them and now it's kind of becoming this family unit. He freaks out about it. He's just trying to figure out how it's going to go from there.
Jacob played football in high school. What was your big thing in high school?
I grew up playing hockey and lacrosse. But I was a theater kid; I was a thespian. I went to New Trier [Township High School] and they put on like nine shows a year. And they still have an amazing acting program. And I was in four different choir and three different acting classes and it was just like that was my full schedule.
So you can sing, too?
Yeah, I grew up doing musicals. I definitely plan on doing one at some point.
You've said you bring as much of yourself to the character as you can, which makes me want to ask, what in Chicago prepared you to do this role?
I'm into taxidermy, so that maybe? [Laughs.] I'm into antique taxidermy thanks to my grandma. I don't really find it to be that dark but I'm sure in my mother would say much differently.
No, I think it's just my experience working in theater in Chicago. I grew up with it. I did a show, "Over the Tavern," for three years at the Mercury Theatre on Southport and other theaters all around the city. I studied at Goodman and Steppenwolf and I was going to commercial auditions and movie auditions. I was with Stewart Talent in Chicago. Chicago's a great medium [sized] place in between New York and L.A. to start thinking about this type of career. It's not the most amazing place to be; as a kid growing up in it, it wasn't like pushed in my face as hard as it would've been in L.A. And it wasn't like, as crazy as it is here in New York. It totally set me up to go experience what was in the other cities in the most amazingly possible.
When you were doing the professional theater here, where you still in high school or was that after high school?
I started in middle school, in eighth grade or seventh grade. And then I did it through high school. I did it for three years.
And then you went to Columbia for a little bit here?
I did; I went to Columbia. I lived at 2 East 8th, the dorm rooms at Columbia. I was just going to art school really. I didn't have any plans specifically. I took a bunch of art classes--no acting classes--some architectural classes, fashion design classes. Just kind of playing around living in the city, meeting amazing people and getting inspired.
I moved straight to L.A. a year after I lived in the city. I originally transferred from Columbia to Loyola Marymount and went to business school for like six months. It was a horrible idea.
That doesn't seem like your bag.
I had this whole master plan, but that crumbled very quickly. And I had a sister agency in L.A. that was with my agency in Chicago. But I kind of stopped acting for like a year and a half. It just wasn't what I was focusing on. I realized business school wasn't for me, but I just knew I needed to get to L.A. I knew that [acting] was what I was going to do for the rest of my life, it was just a means of getting here. One thing led to the next and it's been really lucky since.
That was when you stumbled on to the modeling for a little bit?
A lot of stories say you're a model turned actor. But it's kind of the opposite.
I was an actor who modeled for a year. But it's also because I was on "The Beautiful Life" playing a model. That's when all that stuff came out.
That show went away quickly. Is that hard to deal with, or do you find all experiences are good experiences somehow?
Yeah. Totally. I'm the first person to have an optimistic outlook on anything. It was a great just educator in terms of the industry; how it works, how anything can change at any moment. And even when it's good, this moment too shall pass. And there are other doors that open up pretty quickly. I got to live in New York for six months and met amazing people. I wouldn't change it for anything.
And I'm also kind of happy that I'm not, you know, a series regular on The CW for the next eight years.
Let's talk about those tattoos of yours. How many is it now?
It's like 10 or 11; I've kind of lost track.
Why are you so into tattoos?
Both of my older cousins, who were kind of like my brothers as well, were really into tattoos growing up. I had looked up to both of them and once they started I was definitely going to start. And it's kind of like the worst drug problem that you could have. Once you start it's just like there's always more skin. It's just like kind of a diary of my life that I can see all the time.
You don't lightly choose what's going to be on your skin?
[Laughs.] I have some stupid tattoos, but they totally represent a period in my life where I'm all cool with it.
You told me your mom helped you get your first.
Yeah, my mom took me to Jade Dragon [in Chicago] to get my first tattoo. I was 15. That's like the place that everybody goes to get their first tattoo.
Which one was that?
The Chinese symbols on my back--real original. [Laughs.] And then the next tattoo I got was from this guy in Chicago. This guy Patrick Cornelia. He was with Cherry Bomb Tattoo for a long time; I don't know exactly where he is now. He's in River Park somewhere, but he's fucking amazing. And he did the earth and the sun and the flowers on my back.
Tell me about the antlers on your feet.
Clearly it's a connection to the taxidermy. Nobody's a hunter in my family at all but I've always just like related to a buck in one sense or another. I don't know, it's like my spirit animal. ... Deers shed their antlers every couple years. So it's about my shedding or regrowth. It's just a reminder that I am going to grow constantly.
And you have one of your grandfather in his Navy uniform?
Yeah. World War II. (See Nico's tattoos at Inked.)
Your grandparents seem like they were a big influence on you.
Yeah, totally. My grandma lived in the house with me my entire childhood. And still is one of my best friends.
Does the family still live in Wilmette?
Everybody except for my mom, dad and brother live in Glenview. My mom, dad and brother moved to L.A. a few years ago.
What do you miss about Chicago?
Definitely deep-dish pizza. There's nobody else that does pizza [like that]. What else do I miss about Chicago? The beach. [Chicago is] the smaller, cleaner version of New York. That's what I miss. And just like people saying "hi" when you walk on the sidewalk instead of like everybody rushing to get somewhere. I don't know, this city is a lot to handle.
Back to the taxidermy thing. I'm fascinated by this. And it's not that you're in to doing taxidermy ...
[Laughs.] Not yet.
... but you're into the antique taxidermy, right?
Yeah. I mean, I've definitely, definitely thought about taking classes at some point to do it, which is crazy but it's true. I don't know. There's something just about the animals and just the way they were done so long ago is so much different than the way taxidermy's done now. I have some pieces that are literally like stuffed with newspaper. Victorian taxidermy is just like layers of paper inside. It's crazy. I don't know; I just like weird shit.
Are you into all kinds of antiques?
Yeah, it's definitely more on the odd side, like I have this chandelier made of antique dental equipment that I made like, I don't know, six months ago. Just like a bunch of needles and syringes hanging down. I have an old barber's chair. Yeah, I just collect a lot of weird old stuff.
How are your three dogs with the taxidermied animals?
The dogs aren't cool with the squirrel. It's so funny, 'cause it's the least threatening one that I have.
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It's getting uglier between Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG).
Google -- whose maps Apple uses for the iPhone -- wanted to make an iPhone app for its Latitude social networking service, which basically draws your friends' location on a map. But after Google made a native iPhone app for Latitude, Apple seems to have told Google to buzz off, and to make a less powerful Web app instead.
So that's what Google did, now available in your iPhone's browser at google.com/latitude.
The downside: iPhone users have to access Google Latitude through MobileSafari, it won't show up in the App Store, it doesn't -- to our knowledge -- have access to Apple's push notification system, and in a brief tests, it seems to run less smoothly than it would as a native iPhone app.
The weird part: Latitude is precisely the kind of app that Apple helped enable by opening up the Google maps API for the 3.0 version of the iPhone software. And there are already several apps that Apple has approved for the App Store that do similar stuff, such as Apple-favorite Loopt, which happens to use Microsoft's (less elegant) map tiles.
So what's the deal? Perhaps Google wanted to do something that Apple wasn't into, like layer location-based/local ads on top of the iPhone's map tiles. Perhaps Apple is building their own similar service and didn't want Google's competing app anywhere near theirs. Perhaps Apps is building Latitude into the next version of its Maps app and thinks it'll do a better job than Google. Perhaps Apple really does think it's too complicated for its users to have two Google maps apps available for the iPhone -- one furnished as the default Maps app by Apple and one available for download from Google.
But it just seems strange that Apple isn't letting Google use their own maps for an iPhone app. Things do not seem to be getting cozier between Cupertino and Mountain View.
Here's a quote from Google's blog post on the subject:
We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to serve maps tiles.
And note that Google is eager to point out an annoying shortcoming on the iPhone; that it can't handle background processing:
Unfortunately, since there is no mechanism for applications to run in the background on iPhone (which applies to browser-based web apps as well), we're not able to provide continuous background location updates in the same way that we can for Latitude users on Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Window Mobile.
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Memphis-based Crye-Leike Realtors Inc. has yanked its Memphis-area listings from Zillow and Trulia, two of the Web's biggest third-party listing services.
Crye-Leike said it pulled its roughly 3,000 Memphis-area listings off Trulia.com and Zillow.com due mostly to inaccurate listing information on the two websites.
"There were multiple reasons, but inaccuracy of the data was big," said Steve Brown, Crye-Leike Memphis general manager and executive vice president. "Frankly, it was like a disservice."
Brown said listed prices for homes were often inaccurate and that Crye-Leike did not like the practice of allowing competing agents to place ads next to Crye-Leike listings, which could pit a Crye-Leike agent and listing against a rival broker.
"(Clients) would probably sue us if they knew we were posting 15 percent low or 15 percent high," Brown said. "And then we didn't like the idea you had to pay to keep somebody from squatting next to your listings. We didn't think that was right, either."
Zillow representative Amanda Woolley said the company was committed to providing consumers with as much information as possible.
"Zillow is committed to informed consumer choice," she said. "We believe in clear, transparent information that allows homebuyers and sellers to make the smartest decisions – including which agent to work with when buying or selling their home."
"If we get a direct feed of listings from a brokerage, the listing agent will always appear in the top spot on that listing, clearly marked as the listing agent," Woolley said. "Then we provide a list of buyers' agents, allowing the homebuyer to research and select the professional who will best represent their interest."
Woolley said Zillow's reach, including its mobile applications, remains an important tool for Realtors and homebuyers. According to comScore, Zillow is the largest online real estate network.
But Brown said the inaccuracy of listings was too much to overcome. Brown said one client recently sent a list of nine properties to her agent that she found on Zillow and was interested in. After doing some research, the Crye-Leike agent found that only three of the nine homes were actually available.
"As far as actually having accurate, timely data, they don't have it and we do," Brown said.
Woolley said Zillow is continually looking for ways to improve listing information.
"By continuing to directly engage with organizations like Crye-Leike, we believe we can continue to make progress on the important issue of listing accuracy, which will benefit brokers, agents and their clients," said Woolley. "We look forward to discussing Crye-Leike's concerns."
Crye-Leike, which has around 2,800 agents across nine Southeastern states, is still considering whether it will maintain Zillow and Trulia listings in other markets. Individual Crye-Leike agents in the Memphis area will still be able to upload listings to Zillow and Trulia, but Crye-Leike will no longer do it on their behalf.
A Trulia representative said the company remains a trusted source of information for consumers and real estate agents and that it looks forward to working with Crye-Leike in other markets.
"Trulia connects consumers with the real estate industry to power the success of thousands of real estate brokerages and hundreds of thousands of their agents across the country," said Alon Chaver, vice president of Industry Services at Trulia. "We will continue to engage with our Crye-Leike partners in the other markets (where) we continue to work together so they can leverage the Trulia platform and its 35 million unique monthly visitors, to deliver ever increasing value to the company and its agents."
Brown said Crye-Leike had been considering dropping the Memphis-area listings for months, and consumers would have little trouble finding a Crye-Leike agent or listing, especially in its home base of Memphis.
Brown said Crye-Leike listings will continue to appear on websites operated by brokers and agents who are members of the 40 multiple listing services the company uses.
"People will find us," Brown said.
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