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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia's list of approved lethal injection drugs now includes one of the chemicals used in an Ohio execution that led to a lawsuit by the inmate's family who says his death was cruel and inhuman.
The Virginia Department of Corrections said Thursday that it has approved the sedative midazolam as an alternative first drug in the state's three-drug execution protocol. Midazolam was one of two drugs used in last month's execution of an Ohio inmate who made snorting and gasping sounds and took an unusually long 26 minutes to die. His family is suing Ohio.
Illinois-based Hospira Inc., which manufactures midazolam, opposes its use for capital punishment but has been unable to stop state prison systems from obtaining it from suppliers.
Virginia prison officials did not immediately respond to questions about their decision to approve the drug.
Steve Northup, executive director of Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, said that while he doesn't know much about midazolam, he is concerned about its possible use in Virginia based on what he has read about the Ohio execution.
The development comes as many death penalty states are grappling with a shortage of drugs that can be used in executions. Many of the drugs are manufactured in European countries that have prohibited their export for use in capital punishment.
Virginia lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow the state to use the electric chair in executions if lethal injection drugs are not available when an inmate's execution date arrives. Under current law, death row inmates can choose either the electric chair or lethal injection. If they decline to choose, they get the injection.
Northup said he has seen state documents showing that the Department of Corrections acquired midazolam and other execution drugs late last year.
"I've been a little mystified by their position before the General Assembly on the electrocution default bill that they don't have the drugs available," Northup said.
Virginia is second only to Texas in the number of executions since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976. It now has only eight people on death row. No executions are scheduled, and Northup said none are likely to be set for this year because the inmates' appeals have not been exhausted.
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BLEACH: 13 Reasons to watch 13 Seasons ~ !! We're GIVING AWAY MEMBERSHIPS!Post Reply
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Cut the region restriction bullshit. I can't watch a single episode of Bleach on CR even if I pay.
Well damn, I would love to get a free membership, but I don't quit like Bleach :(
Instead, here have this Llama I drew;
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Who Needs Reasons to watch "BLEACH IS BLEACH" (it also can Bankia difficult stains )
1: Everybody loves Yachiru, because the rest answer to Kenpachi. Nobody wants to answer to Kenpachi.
2: Rukia has some awesome artistic ability.
3: Byakuya Kuchiki's Bankai is the most beautifully seen one in the real world.
4: Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto's is too hot to handle.
5: Kisuke Urahara's hat is too popular.
6: Sajin Komamura has too ruff of a life to not pay attention to him.
7: Tōshirō Hitsugaya is the coolest there is.
8: It is literally impossible for anyone to be creepier than Mayuri Kurotsuchi.
9: Ganju Shiba proves that you can be awesome by just having the most unusual ride.
10: Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck will confuse people forever.
11: Old man Zangetsu has proven he will protect what he wants to protect most.
12: Wabisuke can't remove his head from the books on this serries.
13: Yasutora Sado proves that you can accomplish anything with just your fists.
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Bleach the only show with death gods, samurai, demons,action,style of fighting, and good story and character development.
This is the show that raised todays modern generation of anime lovers. I know i was only supposed to write 13 but goddamn it i wrote a hundred!
1. Grimmjow ceros b****es when needed.
2. Kenpachi is god
3. ogihci is INSANE
4. Uryu Ishida's mere existence. nuff said.
5. Because little girls tote around huge rotating barrel guns.
6. sexy ladies
7. mayuri kurotsuchi!!
8. The Zanpaktous
9. Orange hair!!!
10. It has women with four holes!
11. Ulquiorra Cifer - enough said..:smileyhappy:
12. All the hawt girls
13. Its not anything related to the Dragonball series (Dragonball. DBZ, DBGT,DBK)
14. Bewbies!!!
15. The comedy/humor
16.Ikkaku's head
17. lil wayne's not in it
18. Arrancars
20:badass fights (did I mention Nel already?)
21. Kanye West has stayed away and not interrupted.
22. Any character beyond the age of 14 could be a supermodel!
23. Vizard Shinji vs. Grimmjow fight.
24. Grimmjow kicking Ichigo's butt Round One
25. Vizard Ichigo vs. Grimmjow Las Noches Battle
26. Tosen cutting off Grimmjow's arm
27. The Espada meeting with Aizen's special brand of tea.
28. Kenpachi Zaraki
29. Kenpachi Zaraki
30. Kenpachi Zaraki...
31. Rangiku Matsumoto <3
32. Byakuya Kuchiki <3
33. Ikkaku's Bankai
34.cool bankai's
35. girls with huge boobs
36. tia
37. kon..
38. Ichigo's Hollowfication
39. Tatsuki <3
40. It has... SENNA!
41. those Shinigami Cups!
42. It made Spanish seem cool.
43. Fan service for the ladies--Grimmjows clothes, Szayels clothes being ripped off, o just plain going to the beach how often do we see that in a shonen series
44 Romance in a shonen series that is very subtel, not over the head like Inuyashua but not non existant like Dragon Ball series
45. A living perverted stuffed animal named Kon! (But also deep down he cares.)
46. Orihime slapping the **meep** out of Ulquiorra
47. Ulquiorra's green cero
48. Ban...kai! RAT MORNING-STAR!
49 It's better than Moribito...
50 Renji's bankai
51. Aizen is badass
52 Nanao is even ore badass
53 Orihime's tight shirts
54 Kisuke Urahara makes pimp canes, ugly hats and clogs look cool.
55. Its not Inuyasha.
56. action, action, action!
57. Rangeiku, Orihime, Capt. Unohana & Lt. Kotetsu in bikinis
58. Soul Reapers (shinigami) remind me of samurai and how bada** they were
59. Head Captain Yamamoto is as tough as the coffin nail
60 Bleach... kicks ass...
62. That awesome Sonido sound effect!
63. That awesome Cero sound effect!
64. The hollow howls.
65. the hollow rulez
66. Captain Ukitake (his hair, his soothing demeanor, his smile, his zanpakuto....)
67. Grimmjow's maniacal, unbridled laughter
68. How HI-larious it is when Menos Grande get knocked over, fall or trip!
69. At the end of Soul Society Arc, when Rangiku complains to her captain about her "boob difficulties" if she is passed out.
70. Boob buckets.
71. Killing enemies is more fun when you have a SWORD and not a DEATH NOTE. Its especially more fun when the enemy is MOVING rather than SQUATTING on a chair eating cake and tea making it look like he has to take a pi$$.
72. There's more GRATUITOUS FAN SCENES in Bleach than some other animes. ie Rangiku's boobs, Orihime's boobs, Kenpachi's chest, All of Yoruichi, Renji's chest, and Hollow Ichigo.
73. Ulquiorra Schiffer
74. Grimmjow Jagger Jack.
75. Subterranean training rooms!
76. Ichigo means strawberry
77. Toshiro Hetsugya
78. Nova's power
79. Ikkaku's hilarious shirts from his admirer.
80. Bells in hair
81. Hueco mundo
82. Isshin kurosaki
83. Tensa Zangetsu (ichigos bankai)
84. Zangetsu (the zanpaktu manifest)
85. 'Cause it's the show that never ends, yes it goes on and on, my friend...
86. Loli raepface (SPOILER)
87. Ukitake and Koryoku's magnificent dual Zanpakuto!
88. ghosts
90. hells
91. Yoruichi Shihoin
Oh, I would gladly make you purr
92. Ichigo's Visor Mask
93. Harribel
94. Keigo, 'cause he's friggen hilarious!
95.) Kensei Muguruma
96. The music
97 the only animethat sound good dubbed
98 huge ass swords
99 long ass battles
100 my top 5 animes
1. Character Development, the creator does an excellent job of this, even throughout the fillers
2. Impressive Storyline. Although it may stray from the manga from time to time, but it keeps you hooked
3. Plot Twists. Even though you've read the manga before hand the plot twists throughout the entire series keeps you GLUED
4. Action/Fight Scenes. Each action filled episode has a purpose for sake of character development and they get straight to the point. No Dragon Ball Z-esque 6 months for one punch, or Naruto-esque epic flashback after every blow. Bleach delivers!
5. Comedic factor. Bleach may come across as a serious show, (it has its moments) but you will find yourself chuckling like a rascal while watching.
6. Soundtracks. Are Spot On. No more explanation needed. Must watch to understand. Just kidding. The music selection from the Opening to Endings and all the background music in between were all perfectly selected to go with the theme of the season and play with your emotions as you watch the great story unfold.
7. Arch Enemies. Ichigo comes across a few rivals in the series. With each rival and each triumph we all grow a little bit alongside Ichigo. When he wins, you win. You feel his righteous accomplishment alongside him.
8. Love Triangles. There a subtle (and I mean Subtle) love triangles that are implied as the story progresses. Depending on your personality you'll find you self rooting for a particular couple as they have a moment, even if it isn't implicitly implied.
9. Ichigo's backstory. Is so indepth and carefully thought out, that factor alone is enough to make a person marathon this beautiful work of art just to figure out Ichigo.
10. Villians. Each villian isn't your typical "I want to destroy everything just because" guy. They each have their own perfectly rational reasoning that can even sway you to the dark side for a few moments. Which goes back to #1, the Character development is just superb.
11. Voice Acting. (Japanese) The actors used to play each character were perfect. A great job was done when each character was cast
12. Culture. There's a heap of different cultural mixtures in this story to get almost anyone Googling the different meanings of things. Hell, one of the characters is Mexican.
13. There really isn't any reason to NOT watch bleach. Bleach is a beautifully crafted story. It is so indepth that the creator could have made it a novel instead of a manga and still have the fan base it has. It would blow Twilight out of the skies. Come on, imagine the american masses clamoring over bleach. Then everyone could enjoy this story. But that's not the case. It's an Anime on Crunchyroll, and it should be marathoned repeatedly.
1. Ichigo is a soul reaper
2. Ichigo is Aizens pawn his whole life
3. Aizen one of the most bad-ass characters in anime trained Ichigo indirectly
4. Kon
5. Chad's powers are really creative.
6. Bankais are as unique as their masters.
7. A few of the battles.
8. The confusion I feel from the fact that how the hell did ichigo's mom not kill the fisher?
9. Ichigo's dads love for him and his family.
10. Ulquoirra's ultimate form is amazing.
11. The story
12. The vandenreich
13. Zaraki Kenpachi duh.
I don't know if all my list has happened in the anime yet so I apologize for any spoilers or anything.
1. Music by SCANDAL
2. Music by SCANDAL
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4. Music by SCANDAL
5. Music by SCANDAL
6. Music by SCANDAL
7. Music by SCANDAL
8. Music by SCANDAL
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10. Music by SCANDAL
11. Music by SCANDAL
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13. Music by SCANDAL
1.The swords man, the swords
2.Its a pretty cool show
3.better than naruto by a long shot
.... I'm so not winning this contest I can't think of any other reasons ... I tried ;.;
1. Ichigo is number one!
2. Bleach has over 200 dubbed episodes.
3. Ichigo's soul contains three entities (himself, his hollow self, and Zangetsu).
4. Bleach has release four theater-released movies: Memories of Nobody, The DiamondDust Rebellion, Fade to Black, and the Hell Verse.
5. The Bleach manga has over 500 chapters.
6. Bleach has 366 episodes.
7. New chapters of Bleach are available every seven days in Shounen Jump.
8. Bleach anime has ran for 8 years.
9. Bleach has over 99 reviews on Crunchyroll.
10. Ichigo has had over ten different looks over the course of the series.
11. In 2011, the last season of Bleach began airing.
12. The Bleach anime ended in 2012.
13. Bleach has 13 squads of soul reapers.
1. Ichigo has kick-butt awesome fighting abilities.
2. Kon is a stupid pervert who always gets kicked around in some hilarious way.
3. There are cute guys. (lol, Ichigo is definitely the cutest)
4. There are pretty girls for the guys to look at.
5. Almost every episode will leave you laughing, crying, or spitting blood (haha).
6. Rukia loves bunnies and other cute things.
7. Rukia's drawings suck so much it's hilarious.
8. Orihime is an airhead.
9. Uryu is a guy obsessed with sewing.
10. The fight scenes are AWESOME!
11. Renji adds an enormous amount of sugar cubes to his coffee.
12. There are 366 episodes of awesomeness.
13. Ichigo has orange hair.
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There is only one reason, and one reason only to watch bleach..........
It is NOT NARUTO
1.) Iconic use of Shinigami
2.) Ichigo's hair
3.) The secret about Ichigo's father.
4.) Hollow Ichigo
5.) Chad's Stoicism
6.) The unexplored love between Ichigo and Rukia
7.) Bankai
8.) Cat to Woman
9.) Intensity
10.) Seriously the best Arcs ever
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City of Lincoln
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The 25 artists selected to participate in the City's Artistic Rain Barrel program have completed painting their rain barrels that will be displayed at local businesses and libraries beginning today through April 10. The painted rain barrels will then be moved to the Pioneers Park Nature Center, 3201 Coddington, where they will be auctioned off at "Nature's Market" Saturday, April 18.
Photos of the decorated rain barrels can be seen on the City Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: rain barrels).
The Artistic Rain Barrel program is designed to call attention to water quality and water conservation. Proceeds from the Nature's Market auction will provide low-income children with scholarships to Nature Camp and pre-school at the Pioneers Park Nature Center.
Rain barrels are typically a 55-gallon barrel, modified to collect rainwater runoff from rooftop down spouts. The collected water can be used for lawn and gardens.
The Artistic Rain Barrel program is a joint venture of the City of Lincoln Public Works Watershed Management Division and the Friends of Pioneers Park Nature Center. More information is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: rain barrel).


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Couple Says They are Guilty
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A woman bought some chili at a fast food restaurant. She and her husband put a finger in the bowl of chili after she bought it. The husband got the finger from a friend. The friend got his finger cut off in an accident at work.
The couple accused the restaurant of selling bad food. They said the chili had the finger in it when they bought it. Then the couple tried to get money. They tried to sue the restaurant.
The police found out that the husband and wife were lying. The couple was arrested and went to jail. They were charged with making a false claim and attempting to steal money. They decided to tell the judge they were guilty before their trial started.
The restaurant says that they lost a lot of money. They say it is because of the lies the couple told. People did not want to buy food from the restaurant when news of the finger spread. The restaurant blames the couple for the loss of money.
A judge will decide how much time the couple will spend in jail. Both could be spending a lot of time in prison.
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Friday, May 24, 2013
Pop-up café in Viimsi this Saturday!
Six Estonian foodbloggers - Aire, Britt, Liina, Marju, Silja and yours truly - are setting up a pop-up café at the Viimsi Farmers Market this Saturday. It's not the first time - in September 2011 and September 2012 we opened a pop-up apple cake café (õunakoogikohvik, you can see some photos here) at the same market, and the organisers - Museum of the Coastal Folk - asked us to come and serve our creations at their newest special event, Viimsi Fish Day (Kalapäev).
We were happy to oblige :)
Kalapäev focuses on fish in general, and on the culinary uses of a very invasive species, round goby (ümarmudil) in particular. There are several workshops and events throughout, and our pop-up café (or fish buffet, as we've called it this time) is open between 10-14. The menu is varied and rich - we have various quiches (cottage cheese and smoked sea bass, fresh salmon and broccoli, nettle and smoked fish), tuna-filled profiteroles, salmon muffins, Estonian-style fish and chips, Empanaditas Gallegas, miso-glazed cod, a selection of smörgås aka open sandwiches, jellied pike-perch (zander), smoked mackerel paté toasts, salmon fishcakes with a remoulade, a festive leek pie with cream cheese and smoked salmon topping, sprat pastries - to name just a few. Of course, there will be also some sweet cakes - rhubarb and chocolate and curd cheese and cinnamon and kama will feature in one way or another.
We offer a free cup of espresso to all visitors and homemade cloudy lemonade to the smaller ones!
Do come along and say hello if you are in Tallinn or Viimsi or nearby! Look for the lovely chalkboard poster and you'll find us easily.
A huge thank you to Pepe Kala OÜ who supplied us with fresh and cured fish, and MEIRA who kindly lend us a Segafredo MyEspresso coffee pod machine for the duration of the event.
Here's the poster for the main event:
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- Cirrhosis: A condition in which liver cells are damaged and replaced by scar tissue. Cirrhosis may be caused by heavy alcohol use, too much iron in the liver, certain drugs or parasites, and HBV or HCV infection. More than 70 percent of liver cancer patients have chronic liver disease or cirrhosis.
- Heavy alcohol intake: Drinking more than two alcoholic beverages a day for years raises the risk for liver cancer; and people with hepatitis B or C may be more susceptible to the risk of alcohol.
- Iron storage disease: A condition, hemochromatosis, in which the body stores too much iron in the liver and other organs.
- Obesity and diabetes: Fatty liver as a result of obesity and diabetes can lead to a condition known as NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) and even cirrhosis. Patients with cirrhosis due to NASH have a 6-7 percent chance of developing liver cancer within 10 years.
- Aflatoxin: A harmful substance made by certain types of mold that can form on corn, peanuts, and other nuts and grains. Aflatoxin is rare in this country thanks to our food safety measures, but rates are higher in parts of Asia and Africa.


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UM Colors: "Sun" and Blue
Interesting note in a recent Daily article by volleyball players Lexi Zimmerman (swoons) and Courtney Fletcher. Apparently, Nike trademarked the "maize" color, so Adidas had to make up their own color called "sun":
Nike also copyrighted the color "Maize," so Adidas actually had to make a new version of our school color, now known as "Sun" (which the volleyball team has affectionately dubbed the "highlighter" jerseys). While the switch has become progressively easier throughout the past two years, it's come with growing pains.
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Congratulations to Cornishman Josh Matevesi for his contribution to Fiji's draw with Wales tonight. Josh scored a penalty.
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Still wont stop them asking the same tired old questions, mind. (Hello Trevor, emmet et al. )
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Austin Briggs: "...merciless in his scrutiny"
There followed some years of varied work doing anything that came to hand, including book illustration and movie posters for Fox films. It was a period of discouragement, for Briggs considered himself a failure after a brilliant beginning. But it was also a period of self-appraisal and criticism; an eventually healthy interlude that lead to better things.
He was merciless in his scrutiny of himself. "I realized that I just wasn't doing acceptable work, because if it had been good, they would have wanted to buy it."
"With that new attitude I set about learning to draw, which I never could do before, in spite of the fact that some of my illustrations had been more or less acceptable. I really didn't know the craft of my profession. I think I had imagination then, but really didn't know how to use it. The intervening years when I did movie posters and a few book illustrations were spent in trying to find myself. I used to think that when some other artist did an illustration in a particular way, that proved it was the way to do it. It was only when I began to look at the idea from my own point of view that I started to get any place. It was better if I didn't try to figure out what Parker or Von Schmidt would do and realized that it was my problem, and that from my point of view my experience was just as good as theirs."
"I really don't know myself what makes my own point of view. I do know that it is what people want to buy, whereas they didn't want to buy my idea of how somebody else would do it. One can't achieve any sort of success as an illustrator until one concentrates on and expresses one's own point of view."
A great many young illustrators have stood at the same crossroads that Briggs faced. Most of them have refused or been unable to take the right turn, because they have lacked, first, the downright fortitude that is required for a merciless self-examination and, second, the stamina to slowly and painfully work out their early mistakes.
Excerpted from the October 1950 issue of American Artist magazine, written by Henry C. Pitz
* My Austin Briggs Flickr set.
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"I realized that I just wasn't doing acceptable work, because if it had been good, they would have wanted to buy it."ReplyDelete
Leif, does Briggs' comment remind you of your earlier series on Andy Virgil? The flow of assignments dried up for Virgil as well, and he was convinced that if he flogged himself to work harder and better, he could cure the problem. Sometimes, as in Briggs' case, you are just going through an economic depression. But sometimes, as in Virgil's case, you are just plain on the wrong side of history and there is nothing that human willpower or talent can do to keep you from getting massacred.
In Briggs' case, fiction magazines and advertising assignments would come back and sustain him for the balance of his career. In Virgil's case, the magazines were all dying out for good. The problem is, you never really know until you look back over your shoulder, years later.
- Kyle8:49 PM
While I agree the use of photography cut down the size of market open to illustrators in the 60s and 70s there were still many opportunities for illustrators with the 'right' style for the time.We've just heard from Marvin Friedman, who was able to navigate his way through the period.ReplyDelete
Some illustrators are just not able to bend their style to the prevailing mood and end up falling by the wayside or taking work far below the status they were used to.
Sad to say, but times change.
When Anita Virgil and I began corresponding and she told me about Andy's awful fallow period I mentioned that those had been my friend Will Davies' most lucrative years. His "big fish in a small pond" status in Toronto doing very similar work to Andy's made him one of the wealthiest, most sought-after illustrators in Canada during the 60's and early 70's.
Anita replied, "If only we had known there was so much work in Canada we would have moved in a heartbeat."
Charlie Allen did well in SF during those years as well, though the nature of his projects changed dramatically from the kind he had done during the 50's.
Kyle may be right (at least partially so) - adaptability seems to be a key component of success (or at least survival)... but the underlying philosophical truth Briggs discovered, as expressed in today's excert - that you can't succeed until you express your own point of view - is, I believe, the essential of what an illustrator should strive for.
Andy Virgil was just getting his career back when cancer cut short his career (and his life). Who knows how much he might have accomplished?
In any case, working harder and better in an effort to be as good as you possibly can be is a reward in itself, isn't it? Beyond that, I suppose, an indeterminate measure of luck, determination and business savvy...?
Not that there would ever be a bad time for Briggs -- but please elaborate, tonci -- why is this week perfect timing...? :^)ReplyDelete
We (me and tonci) are from eastern Europe (and outside the EU), and for us "now" can mean 'these months' rather than 'this week.'ReplyDelete
So, it's a perfect time to address the fate of the illustrator during economic downturn.
What I am understanding here, is that there is no one reason for an illustrator's success or failure in staying busy through changing times. However, perhaps the emphasis on technique is miss-leading in this discussion. During the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, there seemed to have been less emphasis on a technique and more emphasis on a whole variety of different techniques, depending on the assignments. In the 40's and 50's there wasn't a lot of different looks, but that all changed in the 60's. Chuck Pyle, a successful illustrator in S.F., kept a realistic Rockwell approach to his illustrations for decades, and found quality work for that look. He is a good draftsman, and I believe that helped sustained him through changing times.ReplyDelete
I always felt most comfortable doing realistic illustrations depicting real people, and that became the bulk of my illustration work, even through the 90's. I think during financial downturns, an illustrator needs to be willing to find and do their very best at whatever illustration assignments are available to them at the time, not just the ones that turns them on.
Bottom line... myself and the illustrators I knew, looked for the kind of assignments that fit our natural technique, instead of trying to always change techniques to fit what seemed to be selling best. Although, when asked, I could adapt to other technique for a particular illustration request. But, I looked for work that would fit what I thought I could do best.
As an illustration student and early in my career, I was influenced by all the top 50's and 60's illustrators, especially Briggs for his line work... but eventually it became obvious that they were doing their technique a hell of a lot better than I could.
I think that is what Briggs meant by finding his own way of doing an illustration.
Tom Watson
Don't mean to hog the show again, but I meant to mention that Leif's analysis is right on the money when he wrote that you have to express your own point of view... but I might add, skilled draftsmanship, as Briggs pointed out, is key to that expression.ReplyDelete
Draw, draw, draw, and DRAW ALL THE TIME!
OK, I'll shut up now. ;-)
Tom Watson
Hopefully that's what has come across - both in this week's series and in the recent Fawcett week: learn to draw - that's the foundation of illustration, no matter how stylized or computerized your work ends up being.ReplyDelete
* Case in point: read this post by TI list member Von Glitschka
Actually, last week's series on Marvin Friedman was a great example of what you spoke about above, Tom: Marvin found he sometimes had to 'reign it in' but for the most part he was committed to doing it his way.
The point I hope is emphasized to us all is that you must find your own voice to really succeed. I worthy goal we all ought to pursue!
I'm not sure if I'm making myself entirely clear, but further to the above, I mean that today there are a few styles one sees all over the internet. This has long been the problem in illustration: in the 50's perhaps it was Al Parker, in the 60's, Bob Peak and Bernie Fuchs ( into the 70's as well) In the 80's it was Patrick Nagel and in the 90's it was Brad Holland. Now its James Jean. As Briggs said, "I used to think that when some other artist did an illustration in a particular way, that proved it was the way to do it. It was only when I began to look at the idea from my own point of view that I started to get any place."ReplyDelete
Ok, now I'll shut up, too! ;^)
Sterling Hundley has had a recent post about artists' attitudes in difficult times:ReplyDelete
Very recommended.
Thanks Traven - that really was a fantastic post. I felt compelled to leave a comment. Thanks for the heads-up. :^)ReplyDelete
- Kyle11:12 AM
First.I love to draw and I'd say I'm pretty good at that.ReplyDelete
BUT, to be successful in the illustration business these days you do not need to "draw draw draw" every day.You need to read,think,watch TV and films, study fashions, graphics,art and take in the world around you so you can,as Leif and Briggs put it,'find your own voice' and reflect the world around you in your own distinctive manner.Your own viewpoint is the reason you'll get hired- rarely would it be for your accuracy of drawing.They can hire a photographer for that (in their opinion).
So, I'm sorry to differ with Tom on this,I really wish it were as simple as drawing all day constantly honing one's eye.
But it's not.
All the Best.
I think we are actually all talking about the same thing here, but approaching it from different angles.ReplyDelete
In the 50's some of what I call the 'Old school' guys who were doing Haddon Sundblom buttery painting styles began losing work to the 'New School' Cooper studio gouache painters. Tom mentioned in earlier comments that in the 60's the ADs were asking for the 'rainstorm' look - that streaky, sketchy technique done with gessoed board and thin washes of colour that Peak and Fuchs championed.
The key there was that throughout those changing times, technique was just being overlaid on solid realistic drawing. If you didn't or weren't able to change your technique you could, as Kyle says, find work - it just might not have been of the calibre you were used to (no major ad or magazine work).
But this is from my perspective where there was a major turning point in illustration: the rise of decorative styles. They were there in the 50's, but they were a sideshow to the main attraction. With the change in popular culture in the 60's, Pushpin Studios and psychedelic posters and underground comics and on and on, suddenly solid realistic drawing wasn't essential to success... I'd even venture to say it could be a hinderance in some markets.
Since then so much has changed - yet everything is, in many ways, exactly the same. Illustration continues to thrive, but in new markets. There are more talented artists pouring into the market than ever before, but many of us are still looking to traditional markets that were waining a half a century ago.
This is a topic I think we'll be grappling with more and more, especially as the current economic situation forces us all to do whatever it takes to put food on the table. :^(
OK, I'll give it one more shot. Some have the misconception that good draftsmanship is realistically measured perfectly accurate drawing or paintings like the paintings of Thomas Eakins. A drawing can be simplified, edited, stylized, exaggerated and even distorted, and still be well drawn. But, Its a time tested proven theory that learning to draw accurately gives you the skill and ability to communicate your life experiences with more authority and ability... which is the point I was trying to make before. And, drawing and painting accurately doesn't mean your simply copying what a camera can do. I know that's what some people might think, but unfortunately that's another misconception. I'm not saying life's experiences aren't important, however if an illustrator can't draw well, he's diluting his life's experiences in the mix. A surgeon has to learn the skills of performing surgery first, no matter how much life experience he has. Briggs was very clear when he said he needed to learn to draw better in order to find his own point of view.ReplyDelete
Kyle, I hope you really didn't mean that to be an illustrator today, all you need to do is go out and absorb life and then try to illustrate your point of view the best you can... and learning to draw well is not really important? If that were the case, why not just learn the graphic software programs, go take a long trip and absorb the world, and then go into the illustration business? Sure could save a lot of time and sweat learning how to draw well. Absorbing life kinda happens naturally, if ya have any curiosity and interests beyond the front door. Wouldn't it be nice to absorb the skills of being a superb illustrator as easily as it is to absorb life.
Tom Watson
leif: perfect timing in the sense that i'm actively trying to figure out similar things, so when he says "It was only when I began to look at the idea from my own point of view that I started to get any place" it hits the spot. a lot of the fawcett lines, too (still waiting for the book to arrive =)ReplyDelete
of course i can't begin to compare myself with briggs, but i think these things trouble everyone who is even remotely serious about drawing.
traven: never thought about economy actually- i still live in the belief that there's always work for someone who can draw (now only need to learn). especially since most of my income comes from storyboards and other marketing things. in any case i would consider myself a failure if i didn't try to do my best at it, regardless of the economy.
some great comments here!
- Kyle7:03 PM
Tom, if you say the wordsReplyDelete
"Draw, draw, draw...draw all the time",But what you really mean is practice your craft ie drawing, painting, composition, and design then I wouldnt disagree.
The flavor of your words suggested to me a somewhat narrow approach to being an illustrator in that drawing is the catch all solution to a successful career.
At the end of the day a great idea averagely rendered will take you further than a mediocre idea beautifully rendered.And that is my experience of looking at magazine and book illustration over the last 15 years.
I hope you see what I mean.
most of these guys emphasized the thinking part too- gotta have the technique, and the discipline, but when you have those 'figured out', most of the time you spend as much time thinking as you do pushing the pencil, or more...ReplyDelete
or did i get it wrong?
Tonci; Further to your comment earlie, I'm so glad to read that - its exactly how I felt upon first reading this article I've excerpted ( and also the earlier Fawcett 'On Drawing' excerpt) - as though they were speaking directly to me.ReplyDelete
Frankly, I felt a little ashamed, as though confronted by a reality I was hoping to ignore. I've been at it for twenty years and in the back of my mind I'm always thinking, "you know, you could push yourself to improve... take that evening life drawing course... do some sketching instead of vegging out in front of the tv..."
Ultimately, who knows if these articles will be the catalyst that moves me, you or anyone else who has read them to do what we know we ought to do... but presenting them and giving them consideration is at least a step in the right direction.
I very much appreciate you speaking up - its comforting to know I'm not alone in feeling this way about my own work :^)
i consider myself extremely lucky, having found this blog at this point in my life- could've been ten more years before i even heard about guys like briggs, and ten more before i'd find as many pictures. these articles and scans are priceless. when sickles was young he learned in a library- one can certainly find the same thing here. you get to see what can be done and learn about people who did it (and how) and also you often get a swift kick in the butt- so you can get off it and go and try to attain 1/18th of the skill these guys had...ReplyDelete
but yeah, thanks! ;)
Kyle, I think generally speaking, we are probably on the same page. I view drawing, design, composition, etc., as part of the process of rendering... not separate functions. 50 years ago, my first illustration teacher told us that if we learned to draw well, we would always find work in illustration... and I don't think that has changed. For 40 years, I could always find assignments that needed my ability to draw. And, I have also seen good ideas get shot down because they were poorly or unconvincingly rendered.ReplyDelete
It has been my experience that personal point of view and life experiences will be different for every illustrator, as it was for Briggs. Briggs was still a relatively young guy, and probably still impressionable when he questioned his ability as an illustrator. Your comment about a great idea averagely rendered is more important than a mediocre idea beautifully rendered may be correct today, but what little illustration I see in today's advertising, TV and magazines, are neither beautifully rendered nor "great" ideas. Also, there was a time when even an "averagely" rendered illustration was not a bad rendering, and great ideas came from those that could also render beautifully... like Briggs or Al Parker. So I don't think we can really separate the two, at least not during the mid century.
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And FWIW, these are our Fathers too, you know.
Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
...it's probably a trend.Our kids are eating refined foods, with all kinds of calories.They sit in school, they sit in the bus, they sit and do homework (hopefully), they sit in front of the TV, and they sit while playing on the computer or PlayStation, etc.They don't even have to go outside to talk the the neighbor's kids, because they sit and text them on their phones.I don't think this is a strictly Pittsburgh phenomena...I think it's the wave of the future, unless something gets done...and quickly.
Pretty soon the military will not to have a pre-boot camp boot camp for every branch (you could just throw 'em all together really), where the people who don't meet educational requirements can be taught the needed info to get a GED (and then in their tour of duty get 15 college credits so they can re-enlist), and train the overweight people so that they can go to boot camp and not pass out every five minutes.
Oh no. They can't go off to the military? What a shame.
Oh no. They can't go off to the military? What a shame.
It is when we actually need them.
Let's not forget that God has glorified a number of His saints who have served in their militaries and St John the Baptist never condemned military service, but gave instructions on how to faithfully serve God while in the military.
I must admit that the recruiter that tried to get me to join after our class took the asvab test seemed rather schisty.
There has never been a time in the past 250 years when the American military has been needed (at least not in cases in which it has actually acted).
What is this about John the Baptist?
Nor am I condemning military service in general, nor was that implied by my post. What was really implied by my post was American military service, and that is precisely what I was intending.
Quote from: deusveritasest on May 14, 2011, 08:13:03 PMThere has never been a time in the past 250 years when the American military has been needed (at least not in cases in which it has actually acted).American revolution, Franco-American War, War of 1812, Mexican-American war, the marines that provided security for the Pony Express, WWII, the rescue of medical students on Grenada, and the fact that providing no defense at all is the same as asking to be attacked and oppressed by foreign powers. You could argue about the other wars and conflicts in which we were engaged, but these were all undeniably for the good of our country.QuoteWhat is this about John the Baptist?Luke 3:14And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.The word "do violence" refers to needlessly harassing and intimidating people, not any actions that might necesssarily be required in the line of service. QuoteNor am I condemning military service in general, nor was that implied by my post. What was really implied by my post was American military service, and that is precisely what I was intending.One's agreement or disagreement with the motives of our politicians doesn't change the need for our nation to provide for it's defense.
why not move this discussion to the private politics forum?
Quote from: trevor72694 on May 14, 2011, 08:49:45 PMwhy not move this discussion to the private politics forum?If the discussion gets so out of hand that it can't be had in public, then I'm probably better off not following it into the private forum. Either way, I've made my point. I'm not interested in arguing over american politics, simply stating that if there was something wrong with military service in any country, we wouldn't have saints who served under anti-Christian governments like the Roman Empire.
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Bakewell Tartelettes
The June Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict and Annemarie of Ambrosia and Nectar. They chose a Traditional (UK) Bakewell Tart… er… pudding that was inspired by a rich baking history dating back to the 1800's in England.
When I first read about this month's challenge, I didn't really know what to expect. I had never tasted a Bakewell tart, and am not usually a fan of jam-based desserts. However, I was enthusiastic at the prospect of trying something new and got a glass jar of Italian strawberry jam (which turned out to be extraordinary)to get my imagination going. I actually ended up sticking to the recipe pretty closely, and loved using the jam as a base layer.
Growing up eating "galette des rois" every year, I knew that any chance to make a frangipane should be taken. I love the taste of this flavorful ground almond mixture, and it's so easy to make. They were a lovely addition to the strawberry jam. I opted for making small tartelettes, which were fun to fill and watch puff up in the oven. The result were adorable little baked treats, albeit a little sweet for my taste.
32 comments:
- Elissa said...
Your little tarts are beautiful. The frangipane looks so soft and cakey, mmm! I'm sure it only got better with that strawberry jam.
- June 27, 2009 at 1:41 PM
- Rose at The Bite Me Kitchen said...
oOOH yours are so tiny & bite-sized! Beautifully done! Those look delicious!
- June 27, 2009 at 2:07 PM
- Anula said...
Lovely little tarts. They look sooo yummy! I'm sure they were delicious :) Cheers.
- June 27, 2009 at 2:15 PM
- Basht said...
those are sooo cute!
- June 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Engineer Baker said...
Wow, those are definitely adorably bite-sized! Sorry it was too sweet for you, but still - a wonderful job!
- June 27, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Your tartelettes are perfection, like little macarons! Hmm..a frangipane filled macaron would be kind of neat. Regardless, love the beautiful photos as usual, and I would also love a couple of those baby Bakewell bites. Very well done!
- June 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- La Table De Nana said...
I love frangipane..especially with jam..I would love to try and make these soon.They look lovely and delicious.
- June 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- Dragon said...
I love your little tarts! Great job on this month's challenge.
- June 27, 2009 at 3:24 PM
- Sara said...
Adorable! I love the mini tarts...sounds really delicious! :)
- June 27, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- tara said...
Those are adorable, with a gorgeous texture. Well done. I have been trying to get in contact with you, as you were the winner of my Martha Stewart Cupcakes contest - please email me at tara [at] sevenspoons [dot] net as soon as possible. Congratulations!
- June 27, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Junglefrog said...
I love the size of your tiny tarts! How did you make them? I mean in which form did you bake them? Muffin tins?
- June 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM
- Y said...
Those are so cute! I love your bite-sized versions of the Bakewell.
- June 27, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Christina said...
Such adorable little tarts! I love it!
- June 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM
- anna said...
Ooh, they look like little muffins! Yum!
- June 28, 2009 at 12:47 AM
- Stacy said...
Oh they look so tiny, perfect and totally yummy!!! I feel like I have seen a million of these and there have only been two (those two including yours of course!), that look delicious enough to give it a try!!! I am putting these on my "to do- a.k.a. to bake list" for this week! Thanks for sharing and beautifully done!
- June 28, 2009 at 1:16 AM
- Lauren said...
super cute cupcake looking tarts!
- June 28, 2009 at 2:43 AM
- Coco Bean said...
I didn't know that galette des rois were made with frangipane. You learn something new every day. I love the tartelettes, they look so adorable!
Oh, and yes, we will be around in two weeks. I am finally done school and will be sitting around till I find a decent job. Just let us know when you get back in. Have a great trip!
- June 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- Beryl said...
Beautiful little tartlettes. What did you bake them in?
- June 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- lisa (dandysugar said...
I love the beautiful simplicity of your tartlets. Your frangipane looks so soft and cake-like. They look wonderful.
- June 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM
- Isolated Foodie said...
They're such sweet little tarts! I love how so many people played with the shape and size of these.
- June 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
THey look like little cupcakes!
- June 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM
- sweetakery said...
your little so cutee!! they look so yumm! =) cheers
- June 29, 2009 at 10:40 AM
- The Food Librarian said...
These are so cute! Perfect little bite size pieces.
- June 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Hilary said...
Your version is adorable!
- June 29, 2009 at 1:47 PM
- Ingrid said...
Your tarts, er puddings look great and I love the size you chose to make them.
- June 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM
- nick said...
These look really good, though I must admit, after reading your post I kinda want a galette des rois.
- June 29, 2009 at 4:06 PM
- creampuff said...
I wish I had made minis! They look so cute!
- June 29, 2009 at 8:40 PM
- ice tea: sugar high said...
WOW! your photo is amazing. Love the box. Those tarts are so adorable.
- June 29, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Justin said...
what a beautiful photo
- June 30, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- Kevin said...
Those tarts look so light and fluffy and good. Nice photo!
- July 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- Cakespy said...
Gosh, I thought I had already left a comment to say how gorgeous these looked, but I just came back and realized I must not have! Kudos on these gorgeous looking little tartelettes. They look beautiful and delicious!
- July 8, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Allie said...
Wow, great picture of those tarts - they look great!
- September 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM


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This forum focuses on the debt crisis in Greece (the 2010 EU/IMF "bailout" and subsequent austerity measures), as well as the various challenges that have been posed to the violence of neoliberal "adjustment." The brief articles presented here have been solicited from observer-participants in the debates and protests, but also in the intimacies and banalities, defining everyday life in crisis Greece. The outlines of the crisis are widely known. Indeed, Greek society and its travails have never before been so visible to the global media eye. The aim of this forum is not so much to fill in this familiar outline of crisis with ethnographic detail as to trouble its parameters.
The first section Debt, Responsibility and "Reform" treats debt not as a statistical fact, but anthropologically as a complex discourse on morality, responsibility, obligation and reciprocity. Against the breathless synchronicity of "breaking news" and (endless) speculation on the denouement of the crisis, these pieces insist on historicizing and globalizing. Piercing the blatant Orientalist tropes dominating international and often domestic reporting, they plumb the social, political and economic forces that have led to the current impasse, but also the political efficacy of "crisis" itself in legitimating the agenda of "structural reform."
The second section Precarity and Protest centers on the escalating violence of the crisis and the emergent politics of protest. The December 2008 revolt, which first galvanized world media attention on Greece, returns again and again in the analyses as a formative moment, which brought to the fore the malaise and anger of Greek youth (the "generation of 700…600…500 Euro…") and inaugurated new forms of political action now prominent in the movement of Greek indignants (aganaktismenoi) that began in May 2011 (i.e., networking through social media, a transcending of established party politics), while also bringing into play a new grammar of political violence in unpredictable development today. These texts shed light on the production and normalization of an ever growing number of vulnerable, dispossessed and disposable subjects, but also on stunning moments of courageous confrontation with structures of subjugation and exploitation organized along axes of gender, class, age, race and ethnic hierarchy.
The final section Representations and Reverberations traverses the aforementioned subjects with an emphasis on the mediation of the crisis: the crisis as media event, citizen journalism, new modes of networking through social media, form-breaking film and theater. The texts seek to situate Greek experience in relation to the global reverberation of protest, riot, revolt and death from the Arab Spring and Spanish Indignados to the UK riots and Occupy Wall Street.
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We currently have existing clients in both the construction industry as well as the medical community...with plans to branch out into other areas as well. This will be an opportunity for the winning designer to "tweak" the original design to incorporate the new markets as we launch each site.
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HPP: The Technology Taking Cold-Pressed Juice To The Grocery Store
You've probably had a conversation about cold-pressed juice this year. We're not exaggerating when we say that everyone's talking about it! A growing number of people head to a growing number of juice bars and specialty shops to get their daily fix, a practice that's both expensive and inconvenient. Cold pressing—chopping then crushing produce without the use of heat—is de rigueur because it yields incredibly nutritious, natural, and delicious juice. The only problem? Unpasteurized juice without preservatives only lasts 3 to 5 days, a crippling shelf life. Luckily brands have found an alternative method to make these healthy elixirs last a full month, which means we're beginning to see cold-pressed juices pop up at grocery stores and markets!
HPP stands for 'high pressure pascalization or processing,' and it's replacing pasteurization and preservatives as the way to take a food product to the masses. Brainstormed in the late 1700s by French scientist Blaise Pascal, HPP has been used for jelly, salad dressing, shellfish, and guacamole as early as the 1990s. Luckily, more brands are jumping on the bandwagon Blue Print kicked off in 2012 when they started putting their juice through HPP. More brands using HPP means the more options you have at the store. Now that juice is having a moment, companies like Harmless Harvest, Evolution Juice (purchased by Starbucks in late 2011) and newcomer Suja are using HPP technology.
"HPP effectively kills pathogens and extends the shelf life the way flash pasteurization aims to, but without the harmful effects of heat on the nutritional value," Annie Lawless, co-founder of Suja, says. "We've done extensive research on the before and after nutritional values of juice that has been HPP'd and there is little to no change in the nutritional value." Whole Foods is on board: you can now get Suja's single bottles and boxed cleanses in every single store, something unheard of a few years ago.
But HPP packs more than nutritional benefits. Compare a fresh-cracked coconut to a bottle of coconut water and you'll be shocked at the taste difference. Harmless Harvest is the first brand to marry the two. "The flavor of our coconut water is left unchanged during HPP," co-founder Douglas Riboud says. Why so different? "Imagine boiling a bottle of red wine: that's similar to traditional pasteurization. Keep cooking it and once the red wine is reduced to a syrup add water back into it. That's wine from concentrate." (Most coconut waters you buy in the store are from concentrate.) You don't have to be a food scientist to realize traditional pasteurization changes things.
So how does it work? After the juice is bottled and sealed the bottles are placed in a chamber of cold water. A high level of pressure is applied for a few seconds, and then they're removed, dried off, and shipped out. So why isn't everyone doing this? A brand either has to buy a HPP machine—Suja spent 1.2 million on theirs—or take their product to a facility that has a machine. "The process is more labor and time intensive than traditional methods," Riboud says. "The food safety standards needed are much higher because it's still a raw product."
Like all technology, that supply and demand we mentioned above will eventually drive down prices, allowing more brands to take advantage of the process. At least we hope so. "When we began this project, heating coconut water was assumed to be the only way it could be sold on a large scale," Riboud says. "But the way things have always been done in the past is not necessarily the way things should be done." Amen!


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The Kinks' "Come Dancing" (1982) is a bouncy, catchy, almost silly little song with one of the saddest back-stories I've ever heard.
Ray Davies, the leader and songwriter of the Kinks, grew up in a large and eccentric working-class family in north London. He was the seventh of eight children, a somewhat shy and easily frightened child whose chief comforter was his sister Rene, who was eighteen years older than him. (Davies spells her name that way, without an accent or a second "e.") During the Second World War, when Ray was just an infant, Rene had fallen in love with a Canadian soldier posted in London, married him, and moved to Canada.
But their marriage was unhappy. Rene's husband drank heavily and sometimes beat her; they argued constantly, and to escape him she would frequently return to the family home in Muswell Hill for extended stays, at first alone, later with her son. Like all of the Davieses she was musical, and enjoyed playing show tunes on the piano; the family tended to sing and play its way through hard times, of which they had plenty.
Rene was making one of her visits home when her kid brother turned thirteen, which she believed to be a special birthday deserving of a special present: she bought him a Spanish guitar he had been coveting for some time. She sat at the piano and they played a song together.
That evening, Rene decided to go dancing with friends at the Lyceum Ballroom in the West End. This was not, in the opinion of her doctor or her mother, a good idea: Rene had had rheumatic fever as a child, and it had weakened her heart. But, as Ray would write later in his autobiography, she had always loved to dance, and her life was hard and her violent husband very far away; she was not inclined to deny herself a cherished pleasure. On the dance floor of the Lyceum that evening Rene collapsed and died, as the big band played a tune from Oklahoma!
Only a quarter-century later did Ray Davies write the lively song that celebrated his sister's love of dancing: a song that gave her a longer, and happier, life than had been her actual lot. The song may not be your cup of tea — it's not quite mine — but ever since I learned what lies behind it, it has touched me.
Come dancing,
Come on sister, have yourself a ball,
Dont be afraid to come dancing,
Its only natural.
Come dancing,
Just like the Palais on a Saturday,
And all her friends will come dancing
Where the big bands used to play.


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In the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus once again presents a new and radical way of thinking to His disciples.
It is quite a stark contrast to what His disciples were used to.
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, love your enemies" (Mt 5:38-39,43-44).
In 1994, Immaculée Ilibagiza was a 22-year-old Catholic college student when violence erupted in her homeland of Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, more than 1 million Rwanda Tutsis were killed by Hutu mobs in a time of national upheaval. Among them were Immaculée's mother and father and two of her beloved brothers. Only one of her brothers would survive. He was out of the country studying abroad.
Today, Immaculée is a much sought-after speaker on the topic of forgiveness and mercy. Her book, "Left to Tell" (Hay House, 2006), details her survival and the aftermath of the Rwanda genocide. Her message of mercy and forgiveness is inspiring.
Once the bloody struggle ended, she made a decision to forgive her enemies.
She went to the prison and met the leader of the gang who killed her mother and one of her brothers. As she tells the story, she came face to face with Felicien. She recalled that he had been a successful Hutu businessman known for his expensive suits and impeccable manners. She had, in fact, grown up and played with his children. Now, here he was sobbing. His clothes were hanging like rags from his emaciated body. Shamed, he could barely make eye contact with her.
"I wept at the sight of his suffering," Immaculée said. "He was now the victim of his victims, destined to live in torment and regret." She reached out and touched his hands and said, "I forgive you." His Tutsi jailer was furious at this, hoping that she would spit on the man. "Why did you forgive him?" he demanded. "Forgiveness is all I have to offer," Immaculée responded.
Even Immaculée admits that her decision to forgive her enemies wasn't easy. It went against her deepest inclinations. She was full of hatred toward her family's killers. There was no way she could even begin to pray for them, much less love them.
However, an epiphany came one day when the words of the Our Father, which she had prayed ever since she was a little girl, hit her: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."
She realized that hating the killers was preventing her from trusting God.
"Their minds had been infected with the evil that had spread across the country, but their souls weren't evil," Immaculée writes. "Despite their atrocities, they were children of God. I knew that I couldn't ask God to love me if I were unwilling to love His children."
At that moment, she prayed for the killers, that their sins be forgiven, and that they recognize the horrific error of their ways before their time on earth expired. She held onto her father's rosary beads and again heard God's voice: "Forgive them; they know not what they do."
Immaculée's story of love and forgiveness for her enemy is quite heroic. By God's grace, most of us will not be faced with such horror. We will not have to deal with a killer on such a personal, intimate level.
In fact, some of us probably think we have no enemies. Perhaps we get along with everyone. On the other hand, there are quite a few of us who could probably name a number of co-workers, family members or friends who seem to hate us. Maybe we have offended them, and apologized, but they have refused to accept our apology. Or it could be they are jealous of us or simply do not like us for some incomprehensible reason or another.
It is one thing to forgive them, and to keep them far away from your day-to-day existence. But Jesus is asking us to "love" them? Impossible?!?
It must be noted that in the New Testament Greek, there are three words used for love. There is eros, which connotes a romantic or spousal love. There is philios, the love between two friends. However, what Jesus uses in Matthew's passage about loving your enemies is agape. This is the type of love that wills the good of another. It is a form of love that doesn't keep score or allow bitterness to enter into our hearts. It is a call to live without resentments.
So, where do we start to agape our enemy? How about at the foot of the cross, where we here Our Lord say, "Father, forgive them, they know not what they do" (Lk 23:34). By doing that over and over again we can allow the Lord to work on us and walk with us down the road of love and forgiveness.
There will be times in our lives in which we need to realize there are those who will cross our paths and simply dislike us. No matter how much we try to have them like us, nothing changes. We cannot control whether an enemy is open to dialogue or reconciliation. But we can certainly turn the struggle over to the Lord on the cross.
Also, to give up revenge or, as Jesus puts it, "turn the other cheek" is a necessary practice. Difficult as it may be we don't have to fight back when a fight is taking shape. We can instead acknowledge our anger and frustrations, but do not need to give in to those emotions. St. Paulinus of Nola (354-431) said that to love one's enemy is a "heavenly revenge."
Finally, prayer for our enemies is paramount. Pray for the grace to love your enemy as God loves them. Being unforgiving and holding grudges keeps our anger alive and squelches that divine love we are called to offer. Lack of forgiveness keeps us trapped in a scorekeeping mentality and stuck in a cycle of revenge. Prayer turns the whole situation over to God, who certainly knows what He is doing.
Is it easy to love our enemy? No. At the same time it is not impossible, for nothing is impossible with God (see Lk 1:37). Instead, to love our enemy is a real opportunity to live the Gospel day in and day out as Christ has taught us.
Eddie O'Neill is a freelance writer for the Catholic press. He and his family live in Rolla, Mo.
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What follows was initially part of the Athenaeum's recent post on bringing wandering monsters into the fourth-edition (4e) Dungeons & Dragons game; the discussion of choosing, preparing and defending a campsite to defend against overnight random encounters quickly became large enough to warrant its own posting, published below.
Heroes in the D&D game spend a great deal of time traveling through dangerous regions, and battles during such journeys are common. Most published fourth edition (4e) products have such battles taking place in broad daylight, when the heroes are rested with full equipment; players naturally prefer (and most 4e designers seem to be willing to provide) such circumstances, as they maximize their characters' offensive and defensive capacities. But would all enemies choose to engage a powerful band of heroes in this fashion?
Excepting villains who abide by a code of honor requiring them to avoid attacking from advantage, most villains would answer no to that question. Would it not be more effective, and far less risky, to follow a group of heroes until they stop traveling and camp for the night? At that time, the heroes are literally stripped of much of their protection, as it is impossible to have any rejuvenating rest while wearing armor; most of them will likely be asleep; and villainous forces can ambush the comparably vulnerable heroes from cover of darkness.


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by Christian W. Peck
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Two of the Niagara County Legislature's top officials announced Monday that they would oppose the nomination of Democrat Elections Commissioner Nancy L. Smith at Tuesday's meeting of the Niagara County Legislature following Smith's appearance before a Legislature committee last week.
Majority Leader Rick Updegrove, R-Lockport, and Community Safety and Security Committee Chairman Paul B. Wojtaszek, R-North Tonawanda, who also serves as deputy majority leader in the Legislature's 12-member Republican Conference, said they would vote "no" on Smith's nomination and continue to probe the termination of a Niagara County Board of Elections employee. Wojtaszek cited inconsistencies between statements by Smith during a hearing conducted by the Legislature's administration committee and written statements provided to County Human Resources Director Peter P. Lopes prior to that hearing as proof that Smith was not truthful in her responses to legislators' questions.
Wojtaszek had signaled a desire to move forward with Smith's nomination - which has been stalled by questions surrounding her Oct. 2 termination of Board of Elections employee Lawrence V. Soos after he publicly opposed Democratic Party Chairman Nick Forster at that party's organizational meeting the night before - following Smith's appearance before the administration committee. However, a subsequent review of materials supplied to the county's Human Resources Department changed Wojtaszek's outlook.
"The Legislature sought clarification from Mrs. Smith about both her reason for firing Mr. Soos and what reasons she had provided to the Human Resources Department at the time of Mr. Soos's termination," Wojtaszek said. "Mrs. Smith had also provided (Lopes) a detailed written statement citing specific reasons for Mr. Soos's termination after Mr. Soos filed for unemployment benefits - and the reasons cited at that time in writing were explicitly political and not related to his job performance."
Wojtaszek said he only learned after that Legislature hearing that Smith had provided a different explanation to county lawmakers than was provided to Human Resources.
"I wanted to give Nancy Smith the benefit of the doubt in this matter," Wojtaszek said. "At the hearing, she stated that her decision to terminate Mr. Soos was in no way influenced by his actions at the Democratic Party organizational meeting. However, a subsequent review of her signed statement on file at Human Resources revealed the explanation she offered at the administration committee hearing was diametrically opposed to her earlier written statements. In one instance or the other, Mrs. Smith was not truthful."
Updegrove and Wojtaszek said they anticipate several of their colleagues will join them in opposing Smith's nomination Tuesday.
"The public needs to be able to trust that county government makes personnel decisions based on merit and facts, not politics and payback," Updegrove said. "We're still seeking the truth in this matter."


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April 29, 2006
The Bisons led throughout the first eight innings of game one, but for the second night in a row, the ninth inning was the deciding factor.
Lipscomb got on the board in the first after Allen Bolden scored on a throwing error by the pitcher.
The Bisons added to their lead with three more runs in the third. Bolden led off the inning with a single to left. The next batter, Tadd Brewer, singled on a hit and run, advancing Bolden to third. After Brewer stole second, Ryan Mitchell singled to drive in both runs. The third run of the inning scored on an RBI single by Ryan Price.
The Bulldogs pulled to within one with a run in the fourth and two more in the fifth.
The Bisons responded with two of their own in the bottom of the fifth, highlighted by an RBI single by Whit Reed. The other Bisons' run scored on an error by the Bulldogs' shortstop.
The Bulldogs scored a run in both the seventh and eighth innings to bring them to within one.
Bisons' starter right-hander Josh Smith came out to start the ninth but was removed with runners on first and second. In eight plus innings, Smith gave up seven runs, eight earned, on eight hits. He struck out four.
The Bulldogs scored three runs in the top of the ninth to take an 8-6 lead, their first of the game, and one they would not relinquish.
Despite receiving the loss, Smith pitched very effectively. He left the game with the lead, but both inherited runners scored. With the loss, Smith's record drops to 3-5.
Offensively, the Bisons were led by Brewer (three hits), Mitchell (two hits and two RBI's), and Reed (two hits).
In game two, Bisons' starter Paul Piennette held the Bulldogs scoreless over the first four innings before running into some trouble in the fifth. Freshman Brandon McClurg relieved Piennette with the bases loaded and the Bisons ahead 3-1. In four plus innings of work, Piennette gave up two runs on seven hits.
Mitchell and Reed led the Bisons on offense with three hits each.
David Ayre pitched the final three innings of the Bisons' 5-4 victory, giving up just one hit to record his first save of the season.
McClurg earned the win for the Bisons to improve his record to 3-1.
The Bisons are back in action on May 5, when they travel to Boca Raton, Florida to take on Florida Atlantic.