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Common Ground: The Kinship of Metaphysicians
A syncretic approach to esoteric teachings - the golden threads that connect Pagans, Yogis, Rosicrucians and Masons.
The Triskelion of Impartial Observing
The following practice was developed through my experimentation as a Yogi and meditator. Most mature practitioners, I think, will identify with my experience of working in prescribed ways for many years until I had gained enough "life creds" to begin adapting the techniques to suit my own inner promptings. Those who insist on slavish adherence to rock-ribbed, inflexible traditions may complain that our altering the old ways makes us apostates; but it seems to me that every famous spiritual teacher we can think of was exactly that sort of innovator. If the great religious, philosophical and scientific lights of our civilization had ceaselessly followed the old paradigms without adding some breakthrough insights of their own, we wouldn't be honoring their names today!
Another way of expressing this is, "Make it your own." For example, in order to convincingly portray a character such as Hamlet, whose story everyone knows and whom thousands of great actors have played in the past, today's actor must "make it his own." He must find the core truths about the part which resonate for him. If he is successful, his fresh insight will stimulate thought in others and make it worthwhile for audiences to buy tickets.
The same is true of any significant goal which we wish to achieve in our lives. Until we make it our own, we'll just be photocopying what so many others have already done before us. It's the difference between the beginner practicing scales and the maestro imbuing a concerto with soul. I would like to offer you a little concerto of my devising, with the hope that it may inspire you to create your own unique variation.
One of life's ironies is that to feel compassion for the suffering of others is helpful, but to make a big deal of our own suffering is not. The desire to help others can move us to positive action. But self pity - the maudlin conviction that we have been singled-out for persecution - can freeze us into depression until we can't function at all.
Besides, such a perception is insupportable. Since everything in the world is subject to suffering, how could our suffering be special? Of course it affects us personally - we all understand that - but so do breathing, drinking and eating. Do we consider ourselves unique because our lungs need oxygen and our bodies need fluids and food to stay alive? If not, then why should we feel special just because we're suffering?
This is an exercise in Non Attachment, a Buddhist-inspired meditation practice. Nobody is claiming that it's easy to do; nobody will take "points" off your spiritual report card if you can't manage it! But it's worth the attempt, even if you succeed only partially. It can calm you down and get you balanced; it can help you to attain equanimity. So, what the heck? Give it a try.
This particular technique utilizes a three-point focus. Since we're witches or pagans or heathens, let's use a figure we all know: the curled points of a Triskelion. You can start with any point you like, since each one naturally leads to the next.
Similar to the chanting of Hindu bhajans or following the progression of a syllogism, this process gets you onto a circular ride - a merry-go-round, if you will. But whereas some merry-go-rounds are torture (Stop the world, I want to get off), this circle is soothing and calming. The rhythmic, repetitive quality appeals to the non-verbal centers of the primordial brain. It becomes like the surf pounding on the beach, or the mother's heartbeat comforting the baby in the womb.
In fact, this Eastern practice has close parallels to self-hypnosis training. And to drumming.
One definition of enlightenment is seeing the world as it actually is, while imposing no value judgments or personal preferences on what we see. This is called Impartial Observing ("It is what it is"). Since impartiality helps us to cultivate an attitude of not expecting anything from people or situations, it can lead to Non Attachment.
Here are the three points of this meditation practice:
Impartial Observing (Non Attachment)
Compassion for all Beings connected in the web of Life
Being in your calm Center
Being in your calm Center, it is possible to observe the world impartially, with Non Attachment.
Impartial Observing leads to compassion for all Beings connected in the web of Life (unless, that is, you are a sociopath with damaged brain centers who is incapable of feeling empathy - but then you're probably pretty calm and centered already, and have no need of this practice!)
Compassion for all Beings connected in the web of Life reminds you that you are one of them; so it brings you into your calm Center.
Being in your calm Center, it is possible to observe the world impartially. And so forth.
It really is a circle. May you go 'round many times in peace.
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What would be the best way to create an effect of "keying" someones name into a piece of wood in photoshop? I've used a hard 2px brush with a tan color and it looks good. Just not believeable. What do I need for that "wow" factor... to really make it look legitimate?
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When most of us arrived home with our newly purchased PS3, we couldn't wait to start annihilating aliens in Resistance: Fall of Man or kicking butt kung fu-style in Virtua Fighter 5. Not astrophysicist Gaurav Khanna - he used his to build a supercomputer.
Khanna now owns a total of 16 PS3 consoles, all linked together to provide the same computing power as a 400-node supercomputer. His set up, which he calls a 'gravity grid', is used to simulate the activity of very large black holes for the Physics Department at the University of Massachusetts.
Stacked Sonies: the 'gravity grid' set up
The project is an attempt to estimate the properties of gravity waves generated by the collision of two black holes. Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in space-time that travel at the speed of light. These were theoretically predicted by Einstein's general relativity, but have never been directly observed.
In order to run his simulation data on the consoles, Khanna had to load the PS3s with Linux. What makes the gaming console more effective than high-end computers for complex research algorithms is the Cell chip built by IBM to process high-end gaming functions.
Linux powered
"Linux can turn any system into a general-purpose computer, but for it to work for me I have to run my own code on it for astrophysics applications. The hard part of the job was to make sure my own calculations could run fast on the platform, which meant I had to optimise the written code so it could utilise the new features of the system."
The 16 PS3s haven't been physically modified. They're networked together using an inexpensive Gigabit Ethernet switch.
"Overall, a single PS3 performs better than the highest-end desktops available and compares to as many as 25 nodes of an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer," Khanna noted.
More details from Khanna's project site here.


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When I became Babson's 12th president on July 1, 2008, I knew I was taking the helm of an extraordinary school. I consistently referred to it as a gem among institutions of higher education, and was enormously excited to lead a college that had so much going for it.
Whether presiding over a large institution or launching a new business, entrepreneurial leaders start with the means, or assets, at hand. When I arrived on campus, it was clear that Babson had incredible assets that we would be able to build on and realign during the coming years to differentiate ourselves meaningfully in the marketplace. Working together we developed an intentional strategic agenda with a clear mission and goals—and then we delivered on it. We now can take great pride in our uniqueness and celebrate our status as the only school of its kind.
• No other school has made the world understand that the mindset and tools of entrepreneurial leadership, embodied in Entrepreneurial Thought and Action, are core to creating economic and social value in organizations of all kinds.
• No other school has such extraordinary talent and dedicated faculty, staff, students, governance, and alumni—all committed to Babson's unique living/learning environment, which empowers our students to take action in and out of the classroom.
• No other school has the potential to continue to transform higher education and make an impact on the world in new and pioneering ways that we cannot even imagine today.
While strengthening our unique experiential model, we have extended our reach to campuses in Boston and San Francisco. At the same time, we have implanted our DNA in educational institutions around the world, and they draw on the intellectual and practical capital generated by their partnership with Babson.
I appreciate the many ways the Babson community has worked closely with me to develop and carry out a strategy that has moved the College forward on all fronts. Leading you on this journey has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Of course, great schools never stand still. This spring we named a new president, Kerry Healey, to lead Babson into its centennial in 2019. Under her leadership, the College will advance and build upon our Centennial Commitments, which provide a blueprint for Babson and future graduates to accomplish more than anyone ever dreamed possible at a small college in Wellesley.
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Academic and Technological Literacy
|A quick sample I made
For this lesson, I wanted students to learn what types of websites they should join and what types of websites they should be suspicious of. This may seem simple, but it really is something a lot of them are lost on. So as a class we put together a list. What makes a website good? What makes a website sketchy? We talked about advertisements, domain names, fact checking, finding authors, skimming the terms of use and privacy policies etc. As a final product, students make a flowchart / choose your own adventure story using Inkle Studios.
It was great to see what students focused on. Later in the semester I found students were actually skimming terms of use before agreeing to join a site. That's more than most of my friends and family members do!
Students came in and seats were rearranged in pairs. I discussed the activity in more detail here, but it is a HUGE winner for me. Students peer review one another, they get tons of practice in, and I can monitor the class and make notes of who needs help individually or what class wide mistakes are being made.
World Literature
|A screenshot from a student's video
We didn't do anything fancy (just Windows Movie Maker and screengrabs), but students really enjoyed making a video instead of writing. And the pop culture references made it stick more for them (plus we watched some of the best videos in class reinforcing these ideas).
American Literature
Due to some unfortunate scheduling, my students were on their own for most of Civil Disobedience. I had the chance to read the text with them and annotate, and then I had a series of professional development events to attend. I needed something I could give to them with a sub.
I wanted it to be more than just basic comprehension, so I created a menu like assignment. The assignment covered activities regarding the author, the content, and an extension. Students did a GREAT job with very little guidance from me (I was available via e-mail). The end products were creative, and I am happy to say this is one of the transcendental texts they seemed to understand the most (based on tests). The full assignment is $1 (what a deal!) and includes options like making a comic strip or resume.
So there we go! The four lessons of 2015 that I will definitely keep. Check out the linky here for what other high school and middle teachers think they rocked in 2015 and see you next year!


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.....He went missing for the whole semester. I only saw him in the hallway about twice, cuddling up to the Food Science teacher and smoking on the corner by Security. The last encounter did not go so well, him storming into my room and yelling that I told everyone where he lived. He must've meant the time I picked him up hitchhiking near Kaloli Drive and took him way down through the subdivision to where people squat in their jungle shacks. On the way there, I told him about Oregon and the ash from Mt. Mazama, how unique Oregon archeology really is because of it. He was half listening, sweating and agreed to come to class if I'd reward him with McDonalds coupons. He accomplished this a total of one time; disappearing, invisibly angry, already over it. Over it already. Refusing to work on his job portfolio binder because the page that said references made him so mad.
.....I can't read, she said, reading the story about the little green shark and the Great Red Shark that is the ancestor of the people of the southern part of the island. Yesterday, she showed me her new tattoo. Her brother's names around a heart on her wrist, self-made. Her foster mom is her aunt and she baby sits for all the little kids. She gets to see her mom on the weekends if she stays out of trouble. Nobody can disturb her when she makes a poster. The one about No Drugs with a red slash on top of a pot leaf. Her ex and current girlfriend got in a fight the other day before school in front of H Building.
.....Nobody knew what they were fighting over, she said. Security came after A. and D. had bashed each other around for what was two minutes but seemed like ten.
.....Come on, she said to the two girls, then pacing in a circle. Do you want me to take your whole class, then, the guard asked sarcastically. No, just these two and these other two instigators, she said.
.....A lit firecracker rolled from the door a few minutes later, bursting in a cloud of grey smoke. Hello, could you please send security, someone just threw a firecracker into my room. Could you check the camera in hallway of H Building, upstairs from around 1:30? Alright, everyone back to work.
.....What are you going to teach us, then, Miss? How to talk like you? How to talk about the Mainland? How to be a hippy or a hillbilly? I hate this school and I hate this class. We don't learn shit.
.....Listen very carefully. Pick the answer that is best. Remember, listen very carefully to the following. You will have 40 minutes to complete this test. Look only at your own paper. Do your best and then wait for the next question. Listen and then choose. Your score will be determined by the number of questions you answer correctly. I will repeat a question only once. Please raise your hand to signal that a question needs to be repeated. Mary is waiting by the bank and sees her mother drive by in a car. Mary waves and then picks up her cell phone to call her mother because she and her brother have been there 20 minutes and maybe she didn't see them as she drove past. What happened first?
Susan Kay Anderson: About the Roster Check, from Hawaii Teacher Detective, 28 October 2011


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Psychologies Magazine - Find Your Rhythm
By Nadia Marks | Psychologies Magazine :: October, 2010
"I walked into a room packed with about 40 men and women. I felt clumsy as I tried to follow the choreography, but I also recall the joy, the smiles and the fluidity in my fellow dancers' bodies... Moving to the music I felt joy, and not like I was exercising."
Jillian Edelstein
An exercise class that improves your mood as well as giving you a full-body workout? Nia is a form of dance-meets-aerobics that allows you to let yourself go.
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"INNOVATION is what America has always been about," President Obama remarked in his recent State of the Union address. It's hard to disagree, isn't it? We live in a world dominated by innovative American companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. And even in the face of a recession, Silicon Valley's relentless entrepreneurs have continued to churn out start-up companies with outsize, world-changing ambitions.
But we idealize America's present culture of innovation too much. In fact, our trailblazing digital firms may not be the hothouse environments for creativity we might think. I find myself arriving at these doubts after spending five years looking at the innovative process at Bell Labs, the onetime research and development organization of the country's formerly monopolistic telephone company, AT&T.
Why study Bell Labs? It offers a number of lessons about how our country's technology companies — and our country's longstanding innovative edge — actually came about. Yet Bell Labs also presents a more encompassing and ambitious approach to innovation than what prevails today. Its staff worked on the incremental improvements necessary for a complex national communications network while simultaneously thinking far ahead, toward the most revolutionary inventions imaginable.
Indeed, in the search for innovative models to address seemingly intractable problems like climate change, we would do well to consider Bell Labs' example — an effort that rivals the Apollo program and the Manhattan Project in size, scope and expense. Its mission, and its great triumph, was to connect all of us, and all of our new machines, together.
In his recent letter to potential shareholders of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg noted that one of his firm's mottoes was "move fast and break things." Bell Labs' might just as well have been "move deliberately and build things." This sounds like the quaint pursuit of men who carried around slide rules and went to bed by 10 o'clock. But it was not.
Consider what Bell Labs achieved. For a long stretch of the 20th century, it was the most innovative scientific organization in the world. On any list of its inventions, the most notable is probably the transistor, invented in 1947, which is now the building block of all digital products and contemporary life. These tiny devices can accomplish a multitude of tasks. The most basic is the amplification of an electric signal. But with small bursts of electricity, transistors can be switched on and off, and effectively be made to represent a "bit" of information, which is digitally expressed as a 1 or 0. Billions of transistors now reside on the chips that power our phones and computers.
Bell Labs produced a startling array of other innovations, too. The silicon solar cell, the precursor of all solar-powered devices, was invented there. Two of its researchers were awarded the first patent for a laser, and colleagues built a host of early prototypes. (Every DVD player has a laser, about the size of a grain of rice, akin to the kind invented at Bell Labs.)
Bell Labs created and developed the first communications satellites; the theory and development of digital communications; and the first cellular telephone systems. What's known as the charge-coupled device, or CCD, was created there and now forms the basis for digital photography.
Bell Labs also built the first fiber optic cable systems and subsequently created inventions to enable gigabytes of data to zip around the globe. It was no slouch in programming, either. Its computer scientists developed Unix and C, which form the basis for today's most essential operating systems and computer languages.
And these are just a few of the practical technologies. Some Bell Labs researchers composed papers that significantly extended the boundaries of physics, chemistry, astronomy and mathematics. Other Bell Labs engineers focused on creating extraordinary new processes (rather than new products) for Ma Bell's industrial plants. In fact, "quality control" — the statistical analysis now used around the world as a method to ensure high-quality manufactured products — was first applied by Bell Labs mathematicians.
So how can we explain how one relatively small group of scientists and engineers, working at Bell Labs in New Jersey over a relatively short span of time, came out with such an astonishing cluster of new technologies and ideas? They invented the future, which is what we now happen to call the present. And it was not by chance or serendipity. They knew something. But what?
At Bell Labs, the man most responsible for the culture of creativity was Mervin Kelly. Probably Mr. Kelly's name does not ring a bell. Born in rural Missouri to a working-class family and then educated as a physicist at the University of Chicago, he went on to join the research corps at AT&T. Between 1925 and 1959, Mr. Kelly was employed at Bell Labs, rising from researcher to chairman of the board. In 1950, he traveled around Europe, delivering a presentation that explained to audiences how his laboratory worked.
His fundamental belief was that an "institute of creative technology" like his own needed a "critical mass" of talented people to foster a busy exchange of ideas. But innovation required much more than that. Mr. Kelly was convinced that physical proximity was everything; phone calls alone wouldn't do. Quite intentionally, Bell Labs housed thinkers and doers under one roof. Purposefully mixed together on the transistor project were physicists, metallurgists and electrical engineers; side by side were specialists in theory, experimentation and manufacturing. Like an able concert hall conductor, he sought a harmony, and sometimes a tension, between scientific disciplines; between researchers and developers; and between soloists and groups.
ONE element of his approach was architectural. He personally helped design a building in Murray Hill, N.J., opened in 1941, where everyone would interact with one another. Some of the hallways in the building were designed to be so long that to look down their length was to see the end disappear at a vanishing point. Traveling the hall's length without encountering a number of acquaintances, problems, diversions and ideas was almost impossible. A physicist on his way to lunch in the cafeteria was like a magnet rolling past iron filings.
Another element of the approach was aspirational. Bell Labs was sometimes caricatured as an ivory tower. But it is more aptly described as an ivory tower with a factory downstairs. It was clear to the researchers and engineers there that the ultimate aim of their organization was to transform new knowledge into new things.
Steven Chu, secretary of the Department of Energy, won a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work at Bell Labs in the early 1980s. He once said that working in an environment of applied science like Bell Labs "doesn't destroy a kernel of genius, it focuses the mind." At Bell Labs, even for researchers in pursuit of pure scientific understanding, it was obvious that their work could be used.
Still another method Mr. Kelly used to push ahead was organizational. He set up Bell Labs' satellite facilities in the phone company's manufacturing plants, so as to help transfer all these new ideas into things. But the exchange was supposed to go both ways, with the engineers learning from the plant workers, too. As manufacturing has increasingly moved out of the United States in the past half century, it has likewise taken with it a whole ecosystem of industrial knowledge. But in the past, this knowledge tended to push Bell Labs toward new innovations.
Mr. Kelly believed that freedom was crucial, especially in research. Some of his scientists had so much autonomy that he was mostly unaware of their progress until years after he authorized their work. When he set up the team of researchers to work on what became the transistor, for instance, more than two years passed before the invention occurred. Afterward, when he set up another team to handle the invention's mass manufacture, he dropped the assignment into the lap of an engineer and instructed him to come up with a plan. He told the engineer he was going to Europe in the meantime.
In sum, he trusted people to create. And he trusted them to help one another create. To him, having at Bell Labs a number of scientific exemplars — "the guy who wrote the book," as these standouts were often called, because they had in fact written the definitive book on a subject — was necessary. But so was putting them into the everyday mix. In an era before cubicles, all employees at Bell Labs were instructed to work with their doors open.
Saddled with a difficult problem, a new hire there, an anxious nobody, was regularly directed by a supervisor toward the guy who wrote the book. Some young employees would quake when they were told to ask a question of famous mathematicians like Claude Shannon or legendary physicists like William Shockley. Still, Bell Labs' policy was not to turn them away.
THERE was another element necessary to Mervin Kelly's innovation strategy, an element as crucial, or more crucial even, than all the others. Mr. Kelly talked fast and walked fast; he ran up and down staircases. But he gave his researchers not only freedom but also time. Lots of time — years to pursue what they felt was essential. One might see this as impossible in today's faster, more competitive world. Or one might contend it is irrelevant because Bell Labs (unlike today's technology companies) had the luxury of serving a parent organization that had a large and dependable income ensured by its monopoly status. Nobody had to meet benchmarks to help with quarterly earnings; nobody had to rush a product to market before the competition did.
But what should our pursuit of innovation actually accomplish? By one definition, innovation is an important new product or process, deployed on a large scale and having a significant impact on society and the economy, that can do a job (as Mr. Kelly once put it) "better, or cheaper, or both." Regrettably, we now use the term to describe almost anything. It can describe a smartphone app or a social media tool; or it can describe the transistor or the blueprint for a cellphone system. The differences are immense. One type of innovation creates a handful of jobs and modest revenues; another, the type Mr. Kelly and his colleagues at Bell Labs repeatedly sought, creates millions of jobs and a long-lasting platform for society's wealth and well-being.
The conflation of these different kinds of innovations seems to be leading us toward a belief that small groups of profit-seeking entrepreneurs turning out innovative consumer products are as effective as our innovative forebears. History does not support this belief. The teams at Bell Labs that invented the laser, transistor and solar cell were not seeking profits. They were seeking understanding. Yet in the process they created not only new products but entirely new — and lucrative — industries.
There's no single best way to innovate. Silicon Valley's methods have benefited our country well over the course of several decades. And it would be absurd to return to an era of big monopolies. Today's telecom industries are thriving, and customers likewise have access to a dazzling range of affordable devices and services, which most likely would not have been true had the old phone company remained intact. Though it had custody of the world's most innovative labs, AT&T introduced new products and services slowly, and rarely cheaply. As Time magazine once put it, "Few companies are more conservative; none are more creative."
But to consider the legacy of Bell Labs is to see that we should not mistake small technological steps for huge technological leaps. It also shows us that to always "move fast and break things," as Facebook is apparently doing, or to constantly pursue "a gospel of speed" (as Google has described its philosophy) is not the only way to get where we are going. Perhaps it is not even the best way. Revolutions happen fast but dawn slowly. To a large extent, we're still benefiting from risks that were taken, and research that was financed, more than a half century ago.


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Every once in a while, a musical comes along that restores my faith in the art form. Fun Home, the shattering new musical now playing an extended engagement at The Public Theater, is one of those musicals. I'll elaborate as to why below, but suffice to say, if you haven't already seen Fun Home, you should. And if you have seen Fun Home, you should go again, which is exactly what I did.
Seriously, go get your tickets now. I'll wait.
OK, so you've got your tickets, and now you're back. Cool. Now, here's the thing about Fun Home. It shouldn't be nearly as enjoyable as it is, at least based on the subject matter. It's about a young lesbian who grows up in a funeral home, and whose father, a closeted gay man, commits suicide by stepping in front of a Mack truck. (We learn this at the very top of the show, so it's not really a spoiler.) I mean, talk about your "bad ideas for a musical," right?
Thankfully, librettist Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori have found just the right balance of humor and pathos to bring vivid life to Alison Bechdel's intensely moving graphic novel, also called Fun Home. (The title represents the family's jocular twist on "funeral home.") Kron's book features some slight changes from the graphic novel: while the musical is unequivocal that the father committed suicide, the novel ruminates on this point and never really comes to a resolution.
The production is directed with both subtlety and bite by Sam Gold, and features an outstanding cast of newcomers and New York regulars alike. (More on these folks later.) The show starts with a slow burn, then builds into a shattering climax, culminating in a series of solos at the end for the three main characters: the father, the mother, and Alison (played at three different ages by three separate actresses). Gold includes some marvelously apt touches, including a final graphic taken directly from Bechdel's book that provides the heartfelt piece of punctuation to bring the production to a close.
Fun Home, the book and the musical, is all about character study, and Tesori and Kron provide an abundant assortment of character numbers, which just seem to get richer and deeper as the story progresses. The show begins with a number in which the mother, Helen, played with quiet intensity by the always remarkable Judy Kuhn, feverishly exhorts her three children to get the family's museum-like house in shape for a visit from a woman from a preservation society. Here, we not only learn about Helen's frantic desire to please, we also get a strong sense of the father's sharp, exacting nature. And he's not even on stage. That's dramatic efficiency.
What follows are many rich and flavorful character numbers: the youngest version of Alison sings touchingly about a butch delivery woman - and her fascinating ring of keys - who has just entered the diner where Alison and her father are eating. The middle Alison has a wonderfully funny solo about having sex for the first time while she's away at college, proclaiming, "I'm changing my major to 'Sex with Joan.'" And the score, as well as the show, just keeps getting better.
In fact the show ends with a trio of numbers that almost seem like an embarrassment of riches. The oldest Alison gets her own thrilling set piece during a car ride with her reticent father. The father, played with an almost nerve-wracking sense of palpable conflict by Michael Cerveris, ends the show with nervous breakdown of a song in which the new house that he's restoring becomes a heartrending metaphor for his shattered life. Tesori includes some achingly deft uses of leitmotif here, in which the father picks up some of the very same observations that the middle Alison employs during her sex-with-Joan song, but turns her empowering sense of discovery into a nightmare of fragmented regrets.
But my favorite moment of the show, the one that knocked the wind out of me both times I saw it, came when Helen, the mother, is sitting at the kitchen table talking to her daughter (middle Alison), telling Alison that she's known about the father's affairs with men all along. "I don't know how you did it," Alison says. At which point the mother starts into a number that is so raw, so emotionally honest, and ultimately so moving that I can quite easily rank it among my favorite moments in a lifetime of theater. Seriously. Tesori again employs leitmotif to stunning effect, this time quoting the opening number -- "Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue." The phrase becomes here an ironic rumination, and at the end of the song a discordant crash of loss and resignation.
OK, now, one final note, on a personal level. I have a special connection to the subject matter here, partly because I grew up in the 1970s, as Bechdel did, and many of her cultural signposts -- The Partridge Family, The Jackson Five, "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" -- brought smiles of wistful nostalgia to my face. Also, I grew up in a funeral home. No, really, I did. Like Bechdel, I grew up playing around the caskets, helping my father arrange the flowers, even occasionally helping him with "removals," a euphemistic term for picking up and transporting a body to a funeral home. Fun Home features a scene in which young Alison is called into the embalming room by her father so that she can hand him a pair of scissors from a tray that he is unable to reach. Her sense of both fascination and revulsion brought back a flood of memories that added to the already rich tapestry Fun Home represents.
Clearly, you don't have to have grown up in a funeral home to derive intense pleasure from Fun Home. (But, hey, all the better if you did.) You just need an open mind and a desire to experience what, in my humble opinion, is the best damn musical to hit New York City in 2013. Hands down.


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World UFO sightings January 2013 [ part 1 of 2]
Posted by dandare on January 4, 2013
Many of the sightings reported are sensationalized, with usually a lot of information missing.
Please keep this in mind as you view these postings from the local and national press.
I'm afraid many also fail to follow-up on their initial leads, and many reports just remain forgotten.
Some incidents could be UFO balloons (please see: https://dandare.wordpress.com/2007/05/19/ufo-balloons-what-are-they/ for more details, from a previous article).
There are also many other IFOs ( Identified Flying Objects they could be as well).
However, as i have said before, i am not sure what value they are to any UFO research.
Also for real-time UFO map from MUFON see here
Please be patient whilst i catch up on information/links/articles…. thank you.
UFO sighting Near Area 51: Bright Spherical object spotted, reported [photo] (au.ibtimes.com)
" "Behind the mountains is Area 51 and on this particular day there had been no aircraft activity out of Nellis AFB or Groom Lake. The sun was behind the person who took this picture and you can clearly see this from the shadows on the ground in the picture," the report says.
In an odd move, the unnamed source refuses to name his "contact," but a name has been stamped on the image.
"The contact had forgotten this image until he recently went through some old SD memory cards and came across it just before Christmas. He contacted me immediately and we cannot find any conventional explanation for this sphere" " [extract from article].
US and New Zealand secretly tested 'tsunami bombs' designed to trigger tidal waves and destroy coastal cities (Daily Mail)
" Details of the shadowy project are included in Mr Waru's new book Secrets and Treasures, which also incorporates other bizarre findings from his trawl through New Zealand's national archives.
As well as Project Seal, Mr Waru discovered Defence Department records detailing thousands of UFO sightings.
Members of the public, military personnel and pilots were among those who reported seeing moving lights in the skies over New Zealand " [extract from article].
UFOs over Jersey? Hamilton's 'Dr UFO' has followed the Paranormal for over 50 years (newjerseynewsroom.com)
" Pat Marcattilio of Hamilton, New Jersey, saw his first UFO in Trenton in 1963. The encounter left quite an impression on the man who has come to be known as Dr. UFO.
Marcattilio has studied astronomy since 1955 when he was in seventh grade. Now he is president and founder of the New Jersey/Pennsylvania UFO Paranormal Study Group" [extract from article].
UFOs spotted over Axminster in Devon (this is exeter)
Glowing orbs: UFOs or Chinese Lanterns (IOL News)
" Pretoria – The glowing orange orbs reportedly spotted over Centurion may have been Chinese lanterns launched to celebrate New Year' Eve.
Pretoria News received a number of reports of UFOs but two women have come forward to claim responsibility for the phenomenon.
Driekie Van Wyk and Clare Le Roux, who were part of a group of people who launched these Chinese lanterns at midnight on New Year's Eve, said the lanterns they launched glowed in orange, while others had a bluish tint.
But, said Van Wyk, they were not the only ones to have the idea; and she had seen other lanterns also being launched in the area " [extract from article].
UFO spotted in sky above Cardwell, Australia, by world's biggest skeptic (International Business Times) -all similar sighting reports will have the ** symbol .
" His sighting was confirmed by fellow Cardwell residents Phil and Helen Mulley. Mr Mulley said: "The lights were bright orange and there was no sound whatsoever. The first night there was just one light and it was very bright.
"We thought it was a chopper coming up the channel. It was travelling at about 45 degrees to the horizon.
"We watched it for a few minutes and then it disappeared in cloud. The next night my sister rang me and said to look outside. I went and looked and there were two lights. We watched them for a while until they disappeared in cloud " [extract from article].
Axminster UFO mystery (Midweek Herald24)
" Pensioner Ray Johnson claims to have photographic evidence of their presence – and says they often come in large numbers.
"I'd rather people called me a crackpot than ignored it," he told The Herald.
The former council parks police officer says he first spotted the UFOs from the garden of his home at St George's Avenue, Millwey Rise, about a year ago.
Since then he has kept a detailed log of his sightings, some of which have been corroborated by his daughter, Alison " [extract from article].
UFO digest have a newsletter out… you can read it here .
UFO Explosion In Space recorded by Californian Stargazer Eliijah Prychodzko (Huffington Post)
" The amateur stargazer is heard on the video saying, "Oh, my God, it blew up. Something just blew up."
Prychodzko contacted and gave his video to Cody Stark of CBS 13's "Good Day Sacramento" program.
"It's his camera phone shot through a telescope lens, so we zoomed in and slowed it down. It certainly looks suspiciously like an explosion," Stark said on the news report.
Stark then sent the video to Stephen P. Maran, author of Astronomy For Dummies " [extract from article].
The video can be seen below
UFO of flying garbage bags? (ABC online)
" "I suspect we're not dealing with a UFO in the sense of something of an alien nature," he says.
"Orange lights are often connected with people making hot air balloons out of garbage bags.
"They inflate them with fire starters and they're quite impressive and can be assumed to be something of an intelligent nature."
Mr Chalker says "hundreds and hundreds" of cases exist of glowing garbage bags being reported as something suspicious " [extract from article].
The truth is out there? (smh.com.au) **
" "We receive on average about 100 sightings per year in Queensland, during the '90s, we were a lot busier, we used to get between 500 and 800 per year," the Jindalee resident said.
"But there are more avenues now for people to report their experiences."
There have been at least two reports in the northern Queensland of Cardwell, about 165 kilometres north of Townsville, of mysterious lights flying in the evening sky.
The lights were seen at least two months ago, but witnesses have just come forward " [extract from article].
An article on the same sightings can be seen here by gather.com ** (including video).Article written on 3rd January.
Triangle UFO over California Raises interesting Questions (gather.com)
" It would be helpful if there were some video or photographs, because all you have is this fellow's description. He said the craft appeared around dusk above the beach on Dec. 30, and it was triangular in shape. The eyewitness also noted the anomalous object was soundless, so that would rule out some type of conventional aircraft. There's no chance this was a weather balloon, because it was moving too fast " [extract from article].
The Mantell UFO incident (Legacy.com)
" More than 65 years after Roswell became the top location in UFOlogy, believers in UFOs have come to be seen as a little… kooky. We joke about probes and little green men, brushing off stories of close encounters as made-up. We may want to believe, but most of us go through our lives safe in the knowledge that we're the sane ones – and the people who think aliens have visited earth are clearly silly, misguided and delusional " [extract from article].
Pentagon working on UFO -style airship for stealthy cargo missions (dvice.com)
" Developed by Aeroscraft, the 230-foot-long prototype airship called the Pelican is designed to lift up to 10 tons of cargo across long distances, using a fraction of the fuel needed by an airplane. The airship, which, interestingly, looks a lot like a flying saucer, has been in the works for several years under the guidance of the Pentagon's Rapid Reaction Technology Office. In addition to cargo missions, the Pentagon also envisions the airship as a potential tool for surveillance and reconnaissance missions " [extract from article].
Pictures: Manchester is 'hotspot' for UFOs expert claims, and police confirm multiple 'unexplained' sightings (Mancunian Matters)
" In 2012, areas in Woodley, Atherton, Hulme and Droyslden were all reported to have UFOs lighting up the sky, a freedom of information request made by Mancunian Matters revealed.
Descriptions including 'a full ring a lights', 'huge bright yellow, green and red lights with a huge beam' and 'gold and glowing lights' were reported to the police in 2012 and were later listed as 'unexplained'.
Stephen Mera, 45, chairman of Manchester's Association of Paranormal Investigators & Training, said: "UFOs have a tendency to gravitate towards certain facilities such as military and chemical sites and airports. Manchester has had a high level of UFO sightings over the years " " [extract from article].
Remembering the day UFOs Arrived at Italy's Fiorentina stadium (disinfo.com)
" It's October 1954. A game between Fiorentina and nearby rivals Pistoiese is under way at the Stadio Artemio Franchi. A crowd of around 10,000 has gathered to watch. Among them is Fiorentina fan Gigi Boni. Now in his eighties Boni still has vivid memories of watching in disbelief as UFOs hovered above the stadium.
"I remember clearly seeing this incredible sight. They were moving very fast and then they just stopped. It all lasted a couple of minutes. I would like to describe them as being like Cuban cigars, in the way they looked." The stadium fell silent as the players and fans stood transfixed, staring at these strange objects in the crisp blue autumn sky " [extract from article]. The BBC article can be seen here . I was not aware of this at all. Also a podcast can be listened to about this event under keshi hits out at white coaches in Africa . It is only available for the next 30 days,but can be downloaded if required.
Two disc UFOs reported 'shooting in succession' out of Honolulu (examiner.com)
" "My husband and I were trying to figure out what it could be since it did not 'fit' anything that we have seen before, and it did not have wings. But we were also wondering if we just weren't seeing it clearly."
Then a second, identical, object was seen.
"Then a second object following the same flight pattern came out of the area. I was able to watch the entire path of the second object. and after a few seconds, 30, 40 seconds or so, the flight path changed to gradually turn toward the horizon, and then simply disappeared " [extract from article].
Alleged UFO explosion over Sacramento was a weather balloon (digitaljournal.com)
" A purported UFO explosion over Sacramento has been explained. What was widely speculated as an alien spacecraft, military weapons test or an asteroid on collision course with Earth shot down by the Air Force, has been confirmed to be a weather balloon" [extract from article].
Founder of Piledriving Company Goes 'APE' over upcoming Local UFO film (The Normandy park blog)
" John White, Founder of American Piledriving Equipment (APE) and a Normandy Park resident, has stepped up to pile on the majority of funding for an historic local UFO conspiracy movie that will begin filming this year.
The film – "The Maury Island Incident" – is based on the true story of Harold Dahl's UFO sighting that occurred off Maury Island on June 21, 1947, considered by many to be one of the first modern-day encounters. This incident – which has never before been turned into a film – happened just two days before Ken Arnold's historic UFO sighting, and 16 days before the infamous Roswell crash " [extract from article].
UFO mystery raising questions in Amherst (WWLP.com)
" Witnesses described the UFO seen after dark Tuesday as the size of two or three cars, and roughly diamond-shaped, or even triangular. It was visible because of its dim white lights.
One woman said it was only 75 to 100 feet above her car " [extract from short article].
UFO sightings At International Space Station on the rise (Huffington Post)
" As 2012 ended and 2013 began, numerous UFOs were reported around the country — nothing earthshattering there — but what about alleged unidentified objects seen in space near theInternational Space Station(or ISS), a couple of hundred miles above Earth?
Videos have cropped up on YouTube showing images taken by NASA cameras of objects of different shapes, some moving very slowly, others rapidly hurtling through space.
What, exactly, are we looking at here? Alien spacecraft dropping by for a visit with the ISS? Reflections from ISS windows? Meteors? Or various types of orbiting or fast moving spacecraft-generated debris? " [extract from article].
Search for UFOs: Swedish TV in Fresno (KMPH Fox26)
" Fresno is the first of several stops in the U.S. as Swedish TV investigates paranormal activity in three different states. Swedish television host Adam Alsing has never seen a UFO and hopes his luck will soon change. "We come here with our eyes open to this area because there's been lots of sightings of paranormal stuff. UFO's, big foot even. So as we come here and we hope to see something" " [extract from article].
UFO sightings reported on Coast ( Goldcoast.com)
" The unidentified flying object was described as a series of red lights in the eastern sky above Mudgeeraba on November 22.
It was reported by a man who spotted it along with his neighbours as the lights moved through the sky for more than 20 minutes before disappearing.
A separate report was also sent to UFO Research Queensland from a Mudgeeraba woman who claimed to have seen the same phenomenon, which performed a series of manoeuvres.
UFO Research Queensland's Sheryl Gottschall said the sightings were important in the search for otherworldly life " [extract from article].
Oil Rig Workers near San Antonio see lights they believe are from UFO (kcentv.com) +video.
" Workers at a fracturing well in the Eagle Ford Shale drilling region, just east of San Antonio, say they saw unidentified lights on consecutive days in October.
And what's more, they've got them on video " [extract from short article] .
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Over time, Dana Carvey's famous Church Lady character on Saturday Night Live looks less like a parody and more like a direct impression. You knew it would only take a few minutes before some wingnut blames the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut on Satan himself. Dan Delzell, come on down.
Jesus said, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10) Satan is real….just like Jesus….and he would love to steal your soul, kill your body, and while he is at it….destroy your entire being. Jesus gives eternal life to those who belong to Him, including the 20 innocent children who were transported by God's angels out of Connecticut as they went to be with the Lord.
Jesus called the children to Him and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." (Luke 18:16) Satan hates children. Jesus loves children. Satan delights in seeing children killed. Jesus found joy in dying on the cross for children to earn eternal life for them.
Long before Adam Lanza appeared on the scene, the first Adam was causing even greater damage. God gave Adam and Eve free will when He created them. That was God's choice. It was not God's choice for the first Adam to sin. Eve's husband made that decision all on his own, with some encouragement from his wife and from Satan who appeared as a serpent in the Garden of Eden. "Sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin." (Romans 5:12) The sin of the original Adam opened the floodgates to all manner of evil upon the earth.
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The Week in Review:
Latest heat victim: The brutal summer heat wave strikes the Colonial Downs horse races Friday, July 22 to claim the life of 22-year-old Puerto Rican jockey Emanuel Sanchez. Following his race on a steamy afternoon, Sanchez was last seen leaving the track to take a shower after complaining of dizziness and other symptoms of heat exhaustion. He was later found unconscious on the shower floor and was rushed to a nearby Richmond hospital. His condition worsened, and after slipping into coma, he was pronounced dead July 23. "All the jockeys and valets and other racing personnel are deeply saddened by this turn of events and the loss of Emanuel," Colonial Downs General Manager John Mooney told the Daily Progress. "All of our regrets and prayers go out to his family."
Biggest UVA lacrosse addict: Hannon Wright just cannot seem to get away from the UVA men's lacrosse program. Coach Dom Starsia's former goalie (1996-99) earned three letters and helped lead the squad to Starsia's first national championship in 1999. Wright extended his stay at UVA to study law, then returned in 2002 as a volunteer assistant coach for two seasons, leaving again with the sweet taste of glory after 2003's national title. Now Starsia has announced that Wright will return as the official assistant coach to help guide a team that fell just shy of last season's NCAA championship contest.
Worst time to hit the books: Even with another promising UVA football season on the horizon, it appears that the Cavaliers are already shorthanded a week before official practices open. The team's 2005 media guide notes four players missing from the projected roster at the ACC Football Kickoff in Hot Springs Sunday, July 24. It was soon discovered that offensive lineman D.J. Bell, cornerback Phillip Brown, linebacker Devonta Brown, and wide receiver Ron Morton will all miss the season due to their failure to meet the NCAA academic eligibility standards.
Most complete basketball life: After a stellar career at UVA (1993-96), and 8-l/2 solid seasons in the WNBA, Wendy Palmer-Daniel continues to stay one step ahead of the game. The Wahoos' all time leading rebounder and current San Antonio Silver Stars forward has agreed to join Virginia Commonwealth University women's basketball coach Beth Cunningham as part-time assistant coach beginning in September. "The game has been so good to me for so long," 30-year-old Palmer-Daniel told The Progress. "It's given me so much. This seems like a good way to start giving something back." Palmer-Daniel anticipates spending the WNBA off-season (fall and winter months) coaching the Rams before she returns to her team training camp in April.
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Chris Knight: You could get lost in the echo chamber of parallels between life and art, but you'd do better to just get lost in the film
The Souvenir is a beautifully shot, mesmerizing snapshot of director Joanna Hogg's past
In the early 1980s, future writer/director Joanna Hogg was a 20-something film student in London; her 1986 short Caprice, made at the National Film and Television School, starred childhood friend and fellow Gen Xer Tilda Swinton. Hogg was also, as young people are wont to, in a relationship that was not entirely healthy.
Fast-forward almost 40 years. Hogg has just made her fourth feature, The Souvenir, starring a millennial first-time actor named Honor Swinton Byrne. She plays Julie, a 20-something film student in London in the early 1980s. Julie's mother is played by the actor's mother, Tilda Swinton. Julie falls into a relationship that is not entirely healthy, but you knew that already.
You could get lost in the echo chamber of parallels between life and art, but you'd do better to just get lost in the film, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance this year. From the opening scene at a flat party, Swinton (the younger) presents a mesmerizing portrayal of a young woman trying to figure out her place in the world. She's certain she wants to be a filmmaker, but she lacks confidence, and fears her upper-class upbringing will prevent her from digging into grittier stories.
Enter Anthony (Tom Burke), a few years her senior, and some kind of foreign-office bureaucrat. Their courtship is mannerly, more cordial than passionate, but it's clear that Julie feels drawn to this worldly fellow. And if he sometimes talks down to her ever so slightly – well, he's been around the block, so perhaps it's all right. You can already sense her making excuses for him, the way we sometimes do when we're in love.
But soon Julie starts to notice even more things amiss. In bed one night, she catches sight of a bruise on his arm, and asks how it happened; he says he doesn't recall. Then there's a scene where he's going out for a walk and asks her to lend him a couple of quid. "How much?" she asks, unconcerned. Six, he decides. Then: "Have you got 10?"
Some time later, her flat is burgled. A mutual friend makes a pointed remark at dinner. But it's a while before she puts the pieces together, and longer still until she chooses to focus on the picture the pieces make.
The Souvenir is named after an 18th-century painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that makes an appearance in the film; it shows a young woman carving initials into a tree. But this is also Hogg's souvenir, her remembrance of things past; Julie's apartment is a faithful recreation of the director's former home, and there are historical signposts such as her typewriter, physical film editing, Elvis Costello on the soundtrack, and a terrorist bomb that explodes nearby.
In this sense, The Souvenir functions as an intensely personal document. But its themes of young love, growth of identity, and education (both in the personal and professional sense) make this a story that's easy to access, and simple to slip inside. And despite the rather final nature of the closing scenes (so beautifully shot!), Hogg is apparently at work on a sequel. Because life goes on.


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US Students Rejoice Over Israel Boycott
Pro-Palestinian students in a US college are celebrating its decision to divest from firms serving the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a decision that has sparked a raging controversy.
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Pro-Palestinian students in a US college are celebrating its decision to divest from firms serving the Israeli occupation of Palestine, a decision that has sparked a raging controversy.
"We were able to educate and mobilize an entire community, the majority of our community," Aidan Kriese, an organizer from the Students for Justice in Palestine group (SJP) in Hampshire College, Massachusetts, told IslamOnline.net.
"And the majority has made a decision."
On February 7, Hampshire College became the first US institute of higher education to divest from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The groundbreaking decision was taken by the Committee on Investment Responsibility and approved by the College's Board of Trustees.
The six companies are Caterpillar, Terex, Motorola, ITT, General Electric, and United Technologies.
They are believed to be directly providing the Israeli military with equipment and services in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
"We were interested in looking at the specific relationships that our particular institution had in the occupation," Kriese said.
"We found we were linked specifically to the occupation through these corporations."
Over 800 students, professors, and alumni have signed SJP's "institutional statement" calling for the divestment from these firms.
Divestment efforts and academic boycotts of Israel have largely gained ground in the past few years.
The United Methodist Church has received five separate petitions calling for divestment from companies that support or profit from the Israeli occupation.
The divestment, widely covered in national media, has stirred a firestorm controversy leading the college's administration to deny the issue had anything to do with politics.
But the students' association insists that breaking ties with the six firms was specifically linked to helping the Israeli occupation.
"The SJP was asked by the administration what companies to avoid in the future in terms of the Israeli occupation of Palestine," Kriese said.
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a well-known supporter of Israel, has called for donors to divest from Hampshire College and halt contributions to the college until it clears up the situation.
After his column in the Israeli Jerusalem Post daily stirred a sandstorm, Hampshire College issued a statement acknowledging that the process was launched in response to the SJP proposal, but denied that the final decision had anything to do with Israel.
"For eight and a half months the only specific companies…that were discussed were the six companies SJP targeted," the SJP said in a later statement.
"These facts prove that the decision was made on the grounds of the six companies' involvement in the occupation of Palestine."
Despite the controversy, the SJP still sees the college's decision to divest from the pro-occupation companies a victory.
"It's really clear to us that we've done our part in raising concerns about the occupation," boasts Kriese.
For more info on the divestment project visit:
Here's an interview with on of the organizers in which he clearly explains the reasoning behind the project, something which is missing from this article.
tags: Pro-Palestinian / US College / The Israeli Occupation / IslamOnline.Net / Occupied West Bank / United Methodist Church
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 22 (St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries)
- ↑ Wonderbook: Book of Potions
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film) (see this image)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Writing by J.K. Rowling: "Ministers for Magic" at Wizarding World
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 31 (O.W.L.s)
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Nationally engrossing for its commentary on race relations and gun rights, the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin inched closer to resolution on Saturday as six jurors – all women, five of them mothers – continued to deliberate the extent to which, if any, Mr. Zimmerman bore responsibility for the death of Trayvon Martin, or whether he lawfully defended himself from an attack.
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