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Pete Townshend's autobiography, which has been on the way for something like 20 years, is due in the fall, and we're pretty sure it's going to be amazing. He's clearly been there and done that, and he can spin a yarn, so it's going to be great, there's no question.
But how will it compare to the masters? The art of the rock biog lies in remembering things you clearly shouldn't be able to, telling the stories that people want to hear with a fresh perspective, and living up to everyone's fantasy of what your life has been like.
Here are five examples (and another five for good measure) of doing the thing properly.
Julian Cope – Head On/Repossessed
Anyone considering sitting down to write their memoirs of, well, anything ever would be well advised to give this book a read first. Julian writes clearly and beautifully about his sometimes inspiring, sometimes preposterous past as the leader of the post-punk psychedelics the Teardrop Explodes (the Head On bit) and then as a prematurely-cowed cosmic has-been, pulling himself together again (Repossessed). And for someone who took all of the mind-expanding substances he could, he remembers, and can explain, the rationale behind every decision, even the really weird ones. So it's less a diary and more a coach trip around the mind of someone who may not share the same sense of aesthetics and righteousness as you. His skill as a writer is convincing the reader that he was right all along.
See also: James Young's account of his time as Nico's pianist, during her drug-addled twilight years – Songs They Never Play On The Radio.
Luke Haines – Bad Vibes – Britpop: My Part In Its Downfall
Some of you may not be aware of Luke's work. He's the singer and songwriter in the pre-Britpop band the Auteurs, who also released an album as Baader Meinhof, and then formed the disturbing dreampop trio Black Box Recorder. Along the way he broke both his ankles, got into a fight with Matt Johnson of The The, and released a lot of scabrous, but beautiful music. His is not a celebratory tome for the Britpop years; it's more of a late audit of that era's pretentions and self-celebration. He, like all good pop journeymen, begins with the hits, and is then forced to travel through a prolonged no-hit wilderness, during which time he releases some of his best songs, while rival acts triumph peddling less worthy material. He comes out the other side still essentially bitter and vengeful, but a little calmer.
See also: Ray Davies – X-Ray
Keith Richards – Life
Another man who remembers rather more than he has any right to, Keith's biography is the one book (apart from Dylan's Chronicles) that every self-respecting rock fan had wanted to read for years, but always feared would never happen. Turns out that Mr Richards has a fine memory for how things came to be, a great line in self-depreciating humour, and the ability to capture some of the excitement of being in the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band In The World at a time when carrying that honour really meant something. Along the way, seismic shifts occur, and terrible things happen to people, which sometimes feels righteous, and other times is clearly a tragedy. But Keith keeps on going, unphased by drug arrests, feuds with Mick Jagger, or homicidal coconut trees.
See also: Marianne Faithfull – Faithfull: An Autobiography
Boy George – Take It Like A Man
Oh sure, he broke cultural boundaries when he flounced around the international stage singing "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me" in full makeup, and in being such an approachable soul, he took the sting out of being gay for countless young pop fans AND their families, but this is no rags-to-bitches fairy tale. What happened next, the drugs, the artistic decline, the tabloid battles and the paranoia, is the true story of how modern celebrity culture works. You think you're playing a game, you think everyone knows the rules, and then you lose (your boyfriend) and you lose (fans) and you lose (a ton of weight). Turns out, being astonishingly famous is, like, really bad for you? Who knew?
See also: John Lydon – Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Bill Drummond – 45
It's not just performers who can turn a phrase, you know. Managers have been around for many of the same highs, and have played a part in clearing up after all of the lows, so they have just as many war stories to bring back. Bill Drummond, who managed Echo and the Bunnymen, and the Teardrop Explodes (I know, them again, but bear with me) and went on to form the KLF and then make a film of himself burning a million pounds as an artistic statement, is on the dividing point between artist, lunatic and puppeteer. He sent the Bunnymen on a UK tour devised so that the map of their trip would look like a rabbit's head. He also planned foreign tours for both of his bands so that they would be playing on an international leyline, which crossed in Liverpool's Mathew Street, where he would be standing. And he didn't even really believe in leylines. The stories are legion and all glorious, and if you don't come away from reading it inspired to do something ridiculous and creative with no thought of how it could be monetised, you're probably Simon Cowell.
See also: Simon Napier Bell – You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
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Asked by Courtney L., Pittsburgh
I am obese and have been working on losing weight for three years. I have been working with nutritionists and personal trainers instead of fad dieting. On the Web, I stumbled upon the Paleolithic (Paleo) diet. Is this lifestyle change beneficial despite the promotion of saturated fats and cholesterol?
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Hi, Courtney. I applaud you for staying away from fad diets in an attempt to lose weight. Most fad diets are simply not sustainable long term, which leads to weight regain, and their impact on overall health has not been established.
Unfortunately, in my opinion, the Paleo diet falls into the fad diet category.
While there are many different versions of the diet with slightly different rules, the general principle of the diet involves eating foods that can be hunted and fished (meat, seafood -- grass-fed, wild and organic are encouraged) or gathered (eggs, fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables and herbs).
Dairy, legumes, salt, grains, refined sugar, processed oils, potatoes (including sweet potatoes) and alcohol are excluded from the diet.
Basically, this is a high-protein, relatively low-carb diet. The positive aspects of this diet are that it eliminates processed foods, a major source of added sugar, salt and fat in the American diet.
The diet also eliminates sugar and refined grains, both of which contribute to obesity and diabetes and can lead to increases in dangerous belly fat, which has been linked to heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
In addition, the diet encourages a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts (except peanuts, which are legumes) and seeds, all of which are an important part of a healthy, balanced diet.
The cons are:
1. The diet eliminates dairy, an affordable and widely available source of bone-building calcium (and vitamin D when dairy foods are fortified) and protein (yes, calcium can be obtained from greens and other foods, but it is more challenging to consume adequate amounts.)
2. The diet eliminates all grains, including whole grains, which are a good source of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and heart healthy fiber, and foods such as beans, peanuts and sweet potatoes, all of which have numerous health-promoting qualities.
3. The diet is high in animal protein, which could lead to an excess intake of saturated fat, resulting in elevated cholesterol levels, an increased risk of heart disease and increased risk of certain types of cancer.
4. Finally, the diet can be expensive (grass-fed, organic meats and eggs are more expensive) and inconvenient due to the limitation of food choices, both of which make this diet less practical for the average person long term.
Overall, I would steer clear of the Paleo diet, but we can take away something from our ancestors by eating foods closer to their natural state (less processed), which are more nutrient-dense and digested more slowly by the body. In most cases, they lead to better hunger control, more stable blood sugar levels and weight loss if calories are reduced and exercise is increased (as it sounds like they are in your case).
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hugo Chavez's hand-picked successor, Nicolas Maduro, won a razor-thin victory in Sunday's special presidential election but the opposition candidate refused to accept the result and demanded a full recount.
Maduro's stunningly close victory followed an often ugly, mudslinging campaign in which the winner promised to carry on Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution, while challenger Henrique Capriles' main message was that Chavez put this country with the world's largest oil reserves on the road to ruin.
Despite the ill feelings, both men sent their supporters home and urged them to refrain from violence.
Maduro, acting president since Chavez's March 5 death, held a double-digit advantage in opinion polls just two weeks ago, but electoral officials said he got just 50.7 percent of the votes to 49.1 percent for Capriles with nearly all ballots counted.
The margin was about 234,935 votes. Turnout was 78 percent, down from just over 80 percent in the October election that Chavez won by a nearly 11-point margin over Capriles.
Chavistas set off fireworks and raced through downtown Caracas blasting horns in jubilation. But analysts called the slim margin a disaster for Maduro, a former union leader and bus driver in the radical wing of Chavismo who is believed to have close ties to Cuba.
In a victory speech, he told a crowd outside the presidential palace that his victory was further proof that Chavez "continues to be invincible."
But in a hint of discontent, National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, who many consider Maduro's main rival, expressed dismay in a tweet: "The results oblige us to make a profound self-criticism. It's contradictory that the poor sectors of the population vote for their longtime exploiters."
At Capriles' campaign headquarters, people hung their heads quietly as the results were announced by an electoral council stacked with government loyalists. Many started crying; others just stared at TV screens in disbelief.
Later, Capriles emerged to angrily reject the official totals: "It is the government that has been defeated."
He said his campaign came up with "a result that is different from the results announced today."
"The biggest loser today is you," Capriles said, directly addressing Maduro through the camera. "The people don't love you."
Armed forces joint chief, Gen. Wilmer Barrientos, called on the military to accept the results.
A Capriles' campaign staffer told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity that the candidate met with the military high command after polls closed. But campaign official Armando Briquet later denied a meeting was held.
Capriles, an athletic 40-year-old state governor, had mocked and belittled Maduro as a poor, bland imitation of Chavez.
Maduro said during his victory speech that Capriles had called him before the results were announced to suggest a "pact" and that Maduro refused. Capriles' camp did not comment on Maduro's claim.
Maduro, a longtime foreign minister to Chavez, rode a wave of sympathy for the charismatic leader to victory, pinning his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and the powerful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.
Capriles' main campaign weapon was to simply emphasize "the incompetence of the state."
Millions of Venezuelans were lifted out of poverty under Chavez, but many also believe his government not only squandered, but plundered, much of the $1 trillion in oil revenues during his 14-year rule.
Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant crime — one of the world's highest homicide and kidnapping rates — that the opposition said worsened after Chavez disappeared to Cuba in December for what would be his final surgery.
Analyst David Smilde at the Washington Office on Latin America think tank predicted the victory would prove pyrrhic and make Maduro extremely vulnerable.
"It will make people in his coalition think that perhaps he is not the one to lead the revolution forward," Smilde said.
"This is a result in which the 'official winner' appears as the biggest loser," said Amherst College political scientist Javier Corrales. "The 'official loser' — the opposition — emerges even stronger than it did six months ago. These are very delicate situations in any political system, especially when there is so much mistrust of institutions."
Many across the nation put little stock in Maduro's claims that sabotage by the far right was to blame for worsening power outages and food shortages in the weeks before the vote.
"We can't continue to believe in messiahs," said Jose Romero, a 48-year-old industrial engineer who voted for Capriles in the central city of Valencia. "This country has learned a lot and today we know that one person can't fix everything."
In a Chavista stronghold in Petare outside Caracas, Maria Velasquez, 48, who works in a government soup kitchen that feeds 200 people, said she voted for Chavez's man "because that is what my comandante ordered."
Reynaldo Ramos, a 60-year-old construction worker, said he "voted for Chavez" before correcting himself and saying he chose Maduro. But he could not seem to get his beloved leader out of his mind.
"We must always vote for Chavez because he always does what's best for the people and we're going to continue on this path," Ramos said. He said the government had helped him get work on the subway system and helps pay his grandchildren's school costs.
The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela deployed a well-worn get-out-the-vote machine spearheaded by loyal state employees. It also enjoyed the backing of state media as part of its near-monopoly on institutional power.
Capriles' camp said Chavista loyalists in the judiciary put them at glaring disadvantage by slapping the campaign and broadcast media with fines and prosecutions that they called unwarranted. Only one opposition TV station remains and it was being sold to a new owner Monday.
At rallies, Capriles would read out a list of unfinished road, bridge and rail projects. Then he asked people what goods were scarce on store shelves.
Capriles showed Maduro none of the respect he earlier accorded Chavez.
Maduro hit back hard, at one point calling Capriles' backers "heirs of Hitler." It was an odd accusation considering that Capriles is the grandson of Holocaust survivors from Poland.
The opposition contended Chavez looted the treasury last year to buy his re-election with government handouts. It also complained about the steady flow of cut-rate oil to Cuba, which Capriles said would end if he won.
Venezuela's $30 billion fiscal deficit is equal to about 10 percent of the country's gross domestic product.
Maduro focused his campaign message on his mentor: "I am Chavez. We are all Chavez." And he promised to expand anti-poverty programs.
He will face no end of hard choices for which Corrales, of Amherst, said he has shown no skills for tackling.
Maduro has "a penchant for blaming everything on his 'adversaries' — capitalism, imperialism, the bourgeoisie, the oligarchs — so it is hard to figure how exactly he would address any policy challenge other than taking a tough line against his adversaries."
Many factories operate at half capacity because strict currency controls make it hard for them to pay for imported parts and materials. Business leaders say some companies verge on bankruptcy because they cannot extend lines of credit with foreign suppliers.
Chavez imposed currency controls a decade ago trying to stem capital flight as his government expropriated large land parcels and dozens of businesses.
Now, dollars sell on the black market at three times the official exchange rate and Maduro has had to devalue Venezuela's currency, the bolivar, twice this year.
Meanwhile, consumers grumble that stores are short of milk, butter, corn flour and other staples.
The government blames hoarding, while the opposition points at the price controls imposed by Chavez in an attempt to bring down double-digit inflation.
Associated Press writers Fabiola Sanchez, Jorge Rueda, E. Eduardo Castillo and Christopher Toothaker in Caracas and Vivian Sequera in Valencia contributed to this report.
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Conservation and Environment in Costa Rica: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Costa Rica - Monthly Update March 2012
Here at Barra Honda there is a lot to tell you about this month! It was a very dry, windy and hot March with temperatures up to 40°C. because of that there have been a few forest-fires in Guanacaste and close to the park. At this time forest fires are perfectly normal and nothing to be scared of and we also have a lot of well trained and experienced fire-fighters who have protected the villages and the national park for years. A few days ago we visited one of the previous fire-sights and could see that a lot of the trees and plants already start to recover and grow fresh, green leaves. And that was just after one month from the fire. It is amazing how adaptable and persistent nature is!
Recently we did a big trash collection around the campsite and down the road from the park. After that we had lots of plastic bags full of any kind of trash. So we emptied every single bag again and separated the trash into plastic, paper, glass and "other". Other meaning non-recyclable things. This was of course done so that we could send all the trash off to the Nicoya recycling centre so that Barra Honda is leading the area in being a green eco-friendly place.
Another exciting bit of news I want to tell you is that we have completed a further point in our bat-project by finishing our studies in the area of the big waterfall! So in the next month we will be able to proceed with our project to another area. The new area is further away from the last one, close to the Laguna. We are all very motivated to do the project there because we never did the project there before, and so there might be other species of bats and maybe even a new record for Barra Honda waiting! We will post all information and results about the last area as soon as we have them.
Also this month we started doing an interesting "experiment" in our butterfly project: until now we always used mature fruits like banana and pineapple and had great success with attracting butterflies like that. Now one of our volunteers, Marsha Jacobs, wants to try to see if different baits are even better attractors of butterflies than the fruits. Marsha is doing this study as part of her University course and the investigation goes towards her final marks for this year. Maybe we will be able to work out preferences of different butterfly-species so in future we will be able to attract a certain species of butterfly by using a special bait and find out more about the single species.
So far we have tried fresh fish-heads, rotting fish heads and faeces of monkeys and coatis (a bit of a smelly job!). Despite using the different baits we are not changing anything about the procedure: we are using our older transects again for doing that new project. Each time we are putting our 12 butterfly traps in different areas that are at least 100 metres away from each other and we do that to find out which species of butterfly prefers which habitat. On every area we are putting 3 traps 2, 4 and 6 metres high to see which butterflies prefer which height and the traps are staying out in the forest for about 24 hours.
I have to admit that we have been a bit sceptical about using fish but the results have been very interesting so far: we didn't attract as many butterflies as with the fruits but we have had butterflies in the traps we have caught very rarely and we may have found something new! We are very curious to soon see more results of our work.
We also took a huge step forward with our Macaw Nest site protection project. Until now we stayed at the nest sites from about 10am to 5pm but now we have stayed there over night for the first time. This was part of a test run for following nights and the plan to soon be running the project 24 hours a day to watch and protect the two nest sites until the chicks leave the nests. The Scarlet Macaw is a very rare species in Costa Rica. In the whole of Guanacaste there is only 5-6 free-living individuals left. So the birds and especially their eggs or chicks are in great demand from poachers who can sell them for thousands of dollars on the black market.
This first night went perfectly how we planned and we spent hours and hours preparing and organising it all. Every single volunteer who took part in this project was honestly astonished by seeing all the sights of nature so close. We went there with 6 people all together then later we split up into two more groups, each group had 3 people sitting at each nest site. They arrived there this time at about 4pm and left there at about 7am in the next morning. During the day they watched the birds with binoculars, were able to communicate with the other group by small radios and they were also writing down the time and movement of the birds. The volunteers said it was fun to talk to other each other and get to bond whilst sharing that experience.
So that we all feel more comfortable while watching the birds or resting (there were always two people watching the macaws and one sleeping during night time) each group has hammocks and chairs but even with this they all said it was a rough night with less sleep and not as comfy as the beds in the volunteer rooms, but just by seeing the sun set and rise again the next morning, hearing the sounds of the night and early morning and watching the macaws live, gave them a really good feeling about what we do here in Barra Honda.
One of the volunteers, Victoria Thompson said that she felt the direct impact of our work by sitting there. She said she's seeing a lot of things from a different point of view now and that "now that I have seen them living and flying in nature I really don't understand why someone would try to capture these wonderful birds and keep them locked up in a cage for the rest of their lives. And that just for earning money! That just seems so wrong to me now!" she also said "after I slept for a bit when we came home I found that this was one of those experiences that will stay in my mind for a long time!" she would do the project anytime again.
It should be mentioned that volunteers who are at the Macaw project for the whole night will always have the next morning off to catch up on some sleep.
Finally I want to take a moment to tell you about a few small bits of news that have happened around the park in the last month or two. We have finally begun renovating the last of the volunteer rooms. We began by cleaning the ceiling and painting the walls in a fresh yellow instead of the old greenish colour. We also replaced the toilet and the sink with new ones. Cleaning the tiles in the bathrooms was a lot of work but now they look white and new again. Now all of the rooms look a lot nicer then just 4 months before. The next step might be to renovate the porches but we haven't decided the colour yet.
For the last few months Eduardo, our Biologist has also been bringing groups of children here to the park, aged between 8 and 13 years, they have been in Barra Honda every second Saturday for a couple of hours each time. They all come from the villages around our park, Barra Honda, El Flor and Santa Ana mainly. The idea is to let them playfully find out more about nature and its benefits and explain to them why conservation is so important for all of us. The main focus of these fun classes have been on birds and their habitats.
And finally there is still space left to tell you about a few cute armadillos we have around the camp. Almost every evening we have a brave one very close to the kitchen sniffing around and trying to find some left overs thrown out from the kitchen. It is amazing to be able to watch these fascinating animals so close up without having to move away from the camp!
Lisa Kubik
Assistant Manager
Barra Honda National Park
March 2012


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The only thing discernably wrong with the food and wine at NYC City Winery is that it has a lot to compete with in-house. Most think of it as a music venue with wine and food as extras.
The plates whizzing past us in the pre-performance dinner hours were heavy on appetizers and flatbreads. Not that there is anything wrong with those.
In fact the smashed red beets with tahini and garlic was truly a standout as appetizers go.
The seared sea scallops had the perfect touch of just right cooking length, sparing you the rubber that poorly prepared scallops involve.
But it was the entrees of Pan Fried Chicken and Flat Iron Steak that were the real knockouts food-wise.
The charred green onion, aioli and roasted garlic on the steak made it an especially tasty dish.
We had the good fortune of having wines paired by the house.
These were all tap wines: a chardonnay-roussane '12 with grapes from North Coast California; a VanDam Zin '12 of Lodi, California origins; and a Hyland Vineyards Pinot Noir '12, with grapes from Williamette Valley, Oregon.
These no bottle, no label, no cork and low sulfite tap wines have in common that the first word you think of is "fresh" when drinking them.
Whether New Yorkers or tourists to this music mecca realize it or not, the food and wine are heavy hitters on par with the talent on the stage.
It's good news that head winemaker David Lecomte shares that in early 2014 NYC City Winery will start offering multi-course meals with wine pairings as a standalone offering. Yes, the music is great and the intimate venue makes it better.
Definitely though, this is an outing worth going to just for the food and wine.
This January unveiling of wine pairing dinners is actually a year in coming. Executive Chef Jeff Haskell first joined NYC City Winery about a year ago and since then has been tweaking the menu to add much bolder flavors with an eye to elevating the quality of the cuisine. This means that now you'll find menu items like Whiskey Hill Braised Rabbit with Oriecchiette Pasta. 2014 is also a year Haskell is targeting for more locavore sourcing.
In other words, "City Winery" is becoming a bit of a misnomer because it is steadily evolving to a foodie stop with more touches of haute cuisine. Plans aside, it certainly is tasty already. Those who think music venues just don't have great food already need to rethink that.
Haskell says, "This is the first winery I've worked with and it's definitely a more interesting place to develop a menu because you have great wine with which to pair the food."
The food menu at City Winery changes with the season.
The wine menu, and especially the wines on tap, change more frequently because the nature of being a winery that draws from many vineyards allows Head Winemaker Lecomte a lot of room to experiment. Lecomte says, "Because we are a winery in the city we can select the best vineyards from around the country and create wines that are an expression of the locations that are driving the wines. That we can select what we want is our greatest strength…There are no limitations and especially now that we have greater skills in handling the logistical challenges that such complexity involves."
Lecomte reports that while they bottle 12-15 wines each year they actually have 30 or so lots of wine in process of aging that they are blending. This includes off-the-beaten path ice wines, sparkling wines and more.
City Winery is the only winery within New York City's confines. Denizens of New York City who frequent Summer Stage might not realize that they have already had City Winery wine. Those and other performance venues are places where they are contracted to sell their keg wines.
En toto, before, during and after the meal we sampled seven wines and they all were excellent. The only caution is to avoid the Riesling dessert wines with dessert unless you thrill at near diabetic coma. Have the dessert wine alone, its certainly sweet enough.
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If you are currently in the Hall of Fame and anywhere near a microphone, please state your preference on whether "steroid era" players deserve plaques like yours. Ryne Sandberg is the latest to go on record with a "no."
The Cub legend appeared on the "Waddle & Silvy" show on
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"It's something that's against the law and against society," Sandberg said. "It was cheating in the sport.
"I think it has to be spoken very loud and clear on the stance, and baseball needs to stand as they have. I'm very, very satisfied with the testing program they have in place now. For a guy who's tested positive today under what happens now, like Manny Ramirez, it almost takes an idiot to participate in that. For the society, for the up-and-coming players and youth out there, I don't think those guys should be recognized at all."
Won't someone please think of the society? But surely Sandberg, who played with Sosa for five seasons in Chicago, must have known something was amiss?
"I was around Sammy for about five years before I retired, and there wasn't anything going on then," Sandberg said. "I did admire the hard work he put in. He was one of the first guys down to the batting cage, hitting extra. I figured he was working out hard in the offseason to get bigger. It was just happening throughout the game, that even myself was blinded by what was really happening, maybe starting in the '98 season.
"I think it's very unfortunate. I think suspicions were there as they are with some other players. Those players are now put in a category of being tainted players with tainted stats. I think it's obviously something that was going on in the game. Players participated in it and, as the names have come out, I think that they will be punished for that."
So nothing then? No suspicion over power jumps like say ... going from 19 to 30 to 40 home runs over three seasons? Or hitting 14 over the course of two years, taking a year off, then hitting 25 the next season? I'm not insinuating anything—because that would be wrong—but geez with all those "tainted" players ....
Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg says Sammy Sosa doesn't belong in Hall [ESPN Chicago]
Ryne Sandberg: Sosa doesn't belong in Hall of Fame [Sports Pros(e)]
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Jennifer Avello shoots a series of dynamic studio-based photographs starring McKey Sullivan. Styling by Marta Cebrat-Czernik and hair and make-up by Andrea C Samuels.
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Everyday detritus manifests itself in a variety of ephemeral works in the fantastically unique show, Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Design, now on display at Manhattan's Museum of Art and Design.
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From disaster movies to fundamentalist techno-thrillers, Americans are fascinated with scary end-of-the-world scenarios. So what are Catholics, who in every Mass profess belief in the Second Coming, to make of that?
Along with oceans flooding over Himalayan peaks, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy crashing into the White House, and the statue of Christ the Redeemer crumbling high above Rio de Janeiro, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is one of the show-stopping sights of the just-released blockbuster movie 2012.
The cardinals in the Sistine Chapel barely get to gasp before the toppled dome of St. Peter's starts rolling right over the faithful masses assembled in St. Peter's Square to pray for God's protection-and straight on toward the curious masses assembled in their movie seats to be scared out of their wits. The $200-million epic by "master of disaster" director Roland Emmerich promises nothing less than "a global cataclysm that brings an end of the world."
While the doomsday scenario behind 2012 is supposedly based on a Mayan prophecy, a majority of Americans, according to a 2004 Newsweek poll, believe in a no less fanciful and scary end-time scenario that claims to be based on the Bible. Fifty-five percent of Americans polled by the news magazine said they believe in the so-called Rapture, the trigger event in an elaborate end-of-the-world scheme that is propagated by fundamentalist and evangelical churches.
The Rapture features born-again believers suddenly going airborne and getting snatched up by Jesus, while the rest of the world is "left behind." Those poor souls-including the vast majority of Catholics-will then perish in a bloodbath during a subsequent seven-year period called the Tribulation.
Stitching together snippets of Bible verses from various books of the Old and New Testament, Rapture believers see this whole scheme as preordained by a God who appears as the ultimate Master of Disaster. Unfortunately, this so-called dispensationalist end-of-the-world theology is now accepted by an astonishing number of people to be "what the Bible says" about the end times (see sidebar on page).
In truth, however, what Pope John Paul II once dismissed as "millenarian fantasies" distort not only the biblical message but also the traditional Christian understanding of the Second Coming of Christ and the end times. It is, as Barbara Rossing, the author of The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Basic Books), aptly puts it, a "racket."
Waiting in joyful hope
Advent is a good time to reflect on what Catholic belief in the Second Coming of Christ is all about. For the expectant waiting that the church celebrates during the Advent season is not just the waiting and preparation for the feast of Jesus' birth at Bethlehem but also the continued waiting and preparation for Christ's future coming in glory.
"Advent . . . distills into a few short weeks the church's perennial longing for Christ's coming in the flesh, in the end-time, and in every present moment of our lives," writes Felician Sister Judith M. Kubicki, a liturgical theologian at Fordham University, in The Living Light.
This year's gospel on the First Sunday of Advent (Luke 21:25-28, 34-36) is one of the scarier end-time scripture passages. It warns that "people will die of fright in anticipation of what is coming upon the world" before "they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory." Still, the reading's main message is that Christians should live faithful lives and "be vigilant at all times," promising that "your redemption is at hand."
The liturgies for the Sundays of Advent include further references to "the day of Christ Jesus" (Phil. 1:4-11) and the coming of "a mighty savior" (Zeph. 3:14-18a), and pick up the theme with prayers such as: "Now we watch for the day, hoping that the salvation promised us will be ours, when Christ our Lord will come again in his glory."
But the Advent season only reinforces what Catholics already repeatedly confess during every celebration of the Mass. "Christ has died, Christ has risen, Christ will come again," the congregation proclaims, while the Lord's Prayer pleads, "Thy kingdom come," and the Nicene Creed promises that Christ "will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead" and has the faithful look forward to the "life of the world to come."
Even if many Mass-goers don't think much about the meaning of these words, the expectant hope for Christ's Second Coming and for the ultimate redemption and transformation of the world-what theologians call eschatology, the "talk about the last things"-is at the core of the Good News Christians proclaim.
According to Irish Jesuit theologian Father Dermot Lane, president of the Mater Dei Institute in Dublin, such Christian talk about the last things "is ultimately about 'hope seeking understanding.' "
And the object of Christian hope, explains Lane, the author of Keeping Hope Alive: Stirrings in Christian Theology (Wipf & Stock), is "Christ crucified and risen. In the light of the death and Resurrection of Jesus as the Christ, the Christian is one who dares to hope for the triumph of good over evil, of justice over injustice, and love over hatred in this life and eternity."
In striking contrast to the dispensationalist Rapture scenario-which is preoccupied with the question "What must we fear?"-the expectation of the Second Coming is really about the Christian response to the question, "What may we hope?"
Despite the inroads Rapture theology has made among American Catholics, most instinctively understand this hopeful orientation.
Asked how he imagines the Second Coming, Father Al Humbrecht, pastor of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Knoxville, Tennessee, turns to what "we say in that little prayer between the two parts of the Our Father at Mass: 'We wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.' I expect the Second Coming to be a joyful experience, not this horrendous thing that many of our fundamentalists are looking for."
That's why Teresa Ocampo, a parishioner at St. Frances of Rome Parish in Cicero, Illinois, says she fervently wishes that Jesus would come soon: "I know I'm not a very good person sometimes, and so [in some ways] I don't really feel ready for his coming. But I really want the Second Coming as soon as possible."
As for what she imagines that would be like, Ocampo says she believes that she has experienced a foretaste of that ultimate happiness in the peace that washes over her sometimes when she spends a long time in prayer and adoration.
"It's like you feel God's presence, and all of your body warms up, and you may even be crying because . . . it's something so wonderful," she says. "You feel only love for your brothers and sisters. . . . There are no words to express it, it's just happiness."
The reason why the expectation for the Second Coming is essentially about hope and not fear is that Christians view it as the full realization of the promise of the kingdom of God that has already taken root with Jesus' first coming. This connection is critical to a proper understanding of Christian expectations for the end-time.
"In Christ," Pope Benedict XVI says in Spe Salvi, his 2007 encyclical on Christian hope, "God has revealed himself. He has already communicated to us the 'substance' of things to come, and thus the expectation of God acquires a new certainty."
Attempting to describe that substance of things to come, the pope writes: "It would be like plunging into the ocean of infinite love, … life in the full sense, a plunging ever anew into the vastness of being in which we are simply overwhelmed with joy."
The relationship between the first and Second Coming, explains Father Brian Daley, S.J., a theologian at the University of Notre Dame, "is one of promise and fulfillment. We believe that in Jesus the Word of God became flesh and lived in our human world and that that makes a permanent difference to history."
Or, as Lane puts it: "The end of the world has appeared in embryo in the life and destiny of Jesus as the Christ."
Already and not yet
What then does belief in the Second Coming mean for Christians living their faith in the 21st century?
One often-cited principle is that Christians continue to live in the tension between the "already" and the "not yet." Living in the "already" recognizes that because in Christ "the kingdom of God has come to you" already (Matt. 12:28, Luke 11:20), Christians are called to actively participate in building it, while living in the "not yet" recognizes that its completion or fulfillment is beyond human capability.
It's a kind of paradox, says Brian Robinette, a theologian at St. Louis University, that Christians anticipate the Second Coming as both a "gift from God" that has not yet come and a "summons" to already contribute to the building of the kingdom of God.
He adds that it is "something that comes from beyond ourselves, from God, and therefore is utterly gift, while on the other hand it is something that we actively participate in through liturgical practice, ethical practice, through the living of a Christian life, and helping to bring healing to this world. And if one of those two poles is missing, then you have a major distortion."
Honoring what theologians call the "eschatological reservation"-that ultimately the kingdom of God requires an act of God-prevents Christians from falling for radical political ideologies and utopian movements that want to establish a perfect society but often end up deteriorating into dehumanizing violence and oppression.
"Certainly," says Pope Benedict in Spe Salvi, "we cannot 'build' the kingdom of God by our own efforts. . . . The kingdom of God is a gift, and precisely because of this, it is great and beautiful, and constitutes the response to our hope."
On the other end of the spectrum, Robinette says, being actively engaged in furthering the kingdom prevents Christians from falling for dispensationalist and other end-time schemes in which all that's left to do is wait for a mid-air rescue operation before the world goes to hell in a handbasket.
Living in the tension between the "already" and the "not yet" thus means to pursue what German theologian Medard Kehl has described as the essence of Christian hope: to combine the "serenity of one who has been given a gift" with the "passion for the possible."
In his Tennessee parish, Humbrecht sees this as a call to "keep working to better establish the kingdom of God, to get it where it's supposed to be. . . . We've got a lot of work to do to get it right, and we need to keep working with the Lord and the grace that's been given us to be putting the world back in order."
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Especially in the Bible Belt, where they are a distinct minority, Catholics frequently get drawn into conversations about the Rapture.
Humbrecht, who gives presentations on fundamentalism, says such conversations generally follow the same pattern. "It starts out with that simple question, 'Are you saved?' Meaning, 'Do you believe literally in the Bible as we do?' That confuses a lot of Catholics. . . . It then goes on to the questioner's determination that you are not saved and to the statement that the end time is soon and that you don't want to be one of those people who will get punished at the end."
That kind of talk just makes Joy Hoelscher, an 80-year-old parishioner at Holy Angels Parish in San Angelo, Texas, shake her head. "When people predict, 'Oh my, this and that is happening, that means that the end of the world is coming,' I say, 'You don't know what you're talking about.'
"You know Jesus said that no one knows the day or the hour," Hoelscher says. "I don't worry about a cataclysmic thing happening. I just paddle along here, live each day in faith, do the best I can, instruct other people along the way, and that's just how I live."
Daley of Notre Dame confirms that "the Catholic Church has always been hesitant . . . to read in scriptures clues that would help us calculate when [the end of the world] would come."
But while firmly rejecting the dispensationalist tendency to read current events as signs of the end times and predict that the end is near, Catholics and mainline Protestants could still learn something from the urgency of the dispensationalist expectation of the Second Coming.
While "there is something wonderful" about the way Christians in liturgical churches celebrate sacramental worship in cycles, Rossing, who teaches New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, thinks that this cyclical nature at times hasn't created enough of a sense of it leading somewhere.
"We need to reclaim an urgency about our mission," she says, "not in the sense of an urgency for Jesus to come back and kill all the bad guys, but an urgency to be sowing seeds of the kingdom of God, like in the New Testament communities. It's an urgency to love our neighbor, to feed the hungry, and to obey Jesus' commandments.
"Sometimes," she adds, "there is not enough fire in us." Taking the Second Coming seriously in our own lives means, "Time is short, and we have to be about something important."
That sense of the shortness of time has been reinforced in recent decades by the advent of the nuclear age and an awareness of the growing environmental crisis that threatens the very survival of planet Earth. Christians have been forced to reflect on the question whether human intervention could possibly thwart God's plans for the transformation and fulfillment of human history and all of creation.
"Eschatology in a nuclear age," says Robinette, "is different because now we can see very concretely the means by which we can bring about our own demise." So rather than speculating about the identity of the Antichrist alive today-as dispensationalists do-he believes Christians ought to come to grips with the reality that "the enemy is within our own beating hearts, that we can destroy ourselves through some catastrophic war with nuclear and biological weapons or through the slow strangling of our planet through ecological degradation."
According to Lane, the Irish theologian, that new situation requires a "new cosmic consciousness," which comes with a new responsibility. He explains, "One way of putting it-and it is quite accurate, theologically speaking-is this: Nothing happens between heaven and earth without human cooperation.
"If you look at the history of salvation, even down to the Incarnation, it would not have happened without the collaboration of Mary. And the ministry of Jesus would not have taken off in the way it did without the response of the disciples."
One way for humans to "cooperate" with the history of salvation today is to safeguard the Christian hope for the Second Coming and for the life of the world to come by doing everything possible to keep humanity from bringing about a premature and catastrophic end of the world.
If Christians manage to do that and participate in other ways in building the kingdom of God, they can, in God's own time, look forward to seeing the promise of the Book of Revelation fulfilled:
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth. . . . And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, . . . 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more. . . .' And the one seated on the throne said, 'See I am making all things new' (Rev. 21:1-5).
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This article appeared in the December 2009 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 74, No. 12, page 20).


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MABLETON, Ga -- It was almost one year ago when Cobb County Fire and Emergency was called out after a caller said he saw a body in the middle of Sope Creek. Two river rescue squads found out it wasn't a body, it was a statue. The statue appeared to be St. Joseph from a holiday Nativity scene.
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The story has become folklore in the Providence subdivision in Mableton where a holiday tradition was started a few years ago. Chandon Adams found a plastic statue of St. Joseph in a home that was foreclosed on.
Adams and another neighbor, Andy Edwards put the statue in a neighbor's yard as a practical joke. "He stayed there for a few days and we thought it would be interesting if we had Joseph maybe move to somebody else's yard," Edwards said. "We moved him into a different yard and put a little gift with him and from there he has migrated all over the neighborhood."
It has been a tradition ever since, a tradition that almost ended last year. "One of the last homes that we delivered him to he was just gone, so we don't know from there what happened to Joseph," Edwards said.
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They called their statue "Joseph Poloron". Poloron was written on the base of the statue and is the name of the company that makes the molded statues. Joseph Poloron now has a Facebook page with pictures neighbors took of their statue with their children and in their yards. He also has a Twitter account. Both social network sites refer to the story from Sope Creek and query whether it is their statue.
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The Left Wing Targets Conservative Media
By Kevin Mooney
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Founded in 2005, Color of Change (COC) is a nonprofit corporation and an Internet-based grassroots activist group. Van Jones and James Rucker (former director of MoveOn.org Political Action and co-founder of the Secretary of State Project) created COC to combat what they viewed as the systemic racism pervading America generally and conservatism in particular. COC's mission is to "strengthen Black America's political voice"; "make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans"; and "bring about positive political and social change for everyone." Toward these ends, the organization supports race- and gender-based preferences in government contracting, college admissions, and hiring/promotion policies. Further, COC favors the expansion of the welfare state and thus seeks to discredit initiatives that would restore limited government and rein in public expenditures.
From its inception, COC has aimed its criticisms chiefly at prominent conservative and Republican figures. In 2005, for instance, the organization attacked political theorist William Bennett for uttering "racist lies" and pushed to have him dismissed from his broadcasting positions with the Salem Radio Network and CNN.
That same year, COC depicted the federal government's allegedly sluggish mobilization of post-Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts as symptomatic of America's low regard for black people. "With no one to speak for them," COC lamented, "hundreds of thousands of people—largely Black, poor, and elderly—were left behind to die." To drive this point home, COC collaborated with MoveOn.org Civic Action to screen the Spike Lee film When the Levees Broke, which alleged that the federal government had dynamited Gulf-area levees in an effort to flood the black neighborhoods of New Orleans—a view popularized most famously by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Rap singer Kanye West, who cited the government's inept response to Katrina as evidence that President "Bush does not care about black people," had a connection to COC at that time: A now defunct website entitled "KayneWasRight.org" was linked back to ColorOfChange.org.
In January 2006, COC initiated a Senate letter-writing campaign to galvanize opposition to President Bush's nomination of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. Alito "has consistently demonstrated his hostility towards laws that ensure racial equality and protect the civil rights of Americans," COC claimed. "If history is a guide, Alito's presence on the Supreme Court will put some of our most basic civil rights protections in jeopardy."
During the 2008 presidential campaigns, COC was part of the progressive effort to associate the Republican ticket of McCain-Palin with racism. In an open letter which it disseminated widely, COC complained that the "hateful language" and "rhetoric" allegedly on display at Republican campaign events was taking on "an increasingly dangerous tone that seems to ignore the precarious state of our progress when it comes to race and ethnicity." The organization charged, for instance, that attendees at such events had called for "violence against Sen. Obama, yelling 'kill him!,' 'off with his head!,' and 'bomb Obama.'" Subsequent investigations, however, showed no evidence that these racial slurs and threats had ever been uttered.
In one of its longest-running initiatives, Color of Change has repeatedly smeared the Fox News Channel (FNC) as a disseminator of racism and bigotry. Beginning in March 2007, COC denounced the station for "consistently attack[ing] Black people, leaders, and cultural institutions." The following year, COC tried to prevent Fox from co-hosting any of the presidential debates with the Congressional Black Caucus Institute. When Fox News' Glenn Beck exposed the radical communist past of Van Jones in August 2009, eventually leading to Jones' resignation from his White House post, COC began a letter-writing campaign to the CEOs of FNC advertisers, demanding that they pull their ads due to "Beck's racially divisive rhetoric." In September 2009, COC claimed victory, stating that its efforts had caused Beck to lose 50% of his advertising dollars.
In March 2010, COC began an aggressive effort to discredit the Tea Party movement's "venomous rhetoric," "racially inflammatory and violent outbursts," "racially charged imagery," and "paranoid conspiracy theories." Said James Rucker: "Republican officials have contributed to this atmosphere with fear-mongering and coded racism, and they have actively courted this element of their party."
In the fall of 2011, COC helped launch a campaign threatening to boycott corporations that gave financial support to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an association that drafts pro-free-market, pro-limited-government legislation for state lawmakers across the U.S. Most notably, ALEC supports the enforcement of voter-ID laws, immigration laws, and Second Amendment rights. Joining COC in its crusade against ALEC were AFSCME, the American Federation of Teachers, the Arizona AFL-CIO, the Arizona Education Association, the Center for Media and Democracy, Occupy Wall Street, People for the American Way, and Progress Now. The combined pressure of these organizations caused a number of companies to withdraw their support for ALEC. These included Arby's, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Coca-Cola, Intuit, Kaplan, Kraft Foods, McDonald's, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Walgreens, Walmart, and Wendy's.
In the spring of 2012, COC and its allies tried to exploit the racial overtones of the February 26, 2012 killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, who had been shot by a "white Hispanic" claiming to have acted in self-defense as permitted under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Charging (incorrectly) that ALEC had drafted that particular law, COC demanded that AT&T—which was one of ALEC's corporate board members—abandon the Council or be permanently branded as a racist entity with Trayvon Martin's blood on its proverbial hands. Further, COC alleged that Florida police had deliberately sought to suppress evidence against Martin's killer, and that law-enforcement's decision not to incarcerate the gunman reflected "a pattern of failing to prosecute when the victim is Black."
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Posted by steelers821 on 10/5/2013 3:57:00 PM (view original):conggrats to ltb. and just wondering who was uvasooner and what happend to him?
Posted by dh555 on 10/5/2013 3:53:00 PM (view original):congrats to longtallbrad for winning the 52m XLI championship...the longtime vet took a break from the league then came back strong to win his first ever title in this league
nate, as he predicted, crushed the ppg record....the team struggled but you cant fault mvp wilt....just 2 pts shy of 50...didnt think he could average that many
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