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Last week, as I was driving to the post office, I noticed two little boys splashing through rain puddles. They were laughing as they kicked the water into the air. Watching their joy as they stomped their feet in the water, two very distinct memories surfaced.
It was Sunday morning. My mother had dressed me all in white – dress, socks, shoes, gloves, hat. She gave me strict orders to sit on a chair while she got my brother ready for church. As I sat on that hard wooden chair, the smell of wet grass drifted through the window. It had rained hard the night before, but now the sun was shining.
Glancing toward the bedroom, I saw Mom buttoning up my brother's shirt. It wouldn't hurt, so I thought, just to take a peek outside. That peek was my undoing. For there, not far from the edge of the back steps, was a huge water puddle. And next to the puddle were the piles of dirt my brother had heaped up to make hills for his toy truck to climb.
Out the door I went. I dipped my gloved hand into the water puddle and found it was warm. Sitting down, I filled my hands with some of the moist dirt and began to shape it into a pie. Well, of course, it wasn't quite wet enough to do that, so I submerged the ball of dirt in the puddle.
I had very happily made several mud pies when all of a sudden I heard a loud sound. There was Mom standing in the doorway. And she wasn't at all happy with my culinary efforts.
The upshot of the whole mud pie episode was that we didn't get to church that day.
The second memory was that of a 3-year-old girl who did exactly what her mother told her to do.
She, too, had found a big puddle of water once the rain that had been falling for three days had ceased. And she went wading. That lasted for a few seconds until she lost her balance and fell. Standing up, she looked at her wet clothing, then headed to the house. Not able to reach the screen door handle, she pounded on the door until her mother heard her.
Opening the door, the mother picked up the little girl and stood her on the rug. After removing the child's wet clothing, the mother bathed the little girl and put clean clothes on her. The child immediately raced to the door, wanting to go back outside.
Ten minutes later, the girl was back pounding on the door. With an exasperated sigh, the mother again picked up the child, cleaned her up, and put fresh clothing on her. As the girl went to the door once more, the mother told her that if she had to absolutely go into the puddle, she should take her clothes off first.
As the mother watched, her child ran to the puddle, then stopped and turned around and saw her mother watching her. So, very carefully, the little girl took off all her clothes, neatly folded them, set them aside, and jumped into the puddle, shrieking with laughter.
I sometimes think I can hear the sighs of mothers mingle with squeals of pure joy as their children run through puddles. Perhaps the peals of laughter also bring a smile to the mothers as they remember when once upon a time they, too, ran through puddles and played in the mud.
After all, isn't that what puddles are for?
Sandy Laumeyer is The Courier's Nashua correspondent.


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And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.
Suggested Further Reading: Colossians 2:9-14
Does it not seem a strange thing, that you, who have walked to this place this morning, shall be carried to your graves; that the eyes with which you now behold me shall soon be glazed in everlasting darkness; that the tongues, which just now moved in song, shall soon be silent lumps of clay; and that your strong and stalwart frame, now standing in this place, will soon be unable to move a muscle, and become a loathsome thing, the brother of the worm and the sister of corruption? You can scarcely get hold of the idea; death does such awful work with us, it is such a vandal with this mortal fabric, it so rends to pieces this fair thing that God has built up, that we can scarcely bear to contemplate his works of ruin. Now, endeavour, as well as you can, to get the idea of a dead corpse, and when you have done so, please to understand, that this is the metaphor employed in my text, to set forth the condition of your soul by nature. Just as the body is dead, incapable, unable, unfeeling, and soon about to become corrupt and putrid, so are we if we be unquickened by divine grace; dead in trespasses and sins, having within us death, which is capable of developing itself in worse and worse stages of sin and wickedness, until all of us here, left by God's grace, should become loathsome beings; loathsome through sin and wickedness, even as the corpse through natural decay. Understand, that the doctrine of the Holy Scripture is, that man by nature, since the fall, is dead; he is a corrupt and ruined thing; in a spiritual sense, utterly and entirely dead. And if any of us shall come to spiritual life, it must be by the quickening of God's Spirit, given to us sovereignly through the good will of God the Father, not for any merits of our own, but entirely of his own abounding and infinite grace.
For meditation: Have you passed from death to life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ (John 5:24)? Better to be a nobody alive in Christ than a king dead in trespasses and sins (Ecclesiastes 9:4).
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Thursday morning, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will get up about seven hours earlier than they usually do to announce the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards. This will be stupid and pointless and watched by millions of idiots, myself giddily among them. The Oscars are dumb, but as far as awards shows go, they're actually the best, by a pretty wide margin, unless you think Jon Cryer is better than Alec Baldwin, Louis CK, or Larry David, unless you think the best album of 2010 came from Taylor Swift. The Oscars may award pedestrian or mainstream tastes, but they don't skew too far that way. If the Oscars were anything like the Grammys, your Best Picture nominees last year would have included the Transformers, Twilight and Hangover sequels.
Even if you find the Oscars pointless, they remain undeniably fun. They nod pleasantly at the illusion of something really being the "best." And they do so without the dreariness and obvious illogic of Baseball Hall of Fame voting.
Anyway, to play along, let's make some predictions in the eight major categories. Obviously, these are not the nominees I hope to see, but the nominees I expect to see.
Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke, Amour
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
This is one of the easiest categories to predict, with five clear leaders. (The next contenders, maybe Rian Johnson for Looper and John Gatins for Flight, are rather far back.) For all the critic love for The Master, this might be the only nomination Anderson gets this year.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David Magee, Life of Pi
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Chris Terrio, Argo
Benh Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar, Beasts of the Southern Wild
The only real possibility to crack this group is the gaggle of people who "wrote" Les Miserables, in case that film ends up taking every nomination. I suppose Best Exotic Marigold Hotel could sneak in, but that would be so boring I'm getting sleepy just typing this. The most annoying nomination is Life of Pi, because the screenplay is what keeps getting in the way of that movie.
Best Supporting Actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
There has been a late push for Samuel L. Jackson from Django, and Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated three times before, but I'll stick with Waltz: The guy was born to recite Tarantino dialogue. The charms of De Niro's Silver Linings performance continue to elude me, but he'll sneak in. I'm still a bit baffled Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike—an Oscar-friendly, out-of-nowhere great-story bid if I've ever seen one—has faded from the top five, but I still hold out hope. Chaps don't get a fella what they used to. Also: No villains in this group. That's always a shame. Maybe Javier Bardem has a chance for Skyfall.
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Ann Dowd, Compliance
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Adams, Field, Hathaway and Hunt are locks—and Hathaway winning this award is the biggest lock on the board—but that fifth spot is tricky. Maggie Smith has the Downton Abbey goodwill for Exotic Marigold Hotel. Nicole Kidman is bizarrely getting support for The Paperboy, a film I suspect she's secretly ashamed of. There was less of a push for Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook than I would have thought. Because there's no way I'm putting Kidman in here—let's not forget what goes on in that movie—I'm going with the dark horse in Dowd, who financed her own campaign and was outstanding in a movie I otherwise kind of hated.
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
A tough little category, with only Lawrence (your most likely winner) and Chastain no-brainers. Naomi Watts may ride in on the goodwill for The Impossible, though she probably just deserves the Best Screaming Actress award for that one. If the nine-year-old Wallis is nominated, she'd be the second-youngest nominee ever, though that comes with a big caveat: She was only six when Beasts was filmed. She's 76 years younger than potential fellow nominee Riva.
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight
Day-Lewis is light-years ahead of everybody else here, but it's an intriguing category nonetheless. Phoenix would be an easy call except he's on record as hating the Oscars, and all awards. (Though that he's accepting his LAFCA award this weekend, presented by our own Tim Grierson, is a sign to many that he's more willing to play ball.) John Hawkes from The Sessions is a possibility, as is Jean Louis Trintignant for Amour.
Best Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Spielberg, Affleck and Bigelow, the directors of the three films most likely to win Best Picture, are easy calls. The rest is sort of guesswork. Lee, for the safe, audience-friendly Life of Pi, seems a reliable call for the fourth spot. The fifth has all sorts of contenders, from Michael Haneke for Amour to past winner Tom Hooper for Les Miserables to David O. Russell for the actor-happy Silver Linings Playbook. But I still think there's such moment for Django right now—neverminding its rather astounding financial success—that the Academy will reward Tarantino pulling yet another rabbit out of his hat.
Best Picture
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
As always, the five-minimum, 10-maximum Best Picture slots confuses everybody, particularly with a packed field like this year. Argo, Django, Les Miz, Pi, Lincoln, Linings and Zero are easy calls. So there are three spots open, and perhaps none of them will be filled. Completely guessing, I'm thinking Beasts gets the critics' fave spot that The Master is going for, Amour punches the elderly Academy where it hurts and Moonrise Kingdom and Skyfall don't make the cut.
Whew. There are actually 16 other categories. Sheesh. And hey, if that wasn't enough for ya, how about some predictions for 2014? Why not?
Grierson & Leitch is a regular column about the movies. Follow us on Twitter, @griersonleitch.


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Interview with Yael Flexer: Examining Collaboration, Performance, and Culture
Yael Flexer. Photo by Chris Nash.
Born in Israel, Yael Flexer is a well-known fixture in London's bustling contemporary dance scene. After directing Bedlam Dance Company for over a decade, she joined forces with her frequent collaborator Nic Sandiland to form Yael Flexer, Nic Sandiland/Dance and Digital Works. Now the partners are treating dance and art-lovers in Tel Aviv to several views of their unique creative vision. Flexer is teaching a workshop for dancers at Studio B on Wednesday, April 7 and Saturday, April 10, and her latest dance, The Living Room, will be performed at Tmuna Theater on Friday, April 9. Meanwhile, Nic Sandiland will discuss some of his works, which cross the borders of artistic disciplines, at the Kalisher Gallery on Wednesday, April 13.
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Deborah Friedes Galili: When did you start working in London?
Yael Flexer: Oh, ages ago. Probably in 1992.
Deborah: Was that when you founded Bedlam Dance Company?
Yael: Yes, just about. I was choreographer in residence at the Place Theatre. And then, as part of that, I set up the company.
Deborah: I understand that the name of your company is different now. What is the exact name?
Yael: It was Bedlam [Dance Company] for many years. I did many projects and touring productions and various things, and then the last five or six years I've been working more closely with Nic Sandiland. We've been doing more interactive and digital works, and we've had a quite a few commissions for different spaces to make works specifically for them that are digitally based, and so it felt like the right time to change the company. Also, we kind of reached the age/place where it felt a bit more appropriate to just name the company after us. So people would associate the work with our names . . .
I think a company as a 'dance company' suggests something else, and I think we're more artists that are making work – and it happens to sometimes be live work, and sometimes digital dance work – so I think it's just to reflect that. So the company name is basically our names, Yael Flexer, Nic Sandiland/Dance and Digital Works, which is like an umbrella, or a production company.
Deborah: You said that especially around five or six years ago, you started working more with Nic. Had you worked with him prior to that as well? Was he part of Bedlam from the beginning?
Yael: No, he made his own work. He originally trained as an electronics engineer and got into performance in the '80s, and then started making his own work. His work is less dance-specific; it falls under the dance category, but really it's a whole mixture of things from live work to installation, some of which has more of a dance element. Others have been commissioned by poetry societies or a variety of venues. So it doesn't necessarily have to be dance. But I think his outlook is really the idea that in some way the public is partner to the choreography and it's the encounter with virtual performers, in some cases, or between the public and virtual settings. In a sense, he choreographs the public and considers the public's movement within the work.
Deborah: Can you tell me a bit about the work that you're bringing here to Israel?
Yael: Yes, it's called The Living Room. But actually, I should say that right from the start, from setting up the company – although sometimes we make commissions for other organizations or companies where we have a lot of digital [work] or projection in performance – for our own work, we like to make very separate things. So the live work is very intimate and has very little – well, has no digital element. And then we'll make installations for galleries or public spaces that have choreography in them to varying degrees. But we like to keep them quite separate. It's almost like two sides of the coin, working in two different mediums. I think sometimes when people hear "Dance and Digital Work," they think of work that's very high tech, and actually, the live work is very low tech, no tech at all. And the installation work, even though it is high tech, it doesn't have that high tech aesthetic. It's really about intimacy with the viewer.
Yael Flexer's The Living Room. Photo by Chris Nash.
Anyway, the live work is called The Living Room, but it's not really a living room. I think it's more a rehearsal space, and in some ways we're inviting the audience into our space. So there's a kind of informality about the presentation. It's a very formal work choreographically, but there's something about allowing people into our space and having a very light or inviting essence of us all being together in one room. And there are quite a lot of jokes. Some of them are between us, and some of the jokes are between us and the audience. There's quite a lot of banter that goes on that allows that informality.
I think this is quite different from the work you see in Israel, because you don't really see that level of humor and that amount of text in work. Often it's much more movement driven in Israel. And although this is also very movement-driven – there's some very strong and physical movement sections – there's a way in which the work is a bit more open for the audience to be part of it without any audience interaction, as in no audience participation. I think that's kind of been a thread through all of my works, this idea of intimacy between an audience and a performer, and the idea that we witness one another so it's not just about the audience watching us but it's also about us in a sense watching them, and there's a kind of equality of gaze and an equality of power between us. It's always breaking the fourth wall, which is a term that is often used . . . it always talks about performance and opens the question of performance.
And we imagine things [in this work]. It's called The Living Room, so we imagine furniture throughout the show. We walk around pretending to be bits of furniture. And there's a way in which the work talks about the domestic, the very day to day, or the passage of time, and about dancing as well. In Hebrew you'd say tmunat matzav; it's a kind of picture of us living through time. We're slightly different ages; the youngest is 22 and the oldest is 39 – that's Karni, the composer. We're talking about the differences between us and our different experiences in time, so it feels like it's more about living than about a specific living room. It's living in a room [rather] than necessarily a living room.
Deborah: And are you performing in it as well?
Yael: Yes . . . [laughs]
Deborah: I thought I read that somewhere, so I wanted to check!
Yael: I haven't performed I guess for five years. I'm in it, but I'm not much in it. I'm performing in about two sections, dancing. Mostly I read; I'm the reading light. And it's kind of clear that I'm the choreographer's voice in there.
Deborah: Is the text original text that you as a cast have developed, or is it taken from somewhere?
Yael: There are two kinds of text. The text that I read is mine. And the text that we have between us is very simple text. It's kind of simple pleasantries, almost. It's quite English – thank you, don't mention it, you're welcome – things like that which we developed with a dramaturge, Gary Stevens. He's a live artist who makes his own work. We invited him to come along for this production, and he's brought with him this idea of the furniture, or the imagined furniture, and the text that follows. I wouldn't really call it text. It's more deconstructive than that; it's words, really.
Deborah: I'm curious – how does Nic play a role in this? Obviously, as you said, you keep these things very separate; in this case, it's the live work, it's the dance, as opposed to, say, having the technology layered on. So is he an active collaborator in this piece as well?
Yael: No, it's a live work. I collaborate with him on the installation works. But we recently did the show [The Living Room] at The Place Theater in London, and we did present an installation called Orbital, which has quite a lot of similarities to the live work. So in a sense we work concurrently, we work at the same time, and one influences the other.
Orbital is an interactive work where the audience circles a projection that's on the ground. The speed with which the viewer walks around affects the projection and causes it to move. The viewers circle the projection, and obviously that [is the] idea of orbit, or orbiting the projection. And in the piece [The Living Room] we have quite a lot of circles as a kind of feature of the furniture spinning around the room. So I think they [the works] start to influence one another, almost unconsciously.
The last production was called Doing, Done and Undone, and it was much more clearly related; when we filmed, the camera was almost like another dancer in the dance, and as people move through the installation, they make the footage go back and they affect the time and the speed in which it's played back. There's a sense in which the viewer is inside the performance. So there's some works where that relationship is clearer.
We've really done so many installation works alongside this live work; there's others which are more . . . really about the public. We have shop installations placed in high street or in shopping malls where the viewer affects what they see.
But I think in this case, the installation Orbital and the live work The Living Room are two that work together. You're not going to see Orbital in Israel, but Nic is going to be giving a talk about his work at Kalisher Gallery, part of Seminar Hakibbutzim School, and he'll talk more about various installations and the theoretical underpinnings of that.
Deborah: Can you talk a little bit about your movement style and your movement aesthetic for this work?
Yael: Generally, my aesthetic is quite functional. It's release-based – that's the technique, anyway. But it's very punchy, it's very fast – but it's very functional. There's a sense in which dance is not decoration. It's somehow about form and function. So you'll see lots of angles and lots of work with joints, breaking through the joints, collapsing towards the floor; there's quite a lot of material that happens on the floor.
Choreographically, there's always a kind of mathematical rule or physical rule that leads each particular dance. Although it is dancing, there is a kind of inert rule that we follow, whether it's about dancers being in contact and that's the idea of that particular section; whether it's about circling and orbiting being an idea for a section; whether it's about triggering movement, one dancer triggering movement in others, or chasing one another. We always have quite a clear logic for us as we make the choreography, so that as you view it, you can maybe not work out the logistics or the logic of it but have a sense of coherency about it. But certainly the movement style is very physical, but very functional . . .
Yael Flexer's The Living Room. Photo by Chris Nash.
Often, dance is described as kind of pure dance or dance theater, and I would say the work aligns more with pure dance in that it's really concerned with the mathematics of space and time rather than trying to convey a kind of drama or relationships in a dramatic sense. We're always ourselves when we're onstage. We're never transformed or anything like that. So there's no sense of transcendence or big drama. It's very, very much in the here and now and the how we meet each other and simply being ourselves as people, as dancers. And I think the work – and certainly the text in the work – talks about that to some degree.
I think what might be interesting for an Israeli reader/viewer is that – because I'm in it and I'm the choreographer voice in it – The Living Room has quite a lot of the notion of the "unhomed." I don't know quite how to translate it to Hebrew, but in some way it's a word that could only be made by an Israeli not living in Israel in that it talks about the kind of longing but also the loss of a home, in that sense of where I grew up is not where Israel is now. I think we mention this question of the "unhomed" or the not having a home a lot, and therefore we're imagining furniture, because we ultimately don't have a home. And there are some references [in The Living Room] that are also very English and talk about the dancers and their background, and I think that might be an interesting thing to consider, that kind of reading of the work. So it's talking about dancing through time but also the idea of difference, or the idea of a kind of mixed cast of different places and different backgrounds and the sort of longing for a home or to be "homed".
Deborah: That's really interesting for me to hear. I'm from the U.S.; I came to Israel because I was intrigued by Israeli dance and I stayed here. Some of the things you talk about, I can connect to on a reverse level – you know, what I feel in terms of my relationship to the U.S., although I haven't been gone as long. Also, a lot of people certainly ask me – and especially when I was first here and looking at work by Israeli choreographers, I wondered – if there was something that they were saying or that they were dealing with that was coming somehow specifically from their relationship to their home, just in the same way that you could look at anybody who's American or British or whatnot and see if there's something culturally specific that they're considering. So it's interesting for me to hear that you do see, somehow, a connection specifically to these issues.
Yael: This particular work definitely refers a lot to cultural baggage, or what is culture and how is it a part of you, or what is you and what isn't you. I think it has that perspective of being nearly 40 and having children and being away from Israel and those kinds of questions. I mean, not everyone would read it in that way, at all, but I think if you want to read it in that way, there are those links. I'm really interested in performing in Israel, because it would be great to see how an Israeli audience reads it. Also in a sense, whenever you make work as an Israeli outside of Israel, you are the voice of Israel – whether you like it or not – if you reference Israel in any way. So there are things there that are interesting for an Israeli audience to view, thinking, "Okay, this is what an English audience is seeing about Israel," or how we are represented through me, I suppose, and through Karni. So there's a kind of element of explanation that maybe you would never use if you were only making it for a predominantly Israeli audience. I mean, I don't know if it's the case; I don't think it's that much explanation, but I think there are some words that only an Israeli audience would get and in other places it's just Hebrew; they (an English audience) have no idea what we say.
Deborah: And based on what I saw online, did this just premiere a few weeks ago?
Yael: Yes, we just premiered two weeks ago.
Deborah: So this will be the first performance of it outside of the U.K.
Yael: Yes.
Deborah: Have you brought any of your work to Israel before?
Yael: I have but a really long time ago. I've been doing lots of work in Israel but mostly teaching. This is the first time we got funding from the British Council to bring the work over, just because it's a big company.
Deborah: It's six dancers?
Yael: It's five dancers, me, and the cellist as well, Karni.
Deborah: Can you talk a little bit about the music?
Yael: Well, there are three composers. Really there are two, and there's one track that we used from a different composer (Dougie Evans) that I've worked with. It's Nye Parry and Karni Postel. I've worked with Karni on two other productions in the past, so it's an ongoing collaboration, and I've worked with Nye for ten years. And I kind of forced them to get together! And it's been great, actually.
The sound score is different from other scores in that it's more filmic in a way, and having Karni play live just brings a kind of edge to it, and there's an element of improvisation at play – not entirely, but she has a little more freedom to respond to us with the cello. We're really looking at what we called the beautiful cello – this idea of a quite pleasing or harmonic sound and the more distorted, heavy, uncomfortable sound, and the work plays with those two extremes. So sometimes it's very comfortable, and sometimes it's very uncomfortable. And similarly, sometimes we're very comfortable and kind of cozy with the audience, and other times we're a little more edgy or in some senses less familiar with them and with each other, so there's a sense of maybe more destruction or discomfort or disharmony . . . so that sense of being "unhomed" comes through in the music as well . . .
What else can I tell you? We're doing lots of workshops when we're in Israel. And this is what we do quite a lot; education work, mostly at the university level but sometimes with youth as well, and sometimes with adults. I think there's an element of wanting to know our audience to some degree and that familiarity, so it kind of runs through. It's a way of breaking the ice as well, so we'll have some participants who have done our workshops coming to the show, and I think that's always nice.
Yael Flexer's The Living Room. Photo by Chris Nash.
Deborah: Is there anything else that you think is particularly important to say about the work or your company?
Yael: It's good to mention that the dancers are a very equal part in the making of the work. It's a very adult company, I mean, although we range from 22 to 38 or so. The way I approach it is very democratic; it's quite a social and democratic way of conceiving and making the work. So even though I direct it and make certain decisions, obviously, it's not hierarchical in any way. That's really important for me. You know, we always have a really good laugh making the work, and I think you can see that when you see the work. That's a device to get what I want out of the dancers and the kind of work I want to make. In a sense, the work represents a kind of process, and I think that might be different from other choreographers' process. So the social part of being together and making work is just as much a part of the work, or becomes part of the work.
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Yael Flexer, Nic Sandiland/Dance and Digital Works presents Flexer's The Living Room at the Tmuna Theater in Tel Aviv at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 9. Tickets (NIS 65) are available at (03) 561-1211. Nic Sandiland talks about his work at the Kalisher Gallery on Tuesday, April 13; for more details, call (03) 516-5535.
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The design of antennas is a rich field for investigation and innovation. Even after more than a hundred years of work in the field we can still gain new insights and ideas. Since I was first licensed over 60 years ago antennas have been my passion and over the years I've published articles on antennas and continue to study and write about them.
Amateurs rarely design and build their own equipment these days but antennas are very often home brewed and provide a means for improving station performance at modest cost. 60 years ago Tom Erdmann, W7DND(SK), told me that if I had $100, I should spend the first $90 on the antenna, the next $9 for the receiver and the final $1 on the transmitter. Of course prices have gone up bit but those proportions are still sound advice. I can honestly say I have a lot more money invested in my antennas than in my station equipment.
This web site provides access to my articles and a place to post new work from time to time. Except for articles published elsewhere, much of what I'll be posting will be informal and subject to change as I learn more. The work reported here is a mix of analytic (calculations), NEC modeling and field experiments on actual antennas. Each of these has it's place but the best picture emerges when all three techniques are combined.Please note, I try to close each post to comments. Once in a while I forget to push the right button and a post may be open. However, I assume I'm perfect and always have the posts closed, so I don't look for comments.


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Four Blue Devils represented CCSU at the Bucknell Bison Outdoor Classic on Saturday hosted by Bucknell University. Junior Brian Biekert broke the Central program record in the 1,500m run with his time of 3:45.28.
Biekert's time bests the previous CCSU program record of 3:46.40 set 50 years ago, in 1964, by Jim Keefe. Biekert also surpassed the IC4A Championship qualifying standard (1:51.00) with his fourth-place finish in the field of 40 runners.
Juniors Patrick Hubbell, Matt Walker and Andrew Hill also represented CCSU at Bucknell, each posting a career-best time in his event.
Hubbell placed fourth in the 5,000m run with his IC4A qualifying time of 14:29.48.
Walker and Hill each competed in the 10,000m. Walker finished 11th overall with his time of 30:35.42. His time surpasses the IC4A standard of 31:08.00. Walker was followed by classmate Hill who placed 25th, also qualifying for IC4A competition with his time of 30:53.76.
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If I ran the VMAs, it'd look a little something like this:Video of the Year
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[Councilmember Jesse Arreguin forwarded the following information to his constituents today:]
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In the preview for the seventh season of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," we see Dee and Dennis take a disgusting rollercoaster ride, Charlie and Frank get into the kiddie beauty pageant racket and Mac gorge himself into obesity.
"It's just like we've created a new low," declares Danny DeVito, who plays the gang's senior degenerate, Frank Reynolds, on the six-year-old FX show.
DeVito speaks those words with an unabashed pride in the web promo heralding Thursday's return of perhaps the bawdiest – and funniest – celebration of debauchery in TV history.
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We didn't get into the show until last year, when Comedy Central began broadcast reruns of the FX comedy about a dive bar that's a festering Petri dish of sleaze. We took a crash course in coarseness, thanks to program whose unlikeable characters delve into fake gay marriages, womb rentals and even crack addiction in twisted plays on the old sitcom get-rich-quick-scheme plot device perfected on "The Honeymooners."
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An odd assembling of the X-Men: First Class cast graces the cover of Total Film. Get a better look at Emma Frost's underoos, and Mystique in both mutant and "normal human" mode.
So there's some good stuff here, and some photoshop disasters. We're not even sure the picture in the lounge is legit, but it has a few new angles of some of the mutants, so we wanted to include it, if it was real. At least Raven Darkholme/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) looks great. We're excited to see how her dynamic with Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier will play out.
X-Men: First Class will hit theaters on June 3rd, 2011.
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Lauren discusses and demonstrates a key trait of James Taylor's rhythm style. Learn how to take just a few simple voicings, change a few notes and come up with a very simple, yet interesting progression!
Taught by Lauren Passarelli in Pop & Classic Rock with Lauren seriesLength: 9:35Difficulty: 1.5 of 5
Lauren, you are a terrific teacher...I really like this lesson.
how sweet this melody!
And this is just the accompaniment. the full melody is sung on top of this. All these songs in this series have lyrics. I sang many of them in my Artist series here on jamplay and they are sung on my CDs. There's a jukebox on my profile page where you can hear the whole arrangement.
Using her own songs and recordings as examples, Lauren teaches us that it's not what you know, but instead how you USE what you know. This series covers tons of great chord voicing ideas, arranging tips, and production techniques as well as general music theory applied to real music!
Lesson 1
Lauren is back with her highly-anticipated Phase 2 series on the styles of Pop and Classic Rock. Using her own music as examples, Lauren explores the influences of such artists as the Beatles, Pink Floyd,...Length: 6:15 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Lauren teaches a progression that is sure to have you thinking "Beatles." This lesson focuses on the application of some pretty basic chords, but applies them in such a way so that they sound somewhat...Length: 13:57 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Lauren teaches the catchy lead arpeggio line in the "tip our hats to the Beatles" tune "My Norwegian Friend". She also talks about arranging ideas and adding your own flavors over the provided backing...Length: 6:47 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, Lauren examines a fingerpicking technique commonly used by the Beatles in 1968 as well as a very "Beatleish" chord progression. Play along with this beautiful ballad using the provided...Length: 17:26 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Learn a walking riff, a 60's flavored guitar solo, a cool double stop picking technique, and some more great chords. Pack all this into a rockin' Beatles-inspired track, and we're all good to go! Play...Length: 21:12 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Alternate tunings don't have to be so confusing. In this lesson, Lauren shows how changing just one string while using some basic, easy to play chord voicings can dramatically alter the vibe of a tune....Length: 12:57 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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In preparation for the lessons to follow, Lauren show us twenty different ways to play a Cmaj7 chord using Drop 2 & 3 voicings. She also explains voice leading and how to arrive at each different chord...Length: 11:03 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Lauren provides a tasteful chord progression that applies many of the Drop 2 & 3 shapes taught in the previous lesson.Length: 9:28 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Continuing with the application of Drop 2 & 3 chords, Lauren teaches the chord progression and main riff of her original song "I Carry On". his progression features some quick changes over a driving beat....Length: 13:23 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Lauren discusses and demonstrates the lead and texture elements from her original song "I Carry On" as a way of teaching us how to layer simple lines and sounds to make our compositions really shine.Length: 10:25 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Lauren returns to some more basic chord voicings and strumming in this Beatles-inspired tune. Once you've learned the chords, play along to the full backing track!Length: 10:52 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Lauren looks at combining riffs and chords while exploring how Drop-D tuning affects common chord shapes. She applies and demonstrates these useful tidbits in her original song "Feel For Me". A full backing...Length: 10:51 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Lauren teaches a simple pattern perfect for those just getting started with finger picking. She applies it over just four simple chords and provides a full backing track for your practicing fun!Length: 11:10 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Grab a refreshing drink, stretch out your fingers, and get to work on a soothing progression. This lesson focuses on tasteful voice leading and piano voicings that can be played on the guitar.Length: 16:53 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Lauren teaches an upbeat chord progression using 7th chords. This time around, she focuses on inversions of the familiar voicings covered earlier in the series.Length: 12:43 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Lauren explains various uses for the Major 6th chord and teaches a simple progression comprised entirely of these tasty chords.Length: 8:44 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Lauren demonstrates how to adapt songs that are in alternate tunings to standard tuning using her original song "Don't Look Down". She also teaches some lines and textures from the song to demonstrate...Length: 20:18 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Lauren starts a mini series in "Nice Chords" that was inspired by a student of hers. She shares ten chords per lesson, breaks them down, and discusses various uses for each. If you're looking to spice...Length: 11:20 Difficulty: 1.5 FREE
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Lauren continues her mini series with ten more "nice chords" and briefly discusses how having many choices in chord forms can keep your creativity flowing.Length: 10:25 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In this third installment of "Nice Chords," Lauren shares another ten voicings that are sure to work their way into your songwriting. She also discusses the unique nature of the diminished chord and shares...Length: 10:04 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Lauren concludes her mini series on "nice chords" and ends with a call to all guitarists to see every aspect of guitar playing as a chance to create!Length: 10:57 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Lauren takes a few of the voicings she shared in the previous mini series on "nice chords" and applies them with a nice anticipated rhythm and a tasteful, jazzy melody. Play the rhythm and the melody...Length: 12:33 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Lauren discusses and demonstrates a key trait of James Taylor's rhythm style. Learn how to take just a few simple voicings, change a few notes and come up with a very simple, yet interesting progression!Length: 9:35 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Lauren takes a few more of the nice chords learned in her 4 part mini series and gives your picking hand a little workout with a funky rhythm and lots of movement. Play along to the provided backing track!Length: 10:01 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Lauren Passarelli is an award winning teacher & distinguished alumni from Berklee College of Music where she has been a guitar Professor since 1984.
Originally from Paramus, NJ, Lauren received a fantastic guitar foundation using the Alfred's, Mel Bay, Harry Shearer & William G. Leavitt guitar books from her first guitar teacher, Lou Sabini. Graduating in 1982 as the first woman to finish the guitar performance program, Lauren also became the first woman to join Berklee's guitar faculty & first to be promoted to full Professor.
She's a multi instrumentalist, vocalist, arranger, recording engineer & record producer & has worked with Cindy Brown, Sarah Burrill, Thaddeus Hogarth, Kate Chadbourne, Danny Morris, Pat Metheny, Elizabeth Lorrey, Nancy Beaudette, Melissa Etheridge, Jane Miller, Louis Arnold & many others.
Her students include Derek Sivers, founder of cdbaby, Panos Panay, founder of sonic bids; Will Knox; Kyle Patrick, of Click 5; Jesse Ruben & Rob Harkness, founder of Barn Productions.
Lauren specializes in creativity, composing, sight reading, the ability to groove, the music of The Beatles, alternate guitar tunings, song writing, recording, producing, arranging & Artist survival skills. She writes in standard & alternate tunings, plays slide & fretless guitar, and approaches the guitar as a mini orchestra. She has the ability to play funky riffs and sing counter melodies at the same time.
She endorses, Line 6, Wechter, Guild, Fender, Taylor, Godin, Washburn, Yamaha, Martin, Rane, Electro Voice, Crowley & Tripp, AKG, Audio Technica, Groove Tubes, Bose, DR Handmade Strings, D'Addario, Planet Waves, IK Multimedia, East West, Apple, Studiomaster, ADA Amplification, Marshall, Vox, ART & more.
There are hundreds of performances, clinics & interview videos on youtube featuring Lauren & her original music as well as Beatle covers while she was touring as the sound-a-like George Harrison.
She is the co-founder of Feather Records, Cotton Moon Music, Wizard & Feather Brown Productions & PassaBrown Studios.
Lauren's music is available world wide on cdbaby, iTunes, Rhapsody, Pandora & many other sites. Her CDs include: "Among The Ruins" & "Shadow Language" under her band name Two Tru, "Back to the Bone", New CDs coming soon ~ "Playing With the Pieces" & "Blast of Love."
"Lauren Passarelli is a great guitar player" Pat Metheny.
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Diocese looks for new revenue opportunities
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has purchased a small shopping plaza on Congress Street in Portland and plans to use it as an investment property, according to Diocese spokesman Dave Guthro.
The diocese bought the property at 290 Congress St. for $2.75 million in hopes it will create "a new stream of revenue," Guthro said.
The plaza's location between the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Congress Street and St. Peter Parish on Federal Street made it attractive, he said.
"The Diocese has no grand plan to change the design, look or operations of the plaza," Guthro said, adding the property will not be converted to a parking lot for use by the church.
Guthro said the diocese decided to buy the plaza as a way of generating revenue to make up for a drop in weekly collections.
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Dedicated and tenacious: student charts new territory in her passion to explore physicsAnna Mirza | Physics, Mathematics, Undergraduate | Department of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Physics The first thing that one might notice about Qurat-ul-Ann "Anna" Mirza is her hijab—it's usually brightly colored.
The thing that makes her stand out though is her passion for physics and her dogged determination to understand concepts that are at first daunting.
Anna isn't afraid to chart new territory. As an undergraduate student majoring in both physics and mathematics in the School of Science at IUPUI, she believes that the most important thing in life is education. Coming from a background where not many women pursue higher education, she aspires to become the first female in her family to earn a Ph.D. and would like to become a research scientist searching for dark matter, investigating the high-energy end of the spectrum and studying quantum information.
While attending Speedway High School in Indianapolis, Anna became fascinated with gravitational force, the motion of our universe, the bending of light, and sound waves.
The summer before her freshman year, Anna began doing research with the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation program. She's been doing research ever since, much of which has been supported by the IUPUI Center for Research and Learning. She also has served as a research assistant in a position funded by the Institute of Mathematical Modeling and Computational Science in the School of Science.
"Anna's research has elucidated the similarities and differences between semiconductor thin-film memristors and ion channels in biological membranes," observed Yogesh N. Joglekar, Ph.D., associate professor of physics and Anna's mentor. "Her continuous dedication and tenacity in the face of challenging research questions and her overarching desire to put her results in broader context show that she has internalized the essence of life in research."
Like most people who delve deeply into an area of study, Anna has experienced the frustration and failed attempts at problem-solving that frequently are on the path to true insight and understanding.
"The students and faculty at IUPUI have provided me with a great amount of support and encouragement," said Anna.
It would be understandable for a woman in physics and math, both male-dominated fields, to hide her weaknesses. Instead, Anna has leveraged her experiences—both the struggles and successes—to ease the road for other students by helping to organize test-prep sessions and serving as vice-president of the Physics Club.
As a member of the Science Ambassador Leadership Team (SALT), she also readily shares her stories with prospective and current students, encouraging them to pursue subjects of interest and explaining how science and math are all about discovery, which wouldn't be possible if people gave up at the first sign of hardship.
"I believe that my involvement in various activities has made me a better student and person," said Anna. "Conducting research has improved my understanding of physics. Through my involvement in SALT, the School of Science Diversity Council and student organizations, I am able to contribute to the diversity, academic excellence and community service for which IUPUI is known."
Mirza has given numerous presentations on her research, and her Minimal Hodgkin-Huxley Model: DC Stimulus was published in February on the Wolfram Demonstration Project website. This past spring she received honorable mention for Posters on the Hill from the U.S. Capitol by the Council on Undergraduate Research and was awarded the prestigious Bowling-Jones-Russo Memorial Undergraduate Research Award by IUPUI, which is presented annually to a continuing IUPUI student who has demonstrated outstanding research in any discipline.
Mirza is also president of the IUPUI Pakistani Student Association.
In her spare time, Anna enjoys hanging out with her large extended family, watching cricket, football and tennis, and gardening.


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1. Will each trait line (so, will each classes 3 trees, individually) have its own full LI set-up designed specifically for it?
2. What is going to happen to armor sets that currently give bonuses to our skills? Scrapped? Revamped?
3. What about proc items? "Every single target heal" and "Every Captain healing skill", "Every harmful attack" will still be around, even if the name of the skills/the code gets changed. Will these still be triggered by our skills?


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Chinese police arrested 32 people accused of dredging up used cooking oil from sewers behind restaurants and selling it for reuse.
More than 100 tons of the "gutter oil" was confiscated in a crackdown on a criminal network that operated in 14 provinces, the ministry said on its website.
"This case, through a difficult process of investigation ... not only struck down a criminal chain of gutter oil producers, but also uncovered hidden details of the offenders' greedy and unconscionable production of poisonous and harmful cooking oil," the statement said.
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Shops where the disgusting oil was processed were closed, including one operated by Jinan Green Bio Oil Co., a business that claimed to be turning kitchen oil into fuel but that was actually churning out recycled cooking oil.
Recycled oil can contain carcinogens and traces of aflatoxin, a potentially deadly mold.
Last year, the State Council, China's Cabinet, said businesses that use recycled oil would be forced to close temporarily or lose their business license and that peddlers who sell the oil could be criminally prosecuted.
The Chinese government has tried to crack down on food hazards in recent years. In July, a man received a suspended death sentence for his role in selling tainted pork. In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 got sick from milk laced with an industrial compound added to give it misleadingly high results in protein tests.


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